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Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started here hour number two
Speaker 2: on a Friday afternoon, as we get you set for
Speaker 2: the weekend. I know I say this all the time,
Speaker 2: it really actually feels as we speak like the weekend
Speaker 2: has started, because the vibes here in Louisville are solid,
Speaker 2: in fact, better than solid. We got Bourbon to beyond.
Speaker 2: Going on day two, Louisville football will be in action
Speaker 2: tomorrow in a little bit under twenty four hours, and
Speaker 2: it's their first test. I still have yet to get
Speaker 2: a real feel for how I put it this way,
Speaker 2: I've yet to really be able to fully put into
Speaker 2: words how I would describe, if I could, what this
Speaker 2: game feels like, because I respect Georgia Tech a lot,
Speaker 2: but I also feel like Louisville winning. That's what you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do, which technically it is like that's not
Speaker 2: the case. But I realized if they play well in Louisville,
Speaker 2: you know, has has some miscues and maybe they come
Speaker 2: out flat off of bye week or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, George Tack will make you pay for it.
Speaker 2: And some people have brought up last year's game because
Speaker 2: Wild Game Louisville got off to a really bad start,
Speaker 2: and it is crazy how that season. I mean, it
Speaker 2: didn't end well with three straight losses, but you still
Speaker 2: had a ten win season. And you know, anybody who
Speaker 2: claims last year was not a very successful year one
Speaker 2: for brom is to be frank with you as an idiot.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't name call, but you know I'm in that
Speaker 2: kind of mood today, and I apologize. I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: you're an idiot. I guess you're in titled to your opinion.
Speaker 2: I would just tell you that I disagree. But in
Speaker 2: that first half I was in Atlanta and I left
Speaker 2: after a very unsuccessful vibe check. I got into the
Speaker 2: dome and left early because because once it started to
Speaker 2: look bad, I'm like, I got to get out of here.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't be around people in public if
Speaker 2: Jeff Brohm starts to look like he may not be
Speaker 2: the guy here, which it would have been an overreaction
Speaker 2: if he did lose that game. But I remember people
Speaker 2: freaking out, panicking because Georgia Tech got off to a
Speaker 2: phenomenal start and Louisville, you know, came back and honestly,
Speaker 2: they really it wasn't like they put up twenty one
Speaker 2: unanswered in five ten minutes, but they slowly but surely
Speaker 2: dominated that second half and took over and really, you know,
Speaker 2: from then on had a really good season. So I
Speaker 2: don't think about that game last year at all. Haines
Speaker 2: King's a different guy now, he's got more confidence in himself.
Speaker 2: He's proven. And we didn't know last year that Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech was going to have a freshman receiver who would
Speaker 2: go on to be one of the best receivers in
Speaker 2: the country as a freshman meaning poor freshman, not overall.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I respect Georgie Tech a lot, and I
Speaker 2: know that they're capable of beating LOUIELL because honestly, anybody's
Speaker 2: capable of beating LOUISLL if they don't play well. I
Speaker 2: mean that's I mean, Louisll's not a team that can
Speaker 2: come out and honestly, most it's not even about Louisville.
Speaker 2: Most teams, in my opinion, especially now with the portal
Speaker 2: meaning where you got dudes, who you get a roster.
Speaker 2: Let's just mean, I'm sure nobody has crun this data
Speaker 2: and done the research to look at it. But in
Speaker 2: a Power for conference, wouldn't you say, John, in Power
Speaker 2: for Football, if you just do a random check in
Speaker 2: during any moment of a game other than when it's
Speaker 2: a blowout or something, that there'd be more guys on
Speaker 2: the field for both teams that were portal guys than not. Yes,
Speaker 2: especially more guys that didn't start their career where they're
Speaker 2: playing now.
Speaker 3: Yes, especially if you're not including like the Georgia's in
Speaker 3: the Alabama's and you do have some examples of the
Speaker 3: transfer portal players with those teams, but with the mid
Speaker 3: tier to lower tier Power for programs, you're definitely seeing
Speaker 3: a lot of I would say maybe even majority of
Speaker 3: your starting guys are portal players.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean in Louisville. I mean, let's look at Louisville
Speaker 2: guys that we feel really good about. I mean, some
Speaker 2: of the guys have been here for like, for example,
Speaker 2: Quincy Raley's one of your top players. He's a portal guy,
Speaker 2: but he's been here for three years now. But Ashton Julotti,
Speaker 2: I mean he's and we got some freshmen on Louis's
Speaker 2: team that I think are really that have a lot
Speaker 2: of potential, like Isaah Isaac Brown. But you know, Jelati
Speaker 2: is a guy who was not a big recruit and
Speaker 2: came to Louisville, became an All American caliber player and
Speaker 2: decided to stay here. I mean that's rare this day
Speaker 2: and age. So I cannot at this point. I'm just
Speaker 2: ready for the game to start. I'm anxious to see
Speaker 2: where Louisville stands. I'm well aware that a close loss
Speaker 2: or a close win wouldn't mean we need to worry.
Speaker 2: A loss wouldn't really mean we need to worry. However,
Speaker 2: Like realistically speaking, if you can lose to Georgia Tech
Speaker 2: at home, you got to keep in mind. You know,
Speaker 2: you got Miami at home. Miami's probably a better team.
Speaker 2: I mean I think they are right now. So I
Speaker 2: don't want to get into the schedule conversation. But this
Speaker 2: is a big game tomorrow. I mean, for a variety
Speaker 2: of reasons, I don't want to act like it would
Speaker 2: be a monumental thing that we're all going to tell
Speaker 2: our grandchildren about fifty years from now. But I'm pumped, man,
Speaker 2: I really am. And you know, I think the fact
Speaker 2: that my morale and my energy. You know, it's positive,
Speaker 2: is more impressive than people because I've had a hell
Speaker 2: of the last twenty four hours. I don't want to
Speaker 2: get back into all the specifics of it and reshare
Speaker 2: the story, but I'm without a vehicle after I gave
Speaker 2: Auto's owned business to replace my battery, and I now
Speaker 2: fear that they may have damaged my vehicle to where
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I'm going to be able
Speaker 2: to drive it again. And that's that's that's not good,
Speaker 2: that's scary. That's not only like that sucks, but like
Speaker 2: I got to figure out what do I do? Do
Speaker 2: I get a lawyer? Like what happens? So you know,
Speaker 2: I mean yeah again, like John, I'm like Jordan with
Speaker 2: the flu in the playoffs, right, Like a lot of
Speaker 2: adversity come in my way, A lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff going on, but I just I just deal
Speaker 2: with it because that's what I do.
Speaker 5: And you've heard a lot of episodes with this Volkswagen.
Speaker 2: I feel like, well no, so now now now, now,
Speaker 2: now you're striking a nerve a little bit here, okay,
Speaker 2: because they blame that they were any because they didn't
Speaker 2: know what they were doing before they realized that they
Speaker 2: I mean them not knowing how to put a battery
Speaker 2: in a car, them putting a battery in a vehicle backwards,
Speaker 2: and not realizing that they had done that for three hours,
Speaker 2: taking it out, putting it back in every time, not
Speaker 2: realizing that it was backwards. That's not a Volkswagon issue.
Speaker 2: And I know you didn't say that it was. But
Speaker 2: before they figured out that, for three hours, all they
Speaker 2: would do was bitch and moan. Well, that's why, why
Speaker 2: Hey Volkswagens, Why hey Volkswagons. And I'm like, that is
Speaker 2: why I carried the battery to the counter and asked you, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy this battery. Can you replace it for me.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like, hey, I'm not gonna buy it. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna buy it regardless, and if you can't do it,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take it to my stepfather, who's a mechanic
Speaker 2: who can do it for me. But I just wanted
Speaker 2: to know because it'd be convenient if you can just
Speaker 2: go do it for me, because I get it. You know,
Speaker 2: if you take my battery now, I get a cheaper battery.
Speaker 2: And they checked it in their system and they were
Speaker 2: able to replace it. They said, but they put it
Speaker 2: on backwards for three hours and now they know. Now
Speaker 2: they're not bringing up BW. Now they're not telling me
Speaker 2: it's because because you get it doesn't matter the car
Speaker 2: you can You don't know what I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: even somebody one of their associates today that I talked
Speaker 2: to told me, John, you could have never opened a
Speaker 2: hood and probably figured out which way a battery goes in.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the truth of it. Now, why do
Speaker 2: you think I've had problems with my Volkswagen.
Speaker 3: I feel like maybe this wasn't a Volkswagen specific issue.
Speaker 3: But I remember a story I guess it was from
Speaker 3: last year when you were on the side of I
Speaker 3: sixty five with.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, yeah yeah. I mean that was just
Speaker 2: I ran over something. I mean, I ran over something
Speaker 2: that got stuck under my vehicle and I had to
Speaker 2: call my stepdad to come and like pry it out.
Speaker 2: It was it was not ideal. And look, here's what's crazy.
Speaker 2: I know that Volkswagens are a pain in the ass
Speaker 2: for mechanics. There are many successful mechanics that will not
Speaker 2: work on your Volkswagen because they're just so different. I
Speaker 2: love the car. I am now going to keep it
Speaker 2: in mind whenever I you know, whenever I ever get
Speaker 2: a new vehicle. If I do, I might have to
Speaker 2: get one soon. Like I'm going to keep in mind
Speaker 2: like that. That is something that it's just different. Like
Speaker 2: a lot of places will look at your car and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I do that. It's pretty easy, but for your car
Speaker 2: it won't be. Or I'm not going to do it
Speaker 2: because it's a pain in the ass. So but like
Speaker 2: the vehicle, I love my car and the Dubbs loyalist,
Speaker 2: do you think or no, No, I mean, like I've
Speaker 2: never had one before. But we got this car in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty the end of twenty twenty, I think it
Speaker 2: was maybe early twenty twenty one. It's a twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: It was gently used and it's the perfect size suv.
Speaker 2: It's a third row but it's not too bulky. It's
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's four cylinder, two well drive, turbo
Speaker 2: so I can. It's got a little get up in it.
Speaker 2: It's decent on gas milage. I love my car, and
Speaker 2: now they may have ruined it, Like I hope that's
Speaker 2: not the case. But what I haven't shared with you
Speaker 2: is I called the dealership to just get there, like
Speaker 2: I wanted to tell them my side of the story, like, hey,
Speaker 2: I don't know what they told you, but they're sending
Speaker 2: my car to you, and I'm gonna tell you what
Speaker 2: is now an issue that wasn't an issue before I
Speaker 2: gave it to them, because I don't know what they
Speaker 2: told you, because they're gonna probably say, hey, he just
Speaker 2: needs this fixed time on because they're gonna put the bill.
Speaker 2: They are, and they did say that, but I feel
Speaker 2: like it's it's it's lame for me to act like
Speaker 2: I'm oh, thank you so much for inconvenient me and
Speaker 2: making my life a living hell for roughly twenty four
Speaker 2: hours and you still being out ahead to where I've
Speaker 2: given you money in business and you've inconvenienced me kept
Speaker 2: me away again. Here I am playing victim, and that's
Speaker 2: what makes this Like, my wife is so fired up, John,
Speaker 2: so fired up, it's kind of turning me on, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, She is fired up, and she's like,
Speaker 2: you need to get mad. You need to call corporate,
Speaker 2: you need to tell them we're talking to the Better
Speaker 2: Business Bureau. And I'm like, baby, that's not me she's like,
Speaker 2: it doesn't like she's like, it doesn't matter if it's you.
Speaker 2: This is what's right. And I said that to my
Speaker 2: core is not my personality. And she said, you're just
Speaker 2: scared of people saying you're a male Karen. And I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, honey, you might be right, but are
Speaker 2: you a Karen if you're upset for legitimate reasons? Like
Speaker 2: I will say this. I don't know if people are
Speaker 2: trying to gasp me up or whatnot. But when I
Speaker 2: share this story, not to just listeners, but just like
Speaker 2: people I've talked to you, like my family, my friends,
Speaker 2: and of course you would think they would have my side,
Speaker 2: but like they're telling me, I have not left until
Speaker 2: they literally refunded you your money and told you somebody's
Speaker 2: coming here right now to fix your car. And like,
Speaker 2: what's crazy is like I would never make those kind
Speaker 2: of demands, but really that's not that's not a crazy request.
Speaker 2: I came and gave you money, you bit. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure my purchase was not something that really put
Speaker 2: them over, but you took my money and gave me
Speaker 2: back my car that doesn't work, and like that's not cool.
Speaker 2: I mean to say, it's not cool as an understatement.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, and here's here, here's where I'm
Speaker 2: at with it. John, if somebody was to like lose
Speaker 2: their mind, it wouldn't mean they're in the wrong. It's
Speaker 2: just not me. It's just not my personality. And I
Speaker 2: don't mean because I'm holier than now and I'm such
Speaker 2: a nice guy, not at all what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 2: just not my personality. Like you know, some people think
Speaker 2: because I'm I'm that could be standoffish. I'm not super
Speaker 2: social publicly, and I am an introvert that at times,
Speaker 2: especially in this line of work, has made people here
Speaker 2: we go, it was up gush. It's just made me,
Speaker 2: you know, made me seem like I am, you know,
Speaker 2: not friendly, and that's not the case. It's just again,
Speaker 2: it's more it's more my personality. So you know, we'll
Speaker 2: see how this thing, you know, how it plays out.
Speaker 2: And I'm not being like dramatic for effect. Here's what happens,
Speaker 2: but those are I'll quickly tell you I took my
Speaker 2: car to auto zone. I was just sad. I've already
Speaker 2: said I took my car to autos on yesterday to
Speaker 2: replace my battery I asked them, hey, can you replace
Speaker 2: my battery? If not, no, biggie, I'll buy it and
Speaker 2: I'll just have somebody else do it. Who can because
Speaker 2: I have a boltswagon and I know that's difficult. They
Speaker 2: checked in their system, told me that they could replace it,
Speaker 2: and then for three hours they couldn't figure out why
Speaker 2: the alarm system was going off. And at ten o'clock
Speaker 2: we were going to call it a night because not only
Speaker 2: had I bought a battery, they couldn't get installed. They
Speaker 2: couldn't even put my old battery back on, like nothing
Speaker 2: would work, and I could not get home. Luckily I
Speaker 2: live close my wife could come and get me. And
Speaker 2: then after three hours of them trying, they later figured
Speaker 2: out that they were putting the battery in upside down
Speaker 2: backwards but backwards the whole time and didn't realize it.
Speaker 2: So once they realized their mistake, I mean, I I
Speaker 2: feel like calling it a mistake is even like an understatement.
Speaker 2: It's just in confidence that you'd never expect for people
Speaker 2: who work at a at a at a auto place
Speaker 2: like that should be a test that like maybe one day,
Speaker 2: like in the employment manual, the what do you call it?
Speaker 2: Like the onboarding manual, John, They'll have the Nick Coffee rule.
Speaker 2: You can't work here unless you know which way a
Speaker 2: battery goes. You don't even have to know how to
Speaker 2: connect it, but you got to know what which which
Speaker 2: side goes, which way? Wouldn't that would it would it
Speaker 2: would not be good. But I'm just saying like they
Speaker 2: should know that. So once they realized that the car
Speaker 2: did start, but because of all of their failed attempts,
Speaker 2: because they were like damaging my vehicle when they were
Speaker 2: trying to connect the battery when it was on backwards,
Speaker 2: it's fried the like some of my vehicle, Like it's
Speaker 2: fried the computer system within my Volkswagen to an extent
Speaker 2: where I have no power steering, my AC and heat,
Speaker 2: like there's no life to that, Like no lights come on.
Speaker 2: It's not like I can turn it on and it
Speaker 2: doesn't work. It's just dead. And I got every error
Speaker 2: message Volkswagen can send to you popping up anytime I
Speaker 2: start the car. So I take it back today to them,
Speaker 2: and again I'm only able to drive it with with
Speaker 2: no power steering because I literally can get to my
Speaker 2: home from that store. And it's I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's relatively close. It's not super close, but like I
Speaker 2: can go through, no joke, and I can't. There are
Speaker 2: three neighborhoods I go through to get there to my house,
Speaker 2: to my house from AutoZone. So I got home last
Speaker 2: night just because of that convenience. It was luck. So
Speaker 2: I show up today, tell him, hey, yeah, the battery
Speaker 2: did start, but now my car doesn't work. I just
Speaker 2: want you to get my car to where it was
Speaker 2: when I came here and gave you business. And they're
Speaker 2: a Volkswall I don't know. We never like they have
Speaker 2: they have no they have no uh. And it took
Speaker 2: me calling their district man. It took me calling another
Speaker 2: manager at a different store that my stepfather knows for
Speaker 2: them to at least tell me here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: We're gonna tow your car to the dealership and they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to connect it up to their system and
Speaker 2: figure out what's wrong. And you know, I even feel
Speaker 2: like I'm giving them too much credit by saying that's something,
Speaker 2: like that is something, but like that's something you should
Speaker 2: have done right away. I shouldn't have had to wait
Speaker 2: there for six hours over two days for somebody to
Speaker 2: get that plan in motion. So I left, my wife
Speaker 2: came and picked me up. I had a bag, like
Speaker 2: I had. I had a Thornton's bag, you know, I
Speaker 2: had shout out of Thorsts. I had a Thorton's bag
Speaker 2: in my car that I just put all my stuff in,
Speaker 2: like my garage door opener, anything that could be, anything
Speaker 2: that I may need. I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff I put in that bag. And then I threw
Speaker 2: the car seats from my kids in the back of
Speaker 2: my wife's car. But when she picked me up, the
Speaker 2: car seats were like sitting on the on the on
Speaker 2: the curb. I mean, I was, uh in their parking lot,
Speaker 2: but there was an on the curb, and I had
Speaker 2: this bag, and I swear when she pulled in, I
Speaker 2: feel like I just walked out of jail and I
Speaker 2: had like what I had what was on me when
Speaker 2: I got arrested, Like that's what it felt like. It
Speaker 2: was like a purp walk to my wife's vehicle and
Speaker 2: and she picked me up, and you know, she's fired up, man,
Speaker 2: She's like, oh, is that the clown show over there
Speaker 2: having another smoke break? Well, they've damaged your car and
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, honey, I'll watch the car. You go
Speaker 2: whoop their ass, Like you know, I didn't say that,
Speaker 2: but that's what it felt like. She she's the she's
Speaker 2: the the alpha here, which you know, hell yeah, they
Speaker 2: were burning heaters, baby. I mean, I think the stress
Speaker 2: of them not knowing what they were doing and then
Speaker 2: realizing how stupid they were to not get it fixed.
Speaker 2: They were burning. They might have burned through a cart
Speaker 2: in Marlborough Reds last night and today John anyways, exactly.
Speaker 2: So so then you know, we leave and like you know,
Speaker 2: I get home and I'm thinking, okay, well they're gonna
Speaker 2: get it towed. And best case scenario is this, they
Speaker 2: connected to the Volkswagen Dealership computer system and they just
Speaker 2: re said it and it's fine. But I called the
Speaker 2: Volkswagen Dealership because I'm like, you know what, I'm not
Speaker 2: taking their word for it. I'm pretty sure that if
Speaker 2: I would have just told them, oh okay, huh see
Speaker 2: you later, they'd have left the car there for years
Speaker 2: and just assumed like, hey, this guy's just gonna gonna
Speaker 2: eat it and be a chump and be a peon
Speaker 2: because we broke his car. So I called the dealership
Speaker 2: they're sending it to, which is a client of ours
Speaker 2: here at Ihart nil Hufmand. And I said, you know,
Speaker 2: here's here's what I said, lady into the phone. I
Speaker 2: was like, yes, AutoZone is having my vehicle towed to
Speaker 2: you guys, and I just want to know, like I
Speaker 2: want to give you all my number, my contact info,
Speaker 2: so whenever we find out what's going on, like somebody
Speaker 2: lets me know, because I don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 2: do that or not. And she was like, uh, honey,
Speaker 2: did you make an appointment? And I said no. She said, oh,
Speaker 2: we're backed up for three weeks. So I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, well they have a relationship business wise
Speaker 2: to where like they if AutoZone is sending it to
Speaker 2: the dealership, it's a little different than me making an appointment.
Speaker 2: So she took my info and the manager of the
Speaker 2: service department called me back and he was super super
Speaker 2: nice and and and you know, kind and helpful. But
Speaker 2: he said, I've not heard of anybody telling me we're
Speaker 2: getting a vehicle here today. And he said, I'll call
Speaker 2: you when I get notification that we've got one coming
Speaker 2: from AutoZone. It's four twenty. I left there at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: I haven't got a call yet. I bet my car
Speaker 2: still sitting at AutoZone and the dealership that they told
Speaker 2: me that was going to be fixing this doesn't even
Speaker 2: know anything about what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: I'll come with you after work and go up to
Speaker 5: beat up some people at AutoZone. Not literally, but.
Speaker 2: You know you'd be the muscle, not me. I wouldn't be. Yeah, No, dude, John,
Speaker 2: you're the guy that, like nobody would expect it, but
Speaker 2: you might, like just with in thirty seconds murder somebody
Speaker 2: like I could see it. And I mean that as
Speaker 2: a compliment. You're you're mynd guy. Yeah, and it can
Speaker 2: come the right time, like you'll turn into Jason Stathum
Speaker 2: and it and it's bad news for everybody. That's the
Speaker 2: way I see it. But so I tell him, like,
Speaker 2: and I said, is this common that like you wouldn't
Speaker 2: know that it's coming. And he said, he said, uh,
Speaker 2: well yes, And no He's like, you know, it's a
Speaker 2: little different process if a place like that is going
Speaker 2: to be sending it something to us rather than a
Speaker 2: customer making an appointment. And I said, okay, and he said, well,
Speaker 2: I will. But they said, but I'll tell you this,
Speaker 2: I will call you if, in fact I get your vehicle.
Speaker 2: And I said, okay, great, and again I haven't heard
Speaker 2: from m yet. And then I described to him. I said,
Speaker 2: I don't know what's what happened, but here's the situation.
Speaker 2: They replaced my battery incorrectly and now the car will start.
Speaker 2: But I've got a lot of electronic electric issues within
Speaker 2: the system of the computer of the car, which I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm not making any sense to anybody who
Speaker 2: knows anything about cars, but by them incorrectly zap in
Speaker 2: my car over three hours periodically to try to get
Speaker 2: it started, not knowing they've got the battery disconnected. The
Speaker 2: guy at the Volkswagen dealership who literally that's all he
Speaker 2: does is work on he served his department that he
Speaker 2: leads services Volkswagen vehicles. He's telling me with what I'm
Speaker 2: describing that he thinks there's going to be some severe
Speaker 2: damage and like the power steering not working at all
Speaker 2: is not like a quick reset, and that the fact
Speaker 2: that you know, the AC and heat have no life,
Speaker 2: there's nothing like they're just dead. It's not like they're
Speaker 2: just not blowing cold air or hot air. They just don't.
Speaker 2: They just they're dead, you know. I don't think he
Speaker 2: was trying to make me panic, but he was pretty
Speaker 2: transparent as far as like, you know, that may not
Speaker 2: be something that we just reset it and you come
Speaker 2: pick it up. It could take a while. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, what do I do? Like cause again I
Speaker 2: think they would help me, but I'm not paying for it,
Speaker 2: you know. So then I called corporate of Auto Zone
Speaker 2: and explained to them, and they were very helpful as
Speaker 2: far as me laying I mean, unfortunately, I think my
Speaker 2: situation is probably gonna get some people in trouble and
Speaker 2: I hate that. But I'm not gonna just eat eat
Speaker 2: a car and not have a vehicle because somebody was
Speaker 2: a dumbass. Like any personal it's just it's life. So
Speaker 2: I think that's what's gonna end up happening. But when
Speaker 2: I said, like, hey, what if my vehicle's not available
Speaker 2: for like three weeks, I have a vehicle I'm borrowing now,
Speaker 2: but that I can't do that forever. I've I missed
Speaker 2: my son's football last night, my wife was late to
Speaker 2: work today, I didn't get my work day started until
Speaker 2: one o'clock. And I'm fortunate to be able to have
Speaker 2: a job where I can work from home if need be. Like,
Speaker 2: I'm not asking you guys to cut me a check.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like i've you all have my money,
Speaker 2: You've made money from me, and you have negatively impacted
Speaker 2: me and inconvenienced me in a major way. And I've
Speaker 2: yet to hear anybody give me any sign that you're
Speaker 2: gonna do something to make me whole. And when I
Speaker 2: said that, he said, it's a great question. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put this in the ticket. Oh my, But once he
Speaker 2: said he can't tell me. He doesn't know. He's the
Speaker 2: customer service guy. You know, you know, I don't blame him.
Speaker 2: He was the most helpful person I talked to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I said, do you have a ticket number? He
Speaker 2: said no, but if you call your number, will will
Speaker 2: register to this. And I'm like you sure, He's like yes,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, I hate to doubt you, but
Speaker 2: like I was just told somebody was coming to pick
Speaker 2: my car up, and now here I know of four
Speaker 2: to twenty four nobody's going to pick it up yet.
Speaker 2: All right, real quick, we do let's let's go to
Speaker 2: the phone lines here and go to Andrew, who joins
Speaker 2: us on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thank you for holding
Speaker 2: and letting me, you know, bitch essentially about my inconvenience.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you don't care about that, but thank you
Speaker 2: for holding. What's up?
Speaker 6: Actually I do did, because I went through the movie
Speaker 6: exact same thing. Mine wasn't quite as bad as yours
Speaker 6: as far as your story ending with your car, but
Speaker 6: I went to AutoZone. The individual put the battery and backwards.
Speaker 4: It ended up.
Speaker 6: Blowing the hues, which then did not allow us to
Speaker 6: turn the car on at all. And I should have
Speaker 6: had I should have known because the posts on a
Speaker 6: battery are two different sizes, so he tried to put
Speaker 6: the small on the big and had to open it
Speaker 6: up to get it to fit, and then had to
Speaker 6: close the small to get it on for the big
Speaker 6: one to get it on the small. Anyway, Luckily my
Speaker 6: son was reading the owner's manual. They found out that
Speaker 6: there was a fuse in my car, Honda, that that's
Speaker 6: what was blown, and we got that replaced in the
Speaker 6: car started.
Speaker 2: Well, when you started it, did you have any other
Speaker 2: like fuse issues or were you back to where you
Speaker 2: were preissued.
Speaker 6: No, everything was fine after that. Now I ended up
Speaker 6: having problems later because the fuse we put in it
Speaker 6: was always supposed to be one hundred and twenty five volt.
Speaker 6: We put in a two fifty, causing problems later. But
Speaker 6: that's not their fault. The point is it's a it's
Speaker 6: a training thing. Yes, that the people at AutoZone should
Speaker 6: have known that they're putting it in wrong, because, like
Speaker 6: I said, the terminals are two different sizes, and if
Speaker 6: it hadn't been for my son looking up at the
Speaker 6: owner's manual, we would never have figured out that. And I,
Speaker 6: like you, would have had to have my car toad
Speaker 6: to get up fixed.
Speaker 2: Well, Andrew, I appreciate you holding, and I want to
Speaker 2: respond to everything you said. I'm gonna I'm gonna put
Speaker 2: you on hold and drop the call. But I hope
Speaker 2: you're listening because I will say this, we have very
Speaker 2: similar situations. Because you mentioned your son and the owner's manual,
Speaker 2: I was using chat GPT to show them what could
Speaker 2: potentially be the issue as to why the alarm was
Speaker 2: going off. Chat GPT like AI, maybe we need to
Speaker 2: use AI for these kind of things. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but but you mentioned like you couldn't like once they
Speaker 2: did that, the car wouldn't start at all. The two
Speaker 2: and I don't blame these people, but the two two
Speaker 2: employees of AutoZone that I talked to, one via phone
Speaker 2: another employee that was there that were not involved in
Speaker 2: last night's fiasco. When I shared with them everything that
Speaker 2: happened and told them that the car still started but
Speaker 2: everything else didn't work, they they reacted not like you're lucky,
Speaker 2: but that was their vibe, like, given what they did,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised this car is alive, Like I'm surprised. So
Speaker 2: you know, they're looking at it from like, damn, it
Speaker 2: should have been a lot worse. You're lucky. They're not
Speaker 2: telling me that, but like they realize how incoonfident and
Speaker 2: how awful the whole thing was from that side of it.
Speaker 2: So again, it wouldn't as if they were like, hey,
Speaker 2: you should just know that your car will turn on
Speaker 2: and be happy. But like I think they heard what
Speaker 2: the others did and thought to themselves, I'm surprised this
Speaker 2: thing isn't blown up. All right, quick break, We'll come
Speaker 2: back on the other side and keep this thing rolling along.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna talk to doctor Eric mackerel here
Speaker 2: on the other side, having got the full RSVP. But
Speaker 2: we're gonna see what we can make shake here and
Speaker 2: keep this thing rolling along. And I don't want to
Speaker 2: make it the Nick Battery Issue show, but it kind
Speaker 2: of has become that because I'm a blessed Nana. For
Speaker 2: those who't understand the reference, my wife's grandmother has loaned
Speaker 2: me her vehicle and she's got a big sticker on
Speaker 2: the back that says blessed Nana. So I'm riding in
Speaker 2: style courtesy of auto Zone. Thank you. I'm not even
Speaker 2: gonna guess who is this.
Speaker 3: This is Smith and Myers. It's half of Shineedown. They're
Speaker 3: gonna be at on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you into these guys?
Speaker 3: I like the Shinedown version of them. I've never really
Speaker 3: listened to much of their their duo.
Speaker 2: Okayustic, I like Shinedown too. I won't claim to be like,
Speaker 2: you know, like a super fan, but like they were
Speaker 2: they were they again helped me out. Were they really
Speaker 2: big when I was in high school?
Speaker 3: Like they have their They broke out in the mid
Speaker 3: two thousands, Yes, and they've been pretty steady going ever
Speaker 3: since Shinedown.
Speaker 2: I feel like was was was in their breakout whenever
Speaker 2: I was in high school, and uh they were. And
Speaker 2: I still like their sound even today listening to music
Speaker 2: from that time, which was twenty years ago. Really, But
Speaker 2: when you say it's a version of them, like is
Speaker 2: they is?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 2: Like just two of they.
Speaker 3: Played and I guess they may play a couple of
Speaker 3: their songs whenever they perform, but it's their singer and
Speaker 3: their lead guitarist. They tour playing more acoustic style music,
Speaker 3: so of its original than some of its covers.
Speaker 2: And what are they called?
Speaker 5: Smith and Myers is their last names.
Speaker 2: I like it a lot a lot that that's because
Speaker 2: to me, that's that's country enough. But it's not really country.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like it's.
Speaker 2: Got a to me, it's got a little Drake White
Speaker 2: in it, which I really love Drake White style and sound.
Speaker 2: Whereas I can I can hear that voice from Shindown,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like, Yeah, good stuff?
Speaker 2: They ever come here any other time than the festival,
Speaker 2: We need to go see them together. That would be
Speaker 2: a good coffee and company bro bonding.
Speaker 5: It would be shine Down live three different times.
Speaker 2: What was their big hit shine doown that like.
Speaker 5: A second chance sometimes goodbye, yes chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did it much better than me. But I
Speaker 2: feel like they had a different song.
Speaker 5: Had Sound of Madness, same album.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, their cover of simple Man? Are you kidding?
Speaker 2: Can't say?
Speaker 3: Actually so with Smith and Myers. They do that live
Speaker 3: as well. Oh that they playing today, they're playing tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's gonna light that's gonna light it up. That's
Speaker 2: gonna like now, I'm worried about attendance for the LOUISVI game.
Speaker 2: And I'm not kidding. Their cover of simple Man is amazing,
Speaker 2: but number forty five yeah on.
Speaker 5: Their debut album.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff there, good stuff. We're playing some music
Speaker 2: from Bourbon and Beyond because you know it's going on.
Speaker 2: It's a big deal here and John keep me on
Speaker 2: track here because there's so many people texting on the
Speaker 2: text line and in my personal phone about my whole
Speaker 2: Auto Zonne situation. But there's a Facebook group for Bourbon
Speaker 2: and Beyond that it's not put on by the event itself, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't think it is, but like just people because
Speaker 2: there's so many people from across the world coming to it,
Speaker 2: and everybody kind of sharing stories and sharing information for
Speaker 2: first timers, like tips about those that are camping, which
Speaker 2: you can and can't bring in. But I stumbled upon
Speaker 2: the page and like, some of the complaints that they
Speaker 2: have are funny. I'm not gonna bring it up to
Speaker 2: like bury the group that puts this event together, because
Speaker 2: they do a phenomenal job, but like the little things
Speaker 2: that people lose their mind about is hilarious.
Speaker 3: Usually, I mean, maybe things are different this year, but
Speaker 3: there's not usually a lot of issues from.
Speaker 2: World Oh no, no, no, just me. I don't want to
Speaker 2: make it seem is if is if you know, the
Speaker 2: there's even a tiny percentage of the people going that
Speaker 2: aren't having a great time. But no matter what, you're
Speaker 2: gonna find people to complain. You're never gonna please everybody.
Speaker 2: And where do they have to go to to, you know,
Speaker 2: to to express that Facebook so and you know, and
Speaker 2: and a lot of the complaints are filled with comments
Speaker 2: of people like chill out, Karen, but bleeding at a
Speaker 2: music festival and I don't mean blood from your body.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people said the bleeding is so bad,
Speaker 2: the bleeding and what they mean I learned is that
Speaker 2: bleeding from one stage to the other, like music that
Speaker 2: you know, I'm trying to listen to this band and
Speaker 2: now I've got, you know, something in my ear that's
Speaker 2: from across the way.
Speaker 3: Let's say they I've noticed from the from the interstate
Speaker 3: they have kind of rearranged the stage layout this year,
Speaker 3: at least the smaller stages and where they're located.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Again, I haven't been there just yet, but maybe it's
Speaker 3: a little different th usual because they haven't had that
Speaker 3: problem in the past of you.
Speaker 2: Like, and it may just be one person who thinks
Speaker 2: it's trust me. I don't want to make it seem
Speaker 2: as if I'm acting like things are bad, but I
Speaker 2: enjoy seeing people lose their Like. My Facebook neighborhood group
Speaker 2: is hilarious because people will be like the male man
Speaker 2: used to come at one, now he's coming at two thirty.
Speaker 2: Like you gotta be a bored, lonely, nothing to do
Speaker 2: person for that to be like, you're gonna go to
Speaker 2: the Facebook group about it? Is if anybody in Facebook's
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Speaker 2: with Doctor Eric McElroy. It's right Coffee and Company rolling
Speaker 2: along on a Friday afternoon, as the weekend has probably
Speaker 2: already started for a lot of folks. I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: already started. For our next guest joining us, it's doctor
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Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Nick. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Uh, you know, I'm I'm here working hard,
Speaker 2: but I know there's a lot of folks that are
Speaker 2: out at Bourbon and beyond and enjoying themselves. And I'm
Speaker 2: a little jealous, but you know, it's part of the
Speaker 2: gig I got. I've got a full day of football
Speaker 2: tomorrow that I'm looking forward to. So speaking of Louisville football,
Speaker 2: they've they've got a first test tomorrow. They haven't played
Speaker 2: anybody really worth talking about. However, we'll see kind of
Speaker 2: where they stand tomorrow. But one of the one of
Speaker 2: the I guess key editions during the offseason was Colin Lacy,
Speaker 2: a transfer from South Alabama, and we discussed his injury
Speaker 2: at a collar broone break that required surgery that happened
Speaker 2: in fall camp. Initially, I believe they said six to
Speaker 2: eight weeks was the timeline. Uh, And and I think
Speaker 2: that that that's that's close to where we are now.
Speaker 2: But Jeff Bram on his Coaches show this week, Eric
Speaker 2: mentioned that he has not been cleared to play, but
Speaker 2: he is back in practice and that they think they
Speaker 2: may be able to get him back next week for
Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Just kind of get I guess it all
Speaker 2: is dependent upon you know, I guess how severe the
Speaker 2: break was, but you know, just what do I know?
Speaker 2: But I feel like this is this is pretty speedy progress.
Speaker 2: If that if he's if he's close to being cleared
Speaker 2: to play in just a week or so.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, yes, and no, I mean I think that
Speaker 7: it's great progress. That means they're running any setbacks or
Speaker 7: any complications. But you know, bone bone fractures, though they're
Speaker 7: very painful and can be very complicated depending on the
Speaker 7: type of fracture, you know, there's not a lot of
Speaker 7: especially at the clavicle, there's not a lot of soft
Speaker 7: tissue trauma that would impact function. So you know, it's
Speaker 7: the soft tissue issues like if you had a really
Speaker 7: bad you know, a lot of unstable excuse me, a
Speaker 7: lot of issues with instability because of a ligament trauma,
Speaker 7: or you know, you had a tendon rupture, things that
Speaker 7: would really impact function, that's a different animal. But if
Speaker 7: it's a kind of a you know, just a normal
Speaker 7: fracture where they can either they can go in or
Speaker 7: either a heal on its own, or they can go
Speaker 7: in and you know, surgically stabilize it, and then it's
Speaker 7: about just letting that bone get strong enough to take
Speaker 7: the forces of the impact of whatever the activity is,
Speaker 7: so in this case obviously football.
Speaker 4: And then from that point, and you know, six d eight
Speaker 4: weeks is kind.
Speaker 7: Of a general term or that's what they're gonna throw
Speaker 7: out for everything generally with tissue, with healing, especially fractures.
Speaker 4: And then at that.
Speaker 7: Point, if the functions there the shoulder, which you know,
Speaker 7: depending on again depending on where that fracture is, is.
Speaker 4: Likely the case.
Speaker 7: It doesn't really take long to get them stronger, doesn't
Speaker 7: really take them.
Speaker 4: Along to get that reaction time back and the speed
Speaker 4: of the ability for him to move his extremities and
Speaker 4: to catch a ball.
Speaker 7: You know, worst case is it strong enough for him
Speaker 7: to land on it, because you know, likely that's likely.
Speaker 4: To happen at some point.
Speaker 7: So if those things are you know, if he's checking
Speaker 7: the boxes for all those things, then it's just full
Speaker 7: go and becomes you know, a week to week and
Speaker 7: day to day and game time decision.
Speaker 2: So you know, if he is if he is clear
Speaker 2: to go, you know, I'm I guess I'm asking you
Speaker 2: to speculating guests here, and I apologize for putting you
Speaker 2: in this spot, But you know, would they how much
Speaker 2: would they really utilize him in practice before giving him
Speaker 2: the green light to Okay, hey, let's put him out
Speaker 2: there on the field and see and you know, and
Speaker 2: let him play because obviously you want to be as
Speaker 2: cautious and careful as possible. But also, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm wrong. I just feel like him kind of
Speaker 2: taking his first big hit in a game. It might
Speaker 2: make sense because hey, you know, at least he's doing
Speaker 2: it in a game that matters and not a practice.
Speaker 2: But I'm just curious, like would he be how fresh
Speaker 2: would he be in a game situation coming off of practice.
Speaker 2: I feel like he'd still be pretty limited.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna be limited.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, at this level, you know, the
Speaker 7: biggest thing is is can he perform what he needs
Speaker 7: to do as a receiver.
Speaker 4: You know, getting tackles, getting tackled.
Speaker 7: You know, there's no need to see how well he
Speaker 7: can take a hit. You know you're gonna go off
Speaker 7: the fact that it's strong enough to allow that to happen.
Speaker 4: Obviously.
Speaker 7: You know, as we all watch sports or have played them,
Speaker 7: we know not every tackle is the same, not every
Speaker 7: time you go to the grounds the same.
Speaker 4: But you want to protect him, you know, his value
Speaker 4: to be on the field is more important than seeing
Speaker 4: how well he can take a hit. In practice.
Speaker 7: Sure, there's gonna be some things he's gonna do, they're
Speaker 7: very physical in practice, to make sure that he's capable,
Speaker 7: you know, blocking taking some level of contact. There's no
Speaker 7: point for him to go to the ground. I mean
Speaker 7: a lot of times none. Most of these guys aren't
Speaker 7: going to the ground at this point because the risk
Speaker 7: reward is not as important, you know, it's not there.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean he's gonna you know, how well
Speaker 7: does he doing, you know, catching route, you know, running
Speaker 7: his routes, catching balls in all different aspects. Now doesn't
Speaker 7: mean he's gonna go out and play the same reps
Speaker 7: he might play in two to three weeks. But he's available,
Speaker 7: you know, not this week obviously, but the next week.
Speaker 7: You know, a lot of time is available. Can we
Speaker 7: get him out there and run some routes? Can we
Speaker 7: get him out there and get him involved in the offense.
Speaker 7: But maybe he's not going.
Speaker 4: To get as many reps as the guys who've been
Speaker 4: playing right now, so you know, you never know.
Speaker 7: But yeah, he's he's definitely gonna be in a conservative approach,
Speaker 7: I would suspect, you know, and just if all everything
Speaker 7: else is checking the boxes, then yeah we're not. We'll
Speaker 7: wait and see how he does when he gets to
Speaker 7: the game.
Speaker 2: About thirteen days ago exactly, almost Donald Cheney, a running
Speaker 2: back for Louisville who transferred him from Miami, he suffered
Speaker 2: what was described as a high ankle sprain, the dreaded
Speaker 2: high ankle sprain, And I know the recovery from that's
Speaker 2: probably different, just depending upon you know, the player and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But as a running back, what do you think the
Speaker 2: last thirteen days have been like for him as they
Speaker 2: try to get him healthy. I mean, I would imagine
Speaker 2: he's probably been off his feet. He's a guy that
Speaker 2: they know what he can do. He's a veteran, a
Speaker 2: guy who's played a lot of football before he arrived
Speaker 2: at Louisville. Is it is it probably just taking it
Speaker 2: easy and then doing some some some measurements in some way,
Speaker 2: some former fashion to kind of see if he's got
Speaker 2: enough he's got enough enough strength to play through it.
Speaker 7: That's a great question, Nick, honestly, because you know, I
Speaker 7: get these things all the time.
Speaker 4: I get these questions from patients.
Speaker 7: You know, differences in ankle sprains, even lateral ankle sprains,
Speaker 7: you know, they're all it all depends on how.
Speaker 4: The athlete presents. And in a high ankle sprain situation,
Speaker 4: it's even that much more so if he's unstable.
Speaker 7: If it's an unstable injury, a lot of times that
Speaker 7: takes uh, some kind of a surgery to stabilize it,
Speaker 7: especially to speed the recovery up.
Speaker 2: Uh, Is that rare though the surgery required?
Speaker 1: Not not.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say it's rare. It's not the most common
Speaker 4: way he would be treated.
Speaker 7: I know that to had this in college, everybody remembers
Speaker 7: because they used a new procedure which is becoming more
Speaker 7: and more of the gold standard, where the recovery time
Speaker 7: is a lot quicker on how they can go in
Speaker 7: and stabilized that the bones.
Speaker 4: But you know, it all depends on how stable it is.
Speaker 7: If it's pretty stable and otherwise just painful and swollen.
Speaker 4: Uh, I mean he's getting at it.
Speaker 7: That first thirteen days is aggressive, like we're gonna get
Speaker 7: the swelling out, We're gonna get the motion back, We're
Speaker 7: gonna start, you know, getting the muscle function back. So
Speaker 7: while making sure that you know, early aggressive treatment.
Speaker 4: The days of putting people in boots.
Speaker 7: Now college kid, I'm gonna put them in a boot
Speaker 7: around campus because I don't want something dumb to happen
Speaker 7: to them. But but it's putting people in boots and
Speaker 7: them just.
Speaker 4: Resting that that doesn't work.
Speaker 7: Uh So, yeah, they're that staff is obviously you know,
Speaker 7: inflammation control, you know, get that down the quick as
Speaker 7: you can, and then getting the function back in the
Speaker 7: ankle as fast as you can. So that way, you know,
Speaker 7: we're closing that gap between injury and return to play,
Speaker 7: especially in season.
Speaker 4: You know, you just.
Speaker 7: Don't have time to you know, and you gotta be aggressive, right,
Speaker 7: you have to be aggressive.
Speaker 2: You have totally You're going to.
Speaker 4: Keep the safety of the athlete at the forefront.
Speaker 7: But you know that's why you have highly trained staff
Speaker 7: who understands that, but our job is to get the
Speaker 7: athlete back on the field and and to do it
Speaker 7: and the way that they're the most effective, and they're
Speaker 7: obviously they're safe.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to the you know, hearing of
Speaker 2: of an athlete needing surgery, I could be totally off here,
Speaker 2: But when you broke into the industry and you carved
Speaker 2: at your career here and what you're doing, was the
Speaker 2: word surgery brought up for an athlete? Is it now
Speaker 2: viewed not as severe? Like if you could have a
Speaker 2: surgery that could be relatively minor and be back relatively quickly.
Speaker 2: And I know it all depends on what the injury
Speaker 2: is and what the severity of it is. But I
Speaker 2: feel like long ago, when you would hear that an
Speaker 2: athlete needed surgery, you would just expect not to see
Speaker 2: that guy for a really, really long time. And now
Speaker 2: I feel like that's that's no longer the case.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And I was talking about this. Have an athlete
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 7: She's a local soccer player, high level UH big with
Speaker 7: went to Withisconsin Big Wisconsin fan and everybody saw or
Speaker 7: if they watched the Alabama Wisconsin game at four quarterback,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 4: Towards acl non contact first series of the game, and
Speaker 4: you know, it sucks. I mean, it does.
Speaker 7: But what I did bring up, you know, used to
Speaker 7: be that was a red flag, right like, oh no,
Speaker 7: that kid's career is a jeopardy or you know.
Speaker 4: And but now you know.
Speaker 7: With with surgical techniques being so much more advanced, with
Speaker 7: the rehab techniques and what we know on a rehab
Speaker 7: side as far as how aggressive we can be and
Speaker 7: early on in the recovery period from surgery, you know
Speaker 7: that that's not the case anymore. It's kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, it's unfortunate, he's gonna miss the season.
Speaker 4: That sucks, but his career doesn't necessarily have to be over.
Speaker 7: You know, he he could come back and be eat
Speaker 7: or she could come back is as effective, if not
Speaker 7: more effective after the injury and continue to have a
Speaker 7: successful career. If that's the path that you know they're
Speaker 7: able to take. And so you know, with those advances
Speaker 7: and those different in surgeries and treatments and re you know,
Speaker 7: in different other conservative measures and preventative techniques, you know,
Speaker 7: they're they're a lot better off going into surgery than
Speaker 7: they once were. You know, those things have made a
Speaker 7: huge impact on recovery times and ability.
Speaker 4: To get back in season or or what would have
Speaker 4: been a season and a half is now, you know,
Speaker 4: a six month.
Speaker 7: Recovery or seven month recovery, so they're at least not
Speaker 7: missing back to back seasons or significant time.
Speaker 2: All right, rapid fire. Last question before we get you
Speaker 2: out of here. At the top of the hour, let's
Speaker 2: say Bourbon and beyond, you could only see one of
Speaker 2: the headliners sting Dave Matthews Band, Zach Bryan or Tyler Childers.
Speaker 4: You going with, man, that's tough.
Speaker 7: Well, first, I would narrow it down between Zach Brian
Speaker 7: and Tyler Childers.
Speaker 4: Same here, I think, and I think I would just go,
Speaker 4: you know, in a fifty to fifty I would err on.
Speaker 7: The side of the local guy and go with the
Speaker 7: Kentucky Well, yeah, Zach Bryant's not from Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I don't think now that I'll tell them no, but
Speaker 2: uh Schilders, yeah, hell yeah, we go. Good stuff, good stuff.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you, man, Eric, have a good weekend, brother.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4: Ah, you do the same, see it, Nick?
Speaker 2: All right, that's doctor Eric McElroy proar in physical therapy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Tyler shoulders, I think I may have found a way
Speaker 2: to be in attendance on Sunday, and I think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do it. John, you should I'm gonna be a
Speaker 2: bird and beyond guy.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be a festival guy.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna be Yeah, I'm gonna bring the vibes
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, hopefully it can serve. That'd be fun.
Speaker 2: I need I need to be Rick for that to happen.
Speaker 2: But who knows. I think Rick actually Rick. I think
Speaker 2: Rick was born at the UH at the the country festival.
Speaker 2: They did well, always forget yeah, hometown rounds. All right,
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