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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just coaching my little heart out in high school basketball.
And again, I'm at Louisville Central. Okay, Louisville Central, Yes, Okay,
you're at Central right down the street. Okay, I'm from here, dog,
just stay Central. Okay. You know we're in Campbellsville this weekend.
I got to spend some time with us.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How's the team, what's the team look like?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We're up and down. Man, we're just small. So trying
to get these guys understand they got a rebound. Man,
It's it's frustrating because they'll do it for a quarter,
but you gotta do it for four.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Courts, right, That's exactly right. You're learning every coach is
you know, rebound rebound, And you said it about Louisville.
They bounced back on the road, uh and handled Indiana.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean that game was fun to watch. The way
it started really blew me away because technically that was
like our second road game. Basically, you had a big,
big ten party up there between Ohio State and how
you playing on the other side of the block.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
People downtown had to be going crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Absolutely, but I you know, we bounced back, and I
thought their guards were going to give us more trouble
the coaches Son devised. I think he had twenty, but
it was on five or fourteen shooting, so he had
to get a lot of shots up to get to
his points. So I was happy with the results. You know,
this is the best stretch we're about to have. We
got Memphis coming up, Tennessee coming up. We're gonna find
out a lot about who we are.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, they're definitely gonna have enough in the categories of
the whatever sector one what do they call that, They
call it the quad one win squad one quad one
wins or losses. I mean, even if you have a loss,
if it's on the road, it doesn't hurt you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
No, that Arkansas loss won't hurt us. And then when
we talked about that game, which we mentioned was the
fact that if Louisville rebounds, they should win that game,
which they did not against Arkansas, right, but they did
against IU. That game really came out to the free
throw line. They really did a great job against the
foul line, you know, up there down the stretch, and
they really they came out early, but they put them away.
But I tell you what, I'm I'm just really excited
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to see I think Sanata Frew is going to start
to come on, and I think we need him to
be have a bigger presence in the kid.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yes, the young man from Germany.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Right, Yeah, he played four years in Germany. Yes, yes him,
it's eleven, yes, about two seventy solid.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
He is huge. He's a massive human being some space. Oh. Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Is he a rim protector? Yes, he's a shot blocker,
rim protector. He did a great job for that in
the UK game for us.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He runs the floor pretty well too.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yes, he runs, he runs straight, likes to do that. No,
I tell you you're the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I tell you we we get out and get running
and h The greatest thing is you know Kron Conwell
and McNeely. You know most teams have one shooter, right,
but we have several. Yes, So that is the greatest
luxury of how they recruited this rosteriute one guy has
a bad shooting that you can possibly have somebody else
have a good one or a great one in that factor,
and Mike Brown gets it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So I was popping in and back and forth with
all the college football in that and I was trying
to watch it, and we were doing all kinds of stuff.
It's Christmas bro, so we're doing all that stuff. But
anytime there's a game on CBS and they play the
damn music, I just you know, it's I love it's
a Saturday afternoon, Louisville's playing. You're just takes me back
to my childhood. It's just like, this is awesome. Same
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we're winning.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It's like a lifetime movie. You know, you can't you
can't turn it off. What you hear that is it
looks like that parent.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Johnson, of course, is here with us at iHeart was
teaching science at or yeah, science at Wagner for.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
A couple of years.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yes, chemistry, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
But played at the University of louis for Rick Patino.
Let's talk about the big story. What are you hearing anything?
You have a lot of connections, yes, yes, what are
you hearing about the Kentucky camp Pope tried to hide
you know how somebody is trying to go overboard with
you know, a press conference of positivity or not.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, but he still looks he looks depressed to me.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know, it's it's not gonna get any easier.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's what's really scary.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, I I I have never I think we have
to understand and when the new era in io, it's
no longer about your tradition. These kids don't care that
you won eight seven, eight, whatever championships you want. They
don't care that about reps runs, they don't care about
the unforgettables. They want to come here and they want
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a paycheck.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Or the other one you're leaving out is people came
to play for Denny Crumb, people came to play for Calipari,
people came to play for Rick Petino. I'm not sure
if that's true anymore. Well, and to a certain extent
it is. But but you, but you people forget this.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A lot of people turned that job down last year
before Pope took it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So now it's like, okay, if I have a bad
year and I will will wait at n C State.
I had a great year, right, and then I have
a bad year, It's okay, yeah, because we're in C State, right,
but not here, And I think Kentucky fans, I use Florida,
Florida State for an example. Right, Florida State went out
and bought a roster every Mike Norville said, they're gonna
be great. They come out, they punch Alabama in their mouth.
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Everybody feels good, right, and then you saw how the
season terrible.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So you're gonna see this.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's not gonna just be con It's gonna be every
school is going to go through a bad year. And
then now you're also seeing schools that have always been
financially well endowbed and have great alumni bases become good.
Look what we dealt with with cal Like that kid
that's playing quarterback, Yeah, you know they're going to keep
him now because now those hedge fund guys, those it
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Silicon Valley guys are like, I want to be involved.
I want to make my school better. Look how good
Vanderbilt is this year. That's exactly right. But isn't that
the worst for Kentucky. The Kentucky's the world because they're like,
if Vandy can do it, if Indiana can do it,
so can we. Yes, but guess what you're in Lexington,
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You're not in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
People got all me because I said, if you took
some of that twenty two million and spend it on
football last year, yes, you got some of the wrong guys.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Some years you picked the wrong guys.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I mean, that's just that's what's going to happen in
this inn il Ah. But if you're throwing some of
that money exactly right, are you gonna be a football
school or a basketball school?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And then now then my thing is this roster's Bill
bad Otago always not a bad player.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He has something's wrong with him.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He has no driving lanes to attack the rim. You don't.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You don't have a point guard. You're you're freshman point guard.
Jasper Johnson is good. He's just playing against everybody that's
twenty five years old. So like so, and you gave
him a lot of money somewhere they report somewhere around
one point five million. And when you look at his numbers,
they're not bad. But then you like, they have pieces
that don't fit. And when Jade and Quinton's comes back,
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it's gonna get it's not gonna get any better. Right,
Like the Diobate kid, he's shooting nine percent from three.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I said this in my opening monologue, which was you
can tweak, sorry Calipera. You could tweak a lot of
stuff along the way in the season. But if you
can't shoot. You can't shoot.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, So now you got him on the court, people
play off of him. He's not a great ball handler
and he's not a shooter, so that means he has
to play with a reckless abandonment and rebound the ball.
And that's good and all. But I don't outside of Moreno,
I'm really not mad at always always playing good, but like,
because he's his assister, turn over ratio is two to
one almost. But the rest of those guys, you know,
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Chandler's not a point guard. You don't have a point guard.
On top of all that, and then now the rest
of the schedule shakes out. You got Missouri, Vanderbilt, Tennessee
coming up. Oh yeah, you gotta play Saint John's and
after Louisville just beat ie you you gotta play him
next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Right, So I still miss Caliperi. People don't understand what
he brought. Yes, was he you know, he was like
that at the beginning. He just started to lose. But
his his quote from this last weekend was still Calipari.
I was cracking up. He was like this, Nil is crazy.
He goes, I got a player that's bringing his kids
to the game, and he's using his nil money to
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pay his alimony to his ex wife.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Hey, well lest he has the funds. As he has
the funds, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He's got we gotta player using his money to pay
the ali money on his to his ex wife.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
It's crazy that a college kid has already married and divorce.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yes, now look now they've they've always no. I mean,
that's an age of having kids. I remember the eighty
six championship parade and Milt had his two kids with
him in the car, and Dewan was one of them.
He was a little kid, and I thought I was
sixteen at the time, and I was like, Milt has
Milt has children. These are college basketball players. But that
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for Christmas. I I love Milt's the greatest in the
history of the world. But Kentucky moving forward, do you
are you hearing anything in your circles that you could
share with us about what's happening in Lexington? Is you
know with Pope his family any of that stuff?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Nothing crazy?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, obviously you want to win, and it's frustrating
because he's one of your own. But didn't we go
through that recently with one of our own, and we
see how nasty. The people got with Kenny Payne. Yeah,
and this is only the beginning, because you're not going
to fire him this year.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
No, no, no, but and I want people to stop
comparison the comparison statistically, it's the worst two years in
the history of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Let's not. Pope is not Kenny Payne.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
No, he's not by any stretch. I'm not saying that stretch. No,
I understand you're not.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But people are online and I'm like, that's that's not true.
If you're a Louisville fan, you know damn well that's
not true. So how many as a basketball player, as
a basketball coach, how many players on the team have
to be a problem for it to be a problem
for the for the whole team. I'm talking about not
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cancers to the team, but cancers to the team. And
I'm not saying any of them are on Kentucky's team.
I'm just saying, how many, as a basketball coach and
a former player, how many players on a basketball roster
have to be a problem for it to be a
whole team problem?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
One?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Just one, And it's not about him. It's about what
he does to the others. So like some people, some
people are easily moved. With us, it was never about
you know, guys, guys bought in. It was not negotiable,
like guys bought in. Did we have guys that were problems, yeah,
but like we eventually broke that down. But this, this
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doesn't look like a problem. When I watch these guys,
they don't have a guy guiding them, so they don't
have a one. But the other thing is they don't
look like they're playing for each other. It's almost like
hero Ball. You know, I'm gonna save us with this shot.
I'm gonna save us with this move. I'm gonna They're
almost trying too hard because every instead of like running
the offense, and because they don't have the spacing, there's
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somebody always trying to make a play and that they
don't normally try to do. Like if I'm not a
guy that goes through the whole, right, I'm gonna try
it this time, right, but you know what I mean.
Or I'm a guy that I'm not a jump shooter,
but I'm gonna take this jump shot.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
So because when you watch Gonzaga, they move the ball
compared to.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
What they are, but the game before they got run
by forty.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
But Michigan's the best team country.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, Okay, Now, culturally, you might as well played one
hundred years ago, even though you didn't play that long ago. Okay, right,
So how much in your era did you self did
players self police that kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's just too much at stake, Like when you think
about it, like guys, guys would fight you in the
locker room if you kept dropping right like, you know,
like because they're they're trying to get drafted. Hey man,
if you drop another pass again, I'm gonna break your hands.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, yes, that's what I'm saying that in the old school,
they literally would beat the crap out of you. But
I remember the the rumor story of David Padget going
after Dave Derek character in the playoff in the Elite
eight game against North Carolina. There are stories, there are
stories smiling this is radio. You can't see him, he's smiling.
(11:53):
There are stories. But uh, and I could see totally
see that by the way Derek character and David Padget's character. Yeah,
that day he went after that era of basketball at
uo L. But it's interesting the dynamics of the teams
because they come from they come from the situation to
where if they don't like the AAU team they're on,
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they just get a new team, or a coach doesn't
like his player, he just gets all new players. So
these players are just thrown into new teams all the time,
and there's it's rare that they all get to be
to where you have leaders of a team, right, and
it's more difficult to do that self policing if you
would of somebody that's not doing what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Parent well, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The other thing is you have this also going on
in guys heads. Nobody's gonna talk about it, but the
elephant in the room. You make one point too, I
make eight hundred. I feel like I'm better than you.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Right, Oh, I'm not even thinking of that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's been put back in my b right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
No, that's real.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
So so now that I come to campus and I'm
killing you every day, or and you're not doing as
much as somebody made you out to be, like you
guys gave me four hundred, hey, less than this guy.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
So now I'm going out to get my shots up.
I don't care about him because I think I'm better
than him.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
All the numbers are probably not real that we hear
in the media, but the players know what somebody got.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Absolutely their agents talk think about this. That's that's all.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
This is, just like professional sports agents talk. Everybody knows
the money behind the scenes. We we might not know
the exact number, correct. Yeah, but that is another thing
that you have to think about in this as well.
The players know, yes, you know, So that's a that's
a whole other animal. Like I'm not saying these guys
are doing that, and so I don't want to I
don't want to lead that on to believe. But when
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you like UK fans are a smart fan base, yeah, yeah,
when you so like Reece Gaines used to talk to
me about this. He said, when you watch the best
do something, you know when something is it and and
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
And when you watch this group.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Every time I've watched this group, it feels like it's
missing something something.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Can they replace that something by the end of the year,
parent Johnson, your best guess.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
No, Yeah, I think it's just gonna be. There's gonna
be two or three games sports where they play very
well and you say, well, maybe we could turn the
corner and then they're gonna run into a bus all
like Alabama or or a Vanderbilt.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
December eighth, does Kentucky make the NCAA tournament? Give me
a percentage? I won't say y. I won't make you
say yes or yo, because you can't.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's December eight.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But you just told me some information which down sounds
like they're not gonna make it. What's the percentage that,
in your opinion on December eighth they make the tournament in.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
March fifty fifty. I'm it's fifty fifty, and I'll say
this like it. They're gonna be in a situation that
they've probably never been in before. You're probably gonna be
playing the opening round of the SEC tournament.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You're not gonna get that bye you've always gotten over
the years.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Again, none of the stories where a pope is there's
some mental issues or something like that. I keep reading
stuff online which I believe is fake. Right there, I mean,
there's no none of that issues.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'm sure his family's miserable right now. They were happy
three weeks ago and now life is miserable in Lexington, right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, But I mean, you know, basketball season is peaks
and valleys, you know. Oh yeah, no, no, no, yeah, they're
in the valley right now, and there's a way out
of it. So the question is who's going to buy in?
How they correct this? I mean, I'm sure they're watching
hours of film. I'm sure they're trying to make adjustments
in tweaking. But I never thought i'd see BBN boo
that much like they were booing in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That was crazy. They deserved it, but I've never heard
them do it.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
No, No, I mean because that was basically a home game.
Let's just be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh, it was all Kentucky fans. Like I said earlier
in the show, if there was a game on the moon,
it would be all Kentucky fans. They'd find a way
to get to the moon to watch their damn cats.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Can I tell you something.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When I played overseas, I saw Kentucky shirt every country
I went too.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
You think I'm playing No, I mean it.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I know, dude, I know. I hate Look, it happens
to me. Every time I go to the beach, I
walk out. Whether it's it's Northern Florida, South Florida, doesn't matter.
You walk out the first person you see either as
a Kentucky hat on or Kentucky tony.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah. Yeah. I was in Shanghai, China.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I was in Shanghai, China, and I saw a Kentucky shirt.
It was like I couldn't escape the plague like this,
They're everywhere I blue missed. I was in Buenos Aires.
I saw a kid in a Kentucky shirt all the
way past the equator, all the way past the equator.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right, Who's Louisville got next? Is it Memphis?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
No? Saturday? I believe so. I believe so at Memphis.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Memphis. It's home.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's home.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oh, Memphis State, mind you.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
No, No, I just call it Memphis. It is that.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That's my childhood dog. It is Memphis State. You're right,
it's it's those those matchups. Those matchups in the eighties
were just so awesome. But okay, Pairing, you're a great
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Speaker 2 (17:08):
Parent. Thanks, thank you so much. We'll have you again
next week.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
No, I appreciate you. Man.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
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We come back, we're gonna talk about Gene Simmons. He
is to testify to the American about the American Music
Fairness Act. They've been trying to solve this puzzle for
a long time, and I don't know if they'll ever.
It's not as difficult as the ACA in healthcare, but
it seems like it on How do these artists get
paid because the money is just not there anymore. That's
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why concert tickets are one thousand dollars because that's the
only way they make money.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
They produce their music and then it's all of a
sudden free on YouTube and you can get it. You
buy service for ten dollars a month and you can
get every song as many times as you want to
play it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But how do they make money now?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
The Taylor Swifts of the world are very rare, so
he's going to testify. We'll talk more about that. Plus
protesters smeared custard on the case displaying the British Crown jewels.
I don't understand these people. I don't know the people
that spray paint and throw paint on things on art
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Speaker 3 (19:46):
I don't usually like newer Christmas songs. This one is
not newer. It's thirty years old. But isn't this what
was played in the limo as they're headed up towards
Tacami or tak a mom whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Tower in die Hard?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yes it is, Yes, I just watched that movie the
other day.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's still good, very good.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
It's so cheesy with like eighties one's liner one liner.
Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well he uh yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He was a star before that on TV, but this
that that movie made him in a different level.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I feel for him dealing with that.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
He's still alive, Yeah, he just doesn't remember her or
know all of it.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yep, yep, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Uh. The healthcare obviously a c A is uh. They're
talking about that in DC. They're not going to fix it.
Whether they continue the ACA or not, it's gonna still
cost you a lot of money. Gene Simmons is trying
to tackle something is is uh is complicated, which is
the American Music Fairness Act. The Kiss founder obviously a
marketing genius. I wish Dwight was here to do the
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Gene Simmons voice.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Hey, Louie Viel, I got a question for you.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No, that's Lake, that's not That's not Gene Simmons.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
But I know I'm just doing his kiss for we gotcha?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Is Gene Simmons is invented music.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
US Senate Judiciary Committee, Intellectual Property Subcommittee and support of
the American Music Fairness Act. The bipartisan bill aims to
ensure radio corporations pay artists for their music. Thought we
already did. In a statement, Simmons, having spent my career
in music, and entertainment industry and understand the vital importance
of the issue, adding that the Act represents sound public
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policy and artists must be properly compensated for their creative work.
On Friday, Simmons took over the White House Press Briefing
podium to talk about the bill and also the Kennedy
Center Awards, which he was honored. Kiss was the original
members before. Yeah, they've been trying to figure this out,
even going back to the days when member Pearl Jam
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was fighting with Ticketmaster. You know, it's and at some
point Apple Music took over and we're pay you know,
they were paying an artists ten cents of download, and
that point, you know, I was in. I was lucky
enough to come into music when these artists were making
a lot of money album sales and then cassette and
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then people don't realize even when it went to CD sales,
it jumped for these artists and the record companies huge
because it was even cheaper to make the CDs. It's
like twenty five cents to make the CD. And they
remember at some point, well you don't because you weren't
born till ninety three, all right, But CDs were like
(22:39):
sixteen seventeen, eighteen dollars a piece back then, back then,
and they were you know, it cost them twenty five
cents to produce, so they were making just handover fist.
Record companies were spending money on radio stations. You would
not believe. I don't think we ever paid for dinner
for record represent talent. We never did. It was crazy jackets. Sure,
(23:02):
I'm not talking about playola. That's I wasn't a program director,
so I wasn't responsible for any of that. But when
Apple Music came in, all the money went away, and
that's when everyone had to hit the road and either
get paid doing concerts and selling T shirts so that
was it, or if you owned your own company. Some
of the country artists have done that, so they release
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their own music under their own labels. They would make
more money, but they've got to figure out because if
you're a business, you can't just play music. You know,
you gotta you gotta pay these services and how much
does that trickle down to the artist.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
When he says radio corporations, I mean we pay Askcab
and the other company. I'm not sure what you work
for WAMZ When you play that country music. We have
to pay a service, you know, five ten cents a song,
you know, And that's how some of these artists that
haven't had a hit in thirty years still have money.
You know, bad companies making money because classic rock still
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plays Bad Company from the album Bad Company from the
band Bad Company. That was what I used to do
on rock radio. I was not a big Bad Company fan.
So they're trying to figure out they won't. I don't know,
you know where all that will come from, but it
is sort of a shame because when you took the
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real the money away from that, you know, the artist
became just rock music went away.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That's why you have.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Iron Maiden as a headliner. No offense to Iron Maiden
on the biggest rock show in the North America right
here in Louis of Kentucky. One of the days the
headliner is a band that hasn't had a hit in
forty years. It's a long time. The other story that
fascinates me is the people. It used to be just Peta,
(24:54):
Like Peter would throw paint on rich people in New
York if they had a fur coat. Right started all there,
and then Peter got weird. They put naked models in
cages and and you know, I guess that worked. But
protesters they do weird things. They throw paint on the
Mona Lisa or whatever, and now all these museums you
(25:15):
can't get to it or see it because it's all
behind glass.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And they did that the other day.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
They smeared custard on the in the Tower of London,
on the British Crown jewels, and of course it makes
all the social media. Four people were arrested Saturday morning
after activists smeared food onto the case. They can't even
get to the state crowned now because of obviously people
(25:40):
like this and the people that stole from the luth
or I'm sorry, Friday, we found out it's it's louvra is.
The is the correct French will tell you that it
is vandalism. And sometimes they ruined, they ruin the art
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that they're that they're and whatever they're protesting. I don't
in this entire story. It's just the take back power resistance.
I don't even know what that what does that mean?
People don't even know what that means. There's so many
different groups. It's just like we make fun and we joke.
But the protests here in Louisville, the no Kings whatever protests,
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it always becomes about four or five different things. When
people get up there and actually talk because I watch
the live streams on the Facebook.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
But we joke that they.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Go to their trunk and get into the trunk of
their car and they go, Okay, what are we protesting today?
And then they grab the sign that that is uh
that is today right? Uh so again and then and
then the really stupid people in Germany that uh they
(26:55):
encase their own hands in concrete to the roadways, which
end up having these people have issues with their hands.
You cannot concrete is not healthy for you ask the mafia.
They put bodies in there because it dissolves the body.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Oh yeah, you get a pair of concrete shoes.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Well you put them in the If you put them
in that fifty five gallon drome with concrete, the concrete
dissolves the body.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
There's no evidence.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
It's a terrible way to go.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Oh my god, hopefully you're dead before they pour you
into the concrete. But they do that on purpose, so
it sends.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
A message, sends a message not to cross the mafia.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Uh. We didn't get to this story, but I'll touch
on it pretty quickly. The universities are getting they're having
to adjust because of this Administration's like, hey, and this
is the stuff you could disagree or agree with Donald
Trump on things, and you can say attacking the universities
is wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
He's not wrong on them.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
If you've had kids that have gone through the process
and where they go to universities and where do they
go to school, you understand how many American kids aren't
getting spots that go to other kids not from America.
You want to have a diverse university, sure, but not
to the point to where they relied on these numbers.
(28:22):
And UL is down six or I'm sorry, seventeen percent
this fall, so they're trying. The international enrollment has dropped
from eight forty six to seven ninety six. I don't
think that's very many, to tell you the truth, And
I think that was the whole point. Let's increase the
numbers of kids that can get into u OFL that
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live here in Kentucky. There's visa restrictions and students are
just fearful. I think there's a number of people that
overseas that have said, you know, what I think. I'm
just going to go to the university here in Madrid.
I'm not going to go to the university in America.
But you go, you realize how many America still has
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the best universities, as much as we make fun of them,
and what the hell kind of people they're producing. You
look at it if you watch the Olympics, the people
that are performing for the other countries from Romania to
wherever they go. So and so from Romania she attends
University of Southern California. The pole water vaulter from wherever
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is at the University of Michigan. This semester or this
you know, she's a student at Michigan. They still want
to get in our universities because they are you know,
they're still pretty good worldwide. Now, I also again encourage
your kid if they can do a semester over there
for a semester, not for the four years. But there
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is My son graduate from Perdue. That's where I've learned.
Side notes, chase a squirrel. I think I'm going to
become Austin one of those houses where you take your
shoes off when you come in.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Oh right, you're not already that house. No, Okay, there's
nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And I got that because John would come home and
a lot of his friends were from India or Indian background,
and they don't even think twice. And I knew John
was home with his friends if I came in to
the door and there was a pile of shoes at
the front door, because they would not even ever imagine
wearing shoes inside the house.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And I said, that's not a bad idea once you
get used to it. So I bought a little thing.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I'm a terrible American, So I bought it from Sheenne,
this wooden stack thing that's tall and you could put
your shoes in it. And then I put a stack
of socks, new socks at the top.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
So do they take a pair of socks to put on?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That's what I'm saying. I think people are going to
start doing that.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Okay, that's awesome. Have stinky feet from your nasty feet
all day, no wandering around the people.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Some do have nasty feet.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I have very bad foot.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Holder.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Do you have to do powder?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
That's me? No, I don't remedy it at all. Oh
maybe I'll put some axe bodies spray at my shoes or.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
All right, dude, this is this is what didn't bother
her before she was married to you.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh she's that will bother her after.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Oh no, it's bothering her now.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It smells like a wet dog.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah it doesn't smell good.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
No, I have hot feet, I will admit that, but
I do a lot. I have the powder and then
I have the spray that cool your feet and the shoes.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
I got so when like I used to do, like
the powder, just like, are you talking about baking soda
or is there like a new specific foot powder.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
No, they have the you go into target or wherever,
and then they have the spray.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
They have like the little ball things that you put
in there too, that like scent balls and stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Oh really, yeah, No, I didn't know you could do that.
Why would you have a ball in your shoe and it'll
feel like something's in your shoe?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Well I'm you just leave it there when your shoes
aren't on.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh my bad.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
So if you have stinky feet, you're gonna have stinky shoes.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Look, you want to take anything out of the way
that's gonna get interference with you in the bedroom. Bro,
you gotta take care of your feet, or you gotta
wear socks all the time, because most people that do
that don't wear socks, and they sweat in their shoes
and it becomes stinky.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, when I wear socks, I'm fine. It's just when
I take my socks off.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
My wife is not stinky.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
None of part of her body stinks, which is great
because that's the one deal breaker I have. Maybe that's
why I'm married her, because she's not stinky.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Monday show is in the books, Playing Buck are coming
up next and plenty in there. They'll talk about healthcare.
I guarantee you, as moving forward, we can get to Christmas.
I think John is back to do your job tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I think so. Yes. I hope he's feeling better.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, both of them were sick, and I hope they
don't bring it into here.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
You know they will.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I've had a headache for.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Like two days, so I'm thinking, oh, book, all right, man,
sit tight. They'll be in here a little bit later
than of course. Terry Myners at three o'clock. He's got
plenty on the plate.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Too that time.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
All right, man, double duty.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
My friend Austin Montgomery, I am Tony Venetti will see
you tomorrow on news Radio eight forty whas
Just coaching my little heart out in high school basketball.
And again, I'm at Louisville Central. Okay, Louisville Central, Yes, Okay,
you're at Central right down the street. Okay, I'm from here, dog,
just stay Central. Okay. You know we're in Campbellsville this weekend.
I got to spend some time with us.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How's the team, what's the team look like?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We're up and down. Man, we're just small. So trying
to get these guys understand they got a rebound. Man,
It's it's frustrating because they'll do it for a quarter,
but you gotta do it for four.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Courts, right, That's exactly right. You're learning every coach is
you know, rebound rebound, And you said it about Louisville.
They bounced back on the road, uh and handled Indiana.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean that game was fun to watch. The way
it started really blew me away because technically that was
like our second road game. Basically, you had a big,
big ten party up there between Ohio State and how
you playing on the other side of the block.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
People downtown had to be going crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Absolutely, but I you know, we bounced back, and I
thought their guards were going to give us more trouble
the coaches Son devised. I think he had twenty, but
it was on five or fourteen shooting, so he had
to get a lot of shots up to get to
his points. So I was happy with the results. You know,
this is the best stretch we're about to have. We
got Memphis coming up, Tennessee coming up. We're gonna find
out a lot about who we are.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, they're definitely gonna have enough in the categories of
the whatever sector one what do they call that, They
call it the quad one win squad one quad one
wins or losses. I mean, even if you have a loss,
if it's on the road, it doesn't hurt you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
No, that Arkansas loss won't hurt us. And then when
we talked about that game, which we mentioned was the
fact that if Louisville rebounds, they should win that game,
which they did not against Arkansas, right, but they did
against IU. That game really came out to the free
throw line. They really did a great job against the
foul line, you know, up there down the stretch, and
they really they came out early, but they put them away.
But I tell you what, I'm I'm just really excited
(01:50):
to see I think Sanata Frew is going to start
to come on, and I think we need him to
be have a bigger presence in the kid.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yes, the young man from Germany.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Right, Yeah, he played four years in Germany. Yes, yes him,
it's eleven, yes, about two seventy solid.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
He is huge. He's a massive human being some space. Oh. Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Is he a rim protector? Yes, he's a shot blocker,
rim protector. He did a great job for that in
the UK game for us.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He runs the floor pretty well too.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yes, he runs, he runs straight, likes to do that. No,
I tell you you're the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I tell you we we get out and get running
and h The greatest thing is you know Kron Conwell
and McNeely. You know most teams have one shooter, right,
but we have several. Yes, So that is the greatest
luxury of how they recruited this rosteriute one guy has
a bad shooting that you can possibly have somebody else
have a good one or a great one in that factor,
and Mike Brown gets it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So I was popping in and back and forth with
all the college football in that and I was trying
to watch it, and we were doing all kinds of stuff.
It's Christmas bro, so we're doing all that stuff. But
anytime there's a game on CBS and they play the
damn music, I just you know, it's I love it's
a Saturday afternoon, Louisville's playing. You're just takes me back
to my childhood. It's just like, this is awesome. Same
(03:02):
we're winning.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It's like a lifetime movie. You know, you can't you
can't turn it off. What you hear that is it
looks like that parent.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Johnson, of course, is here with us at iHeart was
teaching science at or yeah, science at Wagner for.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
A couple of years.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yes, chemistry, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
But played at the University of louis for Rick Patino.
Let's talk about the big story. What are you hearing anything?
You have a lot of connections, yes, yes, what are
you hearing about the Kentucky camp Pope tried to hide
you know how somebody is trying to go overboard with
you know, a press conference of positivity or not.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, but he still looks he looks depressed to me.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know, it's it's not gonna get any easier.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's what's really scary.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, I I I have never I think we have
to understand and when the new era in io, it's
no longer about your tradition. These kids don't care that
you won eight seven, eight, whatever championships you want. They
don't care that about reps runs, they don't care about
the unforgettables. They want to come here and they want
(04:09):
a paycheck.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Or the other one you're leaving out is people came
to play for Denny Crumb, people came to play for Calipari,
people came to play for Rick Petino. I'm not sure
if that's true anymore. Well, and to a certain extent
it is. But but you, but you people forget this.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A lot of people turned that job down last year
before Pope took it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So now it's like, okay, if I have a bad
year and I will will wait at n C State.
I had a great year, right, and then I have
a bad year, It's okay, yeah, because we're in C State, right,
but not here, And I think Kentucky fans, I use Florida,
Florida State for an example. Right, Florida State went out
and bought a roster every Mike Norville said, they're gonna
be great. They come out, they punch Alabama in their mouth.
(04:53):
Everybody feels good, right, and then you saw how the
season terrible.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So you're gonna see this.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's not gonna just be con It's gonna be every
school is going to go through a bad year. And
then now you're also seeing schools that have always been
financially well endowbed and have great alumni bases become good.
Look what we dealt with with cal Like that kid
that's playing quarterback, Yeah, you know they're going to keep
him now because now those hedge fund guys, those it
(05:20):
Silicon Valley guys are like, I want to be involved.
I want to make my school better. Look how good
Vanderbilt is this year. That's exactly right. But isn't that
the worst for Kentucky. The Kentucky's the world because they're like,
if Vandy can do it, if Indiana can do it,
so can we. Yes, but guess what you're in Lexington,
(05:41):
You're not in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
People got all me because I said, if you took
some of that twenty two million and spend it on
football last year, yes, you got some of the wrong guys.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Some years you picked the wrong guys.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I mean, that's just that's what's going to happen in
this inn il Ah. But if you're throwing some of
that money exactly right, are you gonna be a football
school or a basketball school?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And then now then my thing is this roster's Bill
bad Otago always not a bad player.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He has something's wrong with him.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He has no driving lanes to attack the rim. You don't.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You don't have a point guard. You're you're freshman point guard.
Jasper Johnson is good. He's just playing against everybody that's
twenty five years old. So like so, and you gave
him a lot of money somewhere they report somewhere around
one point five million. And when you look at his numbers,
they're not bad. But then you like, they have pieces
that don't fit. And when Jade and Quinton's comes back,
(06:34):
it's gonna get it's not gonna get any better. Right,
Like the Diobate kid, he's shooting nine percent from three.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I said this in my opening monologue, which was you
can tweak, sorry Calipera. You could tweak a lot of
stuff along the way in the season. But if you
can't shoot. You can't shoot.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, So now you got him on the court, people
play off of him. He's not a great ball handler
and he's not a shooter, so that means he has
to play with a reckless abandonment and rebound the ball.
And that's good and all. But I don't outside of Moreno,
I'm really not mad at always always playing good, but like,
because he's his assister, turn over ratio is two to
one almost. But the rest of those guys, you know,
(07:09):
Chandler's not a point guard. You don't have a point guard.
On top of all that, and then now the rest
of the schedule shakes out. You got Missouri, Vanderbilt, Tennessee
coming up. Oh yeah, you gotta play Saint John's and
after Louisville just beat ie you you gotta play him
next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Right, So I still miss Caliperi. People don't understand what
he brought. Yes, was he you know, he was like
that at the beginning. He just started to lose. But
his his quote from this last weekend was still Calipari.
I was cracking up. He was like this, Nil is crazy.
He goes, I got a player that's bringing his kids
to the game, and he's using his nil money to
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pay his alimony to his ex wife.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Hey, well lest he has the funds. As he has
the funds, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He's got we gotta player using his money to pay
the ali money on his to his ex wife.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
It's crazy that a college kid has already married and divorce.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yes, now look now they've they've always no. I mean,
that's an age of having kids. I remember the eighty
six championship parade and Milt had his two kids with
him in the car, and Dewan was one of them.
He was a little kid, and I thought I was
sixteen at the time, and I was like, Milt has
Milt has children. These are college basketball players. But that
(08:24):
for Christmas. I I love Milt's the greatest in the
history of the world. But Kentucky moving forward, do you
are you hearing anything in your circles that you could
share with us about what's happening in Lexington? Is you
know with Pope his family any of that stuff?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Nothing crazy?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, obviously you want to win, and it's frustrating
because he's one of your own. But didn't we go
through that recently with one of our own, and we
see how nasty. The people got with Kenny Payne. Yeah,
and this is only the beginning, because you're not going
to fire him this year.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
No, no, no, but and I want people to stop
comparison the comparison statistically, it's the worst two years in
the history of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Let's not. Pope is not Kenny Payne.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
No, he's not by any stretch. I'm not saying that stretch. No,
I understand you're not.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But people are online and I'm like, that's that's not true.
If you're a Louisville fan, you know damn well that's
not true. So how many as a basketball player, as
a basketball coach, how many players on the team have
to be a problem for it to be a problem
for the for the whole team. I'm talking about not
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cancers to the team, but cancers to the team. And
I'm not saying any of them are on Kentucky's team.
I'm just saying, how many, as a basketball coach and
a former player, how many players on a basketball roster
have to be a problem for it to be a
whole team problem?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
One?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Just one, And it's not about him. It's about what
he does to the others. So like some people, some
people are easily moved. With us, it was never about
you know, guys, guys bought in. It was not negotiable,
like guys bought in. Did we have guys that were problems, yeah,
but like we eventually broke that down. But this, this
(10:19):
doesn't look like a problem. When I watch these guys,
they don't have a guy guiding them, so they don't
have a one. But the other thing is they don't
look like they're playing for each other. It's almost like
hero Ball. You know, I'm gonna save us with this shot.
I'm gonna save us with this move. I'm gonna They're
almost trying too hard because every instead of like running
the offense, and because they don't have the spacing, there's
(10:41):
somebody always trying to make a play and that they
don't normally try to do. Like if I'm not a
guy that goes through the whole, right, I'm gonna try
it this time, right, but you know what I mean.
Or I'm a guy that I'm not a jump shooter,
but I'm gonna take this jump shot.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
So because when you watch Gonzaga, they move the ball
compared to.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
What they are, but the game before they got run
by forty.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
But Michigan's the best team country.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, Okay, Now, culturally, you might as well played one
hundred years ago, even though you didn't play that long ago. Okay, right,
So how much in your era did you self did
players self police that kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's just too much at stake, Like when you think
about it, like guys, guys would fight you in the
locker room if you kept dropping right like, you know,
like because they're they're trying to get drafted. Hey man,
if you drop another pass again, I'm gonna break your hands.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, yes, that's what I'm saying that in the old school,
they literally would beat the crap out of you. But
I remember the the rumor story of David Padget going
after Dave Derek character in the playoff in the Elite
eight game against North Carolina. There are stories, there are
stories smiling this is radio. You can't see him, he's smiling.
(11:53):
There are stories. But uh, and I could see totally
see that by the way Derek character and David Padget's character. Yeah,
that day he went after that era of basketball at
uo L. But it's interesting the dynamics of the teams
because they come from they come from the situation to
where if they don't like the AAU team they're on,
(12:13):
they just get a new team, or a coach doesn't
like his player, he just gets all new players. So
these players are just thrown into new teams all the time,
and there's it's rare that they all get to be
to where you have leaders of a team, right, and
it's more difficult to do that self policing if you
would of somebody that's not doing what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Parent well, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The other thing is you have this also going on
in guys heads. Nobody's gonna talk about it, but the
elephant in the room. You make one point too, I
make eight hundred. I feel like I'm better than you.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Right, Oh, I'm not even thinking of that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's been put back in my b right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
No, that's real.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
So so now that I come to campus and I'm
killing you every day, or and you're not doing as
much as somebody made you out to be, like you
guys gave me four hundred, hey, less than this guy.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
So now I'm going out to get my shots up.
I don't care about him because I think I'm better
than him.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
All the numbers are probably not real that we hear
in the media, but the players know what somebody got.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Absolutely their agents talk think about this. That's that's all.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
This is, just like professional sports agents talk. Everybody knows
the money behind the scenes. We we might not know
the exact number, correct. Yeah, but that is another thing
that you have to think about in this as well.
The players know, yes, you know, So that's a that's
a whole other animal. Like I'm not saying these guys
are doing that, and so I don't want to I
don't want to lead that on to believe. But when
(13:35):
you like UK fans are a smart fan base, yeah, yeah,
when you so like Reece Gaines used to talk to
me about this. He said, when you watch the best
do something, you know when something is it and and
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
And when you watch this group.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Every time I've watched this group, it feels like it's
missing something something.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Can they replace that something by the end of the year,
parent Johnson, your best guess.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
No, Yeah, I think it's just gonna be. There's gonna
be two or three games sports where they play very
well and you say, well, maybe we could turn the
corner and then they're gonna run into a bus all
like Alabama or or a Vanderbilt.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
December eighth, does Kentucky make the NCAA tournament? Give me
a percentage? I won't say y. I won't make you
say yes or yo, because you can't.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's December eight.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But you just told me some information which down sounds
like they're not gonna make it. What's the percentage that,
in your opinion on December eighth they make the tournament in.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
March fifty fifty. I'm it's fifty fifty, and I'll say
this like it. They're gonna be in a situation that
they've probably never been in before. You're probably gonna be
playing the opening round of the SEC tournament.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You're not gonna get that bye you've always gotten over
the years.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Again, none of the stories where a pope is there's
some mental issues or something like that. I keep reading
stuff online which I believe is fake. Right there, I mean,
there's no none of that issues.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'm sure his family's miserable right now. They were happy
three weeks ago and now life is miserable in Lexington, right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, But I mean, you know, basketball season is peaks
and valleys, you know. Oh yeah, no, no, no, yeah, they're
in the valley right now, and there's a way out
of it. So the question is who's going to buy in?
How they correct this? I mean, I'm sure they're watching
hours of film. I'm sure they're trying to make adjustments
in tweaking. But I never thought i'd see BBN boo
that much like they were booing in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That was crazy. They deserved it, but I've never heard
them do it.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
No, No, I mean because that was basically a home game.
Let's just be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Oh, it was all Kentucky fans. Like I said earlier
in the show, if there was a game on the moon,
it would be all Kentucky fans. They'd find a way
to get to the moon to watch their damn cats.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Can I tell you something.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When I played overseas, I saw Kentucky shirt every country
I went too.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
You think I'm playing No, I mean it.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I know, dude, I know. I hate Look, it happens
to me. Every time I go to the beach, I
walk out. Whether it's it's Northern Florida, South Florida, doesn't matter.
You walk out the first person you see either as
a Kentucky hat on or Kentucky tony.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah. Yeah. I was in Shanghai, China.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I was in Shanghai, China, and I saw a Kentucky shirt.
It was like I couldn't escape the plague like this,
They're everywhere I blue missed. I was in Buenos Aires.
I saw a kid in a Kentucky shirt all the
way past the equator, all the way past the equator.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right, Who's Louisville got next? Is it Memphis?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
No? Saturday? I believe so. I believe so at Memphis.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Memphis. It's home.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's home.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oh, Memphis State, mind you.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
No, No, I just call it Memphis. It is that.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That's my childhood dog. It is Memphis State. You're right,
it's it's those those matchups. Those matchups in the eighties
were just so awesome. But okay, Pairing, you're a great
source for us to have. If someone needs some advertisement, well,
how did they get a hold of you?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
They can reach me and you can reach me on anything.
You want to hit me on Instagram? Yeah, is that
parent Johnson. If you want to reach me on Twitter,
It's at parent Johnson. If you want to reach me
here at iHeart. It's at parent's Parent Johnson at iHeart
dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Parent. Thanks, thank you so much. We'll have you again
next week.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
No, I appreciate you. Man.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
All right, man back after this.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
But first, let's talk about lots of Pasta Lotsapaosta Louisville
dot Com.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I've talked about this before.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
How you you can either get the food and take
it home, because that's what we do with the venetties
on Christmas. I want to get everybody involved in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I got a new kitchen. What's up, So it's.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Gonna be we got more room to have more people
in there or have them prepare it. It's easy to
do a family get together with the catering from Lots
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(17:50):
at you following directions.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I'm just I'm just a soldier that takes orders. I
love it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
We come back, we're gonna talk about Gene Simmons. He
is to testify to the American about the American Music
Fairness Act. They've been trying to solve this puzzle for
a long time, and I don't know if they'll ever.
It's not as difficult as the ACA in healthcare, but
it seems like it on How do these artists get
paid because the money is just not there anymore. That's
(18:19):
why concert tickets are one thousand dollars because that's the
only way they make money.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
They produce their music and then it's all of a
sudden free on YouTube and you can get it. You
buy service for ten dollars a month and you can
get every song as many times as you want to
play it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But how do they make money now?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
The Taylor Swifts of the world are very rare, so
he's going to testify. We'll talk more about that. Plus
protesters smeared custard on the case displaying the British Crown jewels.
I don't understand these people. I don't know the people
that spray paint and throw paint on things on art
(18:56):
to make a point because they're so important they have
to and nobody cares about your issue, Like that's not
going to move your issue forward. They think it is,
but it's not. We'll talk about those issues when we
come back. As we roll through a Monday, I'll be
here through Wednesday and then Dwight'll be back on Thursday
and I'm out. We got to get our days in
(19:16):
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Speaker 2 (19:19):
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If you have an issue with all this cold, it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2 (19:44):
One of the best ever. Baby, come on.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I don't usually like newer Christmas songs. This one is
not newer. It's thirty years old. But isn't this what
was played in the limo as they're headed up towards
Tacami or tak a mom whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Tower in die Hard?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yes it is, Yes, I just watched that movie the
other day.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's still good, very good.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
It's so cheesy with like eighties one's liner one liner.
Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well he uh yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He was a star before that on TV, but this
that that movie made him in a different level.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I feel for him dealing with that.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
He's still alive, Yeah, he just doesn't remember her or
know all of it.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yep, yep, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Uh. The healthcare obviously a c A is uh. They're
talking about that in DC. They're not going to fix it.
Whether they continue the ACA or not, it's gonna still
cost you a lot of money. Gene Simmons is trying
to tackle something is is uh is complicated, which is
the American Music Fairness Act. The Kiss founder obviously a
marketing genius. I wish Dwight was here to do the
(20:55):
Gene Simmons voice.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Hey, Louie Viel, I got a question for you.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No, that's Lake, that's not That's not Gene Simmons.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
But I know I'm just doing his kiss for we gotcha?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Is Gene Simmons is invented music.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
US Senate Judiciary Committee, Intellectual Property Subcommittee and support of
the American Music Fairness Act. The bipartisan bill aims to
ensure radio corporations pay artists for their music. Thought we
already did. In a statement, Simmons, having spent my career
in music, and entertainment industry and understand the vital importance
of the issue, adding that the Act represents sound public
(21:34):
policy and artists must be properly compensated for their creative work.
On Friday, Simmons took over the White House Press Briefing
podium to talk about the bill and also the Kennedy
Center Awards, which he was honored. Kiss was the original
members before. Yeah, they've been trying to figure this out,
even going back to the days when member Pearl Jam
(21:55):
was fighting with Ticketmaster. You know, it's and at some
point Apple Music took over and we're pay you know,
they were paying an artists ten cents of download, and
that point, you know, I was in. I was lucky
enough to come into music when these artists were making
a lot of money album sales and then cassette and
(22:16):
then people don't realize even when it went to CD sales,
it jumped for these artists and the record companies huge
because it was even cheaper to make the CDs. It's
like twenty five cents to make the CD. And they
remember at some point, well you don't because you weren't
born till ninety three, all right, But CDs were like
(22:39):
sixteen seventeen, eighteen dollars a piece back then, back then,
and they were you know, it cost them twenty five
cents to produce, so they were making just handover fist.
Record companies were spending money on radio stations. You would
not believe. I don't think we ever paid for dinner
for record represent talent. We never did. It was crazy jackets. Sure,
(23:02):
I'm not talking about playola. That's I wasn't a program director,
so I wasn't responsible for any of that. But when
Apple Music came in, all the money went away, and
that's when everyone had to hit the road and either
get paid doing concerts and selling T shirts so that
was it, or if you owned your own company. Some
of the country artists have done that, so they release
(23:24):
their own music under their own labels. They would make
more money, but they've got to figure out because if
you're a business, you can't just play music. You know,
you gotta you gotta pay these services and how much
does that trickle down to the artist.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
When he says radio corporations, I mean we pay Askcab
and the other company. I'm not sure what you work
for WAMZ When you play that country music. We have
to pay a service, you know, five ten cents a song,
you know, And that's how some of these artists that
haven't had a hit in thirty years still have money.
You know, bad companies making money because classic rock still
(24:02):
plays Bad Company from the album Bad Company from the
band Bad Company. That was what I used to do
on rock radio. I was not a big Bad Company fan.
So they're trying to figure out they won't. I don't know,
you know where all that will come from, but it
is sort of a shame because when you took the
(24:23):
real the money away from that, you know, the artist
became just rock music went away.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That's why you have.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Iron Maiden as a headliner. No offense to Iron Maiden
on the biggest rock show in the North America right
here in Louis of Kentucky. One of the days the
headliner is a band that hasn't had a hit in
forty years. It's a long time. The other story that
fascinates me is the people. It used to be just Peta,
(24:54):
Like Peter would throw paint on rich people in New
York if they had a fur coat. Right started all there,
and then Peter got weird. They put naked models in
cages and and you know, I guess that worked. But
protesters they do weird things. They throw paint on the
Mona Lisa or whatever, and now all these museums you
(25:15):
can't get to it or see it because it's all
behind glass.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And they did that the other day.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
They smeared custard on the in the Tower of London,
on the British Crown jewels, and of course it makes
all the social media. Four people were arrested Saturday morning
after activists smeared food onto the case. They can't even
get to the state crowned now because of obviously people
(25:40):
like this and the people that stole from the luth
or I'm sorry, Friday, we found out it's it's louvra is.
The is the correct French will tell you that it
is vandalism. And sometimes they ruined, they ruin the art
(26:02):
that they're that they're and whatever they're protesting. I don't
in this entire story. It's just the take back power resistance.
I don't even know what that what does that mean?
People don't even know what that means. There's so many
different groups. It's just like we make fun and we joke.
But the protests here in Louisville, the no Kings whatever protests,
(26:25):
it always becomes about four or five different things. When
people get up there and actually talk because I watch
the live streams on the Facebook.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
But we joke that they.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Go to their trunk and get into the trunk of
their car and they go, Okay, what are we protesting today?
And then they grab the sign that that is uh
that is today right? Uh so again and then and
then the really stupid people in Germany that uh they
(26:55):
encase their own hands in concrete to the roadways, which
end up having these people have issues with their hands.
You cannot concrete is not healthy for you ask the mafia.
They put bodies in there because it dissolves the body.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Oh yeah, you get a pair of concrete shoes.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Well you put them in the If you put them
in that fifty five gallon drome with concrete, the concrete
dissolves the body.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
There's no evidence.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
It's a terrible way to go.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Oh my god, hopefully you're dead before they pour you
into the concrete. But they do that on purpose, so
it sends.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
A message, sends a message not to cross the mafia.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Uh. We didn't get to this story, but I'll touch
on it pretty quickly. The universities are getting they're having
to adjust because of this Administration's like, hey, and this
is the stuff you could disagree or agree with Donald
Trump on things, and you can say attacking the universities
is wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
He's not wrong on them.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
If you've had kids that have gone through the process
and where they go to universities and where do they
go to school, you understand how many American kids aren't
getting spots that go to other kids not from America.
You want to have a diverse university, sure, but not
to the point to where they relied on these numbers.
(28:22):
And UL is down six or I'm sorry, seventeen percent
this fall, so they're trying. The international enrollment has dropped
from eight forty six to seven ninety six. I don't
think that's very many, to tell you the truth, And
I think that was the whole point. Let's increase the
numbers of kids that can get into u OFL that
(28:44):
live here in Kentucky. There's visa restrictions and students are
just fearful. I think there's a number of people that
overseas that have said, you know, what I think. I'm
just going to go to the university here in Madrid.
I'm not going to go to the university in America.
But you go, you realize how many America still has
(29:06):
the best universities, as much as we make fun of them,
and what the hell kind of people they're producing. You
look at it if you watch the Olympics, the people
that are performing for the other countries from Romania to
wherever they go. So and so from Romania she attends
University of Southern California. The pole water vaulter from wherever
(29:30):
is at the University of Michigan. This semester or this
you know, she's a student at Michigan. They still want
to get in our universities because they are you know,
they're still pretty good worldwide. Now, I also again encourage
your kid if they can do a semester over there
for a semester, not for the four years. But there
(29:53):
is My son graduate from Perdue. That's where I've learned.
Side notes, chase a squirrel. I think I'm going to
become Austin one of those houses where you take your
shoes off when you come in.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Oh right, you're not already that house. No, Okay, there's
nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And I got that because John would come home and
a lot of his friends were from India or Indian background,
and they don't even think twice. And I knew John
was home with his friends if I came in to
the door and there was a pile of shoes at
the front door, because they would not even ever imagine
wearing shoes inside the house.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And I said, that's not a bad idea once you
get used to it. So I bought a little thing.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
I'm a terrible American, So I bought it from Sheenne,
this wooden stack thing that's tall and you could put
your shoes in it. And then I put a stack
of socks, new socks at the top.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
So do they take a pair of socks to put on?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That's what I'm saying. I think people are going to
start doing that.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Okay, that's awesome. Have stinky feet from your nasty feet
all day, no wandering around the people.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Some do have nasty feet.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I have very bad foot.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Holder.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Do you have to do powder?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
That's me? No, I don't remedy it at all. Oh
maybe I'll put some axe bodies spray at my shoes or.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
All right, dude, this is this is what didn't bother
her before she was married to you.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh she's that will bother her after.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Oh no, it's bothering her now.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It smells like a wet dog.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah it doesn't smell good.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
No, I have hot feet, I will admit that, but
I do a lot. I have the powder and then
I have the spray that cool your feet and the shoes.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
I got so when like I used to do, like
the powder, just like, are you talking about baking soda
or is there like a new specific foot powder.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
No, they have the you go into target or wherever,
and then they have the spray.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
They have like the little ball things that you put
in there too, that like scent balls and stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Oh really, yeah, No, I didn't know you could do that.
Why would you have a ball in your shoe and it'll
feel like something's in your shoe?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Well I'm you just leave it there when your shoes
aren't on.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh my bad.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
So if you have stinky feet, you're gonna have stinky shoes.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Look, you want to take anything out of the way
that's gonna get interference with you in the bedroom. Bro,
you gotta take care of your feet, or you gotta
wear socks all the time, because most people that do
that don't wear socks, and they sweat in their shoes
and it becomes stinky.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Yeah, when I wear socks, I'm fine. It's just when
I take my socks off.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
My wife is not stinky.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
None of part of her body stinks, which is great
because that's the one deal breaker I have. Maybe that's
why I'm married her, because she's not stinky.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Monday show is in the books, Playing Buck are coming
up next and plenty in there. They'll talk about healthcare.
I guarantee you, as moving forward, we can get to Christmas.
I think John is back to do your job tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I think so. Yes. I hope he's feeling better.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, both of them were sick, and I hope they
don't bring it into here.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
You know they will.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I've had a headache for.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Like two days, so I'm thinking, oh, book, all right, man,
sit tight. They'll be in here a little bit later
than of course. Terry Myners at three o'clock. He's got
plenty on the plate.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Too that time.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
All right, man, double duty.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
My friend Austin Montgomery, I am Tony Venetti will see
you tomorrow on news Radio eight forty whas
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