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Speaker 2: As we continue to uh to wind down another year,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four almost over and uh, you know, I
Speaker 2: I know, I'm I'm I sound like what everybody says,
Speaker 2: Where did time go? How is it already the end
Speaker 2: of the year, which you know, you know, of course
Speaker 2: is is cliches or cliches for a reason. I think
Speaker 2: everybody would agree that that time seems to go by,
Speaker 2: you know, pretty fast, especially when you don't want it to.
Speaker 2: But over the you know, over the over the last year.
Speaker 2: What I want to do here is I mean, this
Speaker 2: this hour. We're not going to make it the whole show,
Speaker 2: but what I want to do is kind of look
Speaker 2: back and not just you know, sports stuff. Obviously, there's
Speaker 2: certain things that stand out from this year when it
Speaker 2: comes to sports. Both programs hired new basketball coaches, which
Speaker 2: is a big deal, you know, Louisville. I mean, again,
Speaker 2: we can get into that, but I also want to
Speaker 2: talk about like and it doesn't have and alsto, what
Speaker 2: do you think about this?
Speaker 3: Like I was going to ask.
Speaker 2: Best movie you watched in twenty twenty four, best series
Speaker 2: you watched in twenty twenty four, maybe best documentary if
Speaker 2: that's your kind of thing, best sporting event you went to.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to like, I wasn't going to
Speaker 2: make it to where like the movie or show had.
Speaker 3: To come out that year, right, I'm just I wanted
Speaker 3: it to more so just something that you liked, something
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: That year, because because you know, I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I was looking at these lists that are out there
Speaker 2: for best of twenty twenty four, that are all over
Speaker 2: the internet right now, and like, when it comes to movie,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I saw a single movie that
Speaker 2: is like mentioned as one of the best movies of
Speaker 2: the year that is about to end.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I like what I mean.
Speaker 2: I consume a lot of content like most people, but
Speaker 2: for some reason, movies.
Speaker 3: Just not been you know.
Speaker 2: I guess I now never even think to go see
Speaker 2: a movie, if you know what I mean. Like, I'm
Speaker 2: more so just going to watch a movie that that
Speaker 2: is on one of the streaming apps that I have.
Speaker 2: But you know, we are back to where movies first
Speaker 2: now end up in theaters before they end up anywhere else.
Speaker 2: And you know, for a while that wasn't a thing.
Speaker 4: So when's the last time you went to a movie
Speaker 4: theater where I go see a movie?
Speaker 3: Been a long long time.
Speaker 5: So not in the year twenty twenty four at least.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't think I've been to I don't
Speaker 2: think I've been to the movie theater in gosh, gotta
Speaker 2: be so my son is four, I've not gone to
Speaker 2: the movie theater since he's been alive.
Speaker 3: So four years at at least. So I used to.
Speaker 2: Live near a movie theater, and that just made it
Speaker 2: convenient to where if my wife and I when we
Speaker 2: didn't have kids, meaning before we were parents, like we
Speaker 2: would eat, we would go to the movies like three
Speaker 2: times a month, which maybe that's not a whole lot,
Speaker 2: but like for us, it was because if we did,
Speaker 2: if we went to dinner and we didn't just want
Speaker 2: to go home for the night, like we'd go find
Speaker 2: a movie and know that we're, you know, just a
Speaker 2: few blocks down from our neighborhood.
Speaker 5: So yeah, nice little cinematic experience.
Speaker 2: And you know, usually at that time, I feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, it was a pretty common thing. You'd see
Speaker 2: a preview for a movie, you realize it's coming out
Speaker 2: in a few weeks, and you try to make plans
Speaker 2: to go see it.
Speaker 3: So we did it pretty often.
Speaker 2: And then once we once we became parents, and you know,
Speaker 2: we we taken a little little one to a movie
Speaker 2: just wasn't a thing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And if we did get a sitter and go do
Speaker 2: something as parents while somebody watched our daughter, we we
Speaker 2: just didn't do movies. We would do dinner and go out,
Speaker 2: and just wasn't kind of a thing. So I would
Speaker 2: I that was a long winded way of me answering
Speaker 2: your question saying that I believe that.
Speaker 3: I think I've been to the movie theaters.
Speaker 2: Twice since I've been a parent, which my daughter will
Speaker 2: be nine years old next month. So I don't go
Speaker 2: to the movies much at all, but I used to
Speaker 2: a lot, which is where which is funny because now
Speaker 2: that makes a little more sense as to when I
Speaker 2: would think, oh, yeah, I haven't seen that movie in
Speaker 2: a while. I did see it in theaters and I'm like,
Speaker 2: this movie's ten years old, and well, yeah, it's kind
Speaker 2: of my window. I mean again, me miss is me
Speaker 2: being in my own world. I just feel like people
Speaker 2: don't go to the movies like they used to. But
Speaker 2: maybe that's just me and I'm the one that's in
Speaker 2: the minority ones. I mean, how I'm assuming you've been
Speaker 2: this year, and it's so like how many times.
Speaker 4: I've probably been about three or four times this year.
Speaker 4: And I didn't used to go a lot either, but
Speaker 4: me and the fiance have made it a thing. Just
Speaker 4: they're fun little date nights you can go. Well now
Speaker 4: you could get like alcohol at movie theaters, so that
Speaker 4: always makes it a little bit better taking margarita. And
Speaker 4: also just because I grew up with it, there's just
Speaker 4: something about like going to like a like a nice
Speaker 4: chain restaurant, you know, before going out like a like
Speaker 4: a Texas roadhouse, or where do we get Chewies? A
Speaker 4: couple of weeks shout out Chewies, Shout out to the Chewies
Speaker 4: before we went to go watch Wicked. But I will say,
Speaker 4: if we're just gonna go ahead and just dive right
Speaker 4: into it, I think the best movie that I watched
Speaker 4: probably has to be what I just went and saw
Speaker 4: the other day and Christmas even that was the The
Speaker 4: Complete Unknown movie. That's the Bob Dylan movie with that
Speaker 4: that kid, Timothy Schallomey, he's a he's a hot commodity
Speaker 4: in Hollywood right now. He played what's it called, uh,
Speaker 4: The Complete Unknown. It's like the it's like a Bob
Speaker 4: Dylan movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were telling me about this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, really really good. I'm really not a
Speaker 4: big Bob Dylan fan. Uh, I guess he was kind
Speaker 4: of way before my time, but it was like folk music.
Speaker 4: The fiance is really into that. So we went watch that.
Speaker 4: It was a good story.
Speaker 5: I thought.
Speaker 4: I thought Timothy Chalomey pretty much killed it with that role.
Speaker 4: I thought that was really good. And since I'm a
Speaker 4: wrestling fan, there was that one movie that came out
Speaker 4: earlier this year, The Iron Claw, where they're following around
Speaker 4: the von Erics, which.
Speaker 3: Was a really familiar with that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, really it was really touching and well that's
Speaker 4: a heartbreaking story the von eric family. Anyways, and ye
Speaker 4: had that kid a zach Efron and uh, the kid
Speaker 4: that plays in The Bear, he's also in h is it?
Speaker 4: Is it shameless too? I think it's a Jeremy Jeremy
Speaker 4: Jeremy something.
Speaker 2: The guy, Yeah, the guy, but yeah, I know exactly
Speaker 2: You're talking about his lip and shameless. But he's the
Speaker 2: main guy in the Bear, which I couldn't That's one
Speaker 2: of the most popular shows. I just couldn't really get
Speaker 2: into it. I never dislike it, but I just didn't.
Speaker 2: It just didn't do anything for me, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, I could take it or leave it. Which
Speaker 2: when there's so many things to watch, like, I'm not
Speaker 2: just gonna spend time watching a show because like it's decent,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna find something that I that I really liked.
Speaker 2: That was one of the first shows that I felt
Speaker 2: like had a very you agree, I had a very
Speaker 2: big approval rating initially, right, and I felt like, what's
Speaker 2: wrong with me? Because I'm not really into it. There's
Speaker 2: other shows that I've yet to watch that I just
Speaker 2: have a hard time believing I wouldn't like because everybody
Speaker 2: seems to like it. And I'll get to him at
Speaker 2: some point. But Game of Thrones and that's a great
Speaker 2: show and the Ted Lasso on on Apple TV. So
Speaker 2: I am trying to find the name of the movie
Speaker 2: that I think is the best movie that I watched.
Speaker 2: And here's like, I'm just now the last time I
Speaker 2: watched a movie was last time I was in an airport.
Speaker 2: So what I'll do is I'll go in Netflix or
Speaker 2: I'll go because I never looked to watch movies on
Speaker 2: Netflix or Amazon or Hulu, just because I usually just
Speaker 2: get into documentaries or binging shows. Movies just don't do
Speaker 2: it as much for me. So not that I don't
Speaker 2: like movies, it's just for the way I consume content.
Speaker 2: I'd either get lost in a show than watch a
Speaker 2: movie for an hour and a half. And I don't
Speaker 2: like splitting up movies where I like watch half of
Speaker 2: it now and half of it later. So anyways, I
Speaker 2: will download, I'll go to if I know I've got
Speaker 2: a two hour flight or an hour and a half
Speaker 2: flight or whatever it may be. Instead of starting a show,
Speaker 2: I'll just go download a movie from Netflix or these
Speaker 2: one of the apps. That way I can I can
Speaker 2: watch it sure. And what's the name of the girl?
Speaker 2: What is the name of the girl that's in Twilight?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, it's gonna drive me crazy. Kristin Stewart Christin Stewart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so she's in this movie. She's one of the main characters.
Speaker 2: And I've always felt like she was a really terrible actress.
Speaker 2: Like I actually watched the Twilight stuff a little bit
Speaker 2: with my wife. It's actually not a bad series, for
Speaker 2: the for the for the you know, for the time
Speaker 2: she was my girlfriend. Like, I wasn't really in a
Speaker 2: position to be like, you know, this isn't you know.
Speaker 2: I was gonna watch it with her and it was
Speaker 2: interesting enough. But what stood out to me throughout the
Speaker 2: movies those movies was that, like the acting was really
Speaker 2: bad in most and it was mostly her, Like that's
Speaker 2: what really surprised me, because she was like the big star.
Speaker 3: But yeah, she was. She was a really really bad actress.
Speaker 4: That's the universal sentiment about that whole series, as Kristin
Speaker 4: Stewart is just her whole dead pan and just terrible acting.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: So, so she's in So you gave me her name,
Speaker 2: I googled it and now I found what movie it
Speaker 2: is because she's in it. But and I knew that
Speaker 2: was the best way for me to trace down with
Speaker 2: what but this movie is? But it's called Love Lies
Speaker 2: Bleeding and it's a thriller.
Speaker 5: Remember you telling me about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, I'd never heard of it, but
Speaker 2: I saw that it was available on I think it
Speaker 2: might have been on HBO Max initially. Now it's on
Speaker 2: Netflix if you want to watch it. But I was watching.
Speaker 2: I downloaded on HBO Max and watched it, and I
Speaker 2: never heard of it. And it's got I mean, it's
Speaker 2: an independent film, so maybe that's why I just didn't
Speaker 2: have the same promotion. But it's got a I mean,
Speaker 2: it's got Kristin Stewart, as I mentioned, jennam Alone, Dave Franco,
Speaker 2: Franco's little brother, and Ed Harris is also in it too,
Speaker 2: and he's got a big role.
Speaker 3: So it's I mean, it's monster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's phenomenal, and it's one of those
Speaker 2: movies that I don't think that I've heard anybody else
Speaker 2: talk about. It came out last year in January, and
Speaker 2: it did go to theaters, but I don't.
Speaker 3: Again, I don't remember seeing any previews.
Speaker 2: I just randomly found it and downloaded it and watched
Speaker 2: it and never heard anything about it. And then I
Speaker 2: realized that it's actually now on Netflix.
Speaker 5: So what's it about.
Speaker 2: So it's about a it's set in in the late eighties.
Speaker 2: I'll read here directly says set in the nineteen set
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine. In the film's plot follows the
Speaker 2: lesbian relationship between a reclusive gym manager who is part
Speaker 2: of a crime family and an ambitious bodybuilder who gets
Speaker 2: wrapped up and organized crime. Like's it's crime, it's grimy,
Speaker 2: it's kind of like effed up, like very much rated R,
Speaker 2: but really really really good. And the girl who is
Speaker 2: the second I guess lead. Her name is Katie O'Brien,
Speaker 2: and I don't really know what she's necessarily known for.
Speaker 2: This was only like her. I mean, this was her
Speaker 2: first big role in a movie looking here at her
Speaker 2: at her profile. But she was phenomenal in it, and
Speaker 2: I hope she gets more work because she was Apparently
Speaker 2: she was in Twisters too that they just redid.
Speaker 5: I didn't see that.
Speaker 2: But the first movie she was in was was Lovelized Bleeding,
Speaker 2: and she's she's kind of like the co star along
Speaker 2: with Kristen Stewart co lead, I should say, and they
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 3: It was really really good.
Speaker 2: I would recommend it if you if you were into
Speaker 2: that kind of that kind of stuff. And then let's
Speaker 2: just shift right into series. What series would you say?
Speaker 2: And it can it can be like, you know, season
Speaker 2: two of this show, because obviously you know some series
Speaker 2: last years when they go into multiple seasons. But I'll
Speaker 2: give you time to think about it, because I know directly,
Speaker 2: I know absolutely what mine is and uh, I cannot
Speaker 2: wait for season two to come out, which I believe
Speaker 2: comes out here in January. But Severance the TV show
Speaker 2: uh is on Apple TV. I mean it was I
Speaker 2: loved it and I didn't really know it and I'm
Speaker 2: reading here direct like how what they describe it as,
Speaker 2: because if you told me, you know, actually psychological thriller,
Speaker 2: I think can can can be something I would believe
Speaker 2: that I'd be interested in. But science fiction and a
Speaker 2: lot of what happens in this show is is something
Speaker 2: that like I never think will be remotely believable that
Speaker 2: makes sense. Like I'm not real big into any kind
Speaker 2: of content story where it's like we're living among like
Speaker 2: I got into Walking Dead enough, but things that I
Speaker 2: just don't see as any in any way reality, like
Speaker 2: and I'm not somebody who who you know is so
Speaker 2: like for example, the movie that you didn't like on
Speaker 2: Netflix that came out.
Speaker 3: What's it called, The carry On Bag?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Carry on, yeah, carry on.
Speaker 2: Like I get every reason as to why you said
Speaker 2: what you said about that, but I was fine with
Speaker 2: it because I'm also somebody that like understands, like you
Speaker 2: got to tell a story. If you got to dumb
Speaker 2: it down and do something that we know is not realistic,
Speaker 2: but like it it furthers the story, then I'm fine
Speaker 2: with it. But like I get why there was a
Speaker 2: lot of criticism for that show. So back to me,
Speaker 2: like I just if something is so far fetched and
Speaker 2: not really That's why I've never been into like the
Speaker 2: the Barble movies and things like that. It's just I'm
Speaker 2: not anti it, but it just doesn't really pull me in.
Speaker 2: So there's an element of that to this show severance.
Speaker 2: But like I was so hooked I throughout the entire
Speaker 2: nine episode season one, I kept thinking at all times,
Speaker 2: like something BIG's about to happen. There's gonna be some
Speaker 2: kind of a development, We're gonna get some answers as
Speaker 2: to why this happened.
Speaker 3: And I mean there's just it's it's it's.
Speaker 2: Not a there's been some shows like this where maybe
Speaker 2: I'm just too dumb for it, where I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: I get that you're trying to like be super like surprising,
Speaker 2: and you know there's cliffhangers everywhere, like but I can't
Speaker 2: keep up, like I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: I'm lost. Yeah, this didn't do that, but it was constantly.
Speaker 2: It was just enough for me as far as like, man,
Speaker 2: I can't I gotta watch the next episode now. I
Speaker 2: gotta watch the next episode now because I have to
Speaker 2: figure out what's going on.
Speaker 3: So it's got you know, a big it's actually for uh.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize this untill after watching it, but Ben
Speaker 2: Stiller was a big part of the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Like he's he's an executive producer.
Speaker 2: He's not in it, but he's an executive producer and
Speaker 2: along with Adam Scott, and it's great, but Adam Scott's
Speaker 2: the main character.
Speaker 3: Adam Scott's great, he's he's really good.
Speaker 2: And then there were some other character like Patricia arqatt
Speaker 2: is in it, which I thought was kind of random.
Speaker 2: Christopher Walken has a good role in it, and it's
Speaker 2: just right up. His alley fits him pretty well, and
Speaker 2: then John Taturo, who I honestly just think of. I mean,
Speaker 2: when I think of John Totura, I think of mister Deed's.
Speaker 2: But I know he's also done a lot of other
Speaker 2: stuff and been very popular, so he's in it, so
Speaker 2: I cannot recommend that showing up again. I think season
Speaker 2: two is coming out in January, and I'm probably gonna
Speaker 2: finish it whenever I can. Meeting they'll probably give me
Speaker 2: four episodes and then I'll wait and then they'll give
Speaker 2: me the next four the next week or something like that.
Speaker 3: If they do weekly, I will probably try to wait.
Speaker 2: And that way I can binge through it. I can
Speaker 2: do the four at a time and then wait for
Speaker 2: the other four to come out, like next week. But
Speaker 2: when they do it, they'll give you three, and then
Speaker 2: from then on then until they get to eight.
Speaker 3: It's week by week. I just let it build because.
Speaker 2: There's shows that I don't think I would I would
Speaker 2: watch that I loved if I couldn't binge them, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: gonna if I can do the you know, if I
Speaker 2: can commit the time, you know, because I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll be willing to see if
Speaker 2: there's a payoff and wait, you know two months in
Speaker 2: to finish the whole thing. Yeah, what was your what
Speaker 2: was your top show that you streamed? There was or
Speaker 2: it didn't have to be streaming.
Speaker 4: I guess, well, I got into I'm a big I'm
Speaker 4: a big Marvel fan, so I like the The Agatha
Speaker 4: All Along series on Disney was really really okay. I
Speaker 4: thought that that was really good. That came out around
Speaker 4: Halloween time.
Speaker 3: Catherine Han great.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Katherine Hannah is great. At one point she's
Speaker 4: kind of naked and oh wow, wouldn't have expected that,
Speaker 4: but I you know, it's where Disney's at nowadays. Probly
Speaker 4: would Aubrey Plaza she's in it, she would, Yeah, totally
Speaker 4: would they. Also, it's kind of like a playoff of WandaVision,
Speaker 4: which is one of my favorite I remember. It's a
Speaker 4: great show. It's kind of a playoff that. And another
Speaker 4: one is it was on Apple TV. It's called Dark Matter.
Speaker 4: Jennifer Connelly is in it. I forget the other I
Speaker 4: forget the other top stars that was.
Speaker 5: That was pretty good.
Speaker 3: I remember seeing Joel Edgerson.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's actually a really good one.
Speaker 4: It's like a parallel sci fi, like a parallel universe
Speaker 4: type of thriller like that. It was really really good.
Speaker 4: The guy like ends up abducting himself. He kind of
Speaker 4: lives a life where he's like not really involved in
Speaker 4: his child's life. And and then like if he he
Speaker 4: just wanted to follow his dreams, he could have had
Speaker 4: like this multi million dollar idea he was a scientist,
Speaker 4: but he just wanted to stay a family man instead
Speaker 4: and ended up kind of getting abducted by a parallel
Speaker 4: universe of himself and takes them to a universe to
Speaker 4: where he did have that invention and he was the
Speaker 4: man and he is one of the most notified man's
Speaker 4: on Earth. And I really like that show. So I'd
Speaker 4: have to I'd have to chalk it up to one
Speaker 4: of those two. That one's really hard because it's also
Speaker 4: one of those ones where they they drop an episode
Speaker 4: every weekend, and we just found ourselves with those two
Speaker 4: series just waiting for the next episode to drop and
Speaker 4: hang around the TV for that. But you know, my
Speaker 4: Marvel fan, the probably wants to go to Agatha all along.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I think you know when it comes to
Speaker 2: Marvel and just that that kind of stuff. Like clearly,
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in the minority because most people,
Speaker 2: I mean, those were very very popular things that people watch,
Speaker 2: whether it be movies and TV shows.
Speaker 4: Back their last big one with The Avengers End Game,
Speaker 4: because that was one of the biggest, uh the biggest
Speaker 4: films ever that topped Avatar before James Cameron wanted to
Speaker 4: come out with another one specifically so they could top Marvel.
Speaker 4: And after that, it's kind of been just like a
Speaker 4: downslide for Marvel. It's kind of been hit and miss,
Speaker 4: but they they hit really well for Agatha.
Speaker 3: All along, good stuff. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back, keep this thing rolling along as we
Speaker 2: continue to you know, look back on a year as
Speaker 2: it's coming to an end, and I don't know where
Speaker 2: time went, but twenty twenty five will be here soon.
Speaker 2: So get ready or not, it's happening.
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Speaker 2: Louisville dot com. We have been, you know, reflecting on
Speaker 2: the year that was. We still got a little bit
Speaker 2: of time left at me. It's not it's not the
Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty four just yet, but there's only
Speaker 2: you know, about a week left and then uh, then
Speaker 2: we head into twenty twenty five. And one of the
Speaker 2: things I wanted to discuss was the you know, the
Speaker 2: best sporting event that that that we attended in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, and uh, I don't. I mean, I have
Speaker 2: some but the one that I would I guess be
Speaker 2: propping up as the best one Austin, I feel like
Speaker 2: it's pretty lame. Okay, So there one that I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like that's the one when I threw action
Speaker 2: and said, hey, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 3: You knew right away what you were gonna go to.
Speaker 5: I know exactly what which one is it.
Speaker 4: It's gonna it, hands down, WrestleMania forty in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: I mean my Billy Prickett Baby Faces podcast. If you're
Speaker 5: a wrestling fan out there, but.
Speaker 4: Plug going going to uh Philadelphia and seeing WrestleMania. I
Speaker 4: went to the one last year in Hollywood. That was great,
Speaker 4: but the whole storyline surrounding everything, the final five minutes.
Speaker 4: If you're a wrestling fan, you're listening, but the last
Speaker 4: five minutes with like John Cena coming out, the Undertaker
Speaker 4: coming out, the Rock coming out, and Cody Rhoades finally ending,
Speaker 4: finishing his story and beating one of the greatest champions ever,
Speaker 4: Roman Reigns, one of my favorite wrestlers ever. It was
Speaker 4: just cure cinema, dude. It was awesome. I've never watched
Speaker 4: being a wrestling fan my whole life. I've never seen
Speaker 4: the Rock wrestle so it was really cool seeing that
Speaker 4: and just that whole story leading up to it. When
Speaker 4: he came back and they kind of turned him into
Speaker 4: a heel and he is kind of like an asshole
Speaker 4: basically if I could say that, but he was just he.
Speaker 5: Was just he was just bad.
Speaker 4: But he's well, he's now like one of the CEOs
Speaker 4: of TKO that kind of took over it kind of
Speaker 4: took over wrestling, so they kind of put him in
Speaker 4: that role. So I would have to say wrestle Mania
Speaker 4: forty and just being a part of it. Plus we
Speaker 4: were part of the press box too, so it was
Speaker 4: really cool seeing that. But it was freezing if I
Speaker 4: were remember right, it was freezing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that I should know this, But that is
Speaker 2: like when it comes to the monthly big events that
Speaker 2: you have in pay per view wrestling, like that's the
Speaker 2: biggest one, right, Like I don't feel like there's one
Speaker 2: bigger than WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: Is no, No, WrestleMania is the it's the top, it's
Speaker 4: the end of It's where all the stories culminate at
Speaker 4: the end of the year, and then you just kind
Speaker 4: of crown your champion Maine for Mania Baby. So I
Speaker 4: would have to say that that was really good.
Speaker 3: Mine would probably be.
Speaker 2: And again this is why I fel like in a
Speaker 2: year where I would say, you know, things were going
Speaker 2: pretty pretty good for me as a sports fan and
Speaker 2: like the you know, the games I go to that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, I feel like I would be picking
Speaker 2: out one of maybe three really good Louisville basketball games
Speaker 2: that I went to that you know, against a really
Speaker 2: good team and you got a big win. But like
Speaker 2: obviously last year there was nothing yeah, meaning last season
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four January on and then so far.
Speaker 2: I mean, I went to the Tennessee game. That was
Speaker 2: really awesome as far as just the build up, but man,
Speaker 2: it really sucked to get kind of you know.
Speaker 5: The hype around it was just funny game.
Speaker 3: The hype around that.
Speaker 2: It was a feeling that I forgot what I forgot
Speaker 2: the experience of it because it had been so long.
Speaker 2: And again they lost, so it's quickly that feeling fades
Speaker 2: pretty quickly. But yes, the hype leading up to that, man,
Speaker 2: it felt like you know, everybody it was buzzing around
Speaker 2: town about a big basketball game at the Yump Center
Speaker 2: to you know, this weekend with a big team coming
Speaker 2: to town. There was energy that I had really missed
Speaker 2: and I knew I missed it, but man, to get
Speaker 2: it back was great. But yeah, I can't say that
Speaker 2: was the best when I went to because they got killed.
Speaker 3: And then you know, I actually, this is.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna what I was gonna say is the Louisville
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh football game Austin, which was earlier this season, just
Speaker 2: like a month ago, a little over a month ago,
Speaker 2: and that was a lot of fun Louisville played really,
Speaker 2: really well. It was a night game because he kicked
Speaker 2: off later you know, I think it started me. So anyways,
Speaker 2: we had really great seats courtesy of our friends over
Speaker 2: at Ellen NFCU, and my son got up on the
Speaker 2: big screen.
Speaker 3: Louisville beats right, beat.
Speaker 2: The hell out of Pits. So, like, the weather sucked.
Speaker 2: It was cold, but we made the most of it
Speaker 2: and we had a lot of fun. So I was
Speaker 2: gonna say that, but I just remembered what I did
Speaker 2: in January of of twenty twenty four. Okay, here, so
Speaker 2: it counts. My wife and I went up and did
Speaker 2: a double We double dipped. We went to the Pacers
Speaker 2: Celtics game and then left it in like the third
Speaker 2: quarter and walked down to the Colts Texans playoff game.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so both of my teams lost. The Pacers
Speaker 2: got killed by the Celtics. The Colts broke my heart
Speaker 2: and you know, lost a game that you know, ended
Speaker 2: their season.
Speaker 5: And games really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So to experience an NFL playoff game, even though
Speaker 2: it was wild card and to you know, basically just
Speaker 2: be making a quick walk from a banker's life field
Speaker 2: house down to the football stadium, I mean, Lucas Oil.
Speaker 2: It was as a really cool experience.
Speaker 3: It sucks.
Speaker 5: Place is huge.
Speaker 3: Yes, it sucks to say that that.
Speaker 2: Was the best best event because you know, both my
Speaker 2: team's lost, But like being in an NBA game and
Speaker 2: being in an NFL playoff game within minutes of each other,
Speaker 2: especially in it when it's two teams that I love,
Speaker 2: the Pacers and the Colts, that was that was awesome.
Speaker 3: So I would say that best.
Speaker 4: Future NBA champions too, So I bet that was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: You could say that you saw that, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I got to experience that they are
Speaker 2: in national fan base, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 2: the Celtics, and I knew they were one of the
Speaker 2: bigger brands in pro sports, certainly one of the bigger
Speaker 2: brands in basketball, of course, but they're the kind of
Speaker 2: team that if they come to town, especially a market
Speaker 2: like Indy, there'll be people that live, you know. In fact,
Speaker 2: we ran into a bunch of people, not a bunch,
Speaker 2: but like I ran into people that I knew or
Speaker 2: knew of, or I had people come and talk to
Speaker 2: me at the game that were from Louisville, and they
Speaker 2: were they were all in Celtics gear, and it's like
Speaker 2: Celtics are their team and Indy's the closest place to
Speaker 2: go watch them. So you know that was you know,
Speaker 2: you felt like you were watching a big time game
Speaker 2: even though my team wasn't great. They lost, but you know,
Speaker 2: Tatum went nuts and was unguardable, and yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't I wouldn't claim to be a Tatum fan,
Speaker 2: but like I can say that I've watched him now
Speaker 2: and you know he's probably gonna end up being one
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 3: Best players of this era.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say that was my that was
Speaker 2: my best moment, and then I would imagine, you know,
Speaker 2: moving forward, like hopefully this year, there'll be some big
Speaker 2: time games in these next couple of months at the
Speaker 2: Young Center, to where when we do this a year
Speaker 2: from now, I can say, oh, whenever Pat Kelsey hosted
Speaker 2: you know, Carolina, Hubert Davis and that team and they
Speaker 2: were you know, oh, yeah, I don't know if they're
Speaker 2: gonna be ranking louisvill plays them because that GA's coming
Speaker 2: up soon in back next week.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just usually you.
Speaker 2: Know, before Louisville basketball kind of you know, fell off
Speaker 2: in a major way really quickly in the last like
Speaker 2: you know, five years or so before that, it was
Speaker 2: an annual thing to where like I'd have to have
Speaker 2: a tough time figuring out which game was like the
Speaker 2: best experience, right, like which you know, which resume win
Speaker 2: in front of the home crowd was awesome or which.
Speaker 3: Game did I go?
Speaker 2: Which game did I go for example, like I used
Speaker 2: to go to In fact, I'm going to Pittsburgh on
Speaker 2: the eleventh, not next weekend, but the weekend after. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go to Pittsburgh for the weekend with my dad,
Speaker 2: my son, and my nephew, and we're gonna go watch
Speaker 2: the Cards play play Pittsburgh, which should actually be it's
Speaker 2: actually a quad one game right now. But my point
Speaker 2: is I used to do that every year. We'd go
Speaker 2: to Notre Dame, I went to Duke. And then when
Speaker 2: Louisville kind of you know, went through what they went
Speaker 2: through the last few years, sure, we just stopped doing it.
Speaker 5: So Pittsburgh's a fun city.
Speaker 2: I love Pittsburgh. Yeah, Pittsburgh. You know, the winter, it's
Speaker 2: cold and a lot of people don't like that kind
Speaker 2: of weather. That's not where you want to be whenever
Speaker 2: you know, you're somebody that doesn't enjoy cold weather, but
Speaker 2: it's it's beautiful Pittsburgh to me, What would you say,
Speaker 2: Like the rep of Pittsburgh is like the reputation of it,
Speaker 2: I know, a lot of bridges because I feel like
Speaker 2: it's not very popular and like it's not like I'm
Speaker 2: not saying it should be like a destination city and
Speaker 2: be exploding like Nashville has in recent years. But like
Speaker 2: I think I've been Pittsburgh probably five six times in
Speaker 2: my life, and each time, I'm like, this place is
Speaker 2: kind of awesome.
Speaker 3: Like does anybody know about Pittsburgh, which clearly they do.
Speaker 3: It's a huge sports cit. Yeah, it's a bigger city
Speaker 3: than ours.
Speaker 2: But like, I just feel like anytime I've heard it referenced,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, like I get why Cleveland is regarded
Speaker 2: as like nobody would want to be there, but like
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I'd have to beautiful stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd have to say Cleveland's They do have the
Speaker 4: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame up there.
Speaker 5: That's pretty cool though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I guess, yeah, I guess they.
Speaker 4: I guess they have that if you like that, But
Speaker 4: there's their Stadium, Cleveland Brown State.
Speaker 5: That's a dump. That whole place is a dump.
Speaker 4: And but I guess the Browns haven't been good, so
Speaker 4: they probably don't like invest too much into that. But
Speaker 4: every time I've went to Ohio or Cleveland anytime, it's
Speaker 4: just usually always been like rainy or cloudy. It's never
Speaker 4: like a sunny day in Ohio. I don't know what
Speaker 4: that is, what what the deal with that is? Like
Speaker 4: Northeast Art, I guess you can say northeast very north
Speaker 4: because it's almost close to Michigan too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I've been.
Speaker 2: So I've got family that lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, which
Speaker 2: is I just consider that kind of like the rust
Speaker 2: Belt region up there. Sure is, And you know, I
Speaker 2: get what I get why those places kind of have
Speaker 2: the rap that they have, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very you know, gloomy and wet and you know, although
Speaker 2: I bet you know I've been to that area of
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania in northern Ohio Buffalo area whenever it's been during
Speaker 2: summer months, and it's that kind of beautiful. But all right,
Speaker 2: let's get back to the to the year in review.
Speaker 2: We just did our the best sporting events we attended.
Speaker 2: What would you say, and I'll just WDRB. They they
Speaker 2: did a breakdown. I guess it was on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2: Their sports crew Tyler Greever, Tom Lane, Eric Crawford, Rick Bosch.
Speaker 2: They just reflected and briefly discussed the biggest stories in
Speaker 2: sports you know that they covered, and you know, considering
Speaker 2: what they cover being w d RB here in this market,
Speaker 2: it's obviously things that we care about around here because
Speaker 2: you know, it's louisvill Kentucky for the most part, Derby
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: And I I kind.
Speaker 2: Of feel like overall, like the biggest story itself, like wow,
Speaker 2: that happened in this year. It's something that people will
Speaker 2: remember for a long time. It's got to be Caliperry
Speaker 2: leaving Kentucky and walking away. Like that has to be
Speaker 2: because probably I think you could say the two schools
Speaker 2: hiring new coaches at the same time, but like I
Speaker 2: don't mean and that is a joint story just because
Speaker 2: of the rivalry and because you know, rarely, I mean,
Speaker 2: in a perfect world, these pro aren't making changes very often.
Speaker 2: Right in Kentucky had Caliperi for a long long time,
Speaker 2: and that had run its course, low Will of course
Speaker 2: used to be able to claim it was Denny and
Speaker 2: Rick and you know that was it. And now obviously
Speaker 2: that hasn't been the case since since Rick was outed.
Speaker 2: But I would say that just the fact that Cal
Speaker 2: was there for as long as he was.
Speaker 3: How long was it He got hired in.
Speaker 5: Like twenty twenty, twenty ten, two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, that around there, So he was there for
Speaker 2: roughly thirteen seasons, thirteen fourteen seasons, and you know, got
Speaker 2: off to a great star, won a title in his
Speaker 2: first few years, and still maintained a really successful program,
Speaker 2: a great run that he had until you know, it
Speaker 2: kind of came crashing down. Yeah, and the pandemic. I
Speaker 2: feel like, really, really, you know, that's the timeline. Not
Speaker 2: to say that the pandemic caused it, but the timeline
Speaker 2: of where things started to go south for Cali, where
Speaker 2: he really couldn't fix it was right around the time
Speaker 2: that you know, the pandemic happened, because they.
Speaker 3: Had the work. The year we played basketball the first year,
Speaker 3: you know, I guess we were still going through the pandemic.
Speaker 3: They were terrible.
Speaker 2: They won eight games, and then you know that following
Speaker 2: season they bounced back and they had a really really
Speaker 2: good seed, a two seed in fact, and you know
Speaker 2: what they did. They ended up losing, you know, the
Speaker 2: national player of the year in Oscar sheet Way. They
Speaker 2: end up losing in the first round to Saint Peter's.
Speaker 2: Next year after that, they were good but underwhelming. Mean
Speaker 2: when I say they were good, they made the tournament,
Speaker 2: but they lost in the second round to a Kansas
Speaker 2: state team. And then, of course we know what happened
Speaker 2: last year. They got outed by a fourteenth seed in Oakland,
Speaker 2: and that just made it to where Cal had to
Speaker 2: move on. And you know, I don't say it's like
Speaker 2: a big story because like it was crazy and you
Speaker 2: never would have expected it. But like you know, anytime
Speaker 2: that guy walks away to take another job because it
Speaker 2: had run its course at a place like Kentucky and
Speaker 2: both probably wanted change, like that is a big story.
Speaker 2: You know, Kentucky Derby won fifty is a big story.
Speaker 2: But like it just because it was the one hundred
Speaker 2: and fiftieth Derby, Like I don't really think like there
Speaker 2: was any like that doesn't come to mind for me.
Speaker 2: But again, that is our biggest event here when it
Speaker 2: comes to sports. In this in this area, and the
Speaker 2: fact that that was the one hundred and fiftieth time
Speaker 2: that had happened that, I guess makes it, you know,
Speaker 2: pretty interesting.
Speaker 5: That was huge.
Speaker 4: I still have another one and you might have you
Speaker 4: might have just brought it up, but how can you
Speaker 4: miss it? Obviously the PGA tournament, Yes, Scotti Scheffler incident
Speaker 4: that I don't think Louisville has been on the map
Speaker 4: like that sports wise, or you're right, it's Mohammad Ali's funeral,
Speaker 4: So that got.
Speaker 2: The fact that we even hosted that was a big
Speaker 2: deal because it only happens every so often, and for
Speaker 2: it to happen we hosted. And then you know that
Speaker 2: story that's probably the biggest story nationally that that involves us. Yes, right,
Speaker 2: like that's not a local story. It is, but it's
Speaker 2: not right like, it's a story nationally, but it just
Speaker 2: so happens to be local to you because you know
Speaker 2: it's you were where it took place. Louisville was was
Speaker 2: where the Shenanigans happened. So no, you're right like I,
Speaker 2: and it's it is kind of wild how you can
Speaker 2: feel that you when you're when you are somewhere where
Speaker 2: you know, you've got there's way more eyeballs on you
Speaker 2: nationally than like normal, Like you can tell, Like unfortunately,
Speaker 2: during the Breonna.
Speaker 3: Taylor stuff, that was I mean, that was that was.
Speaker 2: You know, that wasn't a good look on Louisville in
Speaker 2: my opinion, the overall situation itself and everything that came
Speaker 2: with it. But like when Muhammad Ali passed away, like
Speaker 2: I could tell, man, Louisville will never have this much
Speaker 2: attention like they have right now. Whenever they did the
Speaker 2: celebration of life and that whole day was just unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I kind of think the Scottie Scheffler thing is
Speaker 2: is up there as well because it was because of
Speaker 2: you know, it was clearly the biggest story in sports,
Speaker 2: but because of what happened, it was also not just
Speaker 2: a sports story, Like it was all over the world
Speaker 2: being discussed that law enforcement in Louisville put handcuffs on
Speaker 2: him and like you know, claimed that he tried to
Speaker 2: run him over. So yeah, that's the biggest story nationally
Speaker 2: that it has. The local that you know that that
Speaker 2: was a local one here became national. But I still
Speaker 2: think overall, just things that you know are mostly considered
Speaker 2: big stories around here, I would say it would be
Speaker 2: cal moving on, and this isn't like a huge story,
Speaker 2: but it is something that like I'm happy that it happened,
Speaker 2: but because of the drought, like it is going to
Speaker 2: be a memory, I think for a long time. And
Speaker 2: that is Louisville getting the Governor's cut back. Like yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you kind of feel like as a Louisville
Speaker 2: fan that you know, you should have never lost it
Speaker 2: for even two years, but you know you didn't beat them.
Speaker 2: You hadn't beat him since twenty seventeen, and that's the
Speaker 2: kind of drought that Louisville would have never Even Kentucky
Speaker 2: fans have to acknowledge that, like since the rivalry renewed,
Speaker 2: you know back in what like the early nineties or whenever
Speaker 2: it was, there was never a scenario during that time
Speaker 2: period where you would have seen a drought for Louisville
Speaker 2: in this series. Now, one of them is because you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't play because of the pandemic, and then the
Speaker 2: others were you know, again, it sounds like excuses, and
Speaker 2: I think it's more of an explanation than it is
Speaker 2: an excuse. But either way, if I was Kentucky and
Speaker 2: I was a fan of their football program. I would
Speaker 2: be as obnoxious as they were about the streak because
Speaker 2: it's crazy. But you know, it took place because one
Speaker 2: Bobby got fired midyear and you had Whamwam out there
Speaker 2: coaching Satterfield. Clearly we learned wasn't built for this rivalry.
Speaker 2: And you know, brom lost in his first game in
Speaker 2: a game they had no business losing.
Speaker 3: But you know what you lost.
Speaker 2: So I think when I think of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: like you know, and obviously it made me really happy
Speaker 2: to see Louisville beat Kentucky and football, but it also
Speaker 2: more than anything, like about damn town, we got that cutback,
Speaker 2: like that was a big moment. Like I'm so happy
Speaker 2: that it's back where it belongs, and I hope it
Speaker 2: stays where. I hope it stays where it is now
Speaker 2: for a long long time, and to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: probably will. We'll see, but I mean I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shocked if it does, considering where the programs are heading
Speaker 2: at this time. All Right, we'll come back on the
Speaker 2: other side talk a little more about twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: of the year that was, and you know, have some fun.
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Speaker 2: I love our listeners what I thought, so we appreciate
Speaker 2: you together. I mean as far as like the biggest
Speaker 2: stories of twenty twenty four, I mean, I hate to
Speaker 2: I hate it. I mean, and I don't. I'm one
Speaker 2: of those people that I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't really know why like it bothers me, but
Speaker 2: it does. I wish it didn't make me feel the
Speaker 2: way that I feel. But Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Speaker 2: being an item like that and that being like them
Speaker 2: being the celebrity power couple like that, that that has
Speaker 2: to be one of the.
Speaker 3: Most talked about things in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: And by the way, they didn't were they publicly an
Speaker 2: item before like Christmas last year. Like I feel like
Speaker 2: it became a thing like mid like during the season
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah it was.
Speaker 2: I don't remember it being a twenty twenty three thing,
Speaker 2: but I mean it and it's still a big story today,
Speaker 2: although it's died down a little bit, right, Like you
Speaker 2: don't there doesn't see.
Speaker 5: She's still like games and stuff, but like, yeah.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't seem like it's in your face as much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank god.
Speaker 2: And I really know, I really don't know why it,
Speaker 2: you know, because it doesn't impact me in any way.
Speaker 2: It doesn't. I mean, it's just I don't know why
Speaker 2: I care. But for some reason, I really really do.
Speaker 2: Other things that are mentioned nationally. As for as far
Speaker 2: as the biggest stories in sports from twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: Kaylen Clark, I mean her and her becoming shorty a
Speaker 2: star before we got to twenty twenty four, but twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four is obviously the year where she hit a
Speaker 2: new level, had her finished her last season in college
Speaker 2: and obviously went on to the WNBA. I mean, she
Speaker 2: was easily one of the most talked about athletes in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, regardless of country, regardless of sport, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: And then just a WNBA taking off strictly because of her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and she did something to a sport.
Speaker 2: And I know that that's some somewhat of a debatable
Speaker 2: thing with some but I mean she's had a bigger
Speaker 2: impact on women's basketball than than I think any athlete
Speaker 2: has had on any sport in a long long time. However,
Speaker 2: some people think it's not just her, it's also Angel Reese.
Speaker 2: And I mean, I'm I hope that you you know,
Speaker 2: if you want to believe that, knock yourself out. It's
Speaker 2: just not in any way true. And then I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to think of other you know, like there's things
Speaker 2: that I thought were you know, were big, but I
Speaker 2: don't really know if like it if it was a
Speaker 2: national thing, like Bill Belichick and Nick Saban both ending
Speaker 2: their run at Alabama and New England, Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: a big deal, just kind of like what we talked
Speaker 2: about with cal like anybody that had that kind of
Speaker 2: run when regardless of the circumstances. For example, I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously Saban retired, Belichick, didn't you know Belichick, they just
Speaker 2: parted ways, and now I think it's pretty clear they
Speaker 2: wanted him gone more than he wanted to be gone.
Speaker 3: But that's a big deal.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking here at a CBS list, and no doubt,
Speaker 2: Scotti Scheffler's whole year of twenty twenty four was wild
Speaker 2: and one of the I mean, in fact, the wildest thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was certainly successful for him in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, but the most talked about thing for Scotty
Speaker 2: Schefler this past year was easily when he had his
Speaker 2: run in with the LMPD here in town.
Speaker 3: What else is.
Speaker 2: I mean, Michigan win a title for the first time
Speaker 2: in a long time like that, that did kind of
Speaker 2: seem like a big deal because they hadn't want it
Speaker 2: in a while, But I don't. I mean, it's also
Speaker 2: a program that like in the end, at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, can you really can you really claim
Speaker 2: that you're that surprise they wanted it's Michigan and they
Speaker 2: already had many titles before that. It'd be different if
Speaker 2: it was like a I will say this, then the
Speaker 2: next time we get a first time ever national champion
Speaker 2: in football. I would imagine by the end of the year,
Speaker 2: that'll be something that because I don't know, people realize
Speaker 2: how long it's been since the last time somebody won
Speaker 2: a title for the first time. I mean it was
Speaker 2: when Spurrier was in Gainesville. I mean that was a
Speaker 2: long time ago.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then this is a story that I hated that
Speaker 2: it was as big of a story. But it was
Speaker 2: a big story. It was in your face and it's
Speaker 2: not something you will ever probably see again. That is
Speaker 2: Lebron James and his son Brony being teammates.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, you know that. That that's that's forget.
Speaker 2: I mean, that would have never came to mind for
Speaker 2: me because I just I you know, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't care for It's not something I'm interested in, and
Speaker 2: you know, it seems like a manufactured thing more than anything, right, Like,
Speaker 2: it would be a totally different feeling if this happened,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't, because like Lebron is Lebron and can
Speaker 2: really do anything he wants, and you know, and if
Speaker 2: if I was him in his position, maybe I do
Speaker 2: the same thing. I don't know, But yeah, that that
Speaker 2: was not something that I've also.
Speaker 5: Had the Olympics too, that happened.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of fun things that came from there,
Speaker 4: the whole the whole ray gun, the breakdancing controversy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anytime you have the Olympics, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2: There's a lot that comes.
Speaker 4: Finally getting a loaded team again, because last year they
Speaker 4: rolled out like a bunch of bombs and they just
Speaker 4: finally got like the best in the world back together
Speaker 4: and just completely ran over everybody.
Speaker 2: So I see people mentioning on their list of these,
Speaker 2: you know, biggest stories in sports. I see people mentioning
Speaker 2: the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight, and I that's true,
Speaker 2: that was such a big deal. But to me, that
Speaker 2: just I don't know, Like, I guess technically it's a
Speaker 2: story and a big one, but to me, it just felt,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it felt kind of like we were
Speaker 2: all like, to me, that wasn't a story that was original.
Speaker 2: I feel like that was that was a whole thing
Speaker 2: that was manufactured and built up. But regardless, if we're
Speaker 2: just talking about stories that that got the most attention
Speaker 2: in sports over the last year, that's certainly one of them,
Speaker 2: and it was for a variety of reasons. One just
Speaker 2: the whole thing, like, wow, are we doing this like
Speaker 2: Mike Tyson at his age is going to get in
Speaker 2: the ring with this guy who we're not really sure
Speaker 2: how good of a boxer he is or if he's
Speaker 2: a real boxer. And then of course Tyson had that
Speaker 2: health episode where they had to postpone it. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: it played out throughout a long stretch of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: and then of course it was Netflix going live, and
Speaker 2: we all know that a lot of people were very
Speaker 2: upset at Netflix that night because they weren't able to
Speaker 2: carry the uh you know, they weren't able to carry
Speaker 2: it effectively.
Speaker 3: For a lot of people.
Speaker 5: It was Tyson cheeks were fun to talk about.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was that was something so yeah, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean hard to imagine something real big happening in
Speaker 2: these next few days before we end the year. But
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four was a was a good one all right.
Speaker 2: And again for those missing, we did talk about the locals,
Speaker 2: so it feels like Pat Kelsey getting hired was certainly
Speaker 2: a big local story around here and how he was,
Speaker 2: you know, guy who kind of won the fan base
Speaker 2: over just by talking and showing his personality and that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. So you know, I don't want people
Speaker 2: to tune in late there and think we didn't acknowledge
Speaker 2: the big stories around here, because we did.
Speaker 3: And if you missed it, you can go back and
Speaker 3: check it out on the podcast.
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