Speaker 1: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 2: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Now?
Speaker 2: Here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 4: I'm sure the last thing that you hear before you
Speaker 4: hear the intro to this show. And my voice is
Speaker 4: usually relatively the same. I don't notice it often, but
Speaker 4: every now and then I do notice it, and it
Speaker 4: just it amuses me. There's a liner that somebody and
Speaker 4: I don't know who it is, and look, maybe they
Speaker 4: know something I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe they.
Speaker 4: Are just way above my head as far as understanding
Speaker 4: the you know, the promotion here. And what I mean
Speaker 4: is we have a liner set that runs for I
Speaker 4: don't know, maybe five seconds at two fifty nine fifty five.
Speaker 3: That is an invitation for you to join me.
Speaker 4: And I'm thinking, like, man, talk about giving somebody last
Speaker 4: minute notice, right, like, that's that's definite last minute notice.
Speaker 1: So we're here.
Speaker 3: It's Coffee and Company. And uh yeah, that.
Speaker 1: Was that was my fault. I was making a little
Speaker 1: bit leftover tacos and I was looking at the I
Speaker 1: was not even talking about that the clock and well, no,
Speaker 1: right before they heard that beautiful invitation to come join
Speaker 1: one of the best shows in Louisville. We just get
Speaker 1: nothing but dead air and hey Austin, earf the Austin.
Speaker 4: We did it actually just to just to keep you guessing, like,
Speaker 4: wait a second, is anybody here. We wanted you to
Speaker 4: to perk up a little bit on a Friday and
Speaker 4: be be you know, alert and a.
Speaker 1: Real test of loyalty.
Speaker 4: And the guys past the dead air was a was
Speaker 4: a wait a second, it did the radio turn off?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 1: And then here we go.
Speaker 4: So like we just wanted to make sure you guys
Speaker 4: were ready and you were not in autopilot mode.
Speaker 1: But I like to keep them on their toes sometimes.
Speaker 3: But help me out.
Speaker 4: You are in you know you you you work in
Speaker 4: this industry as well, and you are in programming to
Speaker 4: an extent. I'm I'm not. I mean, I mean, I've
Speaker 4: worked here a long time. But to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: I know nothing about strategy when it comes to we
Speaker 4: put certain spots, commercials, liners, promos where we do.
Speaker 3: But I know there's a method to it. There's no scenario.
Speaker 4: Someone can tell me that it makes sense to throw
Speaker 4: the liner promoting my show five seconds before it starts.
Speaker 1: It's a great question.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean again, I'm not putting you on
Speaker 4: the spot like you've got to answer for it. But you're
Speaker 4: with me right, like that doesn't make any sense. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So anyways, let's get it started. We've got a huge
Speaker 4: weekend on tap. We've got a big show for you
Speaker 4: for the next three hours to get you set for
Speaker 4: said big weekend, and it's going to be a lot
Speaker 4: of fun. It's a Friday. We are above freezing temperatures outside.
Speaker 4: That snow is melting. The sun is shining, yes, and
Speaker 4: it's good stuff.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit warm comparing it to it, it sucks.
Speaker 1: And I'm walking outside and I think, man, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit warm out here. What is in only like
Speaker 1: thirty degree? No, it's forty six. Well, I didn't even
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 4: The hide today is forty nine. I don't know if
Speaker 4: we've hit that yet or maybe we did. And then
Speaker 4: and now it's kind of it's three o'clock. It'll be
Speaker 4: dark when the show ends, so therefore it's probably starting
Speaker 4: to cool down. I would imagine the high has already
Speaker 4: come and gone. But nonetheless, it feels tropical compared to
Speaker 4: what we've had recently, and I'm going to enjoy it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's a Friday. We're feeling good. And I
Speaker 4: just saw earlier today that the Supreme Court has upheld
Speaker 4: the TikTok band. And the reason I'm starting with this
Speaker 4: is because sad day. It is sad and it does
Speaker 4: sound like that there really is no more like last
Speaker 4: ditch effort, no more lifelines for TikTok here in America.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure they're going to continue to fight.
Speaker 4: Who I mean when I say they, I don't even
Speaker 4: know who it is like to hear that, And this
Speaker 4: is what really will expose me as being very uneducated
Speaker 4: or just not having knowledge about how this works as
Speaker 4: far as who really has authority to do this and that.
Speaker 4: But when I hear that the current president and the
Speaker 4: one who is well, I don't even know, Like obviously
Speaker 4: Biden's on his way out, like as as of now
Speaker 4: as we speak. But you know, forty six and forty seven, right,
Speaker 4: because Trump was forty five, Biden forty six, And then
Speaker 4: we do we call it is does he go back
Speaker 4: to forty five or is he forty seven?
Speaker 1: Again? I guess the marketing is around forty seven.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we've got forty six and forty seven collectively
Speaker 4: making it clear that they want to not have TikTok
Speaker 4: be banned in America. And the president of the company,
Speaker 4: the CEO, I don't know what his title is, but
Speaker 4: he'll be like he's he's being wined and dined in
Speaker 4: our country. He's going to be a front row at
Speaker 4: the inauguration, right, Like I mean.
Speaker 1: He's gonna sit where usually other presidents are reserved.
Speaker 4: So like, I feel like knowing that meaning what we
Speaker 4: just stated. As far as both Trump and Biden wanting
Speaker 4: to keep TikTok alive in America, they're whining and dining
Speaker 4: the guy who runs TikTok. Can't they just say, like no,
Speaker 4: I mean, aren't. I know, the president can't literally do
Speaker 4: anything he wants without certain processes and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But I just this. I'm confus used.
Speaker 4: But again I'm a dummy. So the reason I bring
Speaker 4: it up is because this has got to be like
Speaker 4: a sign. I don't know where it's from or what
Speaker 4: it means, but this just can't be coincidence. I'm driving
Speaker 4: down Fish Street and our garage here, we enter it
Speaker 4: on Fish Street and sure enough, we park and then
Speaker 4: we walk out and we're on four Street. That's that's
Speaker 4: how it works. If you know where we are at
Speaker 4: for Street Live, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: The garage for this facility, this venue, this area, it's
Speaker 4: right there. So when I'm coming up Fifth, there is
Speaker 4: a I guess it would be what's that? What is
Speaker 4: it Muhammad Ali that you turn right off of?
Speaker 1: So I'm coming on Famama.
Speaker 4: So in the culmna of Muhammad Ali in fifth there
Speaker 4: is a I guess it's like a it's apartments, condos.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure in that big building that's just right
Speaker 3: here on the block.
Speaker 4: And I saw something that I've never seen in person before.
Speaker 4: But I at times have found myself getting getting lost
Speaker 4: in TikTok for these videos, and I mean, it's not
Speaker 4: like it. I guess it entertains me. Maybe that makes
Speaker 4: me a bad person, But it's evictions. It's people, you know,
Speaker 4: it's body cam footage of somebody who works in law
Speaker 4: enforcement coming to evict someone. And usually the ones that
Speaker 4: make the internet TikTok that have millions of views are
Speaker 4: those that are, you know, pretty chaotic people who don't
Speaker 4: seem to understand like, yeah, you have to pay to
Speaker 4: live here. You can't just not pay and keep living here.
Speaker 4: And by the time somebody like with the Sheriff's department
Speaker 4: shows up to evict you, it's not like you just
Speaker 4: got noticed that you're late on your rent.
Speaker 3: There's all.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's probably too late, in fact, I mean
Speaker 4: I don't. I mean, I hope they never be in
Speaker 4: this position. And I know it's hard out there for everybody,
Speaker 4: and it's a sad situation overall, because I assume that
Speaker 4: some of the people that do get evicted, like they
Speaker 4: want to be able to pay.
Speaker 3: They just can.
Speaker 4: Now there's others that just you know, try to you know,
Speaker 4: be squatters. But I mean it's usually a long process
Speaker 4: that you have to know at some point, like you
Speaker 4: got to be on the edge of your seat knowing
Speaker 4: any more somebody may knock on that door and say
Speaker 4: you got to go because you haven't paid rent in
Speaker 4: a long time. So as I'm right at that light
Speaker 4: at Fifth and Muhammed to come up, you know, maybe
Speaker 4: one hundred yards to turn into the garage, I mean,
Speaker 4: I see people coming out of a tall it's a
Speaker 4: high rise building, and they've just put all the property
Speaker 4: from some and I'm talking bedframe, I'm talking mattress Wow,
Speaker 4: furniture belong you know belongings right there just outside of
Speaker 4: the building, not on the curb of the block, but
Speaker 4: just up against the you know, the property there, and
Speaker 4: you could see someone on the phone like probably making
Speaker 4: the call like yeah they got me yet, And it's
Speaker 4: like I cannot imagine, like because if you know you're
Speaker 4: getting evicted and you don't do anything about it, that's
Speaker 4: what happens. Meaning like, yeah, good luck finding somebody at
Speaker 4: no notice to come and bring a moving truck to
Speaker 4: get all your stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean I would.
Speaker 4: Assume if you can afford somebody to do that, you
Speaker 4: would maybe be able to afford your rent. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know, rents a bigger expense per month than what
Speaker 4: that would be for somebody to come and bring a truck.
Speaker 4: But like I talk about just being like that, that
Speaker 4: that that that's the most helpless. Oh yeah, you said
Speaker 4: it best. That is that is one of the most
Speaker 4: helpless things I could imagine happening. And I'm sure there's
Speaker 4: others that that are more you know, maybe situations where
Speaker 4: you'd feel even more helpless than that, But man, that
Speaker 4: was just like I couldn't I couldn't stop thinking, like, man,
Speaker 4: I don't know what I would do in that situation.
Speaker 4: I also would like to think that regardless of my
Speaker 4: financial situation, I would understand, like, I gotta go, they're
Speaker 4: going to do this. In most videos I see on TikTok,
Speaker 4: it's the opposite that it's. It's it's people who answer
Speaker 4: the door thinking that they that they have authority, thinking
Speaker 4: that they have the correct process and formula here, rather
Speaker 4: than knowing like, no, I don't own this. I haven't
Speaker 4: even paid to stay here. I've been staying here for
Speaker 4: free for a long long time, like you know. So anyways,
Speaker 4: just I thought that was really wild for me to
Speaker 4: see something. It's it was almost like the sign because
Speaker 4: I hadn't I went out to lunch with my with
Speaker 4: my wife and my daughter today and I haven't really
Speaker 4: been super active on social media in the last few hours.
Speaker 3: Uh here and there.
Speaker 4: I mean, I I wasn't looking for the TikTok update necessarily,
Speaker 4: but I see something in real life that I've only
Speaker 4: seen previously on the platform that is TikTok, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 4: that's crazy. Then I get in here, get set up
Speaker 4: with the show, and of course, you know, I try
Speaker 4: to get everything together in front of me, and I
Speaker 4: knew we were going to talk about this today. And
Speaker 4: that's when I see the update that TikTok is no more.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's a sign. Hey, we gave you
Speaker 4: a glimpse of something in real life that you'll now
Speaker 4: no longer be able to get on TikTok. It's not
Speaker 4: a coincidence, right, there's no way.
Speaker 1: No, you get just you basically saw TikTok in real life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is which is pretty cool. But but mister, mister,
Speaker 1: mister professor coffee, I did your homework last night. Oh
Speaker 1: that's right, and that's right, and I found something that
Speaker 1: I think that you might like. When we're just looking
Speaker 1: for a two word thing to start the show, here
Speaker 1: we go. Man tweeted out, how about this?
Speaker 3: Beat it to me?
Speaker 1: How about lock in?
Speaker 3: Lock in?
Speaker 1: You like that?
Speaker 3: Do I like it? It's now a up on Twitter
Speaker 3: as we speak. It's locked.
Speaker 4: It's lock in with the link for you guys to listen.
Speaker 4: So so now they know we're here. Good job, I
Speaker 4: forgot I even gave you homework and you showed up
Speaker 4: ready to present it at a good job. I'm a
Speaker 4: good job.
Speaker 1: What do you call teacher's pet.
Speaker 3: Right there we go.
Speaker 4: I like it so uh and I feel like I've
Speaker 4: talked earlier in the week, I feel like me mentioning
Speaker 4: the whole TikTok thing, it ended up like I felt
Speaker 4: like maybe I should back up and not continuing to
Speaker 4: go down that direction because because I know there are
Speaker 4: a lot of people that just think TikTok is this
Speaker 4: stupid app that people waste time on and it's dumb
Speaker 4: idiots dancing. But it's so it can really be whatever
Speaker 4: you want it to be. Like that's the power of
Speaker 4: what that platform is. It can be whatever. You can
Speaker 4: be a creator.
Speaker 3: And post content that you enjoy doing. It could be
Speaker 3: your escape.
Speaker 4: It could be you connecting with people that are into
Speaker 4: something that like your everyday life when you go to
Speaker 4: work or school or whatever it may be, you don't
Speaker 4: interact with those people. But with the platform like that,
Speaker 4: you can just get lost in different spaces within you know, society.
Speaker 4: And there are some people that again have used it
Speaker 4: to make a living. It's changed people's lives. And I
Speaker 4: feel like because TikTok really in the last two and
Speaker 4: a half to three years exploded the way that it did,
Speaker 4: it became its own thing to where there's really not
Speaker 4: a comparison. And again, maybe some people hate it, they
Speaker 4: don't like it, that's fine, but there really is not
Speaker 4: a comparable platform to it when it comes to just
Speaker 4: you can really there's very few people that that I
Speaker 4: think this day and age, that aren't at time spending
Speaker 4: time on an app, on a social media experience, and
Speaker 4: I feel like TikTok is one that regardless of what
Speaker 4: you would ever get out your phone open an app
Speaker 4: to kind of just entertain yourself, kill time, whatever it
Speaker 4: may be, there's something there for you, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean? Like that, that's kind of what it what
Speaker 4: it turned into, which is why it has been such
Speaker 4: a successful thing here and you know, across the planet,
Speaker 4: not just in America. But as of Sunday, it sounds
Speaker 4: like it will be no more. And it is kind
Speaker 4: of sad. There's a young lady that I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get her permission before I talk about it
Speaker 4: on the show, because I don't want to. You know,
Speaker 4: I would assume she wouldn't have an issue with it,
Speaker 4: but you never know, but she got fired at her job.
Speaker 3: Because she was I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 4: If it was because she was on TikTok too much,
Speaker 4: or if maybe she was occasionally showing a TikTok when
Speaker 4: she was at work.
Speaker 3: She had a career, she.
Speaker 4: Was professional, and that that ended up getting her fired.
Speaker 4: They just told her that, you know, I think they
Speaker 4: told her you need to like not be on TikTok
Speaker 4: or leave or what.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know the specifics I should speak honest.
Speaker 1: Has never find out what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: But she she she lost her job because of TikTok,
Speaker 4: like because that became I guess something she was. You know,
Speaker 4: she was doing a lot and and and it probably
Speaker 4: was a big issue for her. So what did she do.
Speaker 4: She just she tried to turn the following she created
Speaker 4: on TikTok into a way to make a living. And
Speaker 4: then she got a realtor's license and she became a realtor,
Speaker 4: and of course with her big social media following. That's
Speaker 4: how you mean, if you're a realator. I'm sure there's
Speaker 4: certain things that make you good or bad that I'm
Speaker 4: unaware of, but the biggest thing you have to do
Speaker 4: is market yourself. Right, you are a I mean, and
Speaker 4: I'm I'm not knocking anybody who's a realtor. At times,
Speaker 4: I feel like Facebook is just a platform for real
Speaker 4: estate agents, not even kidding.
Speaker 1: And I see it all the time over in the
Speaker 1: last year, and.
Speaker 4: That's not a knock on, and that's just what they
Speaker 4: have to do. They If you're not continuously self promoting NonStop,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get left behind me because there's such a
Speaker 4: competitive space and you know a lot of people who
Speaker 4: aren't really savvy about that that world of real estate,
Speaker 4: They're not going to know what makes you good or bad.
Speaker 4: It's all about reference, referral and somebody that stands out,
Speaker 4: and you know, you have a platform now with social
Speaker 4: media to really do that. So to know that, like
Speaker 4: now that's gone for somebody where it changed their life
Speaker 4: and it's a big part of what they do, it's
Speaker 4: a it's a sad thing. So, I mean, it sounds
Speaker 4: like today. I mean again, I'm not I'm not doing
Speaker 4: deep dives as far as research and coverage of this.
Speaker 4: I'm just kind of reading what becomes frontline topic. Yeah,
Speaker 4: front line news. But it sounds like today's decision from
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court has everybody now realizing, yeh, Sunday is
Speaker 4: going to be the day and it's going to be gone,
Speaker 4: and that's that's that's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I can't help but think if it's got to be
Speaker 1: reinstated somehow, right, like it will, especially.
Speaker 4: When the Trump becomes like once it's once it's official
Speaker 4: that Trump is back in office, Like I feel like
Speaker 4: he would have the ability to do something, but again
Speaker 4: I'm willing to acknowledge I'm a dumb ass. I don't
Speaker 4: even know if he has the ability to just say, hey,
Speaker 4: we're gonna make TikTok available now. I mean, if he does,
Speaker 4: then you know, that'd be great. But as far as
Speaker 4: what needs to happen for him to be able to
Speaker 4: do that, I'm not quite sure. But it is just
Speaker 4: a weird look knowing that the previous president and the
Speaker 4: one that's about to be president are both on the
Speaker 4: same page about this, which last I checked, turn it
Speaker 4: on the same page a battle much of anything, And
Speaker 4: yet they've got this guy who owns the company here
Speaker 4: as we are about to change face, you know, phase
Speaker 4: into a different presidential era. Like it just seems very
Speaker 4: it seems inconsistent, right, Like wait a second, like if
Speaker 4: in fact, like this is such a big deal and
Speaker 4: a big risk, and I'm not acting like it's not.
Speaker 3: I have no clue. I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not somebody that's conspiracy theorist that thinks that there's
Speaker 4: that this is all just made up and there's not
Speaker 4: legitimate concern. But if so, then why are our presidents
Speaker 4: one former, one current, one former that wasn't and then
Speaker 4: now is going to be current again? Kind of confusing,
Speaker 4: Like it just seems to be head scratching.
Speaker 1: But so, I mean, does that guy doesn't he even
Speaker 1: even like want to come to that now, like oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like you guys, well, I mean just days after his
Speaker 1: platform is canceled.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, like the fact that they're saying,
Speaker 4: if you want to if I own something that was
Speaker 4: zero point one percent what TikTok is, and you told
Speaker 4: me that if I wanted to, like if I wanted
Speaker 4: it to exist in a country, then I would need
Speaker 4: to sell it. I would say bye, and I would
Speaker 4: exist with out here, like you know, like that's kind
Speaker 4: of rich, knowing, like if you wanted to be in America,
Speaker 4: you have to sell it. Well, okay, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to sell it because I own it. It's what I do.
Speaker 4: It's my livelihood. So you know, that's a you problem,
Speaker 4: not a meat problem. So I mean again, I know
Speaker 4: there's way more to it than I would ever know,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, I guess I could do a
Speaker 4: deep dive and really look into it, but I just
Speaker 4: don't really care enough. But in a way, it just
Speaker 4: comes off as like arrogant. If you want to exist
Speaker 4: here in our country, you need to sell it to
Speaker 4: somebody else. Yeah, well no, well would I do that?
Speaker 4: So anyways, let's get the party started. In fact, we
Speaker 4: got to get to a break in just a moment.
Speaker 4: But Louisville, Virginia tomorrow, it's a weird it's a weird
Speaker 4: It's I was gonna say, it's a weird vibe.
Speaker 3: It's a great vibe. Energy is through the roof.
Speaker 4: Clearly, Louisville is on the hell of a run right now,
Speaker 4: and I expect there to be a great crowd tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But when I say weird vibes, Virginia's come into Louisville
Speaker 4: and nobody's worried about Virginia. And look, they could beat
Speaker 4: Louisville if Little didn't play well. But I think Louisville
Speaker 4: is shown us enough at this point.
Speaker 3: That we are.
Speaker 4: We are well within reason to expect Louisville to continue
Speaker 4: to come out and play the way they've played in
Speaker 4: the last seven games. And I don't mean play, you know,
Speaker 4: make a bunch of threes. Obviously that can be a
Speaker 4: real difference maker, but even in games where they were
Speaker 4: not super efficient from the three point line, they've left
Speaker 4: a lot of points on the floor at times in
Speaker 4: this winning streak with free throws and layups. And I
Speaker 4: don't say that to be critical. It's certainly not a
Speaker 4: good thing. But what I'm saying is that they are
Speaker 4: bringing a level of intensity focus that is doing enough
Speaker 4: to where if they have some shortfalls in certain areas
Speaker 4: on the stat sheet, it doesn't matter. They're still winning.
Speaker 4: And if you can go to Virginia and beat them
Speaker 4: by twenty, if they come here tomorrow, which they're going
Speaker 4: to I think, in fact, I think they're already here.
Speaker 4: But when they're here tomorrow at noon and the place
Speaker 4: is at least you know, I don't know how many
Speaker 4: people are going to be there, but I know those
Speaker 4: that are going to be there are going to be
Speaker 4: into it, because everybody seems to really really be loving
Speaker 4: the run.
Speaker 3: This team is on.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it is not at all out of
Speaker 4: line to say we expect to beat Virginia tomorrow and
Speaker 4: maybe even beat them, beat them down. You beat them
Speaker 4: by twenty there. It could get ugly tomorrow. I don't
Speaker 4: I don't know what I would predict as far as
Speaker 4: the score, But Louisville is fourteen point favorites here, and
Speaker 4: I totally understand.
Speaker 1: That you're the largest the whole seaton.
Speaker 4: No, it's the largest spread Louisville has had in an
Speaker 4: ACC game since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Sure because I know we are twenty point favorites against
Speaker 1: the Eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they've had big numbers against the Bums
Speaker 4: and some of those bums you know covered, But in
Speaker 4: ACC play, this is the biggest spread since the year
Speaker 4: where we didn't get a tournament because of the pandemic.
Speaker 4: So it's been a long time coming. But I want
Speaker 4: to talk about the whole ticket situation. On the other side,
Speaker 4: we also need to talk about the Alabama Kentucky game.
Speaker 4: A huge game for Kentucky tomorrow. And you guys have
Speaker 4: heard me say this when it comes to Kentucky for
Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks. When there's when there are
Speaker 4: teams that show up to play Kentucky or maybe they're
Speaker 4: hosting Kentucky and they don't have the mindset of knowing
Speaker 4: we shouldn't get into a game with this team where
Speaker 4: it's a countless possession game.
Speaker 3: You lose.
Speaker 4: And that includes teams like Duke Gonzaga, I mean Mississippi State.
Speaker 4: So Alabama has been doing this longer than Mark Pope has,
Speaker 4: but nobody's been able to beat Kentucky this year when
Speaker 4: it's a game played at the pace Kentucky wants to
Speaker 4: play at and Alabama, let's be real, they don't have
Speaker 4: a whole lot of momentum. They got blown out on
Speaker 4: their home field or home court by Old I'm gonna
Speaker 4: talk to Alabama. I guess I'm just thinking football. But
Speaker 4: on their home court they got blown out by Ole
Speaker 4: Miss and Chris Beard earlier this week, so that's a
Speaker 4: big game. But until I see somebody beat Kentucky in
Speaker 4: that kind of game, I'm going to assume Kentucky's gonna
Speaker 4: win those games. And we've got NFL playoffs coming up tomorrow,
Speaker 4: a lot to get to Louisville football. Bron maybe losing
Speaker 4: his first staffer since he took over last year. So
Speaker 4: we're loaded the rest of the way. Let's have some fun.
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Speaker 4: All right, So if you have been on TikTok at
Speaker 4: all in the last I don't know, two weeks, then
Speaker 4: you've heard this song. And I know the audience here,
Speaker 4: there's many of you that don't get on TikTok and
Speaker 4: and won't won't, won't know what that song is or
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Speaker 1: And the one that went to jail in China, did
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Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, it was.
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Speaker 4: even played in Coyle. He was such a he was
Speaker 4: such a forgettable player as far as in you know,
Speaker 4: I clearly know which one is which, but I would
Speaker 4: get li Angelo and Lamello mixed up just because they
Speaker 4: were the younger brothers because the first Ball brother when
Speaker 4: Lvar Ball the clown. And I actually find LaVar Ball entertaining.
Speaker 4: I do too, but I take him for what he is,
Speaker 4: Like I'm not out here like thinking he's going to
Speaker 4: provide like some profound knowledge on sports and and whatnot,
Speaker 4: but like he he at times, I think maybe he's
Speaker 4: done a disservice to his sons where they don't necessarily
Speaker 4: meaning employers like the NBA or companies, like they don't
Speaker 4: take them serious.
Speaker 3: But whatever, like they have a huge I mean, it's
Speaker 3: worked out.
Speaker 4: And this is maybe the biggest sign that LeVar Ball
Speaker 4: has cemented himself on the mount rushmore of sports dads
Speaker 4: and hear me out so as much as there was
Speaker 4: a circus.
Speaker 3: And when's the last time he's been in the public eye.
Speaker 1: It's it's been a while, but my TikTok algorithm has
Speaker 1: had nothing but ball stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but not him though, right, No.
Speaker 1: It's all about the Ball in the family. And I
Speaker 1: think his media.
Speaker 4: Tour, I think that speaks to the fact that like
Speaker 4: he was in your face all the time, but like
Speaker 4: it really was just to maybe help his kids. That
Speaker 4: may not sound or look like it's the way that
Speaker 4: it was for him, but now that all of his
Speaker 4: kids are on top in different ways, he's in the background,
Speaker 4: Like it's kind of it kind of makes me seem
Speaker 4: like his Tiananigan's and the circus was really what like
Speaker 4: and again, wouldn't have been shocked if it didn't work out.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is like, deep down, as much
Speaker 4: as he was a clown, like maybe he really did
Speaker 4: think that that was his way of getting his kids
Speaker 4: the best that he could. I mean I felt like
Speaker 4: when he had him drop out of high school and
Speaker 4: go play in Lithuania, I mean that was that was something, right.
Speaker 4: So this is what's crazy. The first and and really
Speaker 4: the most successful ball brother overall, which who's who's the
Speaker 4: oldest I think, I think, yes, I couldn't think Alonso
Speaker 4: Lonzo is the one who's UCLA of course, was like
Speaker 4: a top five draft picked and he's just had really
Speaker 4: bad injuries and he's I mean, if he does get
Speaker 4: back to playing full time, like he'll be a fine player,
Speaker 4: but like he'll never be a superstar. And then LaMelo,
Speaker 4: I mean, he was the phenom and I kind of
Speaker 4: feel like he's I mean He's still clearly a good
Speaker 4: player in the league with the Hornets in.
Speaker 1: LEAs Angelo go to college.
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like le Angelo, if he got arrested, then it was
Speaker 4: when he was with UCLA, is.
Speaker 1: He was the odd man out.
Speaker 4: Well, he was clearly nowhere near as good as the others.
Speaker 4: So LaMelo is the baby, the young one, and he
Speaker 4: didn't go to college, No, he did not. He's averaging
Speaker 4: thirty points a game like he's in seven and a half
Speaker 4: a sis.
Speaker 3: His team doesn't win. He shoots a lot of shots.
Speaker 4: But LeVar ended up being right that LaMelo actually was
Speaker 4: the one with the most talent and as he got
Speaker 4: older and matured like he's he's a tough player. Again,
Speaker 4: he's averaging twenty nine point six points per game. I mean,
Speaker 4: I feel like that's not right. But I'm looking at
Speaker 4: his stats right here on ESPN. But I feel like
Speaker 4: the reason he maybe doesn't get mentioned a whole lot
Speaker 4: now he let me see here, maybe a situation. Maybe
Speaker 4: he hasn't played a lot of games, and that's why
Speaker 4: is en up. No, he's played this season, He's played
Speaker 4: twenty six games and he's averaging twenty nine point twenty
Speaker 4: nine point six points per game.
Speaker 3: So he's the best player.
Speaker 4: And LeVar was right the Shenanigans that took place with
Speaker 4: him going to Lithuania and him, you know, they were
Speaker 4: on Monday Night Roll one time. I remember, like and
Speaker 4: Lee Lamello is as a as a minor dropped the
Speaker 4: F bomb. They had to do the du button on
Speaker 4: live television and a wrestling of it. Like it was
Speaker 4: a complete circus.
Speaker 1: They had to throw somebody else out there, hurry up
Speaker 1: getting there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like it was.
Speaker 1: It was wild.
Speaker 4: So anyways, LaMelo ended up it worked out. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's in his fourth season in the NBA and he's
Speaker 4: very successful. The injury issues were just that's just that's just.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't foresee that. That's unfortunate. That's nobody's fault.
Speaker 4: That's just life. But even with that, I mean, Lonzo
Speaker 4: has still got his second contract in the NBA, meaning
Speaker 4: he has generational wealth potentially. But Leangelo is the one
Speaker 4: who never really did anything, like he wasn't good at
Speaker 4: basketball at that level and it just never worked out well.
Speaker 4: Now he has signed a thirteen million dollar deal with
Speaker 4: Deaf Jam and Universal Music Group. Because of the song
Speaker 4: that Austin just played is one of the most viral
Speaker 4: songs that ever existed on TikTok, And it might be
Speaker 4: when TikTok turns the lights off here in the United
Speaker 4: States of America on Sunday, my man's going out on top.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be he's gonna be leaving the platforms, leaving
Speaker 4: America with him at the top of the charts.
Speaker 3: When it comes to sounds that it so like here
Speaker 3: like lebar Ball won, Man, he's won.
Speaker 4: He won the rat the player who wasn't good that
Speaker 4: he tried to like prop up, but he couldn't hide
Speaker 4: the fact that he wasn't an NBA caliber player. Now
Speaker 4: he's got a thirteen million dollar record deal, like LeVar
Speaker 4: Ball won.
Speaker 3: And I understood why everybody like just would.
Speaker 4: Turn off anything that was talking about him because of,
Speaker 4: you know, everything that came with it, just a loud
Speaker 4: mouth that would say things that you kind of deep
Speaker 4: down know that he didn't believe. But have you ever
Speaker 4: considered the people that make millions of dollars on you know,
Speaker 4: first take those kind of shows.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was on there a lot too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like that's what they do, you think, Steven a
Speaker 4: Smith believes some of the dumb ass stuff. He says, no,
Speaker 4: Skip Bala's absolutely not. But that's what that is. It's entertainment.
Speaker 4: If you see it for that, you won't necessarily you might,
Speaker 4: you may not love it, you may not think that
Speaker 4: it's good, or may not even entertained by it.
Speaker 3: But the people that get caught.
Speaker 4: Up in In fact, maybe I'm being a hater here,
Speaker 4: because the people get caught up in it, they consume
Speaker 4: it NonStop, they hate listen.
Speaker 3: That's why those guys make the millions.
Speaker 4: Because you you, you take it right off the spoon
Speaker 4: and you just you can't get enough of it. So
Speaker 4: LaVar Ball, I think, did all that and what did
Speaker 4: it do? It brought a lot of attention to his kids.
Speaker 4: But he may not even be deserving of the credit.
Speaker 4: But I guess more than anything, his shenanigans, they didn't
Speaker 4: get in the way to keep his kids from, you know,
Speaker 4: succeeding in life. Now, Leangelo, I'll be honest, if that
Speaker 4: song that Austin played it again, if you're on TikTok
Speaker 4: called it's called Tweaker, If it wasn't the random connection
Speaker 4: that the song was by the Cooper manning of the
Speaker 4: Ball brothers, it doesn't get the push that it did
Speaker 4: on social media, right, Like that's a that's a component
Speaker 4: to the story, and he'll probably be a one hit wonder,
Speaker 4: I'm sure. But either way, that's a thirteen million dollar
Speaker 4: deal with dev Jam because you know, I mean, by
Speaker 4: the way, eighteen million dollars was it of it was
Speaker 4: upfront guarantee, I'm sorry, eight million of the thirteen million,
Speaker 4: not eighteen eight million of the thirteen million. So he
Speaker 4: just got an eight million dollar check, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: like LaVar Ball, good for him. He might he may
Speaker 4: just disappear and never be in the public eye. But
Speaker 4: his sons are on top, and if that was his
Speaker 4: overall goal, then I mean, I don't mean on top
Speaker 4: like they're you know, the best that ever, but like
Speaker 4: they're successful, clearly more successful from a financial standpoint than
Speaker 4: I'll ever be. So how about LaVar Ball many many
Speaker 4: years later? What's crazy to think about is that that
Speaker 4: that was eight years ago. Yeah, like whenever, whenever LaVar
Speaker 4: Ball burst on the scene and Lonzo was playing for
Speaker 4: Steve Alford at UCLA, that was eight years ago. Sure, Alford,
Speaker 4: what a name from you know where he's at now
Speaker 4: No Nevada.
Speaker 3: Oh, there you go, there you go. So anyways, one of.
Speaker 1: The greatest things I heard LeVar say is what he
Speaker 1: was That was and I'm obviously a wrestling fan, so
Speaker 1: that was appointment television for me to watch them get
Speaker 1: on there and he just completely spased out. But he said,
Speaker 1: there only two people better than me, and I'm both
Speaker 1: of them. That's great.
Speaker 4: I love when people say things so confidently and so direct,
Speaker 4: where they put something on it and it makes you
Speaker 4: kind of take your kind It takes you a few
Speaker 4: seconds to realize what they said makes absolutely no sense, like.
Speaker 1: Saying that he could beat Jordan one on you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he said it confidently, and you just say, like,
Speaker 4: I don't believe anything this guy's saying, but I'm listening.
Speaker 3: I want to.
Speaker 4: I'm entertained. It's like the who's the Who's the bowler
Speaker 4: who had so much swagger?
Speaker 3: Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1: I am, Oh, wow, Pete Webber, Pete Webber, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that quote doesn't make any sense, but man, he said
Speaker 1: it and he meant it, and I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use that, keep that.
Speaker 3: In the back pocket. Like if I if I, if
Speaker 3: I have a moment, who do you think you are?
Speaker 4: I am like, that doesn't even that's not even that's
Speaker 4: that that makes no sense. But I always say this
Speaker 4: in radio and in I mean really anything not just right,
Speaker 4: It could be it could This is true regardless of anything.
Speaker 4: It's not always what you say, it's how you say it.
Speaker 4: And sometimes there are people like Pete well'er and LeVar
Speaker 4: Ball who give you great examples of that because you
Speaker 4: don't even know what they meant. But twenty years later
Speaker 4: you're still saying it, you're still thinking about it, because man,
Speaker 4: there was something on that he said. It was some
Speaker 4: real conviction. So shout out LaVar Ball. Didn't think we'd
Speaker 4: be doing that on January seventeenth, twenty twenty five, but
Speaker 4: I think he won.
Speaker 3: Here we are for all this time exactly all right.
Speaker 4: So at four oh five, we're gonna bring him in,
Speaker 4: mister Kent Spencer from Whas eleven. Now that we're back
Speaker 4: in our groove, back with you know, a little more
Speaker 4: of a regular routine with the holidays and with the snowstorms,
Speaker 4: so we're gonna get back to bringing in our regulars
Speaker 4: and Kent will be joining us at four oh five.
Speaker 4: Cel Brown didn't join us this week, but I'm going
Speaker 4: to bring him back. We've got some others that are
Speaker 4: kind of regulars within the show that we'll try to get,
Speaker 4: you know, get back and get back on the schedule.
Speaker 4: But one thing I wanted to get to before our
Speaker 4: next break is Louisville tomorrow will have I imagine a
Speaker 4: really good crowd, maybe the best crowd they've had all year.
Speaker 4: I could be wrong, because the Duke crowd and the
Speaker 4: North Carolina crowd, like those kind of brands, those opponents,
Speaker 4: they certainly give you a little bit of a bump.
Speaker 4: In fact, we were at the Carolina game together Austin,
Speaker 4: Carolina had a lot of fans there like they were deep.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it was the same for Duke too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you know that makes sense. But there are some
Speaker 4: local I guess, I mean, I guess they're businesses. But
Speaker 4: I know Sam Aggie are one of the attorneys here
Speaker 4: in Louisville that I'm sure you guys are familiar with.
Speaker 4: He's very clearly, very successful and big support of U
Speaker 4: of L.
Speaker 3: He bought a lot of tickets.
Speaker 4: Rick Keeber from Planet Fitness we've talked about the tickets
Speaker 4: he's purchased and given away. So they're doing that once
Speaker 4: again and trying to get people to show up and
Speaker 4: trying to get them to come out for the game.
Speaker 4: And I don't have a lot of time now, but
Speaker 4: at one point later on I do want to kind
Speaker 4: of talk about sort of the theme tomorrow. It's got
Speaker 4: me with goosebumps and the hair standing up on my
Speaker 4: arms because the video they did to promote that they're
Speaker 4: really trying to embrace the Louisville community, meaning like the
Speaker 4: Dirt Bowl and I'm sure a lot of you listening
Speaker 4: to what I'm talking about when I say the Dirt
Speaker 4: Bull Shawnee Park like that that was awesome.
Speaker 3: And this this this.
Speaker 4: Theme here is not only just to kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: get the community to be able to come and you know,
Speaker 4: come on back, right Like louis of Basketball has been
Speaker 4: in a weird and bad place really for about four
Speaker 4: or five years now, right, four years specifically, And if
Speaker 4: you haven't been back yet and you just kind of
Speaker 4: haven't been prioritizing, you haven't been focusing on it, well,
Speaker 4: here you go. We've got some complimentary tickets. Go snag
Speaker 4: them up here at this link like that's kind of
Speaker 4: I feel like the overall goal here while also honoring
Speaker 4: local community with the Dirt Bowl, but also maybe just
Speaker 4: trying to get fans to come back that have him
Speaker 4: been back in a while. And it makes total sense,
Speaker 4: but you never can be surprised when that gets weaponized
Speaker 4: against you by your rival making fun of your fan base,
Speaker 4: because how sad and pathetic are they that they have
Speaker 4: to buy tickets.
Speaker 3: To donate them?
Speaker 4: And Austin and I had a good conversation last night
Speaker 4: that I want to kind of bring to the airwaves
Speaker 4: here on the other side, because it really was a
Speaker 4: I think it's a healthy conversation to have because I
Speaker 4: totally understand Austin's mindset when he sees the one thousand
Speaker 4: tickets are available, go grab them, and I get it
Speaker 4: and I feel it, but I also have a little
Speaker 4: bit of a different perspective, and I just think it'll
Speaker 4: be a good conversation because I know this Louisville fans,
Speaker 4: as much as they just laugh at Kentucky fans, specifically KSR,
Speaker 4: who I'm not kidding you, not even joking, a real
Speaker 4: component to their coverage at Kentucky Sports Radio dot Com
Speaker 4: in like the last I don't know four or five
Speaker 4: months has been about attendance at Louisville events, Like they're
Speaker 4: obsessed with that and it's weird and it's odd and
Speaker 4: as much as you kind of, you know, think it's obsessive,
Speaker 4: it also pisses you off.
Speaker 3: And I get it. I'm with you, but I got
Speaker 3: some thoughts on it. On the other side.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about it. Stick around again. Kent Spencer coming
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Speaker 4: So there was a big push, I guess yesterday into
Speaker 4: today about tickets available for free for those who would
Speaker 4: be interested because there were local businesses that decided to
Speaker 4: well some well some of them purchased them quite literally.
Speaker 4: Others just were told to use their platform and give
Speaker 4: them away. But either way it doesn't matter. They're they're
Speaker 4: trying to help and bring more people and that's that's
Speaker 4: what you want.
Speaker 3: A good crowd.
Speaker 4: And I've given you the same take if you will
Speaker 4: opinion on the ticket attendant stuff for a lot. I
Speaker 4: mean for years now. I don't think. I think I've
Speaker 4: been pretty consistent. I rarely ever. In fact, the only
Speaker 4: one time it happened and then I realized I'll never
Speaker 4: do it again. I was critical of attendance one time
Speaker 4: and it backfired on me to where you know, they
Speaker 4: took that as if I'm the guy that's out here
Speaker 4: auditing seats and wanting to get your you know, I
Speaker 4: want to come knock on your door and chastise you
Speaker 4: for not showing up to a game. Like I I've
Speaker 4: never once felt like people owe anything when it comes
Speaker 4: to paying money to go to a game or their time,
Speaker 4: Like I just I can't relate. Again, I've never gone
Speaker 4: to a game and looked around and yeah, I've gone
Speaker 4: to a game and noticed that maybe it's not as
Speaker 4: crowded as I would have expected. But if I'm there
Speaker 4: to enjoy myself, why would I give a damn about
Speaker 4: who else is there?
Speaker 3: I can't control that, Like, why.
Speaker 4: Would I mean, if that's your mindset, why would you
Speaker 4: go if you are going to be impacted and you're
Speaker 4: going to have a negative experience because there's some seats
Speaker 4: there that aren't filled. What kind of I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't understand that, Like, what kind of mindset is that?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 4: I'm not being critical, like I just can't relate, Like
Speaker 4: I don't understand that at all. I'm gonna if I
Speaker 4: want to go do something, it's not going to be
Speaker 4: solely dependent upon others that I don't even know that
Speaker 4: are strangers being there as well. Now, clearly you always
Speaker 4: want a great crowd in a great atmosphere. So I've
Speaker 4: never acted like crowds don't matter and who cares, it's
Speaker 4: no big deal. But I see both sides of it,
Speaker 4: and that's usually a pretty boring way to approach something
Speaker 4: on talk radio. I get that crowds not being twenty
Speaker 4: thousand plus consistently the light crowds used to be what
Speaker 4: our crowds now aren't even up to. I get that
Speaker 4: that's not ideal and that's sad. But I also understand
Speaker 4: that we as humans and society change and we are
Speaker 4: our habits and are you know what we decide. There's
Speaker 4: a lot more to do with your time now, and
Speaker 4: you can enjoy and savor every moment of a team
Speaker 4: and an experience without being there like that that's just
Speaker 4: the truth of it. So and people know that. So
Speaker 4: there are a lot of people who, I mean, everybody's different.
Speaker 4: But you how many people don't even consider going to
Speaker 4: games because they just that's they don't like crowds, or
Speaker 4: they don't live super close, or they don't have the
Speaker 4: money to pay for it. Like that's just how a
Speaker 4: lot of people operate now. And they never are on
Speaker 4: their way home from work.
Speaker 3: Thinking like, man, if I don't go, am I a
Speaker 3: bad fan? If I don't go, am I going to
Speaker 3: get kicked out of.
Speaker 1: The fan base?
Speaker 4: Like it's just like the obsession of where's everybody at?
Speaker 3: What's wrong with us? I just don't understand.
Speaker 4: But again, I'm different, like and and I mean I'm
Speaker 4: maybe I'm maybe I'm in the minority. Year I don't
Speaker 4: know if I am or not, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: because this year, this show, this sports talk radio show
Speaker 4: in this market that loves college basketball, Like, yeah, the
Speaker 4: people who listen, they're going to be the ones who
Speaker 4: do care about attendants because they love the college basketball.
Speaker 4: So I get it, and I love it too, but like,
Speaker 4: I just can't look at somebody and say, wow, you
Speaker 4: didn't spend one hundred and fifty dollars just to get
Speaker 4: in with parking and three tickets for you and your kids,
Speaker 4: like you're a piece of work, Like that's insanity to
Speaker 4: me and anybody not acknowledging the cost of the games
Speaker 4: like it's And again that's why you see what you're
Speaker 4: seeing now, where there are people out there buying up
Speaker 4: tickets to help those that have not been able to
Speaker 4: go because it's been a financial issue, and that's awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm glad they did it. So whenever there's a real
Speaker 4: push publicly social media other platforms that there's a bunch
Speaker 4: of tickets to give away for free, what happens Kentucky
Speaker 4: fans make jokes, and an entity whose existence to an
Speaker 4: extent is making fun of Louisville is going to run
Speaker 4: with it, regardless of self awareness that you would think
Speaker 4: is there. It's not because they smell blood in the
Speaker 4: water if they get a chance to make a joke
Speaker 4: about Louisville, regardless if it's like not really, I mean,
Speaker 4: they can't resist. And even if what I've found is
Speaker 4: that KSR. Jack Pilgrim penned an article saying Louisville fans
Speaker 4: don't deserve Pat Kelsey. He deserves better because they have
Speaker 4: to give away free tickets because people aren't showing up,
Speaker 4: not even kidding. The majority of the reaction to that
Speaker 4: that I saw from Kentucky fans, And when I say reaction,
Speaker 4: I mean reaction to like the post, and I'm not
Speaker 4: talking about comments on the site. I'm talking about like
Speaker 4: the comments on the article that was posted on Twitter.
Speaker 4: Is UK fans kind of like acknowledging one of two things?
Speaker 3: Hey, who cares?
Speaker 4: Like, you know, I get it, they've been bad for
Speaker 4: a while. This coach is pretty hard to like. Like,
Speaker 4: I'm they're not bashing the platform for making it, you know,
Speaker 4: making jokes about it, but they're just kind of saying like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't really ride with you on this. I don't
Speaker 4: really feel like we should make fun of them for this.
Speaker 4: And then there's others that are starting to realize and
Speaker 4: I'm when I'm by the way, I'm talking about people
Speaker 4: who at least present themselves as Kentucky fans on the internet,
Speaker 4: like Big Blue Bozo fifty seven, Like he's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: like it's getting a little weird that you are this
Speaker 4: obsessed with attendance for Louisville, And again, I ride, I
Speaker 4: love the rivalry.
Speaker 1: It's part of the.
Speaker 4: Reason why even able to do what I'm able to do,
Speaker 4: because we care so much and it's such a such
Speaker 4: a such a thing here. And I'll make fun of
Speaker 4: Kentucky when I have the chance. I'll also be honest
Speaker 4: and be objective and talk about when they're good. And
Speaker 4: you know they're good right now. Their basketball coach is
Speaker 4: a really hard guy to dislike, and I think their
Speaker 4: team is really really good and they may win a
Speaker 4: national championship, like I don't know if they're.
Speaker 3: Going to, but like I'll call it like it is.
Speaker 4: So like I understand the rivalry when it comes to
Speaker 4: the Jabs, but the obsession about Louisville fans showing up
Speaker 4: to football and basketball games flat out weird, just just
Speaker 4: lame odd, like just like it's one thing to crack
Speaker 4: a joke about it here and there, it's an obsession
Speaker 4: for them, and I just find it to be sad,
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, And it's starting to seem
Speaker 4: like even their fans are kind of like, yeah, like
Speaker 4: why do we keep.
Speaker 3: Talking about their tenants? Like what are we what are we?
Speaker 3: What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: So Austin and I last night we're going back and forth,
Speaker 4: and I don't want to bring work for word what
Speaker 4: we were going back and forth about to the air waves.
Speaker 3: But I'll say this.
Speaker 4: And you you respond how you want you at least
Speaker 4: to an extent, last night, for maybe even a brief moment,
Speaker 4: maybe for longer than a brief moment, you were more
Speaker 4: angry at Louisville fans than Kentucky fans.
Speaker 1: Right, yes?
Speaker 4: And is it because you just feel like why are
Speaker 4: we giving them the weapon to stab us?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: We shouldn't have this many tickets available right totally? And
Speaker 4: I get it, Like I don't think that that's like
Speaker 4: I understand that because there's been times where I'm sitting
Speaker 4: here thinking like, what are we doing? Like why would
Speaker 4: we like whenever Kinny Payne was here and we knew
Speaker 4: that no Louisville fans were going to any game at
Speaker 4: that point, and we're announcing a red out?
Speaker 3: What are we whatt It's going to be more blue
Speaker 3: there than red?
Speaker 4: What are we doing? Let's not be stupid, Like, let's
Speaker 4: not be that foolish. This is overall, Like even if
Speaker 4: I don't think it's really that bad. I think more
Speaker 4: than anything, the reaction to them obsessing about it is
Speaker 4: the worst look here than Louisville giving away free tickets.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, even if it
Speaker 4: wasn't the case, the fact that we're still just trying
Speaker 4: to get people to go to games as best we can,
Speaker 4: and that's worth doing it right. But like I get
Speaker 4: the issue of, like, why would we publicly put it
Speaker 4: out there just so they can say, Wow, Louisvill's got
Speaker 4: a good team this year. Pat Kelsey's got it rolling. Man,
Speaker 4: this guy's awesome. And they can't even get people to
Speaker 4: go to games. They're giving away a thousand tickets. Like,
Speaker 4: I totally understand it. But where I what I get caught?
Speaker 4: What I I guess?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: What keeps me from getting worked up one way or
Speaker 4: the other about it overall is that I don't like
Speaker 4: when Louisville had twenty two thousand plus for big games consistently,
Speaker 4: there was a big chunk of those people, or maybe
Speaker 4: I shouldn't say big, but at least a chunk of
Speaker 4: those people that they were just there because it was
Speaker 4: the thing to do, and Louisville athletics was rolling. Now
Speaker 4: Louisville Athletics has not been rolling, especially in basketball, in
Speaker 4: quite some time.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 4: Therefore, those people aren't like louis doesn't have the I mean,
Speaker 4: it's growing and it's been fun, especially for those that
Speaker 4: have been here, ride or died the good and the bad.
Speaker 4: But when you were twenty two thousand plus for a
Speaker 4: lot of these games, at least three thousand, probably way
Speaker 4: more than that, they're not.
Speaker 3: They're not die hards.
Speaker 4: They're not losing sleep at night or waking up pissed
Speaker 4: off because their team lost the day before. So, like,
Speaker 4: I just view it that way to like, our fan
Speaker 4: base is not humongous at all. It's not I mean,
Speaker 4: Kentucky fans. There are way more of them than there
Speaker 4: are us, And I've never given a flying rats ass
Speaker 4: about that because it's it doesn't matter to me, and
Speaker 4: it doesn't mean that they're I mean, and look, they
Speaker 4: have humongous fan base and when it comes to passion.
Speaker 3: And support, they're great.
Speaker 4: But like we would, there's no Louisville could win five
Speaker 4: consecutive national championships. And if that's the case, we're selling
Speaker 4: out games right, But we're never gonna match them in
Speaker 4: number because nobody does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that to concede that they're better. It's
Speaker 4: just the numbers. It's just how it is. So I
Speaker 4: guess what. Like I was very fiery at Austin last night,
Speaker 4: not in like a meanway, but I'm just like, look, band,
Speaker 4: like trust me like this, like the fans that are
Speaker 4: showing up, like I just wish the support was on
Speaker 4: that more than like what's what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: Like you were being sports dad about it, I was.
Speaker 4: And and and more than anything. It's because I felt
Speaker 4: like they beat you last night. If I can say
Speaker 4: they beat you, because why would anybody with Louisville basketball
Speaker 4: right now as a fan not have great energy and
Speaker 4: I mean enthusiasm like this team is. I love this team, man,
Speaker 4: and I mean it. I love watching this team. I
Speaker 4: don't know what their ceiling is or what's going to
Speaker 4: happen down the line here this season, but I'm enjoying
Speaker 4: the ride. My energy is so awesome right now for
Speaker 4: Louisvie basketball, and I know I'm not alone. So like
Speaker 4: it made me like I was dad last night to you,
Speaker 4: like I don't want you to not feel the way
Speaker 4: I'm feeling, my man, because we've gone to some games together.
Speaker 4: It's been the funnest games I've gone to in a
Speaker 4: long time. Austin and I with my family were at
Speaker 4: the Carolina game together, the Clemson game, Man, that was
Speaker 4: freaking awesome, and I just you know, don't let them
Speaker 4: get to you, because here's the thing. And we actually
Speaker 4: talked about this briefly before we went to break and
Speaker 4: I got that I think you know this, But I
Speaker 4: also kind of feel like when I said it, like
Speaker 4: a light bulb kind of went off for you that
Speaker 4: you realize.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 4: There's never gonna be a scenario where KSR is not
Speaker 4: looking to be obsessed with Louisville and crack jokes, So like,
Speaker 4: you know, there's gonna be times where they do it
Speaker 4: and we're thinking, like, man, we could have prevented that.
Speaker 4: I just don't feel like this was one of those times.
Speaker 4: And energy and enthusiasm, momentum, all these I'm using all
Speaker 4: these words that just you know, I hope they're being
Speaker 4: used correctly because things are great with louisvill basketball right now,
Speaker 4: especially considering recent years to where they can't bring me down,
Speaker 4: and I don't want to bring you down.
Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 1: No, Well, like I said, I kind of reflected on it,
Speaker 1: and I'll get angry at this, and I won't be
Speaker 1: angry at U of L fans. Well, I'll just get
Speaker 1: angry just at the rivalry more or less. If we're
Speaker 1: in next year or year three of hat Kelsey and
Speaker 1: things rolling, and they're still and there's still less attendance,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I guess I'll go ahead and try to
Speaker 1: not even be mad at U of L fans, But
Speaker 1: like we're still trying to regain people's trust in this
Speaker 1: basketball program, and just because they're on fire right now,
Speaker 1: I don't think that it really has. Now you add
Speaker 1: it on to man, how pricey it can be and
Speaker 1: just coming downtown just just to park, and then maybe
Speaker 1: you have to go get something to eat or drink
Speaker 1: at the game to be for a family to go
Speaker 1: do that, that's gonna cost a lot of money, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna deter some people to end up going to games.
Speaker 1: But once this turns into a place to be, like
Speaker 1: you said, and possibly the next two or three years,
Speaker 1: then if we still had the same I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: say attendance problems, but we're giving the rivalry ammunition to
Speaker 1: do so, then I'll probably be a little bit angry
Speaker 1: about it, but this is still your one of Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 1: It's nothing to bring up that a Louisville fans are
Speaker 1: desperate and they're just giving away tickets. They don't care
Speaker 1: about their program. This is still year one and it's
Speaker 1: still trying to gain people's trust back because of just
Speaker 1: the last couple of years what they've endured.
Speaker 4: And what's crazy is that we were just talking about
Speaker 4: LaVar Ball and steven A and people saying things they
Speaker 4: don't really believe.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I don't even think Kentucky fans in the crew at
Speaker 4: KSR with a straight face can tell you that Louisville
Speaker 4: fans aren't into this team and into their coach. They're
Speaker 4: referencing tickets and empty seats, which is a reference point
Speaker 4: as far as who's interested in who's But it's not
Speaker 4: just that, and I think it's actually kind of lame
Speaker 4: to know that the real push here was to go
Speaker 4: out there and get tickets for those who want to go.
Speaker 4: But quite literally, can the economy freaking sucks, And I
Speaker 4: mean I tried not to get worked up. It's one
Speaker 4: hundred dollars to get in the door to go watch
Speaker 4: Louisville play Spaulding, a Division three school. So to really,
Speaker 4: you know, do a big push here to let people know, like, hey,
Speaker 4: we've got some people that are willing to step up
Speaker 4: and help us to where we can actually get these
Speaker 4: people here that want to come that can't afford it,
Speaker 4: Like to make fun of that, like you're a loser.
Speaker 4: I mean, especially knowing.
Speaker 1: That I'm with you.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's anyways, we'll move on. We'll bring in
Speaker 4: Kent Spencer. On the other side, I'm rambling stick around,
Speaker 4: m m hmm.