5.19: Weekend Reaction - Hour 3

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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(00:47):
seven ninety Louisville dot com. I already said some things
coming up here in just a moment, but I need
this is something that I'm curious enough to where I'm
bringing up on the show to get some reaction. And
I'm not saying we got to load up the phone
lines for this. But I've learned something about my name
that has changed in recent years that kind of surprises me.

(01:12):
All Right, so this probably won't shock you, Austin, but
my legal name is Nicholas. You probably would expect that, right,
Nicholas is my name, but I go by Nick apparently,
and this is on the Internet. Wouldn't be on the
internet if it wasn't true. I say that jokingly, but
I also do believe this has become a thing, and
I'm not really surprised, but it it just I wasn't

(01:33):
aware until somebody shared it with me. But now, if
you are named Nicholas and you are under the age
of ten years old, there's a good chance that you
don't go by Nick. You go by Nico. Huh. I mean,
does that sound sound off to you a little bit?
I don't know many Nicholas's or Nick's, even at a

(01:56):
young age, Like I don't know where my name is
on the popularity ranking for children on the last and
I'm sure they're not a child, right. No, is Nicholas
becoming like an old man name, not an old man name,
because I don't really know many. The oldest Nicholas I
know is Saint Nick. Right. Other than that, I would say,
like you can find like there's like Nick Nolty. I

(02:18):
mean he's an actor, like Nick Nolty might be the
oldest Nick I can think of often, so Nick Nolty
is eighty four years old. He might be the first
Nick outside of Saint Nick. So my name is Nicholas Anthony,
and I don't remember when I became Nick. To my knowledge,
I've always been Nick. Even whenever I was upset and

(02:39):
my parents would like, you know, really want to get
my attention. More often than not, it was still Nick.
Although there were rare moments where my mom would say
Nicholas Anthony and she would say with her teeth closed.
And that's when I knew I needed to behave because
I was, you know, maybe gonna get myself in trouble.
But anyways, there are Nkos that I've heard of that
are you know, I don't know any that I can

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think of off the top of my head as far
as kids that go to school with my children or
that kind of thing. But Nico is at least a
name that now I hear of that I didn't hear
of when I was a kid. But apparently a lot
of those kids who go by Nico their legal name
is Nicholas. And that's just something I'd never even thought
about before. I mean, if I went by Nico, people

(03:22):
would probably look at me like I like I like,
there's no way that guy's naming. I mean, I guess
you never know anybody's name, but Nico does seem like
a younger thing. But then there's there's Nico Harrison, right,
that's the GM of the Dallas Mavericks who has been
getting all kinds of of of grief. But apparently his
legal name is Nico not Nicholas. Okay, so anyways, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I mean even Nicholas and Nick still sound very like modern.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's not like when you think of like Earl or
something you know, or Bernard or yeah, Bernard, Oh I could.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Do this something named Bernie or something I.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Could do this all day. There are names that just
over time became like dinosaurs, and it's sad, right, yeah,
Like how many Gerald do you now? Like imagine saying, yeah,
we're gonna bring the baby over, We're gonna bring over
a little Gary, Like I know Gary. I know Gary's
in their thirties, but I don't know if I could
give you a Gary in his twenties. Like ron One

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of my closest friend's name is Ronald. He went by
Ronnie as as a kid, but now we just call
him Big ron Actually know his dad's Big Ron, He's Ron, right,
But yeah, I mean there's just and then some names
make a comeback. Like let me give you an example.
There are a lot of John's now that are you know,
John's a pretty timeless name, but I now know friends

(04:41):
of mine who've named their child John. But I don't
think I went to school with maybe one John, and
we're talking about one of the most common names, like ever.
But in that era when I was growing up, I
didn't have many friends that I was in school with
named John. Names that became really big when I was whenever,
I guess, like kids my age were born my era.

(05:03):
Cody Cody, Yeah, I don't know many Cody's that are
above forty. I know Cody, but I know a lot
of Cody's in between, like twenty and thirty seven. Right,
Cody was pretty popular. Matthew's pretty It's one of those
that you really are never surprised by anybody with that name.
Your name, Austin, I feel like became is your first
name Austin Legally, yes, it's Austin Tyler. I like that

(05:26):
Austin Austin Tyler is I mean, those had to be big,
booming names at that time.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Of course, I think my mom named me after.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Tyler was a really big name. Also, whenever I was
a kid.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Who was a guy the hot dude on nine O
two one zero? Was it a Austin Green made Austin?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, Austin Green. Yes, that's what my mom said. She
named me after.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I mean, you looked just like him. So it's great.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
I've been told that before.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly who it is, Brian Austin Green.
Brian Austin Green. Yeah. So, but Austin is a name
that now, like, I know a lot of Austin's.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I know some girls named Austin.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Now, I don't know of many girls name also, but
I'm not surprised that that there are girls named Austin.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
There's one girl I met. Her name was Austin a
us t y n. I thought that was kind of hot.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
That's not bad. Yeah, I mean it's creative. If you
all ever have children, which I'm sure you will one day,
do you think finding a name will be an easy
thing for you guys?

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I think she has a couple of them laid out.
They're like a little bit more like uh in my gosh,
you can't ask me on off the top of my
head because I don't know they are more like more
modern names or not, like you know, like some of
the ones.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
That that that we mentioned.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
I think, what's another one that, like Tommy Thomas says,
you don't know like a lot of Thomas.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
And yeah, it's true. I'm trying to know one Tommy.
So my my daughter's name is Maya Noel. My son's
name is Mason Cruz. I feel like Cruse has become
not like a super popular name, but I didn't know
anybody named Cruse growing up. Now, I bet if I
went to my kids school, there'd be a few cruises there.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
One of our one of our couple friends just had
a kid and they named him Crew.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, I've heard of that. Yeah, that's not a bad well,
that's not bad at all.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Sounds like a lacrosse player in the making.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Absolutely. So. The only reason I bring it up is because,
like when I get older and i'm you know, my
legal name is Nicholas, like at the DMV when I'm
getting my license renewed in my sixties, because a lot
of times people will just look at my legal name
and they'll just just because there aren't many people that
go by Nicholas, they just go by It's very like, yeah,
there are I feel like, let me ask you this,
do you think there's more people named Matthew that go

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by Matt or vice versa, like more people that go
because I think you it's I think it's more common
to hear somebody who goes by their legal name Matthew
than there is people who go by Nicholas yea and
not being nicked.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
They go by the shorter version.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Now because my my fiance's brother's name is Matthew, but
we call him Matt.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, I mean it's very I have close friends named
matt and calling them Matthew just would be weird. Also,
did you know that technically my name, like how I
spell it, is fraudulent. Really, this kind of this speaks
to I guess my, you know you're a fake nick,
my being, a my being, you know who I am.
But I felt like a real fraud when somebody pointed
this out to me. Might have been somebody on the

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show on the text line who brought it up one time,
but I was like, you know what, They're right. I've
been an imposter my whole life. Every time I write
my name, I write in I C K. There's not
a K in my name. It's a I C H
O L A S. So we just we the Nicks
just invented a letter that doesn't need to be there.
That's like, that's I used to think. If you're going
by Nick and I see, you're a real tryhard. Actually

(08:36):
you're legit. I'm not because the K doesn't exist. I'm
just I'm just writing down. I mean, it's like almost
like a fake identification, right.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
I wouldn't even mind if you went by Nick. But
but even then I see and I see yeah. But
like you know, I said, is there an H in it?
And I C H yeah, and I C H O
L A S. I kind of just like the N
I C H that's but that to me, that to.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Me is a tryhard you think, so yeah, like like
Mark with a C, like, what are you doing? It's K?
Like you can't you know? In my so my wife,
my wife's my wife's name is Tiffany and ak Mercedes,
but she not her Her mother decided to spell it
t I F F A N I, which is not

(09:22):
is not insanely rare, but I'd say more than ninety
percent of the folks named Tiffany go BYuT T I
F F A N Y, but her mom spelled it,
and I'm glad she did because you know, it's it
puts a little bit of a different it makes it
a little bit unique. Yeah, but you know she oftentimes,
you know, when she has to just like me, if
I tell people my name is Coffee, I have to

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say e y or they're gonna put ee. She now
has to tell people it's a N I and it's
f F E Y not not. Yeah, so she's want
more explanation, yeap, no doubt. But again, like who am
I to judge I'm a fraud. There's a K in
my name that I've living with that doesn't actually belong.
Total fraud.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Now we got the great uh Radio Rick. There's not
a lot of ricks left.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I feel like.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's true man. You think Rick is short for Richard?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
That's true?

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Radio Rick. Man, what a guy I'm trying to think of. Like,
when's the last time you saw a somebody under the
age of twenty named Donald? But I don't even know
any young Donnie's.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I got a cousin named Donald.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Is he young?

Speaker 1 (10:29):
No?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
He's probably like seven eight years older than I am.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, that's probably like borderline, right. Uh, Reginald, you know, an,
I guess Reginalds are Reggie Reggie's dude.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I haven't. I don't think I've ever met a Reggie
maybe once.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Do you remember? Was it ever a thing in school
when they would do they would do like roll call
and call attendance, and like there were kids that's who's
Like I knew they were going to say Nicholas and
it didn't really like I wasn't worried that people were
going to find out like that you're name. But you
know when your kid, you know you're insecure, you're just
being social. Like there was that anxiety for certain kids
who went by a name and the only way you'd

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know that their name wasn't what they go by is
like first day of school when the teacher's getting acclimated
or there's a sub who's calling role and they're only
looking at what's on the paper, not what you go by.
And like there would be kids who would like try
to not be in class when they would call role
and I'm like, bro, it's your name? Like even as
seven to eight year olds, we know your mom and
dad did it not you? Bro? Like it's not that

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big of a do. I have a buddy, close friend
of mine who his legal name is Leslie, which is
not as rare as you would think, especially like it's
a family name, Like I think his father's name is Leslie.
His grandfather's name is Leslie.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Maybe is great, but you know, when you're a kid
in the nineties, I think most kids, maybe even adults,
would just assume Leslie would be a woman, right, I
mean I would, but like I remember thinking, like, man,
like he's really going through it, that he's worried people
are going to find out that's his name, Like it's
not no big it's you know, it's not again, you
don't get to pick your name. I guess you could
change it when you get older. And he didn't go

(12:03):
by Leslie. He went by a different he went by
his middle name. But anyways, I just I'm now thinking
that maybe when I get older and I go to
the DMV and I just hand them my documents and
they're just assuming that I don't go by Nikolas. Are
they gonna say, oh, hey, Nico, because Nico's now overtaken nick.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
And I don't like that, and you don't look like
an Eco.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Thank you? Do it look like a nick?

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Of course you've embraced the nick.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I think you're a New York kid. Isn't there
a real not not this week?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
No? No, yeah, that's sure.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
I'm a pacer, But aren't there like there's some truth
to it? Always go back to Tommy Boy with Chris Farley,
whenever they're getting they just got into that roadside fight
and they're at that diner and the waitress comes over
and you know he but right before he melts down,
he said, what's your name? Helen? Helen? You look like
a Helen. I'm like, you know what, she does, look
like a Helen. Like there's certain people that when they

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tell me their name and I don't know it. I
just want to respond, you're damn right, you're Domald. You're
damn right, that's your name. Look at you. You can
look like your name. So anyways, let's, I guess, go
back to what we're supposed to be doing here talking
in sports. This is a sports show, and this is
big news here locally, and it did kind of come
out of nowhere. I wish we had a little more info,
but it's okay. It happens. This way from time to time.

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Louisville has added a new player for the upcoming basketball season.
They've landed Mohammed Kamara, who is from Senegal. He comes
from the NBA Africa Academy. He's a six to eight,
two hundred and fifteen pound I guess forward, I mean
he's he's kind of a hybridou I would I would say,
given the fact that his statistics kind of show you
that he's averaged just under eleven points, seven boards, three

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and a half assists, two point eight steals, and two
and a half blocks per game. Those were his numbers
this past year at NBA Africa, shot at about thirty
eight percent from three over sixty percent from the field overall.
So I don't know a lot about him, had never
heard of him until I saw that he had committed
to Louisville today. But clearly they need to add some
players in the front court, given that the l ability
of Ali Khalifa still up in the air, and obviously

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James Scott decided to leave and they weren't able to
through the portal at anybody to replace him, at least
not yet. There are still players available in the portal
and I have no clue really what to expect whenever
the deadline is for the NBA Draft, which I'm gonna
have to look that up because there are still a
lot of players available in the portal. What I don't

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know is is Louisville already in a position of where
they're recruiting these guys just waiting to figure out what
their decision is or is it more so a you
kind of restart the recruitment once these guys say they're
coming back to school. And I think Louisville they have money.
I mean, they clearly have money to offer. I mean,

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I don't think you probably had to spend a ton
on this latest addition to your roster. And I don't
think I mean James Scott had an NIL deal in place.
I don't know what it was. I'm not sure if
that was a big factor in his decision to UH
to transfer or what. But either way, I mean, I

(15:07):
still think even with this addition, and let's just say
Khalifa gets good news about eligibility, you know, you still
have some spots available, and I I you don't really
know exactly what you'd be missing out if you don't
get Khalif eligible, because again, he didn't play, But as
we talked about earlier, he's such a rare big man
who there's really no debate about what his strongest asset is.

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He's a phenomenal passer in a way that you just
don't see from bigs. There are plenty of guys that
can can pass well as a post player. Rather it
be just being able to read a double team coming
and knowing the spacing on the floor, or you know,
just knowing the commit the attention they're commanding on a
pick and pop and finding somebody. I mean, it's not
as if there's never been a big that could be

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a really good passer, but he is. He's a lead
at that, and you know, not having him would change
some things. And if James, if there's not really a
replacement from James Scott in the portal, I think the
production that you lost, as far as James Scott's rebounds

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and points and whatnot, you can replace that. In fact, hell,
just one of these guys could replace that by themselves.
And I don't mean to say that this is not
me talking like James Scott's a bump, because I think
I was pretty clear that when he decided to leave
I don't think the numbers will show you just how
valuable he can be for you, because of the role
that he was seemingly willing to embrace until he decided
to leave. However, the seven points and six rebounds or

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whatever it is he averaged a year ago, I think
it's safe to say Sonny Frew in case in prior
by themselves can more than make up for that. But
if anything, this latest edition that they added today gives
you a little bit of an insurance policy if in
fact things don't work out with Khalifa, because if they didn't,

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then you would just have I mean, your front core
would be Case and pryor Javon Hadley and Sonny Frew
and I like all those guys, but like it's not
sustainable for that just to be the only guys you
have in the front court. So all right, let's get
to a quick break. We'll come back on the other side.
A lot more to get into, including Scotty Scheffler's PGA championship.
What that means to you know, hopefully in a perfect

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world this would just kind of put it to bed.
But I kind of feel like now that he years
passed and you really reflect on how wild that situation was,
him getting arrested here in Louisville on his way to
the PGA Championship with Valhalla. That's probably not something that's
ever just going to not be a part of the
Scotty Scheffler story. Therefore, I feel like the better he
is at golf, the less likely it is that this

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thing just kind of fades away. Also, we'll let you
hear what Drew Brees had to say about Jeff Brahm
and Tyler Shuck. Shuck's gonna be the man in New
Orleans regardless of what they're telling us. And as I
mentioned earlier, we've got this list of programs with the
most college basketball wins since twenty twenty. I think some
of these schools that will appear here will surprise you,

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But I'd say there's one component that that makes it
make sense. So stick with us. We'll finish strong here
in the five o'clock hour. It's coffee and company. Feel
about Thorton right here on Sports Talk seven ninety Now.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Back to Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports
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Speaker 2 (18:20):
You know, I don't think that I even made the
connection when Jeff Brom. Well, when when Tyler Shuck was
drafted by the Saints that they are there's and again,
maybe it's not a connection. Maybe that's whay, maybe it's
why it didn't pop into into my mind. But if
in fact, the New Orleans Saints we're going to lean
on Drew Brees for some type of guidance and maybe

(18:41):
just you know, ask for his input on what he
thinks about this quarterback crop in the twenty twenty five draft.
You know, wouldn't shock me. He Drew Brees, He's he
brought him a Super Bowl. So he has a lot
of respect for Jeff Brom, not just because they're both
two great quarterbacks and quarterback minds, but obviously Jeff Brom
was the head coach at Purdue and he may Purdue
football relevant to an extent for the first time since

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Drew Brees played there. So there's some connections here. But
Tyler Shuck, he's gonna have his opportunity to compete for
the starting job in New Orleans with Derek Carr retiring
after an injury. But I would I'd be really shocked
if if he's not the guy. I mean, I don't
think you draft somebody in the second round. I mean,
I feel like if you don't if you don't start him, which,

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by the way, I think he has I think he
has real ability that little show that where he looks
like he'll be the best option over Hainer and Spencer Rattler.
Look maybe Spencer Ratler, because I don't know. Spence Rayler
clearly has some tools and some talent that has gotten
into this point. But they also saw what they would
be without or they also saw what they would be

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with him at quarterback because he got to start some
games last year for the injured Derek Carr, and you
know they weren't very good. And I just think when
you're when you're taking over a new franchise as a
new head coach, what can I think of his name?
Guy who came from the Cowboys? Oh, Kellen Moore, Yeah,
Kellen Moore. I mean you want to run with the
guy that you played a part in them deciding, right,

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I mean, if you're out there losing with a quarterback
that you had no say so in being on the roster,
and he knows maybe he loves Rattler and Hayin, but
either way, like you want to you want to get
results based off of something that you had, You had
a place, and you know, you put in place. So
they'll continue to talk about it being a competition, but
I mean, I feel like if they don't start him,

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it'll it'll be a bad look for Shuck, which maybe
isn't fair for me to say, but I mean, I
feel like he can beat out these guys. But also
I mean it'll maybe speak to the Saints not loving
their Brookie quarterback, because I mean, even if Carr didn't
retire and he was healthy, everybody would just assume that
you drafted this guy in the second round. He's he's

(20:51):
the air parent like he's going to be the next
guy out. But here's Drew Brees over the weekend talking
about Tyler Shuck and also a little bit about Jeff Broum.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
I love Jeff brob Jeff Brohm and Louisville was produced
head coach for a long time, Develt as O'Connell and
a few others, so he's kind of known as one
of those guys who can give out fewbs. And obviously
Tyler shuffily drive in that office with him.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Last year, so there's more to it. But the sound
is pretty crappy, but you know, he does allude to
the fact that they're still going to compete and they're
not just going to give the job to anybody. But
things are lining up pretty nicely for Shuck and I
can't wait to see what happens. And I really do
believe that the age is something that has been used
at times by people as a reason why he shouldn't

(21:34):
have been drafted and why you shouldn't be excited if
you're a Saints fan. I think given the circumstance to
where he's going to be thrown thrown in right away,
it's a good thing that he's mature and he's not
going to be And this is something more so that
comes from just those who know Tyler a little bit,
those that were around him last year at Louisville, And
we talked about this a little bit when Brian brom
came on the show. The moment's not going to be

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too big for him. He is not going to be
overwhelmed or wide eyed by the NFL. I mean, clearly
he'll be a big step up for him. I mean
it's the National Football League, and who knows how good
he's gonna actually be. But I don't think he's somebody
that will succumb to just you know, the duties that
a quarterback has in the National Football League. It's a
very important job. And you know, you you can't be

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bad for very long and expect to keep your job.
All right, It's coffee and company. Feel about Thornton's here
on Sports Talk seven to ninety. So the Pacers in
the next Eastern Conference Finals that will get started on
Wednesday with the Pacers hosting Game one. And there's something
that has has become a big, big thing on the internet,
and that is Tyrese Halliburton flying out a Pacers fan

(22:43):
who apparently lives in New York and was harassed by
New Yorkers after the game for victory that the Knicks
had over the Celtics. So I'm a little bit torn
on this, but this, this is this is what played out.
There was a pay I guess just I mean, can
I say it, Austin, if you're in New York City

(23:05):
and you know what Knicks fans do in the streets
of New York City after big wins and you show
up just trying to mingle among the masses wearing a
Pacers Halliburton Jersey. I don't feel like I'm out of
line to say you're looking for trouble. Yeah, you're not
asking for it, maybe, but maybe you are, but you're

(23:27):
wanting attention. Yes, you know what you're doing. Now, does
that mean you that people have a right to assault
you or you know, yell mean things at you. No,
because you really shouldn't do that ever. But as human
beings in society, I think a lot of us have
a level of expectation as far as things we do

(23:48):
and what might come with those decisions. Doesn't mean that,
you know. For example, if I was to wear a
T shirt that was extremely hateful towards one individual, a
group of people, whatever, it may be, just a disgusting
T shirt that, like I knew, would get a reaction.

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If I wear said T shirt around a group of
people and that person, in front of a cop came
up and beat the hell out of me, that person
would go to or go to jail and get arrested.
But like I would be guilty, not by the criminal
justice system. I'd be guilty of being a real dumbass.
That's what I would be guilty of. And if you

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share that story to your friends or other people, They
probably wouldn't have much sympathy for you for a couple
of reasons. One, they would say, how stupid can you be?
You can't be shocked that somebody did that to you.
But also they might look at whatever you were wearing
and say, you know, you're a real piece of work.
So again, both things could be true here. This guy

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knew what he was doing by walking out into the
streets right after a New York Knicks victory wearing that.
But those that didn't have the ability to restrain from
owing things at him and you know, putting hands on him,
if they even did that, they're not in the right.
But you know, again, that's one of the things you
hear me say often a lot of things can be true,
not just one specific thing. So this has now turned

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into Halliburton using it as a hey, I'm gonna hook
this guy up. But I do like the way Halliburton is,
at least from what I've gathered. I haven't you know,
I followed the story as best I can. I know
he was on Pat McAfee earlier today talking about it,
and I don't want to play that because I don't,
you know, part of Pat McAfee's show is on television
live and part of it, part of it's not the

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part that's not you know, they can say whatever. But
apparently this guy who did this is is a firefighter
in New York City, but he's a lifelong Pacers fan.
So Halliburton is is going to hook him up.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
Pat told me found you yesterday, called me. I said,
I gotta get on the show and talk to him myself.
I want to personally bring you in a plus one
out here to come to Game four. Uh here in Indiana.
I'll bring you guys out here, put you guys up,
get you guys see to the game. The Pacers. Everybody
in our organization wants to make sure you take care
of all the teams excited to meet you. It's all

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we've been talking about. Everybody's seen the video. So man,
we want to bring you out here and uh yeah, man,
I'm really excited about that.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
So you and Hans, I believe that's on Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
I believe that's on Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
You're able to make the trip. I know scheduling obviously
as a firefighter or something.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
You no, I gotta I gotta talk to the guys.
I mean I'm pretty sure we could work something. Hey
make sure that's first class. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
So again this is I doubt that this firefighter did
that thinking he would end up being able to benefit
from the situation to where he gets to fly out
to go to Game four. I thought it was Game one,
but he's gonna go to Game four, which will be
uh an indye? Am I wrong? Is the Do the
Pacers not have home court advantage? I thought they did?

Speaker 3 (26:56):
They they're the four seed?

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Right?

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah? Were the Knicks that there?

Speaker 6 (27:00):
See?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Am I wrong here?

Speaker 3 (27:01):
It might be privy to the scene.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
So game one is let's see, why is it not
tell you? Yeah? But oh sorry? Game ones in New York.
So I guess the Pacers win Game one, it'll be Wednesday, okay,
so yeah, they'll have two games in New York too
at Indy and then they'll go back and forth if
need be for the rest of the series. I was wrong.
The Pacers don't have home court advantage. The Knicks do.
So anyways, he's gonna be coming out for Game four.
I doubt he had in mind that he could potentially

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turn that situation into getting a chance to fly back
to Indiana. I don't know if he's from there, but again,
he's a Pacers fan living in New York City, so
it worked out well for him. But I also can't
help but like still say, yeah, that what you did.
I mean, again, there's nothing illegal about it, but like
hard for me to believe you just happen to be
walking around New York City wearing your Pacers jersey at

(27:47):
the time that the Pacers or the Knicks fans just
decided to you know, celebrate, like you know, you were
asking for it, and uh, in a way it benefited you.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
So I think that that's a it's not a bad investment.
You know, go through that, maybe get a trash bag
thrown on you, but you know, an NBA All star
face of a franchise reaches out to you and say, hey,
come to the game.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
That's a very price price well paid.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
I guess, oh no, no, he'll probably try to do
it again. If hell, other people may try to turn
the situation into to what he just turned this one into,
because I mean, he's getting flooded to Indy and I
would imagine if Halliburton, so, can you up a ticket?
You're not You're not sitting in a bad seat. I
don't know if your court side or what, but I'm
sure you are giving him his dad's seats. It's right,

(28:31):
that's right. His dad now has vacant seats because his
dad got basically banned from the any Pacers game moving forward.
And this is also actually a good pr not that
there was really a whole lot of pr repair needed
for Halliburton, because I thought he handed it really well
following his father's situation with Jannis, and I give him
more credit than others probably do. Yes, it was the right, mature,
responsible thing to do, but I also think it was

(28:53):
probably a little more difficult. At least it would have
been difficult for me. Like if my dad was doing that,
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I don't think i'd have the
ability to tell him, hey, you were wrong. I would
be so happy that my dad was that excited for me,
even if he did cross the line and looked like
a real piece of work. Didn't feel like dad.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
It does.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
It feels like it was ten years ago for some reason.
I'm glad you said that. I'm not the only I'm
glad I'm not the only one that thinks that, all right,
we're gonna get to a quick break just a moment,
but I do want to talk about it a little bit.
We have not got to it in the five o'clock
hour yet, but obviously we have throughout the show here
and there discussed just the tragic situation out in southeastern
Kentucky as the tornado that came through on Friday evening
just absolutely devastated that area of Kentucky. We now have

(29:33):
nineteen people that have that have lost their life in
the state of Kentucky, seventeen of those coming from Laurel County,
which is there in London, and then one that had
passed away in Pulaski County and another in Russell County.
So just the devastation that this storm left in a
specific area. Again, it's wide spread as far as just
the damage, and I guess there's no way to really

(29:56):
quantify if it's devastation or not. I mean, people lost
their lives. When that happens, you don't probably think much
about your home and your valuables. I mean you will
at some point, and that is still a devastating thing
to experience. But just to see how wiped out this
specific area of a neighborhood is is. I mean, I
feel wrong as if it's the first thing that came

(30:17):
to my mind, but as soon as I saw the
aftermath from the drone footage, I mean, my instant thought was,
there's no scenario anybody that was where that took place survived.
And I don't know if I'm right or wrong about that,
but it's just maybe it's the recency here, but I
believe this is the worst I've seen as far as
any damage in any tornado in Kentucky that I can remember.

(30:43):
I know Dawson Springs was really really bad years back.
I know Mayfield, Kentucky had a very devastating tornado that
did a real, you know, just tear, just tragic damage
to those communities, and it's really not worth there's no
benefit in determining which one's worse than the other, because
there's again there's no point in that.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
But just the.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Visual of this is just it's it's heartbreaking. So thoughts
and prayers to all those impacted by because this has
got to be I mean devastating. I know I've mentioned
that word quite a bit, but I think that's the
best one to use for lack of maybe a better one.
So thoughts and prayers, and if there is a positive
to take from this is just to see that there

(31:25):
is still a lot of good out there, those that
have just been trying like crazy to do whatever they
can to get there, to be front and center to
help in any way, whether it be donating something or
putting some gloves on and actually getting to work and
helping with clean up. I mean, that is a real
That's something that stands out to me more than it
did maybe in my younger years, to where I'm always

(31:45):
now at least a little more aware of those who
are just doing good things for people because they want to,
and it's it's just not even a decision for them,
it's just what they do, it's how they are. Those
are great people that you know. It's nice to know
that they're still out there. And I don't think there's
ever been a thought that they weren't. But this day
and age and the new cycle and whatnot, you know,

(32:06):
you don't, you know, maybe it's just us getting caught
up in our own lives to where we don't think
about it much. But it does warm my heart, if
I can say. Maybe that's corny to some, but to
see the amount of people here in Kentucky that want
to help other Kentuckians who are going through something just tragic.
So again, we'll have more updates on that as we
learn more as far as the total number, but right now,

(32:26):
nineteen was the total as far as lives lost from
this storm as of noon this afternoon, according to Andy Basheer.
All right, quick break, we'll come back and wrap it up.
On the other side, it's Coffee and Company. Feel about
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Speaker 1 (32:38):
Ninety Now back to Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's
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Speaker 2 (32:47):
So Scotty Scheffler, with his PGA Championship victory over the weekend,
he's increased his career winnings to eighty one point nine million,
and in twenty twenty five already he's sitting at ten
point one million. So this guy was already one of
the best golfers in the world when he was arriving

(33:08):
at Louisville last year to participate in this same event.
And I don't see any sign of him slowing down.
He's still phenomenal. You don't even have to follow golf
at all to know that he's a big name, but
I think the best case scenario of the LMPD and
really Louisville, I guess catching strays from the situation last year.
I just don't think that's gonna go away anytime soon,
because obviously he's not going anywhere anytime soon. And I

(33:32):
think just because of the nature of that entire situation,
I mean, it is such a rare, almost unbelievable type
of thing that occurred to where it's gonna stick around.
It's gonna be, you know, something that you think about
for a long time when you think of Scheffler, because
not many can say on their way to any event

(33:54):
that you participate in as professional athlete that that kind
of thing would happen. I mean, Nike's Nikes ad yesterday
for him was probably something we should have just expect.
We're not gonna live this down for a long time,
but Nike's ad said best player in the world, question
mark guilty. I also feel like he clearly leaned into

(34:17):
it by showing up at the start of this event
wearing an orange shirt that was very similar to the
shade of orange that he was wearing in his jumpsuit
for his mugshot before they let him out and let
him go back to Valhalla. So and he's a really
likable guy too, So there's not gonna be much of
a scenario where like there's gonna be much defense of
like okay, we get it, move on. They dropped the

(34:38):
charges like I think he's gonna conte and he's not
even the one doing it, by the way, Like I mean,
I think maybe leaning into it, as I mentioned with
the shirt, but we we're gonna have we're gonna have
to live with that one for a long time around here,
and I think we should just accept it. Right.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
They also did the thing on the McAfee or on
not the McAfee show in College Game Day where he
was a special guest when it was a Louisville Miami game,
that's right, and they were got about fun at that too.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, there's I mean, we're going to be connected to
Scheffler one way or the other for a long time,
and it's gonna be bad, Like it's not going to
be in good, you know. But I guess maybe in
a way, like we'll find a way as a city
to lean into it. And I doubt that happens, And
I'm not really sure what could be done. But he's
got he's likable, he's got a lot of momentum, He's

(35:22):
not going anywhere. He's on top right now for that
pg Championship win. And again, I just think the nature
of what went on is something that when you think
of Scotti Schefler, you'll think of, Wow, this guy's amazing
at golf. He seems likable. Can you believe LMPD threw
him in jail before he got to start the PGA
Championship in twenty twenty four. It's it's it's kind of crazy.

(35:43):
So anyways, real quick, this is a list that has
the college basketball programs with the most wins in the
twenty twenties. And I think there's a few a few
things here that really are are the reasons you see
these programs here, and there are different reasons for that.
So I'll start with Hughton. Houston's been insanely successful. Shouldn't

(36:03):
be a shock. They have one hundred and sixty wins
in the twenty twenties. They dominated the American Conference and
then but at the time, the toughest conference in college
hoops was the Big Twelve. They show up win the
league two straight years as members of the league. So
Gonzaga they're at number They're at number two with one
hundred and forty three wins. Gonzaga is a good program,
but like they're there because of why they play in

(36:25):
a terrible conference that it's hard for them to lose games.
It seems Drake Drake was phenomenal. Dairy En Devrees parlayed
that into the West Virginia job, and then what did
Drake do? They hired Ben McCallum, who was there for
a year and was better than Darien Debrees. Duke is
at won thirty four. That speaks to Duke being great,

(36:46):
but also it speaks to I think the ACC not
challenging Duke the way that it used to. Duke doesn't
have as much competition as they once did in the ACC.
Purdue's a number is tied for number four. It won
thirty four, no surprise. Matt Painter has phenomenal and they
had two years where they had two of the best
teams in the country. I mean, was Zach Edy was there.

(37:06):
They played in the championship game one year. They did
lose in the first round to a sixteen, but they
were a one seed, so they won a lot of
games then last year they were really good. Yukon is
at one thirty. That speaks to Dan Hurley in the
run that he's been on in quite some time. So
the rest of the top ten, it's Arizona obviously they
they've been really good under Tommy Lloyd. Alabama's right behind them.

(37:27):
Nat Oates has gotten it rolling. Tennessee. Rick Barnes has
been the most has been the winningest SEC coach in
league play since he was hired, So not a surprise there.
And then Kansas is at one twenty seven, which actually
surprises me because the last two years, I bet if
you just do this based off of two thousand to
twenty twenty three, I'd be willing to bet that Kansas
would have been a lot higher. But they've lost a

(37:48):
lot of games in the last few years that you
wouldn't necessarily expect. But the other thing I wanted to
get to is you've got teams, and this is this
is based off like the top thirty. You've got teams
like Texas State, who's in the top fifteen. You may think,
what well Texas State their coach who was a big
part of all those wins, at least most of them.

(38:08):
I should say not all of them, but a lot
of them was Grant Masilic, Ormsillic or something like that,
who's now at Texas Tech, who just took them to
the Elite eight. You've got Vcu Ryan Odom, a really
good coach, a lot of those wins. In fact, all
those wins are probably him now he's at Virginia. You've
got Liberty. They've been really good at their level. Their

(38:32):
coach is kind of I think they've stayed with the
same guy. But then you go to Utah State. They
had a very successful coach who I can't remember where
he left to take over, but he won there, and
then they ended up hiring Youngstown State's coach who ended
up taking over big jump from him to go to
Youngstown State to Utah State. He won a bunch of
games in his first year. So what I'm getting at
is this is to me at least a sign that

(38:53):
you can, in this current era take a coach who
wins a lot at a lower level and not necessarily
be worried about can they make the jump? You never know,
but if there iss good of coaches, as you believe,
they'll be able to utilize the resources at the better
job and win, and you know what, the guys who
take over for them will be able to sustain, at

(39:15):
least to an extent if those coaches that they're taking
over for were as good as you thought. So I
just think moving forward, hiring guys like Pat Kelcey and
Mark Pope who climbed the ladder the way they did,
I think that's the better payoff for these jobs, which
by the way, there's going to be other big jobs
opening up, especially in the ACC, in the years to come.
So I just think that's the path you should go
if you're a college program. All Right, we're at a

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time you guys, enjoy your evening, have your night,