10.23: Chickenfry - Hour 1

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we'll let you do that. Five two, five to seven to one seventy nine hundred is the number if you guys want to give us a call, you can text in on the Ellen and Federal Credit Union text line five oh two six five three zero seven ninety. A couple of guests are going to join us today. We're going to be joined coming up at four h five by Zach Barnetta FootballScoop dot Com, catch up with him

on the latest here in college football. And then at five point thirty we're going to bring in mister Kendrick Haskins of Way three Sports get his thoughts on a variety of things, including the local teams. Obviously we are right smack dab in the middle of football season, but obviously basketball season. Uh is is kind of here right exhibition game for Louisville on Monday night and then Kentucky

plays Kentucky Wesleyan tonight. So kind of feels like we're hitting that hitting that sweet spot of the year, at least for me when it comes to the calendar year where you got both going on basketball, college basketball and college football, and the NBA started last night and I had no plans to watch the NBA, uh And I got to stop saying and I think I have stopped, but at one point, probably early on whenever we started working together, John, I would say, well, you know, I

mean I like the NBA more than more than most, because I felt like I was somebody that that did, in fact like and follow the NBA more than the average basketball fan here in this market, just because we're we care about college basketball way more than professional basketball. I used to say that from time to time because it used to be true. Now it's not like if

I said that, I'd be lying. I didn't even know that the NBA season started yesterday until I showed up to dinner to meet my family and I saw the Celtics getting their rings from last year's title. And I'm sure I'm not alone. But like I used to really get into the NBA, and now I have like no interest in it, Like I don't find the product to

be entertaining. I don't really have a lot of interest in what is the real buzz in the NBA these days, which is which is really about all the off the court stuff, like, and it's a good thing for the NBA, meaning their product, their league has talked about year round, probably more than maybe any any league outside of the NFL. But the NFL is king in a different way as far as viewership and interest in the product, you know, even though I think it's actually been kind of down

this year. I mean, an NFL Sunday is is damn near erotic for a lot of people in this country because we love, we love football. Were you looking at me weird like that? John? You know what I mean? Like you don't think people get bricked up for some football on a Sunday. It's America.

you know, I used to love the NBA. But clearly they they have an audience that that that you know, gives them, gives them the ability to lock in that insanely lucrative new contract that they got where you know you've got NBC back in the mix. Obviously there's gonna be a lot. I mean the new their new Metea Riites deal that of course became big news this past I guess this right after their their their season came

to an end. And obviously we now know that TNT inside the NBA, this could be the last year of it. Like the amount of money they got is something I never would have expected because I mean I just assumed that a lot of people don't really watch the NBA that much, but clearly they play eighty two games a year.

There's enough people watching, and they got a lot of money when it comes to their broadcast, right, so you know it, it kind of hit me, you know I I without even any maybe out of sight, out of mind, but like I I just if I if I told myself, hey, you should get into the NBA this year, Nick, you should watch more games, it would be like a chore. It would be like me tell like, I just don't have any interest in it. And again it makes me sad.

So the biggest story in the NBA is obviously Bronnie James playing last night with his son, and it was it was well, I'll back up just a second here because I had no plans to watch it. It was not something I would have said, Okay, is he going to get in, let me turn it on. It just so happened to work out to where I did, in

fact watch it because that game started a little later. Obviously, the Celtics and the and the Tea Wolves played the first game last night in the opening in the opening night, but I was on the recliner, my daughter and my wife had gone to bed, and Moose was still up with dad. And he likes to watch. If there's football or basketball on, he wants to watch. Or if no, there's no games on, he wants to watch old wrestling, which is, you know, not something I ever would have

expected with my four year old son, but here we are. So, you know, he my son likes Lebron because he's one of few NBA players that like he can you know, he sees in commercials, he sees in you know, he's got a space Jam blanket and all that kind of stuff. So like he you know, like most kids, one of the first basketball players that he is learning about and knows of and can recognize is maybe the most famous or one of the most famous athletes on the planet.

So you know, I'm not really a big Lebron guy and certainly not a big Lakers fan, but I'm not going to tell my son that if he wants to cheer for him, that's great. So it just happened to work out to where I was, in fact watching the game. I had it on and I was watching with my son as Lebron James and Bronni James checked into the game together, and I didn't really have much of a reaction at all other than thinking to myself, this is

really cool. Like I'm a dad, and if that ever, I mean obviously it's it would never happen for me. So it's not like something I thought about, like, well, what that was me and Moose, that'd be kind of cool like that that that visual didn't enter my brain because again, that's just not it's not real life. But like as a dad, I found myself not really being critical of Lebron but really just thinking like, hey, you

know what, like he built a career for himself. He has done enough for the game, And I mean he could have walked away years ago and it would have been a surprise because he still plays at a high level. But like he has nothing really to prove. I don't think. I mean, that's just my opinion. I'm sure others, you know, hesitate to call in one of the greats because you are more so a Jordan guy and I am too, But like, I think both guys can be you know,

legendary for you know, for their own reasons. So you know, for a brief moment, I'm like, well, you know what, man, I'm not really thinking much about Bronnie. I'm thinking about Lebron and I'm thinking about a dad, him being a dad, and like that would be like if he had the ability to do that, why not, right, Like, I think, you know the answers that a lot of people are probably yelling right now who are so irritated and triggered and bothered by this whole thing. And by the way,

if you're in that group, I totally get it. But you know, I think if you Lebron and you you know he and by the way, I don't believe he has self awareness, but let's just say he did and somebody set him down and was like, look, I get it, Like you you could make this happen. You are probably the only NBA player right now that if that is in this situation. I mean, most guys aren't as old as Lebron, so they don't have kids that are even

old enough to be in the NBA yet. However, like Lebron is the one guy they could get it done. But if somebody wanted to play Devil's advocate and say, look, hear me out, man, you're gonna set this kid up for for, you know, some real struggles, because there's gonna be a lot of expectation and hype around him because he's your son, and he may not be ready for that.

But I still think if you're a Lebron and you and you are aware of some potential you know, issues for Bronni to where this actually wouldn't be a great thing for him in the grand scheme of things, like I think you could, you know, again, try to put yourself in his shoes. Really hard to do because you know, he's Lebron James and we're not, but I think you would you would maybe quickly just move on from the

potential issues and think, I don't care. I want to be on the NBA floor with my son, and if I have the ability to make that happen, I'm going to do it because that's what I'm going to do. I'm a dad, and you know I'm Lebron James. You know, it clearly speaks to some arrogance. Obviously, Bronni is taking a spot from somebody that you know doesn't have a dad that happens to be one of the best players

of all time. But like I found myself for a moment at least understanding the whole aspect here from from Lebron's standpoint, and again, it's a no brainer if you really think about it. I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to say they got to play a professional sport at the same time on the same team with their kid or with their dad, Like you know, when you look at it from that perspective and you try to put yourself in his shoes, again, easier said than done.

And you think about it from like a dad's perspective, like I'm not really bothered by Lebron, And to be honest with you, like the Lakers right them drafting Bronni and acting like it's because of anything other than him being his father, like that is, you know, or him being Lebron's son. Obviously Lebron being his father like them acting like that wasn't the meet again. It's one thing though, I mean, you know they're not going to come out and say it, right, like, yeah, we actually don't think

this kid's any good at all. But you know what, like this is clearly going to get a lot of attention, believe it or not, the NBA professional sports, it is show business, it's entertainment, and this is a storyline that obviously is going to get us a lot, you know.

So like, you know, they're not going to come out and say that, and nobody should ever expect them to, but it was kind of rich for everybody involved in the press conferences after Bronny got drafted to just really just treat everybody listening as if we're all dumbasses, like we didn't you know, like we like we would just believe, Okay, yeah, this kid out of us CEO just so happens to have a dad on the team, But man, you drafted

him because he's just got so much upside. So like again, from the Lakers perspective, you know, I've I've been critical of them because to me, it kind of seems like it's, you know, like a Mickey Mouse kind of thing. To do. But I did hear Brian Winhorst, who of course is always going to be always going to be in in Lebron James's corner, I mean Windhorst, Wendy as they call him. I mean, he really was able to create a career

for himself by covering Lebron in high school. I mean, I don't know if people know that story, but that's where Wendy got his start. He was a guy who worked for one of the newspapers in either Cleveland or maybe it was Acron, and he had access to Lebron and that Saint Vincent, Saint Mary's team, and sure enough, he turned that into a career where he's now, you know,

one of the top insiders in the NBA. So again, I know that what he said here is what you would expect a guy who does have close ties to

Lebron and his family. He but he made the point that the Lakers are are actually I'll just let you guys hear for yourself, because this again, like it's still should it can be mocked, and I have no issue with it because again, like they're not drafting Bronni because they think Bronni's gonna be potentially like a you know, a ten year vet that's, you know, all star caliber guy. They drafted him because of who his dad is, but you know, his dad isn't just some random journeyman in

the nba' His dad's Lebron James. And I thought Wendy did a good job of kind of laying out why doing this for Lebron and not really just Brony, but doing it for Lebron still makes sense for them.

it's working. Lebron is completely engaged and energized. And I think JJ Reddick is making a very smart move, totally leaning into this, totally embracing this, setting this up and making it happen.

Lebron James have left proved anybody like him? Even going to LA in the last what four years, however long he's been there, Like that was to me kind of his sign of yeah, I'm still gonna play and I'm going to play at a high level. But I also have a lot of other projects. I need to be in Hollywood because you know what, I got a lot of business ventures and it's not just basketball for me anymore. So I think this is the way to get the most.

I mean, it's crazy to say, but like Lebron at thirty nine, I don't think he's like hit a wall just yet. He's probably not, you know, he's clearly not what he was at you know, in his twenties. But like it is insane the way this man is still able to play the game the way he plays at thirty nine years old, with a lot of miles on him as a pro athlete, a guy who's probably taken more contact than anybody in NBA history because he's a

physical specimen. And you know, if you can get a few more years out of him play playing at a really really high level, maybe a higher level than he's ever played at in LA, because maybe he's more energized than he's ever been since arriving with the Lakers, that's worth that's worthwhile. That that you know, I'd never once thought about it from from that perspective, is that they've got Lebron James, one of the best of all time.

And if you really want to get the most out of him and make that, you know, make it last as long as possible. If it took draft and his son in the second round and letting him play a couple of minutes a game, it's worth it. And I don't know if you know, it's it's one game, and again that's one of my issues with the NBA is that, like you could, you could win three games in a row and you know, average margin of victory be near twenty, and then come out and lose by fifty the next night.

Like that's just what the NBA is, and I don't think that's good for the product. But so far, in one game, this Minnesota Timberwolves team that a lot of people really think are legitimate title contenders, they got waxed by this Lakers team. So you know, it's just one game, and I get why everybody's annoyed by it, but I've never once thought about looking at it from that perspective. The Lakers are not just doing this because they want to make Lebron happy and they want, you know, a

made for TV movie kind of story. They're gonna give Lebron what he wants. And it's not just because like, hey, we're going to give you some more money, or we're gonna go we're going to go a trade for somebody that you want. We're going to fire a coach and hire JJ Reddick like you wanted. Those are things that I'm sure you know Lebron clearly had a factor. And I mean Lebron's had a factor in everything any team he's ever played for has done. He has because he's Lebron.

But the one thing that might actually energize him more than anything is playing with his firstborn son. Like that's cool as hell, to be honest with you. So, you know, I just wanted to give a little bit of a different perspective on it because I hadn't heard a whole lot of people looking at it from that perspective, and I think it does, in fact make sense. Doesn't mean people aren't going to be, you know, pissed off about it,

because I totally get it. But I mean, I think if this does make Lebron go from being a dude who was closer to being out at forty to being a guy that's out it, I don't know, forty three and he's played and he's and you know, they make some deep runs here in the playoffs, so maybe they get a ring. I mean, Anthony Davis is a pretty good player too. Obviously. Dalton Connect I think was a steal for them in the first round. He was great

last night. Like, if it works out, you can look back and say, yeah, it might have looked like a big publicity stunt, but it might have might have gotten him a ring or two along the way. So again I get why people are, you know, bothered by it, But in the moment itself, like it didn't feel like I actually thought it was hilarious to have Ken Griffy Junior and King Graffy Senior there. They took they all

took pictures that the four of them took pictures. Ron bron and Browny and Ken Griffy Senior and King Griffy Junior all took a picture because they became the first I guess, you know, I guess now it's happened with Major League Baseball with the Griffies, and then obviously it's happened last night with with Lebron and his son. But like you know, it did kind of feel like forced.

And that's where like, if you're ESPN after the game or whatever it was it on TNT, I think it was TNT, like you'd be foolish not to have Brony and Lebron they're talking after the game to Taylor Rooks like again, and and I don't really know how. I mean, again, if you have the BROADCA, you'd be foolish to just ignore that as as a big talking point, rather it be during the broadcast after the game on inside the NBA, because again, like I think, you know, as much as

it annoys people, like, it's clearly a talking point. And that's and that's where I feel like it's a no win situation to an extent, because yes, it did seem you know, it did seem forced. It felt kind of staged. It just was a little bit awkward, Like watching them after the game talk to Taylor looks like it felt awkward because they're still presenting this whole thing like, well, you know, it just worked out this way, man, Like

they're not saying those exact words. But that's been the vibe of Braun and his son this whole time, is like, well, I mean, you know, I don't know, man, just I'm glad they drafted him because just so happens to be my son. He's a really good player. Like no, like, but but you know, let's live in the real world. Nobody's ever going to come out and say what it is eactly is because most people don't in situations like this. But yeah, wouldn't be shocked if he gets sent to

the G League. That's what everybody keeps saying, and I'm by the way, I'm not saying that. I mean, I guess I wouldn't be shocked. But if in fact he sticks on this roster all throughout the year, keep in mind what we just discussed or what I just you know, rambled about. If it's to keep Lebron James engaged at thirty nine, a guy who, when he turns it on, is at any moment potentially the best player in the NBA, even at thirty nine years old, it's worth keeping that

guy on the bench. I mean, I think it totally is. And they look really really good last night. So anyways, the NBA season has started, and who knows, we probably won't talk about the NBA for you know, a long long time now because we just don't do it all right. Some other things we'll get into today as we get closer to game day, and this is really just the routine each week for me. As we get closer, I

get a little less sad. I try to distract myself from the frustration as far as how Louisville and the football season has gone thus far. And that's where I'm at now. We're just a couple of days away from getting the bad taste out of your mouth from the

Miami loss. And again, it's not a game where you've got a whole lot to gain, but certainly I think you have a lot to lose, because a loss here would put you at four and four, and you'd have to look at every other game left on the schedule and ask yourself, Okay, if we can't beat Boston College, should we feel really good about beating anybody else? I mean, that may sound like a stretch, but go look at the rest of the acc Go look at the rest

of the Louisville schedule. I mean, I guess maybe you could say Stanford would be a team that you know, you'd feel pretty good about, but you got to go to California. That's far from a normal road trip for a Louisville football program. So again, my excitement is more so just to hey, let's get this win and avoid a two game skid and avoid you know, a rough conversation.

We haven't really had to have yet. Our conversations, at least within this show and the postgame show when it comes to louisvill football haven't been you know, totally positive. Let's be honest, They've been pretty disappointing because not many or any maybe expected Louisville to be here at four

and three, seven games in. But again, I think it shifts to it and even you know, it gets a little darker, the noise gets a little louder as far as the frustrations and disappointment if you somehow can't get past Boston College on Friday night. And by the way, I you know, when Louisville loses games, I just find myself not completely checking out from the rest of the

college football world. But I just now, earlier today started looking at at spreads for the upcoming weekend of college football, and I would not have guessed that Louisville would have been a seven point favorite. I would have guessed that they probably would have been favored by I don't know, like four and a half or something. I mean, I know that Boston College is coming off of two losses. One was a beat down to Virginia Tech, the other

was a close loss to Virginia. But I guess that's a nice reminder that despite Louisville having three losses, you know, all of those losses are against ranked teams, and the computers still really like Louisville, because again, these formulas, man, rather it be the ESPN FPI or maybe it's the you know, the Ken Palm and basketball, a lot of

these formulas that we reference from time to time. I just to me, there seems to be a clear issue that they don't factor in winning and losing enough because in the FPI, look, you know, if it makes you feel good about Louisville, that's fine. I can't claim that it's legit because I've made fun of it for years, meaning ESPN's Football Power Index. But Louisville's a four and three team and they're in the top seventeen in the FPI. Like again, I think that tells you because Louisville's numbers

have been pretty good even in losses. They just have made big killer mistakes that have put them in positions where they they aren't able to win. But yeah, I think they're at number seventeen or maybe eighteen, which you know, unfortunately hate to say this, but if you wanted to maybe make that formula look bad, you could use Louisville maybe as an example, because it just doesn't make a lot of sense that you can have three losses and four wins and be viewed as a team. That's you know,

top twenty in the country. I mean again, the formula is what it is. It's not an opinion, it's not somebody given some type of take. It's just you know, it's it's crunching the numbers, all right. Reminder, if you want to join us, you can. Phone lines are now open five oh two, five to seven one seventy nine hundred. You can also text in on the Ellen and Federal Credit Unions X line five h two six five three zero, seven ninety. But we'll get to your calls here on

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Ridiculous to needs your kid to play with you in order for you to be engaged, reasonable, reasonable opinion, a reasonable take. What I was trying to really emphasize is that, And again, if you if you if you feel the way you feel about Lebron, and this whole thing is just a circus, and you just think he's proven that he's you know, not a good guy or whatever. You know, like you just think he's he's you know, he's he's an unseerious guy at this point in his career. Who

would do this? Like I get all that, But do we know that Lebron told them like force them. Hey, I'm gonna like, did he give them stipulations like, hey, I'll walk and just call it a career if you don't draft my son, To be honest with you, I doubt that he did that. But again, I don't know. Maybe he did. I mean, he's Lebron James. He can do things that a lot of NBA players would never be able to get away with. But maybe just look at it from the Lakers side, which is, hey, we

know he'd like this. We know he would really really be rejuvenated and maybe, you know, be the best Lebron we've ever had since he's been a Laker. And again, maybe that's a little bit of a stretch because he's been there five years now and he's thirty nine years old. But he's not. I mean, he's not slowing down. I mean, and he has good players around him. Again, Anthony Davis, when healthy is an all NBA caliber player that's been proven.

So like, if if the Lakers did all of this and it wasn't because of any real force from Lebron, I wouldn't be totally shocked because again it would it makes sense for them in that regard. If Lebron was starting to look washed up, be a totally different conversation. He's not. He's still playing the game at a really, really high level, and at any moment he looks like the best player in the NBA at thirty nine or

forty three whatever. I don't think any of us can say that we were shocked until we do see a sign of him gradually, you know, declining, and he just hasn't done that, and there's a lot of you know, and I don't I know, trust me, I can read the room on how people feel about Lebron, especially like non NBA people like I totally get it, and I don't want to make it, you know, turn into this show is just the Lebron James show where we're talking about how great he is, because like I know nobody

would want to hear that, and that wouldn't be entertaining at all. But one of the things, one of the many things that you will look back about look look back on about Lebron is how he was able to play this long at this at this level. Like he's old for an NBA player, like he means he's three four years older than me. I mean, it's beyond it's beyond unusual and not normal for a guy to be playing any professional sport at that age at this level.

And it's not like he's Peyton Manning with the Broncos where he had a noodle for an arm and really just won a Super Bowl because Von Miller was Von Miller and they played Cam Newton and the Panthers. And I love Peyton Manning, my favorite player of all time. But like you could tell when he was out there, at any moment, the guy might might break his hip if he gets tackled, Like Lebron is still playing the same way for the most part that he has almost

his whole career, all right. Five O two five seven seventy nine hundred is the number if you guys would like to h to jump in and give us a call. We had some callers on the line, but they dropped off whenever we went to break, So you know, I get it, you know, want to hold through a commercial break. He got things to do. But you know, bow lines are open if you want to call back, or if anybody else wants to call in questions, complaints, compliments, insults,

whatever you've got. You have the platform here to show those with us. All right, somebody on the text line reminded or I guess informed me. I did hear a little bit of this on KSR this morning. I didn't get a chance to hear much. But apparently it wasn't Mark Pope that ran out of gas yesterday. It was

his wife. And he blamed his wife, surely in a joking way, Like I don't think that that that's you know, I don't think he was just you know, upset about it and wanted everybody to know, Hey, it's not your basketball coach that ran out of gas. It was his wife, who is irresponsible. Like it wasn't like he was doing it to like make her look bad or you know, lecture he or anything like that. But are you surprised that like he even acknowledged it Like, I think leading

into stuff like that can be fun. It makes you seem relatable even if you're not. I think we live in a world now where if you're trying to really win over a fan base, win over a I don't know, let's say a party, rather it be the right or

the left. Like, I just think the world now is is different than it once was to where being relatable maybe even a little bit of you know, self deprecation like that plays more than it ever has, if that makes sense, Like acting as if you're larger than life and you're just you know, like unrelatable and you're I just you know, if that's just who you are, that's

who you are. But like, I'm not surprised that like he had fun with it, but almost I'm kind of surprised he actually like said, hey, it wasn't me, it was my wife. Like again, he's just being honest, and I'm sure it was you know nothing, But like, put it this way, I could see my wife being upset if I outed her for doing that instead of you know, falling on the sword myself. And everybody's you know, everybody's

relationships marriages is different. But like I probably would have just been like, oh, yeah, you know, what are you gonna do? Or I would have said not me.

with it. But you know, again, I I think it's smart.

big difference from what they had previously. But also towards the end found myself like genuinely being entertained by Cal and I know Kentucky fans had grown like when Kentucky fans had become so done with just the way Cal handled everything, you know, acting like I haven't seen him at acting like he didn't like he didn't know where his players were and why guy didn't dress out for a game, talking about how you know, hey, we're we we just gotta we gotta, we gotta practic, like just

saying like Cal would say things that like nobody really would would bat an eye because it was Calby and Cal but like some of the things he would say, Rick too, I mean Ricky, they're kind of the same,

which is probably why they despise each other. But like, you know, I found Cal at the end like he would make me laugh, like with how he would just you know, like he would show it to a press conference after a win and instead of like you know, talking about the game and you know, acting like you know his teams, he would he would he couldn't help himself.

Where was it they'd went down to Auburn and beat Bruce Pearl's team pretty bad last year, I think in February January whenever it was, and it was a big win for them at the time they needed it. And like first thing he did when he walked into the press conference was just before even got to the microphone, started like talking to the media guys there that cover Kentucky.

How you like that? Like, I mean, he was, and it was just like, it's not I mean, it's not what you typically see from coaches, but I found it, like when he kind of became unhinged there towards the end, I just found it to be hilarious, especially especially because they go after the players, go after me, and that's

what people were doing. Yeah, when he would know that they are going after him right like and you know, he would want you to think that he doesn't have a clue as far as what the fan base is saying, but he quite literally knows what they're saying. He can check the pulse and he knows, and he's human. Some people can can get away with like I don't even know what's being said about me. Most people who say that are lying, especially if you're in the public eye.

But like Kyle was clearly somebody who was well aware of what everybody was saying about him, which is why things kind of got sour. He couldn't believe that there was the criticism there for him when they went what eight and something? They won eight nine games whenever he during the twenty twenty one season, and like he became bitter and it was just an unhealthy relationship. But Pope's

a lot different than that. And I mean, I'm sure again it doesn't matter if I find him, because it's good if you have a villain that is easy to dislike, and that was cal for the most part. But you know, I'm still going to root for them to lose every game, including tonight when they play Kentucky Wesleyan, And it won't really impact me as far as like the joy. I I mean, maybe it'll maybe it would be a little bit sweeter to take satisfaction and their losses if I

like hated their coach. But you know, I like Tubby Smith a lot and I love watching him lose too, just because that's how it works when it comes to uh, when it comes to the rivalry, you know, I mean, they'll probably beat Wesley in the way that Louisville beat friend of Young Harris. I don't know why I keep wanting to say friends, but for some reason, I for

for weeks, I think I was talking. When I would talk basketball to people about the exhibition, I think I would for some reason, I would call the opponent Friends of Life University and not Young Harris. There's no way that's a real school. That's like something I dreamed of, right.

whenever that may be down the line. Yeah, well yeah, when you whenever you finally have sex and have a kid, it'll hit you at some point, maybe you're a dad of a three year old or a five year old, but you'll start to have those outbursts, not like you know where you're screaming, but like something will just come over you and out of nowhere you'll say one of the corniest dad jokes ever, and like it's just it happens. I don't think you could fight it if you tried.

I Mean, the one that really stood out to me that I think I'll always remember is because like as soon as I said it, I thought to myself, why would I say that? That's I mean, like that's terrible. Is whenever I was at a Mexican restaurant and there was a guy coming from the kitchen. He was wheeling a keg to replace one of the kegs up there by the bar, and without even thinking all of a sudden,

I just blurted out, hey is that for me? And like that again, that's that's like I mean that is that not like the ultimate example of a corny dad joke that like everybody probably snickered because they're like, wow, that was lame. This guy's really corny.

as of now. And I didn't realize it, but because again I kind of it's not like I check out, but I'm not just I'm not consuming the college football content as much whenever my team is underwhelming, and that's what Louisville's doing. But I didn't realize we've got ourselves a hell of a slate this weekend. I mean some matchups that you know, a few weeks ago you probably wouldn't have said her that intriguing. But a bunch of ranked teams play in each other LSU and A and

M that's eight verse fourteen. I mean Vandy and Texas. Who would have ever thought that that'd be a ranked matchup? Alabama, Missouri, Oregon, Illinois, Navy, Notre Dame. I mean those are all ranked matchups. So exciting stuff, no doubt. All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side. Wrap up at three o'clock hour. Right here on Sports Talk seven ninety so, we talked about this. I think it might have been last week.

The change is coming to Twitter as far as the block feature, and by the way, real quick, I'm proud of us. We never call it x no, and I still feel like most people don't. But then again, I'm not sure, Like anytime I read a story about the platform, they do call it x which I guess that there's nothing wrong with that, But I think when you're discus seeing it among people who've been using it for a while, you're still going to see them, you know, refer to

it as as Twitter. But they announced that they are going to make some changes to the block feature, so once active, blocked users won't be able to interact with a user and their post, but they'll still be able to see them. And apparently that that that has led to, you know, some real movement as far as people, I guess getting off of the platform. And how would they

know that? By the way, like because because what I'm referencing an article from Mashable and it highlights that the block I mean, really the point of the article is to say that the block feature is going to potentially be a real issue for for Twitter and x users. Uh, and it could be a real issue for the future

of the platform. But but my whole thing was that, like that there's as much as people make fun of Elon Musk and Twitter and how it's not what it once was, and it's really I mean, it's basically become a toxic wasteland where a lot of fake information fools a lot of people and reminds us how dumb society is to believe anything that they read on the internet. I mean, I think that's the best way to describe Twitter as of October of twenty twenty four, especially when

we got an election coming up. So again, it wouldn't totally shock me if people who are making the decisions for the platform don't realize that, like the Apple App Store and the Google play Store, they've got some specific rules as far as what you can and can't allow

on your social media platform meeting at some point. I mean, I've read this last week that both of those app stores Android and iPhone, Google and Apple, they don't allow you to have an app that social media that does not allow you to block people that you don't want to see and interact with. So maybe they found a

way around that. I'm not sure. Hard to imagine such a huge company would would make this change without realizing, oh yeah, this could make it to where people can even use their phone and use the app because you violated the terms of having an app in the app store. But what they're citing here is that And if you ever heard of blue Ski, John, I've seen it. That's kind of I don't know exactly what it is.

But it's always just looked janky to me, And I don't think you'll, like, even if Twitter shut down today and Blueski became the replacement, it wouldn't be nowhere near what Twitter is. I just I think if it ever dies, it'll die, and there'll be some others that try to like replicate what it was. But you know, I just I think, yeah, but that I mean that that that just seemed I mean, I mean I've not heard anybody

mention that at all. I mean, it was like a weak thing, a week long thing, and I've not seen or heard anybody like, hey, follow me on threads or check out my content.

But real quick, I know, we got to get to a break in just a moment here, But Blueski has reported that just one day after that announcement from x Twitter that they're going to make some changes to the block feature, that the you know, blu Ski's base has increased by more than half a million people and they're

now boasting a user base of over twelve million. So you know, that sounds like a lot, and it is for you know, that amount of time, But I mean still, that's that's a drop in the bucket compared to the six hundred and eleven million active users on the Twitter platform. All right, let's talk about Jefferson Animal Hospital, shall we? Yes, we shall. I asked you a question, but I already knew the answer. We will talk about Jefferson Animal Hospital

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