WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:01.199 Who's the kid here? 2 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:03.080 Who's the kid here? 3 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:04.919 Are you kidding me? Now? 4 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:13.560 Here's Nick Coffee. 5 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:16.519 I'm sure the last thing that you hear before you 6 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.239 hear the intro to this show. And my voice is 7 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.839 usually relatively the same. I don't notice it often, but 8 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:26.399 every now and then I do notice it, and it 9 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:31.160 just it amuses me. There's a liner that somebody and 10 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:32.759 I don't know who it is, and look, maybe they 11 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:33.759 know something I don't know. 12 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.079 Maybe they. 13 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:39.640 Are just way above my head as far as understanding 14 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:42.920 the you know, the promotion here. And what I mean 15 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.759 is we have a liner set that runs for I 16 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:49.759 don't know, maybe five seconds at two fifty nine fifty five. 17 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:52.200 That is an invitation for you to join me. 18 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.640 And I'm thinking, like, man, talk about giving somebody last 19 00:00:55.679 --> 00:01:00.000 minute notice, right, like, that's that's definite last minute notice. 20 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:00.759 So we're here. 21 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:04.599 It's Coffee and Company. And uh yeah, that. 22 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:06.560 Was that was my fault. I was making a little 23 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:08.920 bit leftover tacos and I was looking at the I 24 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.040 was not even talking about that the clock and well, no, 25 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.359 right before they heard that beautiful invitation to come join 26 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.840 one of the best shows in Louisville. We just get 27 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:21.120 nothing but dead air and hey Austin, earf the Austin. 28 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.640 We did it actually just to just to keep you guessing, like, 29 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:25.920 wait a second, is anybody here. We wanted you to 30 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.079 to perk up a little bit on a Friday and 31 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.359 be be you know, alert and a. 32 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:31.599 Real test of loyalty. 33 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:35.359 And the guys past the dead air was a was 34 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.879 a wait a second, it did the radio turn off? 35 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:38.480 What happened? 36 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:39.439 And then here we go. 37 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:40.879 So like we just wanted to make sure you guys 38 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.760 were ready and you were not in autopilot mode. 39 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:45.680 But I like to keep them on their toes sometimes. 40 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:46.519 But help me out. 41 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:48.719 You are in you know you you you work in 42 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.480 this industry as well, and you are in programming to 43 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.640 an extent. I'm I'm not. I mean, I mean, I've 44 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.760 worked here a long time. But to be honest with you, 45 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.280 I know nothing about strategy when it comes to we 46 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.560 put certain spots, commercials, liners, promos where we do. 47 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.719 But I know there's a method to it. There's no scenario. 48 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:10.120 Someone can tell me that it makes sense to throw 49 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:14.159 the liner promoting my show five seconds before it starts. 50 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:15.680 It's a great question. 51 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:16.919 I mean, I mean again, I'm not putting you on 52 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:18.439 the spot like you've got to answer for it. But you're 53 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:20.680 with me right, like that doesn't make any sense. Yeah, 54 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.439 So anyways, let's get it started. We've got a huge 55 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:26.759 weekend on tap. We've got a big show for you 56 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:28.639 for the next three hours to get you set for 57 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:30.919 said big weekend, and it's going to be a lot 58 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.560 of fun. It's a Friday. We are above freezing temperatures outside. 59 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.599 That snow is melting. The sun is shining, yes, and 60 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:38.599 it's good stuff. 61 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:40.919 It's a little bit warm comparing it to it, it sucks. 62 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:42.599 And I'm walking outside and I think, man, it's a 63 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:44.479 little bit warm out here. What is in only like 64 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.840 thirty degree? No, it's forty six. Well, I didn't even 65 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:48.199 see that. 66 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:51.000 The hide today is forty nine. I don't know if 67 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:52.599 we've hit that yet or maybe we did. And then 68 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.360 and now it's kind of it's three o'clock. It'll be 69 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:57.680 dark when the show ends, so therefore it's probably starting 70 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.919 to cool down. I would imagine the high has already 71 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.719 come and gone. But nonetheless, it feels tropical compared to 72 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:07.680 what we've had recently, and I'm going to enjoy it. 73 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.479 But yeah, it's a Friday. We're feeling good. And I 74 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.919 just saw earlier today that the Supreme Court has upheld 75 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.599 the TikTok band. And the reason I'm starting with this 76 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.400 is because sad day. It is sad and it does 77 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:23.759 sound like that there really is no more like last 78 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.520 ditch effort, no more lifelines for TikTok here in America. 79 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.599 I mean, I'm sure they're going to continue to fight. 80 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:32.479 Who I mean when I say they, I don't even 81 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.759 know who it is like to hear that, And this 82 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:39.240 is what really will expose me as being very uneducated 83 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.400 or just not having knowledge about how this works as 84 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:45.840 far as who really has authority to do this and that. 85 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.159 But when I hear that the current president and the 86 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.360 one who is well, I don't even know, Like obviously 87 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.400 Biden's on his way out, like as as of now 88 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.400 as we speak. But you know, forty six and forty seven, right, 89 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.680 because Trump was forty five, Biden forty six, And then 90 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:05.000 we do we call it is does he go back 91 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:06.400 to forty five or is he forty seven? 92 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.120 Again? I guess the marketing is around forty seven. 93 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:12.479 Okay, so we've got forty six and forty seven collectively 94 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.879 making it clear that they want to not have TikTok 95 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.959 be banned in America. And the president of the company, 96 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:22.920 the CEO, I don't know what his title is, but 97 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.439 he'll be like he's he's being wined and dined in 98 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.079 our country. He's going to be a front row at 99 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.680 the inauguration, right, Like I mean. 100 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.519 He's gonna sit where usually other presidents are reserved. 101 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:39.639 So like, I feel like knowing that meaning what we 102 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.920 just stated. As far as both Trump and Biden wanting 103 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.480 to keep TikTok alive in America, they're whining and dining 104 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:51.160 the guy who runs TikTok. Can't they just say, like no, 105 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:54.240 I mean, aren't. I know, the president can't literally do 106 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:58.079 anything he wants without certain processes and whatnot. 107 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.399 But I just this. I'm confus used. 108 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.560 But again I'm a dummy. So the reason I bring 109 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.439 it up is because this has got to be like 110 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:06.600 a sign. I don't know where it's from or what 111 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:11.560 it means, but this just can't be coincidence. I'm driving 112 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.560 down Fish Street and our garage here, we enter it 113 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.560 on Fish Street and sure enough, we park and then 114 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.560 we walk out and we're on four Street. That's that's 115 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:20.720 how it works. If you know where we are at 116 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:22.519 for Street Live, then you know exactly what I'm talking about. 117 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:26.480 The garage for this facility, this venue, this area, it's 118 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.600 right there. So when I'm coming up Fifth, there is 119 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:32.519 a I guess it would be what's that? What is 120 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:36.279 it Muhammad Ali that you turn right off of? 121 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:37.800 So I'm coming on Famama. 122 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:39.920 So in the culmna of Muhammad Ali in fifth there 123 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.920 is a I guess it's like a it's apartments, condos. 124 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.319 I'm not sure in that big building that's just right 125 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:47.000 here on the block. 126 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:51.000 And I saw something that I've never seen in person before. 127 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:55.199 But I at times have found myself getting getting lost 128 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:00.360 in TikTok for these videos, and I mean, it's not 129 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.639 like it. I guess it entertains me. Maybe that makes 130 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.079 me a bad person, But it's evictions. It's people, you know, 131 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.759 it's body cam footage of somebody who works in law 132 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.759 enforcement coming to evict someone. And usually the ones that 133 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:17.160 make the internet TikTok that have millions of views are 134 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.000 those that are, you know, pretty chaotic people who don't 135 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.120 seem to understand like, yeah, you have to pay to 136 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.240 live here. You can't just not pay and keep living here. 137 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.959 And by the time somebody like with the Sheriff's department 138 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:32.959 shows up to evict you, it's not like you just 139 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.000 got noticed that you're late on your rent. 140 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:35.480 There's all. 141 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:37.920 I mean, it's probably too late, in fact, I mean 142 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:39.560 I don't. I mean, I hope they never be in 143 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:41.639 this position. And I know it's hard out there for everybody, 144 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.560 and it's a sad situation overall, because I assume that 145 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.360 some of the people that do get evicted, like they 146 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:48.120 want to be able to pay. 147 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:48.519 They just can. 148 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.360 Now there's others that just you know, try to you know, 149 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:56.560 be squatters. But I mean it's usually a long process 150 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:58.120 that you have to know at some point, like you 151 00:06:58.199 --> 00:06:59.600 got to be on the edge of your seat knowing 152 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.160 any more somebody may knock on that door and say 153 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:04.480 you got to go because you haven't paid rent in 154 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.000 a long time. So as I'm right at that light 155 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.160 at Fifth and Muhammed to come up, you know, maybe 156 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.519 one hundred yards to turn into the garage, I mean, 157 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.439 I see people coming out of a tall it's a 158 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.920 high rise building, and they've just put all the property 159 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:21.040 from some and I'm talking bedframe, I'm talking mattress Wow, 160 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:26.079 furniture belong you know belongings right there just outside of 161 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.040 the building, not on the curb of the block, but 162 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.639 just up against the you know, the property there, and 163 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.319 you could see someone on the phone like probably making 164 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:37.600 the call like yeah they got me yet, And it's 165 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:41.560 like I cannot imagine, like because if you know you're 166 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.120 getting evicted and you don't do anything about it, that's 167 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:48.240 what happens. Meaning like, yeah, good luck finding somebody at 168 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.319 no notice to come and bring a moving truck to 169 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:52.360 get all your stuff. 170 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:53.519 I mean I would. 171 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.600 Assume if you can afford somebody to do that, you 172 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.439 would maybe be able to afford your rent. I mean, 173 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:00.759 I know, rents a bigger expense per month than what 174 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:02.560 that would be for somebody to come and bring a truck. 175 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.519 But like I talk about just being like that, that 176 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.360 that that that's the most helpless. Oh yeah, you said 177 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.360 it best. That is that is one of the most 178 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.040 helpless things I could imagine happening. And I'm sure there's 179 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:15.920 others that that are more you know, maybe situations where 180 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.560 you'd feel even more helpless than that, But man, that 181 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.879 was just like I couldn't I couldn't stop thinking, like, man, 182 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.639 I don't know what I would do in that situation. 183 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.480 I also would like to think that regardless of my 184 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.240 financial situation, I would understand, like, I gotta go, they're 185 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:32.360 going to do this. In most videos I see on TikTok, 186 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.080 it's the opposite that it's. It's it's people who answer 187 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:39.000 the door thinking that they that they have authority, thinking 188 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:44.039 that they have the correct process and formula here, rather 189 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.519 than knowing like, no, I don't own this. I haven't 190 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.840 even paid to stay here. I've been staying here for 191 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.639 free for a long long time, like you know. So anyways, 192 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.480 just I thought that was really wild for me to 193 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:57.480 see something. It's it was almost like the sign because 194 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.080 I hadn't I went out to lunch with my with 195 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.120 my wife and my daughter today and I haven't really 196 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.600 been super active on social media in the last few hours. 197 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:04.480 Uh here and there. 198 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:08.159 I mean, I I wasn't looking for the TikTok update necessarily, 199 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.279 but I see something in real life that I've only 200 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.720 seen previously on the platform that is TikTok, and I'm like, wow, 201 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.120 that's crazy. Then I get in here, get set up 202 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.440 with the show, and of course, you know, I try 203 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.120 to get everything together in front of me, and I 204 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:23.639 knew we were going to talk about this today. And 205 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.120 that's when I see the update that TikTok is no more. 206 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.360 I feel like that's a sign. Hey, we gave you 207 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.720 a glimpse of something in real life that you'll now 208 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.600 no longer be able to get on TikTok. It's not 209 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.159 a coincidence, right, there's no way. 210 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.399 No, you get just you basically saw TikTok in real life. Yeah, 211 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.879 which is which is pretty cool. But but mister, mister, 212 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:44.240 mister professor coffee, I did your homework last night. Oh 213 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.000 that's right, and that's right, and I found something that 214 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:49.080 I think that you might like. When we're just looking 215 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.200 for a two word thing to start the show, here 216 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:52.639 we go. Man tweeted out, how about this? 217 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:53.279 Beat it to me? 218 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:54.720 How about lock in? 219 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:55.799 Lock in? 220 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:57.320 You like that? 221 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:00.879 Do I like it? It's now a up on Twitter 222 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:02.919 as we speak. It's locked. 223 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.440 It's lock in with the link for you guys to listen. 224 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:08.360 So so now they know we're here. Good job, I 225 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.519 forgot I even gave you homework and you showed up 226 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:12.559 ready to present it at a good job. I'm a 227 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:13.039 good job. 228 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:14.320 What do you call teacher's pet. 229 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:15.120 Right there we go. 230 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.480 I like it so uh and I feel like I've 231 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.919 talked earlier in the week, I feel like me mentioning 232 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:27.840 the whole TikTok thing, it ended up like I felt 233 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:31.919 like maybe I should back up and not continuing to 234 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:33.799 go down that direction because because I know there are 235 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:35.320 a lot of people that just think TikTok is this 236 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.039 stupid app that people waste time on and it's dumb 237 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:42.159 idiots dancing. But it's so it can really be whatever 238 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:43.879 you want it to be. Like that's the power of 239 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.039 what that platform is. It can be whatever. You can 240 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:47.519 be a creator. 241 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.559 And post content that you enjoy doing. It could be 242 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:51.279 your escape. 243 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.720 It could be you connecting with people that are into 244 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:57.559 something that like your everyday life when you go to 245 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:59.240 work or school or whatever it may be, you don't 246 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.480 interact with those people. But with the platform like that, 247 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:06.559 you can just get lost in different spaces within you know, society. 248 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.360 And there are some people that again have used it 249 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.639 to make a living. It's changed people's lives. And I 250 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.840 feel like because TikTok really in the last two and 251 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:19.399 a half to three years exploded the way that it did, 252 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.279 it became its own thing to where there's really not 253 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.799 a comparison. And again, maybe some people hate it, they 254 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:27.919 don't like it, that's fine, but there really is not 255 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:32.039 a comparable platform to it when it comes to just 256 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.440 you can really there's very few people that that I 257 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.799 think this day and age, that aren't at time spending 258 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:44.120 time on an app, on a social media experience, and 259 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.879 I feel like TikTok is one that regardless of what 260 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.240 you would ever get out your phone open an app 261 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.600 to kind of just entertain yourself, kill time, whatever it 262 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.559 may be, there's something there for you, you know what 263 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:59.440 I mean? Like that, that's kind of what it what 264 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.159 it turned into, which is why it has been such 265 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.759 a successful thing here and you know, across the planet, 266 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:06.759 not just in America. But as of Sunday, it sounds 267 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.000 like it will be no more. And it is kind 268 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.919 of sad. There's a young lady that I'm gonna get 269 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:13.799 I'm gonna get her permission before I talk about it 270 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:15.279 on the show, because I don't want to. You know, 271 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:16.919 I would assume she wouldn't have an issue with it, 272 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.399 but you never know, but she got fired at her job. 273 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.399 Because she was I guess, I don't know. 274 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:26.600 If it was because she was on TikTok too much, 275 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:30.440 or if maybe she was occasionally showing a TikTok when 276 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:31.240 she was at work. 277 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:32.279 She had a career, she. 278 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:36.679 Was professional, and that that ended up getting her fired. 279 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.960 They just told her that, you know, I think they 280 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.840 told her you need to like not be on TikTok 281 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:41.720 or leave or what. 282 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:43.960 I don't I don't know the specifics I should speak honest. 283 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:44.960 Has never find out what I'm doing. 284 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:47.559 But she she she lost her job because of TikTok, 285 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:49.879 like because that became I guess something she was. You know, 286 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.759 she was doing a lot and and and it probably 287 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.559 was a big issue for her. So what did she do. 288 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.600 She just she tried to turn the following she created 289 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.840 on TikTok into a way to make a living. And 290 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:03.639 then she got a realtor's license and she became a realtor, 291 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:05.559 and of course with her big social media following. That's 292 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.200 how you mean, if you're a realator. I'm sure there's 293 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:10.320 certain things that make you good or bad that I'm 294 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:12.080 unaware of, but the biggest thing you have to do 295 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.320 is market yourself. Right, you are a I mean, and 296 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.360 I'm I'm not knocking anybody who's a realtor. At times, 297 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.639 I feel like Facebook is just a platform for real 298 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:21.279 estate agents, not even kidding. 299 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:22.519 And I see it all the time over in the 300 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:23.200 last year, and. 301 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:25.159 That's not a knock on, and that's just what they 302 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.919 have to do. They If you're not continuously self promoting NonStop, 303 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:30.720 you're gonna get left behind me because there's such a 304 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:34.000 competitive space and you know a lot of people who 305 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:38.039 aren't really savvy about that that world of real estate, 306 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:40.399 They're not going to know what makes you good or bad. 307 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:44.080 It's all about reference, referral and somebody that stands out, 308 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:46.360 and you know, you have a platform now with social 309 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:48.799 media to really do that. So to know that, like 310 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.320 now that's gone for somebody where it changed their life 311 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:52.639 and it's a big part of what they do, it's 312 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.960 a it's a sad thing. So, I mean, it sounds 313 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.759 like today. I mean again, I'm not I'm not doing 314 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.240 deep dives as far as research and coverage of this. 315 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:04.799 I'm just kind of reading what becomes frontline topic. Yeah, 316 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.399 front line news. But it sounds like today's decision from 317 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.279 the Supreme Court has everybody now realizing, yeh, Sunday is 318 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:12.799 going to be the day and it's going to be gone, 319 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:14.879 and that's that's that's unfortunate. 320 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.440 I can't help but think if it's got to be 321 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.960 reinstated somehow, right, like it will, especially. 322 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.360 When the Trump becomes like once it's once it's official 323 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:25.440 that Trump is back in office, Like I feel like 324 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.519 he would have the ability to do something, but again 325 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:29.799 I'm willing to acknowledge I'm a dumb ass. I don't 326 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:31.799 even know if he has the ability to just say, hey, 327 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.559 we're gonna make TikTok available now. I mean, if he does, 328 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.759 then you know, that'd be great. But as far as 329 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.279 what needs to happen for him to be able to 330 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.039 do that, I'm not quite sure. But it is just 331 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:44.440 a weird look knowing that the previous president and the 332 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.399 one that's about to be president are both on the 333 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:48.519 same page about this, which last I checked, turn it 334 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.840 on the same page a battle much of anything, And 335 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.320 yet they've got this guy who owns the company here 336 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.559 as we are about to change face, you know, phase 337 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:01.120 into a different presidential era. Like it just seems very 338 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.639 it seems inconsistent, right, Like wait a second, like if 339 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.200 in fact, like this is such a big deal and 340 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.200 a big risk, and I'm not acting like it's not. 341 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:10.480 I have no clue. I don't. 342 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.120 I'm not somebody that's conspiracy theorist that thinks that there's 343 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:15.000 that this is all just made up and there's not 344 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:20.840 legitimate concern. But if so, then why are our presidents 345 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.600 one former, one current, one former that wasn't and then 346 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.879 now is going to be current again? Kind of confusing, 347 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:29.240 Like it just seems to be head scratching. 348 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.360 But so, I mean, does that guy doesn't he even 349 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.840 even like want to come to that now, like oh yeah, 350 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.720 like you guys, well, I mean just days after his 351 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:38.879 platform is canceled. 352 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:42.039 To be honest with you, like the fact that they're saying, 353 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:45.440 if you want to if I own something that was 354 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:51.879 zero point one percent what TikTok is, and you told 355 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:55.159 me that if I wanted to, like if I wanted 356 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.039 it to exist in a country, then I would need 357 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.519 to sell it. I would say bye, and I would 358 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.679 exist with out here, like you know, like that's kind 359 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.879 of rich, knowing, like if you wanted to be in America, 360 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:05.279 you have to sell it. Well, okay, I'm not going 361 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:07.600 to sell it because I own it. It's what I do. 362 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:10.960 It's my livelihood. So you know, that's a you problem, 363 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.600 not a meat problem. So I mean again, I know 364 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:17.159 there's way more to it than I would ever know, 365 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:19.720 you know, I mean, I guess I could do a 366 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:21.480 deep dive and really look into it, but I just 367 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.080 don't really care enough. But in a way, it just 368 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.200 comes off as like arrogant. If you want to exist 369 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:28.559 here in our country, you need to sell it to 370 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:30.960 somebody else. Yeah, well no, well would I do that? 371 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.360 So anyways, let's get the party started. In fact, we 372 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:35.639 got to get to a break in just a moment. 373 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:39.399 But Louisville, Virginia tomorrow, it's a weird it's a weird 374 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:41.360 It's I was gonna say, it's a weird vibe. 375 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.120 It's a great vibe. Energy is through the roof. 376 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.759 Clearly, Louisville is on the hell of a run right now, 377 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.080 and I expect there to be a great crowd tomorrow. 378 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:55.200 But when I say weird vibes, Virginia's come into Louisville 379 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.000 and nobody's worried about Virginia. And look, they could beat 380 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.919 Louisville if Little didn't play well. But I think Louisville 381 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:01.519 is shown us enough at this point. 382 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:02.960 That we are. 383 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.160 We are well within reason to expect Louisville to continue 384 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.319 to come out and play the way they've played in 385 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:12.000 the last seven games. And I don't mean play, you know, 386 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.160 make a bunch of threes. Obviously that can be a 387 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.480 real difference maker, but even in games where they were 388 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.319 not super efficient from the three point line, they've left 389 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:21.240 a lot of points on the floor at times in 390 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:23.519 this winning streak with free throws and layups. And I 391 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:25.480 don't say that to be critical. It's certainly not a 392 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:27.680 good thing. But what I'm saying is that they are 393 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:32.359 bringing a level of intensity focus that is doing enough 394 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.279 to where if they have some shortfalls in certain areas 395 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.519 on the stat sheet, it doesn't matter. They're still winning. 396 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:39.319 And if you can go to Virginia and beat them 397 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:42.119 by twenty, if they come here tomorrow, which they're going 398 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:43.559 to I think, in fact, I think they're already here. 399 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.279 But when they're here tomorrow at noon and the place 400 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:47.880 is at least you know, I don't know how many 401 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:49.119 people are going to be there, but I know those 402 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:50.200 that are going to be there are going to be 403 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.640 into it, because everybody seems to really really be loving 404 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:53.400 the run. 405 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:54.079 This team is on. 406 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:56.759 I mean, it's it is not at all out of 407 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.079 line to say we expect to beat Virginia tomorrow and 408 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.279 maybe even beat them, beat them down. You beat them 409 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:05.559 by twenty there. It could get ugly tomorrow. I don't 410 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.039 I don't know what I would predict as far as 411 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.680 the score, But Louisville is fourteen point favorites here, and 412 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:12.480 I totally understand. 413 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:13.440 That you're the largest the whole seaton. 414 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.079 No, it's the largest spread Louisville has had in an 415 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:18.039 ACC game since twenty twenty. 416 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:20.480 Sure because I know we are twenty point favorites against 417 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:21.319 the Eastern Kentucky. 418 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:23.599 Yeah, I mean they've had big numbers against the Bums 419 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.079 and some of those bums you know covered, But in 420 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:29.160 ACC play, this is the biggest spread since the year 421 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.200 where we didn't get a tournament because of the pandemic. 422 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:33.160 So it's been a long time coming. But I want 423 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.440 to talk about the whole ticket situation. On the other side, 424 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:38.319 we also need to talk about the Alabama Kentucky game. 425 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:41.599 A huge game for Kentucky tomorrow. And you guys have 426 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:43.079 heard me say this when it comes to Kentucky for 427 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.960 the last couple of weeks. When there's when there are 428 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.720 teams that show up to play Kentucky or maybe they're 429 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:54.000 hosting Kentucky and they don't have the mindset of knowing 430 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:57.559 we shouldn't get into a game with this team where 431 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.200 it's a countless possession game. 432 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:02.000 You lose. 433 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:08.559 And that includes teams like Duke Gonzaga, I mean Mississippi State. 434 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:12.880 So Alabama has been doing this longer than Mark Pope has, 435 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:16.319 but nobody's been able to beat Kentucky this year when 436 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:18.920 it's a game played at the pace Kentucky wants to 437 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:21.440 play at and Alabama, let's be real, they don't have 438 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:22.960 a whole lot of momentum. They got blown out on 439 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.920 their home field or home court by Old I'm gonna 440 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:28.759 talk to Alabama. I guess I'm just thinking football. But 441 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:30.680 on their home court they got blown out by Ole 442 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:32.799 Miss and Chris Beard earlier this week, so that's a 443 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:36.720 big game. But until I see somebody beat Kentucky in 444 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:40.039 that kind of game, I'm going to assume Kentucky's gonna 445 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:42.839 win those games. And we've got NFL playoffs coming up tomorrow, 446 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:45.799 a lot to get to Louisville football. Bron maybe losing 447 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:48.240 his first staffer since he took over last year. So 448 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:50.359 we're loaded the rest of the way. Let's have some fun. 449 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:52.400 It's a Friday, it's coffee and company, and we're fuel 450 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.480 about Thorton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. 451 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.240 Now back to coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 452 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:01.960 Sports Talk seven nine day. 453 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:08.519 All right, So if you have been on TikTok at 454 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:10.559 all in the last I don't know, two weeks, then 455 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:13.279 you've heard this song. And I know the audience here, 456 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:15.279 there's many of you that don't get on TikTok and 457 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:18.319 and won't won't, won't know what that song is or 458 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:21.240 don't care, and that's fine. But the story itself is 459 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:26.759 wild sole Angelo Ball, the Cooper manning of the Ball brothers. 460 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:28.680 I mean, yeah, there's no way, there's no way around it. 461 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.160 And the one that went to jail in China, did 462 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:33.000 he that was Langelo? Right? 463 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:33.480 Oh? 464 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:34.119 No, yeah, it was. 465 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:37.039 I forget that he yes, I forgot that he actually 466 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:39.480 even played in Coyle. He was such a he was 467 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:42.839 such a forgettable player as far as in you know, 468 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:45.759 I clearly know which one is which, but I would 469 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:50.119 get li Angelo and Lamello mixed up just because they 470 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:52.000 were the younger brothers because the first Ball brother when 471 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.440 Lvar Ball the clown. And I actually find LaVar Ball entertaining. 472 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:58.920 I do too, but I take him for what he is, 473 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:01.160 Like I'm not out here like thinking he's going to 474 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:05.440 provide like some profound knowledge on sports and and whatnot, 475 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:08.559 but like he he at times, I think maybe he's 476 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.119 done a disservice to his sons where they don't necessarily 477 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.839 meaning employers like the NBA or companies, like they don't 478 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:16.799 take them serious. 479 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:18.920 But whatever, like they have a huge I mean, it's 480 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:19.400 worked out. 481 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:22.559 And this is maybe the biggest sign that LeVar Ball 482 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:25.960 has cemented himself on the mount rushmore of sports dads 483 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:28.400 and hear me out so as much as there was 484 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:29.160 a circus. 485 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:32.039 And when's the last time he's been in the public eye. 486 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:34.759 It's it's been a while, but my TikTok algorithm has 487 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:36.359 had nothing but ball stuff. 488 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.160 Yeah, but not him though, right, No. 489 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:41.039 It's all about the Ball in the family. And I 490 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:42.079 think his media. 491 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.039 Tour, I think that speaks to the fact that like 492 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:47.279 he was in your face all the time, but like 493 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:49.359 it really was just to maybe help his kids. That 494 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:51.720 may not sound or look like it's the way that 495 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:54.160 it was for him, but now that all of his 496 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:57.799 kids are on top in different ways, he's in the background, 497 00:21:57.799 --> 00:21:59.599 Like it's kind of it kind of makes me seem 498 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:03.519 like his Tiananigan's and the circus was really what like 499 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:05.839 and again, wouldn't have been shocked if it didn't work out. 500 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:08.079 But what I'm saying is like, deep down, as much 501 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:09.920 as he was a clown, like maybe he really did 502 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:12.440 think that that was his way of getting his kids 503 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:15.079 the best that he could. I mean I felt like 504 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:17.160 when he had him drop out of high school and 505 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:21.240 go play in Lithuania, I mean that was that was something, right. 506 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:24.920 So this is what's crazy. The first and and really 507 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:30.559 the most successful ball brother overall, which who's who's the 508 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:36.200 oldest I think, I think, yes, I couldn't think Alonso 509 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:38.400 Lonzo is the one who's UCLA of course, was like 510 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:40.160 a top five draft picked and he's just had really 511 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:43.079 bad injuries and he's I mean, if he does get 512 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:45.640 back to playing full time, like he'll be a fine player, 513 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:47.960 but like he'll never be a superstar. And then LaMelo, 514 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:50.279 I mean, he was the phenom and I kind of 515 00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:53.160 feel like he's I mean He's still clearly a good 516 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:55.720 player in the league with the Hornets in. 517 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:57.519 LEAs Angelo go to college. 518 00:22:57.839 --> 00:22:58.920 So that's what I'm saying. 519 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:01.480 Like le Angelo, if he got arrested, then it was 520 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:04.160 when he was with UCLA, is. 521 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:05.319 He was the odd man out. 522 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:07.759 Well, he was clearly nowhere near as good as the others. 523 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.599 So LaMelo is the baby, the young one, and he 524 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:12.880 didn't go to college, No, he did not. He's averaging 525 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:15.359 thirty points a game like he's in seven and a half 526 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:15.559 a sis. 527 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:17.680 His team doesn't win. He shoots a lot of shots. 528 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:20.960 But LeVar ended up being right that LaMelo actually was 529 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:22.880 the one with the most talent and as he got 530 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:26.519 older and matured like he's he's a tough player. Again, 531 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:30.279 he's averaging twenty nine point six points per game. I mean, 532 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:31.799 I feel like that's not right. But I'm looking at 533 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:34.079 his stats right here on ESPN. But I feel like 534 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:36.119 the reason he maybe doesn't get mentioned a whole lot 535 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:39.240 now he let me see here, maybe a situation. Maybe 536 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:40.440 he hasn't played a lot of games, and that's why 537 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:42.920 is en up. No, he's played this season, He's played 538 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:46.599 twenty six games and he's averaging twenty nine point twenty 539 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:48.000 nine point six points per game. 540 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:49.480 So he's the best player. 541 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:51.960 And LeVar was right the Shenanigans that took place with 542 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:54.920 him going to Lithuania and him, you know, they were 543 00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:57.799 on Monday Night Roll one time. I remember, like and 544 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:02.000 Lee Lamello is as a as a minor dropped the 545 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:03.839 F bomb. They had to do the du button on 546 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:06.119 live television and a wrestling of it. Like it was 547 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.000 a complete circus. 548 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:09.839 They had to throw somebody else out there, hurry up 549 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:10.200 getting there. 550 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:11.000 Yeah, yeah, like it was. 551 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:11.720 It was wild. 552 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:16.119 So anyways, LaMelo ended up it worked out. I mean, 553 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.359 he's in his fourth season in the NBA and he's 554 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.160 very successful. The injury issues were just that's just that's just. 555 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:25.480 I mean, you can't foresee that. That's unfortunate. That's nobody's fault. 556 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:28.799 That's just life. But even with that, I mean, Lonzo 557 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:31.960 has still got his second contract in the NBA, meaning 558 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:35.079 he has generational wealth potentially. But Leangelo is the one 559 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:37.599 who never really did anything, like he wasn't good at 560 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.000 basketball at that level and it just never worked out well. 561 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.759 Now he has signed a thirteen million dollar deal with 562 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:47.799 Deaf Jam and Universal Music Group. Because of the song 563 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.680 that Austin just played is one of the most viral 564 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:55.359 songs that ever existed on TikTok, And it might be 565 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:58.079 when TikTok turns the lights off here in the United 566 00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:01.279 States of America on Sunday, my man's going out on top. 567 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:04.119 He's gonna be he's gonna be leaving the platforms, leaving 568 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:05.799 America with him at the top of the charts. 569 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:08.480 When it comes to sounds that it so like here 570 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.559 like lebar Ball won, Man, he's won. 571 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:14.559 He won the rat the player who wasn't good that 572 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:16.720 he tried to like prop up, but he couldn't hide 573 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:19.119 the fact that he wasn't an NBA caliber player. Now 574 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.119 he's got a thirteen million dollar record deal, like LeVar 575 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:22.720 Ball won. 576 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:25.960 And I understood why everybody like just would. 577 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:27.880 Turn off anything that was talking about him because of, 578 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:30.640 you know, everything that came with it, just a loud 579 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.519 mouth that would say things that you kind of deep 580 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:35.799 down know that he didn't believe. But have you ever 581 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:39.160 considered the people that make millions of dollars on you know, 582 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:41.759 first take those kind of shows. 583 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:43.119 Oh yeah, he was on there a lot too. 584 00:25:43.319 --> 00:25:45.920 Yeah, Like that's what they do, you think, Steven a 585 00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:48.720 Smith believes some of the dumb ass stuff. He says, no, 586 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:52.119 Skip Bala's absolutely not. But that's what that is. It's entertainment. 587 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:55.720 If you see it for that, you won't necessarily you might, 588 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:58.480 you may not love it, you may not think that 589 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:01.119 it's good, or may not even entertained by it. 590 00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:03.240 But the people that get caught. 591 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:05.880 Up in In fact, maybe I'm being a hater here, 592 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:08.160 because the people get caught up in it, they consume 593 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:09.559 it NonStop, they hate listen. 594 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:12.279 That's why those guys make the millions. 595 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:15.240 Because you you, you take it right off the spoon 596 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:17.799 and you just you can't get enough of it. So 597 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:19.839 LaVar Ball, I think, did all that and what did 598 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:21.599 it do? It brought a lot of attention to his kids. 599 00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:24.400 But he may not even be deserving of the credit. 600 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:28.799 But I guess more than anything, his shenanigans, they didn't 601 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:32.160 get in the way to keep his kids from, you know, 602 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:36.920 succeeding in life. Now, Leangelo, I'll be honest, if that 603 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.640 song that Austin played it again, if you're on TikTok 604 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.920 called it's called Tweaker, If it wasn't the random connection 605 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:47.480 that the song was by the Cooper manning of the 606 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:49.920 Ball brothers, it doesn't get the push that it did 607 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.319 on social media, right, Like that's a that's a component 608 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:54.519 to the story, and he'll probably be a one hit wonder, 609 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:57.279 I'm sure. But either way, that's a thirteen million dollar 610 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:00.319 deal with dev Jam because you know, I mean, by 611 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.279 the way, eighteen million dollars was it of it was 612 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:06.079 upfront guarantee, I'm sorry, eight million of the thirteen million, 613 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.559 not eighteen eight million of the thirteen million. So he 614 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:10.960 just got an eight million dollar check, right, I mean, 615 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:13.119 like LaVar Ball, good for him. He might he may 616 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:16.400 just disappear and never be in the public eye. But 617 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:18.559 his sons are on top, and if that was his 618 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:20.720 overall goal, then I mean, I don't mean on top 619 00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:22.279 like they're you know, the best that ever, but like 620 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:25.440 they're successful, clearly more successful from a financial standpoint than 621 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.960 I'll ever be. So how about LaVar Ball many many 622 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:30.200 years later? What's crazy to think about is that that 623 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.759 that was eight years ago. Yeah, like whenever, whenever LaVar 624 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.000 Ball burst on the scene and Lonzo was playing for 625 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:42.279 Steve Alford at UCLA, that was eight years ago. Sure, Alford, 626 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:44.319 what a name from you know where he's at now 627 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:45.200 No Nevada. 628 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.400 Oh, there you go, there you go. So anyways, one of. 629 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:51.319 The greatest things I heard LeVar say is what he 630 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.920 was That was and I'm obviously a wrestling fan, so 631 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.680 that was appointment television for me to watch them get 632 00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:59.680 on there and he just completely spased out. But he said, 633 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:02.759 there only two people better than me, and I'm both 634 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:05.240 of them. That's great. 635 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:10.559 I love when people say things so confidently and so direct, 636 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:13.440 where they put something on it and it makes you 637 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:15.920 kind of take your kind It takes you a few 638 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:20.200 seconds to realize what they said makes absolutely no sense, like. 639 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:21.839 Saying that he could beat Jordan one on you. 640 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:24.559 Yeah, and he said it confidently, and you just say, like, 641 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:27.039 I don't believe anything this guy's saying, but I'm listening. 642 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:27.519 I want to. 643 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:31.880 I'm entertained. It's like the who's the Who's the bowler 644 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:33.240 who had so much swagger? 645 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.119 Who do you think you are? 646 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:39.559 I am, Oh, wow, Pete Webber, Pete Webber, Yeah, that's 647 00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:42.240 that quote doesn't make any sense, but man, he said 648 00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:44.079 it and he meant it, and I'm like, you know what, 649 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:45.759 I'm gonna use that, keep that. 650 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:47.319 In the back pocket. Like if I if I, if 651 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:49.039 I have a moment, who do you think you are? 652 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:51.519 I am like, that doesn't even that's not even that's 653 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:54.759 that that makes no sense. But I always say this 654 00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:58.880 in radio and in I mean really anything not just right, 655 00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:03.160 It could be it could This is true regardless of anything. 656 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:05.759 It's not always what you say, it's how you say it. 657 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:09.319 And sometimes there are people like Pete well'er and LeVar 658 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:12.200 Ball who give you great examples of that because you 659 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:14.480 don't even know what they meant. But twenty years later 660 00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:16.640 you're still saying it, you're still thinking about it, because man, 661 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:18.759 there was something on that he said. It was some 662 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.480 real conviction. So shout out LaVar Ball. Didn't think we'd 663 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:24.920 be doing that on January seventeenth, twenty twenty five, but 664 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.279 I think he won. 665 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.680 Here we are for all this time exactly all right. 666 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:31.559 So at four oh five, we're gonna bring him in, 667 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.759 mister Kent Spencer from Whas eleven. Now that we're back 668 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:36.920 in our groove, back with you know, a little more 669 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:40.000 of a regular routine with the holidays and with the snowstorms, 670 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.519 so we're gonna get back to bringing in our regulars 671 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.039 and Kent will be joining us at four oh five. 672 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:47.480 Cel Brown didn't join us this week, but I'm going 673 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:49.000 to bring him back. We've got some others that are 674 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:51.039 kind of regulars within the show that we'll try to get, 675 00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:53.240 you know, get back and get back on the schedule. 676 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:55.000 But one thing I wanted to get to before our 677 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:58.799 next break is Louisville tomorrow will have I imagine a 678 00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:00.920 really good crowd, maybe the best crowd they've had all year. 679 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.480 I could be wrong, because the Duke crowd and the 680 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:06.720 North Carolina crowd, like those kind of brands, those opponents, 681 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:09.079 they certainly give you a little bit of a bump. 682 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:11.839 In fact, we were at the Carolina game together Austin, 683 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:14.039 Carolina had a lot of fans there like they were deep. 684 00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:16.160 I mean, yeah, it was the same for Duke too. Yeah, 685 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:20.079 so you know that makes sense. But there are some 686 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:24.680 local I guess, I mean, I guess they're businesses. But 687 00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:26.440 I know Sam Aggie are one of the attorneys here 688 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.240 in Louisville that I'm sure you guys are familiar with. 689 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:33.200 He's very clearly, very successful and big support of U 690 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:33.440 of L. 691 00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:34.920 He bought a lot of tickets. 692 00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:37.839 Rick Keeber from Planet Fitness we've talked about the tickets 693 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:39.839 he's purchased and given away. So they're doing that once 694 00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:42.839 again and trying to get people to show up and 695 00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:44.559 trying to get them to come out for the game. 696 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:46.359 And I don't have a lot of time now, but 697 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:48.039 at one point later on I do want to kind 698 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.039 of talk about sort of the theme tomorrow. It's got 699 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:54.319 me with goosebumps and the hair standing up on my 700 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:57.119 arms because the video they did to promote that they're 701 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:01.880 really trying to embrace the Louisville community, meaning like the 702 00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:03.319 Dirt Bowl and I'm sure a lot of you listening 703 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:04.559 to what I'm talking about when I say the Dirt 704 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.680 Bull Shawnee Park like that that was awesome. 705 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.279 And this this this. 706 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:13.640 Theme here is not only just to kind of, you know, 707 00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:17.359 get the community to be able to come and you know, 708 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:20.440 come on back, right Like louis of Basketball has been 709 00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:23.440 in a weird and bad place really for about four 710 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:26.920 or five years now, right, four years specifically, And if 711 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.680 you haven't been back yet and you just kind of 712 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:31.480 haven't been prioritizing, you haven't been focusing on it, well, 713 00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:34.200 here you go. We've got some complimentary tickets. Go snag 714 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:35.839 them up here at this link like that's kind of 715 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.720 I feel like the overall goal here while also honoring 716 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.400 local community with the Dirt Bowl, but also maybe just 717 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:43.960 trying to get fans to come back that have him 718 00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:46.480 been back in a while. And it makes total sense, 719 00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:50.039 but you never can be surprised when that gets weaponized 720 00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:52.559 against you by your rival making fun of your fan base, 721 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:54.880 because how sad and pathetic are they that they have 722 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:56.039 to buy tickets. 723 00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:56.359 To donate them? 724 00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:59.359 And Austin and I had a good conversation last night 725 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:01.319 that I want to kind of bring to the airwaves 726 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:04.319 here on the other side, because it really was a 727 00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.200 I think it's a healthy conversation to have because I 728 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:12.119 totally understand Austin's mindset when he sees the one thousand 729 00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:15.319 tickets are available, go grab them, and I get it 730 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:17.559 and I feel it, but I also have a little 731 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:19.960 bit of a different perspective, and I just think it'll 732 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:22.720 be a good conversation because I know this Louisville fans, 733 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:26.400 as much as they just laugh at Kentucky fans, specifically KSR, 734 00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:31.160 who I'm not kidding you, not even joking, a real 735 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:35.880 component to their coverage at Kentucky Sports Radio dot Com 736 00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:37.920 in like the last I don't know four or five 737 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:41.839 months has been about attendance at Louisville events, Like they're 738 00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:44.680 obsessed with that and it's weird and it's odd and 739 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:48.160 as much as you kind of, you know, think it's obsessive, 740 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:49.319 it also pisses you off. 741 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:52.160 And I get it. I'm with you, but I got 742 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:53.200 some thoughts on it. On the other side. 743 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:55.079 We'll talk about it. Stick around again. Kent Spencer coming 744 00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:57.079 up at four o five, so we'll take keyp till six. 745 00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:58.880 Gett you set for the weekend. It's coffee and company. 746 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:01.599 Feel about Thorntons right here on Sports Talk seven ninety now. 747 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.559 Back to Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's on Sports 748 00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.079 Talk seven nine day. 749 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:13.640 So there was a big push, I guess yesterday into 750 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:17.720 today about tickets available for free for those who would 751 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:23.039 be interested because there were local businesses that decided to 752 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:26.599 well some well some of them purchased them quite literally. 753 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.759 Others just were told to use their platform and give 754 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.599 them away. But either way it doesn't matter. They're they're 755 00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:34.039 trying to help and bring more people and that's that's 756 00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:34.799 what you want. 757 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:35.240 A good crowd. 758 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:39.920 And I've given you the same take if you will 759 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:45.119 opinion on the ticket attendant stuff for a lot. I 760 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:46.920 mean for years now. I don't think. I think I've 761 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.519 been pretty consistent. I rarely ever. In fact, the only 762 00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:52.400 one time it happened and then I realized I'll never 763 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.039 do it again. I was critical of attendance one time 764 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:59.240 and it backfired on me to where you know, they 765 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.240 took that as if I'm the guy that's out here 766 00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:04.160 auditing seats and wanting to get your you know, I 767 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.240 want to come knock on your door and chastise you 768 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:09.559 for not showing up to a game. Like I I've 769 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.719 never once felt like people owe anything when it comes 770 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:14.639 to paying money to go to a game or their time, 771 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:17.360 Like I just I can't relate. Again, I've never gone 772 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:20.079 to a game and looked around and yeah, I've gone 773 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.440 to a game and noticed that maybe it's not as 774 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:23.559 crowded as I would have expected. But if I'm there 775 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:26.920 to enjoy myself, why would I give a damn about 776 00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:27.599 who else is there? 777 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.679 I can't control that, Like, why. 778 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:32.000 Would I mean, if that's your mindset, why would you 779 00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:34.920 go if you are going to be impacted and you're 780 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.239 going to have a negative experience because there's some seats 781 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:40.880 there that aren't filled. What kind of I mean, I 782 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:42.920 don't understand that, Like, what kind of mindset is that? 783 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:43.760 I mean? 784 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:45.679 I'm not being critical, like I just can't relate, Like 785 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:47.960 I don't understand that at all. I'm gonna if I 786 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.599 want to go do something, it's not going to be 787 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.000 solely dependent upon others that I don't even know that 788 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.920 are strangers being there as well. Now, clearly you always 789 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:57.320 want a great crowd in a great atmosphere. So I've 790 00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:00.400 never acted like crowds don't matter and who cares, it's 791 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:02.880 no big deal. But I see both sides of it, 792 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:06.239 and that's usually a pretty boring way to approach something 793 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:12.079 on talk radio. I get that crowds not being twenty 794 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:17.039 thousand plus consistently the light crowds used to be what 795 00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:21.000 our crowds now aren't even up to. I get that 796 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:25.159 that's not ideal and that's sad. But I also understand 797 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:29.199 that we as humans and society change and we are 798 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:33.679 our habits and are you know what we decide. There's 799 00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:35.559 a lot more to do with your time now, and 800 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.559 you can enjoy and savor every moment of a team 801 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:43.360 and an experience without being there like that that's just 802 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:45.719 the truth of it. So and people know that. So 803 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:50.480 there are a lot of people who, I mean, everybody's different. 804 00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:53.280 But you how many people don't even consider going to 805 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:56.280 games because they just that's they don't like crowds, or 806 00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:58.400 they don't live super close, or they don't have the 807 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:01.159 money to pay for it. Like that's just how a 808 00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:04.159 lot of people operate now. And they never are on 809 00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:05.400 their way home from work. 810 00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:08.360 Thinking like, man, if I don't go, am I a 811 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:10.159 bad fan? If I don't go, am I going to 812 00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:11.039 get kicked out of. 813 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:11.639 The fan base? 814 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:15.960 Like it's just like the obsession of where's everybody at? 815 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:18.079 What's wrong with us? I just don't understand. 816 00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:21.159 But again, I'm different, like and and I mean I'm 817 00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.159 maybe I'm maybe I'm in the minority. Year I don't 818 00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:24.480 know if I am or not, to be honest with you, 819 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:29.000 because this year, this show, this sports talk radio show 820 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:31.639 in this market that loves college basketball, Like, yeah, the 821 00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:33.039 people who listen, they're going to be the ones who 822 00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:35.119 do care about attendants because they love the college basketball. 823 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.119 So I get it, and I love it too, but like, 824 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.039 I just can't look at somebody and say, wow, you 825 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:42.880 didn't spend one hundred and fifty dollars just to get 826 00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:45.440 in with parking and three tickets for you and your kids, 827 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.000 like you're a piece of work, Like that's insanity to 828 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:56.920 me and anybody not acknowledging the cost of the games 829 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.239 like it's And again that's why you see what you're 830 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:02.599 seeing now, where there are people out there buying up 831 00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:04.760 tickets to help those that have not been able to 832 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:08.719 go because it's been a financial issue, and that's awesome. 833 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:13.320 I'm glad they did it. So whenever there's a real 834 00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:18.400 push publicly social media other platforms that there's a bunch 835 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:22.320 of tickets to give away for free, what happens Kentucky 836 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:28.599 fans make jokes, and an entity whose existence to an 837 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.519 extent is making fun of Louisville is going to run 838 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:36.800 with it, regardless of self awareness that you would think 839 00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:39.719 is there. It's not because they smell blood in the 840 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:41.760 water if they get a chance to make a joke 841 00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:45.039 about Louisville, regardless if it's like not really, I mean, 842 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:50.599 they can't resist. And even if what I've found is 843 00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:56.159 that KSR. Jack Pilgrim penned an article saying Louisville fans 844 00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:58.559 don't deserve Pat Kelsey. He deserves better because they have 845 00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:01.000 to give away free tickets because people aren't showing up, 846 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.039 not even kidding. The majority of the reaction to that 847 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:08.760 that I saw from Kentucky fans, And when I say reaction, 848 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:11.320 I mean reaction to like the post, and I'm not 849 00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:13.360 talking about comments on the site. I'm talking about like 850 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:16.239 the comments on the article that was posted on Twitter. 851 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:20.639 Is UK fans kind of like acknowledging one of two things? 852 00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:23.719 Hey, who cares? 853 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:27.239 Like, you know, I get it, they've been bad for 854 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:29.559 a while. This coach is pretty hard to like. Like, 855 00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:33.559 I'm they're not bashing the platform for making it, you know, 856 00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:35.679 making jokes about it, but they're just kind of saying like, yeah, 857 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:38.280 I can't really ride with you on this. I don't 858 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:39.760 really feel like we should make fun of them for this. 859 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:41.920 And then there's others that are starting to realize and 860 00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:43.719 I'm when I'm by the way, I'm talking about people 861 00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:46.280 who at least present themselves as Kentucky fans on the internet, 862 00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:49.639 like Big Blue Bozo fifty seven, Like he's like, yeah, 863 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:53.800 like it's getting a little weird that you are this 864 00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:57.760 obsessed with attendance for Louisville, And again, I ride, I 865 00:38:58.280 --> 00:38:59.000 love the rivalry. 866 00:38:59.039 --> 00:38:59.559 It's part of the. 867 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.920 Reason why even able to do what I'm able to do, 868 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:04.519 because we care so much and it's such a such 869 00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:08.800 a such a thing here. And I'll make fun of 870 00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:10.840 Kentucky when I have the chance. I'll also be honest 871 00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:13.559 and be objective and talk about when they're good. And 872 00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.480 you know they're good right now. Their basketball coach is 873 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.920 a really hard guy to dislike, and I think their 874 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:19.519 team is really really good and they may win a 875 00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:21.199 national championship, like I don't know if they're. 876 00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.039 Going to, but like I'll call it like it is. 877 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:25.320 So like I understand the rivalry when it comes to 878 00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:30.159 the Jabs, but the obsession about Louisville fans showing up 879 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:33.760 to football and basketball games flat out weird, just just 880 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:38.079 lame odd, like just like it's one thing to crack 881 00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:40.639 a joke about it here and there, it's an obsession 882 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:43.280 for them, and I just find it to be sad, 883 00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:45.559 to be honest with you, And it's starting to seem 884 00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:47.079 like even their fans are kind of like, yeah, like 885 00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:48.199 why do we keep. 886 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:50.800 Talking about their tenants? Like what are we what are we? 887 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:51.639 What are we doing here? 888 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.039 So Austin and I last night we're going back and forth, 889 00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:58.239 and I don't want to bring work for word what 890 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.440 we were going back and forth about to the air waves. 891 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:02.079 But I'll say this. 892 00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:05.760 And you you respond how you want you at least 893 00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:08.719 to an extent, last night, for maybe even a brief moment, 894 00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:11.760 maybe for longer than a brief moment, you were more 895 00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:16.079 angry at Louisville fans than Kentucky fans. 896 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:16.880 Right, yes? 897 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:19.480 And is it because you just feel like why are 898 00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:21.280 we giving them the weapon to stab us? 899 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:21.519 Yeah? 900 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.280 We shouldn't have this many tickets available right totally? And 901 00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:25.840 I get it, Like I don't think that that's like 902 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:28.239 I understand that because there's been times where I'm sitting 903 00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:30.159 here thinking like, what are we doing? Like why would 904 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:33.960 we like whenever Kinny Payne was here and we knew 905 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:36.639 that no Louisville fans were going to any game at 906 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:38.719 that point, and we're announcing a red out? 907 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:41.159 What are we whatt It's going to be more blue 908 00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:41.840 there than red? 909 00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:44.400 What are we doing? Let's not be stupid, Like, let's 910 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:47.800 not be that foolish. This is overall, Like even if 911 00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:50.440 I don't think it's really that bad. I think more 912 00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:53.400 than anything, the reaction to them obsessing about it is 913 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:55.480 the worst look here than Louisville giving away free tickets. 914 00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:56.559 But at the end of the day, even if it 915 00:40:56.599 --> 00:40:58.480 wasn't the case, the fact that we're still just trying 916 00:40:58.480 --> 00:40:59.960 to get people to go to games as best we can, 917 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:03.559 and that's worth doing it right. But like I get 918 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:08.679 the issue of, like, why would we publicly put it 919 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:10.920 out there just so they can say, Wow, Louisvill's got 920 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:12.960 a good team this year. Pat Kelsey's got it rolling. Man, 921 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.039 this guy's awesome. And they can't even get people to 922 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:16.960 go to games. They're giving away a thousand tickets. Like, 923 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:22.440 I totally understand it. But where I what I get caught? 924 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:23.480 What I I guess? 925 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:23.719 You know. 926 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:25.639 What keeps me from getting worked up one way or 927 00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:29.880 the other about it overall is that I don't like 928 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:35.079 when Louisville had twenty two thousand plus for big games consistently, 929 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:39.800 there was a big chunk of those people, or maybe 930 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:42.960 I shouldn't say big, but at least a chunk of 931 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:46.159 those people that they were just there because it was 932 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:51.800 the thing to do, and Louisville athletics was rolling. Now 933 00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.960 Louisville Athletics has not been rolling, especially in basketball, in 934 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:55.760 quite some time. 935 00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:56.400 I agree. 936 00:41:56.480 --> 00:42:01.159 Therefore, those people aren't like louis doesn't have the I mean, 937 00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:03.400 it's growing and it's been fun, especially for those that 938 00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:05.760 have been here, ride or died the good and the bad. 939 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:07.920 But when you were twenty two thousand plus for a 940 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:12.960 lot of these games, at least three thousand, probably way 941 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.360 more than that, they're not. 942 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:15.840 They're not die hards. 943 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:18.599 They're not losing sleep at night or waking up pissed 944 00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:21.400 off because their team lost the day before. So, like, 945 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.559 I just view it that way to like, our fan 946 00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:26.440 base is not humongous at all. It's not I mean, 947 00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:30.639 Kentucky fans. There are way more of them than there 948 00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:33.960 are us, And I've never given a flying rats ass 949 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.000 about that because it's it doesn't matter to me, and 950 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:39.000 it doesn't mean that they're I mean, and look, they 951 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:41.719 have humongous fan base and when it comes to passion. 952 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:42.480 And support, they're great. 953 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.800 But like we would, there's no Louisville could win five 954 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:49.119 consecutive national championships. And if that's the case, we're selling 955 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:51.360 out games right, But we're never gonna match them in 956 00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:52.679 number because nobody does. 957 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:53.880 Yeah, it's and. 958 00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.800 I'm not saying that to concede that they're better. It's 959 00:42:56.840 --> 00:43:00.280 just the numbers. It's just how it is. So I 960 00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:05.039 guess what. Like I was very fiery at Austin last night, 961 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:06.639 not in like a meanway, but I'm just like, look, band, 962 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:10.400 like trust me like this, like the fans that are 963 00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:12.239 showing up, like I just wish the support was on 964 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:14.480 that more than like what's what are we doing here? 965 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:17.440 Like you were being sports dad about it, I was. 966 00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:20.760 And and and more than anything. It's because I felt 967 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.119 like they beat you last night. If I can say 968 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:26.960 they beat you, because why would anybody with Louisville basketball 969 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:29.400 right now as a fan not have great energy and 970 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:32.519 I mean enthusiasm like this team is. I love this team, man, 971 00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:35.159 and I mean it. I love watching this team. I 972 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.119 don't know what their ceiling is or what's going to 973 00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:40.000 happen down the line here this season, but I'm enjoying 974 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:43.400 the ride. My energy is so awesome right now for 975 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:45.840 Louisvie basketball, and I know I'm not alone. So like 976 00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:49.719 it made me like I was dad last night to you, 977 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:51.960 like I don't want you to not feel the way 978 00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:54.000 I'm feeling, my man, because we've gone to some games together. 979 00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:55.880 It's been the funnest games I've gone to in a 980 00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:57.719 long time. Austin and I with my family were at 981 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.400 the Carolina game together, the Clemson game, Man, that was 982 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:05.239 freaking awesome, and I just you know, don't let them 983 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:08.000 get to you, because here's the thing. And we actually 984 00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:10.599 talked about this briefly before we went to break and 985 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:12.199 I got that I think you know this, But I 986 00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:14.599 also kind of feel like when I said it, like 987 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.119 a light bulb kind of went off for you that 988 00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:17.199 you realize. 989 00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:17.800 Like, oh, yeah, I guess you're right. 990 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:21.039 There's never gonna be a scenario where KSR is not 991 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:24.679 looking to be obsessed with Louisville and crack jokes, So like, 992 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:27.000 you know, there's gonna be times where they do it 993 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:29.400 and we're thinking, like, man, we could have prevented that. 994 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:31.679 I just don't feel like this was one of those times. 995 00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:35.039 And energy and enthusiasm, momentum, all these I'm using all 996 00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:38.519 these words that just you know, I hope they're being 997 00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:41.280 used correctly because things are great with louisvill basketball right now, 998 00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:44.760 especially considering recent years to where they can't bring me down, 999 00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:45.880 and I don't want to bring you down. 1000 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:46.199 Brother. 1001 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:49.239 No, Well, like I said, I kind of reflected on it, 1002 00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:52.599 and I'll get angry at this, and I won't be 1003 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:54.239 angry at U of L fans. Well, I'll just get 1004 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.559 angry just at the rivalry more or less. If we're 1005 00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:59.599 in next year or year three of hat Kelsey and 1006 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:03.199 things rolling, and they're still and there's still less attendance, 1007 00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:05.800 and yeah, I guess I'll go ahead and try to 1008 00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:07.760 not even be mad at U of L fans, But 1009 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:11.039 like we're still trying to regain people's trust in this 1010 00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:13.920 basketball program, and just because they're on fire right now, 1011 00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:15.840 I don't think that it really has. Now you add 1012 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:18.119 it on to man, how pricey it can be and 1013 00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:21.280 just coming downtown just just to park, and then maybe 1014 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:22.920 you have to go get something to eat or drink 1015 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.000 at the game to be for a family to go 1016 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:26.920 do that, that's gonna cost a lot of money, and 1017 00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:29.920 that's gonna deter some people to end up going to games. 1018 00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:33.760 But once this turns into a place to be, like 1019 00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:36.039 you said, and possibly the next two or three years, 1020 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:38.880 then if we still had the same I wouldn't even 1021 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:43.079 say attendance problems, but we're giving the rivalry ammunition to 1022 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.000 do so, then I'll probably be a little bit angry 1023 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.320 about it, but this is still your one of Pat Kelsey. 1024 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:49.639 It's nothing to bring up that a Louisville fans are 1025 00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.199 desperate and they're just giving away tickets. They don't care 1026 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:54.840 about their program. This is still year one and it's 1027 00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:57.599 still trying to gain people's trust back because of just 1028 00:45:57.639 --> 00:45:59.400 the last couple of years what they've endured. 1029 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:01.559 And what's crazy is that we were just talking about 1030 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:04.360 LaVar Ball and steven A and people saying things they 1031 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:05.119 don't really believe. 1032 00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:05.400 Right. 1033 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.599 I don't even think Kentucky fans in the crew at 1034 00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:13.519 KSR with a straight face can tell you that Louisville 1035 00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:17.159 fans aren't into this team and into their coach. They're 1036 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.360 referencing tickets and empty seats, which is a reference point 1037 00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:24.440 as far as who's interested in who's But it's not 1038 00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:28.559 just that, and I think it's actually kind of lame 1039 00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:31.360 to know that the real push here was to go 1040 00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:33.400 out there and get tickets for those who want to go. 1041 00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:37.519 But quite literally, can the economy freaking sucks, And I 1042 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:39.440 mean I tried not to get worked up. It's one 1043 00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:41.679 hundred dollars to get in the door to go watch 1044 00:46:41.719 --> 00:46:47.559 Louisville play Spaulding, a Division three school. So to really, 1045 00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:51.199 you know, do a big push here to let people know, like, hey, 1046 00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:53.920 we've got some people that are willing to step up 1047 00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:55.559 and help us to where we can actually get these 1048 00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:57.559 people here that want to come that can't afford it, 1049 00:46:57.639 --> 00:46:59.760 Like to make fun of that, like you're a loser. 1050 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:02.039 I mean, especially knowing. 1051 00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:02.679 That I'm with you. 1052 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:04.960 I mean, it's anyways, we'll move on. We'll bring in 1053 00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:07.360 Kent Spencer. On the other side, I'm rambling stick around, 1054 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:09.119 m m hmm.