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Speaker 2: today on another beautiful afternoon. That fall weather is uh
Speaker 2: is here, and you know, I enjoy it. I like it,
Speaker 2: But I don't know, the last couple of days, I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like I just haven't warmed up like
Speaker 2: I've just been kind of you know, like freezing.
Speaker 3: It didn't really ease us in the way that maybe
Speaker 3: it does typically. And it is gonna warm up here
Speaker 3: in the next few days. But the last couple days
Speaker 3: have been a shock for some time.
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, Yesterday, I mean, look it's fine because it's
Speaker 2: gonna get a lot worse, and I don't really mind
Speaker 2: cold weather, but like yesterday, you're right, it's I mean,
Speaker 2: yesterday was a day where I just think, throughout the
Speaker 2: entire day in this area, this region, it was just cold,
Speaker 2: like even for October, like even this morning.
Speaker 3: To go to the DMV and get my registration up
Speaker 3: updated or whatever, you call that go you know, get
Speaker 3: your tags in that type of stuff and not a
Speaker 3: defrost in my car?
Speaker 4: Did you really? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wow, it was thirty two degrees this morning.
Speaker 2: Because I see like on I don't know why I
Speaker 2: get it from. I guess I have the Amazon app
Speaker 2: on my phone. I mean I do, I have it
Speaker 2: as far as like you know, shopping on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 4: But I guess that app.
Speaker 2: Is is connected to one of those like speakers, the
Speaker 2: Echo or.
Speaker 4: Is that what they're called Echo? Yeah?
Speaker 5: For Amazon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have one in the house that I
Speaker 2: guess was set up through my phone and I get
Speaker 2: those notifications when we've got weather that is, you know,
Speaker 2: that we need to be aware of, and I got
Speaker 2: a frost advisory, So I guess I guess it was
Speaker 2: in fact that cold this morning, which yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: like so Saturday, it's gonna be sunny, and I think
Speaker 2: I checked the highest currently looks at right about seventy degrees.
Speaker 2: But I feel like if that's the high and we're talking,
Speaker 2: you know, all of the Tail game is gonna be
Speaker 2: done before noon because obviously the game starts at noon.
Speaker 2: Like I think for the game itself, that sun if
Speaker 2: it's there it's gonna help, but it's gonna be I
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be on the chillier side if it's twelve.
Speaker 3: If the game goes from noon to three or three
Speaker 3: thirty and it's nothing but sunny, it may be one
Speaker 3: of the best games people attend this.
Speaker 2: I think you're I mean, you got to keep in mind,
Speaker 2: like people don't keep their house below seventy very often,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So if it's in the sixties,
Speaker 2: I feel like people are gonna be cold. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you put a hoodie on your good Like
Speaker 2: if you're out there in shorts and a T shirt,
Speaker 2: then yeah, you're gonna be cold. But you know, I
Speaker 2: in a weird way, I'm trying to think about, like,
Speaker 2: you know, do I go, because I'm just thinking, if
Speaker 2: it's sunny and it's you know, the highest seventy, I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't even need sleeves. But again, the
Speaker 2: majority of the time that you know, I'm think of
Speaker 2: Tailgate more than anything, and that's where it's gonna be,
Speaker 2: Like it'll probably be it will probably be hoodie weather,
Speaker 2: which is perfect. And if the sun is shut, I
Speaker 2: mean when it's in that range sixties, the high being seventy.
Speaker 2: The sun is crucial because without the sun it's actually cold,
Speaker 2: like not to the point where you got to, you know,
Speaker 2: go get your winter code. Yeah, but like the sun
Speaker 2: can make it to where if it's in the high sixties,
Speaker 2: it's it's quite literally perfect. But and it does look
Speaker 2: like it's gonna be sunny. In fact, we've got nothing
Speaker 2: but sunshine as I look here on the on the
Speaker 2: weather app, which is the weather app on my phone,
Speaker 2: is that from the weather channel. I feel like it is,
Speaker 2: but I don't know for certain.
Speaker 3: It may depend I'll know what Apple uses. I think
Speaker 3: mine is a Samsung specific thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know that.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well yeah we've got uh yeah, we rely
Speaker 4: on them.
Speaker 2: High the high of the high seventy on Saturday is
Speaker 2: what I'm looking at. And it looks like it's gonna
Speaker 2: be sunny, so yeah, it should be should be awesome.
Speaker 4: And actually I didn't even know this.
Speaker 2: If you click on the actual date here on this
Speaker 2: ten day forecast that I've got on this app, which
Speaker 2: again it's just not something I downloaded, it's just the
Speaker 2: weather app that comes on an iPhone. It actually shows you,
Speaker 2: like per hour of that day, so like in between,
Speaker 2: let's see here from like if you're tailgating from like
Speaker 2: nine to let's say you'd get in there at eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock and look, you're still outside it, so like you're
Speaker 2: gonna in fact, there's probably a lot of shade and
Speaker 2: you may not have that sun shining down on you.
Speaker 2: But it looks as if temperatures are going to be
Speaker 2: between like mid forties to mid fifties to sixty like
Speaker 2: in that early morning range from like I don't know
Speaker 2: up until eleven am. So come prepared. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is the biggest game on the home schedule, which isn't
Speaker 2: saying much because the home schedule this year was just
Speaker 2: pretty is pretty bad, to be honestly, that's nobody's fault.
Speaker 2: That's just kind of how it played out. But Miami
Speaker 2: at this point is probably better than most expected. They're undefeated,
Speaker 2: they're the number sixteam in the country, and it's a sellout.
Speaker 2: So you did tell me earlier this week, John, it's
Speaker 2: going to be big game bram on Saturday, and I
Speaker 2: believe it. But it has hit me really in the
Speaker 2: last few hours as I'm continuing to because as you
Speaker 2: get closer to a college football Saturday, you start to
Speaker 2: see all those that you know cover the sport nationally
Speaker 2: talking about some of the bigger matchups, and there's a
Speaker 2: pretty good slate of.
Speaker 4: Games this weekend.
Speaker 2: But Miami being the number six team in the country,
Speaker 2: and of course Louisville being a team that a lot
Speaker 2: of people think could pull off an upset, I'm not
Speaker 2: seeing a whole lot of people predicting it, but I'm
Speaker 2: also not seeing many predictions for a blowout. So it's
Speaker 2: one of the games many of the talking heads are
Speaker 2: sharing their thoughts about, and it just reminded me, like
Speaker 2: I need to I mean, maybe I've been a little
Speaker 2: bit Dare I say delusional this week when it comes
Speaker 2: to this game. I mean, I think I've been pretty
Speaker 2: straightforward that hey, like, if they eliminate some of these
Speaker 2: mistakes that you feel like are easy to avoid and
Speaker 2: they play well, then they're going to have a chance
Speaker 2: to win. And I mean all that, but I kind
Speaker 2: of think to take it a step further, they're going
Speaker 2: to have to be a different team and they've been
Speaker 2: all year to win this game, unless Miami just comes
Speaker 2: out and they lay an egg there, I mean, and
Speaker 2: you have no clue how they're going to come out
Speaker 2: off the buy. I mean it really depends on I
Speaker 2: mean how their mindset is after avoiding two game two loss.
Speaker 2: They avoided two losses that could have easily gone the
Speaker 2: other way, but they held on to win. Then they
Speaker 2: hit the bye week, so I feel like it's going
Speaker 2: to be that they come out maybe a little bit flat,
Speaker 2: and maybe that won't keep them from winning the game,
Speaker 2: but I could see them potentially coming out flat off.
Speaker 4: The bye week.
Speaker 2: Hopefully there's a good atmosphere there to where they really
Speaker 2: feel as if they're truly in a road environment, and
Speaker 2: maybe Louisville could take advantage of that. That'd be ideal.
Speaker 2: But they could also come out feeling refreshed because they
Speaker 2: got through six games and got to that bye week unscathed,
Speaker 2: no losses for them. So I'm getting more and more excited,
Speaker 2: But I'm not going to a lot of myself and
Speaker 2: obviously a lot of you guys that I just I
Speaker 2: think if we see Louisville be the same team they've
Speaker 2: been six games through, I don't think that they'll win
Speaker 2: and they may get beat bad. I mean I don't
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I predict that because I'm hopeful that
Speaker 2: they do come ready to play. But this year has
Speaker 2: just been you know, it's just it's been a real
Speaker 2: surprise for me because if they were before and two,
Speaker 2: like if you'd have told me before the season started
Speaker 2: they're going to be four and two, and let's just
Speaker 2: say you literally told me, and I knew who they
Speaker 2: lost to, and I knew the scores, with each of
Speaker 2: the Notre Dame game in the SMU game being just
Speaker 2: you know, touchdown game. You know, I don't know what
Speaker 2: I would have tried. I don't know what I would
Speaker 2: have tried to assume happen to get those results, but
Speaker 2: I probably would have guessed that it's just well, you
Speaker 2: know what you brought in Tyler Shuck, and maybe he's
Speaker 2: just not that good. Or you know, oh, Quincy Riley
Speaker 2: missed a couple of games. Yeah that's not ideal. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe you're really learned the hard way that you needed
Speaker 2: Grindo and Jordan more than you ever realized, because now
Speaker 2: you've got a group of veteran running backs, but none
Speaker 2: of them are really that good. Like, you know, none
Speaker 2: of that, none of what I have mentioned there in
Speaker 2: the last I don't know thirty seconds. I think has
Speaker 2: really been a huge factor and why they're for and
Speaker 2: two it's because of things that you just you know,
Speaker 2: wouldn't expect to happen. So no better time than now
Speaker 2: for this group to get right and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: play their best game of the season. And I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna need to do that and it. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't mean to start the show today acting as
Speaker 2: if you know Louisville isn't the team that can beat
Speaker 2: Miami and we should just expect a loss. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not here telling you I expect to win. I'm
Speaker 2: hopeful that they win. I think they can win. It
Speaker 2: wouldn't be the biggest shocker in the world. But the
Speaker 2: more I look at what we've seen six games in,
Speaker 2: and that's all you can do, right six games in,
Speaker 2: you have an identity and this team again, they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to be a different version of themselves to beat
Speaker 2: a team like Miami because of how good Miami is.
Speaker 2: You know, we've been saying it really since Haines King
Speaker 2: did it when Georgia Tech came to town what a
Speaker 2: month ago, that quarterbacks that have the ability to take
Speaker 2: off and make a play with their feet. They really
Speaker 2: kind of feast against Louisville. Well, since we've been saying
Speaker 2: that week in and week out, it's still happening. So
Speaker 2: now you got cam Ward come into town and he's
Speaker 2: a Heisman candidate. He is a high I mean right now,
Speaker 2: he's in the mix to win, to win the Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 2: I would say it's between him, the running back at
Speaker 2: Boise State, and Travis Hunter. I mean, i'd say those
Speaker 2: are the three most likely candidates at this point. So
Speaker 2: I just, you know, can they scheme something together defensively
Speaker 2: to keep cam Ward from having a huge impact on
Speaker 2: the game. Sure they can, but I just can't. I
Speaker 2: can't go there as far as saying they're gonna do
Speaker 2: it and I expect it when I have seen nothing
Speaker 2: that would make me believe that's going to start happen now.
Speaker 2: But you know, to go back to this, this this
Speaker 2: hope and belief that that that John gave me, it's
Speaker 2: big game proms. So maybe that maybe that's when whenever
Speaker 2: these things that haven't happen yet do in fact happen,
Speaker 2: defense is well prepared. They come out ready to play.
Speaker 2: They're not letting a quarterback get loose on the ground
Speaker 2: and extend drives and offensively they're there. The old line
Speaker 2: is is given them a little bit more time meeting
Speaker 2: Tyler Shuck and you know they're not committing silly penalties
Speaker 2: that will kill a drive.
Speaker 4: Like maybe maybe.
Speaker 2: All that comes together because of Big Game Bram in
Speaker 2: October Fingers crossed are We got a couple of guests
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Speaker 2: All right, So one of the things I try to do,
Speaker 2: not every day, but pretty often is think of things
Speaker 2: that you know, I know fans in this area, in
Speaker 2: this city, in this region are are conversing about. And
Speaker 2: it's silly, but there are countless things that these two
Speaker 2: fan bases, Louisville fans and Kentucky fans have gone back
Speaker 2: and forth about over the years that are beyond silly.
Speaker 2: Like it's just what we do. And it's always a
Speaker 2: reminder how crazy this rivalry is. But the team photo,
Speaker 2: like that thing, you know, we talked about it yesterday
Speaker 2: just because at that point, you know, it was a
Speaker 2: big talking point. But not just like you know with
Speaker 2: people who are trolls on Twitter, like you know, my
Speaker 2: sister ran in her yesterday, what's.
Speaker 4: Going on with the team photo? Is that actually the
Speaker 4: team photo? What do we like?
Speaker 2: I think there were some people that just you know,
Speaker 2: believe whatever they see on the internet, like thinking that
Speaker 2: that was the team photo where they were the Louisville
Speaker 2: go like, hey, the photographers there, here we go on
Speaker 2: the count of three, we're going to snap the picture,
Speaker 2: and this is your team photo. Like, I think there
Speaker 2: are a lot of people who saw what Matt mcgavii
Speaker 2: put out, and then of course it really it became
Speaker 2: a totally different type of thing whenever KSR got a
Speaker 2: whole it. But like, there were people legitimately worried about
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball because they saw that team photo, and you know,
Speaker 2: it didn't exactly give you a whole lot of I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a good look. But imagine you having somebody
Speaker 2: take your picture when nobody's looking and you're I mean,
Speaker 2: it just it couldn't have been worse. But as silly
Speaker 2: as it is, and I mean, it really is stupid,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, But again, there's an endless
Speaker 2: list of things that I can't think of an example
Speaker 2: of one that's like as silly as this, everybody talking
Speaker 2: about a team photo that wasn't a real team photo.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a photo of the team, but
Speaker 2: like that was what really got me is that after
Speaker 2: the show yesterday, just talking to people that I know,
Speaker 2: friends of mine, even family, I mentioned my sister, like
Speaker 2: they thought that that was like if you go to
Speaker 2: Uel's website, that was going to be the photo that
Speaker 2: you see, which is just like, I mean, you got
Speaker 2: to be pretty naive to think that. But also, like
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans, maybe it's because Mark Pope, you know, he
Speaker 2: may be good, but he's kind of boring, like he's
Speaker 2: not somebody that's going to like, you know, there wasn't
Speaker 2: a whole lot to take away from his appearance at
Speaker 2: the SEC basketball media days. They're football team's coming off
Speaker 2: a loss to Vandy and they realize like they're gonna
Speaker 2: be stuck with Stoops unless he just decides one day
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to coach there anymore. And again I
Speaker 2: talked about this the other day. Maybe we get back
Speaker 2: into it later, like Kentucky fans hoping that Stoops just
Speaker 2: kind of decides to bow out and you know, walk
Speaker 2: away and call it a career. Who's walking away from
Speaker 2: nine million dollars a year, like he'll take you all
Speaker 2: calling into his coaches shows, giving him crap about losing
Speaker 2: to Vandy for nine million year because most people would.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I think Kentucky fans were just bored because again,
Speaker 2: Pope may be good, but he's boring compared to Call
Speaker 2: as far as just you know what Cal brings to
Speaker 2: the table. And on football, you know they lost to Vandy,
Speaker 2: so I guess they. I mean, I'm a little I
Speaker 2: guess flattered as a Louisville fan myself how much the
Speaker 2: Louisville team photo was really more of a talking point
Speaker 2: to Kentucky fans than it was anybody else. But the
Speaker 2: reason I bring this whole thing up is because there
Speaker 2: is a tweet that's gone, I don't know, semi viral.
Speaker 2: It's got seven hundred thousand views, and it's from an
Speaker 2: account probably an anonymous troll. Yeah, I mean, just looking
Speaker 2: at the I mean, Kim English lover KENO Davis survivor
Speaker 2: Ed Cooley's biggest hater. That is the bio of this
Speaker 2: person with three thousand followers on Twitter, who I assume
Speaker 2: is a Providence basketball fan. And I think it's this
Speaker 2: is one of those things that you put out there
Speaker 2: just to get reaction, just because people who don't follow
Speaker 2: your content may not get your sarcasm. You know, they're
Speaker 2: going to be in your mentions just yelling at you,
Speaker 2: telling you're an idiot. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: if you get that kind of engagement, it's what you
Speaker 2: want as a troll on the Internet, that's what they seek.
Speaker 2: But it says, honestly, believe college basketball means more in
Speaker 2: this red line than any other part in the country. Well,
Speaker 2: on this map, there's like a red He's got a
Speaker 2: red circle around the map that shows the state of
Speaker 2: Connecticut as well as Providence Rhode Island. And it's basically
Speaker 2: saying that Yukon and Providence fans, they collectively are ruling
Speaker 2: the region of the country that they believe is college
Speaker 2: basketball country. And it's clearly not the case. I mean
Speaker 2: where we are, I mean TV ratings tell you that
Speaker 2: we watch more college hoops than anybody. But even like
Speaker 2: in the Carolinas, I mean, it's a different world. But
Speaker 2: you know, do you think there's other fan bases out there?
Speaker 2: You think Yukon and Providence fans are going back and
Speaker 2: forth not only on Twitter and the toxic wasteland that
Speaker 2: is now X. But like you know, there's people who
Speaker 2: work at Ford on the assembly line, or people who
Speaker 2: work at GE or people who work in an office,
Speaker 2: maybe they work at McDonald's, and one of them's a
Speaker 2: Louisville fan, one of them is a Kentucky fan, and
Speaker 2: they're probably going back and forth about a picture that
Speaker 2: somebody took on their iPhone and posted on Twitter, like
Speaker 2: we're nuts and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 2: And we'll see how both of these coaches end up doing.
Speaker 2: But it does kind of feel like the rivalry is
Speaker 2: refreshed here, which on the Louisville side, God knows we
Speaker 2: needed something new because Cal's just been you know, very
Speaker 2: successful against Louisville to say the least. And I know
Speaker 2: that Kentucky still feels as if they are insanely superior
Speaker 2: to Louisville, even though they've got a brand new roster
Speaker 2: and a coach who's never won a tournament game. Just
Speaker 2: like Pat Kelsey, I mean, we're not really starting off
Speaker 2: that much differently. For being honest. The only thing that
Speaker 2: you know clearly you got as a program, there's a
Speaker 2: little more momentum there for you because you know, Louisville,
Speaker 2: what they went through the last few years is probably something,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, that the Kentucky will never
Speaker 2: go through, and Louisville should have never gone through, but
Speaker 2: you know what had happened, and now hopefully they're getting
Speaker 2: things back on track. I mean they already have when
Speaker 2: it comes to just you know, hiring somebody that can
Speaker 2: get you excited about basketball. Now we got to wait
Speaker 2: and see if, in fact, you know, the results are there.
Speaker 2: But today's one of those days where, after about a
Speaker 2: twenty four hour window where I was just so annoyed
Speaker 2: and just you know, irritated, I didn't even want to
Speaker 2: get on Twitter because I just knew when I pop
Speaker 2: it open for the first time in a couple of hours,
Speaker 2: the first thing I'm going to see, rather it be
Speaker 2: people I follow or it be the for U section
Speaker 2: of Twitter, it was just gonna be people going back
Speaker 2: and forth about the team photo. And as silly as
Speaker 2: it is, it's also a reminder that we're we're different,
Speaker 2: We're built different when it comes to college basketball rivalries,
Speaker 2: and look, Kentucky can act as if, like, you know,
Speaker 2: they don't even care. Well, clearly I'd say, the Louisville
Speaker 2: team photo was the biggest talking point among Kentucky fans
Speaker 2: for probably about twenty four hours at least those around here.
Speaker 2: And big part of that is because Matt made it
Speaker 2: a big part of his show, which you know, he
Speaker 2: has every right to do that. It's free country, you know.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't, you know, necessarily try to make something content
Speaker 2: that is based off of personal appearance of people, because again,
Speaker 2: as I said yesterday, I know that's an open invitation
Speaker 2: for somebody to come to come back at me when
Speaker 2: it comes to my personal appearance, and I don't want
Speaker 2: to do that because that's not something I would, you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm an easy target when it comes
Speaker 2: to that kind of stuff. Before we get to a
Speaker 2: break and bring in the one the only mister Alex Cupper,
Speaker 2: former Louisville Cardinal to talk about this matchup with the
Speaker 2: Miami Hurricanes on Saturday. Have you seen the latest changes
Speaker 2: to Twitter slash x John.
Speaker 3: I saw that you're going to be able to view
Speaker 3: somebody who has blocked to you or vice versa their tweets,
Speaker 3: but you won't be able to interact with them. Still
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm for the first time in a while. Really,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say worried because I'm worried about Twitter.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess we're always worried about Twitter because
Speaker 3: it always seems like it could potentially be going, yeah,
Speaker 3: down the drain. But I don't see the benefit in
Speaker 3: doing this. Almost to me, what's the point in blocking somebody?
Speaker 2: Well, I think the attempt here for Elon Musk is
Speaker 2: to make it to where we're so much about free
Speaker 2: speech that you really can't even hide what you're saying
Speaker 2: from somebody. So therefore, if you block them, they can't
Speaker 2: interact with you, but they can still see it. Like
Speaker 2: that's my guess, because you know, that's what they're really
Speaker 2: prodding themselves on when it comes to this platform, is
Speaker 2: that we let you say anything, which is really a
Speaker 2: scary thing because there's so much misinformation going on, especially
Speaker 2: in an election year, that it's it's kind of reckless
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. But what you would think
Speaker 2: that he knows is that there's actually rules within the
Speaker 2: app store, both for Google Play and for Apple that
Speaker 2: if you don't if you are if you're a social
Speaker 2: media type platform, which clearly that's what Twitter is, you
Speaker 2: have to have an ability to block somebody, or you
Speaker 2: can't your app can't be available in their store. And imagine,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not crazy to assume that they didn't
Speaker 2: know that, and they're going to have to revert back
Speaker 2: and make a change, because if the app's not available
Speaker 2: on androids and iPhone, then the platform doesn't exist. I mean,
Speaker 2: I use it on the web whenever I'm on the air,
Speaker 2: but like I would say, less than five percent of
Speaker 2: those that are interacting on Twitter are doing it on
Speaker 2: anything other than their device, their phone.
Speaker 4: So there's that.
Speaker 2: And also this is a this is something that I
Speaker 2: guess is in their new you know, every now and
Speaker 2: then you'll get a notification when you go to any
Speaker 2: app that says they've we've updated our terms of use
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. Well there's now one
Speaker 2: I'm not going to read the whole thing, but it's
Speaker 2: the content of services. But they now have it in
Speaker 2: their agreement essentially that I guess, if you're using the app,
Speaker 2: you've agreed to it by submitting or posting any content
Speaker 2: through their services, you grant a worldwide, non exclusive, royalty
Speaker 2: free license to use copy reproduced. So basically they're just
Speaker 2: they're saying anything that is published on the platform that
Speaker 2: is X or Twitter, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 2: it becomes instantly free for anybody to use and monetize.
Speaker 4: Like that's not legal.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: If you put it in there and people upload it
Speaker 2: without reading that, then I guess they've you know, but
Speaker 2: like there are big time creators, big time people in
Speaker 2: the digital space that we'll see this and say, well,
Speaker 2: we're not putting anything on there, and there's nobody regulating it,
Speaker 2: Like there's nobody like monitoring if you're allowed to use
Speaker 2: stuff that's copywritten or not. So, you know, I thought
Speaker 2: whenever we found out that Elon Musk was buying it,
Speaker 2: and then if you remember there was a time where
Speaker 2: you could only view like certain amount of tweets per day,
Speaker 2: you remember that, Yes, Like when that was going on,
Speaker 2: I felt like, Okay, I'll give this thing, you know,
Speaker 2: five six months, and it's and it's lasted longer than that,
Speaker 2: But wouldn't shock me if like it, you know, in
Speaker 2: the next few months or something like you see this
Speaker 2: thing as actually post election, I think is when we're
Speaker 2: going to find out like really where they're going, what's
Speaker 2: going on with it? And It's a useful resource for
Speaker 2: me for and I don't even mean just for like
Speaker 2: reaching people. I mean it is is valuable resource for
Speaker 2: that just because the following that you can get on there.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've got close to thirty thousand followers.
Speaker 4: But I really use it.
Speaker 2: More than anything just for show prep, like figuring out
Speaker 2: what's going on, keeping up with what's out there in
Speaker 2: the news and whatnot. But I could still get that
Speaker 2: stuff without Twitter. It would just take a little bit
Speaker 2: more work. At times think that life may be better
Speaker 2: for everybody if we didn't have Twitter, But I guess
Speaker 2: maybe one day we'll find out, because I would imagine
Speaker 2: this thing will eventually be done though, But as of now,
Speaker 2: it's still there, and it's again a toxic wasteland. All right,
Speaker 2: Alex Cupper's going to join us on the other side
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Speaker 6: How we doing, brother, It's a beautiful day in the
Speaker 6: neighborhood and I'm doing well.
Speaker 2: It is. It is a beautiful day, and it should
Speaker 2: be a beautiful day on Saturday when the Cards and
Speaker 2: the Canes get it on. And before we get to
Speaker 2: the matchup, let's just, I guess go back to a
Speaker 2: very important game that did result in a win for Louislle.
Speaker 2: They avoided a three game losing streak. They were able
Speaker 2: to went on the road at Virginia, and it was
Speaker 2: big just because you needed it. A three you know,
Speaker 2: three game losing streak would have been clearly less than ideal.
Speaker 2: But did you feel like they took much of a
Speaker 2: step forward. Obviously winning that means you did take a
Speaker 2: step forward, But I still felt as if we saw
Speaker 2: some things that to me are avoidable, yet they keep happening.
Speaker 2: Some silly penalties. You know, the communications seem to be
Speaker 2: a little bit better defensively. But I just I think
Speaker 2: i'd be lying to you if I said I feel
Speaker 2: as if it was such a big step forward that
Speaker 2: I feel like this team's gonna, you know, completely be
Speaker 2: different the rest of the way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, I agree with that statement.
Speaker 6: I would also say that, you know, with all of
Speaker 6: the the downtroddenness of all those statements, I think there's
Speaker 6: the ability to play better football is definitely out there.
Speaker 6: It's all out in front of them with this team.
Speaker 6: So they have to keep their I think last week
Speaker 6: kept their mindset and if anything, moved their mindset in
Speaker 6: the right direction on Okay, we can do this.
Speaker 5: We can win ugly.
Speaker 6: We can you know, overcome some mistakes and really pull
Speaker 6: together and pull out a win.
Speaker 5: Get a drive together, get down the red zone.
Speaker 6: Exec execute to perfection on that Jamar Johnson, you know,
Speaker 6: crossing pattern, hook line, singer, perfect play call, perfect execution.
Speaker 6: Knowing that you can do that should give your team
Speaker 6: some confidence that hey, we you know we and a
Speaker 6: messy situation, we can make things work. So what happens
Speaker 6: when you play play your best ball, which I mean
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say they have to play a perfect game
Speaker 6: on Saturday to win it, but they definitely have to
Speaker 6: be sharp, much sharper than they have been and play
Speaker 6: the best football that they have played this year. But
Speaker 6: I think there's there's plenty of ability out there on
Speaker 6: that field to make enough plays to get to make
Speaker 6: this one interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to go back to what you mentioned as
Speaker 2: far as just you know, them being able to get
Speaker 2: that win, Like, I think it's almost a chance for
Speaker 2: these guys to reset, right like now they're not dwelling
Speaker 2: on some you know, because clearly the losses to SMU
Speaker 2: and to Notre Dame. You didn't lose to bad teams
Speaker 2: by any means, but I think you know, you know,
Speaker 2: you could have easily won if you would have been
Speaker 2: a little bit better. And I think just getting that
Speaker 2: Virginia in on the road it kind of lets your
Speaker 2: reset here and now you've got a huge opportunity and
Speaker 2: if you do come out and you play. You're right,
Speaker 2: they don't have to play perfect, nobody you know, they're
Speaker 2: never going to be perfect, but you know it's never
Speaker 2: been throughout this entire season. Any question on my end
Speaker 2: as far as do they have the ability to be
Speaker 2: a good team to beat really good teams, including Miami,
Speaker 2: which has just made it kind of a weird. I
Speaker 2: can't think of a season that I'd compared this one too,
Speaker 2: because I still think from a talent perspective, not to say.
Speaker 4: That they're loaded everywhere.
Speaker 2: They're going to be at a disadvantage at certain positions
Speaker 2: depending on you know, who they're playing.
Speaker 4: The rest of the way.
Speaker 2: It's not like they're bill like an NFL team, But
Speaker 2: you know, I still feel like as far as the
Speaker 2: ceiling for this group, if they do clean some things up,
Speaker 2: they could be you know, dare I say really good
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah? No, I agree?
Speaker 6: And it I mean when you look at the matchup
Speaker 6: itself and you think about some of the some of
Speaker 6: the vy can see that we may or you know,
Speaker 6: some of the exposure points we do a little self
Speaker 6: counting on defensively, and if you're just watching as a
Speaker 6: casual fan, if if we're able to contain cam Ward
Speaker 6: and eliminate the first and second read usually he's a
Speaker 6: primary read target guy, and then are able to capitalize
Speaker 6: on a secondary rush standpoint, and I mean that that's
Speaker 6: that's how the game is going to be won.
Speaker 5: You got you got to get them.
Speaker 6: To flush backwards and scramble out and make everything a
Speaker 6: scam scramble drive. He's able to step up in the
Speaker 6: pocket and avoid quickly to the sideline.
Speaker 5: There's going to be a lot of deep balls, a lot.
Speaker 6: Of third downs converted, and we're we're going to be
Speaker 6: stilling to try and keep.
Speaker 5: Them, you know, out of the end zone and limit points.
Speaker 6: So I think that's where it all starts. We should
Speaker 6: we should be able to execute. I would imagine coach
Speaker 6: Brown typically comes in dialed in for games like this.
Speaker 6: He has n't started, you know, he understands the opponent
Speaker 6: very very well and has some tricks up his sleeve.
Speaker 6: So I would assume our offense is going to be
Speaker 6: able to move the football and get points on the board.
Speaker 6: It's just defensively, can you create some turnovers? Can you
Speaker 6: limit cam Ward's ability to make special plays? You know,
Speaker 6: that's really and if you're going to be on the
Speaker 6: game at the end, that's what you're gonna.
Speaker 5: Need to do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean again, if it was easy, then a
Speaker 2: lot of teams would have done it up to this
Speaker 2: point in Miami. Wouldn't be the number six team in
Speaker 2: the country that's undefeated, But I mean he's pretty special.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like he's a guy that could
Speaker 2: go up against a defense that most would say is
Speaker 2: maybe a little more talented than Louisvill's or maybe you know,
Speaker 2: just better as far as results, but yet he could
Speaker 2: still he could still have an impact on the game
Speaker 2: that dictates two wins and loses. How I mean is
Speaker 2: he I feel like he's Maybe this is just because
Speaker 2: it's the opponent Louis's got next, and I'm I'm worried
Speaker 2: as being a pessimistic fan, but I feel like he's
Speaker 2: I mean, he he's kind of not single handedly done
Speaker 2: it because they've always had talent, and they have talent
Speaker 2: this year around him, but he's given Miami some different
Speaker 2: swagger I feel like than they've had in a long time.
Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, Just that that whole confidence realm that we
Speaker 6: we spoke to, you know, we kind of talk about
Speaker 6: Tyler Schuck in that way after that notre end game,
Speaker 6: being able to stand in there and make some great
Speaker 6: throws in a hostile environment and pull your team together
Speaker 6: and even on your on your uh you know, you're
Speaker 6: not you're not perfect and you're not not ever going
Speaker 6: to be, but on a day where your things aren't
Speaker 6: going your way, he's able to stand up and be
Speaker 6: a leader.
Speaker 5: That's yeah, That's.
Speaker 6: That's what Cam Worden's been able to do and has
Speaker 6: got that whole team believing that they they belong right
Speaker 6: where they are, which is in the heart of the
Speaker 6: college football playoff conversation and and and the head of
Speaker 6: the acc kind of leadership role at the moment. So yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, you get you got to give him some
Speaker 6: he hadn't seen before because he he is. If he
Speaker 6: if you let him sit back there and enjoy that
Speaker 6: time in the pocket, and then you know he's able
Speaker 6: to escape and escape the pocket, it's gonna be a
Speaker 6: long day because he's gonna make plays.
Speaker 2: Alex Cupper's our guest joining us here on Sports Talk
Speaker 2: seven ninety getting set for the Louisville and Miami matchup.
Speaker 2: I think everybody listening is well aware that that coach
Speaker 2: brom has shown his ability. Rather it be a head
Speaker 2: coach here Perdue Western, or just as an OC, the
Speaker 2: guy is a really really good football coach as far
Speaker 2: as an offensive mind, good play caller. In fact, he
Speaker 2: got a shout out today from Cliff Kingsbury at his
Speaker 2: press conference because of a play that the Commanders recently ran.
Speaker 2: So I'm not asking this question Cup to insinuate that
Speaker 2: you know, you would ever act like, you know, better
Speaker 2: than coach brom. But when you see Louisville in a
Speaker 2: fourth and very short situation, what would you do? Given
Speaker 2: the results that they've had so far this year, they've
Speaker 2: come up short many more times than you would than
Speaker 2: you'd like to see. I don't think many fans have
Speaker 2: an issue with them going forward because that's what Jeff's
Speaker 2: gonna do. He's gonna be aggressive. And you know, it's
Speaker 2: just been been a tough run to see this group
Speaker 2: on fourth down more often than not, just need a
Speaker 2: yard maybe two, and they line up and run it
Speaker 2: and they just they can't get it done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you you got, I mean, and it's
Speaker 5: it's pretty standard what a defense will do to you.
Speaker 5: You know, they'll engage eight.
Speaker 6: Guys, they'll they'll play straight up eight you know, gap eight,
Speaker 6: whatever you.
Speaker 5: Want to call it.
Speaker 6: Every single one of the gaps is filled and there's
Speaker 6: somebody trying to penetrate through. I mean, we our defense
Speaker 6: does the same thing. So you got to do something
Speaker 6: where you can where you can pick up a hat
Speaker 6: or gain an advantage via a gaps game or something.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm I'm not a big fan of just
Speaker 6: a straight dive.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you if you.
Speaker 6: Got a strong quarterback and you are able to do
Speaker 6: a QB snake like you've seen in the NFL with
Speaker 6: Josh Allen, some of those guys. I don't think we
Speaker 6: have one of those. Nothing against Tyler Schuck, but I
Speaker 6: mean that those guys are those are really really big individuals,
Speaker 6: big and strong. So yeah, I mean that's that's what
Speaker 6: you get every time. That's what you got with the
Speaker 6: Johnson touchdown, that there's just somebody sleeping in the backhand
Speaker 6: that was supposed to be made a man on them.
Speaker 6: So that, yeah, there's got there's got to be a
Speaker 6: little wrinkle. You know, if if I'm playing defense, I've
Speaker 6: guarden any any wide receiver one on one and number
Speaker 6: eleven one on one, and I'm sending everybody else.
Speaker 2: And I know Tyler Schuck is not built like a
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, but he's also not a not a small guy.
Speaker 2: Do you think that maybe because he's been I mean,
Speaker 2: he's sixty five two twenty five, that's what he's listed as.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm a little surprised they haven't at
Speaker 2: least tried that here and there on the many fourth
Speaker 2: down opportunities they've had. Could it be because he's somebody
Speaker 2: that quite literally has had so many injuries you just
Speaker 2: don't want to risk it.
Speaker 5: Potentially?
Speaker 6: I mean, I I've seen Josh Allen at you know,
Speaker 6: high level, and it's I've.
Speaker 5: Seen them both, and there's there's a difference there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know was that Uh? I means it could be there.
Speaker 5: It could be you know, just.
Speaker 6: Comfortability, and it's it's being able to I mean, there's
Speaker 6: an art to Tom Brady was a fantastic QB snake
Speaker 6: artist and he probably couldn't squat more than two hundred.
Speaker 5: And twenty pounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't because of athleticism or strength with him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta underst and where you can do it,
Speaker 6: where the weakness and the defense is. You know, your
Speaker 6: cadence is so important. So oh, there's so many different
Speaker 6: intricacies to being good at it, and you.
Speaker 5: Know, some quarterbacks just aren't comfortable with it.
Speaker 6: So not the end of the world, but yeah, it's
Speaker 6: definitely something that every single time we fail on I
Speaker 6: get my text.
Speaker 2: Changes, I guarantee it, so I guarantee it all right. So, defensively,
Speaker 2: last week, we learned right before the game that that
Speaker 2: Ron English was going from the booth to the sideline
Speaker 2: to try to help improve communication. I think at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the game, the defense still still kind of looked,
Speaker 2: you know, as if they were going to To me,
Speaker 2: it seems as if defensively they're like given each opponent
Speaker 2: the last few weeks, a few series before they kind
Speaker 2: of figure out what they want to do, and look,
Speaker 2: there's one thing to have, you know, to get a
Speaker 2: feel for what the opponent's doing and then you counter
Speaker 2: it and you you scheme yourself to try to stop it.
Speaker 2: But they did seem to settle in As a former player,
Speaker 2: what I mean, how big of a difference is that
Speaker 2: for guys on the field. I mean it's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's to me, it seems like a pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: The defensive coordinators. Instead of being up in the booth,
Speaker 2: he's now on the sideline. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: is that just something to to try to I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess, long story short, what what kind of an
Speaker 2: impact were you expecting when you heard that instead of
Speaker 2: being up top, he was going to be right there
Speaker 2: on the sideline with his guys. I would just assume
Speaker 2: the most defensive coordinators would want to be on the sideline.
Speaker 2: But you know, what the hell do I know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 6: It's from a coordinator's perspective there, and there's so many
Speaker 6: support staff where there.
Speaker 5: I mean you can.
Speaker 6: Ask, you know, any one of them, hey, what what
Speaker 6: look are they giving us here? Or what what personnel
Speaker 6: are they going to come out in? Or spotters all
Speaker 6: over the place up in the coaches booth. So it's
Speaker 6: I mean the information you need can be you know,
Speaker 6: can be given to you, whether you like seeing the
Speaker 6: game from up there and you can really see how
Speaker 6: wide receivers are breaking, or how you know from a
Speaker 6: from an offensive you know, from an offensive visual, you know,
Speaker 6: what what are they trying to do on the backside?
Speaker 5: You know, if we give.
Speaker 6: Them one on one, you know they tagging things, et cetera,
Speaker 6: et cetera. Those are all things that people from the
Speaker 6: boot can give you. I think from a communications standpoint,
Speaker 6: if he was the green dock communicator, so he was
Speaker 6: the voice that was going into I don't.
Speaker 5: Know, is it Clark who's wearing it? Yep?
Speaker 6: The communication, So you got to think he's giving a
Speaker 6: call to stan Kwan. Clark and the coaches on the
Speaker 6: sideline are trying to get a personnel grouping, and Clark
Speaker 6: is part of that. So he's part of saying, hey,
Speaker 6: we're in, we're in dime where Nickel, We're in whatever
Speaker 6: they want to call it, and this is the call
Speaker 6: and so and but you got so many voices coming
Speaker 6: at you got one upstop and then you got English
Speaker 6: probably trying to talk to the guys on the sideline.
Speaker 5: So there's there's kind of like a pyramid.
Speaker 6: Of stuff trying to flow and it's going through a
Speaker 6: prism essentially, so it's it can be a bit murky.
Speaker 6: So now that he's on the sideline, he can literally
Speaker 6: just like point to guy, say hey, we want this package,
Speaker 6: we want you know, needs you in at this position.
Speaker 5: And then call the play that way.
Speaker 6: So let's you know, he's not he's not having to
Speaker 6: yell down to the coaching staff what personnel needs to.
Speaker 5: Go in and then what what what the call needs
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 2: So it is is, uh, today, you're not today, But
Speaker 2: it was yesterday. I think whenever they were put out
Speaker 2: on social media, the black helmets with like the Matt
Speaker 2: black that says cards on him. We've talked about it before.
Speaker 2: Charlie Strong did not let you guys ever wear black.
Speaker 2: And I don't even know what the unis are going
Speaker 2: to be, but obviously that black helmet looks looks sweet.
Speaker 2: I mean, are you jealous? Because again, like you all
Speaker 2: had some damn good teams and your uniforms look pretty good,
Speaker 2: but like the black is just special.
Speaker 5: It's very special. I don't. I think we may have
Speaker 5: worn black jerseys one time.
Speaker 6: But it was just with the with the normal, normal
Speaker 6: helmet and normal pants. So it's kind of like an awkward,
Speaker 6: an awkward little combo. We know, we never did the
Speaker 6: UNI combos in it.
Speaker 5: To be fair, Adidas had they.
Speaker 6: Had just started getting into you know, how important you know,
Speaker 6: form fit and looks are when I was playing, so
Speaker 6: that was that wasn't really their cup of tea at
Speaker 6: the at that moment, so and and Coach Strong was
Speaker 6: it was all about that, you know.
Speaker 4: The traditionalists, look, you need you need to be.
Speaker 6: Known for your brand. Yeah, he's very much traditionalists. Which
Speaker 6: the white on white is. Yeah, that's my favorite look.
Speaker 6: You know, no matter what whether we were wearing it
Speaker 6: back then or or how they were on the road
Speaker 6: last Saturday, that is that is awesome. But the the
Speaker 6: cardinal script is sweet. The chrome, yeah, the chrome read
Speaker 6: those those are all awesome. You know, ad INDs to
Speaker 6: to building up the programs. You can call it swagger,
Speaker 6: but this is the brand in general. You see, you
Speaker 6: see guys making plays and you get on Sports Center
Speaker 6: and you get highlights shown of you that that sticks
Speaker 6: with people all around the country, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. All Right, last question for you, Cup.
Speaker 2: Let's say, uh, we get to the end of the
Speaker 2: game on Saturday and it is, in fact a victory
Speaker 2: for Louis Wille, they knock off the number six team
Speaker 2: in the country. And I'm i'm i'm I'm presenting it
Speaker 2: as if like it would be just the old the Shocker,
Speaker 2: and it really wouldn't be. They're five point dogs as
Speaker 2: we speak, and I think when we get closer, you'll
Speaker 2: see more and more people realize, Okay, this is a
Speaker 2: game where Jeff Brown will have his louisvill team ready
Speaker 2: and they're at home, and you know, maybe you see
Speaker 2: more people.
Speaker 4: Pick the cards.
Speaker 2: But what what would be the recipe as far as
Speaker 2: if we are there, Let's say it's a close game throughout,
Speaker 2: but Louisville holds on to win late. Is it Tyler Shuck,
Speaker 2: you know, making a name for himself on a big stage.
Speaker 2: Is that the defense maybe confusing cam Ward? I mean,
Speaker 2: it's going to take a lot to knock off this
Speaker 2: really good Miami team. But what would you say is
Speaker 2: your best bet? As far as if we get this victory,
Speaker 2: what are we talking about? Maybe more than anything right
Speaker 2: after the game, I think.
Speaker 6: It's about how effective our defense was at limiting cam
Speaker 6: Ward and forcing turnovers.
Speaker 5: You get that you have to win the turnover battle.
Speaker 5: You can't win.
Speaker 6: You can't win a game like this and lose the
Speaker 6: turnover better You're not You're not that talented to overcome
Speaker 6: those those critical errors. So I think I think if
Speaker 6: we do or when we do make this happen on Saturday,
Speaker 6: we go, it'll be wow that the defense really, they're really,
Speaker 6: you know, took a huge step forward. We were able
Speaker 6: to lock down the outside, shut down what they wanted
Speaker 6: to do, limit what cam Ward was will they are
Speaker 6: able to do and got them to cough up the
Speaker 6: ball a couple of times, which led obviously lead to points,
Speaker 6: and you got you have to take control of the
Speaker 6: ball game. You can't play from behind too much. Too
Speaker 6: much of our our season, you know, the two one
Speaker 6: two games we lost, and then this Virginia game where
Speaker 6: you're you're having to dig out of a of a
Speaker 6: first half hole.
Speaker 5: You gotta get a fast start.
Speaker 6: And then and then you know, put them in uncomfortable
Speaker 6: positions where they're going.
Speaker 5: To give you the ball.
Speaker 2: I love it, Cup, appreciate the time as always, and uh,
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to this upset on Saturday. Hey man,
Speaker 2: me too, brother, take care of go cards. So that's
Speaker 2: Alex Cupper, former little of a cardinal. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 2: some big, bold opinion, take whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2: And it's quite clear if Louisville is going to pull
Speaker 2: off the victory, you'd have to think that maybe cam
Speaker 2: Wore doesn't play the worst game of his career, but
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to find a way to neutralize him
Speaker 2: a little bit. And here's to hoping that happens. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back on the other side of
Speaker 2: wrap up a three o'clock hour right here on Sports.
Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: As you guys know, big game on Saturday, Louisville and
Speaker 2: Miami at noon, but before you get out there to
Speaker 2: Cardinal Stadium, or maybe you're not going to the game
Speaker 2: because you know it's sold out, which is true by
Speaker 2: the way, for those who didn't know. It is a
Speaker 2: sellout on Saturday, which has me expecting a pretty damn
Speaker 2: good environment and maybe that leads to Louisville having a
Speaker 2: really good start, which I think is going to be
Speaker 2: crucial in this matchup. But what I'm getting at is
Speaker 2: if in fact, you don't you don't have any plans
Speaker 2: to go to the game, or maybe you want to
Speaker 2: do it before you go to the game. The Pints
Speaker 2: for Pausing People event at Jefferson Animal Hospital will be
Speaker 2: going on on Saturday, and I know they're really looking
Speaker 2: forward to educating folks when it comes to pet blood donation.
Speaker 2: You may not know it, but your pets, your dog
Speaker 2: or cat could potentially qualify to be a pet blood donor.
Speaker 2: And every time that a pet donates blood, that could
Speaker 2: help save up to four to six lives. So again
Speaker 2: keep that in mind. They're going to be there to
Speaker 2: educate you, as mentioned, on how this process works. They
Speaker 2: are well aware that there's many people that didn't even
Speaker 2: realize that pets could donate blood. I'm one of those
Speaker 2: people as well. So that's why they're going to have demonstrations.
Speaker 2: They're going to be able to show you how it works.
Speaker 2: They're going to put you at ease if you're worried
Speaker 2: about maybe you know, your pet being in pain. Look,
Speaker 2: they're professionals. They know exactly what they're doing, and that's
Speaker 2: why they're willing to show you and demonstrate sort of
Speaker 2: how this whole thing works. So you can get more
Speaker 2: information at petloodbank dot com or give them a call
Speaker 2: at five O two nine hundred Pets again, it is
Speaker 2: the Jefferson Animal Hospital on outer Loop on Saturday from
Speaker 2: ten am to two pm.
Speaker 4: Should be a good.
Speaker 2: Turnout for them. Bring your pets, bring your people. Pets
Speaker 2: and people are welcome, and you can also donate blood
Speaker 2: yourself to the American Red Cross so that you can
Speaker 2: tell your dog or your cat, Hey, it's not just you,
Speaker 2: I'm doing it too. Maybe they'll be a little uh,
Speaker 2: a little more willing to uh to participate. In fact,
Speaker 2: they probably won't know what the hell's going on, But
Speaker 2: I don't know. This is one of those things as
Speaker 2: somebody who's never been as into pets as others, just
Speaker 2: because I wasn't, you know, I didn't grow up with
Speaker 2: like a dog or a cat that was my best friend.
Speaker 2: But like you ever wonder John, what pets are thinking?
Speaker 2: Like if if we could read their brain, that would
Speaker 2: be wild, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4: Yes, be wild? All right, quick break.
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