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Speaker 2: Right, five o'clock here on a Thursday afternoon. In fact,
Speaker 2: five oh six. We're a little late, but that happens.
Speaker 2: That happens, and it's usually all my fault because you know,
Speaker 2: my clock management is not great.
Speaker 3: But better late than never.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the clock managed, yes, clock, the clock managed, clock, Yes,
Speaker 2: better late than never. I always say sometimes I'm early,
Speaker 2: and it's not a good thing, but you know, it happens.
Speaker 2: But uh, I just wanted to start here just to
Speaker 2: update you guys on on the current ACC race, not
Speaker 2: for the regular season, because I would say Duke not
Speaker 2: capturing the ACC regular season title would be maybe one
Speaker 2: of the craziest things we've ever seen, just because in fact,
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure if it's possible.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah it is. The look, they've.
Speaker 2: Still got three games left like everybody else, and they
Speaker 2: only have one game leads against both Clemson and Louisville,
Speaker 2: so you know, but they're dominating right now, and I
Speaker 2: have a hard time seeing with the way they're playing
Speaker 2: that the likes of you know, Florida State, Wake Forest
Speaker 2: or North Carolina being able to beat them. They do
Speaker 2: have both Florida State and Wake Forest at home, and
Speaker 2: North Carolina's on the road, and it is a rivalry game,
Speaker 2: and people are acting like Carolina's not who we know
Speaker 2: they are. But anyways, so Duke will likely be the
Speaker 2: number one seed. And currently the two and three seeds
Speaker 2: are Louisville and Clemson, and then the four seed is SMU.
Speaker 2: And again they've got currently SMU. Does they have a
Speaker 2: I think it's like a two game lead currently over Yeah,
Speaker 2: so right now, just had it pulled up here. What
Speaker 2: I was getting at is Louisville clinched a double by
Speaker 2: in the ACC term, not only with their win on
Speaker 2: In fact, they won Tuesday and that helped them, of course,
Speaker 2: but last night some other results within the ACC made
Speaker 2: it to where Louisville, no matter what happens, will be
Speaker 2: able to get a double bye, which I believe this is.
Speaker 2: This is the first time they'll play in the tournament
Speaker 2: with the double buye. I believe they got a double
Speaker 2: by in twenty twenty. And then of course they never
Speaker 2: played a game in the tournament that was weird where
Speaker 2: they had two games against Syracuse consecutively that were canceled
Speaker 2: because of COVID. One was the day of the Big
Speaker 2: Day where everything seemed to just end in sports, and
Speaker 2: then the other one was when they got to Syracuse
Speaker 2: on a plane landed connected back to you know, the
Speaker 2: world to see that q S had issues with cases
Speaker 2: and test numbers and all that.
Speaker 3: God, I hate even thinking back to that time in life.
Speaker 2: But yeah, So anyways, Louislle will have the double bye
Speaker 2: and if they take care of business the rest of
Speaker 2: the way, which I believe they will. But also, you know,
Speaker 2: they were in a real tougher game than I think
Speaker 2: we expected, and really we saw them against Virginia Tech
Speaker 2: in a way we have it and I'm hoping it's just,
Speaker 2: you know, every team having that kind of night, and
Speaker 2: it was nice to see when they had that kind
Speaker 2: of night they were able to pull it out and
Speaker 2: still win. But you know, Pittsburgh is a pesky team
Speaker 2: that like, I'm happy that's who's coming to town on Saturday,
Speaker 2: because I think if Louisville wins and they play well,
Speaker 2: that'll mean more to me than them doing it against
Speaker 2: really the majority of the teams that they've played in
Speaker 2: recent weeks, in fact, the last month or so, because
Speaker 2: you know, Pitt's sixteen to twelve. They're not making the tournament,
Speaker 2: no chance of it. But like I know, they've got
Speaker 2: decent In fact, they've got good players. And you know,
Speaker 2: whenever there's a team that more often than not, like
Speaker 2: four out of five years now consecutively, you know they
Speaker 2: have good players and they simply should be better than
Speaker 2: they are. You know who that's on the coach Capele
Speaker 2: is not a good coach. He's not the worst. But
Speaker 2: like I don't know how Pitt doesn't move on from him.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I hope Louisville can finish strong. But really,
Speaker 2: the opportunity for you to potentially improve your resume the
Speaker 2: real again, like I don't want to, I don't want
Speaker 2: to sound like I'm not excited about it, because if
Speaker 2: you beat Clemson, that's still another good valuable win to have.
Speaker 2: Clemson's a better team resume wise than they were when
Speaker 2: you beat them, But it would really give you there's
Speaker 2: something about like it giving you, like you would add,
Speaker 2: I guess, your second real quality win, but it's to
Speaker 2: the same team, Like I think that doesn't make it
Speaker 2: as impressive.
Speaker 3: But you can't control that.
Speaker 2: You got to play who's on your schedule, and if
Speaker 2: you beat Clemson again, that'll And I think they're better
Speaker 2: now than they were then.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're doing what everybody else is doing, right, taking
Speaker 2: advantage of the acc being you know what it is.
Speaker 2: But anyhow, what I was what I was getting at,
Speaker 2: is the opportunity for you to change your seed one
Speaker 2: way or the other. I mean, we know how you
Speaker 2: could change it in the wrong direction. That would be
Speaker 2: losing to one of these teams from now until really
Speaker 2: the quarter of the semifinals, right, because if it goes,
Speaker 2: if the tournam it started today, here's how it would
Speaker 2: play out, and regardless of what happens from here on out,
Speaker 2: it'll play out something similarly to this. Louisville will play
Speaker 2: the seven o'clock game on Thursday in the quarterfinals, and
Speaker 2: they'll play either Georgia Tech or whoever wins between Virginia
Speaker 2: Tech and cal because those two teams, the winner will
Speaker 2: play Georgia Tech. So Georgia Tech you get a chance
Speaker 2: to get revenge, but a loss to them would be
Speaker 2: another bad loss, and a win is really what.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to do. So if you do what you're supposed.
Speaker 2: To do and you went out and then you get
Speaker 2: to the semis easier said than done, of course, then
Speaker 2: that's where you play Clemson, and if you.
Speaker 3: Lose to the Clemson.
Speaker 2: If you lose to Clemson, I don't really think that
Speaker 2: that'll do a lot to hurt you as far as
Speaker 2: your seed. So, like, I think if you end up
Speaker 2: winning out and then you lose to Clemson, I think
Speaker 2: you're probably looking at seven seed. I think if you
Speaker 2: beat Clemson, you're probably looking at six maybe five. If
Speaker 2: you beat Clemson and somehow beat Duke, then I think
Speaker 2: the highest you could go. I think I didn't I
Speaker 2: say earlier in the show Austin, like I think the
Speaker 2: ceiling for them.
Speaker 3: Would be like a three. Yes, I kind of now
Speaker 3: think it would be four. Again, I just I agree
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 2: I think they're I think they they look I think
Speaker 2: they're like they It's not like I'm saying that as
Speaker 2: a criticism of them. It's just they have not like
Speaker 2: they have not played like that would give them one
Speaker 2: real big win and it'd be monstrous. But like, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of teams that have worse records than Louisville
Speaker 2: that have more bad losses than Louisville, but they've probably
Speaker 2: got like three or four better wins. That's not an
Speaker 2: indictment on Louisvill. Leisville hasn't played a schedule in conference
Speaker 2: play that gives them chances to get those wins. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to act like I think
Speaker 2: that they're not good therefore they're gonna maybe the.
Speaker 3: Highest they could get as a four.
Speaker 2: I just think when it comes down to it, like
Speaker 2: they just haven't had many opportunities, and it's one thing
Speaker 2: to not have, like it's one thing to to not
Speaker 2: be able to play you know, elite teams night in
Speaker 2: and night out to really get the big signature wins.
Speaker 2: But the acc has fallen so far that again, you
Speaker 2: have been for the last I mean roughly really since
Speaker 2: let me see the schedule here, since you.
Speaker 3: Played who let me see.
Speaker 2: I think it might have been Pitt Pitt on the
Speaker 2: road At the time, they were like top thirty and
Speaker 2: you beat them there that that was a big time
Speaker 2: win for you as far as quad one at the time.
Speaker 2: Pit kind of fell apart after that, but yeah, you
Speaker 2: beat Pitt at their place, and then from then on
Speaker 2: I guess SMU they're not a tournament team, but they
Speaker 2: are quad one win because they're in the top seventy five.
Speaker 2: So really, since SMU, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Boston College, Miami,
Speaker 2: NC State, Notre Dame, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Pitt again
Speaker 2: now at home calin Stanford, that is your schedule, since
Speaker 2: you played Pitt at Pitt and those games, all of
Speaker 2: them were the same thing, very very in fact, no
Speaker 2: real opportunity to gain much of anything. I mean, you
Speaker 2: beat some of these teams down, but like it just
Speaker 2: doesn't like your resume is not benefiting from it, and
Speaker 2: yet if you lose, it'll kill you potentially. I mean,
Speaker 2: Georgia Deck didn't beat them as bad as I thought
Speaker 2: it would, but Georgia Deck beating Clemson at their place
Speaker 2: the next game certainly helped the situation. So anyways, I
Speaker 2: think Louisville right now realistic window because I'm not saying
Speaker 2: beating Duke is impossible, but I'm also not going to
Speaker 2: say that it's like probable. So like I think currently
Speaker 2: as it stands today, I think Louisville, Louisville will be
Speaker 2: anywhere between a five and an eight, and there's a
Speaker 2: big difference there. So again, if you went out in
Speaker 2: the regular season beat Georgia Tech, let's say it's them,
Speaker 2: and then you beat Clemson, lose to Duke, I think
Speaker 2: you're looking at six, maybe five.
Speaker 3: I think if you.
Speaker 2: Went out beat Georgia Tech lose to Clemson, I think
Speaker 2: really it depends a lot on what other teams do
Speaker 2: in similar seed lines, and I think you could be
Speaker 2: anywhere between. Like, I don't know, I'll put it this way.
Speaker 2: This is just my opinion. I can't prove it.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll even play out this way. But
Speaker 2: if this scenario did play out and Louisville wins out
Speaker 2: until they play Clemson in the semis, I don't think
Speaker 2: they'll get higher than a seven. And again me saying
Speaker 2: that as a criticism or even saying.
Speaker 3: That that's like the way I would do it, I
Speaker 3: just that's how I think it'll shape up with with
Speaker 3: the resume. Again, just my opinion. All right, let's talk
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Speaker 2: to get to coming up here before too long. In fact,
Speaker 2: we can go ahead and get this out of the
Speaker 2: way now. There is a really creative concept that is
Speaker 2: taking place I think at one of the airports here
Speaker 2: in the United States. But there are two restaurants that
Speaker 2: are that are putting a combo location together.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this is I can't tell where it's going
Speaker 3: to be located.
Speaker 2: The story came from Busted coverage, but and this is
Speaker 2: a rendering, so I guess it hasn't been put together yet.
Speaker 2: But I hop in Applebee's are partnering to have a
Speaker 2: combo hybrid restaurant.
Speaker 3: By the way, this is gonna be.
Speaker 2: This actually just opened up in the state of Texas,
Speaker 2: but I don't know where in Texas. And I'm gonna
Speaker 2: send you Austin the rendering here just so you can
Speaker 2: you can see it, because it does look kind of cool.
Speaker 2: But I just he got me thinking, what like what
Speaker 2: to sit down? National chain restaurants should combine forces to
Speaker 2: piggyback all one another, right, like you do this really well,
Speaker 2: and we don't do that very well, but we like
Speaker 2: we really excel where you struggle and vice versa. Selects
Speaker 2: joined forces for a couple of locations and and you
Speaker 2: know we'll.
Speaker 3: Break bread together quite literally, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking food that I love, but atmosphere that
Speaker 2: I just you know, I don't dislike, but it's not
Speaker 2: like what I always seek, So yes for me, And look,
Speaker 2: there's nat like if I put it this way. When
Speaker 2: it comes to chains, there are chains that we don't
Speaker 2: have here right, Like I feel like we have a
Speaker 2: lot of them, but there's certain chains that are more
Speaker 2: so like regional than they are national. Like I'm looking
Speaker 2: at this list here, like, do we still have honestly,
Speaker 2: do we still have Ruby Tuesdays around here?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen a ruby forever, like we have a
Speaker 4: red Robin. Is Logan still around? I don't think Logans
Speaker 4: is still around?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I haven't seen Logans in a lot
Speaker 3: of time. Back is foresure still around?
Speaker 2: Let me give you an example. There's no Logans isn't
Speaker 2: around Marco's Pizza. I've heard of it.
Speaker 3: I don't know where one is Jefferson Miller, but.
Speaker 2: They're huge in certain areas, Like they're franchises and that
Speaker 2: and that's that's a sit down place to eat pizza,
Speaker 2: you know. So so again, I think, you know, me
Speaker 2: and Austin are gonna pick two that we like that
Speaker 2: we want to combo together. But if you want to
Speaker 2: play along, you know, if it's a place that like,
Speaker 2: you know, you can go to here or maybe it's
Speaker 2: not here, but you know, in certain regions of the
Speaker 2: United States, there's a billion of them, that's kind of that.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of restaurants that I'm that I'm thinking of,
Speaker 2: and the food. And by the way, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't want. I don't want people to think that, like
Speaker 2: I don't like this place as far. I mean, their
Speaker 2: atmosphere is actually pretty cool, but I'm more of like
Speaker 2: a sports bar kind of guy for an atmosphere, and
Speaker 2: they don't really give this vibe. Texas Roadhouse Food, Oh
Speaker 2: I love it. I had Text road Us on Sunday night.
Speaker 2: We took me and my wife took took Maya Moose
Speaker 2: was out with with his uncle. And I mean, they
Speaker 2: don't what what can they not do? Like I've never
Speaker 2: had a burger there myself, but my wife got one
Speaker 2: time and I tried it.
Speaker 3: It was delicious.
Speaker 2: I get the Country Fried chicken. I can get the
Speaker 2: Country Fried steak. I can get a steak itself. They've
Speaker 2: got they got a buffalo chicken sandwich. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the salad you kidding me with that ranch. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about the bread. Come on now, like roadhouse food.
Speaker 3: The free peanuts, Oh yeah, the line dancing.
Speaker 2: So I'm going Texas Roadhouse Food and I'm gonna let
Speaker 2: them I'm gonna let them.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let the whole combo. Now they're gonna have
Speaker 3: to learn the other menu.
Speaker 2: But I've never had bad service at Texas Roadhouse ever,
Speaker 2: So the staff in this combo restaurant is going to
Speaker 2: be fully Roadhouse because that's how much I trust him.
Speaker 3: But the atmosphere, let's say, you know.
Speaker 2: The the look, the TVs, the bar, the endless taps,
Speaker 2: I'm going with.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Twin Peaks nice and I.
Speaker 2: Love Twin Peaks food too, but I'm a little bit
Speaker 2: more of a country cooking kind of guy, right, So
Speaker 2: I'm combat I'm combining Texas Roadhouse and Twin Peaks and
Speaker 2: twin I think this is something that I would not
Speaker 2: have mentioned, but we now have one here, and I
Speaker 2: guess I'll give them a free plug because they're great.
Speaker 2: Although we did we did a show there last year,
Speaker 2: and you know, atmosphere is awesome. But they're they're they're
Speaker 2: all over the place. I wonder how many locations they
Speaker 2: have nationally. I mean, I know they're in a lot
Speaker 2: of other big cities.
Speaker 3: Peaks Elite, Okay, Oh, it's it's phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Uh So, yeah, I'm gonna honestly, like maybe five or
Speaker 2: more years ago. I feel like it's been longer than that.
Speaker 2: I would have combined Roadhouse with with B Dubs, sure,
Speaker 2: but like I'm must say it, they fell off.
Speaker 3: Ye, Twin Peaks is here to take over hard.
Speaker 2: Like I know locally here there's somebody that at least
Speaker 2: in the last few years that did buy up a
Speaker 2: lot of them and kind of have some consistency with
Speaker 2: how they're run. But the one there's some here in
Speaker 2: Louisville that I've gone to and like I've given them
Speaker 2: many opportunities and I probably still will, but like I've
Speaker 2: given them opportunities to like not be bad. And every time, man,
Speaker 2: they are consistently bad. Food isn't fresh, the workers look
Speaker 2: like they're they hate life, They're rude. I mean, the
Speaker 2: sauce is like barely. I mean, it's just like the
Speaker 2: atmosphere used to really carry it and the.
Speaker 3: Food used to be fire.
Speaker 4: I feel like, and there's no food deals anymore that
Speaker 4: oh yeah, they don't even have deals.
Speaker 2: Like Look, I was never like the beat Ups guy
Speaker 2: like a lot of other people because I'm loyal to
Speaker 2: my watering hole, which is roosters, right, But you know
Speaker 2: beat Ups was still is still fire, and you know,
Speaker 2: like I just I can't. I'd be a liar if
Speaker 2: I said I would go because again it used to
Speaker 2: be like and they still do the marketing of like
Speaker 2: they're the place to watch the game, like it was
Speaker 2: clever when they did, like they do everything right other
Speaker 2: than you know, the important thing service and food.
Speaker 3: That's like because I think like.
Speaker 2: They're commercials where they have like the ref extend the
Speaker 2: game so you can stay there longer and watch it,
Speaker 2: like that's clever. When yeah, yeah, like so like that
Speaker 2: stuff's like that, that stuff's cool, but they just I
Speaker 2: haven't enjoyed it as much. So that's what I'm combining
Speaker 2: Twin Peaks is the vibe and like you know, the
Speaker 2: TVs the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And we've already had two people on the text line
Speaker 2: say you sure you don't want the Twin Peaks to there.
Speaker 2: You got a point, Yes, you got a point. But
Speaker 2: I'm loyal to my roadhouse crew. How about this, Bartenders.
Speaker 2: We can bring the Twin Peaks Bartenders. But the service,
Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta stick with with with with Texas
Speaker 2: Roadhouse because I've never had bad service there.
Speaker 4: Somebody has a birthday, you can straddle the little cowboy
Speaker 4: thing and they sing to you and they do a
Speaker 4: lot of other fun stuff too. Yeah, if you tell
Speaker 4: me your birthday at Texas Roadhouse.
Speaker 3: A oh, I think you're talking about Twin Peaks. No,
Speaker 3: I don't know what they do.
Speaker 4: Actually, in the many times I've been to Twin Peaks,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever heard them or just
Speaker 4: you know, do.
Speaker 2: You know what speaks to the culture of an employer
Speaker 2: is that there's no way that like when they get hired,
Speaker 2: they look forward to having to be a part of
Speaker 2: the crew that sings happy birthday to you. But you
Speaker 2: know what, they do it every time with a smile
Speaker 2: on their face and they give it their best. Like
Speaker 2: they've got a good culture there at Texas Roadhouse.
Speaker 3: I can tell they let everybody at all Texes Roadhouse birthday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and all my kids love it.
Speaker 4: And sometimes they'll break out, they'll breakout, they'll breakout the
Speaker 4: uh you know, the line dancing, which is always fun
Speaker 4: a good time.
Speaker 3: I love Texas Roadhouse.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you a real quick one thing that
Speaker 2: that that that used to really just eat at me, Austin,
Speaker 2: was that because my my it was more so my daughter,
Speaker 2: especially when she was younger, and she's still she's still
Speaker 2: like this to this day. Every now and then, if
Speaker 2: it's somebody's birthday, nobody's happier for a birthday than my daughter.
Speaker 2: I mean, Maya, Maya wants to celebrate your birthday. And
Speaker 2: she's going to ask about if you're having a party.
Speaker 2: She's going to ask about a lot of stuff. So
Speaker 2: when she hears any restaurant doing the birthday sing along,
Speaker 2: she's clapping, she's walking to your table. She's not she's
Speaker 2: doing she's walking to your table. She's excited, she's energetic,
Speaker 2: she's bringing it. And most of the time people are like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's sweet, like yeah, and then sometimes people look at
Speaker 2: her like who are you? And I want to go
Speaker 2: over there and throw the table across the room and
Speaker 2: beat their ass, like you appreciate that she's happy for
Speaker 2: your birthday.
Speaker 3: Damn it, No, Maya, excuse me.
Speaker 2: I mean it's harmless overall, but I'm like, hey, it's
Speaker 2: a And by the way, also, my daughter when we
Speaker 2: leave restaurants now, like she'll just walk by a table
Speaker 2: bye and swing a lot of them look and say bye.
Speaker 2: But then sometimes they look and they're like, then they
Speaker 2: look at us and they're like, I think I think
Speaker 2: we're supposed to know you, like we don't know you.
Speaker 2: But no, it's just her. She's just it's like she's
Speaker 2: saying goodbye to her fans as she leaves. She's I
Speaker 2: don't think she's under the impression, but it does kind
Speaker 2: of give the vibe that everybody's there for her.
Speaker 4: You might have what's called what they call a golden
Speaker 4: retriever child. Yeah, that she gets along with anybody and anything.
Speaker 2: She and she's just good energy, right, yeah, absolutely, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And you're you're you're clearly in her good graces. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I've been the beneficiary of a good of a good
Speaker 4: Maya of a good Maya time with the family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the best part. And I know we probably told
Speaker 2: the story the day after, but we all went to
Speaker 2: a game together, me and the fam in Austin and Uh.
Speaker 2: We were leaving and Austin went to give the uh
Speaker 2: the little half hug goodbye to Mercedes, my wife.
Speaker 3: For those who don't know that, you know, I'll tell later.
Speaker 2: Uh, and Maya swooped in front to get the hit
Speaker 2: from Austin instead of my wife.
Speaker 3: She sniped it. That was her way of letting you
Speaker 3: know you're you're you're in one of the that was
Speaker 3: better than the game itself. I hope you know that,
Speaker 3: and you know what happened that night, Louis was the
Speaker 3: best win of the season.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm in the building for it. What what
Speaker 2: restaurants you're combining.
Speaker 4: Just for the sake of I don't want to repeat it.
Speaker 4: Because I had a Texas Roadhouse in there. There was
Speaker 4: also like a four year period of Little Austin Tribal
Speaker 4: Chief back in my younger days where that's where I
Speaker 4: had my birthday at. Because Texas road House to steak Fries,
Speaker 4: that ranch unbelievable, It's awesome.
Speaker 3: But I'll go with kind of two.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say forgotten, but I don't hear a lot
Speaker 4: of people going there anymore for the sports bar environment,
Speaker 4: everything like that, but it's still kind of low key
Speaker 4: and not rowdy.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go BJ's. I've been to BJ's.
Speaker 4: I feel like that place is falling off a little bit.
Speaker 4: They had that back in areas.
Speaker 3: Not as many of them, but no, they're they're good.
Speaker 4: Well, they had them in Arizona, and I felt like
Speaker 4: I mean, we're a middle class family. I felt like,
Speaker 4: oh dude, we got a nice taste. It's got a
Speaker 4: nice taste of elegant but casual. Right still, they got
Speaker 4: TVs everywhere, They got their own kind of beer, two
Speaker 4: hundred taps.
Speaker 3: I think they're award winning. It's an award winning restaurant.
Speaker 4: All really big or is it just the one that
Speaker 4: was here? Uh No, they're pretty. It's jig yeah, very spacious.
Speaker 3: Everyone loves big. BJ's earth so.
Speaker 4: And then I'm gonna combine it with another forgot, and
Speaker 4: I'm giving these I'm giving these uh uh, these restaurants
Speaker 4: a chance to kind of come back. And the other
Speaker 4: one I combine it with is Cracker Barrel. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I love Crackerberre. I feel like not a lot of
Speaker 4: people say they go there.
Speaker 2: Because it's it's it's its own thing, right Like it's
Speaker 2: it's like, there's a reason that the majority of the
Speaker 2: people that you will see at a Cracker Barrel on
Speaker 2: any given morning are older people.
Speaker 3: Yes, because it's kind of their vibe. But the food's great.
Speaker 4: You're after church kind of like that. That's the rush,
Speaker 4: and the service is also very nice. I also have
Speaker 4: those little games on the table that I can never
Speaker 4: master always get, you know, like the little where you
Speaker 4: put the the golf te's on the little triangle and
Speaker 4: you got to jump the red one or something. I
Speaker 4: it's I've never mastered it, but because there's like a
Speaker 4: pattern to it. But I love that the staff is nice.
Speaker 4: I'll just take their breakfast over anything. I love their
Speaker 4: chicken fried chicken. But when we start talking about their uh,
Speaker 4: we start talking about their like their cheesy castle role with.
Speaker 3: The onions and the now too by the way they do.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you haven't got drunk at a Cracker barro.
Speaker 3: It's been a while since I've been to one.
Speaker 4: You introduce yourself to some culture, bro, I guess little
Speaker 4: Southern biscuits and a Miller light.
Speaker 2: I love it, so I will get those two Cracker
Speaker 2: Barrel breakfast is a go to. That hashburn Castle role
Speaker 2: is phenomenal and I've probably only had it like every
Speaker 2: ten times I go.
Speaker 3: I won't get breakfast.
Speaker 2: But when I don't get breakfast, I'm reminded, like their
Speaker 2: other menu is really delicious too.
Speaker 3: If you got you going a good night, I think
Speaker 3: I got a pretty good steak.
Speaker 2: All right, This this combo comes in on the text line,
Speaker 2: and I kind of love it. Hooters in waffle House. Sure,
Speaker 2: I kind of think, hey, did we just did? We
Speaker 2: just let's steal a little bit from both brands and
Speaker 2: we'll start our own chain the Hooter House. Yes, good stuff,
Speaker 2: open until six o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: That's good stuff. All right.
Speaker 2: We got to get to a break. We'll come back,
Speaker 2: keep it rolling along. Gene Hackman passed away.
Speaker 3: Very sad.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about some Gene Hackman movies. And it sounds
Speaker 2: as if his death has now become like a real
Speaker 2: big mystery. It's very odd. They have already ruled out
Speaker 2: carbon monoxide. But if you don't know, Yeah, they found
Speaker 2: both of his both hit him and his wife and
Speaker 2: his dog dead and they'd been there for a long time,
Speaker 2: so much so Austin that the latest report mentions that
Speaker 2: they didn't say which body or if it's one or
Speaker 2: three or two. I guess mummification, like they've been dead
Speaker 2: for a lot. It's crazy, isn't it. So anyways, very odd,
Speaker 2: but also very sad. So we'll get to that in
Speaker 2: a lot more. And I do want to give a
Speaker 2: tip of the cap to Louisville fans yesterday on the
Speaker 2: internet who had a lot of fun at.
Speaker 3: The expense of Kentucky fans.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a lot more, a lot
Speaker 2: more to get to before we finish, so stick around
Speaker 2: right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 3: So, Gene Hackman, he passed away. We don't really know when.
Speaker 2: But I got up really really early this morning at
Speaker 2: like four o'clock, had a terrible headache, and I'm doing
Speaker 2: the sleepwalking thing to get to the kitchen to get
Speaker 2: some meds, get my phone out just to make sure
Speaker 2: it was charged, and of course, like a drug addict,
Speaker 2: I have to get my fix of Twitter. So I
Speaker 2: pop open Twitter and it's the first thing I see
Speaker 2: that Gene Hackman was found dead. So his wife, who
Speaker 2: was a pianist, she was also found dead, and also
Speaker 2: one of their dogs. So police initially stated that there
Speaker 2: was no indication of foul play. Now they're saying that
Speaker 2: the deaths are suspicious, which in itself is you know,
Speaker 2: kind of suspicious, right, But this is from the Santa
Speaker 2: Fe County Sheriff and by the Way Santa Fe, New
Speaker 2: Mexico's where he's lived for a long time. Quote all
Speaker 2: I can say is that we're in the middle of
Speaker 2: a preliminary death investigation, waiting on approval of a search warrant.
Speaker 2: I w I want to assure the community in neighborhood
Speaker 2: that there's no immediate danger to anyone. He later went
Speaker 2: on to say that we can confirm that both Gene
Speaker 2: Hackman and his wife were found to cease Wednesday afternoon
Speaker 2: at their residence on Sunset Trail. It's an active investigation. However,
Speaker 2: at this time, we do not believe that foul play
Speaker 2: was a factor. Now TMZ, of course they're all over It.
Speaker 2: Says here that they obtained the search weren't obtained by
Speaker 2: TMZ wrote in the affidavit that quote, the death of
Speaker 2: the two deceased individuals is to be is believed to
Speaker 2: be suspicious enough in nature to require thorough search and
Speaker 2: investigation because the reporting party found the front door open.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I found the front door of the residence
Speaker 2: unsecured and opened. Deputies observed a healthy dog running loose
Speaker 2: on the property, another healthy dog near the deceased female,
Speaker 2: a deceased dog laying ten to fifteen feet from the
Speaker 2: deceased female in a closet of the bathroom, the heater
Speaker 2: being moved, the pill bottle being opened and pills scattered
Speaker 2: next to the female, and the male descendant being located
Speaker 2: in a separate room of the of a separate room
Speaker 2: of the separate room of the residence, and no obvious
Speaker 2: signs of a gas league.
Speaker 3: Wow. So also it.
Speaker 2: Says that the affidatement states that Gene Hackman's wife showed
Speaker 2: obvious signs of death, body decomposition, bloating in her face,
Speaker 2: and mummification in both hands and feet. Hackman was found
Speaker 2: dead in a mud room near the kitchen, while his
Speaker 2: wife's body was found on the floor of a bathroom.
Speaker 2: The dead dog was a German shepherd and was found
Speaker 2: approximately ten to fifteen feet from the woman, and the
Speaker 2: two dogs that were found were alive.
Speaker 3: So there's a company.
Speaker 2: New Mexico Gas Company tested the gas lines around the
Speaker 2: house and confirmed there is no signs of evidence indicating
Speaker 2: there was any problems associated with the pipes in or
Speaker 2: around the residence. So this is I mean, I'd say
Speaker 2: suspicious is the best way and really the only way
Speaker 2: to describe it, right, now, but it says a non
Speaker 2: one call nine on one call by a maintenance worker
Speaker 2: that found the bodies.
Speaker 3: I was also obtained by TMC.
Speaker 2: The maintenance workers told police they hadn't heard from the
Speaker 2: Hackmans or his wife in about two weeks. So I mean,
Speaker 2: all you can do is speculate, but you also really
Speaker 2: don't want to speculate about something like this. But I mean,
Speaker 2: when I hear pill bottle, I just assume. I mean,
Speaker 2: if I had to guess, and this is probably not
Speaker 2: right to do, but I think they probably committed suicide
Speaker 2: and the dog, me of in, one of the dogs
Speaker 2: ended up getting a hold of whatever they took and
Speaker 2: it killed the dog too, Like does that sound plausible
Speaker 2: from what we know right now? Like nothing was taken,
Speaker 2: they didn't get robbed, So very very suspicious, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure it'll continue to be a big story until we
Speaker 2: see what in fact, what in fact ended up happening.
Speaker 2: But when you think of Gene Hackman Austin, he's a
Speaker 2: little old for me as far as his heyday, you're
Speaker 2: a lot younger than me.
Speaker 3: Like, what do you think of.
Speaker 2: Movie Wise in Hoosier's right, Yeah, And I think that's
Speaker 2: like his most like for like sports, like he's Hoosier's
Speaker 2: is alleged, and that's an unpopular opinion. I don't I
Speaker 2: don't love Hoosier's. I mean, to me, it's he's a
Speaker 2: great like he's a great coach. He seemed natural, but
Speaker 2: like I just it's one of those things that like
Speaker 2: it just to me was it was old when I
Speaker 2: watched it, Like I feel like I'm watching an old
Speaker 2: Tommy movie. Not that like movies before I was born
Speaker 2: aren't good, but like and just again, I never could
Speaker 2: catch the wave of like he was an eighty six,
Speaker 2: but coach Normandale is an iconic character in sports movies,
Speaker 2: and that's that's one that comes to mind for me.
Speaker 2: But honestly, like he's done so many great movies over
Speaker 2: the years that you know are cinematic masterpieces.
Speaker 3: But for me, like I gotta be honest, like I think.
Speaker 2: Probably I mean the Replacements like he was, but this
Speaker 2: is this is a nod to him as an actor
Speaker 2: and a guy who can naturally play a coach really well.
Speaker 2: He seemed like when he was coach Jimmy McGuinty in
Speaker 2: the Replacements, I felt like, man, that guy's a perfect
Speaker 2: he's a perfect actor to play an NFL coach because
Speaker 2: like he's it just seems so believable and like I
Speaker 2: want to play for him. And clearly that was why
Speaker 2: he was so great in Hoosier, Right, So I think
Speaker 2: of that and then he I mean, he hasn't been
Speaker 2: in the movie in twenty years.
Speaker 3: Twenty one years. Actually, I had no clue that the
Speaker 3: man was in his nineties. He was ninety five years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like his there's movies that came out that
Speaker 2: he was you know, that were you know, really like
Speaker 2: he was in Bonnie and Clyde in nineteen sixty seven
Speaker 2: when he won when he won an Academy Award. So,
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of his movies that he is
Speaker 2: probably most famous for are ones that I just I
Speaker 2: didn't you know, I didn't watch because you know, they
Speaker 2: came out before my parents were born. But yeah, he's
Speaker 2: certainly a legendary actor, and you know, very sad that
Speaker 2: he that he passed away. Again, I'm looking at all
Speaker 2: of his his like his movies, and I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: like a lot of them I've heard of, but I
Speaker 2: don't really know a lot about him. Like Behind Enemy
Speaker 2: Lines was really good I remember when that came out
Speaker 2: that of course featured Owen Wilson. Yeah, that was I
Speaker 2: would say that's probably one of my favorite movies of
Speaker 2: his that I can tell you that I.
Speaker 3: Want and I really enjoyed.
Speaker 2: But I mean some of them i've heard of, like
Speaker 2: Get Shorty, Like I know of that movie, but I
Speaker 2: don't know a lot about it.
Speaker 3: The Firm that was really good. That was a big movie.
Speaker 2: Let's see, there's some titles I recognize, but I gotta
Speaker 2: like look at him to see if it's actually the
Speaker 2: movie that I think it is. Let me see there's
Speaker 2: another let me see I'm looking for Yeah, I mean again.
Speaker 3: Young Frankenstein. That was in nineteen seventy four. Was he
Speaker 3: in that? Yeah? Interesting?
Speaker 2: So again he's he's a legend, but I do feel
Speaker 2: like he's a little bit before my time to where
Speaker 2: I can't give him the proper respect by listing all
Speaker 2: the movies that you know that were legendary, because a
Speaker 2: lot of them, I'll take your word for it, I
Speaker 2: believe you. I just haven't watched it all. Right, last
Speaker 2: thing I wanted to get to before we run out
Speaker 2: of time today. So Nate Ament he is the five
Speaker 2: star recruit that we talked about yesterday, and he's been
Speaker 2: a big talking point for little fans, Kentucky fans for
Speaker 2: a while because you know, he's a top top five
Speaker 2: recruit and he's considering Louisville, Kentucky, Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: Duke, and Arkansas.
Speaker 2: So what he has done, and this is something I
Speaker 2: knew there was some kind of component here where he
Speaker 2: could like he's got like where fans can can put
Speaker 2: up money to get him to come there. So it's
Speaker 2: called fan steak and this has not been done before.
Speaker 2: I don't really know if it's something that like is
Speaker 2: gonna catch on, but what I did not know that
Speaker 2: I've learned that definitely changes things. He and his family have,
Speaker 2: like I don't know if they're owners of this company Austin,
Speaker 2: but they have like equity in it. Like they like
Speaker 2: this is like a business thing that they're involved in
Speaker 2: where other recruits can get on fan stake and basically
Speaker 2: list the schools they're considering. Have fans donate money, and
Speaker 2: if you end up donating money and he pictures school,
Speaker 2: the money goes to him. If you end up donating
Speaker 2: money and he doesn't pick your school, you get your
Speaker 2: money back, So an interesting concept, certainly something that's new.
Speaker 3: Well, Louisville has had a big lead.
Speaker 2: Here for a while for him and Kentucky is it's
Speaker 2: really a two horse race when it comes to the money.
Speaker 2: I mean, Louisville is now at seventy one thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: Kentucky's at thirty eight thousand dollars. Tennessee is in third
Speaker 2: place with five thousand dollars, and he's not even considering them.
Speaker 2: He's always been believed to be a Duke guy. But
Speaker 2: Duke's only put up fifty four hundred dollars. So what
Speaker 2: happened yesterday was pretty clever. So the KSR website did
Speaker 2: an ad deal with fan Steak to promote, Hey, let's
Speaker 2: you know, get him to put up money for Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So the KSR website, not the ks already show, did
Speaker 2: two different entities. They started plugging, Hey, if you sign
Speaker 2: up right now and use the code KSR to make
Speaker 2: a deposit to make up, you know, to make a
Speaker 2: pledge for Native men on fans stak, you get twenty
Speaker 2: five dollars free. So they're flooding it, you know, getting
Speaker 2: everybody to do it. Well, turned out that code KSR
Speaker 2: worked for everybody, no matter what school you picked. So
Speaker 2: Louisville fans and by the way, credit to a Louisville
Speaker 2: fan by the name of Mitch Hannigan. He was on
Speaker 2: Twitter and I guess he's the one who noticed it,
Speaker 2: and of course it's got hundreds of thousands of.
Speaker 3: Views.
Speaker 2: Now his tweet does where if you use that code KSR,
Speaker 2: you can also pick Louisville and also get twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: So all that did was give Louisville an even bigger
Speaker 2: advantage in the sweepstakes here. So look, this doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that he's going to pick Louisville, but if it's a
Speaker 2: financial thing, he clearly has more money coming to him
Speaker 2: from Louisville than anybody else. But also, if you are
Speaker 2: truly involved in this project, like meaning fans stake not
Speaker 2: only this young man, but like his family, and this
Speaker 2: is something that you think could really take off and
Speaker 2: be a booming business to where recruits will use this
Speaker 2: platform to help pick, you know, to help figure out.
Speaker 3: Which schools really want them. If you end up picking.
Speaker 2: Duke who's given you five thousand and Kentucky is giving
Speaker 2: you thirty something thousand and Louisville's in the seventies. You're
Speaker 2: essentially the business that you have equity in because you're
Speaker 2: proving that, Like, yeah, why would any other recruit or
Speaker 2: any other fan want to be involved here? Because you
Speaker 2: can give all the money so much so that you've
Speaker 2: got nearly double the amount of anybody else and the
Speaker 2: recruit still doesn't pick you.
Speaker 3: So I have no clue.
Speaker 2: I'm not an insider by any means when it comes
Speaker 2: to recruiting, but knowing that the immense family is involved
Speaker 2: in this business, it kind of makes me feel like
Speaker 2: they'd be pretty foolish if they want to Baking college
Speaker 2: decision is a big deal, But like, this guy's can
Speaker 2: go to the NBA regardless, and he clearly loves Louisville.
Speaker 2: He loves coach Carr when of Pat Kelsey's assistance. So
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm making sense here, Like I
Speaker 2: feel like this is a good sign. And also like
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans, you know, I don't know if they you know,
Speaker 2: I don't really more than anything, but it's it's fan
Speaker 2: Stake's fault for not realizing that code would work for
Speaker 2: every school. I think they've since changed it, but Anyways,
Speaker 2: all right, quick break, we'll come back and wrap it
Speaker 2: up on the other side. You know what, I think
Speaker 2: we got to just about everything I intended to get
Speaker 2: to today.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that's not true, but wow.
Speaker 2: As I look at and I've gone a little bit
Speaker 2: in a different direction when it comes to the instead
Speaker 2: of just really you know, we believe it or not,
Speaker 2: like play the hits be repetitive. So like I try to,
Speaker 2: there's always some elements in each hour that are kind
Speaker 2: of the same because we do have a different audience.
Speaker 2: I know there's people that listen for three hours, my
Speaker 2: mom and dad. I'm kidding, but you know, if you're
Speaker 2: a podcast listener, it's just a different experience because you're
Speaker 2: you know, you're not live. You just you know, you
Speaker 2: just zoom through. So you know, it's repetitive for a reason.
Speaker 2: That's what this is. It's a live radio show, and
Speaker 2: our audience changes quite a bit during the drive time slot.
Speaker 2: But instead of you know, being as is I guess
Speaker 2: I don't say repetitive, but like, I'm trying to just
Speaker 2: mix it up and go in different directions, and I'm
Speaker 2: not having as many you know, deeper topics to talk
Speaker 2: about but more of just kind of you know, dare
Speaker 2: I say, shooting the you know what?
Speaker 3: And it's been fun.
Speaker 2: So I hope you guys have enjoyed whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call this over the last really, I mean, I
Speaker 2: hope no. Maybe I'm sure a lot of people didn't
Speaker 2: really notice. But in the last few weeks I've just
Speaker 2: decided to kind of be a little bit more casual
Speaker 2: with the show because when I went to has And
Speaker 2: it was, you know, different for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2: When I was feeling in for Tony Cruz, it was
Speaker 2: clearly different for obvious reasons.
Speaker 3: It's a much different format really, but just.
Speaker 2: The ability to go, you know, it's new, it's talk,
Speaker 2: it's news talk, but also just talk. Like I could
Speaker 2: feel a level of of of comfort knowing I can
Speaker 2: go wherever I want kind of and it's fun. So anyways,
Speaker 2: thanks for hanging out with us. We're back at it
Speaker 2: tomorrow for a feel good Friday right here on Sports
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