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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And this is July the third, and we're excited, not
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then also we'll go live at three pm as we
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been able to have two hours of content. Now we'll
be off tomorrow for July fourth, get to celebrate America's
birth independence, all of that the greatest upset in history.
I'm still going to contend that it is, and so
we'll talk about that. And I'm excited for the opportunity
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of celebrating July fourth. And it's almost even better that
it falls on a Friday. You couldn't ask for a
better day, right, I mean, this is a great opportunity
to just go ahead and celebrate America on Friday. Head
into the weekend and just know that you still have
time to get to your local Engles and make sure
you get all of your supplies that you need for
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July fourth, whether it's ground beef, it's steaks, it's really
whatever it is, Uh, your side, salads, potato salad, egg salad,
just your sandwich platters, all of those things at Ingles.
And because I know I can see the skill already
right now reading for some smoking this weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I'm so excited. But actually what I was going to
say is, and I can't speak for every single Angles,
but my local Angles they're Highway eighty one and Anderson
has a fireworks stand out front, so you can get
fireworks at Angles too.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You go, so you can literally get everything you want
for Fourth of.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
July there at Ingles, Ingles low prices, love the savings.
Make sure you check out your local Angles as we
are getting ready to celebrate July fourth. And So I
do have a question because that's a that's a good segue, right,
because I wanted to talk about July fourth, and I
don't want to bore people with all the history, but
I do think it is the greatest upset in history.
It is, and especially this is one of the things
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we love about sports is upsets and having that opportunity
of seeing David versus Goliath in this Cinderella stories, all
of that, and there's no question. Back in seventeen seventy six, America,
the United States of America, thirteen colonies, they were the Cinderella.
Yeah somehow, little America, oh yeah, little old America. They
were able to put on that glass slipper and gain
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their independence from Great in Britain again, who at the
time was the biggest power in the world. Yeah at
that time, I mean, you absolutely insane. So we'll talk
about that. But I do have a question about fireworks, yea,
because that is obviously a huge part of July fourth
and how we celebrate and just the excitement with the
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fire fireworks, you know, once it gets dark all that,
and now people aren't even waiting until it gets dark,
wait the fourth.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And they don't stop on the fourth either. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I would have to say, I mean, I understand
the fireworks because when they first were introduced, blowing like
what was that? That's amazing, But now it's am I
old man, get off my lawn. If I'm the one
who's feeling that, all right, it's outdated. Uh, it's it's
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annoying with all of the fireworks. It's too much. Hey,
it's almost like they've crossed the line right and made
it so big and so much and it just continues
because there is as much as I was almost ingest
saying that people continue shooting fireworks.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
After July fourth, that's reality. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And I know there's a lot of people, especially with
pet owners, that yes, you're raising your land there. Yes,
we have two dogs at our house that I inherited
through my wife Julianne, and one of them, oh it's over.
Oh yeah, just even a little bit of thunder and
he goes crazy. And so with the fireworks even more so.
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And that's the problem too, is that the fireworks are
going off until one am, two am, and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We got it, we get it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, you celebrated, all right, now go to bed,
do something or just you don't have to go to bed.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Just stop shooting the fireworks at two am, right.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Thank you. If you're old man, get off my lawn.
I don't know what that makes me because I'm not
a big fan of it either. Like it's and I'm
much older than you, so like when I was younger,
like obviously it's like, oh, cool fireworks. You know, when
I was in high school, you'd play with fireworks. It's
just kind of what you do. At least that's what
we did. And so like from that perspective, I get it,
and I enjoy a good fireworks show, but it's it's
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the obnoxious, like all right, literally, yes, around where I live.
Sometimes they'll start, Okay, July fourth's coming up on Friday.
They'll start Monday and do it every night Monday, and
I'm like, okay, we don't need a week long or
like you can celebrate in other ways.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But yeah, my dogs hate it. Hate it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And to your point talking about it being outdated, dude,
have you seen some of the drone shows that these like,
I've seen them where they flyp a bunch of drones
and sink them with lights stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So much cooler than fireworks, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Probably not as loud, Oh it's yes.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And take advantage of technology, yes, thank you got the advancement.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
We don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And and again you definitely, if you're listening, you're like,
oh gosh, here comes parent weaver coming out.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Because it's the safety side of it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Also, dude, Yes, now with you, there more and more
stories of people blowing their fingers off or worse. I mean,
it's crazy that we're so enamored by explosives in her hand.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yes, and again that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I I do understand that there's a novelty to it,
and where my novelty is more inclined where I gravitate more.
Is what you said, a professional fireworks show, right, so
much cooler? Yes, where I mean. And they some of
these stadiums, some of these arenas.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Wor Field over here.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, they put on a hell of a hell of
a show, and they've got a professional company that comes in.
You know, they've got all of the safety measures and
it's pretty much a timed event, right that Hey, we'll
do it for ten minutes and we're done.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's done it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, and that's it, and then you go home and
you're happy and you got to celebrate. You got to
see the explosions, and you got to see all of
the wonders you know, there in the sky, and.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Then that's it. That's over. Yeah, it's okay. I'm good
with that. It's nice.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And why do we have to keep But that's I
think that's part of society that oh we got to
keep going, We got to keep going. And that's still
again we can go off on a completely different tangent
that nothing good happens after midnight, I promise you, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, that's another thing.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Maybe as a young guy like you, you need to
listen to that type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know, nothing good happens after midnight.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We've seen too many stories, all right, So I digress
about the fireworks, But it is something that July fourth
is special.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
It is special to me because I'm a history guy.
So I love all of that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And just looking at some of the people out there
that have at least started talking about it in a.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Fun, loving way.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And some of the memes you're seeing you know about, Yes,
they are George Washington, you know, and you know any
sayings that he might have to Great Britain tomorrow, and
you know all those type of memes that are happening
out there. And I saw Trey Wingo, formerly of ESPN,
and he had a post on X and it was
talking about the upset of the century back then, upset,
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you know, the biggest upset in history, and said tomorrow
we get to celebrate Great Britain blowing a thirteen colony
lead Tyres Haliburt.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But what his face photoshopped on it? Yes, perfect, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So I do love all of that, but I do
go back to that concept of the upsets.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh yeah, and Cinderella's and I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Do try to figure out why do we love them
so much? I mean, what is it about a Cinderella
story that we love as sports fans? Now, you obviously
don't love it if your team is the one who
gets upset, of course, yeah, right, there is that, But
there's also a little bit of a even if your
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team does, it's almost like, yeah, I mean, you're a
part of history or something, and there's there's something about
that that it doesn't feel as bad that if you
get upset and something that is so outrageous that you
never thought would happen.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I think part of it is the fact that you
just never thought it would happen. I think that's why
we like it so much because we always, like, I
feel like, as human beings, we try to figure out
the outcome, right, Like that's and we want to control
the outcome.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And so that's part of it. And so when we
go into something and we're looking at it and we're like.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh, man, nah, there's no way O the Pacers are
gonna you know the okay, see, you know, there's no
way they're gonna beat them on the road.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And then they come out and they do it game one.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, or they're down by fifteen yeah, exactly minutes to go,
and they come back and win.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It's insane. We're like, whoa, it's it does something to
our brain. We're like, well, that was cool. I didn't
expect that, because we're always trying.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
To expect something.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And then, to your point, being on the flip side
of it, the team that gets upset, I think there
is a little bit like it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Don't get me wrong, it hurts. It hurts. Yeah, it's awful.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
But at the same time, there's a part of me
that goes, well, I mean, all right, that was kind
of cool.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Though, like they did it.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They did it, that's right. Yes, what I respect them.
Could we have done Yes? I respect them. And you
understand the magnitude of the moment and how it played out,
and I think there is something to be said about that.
And I'm going very philosophical here also because as much
as I say, you know, it's in our DNA, that's
who we are as a country. We were that underdog.
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We were a group of and essence, farmers that just
came together and said we don't want you know, taxation
without representation. Sure you know that was ultimately what it
boiled down to, and having states rights, you know all
of that. But I wonder what was it like before
America was founded. From a global perspective, did we have
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this underdog mentality as far as we like seeing the underdogs? Now,
maybe you could go back to Biblical times and it's
David versus Goliath.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So people knew that story.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So is it something that we've always had in us
or is it just, you know, been accentuated for Americans
because of seventeen seventy.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Six, right, two parter, Like, I feel like it probably
is accentuated for Americans because of seventeen seventy six. Yeah,
but I don't think that's unique to Americans, And I
don't think it's I think it's uniquely human. I mean,
you have uprisings, So can you go throughout all of history,
We've always had uprisings, the underdogs that have come back
from David and Goliath. You had it in Egypt, you
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had those slaves, You have all kinds of up there.
You even saw it in Japan with the Ninjas. The
Ninjas they're farmers, that's all they were, the literally farmers
using farm tools. Like it's all throughout history of humankind.
It's just what we do. Yeah, as we settle down
as a society.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And because there's something to be said about as humans
and it's an irony that we have and we have
to fight it at times. We want to control things,
but we don't want to be controlled.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Is that not the ultimate We want to make controls.
We want to be controlled, but we don't top dog. Yes,
of course. And it dovetails right into sports.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It's the same thing. Yeah, competition.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It is competition, and we want to like we're seeing
all with the nil and the transfer portal and you
know and all of that, and even fans, the fans
are wanting to be able to control how things are
done right in college athletics, and you don't.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You don't have that. I'm sorry you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You're gonna have to cheer for your team however they
come out there and cheer. That's if you want to
be a fan of that particular team.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Now you have the choice, you have the right, Hey
I'm done with that team, or.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'm you know, for you know, I'm standing on my
values here and my principles that you know, I don't
believe in that, So I will choose to cheer on
somebody else or not cheer at all. Whatever it might be,
but we want that control, right, and we can't have
it always.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, And there's no better testament than than to that
as a fan than like an organization like the Cleveland Browns,
Like if you're if you're Cleveland Browns fan, you are
built different because that organization, there is no way you
can like, you can't control that outcome. You you want
to talk about and we'll have sorry to promo this,
will have it later.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But yes, Brian Kite talked about that. You know what
is an E plus R equals O.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes, plus response equals outcome And the only thing that
you control is your response.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Right, Browns fan or.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Any any type of dysfunctional even even the Panthers as
they've been run here the past couple of years, being
a fan of those types of organization with the dysfunct
even a Cowboys fan, you understand how Jerry Jones is.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You can't control Jerry.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Jones control it exactly. All you can control is your
reaction to it. And you're still a fan.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's right, and so, and that's why I'm amazed in
all reality that some of these fan bases they keep
coming back, Yeah, they keep coming back. So I think
that goes back to just who we are as humans.
Is that as much as we can talk about, you know,
society has its issues, and society has had issues every
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single year of its existence. That's just the reality of it.
Because we're humans, We're imperfect and all of that. But
deep in our core, even the most negative situations, negative people,
the negative mindsets, black cloud mentality, whatever. Because we see
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it in sports, there's fans that still have just that
little bit of hope.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
This might be the year. Oh, this might be.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The game, this might be the play, whatever it is.
There's just holding out that this is going to be
their opportunity where they can climb to that mountaintop as
a fan and watch and celebrate their team.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think you have to.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You did it, and not just not just from a
sports perspective, just in general.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You know, that's kind of what keeps you. That's that's
as much as you want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Humans and whatever they do, and you know, we fight
and we do all this kind of stuff, and that's great,
but there's a there's a positive side to it too,
that's right. We want hope, we want to believe in something.
Whether you want to admit.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
It or not.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Whether you're you know, you talk about the coffee bee mentality,
whether you go the egg or the carrot and you're hard,
there's still a part of you. There's a kernel in
there somewhere. And I believe everybody that they want to
cling to that hope that they do things can get better.
Whether it's my team, this is the play, this is
the game, this is the year, this is the season.
Whatever it is in life, this is the job, it's
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the opportunity, it doesn't matter, it's all the same.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It is all the same.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's why I love sports because it replicates life and
is something that we can use as an allergy analogy
for life, and that's through sports. And to your point,
that's why I'm excited to have Brian Kite, author of
Daily Discipline dot.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Com on once again.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We're having him on each week, so we'll have him
an hour two talking about that equation E plus R
equals O and that hope and how that response is
tied to hope and you can't continue just to blame
the event. You know, if things aren't going a certain way,
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you have to start looking in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And the difficult thing is that it's not always easy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That's the problem, or everybody would be doing it, I know,
but that's why. But if we could get into that
type of mindset, and that's why I wanted to have
him on so we could start and maybe I don't
know if the promote is the right word, but just
getting the word out oh yeah there. And I know
there's a lot of resources out there now and because
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of what we have with social media, what we have
with instant communication, so it's much easier now to be
able to get that type of information out there.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
But there's also negative sides to social media.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We do know that there's some negative sides as well,
and we're starting to see some big time individuals move
away from social media. And as we know, there's good
and bad with everything. And we come back, we'll tell
you about Max Homa and his thoughts on social media
and why he decided to do a purge social media
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PGA Tour star Max Homa. We'll talk about that coming
up in the next segment as we continue this Thursday
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We do appreciate it.
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And again this extra coverage here of the Richmond Weaver Show,
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nine Fox Sports Upstate. Mister Trey Falco behind the board
and behind the mic. As always, as we're talking about
July fourth, one thing that we didn't talk about is
just kind of the traditions on July fourth. I mean,
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we did, you know with the firefireworks, but obviously the
other one is the hot dog eating contest.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's as American as a right. We are a glutton
for punishment. I don't understand it. I would have to
say that it's not something that I watch. I just
don't don't. I don't have any enjoyment in watching that. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Hearing what the final figures are, I mean, that's mind boggling,
and say that's crazy, but it's not good TV viewing
for me.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I just don't find it very appealing. Your thoughts. You
don't like guys, shoveling food in their mouths. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I think two years ago it's probably the first time
I actually sat down and watched it because I was
hanging out with my dad over at his house and
we just happened to turn it on and I was like.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I've never watched this. I've heard the figures.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You know, coming out with the stats and it's like
Joey chestingnut eight sixty hot dogs in ten minutes or
whatever the crazy stat is, but I've never sat down
and watched it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And to your point, yeah, I mean it's kind of gross.
It's it is. It's I mean, dogs in the water
and water. Yeah, I mean, it's not idea. I don't know.
I know it blows my mind how they do it,
but still I really don't understand.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And there's part of me also is that, you know,
I think, especially when we're looking at some of these
sports and if they're tinkering around with some of the rule.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, rule changing, and you're like, oh, no, that's gimmicky.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's not you know, how baseball is or that's not
how football is, golf, whatever it is, and I look
at it also, I'm like, well, that's not how you
normally eat.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You know, so you're not going to dip your food
in water. Let me say you eat it without the water.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let me say, eat it like you normally would sit
down and eat. Now, you can still try to eat
as fast as you want to. I mean that's part
of it. You're you're trying to eat as many as
you can and a certain amount of time. But I
mean that's not how we normally eat.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So it's not I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And again that definitely sounds like old man, get off
my lawn. Or you can easily tell I do not
have any interest in watching that. I just don't think
it's entertaining TV.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That's fair. Yeah, it's it's kind of gross. It is,
but that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I can just turn it off, right exactly, you I
don't have to watch it, right, I do not have
to watch it. And there's also a thing about social media.
And again we've talked about social media before and the
good and the bad, and there's definitely good. I mean
I use X because I can catch breaking news. Yes,
I can catch you know, people that I trust that
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I follow and the content that they put out. In
a lot of the stuff that I see on X
it's potentially stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We can talk about here on the show.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It sparks conversation, It sparks I wouldn't say debate, but
an opportunity to have discussions about certain topics, and obviously
then we can get into some of our own personal opinions.
And especially as we're getting ready for college football to
start with media days starting next week. And I know
I've talked about that. It was the SEC was going
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to be the first one, starting on July fourteenth, because
when I first initially looked, I saw the Big Twelve
and I thought I read July eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, but they actually.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Start July eighth, So that is next Tuesday that the
Big Twelve has their media days there. And so yes,
it is right around the corners back. Oh basically, I
mean we've got like thirty less than thirty days before
camp starts for going back, and I say camp, Now
it's typically a term you use for NFL, but camp,
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I mean it's the same thing now for college football.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I mean that's why they talk about it.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Is that, hey, camp starts instead of fall practice now
it's camp. And so we're right on the cusp of that.
But with social media, there is an opportunity where you
can connect with people. But the negative side to that
is just the hatred that is out there on social
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media because it is anonymous and it's you know, you're
not talking to the person face to face, you know,
et cetera, all of that, and so when you go
on social media, you have to be prepared that that
could happen. Oh yeah, you could get that type of
things that you're posting on there.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Not everybody's gonna like it, right, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And that's why I know there's certain things we talk
about on the show here and that sometimes people are
not going to want to hear about that or listen
to that, so they'll turn the station right or they'll
turn the podcast off or fast forward whatever it is.
I totally understand that, but that doesn't mean you have
to start telling the person how horrible they are or
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you know, anything of that nature and judging in such
a negative way. And one of the guys that I
did enjoy following on social media because it was a
way to connect and learned a little bit more about
the person was Max Homa, Yeah PGA tour star, and
because he was funny, you know, he's got a sense
of humor. And there was times where he would ask
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people amateurs to send in a video of them, you know,
with their golf swing.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, and he would analyze it. That's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, but it turned into then he started making you know,
he was it was a funny bit, yes exactly, which
was great and people loved it and it was and
he was doing it out of humor. He wasn't trying
to disparage the person. It was just more out of humor.
And so but then he would also share a lot
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of stuff behind the scenes and what it's like being
on PGA tour and talking about you know, some of
the things that he.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Was going through during a tournament. Stuff you don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And I know Michael Kim also does a really good
job with his diaries that he puts out there, and
so I enjoyed that. But then now Max Homey's gone,
He's not on x anymore. I was like, well, where
Max go? Yeah, Well we just heard where Max went
based on recent events in social media, and here's Max
Homer telling why he's not on social media anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Years.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Oh no, the reason for that was just the the
vitriol you read online. It has become a safe haven
for people who are I think, angry themselves. It is
quite absurd what people how comfortable people feel writing awful things.
(25:17):
I step away a lot also from Instagram, but I
feel like that's been a bit less crazy, although it's
still not great, so I take my breaks from that.
But yeah, I just if you wouldn't choose to like
sit around the table with somebody who's being that mean.
I don't know, you would always get up. If you
were right there and someone was being rude to you,
(25:41):
you'd either ask them to leave or you would leave.
So yeah, Twitter or X or whatever is just because
it is an awful, awful place. It took me a
while to catch on to how impactful that can be
and how much of a waste of energy. But I
missed the connection with the fans. But nothing comes without
I mean, just so much like hate and anger. There's
(26:01):
a lot of love in there too, but unfortunately it
really does get overwhelmed with the you have one really
bad one. But I don't know if it's a gambling
world or whatnot. I'm happy they can do it because
it seems, you know, fun as hell in golf, but
I mean, you get people, people say some bad, bad things.
You get people telling you should die on the internet.
So it has nothing to do with not connecting. I'd
(26:23):
love to keep connecting with people, but I try to
do it in person a bit more because I have
yet to meet somebody in person who has said anything
even remotely mean.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So, yeah, that's Max Homer right there, and the key
words that I heard a awful place and the vicheryol oh.
And the other side of it too is that he
misses being able to connect with some of the fans, right,
And I think that's the beauty of what social media
can be. It is an opportunity to connect. And but
this goes back to again just humans. We can mess
(26:52):
some things up. Yeah, I don't know what it is,
but we can do it.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I mean, it is crazy how many things that are
somewhat developed or come into existence and the thought is
that this is a way, hey, we can connect. And
even like when Facebook first started, it was now and
again I know maybe it was a little bit of
a different motive as far as you know, they were
wanting to be able to connect with female students there,
(27:21):
you know, the co eds. Uh, they're on campus, but
we have to be careful of the negative side of things.
And just hearing what Max is talking about, you know
that you have these people that have so much hatred
and they don't even know the person other than just
what they see on social media, and just how would.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
They feel if the roles were reversed?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You know, I promise you right, And I can't speak
for those people, but there's it would be highly unlikely
that they would say, oh, yeah, I love that, keep
doing that, right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I know a lot of that circles back to and
this is something that I feel like we've talked about
on this show here a little bit like here and there.
But I look at athletes, and especially you look at
something like maybe the NBA or the NFL. I get
that they make a lot of money, but what people
forget or it feels like people fail to realize they're human.
(28:22):
But there's this idea it's like, oh, well, we got
to be mean to them because they can they're they
should be able to take it because they make a
hundred million a year. I get that, Like, great, they're
making a hundred million a year, but still they're human beings. Yes, okay,
still extend respect.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Respect respect another human being. Right, because you could be.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Mad they didn't play, that's fine. But when you start
attacking them in death threats and stuff because oh, well,
they get paid one hundred million dollars, they should just
be out there regardless.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, I'm sorry, because everybody is somebody's son, somebody's daughter,
somebody's brother, somebody's sister, somebody's dad, somebody's mom, yes, aunt, uncle,
all of those things. And we all have those type
of people in our lives, you know, so just try
to view them in the same way. And you don't
have to try to break people down in this world
(29:08):
because ultimately, wouldn't the world be a better place if
we tried to lift everybody up? And I know that's
not so, I know that's not necessarily possible, right, but
we can try. I mean, I just continuing to bring
people down. And this is a we'll have to talk
about this another time, because I do like where you're
(29:29):
going with one hundred million dollars, so they better do
it a certain way.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And so, yes, I've I paid. These NBA players are.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Making like SGA is making seventy almost seventy two million
dollars per year. Then when I pay my eighty dollars
to go to a game, Yes, I can heckle the
hell out of him, right, and I can talk smack
to him because he's making so much money and he's
(30:00):
has to suck it up.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, and so again.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What's where's the marker as far as when is it
acceptable in terms of how much money do they have
to make? It?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah? If they make one hundred thousand is acceptable? Is
it makes one hundred bucks? If they make a thousand, Yeah,
that's there's there's something about it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's about I'm pissed off that they're making that much
money and I don't have that much money, So that
gives me the right. But it doesn't, No, it doesn't.
It doesn't give them the right whatsoever. So yes, again,
going a little bit philosophical on this first hour here
on this Thursday edition. Maybe it's because I'm all emotional
will cause this July fourth. I don't know what it is,
(30:40):
but it is something that I do feel that, you know,
it needs to be talked about. And Max home is
now he's addressing some of those things. And I think
the more that we start seeing, maybe there's an opportunity
and again. That's why we can have Brian Kite, author
of Daily Discipline dot Com, coming up in the second
(31:01):
hour to talk about some of those things and how
these guys deal with this because it's E plus R
equals oh so need to learn that equation, event plus
response equals outcome. All right, when we come back on
this Thursday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show presented by
Ingles Markets, I'm going to take a look at something
the Big Twelve is doing next week at their media
(31:25):
days for football or is it something that they're not
doing much more? Right after this, it is July third,
and this is the last segment of Hour one of
the Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets. Getting ready
for Hour two and knowing that we're heading into July
fourth weekend the excitement that is happening. There's also excitement
(31:49):
that next week the Big Twelve will be having their
football media days. And that's a two weeks earlier than
I thought originally, because I thought I thought I read
it was July eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
But it's actually July eighth.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
And then we know starting on Monday July fourteenth, that
will be the SEC will have their football media days.
Down in Atlanta, and I will be going down there.
I got my media credential, yep, so we'll right now.
I think everything's set up to broadcast live from down there.
Shane Beemer is going to be there on the first day. Obviously,
(32:23):
South Carolina is going to be represented there. LSU is
also going to be represented on the first day. So
I'm definitely want to be there for South Carolina. And
here Shane Beemer's thoughts and a couple of the players
that are going to be in attendance getting ready for
fall camp, so to speak, and to start in August,
and then obviously get ready for their upcoming season because
South Carolina they've got They've got a lot of momentum. Yeah,
(32:48):
a lot of momentum going on right now. So this
will be an interesting season for South Carolina, not only
because of the momentum that they have and Lenora Sellers
there at quarterback, right and this is another year under
Shane Beemer and building the foundation, but this is also
(33:10):
when it starts to change for some of these programs
because now the pressure is a little bit different because
you're not that little low underdoll right now, you are
to a certain degree.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
For South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But I think they started having enough success and because
they've got that all important position fulfilled at quarterback with
the Leonora Sellers, or at least we think so. Yeah,
after what we saw first year, he seems like the
guy that can take that team to a different level.
And that's where the pressure gets a little bit different,
(33:42):
because now the expectations are higher, and so yeah, now
you start having that target being shifted a little bit.
Now it starts be coming on your back, yep, And
that's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So I'm anxious to see how they respond this year.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah, It's it's such an it feels like such an
awkward position. And that's where you really figure out, like
from a program perspective, from a head coach perspective, from
a team perspective, the great teams from those that are
just pretty good, you know, the great teams, they take
that weird awkward phase where there's not a whole lot
of pressure, but there's still a lot of pressure. Like
(34:18):
it's this weird in between phase because what have they done?
And then the expectations that what are they going to do?
And you find some teams even that just that little
bit of pressure and it's still a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
They'll fold under it.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
But the great teams, the great coaches, the great organizations,
they're the ones that rise through that. They accept that pressure,
they get that target on the back and they go, Okay,
I'm not changing anything. I'm gonna keep going and I'm
gonna be better.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
All right. I got to stand up on this one, okay,
because why do you think I get so frustrated with
Oklahoma State or Texas At year It's like every year, yeah,
my gosh, you come.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Right to the edge your breakthrough moment. Yeah there and
then yeah done. Yeah, and it's consistent year after year.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Now, maybe Mike Elko at Texas A and m maybe
he's that guy that can move them out of that dysfunction.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Should be because I.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Didn't think that Jimbo Fisher was going to be that
guy and proved to be that way.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I mean, I like a lot of the things that
I see and hear from Mike Gundy, but there's still
just something that's missing with the Oklahoma State. And I'm
not saying that it's Mike gundhy problem. I'm just saying,
for whatever reason, there's just something about the foundation that
has a little bit of whatever, a weak spot, right,
(35:41):
whatever it is that they can't withstand that moment to
your point that this is when they're going to bust through. Yes,
the door is cracked. All they gotta do is kick
in the door and go. And they don't do it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
The door slams in their face, right, And it's it's
a lot of times it feels like it's something intangible.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
We don't just see it. You see college football, you
see it in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
How many times we talk about these teams that are
always there on the cusp, and that's something you look at,
like the Ravens, Oh Lamar Jackson, something about the Ravens.
They always get there, but all in the AFC Championship,
the biggest game, they don't. And it's not there's nothing
that you could put on it as far as tangible.
You can't just go and be like, oh, well if
he did this. It's it's always like a medley of things. Yes,
(36:25):
a lot of it go back to Brian Kite. He
doesn't like mental but behavioral, Oh, you could say behavior
that's right. It's an issue there that for some reason
they're not they're not fully committed.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I don't know what it is, yeah, because the mind
starts taking.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Over and it affects your behaviors exactly one. And that's
what whether you realize it or not, whether you realize
it or not exactly. And so that's why I do
get frustrated with some of those teams that they're oh
so close, and I know their fan base has got
to be so frustrated as well. And I've lived through
some of that with Clemson. Clemson is that way for
(36:58):
many many and even through the Tommy Bowden error, it
was oh so close, we would you know, and then
you know have the like drop yes clemsoning.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Gosh, how many times did we hear that?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
And Dabosweeney was finally able to overcome that stigma. And
I think that Shane Biemer can be that guy that
South Carolina as well.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
But part of it too is that you have to
go through it and you have to prove it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You do yes, and you have to go through it.
You have to go through it. You can't be anointed
you you have to earn it. And again, I know
we talk about the NFL the ultimate meritocracy, but it's
sports in general, right, It's the ultimate meritocracy.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
You have to go earn it on your merits.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah. And I think you know, part of what sets
those great teams apart now that I think about it,
is I think they just get really comfortable with being uncomfortable,
because that's the phase, that phase right there where it's awkward,
it's weird, there's a little bit of pressure, but you're
also there's not a whole lot of high expectations. It's uncomfortable, yeah,
and so you have to be really comfortable with that.
(38:00):
You have to be okay with that and accept it
and embrace it and then push through it and push
through it all right.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Something that might be uncomfortable for some of the media
people that are covering the Big Twelve is something that
the Big Twelve has implemented, or I should say unimplemented
in this situation. So next week is their media days
for Football art in July eighth, and the Big Twelve
has come out and said that we're not doing a
(38:26):
preseason media poll, so there will be no voting for
preseason in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
By the media.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And so this is the first conference that's done this
because that's one of the things that we I mean,
are like looking for is every year?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Okay, what's the media say? You know, how do they vote?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Which team's going to be predicted to win the conference,
which team's going to be predicted to be last?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
And then it's the coaches, you know, how do they vote?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
And is there any similarities or differences between what the
media thinks versus what the coaches think? And so this
is interesting because does it really mean anything?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I mean, how much.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Value do we put on it other than just something
to talk about?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
But there's so many now different entities that are putting
out their own content as far as rankings, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
And now I don't know, maybe we are just going.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
To go to straight EA Sports and EA College Football
twenty six whatever the ratings are rankings there, that's who
we're going with.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It might be that way, you know, I could see that,
and I think I feel like it was.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
We've had a call or call in before talking about
the because we've talked about the the AP rankings and
things like that, like the press rankings coming out like
the pre release, and I think somebody they mentioned that
they like it because it helps them gauge is this
a good team? And I can see that, but I
also have to wonder, like, could there be a better way?
You know, we keep talking about innovating, and you know,
(39:59):
things change, and traditionally that's what it's been in the
media votes and that's how we figure things out. But
is there some other better way we could go into
the season and figure out or why don't we just
start them all neutral and then go from there from
an eyeball test you talk about We do it every
year with our weekly picks. You know, you could draw
what is it? You make observations, but you can't make conclusions.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
That's right, Yes, not up to the first week. Yeah,
And I think that's where we get caught up. In July,
we're going to be able to tell who's going to
be right the number one team in a particular conference,
or who's going to be in last place, or more importantly,
who's going to finish eighth.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
I mean, we have no idea. We have no idea.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
We can tell a little bit who's going to be
the top three, who's going to be the bottom three?
Sure that that happens each and every year NFL. We
don't see this in the NFL we don't. Nobody's ranking
oh in the NFC East. I mean, now, yes we will,
but not in a formal way exactly this, And I
think the NFL has survived without it, and we.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Can look at the NFL that's a good team.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
You.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yes, you can.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You can do that in college football too, thank you.
You can definitely do that in college football.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
All right.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
We'll see how that plays out for the Big Twelve
next weekend. Will other conferences follow suit? Because as much
as we say the NFL is copycat league, I promise
you in college athletics we're going to see a lot
of copycatting as well.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
That is our one of the Richmond Weaver Show presented
by Ingles Markets. Coming up our two here on this
Thursday edition.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
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And this is July the third, and we're excited, not
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First hour just available through the podcast version and Trey
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then also we'll go live at three pm as we
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been able to have two hours of content. Now we'll
be off tomorrow for July fourth, get to celebrate America's
birth independence, all of that the greatest upset in history.
I'm still going to contend that it is, and so
we'll talk about that. And I'm excited for the opportunity
(01:38):
of celebrating July fourth. And it's almost even better that
it falls on a Friday. You couldn't ask for a
better day, right, I mean, this is a great opportunity
to just go ahead and celebrate America on Friday. Head
into the weekend and just know that you still have
time to get to your local Engles and make sure
you get all of your supplies that you need for
(02:00):
July fourth, whether it's ground beef, it's steaks, it's really
whatever it is, Uh, your side, salads, potato salad, egg salad,
just your sandwich platters, all of those things at Ingles.
And because I know I can see the skill already
right now reading for some smoking this weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I'm so excited. But actually what I was going to
say is, and I can't speak for every single Angles,
but my local Angles they're Highway eighty one and Anderson
has a fireworks stand out front, so you can get
fireworks at Angles too.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You go, so you can literally get everything you want
for Fourth of.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
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Make sure you check out your local Angles as we
are getting ready to celebrate July fourth. And So I
do have a question because that's a that's a good segue, right,
because I wanted to talk about July fourth, and I
don't want to bore people with all the history, but
I do think it is the greatest upset in history.
It is, and especially this is one of the things
(02:54):
we love about sports is upsets and having that opportunity
of seeing David versus Goliath in this Cinderella stories, all
of that, and there's no question. Back in seventeen seventy six, America,
the United States of America, thirteen colonies, they were the Cinderella.
Yeah somehow, little America, oh yeah, little old America. They
were able to put on that glass slipper and gain
(03:17):
their independence from Great in Britain again, who at the
time was the biggest power in the world. Yeah at
that time, I mean, you absolutely insane. So we'll talk
about that. But I do have a question about fireworks, yea,
because that is obviously a huge part of July fourth
and how we celebrate and just the excitement with the
(03:38):
fire fireworks, you know, once it gets dark all that,
and now people aren't even waiting until it gets dark,
wait the fourth.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And they don't stop on the fourth either. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I would have to say, I mean, I understand
the fireworks because when they first were introduced, blowing like
what was that? That's amazing, But now it's am I
old man, get off my lawn. If I'm the one
who's feeling that, all right, it's outdated. Uh, it's it's
(04:15):
annoying with all of the fireworks. It's too much. Hey,
it's almost like they've crossed the line right and made
it so big and so much and it just continues
because there is as much as I was almost ingest
saying that people continue shooting fireworks.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
After July fourth, that's reality. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And I know there's a lot of people, especially with
pet owners, that yes, you're raising your land there. Yes,
we have two dogs at our house that I inherited
through my wife Julianne, and one of them, oh it's over.
Oh yeah, just even a little bit of thunder and
he goes crazy. And so with the fireworks even more so.
(04:59):
And that's the problem too, is that the fireworks are
going off until one am, two am, and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We got it, we get it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, you celebrated, all right, now go to bed,
do something or just you don't have to go to bed.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Just stop shooting the fireworks at two am, right.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Thank you. If you're old man, get off my lawn.
I don't know what that makes me because I'm not
a big fan of it either. Like it's and I'm
much older than you, so like when I was younger,
like obviously it's like, oh, cool fireworks. You know, when
I was in high school, you'd play with fireworks. It's
just kind of what you do. At least that's what
we did. And so like from that perspective, I get it,
and I enjoy a good fireworks show, but it's it's
(05:35):
the obnoxious, like all right, literally, yes, around where I live.
Sometimes they'll start, Okay, July fourth's coming up on Friday.
They'll start Monday and do it every night Monday, and
I'm like, okay, we don't need a week long or
like you can celebrate in other ways.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But yeah, my dogs hate it. Hate it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And to your point talking about it being outdated, dude,
have you seen some of the drone shows that these like,
I've seen them where they flyp a bunch of drones
and sink them with lights stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So much cooler than fireworks, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Probably not as loud, Oh it's yes.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And take advantage of technology, yes, thank you got the advancement.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
We don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And and again you definitely, if you're listening, you're like,
oh gosh, here comes parent weaver coming out.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Because it's the safety side of it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Also, dude, Yes, now with you, there more and more
stories of people blowing their fingers off or worse. I mean,
it's crazy that we're so enamored by explosives in her hand.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yes, and again that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I I do understand that there's a novelty to it,
and where my novelty is more inclined where I gravitate more.
Is what you said, a professional fireworks show, right, so
much cooler? Yes, where I mean. And they some of
these stadiums, some of these arenas.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Wor Field over here.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, they put on a hell of a hell of
a show, and they've got a professional company that comes in.
You know, they've got all of the safety measures and
it's pretty much a timed event, right that Hey, we'll
do it for ten minutes and we're done.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's done it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, and that's it, and then you go home and
you're happy and you got to celebrate. You got to
see the explosions, and you got to see all of
the wonders you know, there in the sky, and.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Then that's it. That's over. Yeah, it's okay. I'm good
with that. It's nice.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And why do we have to keep But that's I
think that's part of society that oh we got to
keep going, We got to keep going. And that's still
again we can go off on a completely different tangent
that nothing good happens after midnight, I promise you, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, that's another thing.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Maybe as a young guy like you, you need to
listen to that type of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know, nothing good happens after midnight.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We've seen too many stories, all right, So I digress
about the fireworks, But it is something that July fourth
is special.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
It is special to me because I'm a history guy.
So I love all of that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And just looking at some of the people out there
that have at least started talking about it in a.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Fun, loving way.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And some of the memes you're seeing you know about, Yes,
they are George Washington, you know, and you know any
sayings that he might have to Great Britain tomorrow, and
you know all those type of memes that are happening
out there. And I saw Trey Wingo, formerly of ESPN,
and he had a post on X and it was
talking about the upset of the century back then, upset,
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you know, the biggest upset in history, and said tomorrow
we get to celebrate Great Britain blowing a thirteen colony
lead Tyres Haliburt.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But what his face photoshopped on it? Yes, perfect, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So I do love all of that, but I do
go back to that concept of the upsets.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh yeah, and Cinderella's and I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Do try to figure out why do we love them
so much? I mean, what is it about a Cinderella
story that we love as sports fans? Now, you obviously
don't love it if your team is the one who
gets upset, of course, yeah, right, there is that, But
there's also a little bit of a even if your
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team does, it's almost like, yeah, I mean, you're a
part of history or something, and there's there's something about
that that it doesn't feel as bad that if you
get upset and something that is so outrageous that you
never thought would happen.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I think part of it is the fact that you
just never thought it would happen. I think that's why
we like it so much because we always, like, I
feel like, as human beings, we try to figure out
the outcome, right, Like that's and we want to control
the outcome.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And so that's part of it. And so when we
go into something and we're looking at it and we're like.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh, man, nah, there's no way O the Pacers are
gonna you know the okay, see, you know, there's no
way they're gonna beat them on the road.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And then they come out and they do it game one.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, or they're down by fifteen yeah, exactly minutes to go,
and they come back and win.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It's insane. We're like, whoa, it's it does something to
our brain. We're like, well, that was cool. I didn't
expect that, because we're always trying.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
To expect something.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And then, to your point, being on the flip side
of it, the team that gets upset, I think there
is a little bit like it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Don't get me wrong, it hurts. It hurts. Yeah, it's awful.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
But at the same time, there's a part of me
that goes, well, I mean, all right, that was kind
of cool.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Though, like they did it.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They did it, that's right. Yes, what I respect them.
Could we have done Yes? I respect them. And you
understand the magnitude of the moment and how it played out,
and I think there is something to be said about that.
And I'm going very philosophical here also because as much
as I say, you know, it's in our DNA, that's
who we are as a country. We were that underdog.
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We were a group of and essence, farmers that just
came together and said we don't want you know, taxation
without representation. Sure you know that was ultimately what it
boiled down to, and having states rights, you know all
of that. But I wonder what was it like before
America was founded. From a global perspective, did we have
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this underdog mentality as far as we like seeing the underdogs? Now,
maybe you could go back to Biblical times and it's
David versus Goliath.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So people knew that story.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So is it something that we've always had in us
or is it just, you know, been accentuated for Americans
because of seventeen seventy.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Six, right, two parter, Like, I feel like it probably
is accentuated for Americans because of seventeen seventy six. Yeah,
but I don't think that's unique to Americans, And I
don't think it's I think it's uniquely human. I mean,
you have uprisings, So can you go throughout all of history,
We've always had uprisings, the underdogs that have come back
from David and Goliath. You had it in Egypt, you
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had those slaves, You have all kinds of up there.
You even saw it in Japan with the Ninjas. The
Ninjas they're farmers, that's all they were, the literally farmers
using farm tools. Like it's all throughout history of humankind.
It's just what we do. Yeah, as we settle down
as a society.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And because there's something to be said about as humans
and it's an irony that we have and we have
to fight it at times. We want to control things,
but we don't want to be controlled.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Is that not the ultimate We want to make controls.
We want to be controlled, but we don't top dog. Yes,
of course. And it dovetails right into sports.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It's the same thing. Yeah, competition.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It is competition, and we want to like we're seeing
all with the nil and the transfer portal and you
know and all of that, and even fans, the fans
are wanting to be able to control how things are
done right in college athletics, and you don't.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You don't have that. I'm sorry you don't.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You're gonna have to cheer for your team however they
come out there and cheer. That's if you want to
be a fan of that particular team.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Now you have the choice, you have the right, Hey
I'm done with that team, or.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'm you know, for you know, I'm standing on my
values here and my principles that you know, I don't
believe in that, So I will choose to cheer on
somebody else or not cheer at all. Whatever it might be,
but we want that control, right, and we can't have
it always.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, And there's no better testament than than to that
as a fan than like an organization like the Cleveland Browns,
Like if you're if you're Cleveland Browns fan, you are
built different because that organization, there is no way you
can like, you can't control that outcome. You you want
to talk about and we'll have sorry to promo this,
will have it later.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But yes, Brian Kite talked about that. You know what
is an E plus R equals O.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes, plus response equals outcome And the only thing that
you control is your response.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Right, Browns fan or.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Any any type of dysfunctional even even the Panthers as
they've been run here the past couple of years, being
a fan of those types of organization with the dysfunct
even a Cowboys fan, you understand how Jerry Jones is.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You can't control Jerry.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Jones control it exactly. All you can control is your
reaction to it. And you're still a fan.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's right, and so, and that's why I'm amazed in
all reality that some of these fan bases they keep
coming back, Yeah, they keep coming back. So I think
that goes back to just who we are as humans.
Is that as much as we can talk about, you know,
society has its issues, and society has had issues every
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single year of its existence. That's just the reality of it.
Because we're humans, We're imperfect and all of that. But
deep in our core, even the most negative situations, negative people,
the negative mindsets, black cloud mentality, whatever. Because we see
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it in sports, there's fans that still have just that
little bit of hope.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
This might be the year. Oh, this might be.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The game, this might be the play, whatever it is.
There's just holding out that this is going to be
their opportunity where they can climb to that mountaintop as
a fan and watch and celebrate their team.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think you have to.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You did it, and not just not just from a
sports perspective, just in general.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You know, that's kind of what keeps you. That's that's
as much as you want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Humans and whatever they do, and you know, we fight
and we do all this kind of stuff, and that's great,
but there's a there's a positive side to it too,
that's right. We want hope, we want to believe in something.
Whether you want to admit.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
It or not.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Whether you're you know, you talk about the coffee bee mentality,
whether you go the egg or the carrot and you're hard,
there's still a part of you. There's a kernel in
there somewhere. And I believe everybody that they want to
cling to that hope that they do things can get better.
Whether it's my team, this is the play, this is
the game, this is the year, this is the season.
Whatever it is in life, this is the job, it's
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the opportunity, it doesn't matter, it's all the same.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It is all the same.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's why I love sports because it replicates life and
is something that we can use as an allergy analogy
for life, and that's through sports. And to your point,
that's why I'm excited to have Brian Kite, author of
Daily Discipline dot.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Com on once again.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We're having him on each week, so we'll have him
an hour two talking about that equation E plus R
equals O and that hope and how that response is
tied to hope and you can't continue just to blame
the event. You know, if things aren't going a certain way,
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you have to start looking in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And the difficult thing is that it's not always easy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That's the problem, or everybody would be doing it, I know,
but that's why. But if we could get into that
type of mindset, and that's why I wanted to have
him on so we could start and maybe I don't
know if the promote is the right word, but just
getting the word out oh yeah there. And I know
there's a lot of resources out there now and because
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of what we have with social media, what we have
with instant communication, so it's much easier now to be
able to get that type of information out there.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
But there's also negative sides to social media.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We do know that there's some negative sides as well,
and we're starting to see some big time individuals move
away from social media. And as we know, there's good
and bad with everything. And we come back, we'll tell
you about Max Homa and his thoughts on social media
and why he decided to do a purge social media
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PGA Tour star Max Homa. We'll talk about that coming
up in the next segment as we continue this Thursday
edition of The Richmond Weaver Show presented by Engles Markets.
Right after this our one of The Richmond Weavers Show
presented by Ingles Markets continues, and we appreciate that you're
listening in either way through your iHeartRadio app to the
(18:09):
podcast version right now, or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
We do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And again this extra coverage here of the Richmond Weaver Show,
and you can catch us live each day each weekday,
that is, starting at three pm on one of four
nine Fox Sports Upstate. Mister Trey Falco behind the board
and behind the mic. As always, as we're talking about
July fourth, one thing that we didn't talk about is
just kind of the traditions on July fourth. I mean,
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we did, you know with the firefireworks, but obviously the
other one is the hot dog eating contest.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's as American as a right. We are a glutton
for punishment. I don't understand it. I would have to
say that it's not something that I watch. I just
don't don't. I don't have any enjoyment in watching that. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Hearing what the final figures are, I mean, that's mind boggling,
and say that's crazy, but it's not good TV viewing
for me.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I just don't find it very appealing. Your thoughts. You
don't like guys, shoveling food in their mouths. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I think two years ago it's probably the first time
I actually sat down and watched it because I was
hanging out with my dad over at his house and
we just happened to turn it on and I was like.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I've never watched this. I've heard the figures.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You know, coming out with the stats and it's like
Joey chestingnut eight sixty hot dogs in ten minutes or
whatever the crazy stat is, but I've never sat down
and watched it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
And to your point, yeah, I mean it's kind of gross.
It's it is. It's I mean, dogs in the water
and water. Yeah, I mean, it's not idea. I don't know.
I know it blows my mind how they do it,
but still I really don't understand.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And there's part of me also is that, you know,
I think, especially when we're looking at some of these
sports and if they're tinkering around with some of the rule.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, rule changing, and you're like, oh, no, that's gimmicky.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's not you know, how baseball is or that's not
how football is, golf, whatever it is, and I look
at it also, I'm like, well, that's not how you
normally eat.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You know, so you're not going to dip your food
in water. Let me say you eat it without the water.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Let me say, eat it like you normally would sit
down and eat. Now, you can still try to eat
as fast as you want to. I mean that's part
of it. You're you're trying to eat as many as
you can and a certain amount of time. But I
mean that's not how we normally eat.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So it's not I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And again that definitely sounds like old man, get off
my lawn. Or you can easily tell I do not
have any interest in watching that. I just don't think
it's entertaining TV.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That's fair. Yeah, it's it's kind of gross. It is,
but that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I can just turn it off, right exactly, you I
don't have to watch it, right, I do not have
to watch it. And there's also a thing about social media.
And again we've talked about social media before and the
good and the bad, and there's definitely good. I mean
I use X because I can catch breaking news. Yes,
I can catch you know, people that I trust that
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I follow and the content that they put out. In
a lot of the stuff that I see on X
it's potentially stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
We can talk about here on the show.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It sparks conversation, It sparks I wouldn't say debate, but
an opportunity to have discussions about certain topics, and obviously
then we can get into some of our own personal opinions.
And especially as we're getting ready for college football to
start with media days starting next week. And I know
I've talked about that. It was the SEC was going
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to be the first one, starting on July fourteenth, because
when I first initially looked, I saw the Big Twelve
and I thought I read July eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, but they actually.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Start July eighth, So that is next Tuesday that the
Big Twelve has their media days there. And so yes,
it is right around the corners back. Oh basically, I
mean we've got like thirty less than thirty days before
camp starts for going back, and I say camp, Now
it's typically a term you use for NFL, but camp,
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I mean it's the same thing now for college football.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I mean that's why they talk about it.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Is that, hey, camp starts instead of fall practice now
it's camp. And so we're right on the cusp of that.
But with social media, there is an opportunity where you
can connect with people. But the negative side to that
is just the hatred that is out there on social
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media because it is anonymous and it's you know, you're
not talking to the person face to face, you know,
et cetera, all of that, and so when you go
on social media, you have to be prepared that that
could happen. Oh yeah, you could get that type of
things that you're posting on there.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Not everybody's gonna like it, right, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And that's why I know there's certain things we talk
about on the show here and that sometimes people are
not going to want to hear about that or listen
to that, so they'll turn the station right or they'll
turn the podcast off or fast forward whatever it is.
I totally understand that, but that doesn't mean you have
to start telling the person how horrible they are or
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you know, anything of that nature and judging in such
a negative way. And one of the guys that I
did enjoy following on social media because it was a
way to connect and learned a little bit more about
the person was Max Homa, Yeah PGA tour star, and
because he was funny, you know, he's got a sense
of humor. And there was times where he would ask
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people amateurs to send in a video of them, you know,
with their golf swing.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, and he would analyze it. That's cool.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, but it turned into then he started making you know,
he was it was a funny bit, yes exactly, which
was great and people loved it and it was and
he was doing it out of humor. He wasn't trying
to disparage the person. It was just more out of humor.
And so but then he would also share a lot
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of stuff behind the scenes and what it's like being
on PGA tour and talking about you know, some of
the things that he.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Was going through during a tournament. Stuff you don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And I know Michael Kim also does a really good
job with his diaries that he puts out there, and
so I enjoyed that. But then now Max Homey's gone,
He's not on x anymore. I was like, well, where
Max go? Yeah, Well we just heard where Max went
based on recent events in social media, and here's Max
Homer telling why he's not on social media anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Years.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Oh no, the reason for that was just the the
vitriol you read online. It has become a safe haven
for people who are I think, angry themselves. It is
quite absurd what people how comfortable people feel writing awful things.
(25:17):
I step away a lot also from Instagram, but I
feel like that's been a bit less crazy, although it's
still not great, so I take my breaks from that.
But yeah, I just if you wouldn't choose to like
sit around the table with somebody who's being that mean.
I don't know, you would always get up. If you
were right there and someone was being rude to you,
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you'd either ask them to leave or you would leave.
So yeah, Twitter or X or whatever is just because
it is an awful, awful place. It took me a
while to catch on to how impactful that can be
and how much of a waste of energy. But I
missed the connection with the fans. But nothing comes without
I mean, just so much like hate and anger. There's
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a lot of love in there too, but unfortunately it
really does get overwhelmed with the you have one really
bad one. But I don't know if it's a gambling
world or whatnot. I'm happy they can do it because
it seems, you know, fun as hell in golf, but
I mean, you get people, people say some bad, bad things.
You get people telling you should die on the internet.
So it has nothing to do with not connecting. I'd
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love to keep connecting with people, but I try to
do it in person a bit more because I have
yet to meet somebody in person who has said anything
even remotely mean.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So, yeah, that's Max Homer right there, and the key
words that I heard a awful place and the vicheryol oh.
And the other side of it too is that he
misses being able to connect with some of the fans, right,
And I think that's the beauty of what social media
can be. It is an opportunity to connect. And but
this goes back to again just humans. We can mess
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some things up. Yeah, I don't know what it is,
but we can do it.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Man.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I mean, it is crazy how many things that are
somewhat developed or come into existence and the thought is
that this is a way, hey, we can connect. And
even like when Facebook first started, it was now and
again I know maybe it was a little bit of
a different motive as far as you know, they were
wanting to be able to connect with female students there,
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you know, the co eds. Uh, they're on campus, but
we have to be careful of the negative side of things.
And just hearing what Max is talking about, you know
that you have these people that have so much hatred
and they don't even know the person other than just
what they see on social media, and just how would.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
They feel if the roles were reversed?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You know, I promise you right, And I can't speak
for those people, but there's it would be highly unlikely
that they would say, oh, yeah, I love that, keep
doing that, right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I know a lot of that circles back to and
this is something that I feel like we've talked about
on this show here a little bit like here and there.
But I look at athletes, and especially you look at
something like maybe the NBA or the NFL. I get
that they make a lot of money, but what people
forget or it feels like people fail to realize they're human.
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But there's this idea it's like, oh, well, we got
to be mean to them because they can they're they
should be able to take it because they make a
hundred million a year. I get that, Like, great, they're
making a hundred million a year, but still they're human beings. Yes, okay,
still extend respect.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Respect respect another human being. Right, because you could be.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Mad they didn't play, that's fine. But when you start
attacking them in death threats and stuff because oh, well,
they get paid one hundred million dollars, they should just
be out there regardless.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, I'm sorry, because everybody is somebody's son, somebody's daughter,
somebody's brother, somebody's sister, somebody's dad, somebody's mom, yes, aunt, uncle,
all of those things. And we all have those type
of people in our lives, you know, so just try
to view them in the same way. And you don't
have to try to break people down in this world
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because ultimately, wouldn't the world be a better place if
we tried to lift everybody up? And I know that's
not so, I know that's not necessarily possible, right, but
we can try. I mean, I just continuing to bring
people down. And this is a we'll have to talk
about this another time, because I do like where you're
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going with one hundred million dollars, so they better do
it a certain way.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And so, yes, I've I paid. These NBA players are.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Making like SGA is making seventy almost seventy two million
dollars per year. Then when I pay my eighty dollars
to go to a game, Yes, I can heckle the
hell out of him, right, and I can talk smack
to him because he's making so much money and he's
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has to suck it up.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, and so again.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What's where's the marker as far as when is it
acceptable in terms of how much money do they have
to make? It?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah? If they make one hundred thousand is acceptable? Is
it makes one hundred bucks? If they make a thousand, Yeah,
that's there's there's something about it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's about I'm pissed off that they're making that much
money and I don't have that much money, So that
gives me the right. But it doesn't, No, it doesn't.
It doesn't give them the right whatsoever. So yes, again,
going a little bit philosophical on this first hour here
on this Thursday edition. Maybe it's because I'm all emotional
will cause this July fourth. I don't know what it is,
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but it is something that I do feel that, you know,
it needs to be talked about. And Max home is
now he's addressing some of those things. And I think
the more that we start seeing, maybe there's an opportunity
and again. That's why we can have Brian Kite, author
of Daily Discipline dot Com, coming up in the second
(31:01):
hour to talk about some of those things and how
these guys deal with this because it's E plus R
equals oh so need to learn that equation, event plus
response equals outcome. All right, when we come back on
this Thursday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show presented by
Ingles Markets, I'm going to take a look at something
the Big Twelve is doing next week at their media
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days for football or is it something that they're not
doing much more? Right after this, it is July third,
and this is the last segment of Hour one of
the Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets. Getting ready
for Hour two and knowing that we're heading into July
fourth weekend the excitement that is happening. There's also excitement
(31:49):
that next week the Big Twelve will be having their
football media days. And that's a two weeks earlier than
I thought originally, because I thought I thought I read
it was July eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
But it's actually July eighth.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
And then we know starting on Monday July fourteenth, that
will be the SEC will have their football media days.
Down in Atlanta, and I will be going down there.
I got my media credential, yep, so we'll right now.
I think everything's set up to broadcast live from down there.
Shane Beemer is going to be there on the first day. Obviously,
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South Carolina is going to be represented there. LSU is
also going to be represented on the first day. So
I'm definitely want to be there for South Carolina. And
here Shane Beemer's thoughts and a couple of the players
that are going to be in attendance getting ready for
fall camp, so to speak, and to start in August,
and then obviously get ready for their upcoming season because
South Carolina they've got They've got a lot of momentum. Yeah,
(32:48):
a lot of momentum going on right now. So this
will be an interesting season for South Carolina, not only
because of the momentum that they have and Lenora Sellers
there at quarterback, right and this is another year under
Shane Beemer and building the foundation, but this is also
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when it starts to change for some of these programs
because now the pressure is a little bit different because
you're not that little low underdoll right now, you are
to a certain degree.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
For South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But I think they started having enough success and because
they've got that all important position fulfilled at quarterback with
the Leonora Sellers, or at least we think so. Yeah,
after what we saw first year, he seems like the
guy that can take that team to a different level.
And that's where the pressure gets a little bit different,
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because now the expectations are higher, and so yeah, now
you start having that target being shifted a little bit.
Now it starts be coming on your back, yep, And
that's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So I'm anxious to see how they respond this year.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah, It's it's such an it feels like such an
awkward position. And that's where you really figure out, like
from a program perspective, from a head coach perspective, from
a team perspective, the great teams from those that are
just pretty good, you know, the great teams, they take
that weird awkward phase where there's not a whole lot
of pressure, but there's still a lot of pressure. Like
(34:18):
it's this weird in between phase because what have they done?
And then the expectations that what are they going to do?
And you find some teams even that just that little
bit of pressure and it's still a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
They'll fold under it.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
But the great teams, the great coaches, the great organizations,
they're the ones that rise through that. They accept that pressure,
they get that target on the back and they go, Okay,
I'm not changing anything. I'm gonna keep going and I'm
gonna be better.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
All right. I got to stand up on this one, okay,
because why do you think I get so frustrated with
Oklahoma State or Texas At year It's like every year, yeah,
my gosh, you come.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Right to the edge your breakthrough moment. Yeah there and
then yeah done. Yeah, and it's consistent year after year.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Now, maybe Mike Elko at Texas A and m maybe
he's that guy that can move them out of that dysfunction.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Should be because I.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Didn't think that Jimbo Fisher was going to be that
guy and proved to be that way.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I mean, I like a lot of the things that
I see and hear from Mike Gundy, but there's still
just something that's missing with the Oklahoma State. And I'm
not saying that it's Mike gundhy problem. I'm just saying,
for whatever reason, there's just something about the foundation that
has a little bit of whatever, a weak spot, right,
(35:41):
whatever it is that they can't withstand that moment to
your point that this is when they're going to bust through. Yes,
the door is cracked. All they gotta do is kick
in the door and go. And they don't do it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
The door slams in their face, right, And it's it's
a lot of times it feels like it's something intangible.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
We don't just see it. You see college football, you
see it in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
How many times we talk about these teams that are
always there on the cusp, and that's something you look at,
like the Ravens, Oh Lamar Jackson, something about the Ravens.
They always get there, but all in the AFC Championship,
the biggest game, they don't. And it's not there's nothing
that you could put on it as far as tangible.
You can't just go and be like, oh, well if
he did this. It's it's always like a medley of things. Yes,
(36:25):
a lot of it go back to Brian Kite. He
doesn't like mental but behavioral, Oh, you could say behavior
that's right. It's an issue there that for some reason
they're not they're not fully committed.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I don't know what it is, yeah, because the mind
starts taking.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Over and it affects your behaviors exactly one. And that's
what whether you realize it or not, whether you realize
it or not exactly. And so that's why I do
get frustrated with some of those teams that they're oh
so close, and I know their fan base has got
to be so frustrated as well. And I've lived through
some of that with Clemson. Clemson is that way for
(36:58):
many many and even through the Tommy Bowden error, it
was oh so close, we would you know, and then
you know have the like drop yes clemsoning.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Gosh, how many times did we hear that?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
And Dabosweeney was finally able to overcome that stigma. And
I think that Shane Biemer can be that guy that
South Carolina as well.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
But part of it too is that you have to
go through it and you have to prove it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You do yes, and you have to go through it.
You have to go through it. You can't be anointed
you you have to earn it. And again, I know
we talk about the NFL the ultimate meritocracy, but it's
sports in general, right, It's the ultimate meritocracy.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
You have to go earn it on your merits.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah. And I think you know, part of what sets
those great teams apart now that I think about it,
is I think they just get really comfortable with being uncomfortable,
because that's the phase, that phase right there where it's awkward,
it's weird, there's a little bit of pressure, but you're
also there's not a whole lot of high expectations. It's uncomfortable, yeah,
and so you have to be really comfortable with that.
(38:00):
You have to be okay with that and accept it
and embrace it and then push through it and push
through it all right.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Something that might be uncomfortable for some of the media
people that are covering the Big Twelve is something that
the Big Twelve has implemented, or I should say unimplemented
in this situation. So next week is their media days
for Football art in July eighth, and the Big Twelve
has come out and said that we're not doing a
(38:26):
preseason media poll, so there will be no voting for
preseason in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
By the media.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And so this is the first conference that's done this
because that's one of the things that we I mean,
are like looking for is every year?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Okay, what's the media say? You know, how do they vote?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Which team's going to be predicted to win the conference,
which team's going to be predicted to be last?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
And then it's the coaches, you know, how do they vote?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
And is there any similarities or differences between what the
media thinks versus what the coaches think? And so this
is interesting because does it really mean anything?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I mean, how much.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Value do we put on it other than just something
to talk about?
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
But there's so many now different entities that are putting
out their own content as far as rankings, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
And now I don't know, maybe we are just going.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
To go to straight EA Sports and EA College Football
twenty six whatever the ratings are rankings there, that's who
we're going with.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It might be that way, you know, I could see that,
and I think I feel like it was.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
We've had a call or call in before talking about
the because we've talked about the the AP rankings and
things like that, like the press rankings coming out like
the pre release, and I think somebody they mentioned that
they like it because it helps them gauge is this
a good team? And I can see that, but I
also have to wonder, like, could there be a better way?
You know, we keep talking about innovating, and you know,
(39:59):
things change, and traditionally that's what it's been in the
media votes and that's how we figure things out. But
is there some other better way we could go into
the season and figure out or why don't we just
start them all neutral and then go from there from
an eyeball test you talk about We do it every
year with our weekly picks. You know, you could draw
what is it? You make observations, but you can't make conclusions.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
That's right, Yes, not up to the first week. Yeah,
And I think that's where we get caught up. In July,
we're going to be able to tell who's going to
be right the number one team in a particular conference,
or who's going to be in last place, or more importantly,
who's going to finish eighth.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
I mean, we have no idea. We have no idea.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
We can tell a little bit who's going to be
the top three, who's going to be the bottom three?
Sure that that happens each and every year NFL. We
don't see this in the NFL we don't. Nobody's ranking
oh in the NFC East. I mean, now, yes we will,
but not in a formal way exactly this, And I
think the NFL has survived without it, and we.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Can look at the NFL that's a good team.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
You.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yes, you can.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You can do that in college football too, thank you.
You can definitely do that in college football.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
All right.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
We'll see how that plays out for the Big Twelve
next weekend. Will other conferences follow suit? Because as much
as we say the NFL is copycat league, I promise
you in college athletics we're going to see a lot
of copycatting as well.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
That is our one of the Richmond Weaver Show presented
by Ingles Markets. Coming up our two here on this
Thursday edition.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Right after this
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