Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: Right, five o'clock hour on a Friday afternoon, a little
Speaker 2: later than usual. That's completely my fall. Clock management never
Speaker 2: been my strength by any means, although at times it's
Speaker 2: not terrible. But today's one of those days where in
Speaker 2: fact it is terrible. But again, we're here and we're
Speaker 2: gonna make the most of the time we have left
Speaker 2: before we get out of here for the weekend. But
Speaker 2: I do want to remind you that tomorrow we've got
Speaker 2: you covered for game day. The pregame show we'll start
Speaker 2: at two thirty, hosted by me. It is the Louis
Speaker 2: of Football Pregame Show, presented by Pellow Windows and Doors
Speaker 2: of Central Kentucky and Jefferson Animal Hospital. Two thirty. Again,
Speaker 2: we'll get it started. It'll be an hour long, and
Speaker 2: then once it ends, well we'll let you watch the game.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what you should do. Or maybe you're
Speaker 2: gonna be at the game, maybe you can listen to
Speaker 2: the listen to the pregame show while you're tail getting
Speaker 2: that'd be cool. Hopefully, I can, you know, carry some vibes,
Speaker 2: but nonetheless two thirty to three thirty, kickoff three thirty,
Speaker 2: and then after the game we'll come back right here,
Speaker 2: least to hope you guys will to react to whatever
Speaker 2: it is that happens on the Louisville Fotball post game
Speaker 2: show fors inted by alex Ar White Lawyer's suit distracted
Speaker 2: driver dot com and uh, I cannot believe how fast
Speaker 2: the show has went by today. I say that a lot.
Speaker 2: John mentioned it earlier, which reminded me it has gone
Speaker 2: by really fast, which I assume that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: It is a good thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good thing. So I don't really
Speaker 2: have anything to add right now that I haven't already
Speaker 2: said about this George Tech matchup. This is a team
Speaker 2: that I have a lot of respect for, but it's
Speaker 2: a respect level to where like, hey, I know you
Speaker 2: all are pretty good. I respect your coach, You've got
Speaker 2: some good personnel. I like your attitude. I think you're
Speaker 2: gonna come ready to play. I don't expect you to
Speaker 2: come out and get blown out early then and mail
Speaker 2: it in. So it's not like And with all that said,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna add this on Louisville is expected to win
Speaker 2: and should win, it would be an upset. Of the lose,
Speaker 2: it would be a disappointing loss if they If they lose,
Speaker 2: I mean, any loss is disappointing. But I really can't
Speaker 2: put Somebody asked me, hey, you know, since you're having
Speaker 2: such a tough time really articulating how to describe this matchup,
Speaker 2: can you compare it to another game? I'm not really
Speaker 2: sure I can, because you know, Georgia Tech they've not
Speaker 2: been good for a while. Last year they took a
Speaker 2: big step forward with Brent Key in his first year.
Speaker 2: They've never lost back to back games. They thrive when
Speaker 2: they are underdogs. They thrive and play their best football
Speaker 2: even if it doesn't result in a win against good teams.
Speaker 2: I mean last year they played Georgia within a touchdown.
Speaker 2: They beat three ranked teams last year. I mean this
Speaker 2: is I mean, I know sometimes people don't want to
Speaker 2: talk about the wagering aspect of matchups, and especially when
Speaker 2: it's your own team, because, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: like I reference the spread because it gives us a
Speaker 2: reference point as far as like what odds makers are
Speaker 2: putting out there. But like if Louisville wins and doesn't
Speaker 2: cover against decent teams or good teams. I don't look
Speaker 2: at it like, well, they won, but they didn't cover.
Speaker 2: Now if I bet on it, it's different, I mean, but
Speaker 2: still like I don't care if Louisville wins by four tomorrow,
Speaker 2: if they win by forty, I mean, obviously winning by
Speaker 2: forty would be impressive, and I don't think that's going
Speaker 2: to happen. But this is even if you don't gamble
Speaker 2: and you don't really put a lot into spreads and whatnot,
Speaker 2: I still think this stat would mean something to you
Speaker 2: when it comes to how impressive Brent Key is in
Speaker 2: these situations. So he is thirteen and three against the
Speaker 2: spread with ten outright wins as an underdog. So as
Speaker 2: an underdog, he's won thirteen of the sixteen games. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: he's covered in thirteen of those sixteen games. He's one
Speaker 2: outright ten of those games. That's impressive, and that speaks
Speaker 2: to the fact that he is really in his element
Speaker 2: in situations like what is going on tomorrow. So this
Speaker 2: is another reminder for me that honestly, from like an
Speaker 2: emotional standpoint as a fan, this is the season opener.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be September twenty first when this thing kicks off.
Speaker 2: But really, man, this is the opener because this is
Speaker 2: where you really get to see where you stand. And
Speaker 2: I like it because and I'm not gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try my best not to get caught up in what
Speaker 2: others would view this win as if Louisville gets it,
Speaker 2: but I will be You know, again, what does it
Speaker 2: match just me? I'm one person. It's just my opinion.
Speaker 2: I think a win tomorrow, even if it isn't super
Speaker 2: impressive and you don't cover, I'm gonna say louis will
Speaker 2: beat a good team. Now. It may not look like
Speaker 2: that at the end of the year, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be encouraged by this Louisville team and the rest of
Speaker 2: the season based off of what happens tomorrow. And it's
Speaker 2: because I have that level of respect for Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make it quite clear. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that we're getting ready to go out there and play
Speaker 2: Miami or play Georgia or anything like that. It's just
Speaker 2: that they are. They've proven to be good in these spots,
Speaker 2: and I think they've got some dudes. Man. I don't
Speaker 2: want to act like we don't have some dudes on
Speaker 2: our side for Louisville, because we do. But last year,
Speaker 2: I mean, you just look statistically when you look at
Speaker 2: what and I know I've mentioned this step many times,
Speaker 2: but when you look at what their quarterback did last
Speaker 2: year and a year where he kind of emerged as
Speaker 2: a guy people are familiar with, Like he's not somebody
Speaker 2: that you know a lot of people hype up as
Speaker 2: a guy that's you know, one of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in the country, although those that covered the AEC specifically
Speaker 2: speak really really highly of him. But there was only
Speaker 2: four quarterbacks last year that had has had twenty five
Speaker 2: or more touchdowns on through the air or ten or
Speaker 2: more touchdowns on the ground, and two of them are
Speaker 2: starting for NFL teams. One is now leading the offense
Speaker 2: at Oregon Dylan Gabriel, and the other is the quarterback
Speaker 2: for Georgia. And you know, he was turnover prone at
Speaker 2: Texas A and M. But Haines King has settled in
Speaker 2: and I you know, not to gas him up too much.
Speaker 2: I think the defense is going to be trying to
Speaker 2: you knows, as they should. They're going to try to
Speaker 2: make him uncomfortable pretty early on in this game and
Speaker 2: really get after him early. I think that should be
Speaker 2: the game plan. But I don't think it's crazy to
Speaker 2: say he's gonna be one of the better quarterbacks you
Speaker 2: play this year. So I'm excited. Man, the anxiousness has
Speaker 2: kind of worn off now it's just man, I'm just
Speaker 2: ready for it to happen. I'm ready for this game
Speaker 2: to start. And we're almost there. We were almost there at.
Speaker 3: Their batteries are charged exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Pun. So I got
Speaker 2: the phone call right when we were coming back from
Speaker 2: from from the last break, not the most recent one,
Speaker 2: and it was and I told John like, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: can you maybe like at a spot or two because
Speaker 2: I feel like I know who this is. And it
Speaker 2: was that the vehicle made it to the dealership. So
Speaker 2: that's a big step in this process. Now they're going
Speaker 2: to do their testing and and you know observation, they're
Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna look at it and figure out, you know,
Speaker 2: what the damage is. Maybe it is a complete reset
Speaker 2: of the system and it's just a computer thing, or
Speaker 2: maybe they got to do some real repairs. Because AutoZone
Speaker 2: messed up my car. So I'll try to relay that
Speaker 2: story a little bit later on for those that weren't
Speaker 2: with us earlier. I don't want to make it too
Speaker 2: much of the show today. I think I've already kind
Speaker 2: of done that. But it's all people are reacting to,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. But I told him like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: I'm on the air, I'm live, I host a radio shows.
Speaker 2: Any as I can call you back in like ten minutes,
Speaker 2: and he said, yeah, sure, no problem. Well I called
Speaker 2: back and I had to leave a voicemail, and when
Speaker 2: leaving the voicemail, I'm glad I caught it. At the end,
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, you know, I don't know what
Speaker 2: other information you need for me, but feel free to
Speaker 2: give me call fivebut two five seven, one seven and
Speaker 2: one hundred. Oh wait a second, I'm on the air.
Speaker 2: I just gave you the number to call the show.
Speaker 2: Let me give you my cell number, which I did so,
Speaker 2: in all seriousness, that is a big step. I was
Speaker 2: getting worried that like it was just going to like
Speaker 2: my vehicle was just going to stay there and I
Speaker 2: would never it would just be sitting at AutoZone and
Speaker 2: like it would be bad. But anyways, So one thing
Speaker 2: I wanted to get to that I probably should have
Speaker 2: talked about a little bit on but I didn't. So
Speaker 2: there's a Twitter clip of Jeff Brom on his Coaches
Speaker 2: show talking about the UK game that has become like
Speaker 2: a really you know, it's it's become a hot topic
Speaker 2: among the rivalry because Brom and I can't play the
Speaker 2: sound for you here and I only heard it from
Speaker 2: the clip that that that has been circulating on Twitter,
Speaker 2: and it's now made Barstool Sports, and of course Kentucky
Speaker 2: fans are sharing it, and it's Brom acknowledging that Kentucky
Speaker 2: was the most penalized, one of the most penalized teams
Speaker 2: in the country last year and they did not get
Speaker 2: a penalty called on them during the louisvill game last year.
Speaker 2: And look, context is important in a major way. So
Speaker 2: once I saw this yesterday, I went back and, uh,
Speaker 2: you can't access these these shows after the fact. And
Speaker 2: and it's a tongue in cheek comment that was probably
Speaker 2: just to have fun with fans. That was I think
Speaker 2: like eleven second maybe it was not a situation where
Speaker 2: he was bitching and moaning about being screwed against the rival.
Speaker 2: I say this, I mean again, it's not like I'm
Speaker 2: saying because I've got like close personal access to Jeff
Speaker 2: that nobody else has. But i know him well enough
Speaker 2: to know and I've said it many times because I
Speaker 2: know it's the facts. Nobody's more pissed about losing to
Speaker 2: Kentucky last year than Jeff Brown. If you asked him personally,
Speaker 2: he would acknowledge all the dumb stuff they did to
Speaker 2: lose that game, and he would acknowledge they kicked it
Speaker 2: off to Barry and Brown. He would acknowledge, you know,
Speaker 2: just little miscues here and there that like should have
Speaker 2: prevented it. Now, yeah, it is unusual for the most
Speaker 2: penalized team, in one of the most penalized teams in
Speaker 2: the country to not have a penalty in a SEC
Speaker 2: in a game against the rival when the refs are
Speaker 2: from the SEC. But that's a far stretch to claim
Speaker 2: that he is blaming that loss on officials and that
Speaker 2: the SEC refs were given Kentucky favoritism. That's not all
Speaker 2: what he said, And even in the eleven seconds that's
Speaker 2: out there, it's not it's not it's it's a reach,
Speaker 2: But what do we do in the rivalry we reach
Speaker 2: where petty we take any like again, like, for example,
Speaker 2: Kentucky fans, and I give them a better that I
Speaker 2: can't be, Like I can be, I can do the
Speaker 2: rivalry stuff, but I'm also not gonna lie to you
Speaker 2: and give you an opinion that I don't believe just
Speaker 2: to rib the fan base. But I get why Kentucky
Speaker 2: fans are encouraged in a major way by what happened
Speaker 2: on Saturday. In fact, they should feel better about their
Speaker 2: team and and and you know, if anything, their complaints
Speaker 2: are about their coach. So like they did the moral
Speaker 2: victory stuff, and I and I said on the show
Speaker 2: right after that game happened on Monday, I get it.
Speaker 2: I would do the same thing and moral victory stuff
Speaker 2: like we all do it. Nobody wants to say it.
Speaker 2: It's become this thing where you're just like you're a
Speaker 2: loser if you do moral victories. No, it's human nature,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's it's just a part of processing
Speaker 2: results and trying to asp a positive or a silver
Speaker 2: lining from from said situation. You know, Like I don't
Speaker 2: know if this is the base example, but like when
Speaker 2: somebody's about to say I'm not I'm not a racist,
Speaker 2: but you know what they're about to do, say something
Speaker 2: racist no offense, but I'm about to offend you. I
Speaker 2: mean that that I mean like so when somebody says
Speaker 2: I'm not into moral victories, but I'm into moral victories,
Speaker 2: Like you're not claiming you won, but you you feel
Speaker 2: some positive energy from said result. So like all of
Speaker 2: the Louisville Twitter world, and I don't blame them, I
Speaker 2: get it. I know what this is. They're just making
Speaker 2: fun of Kentucky for their coach punting it unfourthd down
Speaker 2: and them acting like they won a game when they
Speaker 2: actually lost and being you know, a team that that
Speaker 2: that actually lost to the number one team in the country,
Speaker 2: but because it was a close game, the number one
Speaker 2: team is no longer the number one team. Like I
Speaker 2: know how all this works. I know we all do
Speaker 2: the same stuff for the most part. Like for example,
Speaker 2: if this if this exact clip existed from Stoops and
Speaker 2: the result last year was the other way around, we
Speaker 2: would clown them. Here's what I have an issue with.
Speaker 2: I have no control over it, and I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: like I'm bothered by it. But like, here's what I
Speaker 2: don't get. Who would think that putting this out there
Speaker 2: from the Louisville side of it would make Louisville look good?
Speaker 2: Because I saw this coming as soon as I saw this,
Speaker 2: this clip on Twitter and where it came from. I'm like,
Speaker 2: why are you weaponizing our rival to call us sore losers? Like,
Speaker 2: don't give them the gun to shoot us? And again,
Speaker 2: we don't care what they think. Anybody who listened to
Speaker 2: what Jeff said knows that he's not saying that they
Speaker 2: lost because of refs. But now you got Barstool Sports
Speaker 2: writing blogs about Brom being a sore loser, little brother stuff,
Speaker 2: and like, I guarantee you this, no Kentucky fan was
Speaker 2: listening when that comment was made, and he did not
Speaker 2: like in a way I think presenting just those eleven
Speaker 2: seconds of this clip, it's honestly kind of taking them
Speaker 2: out of context. If I'm being honest with you, just
Speaker 2: just being honest. So you know, I don't think anybody
Speaker 2: was out there trying to make Bram look bad, but
Speaker 2: you got it. You gotta be smart. And and here's
Speaker 2: the thing, it's rivalry banter. It's foolishness. It's what we do.
Speaker 2: It's it's childish, it's petty, and that's what makes rivalries great. Right.
Speaker 2: We all are petty children in a way when it
Speaker 2: comes to how we behave when it comes to the rivalry.
Speaker 2: But don't don't give the other ammunition. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess you can. But like I know this, Jeff brom
Speaker 2: ain't happy that there's now a story out there all
Speaker 2: over the internet and this clip has got what two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty one thousand views by somebody making I
Speaker 2: mean like they created this, Like it's it's crazy to me,
Speaker 2: and I don't think it was done out of out
Speaker 2: of you know, like hey, let's make fun of Bram
Speaker 2: for being a sore loser. But like what each think
Speaker 2: was gonna be the result of this, especially when you
Speaker 2: only include eleven sections of the eleven seconds of the context.
Speaker 2: So again, like I've I've put a lot of stupid
Speaker 2: stuff on Twitter that I probably shouldn't have. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not your job as a fan to be mindful
Speaker 2: of how what you say or what you share makes
Speaker 2: the coach look like so I'm not trying to say that,
Speaker 2: but like, let me give you another example of something
Speaker 2: that like, I just think, like I think people, I
Speaker 2: think their head's in the right place, but don't prop
Speaker 2: the Louisville fan base up to get clowned. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess you canny if you don't care. But people
Speaker 2: can act like they don't care. They care. People are
Speaker 2: seeing Louisville making fun of Brahm's comments and they're clapping back.
Speaker 2: You know what that does. That means you care, And
Speaker 2: that's okay. It's a rivalry. Of course we're gonna care.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go back and forth. But there's another tweet
Speaker 2: from an account called State of Louisville and they cover
Speaker 2: U of L I believe mostly, and then some other
Speaker 2: stuff too. And here's their tweet and again another tweet
Speaker 2: that went off went crazy, over one hundred thousand impressions
Speaker 2: on this tweet for an account that only has thirteen
Speaker 2: thousand followers, fourteen thousand followers, roughly like, you got to
Speaker 2: you gotta you know again, you don't represent the fan base,
Speaker 2: and I know you're not trying to, but like, I
Speaker 2: know you're in a right and I know you're coming
Speaker 2: from the right place. Be a little more mindful about
Speaker 2: how this could be perceived by others. Let me read
Speaker 2: the tweet to you. This is from again State of
Speaker 2: the Louisville and I know one of those guys that
Speaker 2: is a part of that, and I don't even know.
Speaker 2: I don't even know who all is helping them with
Speaker 2: that platform or whatnot, So I'm not it's not personal
Speaker 2: at all, and I think those guys do a good
Speaker 2: job from what I know. But here's the tweet. Don't
Speaker 2: come at our neck for this, but don't expect a
Speaker 2: massive crowd for Georgia Tech Saturday in Louisville, feature Bourbon
Speaker 2: and beyond, and they're going to mention all the big names.
Speaker 2: And they say forty five thousand and attendants expected racing
Speaker 2: Louisville game at seven point thirty, Louisville Bats game seven fifteen,
Speaker 2: Churchill Down's fall meet Little League football in full swing.
Speaker 2: I actually think they every bit, every bit of intention
Speaker 2: in that tweet is coming from a good place. And
Speaker 2: I mean that sincerely. If I didn't, I wouldn't say it.
Speaker 2: But now you're already making excuses for a like crowd
Speaker 2: for Triple A baseball little league football. And again, I'm
Speaker 2: a dad. I have I've missed two louisvill football games
Speaker 2: for my son who's playing flag football, and I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm lying to you calling it flag football. They
Speaker 2: run around, kids take naps during games sometimes like it's
Speaker 2: not that, but it's my son. And I can't be
Speaker 2: at ellen And Stadium doing kegstans to entertain the crowd
Speaker 2: when my when my son's out there playing football, I'm
Speaker 2: a dad, Like, so you know, like I mean it sincerely.
Speaker 2: I believe this was just like, hey, the crowd may
Speaker 2: not be great, but just keep in mind there's a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff going on. That's a fair message, but
Speaker 2: don't prop it out there for it to get shared
Speaker 2: over one hundred thousand times for people to say they
Speaker 2: want to big. They want people to think throw a
Speaker 2: real football program. They're talking about competing with Triple A baseball.
Speaker 2: And I love the Louisvill Bats. They let me throw
Speaker 2: out a first pitch, but like, let's be real, if
Speaker 2: we're losing people at our games for the Louisville Bats,
Speaker 2: we got problems. And Greg Elliott would agree. I would say,
Speaker 2: I don't want to speak for him, but like it
Speaker 2: ain't personal with the Bats, but like let's be honest
Speaker 2: here in little League football from the parental side, Yeah
Speaker 2: it matters, but that's not what the Internet's gonna think.
Speaker 2: They're savages. They're gonna say that you care about watching
Speaker 2: you know, Timmy with you know, just lost his front
Speaker 2: tooth scoring a touchdown. It's seven years old, like you know,
Speaker 2: like it just again, if you truly don't care, which
Speaker 2: a lot of us do, because that's how petty the
Speaker 2: rivalry is. Who you know, like whatever, but don't like
Speaker 2: if we're going to live in this space where we're
Speaker 2: gonna try to be mindful of like getting getting over
Speaker 2: on the rival and you know, when it comes to
Speaker 2: the trash talk, the back and forth and we all
Speaker 2: do the same stuff, we're all alike, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, And I mean that, like I think they're
Speaker 2: a little nastier and you know that's just my opinion,
Speaker 2: but I'm biased. I'm a little fan. But like, let's
Speaker 2: not let's not like, you know, give them the gun
Speaker 2: to shoot us, if that makes sense. And again I'll
Speaker 2: reiterate it for the one million time. If you don't
Speaker 2: care what they say, you can keep living your life
Speaker 2: with that as how you believe you're wired. But like
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the responses. I mean, you care you
Speaker 2: wouldn't clap back at big Blue, you know, big blue
Speaker 2: blue butt crack, big Blue Pope taint or something like
Speaker 2: or Mark.
Speaker 3: Stoops Stoops troops or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, like big blue, maybe not big
Speaker 2: a big blue Bozo fifty seven. I need to oh,
Speaker 2: uh how about this? Uh the RP renegade. That'd be
Speaker 2: a good UK troll, wouldn't it. Yeah, the rep renegade?
Speaker 2: You got anything else? I felt like you had something
Speaker 2: on the tongue there, John.
Speaker 3: No, there, I was workshopping something.
Speaker 2: I could do this all day, like I gotta think
Speaker 2: about something good with Pope. Pope's posse you like that,
Speaker 2: but you know, not for Pope. I mean, this isn't
Speaker 2: even creative. But the first response I see on this
Speaker 2: tweet that I just read bush Hamden offensive coordinator parody account,
Speaker 2: Like we're quite clear with your profile that it's not
Speaker 2: really bush Hamden the offensive coordinator. So anyways, again, that's
Speaker 2: been coming in hot and heavy, as they say on
Speaker 2: our text line in the last couple of days, and
Speaker 2: I'm just you know, that's my thoughts on it, Like
Speaker 2: it's not a big deal. Well I'm not mad at anybody.
Speaker 2: I'm not, like, can you I can't believe somebody that
Speaker 2: you know, claims to represent U of L and the
Speaker 2: fan base did this cause again it's all, it's all
Speaker 2: like nobody did anything wrong. I'm just like, you got
Speaker 2: to keep that in mind if you truly don't care,
Speaker 2: which you do. And here's the thing, Like, there's no
Speaker 2: scenario on planet Earth that Jeff Brohm is happy that
Speaker 2: there is a clip of him talking about the officiating
Speaker 2: in the Kentucky game and it only includes eleven seconds
Speaker 2: of him referencing no penalties called on Kentucky when they
Speaker 2: were the most penalized team in the country, and the
Speaker 2: rest of c refs like again, that's I mean, I
Speaker 2: think that's all you can fit in. Like the context
Speaker 2: wasn't there, and there's over a quarter million views of
Speaker 2: that clip that ain't he ain't happy with that, Like again,
Speaker 2: he said what he said, but just clipping that, I
Speaker 2: think it led UK fans to just, you know, run
Speaker 2: with it. And again here's the reality, they'll run with whatever, right,
Speaker 2: Like he could go to a pres coomp for instance,
Speaker 2: say he didn't agree with the call, and you know
Speaker 2: you might have the UK what what did Dockets The
Speaker 2: blogger boys, that's what Docketts used to call him, the
Speaker 2: blogger boys. They're gonna run with it and just label
Speaker 2: and probably get a ton of traffic with a headline
Speaker 2: about bron being a sore loser, which he's not. I
Speaker 2: don't I mean, I don't know this for certain, John,
Speaker 2: I can't trust me, I can't confirm it. I don't
Speaker 2: know if Jeff has slept a second since he lost
Speaker 2: to Kentucky. And it's not because he's obsessed. It's because
Speaker 2: he knows how much the game means to the fan base,
Speaker 2: and he wanted to win that game. And he would
Speaker 2: tell you if you asked him a billion times, every
Speaker 2: single time he'd respond with, we gotta play better, we
Speaker 2: gotta do better on our end. Him acknowledging the ref thing.
Speaker 2: It's it's I think it was just tongue in cheek.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break will come back on the other side,
Speaker 2: keep the party rolling along. You liked that Dockets reference,
Speaker 2: did the blogger boys? How about that you found an
Speaker 2: upbeat Zach Bryanson.
Speaker 3: I know I didn't know they existed.
Speaker 2: And it is.
Speaker 3: Quentin time on the front.
Speaker 2: It is, that's true.
Speaker 3: I like placement of our good News song. I like this.
Speaker 2: I'm in a weird place with Zach Brian, meaning I
Speaker 2: would never I mean, I would love to see him.
Speaker 2: I just I mean, I know it's impossible to see
Speaker 2: him tomorrow, and I'm not gonna pay a bunch of
Speaker 2: money or travel to go seem just because that's not
Speaker 2: what I do. It's just not like that's not something
Speaker 2: I prioritize doing. But I like him. I just you know,
Speaker 2: it's probably more of my personality when I can't match
Speaker 2: the level of love that I feel like every fan
Speaker 2: of his has in any way, I just almost feel like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't like I'm not worthy to be a fan
Speaker 2: of his because I don't love and I don't and
Speaker 2: it's not like he's worshiped like Taylor Swift is, but
Speaker 2: you know, he's I don't know, I like him a lot,
Speaker 2: and and I know what times we've talked about him,
Speaker 2: and I'm I've probably given off the vibe that I'm
Speaker 2: not a fan and I'm not even sure if I'm
Speaker 2: a big fan. But he's a talented guy. He's a
Speaker 2: great writer. Oh, he's a great writer. He's just a
Speaker 2: lot of his songs are sad, and that is you know,
Speaker 2: that's the substance of his writing, which is honest. It
Speaker 2: probably makes him more genuine. He's not trying to give
Speaker 2: you five different types of I mean, he's just writing
Speaker 2: what he thinks is real. And I respect somebody who
Speaker 2: does their own music and is fully in control of
Speaker 2: the production, the writing and all that. It's just it's
Speaker 2: hard to find. Like, you know, if I'm gonna listen
Speaker 2: to Zac Bryan's biggest hits that most people would categorize
Speaker 2: as his big songs, I'm gonna be sad after and
Speaker 2: I don't want to be sad. John, I'm sad.
Speaker 3: I've got the same way.
Speaker 4: I cannot deal with sad lyrics in music because there's
Speaker 4: just been too many times where I try to listen
Speaker 4: to a sad song maybe and then not that it
Speaker 4: makes me cry, It just puts you, puts me. I
Speaker 4: should say in a mood that I don't want to
Speaker 4: be in. After the fact, I'm like, this isn't what
Speaker 4: I'm going for right now.
Speaker 2: I haven't told you this yet, but you, you and
Speaker 2: I getting to know each other over the years working together.
Speaker 2: You know, I know you listen to a lot of music, probably.
Speaker 3: More more than I should.
Speaker 2: But do you still do the Friday album?
Speaker 3: I've still done it.
Speaker 4: I've been doing it probably for close to four years now,
Speaker 4: not necessarily always on Fridays, but I try to do
Speaker 4: Fridays if I can.
Speaker 2: John tries to pick a day Friday, if if can
Speaker 2: be as he said, and if not, he'll he'll just
Speaker 2: do an album start to finish, right, Yes, And I
Speaker 2: don't do that. But like I like, music can really
Speaker 2: and and this is a no brainer for so many
Speaker 2: people trust me, like I know, I'm not I'm I'm I'm.
Speaker 2: I was about to present it as if like it's
Speaker 2: some uh big brain thing that I discovered that people
Speaker 2: didn't realize. Music can really really tap into your emotions,
Speaker 2: Like duh, that's why music's great. That's why people love music.
Speaker 2: That's what music does. It's entertainment, it's it's an art,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's a craft, and it can absolutely Like
Speaker 2: there's songs that'll bring you to tears, right, Like there's
Speaker 2: songs that will make you feel great. I just have
Speaker 2: never had really a real emotional attachment to music in
Speaker 2: that way. But giving your situation when you told me
Speaker 2: just that you try to do that. And I know
Speaker 2: you're very much into music and just much more you know,
Speaker 2: knowledgeable of of it. I now realize I can use
Speaker 2: music to help me in days that are bad, or
Speaker 2: days that you know, need a pick me up or
Speaker 2: whatever it may be, or just you know, or maybe
Speaker 2: not even a pick me up, but just to like relax.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't claim to be like somebody that is
Speaker 2: just playing records in the house NonStop and just you know,
Speaker 2: but but it is. It's therapeutic, it really is.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite pastimes is to again put on
Speaker 4: whatever album may be for the day, and it's not
Speaker 4: like a record player. I just usually pull up, you know,
Speaker 4: my music playing app whatever it may be, get a
Speaker 4: cup of coffee, just hit shuffle, hit right, not even shuffle,
Speaker 4: but just play it front to back and usually it's
Speaker 4: a forty to fifty minute listen and that's sometimes the
Speaker 4: best part of my day, depending on what else is
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 2: You would be a really good music writer, meaning like
Speaker 2: not writing songs all, although you may be able to
Speaker 2: do that too, but I mean I think like you
Speaker 2: would be you know, you would be good at doing it.
Speaker 2: Because the younger generation, and I'm including people and I'm
Speaker 2: not I mean people younger than me. I don't you know.
Speaker 2: I feel like I can now say the younger generation
Speaker 2: and it be clear that it's not me, although I'm
Speaker 2: not old, but I'm I mean, I'm not young. They
Speaker 2: don't even really know what albums are because they get
Speaker 2: their music all by singles that are released. Now, the big,
Speaker 2: big artists are absolutely dropping albums that do super successful,
Speaker 2: but like people don't bring up I feel like it's
Speaker 2: just about the next song that comes out that you
Speaker 2: can pop up, upen on Spotify and listen do. Which
Speaker 2: is great. That's fine. Things change, every industry evolves. But
Speaker 2: like when you heard somebody was working on an album,
Speaker 2: it used to be different, like you would know like
Speaker 2: oh my god. And I guess that's still the case
Speaker 2: to an extent. The build up was so much different though,
Speaker 2: and it was so much harder to ask me see
Speaker 2: it than it is now.
Speaker 4: One thing that aggravates me as a purist with albums
Speaker 4: is when artists bands, whatever it may be, they'll release
Speaker 4: like six singles and the album may have eleven songs
Speaker 4: on it, and that's half of the album that's been
Speaker 4: pre released before the full thing even comes out. I usually,
Speaker 4: for my own sake of wanting to enjoy the album
Speaker 4: and its entirety, I won't go past probably the second
Speaker 4: single if they're releasing a bunch of them before they
Speaker 4: released the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And I feel like, if you're going to evaluate an album,
Speaker 2: and it may not even be fair to say this,
Speaker 2: but I feel like one of the bigger components is
Speaker 2: going to be what the songs that weren't singles were like, right, yes,
Speaker 2: and that's deep cuts they say, yeah, yeah, I've never
Speaker 2: liked that phrase or like that term for but that
Speaker 2: is I mean, that's what they call it, and that's
Speaker 2: that's what it is. But uh, you know, for example,
Speaker 2: I I would never tell anybody I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: of post Malone or Morgan Wallen. And I use those
Speaker 2: two guys as an example because they're super popular, right
Speaker 2: like they're I mean, they're.
Speaker 3: Too of the biggest artists right now for sure.
Speaker 2: In the country, in the world maybe, And I would
Speaker 2: never say that I'd hate them or I dislike them,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't. I'd be a liar if I said
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan and then I listen to a
Speaker 2: lot of them, but I I don't know, maybe I'm
Speaker 2: not rare with this, but I can hear their music
Speaker 2: and not say, man, I want this, I want this
Speaker 2: on my on my playlist on Spotify. But like I
Speaker 2: can tell how talented they are, Like I can appreciate
Speaker 2: the the art because that's the thing. They call them
Speaker 2: music artists, because it's not to get to you know,
Speaker 2: not to make it sound too you know too you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's hard, like it's what it is. And they
Speaker 2: are two people that again, and I'm sure there are
Speaker 2: people who I've never listened to last stuff that's not
Speaker 2: you know, pop pop pop stuff more well the more
Speaker 2: of Allin's got the juice on both sides. He can
Speaker 2: give you a pop rap song with with Cardi B
Speaker 2: and the and the dudes on Jack and Jack deb
Speaker 2: Chev's that you know all you know or you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go down that path. But like he
Speaker 2: he's he's he's big in every aspect. I feel like
Speaker 2: that's why he's selling out stadiums. Yeah, exactly exactly, because
Speaker 2: he's talented and he's good and people recognize that. And
Speaker 2: then same thing with with uh with with post Malone,
Speaker 2: like he's also kind of a crossover. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people claim why he he used the the
Speaker 2: urban culture to get over and it was all but like,
Speaker 2: I just think he's a really talented guy and I
Speaker 2: can respect that. So, uh, we're talking music here because
Speaker 2: you know, neither of these guys that just mentioned are
Speaker 2: on are part of the Bourbon and Beyond lineup that's here.
Speaker 2: But we have become, I think, a music festival city,
Speaker 2: and I love that it brings more people here to
Speaker 2: the city. I heard Mary Greenberg on with On in
Speaker 2: Dwight earlier today, and uh, you know, I mean it's
Speaker 2: great to have these events and they're not slowing down.
Speaker 2: I mean, right now, this lineup that is currently going,
Speaker 2: you know, in place here as we speak this weekend,
Speaker 2: you won't find many music festivals anywhere that are that
Speaker 2: are as as diverse and are as star studded as
Speaker 2: they say, so good stuff, good stuff, no doubt. All right.
Speaker 2: So I don't do we do we need to reset
Speaker 2: the story of the of the car, because I you know,
Speaker 2: I don't. We are running out of time, We are
Speaker 2: running out of time. But you know there are people
Speaker 2: who don't get to listen till you know five point
Speaker 2: twenty or whatever that are that are asking and I
Speaker 2: don't want to cater the show to two people that
Speaker 2: were like, Hey, what are you talking about with your car?
Speaker 2: Autos one whatever, So I'm gonna I'll encourage you to
Speaker 2: listen to the podcast. That's what I'll do. I'll encourage
Speaker 2: you to go that route. When it comes to uh
Speaker 2: figuring out that story, you can go to my Twitter.
Speaker 2: I went and got a battery at AutoZone, asked them
Speaker 2: if they were able to replace it. I have a
Speaker 2: Volkswagen atlass. I know those are tricky for a lot
Speaker 2: of people, and I don't even mean that to say
Speaker 2: like they're not capable anybody. There are people who are
Speaker 2: phenomenal mechanics who refuse to work on Volkswagons because they're
Speaker 2: just different. It's German engineering. And they claimed that they
Speaker 2: were able to do it. They weren't. I had to
Speaker 2: leave my vehicle at AutoZone, and you know, I'm hoping
Speaker 2: that I get it back and I'm made whole. But
Speaker 2: one thing I never These are two details that I
Speaker 2: do think are a little more of an explanation as
Speaker 2: to why I'm just you know, although there's some people
Speaker 2: who are like, why are you not more mad? And
Speaker 2: it's just not me. Last night while once they realized
Speaker 2: that they they had, you know, had the battery on
Speaker 2: backwards for three hours and potentially damaged my vehicle, I mean,
Speaker 2: they did damage it. Hopefully it can be fixed. And
Speaker 2: that's the reason I was there three hours, not because
Speaker 2: of any issue of Volkswagen, but because they did not
Speaker 2: know that they had the battery on backwards like that
Speaker 2: that's a pain in the ass. As they're getting the
Speaker 2: battery strapped back into the car, like, you know, like
Speaker 2: firmly placed in there with their tools and whatnot. They
Speaker 2: offered me a couple of free air fresheners for my inconvenience.
Speaker 2: I mean like at the time, I'm like whatever, I
Speaker 2: just want to leave. But now I'm like, I'm almost
Speaker 2: like were you serious? And they were like is that not?
Speaker 2: Like crazy? And then and then and then when I
Speaker 2: got there this morning, when I showed up to tell
Speaker 2: somebody who was not working there last night about what
Speaker 2: had happened, and he asked if he could help me,
Speaker 2: and I was like, it's a long story. I'm going
Speaker 2: to talk to this guy when he gets done and
Speaker 2: he's like, well, I'd love to help you. You know
Speaker 2: what can I do? And I was like, well, if
Speaker 2: you want to know, I'll tell you. He was in disbelief.
Speaker 2: I mean, he said when I told him that I
Speaker 2: was here last night for three hours and they couldn't
Speaker 2: get my battery figured out, and it's because they had
Speaker 2: it on backwards and it led to them trying to
Speaker 2: get it connected incorrectly, which has led to me being
Speaker 2: able to start my car, but now nothing else works electronically,
Speaker 2: he said. He looked at me and said, are you
Speaker 2: efing shishing me chief? Back to back? Are you effing
Speaker 2: bleeping me? Chief? Is what he said. And I said,
Speaker 2: I wish I was. I mean, that's how, that's how.
Speaker 2: And so anyways, the guy who you know, then learned
Speaker 2: that I had shared with one of his coworkers really
Speaker 2: an embarrassing story and they and to be fair, they're embarrassed.
Speaker 2: They haven't said that word specifically, but like the lack
Speaker 2: of communication is not because they feel think they did
Speaker 2: nothing wrong. I don't think they believe there's anything they
Speaker 2: could say to make anything better, because it's insane how
Speaker 2: this whole thing played out, Like where they may have
Speaker 2: damaged my vehicle because of their inconfidence. And I literally
Speaker 2: asked them ahead of time, like, hey, are you going
Speaker 2: to be able to do this? If not, it's no
Speaker 2: big deal. I just want to make sure and they
Speaker 2: said yeah, And then now I can't drive my car.
Speaker 2: So I think there was a little bit of pride
Speaker 2: that was hurt there while one of his colleagues finding
Speaker 2: out like what happened the night before. So we're walking
Speaker 2: out and he held the door for me and and
Speaker 2: it's him leading us out to the car, and there's
Speaker 2: somebody behind him that is also the employee that I
Speaker 2: talked to initially, and he said, well, at least we
Speaker 2: got you home last night, And without thinking, words just
Speaker 2: came out John and I said yeah at ten thirty
Speaker 2: and I missed my son's football practice and I didn't
Speaker 2: get to tug with them my kids in last night.
Speaker 2: And I felt when I said it like I was
Speaker 2: being a jerk, but now like, no, like I would
Speaker 2: I would not have said that had you not said like,
Speaker 2: cause at least we got you home last night. And
Speaker 2: again I don't even think that there was any any
Speaker 2: energy from him that was like I'm in the wrong,
Speaker 2: I'm just choosing to think that he was trying to
Speaker 2: find a positive But then again, like I think he
Speaker 2: did it because he was bothered that I told his
Speaker 2: colleague what happened, and that's a bad look. Like I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna lie to you. I hate this, but I
Speaker 2: also am gonna I'm not gonna eat the cost of
Speaker 2: a car and be inconvenience because of it. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be shocked if people get fired. Like I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 2: I hate to say that. I don't want that. If
Speaker 2: I if they asked my opinion, which they wouldn't and shouldn't,
Speaker 2: I would say no because I would never want that,
Speaker 2: or like I would hate knowing that, but like that's
Speaker 2: what happened, and you know, it's a bad look. But
Speaker 2: like him saying that, like I just said, you know,
Speaker 2: and his coworker later came up to me and was like,
Speaker 2: I'm really glad you said that, because I can't believe
Speaker 2: you said that, and he's my boss, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: So anyways, let's got our last break. We'll come back
Speaker 2: on the other side and wrap it up. I got chills.
Speaker 2: It's the first Tyler Childer song I ever heard, and
Speaker 2: this video is the first time I ever I mean
Speaker 2: this exact video that John's playing is. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: versions of this song all over the place, the studio recordings,
Speaker 2: but this has fifty one million views five years after
Speaker 2: it was published. And love Tyler Childers. Good stuff. Thank
Speaker 2: you for playing this, John, all right, we got no
Speaker 2: time left, John, of your parlay? What picture you the
Speaker 2: most confident in?
Speaker 4: I like kent State plus forty nine against Penn State,
Speaker 4: just a whole lot of points. I think Penn State
Speaker 4: will cover that. And then I like the under in
Speaker 4: Minnesota and Iowa. Two defensive teams going against each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think NC State's great, but I also
Speaker 2: think that they're gonna be able to keep it within
Speaker 2: eighteen points of Clemson. I love that one. And then
Speaker 2: for tonight's game, I gotta be honest, man, I think
Speaker 2: Nebraska rolls at home on a Friday night.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 2: I have a good weekend, everybody,