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Speaker 4: Oh, I remember the first time, I think it was
Speaker 4: the GE assembly line back in like twenty seventeen, when
Speaker 4: I was on Middays noon to three, and I remember
Speaker 4: somebody mentioning that they were listening and they've it was
Speaker 4: a it was a group of folks that work together,
Speaker 4: and it was a mixed family essentially. I mean, I
Speaker 4: call them family because they work together. But Louisville fans
Speaker 4: in Kentucky fans so but but they but but they
Speaker 4: you know, the Kentucky fans at one point stopped complaining
Speaker 4: about what we were listening to. What they were listening
Speaker 4: to and and they just kind of let it, let
Speaker 4: it happen. And I always, you know, I always appreciate
Speaker 4: people sharing how and when they listen, you know, never
Speaker 4: gets sold. It's one of those things where we just
Speaker 4: assume you're listening. We don't actually know. There's no way
Speaker 4: to do a real time. I mean, we can, we
Speaker 4: can determine how many people are streaming, which of course
Speaker 4: that grows really every every week, it seems every day, honestly,
Speaker 4: just because you know, there are people who listen sometimes
Speaker 4: in their vehicle when they're on their way home, and
Speaker 4: then when they get home, maybe they start fixing dinner
Speaker 4: or whatever it is, and they listen. So however you're listening,
Speaker 4: wherever you're listening, we appreciated. But yeah, we're here and
Speaker 4: we're ready to rock and roll. The revival continues and
Speaker 4: it feels absolutely amazing. And I know you guys have
Speaker 4: been asking the question to yourself. I've been asking the
Speaker 4: same question to myself, and I've got my answer for you,
Speaker 4: and it's this, Yes, this team really is that good.
Speaker 4: I'm not predicting a final four right now. I'm not
Speaker 4: predicting a national championship, but you know, wake Forest had
Speaker 4: won eight of nine games. They just competed really well
Speaker 4: against Duke and sure enough Louisville last night. The way
Speaker 4: it played out, and I'll lay it out for you
Speaker 4: as far as my explanation on this, but the way
Speaker 4: things played out from start to finish, I guess maybe not.
Speaker 4: I mean, the finish wasn't great. They didn't score a
Speaker 4: bucket in the last five six minutes, and I mean
Speaker 4: I kind of had to resist just mowing people down
Speaker 4: who were complaining about that, because I just think anybody
Speaker 4: complaining about Louisvill basketball right now needs to go lay
Speaker 4: down or maybe go play in traffic. And you know,
Speaker 4: the urge to do that is strong, just because of
Speaker 4: how much I love this team. But I get it.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe because I lived through it every day
Speaker 4: talking about it for three hours during the previous regime,
Speaker 4: that maybe I have a better ability to really just
Speaker 4: appreciate where we are. But I'm sure everybody's different. So
Speaker 4: you are thinking, hey, we don't need to just be
Speaker 4: you know, we don't need to just be beating teams.
Speaker 4: We need to pummel them till the end. And I
Speaker 4: guess you're not crazy for thinking that because you have
Speaker 4: high expectations for Louisville basketball, and you should, but just really,
Speaker 4: any negativity right now, I'm having a tough time with
Speaker 4: I talked about it last week. I feel like this
Speaker 4: will be the sign that sticks with me for years
Speaker 4: to come. If Pat Kelsey is here long term, he
Speaker 4: wins at a really high level. I think I'll remember
Speaker 4: sitting in the gym parking lot before I went in,
Speaker 4: and yes, I know you could tell I do lift weights,
Speaker 4: not as much as I used to, but but I
Speaker 4: do try to stay in shape. So I'm sitting in
Speaker 4: the parking lot about to walk in, and I just
Speaker 4: couldn't walk in until I wrote a long comment on
Speaker 4: a Facebook group about face. Yeah no, this was yesterday.
Speaker 4: This was last week. I'm resetting that story. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: paying attention. So last week, you know, I just I
Speaker 4: remember walking out of the gym afterwards, thinking that I
Speaker 4: just do that, like what has gotten over me? And
Speaker 4: it's because the Revival's happening and I'm so excited about
Speaker 4: where we are that when I see people complaining about
Speaker 4: I mean it was a fan who again I don't
Speaker 4: know this person, but complaining that Louisville fans were excited
Speaker 4: that Louisville was ranked, and it just triggered me in
Speaker 4: a way that I'm like, the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 4: We should be happy that we're ranked. It's crazy that
Speaker 4: we're ranked for the first time in a long time,
Speaker 4: and it took Pat less than twenty games to get
Speaker 4: us there, considering that he had to kind of start
Speaker 4: from scratch. So you know, those are little things that
Speaker 4: stick with me. But again, I think we are I
Speaker 4: think this team is really really good. And what I
Speaker 4: mean by how it all played out at the end
Speaker 4: of the game, yeah, I mean they they took their
Speaker 4: foot off the gas. I think it reminded me a
Speaker 4: little bit of the Indiana game where Indiana was down
Speaker 4: like thirty plus and they ended up going on a
Speaker 4: crazy like thirteen to one run and like the last
Speaker 4: two menus or something like that. I'm sure that's not
Speaker 4: the right number, but they did that just to only
Speaker 4: lose by twenty five to Louisville. And it's not a
Speaker 4: good visual, but like, you still, you still kicked ass.
Speaker 4: And I just think it'd be foolish in my opinion
Speaker 4: to think that, like we need to worry because at
Speaker 4: the very end of the game when Wake Forest was
Speaker 4: already done, Steve Forbes, his best player, gets ejected. He
Speaker 4: played a guy. And by the way, nobody called Steve
Speaker 4: Forbes out for this him sending one of his starters
Speaker 4: to the locker room. It was one of the most
Speaker 4: sore loser things you'll see that, like some for some reason,
Speaker 4: nobody even acknowledged, like, yes, he did play after dealing
Speaker 4: with some sickness. Hildreth is his name. He had the flu.
Speaker 4: But like Forest was getting his ass kicked down by
Speaker 4: twenty nine points, and instead of just you know, taking
Speaker 4: his player out and sitting him, he sends him to
Speaker 4: the locker room. That's sore loser type of stuff. And
Speaker 4: Wake did a lot of sore loser, weak mentally type
Speaker 4: of stuff last night. And it's just nice to be
Speaker 4: on the right end of that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 4: I mean, I just think it's human, Nate. I mean,
Speaker 4: these guys, the game was over, and you don't really
Speaker 4: have a team where you can, I mean, you don't
Speaker 4: really have a you don't really have a team that
Speaker 4: you can just all right, let's play our freshman who's
Speaker 4: really trying to earn minutes. There's one freshman on this team,
Speaker 4: and he has to play major minutes. So you're either
Speaker 4: going to put the walk Ons in or keep your
Speaker 4: guys out there and just kind of let them ride
Speaker 4: out the clock. And that's what happened, because had you
Speaker 4: put the walk Ons in, no offense to these guys.
Speaker 4: Wake Forest knows, hey, we actually maybe they don't know,
Speaker 4: because what I predicted would happened happened. Louisville beat a
Speaker 4: good team. I believe Wake's got good talent. I'm not
Speaker 4: kidding you. Of all the teams from the ACC that
Speaker 4: have come in to the UMP Center, as much as
Speaker 4: Louisville made them look bad at times, They've got good players.
Speaker 4: I mean they do, and yet they seem to not
Speaker 4: I mean, wait, should not be a team that you
Speaker 4: beat by double digits at home that's fifteen and five
Speaker 4: with no bad losses still to this day, and a
Speaker 4: better win than Louisville has. They're winning against Michigan is
Speaker 4: better than any win Louisville has. And Louisville fell in
Speaker 4: the net rankings all because of wake Forest's incompetence, Steve
Speaker 4: Forbes in competence to schedule the way that they schedule.
Speaker 4: So had you put I was gonna say, had you
Speaker 4: put the walk Ons in, you wouldn't have lost the game,
Speaker 4: but it would have been even probably closer, because they
Speaker 4: were still gonna try to trim that deficit as best
Speaker 4: they can. And I'm thinking, if you know how this works, right,
Speaker 4: if you know to keep your guys locked in until
Speaker 4: the very end because you want to, because you understand
Speaker 4: that a thirty point loss is much different than a
Speaker 4: ten point loss when it comes to the metrics, then
Speaker 4: why did you schedule five of the worst teams in
Speaker 4: the country. So I probably shouldn't have given as much
Speaker 4: attention as I just did to the end of the game,
Speaker 4: But I'm triggered. I'm defending this team at all costs
Speaker 4: because I love them that much. It's just been that
Speaker 4: much fun watching things come together. They've now got their
Speaker 4: tenth straight win. They're sitting at nine and one in
Speaker 4: the ACC and last night, I'll start with this, and
Speaker 4: I know you were a part of this, Austin, you
Speaker 4: and Kirk and the crew. Yeah, the Young Sinner looked
Speaker 4: better on television than it has in a really, really
Speaker 4: long time. The atmosphere was something that you just couldn't
Speaker 4: ignore if you're watching it or you know, the broadcasters,
Speaker 4: and they did a good job of really plugging it
Speaker 4: and mentioning, man, this place, this is what, this is
Speaker 4: what Louisville basketball is all about. And we'll get to
Speaker 4: that trio. Last night because I actually found myself pretty
Speaker 4: entertained by Jim Beaheim in a weird way, and because
Speaker 4: Louisville got up twenty nine early in the second half,
Speaker 4: I mean, it seemed like Corey, Alexander and Bayheim kind
Speaker 4: of turned it into their own boring talk show, and
Speaker 4: then West Durham had to kind of remind them, like, hey, fellas,
Speaker 4: we got some action going on here. That's a very
Speaker 4: bad West Durham impression. But I was spot on. Yeah. Nonetheless,
Speaker 4: last night was great and at the beginning of the game,
Speaker 4: shots were falling right wake Forest came ready to play.
Speaker 4: Like wake Forest I thought did a pretty good job
Speaker 4: of coming out. They didn't leave rain Smith. Nothing was
Speaker 4: easy for Louisville, and yet Louisville just stuck with all. Right.
Speaker 4: Last night was a reminder, and I've said this, I'm
Speaker 4: pretty sure every day we've talked about louis of basketball
Speaker 4: in the last three months, which you know, has been
Speaker 4: pretty frequent. The defense is what's really changed for them,
Speaker 4: and last night they got off to a slower start
Speaker 4: than you would expect, just you know, not really blitzing
Speaker 4: them right out of the gate. I think if you'd
Speaker 4: have tuned in early second half, you probably would have
Speaker 4: just expected this thing got ugly early, and it really didn't,
Speaker 4: you know, Louisville. Again, I feel like I'm not even
Speaker 4: giving them enough credit when I say that it was
Speaker 4: like a slow start, but I mean it was. It
Speaker 4: was low scoring early, back and forth early, and Louisville
Speaker 4: just stayed with their game plan as far as defense.
Speaker 4: Shots weren't falling, but they never stopped taking good shots.
Speaker 4: They never lose confidence when shots don't fall. I thought
Speaker 4: Terrence Edwards, the way things played out for him last
Speaker 4: night is a real testament to his maturity and the
Speaker 4: trust that he has in himself and that Pat Kelcey
Speaker 4: and his teammates have in him, because him staying aggressive
Speaker 4: offensively is always going to be a good recipe. And
Speaker 4: he's had games where he ends up getting you twelve points,
Speaker 4: but it came from you know, three of thirteen from
Speaker 4: the field, which you know isn't great. And last night
Speaker 4: he got off to a pretty poor start. I don't
Speaker 4: know what his percentage was towards the back half of
Speaker 4: the fifteen shots he took, but he legend scoring with
Speaker 4: eighteen because he stayed aggressive, he stayed taking good shots.
Speaker 4: And you know it just these guys, they don't think.
Speaker 4: They just play. And that sounds like I'm insulting them
Speaker 4: saying they don't think. I mean, I think they're pretty savvy,
Speaker 4: they're pretty smart, but man, they are so even keeled,
Speaker 4: never too high, never too low. And they win last
Speaker 4: night seventy two to fifty nine. And the numbers, the
Speaker 4: box score itself, and you know, turnovers, rebounds, second chance points,
Speaker 4: all the numbers that do have value. I think they're
Speaker 4: absolutely skewed because of the way the game ended last night.
Speaker 4: But also even if I'm thinking that, because it's wishful
Speaker 4: thinking on my end, I don't care, because they're so
Speaker 4: consistent now defensively and as far as just coming ready
Speaker 4: to play, being the physical aggressor and never again getting
Speaker 4: too high or too low. That that that that alone,
Speaker 4: I feel like, puts them in a pretty good spot.
Speaker 4: So the question again that I know many of you
Speaker 4: listening have been asking, are they like really good, Like
Speaker 4: are we are we a team that, like I should
Speaker 4: expect to have real you know, late tournament run, Like
Speaker 4: should I expect this team to be a second weekend team?
Speaker 4: And look, you could expect whatever you want, because I
Speaker 4: know there's a lot of folks out there that really
Speaker 4: kind of they have a premeditated expectation on certain things
Speaker 4: because they know how to better deal with it. And
Speaker 4: what I mean by that is a lot of folks,
Speaker 4: myself included. I don't do it as much in sports,
Speaker 4: but a lot of things in life. Hey, I hope
Speaker 4: I expect the worst, hope of the best, and that
Speaker 4: that that's been a pretty good mindset for me to have,
Speaker 4: and it's it's worked for me. And again, everybody's different.
Speaker 4: But I'm just telling you, I don't think that if
Speaker 4: you are somebody that that says, hey, I happen to
Speaker 4: think this team is good enough. Defensively, they're smart enough
Speaker 4: as a team, They clearly have a defined identity and
Speaker 4: they have established roles within their personnel that you know,
Speaker 4: maybe we do get to the second game, second round,
Speaker 4: round of thirty two, and maybe at that point we
Speaker 4: get humbled and we realize, man, the acc really didn't
Speaker 4: prepare us. But I mean, again, what do I know.
Speaker 4: None of us know. We'll find out when we get there.
Speaker 4: But I just think i'd be lying to myself if
Speaker 4: I acted like this team wasn't just playing really good basketball.
Speaker 4: And I mean there's all kinds of different stats you
Speaker 4: can throw out there that I think, Yes, some can say, well, hey,
Speaker 4: it's because you're playing in the ACC, and I never
Speaker 4: want to ignore that, but I'm I mean, Jackie Hepburn's
Speaker 4: been a really good player in college basketball for three
Speaker 4: years before he got here. In the Big Ten, which
Speaker 4: is last I checked, has been viewed as a better
Speaker 4: league than the ACC for for a little while now, right,
Speaker 4: like Javon Hadley, there's a reason we're seeing him and
Speaker 4: he didn't even have a good game last night, but
Speaker 4: clearly he's been great, really in the last six weeks.
Speaker 4: So he's been good all year. But once Case and
Speaker 4: Pryor went down, obviously they were going to start leaning
Speaker 4: on him a little bit more and expecting more out
Speaker 4: of him. And you realize, yeah, Colorado for two seasons
Speaker 4: he was a good player for them, And you know what,
Speaker 4: maybe the reason you didn't hear a whole lot about
Speaker 4: him last year is because he played with three guys
Speaker 4: that got drafted. I don't know, that doesn't necessarily make
Speaker 4: Javon a great player. That doesn't really have anything to
Speaker 4: do with his ability, but you know, these guys are
Speaker 4: good players, and Pat Kelsey's done a phenomenal job at
Speaker 4: really working with what he has. And you know, when
Speaker 4: I go back to where I feel like the flip switch.
Speaker 4: You guys have heard me talk about it for a while.
Speaker 4: The North Carolina game, something was different defensively and in
Speaker 4: the half court. Maybe one day he'll really elaborate. Maybe
Speaker 4: he doesn't need to. Maybe it wasn't some real formulated
Speaker 4: plan that they had to to, you know, really invest
Speaker 4: in and make it a priority. But they are different
Speaker 4: now in the half court. I noticed it last night
Speaker 4: and it hit me this morning when I when I
Speaker 4: woke up in bed before I got the day started,
Speaker 4: I'm checking social media, which I do every morning, and
Speaker 4: there's a couple of really nerdy Twitter accounts that that
Speaker 4: that put up thirty forty second clips showing a half
Speaker 4: court set that college basketball teams will run. And I'm
Speaker 4: a nerd for that stuff, Like I just you know,
Speaker 4: I know it's not interesting. Certainly wouldn't be a good
Speaker 4: radio topic, so I'm not going to break it down.
Speaker 4: But this account that I follow, you know, they're doing
Speaker 4: half court sets that are phenomenal that that you know,
Speaker 4: with your versatility, you can do a lot of creative
Speaker 4: things right like you can you can do something to
Speaker 4: where your your opponent is worried that you're going to
Speaker 4: run some kind of action that's got four options for
Speaker 4: rain Smith to pop out and bury one on you.
Speaker 4: But you know what they weren't doing that, They were
Speaker 4: making you think that. Then they throw it to the
Speaker 4: rim for a guy named James Scott who's pretty effective
Speaker 4: around the rim. Like they're they're really good in the
Speaker 4: half court offensively, and it's not just because the design sets.
Speaker 4: It's because of their spacing, their understanding ending of movement,
Speaker 4: and really their versatility. I mean, they've got they've got
Speaker 4: a lot of guys who are mismatched problems, not because
Speaker 4: they just have ability and talent that other teams can't
Speaker 4: account for. But like, who do you put on Javon Hadley? Again,
Speaker 4: I'm not saying who do you put on him? Because
Speaker 4: he's Lebron James, but do you want to go big
Speaker 4: where he'll go around you and get fouled, or do
Speaker 4: you want to go small where he'll he'll he'll back
Speaker 4: you in and score on you. So I mean, Pat
Speaker 4: Kelsey's staff, everybody involved deserves a lot of credit. But
Speaker 4: last night and really this morning, more so than anything,
Speaker 4: I was just thinking, you know what they are different now,
Speaker 4: Like when they played some of these teams and they lost.
Speaker 4: Who knows, maybe if they played them tomorrow this weekend,
Speaker 4: maybe they lose again. I don't know, We'll never know.
Speaker 4: And it's really not important right now, because again, why
Speaker 4: waste your energy and your time about with hypothetical that
Speaker 4: will never have the answer to. It'd be a waste
Speaker 4: of time. But they did in fact when things weren't
Speaker 4: going great. And I do want to share some quotes
Speaker 4: from a Matt Norlander piece at CBS Sports that really
Speaker 4: just highlights the run that louisvill was is on right now.
Speaker 4: An eleventh consecutive win that could come on Saturday, should
Speaker 4: come on Saturday, will be the longest, will tie the
Speaker 4: longest winning streak the program's ever had in the regular season.
Speaker 4: So you know, that's pretty special. So they they did
Speaker 4: something and I'm just maybe I'm I'm I'm prying into
Speaker 4: things that aren't my business, but they they at some
Speaker 4: point I wouldn't even call it that, but maybe maybe
Speaker 4: that is the right way to describe it, because it's
Speaker 4: not like, I mean, they're still shooting a lot of threes.
Speaker 4: We know that, Like I think they maintained their identity,
Speaker 4: but they kind of found this new version of themselves
Speaker 4: with the personnel that they have in every single game,
Speaker 4: they are getting more and more confident in their established
Speaker 4: roles and they know that, hey, I don't need it
Speaker 4: to every night come out here and score twenty five,
Speaker 4: because if I don't have it going, somebody else probably
Speaker 4: will within within our rotation. And you know the maturity
Speaker 4: of this group to never get too high and never
Speaker 4: gets too loh, there's no jealousy, it seems. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's really been a great mix of guys as far
Speaker 4: as their skill set, what they bring to the table,
Speaker 4: and really just they're buying right. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey's gonna bring in some really talented players, including
Speaker 4: McDonald's all American that's on his way next year, Mickael
Speaker 4: Brown Junior, who is one of those guys that you
Speaker 4: should only expect to have for a season, and you should.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's going to be given the keys to
Speaker 4: the program essentially as far as running the show as
Speaker 4: your point guard, and that's the way it should be
Speaker 4: when you get a guy like that. I'm sure with
Speaker 4: Kelsey having a year that who knows it might win
Speaker 4: him National Coach of the Year. He's given us some
Speaker 4: good proof of concept here so far, meaning recruits transfers
Speaker 4: really more than anything they now see, Okay, this guy,
Speaker 4: he's got a rolling especially if I can shoot the ball,
Speaker 4: if my calling card is being a good offensive player,
Speaker 4: I'd love to play for that guy. So now that
Speaker 4: he's actually winning at Louisville, that's going to make it
Speaker 4: more attractive. So my point is this, they're going to
Speaker 4: bring in probably guys with more individual talent than some
Speaker 4: of the guys that are playing right now. And that's great.
Speaker 4: But I think there's something about these guys as far
Speaker 4: as like their maturity in their buy in and really
Speaker 4: their hunger. Like I think a lot of guys on
Speaker 4: this team that we're seeing have big nights consistently. Chucky
Speaker 4: Hepburn is the best example. Chuckie Hepburn came here hungry.
Speaker 4: He's one of the best point guards in the country.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's close. We're talking about a guy
Speaker 4: that's averaging sixteen points, just under seven assists per game,
Speaker 4: two and a half steals, nearly four rebounds. Louisville's played
Speaker 4: the fifteenth toughest schedule in college basketball. I mean, and
Speaker 4: he's played his best game seemingly when they play the
Speaker 4: best teams. But Chucky also came here as a guy
Speaker 4: who had been pretty good at Wisconsin. He got passed
Speaker 4: up last year, he took a he took a lesser
Speaker 4: role at Wisconsin for a guy named AJ Store who
Speaker 4: transferred to Kansas probably got a much bigger bag than
Speaker 4: Chucky got. And all Chucky's done is come here and
Speaker 4: wanted to prove to people that he is, in fact
Speaker 4: a guy that is one of the better guards in
Speaker 4: the country. And I mean the kid at Wisconsin that's
Speaker 4: now at Kansas aj Store. I mean, because it's not
Speaker 4: relevant to what Chucky's doing here, but I think finding
Speaker 4: guys in the portal that are hungry but also clearly
Speaker 4: have some real ability, I mean, that's gonna be key,
Speaker 4: and we're seeing it right before our eyes. So last
Speaker 4: night was certainly Awesome's talk a lot about that today.
Speaker 4: How about Kentucky. I mean, let's be real, Kentucky keeps
Speaker 4: winning games that they shouldn't win and aren't expected to win.
Speaker 4: You know what that tells you that they're very well coached,
Speaker 4: and they also have a group of mature guys that
Speaker 4: don't get too high or too low. And what does
Speaker 4: that do? It speaks to coaching. I mean, I said
Speaker 4: this on Friday. It was a big part of the show.
Speaker 4: I know Austin wasn't here, but if I'm just being
Speaker 4: honest with you, I think the two best candidates for
Speaker 4: Coach of the Year the way I view what Coach
Speaker 4: of the Year is are the two guys in this state,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey. And yes, I'd give the
Speaker 4: nod to Pat Kelsey. And yes, it's probably because there's
Speaker 4: some bias on my end. However, I mean Kentucky right
Speaker 4: now has a better resume, They have a better team
Speaker 4: right now as far as resume, and they beat Louisville
Speaker 4: head to head. If that is your reasoning for Coach
Speaker 4: of the Year, we're not even We're not talking about
Speaker 4: the same award. I think For me, it's and again,
Speaker 4: what do I don't have a vote, doesn't matter what
Speaker 4: I think, But I think Coach of the Year is
Speaker 4: a guy who you can tell his team is having
Speaker 4: a lot of success because of his coaching. I think
Speaker 4: both can be said about Pope and Kelsey more so
Speaker 4: than maybe anybody in college basketball. But it's a silly
Speaker 4: award when you think about it, because it's not consistent,
Speaker 4: it's selective. Are you going with the guy who's coaching
Speaker 4: the best team that you already know is a good
Speaker 4: coach or a guy that you feel like, Man, he
Speaker 4: did a great job that nobody would have expected because
Speaker 4: he's a great coach. But last night they go on
Speaker 4: the road they beat Tennessee, a really good Tennessee team.
Speaker 4: I know Tennessee's lost what four or five now, they're struggling,
Speaker 4: but they're also really good and Mark Pope was able
Speaker 4: to bait Tennessee into playing the game that Kentucky wanted to.
Speaker 4: Tennessee fired up shots out of their rear end all night.
Speaker 4: And the way to beat Kentucky is to not do that,
Speaker 4: because you know what, when they do that, they're gonna
Speaker 4: beat you. The only team that's beating Kentucky at this
Speaker 4: point in a game where it's played with countless possessions
Speaker 4: and you know, fire it up whenever you get an
Speaker 4: open look is Alabama and Alabama just might happen to
Speaker 4: be the best team in the country at doing that
Speaker 4: outside of Kentucky. And maybe if they when they play
Speaker 4: in Tuscaloosa, maybe the results actually different. So a big
Speaker 4: night for both programs, no doubt. We'll certainly talk about
Speaker 4: that throughout the show today. Also, we need to talk
Speaker 4: about the Senior Bowl, not because you know, anybody really
Speaker 4: gives a damn about the actual game itself, but this
Speaker 4: is where you start to hear about guys that are
Speaker 4: really doing well for themselves when it comes to showing
Speaker 4: their ability to the NFL. And Tyler shut getting a
Speaker 4: lot of love and who's surprised. I think Louisville fans
Speaker 4: kind of realized, Yeah, this guy's pretty good. Don't know
Speaker 4: where he's gonna get drafted. He won't be a first
Speaker 4: round pick, but man, he's balling out out And something
Speaker 4: we haven't talked about yet, and I don't want to
Speaker 4: make it a big part of the show, but Liam
Speaker 4: Cohen to Jacksonville, like I talked about it on Friday.
Speaker 4: Liam Cohen going there in the way everybody acted like
Speaker 4: he did something wrong, I thought was hilarious because when
Speaker 4: you're an assistant coach and your goal is to be
Speaker 4: a head coach, there's no loyalty. You're trying to climb
Speaker 4: the freaking ladder, and it doesn't matter if you told
Speaker 4: somebody you're sticking around or you want to be here.
Speaker 4: That's what you're supposed to say if you have a
Speaker 4: chance to better yourself and take a better job, and
Speaker 4: people criticize you for doing so, like they're the ones
Speaker 4: to be frank or idiots. But now that he's in
Speaker 4: Jacksonville and he was introduced, I think he might be
Speaker 4: an act. I think he's an AI robot. Is he
Speaker 4: a real human?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Liked the the douvaal thing. We might play the sound, Austin,
Speaker 4: but the sound doesn't matter. It's the visual. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: the face that he makes. I mean, you could like
Speaker 4: when he did that. I remember one wanting to just
Speaker 4: crawl under a table and hide from second hand embarrassment,
Speaker 4: but also thinking there's nothing you could tell me about
Speaker 4: this human being that I would be shocked by.
Speaker 1: Serial killer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could see it, you know, AI robot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: totally believable, which has just fascinated me, which again probably
Speaker 4: speaks to my amusement. It's, you know, I gotta, I gotta.
Speaker 4: I got a weird sense of humor. But hey, that
Speaker 4: lets me have some fun and I guess kind of
Speaker 4: never grow up. But let's let's let's get to our
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Speaker 4: want to lie to you and tell you something that
Speaker 4: we're going to do that we may not do. In fact,
Speaker 4: I do that a lot. It's intentionally just you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not great at managing time. But Kentucky's win last night.
Speaker 4: Somebody asked this on the text line, and I think
Speaker 4: you may be right. This text says, Nick, do you
Speaker 4: think that Kentucky's win at Tennessee will go down as
Speaker 4: the most valuable win in the regular season for anybody
Speaker 4: in college basketball? And I like the question because you
Speaker 4: got me thinking, and I'm thinking, well, I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's a little premature, but I think to your point
Speaker 4: right now, yes, Now, well it's stay that way. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure, but currently you've got Auburn, Houston, Duke, and
Speaker 4: Tennessee as your top four teams in college basketball and
Speaker 4: the net rankings as of today, and that of course
Speaker 4: includes last night's results, where Tennessee lost at home. Auburn
Speaker 4: hasn't lost at home game, Houston hasn't lost a home game,
Speaker 4: Duke hasn't lost a home game. And I don't know
Speaker 4: if they're going to the rest of the way. Tennessee
Speaker 4: might just because of how good the SEC is and
Speaker 4: maybe somebody has figured out out a way to really
Speaker 4: neutralize this Tennessee team. So yeah, winning at Tennessee. What
Speaker 4: it does for Kentucky is that it makes it to
Speaker 4: where you don't want to slip up, but I mean
Speaker 4: your resume is I mean, you jumped up four spots
Speaker 4: last night, and that's coming off of a loss at
Speaker 4: Vandy and a loss to I guess Alabama the Saturday
Speaker 4: before that. So I mean, look, Mark Pope is winning
Speaker 4: games with a lot of value, and he's winning games
Speaker 4: that aren't just helping the resume. It's games that mean
Speaker 4: a lot to Kentucky and their fan base, including Duke
Speaker 4: in November and Tennessee in Knoxville, when Tennessee is has
Speaker 4: been billed as one of the best teams in the
Speaker 4: country all season, so you may be right, you know.
Speaker 4: And also something else to keep in mind the SEC.
Speaker 4: Are they going to get three number one seeds? I mean,
Speaker 4: I doubt it. I think they're gonna beat each other
Speaker 4: up enough to where you're gonna see so many SEC teams,
Speaker 4: more so on the two and three line. But Auburn's
Speaker 4: eighteen and one wouldn't I mean, I'd say they're maybe
Speaker 4: the best bet right now to get a one seed.
Speaker 4: I mean, Tennessee took a hit, but they'd probably still
Speaker 4: get one today. Florida, I mean, Bama, Kentucky, I mean,
Speaker 4: and by the way, that's the clear top tier of
Speaker 4: that league. I know A and M has had a
Speaker 4: good season so far and has good numbers, and I
Speaker 4: know Ole Miss and Mississippi State and even Missouri. I mean,
Speaker 4: the SEC's loaded, we know that. But I think the
Speaker 4: clear cut top tier of that league teams that you
Speaker 4: wouldn't be shocked if they're in the final four, all
Speaker 4: of them. It's Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky and then
Speaker 4: I actually think there's a big gap after that, but
Speaker 4: again big gap and then that next group, those are
Speaker 4: still really good teams if we're being honest with ourselves.
Speaker 4: All right, So last night, I mean, I'll start with
Speaker 4: something we talked a bit, talked about a lot yesterday,
Speaker 4: and that was just the the Corey Alexander situation. And
Speaker 4: it really wasn't much of a situation. And I thought,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure you haven't gone back and listened to
Speaker 4: it right as you know, some of.
Speaker 3: The condensed version. But I was very as I was
Speaker 3: watching the game, very as entertaining as a game, was
Speaker 3: there something in my head going mad? I wonder what
Speaker 3: Nick's thinking about it?
Speaker 4: Guy?
Speaker 3: See right now, is is he on one?
Speaker 4: Is he humbled?
Speaker 3: I know I knew Beheim was strutting around in the center,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know if he was kind of keeping
Speaker 3: him at bay or.
Speaker 4: Well, so Beheim, I'd forgot about this and Behi and
Speaker 4: so much time has passed to where one it makes
Speaker 4: sense why myself and probably others have forgotten about this,
Speaker 4: or maybe you didn't know. And Beheim being ninety years old,
Speaker 4: seemingly he probably doesn't remember either. But Beheim and Kevin
Speaker 4: Willard specifically were really nasty when they returned to Louisville
Speaker 4: whenever Rick Bettino was fired because they were loyal to Rick.
Speaker 4: Beyheim gave Rick his first job, and you know, there's
Speaker 4: there's loyalty there, there's a there's a personal relationship that's strong,
Speaker 4: and he didn't like how Rick was treated towards the end.
Speaker 4: And with Kevin Willard the same thing. It's a family thing.
Speaker 4: Kevin and Ralph Willard father's son, very close to Rick
Speaker 4: and his family. So you know, I just remember, you know,
Speaker 4: those are guys that used to kind of feel like uncles,
Speaker 4: right of cousins because their family with Rick and Rick
Speaker 4: was our guy. So whenever they came in and just
Speaker 4: bashed U of l the University, the administration. It wasn't
Speaker 4: necessarily shocking given their connections to Rick, but it was
Speaker 4: you know, it didn't make me feel good. But Beheim,
Speaker 4: you know, he was really gushing over Louisville and Pat
Speaker 4: Kelsey and he knows, like Beyheim's well aware, Louisville is
Speaker 4: one of the best programs in the country, and man,
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey at this point seems like the best thing
Speaker 4: that could have happened to him given the circumstances. So Beheim,
Speaker 4: to me, I kind of soured on him just because
Speaker 4: of well, I feel like he was kind of a
Speaker 4: pretty easy guy to dislike. I mean, he he's kind
Speaker 4: of smarty. He I don't think has ever been actually
Speaker 4: as good. I mean, he's somebody that, in my opinion,
Speaker 4: he got a title with Carmelo, and you can't take
Speaker 4: that away. Titles have value. There's many guys who have
Speaker 4: titles as coaches that a lot of us think it's
Speaker 4: because of a player they had, but towards the back half,
Speaker 4: maybe not the back half, because he coached. I mean,
Speaker 4: if we're talking back half of Beyheim, we're talking long
Speaker 4: before I was born. He coached. I think he got
Speaker 4: hired in like nineteen eighteen at Syracuse, but they were
Speaker 4: never good for like the last fifteen sixteen years. They
Speaker 4: made final fours maybe once or twice, but they were
Speaker 4: like I think of Beheim as a guy that should
Speaker 4: have been better towards the end that realized, Hey, people
Speaker 4: have figured out your two three zone, Bozo. Hey you're
Speaker 4: just a bubble team every year, Like that's what you
Speaker 4: became known for. So I kind of became anti Beheim.
Speaker 4: And I think more than anything, he was pretty easy
Speaker 4: guy to dislike. And also I just remember him being
Speaker 4: pretty and he's a good a hole, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Like when he's an a hole, you really feel like, man,
Speaker 4: this guy's a jerk. And he did that to us
Speaker 4: because of how he felt about Rick, and it kind
Speaker 4: of stuck with him. But last night he was I mean,
Speaker 4: he was funny to me in a weird way, Like
Speaker 4: I at times wondered if he had to be woken
Speaker 4: up from his nap when they came back from commercial break,
Speaker 4: because the last thing he's bringing on the broadcast is energy.
Speaker 4: And as somebody who you know works in broadcasting, and
Speaker 4: I'm sure those who are running the operation as far
Speaker 4: as the broadcast of last night's came on the a
Speaker 4: SEC network. I'm sure they if they heard this, they
Speaker 4: may think he's right. They have didn't talk very loud,
Speaker 4: so like you want to set levels relatively similar when
Speaker 4: you when you have people on Mike and you've got
Speaker 4: broadcasters that have been you know that that have been
Speaker 4: doing this a long time, West Durham and Corey Alexander
Speaker 4: and Beyheim just doesn't speak that loud, so like sometimes
Speaker 4: I can barely hear him. Which also even though he
Speaker 4: when he doesn't give you a lot of energy, and
Speaker 4: he's also very low volume wise, he kind of like
Speaker 4: it sounds like he's barely talking. But when he did
Speaker 4: talk last night, at times I thought he was kind
Speaker 4: of funny, like the guy that I thought would be
Speaker 4: a pretty funny kind of wise ass he showed it
Speaker 4: last night, because I mean, there are two lines in
Speaker 4: the game that I feel like, like, you know, in
Speaker 4: a weird way, and I guess that everybody's sense of
Speaker 4: humor is different, but like he hit me hard in
Speaker 4: my and like what I would think is funny, but
Speaker 4: also I'd be well aware that others wouldn't think it
Speaker 4: as funny. It's as funny as I do. Because Ft
Speaker 4: and Red. I mean that guy was a clown last night,
Speaker 4: the guy, the guy who got a technical after he
Speaker 4: I mean, he's getting killed out there. I mean the
Speaker 4: taunting technical on Sallas. Let's be honest, that is a technical, Like,
Speaker 4: you can't do that. I think both instances he deserved technicals,
Speaker 4: Like it's tough to see your best player do that,
Speaker 4: and he absolutely yammed on Big Frank. Yeah, but she
Speaker 4: can't do that, you like, it's a known thing, and
Speaker 4: people like like, why why shouldn't you be able to
Speaker 4: do that? Well, it's a different conversation. You can't do
Speaker 4: something you know that you can't do that. Others might
Speaker 4: agree that is a silly rule, and maybe you get
Speaker 4: away with it every now and then because maybe the
Speaker 4: ref isn't somebody that's willing to enforce it quite as
Speaker 4: much as others. But you already have one technical just
Speaker 4: for bitching about getting fouled when you didn't, and then
Speaker 4: you taunt it in somebody's face and the whole Like,
Speaker 4: there's two things that I can think of in the
Speaker 4: last I don't know fifteen years of basketball that that
Speaker 4: I think are kind of minor. But it's just a
Speaker 4: known rule. You remember when guys used to dunk and
Speaker 4: then slap the backboard. You don't see that anymore, you
Speaker 4: know why, automatic technical, and they enforced that. It's been
Speaker 4: a long time, but that that's why you don't see
Speaker 4: that anymore, about five six years ago in a while, Yeah,
Speaker 4: because because it was because it actually is kind of
Speaker 4: a badass way to like, you know, I kind of
Speaker 4: if I was able to dunk, which this may surprise
Speaker 4: a lot of you. At five foot eight and not
Speaker 4: a lot of athleticism, dunking is not something I've ever
Speaker 4: actually been able to do. Don't have bunnies, But if
Speaker 4: I could, I would absolutely want to slap that backboard
Speaker 4: while I'm up there just chilling above the rim, but
Speaker 4: you know, never been above the rim. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 4: like but they they decided that was considered taunting, and
Speaker 4: it's just a known thing if you do it and
Speaker 4: they see it. Automatic tea. Also throwing the ball in
Speaker 4: the air, that's another one I forgot about. You do that,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get a technical like sometimes your emotion gets
Speaker 4: the best of you. But like they they are, they're
Speaker 4: told to enforce that in all that every time, and
Speaker 4: the hitting the head, it means you got dunked on. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it's a level of I guess, person like, it's
Speaker 4: very much a clear taunting thing. It's one thing to
Speaker 4: just flex and be excited and be happy or maybe
Speaker 4: look at somebody, but the hitting on the head is
Speaker 4: something that referees are quite literally told like to not
Speaker 4: allow happen. And yes, I'm sure you can find examples
Speaker 4: of it happening and it not getting called. But let
Speaker 4: me tell you what. It wasn't right after the dunk,
Speaker 4: and it wasn't directly in the guy's face. If somebody's
Speaker 4: running down court and they maybe are between the free
Speaker 4: throw line and the half court line and then they
Speaker 4: do it, you're probably gonna be able to get away
Speaker 4: with it. But like he he's somebody that's a super
Speaker 4: talented player. They would have gotten their ass kicked regardless
Speaker 4: if he got kicked out. But what he did at
Speaker 4: the timing, he did it like he has nobody to
Speaker 4: blame but himself. It's a known thing. You will get
Speaker 4: teed up for doing that. But Efton Reed was just
Speaker 4: out there getting teased for talking reckless when he's down
Speaker 4: a bunch and beheim I mean, and it wasn't. It
Speaker 4: was something he just said and nobody responded to because
Speaker 4: it was just kind of in the moment. Maybe Behem's
Speaker 4: kind of figuring out timing as a color analyst, that like,
Speaker 4: you can't just randomly blurt out. You got to kind
Speaker 4: of know your spots, which actually, in my opinion, is
Speaker 4: actually a really hard thing to do. Yeah, you got
Speaker 4: to get comfortable with it. But when you do, you're
Speaker 4: you know, you're set. But it's it's it's something that
Speaker 4: takes a little time. But he just said out loud,
Speaker 4: does that ftin read know he's down twenty seven? And
Speaker 4: and I just thought that was like, I mean, it's
Speaker 4: it's something very obvious that you rarely hear broadcasters say.
Speaker 4: But it's Beheim. He doesn't give a damn. Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: gonna say it's old. He's coming in too.
Speaker 3: It's it's just it's like he's thinking out loud, and
Speaker 3: he's reached that part to himself that does this guy
Speaker 3: know that he's down this amount of points?
Speaker 4: And they got he got teed up and they weren't
Speaker 4: down as much, and then he came back and got
Speaker 4: a bucket. I mean, he was a big he's a
Speaker 4: good player. I think he's he's lazy. He's lazy, but
Speaker 4: I mean he's he's got some skill. Was a big
Speaker 4: time recruiter. I believe he transferred from from LSU to Wake.
Speaker 4: And he's a good guy. He's a good player. So
Speaker 4: he he did score and then he was celebrating. And really,
Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't have been shocked if they heed
Speaker 4: him up then because he'd already give he'd already been
Speaker 4: given a technical. I'm pretty sure as far as just
Speaker 4: you know, and this is just a Wake looked unhinged
Speaker 4: last night, like they looked, they looked mentally weak, and
Speaker 4: Louisville was just out there playing ball, which again like
Speaker 4: corny to say, but I like to see my team
Speaker 4: out there not getting into the shenanigans that they were.
Speaker 4: But James Scott is walking off the floor, not saying
Speaker 4: a word to anybody other than you know, just walking
Speaker 4: to his coach and his teammates to sit down, and
Speaker 4: Epton Reid's like following him to the bench to talk
Speaker 4: reckless to him, and he gets teed up, like and
Speaker 4: and the best part was that it was Corey Alexander
Speaker 4: and Jim Beheim kind of doing their own talk show,
Speaker 4: and west Durham had to cut like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: we're watching the game and I'm thinking they haven't even
Speaker 4: like do we miss something? Do we need to rewind?
Speaker 4: Why is somebody shooting technical free throws? And then Westerham
Speaker 4: finally says, hey, fellows, hold on, partner, we gotta they've
Speaker 4: just given f and read a technical and you know,
Speaker 4: then they go then and then they go back and
Speaker 4: show kind of what he did that deserved that. But
Speaker 4: the other thing that Beaheim said that that that I
Speaker 4: thought was really funny. Welly we was asked to question
Speaker 4: that he gave a smart ass answer to which was funny.
Speaker 4: The question was what if Steve Forbes? What is Steve
Speaker 4: Forbes is gonna be able to find something offensively? And
Speaker 4: Behem responded with, I think his best bet is next week.
Speaker 4: I mean like just basically saying this is over, and
Speaker 4: then another one just this was just another one of
Speaker 4: his lines that you don't often hear broadcasters say. And
Speaker 4: I think if it was like if it was if
Speaker 4: I was a Wake Forest fan in the moment, I
Speaker 4: probably would have been bothered by it, because you know,
Speaker 4: that's my team. Had it been said about Louisville, Like
Speaker 4: when Kenny was here, I would have laughed and probably understood,
Speaker 4: because you know, that's how bad things were. But Wake's
Speaker 4: a good team and they were just getting blown out.
Speaker 4: They'd won like eight of nine going into last night
Speaker 4: before Louisville gave him a business So, uh, I mean
Speaker 4: out of nowhere. In the second half, he just says,
Speaker 4: man Steve Forbes, he is trying to figure out how
Speaker 4: the heck he can get out of here as soon
Speaker 4: as possible. And I mean, just again, I'm eating it
Speaker 4: up because he's talking up my team and really, you know,
Speaker 4: making it obvious that Chucky Hepburn and this Louisville team,
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey, they got this way Forest team in hell.
Speaker 4: And I was not with you last night, but I
Speaker 4: yelled it aloud to my to my friends we went
Speaker 4: to dinner with to watch the game, or we actually
Speaker 4: hosted dinner. And uh, I had to give you credit
Speaker 4: because Cuffey had Chucky had the cuffs out.
Speaker 3: That sorry, Cuffy, I like that, I said, Cuffy's.
Speaker 4: Chucky had the cuffs out, So I like the cuffs, don't.
Speaker 4: I'd never heard that, but when I went to a
Speaker 4: game with Austin. First, Uh, we went to the Carolina
Speaker 4: game earlier this month. You know, Chucky, of course, one
Speaker 4: of the best defenders in college basketball. He really sets
Speaker 4: the tone and is I think he's the biggest factor
Speaker 4: on why this team is so good defensively because he's
Speaker 4: the one that's just making life a living health of
Speaker 4: the opposing guard that he's guarding, and then everybody else
Speaker 4: is just uncomfortable by the time they get they get
Speaker 4: the ball, and uh yeah, I think, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't know where you heard. I mean, maybe that's basketball
Speaker 4: lingo that is just a little bit too young for
Speaker 4: me because I'm an old guy now. But Chucky's got
Speaker 4: the cuffs out is something I now find myself saying
Speaker 4: aloud when he's out there defending city. And and you know,
Speaker 4: I got to give credit. I got to cite the source.
Speaker 4: I gotta give credit to my guy Austin, because.
Speaker 3: He learned a lot of that basketball lingo, like playing
Speaker 3: two K with the boys back in the day.
Speaker 4: Cuffs And again, that's where I missed it, because I
Speaker 4: you know, I was an NBA live guy. I don't
Speaker 4: even know you remember that that was the course of
Speaker 4: the EA Sports Basketball game yeah, and then two K
Speaker 4: passed him up and they were like meaning e A
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, We're just gonna stick with Madden. That's
Speaker 4: what we do. That's our thing. So Corey Alexander last
Speaker 4: night he was fine. I mean, he didn't need to apologize,
Speaker 4: and I mean it would have been it would have
Speaker 4: been notable.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, but a little something in his ear. But
Speaker 4: he you know, he was very complimentary of Pat Kelcey.
Speaker 4: He really talked up the I mean, I feel like
Speaker 4: he could have at least been a little more aware
Speaker 4: of his nonsense because there were two times where he
Speaker 4: really said something that was not only true, but like
Speaker 4: it was. It was appreciated from a Louisville fan myself
Speaker 4: that when the when the Young was rocking, he said,
Speaker 4: this is what Louisville basketball, this is what it should be,
Speaker 4: and this is this is what rollerm my id you
Speaker 4: that this is one of the best atmospheres in college basketball,
Speaker 4: one of my favorite places to come and call a
Speaker 4: game because these fans. And again I said at the
Speaker 4: beginning of the show, I wasn't there last night. I
Speaker 4: had some real fomo, but I thought on television that
Speaker 4: looked as good as I've seen the em Center look
Speaker 4: in many many years.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it felt that way too.
Speaker 4: And I mean, it's just the energy in the vibe
Speaker 4: around Louisville Hoops right now is just it's it's through
Speaker 4: the roof and I love it.
Speaker 3: And guy Mike Rutherford tweeted last night and I told
Speaker 3: this to my dad Kirk as soon as soon as
Speaker 3: it happened. But everyone was just antsy waiting for Rain
Speaker 3: Smith to get open. Oh yeah, he finally got his first.
Speaker 3: Look like you see him finally get open. You could
Speaker 3: hear the gas, get it to him, get it to him,
Speaker 3: and then he did, because that's what everyone was waiting for.
Speaker 3: You talk about it kind of starting off a little
Speaker 3: bit slow, Wake was getting in guy's faces.
Speaker 4: No Wake came out with a really good mindset. Like look,
Speaker 4: Rain last night went four of ten from three and
Speaker 4: I feel like he had a quiet night. That's sixteen
Speaker 4: points and forty percent from the line. You know what
Speaker 4: that is. That's a damn good night for anybody. But
Speaker 4: you know, last game we saw me at ten. So
Speaker 4: just all around good vibes and it's been a fun
Speaker 4: ride so far. And I'm I'm I'm enjoying every minute
Speaker 4: of it. We got to get to a break. We'll
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Speaker 4: that isn't a good one, but it's local here. There
Speaker 4: was a student at More High School that has been
Speaker 4: charged after I mean, I guess they call it swatting,
Speaker 4: but JCPS said that they will have a student criminally
Speaker 4: charged and disciplined for falsely reporting a shooting inside the
Speaker 4: high school. That was a story I believe. Yesterday I
Speaker 4: saw our own Paul Miles, the hardest working man in
Speaker 4: show business. He was reporting on it for WHAS and
Speaker 4: I saw that, and I guess it's just part of
Speaker 4: me getting older, and I'm a dad. So my instant
Speaker 4: thought was, man, I feel I feel for like those parents.
Speaker 4: But then again, now I also am getting even older
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Speaker 4: have kids that are troubled and have issues, you never
Speaker 4: know why that's happened. But not a surprise for me
Speaker 4: at times when I see that their issues are are
Speaker 4: because they don't have good parents. But like you, I
Speaker 4: mean not to say that this person's life should be ruined,
Speaker 4: but like I won't be surprised if the prosecution is
Speaker 4: to the full extent and they make an example because
Speaker 4: I think with the sensitivity for good reason to that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff, like that's the I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: know where you would rank the last things that you
Speaker 4: should joke about in society and twenty twenty five, but
Speaker 4: a school shooting has certainly got to be up there
Speaker 4: towards the top, because I mean, it's it happens. I mean,
Speaker 4: we're at a point now where it's still just an
Speaker 4: unthinkable thing and it's just so horrific and tragic, especially
Speaker 4: when you have multiple children and teachers and just anybody
Speaker 4: losing their life. I mean You're not surprised by it
Speaker 4: now like you were when Columbine happened, because it happens.
Speaker 4: I mean, anytime it happens is something that should never happen,
Speaker 4: but it happens frequently for something like that. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just it's crazy. So, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 4: what kind of real charges and I'm not even sure
Speaker 4: what the charges are. Again, I know it's a real thing.
Speaker 4: In fact, there's been a couple of documentaries I've seen
Speaker 4: true crime stuff that feature just kind of what this
Speaker 4: has become. How and again I'm just kind of racking
Speaker 4: my brain here as I'm revisiting this. I stream a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff that's whenever I go and run on
Speaker 4: the treadmill to gym, I just find something to watch.
Speaker 4: And I'm a nerd for documentaries. And I believe initially
Speaker 4: the whole swatting thing about calling in like a fake
Speaker 4: bomb threat, that kind of stuff, it was a real
Speaker 4: problem for years where it took up a ton of resources.
Speaker 4: It was a really serious and scary thing. But the
Speaker 4: actual you know, the accountability didn't match up, meaning what
Speaker 4: you were charged with and what you were going to
Speaker 4: be punished with. It just didn't seem severe enough, and
Speaker 4: I guess that's I think that since changed. But I mean,
Speaker 4: can you imagine being a parent at a school and
Speaker 4: it making the news or you getting alerted by the
Speaker 4: school system that that someone has reported that there's a
Speaker 4: shooting at your I mean like that. I mean, I
Speaker 4: just I lose my ability to speak whenever I think
Speaker 4: about sort of how I would react to that, because
Speaker 4: I don't know what I would do. I mean, be scary.
Speaker 4: It's almost it's almost like these kids that do the
Speaker 4: challenges that become like a trend for you younger people,
Speaker 4: young you know, dumb kids, if if I may, like
Speaker 4: eating tide pods and whatnot, like that kind of stuff. Well,
Speaker 4: there was one where kids were out there and the
Speaker 4: challenge was to go missing, go in hiding long enough
Speaker 4: to where you make the news as a missing kid,
Speaker 4: and like you for for you know, a couple of
Speaker 4: couple of laughs with your pals in school. You know
Speaker 4: what you're putting your parents through, Like you're a sixth
Speaker 4: son of a bitch. No pardon my French, but like
Speaker 4: that's the world. I mean, like I'm not sure my
Speaker 4: children could do something. I mean, I guess they could
Speaker 4: I don't want to think about it would be But
Speaker 4: like if I knew that my kid was playing a
Speaker 4: funny on me, and he was because he, you know,
Speaker 4: wanted to get some laugh with laughs with his buddies,
Speaker 4: and I thought he was abducted or something like, I
Speaker 4: feel like I don't know if I'd ever forgive him.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I could ever not love my child,
Speaker 4: because you know, that's just what you feel like as
Speaker 4: a parent. But man, that that's I mean, it's great
Speaker 4: that it wasn't a real threat, but man, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be shocked if if the extent of the punishment is
Speaker 4: is severe. All Right, two more hours left. We'll get
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