5.20: Wild Wild West - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It looks like we've got some serious thunderstorms coming our
way later this evening, which is always a frightening thing,
certainly a little bit more sins it. It's a little
more sensitivity to it given what's happened here in the
state in the last four or five days. Friday night
obviously probably a date that people will remember for a
long time for tragic reasons, as nineteen people in Kentucky

(00:45):
have died due to the tornado that hit that area
in southeastern Kentucky. But one thing that I don't want
to bring this up to like make fun of it
or make a joke out of it, because I'm not
doing that. But I am sort of indisible leave how
something like this could happen Saint Louis. They had that
area that I mean, Missouri is always, I feel like

(01:08):
an area of the country that just seems to get
hit really really bad with with tornadoes. But they didn't
have sirens that went off on Friday. And I mean,
this almost seems like something that you like, you can't
you can't make it up, like, how does this happen?
But the Saint Louis mayor has said that the tornado
sirens didn't activate because of a protocol confusion. So many

(01:33):
residents of Saint Louis were not warned of the tornado
that hit the city because sirens didn't go off. I mean,
I can't be I mean I can't be the only
one that does, in fact take the sirens quite literally, right,
I mean, I don't. Man, when you think of this
day and age, as far as how you really get

(01:54):
your confirmation that you need to take cover. There's a
lot of ways to do it right. Again, we talked
about it earlier. The radio, Like you've got the radio
emergency service system that that that plays, which, by the way,
for those who missed it earlier, we talked about it.
That's not if you've got severe weather tonight in the
area in Kentuckyana and you rely on the radio to
tell you it won't happen because they're doing some emergency

(02:16):
maintenance or I guess some I don't know if it's
emergency maintenance. I'll read directly what it is, just so
I don't get it wrong. But they're doing says dude,
it's a mandatory upgrade of weather systems. Due to that,
the weather radio for the Louisville area will be offline
into Wednesday, So just keep that in mind tonight. But anyways,
there's a lot you've got your phone, Like my phone,
I don't even know if I ever programmed anything or

(02:38):
set it up on my own, but my phone will
go off if if there is something severe near where
I'm at, like, and I think it's only the warning,
not a watch, which of course the warning is more severe.
But anyways, I mean, if you hear the sirens in
your area, your neighborhood where you are, I mean, I
feel like that is that is that would to me.
It's up there as far as one of the scariest

(02:59):
things in regards to the realization that, Okay, this is dangerous,
I need to take cover, I need to be safe.
So for Saint Louis to not have those work, and
it's just because of like a human error, like that's insane.
So the mayor has said that the sirens weren't activated
before a deadly tornado that happened Friday because of quote

(03:23):
human failure, which imagine being that human. I mean, so
their mayor has only been in office. It looks like
a couple of months. Yeah, But Mayor Caro Spencer said
a button to sound the sirens was not pushed after
the tornado warning was issued, but added that there wasn't

(03:45):
a single person at faults since emergency protocols weren't exceptionally
clear about roles or responsibilities. Five people were killed in
the tornado and over thirty were injured. She's in her
second month in office, as I mentioned, and she has
had she's activating the sirens will now She says that
activating the sirens will now solely be it will now

(04:08):
be the sole responsibility of the fire department going forward.
So I mean, I don't want to be overly critical,
because again I don't there's clearly no intent for somebody
to just, you know, not have the sirens working to
notify people that they may need to take cover and
prepare because their lives are in danger. But just think
about that, Like, there was confusion as far as whose

(04:30):
responsibility it was, so it just didn't get done, and
who knows, We'll never know if those sirens would have
kept people alive. But man, if I was somebody that
was on the the if I was somebody within the
confusion of not knowing if it was my responsibility or not,
I would that would eat me alive. I mean that
would be devastating. I mean, doesn't that sound like something

(04:51):
in a movie that somebody internally nobody knew whose responsibility
it actually was to hit the sirens? Like that's that's all, so.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Just all like standing around like it do I hit it? Well,
it's one I'm confused, guys, thank.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
You, thank you, because I'm I'm kind of the belief
like this can't I mean, again, it's real, it's not
a fake story, but I'm just like, I'm just like,
how do you like? First of all, to know that
it's a button kind of surprises me. But then again,
I guess what else would it be? But nobody knew
if it was I guess a certain department's responsibility or
if it was the fire department's responsibility. And now the

(05:26):
mayor of Saint Louis is claiming that it's now moving forward,
going to be the sole responsibility of the fire department.
That's just that's just that's just not everybody being on
the same page, And I mean, will never know, and
it would be foolish to say for sure that lives
would have been saved had the sirens been activated and worked.
But I mean, you never know. You don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
But here's how you fix it. You host one huge
job fare guys. Can you press this button if you
look up and you see a cyclone?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, I'll do that. Yeah, that, and you really emphasize
how important it is, because clear I think anybody would
know that that's an important thing to make sure that
the sirens work. And I don't Again, I'm not sure
of how many rely on that, And I don't know.
I would say most people this day and age, with
technology being what it is, with the cell phones that
we have really being able to do as much as

(06:19):
you can do on them, I don't think people are
just waiting around ear to the ground or the sirens
going off, then I know something is bad. But the sirens,
to me, I believe it would be like a it's
part of the whole thing, right, like my phone's going off.
They've cut into programming on the news stations, the radio is,

(06:39):
they've got the they've basically got their warnings going off.
And then if I hear the sirens outside near my home,
that to me is the full on like Okay, this
is really dangerous. I need to take cover and I
need to, you know, say some prayers. So everybody's situation
is probably different, But I mean, and I've heard I've
heard people complain about the sirens going off and they

(07:00):
felt like it wasn't justified. I've also heard people say,
why why didn't the sirens go off? And we didn't
know it was going to be this bad. So clearly
there's there's still a level of I mean, I don't
want to say clearly they're still important. I was gonna
say there's there's a level of it that's important, but
I'm sure every way, like it's like these things are
in place for a reason. So that's I didn't plan

(07:21):
on that coming up on the show today, but I
read it during the break and I'm like this, this
almost doesn't seem real, but it is real. But at
least now we know in Saint Louis, they know who's
responsible for making sure those those sirens do in fact
go off. All right, it's Coffee and Company. We are
few about Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Appreciate you hanging out with us here on a Tuesday afternoon,

(07:41):
real quick. This this came up on the text line earlier.
If you guys want a text in you can five
two four three eight ninety seventy three. It's the L
and N Federal Credit Union text line. This text says, Nick,
it's starting to hit me that I'm going to lose
you as my afternoon sports guy, big Louisville fan. Before you,
before you run off and leave us, who would you
say are the five best Louisville basketball and football players

(08:04):
in your lifetime? All right? I don't have that list
on me right now, and I've never thought about putting
it together, but I'm I'm eager to give it some
thought because if you think about it, if you talk
about my lifetime, there's some in my lifetime that I
don't remember because I was too young. Like I didn't
watch him play, So if I did it, I would

(08:24):
give you not just my lifetime, but like players I
remember watching. Like let me give you an example. I
could be wrong here, but there are some people that
claim Clifford Rosier when he was at his best at Louisville,
and I guess that one season where he was the
first team All American that he was like that good,
that special, But I wouldn't be able to tell you
because I don't remember him, Like I was too young.
That was right before I was old enough. And on football,

(08:48):
I feel like I could do that. But Austin, don't
you feel like with football like it's more about positions,
Like when you think of like best player of all
time in football for a program or for a franchise,
I mean can be like if you're the you know,
a guy who's the best defensive player of all time
might be just as impactful as the guy who's the
best offensive player of all time. So I don't, I don't,

(09:09):
I don't know if I could give you. I feel
like if I did that, I would be leaving off
certain players that that because the football is just harder
to do. I mean, although in the NFL there's more
people on the fields were in the NFL, the MVP
award is always going to go to a quarterback, right,
I mean, you can be phenomenal as a receiver, phenomenal
as a running back. I mean, this day and age

(09:29):
on offense, you're you're gonna need to be a quarterback
to win the NFL m VP. So quarterbacks, like, I
don't know. I'll give it some thought. I'm not sure
if I'm gonna do it today, but you've given me
a nice challenge as a sleep on it. Yeah, give
me a nice challenge here, And it's not really a challenge.
I mean, it's it's it's my thoughts mout. But but

(09:49):
a top five for both sports. Basketball I could do
pretty easy. I think football would be tougher, but I'll
give it a shot. That's a that's a good recommendation
as we count down our days here because after next Friday,
it'll be It'll be it from here. It'll be it
for me here on seven ninety. So if you haven't
heard the news, starting on June second, I'll be making
the move to news radio eight forty WHA has taken

(10:09):
over for Tony Cruz as the host of Kentucky and
as morning news. I've talked about it probably more than
you want to hear since Friday. But I also know
that some people just they catch this show in doses
here and there and want to make sure I do
as best as I can to make sure everybody is
aware because I don't people forget about I mean, I
think I just you know, fell off a cliff. I'm
not leaving. I'm just you know, moving to moving down

(10:33):
the hall. Actually I mean and also I'm moving. Just
up your radio dial, right, if you just go from
seven nine zero to eight four zero, then you'll find me.
But you won't find me at three pm. You'll find
me at five am. Between five am and at nine am.
All right, we'll talk a little more about this coming
up on the other side, But I also want to
share some news that I think is big for college sports.
If you have not seen this, this is I believe

(10:54):
a substantial piece of news when it comes to the
future of college athletics. Ross Ellinger of Yahoo Sports reported
it last night that the power conferences, the ACC, the SEC,
the Big Ten, and the Big twelve were working together
to put together basically a contract for all programs all
universities within those conferences to agree to follow specific guidelines.

(11:17):
And with this agreement, they are all going to sign
off that they're going to follow these rules and not
try to get out of following said rules by hiring
a lawyer and taking it to court. Because I think
what everybody's realized is that because of how long the
NCAA waited, and they didn't even really wait to do anything.
They didn't do anything. It just finally bit them in

(11:38):
the ass. That's what happened. I mean, quite literally, they
wanted to give us the archaic amateurism model from you
know that's from hundreds of years ago, seemingly, I mean
it's not an exaggeration. It probably does go back one
hundred years or so, and they just never wanted to
make any kind of adjustments as society evolves and people
can start to see that you know what this is,

(11:59):
this is becase coming more and more of a I
lucrative business. Right, college athletics. The NCAA tournament is a
billion dollar product. And yeah, these players get free room
and board, they get a free education, and that's certainly valuable.
But the optics of the NCUBLA bringing in a billion
dollars and yet no revenue from that being shared with
those who actually are performing, right, that are the product, right,

(12:21):
the tournament they're playing, they're the athletes. So because it
just they waited and waited and waited and waited. Finally,
finally there was somebody that got the courts involved and
told the NCAA, yeah, what you've been doing is illegal.
That's why there's a billion dollar settlement that's going to happen,
and moving forward, you're going to be required to share
your revenue with student athletes. So that's been in the works.

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But as they try to finalize this whole thing for seemingly,
you know, roughly a year now, feel like they keep
hitting roadblocks. And it's because by technicality, there's certain things
that through the court system, they're telling the NCUBA, yeah,
you can do that. So they're trying, I do think
right now they realize, we got to clean this thing up.
We've got to figure out how we can have some regulation,

(13:07):
how we can have it not be such a free
for all and you know it be the wild wild West,
as people say. But they're kind of helpless in what
they can do because again, the way they've existed since
the beginning of time is not practical this day and age,
and it's really not legal when it comes to certain
things that they try to ask of you. So these
schools now realize that that it's going to be an endless,

(13:29):
endless battle as far as the court's getting involved and
telling the NCUBLEA they can't have this as a rule.
So these schools are working together to say, look, we
all agree, we're going to abide by these rules, and
if you don't, you can get kicked out of your conference.
You can have you know, you can basically just not
exist to us anymore as far as your athletics department.

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So this is huge. And to hear of this last night,
I mean, it was still a big piece of news.
But then today it's now been confirmed that Charlie Baker,
the president of the NCUBA, who took over from Mark Emert,
he has confirmed that the nc DOUBLEA is going to
seed enforcement of amateurism and the Power Conferences are going
to take over. And again just saying that out loud,
it's it's crazy, and it was Front Office Sports that

(14:12):
broke the news. But yes, the Power Conferences collectively and
not the nc DOUBLEA, will be in charge of enforcing
rules that are going to be created by this house.
First in Cuba settlement over athlete compensation. So this, I
think will be a good thing. It won't be back
to the way it used to be, and I actually

(14:33):
think that's okay. I don't want to go back to
the way it used to be as far as I
mean players getting paid doesn't impact me at all. I'm
not bothered by them getting paid. In fact, good for them.
But really, more than anything, the portal has made to me,
college sports so much more interesting because you have free agency,
you do and sometimes a free agency transaction can be

(14:56):
a net negative for your program, right if you' lose
a guy you didn't want to lose. But then also
you can actually go and take advantage of it and
go build a team from scratch like Pat Kelse did
in his first season and brought us back to life
really out of nowhere in no time. In the previous
world that would have taken many, many, many years. So

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this is good news, all right, quick break will come back.
Keep this thing rolling along. I don't know if you
guys have seen the story about the food delivery driver.
I don't know if he was doing Uber East Door
Dash or whatever it was, but he ended up on
the tarmac in his vehicle at the O'Hare airport in Chicago.
And I can't tell if this guy is just like

(15:39):
an absolute, you know, idiot not realizing what he was doing,
or if he's maybe the best guy ever at realizing
I've got a McDonald's value meal, I've got a chicken
sandwich from Chick fil A, And I'm gonna make sure
even if they're walking, even if they're bored in the plane,
I'm gonna get it to them, because that's my job,
that's my duty, the service I provide as a newber

(16:02):
each driver. Also, he may have, you know, really, he
may have had the folks at O'Hare realize they don't
have security tien up the way they need to. But
we'll get to that in a lot more. Keep it
locked right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Now back to Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's on
Sports Talk seven nine day.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
That's right, it's coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. So this, this story is
it fascinates me because I have a lot of questions,
and I don't know if we'll ever get answers to
all these questions. But a door dash food delivery driver
somehow yesterday got dasher got yeah, he got lost and

(16:46):
ended up on the Chicago O'Hare International Airport tarmac. The
driver was somehow able to make it through the secured
areas and even crossed over the runways. And I think
if you see some car out there, and by the way,
he's driving what appears to be like a Geo Metro,
Like it wasn't some I mean, I guess you can

(17:08):
drive anything and deliver food, but I mean it, nobody
would have Nobody would assume that the person that got
their vehicle out under the runway would be lost trying
to deliver food, right.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
I mean it's it's how did they even let that
person in like that?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Nobody knows what the show id or you just can't
pull up on an airport like nobody knows it is. Uh,
it is wild. This is a report from the CBS
affiliate I believe it is in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
It responded to a car driving I don't o' hair
tarmac over the weekend. Imagine this.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
CPD now says the vehicle belonged to a very.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Confused food delivery driver who accidentally entered an area posted
his off limits to non airport personnel.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Where was he trying to get?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, that's what I.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Wanted to know.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
So the driver was not sighted.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
The incident happened on Saturday, and my god, how do
you turn around right once you're in? You're in?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
If I first of all again, I don't know how
you end up delivering food and end up there like
it does. None of that makes any any sense at all.
Uh And and he's probably lucky he didn't get charged
or side it. But then again, somebody probably got in
trouble who was supposed to Like want I mean a
vehicle ending up out there, I'm not even sure how
that would be possible. Yeah, that's especially at an airport

(18:22):
like O'Hare in Chicago, one of the biggest cities in
the world. It's wild. But I also want to know
what food he was delivering, And I want to know
who ordered it and how it ended up out there,
because if it was me, I'd have fun with that. Like, yeah,
my guy, uh he I told him I was at
the airport. Mean, you can't deliver food to the airport, Like,
I have so many questions. That's so odd.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
I don't know how how it just turned you straight
into the uh into the tar the tarmac of all places.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, Like, and you would know pretty I think you
know pretty early before you get out to the runway
that you're in an area that you that you shouldn't be.
And then again, as the as the news anchor there
said like how do you how do you turn around?
But yeah, that's something you don't You don't often see.
And I would imagine before hearing from this driver because

(19:08):
the video, which again you can't see, this is an
audio medium, but there are countless airport police vehicles surrounding
his little beat up car. And when he says, hey,
I'm I'm a food delivery driver and I got lost,
I feel like nobody would believe him. You would think, Okay, yeah, sure, buddy,
you're trying to this is a terrorist attack or something
like it. Just none of it makes any kind of sense.

(19:31):
But I do have to ask you. Are you someone
that often uses the door dash Uber eats? I mean,
how many different is there? Postmates still a thing. There's
a lot of different ways you can get food delivery.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
I'm a door dash I'm a door dash kind of guy.
If anything, I don't use it all that much because honestly,
I just raither go myself and get it because I'm cheap.
I don't have to pay six more dollars.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
I've never used it, and I don't say that to
like brag. It's just I have never It's one of
those things that I think when folks want to get food,
meaning they want to eat out, I think in their
mind it might now just go to Okay, what am
I going to? Door dash? What am I gonna uber eats?
And it's just never become a thing to where I think, Okay, yeah,

(20:12):
I'm hungry, not gonna cook, Let me get out my phone.
I just think if I'm gonna eat somewhere, if I
want to eat food that's not in my house, I'll
go get it or I'll go sit down and eat.
But I think maybe the reason because I'm not against it,
it's just two things. I would I just assume that
the food is going to lose twenty five percent or
more of its quality if it's been prepared and then

(20:35):
in a car and delivered to me. It's not coming
from the back of the kitchen out to the drive
through or to my table. Right. I also, when you
over eats or door dash, are you getting fast food,
fast casual? Are you doing dining restaurants? Is there a
type of resins just something like wingstop or like like

(20:55):
McDonald's taco bell, Like would you do that?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I mean no, because I live right next to a
talk about Okay, I love Panda Express.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I've Panda Express before, gotcha. So when we eat out,
we and I trust me, I'm not against fast food.
Fast food is delicious and I'm you know, I don't
eat it a ton, but you know, I'm not against it,
and I know shame folks who do eat it because
it's delicious and those who like, you know, I get
why people look down at fast food as far as
the health benefits. But like, let's be real, these restaurants

(21:23):
wouldn't be billion dollar businesses if they weren't doing something
pretty good, right. They're making good food that's convenient, and yeah,
all we've talked about here lately is how much the
prices have gone up, but you know what, people are
still eating. People are making it work because they love
fast food that much. It's probably something we shouldn't do
as a society. When it comes to other countries other
cultures making fun of us, one of the things they
bring up is that we're fat, and they're probably right.

(21:44):
They also unfortunately make fun of us for school shootings,
which is terrible, but you know, it is a thing. Yes,
So anyways, when it comes to like if we're gonna
have if we're not going to eat at home if
the wife's not going to cook, which I love when
she cooks. She's a great cook. And I don't say
that just to say that she's a really good cook.
But when we're gonna not eat food that she prepares
at home, we're probably gonna go to like an Elma

(22:07):
pol or a Roosters or a Texas roadhouse, one of
those kinds of places, and for what you pay for
I just think I'm not going to pay that price
for that food and then add on a delivery fee,
knowing that it won't be as good as if I
just went there and sat down an ate, because you know,
because of the time. But clearly it's a booming people

(22:29):
do it all the time. But Nattie said the other
day I was listening listen to him. I think it
was last week. I don't know if he was an
empty nester for the week. I think maybe his wife,
his wife and daughter were gone, And he said he
did it every day for a week.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
And I'm like, how, yeah, I've actually been the dasher before,
I've signed up for those services where you're actually the
person driving around and getting food.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Is that that's a pretty good hustle? Right, it's not bad.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
I actually kind of like it because you really don't
have like you don't have a boss. You know, you
can just pop in like a podcast, just kind of
drive around, but you kind of deal with all the
stuff that basically people are paying to not do, like
sitting and waiting in line because I mean the service
that the service industry is still suffering, and just terms

(23:15):
of waiting forever for food, them not having enough heads
back there in order to prepare the food, Like I
would get like a dash and then it would maybe
take me about ten or fifteen minutes to get there,
and thinking all right, the food should be ready, and
I've sat there another twenty minutes waiting for the food.
So you start to deal with traffic and all that,
and I guess that's the I guess that's the stuff

(23:38):
you're kind of paying a little extra for when you're
the person paying for the door dash so you don't
have to go through all that yourself.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, And I've heard stories, at least I've I don't know,
you know, I bet there's probably like really good days
of doing it where you're like, man, this is totally
worth it because I'm making some extra money and it
hasn't been it hasn't been such a you know, it's
been pretty it's been worth my while as a side hustle.
It's not too bad. But also like I'm sure there's
days where you're like, man, I dealt with either an

(24:06):
employee at a restaurant that I really had a tough
time not losing it on, or I dealt with a
customer who was a terrible tipper, or you know, like
that you have no control over that. That that that's
what would be. I think the downfall for me is
you never you never know what you're gonna get as
far as the customer or I mean, I've I've been
in restaurants where I've seen an employee and a dasher

(24:26):
screaming at each other. Oh yeah, over some There's been
two instances. One was a lot worse than the other,
but clearly the like it's.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Not my food, I don't care that.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah. Well, I think they if they if they're hover
if they're hovering around, I mean, now they have I
think some places have designated spots where you come and
pick up for that, which carry which makes sense, right,
Like you're not necessarily just getting in line with everybody else,
like they have a designated spot for their dashers, which
I think that makes sense. But uh yeah, I'm sure
I'll do it at some point. But I got I

(24:56):
kind of feel like, given my you know, my my,
I feel like it's probably a rarity for someone like
me who does eat out. It'd be different if you
never eat out. We eat out more than we should.
But it's just never been ever in my mind, like, hey,
I need to eat, let me let me pop open,
Like is it an app? I guess I found Like
I thought, I'm such a dinosaur dude. Well I wouldn't

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even know how to do it.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Well at the crux of it, Nicholas, if that is
your real name with the ch me here they want
you to Nico, that's that's the name. I forgot it
if they they really want you to pay for the
like the door Dash subscription, because that then takes away
offer that make delivery fee, and then it takes like
if sometimes if you order like over twenty dollars worth

(25:41):
of food, your delivery is free and then you get
the delivery like because there will be sometimes where actually
the door Dashes pay for it. Because even when you
go on to log one to be a dasher, to
ask if you want to make hourly or if you
just want to make what door dash pays you or
just working off of tips, either what DoorDash pays you,
or just go workoff tips. But you know, and you
could probably sign up. If it's your first time, they

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probably might give you like your first thirty days of
like door dash plus or something like that, to where
you link it up to there and you can be
able to basically order from your couch the same prices
that you would if you were standing right there in
line for something. And then once that runs out, that's
when all the fees come up. But they want you
to keep upgrading that subscription.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
They want to get your They want to have your
money regardless if you order door dash once a month
or five times exactly. Yeah, I wonder if you have
any guess as to which which restaurant gets the most
door dash orders.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh, it has to be like McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
It has to be those two. I just I just
did a quick little search here. Let's see what it
tells us.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Talk about by my house is horrible DoorDash services. I
always hated driving there.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
So yeah, the according to door Dash the three most
popular chain restaurants, and I guess it's because these restaurants
also do it well, meaning they they found on the
system that works to where they people realize, if I'm
going to do a door dash, it's worth it to
do it at this restaurant, maybe more so than another

(27:08):
McDonald's Chick fil a in Chipotle, Oh okay, yeah, that
makes sense. Never had Chipotle, Uh, never had Chipotle, never
had I'm just about I'm exposing myself as just somebody
that's just not I'm not I'm not up. I'm not
up with the times, I guess.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
I mean, Chipotle is all right, but I'm kind of
I'm worn out. I'm worn out on the burrito places
right now.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Other than Salcertas. We love sal oh, I.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Do love Sorcertas, Yes, But I think that next one
in Bulla County they did it's right, yes' They just
opened it like a couple a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Ye, Shepherdsville. So yeah, they for them. They Yeah, shout
out to Pam at Salceritas. Their food is obviously delicious,
but they have I don't know what it is about
their chips. Their chips are set them apart their chips.
I mean, their chips are different and better than any restaurant.
And I don't mean just the competition like Chipotle mos

(28:04):
and whatnot. I'm talking like any restaurant that serves chips
and queso sALS of that kind of stuff. Like the sauceritas.
Chips are just different. They're they're thin. They're crispy though,
and there's the saw. It's so good. They're salivating. Yeah, yeah,
they're they're they're thin and they and you get it's
like you get you get what you need from the chip,
the crunch, the salt, but you get so much more

(28:25):
of the salsa and the cheese because the chip's not
too much, right, It's it's the perfect balance.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Just when I thought I was out, Nick, you pulled
me right back in.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Now you know what you get for dinner? Right, that's
it's it's up there, good stuff. All right, let's get
to a break. We'll come back on the other side.
With the NBA Draft combine concluding last week, there's a
lot of guys who are making it official that they
are in fact going to come back to college. Many
of these players already know where they're going to school.
Because they didn't hit the portal in time. But there
are some that are picking schools, like Boogie Flann will

(28:56):
tell you where he decided to commit earlier today, big
news for one program, it's already done pretty well lately.
And then also r J Luise, it sounds like he's
going to come back to college and I have no
clue what schools are in on him, which it almost
kind of feels like he was dead set on going
pro and then got humbled at the combine. And he
was an All American last year. So somebody's gonna get

(29:17):
a good one. We'll get to that in a lot more.
Keep it lock right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
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Speaker 2 (29:38):
So, Boogie Flann last year as a freshman at Arkansas
was was Arkansas's best player. It was at a time
when they were not having success and it didn't look
as if they were going to be able to make
the tournament. They ended up barely getting in and then
made it all the way to the sweet sixteen with
upsets over Kansas as well as Saint John's. So he

(29:59):
was not a part of their big run, but he did,
I think, come back and play in the tournament in
their final couple games. But nonetheless, he at the portal,
went through the draft process and decided to not go
back to Arkansas but to go elsewhere, and he is
committed to Florida. So this Florida team that's fresh off
a national championship, they're now getting Boogie Flann, one of
the best guards probably in the country at least certainly

(30:22):
in the conversation. And now if they can get Alex
Condon back, I mean, that would probably solidify them as
a top probably a top five team next year. So
Todd Golden clearly has a bright future there at at Florida,
And I don't know if they're going to be able
to be in the conversation to maybe run it back.

(30:42):
But that Florida team last year, part of me says
a lot of what they were they were able to
do was was was, you know, a collective effort, because
they were they were pretty deep, pretty balanced, and he's
a really good coach. But I don't know. I think
the guard who transferred from who was a star there
for two years, I can't think of his name because

(31:03):
again I'm terrible with with with names. But he played
at Iona for I think Patino one year that ended
up and he's one of the best players in the
country last year, and his name will come to me
in just a moment, is it will something? Here we
go Clayton Walter Clayton Junior. So I don't know. Again,
they may be able to put together another really good

(31:25):
team have a really good run. But I kind of
feel like at times last year he was just he
was just that good. But Florida gets Boogie Flann and
then r J Luis, who was a star for Rick
Patino at at Saint John's and he started his career
at UMass ended up transferring to play for Rick at
Saint John's and he had a breakthrough season in a

(31:46):
big way. And now it sounds like he's gonna pull
out of the draft and where he ends up, I
mean no clue. Sounds like at the combine he he
was smaller than advertised, had some turnover problems, and it's
going to go back to school and whoever gets him
is getting a really good player. But it's almost as
if he didn't have really any I mean, clearly his

(32:09):
backup plan was to come back to college. He'd entered
the portal and left that opportunity open for him. But
I've not heard much of anything as far as what
schools will be involved. But again, we're talking about a
guy who was an All American last year that's now
on the board and available, so we shall see, all right,
So let's see here the latest mock draft here, and

(32:30):
this is from Let's see this one's from Yahoo Sports.
This is Kevin O'Connor, who covers the NBA. He has,
as you could expect, Cooper Flag going number one, Dylan
Harper number two, Ace Bailey number three, which real quick,
I'll move on from this because I don't it's not
worth spending a ton of time on. But anytime I
see mock drafts and I see Rutgers with two guys

(32:50):
that are believed to be certainly top five picks, both
maybe picks two and three right after Cooper Flag, like,
how demoralizing would it be if you're Rutgers and like
you did have a year where there was a tension
surrounding you, these two freshman phenoms alone were the reason
that you were, in fact in the preseason top twenty five.
I think they were like right at twenty five, but

(33:12):
you weren't good, didn't make the tournament, didn't really sniff
the tournament. These guys were there for a year, They're
still gonna go top two, top three in the draft,
maybe certainly top five, and you have like nothing to
show for it. That that that would suck. But that's
what I used to tell myself. Remember, Austin, we were
so desperate for some five star, one and done players.

(33:33):
Kentucky was getting them NonStop, and we wanted them. I
remember we wanted them so bad, and I would you know,
I was, I was. I was with all the other
fans thinking like, why can't we get one of those guys? Man,
that'd be nice. I was one of those fans too.
And not to say that we were wrong, because I think,
get there's no harm, there's no there's nothing wrong with
getting them. But if they're there for a year and

(33:56):
they still go lottery and you didn't have a good
season with them, like quite literally, what do you have
to show for I think in the end, I would
feel underwhelmed if we didn't have a good season and
it was like it was because you know, you just
didn't have good enough players or you didn't have a
good enough coach. Whatever it may be, that's still that's
still a situation that sucks. But at least you can
understand it, Like it makes sense if you have guys

(34:17):
that used you for a year as just a place
to hang out and in your team. Yeah, and your
team stunk and then they move on like it really
there's no bit. I mean, I guess the benefit would
be you have a better chance of getting other guys
who can see that your program can be a pit
stop before they get to the NBA. And that's why,
to be honest with the CALLI Perry, he did a lot.

(34:40):
This is gonna sound like I'm contradicting myself, but they
rarely were bad, you know what I mean, Like they
usually were built off of mostly freshmen, and then there
were some good complimentary pieces. There was the rare guy
that came back for a sophomore junior season. It ended
up being pretty good for them, but there were also
Like Texas always comes to mind for me because I

(35:02):
know Rick Barnes did it and Shaka Smart did it
when they were at Texas. Texas had a bunch of
top twenty lottery picks, even over a stretch of time
and their teams were never good, and I just remember
thinking to myself, you know what, like if louisvill would
have gotten that guy, I think I'd be pissed. As
far as how it has, how it worked out, right,
I mean, it's not like, you know, again, there's no

(35:23):
net negative. It does keep you in mind on draft night,
but because we care so much about our programs succeeding
more than we care about draft picks, it would be
a reminder, Yeah, you had NBA talent and you didn't
get a lot out of it. And I truly believe
that that over time did run. It did run. It

(35:45):
became stale with Kentucky fans because I think they want
to support their guys in the NBA, and early on
they were getting NBA players every year, reloading and having
good seasons, final fours, one national championship. But then whenever
you were getting Rob Dilling and Reed Shepard both in
the top five, and you lose to Oakland in the
first round of the tournament, Like at that point, it

(36:06):
becomes a big embarrassment. Right at that point, it becomes
all right, now we're just really propping ourselves up to
be made fun of and that's why Cal, you know,
he'll still do it. Although he will come to an end.
He will, he will not his storak of having a
first round draft pick is going to come to an
end this year just because there's nobody on There's nobody
from Arkansas that is even sniff in the first round.

(36:27):
It looks like according to this most reason mock draft.
I guess that can change. But nonetheless, Cal right towards
the right after the Oakland loss. I mean, I feel
like the embarrassment was at the top for him in
Kentucky because you do it once. It's you know, to
have all those NBA players and not win a title
is bad enough, but you can just you know, you

(36:48):
can say things that just make it easier for you
to deal with, like, well, what do you know the
ns double A tournament's random when really it is, but
the championship's not. Championship's always won by a really good team.
Final fours can be random anyways. Having one title to
show for all those NBA players was starting to become
like a noticeable thing nationally, like damn, why can't how
do they not have more success? And then they started

(37:09):
to kind of tail off a little bit, but to then,
you know, lose to Oakland and Saint Peter's in a
three year window. To end your season in the first
round of the tournament at that point by bringing up
all the guys you put in the league is really
a self own for Caliperry, right, How you got all
these dudes and you don't win? Now, he did this year,

(37:30):
do what he's done sometimes previously a Kentucky where he
didn't have a regular season that was that great. It
looked as if they were in trouble and he found
a way to make it work in the tournament. Like
that Kentucky team that went to the championship game and
lost to Yukon in twenty fourteen that had Julius Randall
the twins. They beat Louisville in the sweet sixteen. That
team barely got in the tournament. I think they made
the championship game. Is like an eight seed. They had

(37:53):
another year I believe it was in what was it?
There was another year I feel like where they were great,
but man, they got they got hot and made a
deep run to where you didn't remember their their struggles
quite as much. So Anyways, let's get to a quick break.
We'll come back on the other side. We've got the
five o'clock hour coming your way. We'll finish strong and

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