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Speaker 3: So those of you that listen to this show, you know,
Speaker 3: somewhat regularly or maybe just here and there, over the years,
Speaker 3: you may have heard me mention that I'm not big on,
Speaker 3: you know, summertime in hot weather. It's odd. Most people
Speaker 3: love the sun and hate when it ends, and I'm
Speaker 3: the opposite. And I got to say, summer has gone
Speaker 3: by really fast. It's not really over yet. It's hot
Speaker 3: as hell outside. We still have a few weeks until
Speaker 3: we get to see some football. But school started back
Speaker 3: today for my daughter, school here in Jefferson County and
Speaker 3: Louisville will be back on Thursday, I believe. And you know,
Speaker 3: summer has you know, completely flown by, which makes me
Speaker 3: feel good. I mean, John got me excited yesterday towards
Speaker 3: the end of the show because what are we less
Speaker 3: than three weeks away from some week zero action.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Week zero begins on my birthday this year, August
Speaker 2: twenty fourth. I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3: I think college football scheduled that just for your birthday.
Speaker 3: Absolutely so. Yeah, I feeling good here on a Tuesday,
Speaker 3: And as school started today, it's you know, it's a
Speaker 3: sad day for a lot of kids because they don't
Speaker 3: want summer break to end. I'm curious how teachers view it, John,
Speaker 3: your wife's a teacher. I mean, I feel like there's
Speaker 3: probably a little bit of kids still in teachers that
Speaker 3: they do enjoy the thought of getting back at it
Speaker 3: right and seeing the kids. But I don't know, maybe
Speaker 3: they're just like the kids who think, hell no, I
Speaker 3: wish we had some eight months out of the year.
Speaker 2: For my wife, I feel like it's varied year by year.
Speaker 2: This year, for her, she's definitely been more on the
Speaker 2: anxious side of things, mainly because she feels like the
Speaker 2: summer went by too fast for and you know, it
Speaker 2: just kind of depends on the year. For I feel
Speaker 2: like probably most teachers, and that's where my wife lands.
Speaker 3: So technically, what do you get like two and a
Speaker 3: half months roughly for a summer break for teachers and students?
Speaker 3: Is that about right? I guess it depends on how
Speaker 3: many snow days you have to make up that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 2: I think they got out right at the end of May,
Speaker 2: right around Memorial Day this past year, if I remember correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you know, it's it goes by quick. And
Speaker 3: I'm very lucky because my son hasn't started school yet.
Speaker 3: Maybe he'll hate it. But my daughter, I mean, she
Speaker 3: loves school. For the last two weeks she's known it
Speaker 3: was coming up. She asks every night school tomorrow, school tomorrow,
Speaker 3: and you know we had to tell her nope, nope,
Speaker 3: and then last night we can tell her yes, in fact,
Speaker 3: you are starting school to you know today, what she
Speaker 3: did starts third grade today. Both my wife and I
Speaker 3: dropped her off at school and ran right to the
Speaker 3: door and didn't look back, didn't tell us by, and
Speaker 3: no hugs, no seeing mommy daddy. She was just gone
Speaker 3: right to her classroom to see all her friends that
Speaker 3: she she missed over the summer. So like you remember,
Speaker 3: not that you remember everything about my personal life, John,
Speaker 3: because you know, I don't know why you would. But
Speaker 3: do you remember when I talked about going on a
Speaker 3: field trip for the first time as a dad on
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 2: Was it when you went to the zoo?
Speaker 3: Yes? Okay, I thank you for so that doesn't feel
Speaker 3: like it was that long ago. But yet they were
Speaker 3: still in school like that was clearly the last school
Speaker 3: year and now there's a new school year. Just crazy
Speaker 3: how quickly time goes by. But yeah, we are still
Speaker 3: not quite at football season, but man, we're getting closer
Speaker 3: and closer, and that has me super excited. Also super
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Speaker 3: They're probably not, but you know what, will work hard
Speaker 3: to make sure they one day share the same level
Speaker 3: of you know, love we have for them. But again,
Speaker 3: they're great in all seriousness. But that was just something
Speaker 3: that routine for me. I've been mentioning Thornton's on this
Speaker 3: show for gosh four years now, that's how great they've
Speaker 3: been as a partner. They've been loyal and we love them.
Speaker 3: But before the show today, I was here earlier than
Speaker 3: I usually am because I needed to record, like eight commercials.
Speaker 3: I was out last week, and We've got some new
Speaker 3: stuff in the works that I'm excited about, and I
Speaker 3: gotta I gotta get some commercials recorded so we can
Speaker 3: you know, let you guys here during our commercial breaks
Speaker 3: about the great partners that we have. And our sales
Speaker 3: team does a great job of providing good copy points
Speaker 3: scripts essentially, and I prefer a copy point list rather
Speaker 3: than like a script because then I can, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of put it together, riff on my own, make
Speaker 3: it seem a little bit more like I'm not reading something.
Speaker 3: But I bring all this up to say, I'm really
Speaker 3: bad at recording something that I'm reading, like I don't
Speaker 3: know why. And I was just talking to John about
Speaker 3: this the other day because he now does his own show,
Speaker 3: and it is it is it is often is it
Speaker 3: live live like all the time or not.
Speaker 2: So it's right now it's a pre recorded show. We're
Speaker 2: hoping to eventually make it something that's live, but yes,
Speaker 2: right now, each show is pre recording.
Speaker 3: And I know some people who do show similar to
Speaker 3: yours that you know, they'll they'll they'll put it live
Speaker 3: at like six pm on a yeah, exactly. But it's
Speaker 3: you know, it's not live, live, but like it might
Speaker 3: have been recorded two hours before, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it's it's close to live. And there's reasons that
Speaker 3: on the Internet why you do that, as far as
Speaker 3: making sure you're hitting at the right time, Like, there's
Speaker 3: there's a method to it, as far as getting as
Speaker 3: much reach as you can with anything you post on
Speaker 3: the World Wide Web. So I was telling John, like,
Speaker 3: the last time I recorded something that was like content,
Speaker 3: it's been a while. Usually anything I do is live.
Speaker 3: And if I'm if I was to do this show,
Speaker 3: let's say I had to record the show from noon
Speaker 3: to three and they aired it it three to six,
Speaker 3: I don't know why anybody in the world would do that,
Speaker 3: but you know, just just humor me. I don't even
Speaker 3: know if I could get through a segment because for
Speaker 3: some reason, whenever it's whenever, it whenever it's live. Like
Speaker 3: we are right now where I just push this button
Speaker 3: and John's doing his thing in the control room that
Speaker 3: puts us over the over the radio airwaves. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm not reading off of a teleprompter. I'm not reading
Speaker 3: a script. I'm not referencing notes or copy points. I'm
Speaker 3: just yapping. Now I've got notes that I reference throughout
Speaker 3: the show, and you know, believe it or not, I
Speaker 3: do prepare for this show. But there's something about it
Speaker 3: being like a recorded take that I just I fumble
Speaker 3: over my words and I do that enough, as is
Speaker 3: with with the live show that we have here, but
Speaker 3: there's a there's something about it being live that actually
Speaker 3: makes it more relaxed for me to or I'm just like,
Speaker 3: oh cares you know, Like I don't know what it is,
Speaker 3: because I think most people would be the opposite. If
Speaker 3: they're recording, they can be more relaxed and composed because
Speaker 3: they know if they do slip up and make a
Speaker 3: mistake or you know, mess up a word or something
Speaker 3: like that, they can just start over and record again.
Speaker 3: But here I am. I've got like four commercials for
Speaker 3: a new client that we have, and I mean it
Speaker 3: took me, and it took It was embarrassing how long
Speaker 3: it took me to get through those because I just
Speaker 3: kept like I started reading way too fast, and then
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, you sound like you are Ron Burgundy
Speaker 3: reading the teleprompter like you know. It puts some make
Speaker 3: it sound like you know, and it is legit. It's
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's nobody's fault but my own. But
Speaker 3: it really made me start the show today kind of
Speaker 3: questioning am I in the right business radio? Like I
Speaker 3: can't even record a thirty second commercial that doesn't take
Speaker 3: me thirty minutes to do, Like that can't be normal.
Speaker 2: I definitely get what you're saying, and especially after recording
Speaker 2: a few episodes and having that ability to know that
Speaker 2: if I do mess up, I can reset some things. Now.
Speaker 2: One thing I have noticed about me specifically when I'm
Speaker 2: pre recording these shows, I won't worry about if I
Speaker 2: slipped up a word, but if I am wanting to
Speaker 2: gather my thoughts before I go into another topic, I'll
Speaker 2: pause the recording and then.
Speaker 3: Show yeah, it makes total sense.
Speaker 1: Take an advantage of yeah.
Speaker 3: And that makes total sense, and that's a benefit to
Speaker 3: the live stuff, no doubt. But here I am like
Speaker 3: sentence one, I'll stop and you know, have to take
Speaker 3: a long break, like let me get now get. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is like, I'm I'm in my
Speaker 3: own head. I think at the first commercial there recorded
Speaker 3: earlier today, I realized how long it took me, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, that that's not good, like that's you know,
Speaker 3: I want it to sound good at times. I do,
Speaker 3: you know, try to be a perfectionist. But anyways, I
Speaker 3: don't Maybe I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm rusty,
Speaker 3: Like I haven't had any recorded commercials in quite some time.
Speaker 3: Most of the stuff that you've heard me reference when
Speaker 3: it comes to our great partners that partner with myself
Speaker 3: and the show, it's just been live reads, which again
Speaker 3: I think those are I mean, those are more organic
Speaker 3: and to any advertiser out there, that's really where you
Speaker 3: get a lot of value because you know, it's in
Speaker 3: content advertising and in a way it becomes kind of
Speaker 3: like a part of the show to where nobody really
Speaker 3: even considers it to be an advertisement. Anyways, long story short,
Speaker 3: I was rusty and recording some commercials today and I
Speaker 3: thought like, maybe I'm just having a really bad day
Speaker 3: with brain fog. Maybe the second day back from vacation
Speaker 3: is when it really hits me that, man, I'm you know,
Speaker 3: needing to recover from said vacation. But here we are,
Speaker 3: turn the microphone on John, and I've just been yapp
Speaker 3: in for the last ten minutes without much trouble not
Speaker 3: to say that I've put on a great performance thus far.
Speaker 3: I can't speak for the last ten minutes and say
Speaker 3: that it's, you know, phenomenal radio, but it's better than
Speaker 3: what I did. And when I try to record those commercials.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you mass commercial recording can get really frustrating because,
Speaker 2: like yourself, I get really frustrated if I don't get
Speaker 2: something in a take or two, because then I start
Speaker 2: overthinking everything. I'm kind of a perfectionist whenever it comes
Speaker 2: to how everything sounds, and it's very easy to get
Speaker 2: in your head if things don't go well in the
Speaker 2: first few takes.
Speaker 3: Well, and you want the client to sense how genuine
Speaker 3: you are when discussing their service, their business, what they do.
Speaker 3: So you don't want it to sound and you know
Speaker 3: I lobot it. Yeah, yeah, you don't want it to
Speaker 3: sound like you're just reading a script. That's why for me,
Speaker 3: I will take copy points and kind of just run
Speaker 3: from that, or take copy points and then kind of
Speaker 3: put my own thing together that I think makes the
Speaker 3: most sense. I will say this is my one complaint.
Speaker 3: Like they give us thirty seconds for a spot, you
Speaker 3: can do like a fifteen second spot. I guess you
Speaker 3: could also do a sixty second spot. That's extremely rare. However,
Speaker 3: like I can't talk like I mean, I talk fast
Speaker 3: as it is, but I'm like, okay, like these are
Speaker 3: all the things that we have to mention in this commercial. Okay,
Speaker 3: Well I might need to record three of these commercials
Speaker 3: because I can't fit that all that in there in
Speaker 3: thirty seconds. And if you give them a commercial that is,
Speaker 3: you know, a millisecond over thirty. I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's our system or if it's something they do on
Speaker 3: their end, but that's where you get to where they
Speaker 3: slightly speed up your voice and you sound like a
Speaker 3: drunk album the Chipmunk. And there's some liners of me
Speaker 3: talking about the station and this show that'll randomly be on,
Speaker 3: like I'll I was driving the other night. It was
Speaker 3: right before we left town. I was driving, It's like
Speaker 3: one o'clock in the morning, and I had, of course
Speaker 3: I had it on Sports Talk seven None You have
Speaker 3: a company, Man, and they just did the you know,
Speaker 3: the legal idea or whatever that you hear you know
Speaker 3: the station you're listening to, and it was either like
Speaker 3: an old recording of me when I was thirteen, which
Speaker 3: I don't think that's the case, or they sped me
Speaker 3: up to make it fit. And I'm like, come on, like,
Speaker 3: I don't want people to think I sound like that. Hey,
Speaker 3: I mean, come on now. And I've never been able
Speaker 3: to figure out like how to get around it, but
Speaker 3: it seems to you know, it's having other people too,
Speaker 3: Like I'll hear every now and then I'll hear a
Speaker 3: Shannon the Due commercial. I'm like, well, he doesn't sound
Speaker 3: like that. He's a little sped up, or he's had,
Speaker 3: you know, had some helium or something like that. So anyways,
Speaker 3: let's let's dive right in, shall we. I wouldn't typically
Speaker 3: start with this, but given that we are twelve minutes
Speaker 3: in and I want to make sure I save a
Speaker 3: little bit of time for I guess the hard hitting
Speaker 3: topics on today's show, because in the N double A
Speaker 3: with the NIL, I mean, what do you even call
Speaker 3: the NIL world? The NIL, like the N S double
Speaker 3: A is in more trouble than people realize because I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure that they've they've they've enforced their new rules.
Speaker 3: The NUBA put out the twenty twenty four to twenty
Speaker 3: five D one Manual, and there are finally actual NIL
Speaker 3: updated bylaws that went into effect as of August the first.
Speaker 3: There was an interim NIL policy if you guys remember,
Speaker 3: But they're not able to enforce what they're claiming they're
Speaker 3: going to enforce. So I think the new rules are
Speaker 3: that there actually are no rules, and I don't want
Speaker 3: to nerd out on it too much. And also some
Speaker 3: of it is very confusing to me looking at, you know,
Speaker 3: excerpts from this NC DOUBLEA Division one Annual Manual. I
Speaker 3: mean just sounds boring as hell, right, But they're laying
Speaker 3: out things that they're going to try to enforce. But
Speaker 3: yet a federal judge has already determined that the NC
Speaker 3: DOUBLEA cannot punish student athletes for what the NUBA is
Speaker 3: going to tell them that they can't do. So, I look,
Speaker 3: we've been saying it forever at least it seems like it,
Speaker 3: But like how much longer can the NC DOUBLEA exist?
Speaker 3: I mean, hard to imagine it not existing? But then again,
Speaker 3: like it seems like every day that passes there's less
Speaker 3: respect and really unless other than you know, I guess
Speaker 3: the non revenue sports. I mean it's obviously, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's how they do business. It's how they operate. But
Speaker 3: when it coming there's so much money that's going to
Speaker 3: be coming into college athletics already is right now as
Speaker 3: we speak, that like n double A is just gonna
Speaker 3: be useless when it comes to the highest level of
Speaker 3: college sports. Speaking of that, how about Pitbull. He's doing
Speaker 3: better than we thought. John, Do you see what he
Speaker 3: did Withutely We'll get into the specifics, but it reminded
Speaker 3: me of a sad day for us on this show.
Speaker 3: I mean, we aren't leaders of the Pitbull fan club,
Speaker 3: but when I saw that Pitbull was doing a random
Speaker 3: free concert at the waterfront in Louisville like eighteen months ago,
Speaker 3: might have been last summer, and like nobody talked about it,
Speaker 3: there was no coverage. I'm like, mister worldwide, what happened? Now,
Speaker 3: you're mister waterfront in Louisville, And well, maybe that was
Speaker 3: just you know, maybe that was a gift he owed
Speaker 3: somebody here in Louisville. Because my man's dropping the bag
Speaker 3: for FIU, and I think he's a little ahead of
Speaker 3: himself as far as assuming that every football program in
Speaker 3: the country is gonna want a celebrity to purchase naming
Speaker 3: rights but he may be onto something because there's there's
Speaker 3: going to be so much money needed for college athletics
Speaker 3: to be sustainable for these programs that want to win,
Speaker 3: and it is interesting to see just the different ways
Speaker 3: in which these universities are going to start monetizing things
Speaker 3: because they have to. So we'll get into all that. Also,
Speaker 3: some Olympic updates. Believe it or not, I do have
Speaker 3: some interesting things to share from the Olympics. It's not
Speaker 3: a whole lot about metal counts or anything like that,
Speaker 3: but just some of the stories that have surfaced from
Speaker 3: over there. We'll get into that. Some Louisll football stuff.
Speaker 3: I want to get to some not a whole lot
Speaker 3: of takeaways yet right now. When it comes to camp, however,
Speaker 3: there is one player that we heard about after one
Speaker 3: of the recent practices that I want to discuss and
Speaker 3: something I missed last week, but I'll I definitely want
Speaker 3: to get into. It is the NFL's annual player rankings. Right.
Speaker 3: NFL players vote as far as who the best players
Speaker 3: in the league are, and they do a top one
Speaker 3: hundred every year, and where the quarterbacks fell really surprised me,
Speaker 3: but then again kind of didn't. But I've got a
Speaker 3: question for you when it comes to why Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 3: is not viewed as the number one quarterback in the
Speaker 3: NFL to his peers, whereas it seems like just about
Speaker 3: everybody else views him as the best quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3: And honestly, some would tell you it's not close. But anyways,
Speaker 3: I've got an interesting question on that that I want
Speaker 3: to throw at you guys to see what you think.
Speaker 3: So again, we're loaded today, but one thing I have
Speaker 3: to ask if somebody can help me out here. This
Speaker 3: photo that I just posted on Twitter. I saw it
Speaker 3: from the no context Louisville Cardinal's Twitter account. Don't follow
Speaker 3: that account, they don't follow me, but it ended up
Speaker 3: on the what do you call it, the four you
Speaker 3: section of the Twitter timeline. And it's a Louisville football
Speaker 3: uniform and it looks, you know, like a normal red
Speaker 3: Louisville Cardinal Adidas football jersey other than one thing that
Speaker 3: is a lot different. What you would assume would be
Speaker 3: white is yellow gold, more so yellow than gold. And
Speaker 3: it looks I mean, again, I don't know where this
Speaker 3: picture came from. Is this Are we wearing these like?
Speaker 3: Cause these are awful. I have no problem in saying it.
Speaker 3: We would look like we they look like, yeah, Ronald McDonald,
Speaker 3: Like that's exactly what this color scheme is. Ronald McDonald
Speaker 3: is the look. And I'm just curious, like are we
Speaker 3: doing this? Like is that? Like I've never really understood
Speaker 3: the the interest in in adding like gold or yellow
Speaker 3: to the Louisville like U OFL colors, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean, if you if you look at the actual
Speaker 3: logo the you know the there's a yellow there's a
Speaker 3: yellow beak for the bird, right, I mean that's that's
Speaker 3: that's about it. But like it looks it looks hideous,
Speaker 3: and I'm convinced that, like there are certain fans that
Speaker 3: no matter what your team wears, you're gonna say that's badass.
Speaker 3: That is you see, that's awesome, And it's because you're
Speaker 3: you know, you're die hard and shout out to you.
Speaker 3: They could wear whatever and you're gonna still support them.
Speaker 3: And look, I'll support them whatever they're wearing. But like,
Speaker 3: I also have no problem in stating if my team
Speaker 3: is wearing ugly ash uniforms and these are just.
Speaker 1: Not it the.
Speaker 3: Best example of certain people just like they don't. As
Speaker 3: long as it says Louisville and it says cards on it,
Speaker 3: They're all in. Doesn't matter, doesn't matter what else it is.
Speaker 3: It's if it's their team. They change colors, they change logos,
Speaker 3: they changed brands, doesn't matter if it's Louisville, they're gonna
Speaker 3: say it looks great. And again that speaks to their
Speaker 3: their love for Louisville. But I'll never forget in twenty
Speaker 3: fifteen when they played Auburn down there in Atlanta. It
Speaker 3: was the first ever career game for Lamar Jackson, I
Speaker 3: think at the time the Chick fil A Kickoff Classic,
Speaker 3: and they wore uniforms from Adidas that I don't know
Speaker 3: if I don't think Adidas called them this, but I
Speaker 3: know a lot of Louisville fans, myself included, called them
Speaker 3: the murder Birds. But if you just google Louisville's uncaged
Speaker 3: cardinal uniforms against Auburn, you'll see that it's the ugliest
Speaker 3: uniform that has ever existed. I mean the bird, I
Speaker 3: mean they changed the mascot like that. That's I don't
Speaker 3: know what that is. That's not a Louisville cardinal that
Speaker 3: you know has green eyes, and the lettering on the
Speaker 3: back looked like it had been written with a pencil
Speaker 3: before the game started. I mean, they were just they
Speaker 3: were hideous, and yet some people claim they were they're
Speaker 3: badass worthies every game. I'm like, okay, well, I mean,
Speaker 3: if we do that, just know that we're we're now
Speaker 3: no longer the same team. We can call ourselves Louisville
Speaker 3: and the Cardinals. But that's not a Cardinal, that's a
Speaker 3: that's a villain bird, which of course our Cardinals, not REO. Mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's any real Cardinals out there
Speaker 3: flying around that have teeth like ours does. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's been our thing forever. But surely these can't be real.
Speaker 3: I mean, but John, you see the picture. It looks
Speaker 3: like they're for sale right now. And if you're gonna
Speaker 3: sell them to fans, I mean, wouldn't it make sense
Speaker 3: that they would They would be uniforms that the team
Speaker 3: would wear, especially if they got the Adida's logo and
Speaker 3: the acc Football logo, Like these look like real deal uniforms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I doubt these are, you know, going to
Speaker 2: be the traditional regular uniforms for the season.
Speaker 3: May some kind of special occasion or something.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: Think who they would break them out against, though, what
Speaker 2: would be the special case?
Speaker 3: I say, some gold on I'll break into the facility
Speaker 3: and steal them so they don't wear them. That's how
Speaker 3: ugly they are. You agree these are hideous?
Speaker 1: Yes, they're terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no reason yellow well and it it two
Speaker 3: two things. One, it just doesn't I don't care. If
Speaker 3: this was a team I'd never seen before, I don't
Speaker 3: think it looks good as far as just the color clashing.
Speaker 3: But also that's not Louisville, Like, that's not people Cardinals.
Speaker 3: And look, I am not at all given anybody at
Speaker 3: uf L any grief about this because, believe it or not,
Speaker 3: they don't really have a whole lot to say, so
Speaker 3: from what I understand, maybe that's changed, but you know,
Speaker 3: they don't. You know, Adidas gives them a lot of money,
Speaker 3: and if Adidas wants to throw some weird out there
Speaker 3: for them to wear, I think it's in best interest
Speaker 3: Louisville to, you know, to do with everything they ask,
Speaker 3: because that's what you do for your partners. They're paying
Speaker 3: you a lot of money annually, more than they pay
Speaker 3: anybody else for you to, you know, wear their brand.
Speaker 2: What if the basketball uniforms have their own version of this,
Speaker 2: that'd be terrible too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, sometimes I'm just bothered by it because
Speaker 3: it's so different than what we've ever seen, and I'm
Speaker 3: just like, why are we wearing this? This isn't us.
Speaker 3: But that's just me being you know, old school, I guess.
Speaker 3: And then there's some times where I'm like, look, these
Speaker 3: are just ugly. They're ugly. So anyways, if anybody has
Speaker 3: any insight into what these uniforms are, please let me know,
Speaker 3: Like if these are the special edition, because they're not
Speaker 3: gonna wear them like every game, at least I would
Speaker 3: hope not, because if that's the case, then you have
Speaker 3: changed your school colors, I think. But like if it's
Speaker 3: a special occasion game, then you know that's actually not
Speaker 3: that uncommon. They did wear gray one time when they
Speaker 3: played Florida State. I believe in might have been in
Speaker 3: that same season. No, it's the year before murder Bird uniform.
Speaker 3: They wore gray when they played Florida State here on
Speaker 3: a Thursday night Jamis Winston in town. They got up
Speaker 3: to a big lead and ended up letting that game
Speaker 3: slip Away and those gray I don't know if it
Speaker 3: was just me and recency biased. I was a little younger.
Speaker 3: I remember thinking that their gray uniforms, they were like
Speaker 3: a dark gray. I remember thinking those look badass. I
Speaker 3: love those, And now when I see them, I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh no, I hope they don't wear those again. Maybe
Speaker 3: I'm becoming more of a traditionalist as I as I
Speaker 3: get older. Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Indiana wore black last year and almost lost to Akron,
Speaker 2: So never wear those again.
Speaker 3: But it looked did it look good?
Speaker 1: They looked okay? They were called the ghost uniforms.
Speaker 2: I like the name of it.
Speaker 3: I always forget you guys having you guys are Adidas
Speaker 3: as well?
Speaker 1: Or yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Look let's get to our first break here.
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Speaker 3: the show have some fun. So for a while I
Speaker 3: used to get I guess like PTSD flashbacks because when
Speaker 3: I was a kid, you know, there there was some
Speaker 3: level of excitement to get school started, like if you
Speaker 3: got some if you got a fresh new back to
Speaker 3: school outfit, some new shoes you wanted to see, you know,
Speaker 3: your friends and whatnot. Like there was always like, Okay,
Speaker 3: going back to school be cool for a day or two,
Speaker 3: but then you're gonna miss summer break. But whenever they
Speaker 3: would show those back to school commercials, like promoting to
Speaker 3: go get you know, clothes or school supplies, it would
Speaker 3: it would just make me so sad knowing that summer
Speaker 3: was ending. But I've now become you know, an old,
Speaker 3: an old person to where now I look forward to
Speaker 3: it because I know it means my daughter's going back
Speaker 3: to school, which is just you know, that makes our
Speaker 3: household a little less chaotic because there's more of a
Speaker 3: structured schedule. She's going to school every day, right, we'd
Speaker 3: have to worry about different daycare arrangements, childcare stuff and
Speaker 3: all that. But uh yeah, first day school for my
Speaker 3: little one, and and JCPS expected to start and well
Speaker 3: I say expected they are starting, Like, I don't think
Speaker 3: there's anything that's going to change that. However, I did
Speaker 3: just read at WDRB dot com that there are hundreds
Speaker 3: of jobs still available that they're trying to fill as
Speaker 3: they prepare for the first day of school in just
Speaker 3: a couple of days. It says. District leaders say the
Speaker 3: number of openings fluctuates. WDRB saw that firsthand. Monday morning,
Speaker 3: JCPS website said that there were six hundred and forty
Speaker 3: two openings. By five thirty pm, there were more than
Speaker 3: six hundred and seventy. So I mean to know that
Speaker 3: there are that many jobs open. No clue what those
Speaker 3: jobs are as far as the title and and you know, part,
Speaker 3: part time, full time teacher like principal, I don't know,
Speaker 3: but that can't That just doesn't sound good, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like that's sad man, because teachers and
Speaker 3: you know, you can work for a school system and
Speaker 3: work in a school and not be a teacher. You can.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of jobs that are important
Speaker 3: that aren't necessarily you leading a class every day, but
Speaker 3: you know, maybe you working in the janitorial services, maybe
Speaker 3: being a bus driver, Like there's a lot of vital
Speaker 3: positions that are needed. But man, it just it feels
Speaker 3: like that's become a thankless thing to do, is work
Speaker 3: for a school in any capacity, And I hate that
Speaker 3: because the teachers are so important and you know, not
Speaker 3: to get off of my soapbox here, but like teachers
Speaker 3: should make more money. Teachers should be taken care of
Speaker 3: more than they are. I mean, when you consider how
Speaker 3: important their job is, all the stuff they have to
Speaker 3: deal with like that. You know, I know a lot
Speaker 3: of people, myself included, would never want to do and
Speaker 3: they do it not because they're making a ton of money,
Speaker 3: because they love it and they want to be They
Speaker 3: want to make an impact. They want to make a difference.
Speaker 3: Like if I if I had it my way and
Speaker 3: I could control it, I would you know, I would
Speaker 3: give the teacher that is my daughter's teacher triple the
Speaker 3: amount of money whatever she's making because she's that's I mean,
Speaker 3: it's she takes care of my kid every day. Teachers
Speaker 3: and you know, it's a huge part of our life
Speaker 3: because of that. Now, of course, my daughter's situation is
Speaker 3: a little bit different, being a special needs kid, but nonetheless,
Speaker 3: like it's just sad to see that there are that
Speaker 3: many vacancies. And I have friends of mine that I
Speaker 3: grew up with that all they ever wanted to do
Speaker 3: is be teachers, and some of them be teachers and
Speaker 3: coaches and just get into the educational you know, educational
Speaker 3: field rather it be administration or you know, teaching that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. And three or four of my friends
Speaker 3: have all done it and moved on. They just just
Speaker 3: they decided to do something else. Didn't want to do
Speaker 3: it anymore, you know, I do they get they get
Speaker 3: summers off, but like, I don't think that would be
Speaker 3: worth it if you didn't do it because you love it,
Speaker 3: because you're not making that much money. I guess you
Speaker 3: can over time and whatnot, but you know.
Speaker 2: You're also working a whole lot more off the clock
Speaker 2: as a teacher. Absolutely, and people realize absolutely.
Speaker 3: So you know, I don't know if they could get
Speaker 3: you hired by the time school starts on Thursday. But
Speaker 3: if you are looking for a position when I see
Speaker 3: that there's six hundred and seventy of them, wouldn't shock
Speaker 3: me if people go check out the you know, the
Speaker 3: the website at JCPS wherever it is and see that
Speaker 3: there's a position you know what that would maybe maybe
Speaker 3: I'll do that. All right, it's coffee and company. We
Speaker 3: are feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Speaker 3: appreciates you hanging out with us. One of the things
Speaker 3: that's always been a pet peeve of mine when it
Speaker 3: comes to reporting and covering sports is how some people
Speaker 3: describe injuries, how they word it, like in a tweet
Speaker 3: or just when you do a when you go to
Speaker 3: a sideline reporter during a game live and they give
Speaker 3: you a quick update. Yeah, John Alten, tight end for
Speaker 3: the Hoosiers, looks like he's looks like he's heading to
Speaker 3: the locker room with a knee. Well, yeah, I would
Speaker 3: hope he's walking with both knees. I hope he's taking
Speaker 3: both his knees with him and didn't leave them on
Speaker 3: the field.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 3: I don't know why that bothers me so much because
Speaker 3: it's become the common thing. But anyways, I just saw
Speaker 3: a tweet that has gone viral, which these are my people,
Speaker 3: people who think this is funny, people who retweeted this
Speaker 3: to give it these seven hundred thousand impressions that it's
Speaker 3: had in the last twenty four hours. You're my people.
Speaker 3: So Clarence Hill Junior covers the Cowboys. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: for who, but he's got a bunch of followers. He
Speaker 3: reported that Cowboys running back Royce Freeman left practice with
Speaker 3: a groin, and somebody shared that and said, did he
Speaker 3: steal someone's groin? And I'm like, why do we word
Speaker 3: it that way? Is it that big of a deal
Speaker 3: to say he left practice with an injured groin with
Speaker 3: a nagging groin to get a I mean, like, why
Speaker 3: do we have like of course, yeah, he looks like
Speaker 3: he's going to be out with with a you know,
Speaker 3: with his shoulder. Well, of course he's got a shoulder,
Speaker 3: like you know. I don't know why. The reason I
Speaker 3: say pet peeve is because it's not a big deal.
Speaker 3: I know what they mean when I say it, but
Speaker 3: I just don't know why they can't communicate it like
Speaker 3: you would in any other setting, Like.
Speaker 2: I don't think about it that much. And it's maybe
Speaker 2: it's probably because it's one of those things where I've
Speaker 2: never thought about what they're saying. I'm just curious on
Speaker 2: what they're going to report. And I have other pet
Speaker 2: peeves obviously, but it's that's interesting that that's one of yours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's many of them when it comes to
Speaker 3: things that do not matter that other people wouldn't even notice.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm weird like that, all right. So
Speaker 3: years ago this would have been really weird and just crazy,
Speaker 3: and it still is kind of that. However, with the
Speaker 3: ever changing landscape within college athletics, I guess it really
Speaker 3: isn't that big of a surprise to see Pitbull, the
Speaker 3: you know, entertainment mogul, decide to pony up a bunch
Speaker 3: of money to help Florida International University Football FIU football
Speaker 3: because Pitbull has purchased the naming rights to FIU's stadium,
Speaker 3: which will now be Pitbull Stadium, and a five year,
Speaker 3: six million dollar deal. So as part of the agreement,
Speaker 3: Pitbull mister Worldwide, mister three to ZH five, he will
Speaker 3: pay FAU one point two million dollars annually and with
Speaker 3: that he'll additionally be named the official entrepreneur of FIU Athletics.
Speaker 3: And he'll love the opportunity to use the stadium for
Speaker 3: up to ten days each year without paying for it.
Speaker 3: Like that alone pays for the I mean, like, I
Speaker 3: don't know what he's gonna do if he's gonna have
Speaker 3: the pit Bull Music Festival. But like, if you have,
Speaker 3: if you can use this not even know anything about
Speaker 3: the stadium, but it's a stadium where a college football
Speaker 3: team plays in Miami, So even if it's a dump,
Speaker 3: it's probably got a lot of space. And if you
Speaker 3: can use an event venue like that, and you know,
Speaker 3: you don't have to pay to use it, I mean
Speaker 3: you could sell tickets. I mean, you could make make
Speaker 3: all your money back. And Pitbull seems to be somebody
Speaker 3: that would be able to do that given his you know,
Speaker 3: his fame and his success in the entertainment world. But
Speaker 3: also he's gonna include uh, the deal also includes provisions
Speaker 3: for Pitbull to create an FIU anthem about that.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what that would I mean, actually,
Speaker 2: that's that's stupid. Every pit Bull song kind of sounds
Speaker 2: the same, so I can't imagine what it would sound like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we're gonna be panther fans first moment this year?
Speaker 1: Is it really?
Speaker 3: I wish it was at So apparently he's got his
Speaker 3: own vodka brand and it's a Volley three h five Voda.
Speaker 3: They'll be able to sell that.
Speaker 1: It games.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have two suites for up to forty people
Speaker 3: at all football games. And uh yeah, they're set to
Speaker 3: open up the newly named pit Bull Stadium against Central
Speaker 3: Michigan on September the seventh. So shout out uh to
Speaker 3: pit Bull. I will say this about Pitbull. He is
Speaker 3: somebody that I think really does care about Miami, the
Speaker 3: community and FIU, which is you know, I mean, it
Speaker 3: doesn't get the same it's not the same brand as
Speaker 3: you know, the you although the U is in Coral Gables,
Speaker 3: I mean that's technically Miami, but like kind of not.
Speaker 3: But here's uh, here's mister worldwide on the on the
Speaker 3: big big news announcement today down at fa f IU and.
Speaker 4: What we're doing and here is groundbreaking. It's we're making history.
Speaker 4: This is history in the making. You're gonna see that.
Speaker 4: Every other university's gonna want to do the same thing.
Speaker 4: But the difference is we don't do this for propaganda.
Speaker 4: We do it from the heart. We do it because
Speaker 4: it's meaningful. We do it because I'm from the crib.
Speaker 4: I'm three h five, I'm from the bottom. This is
Speaker 4: my my backyard. And when I say Miami is ours
Speaker 4: and I'm on the stage because not because I didn't
Speaker 4: graduate from FIU. I grat you from high school, to
Speaker 4: be honest with you, but music was my escape and
Speaker 4: it allowed me to invest into education and give kids
Speaker 4: an opportunity that maybe I didn't have, but be able
Speaker 4: to look at those kids and go, hey, the same way,
Speaker 4: they ain't believing in y'all. To a certain extent, they
Speaker 4: ain't believe in me. But it took one person, a teacher,
Speaker 4: and her name was Hope, And when I was hopeless,
Speaker 4: she gave me hope and all she told me was
Speaker 4: I believe in you. So I want to say thank
Speaker 4: you to FIU for believing in me and believing in
Speaker 4: this movement, believing in the three or five at this level,
Speaker 4: because I promise you we're gonna take it to a
Speaker 4: whole another level like we always do, but for the
Speaker 4: right reasons. And I just want to make sure that
Speaker 4: we inspire, motivate the community, the culture, and let everybody
Speaker 4: know that here in the United States of America, it's true.
Speaker 4: Freedom isn't free. Freedom can get ugly because you got
Speaker 4: to fight for it, but freedom is priceless. So to
Speaker 4: be on this stage is just to motivate everybody out there,
Speaker 4: and let you know that if you put your mind
Speaker 4: to it and you got creative minds around you, you
Speaker 4: can get anything done.
Speaker 3: And that's why so shut out to Pitbull. I mean,
Speaker 3: that makes me want to go play for pit Bull.
Speaker 3: Let him coach the team down there at i if IU,
Speaker 3: which maybe they would like if he kept giving him money,
Speaker 3: because every school is going to need money. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you'll see an entertainer be the stadium sponsor
Speaker 3: for other college football programs just because you know, the
Speaker 3: amount of money that he's paying is very It's not
Speaker 3: a lot, to be honest with you, like that, for
Speaker 3: a for a stadium rights deal, that's not a whole
Speaker 3: lot of money. Now for them, you know, maybe it's
Speaker 3: a lot. I mean, clearly FIU, we know they're not
Speaker 3: an upper echelon program by any means. In fact, I
Speaker 3: only know of them. I mean I know of them,
Speaker 3: but when I think of them, I think of when
Speaker 3: they came in here and beat Louisville with Charlie Strong's
Speaker 3: second team. I think it was maybe third team, and
Speaker 3: it's because they had t Y Hilton. But anyways, we'll
Speaker 3: get into this a little bit more in the four
Speaker 3: o'clock hour because the money that has already been coming
Speaker 3: into college athletics in recent years really for a long
Speaker 3: time with corporate sponsorships that kind of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's really been a lucrative business for a long long time.
Speaker 3: But now players are going to get a piece of
Speaker 3: the pie. We know that, right, and they have, but
Speaker 3: they haven't recently. What I mean by that is like
Speaker 3: players getting INIL money is not them getting a piece
Speaker 3: of the pie. That's just them being allowed to make money.
Speaker 3: And they should be able to make money if somebody
Speaker 3: wants to give them money. Nobody should say that they can't.
Speaker 3: But now with the recent settlement, now the players are
Speaker 3: literally going to be you know, compensated by the university,
Speaker 3: and they're also going to get NIEL money on top
Speaker 3: of that. And NIL money has always been used since
Speaker 3: its existence as a way to get players to either
Speaker 3: decide to come to your school or decide to stay
Speaker 3: at your school and not go to the portal. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's what it is. I mean, there are some occasional
Speaker 3: innil deals that you see that really are not about
Speaker 3: some kind of big lucrative thing. It's just, you know,
Speaker 3: it is creative and it does make sense for the
Speaker 3: advertiser to get involved in partner. But when it comes
Speaker 3: to the big dollar deals that lead to somebody going
Speaker 3: from this school to that school via the portal, there's
Speaker 3: not a whole lot of return on set investment from
Speaker 3: this big anil package. It's just because that's what you
Speaker 3: have to do now. So in the four o'clock hour
Speaker 3: we'll discuss more about this. Because again, earlier today, the
Speaker 3: NCUBLEA put out their annual manual. It's the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four to twenty five Division one NCAA Manual, and it
Speaker 3: finally has the new NIL bylaws that went into effect
Speaker 3: within the last week on August first. But the things
Speaker 3: that they claim are bylaws they have already been told
Speaker 3: that they're not allowed to enforce. I mean, the federal
Speaker 3: judge is already determined that they cannot enforce some of
Speaker 3: these things, which just it makes me wonder, like what
Speaker 3: are we doing with the NCAA. Who needs them? I mean,
Speaker 3: this is this is going to be such a high industry,
Speaker 3: if you want to call it. That college athletics at
Speaker 3: the top meeting the schools who do want to compete
Speaker 3: that are willing to make it work, however, they can
Speaker 3: to make sure that they are paying players just like
Speaker 3: everybody else that wants to win. Because if you're not
Speaker 3: paying players, I mean, good luck. I mean really, you
Speaker 3: probably need to get out of the business if you're
Speaker 3: not striving to win at a high level, because without
Speaker 3: the money that goes into that commitment to win at
Speaker 3: a high level, I mean, I don't want to say
Speaker 3: you're wasting your time, but kind of wasting your time.
Speaker 3: So we'll get into that a little bit later, but
Speaker 3: let's get to our next break. We'll come back on
Speaker 3: the other side wrap up at three o'clock hour, and
Speaker 3: some good news earlier today for those of you, I
Speaker 3: guess I should say those of us that were like
Speaker 3: me and worried that we may no longer see Charles
Speaker 3: Barkley gracing our television because of this NBA T and
Speaker 3: T stuff. But it sounds like Chuck's not retiring. But
Speaker 3: I have a question, without the NBA being with Turner,
Speaker 3: what's he gonna do? All right, stick around, it's coffee
Speaker 3: and company. We are feel about Thorton's right here on
Speaker 3: Sports Talk seven ninety. You know, I gotta be honest
Speaker 3: with you, John I'd never thought of it, but you
Speaker 3: were absolutely correct. Every Pitbull song seems to sound exactly
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 2: You're all about partying and having a good time in Miami,
Speaker 2: and it's yeah, this is a good time. But they
Speaker 2: do all sound the same.
Speaker 3: Good vibes for sure, but yeah, they're they're kind of
Speaker 3: all the same. But anyways, it is coffee and company.
Speaker 3: We are feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. And I know
Speaker 3: the NBA media rights deal is probably not a big
Speaker 3: topic for those of you that aren't that interested in,
Speaker 3: you know, the NBA, but it really is crazy to
Speaker 3: see how much differently you're going to be consuming the
Speaker 3: NBA compared to you know, if you're somebody that watched
Speaker 3: it regularly, you know you'll still be able to get
Speaker 3: to it, but you know, there's going to be a
Speaker 3: lot more networks involved than we're previously involved as far
Speaker 3: as airing actual games. And right now, you've got this
Speaker 3: Warner Brothers Discovery press release that came out looks like
Speaker 3: within the last couple of hours, but it's announcing that
Speaker 3: Charles Barkley is continued to the company and is going
Speaker 3: to honor his contract and not leave. There's been a
Speaker 3: lot of folks assuming he would retire with the NBA
Speaker 3: seemingly no longer having any interest or any relationship with TNT,
Speaker 3: which of course is under the Warner Brothers umbrella. So look,
Speaker 3: this is good Charles Barkley. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't think you can recreate what the TNT crew
Speaker 3: has with inside the NBA. Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson, Kenny
Speaker 3: the jet Shack's been a great addition. They have some
Speaker 3: other people occasionally involved, but Charles Barkley is the guy.
Speaker 3: And I can't really put into words as to why
Speaker 3: Charles Barkley is so entertaining, because it's not as if,
Speaker 3: you know, he's doing stand up sets on a TV show,
Speaker 3: right he I just think he's so genuinely him and
Speaker 3: is one of those people that will say whatever the
Speaker 3: hecky once and there are things he can say and
Speaker 3: get away with that others might get in trouble for saying.
Speaker 3: But you know, the thought of him no longer being
Speaker 3: a big voice on the NBA and what happens within
Speaker 3: the association is just odd to think about. But I mean,
Speaker 3: what are they what are they gonna do with him?
Speaker 3: Like cause, in the latest with the Warner Brothers dispute
Speaker 3: with the NBA, they're claiming they're going to sue the
Speaker 3: NBA because of some kind of I don't know what.
Speaker 3: It turns turns out the NBA would preferred to work
Speaker 3: with Amazon over TNT. And I thought that to be
Speaker 3: kind of odd because I would think that the NBA
Speaker 3: would see Charles Barkley as a very valuable like he
Speaker 3: you know, he will bring more he will bring more
Speaker 3: coverage to your league because he's that big of a
Speaker 3: star in the in you know, not only just in
Speaker 3: sports media, but in everything. So you would think that
Speaker 3: like they would see a beneficial relationship there, but they
Speaker 3: preferred to not go with them. They'd rather go with Amazon.
Speaker 3: And when you read you know, barkley statement on the
Speaker 3: whole thing, as well as the press release stuff that
Speaker 3: came out from for Warner Brothers, who again owns TNT,
Speaker 3: I mean, it just sounds as if, you know, they're
Speaker 3: they're not putting fans first, and it does sound like
Speaker 3: sour grapes. However, I think they're right in that regard,
Speaker 3: like fans, you know, if in fact, Warner Brothers was
Speaker 3: willing to match whatever Amazon was going to pay, why
Speaker 3: would you not want to go with the company that
Speaker 3: you already have a relationship with, where you already have
Speaker 3: a built in audience they know to go to TNT
Speaker 3: and you have a show that is easily the most
Speaker 3: popular show covering your brand, that is the NBA, the
Speaker 3: National Basketball Association. So Moley guests and I don't think
Speaker 3: I'm a reach in here, but maybe they don't like
Speaker 3: the fact that, like those guys have that much power.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Charles Barkley, he gave if he
Speaker 3: was to give a strong opinion on something in the NBA,
Speaker 3: good or bad about the NBA, it's gonna get a
Speaker 3: lot of it. And to be honest with you, he's
Speaker 3: still gonna be able to do that now, it just
Speaker 3: won't be you know, on a show that is you know,
Speaker 3: after a big NBA game on TNT or at half,
Speaker 3: you know, saying something during halftime of a game. But
Speaker 3: he's finalizing a two hundred million dollar deal to not
Speaker 3: retire and stay with T and T, which is a
Speaker 3: lot of money. But had he hit the market because
Speaker 3: he could have, that was that was when this That's
Speaker 3: how this whole thing really started a life of its own.
Speaker 3: As far as what's Barkley gonna do is because he's
Speaker 3: he's already under contract with TNT, but he did have
Speaker 3: a clause in his contract that says if they don't
Speaker 3: have NBA games, he can walk. So that led to
Speaker 3: people thinking, okay, like who is which one of these
Speaker 3: networks that now has NBA games, Like NBC, what kind
Speaker 3: of money are they going to throw at Chuck? Are
Speaker 3: they going to try to create inside the NBA? But
Speaker 3: you know, call it something different obviously, and have Barkley there,
Speaker 3: and you know, have your bizarro cast of somebody to
Speaker 3: fill the role of Ernie and Shaq and Kenny, and
Speaker 3: I don't want to act like those guys don't matter
Speaker 3: at all, but Barkley is the main face and the
Speaker 3: main character, if you will, within that show because it
Speaker 3: is a show now. I actually think that Shaq and
Speaker 3: Chuck together is hilarious when they can't stop making each
Speaker 3: other laugh when they rib each other, and you can
Speaker 3: never tell or they being that serious because Shack will
Speaker 3: say some really hurtful things about Barkley not winning a
Speaker 3: ring and shit, Barkley will make fun of Shacked for
Speaker 3: being really fat at the end of his career and
Speaker 3: playing for all these random teams, just trying to not
Speaker 3: end his NBA career when he called himself shacktus when
Speaker 3: he played for the Suns and he played for the Calves.
Speaker 3: You remember that with Lebron he called himself like the
Speaker 3: big buccaneer, and then when he played with Boston the
Speaker 3: big Shamrock. Like it was all of it was all
Speaker 3: of gag at that point, but like they're great together.
Speaker 3: Ernie's great too. Ernie is you know, he stirs the drink,
Speaker 3: and Kenny is you know he's Kenny. Like if I
Speaker 3: was going to rank the importance of and I hate
Speaker 3: doing this because I'm I'm a sign. I think the
Speaker 3: most impossible question to answer is if you had to
Speaker 3: get rid of one Sinfeld character, who would it be,
Speaker 3: Because I don't think you could get rid of any
Speaker 3: of them and the show would be the same. Most
Speaker 3: people would say a Lane, but like no Elane is
Speaker 3: a huge part of it. You certainly can't say Jerry.
Speaker 3: I happen to think George Castanz is the best TV
Speaker 3: character of all time. And then Kramer. Some would say
Speaker 3: that he's the guy that's irreplaceable. So I kind of
Speaker 3: feel the same way about the Inside the NBA crew
Speaker 3: because I think all three of those, all four of
Speaker 3: those guys, they have a certain role that makes that
Speaker 3: thing magnificent. I mean, Inside the NBA with those guys
Speaker 3: is one of the best things we've ever had in
Speaker 3: sports television. And I don't even know what they're gonna
Speaker 3: do now because it doesn't look like they're gonna have
Speaker 3: any NBA right, So I guess think, I mean, could
Speaker 3: you still do the show without games? I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess you could, right, but like you're not. You're walking
Speaker 3: like when you have Inside the NBA on after a
Speaker 3: double header on a Thursday night on TNT, Like the
Speaker 3: audience is they're watching the NBA and then they get
Speaker 3: these guys. You know, would you still be able to
Speaker 3: put up, you know, pull off a show that like
Speaker 3: people got to come to you when you didn't have
Speaker 3: the games. I don't know, but if anybody could do it,
Speaker 3: it would be these guys, because that's how phenomenal that
Speaker 3: show is. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 3: come back on the other side with two more hours
Speaker 3: to go. In a lot to get into, so stick
Speaker 3: with us. It's coffee and Company. Philbeth Thornton's on Sports
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