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Speaker 2: Man crew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well look the company man. You know, they snatched
Speaker 3: him from me, they took him from us. So now
Speaker 3: you know, we've look, they've got you working eight jobs
Speaker 3: seemingly here at the company, and now I'm working double duty,
Speaker 3: double shift here on a talk program, sports in the afternoon,
Speaker 3: news talk in the morning, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: mean it's just filling in for the rest of the week.
Speaker 3: But hey, putting in.
Speaker 2: Putting in work, I mean, get the hard hats out,
Speaker 2: getting exactly a lunch Poah, that's right, punching that clock,
Speaker 2: that's right. The old school way. Were used to stick
Speaker 2: it in the thing and hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you up it? So did you ever have
Speaker 3: a job where you did that?
Speaker 2: Yes, I sure did one job. I worked at a
Speaker 2: bowling That's when I'm so clutched. Eighteen, Yeah, and it
Speaker 2: was I remember putting it in, you know, putting it.
Speaker 3: Stamp in that baby. Oh dude, you had to be young.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was eighteen, I think as a senior in
Speaker 2: high school. My guy Joey hooked me up with that job.
Speaker 3: And he was shut out.
Speaker 2: Joey. He was yeah, shout out Joey. Uh, he was
Speaker 2: just as lazy as a worker as I was so
Speaker 2: like when he got a you're honest, well, I mean
Speaker 2: that's what he got a job there, and he made
Speaker 2: that job seem awesome, like that's all he had to
Speaker 2: do was just kind of sit in the back. It
Speaker 2: was I didn't basically know it was a janitor's job.
Speaker 2: He just disguised it as like customer service rep, you're
Speaker 2: a CSR. And then he just sat back there the
Speaker 2: whole time when I was there. So that's all I did.
Speaker 2: Little did I know that everyone was talking hish about
Speaker 2: me and everyone hated me because only came out when
Speaker 2: they were like, hey is.
Speaker 3: This when is this when you left to do the
Speaker 3: Chucky Cheese job?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I retired from this and I went to
Speaker 2: Chuck e chee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take that bowling alley, Yeah, missed out.
Speaker 2: Cactus Bowl is what it was called.
Speaker 3: You know what they uh what they typically will really
Speaker 3: dress up the title for a custodian or janitor. They
Speaker 3: call that a custodial engineer. That's a fancy title for
Speaker 3: somebody who is a custodian, which hey, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 3: with that. There's a lot of different ways. You know,
Speaker 3: people are out there working to make a living.
Speaker 2: First check was I think like three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: four dollars, and I thought it was hype. I went
Speaker 2: to the mall, was there for two hours, and I'm
Speaker 2: counting my money. At the end of the day, I'm like,
Speaker 2: how do I only have twenty bucks left? I thought
Speaker 2: I was rich?
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I tell you what one hundred dollars that that first
Speaker 3: pay check that I got when I worked part time was.
Speaker 3: I mean, I still am owed by the way, I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure. I mean, if I went there and asked
Speaker 3: to pick up my check, I doubt they would have it.
Speaker 3: But I worked at Hollister for three hours. Oh that's right,
Speaker 3: and I never I never went back. I was very uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: I'm an introvert, and all I had to do was
Speaker 3: fold and unfold genes all day.
Speaker 2: It does sound terrible.
Speaker 3: And I got like a five percent discount on clothes,
Speaker 3: which really wasn't much of anything, And I just had
Speaker 3: to ask people as they walk by, have you heard
Speaker 3: how great our genes fit? And what was crazy is
Speaker 3: they never even actually told me what to say. If,
Speaker 3: in fact, somebody called me on it, I asked it.
Speaker 3: I asked one. I asked one time if anybody had heard,
Speaker 3: and they just looked at me like I was speaking
Speaker 3: a foreign language. So then when I got my break,
Speaker 3: I went to the food court and called my mom
Speaker 3: and I was like, Mom, I want to quit. She's like,
Speaker 3: it's your first day of your first job. Like, Mom,
Speaker 3: come on, I don't want to do this. Disappointed, I
Speaker 3: don't think so. I mean, anyway, I was well, I
Speaker 3: was driving at the time, and I think at that point,
Speaker 3: like I was getting paid so little. It was one
Speaker 3: of those jobs that they knew they could hire teenagers
Speaker 3: for pennies because it was cool to work there, because
Speaker 3: Hollister was the cool place, you know, you get to
Speaker 3: socialize with, you know, people your age, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: But from where I was driving, it just didn't make
Speaker 3: a whole lot of sense. And I can only work
Speaker 3: certain days. So yeah, but when I ended up getting
Speaker 3: my first I worked probably more hours. During the week
Speaker 3: of Thanks Again Black Friday, I worked for Finish Line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that was the first time I had a paycheck
Speaker 3: that actually I felt like, Okay, that's a decent amount
Speaker 3: of money for me. And man, I felt like I
Speaker 3: was I was set and more.
Speaker 2: More, you're more at home at a finish Line than
Speaker 2: a Hollister.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2: Do you get any leads on some like, uh like
Speaker 2: where the was Jordan releases as hot back in you know?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, as it was.
Speaker 3: And I wasn't you know, I wasn't a sneaker head
Speaker 3: like like some, but you know I was. I was
Speaker 3: dangerous enough to you know, I knew, I knew what
Speaker 3: certain shoes were like. If you asked me for a
Speaker 3: certain Jordan or a certain air Max, I wouldn't know
Speaker 3: what it is. I just you know, I didn't. I
Speaker 3: wasn't somebody that was a collector or anything like that.
Speaker 3: But man, I really you almost had to compete at
Speaker 3: finish Line with the others because you know, everybody whoever
Speaker 3: had like the best shoe game, you know, it just
Speaker 3: it was it was worth bragging about when you work
Speaker 3: at a place.
Speaker 2: Like that, right exactly.
Speaker 3: Well, I didn't get written up, but I got a
Speaker 3: verbal warning because I do think that that my manager
Speaker 3: at the time realized I didn't have a clue that
Speaker 3: I was making a mistake. But I had a friend
Speaker 3: who worked at foot Action, which I'm not sure they're
Speaker 3: still around. They were underneath the foot locker Champ some relation,
Speaker 3: but I think they do still have like maybe one
Speaker 3: or two of them. Some food action. I think there's
Speaker 3: a nevermind, it's gonna make a bad joke. I got,
Speaker 3: I got. I got these urges to, you know, just
Speaker 3: be a knucklehead on the radio because I had to
Speaker 3: be really I had to be really sophisticated and buttoned
Speaker 3: up this morning on news radios.
Speaker 2: I had to stick your up in the air.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So anyways, I ended up I love and
Speaker 3: I don't know if if if you're familiar with these,
Speaker 3: but I loved Airmax ninety fives. Sure love and I
Speaker 3: still do, by the way, I like them. And there
Speaker 3: was an air there was an exclusive release from foot Action,
Speaker 3: and I didn't know that it was exclusive. So I
Speaker 3: got a pair of Nike Airmax ninety five's that were
Speaker 3: like white with like a navy and chrome. I mean
Speaker 3: it was I mean, I loved him, and I felt
Speaker 3: I felt like I was showing up for my next
Speaker 3: shift and they're gonna be like, okay, all right, the
Speaker 3: new guy, he's he's got something for us. And then
Speaker 3: I've found out, you know, you probably shouldn't wear an
Speaker 3: exclusive pair of shoes that only a competitive, a competing
Speaker 3: shoe store cells and it made total sense. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: but I didn't know it was exclusive. Are you're just
Speaker 3: trying to get h I was just trying to fit in,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Just trying to be one
Speaker 3: of the gang. But anyways, I had one job where
Speaker 3: you punch that you punch that old school thing that
Speaker 3: actually stamps the time.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was the first job that kind of humbled me
Speaker 3: that I need to figure out what I want to do.
Speaker 3: I came back and worked on an assembly line briefly
Speaker 3: for a place where my dad was working at the time,
Speaker 3: and it was a nice experience. As a younger adult.
Speaker 3: I was still kind of a kid. I mean I
Speaker 3: think I still was. I felt like a kid. I
Speaker 3: was eighteen, but I felt like a kid, and it
Speaker 3: was you know, hey, make sure this isn't what you
Speaker 3: do for the rest of your life. Not to say
Speaker 3: that it's the worst thing ever, but you know, I
Speaker 3: wanted to do more than that. And honestly, that's the
Speaker 3: job where I really started listening to talk radio and
Speaker 3: really obsessing with this this industry that is sports talk radio.
Speaker 3: Because I was interesting on an assembly line all day
Speaker 3: and I was listening to Joe By and Denny. I
Speaker 3: was listening to The Afternoon Underdogs with Adam Neft and
Speaker 3: Tony Venetti. And you know, here I am Adam Neft.
Speaker 3: Here I am many many years later. And and you know,
Speaker 3: living the dream.
Speaker 2: Yeah, living as you're right under their right under their shadows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been it's been a lot of fun. And
Speaker 3: speaking of fun, let's uh, let's do exactly that. We've
Speaker 3: got a lot of hoops to talk about. We've certainly
Speaker 3: been doing that. It's college basketball season. As I've been
Speaker 3: saying throughout the week, we really needed to not take
Speaker 3: it for granted because it'll be gone before you know it.
Speaker 3: And last night a lot of good college basketball games.
Speaker 2: At Parlays were cash.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, both of us on on the on the
Speaker 3: good side of the business last night, Yeah felt good.
Speaker 3: Rick Patino obviously came through for me. And we need
Speaker 3: to talk about Rick Patino coming up a little bit
Speaker 3: later on because my man's got the juice right now.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I'm not like having any thoughts
Speaker 3: of man, I wish this guy should still be here,
Speaker 3: because to be fair, it's great if a coach as
Speaker 3: Rick is, I mean, a lot of time has passed
Speaker 3: since then, and I just I never really even whenever
Speaker 3: he was at Iona and when Louisville was terrible and
Speaker 3: he was having success early at Saint John's or wherever, like,
Speaker 3: I've never once had I just I'm somebody that understands
Speaker 3: that's not possible, Like there's no scenario we'd ever be back,
Speaker 3: So why even like spend any time on it. So again,
Speaker 3: I don't want to make it seem as if I'm
Speaker 3: gonna make the case that Rick patino is is great
Speaker 3: and we should still have him as our coach. But
Speaker 3: I mean, he is great, and I don't think anybody
Speaker 3: would dispute that. And if he ends up, it's great
Speaker 3: to see him back going on. Yeah, and by the
Speaker 3: way he like it kind of feels like in the
Speaker 3: last few days, especially last night, he is back, meaning
Speaker 3: there's more chat like they were quietly emerging, meaning Saint
Speaker 3: John's as this team that looks like they're in great
Speaker 3: in a great spot with the Big East and could
Speaker 3: win the league. But really last night with Marquette in
Speaker 3: town at the Garden, they sold it out. It really
Speaker 3: did seem as if there was more awareness of Rick
Speaker 3: Patino doing what he's doing at Saint John's, then there's
Speaker 3: been so far this season. And I mean if he
Speaker 3: makes a final four, I mean you could make the
Speaker 3: case now if Rick never coach again and he never
Speaker 3: came back to college after he got out at Louisville,
Speaker 3: you can make the case that he's still one of
Speaker 3: the all time best coaches ever. But if he makes
Speaker 3: the final four at Saint John's and he would have
Speaker 3: taken Providence, Kentucky, Louisville, Saint John's to a final four,
Speaker 3: I mean that that's insane. I mean, heck, even if
Speaker 3: he finishes great and they losing the Elite eight, I mean,
Speaker 3: he's still just, in my opinion, furthering what a lot
Speaker 3: of us already know that when it comes to just basketball,
Speaker 3: coaching the game, he's I really do believe he's the
Speaker 3: best to ever do it. And I you know, I
Speaker 3: don't think am I bias for saying that. Again, I mean,
Speaker 3: Rix got his issues as well. I mean, nobody's perfect
Speaker 3: and Rick's you know, you know, I'm not here to
Speaker 3: kiss his ass. But even if though even those who
Speaker 3: despise him have no problem, I think openly admitting that
Speaker 3: like this guy is. I mean, he's a special, special coach.
Speaker 3: So anyhow, Louisville in action tonight, promise you we're going
Speaker 3: to get to that. There's not a whole lot that
Speaker 3: can really be said about this matchup. I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess there is. Louisville. They are favored tonight. Last I checked,
Speaker 3: it was at twelve and a half. They're playing a
Speaker 3: really bad Boston college team. And I could give you
Speaker 3: what you probably were expecting to hear, bouncing back. And
Speaker 3: I think I probably have said that throughout the week,
Speaker 3: because you know, when you lose and then you want
Speaker 3: to win, what do people say, bounce back? So I
Speaker 3: guess technically that is true. However, I believe that Louisville
Speaker 3: came out against Georgia Tech and they didn't play their
Speaker 3: best game. But like, I don't view this as hey,
Speaker 3: what the hell was that? What happened? I mean, to
Speaker 3: be honest with you, they were rather consistent. They they
Speaker 3: shot thirty six percent from three point range May nine.
Speaker 3: Had they made eleven, maybe it's a different ballgame. They
Speaker 3: did have more turnovers than Georgia Tech, which that's a
Speaker 3: little bit uncharacteristic. Georgia Tech turned points off of Louisville's
Speaker 3: turnovers more so than Louisville did. So there are some
Speaker 3: things like on the stat sheet that you know, going in, hey,
Speaker 3: if these numbers are not in your favor and you
Speaker 3: know you're at a disadvantage on the stat sheet right here,
Speaker 3: that's not ideal. So again, I'm not acting like they
Speaker 3: didn't have a performance that was you know, it was.
Speaker 3: What I'm trying to say here is you know, now
Speaker 3: that I'm deep into a long day of talking into
Speaker 3: a microphone, my brain just as having moments where it
Speaker 3: just stops working. But I don't think that Louisville came
Speaker 3: out flat like, I don't think that they needed to
Speaker 3: be humbled or anything like that. I just think what
Speaker 3: happened is they ran into a hot Georgia Tech team
Speaker 3: that couldn't couldn't miss early in the game. And then
Speaker 3: as soon as Louisville was about to maybe bury them
Speaker 3: on two different instances, Georgia Tech, to their credit, kept
Speaker 3: fighting and they hung around, and then they put another
Speaker 3: run together and it was a close game and then
Speaker 3: they kind of slowly pulled away. Louisville, of course, didn't
Speaker 3: execute great down the stretch, and they missed a lot
Speaker 3: of free throws, and obviously you don't want to do that.
Speaker 3: I mean, eleven of nineteen at the free throw line
Speaker 3: that's not good. But heck, Georgia Tech was actually worse.
Speaker 3: So again, I'm not here to defend their performance and
Speaker 3: act like, you know, they played great, but I think
Speaker 3: it is. I think this team's just gonna come out
Speaker 3: and pick up where they left off as far as
Speaker 3: just you know, locking down on defense and knocking down shots.
Speaker 3: I mean what led to them having that ten game
Speaker 3: winning streak where they were beating down some teams in
Speaker 3: the ACC albeit bad team still, I mean they were
Speaker 3: playing really, really well, Like I don't think that we
Speaker 3: saw performance that that Oh wow, they took a huge
Speaker 3: step back. So I wouldn't be shocked if they win
Speaker 3: this game about thirty tonight. And I really do think
Speaker 3: that after Georgia Tech ended up knocking off Clemson last
Speaker 3: night in triple overtime, that doesn't make Louisville's loss to
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech really any better. I mean, maybe the optics
Speaker 3: aren't as bad, but I mean it's still something that
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to deal with on selection Sunday. That
Speaker 3: is a bad loss. But I guess it does kind
Speaker 3: of confirm that Georgia Tech is a is the kind
Speaker 3: of team that if they are, if they're hot and
Speaker 3: they're playing with confidence and they're knocking down shots, they're competing,
Speaker 3: you know, they're probably a lot better than their record.
Speaker 3: But again that doesn't necessarily matter. But george Tech, you know,
Speaker 3: beat Clemson at their place, and Clemson's not elite. Trust me,
Speaker 3: I don't know how good they actually are, but they're
Speaker 3: a good team. They're safely in the tournament. And you know,
Speaker 3: a healthy Kentucky team who's still a good team, and
Speaker 3: we got to talk about them in a second. But
Speaker 3: I mean Kentucky lost to Clemson when Clemson hosted them
Speaker 3: earlier this year. So again Georgia Tech beating Clemson again,
Speaker 3: I do with that, which you will. I just it
Speaker 3: kind of confirmed to me because I didn't really want
Speaker 3: to go on and on about how Georgiat tack. I'm
Speaker 3: telling you they're better than the record, don't you know.
Speaker 3: Don't look at the record. They got a lot of talent,
Speaker 3: because I don't really know if I believe that, But
Speaker 3: what I saw on Saturday, it didn't even have me
Speaker 3: thinking about their record or how good they are. I
Speaker 3: was just watching guys make tough shots consistently to where
Speaker 3: you really couldn't have defended it much better. And yeah
Speaker 3: they were, they weren't really picking on rain Smith. And
Speaker 3: I don't know why that's triggered me a little bit.
Speaker 3: A lot of people acting like we need to worry
Speaker 3: about Rain Smith being on the floor, Like, with all
Speaker 3: due respect, y you all are, I mean, I mean
Speaker 3: that's insane. Like again, there's a stereotype that guys like
Speaker 3: rain Smith, you know, that are white and maybe not
Speaker 3: as athletic as others, that when they get scored on,
Speaker 3: it's just because they can't guard. Sometimes guys just make
Speaker 3: tough shots because they're basketball players, and that's the game.
Speaker 3: And the way rain Smith got scored on at times Saturday,
Speaker 3: everybody else on this team has been scored on like
Speaker 3: that as well this year. So it's not to say
Speaker 3: that they can't find somebody that's got a favorable matchup
Speaker 3: to where Rain's defending it well and then you know,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, they just you know, they hit
Speaker 3: a tough shot. But like, I don't know, I long
Speaker 3: story short, I don't really think there's a whole lot
Speaker 3: wrong with this team that has me worried that they're
Speaker 3: going to come out and like have a bad performance tonight.
Speaker 3: One thing though, that has consistently been an issue for them,
Speaker 3: that kind of feel like it is what it is.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be surprised if we get to
Speaker 3: the end of the year and there's still a very
Speaker 3: inconsistent free throw shooting team. So that's been an issue
Speaker 3: even though even in games during their ten game winning streak.
Speaker 3: So I'm confident they come out take care of business tonight,
Speaker 3: and they need to because again, you can't afford another
Speaker 3: loss of that magnitude and you really honestly need to
Speaker 3: blow these kind of teams out, which I'm hoping that's
Speaker 3: what happens tonight. There was a blowout last night in
Speaker 3: Oxford for a good chunk of the game, Kentucky had
Speaker 3: a comeback but still fell short. And I'm telling you
Speaker 3: Kentucky's resume, I've been talking about it for a while
Speaker 3: really weird, right, But they also just have a weird
Speaker 3: team when it comes to some stats, Like they've got
Speaker 3: some statistics that you would see that you would think,
Speaker 3: how the hell they lose. So we'll get to that
Speaker 3: in a lot more. It's coffee and company. We're rolling
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Speaker 3: favored by thirteen and a half. And I mean, I
Speaker 3: think despite the loss against Georgia Tech, and I don't
Speaker 3: think it. You know, the resume is clearly still going
Speaker 3: to have a stain on it with that loss to
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech. But I do think my confidence in Louisville
Speaker 3: never really wavered in this matchup tonight because Boston College
Speaker 3: is just a bad team. But to see Georgia Tech
Speaker 3: continue that momentum and beat Clemson at their place, it
Speaker 3: kind of makes me feel like thirteen and a half
Speaker 3: is free money. But then again, maybe I'm maybe I'm
Speaker 3: too confident, but I just I think this group, their
Speaker 3: maturity they're they're not hanging their head. They're gonna come
Speaker 3: ready to play tonight. And Boston College is the kind
Speaker 3: of team that you should be. I mean, you should
Speaker 3: be able to bury them. And what I mean by
Speaker 3: that is they know they're bad and they will probably
Speaker 3: see a big deficit early in this game and then
Speaker 3: kind of go through the motions. I mean, right now,
Speaker 3: Boston College, they are ten and eleven overall. They do
Speaker 3: have that win against Florida State over the weekend, which
Speaker 3: pretty much led to Leonard Hamilton announcing he's done. Florida
Speaker 3: State probably told him to go ahead and put the
Speaker 3: fans out of their misery. Let him know that you're
Speaker 3: going to be walking at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: because that's how rough of a season it's been for
Speaker 3: Florida State in the last couple of years. But anyways,
Speaker 3: before beating Florida State with really a miraculous win, I
Speaker 3: mean the way they did it, they were down four
Speaker 3: points with the ball less than ten seconds left, and
Speaker 3: they were able to in that amount of time get
Speaker 3: an offensive rebound, put it back in, and then steal
Speaker 3: the inbounds pass from Florida State and then chuck up
Speaker 3: a three that went in. So it was really a
Speaker 3: very very unusual finish and really a game that they
Speaker 3: should not have won. Other than that, the only other
Speaker 3: win that they have in league play is against Miami,
Speaker 3: who has been absolutely free falling for quite some time.
Speaker 3: This is, in fact, I think, the worst team in
Speaker 3: the league when it comes to the Kinpom. I mean,
Speaker 3: right now, Boston College is sitting at two hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is the worst team in the ACC.
Speaker 3: So really the significance tonight is just make sure that
Speaker 3: you somehow don't lose. But also, I mean you need
Speaker 3: to blow them out. Like, let's be honest, you need
Speaker 3: to blow this team out or you will probably fall
Speaker 3: in the metrics just because that's how it works. That's
Speaker 3: not right, but it's been that way for a while,
Speaker 3: so I mean, you don't want to come out trying
Speaker 3: to just kill them and then you end up playing
Speaker 3: tight and not just playing your game. But I think
Speaker 3: that these guys just come out and play the way
Speaker 3: they've played the last eleven games for the most part,
Speaker 3: they should be able to cruise. Because when you get
Speaker 3: down big and you're going through the kind of season
Speaker 3: Boston College is going through, you end up kind of
Speaker 3: just going through the motions. It's not that these guys
Speaker 3: are quitters and they're just gonna, you know, not try.
Speaker 3: But I've actually seen this play out before, right fade
Speaker 3: worthy teams. I think of Louisville nder Kenney Payne, and
Speaker 3: I think of you know, and and I'm not picking
Speaker 3: on Louisville. It's just that those are the teams I
Speaker 3: watch every game because that's that's what I do. I'm
Speaker 3: I'm a fan that wouldn't know how to not follow
Speaker 3: and watch along even when my team is bad. So
Speaker 3: Kenny Payne in his last two in his only two
Speaker 3: years here, and then Bobby Petrino's last year, Louisville was
Speaker 3: free money, fading them like you couldn't set the line
Speaker 3: big enough and they were going to get killed by
Speaker 3: a bigger number. So tonight, the projected score according to
Speaker 3: Ken Palm is Louisville winning eighty to sixty seven, which
Speaker 3: I think they win by more than that, but we'll see,
Speaker 3: we shall see, all right. Kentucky they lost last night,
Speaker 3: and really I haven't even checked to see what that
Speaker 3: loss did for Kentucky in the metrics, but I knew
Speaker 3: I did see that Lonardi had moved them to a
Speaker 3: four seed after last night's loss, a double digit loss,
Speaker 3: a game where they were down twenty plus points for
Speaker 3: I want to say a big chunk of the game,
Speaker 3: because that seems that seems like an exaggeration. But they
Speaker 3: were down big early, and they were down big early
Speaker 3: in the second half, and then they fought back. But
Speaker 3: I think the closest it got was what eleven maybe,
Speaker 3: But in the end they lose ninety eight to eighty four,
Speaker 3: their first In fact, I was totally wrong. I said
Speaker 3: that that Kentucky had not lost two consecutive games under
Speaker 3: Mark Pope in his first season there, and I was
Speaker 3: way off, because they actually had just by the way.
Speaker 3: They lost to Alabama Andy, then squeezed in a road
Speaker 3: win at Tennessee, and then lost to Arkansas in Ole, Miss.
Speaker 3: So they've actually now lost four out of five. Why
Speaker 3: did I not realize they had more? Probably because as
Speaker 3: much as I want to take joy in a lot
Speaker 3: of their losses, I realized, for the most part, they're
Speaker 3: losing the good teams and the SEC is just that loaded.
Speaker 3: And maybe, just maybe I happened to like Mark Pope
Speaker 3: enough to where I'll never root for him or want
Speaker 3: him to win. I was happy they lost to Arkansas,
Speaker 3: was happy they lost last night, but like, I just
Speaker 3: can't seem to get the same level of joy when
Speaker 3: they lose that I used to get. And I think, honestly,
Speaker 3: more than anything, it's because I don't like Kentucky because
Speaker 3: I'm a Louisville fan. I'm anti UK, meaning you know,
Speaker 3: it's nice for me when my rival loses because I'm
Speaker 3: a Diard Louisville fan. But man, I actually like ark
Speaker 3: Pope a lot. I don't want to, but I do,
Speaker 3: and I think their players are pretty easy to like
Speaker 3: for the most part. So they've now lost four out
Speaker 3: of five. They've now fallen to number twenty four in
Speaker 3: the in the Ken Pom. They're still I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't even know how they'd missed the tournament. I know
Speaker 3: some of the calls last night on Matt's post game show,
Speaker 3: people were mentioning that they're worried about the tournament, and
Speaker 3: I hear you, but I just don't know how you would. No,
Speaker 3: I don't know how you not make the tournament because
Speaker 3: you're you could lose a lot more games the rest
Speaker 3: of the way and beat the teams that you know
Speaker 3: you're supposed to beat, like South Carolina who's coming to
Speaker 3: town Saturday, Vandy who you'll host, which isn't a gimmy,
Speaker 3: but you should win that one. And then you've got
Speaker 3: LSU at home. But the rest of the way, like
Speaker 3: if you finish with the same record, if you finish
Speaker 3: with the record that Ken Palm is currently projecting for
Speaker 3: Kentucky twenty and eleven overall, nine and nine in the SEC,
Speaker 3: you're certainly not going to get a great seed, but
Speaker 3: you're you're safely in the tournament. I mean, what's the
Speaker 3: floor for Kentucky here, meaning they're fifteen and seven right now.
Speaker 3: The projected losses the rest of the way Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: but that's about two Alabama and Tuscaloosa, Auburn at home,
Speaker 3: and Missouri at Missouri who Missouri's the top twenty five teams,
Speaker 3: So like that's that's five more losses, but none of
Speaker 3: those losses are like losses that would be real big
Speaker 3: issues for your resume, and you already have enough good
Speaker 3: wins that I really, I mean, I feel like they'd
Speaker 3: have to almost almost yeah, like they might and that
Speaker 3: sounds crazy, but I kind of feel like they might
Speaker 3: have to lose out to not make the tournament and.
Speaker 2: Lose out or don't at least go three, at least
Speaker 2: go three and two in those Gamesyahy.
Speaker 3: Look, they also you know, could win some of these
Speaker 3: games they're projected to lose because they've done that, right.
Speaker 3: Like Lamon Butler not being there certainly is an issue
Speaker 3: for Kentucky because they are not a good defensive team
Speaker 3: in general, and he's one of your better defenders and
Speaker 3: they're just, i mean, their issue, their weakness really is defense,
Speaker 3: and that's pretty obvious when you watch him play. But
Speaker 3: the same team that lost last night and was down
Speaker 3: twenty plus points the third biggest deficit they've ever had
Speaker 3: at Kentucky at halftime in an SEC game and lost
Speaker 3: to Arkansas over the weekend in a game that Arkansas
Speaker 3: you know, really just outplayed them, honestly from start to finish,
Speaker 3: it seemed. And we'll see what Arkansas does the rest
Speaker 3: of the way. They're in action tonight taking on Texas.
Speaker 3: But my point is they've been without Lamon Butler, and
Speaker 3: nobody would tell you that that doesn't matter. But they've
Speaker 3: also beat two really good teams on the road without him,
Speaker 3: like with the same group that they have now. With
Speaker 3: all that said, Kerkriesa was there in Spoke when they
Speaker 3: beat Gonzaga, and he hit some big shots and he's
Speaker 3: just a He's a veteran leader that is missed and
Speaker 3: I'm I know he can He's not a great defender,
Speaker 3: but you know, certainly there's some guys out there that
Speaker 3: that that he could probably do a little better job
Speaker 3: than they're doing. So the same team that lost last
Speaker 3: night and got embarrassed, and everybody's making up all these
Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to say excuses, because again,
Speaker 3: nobody would say that without Lamont Butler that you know,
Speaker 3: you're the same team, but you've proven that you can
Speaker 3: stole in. You beat Tennessee at Tennessee with the exact
Speaker 3: same team that last night at times looked like they
Speaker 3: might get beat by fifty. I mean that's an exaggeration,
Speaker 3: but I mean it was getting it was getting ugly,
Speaker 3: and it was ugly for a little while. So you know,
Speaker 3: I I just find Kentucky to be a very very
Speaker 3: odd team. And I don't mean that as a as
Speaker 3: an insult or a compliment. It's just their resume is odd, right, Like,
Speaker 3: how do you have such good wins and yet you know,
Speaker 3: you have these back to back losses and they're not
Speaker 3: bad losses really in the grand scheme of things. But
Speaker 3: if you can beat Tennis see at their place when
Speaker 3: you're shorthanded, you can beat Florida, who still is one
Speaker 3: of the best teams in the country, not even close,
Speaker 3: you know, Like, how do you slip up and lose
Speaker 3: to some of these some of these other teams. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just part of college basketball. And trust me, I
Speaker 3: know the SEC's loaded, but the resume has been really
Speaker 3: unusual all year. And another thing that's odd is their stats.
Speaker 3: I mean, imagine telling somebody that Otega Away who has
Speaker 3: really been a good player for them from the beginning,
Speaker 3: you know, from start to from starting until now for Kentucky,
Speaker 3: and he has a career high last night, so he's
Speaker 3: having to step up even more so because Lamont Butler's out,
Speaker 3: so he has a career high. Amari Williams has a
Speaker 3: triple double and they were never even in the game,
Speaker 3: Like how think about that triple double from your big guy,
Speaker 3: and by the way, a triple double where he's also
Speaker 3: dropping dimes and then Otiga Away has twenty four points.
Speaker 3: He makes two to four from three point range. And again,
Speaker 3: you were never in the game. You trailed by as
Speaker 3: much as I believe twenty four. I mean you only.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's see, there was no lead change in
Speaker 3: this game. Kentucky never let it looks like it was
Speaker 3: zero to zero for it looks like seventeen seconds. And
Speaker 3: then from then on Old Miss just really kind of
Speaker 3: you know, beat you down and then really never never
Speaker 3: left it up for grabs at the end. I mean again,
Speaker 3: Kentucky did have a nice run in the second half,
Speaker 3: they outscored him by nine, but look, whenever you end
Speaker 3: up spotting somebody twenty plus points, giving them a twenty
Speaker 3: plus point lead in the first half, it's just it's
Speaker 3: unlikely to win, especially when you're playing an Old Miss
Speaker 3: team coached by Chris Beard, who is good. So again,
Speaker 3: like those are just wild stats to look at and
Speaker 3: see that you lost. I mean, check these stats out.
Speaker 3: I mean, Kentucky shot forty eight percent from three may
Speaker 3: ten of twenty one, shot twenty two free throws, more
Speaker 3: free throws and a better percentage than Ole Miss, and
Speaker 3: then and again they lost in were never in the game.
Speaker 3: How does that happen? And if you're a Kentucky fan,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you know they're so bad defensively. They just are.
Speaker 3: And I think Ole Miss is the perfect combination to
Speaker 3: where they're gonna guard you pretty well. But again, even
Speaker 3: even with that, I mean again, old Kentucky shot the
Speaker 3: ball well and scored eighty four points, but the physicality
Speaker 3: from ole Miss really exposed where Kentucky is struggling defensively,
Speaker 3: because it's not just about having guys that can take
Speaker 3: you off the bounce and really just expose somebody that's
Speaker 3: gonna have a tough time stand in front, but just
Speaker 3: pushing people around. I mean drey Davis, former Louisville cardinal,
Speaker 3: he came in here and did it to Louisville just
Speaker 3: a couple of months ago. Well, he last night, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what he finished with, but I mean he
Speaker 3: just got yeah. I mean drey Davis seven of ten
Speaker 3: last night, had seventeen points and really just scored some
Speaker 3: tough buckets. That's kind of what he does. But Merle
Speaker 3: their guard. He had twenty four, was six of eleven
Speaker 3: from three, couldn't miss it. So I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's a loss for Kentucky that you sit
Speaker 3: back and think, did the col Arkansas loss get them twice?
Speaker 3: I could see why some might say that, but I
Speaker 3: really don't think that. I don't. I mean, again, the
Speaker 3: Arkansas game was really just a gut punch for fans.
Speaker 3: I think if anything, the players knew that they let
Speaker 3: fans down, but they didn't have any extra energy towards
Speaker 3: cal in Arkansas. There's no connection there, So you look
Speaker 3: at the rest of their schedule. I mean, I guess
Speaker 3: last night's the first time they really weren't able to
Speaker 3: respond right, And I talked about it all throughout the
Speaker 3: show yesterday. They had been in the exact same spot
Speaker 3: last night that they they like three other times, they
Speaker 3: were in the exact same spot where they were coming
Speaker 3: off of a loss. You felt like they shouldn't lose.
Speaker 3: They were playing a team that's better than the team
Speaker 3: that just beat them sometimes at their place, and then
Speaker 3: they go in and win. Well, last night, they weren't
Speaker 3: able to do it. And I mean, I still think
Speaker 3: Kentucky's done enough this year. They've beaten enough good teams
Speaker 3: even when they weren't fully they weren't at full strength
Speaker 3: to where I mean, I'm not looking at any game
Speaker 3: left on their schedule and saying, yeah, they're not going
Speaker 3: to win that one. If there is any it would
Speaker 3: be Auburn, just because Auburn is insanely good. But if
Speaker 3: they somehow lose to South Carolina at home, that's where
Speaker 3: I think you'd really start to worry if you're Kentucky.
Speaker 3: But again, worry about the tournament. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you could ever worry about the tournament. I honestly don't
Speaker 3: know if they could miss the tournament. I mean, you
Speaker 3: don't want to risk it by any means, and you
Speaker 3: certainly don't whatt you're season to fall apart. But the
Speaker 3: worst loss they would have would be Saturday a lost
Speaker 3: to South Carolina at home. But that's the most that's
Speaker 3: probably the most guaranteed game left on their schedule, and
Speaker 3: the rest of the way, I mean, if they lost
Speaker 3: to Tennessee, Texas, Vandy, Alabama, Oklahoma, Auburn, LSU, and Missouri,
Speaker 3: the only loss they would have to a non tournament
Speaker 3: team would be LSU. And I think they'll probably be
Speaker 3: LSU because they're at home and they're just better. But yeah,
Speaker 3: their defensive issues are or a problem, but again they
Speaker 3: were able to overcome that against a really good Tennessee team.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to a quick break. We will
Speaker 3: keep this thing rolling along. I want to talk a
Speaker 3: little more about Rick Patino, just how he's been off
Speaker 3: to such a great start at Saint John's this season,
Speaker 3: and nobody's gonna be surprised if Saint John's ends up
Speaker 3: making a deep run in the tournament, because that's kind
Speaker 3: of what Patino does. And also, we have the lineup
Speaker 3: for Bourbon and Beyond, a music festival that, of course
Speaker 3: we're all familiar with around here. It's awesome, but.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's my favorite time of the year.
Speaker 3: It's got to be growing as one. Again, what do
Speaker 3: I know. I'm not a music festival guy, but I
Speaker 3: feel like with last year's lineup and what we now
Speaker 3: know is going to be there this year, like it's
Speaker 3: got to be up there as one of the best
Speaker 3: you'll find in the country for that kind of festival,
Speaker 3: meaning that I mean it's not really I mean it's
Speaker 3: kind of a mixture of a little bit of everything,
Speaker 3: you know, and that's that's why you get big crowds
Speaker 3: for that kind of stuff. So a lot more to come.
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Speaker 3: Look. When it comes to music, I I try to
Speaker 3: stay in my lane. What I mean by that is
Speaker 3: I mean everybody, I mean, you can't be good at
Speaker 3: being a music fan. You like what you like, you
Speaker 3: listen to what you want. But what I mean is like,
Speaker 3: I'm just not as I don't. I don't know who's popular,
Speaker 3: who's emerging. Like the Grammy nominations absolutely reminded me how
Speaker 3: out of touch I am with music. I mean, Beyonce
Speaker 3: won a country at Grammy. I mean I'd heard that
Speaker 3: she like did a song that had a country you know,
Speaker 3: twang to it, but I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know that she actually made a country album.
Speaker 3: Some say that she actually didn't make a country altum.
Speaker 3: But it depends on who you ask, yeah, exactly. So
Speaker 3: when I when I when I say that I stay
Speaker 3: in my lane, I just I know that I'm not
Speaker 3: as informed as as many others. So when I saw
Speaker 3: the line up here for Bourbon and Beyond, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I mean I thought that the main acts were were
Speaker 3: a little not underwhelming because they're they're well known, but
Speaker 3: I don't know sort of the level of popularity. And
Speaker 3: I think music festivals it's really not about who's got
Speaker 3: the you know, who's got the most hits on the radio.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's important when it comes to your fame
Speaker 3: and your and your visibility, but like you can have
Speaker 3: you can have an artist at a music festival that
Speaker 3: isn't even in anywhere mainstream, but they've built up such
Speaker 3: a big following that people will travel to come see them.
Speaker 3: And if you've got you know, one hundred people that
Speaker 3: came to go see Red Fern, who's a Red Farren,
Speaker 3: who's going to be at at at this event, which
Speaker 3: that's very easy to see that happening, that's that's that's
Speaker 3: all you need, right, I mean, we have this many acts,
Speaker 3: you're gonna get big, big, big draw with the big names.
Speaker 3: But then there's others, you know, like the Goo Goo dolls,
Speaker 3: Like there are people who would say, hell yeah, the
Speaker 3: Goo Goo dolls, like some.
Speaker 2: Of the yeah so black Balloon name Iris.
Speaker 3: Oh, third Slod, hell yeah, I mean we got third
Speaker 3: eye Blind, we got Foreigner. I mean I thought that
Speaker 3: the album was phenomenal from my perspective or not not
Speaker 3: the album, the lineup was phenomenal from from from my end,
Speaker 3: but I just didn't really know what the general public
Speaker 3: those who really really were because again I was I
Speaker 3: wasn't on the edge of my seat to see who
Speaker 3: was coming. I was excited, but not to the level
Speaker 3: of those that go every year and really love this stuff.
Speaker 3: So it seems like from what I've gathered, the names
Speaker 3: that are the headliners, Fish Noah khan Stgil Simpson, Lumineers,
Speaker 3: and Jack White, like, those are all big names. I
Speaker 3: would imagine most people at least are somewhat familiar with
Speaker 3: all of those acts. But then everybody else, Like, that's
Speaker 3: where it really gets. I mean that that's where the
Speaker 3: value is in this music festival that you can I mean,
Speaker 3: they've got a lot of depth, right, they got a
Speaker 3: deep bitch. I mean, you've got Musket on Bloodline, who
Speaker 3: I really like. Wouldn't have never expected them here but Bloodline,
Speaker 3: but they're there. They're at least I like him. Megan
Speaker 3: Maroney is huge here in the country music scene. Mega
Speaker 3: from what we're going to be doing at W A MZ.
Speaker 3: We're going to be covering a lot from the the
Speaker 3: Sturgel Simpson standpoint and the Mega Maroney because she's she's
Speaker 3: huge in Nashville. I mean we got we got Ringo Star.
Speaker 3: That's right, he's Ford Confessional. What take me back to
Speaker 3: two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Baby, I didn't know Ringo Star was still alive, but
Speaker 2: I guess he is. I've heard of this Joe Bon
Speaker 2: Bonamasa before, Mary Chasing Carpenter. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: know who that is.
Speaker 3: Kobel you know who that is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard that name before.
Speaker 3: Jim Blossoms, that's that. That that's one that like if
Speaker 3: you if you know, you.
Speaker 2: Know, you know what I'm saying, Dude, that's that that
Speaker 2: early late nineties, early two thousands, post grunge, pop rock, dude,
Speaker 2: give me all of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the I think the big names are
Speaker 3: not as big as what you had last year. I
Speaker 3: mean we're talking about I mean, you had Zach Bryan
Speaker 3: and who else was the other huge name?
Speaker 2: Tyler Childer?
Speaker 3: Yes, and you know Tyler does. Yeah, Tyler does have
Speaker 3: an audience across the planet that would travel to see him.
Speaker 3: But obviously he's got such a fanfare here in Kentucky
Speaker 3: where he's from. But Zach Bryan when he came, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I really don't know if you
Speaker 3: could have gotten him at a time where he had
Speaker 3: more momentum seemingly as far as people wanting to see him.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, And it's not that he's fallen off since then,
Speaker 3: but you know that was in fact that say that
Speaker 3: that day that they broke the day they broke the
Speaker 3: record and he played, I mean you could just feel
Speaker 3: that there were people from across the planet here to
Speaker 3: see him, Like he has that kind of a pull,
Speaker 3: which again people like what they like. I don't think
Speaker 3: he's bad. I just I'm not like I'm not, I'm
Speaker 3: a super fan.
Speaker 2: I've been working those festivals for about six years now,
Speaker 2: and that was the largest crowd that Saturday to see
Speaker 2: Zach Brian, crazy shiting.
Speaker 3: Didn't feel like they were all there for him specifically.
Speaker 2: It was it was nuts. It broke the record for
Speaker 2: like the most it was a big superbon and beyond
Speaker 2: that they've had ever since they started what like ten, ten,
Speaker 2: twelve years ago something like that. But dude, I think
Speaker 2: the only thing that came close to that is a
Speaker 2: few years ago when Metallica came here and did too Yeah,
Speaker 2: which was one of my personal favorite shows ever Metallico
Speaker 2: for two nights well, and.
Speaker 3: That was Louder than Life.
Speaker 2: Right, that was Louder than Life, Yes, but at the
Speaker 2: festival grounds that was the most at that time that
Speaker 2: I've seen that many people. It looked like it was
Speaker 2: almost just as that for Zach Bryan.
Speaker 3: And that's not Again, I feel like I'm stepping out
Speaker 3: on my lane when I say this, because I really
Speaker 3: don't know what to compare it to. But I feel
Speaker 3: like with what we have seen from Danny Wimmer with
Speaker 3: both Bourbon and Beyond and Louder than Life and the
Speaker 3: lineups they've had consistently for the last few years, these
Speaker 3: two festivals have to be up there as far as
Speaker 3: being some of the most popular ones you'll find in
Speaker 3: North America. Again, I could be way wrong, but like
Speaker 3: it just feels that way because I know there's certain
Speaker 3: names that have been coming to these things the last
Speaker 3: few years to where I mean, I know the draw
Speaker 3: that they are, I know how big of a deal
Speaker 3: they are, and if they're here, that alone makes it
Speaker 3: a big uh, a big event.
Speaker 2: And the names of the festivals too, Bourbon and beyond. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that just that name.
Speaker 3: That is a perfect name.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's it's amazing and louder than life.
Speaker 2: I know, our guy Danny Wimmer, he does a lot
Speaker 2: of other festivals like shout out Yeah, shout out Danny Wimmer.
Speaker 2: If you you know you want to slide me one
Speaker 2: of those free VIP wristbands. He hasn't called me back
Speaker 2: for that, though, you got time, I still got time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can. You know I've helped them set up there before.
Speaker 2: But a lot of than Life. I mean that just
Speaker 2: sounds like I mean he does the other ones after
Speaker 2: shock out in I think it's Sacramento, a sonic temple
Speaker 2: that's up there in Ohio. But something about louder than Life,
Speaker 2: you know, it feels like you have to be there
Speaker 2: and let me tell you something. And you've been out
Speaker 2: there before and for all the other people that have
Speaker 2: and if you haven't win.
Speaker 3: Like you're about to cut a wrestling brom, let me
Speaker 3: tell you something.
Speaker 2: Me tell you something, Gene mean, Nick, It's just it,
Speaker 2: It's it's always funny. My favorite parts are the two
Speaker 2: completely different crowds from each week of those festivals, because
Speaker 2: you know, you got this. I mean, yeah, you got
Speaker 2: the sun dresses and the cowgirl boots, and then you
Speaker 2: got the country boys out there showing out for that,
Speaker 2: and then we flipped the switch the very next week
Speaker 2: and it's fish nets. It's guys dressed as the a
Speaker 2: lot of cost play. She's oh my goodness, there is
Speaker 2: sometimes even not closed.
Speaker 3: I'll never top that vibe check never, no matter what
Speaker 3: I do, louder than live vibe check.
Speaker 2: You to bring it back for this year, I know,
Speaker 2: but lineup.
Speaker 3: But I fear just not being able to reach what
Speaker 3: we did a couple of years ago because that one,
Speaker 3: that one was tough to be.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like you got to do it once. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was your really first authentic time because you've never
Speaker 2: been there before. Right.
Speaker 3: No, I walked in day one. It just they just
Speaker 3: opened the doors or I guess the gates, like a
Speaker 3: few hours before I got there. It was Thursday, early
Speaker 3: in the day, and I couldn't. I mean I was,
Speaker 3: I was mesmerized. It was amazing. And imagine what it
Speaker 3: was like, you know, the next day and the day after.
Speaker 2: That, Sogine last year in the mud because remember, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: that sloppy, sloppy hurricane just chill over us.
Speaker 3: For all that made the most of it last year.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that was an ideal, but uh yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been. It's been really awesome to see how how
Speaker 3: these music festivals here have grown, and anytime you're bringing
Speaker 3: a lot of people to take in Louisville and really
Speaker 3: experience what we I mean. I know, I'm I'm a homer,
Speaker 3: I'm biased, but like, I love Louisville as a home
Speaker 3: and I think it's always nice to see people that
Speaker 3: come here that don't know anything about it, but they know, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm here for the Derby, or I'm here for a
Speaker 3: lot of them, like Bourbon and Beyond. And you know,
Speaker 3: when you don't really have much of an expectation and
Speaker 3: you're there for it, it's a destination trip because of the
Speaker 3: event alone, and then you end up enjoying yourself, hanging
Speaker 3: out and some of the great places here in Louisville
Speaker 3: that you know make it awesome. That's it hits me
Speaker 3: in the hearts as a proud, proud Blue Avilion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just as a proud music lover. I love
Speaker 2: hearing all the stories of people because they get to
Speaker 2: meet so many people from all over the country. And
Speaker 2: all these people are literally fanatics, Like they follow Noah
Speaker 2: Khan everywhere. They followed a Poison everywhere. They haven't been
Speaker 2: here in a while, but like they follow some of
Speaker 2: these bands that are there. And I kind of do
Speaker 2: the same when I do my wrestling stuff, Like you know,
Speaker 2: I'll yeah, I went to this WrestleMania and I went
Speaker 2: to this Survivor series and that's like its own thing,
Speaker 2: like kind of in its own category. But now there
Speaker 2: are other groups for so many different things, Like there
Speaker 2: are fanatics of Foreigner, there are fanatics of Jack White
Speaker 2: that have seen him in Tulsa, that have seen him
Speaker 2: in Washington, that have been to Dallas, and then they're
Speaker 2: like they want to make Louisville a part of that
Speaker 2: list too. It's a nice place to chill and you
Speaker 2: get to go to a music festival.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good stuff. I want to do more stuff
Speaker 3: like that. You know, I just I hate big crowds.
Speaker 3: I just feel like.
Speaker 2: Going to get pretty nerve wracking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like sometimes like the work that goes
Speaker 3: into going to something like that the issues with like
Speaker 3: getting out of there in a timely manner. That stuff
Speaker 3: has always kept me from doing things that I know
Speaker 3: deep down I would actually enjoy doing. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make.
Speaker 2: That early, pace it out. And because a lot I mean,
Speaker 2: because the tickets cost so much, a lot of people do.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to stay all day and go
Speaker 2: through everything, and then you spend a lot of money.
Speaker 2: But if you could pace yourself out and at least
Speaker 2: see like a handful of what you want to see
Speaker 2: each day and not wear yourself out, because it's easy
Speaker 2: to get worn out literally after two days, and then
Speaker 2: it starts on Thursday now and by Saturday you're just
Speaker 2: kind of want adrenaline at that point.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I feel like when you work those
Speaker 3: events which you do from really start to finish, I'm
Speaker 3: sure it's you know, part of it is a labor
Speaker 3: of love. We wouldn't be we wouldn't be doing what
Speaker 3: we're doing without without loving it. But also, God, it's
Speaker 3: got to be like very very taxing. Like it's not
Speaker 3: just that you're standing there all day outside usually when
Speaker 3: it's either raining or hottest hot as hell, but man
Speaker 3: like when it's all over. I bet you just want
Speaker 3: to sit.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, you know how NBA players are like in
Speaker 2: the locker room and they have their knees all taped
Speaker 2: up with with ice and everything's all on. I did that.
Speaker 2: There's a fun picture of me just laying there this
Speaker 2: farmer's tan and I got a bag of peas on
Speaker 2: one knee and I got an actual ice pack on
Speaker 2: the other knee. And I felt like Katie, after going
Speaker 2: seven games.
Speaker 3: You left it all on the field. Brother. That's all
Speaker 3: you can do.
Speaker 2: Man, I could put my name on these festivals.
Speaker 3: You remember the meme of the lady who worked at
Speaker 3: Popeye's whenever the whole world went crazy over their spicy
Speaker 3: chicken sandwich. And she's sitting outside, just exhausted.
Speaker 2: Hands on her knees, And you know, I think.
Speaker 3: Everybody said, Jordan flu game kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Which.
Speaker 3: God, the Internet's great, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I was just thinking about that today. Comments
Speaker 2: sections of people who make up memes in our original
Speaker 2: is just so great. How how are you guys? So good?
Speaker 3: The Internet has absolutely exposed us to just how stupid
Speaker 3: a lot of people can be. But also it's it's
Speaker 3: brought a lot of laughs, and that that makes me
Speaker 3: makes me very happy. It really does, all right, folks.
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