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Speaker 1: variety of things, including the local teams. Obviously we are
Speaker 1: right smack dab in the middle of football season, but
Speaker 1: obviously basketball season. Uh is is kind of here right
Speaker 1: exhibition game for Louisville on Monday night and then Kentucky
Speaker 1: plays Kentucky Wesleyan tonight. So kind of feels like we're
Speaker 1: hitting that hitting that sweet spot of the year, at
Speaker 1: least for me when it comes to the calendar year
Speaker 1: where you got both going on basketball, college basketball and
Speaker 1: college football, and the NBA started last night and I
Speaker 1: had no plans to watch the NBA, uh And I
Speaker 1: got to stop saying and I think I have stopped,
Speaker 1: but at one point, probably early on whenever we started
Speaker 1: working together, John, I would say, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I like the NBA more than more than most,
Speaker 1: because I felt like I was somebody that that did,
Speaker 1: in fact like and follow the NBA more than the
Speaker 1: average basketball fan here in this market, just because we're
Speaker 1: we care about college basketball way more than professional basketball.
Speaker 1: I used to say that from time to time because
Speaker 1: it used to be true. Now it's not like if
Speaker 1: I said that, I'd be lying. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: that the NBA season started yesterday until I showed up
Speaker 1: to dinner to meet my family and I saw the
Speaker 1: Celtics getting their rings from last year's title. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm not alone. But like I used to really
Speaker 1: get into the NBA, and now I have like no
Speaker 1: interest in it, Like I don't find the product to
Speaker 1: be entertaining. I don't really have a lot of interest
Speaker 1: in what is the real buzz in the NBA these days,
Speaker 1: which is which is really about all the off the
Speaker 1: court stuff, like, and it's a good thing for the NBA,
Speaker 1: meaning their product, their league has talked about year round,
Speaker 1: probably more than maybe any any league outside of the NFL.
Speaker 1: But the NFL is king in a different way as
Speaker 1: far as viewership and interest in the product, you know,
Speaker 1: even though I think it's actually been kind of down
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, an NFL Sunday is is damn
Speaker 1: near erotic for a lot of people in this country
Speaker 1: because we love, we love football. Were you looking at
Speaker 1: me weird like that? John? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like you don't think people get bricked up for some
Speaker 1: football on a Sunday. It's America.
Speaker 3: And then I thought I would because I'm winning my
Speaker 3: fantasy league, my very fantasy league.
Speaker 1: A late start for John and fantasy football, but he's
Speaker 1: having fun and he's having some success, so that's that's
Speaker 1: certainly a way to keep you locked into the NFL.
Speaker 1: So again with the NBA, like with guys always moving
Speaker 1: around and any given night somebody gets blasted by thirty
Speaker 1: Like I just I personally don't find it entertaining. It
Speaker 1: doesn't appeal to me, and it makes me sad because
Speaker 1: you know, I used to love the NBA. But clearly
Speaker 1: they they have an audience that that that you know,
Speaker 1: gives them, gives them the ability to lock in that
Speaker 1: insanely lucrative new contract that they got where you know
Speaker 1: you've got NBC back in the mix. Obviously there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot. I mean the new their new Metea
Speaker 1: Riites deal that of course became big news this past
Speaker 1: I guess this right after their their their season came
Speaker 1: to an end. And obviously we now know that TNT
Speaker 1: inside the NBA, this could be the last year of it.
Speaker 1: Like the amount of money they got is something I
Speaker 1: never would have expected because I mean I just assumed
Speaker 1: that a lot of people don't really watch the NBA
Speaker 1: that much, but clearly they play eighty two games a year.
Speaker 1: There's enough people watching, and they got a lot of
Speaker 1: money when it comes to their broadcast, right, so you
Speaker 1: know it, it kind of hit me, you know I
Speaker 1: I without even any maybe out of sight, out of mind,
Speaker 1: but like I I just if I if I told myself, hey,
Speaker 1: you should get into the NBA this year, Nick, you
Speaker 1: should watch more games, it would be like a chore.
Speaker 1: It would be like me tell like, I just don't
Speaker 1: have any interest in it. And again it makes me sad.
Speaker 1: So the biggest story in the NBA is obviously Bronnie
Speaker 1: James playing last night with his son, and it was
Speaker 1: it was well, I'll back up just a second here
Speaker 1: because I had no plans to watch it. It was
Speaker 1: not something I would have said, Okay, is he going
Speaker 1: to get in, let me turn it on. It just
Speaker 1: so happened to work out to where I did, in
Speaker 1: fact watch it because that game started a little later. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Celtics and the and the Tea Wolves played the
Speaker 1: first game last night in the opening in the opening night,
Speaker 1: but I was on the recliner, my daughter and my
Speaker 1: wife had gone to bed, and Moose was still up
Speaker 1: with dad. And he likes to watch. If there's football
Speaker 1: or basketball on, he wants to watch. Or if no,
Speaker 1: there's no games on, he wants to watch old wrestling,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, not something I ever would have
Speaker 1: expected with my four year old son, but here we are. So,
Speaker 1: you know, he my son likes Lebron because he's one
Speaker 1: of few NBA players that like he can you know,
Speaker 1: he sees in commercials, he sees in you know, he's
Speaker 1: got a space Jam blanket and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So like he you know, like most kids, one of
Speaker 1: the first basketball players that he is learning about and
Speaker 1: knows of and can recognize is maybe the most famous
Speaker 1: or one of the most famous athletes on the planet.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not really a big Lebron guy
Speaker 1: and certainly not a big Lakers fan, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going to tell my son that if he wants to
Speaker 1: cheer for him, that's great. So it just happened to
Speaker 1: work out to where I was, in fact watching the game.
Speaker 1: I had it on and I was watching with my
Speaker 1: son as Lebron James and Bronni James checked into the
Speaker 1: game together, and I didn't really have much of a
Speaker 1: reaction at all other than thinking to myself, this is
Speaker 1: really cool. Like I'm a dad, and if that ever,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously it's it would never happen for me.
Speaker 1: So it's not like something I thought about, like, well,
Speaker 1: what that was me and Moose, that'd be kind of
Speaker 1: cool like that that that visual didn't enter my brain
Speaker 1: because again, that's just not it's not real life. But
Speaker 1: like as a dad, I found myself not really being
Speaker 1: critical of Lebron but really just thinking like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, like he built a career for himself. He
Speaker 1: has done enough for the game, And I mean he
Speaker 1: could have walked away years ago and it would have
Speaker 1: been a surprise because he still plays at a high level.
Speaker 1: But like he has nothing really to prove. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just my opinion. I'm sure others, you know,
Speaker 1: hesitate to call in one of the greats because you
Speaker 1: are more so a Jordan guy and I am too,
Speaker 1: But like, I think both guys can be you know,
Speaker 1: legendary for you know, for their own reasons. So you know,
Speaker 1: for a brief moment, I'm like, well, you know what, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not really thinking much about Bronnie. I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: Lebron and I'm thinking about a dad, him being a dad,
Speaker 1: and like that would be like if he had the
Speaker 1: ability to do that, why not, right, Like, I think,
Speaker 1: you know the answers that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: probably yelling right now who are so irritated and triggered
Speaker 1: and bothered by this whole thing. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you're in that group, I totally get it. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think if you Lebron and you you
Speaker 1: know he and by the way, I don't believe he
Speaker 1: has self awareness, but let's just say he did and
Speaker 1: somebody set him down and was like, look, I get it,
Speaker 1: Like you you could make this happen. You are probably
Speaker 1: the only NBA player right now that if that is
Speaker 1: in this situation. I mean, most guys aren't as old
Speaker 1: as Lebron, so they don't have kids that are even
Speaker 1: old enough to be in the NBA yet. However, like
Speaker 1: Lebron is the one guy they could get it done.
Speaker 1: But if somebody wanted to play Devil's advocate and say, look,
Speaker 1: hear me out, man, you're gonna set this kid up
Speaker 1: for for, you know, some real struggles, because there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of expectation and hype around him because
Speaker 1: he's your son, and he may not be ready for that.
Speaker 1: But I still think if you're a Lebron and you
Speaker 1: and you are aware of some potential you know, issues
Speaker 1: for Bronni to where this actually wouldn't be a great
Speaker 1: thing for him in the grand scheme of things, like
Speaker 1: I think you could, you know, again, try to put
Speaker 1: yourself in his shoes. Really hard to do because you know,
Speaker 1: he's Lebron James and we're not, but I think you
Speaker 1: would you would maybe quickly just move on from the
Speaker 1: potential issues and think, I don't care. I want to
Speaker 1: be on the NBA floor with my son, and if
Speaker 1: I have the ability to make that happen, I'm going
Speaker 1: to do it because that's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: I'm a dad, and you know I'm Lebron James. You know,
Speaker 1: it clearly speaks to some arrogance. Obviously, Bronni is taking
Speaker 1: a spot from somebody that you know doesn't have a
Speaker 1: dad that happens to be one of the best players
Speaker 1: of all time. But like I found myself for a
Speaker 1: moment at least understanding the whole aspect here from from
Speaker 1: Lebron's standpoint, and again, it's a no brainer if you
Speaker 1: really think about it. I mean, who wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: be able to say they got to play a professional
Speaker 1: sport at the same time on the same team with
Speaker 1: their kid or with their dad, Like you know, when
Speaker 1: you look at it from that perspective and you try
Speaker 1: to put yourself in his shoes, again, easier said than done.
Speaker 1: And you think about it from like a dad's perspective,
Speaker 1: like I'm not really bothered by Lebron, And to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, like the Lakers right them drafting Bronni
Speaker 1: and acting like it's because of anything other than him
Speaker 1: being his father, like that is, you know, or him
Speaker 1: being Lebron's son. Obviously Lebron being his father like them
Speaker 1: acting like that wasn't the meet again. It's one thing though,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know they're not going to come out
Speaker 1: and say it, right, like, yeah, we actually don't think
Speaker 1: this kid's any good at all. But you know what,
Speaker 1: like this is clearly going to get a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, the NBA professional sports, it is
Speaker 1: show business, it's entertainment, and this is a storyline that
Speaker 1: obviously is going to get us a lot, you know.
Speaker 1: So like, you know, they're not going to come out
Speaker 1: and say that, and nobody should ever expect them to,
Speaker 1: but it was kind of rich for everybody involved in
Speaker 1: the press conferences after Bronny got drafted to just really
Speaker 1: just treat everybody listening as if we're all dumbasses, like
Speaker 1: we didn't you know, like we like we would just believe, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this kid out of us CEO just so happens to
Speaker 1: have a dad on the team, But man, you drafted
Speaker 1: him because he's just got so much upside. So like again,
Speaker 1: from the Lakers perspective, you know, I've I've been critical
Speaker 1: of them because to me, it kind of seems like it's,
Speaker 1: you know, like a Mickey Mouse kind of thing. To do.
Speaker 1: But I did hear Brian Winhorst, who of course is
Speaker 1: always going to be always going to be in in
Speaker 1: Lebron James's corner, I mean Windhorst, Wendy as they call him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he really was able to create a career
Speaker 1: for himself by covering Lebron in high school. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if people know that story, but that's
Speaker 1: where Wendy got his start. He was a guy who
Speaker 1: worked for one of the newspapers in either Cleveland or
Speaker 1: maybe it was Acron, and he had access to Lebron
Speaker 1: and that Saint Vincent, Saint Mary's team, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: he turned that into a career where he's now, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the top insiders in the NBA. So again,
Speaker 1: I know that what he said here is what you
Speaker 1: would expect a guy who does have close ties to
Speaker 1: Lebron and his family. He but he made the point
Speaker 1: that the Lakers are are actually I'll just let you
Speaker 1: guys hear for yourself, because this again, like it's still
Speaker 1: should it can be mocked, and I have no issue
Speaker 1: with it because again, like they're not drafting Bronni because
Speaker 1: they think Bronni's gonna be potentially like a you know,
Speaker 1: a ten year vet that's, you know, all star caliber guy.
Speaker 1: They drafted him because of who his dad is, but
Speaker 1: you know, his dad isn't just some random journeyman in
Speaker 1: the nba' His dad's Lebron James. And I thought Wendy
Speaker 1: did a good job of kind of laying out why
Speaker 1: doing this for Lebron and not really just Brony, but
Speaker 1: doing it for Lebron still makes sense for them.
Speaker 2: If you're a father, you're gonna have us, You're gonna
Speaker 2: feel a certain way about your son being with you.
Speaker 2: What the Lakers are doing here is trying to get
Speaker 2: the most out of Lebron. This is an investment not
Speaker 2: just in history, it's an investment on engaging and energizing
Speaker 2: your franchise player at age thirty nine. And I think
Speaker 2: it's working. Lebron is completely engaged and energized. And I
Speaker 2: think JJ Reddick is making a very smart move, totally
Speaker 2: leaning into this, totally embracing this, setting this up and
Speaker 2: making it happen.
Speaker 1: And it's not going to define the season. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if it's going to define this.
Speaker 2: Week for the Lakers, but it's going to be so
Speaker 2: important to their franchise player.
Speaker 1: I've not heard anybody lay it out like that, and that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, actually makes a lot of sense because
Speaker 1: it would. You know, some will say, well, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to it's your job, you make a lot of money.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to have your kid at work with
Speaker 1: you to be energiz didn't want to do your job
Speaker 1: fair enough. But if at thirty nine and a guy
Speaker 1: who's accomplished what he's accomplished is burned out and not energized,
Speaker 1: it would make total sense. Again, what the hell does
Speaker 1: Lebron James have left proved anybody like him? Even going
Speaker 1: to LA in the last what four years, however long
Speaker 1: he's been there, Like that was to me kind of
Speaker 1: his sign of yeah, I'm still gonna play and I'm
Speaker 1: going to play at a high level. But I also
Speaker 1: have a lot of other projects. I need to be
Speaker 1: in Hollywood because you know what, I got a lot
Speaker 1: of business ventures and it's not just basketball for me anymore.
Speaker 1: So I think this is the way to get the most.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy to say, but like Lebron at
Speaker 1: thirty nine, I don't think he's like hit a wall
Speaker 1: just yet. He's probably not, you know, he's clearly not
Speaker 1: what he was at you know, in his twenties. But
Speaker 1: like it is insane the way this man is still
Speaker 1: able to play the game the way he plays at
Speaker 1: thirty nine years old, with a lot of miles on
Speaker 1: him as a pro athlete, a guy who's probably taken
Speaker 1: more contact than anybody in NBA history because he's a
Speaker 1: physical specimen. And you know, if you can get a
Speaker 1: few more years out of him play playing at a
Speaker 1: really really high level, maybe a higher level than he's
Speaker 1: ever played at in LA, because maybe he's more energized
Speaker 1: than he's ever been since arriving with the Lakers, that's
Speaker 1: worth that's worthwhile. That that you know, I'd never once
Speaker 1: thought about it from from that perspective, is that they've
Speaker 1: got Lebron James, one of the best of all time.
Speaker 1: And if you really want to get the most out
Speaker 1: of him and make that, you know, make it last
Speaker 1: as long as possible. If it took draft and his
Speaker 1: son in the second round and letting him play a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes a game, it's worth it. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know, it's it's one game, and
Speaker 1: again that's one of my issues with the NBA is that,
Speaker 1: like you could, you could win three games in a
Speaker 1: row and you know, average margin of victory be near twenty,
Speaker 1: and then come out and lose by fifty the next night.
Speaker 1: Like that's just what the NBA is, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that's good for the product. But so far, in
Speaker 1: one game, this Minnesota Timberwolves team that a lot of
Speaker 1: people really think are legitimate title contenders, they got waxed
Speaker 1: by this Lakers team. So you know, it's just one game,
Speaker 1: and I get why everybody's annoyed by it, but I've
Speaker 1: never once thought about looking at it from that perspective.
Speaker 1: The Lakers are not just doing this because they want
Speaker 1: to make Lebron happy and they want, you know, a
Speaker 1: made for TV movie kind of story. They're gonna give
Speaker 1: Lebron what he wants. And it's not just because like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to give you some more money, or we're
Speaker 1: gonna go we're going to go a trade for somebody
Speaker 1: that you want. We're going to fire a coach and
Speaker 1: hire JJ Reddick like you wanted. Those are things that
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know Lebron clearly had a factor. And
Speaker 1: I mean Lebron's had a factor in everything any team
Speaker 1: he's ever played for has done. He has because he's Lebron.
Speaker 1: But the one thing that might actually energize him more
Speaker 1: than anything is playing with his firstborn son. Like that's
Speaker 1: cool as hell, to be honest with you. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give a little bit of a
Speaker 1: different perspective on it because I hadn't heard a whole
Speaker 1: lot of people looking at it from that perspective, and
Speaker 1: I think it does, in fact make sense. Doesn't mean
Speaker 1: people aren't going to be, you know, pissed off about it,
Speaker 1: because I totally get it. But I mean, I think
Speaker 1: if this does make Lebron go from being a dude
Speaker 1: who was closer to being out at forty to being
Speaker 1: a guy that's out it, I don't know, forty three
Speaker 1: and he's played and he's and you know, they make
Speaker 1: some deep runs here in the playoffs, so maybe they
Speaker 1: get a ring. I mean, Anthony Davis is a pretty
Speaker 1: good player too. Obviously. Dalton Connect I think was a
Speaker 1: steal for them in the first round. He was great
Speaker 1: last night. Like, if it works out, you can look
Speaker 1: back and say, yeah, it might have looked like a
Speaker 1: big publicity stunt, but it might have might have gotten
Speaker 1: him a ring or two along the way. So again
Speaker 1: I get why people are, you know, bothered by it,
Speaker 1: But in the moment itself, like it didn't feel like
Speaker 1: I actually thought it was hilarious to have Ken Griffy
Speaker 1: Junior and King Graffy Senior there. They took they all
Speaker 1: took pictures that the four of them took pictures. Ron
Speaker 1: bron and Browny and Ken Griffy Senior and King Griffy
Speaker 1: Junior all took a picture because they became the first
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, I guess now it's happened with
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball with the Griffies, and then obviously it's
Speaker 1: happened last night with with Lebron and his son. But
Speaker 1: like you know, it did kind of feel like forced.
Speaker 1: And that's where like, if you're ESPN after the game
Speaker 1: or whatever it was it on TNT, I think it
Speaker 1: was TNT, like you'd be foolish not to have Brony
Speaker 1: and Lebron they're talking after the game to Taylor Rooks
Speaker 1: like again, and and I don't really know how. I mean, again,
Speaker 1: if you have the BROADCA, you'd be foolish to just
Speaker 1: ignore that as as a big talking point, rather it
Speaker 1: be during the broadcast after the game on inside the NBA,
Speaker 1: because again, like I think, you know, as much as
Speaker 1: it annoys people, like, it's clearly a talking point. And
Speaker 1: that's and that's where I feel like it's a no
Speaker 1: win situation to an extent, because yes, it did seem
Speaker 1: you know, it did seem forced. It felt kind of staged.
Speaker 1: It just was a little bit awkward, Like watching them
Speaker 1: after the game talk to Taylor looks like it felt
Speaker 1: awkward because they're still presenting this whole thing like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it just worked out this way, man, Like
Speaker 1: they're not saying those exact words. But that's been the
Speaker 1: vibe of Braun and his son this whole time, is like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't know, man, just I'm
Speaker 1: glad they drafted him because just so happens to be
Speaker 1: my son. He's a really good player. Like no, like,
Speaker 1: but but you know, let's live in the real world.
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever going to come out and say what it
Speaker 1: is eactly is because most people don't in situations like this.
Speaker 1: But yeah, wouldn't be shocked if he gets sent to
Speaker 1: the G League. That's what everybody keeps saying, and I'm
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm not saying that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess I wouldn't be shocked. But if in fact he
Speaker 1: sticks on this roster all throughout the year, keep in
Speaker 1: mind what we just discussed or what I just you know,
Speaker 1: rambled about. If it's to keep Lebron James engaged at
Speaker 1: thirty nine, a guy who, when he turns it on,
Speaker 1: is at any moment potentially the best player in the NBA,
Speaker 1: even at thirty nine years old, it's worth keeping that
Speaker 1: guy on the bench. I mean, I think it totally is.
Speaker 1: And they look really really good last night. So anyways,
Speaker 1: the NBA season has started, and who knows, we probably
Speaker 1: won't talk about the NBA for you know, a long
Speaker 1: long time now because we just don't do it all right.
Speaker 1: Some other things we'll get into today as we get
Speaker 1: closer to game day, and this is really just the
Speaker 1: routine each week for me. As we get closer, I
Speaker 1: get a little less sad. I try to distract myself
Speaker 1: from the frustration as far as how Louisville and the
Speaker 1: football season has gone thus far. And that's where I'm
Speaker 1: at now. We're just a couple of days away from
Speaker 1: getting the bad taste out of your mouth from the
Speaker 1: Miami loss. And again, it's not a game where you've
Speaker 1: got a whole lot to gain, but certainly I think
Speaker 1: you have a lot to lose, because a loss here
Speaker 1: would put you at four and four, and you'd have
Speaker 1: to look at every other game left on the schedule
Speaker 1: and ask yourself, Okay, if we can't beat Boston College,
Speaker 1: should we feel really good about beating anybody else? I mean,
Speaker 1: that may sound like a stretch, but go look at
Speaker 1: the rest of the acc Go look at the rest
Speaker 1: of the Louisville schedule. I mean, I guess maybe you
Speaker 1: could say Stanford would be a team that you know,
Speaker 1: you'd feel pretty good about, but you got to go
Speaker 1: to California. That's far from a normal road trip for
Speaker 1: a Louisville football program. So again, my excitement is more
Speaker 1: so just to hey, let's get this win and avoid
Speaker 1: a two game skid and avoid you know, a rough conversation.
Speaker 1: We haven't really had to have yet. Our conversations, at
Speaker 1: least within this show and the postgame show when it
Speaker 1: comes to louisvill football haven't been you know, totally positive.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, They've been pretty disappointing because not many
Speaker 1: or any maybe expected Louisville to be here at four
Speaker 1: and three, seven games in. But again, I think it
Speaker 1: shifts to it and even you know, it gets a
Speaker 1: little darker, the noise gets a little louder as far
Speaker 1: as the frustrations and disappointment if you somehow can't get
Speaker 1: past Boston College on Friday night. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I you know, when Louisville loses games, I just find
Speaker 1: myself not completely checking out from the rest of the
Speaker 1: college football world. But I just now, earlier today started
Speaker 1: looking at at spreads for the upcoming weekend of college football,
Speaker 1: and I would not have guessed that Louisville would have
Speaker 1: been a seven point favorite. I would have guessed that
Speaker 1: they probably would have been favored by I don't know,
Speaker 1: like four and a half or something. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know that Boston College is coming off of two losses.
Speaker 1: One was a beat down to Virginia Tech, the other
Speaker 1: was a close loss to Virginia. But I guess that's
Speaker 1: a nice reminder that despite Louisville having three losses, you know,
Speaker 1: all of those losses are against ranked teams, and the
Speaker 1: computers still really like Louisville, because again, these formulas, man,
Speaker 1: rather it be the ESPN FPI or maybe it's the
Speaker 1: you know, the Ken Palm and basketball, a lot of
Speaker 1: these formulas that we reference from time to time. I
Speaker 1: just to me, there seems to be a clear issue
Speaker 1: that they don't factor in winning and losing enough because
Speaker 1: in the FPI, look, you know, if it makes you
Speaker 1: feel good about Louisville, that's fine. I can't claim that
Speaker 1: it's legit because I've made fun of it for years,
Speaker 1: meaning ESPN's Football Power Index. But Louisville's a four and
Speaker 1: three team and they're in the top seventeen in the FPI.
Speaker 1: Like again, I think that tells you because Louisville's numbers
Speaker 1: have been pretty good even in losses. They just have
Speaker 1: made big killer mistakes that have put them in positions
Speaker 1: where they they aren't able to win. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they're at number seventeen or maybe eighteen, which you know,
Speaker 1: unfortunately hate to say this, but if you wanted to
Speaker 1: maybe make that formula look bad, you could use Louisville
Speaker 1: maybe as an example, because it just doesn't make a
Speaker 1: lot of sense that you can have three losses and
Speaker 1: four wins and be viewed as a team. That's you know,
Speaker 1: top twenty in the country. I mean again, the formula
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's not an opinion, it's not
Speaker 1: somebody given some type of take. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's crunching the numbers, all right. Reminder, if you
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Speaker 1: This text says, Nick, you're proving my point about Lebron.
Speaker 1: What kind of teammate forces his son on his team?
Speaker 1: Ridiculous to needs your kid to play with you in
Speaker 1: order for you to be engaged, reasonable, reasonable opinion, a
Speaker 1: reasonable take. What I was trying to really emphasize is that,
Speaker 1: And again, if you if you if you feel the
Speaker 1: way you feel about Lebron, and this whole thing is
Speaker 1: just a circus, and you just think he's proven that
Speaker 1: he's you know, not a good guy or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: like you just think he's he's you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: an unseerious guy at this point in his career. Who
Speaker 1: would do this? Like I get all that, But do
Speaker 1: we know that Lebron told them like force them. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like, did he give them stipulations like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'll walk and just call it a career if you
Speaker 1: don't draft my son, To be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: doubt that he did that. But again, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe he did. I mean, he's Lebron James. He can
Speaker 1: do things that a lot of NBA players would never
Speaker 1: be able to get away with. But maybe just look
Speaker 1: at it from the Lakers side, which is, hey, we
Speaker 1: know he'd like this. We know he would really really
Speaker 1: be rejuvenated and maybe, you know, be the best Lebron
Speaker 1: we've ever had since he's been a Laker. And again,
Speaker 1: maybe that's a little bit of a stretch because he's
Speaker 1: been there five years now and he's thirty nine years old.
Speaker 1: But he's not. I mean, he's not slowing down. I mean,
Speaker 1: and he has good players around him. Again, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: when healthy is an all NBA caliber player that's been proven.
Speaker 1: So like, if if the Lakers did all of this
Speaker 1: and it wasn't because of any real force from Lebron,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be totally shocked because again it would it
Speaker 1: makes sense for them in that regard. If Lebron was
Speaker 1: starting to look washed up, be a totally different conversation.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's still playing the game at a really,
Speaker 1: really high level, and at any moment he looks like
Speaker 1: the best player in the NBA at thirty nine or
Speaker 1: forty three whatever. I don't think any of us can
Speaker 1: say that we were shocked until we do see a
Speaker 1: sign of him gradually, you know, declining, and he just
Speaker 1: hasn't done that, and there's a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't I know, trust me, I can read
Speaker 1: the room on how people feel about Lebron, especially like
Speaker 1: non NBA people like I totally get it, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to make it, you know, turn into this
Speaker 1: show is just the Lebron James show where we're talking
Speaker 1: about how great he is, because like I know nobody
Speaker 1: would want to hear that, and that wouldn't be entertaining
Speaker 1: at all. But one of the things, one of the
Speaker 1: many things that you will look back about look look
Speaker 1: back on about Lebron is how he was able to
Speaker 1: play this long at this at this level. Like he's
Speaker 1: old for an NBA player, like he means he's three
Speaker 1: four years older than me. I mean, it's beyond it's
Speaker 1: beyond unusual and not normal for a guy to be
Speaker 1: playing any professional sport at that age at this level.
Speaker 1: And it's not like he's Peyton Manning with the Broncos
Speaker 1: where he had a noodle for an arm and really
Speaker 1: just won a Super Bowl because Von Miller was Von
Speaker 1: Miller and they played Cam Newton and the Panthers. And
Speaker 1: I love Peyton Manning, my favorite player of all time.
Speaker 1: But like you could tell when he was out there,
Speaker 1: at any moment, the guy might might break his hip
Speaker 1: if he gets tackled, Like Lebron is still playing the
Speaker 1: same way for the most part that he has almost
Speaker 1: his whole career, all right. Five O two five seven
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Speaker 1: like to h to jump in and give us a call.
Speaker 1: We had some callers on the line, but they dropped
Speaker 1: off whenever we went to break, So you know, I
Speaker 1: get it, you know, want to hold through a commercial break.
Speaker 1: He got things to do. But you know, bow lines
Speaker 1: are open if you want to call back, or if
Speaker 1: anybody else wants to call in questions, complaints, compliments, insults,
Speaker 1: whatever you've got. You have the platform here to show
Speaker 1: those with us. All right, somebody on the text line
Speaker 1: reminded or I guess informed me. I did hear a
Speaker 1: little bit of this on KSR this morning. I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to hear much. But apparently it wasn't
Speaker 1: Mark Pope that ran out of gas yesterday. It was
Speaker 1: his wife. And he blamed his wife, surely in a
Speaker 1: joking way, Like I don't think that that that's you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think he was just you know, upset about
Speaker 1: it and wanted everybody to know, Hey, it's not your
Speaker 1: basketball coach that ran out of gas. It was his wife,
Speaker 1: who is irresponsible. Like it wasn't like he was doing
Speaker 1: it to like make her look bad or you know,
Speaker 1: lecture he or anything like that. But are you surprised
Speaker 1: that like he even acknowledged it Like, I think leading
Speaker 1: into stuff like that can be fun. It makes you
Speaker 1: seem relatable even if you're not. I think we live
Speaker 1: in a world now where if you're trying to really
Speaker 1: win over a fan base, win over a I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's say a party, rather it be the right or
Speaker 1: the left. Like, I just think the world now is
Speaker 1: is different than it once was to where being relatable
Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit of you know, self deprecation
Speaker 1: like that plays more than it ever has, if that
Speaker 1: makes sense, Like acting as if you're larger than life
Speaker 1: and you're just you know, like unrelatable and you're I
Speaker 1: just you know, if that's just who you are, that's
Speaker 1: who you are. But like, I'm not surprised that like
Speaker 1: he had fun with it, but almost I'm kind of
Speaker 1: surprised he actually like said, hey, it wasn't me, it
Speaker 1: was my wife. Like again, he's just being honest, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was you know nothing, But like, put
Speaker 1: it this way, I could see my wife being upset
Speaker 1: if I outed her for doing that instead of you know,
Speaker 1: falling on the sword myself. And everybody's you know, everybody's
Speaker 1: relationships marriages is different. But like I probably would have
Speaker 1: just been like, oh, yeah, you know, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Or I would have said not me.
Speaker 3: Maybe Mark Pope talked with his wife saying, Hey, someone's
Speaker 3: gonna ask me about this today. Do you care ify
Speaker 3: mention what happened?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look it happens. And in fact, anything to
Speaker 1: make them look more relatable and more you know, down
Speaker 1: to earth I think is best for them as they're
Speaker 1: you know, they're the new I mean, it's the new
Speaker 1: first family of of you know, Kentucky baskets. And you're right,
Speaker 1: he probably you know, if he's smart, and I think
Speaker 1: he's a pretty smart guy, you at least let her
Speaker 1: know you're telling people, Hey, I'm gonna let people know
Speaker 1: as you did it. And I'm sure they had fun
Speaker 1: with it. But you know, again, I I think it's smart.
Speaker 3: Pope seems like he's a guy who you know, thrives
Speaker 3: off of being a transparent human being.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, doubt like. And that's why, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it will change eventually, just because it's how you know,
Speaker 1: it's just how it works. But I don't find him
Speaker 1: easy to dislike at all, because I happen to feel
Speaker 1: like he's very genuine and that's a big stretch, a
Speaker 1: big difference from what they had previously. But also towards
Speaker 1: the end found myself like genuinely being entertained by Cal
Speaker 1: and I know Kentucky fans had grown like when Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans had become so done with just the way Cal
Speaker 1: handled everything, you know, acting like I haven't seen him
Speaker 1: at acting like he didn't like he didn't know where
Speaker 1: his players were and why guy didn't dress out for
Speaker 1: a game, talking about how you know, hey, we're we
Speaker 1: we just gotta we gotta, we gotta practic, like just
Speaker 1: saying like Cal would say things that like nobody really
Speaker 1: would would bat an eye because it was Calby and
Speaker 1: Cal but like some of the things he would say,
Speaker 1: Rick too, I mean Ricky, they're kind of the same,
Speaker 1: which is probably why they despise each other. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, I found Cal at the end like he
Speaker 1: would make me laugh, like with how he would just
Speaker 1: you know, like he would show it to a press
Speaker 1: conference after a win and instead of like you know,
Speaker 1: talking about the game and you know, acting like you
Speaker 1: know his teams, he would he would he couldn't help himself.
Speaker 1: Where was it they'd went down to Auburn and beat
Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl's team pretty bad last year, I think in
Speaker 1: February January whenever it was, and it was a big
Speaker 1: win for them at the time they needed it. And
Speaker 1: like first thing he did when he walked into the
Speaker 1: press conference was just before even got to the microphone,
Speaker 1: started like talking to the media guys there that cover Kentucky.
Speaker 1: How you like that? Like, I mean, he was, and
Speaker 1: it was just like, it's not I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: what you typically see from coaches, but I found it,
Speaker 1: like when he kind of became unhinged there towards the end,
Speaker 1: I just found it to be hilarious, especially especially because
Speaker 1: they go after the players, go after me, and that's
Speaker 1: what people were doing. Yeah, when he would know that
Speaker 1: they are going after him right like and you know,
Speaker 1: he would want you to think that he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a clue as far as what the fan base is saying,
Speaker 1: but he quite literally knows what they're saying. He can
Speaker 1: check the pulse and he knows, and he's human. Some
Speaker 1: people can can get away with like I don't even
Speaker 1: know what's being said about me. Most people who say
Speaker 1: that are lying, especially if you're in the public eye.
Speaker 1: But like Kyle was clearly somebody who was well aware
Speaker 1: of what everybody was saying about him, which is why
Speaker 1: things kind of got sour. He couldn't believe that there
Speaker 1: was the criticism there for him when they went what
Speaker 1: eight and something? They won eight nine games whenever he
Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty one season, and like he became
Speaker 1: bitter and it was just an unhealthy relationship. But Pope's
Speaker 1: a lot different than that. And I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: again it doesn't matter if I find him, because it's
Speaker 1: good if you have a villain that is easy to dislike,
Speaker 1: and that was cal for the most part. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still going to root for them to lose every game,
Speaker 1: including tonight when they play Kentucky Wesleyan, And it won't
Speaker 1: really impact me as far as like the joy. I
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it'll maybe it would be a little
Speaker 1: bit sweeter to take satisfaction and their losses if I
Speaker 1: like hated their coach. But you know, I like Tubby
Speaker 1: Smith a lot and I love watching him lose too,
Speaker 1: just because that's how it works when it comes to uh,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the rivalry, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll probably beat Wesley in the way that Louisville beat
Speaker 1: friend of Young Harris. I don't know why I keep
Speaker 1: wanting to say friends, but for some reason, I for
Speaker 1: for weeks, I think I was talking. When I would
Speaker 1: talk basketball to people about the exhibition, I think I
Speaker 1: would for some reason, I would call the opponent Friends
Speaker 1: of Life University and not Young Harris. There's no way
Speaker 1: that's a real school. That's like something I dreamed of, right.
Speaker 3: Friends of Life sounds like a you know, like a
Speaker 3: foundation of some sort. Yeah, like if it were anything.
Speaker 1: There's there's Life University. But like, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I thought, because it's not even close
Speaker 1: Young Hairs friends of Life, Like, there's no way there'd
Speaker 1: be a real school called Friends of Life. Then again,
Speaker 1: I'm sure people would say, there's no way there's really
Speaker 1: a college called Young Harris, but there is.
Speaker 3: Apparently that's a person's name to them is oh younger
Speaker 3: Young Harris was Young Harris, So shout out to Young Harris.
Speaker 1: Did he have a brother named old be very? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean like that was a terrible attempted humor by me. God,
Speaker 1: that was bad. That's like again, that was one of
Speaker 1: those like dad moments that like very poor dad humor
Speaker 1: that like I think John did get a genuine laugh
Speaker 1: out of, but because it was so corny. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like when you get there at some point, John, whenever
Speaker 1: you and your wife end up having kids, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever that may be down the line. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: when you whenever you finally have sex and have a kid,
Speaker 1: it'll hit you at some point, maybe you're a dad
Speaker 1: of a three year old or a five year old,
Speaker 1: but you'll start to have those outbursts, not like you
Speaker 1: know where you're screaming, but like something will just come
Speaker 1: over you and out of nowhere you'll say one of
Speaker 1: the corniest dad jokes ever, and like it's just it happens.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could fight it if you tried.
Speaker 1: I Mean, the one that really stood out to me
Speaker 1: that I think I'll always remember is because like as
Speaker 1: soon as I said it, I thought to myself, why
Speaker 1: would I say that? That's I mean, like that's terrible.
Speaker 1: Is whenever I was at a Mexican restaurant and there
Speaker 1: was a guy coming from the kitchen. He was wheeling
Speaker 1: a keg to replace one of the kegs up there
Speaker 1: by the bar, and without even thinking all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I just blurted out, hey is that for me? And
Speaker 1: like that again, that's that's like I mean that is
Speaker 1: that not like the ultimate example of a corny dad
Speaker 1: joke that like everybody probably snickered because they're like, wow,
Speaker 1: that was lame. This guy's really corny.
Speaker 3: It is, and it's it's like off brand for you,
Speaker 3: but it's not the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's it's really not not only is it
Speaker 1: not my brand, Like it's not something that I would
Speaker 1: even think is remotely funny. Therefore, why would I say
Speaker 1: it to try to make a joke. But hey, the
Speaker 1: dad instincts, it just it it takes over. They kick
Speaker 1: in sometimes and you just can't. You can't, you can't
Speaker 1: deny it. All right, Coming up here at four h five,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to the one and only Zach Barnetta FootballScoop
Speaker 1: dot Com get his thoughts on the college football season
Speaker 1: as of now. And I didn't realize it, but because
Speaker 1: again I kind of it's not like I check out,
Speaker 1: but I'm not just I'm not consuming the college football
Speaker 1: content as much whenever my team is underwhelming, and that's
Speaker 1: what Louisville's doing. But I didn't realize we've got ourselves
Speaker 1: a hell of a slate this weekend. I mean some
Speaker 1: matchups that you know, a few weeks ago you probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have said her that intriguing. But a bunch of
Speaker 1: ranked teams play in each other LSU and A and
Speaker 1: M that's eight verse fourteen. I mean Vandy and Texas.
Speaker 1: Who would have ever thought that that'd be a ranked matchup? Alabama, Missouri, Oregon, Illinois, Navy,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I mean those are all ranked matchups. So
Speaker 1: exciting stuff, no doubt. All right, quick break, we'll come
Speaker 1: back on the other side. Wrap up at three o'clock hour.
Speaker 1: Right here on Sports Talk seven ninety so, we talked
Speaker 1: about this. I think it might have been last week.
Speaker 1: The change is coming to Twitter as far as the
Speaker 1: block feature, and by the way, real quick, I'm proud
Speaker 1: of us. We never call it x no, and I
Speaker 1: still feel like most people don't. But then again, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, Like anytime I read a story about the platform,
Speaker 1: they do call it x which I guess that there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that, But I think when you're discus
Speaker 1: seeing it among people who've been using it for a while,
Speaker 1: you're still going to see them, you know, refer to
Speaker 1: it as as Twitter. But they announced that they are
Speaker 1: going to make some changes to the block feature, so
Speaker 1: once active, blocked users won't be able to interact with
Speaker 1: a user and their post, but they'll still be able
Speaker 1: to see them. And apparently that that that has led to,
Speaker 1: you know, some real movement as far as people, I
Speaker 1: guess getting off of the platform. And how would they
Speaker 1: know that? By the way, like because because what I'm
Speaker 1: referencing an article from Mashable and it highlights that the
Speaker 1: block I mean, really the point of the article is
Speaker 1: to say that the block feature is going to potentially
Speaker 1: be a real issue for for Twitter and x users. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it could be a real issue for the future
Speaker 1: of the platform. But but my whole thing was that,
Speaker 1: like that there's as much as people make fun of
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Twitter and how it's not what it
Speaker 1: once was, and it's really I mean, it's basically become
Speaker 1: a toxic wasteland where a lot of fake information fools
Speaker 1: a lot of people and reminds us how dumb society
Speaker 1: is to believe anything that they read on the internet.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's the best way to describe
Speaker 1: Twitter as of October of twenty twenty four, especially when
Speaker 1: we got an election coming up. So again, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: totally shock me if people who are making the decisions
Speaker 1: for the platform don't realize that, like the Apple App
Speaker 1: Store and the Google play Store, they've got some specific
Speaker 1: rules as far as what you can and can't allow
Speaker 1: on your social media platform meeting at some point. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've read this last week that both of those app
Speaker 1: stores Android and iPhone, Google and Apple, they don't allow
Speaker 1: you to have an app that social media that does
Speaker 1: not allow you to block people that you don't want
Speaker 1: to see and interact with. So maybe they found a
Speaker 1: way around that. I'm not sure. Hard to imagine such
Speaker 1: a huge company would would make this change without realizing,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this could make it to where people can
Speaker 1: even use their phone and use the app because you
Speaker 1: violated the terms of having an app in the app store.
Speaker 1: But what they're citing here is that And if you
Speaker 1: ever heard of blue Ski, John, I've seen it. That's
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know exactly what it is.
Speaker 3: I've seen people put their their information on Twitter to
Speaker 3: get to their Blue Skoks.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I just I just opened up Blue Ski
Speaker 1: on Chrome browser and the the interface looks better than
Speaker 1: it did the last time around. Because this has always
Speaker 1: been viewed as the legitimate potential if there ever is
Speaker 1: one to replace Twitter and become the new you know,
Speaker 1: to become the you know, to take over that kind
Speaker 1: of an app that has you know, that kind of content.
Speaker 1: But it's always just looked janky to me, And I
Speaker 1: don't think you'll, like, even if Twitter shut down today
Speaker 1: and Blueski became the replacement, it wouldn't be nowhere near
Speaker 1: what Twitter is. I just I think if it ever dies,
Speaker 1: it'll die, and there'll be some others that try to
Speaker 1: like replicate what it was. But you know, I just
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, but that I mean that that that
Speaker 1: just seemed I mean, I mean I've not heard anybody
Speaker 1: mention that at all. I mean, it was like a
Speaker 1: weak thing, a week long thing, and I've not seen
Speaker 1: or heard anybody like, hey, follow me on threads or
Speaker 1: check out my content.
Speaker 3: With see whenever I'm on Instagram, there's gowo like little
Speaker 3: promotional I guess posts if you will, from Threads, and
Speaker 3: they they kind of hook me in sometimes, but I
Speaker 3: don't have the actual Threads app downloaded to me it
Speaker 3: would actually get on there. So maybe that's be the
Speaker 3: case if they end up having to be and.
Speaker 1: It's Instagram and Facebook's version of what Twitter. H Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, maybe that would be the best bet,
Speaker 1: just because there's already so many people on those platforms.
Speaker 1: But I think if Twitter ever just died, people would
Speaker 1: just move on and not even try to find the
Speaker 1: next app that would be similar to what it is.
Speaker 1: But real quick, I know, we got to get to
Speaker 1: a break in just a moment here, But Blueski has
Speaker 1: reported that just one day after that announcement from x
Speaker 1: Twitter that they're going to make some changes to the
Speaker 1: block feature, that the you know, blu Ski's base has
Speaker 1: increased by more than half a million people and they're
Speaker 1: now boasting a user base of over twelve million. So
Speaker 1: you know, that sounds like a lot, and it is
Speaker 1: for you know, that amount of time, But I mean still,
Speaker 1: that's that's a drop in the bucket compared to the
Speaker 1: six hundred and eleven million active users on the Twitter platform.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Jefferson Animal Hospital, shall we? Yes,
Speaker 1: we shall. I asked you a question, but I already
Speaker 1: knew the answer. We will talk about Jefferson Animal Hospital
Speaker 1: because that's how special they are. They've been in business
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty if you can count, that's forty four
Speaker 1: years taking care of your pets, Your pets, their family,
Speaker 1: their loved ones. You want to make sure that they're
Speaker 1: You know that they're taken care of and they're healthy.
Speaker 1: And you may not know you nowhere to turn when
Speaker 1: it comes to those kind of things, But I'm here
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Speaker 1: information that you need. Or you can just stop in.
Speaker 1: They're right there on outer Loop and they'd be happy
Speaker 1: to see you and hear about your pet and how
Speaker 1: you want to make an appointment to get him checked out.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to learn more about how your pets
Speaker 1: can donate blood, So stop in and see them, or again,
Speaker 1: you can go to Jefferson Vets dot com or just
Speaker 1: give them a call FABO two nine hundred pets again,
Speaker 1: it is Jefferson Animal Hospital. All right, quick break, we'll
Speaker 1: come back on the other side. Two more hours left
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