It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. Now, here's Nick coffee. All right, let's get it started. It is the five o'clock hour here on a Friday. It's Friday to me, Friday to a lot of people. If not, I apologize because if everybody else is celebrating a Friday and it's not a Friday to you, then you know that would be unfortunate. But I can't help it. We're getting out of here for a four day weekend to celebrate Fourth of July,
and I'm excited. I gotta find a good way to, uh to describe being excited for the weekend without it sounding like I just want to leave the show now, because it's probably not a good thing for listeners to get the impression that, like, I don't want to be doing this, you know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you're saying, but you get it right, you know, I mean everybody wants to relax. Yeah,
I mean I wouldn't say this year. I would do this show twenty four hours a day if they let me, but they they don't let me do that, so you know, only get three hours and you know i'd work holidays too, but they don't. They don't allow it. In fact, I didn't push it, but if I didn't want to, taked like, do you think there's anybody within our Is there anybody within our department? Like on air that that is not because it's a I do think there is one,
and it's I think it's Tony Cruz. Really, I'm almost positive Tony Cruise is coming on Friday. But that's a very Tony Cruise thing to do. Yeah, well, hope, like but Scott like wouldn't like Scott's okay though, right like Scott? Oh yeah, right, if I remember right, And this is obviously the listeners do not care about this. But I think they have a part time or coming in to fill it for Scott on Friday. Well, because I initially when I was thinking about, like,
or do I want to earn a comp day? You know, because my wife actually has to work. She works in the financial world, you know, for a bank, credit union type place, and they're not closed on Friday, so you know she's gonna she's gonna work, not she's not taken a day. So I initially thought, well, if that's the case, then I'll just work too. But then I thought, no, I mean, like that would be such a I mean to come in at three o'clock, like in the midst of what you know everybody else is likely doing,
which is a four day week, and would just feel weird. And you know, clearly they would have let you take your comp day, but they would have they probably would have struggled to find somebody to come in and fill in for me, to be honest with you, because again for most people, like it's it's tough enough to get people who do this on a part time level to you know, have the time and ability and eat an interest
in coming in on certain days. But you know, doing it when everybody else is on holiday, it seems even you know, less intriguing, I would assume. And it's not. It's not like, you know, it's not an actual holiday, so therefore like you're not paid extra or anything like that, and they see another thing. If we were in the of like basketball season or something, Oh yeah, there'd be a lot more to talk
about in that regard. And that's why you know, there are there have been some holidays and now that I'm older and I do enjoy you know, if my family's off because there's a holiday that's observed even if sports is going on. Like there's exceptions to where, you know, like for example, sometimes you know, bowl games are played on New Year's and sometimes bowl games are played, I think even on Christmas Eve. There's a bowl game every now and then, if I had to work into a post game show,
like that's just that's that's what I have to do. That's my job.
But you know, if there's you know, if there's a like for example, I always feel bad whenever we're off the Monday after the first college football weekend that holiday weekend, oh yeah, Labor Day, because you know, there's so much to react to, and you know, it's not a day to where like I want to be off, to be honest with you, but nobody else is working because it's literally a national holiday to where it's like you know what, like it's probably I finally just accepted because I used to
ask like, hey, could you get somebody to come in part time, like or some can you get somebody that's a backup to come in and produce because I want to be on the air, And they were like, no, you can't do that, Like the company is like I wouldn't be allowed to let you work. It's it's like it's not a holiday that on air. People get to choose if they want to take it, and everybody else does. It's everybody's off. So yeah, anyways, we're off on Thursday
and Friday. So if you're going to be continuing your normal routine because you know you don't have the you know, you're not able to be off work because maybe your first responder. There's a lot of jobs doctors, nurses, I mean people, there's there are people who have a career that and there's all consent of careers. Actually, if you think about it, that swing shifters. Yeah, they don't follow. Uh they don't follow the the holiday
calendar because they can't because of what they do. It's that important to where regardless they're going to be needed. Probably, So I hate that that's the case, but you know it makes sense. And if that's you know, if that's the career you chose as a first responder, you know somebody in the medical field, then that means you're selfless and you want to help people. So shout out to you, all right, Uh, I didn't expect
to get here at five o'clock. But at the end of the four o'clock hour, and if I want to lay this out, because to just jump right back into it, people would be like, what the hell you doing? People probably ask that question all the time on the show. But John played a Billy Ray Cyrus song as we were ending the four o'clock hour. What was What was the name of the song? Yeah, I wasn't familiar with it, but it's called Some Gave All and it's a big Billy Ray
hit. And I people coming after me on the text line for not knowing that song. Yeah, so it's it's justified. I didn't. I didn't
recognize it. I didn't know it, but it is one of his, you know, his well known songs, and we've been playing we've been playing patriotic music throughout the show today because we've got you know, fourth of July tomar It makes total sense, and we were talking about Billy Ray Cyrus and how you know he's actually had some good songs like the one John played, But anybody my age or older will always remember him for Achy Breaky Heart.
Now there are some people that will, Honestly, I would be willing to bet that you probably although you know the song ake You Break he Heart, Like, if you heard it, you probably think of him as Miley Cyrus's dad, don't you know that's definitely the first thing I think of. Yeah, yes, for me, it's not it. I mean, I know that that's his dad, or that that he's her dad, but it's just not something it would have been the first thing that came to mind for me.
And he also was in the song with with uh of Old Town Road, which became you know, that's what the remember him from because I knew how the story, like how the song came about. Like I never felt like, oh my goodness, this song is great, but like now when I hear it, I'm like, this ain't bad. A lot of songs like that that are very memorable. If they're big hits, they they kind of become cult classics down the road by people who didn't like them to begin
with, no doubt. So anyways, I shared with John a story that he was unaware of it, and a lot of you may not have known this either, But the reason Billy Ray, Cyrus and Little nas X connected and collaborated is because Billy Ray expressed to him that he went through the same thing. Whenever he was breaking into the country music world and he became a big are. There were a lot of country music artists that said, this
isn't country, this is nonsense. Get this mullet achy, breaky heart guy out of here and Lil nas X that song went viral, ended up being played on radio and country music whatever it is. I'm not sure if there's like a I don't know who controls what is technically considered to be a part of the country music genre. But Lil nas X was told he's not going to be part of country because they didn't see this country. So Billy Ray's
like, hey man, let me help you out. Like we'll get in the studio and I'll jump on the song, which I mean Little nas X might not even know who that was. But anyways, it became a big hit, and he said, you know, they've gone through the same thing, and I shared the story about when that happened. You know, there were musicians Travis Tritt, being at least one of the most vocal that you know, did not like that country music was like welcoming in Billy Ray.
He was nominated for awards and when he won in nineteen ninety three, the AMA for Country Music Single of the Year. Uh, he took the took to the podium excepted the award Billy Ray Cyrus did and took a shot at Travis Tridd And here it is. To those people who don't like ache and break your heart, here's a quarter cuts someone who tears crowd erupted. You hear that? I love? Yeah, who knew that there was like, you know, country music beef like you see in you know, in hip
hop. So anyways, let's let's be more serious now and talk about the hard hitting sports stories that you all came here to, uh to hear about. In all honesty, there's nothing and I mean nothing going on that that I certainly care about. I know, Baseball's going on, and we've got the Hot Dog any competition tomorrow that has lost its luster because they they booted Joey Jaws from the from from the event, not gonna let Joey Chess not
participate. So I think there's gonna be even less interest in viewership in that because of that. But then again, like maybe I don't know, maybe somebody emerges and like puts up Joey Chestnut type numbers, you know, and they become like the you know, the where a parent. Yeah, and I was gonna say, maybe like the torch has been passed, but like it didn't really happen. Like he got kicked out for promoting a vegan hot
dog company. That's what really led to it. But hey, it could be to where maybe they realize, hey, we'll let this guy back in because he thinks he runs and dominates this sport. And yet we got a new guy that we think can take him down, so we'll bring him back in to get his ass whooped. Unlikely to happen, considering the fact that like nobody comes close to competing with Joey chestnutt. So again, we've been all over the place today. That's not that unusual for this show, but
today I feel like it's definitely more so than usual. But some of you have asked if I know who the late addition to the to the TBT Louisville team is, and I don't know. I have no clue. And I mean that like I mean, they wouldn't tell me that, but it could be a variety of guys. So they they've teased a new member joining the roster at some point and just to be clear. I tweeted a picture of Gorgy Jang as I don't think and I'm quite sure it's not Gorky Jang,
but he'd be awesome if it was. Because I love Gorgy Jang. He was my favorite. He's my I mean, he was probably my favorite, and it's hard to pick a favorite, but like I love, I was a fan of Gorgy differently than I was anywhere else because I just thought Gorky was so innocent, wholesome, like he didn't really know the rules of basketball whenever he came, whenever he got to Louisville, and he's just great. I've ever told you a story about my Dennis asking me about Gorgy Jang.
I don't think so. I'll share that in a second. But to answer the question on the text, I don't know who it is. It could be David Johnson. If I had to guess, I would say it's David Johnson. But I'm only saying that because David wanted to play last year, but something kept him from being able to. I think it might have been advice from his agent. It wasn't a contract situation, but I think he
still felt pretty good about being able to latch onto an NBA team. And since I've talked about this recently, I chatted with somebody who is affiliated with the TVT that said that they've they've learned throughout this that if you are you know, it's so competitive to get a job in the NBA, right, and you've got so many guys that are kind of all the same, right,
I mean, dom a dozen. It's crazy to say that considering that if you are somebody that's even like remotely being considered to be in the NBA on a roster, you are one of the very best basketball players on the
planet when you consider how many people we have here on planet Earth. But anyways, this guy who works with the TBT told me that they they they believe and they've had people tell them that if you play in this event, the NBA kind of just assumes that that you're you're you're out of gas essentially,
and that you're kind of prop me, And that makes sense. I don't think they should look at it that way, but like I get why they do if that makes sense, right, because if you are on a high level euro contract, you're probably not able, your your team's not gonna let you play because they're gonna to be fair, you are an asset of their of their team, and you know, if you go out and get hurt, like you know, in fact, if you if you did,
if you didn't have a stipulation in your contract and you chose to play and you got hurt, then they would cut you and not pay you any money. So you know, I would guess it's David, But that's just that's just just an absolute guess. Earl Clark potentially, or Clark is somebody who, if you remember last year, was on the team and I think he actually even did a press conference with the media to kind of promote it like
a lot of these guys have done. And then he found out that his contract I think it was with I believe it was with is in Japan. I think he ended ohays, yeah it was, it was in Japan. Either way, he was he was on a contract overseas and ended up ended
up not being able to play. They they, they, I guess, you know, reminded him, hey, you will violate your contract if you don't play, And to be fair, you know, at that point Earl would be playing for a share of a million dollars and I don't know what his cut would be, and that would be a lot of money I wo'd assume to to to anybody. But playing in in you know, Taiwan, he he has a guaranteed deal that pays him a lot more than he would
probably make from a share of that. So you know, that's that's where these guys got to make that decision. You know, what do they want to do? So maybe it's Earl. I don't know. I didn't see
I mean again, I'm just guessing here. So what makes this fun, though, is no matter who it is, it's going to be somebody that Louisville fans are excited about because it's a former player that you know, is joining a bunch of other former players that for the most part, I wouldn't say they're all fan favorites, but you know, I think they're all.
I mean, some of them are beloved. I mean you could talk about I mean, let's be real, Peyton Siva and Russ Smith are two of the most beloved Louisville basketball players of all time, certainly in my lifetime. So I don't know who it is, but I'm as excited to find out
as you guys are. All Right, So Anyways, years ago, this is probably like two thousand and twelve, maybe twenty eleven, I was at the dentist and it was right around the time that I got my first chance to host radio, and I was I was doing a couple of days a week in the in the evenings on a on a station here in the market, smaller station, and my wife goes to the same dentist, and I think she had told them, uh you know, she told them about it,
and she's proud of her husband. Who was you know, it was, it was, it was. It was a big deal to me then and it's still awesome to be able to do this now. But you know, whenever they're working on your teeth, I mean maybe maybe they realize you can't talk to them like you got you got your fist in my mouth,
brother, We can't have a conversation. They ask questions, and you know, even the people who are the assistants, what do you call them assistance they're always super sweet, you know, even any of the ones that I you know, the dinnists that I've gone to orthodontist as well, but you know, they always want to be you know, and some of them know that, like Hey, the conversation we're having here, you know, you don't have to give me much back, but I'm just gonna I'm just going
to kind of speak to you just to be friendly enough, but I'm going to be aware that, you know, we can't really have a back and forth here because again, you have your fingers in my mouth and sometimes she got those like clamps on your teeth, you know, like you know, yeah, So my dentist, do you think he'd know he was? You know, he was he'd been doing it a while. I mean, he's a dentist and he's asked me the conversations expecting an answer, and I don't. I mean, and he asked me, you know, he had no
He's like, I have no interest in sports. What's your favorite sport? I was like, I'd say basketball. I was like, well, that's good. You know Louisville. I'm kind of I'm kind of new to Louisville, but I know they've got a great basketball team. I was like, yeah, it's like, who's your favorite player? And it was like the
first time as an adult somebody asked me who my favorite player was. He asked me, like I was like, I was a little kid who just figured out who just like just started liking sports, Like John, you're an adult, what's lest somebody asked you who your favorite player was. That's a
good question. It's usually for kids, right it is. So I'm sitting there like kind of surprised one that he asked the question, and surprised that, you know, I'd never really realized that that's not a common question for you know, an adult, and then also being surprised that my dentist is wanting to have a conversation when I'm like really worried that, like you know, I'm scared of death of the dentist, and I'm always worried in panicking
the whole time. They're they're, they're, they're doing whatever they're doing. And then I'm thinking, like, you know, is he gonna get caught up in the conversation, you know, yank or the wrong tooth out or
something. I don't know. Uh So then I thought about it, and I said gorgy Zang and you know, imagine saying gorky zhang with something, and like, you know, he couldn't he didn't know what I was saying, So, you know, he never I don't think he ever heard the name that I had said, uh, and then it just it was always weird to me, Like for a while, I would think of when I thought of Gorgy Jang, I would think about that awkward encounter with my uncomfortable
So that's one of those things. I feel like, if you wanted, if you had to redo that scenario, you could have easily just thought of whoever the easiest name to say is on the roster that you know, I could have said Michael Jordan. I'm not sure my dentist would have known. I mean I could have. But yes, Gorgy was. He was man.
He was rare. Not only was he a good player that you got to see for three years really just develop and and and become a really good player, become an NBA first round draft pick, help you win a national championship. I don't need to sell you on his credentials if you're a Louis a basketball fan. But Gorge was so innocent is the word I want to use, But I'm not sure if it's the if it's the right word to
use. But you know, he he ended up in America playing at Huntington Prep and had never I mean, he was a soccer player, even played basketball competitively until you know, right around the time he was probably sixteen years old. So he ends up coming over to Huntington Prep. Louisville's recruiting Justin what's his name, I can't think of his name. I want to say Justin Ewards, but that's not it. Justin Coleman. He was a five
star recruit. Justin Coleman was at Huntington Prep and Rick Patino landed him. And I still believe, I can't prove it. I still believe Rick Patino took the commitment from five star wing Justin Coleman not because he you know, I mean, not just because he was good, but because he wanted for people to stop talking about how Cali Perry got to town in one year. With John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe, had put together a class that, like, you know, I mean, Rick never got five star
guys consistently. I mean, I guess he did occasionally, Smarto or a Clark those guys, But you know, there was a lot of noise because cal Perry comes in and they're great right out of the gate. Louisville's coming off, I mean, Louis's going through kind of a rebuilding year because the first year of CAL was the first year Louisville was without t Will and Earl
Clark and those guys. So I don't believe Rick ever thought Coleman was going to qualify because he was a five star kid, top twenty, and his offers were like literally nobody. I mean, the offers that he did have that were committable offers were small school like, smaller like, not like mid majors. And usually you know what that means. Their coaches aren't investing time and effort in recruiting a kid because they know it's going to be waste because
they see no chance, no scenario that a kid's gonna academically qualify. And that's exactly what happened with Coleman. He ended up not qualifying. I think he went JUCO. Then he ended up at Marshall for a year before he ended up getting booted off the team. But because they were looking at Justin Coleman, they saw Gorgi Jang, who was his teammate there at Huntington Prep, and Gorgey was looked at as a project. Was not a big time
recruit as far as rankings, although the final rankings. He did get a big bump or he jumped up to be a four star. But you know, then he got here and he was ruled academically ineligible. I think people forget that Gorgey was ruled academically academically ineligible and there was like no sign for sure, like it was just done, like he was not going to be
eligible to play. And he ended up winning an appeal. But the nc doua a deed, you know, they they said that they cannot verify that the curriculum that gorgye Jang took in in Senegal where he's from, was up to par with the American you know, with with the you know, they didn't understand his transcript. They didn't know if it was legit or not. So they said, no, we can't, this doesn't pass. We have
some suspicion about the actual course where he took in high school. Well, Louisville appealed it and felt really good about it because gorge Jang, I think, spoke six languages and got a perfect score on one of the tests act or SAT. I mean, he didn't really speak any English whenever he got here. It was very broken in Then by the end you know, he was, you know, much better at speaking English. So you know, then he gets to Louisville and he didn't really know how to play. I
mean, it's all new to him. I'll never forget it. As as a freshman in an exhibition game, he fouled out and he wouldn't come off the floor. I mean he was like, no, I don't. He walked over to the scores table, like telling them, you're wrong. There's no I did not foul out. There's no way I have five fouls because
when you play basketball internationally, offensive fowls don't count towards it. He did not know that if you if you foul somebody, you know, if you foul somebody, when when you're on offense, it doesn't you know that it counts In America, it counts towards your total fouls, and you'll be you know, and you have to sit down. And I remember I remember Rick Bertino realizing that and almost kind of like like, I mean, he kind of put in he really put into perspective sort of what he's dealing with,
this guy who's learning and he's like a sponge soaking it all up. But like all this is new to him, and then he became very good friends with Elijah Justice, the former mister Basketball from Pikeville, Kentucky, the five to nine white kid who they called Bullet and talk about two guys from different sides of the world and different culturally, and the story goes that in practice they were doing kind of like not an open run, but you know,
just kind of like they had starters versus reserves, whatever it may be, and they were competing in Bullet, who you know, was a walk on. But then they gave him a scholarship because it was one available, because I think it was when Smarto ended up going pro and gorge would be near five. I mean, this guy's more than a foot taller than Elijah Justice Gorgy is, and he would be in a great spot to block a shot. Gorgey's one of the best shot blockers we've ever had here, but he
wouldn't block a shot. So finally, like Rick Pertino like put a stop to him, was like, what are you doing? Like how is he scoring? It will on you. I don't know what exactly what he said, but Gorgy responded with he's my friend, and I mean like that like
that's that's that's wild. Of old. I love Gorgey's jang you won't and look people not having that same story in that you know that that path that's normal, but like that's rare to see it at any point, I feel like, especially this day and age, right, Like usually if you or somebody who comes from across comes from another country and you end up at a prep school, you know, like you end up you know, probably still having a lot to get used to and get acclimated. Like gorge there was
a wholesome component that I that I loved about Gorgs. And now he's apparently working in the front office with the Spurs. I don't know if you guys saw that on the draft night he was in the war room with the San Antonio Spurs. All right, we got to stick around. We'll finish this thing up here in the next thirty minutes and get out here for the weekend. You know that's on a T shirt somewhere in the South. I pledge allegiance to this flag. And if that bothers you, that's too bad.
That's the motto I live life by John Oh. Yeah, wouldn't doubt it. For as god, Aaron Tipping is so awesome. I wanted to ask you this earlier when you were talking about Billy Ray with the mullet. Was he the first one to kind of do the mullet country singer thing. Uh, it's a good question. I mean, I think what made Billy Ray, I mean, the mullet was around. I mean the mullet the early nineties, which Billy Ray won that award ninety three we talked about earlier.
You know, that was there were a lot of kids my age that had the mullet, not by choice, but it was the new thing. And thank thank you to my parents who didn't give me a mullet at any point, but you know, my cousin had one. He's a little bit older than me. Like I remember, I started kindergarten and I think like half of the dudes in my class had mullets. Like it was. It was a big thing. And honestly, I think Billy Ray Cyrus is credited for a lot of that. I mean, I don't know, I could be
way I could be way wrong. I was a little kid, but like you know, ake you break your heart was a big deal now, I mean he was on top. I can't imagine kindergarteners with mullets. Yeah, I don't. I don't know if Aaron, if Aaron Tilla, if Aaron Tippin had a mullet pre or like I think his early Aaron Tippin was not a mullet. I think when Aaron Tippin like sort of was emerging, he had a mullet. But no, the song the music video for there ain't
nothing wrong with the radio. He's got a mult He's got a mullet. God, he's beautiful and he look at a mustache. I mean, I actually think the reason Billy Ray Cyrus probably got way more credit for influencing America with mullets is because the mustache that Aaron Tippin had really just it it over shadow the mullet, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, you know people were doing that. He's hell of a stash, hell of a
stash on one Aaron Tibbon. All right, uh so, since we're talking to music, let me let me mention this real quickly and then I'll I'll move on because I I'm not surprised by this, but it might surprise some of you or you might find it interesting, But I I'm kind of a nerd for Google trends like where we get to see the most googled thing. You know this state googled you know this this many times? I just I
don't know. I'm sure it doesn't interest a lot of you. But when it comes to the most popular musicians overall in America right now, who would you say is you know is on top? Like? Who do you think are the most famous musicians currently as we speak, with the most momentum in America? I would say Taylor Swift is probably number one? Okay, who else? Uh? Dua Lipa's probably up there. Maybe I'm not I'm not great with current music. You when I say current, I mean like top
forty, Like that's just not my lane. This guy, this guy has never, in at least the last few years, never had a song that wasn't top of the charts. Man, it's an I hate that. I'm that I'm blinking on who it is. I'm sure if you say that, I would blank on it too. If I didn't have this list in front of me, I would blank on it too. But here here's the list. They they this is a research group that shared this like a pr email blast that just came into my inbox. It is which musician each state googled
the most time. Yes, since each state's most googled musician revealed thirty eight million Google Google searches forty five states of the fifty. Taylor Swift, my goodness, five of the states. Morgan Wallen. Wow, So he really is? You are so that you wouldn't have get I mean, like, that's not that that makes perfect sense. Okay, So it's not one like you like you you didn't think of him and then say no, he wouldn't be it. I just don't think of it because well, you know,
I don't listen to him. So they're probably not even that. But I feel like most of the time, even the country artists who are typically at the top of country aren't necessarily like in the top five of the world that type of thing. Yeah, that's different now, especially with Morgan Wallen.
Yeah that makes sense. But because he had such a meteoric rise and it seems like he can do he's done not not a whole terrible ton of things, but he's done a weird amount of things that could have tarnished his reputation
that haven't harmed him one bit. I think because I think because the removing him from the radio airwaves because of the video that surfaced of him saying the in word in past, not not to someone in that way, but still he was caught on video and he said the inWORD, and you know, you can't do that without expecting a ton of backlash or getting as they say, canceled. So Country music pulled him off the charts briefly, but you know, he still kept like, I don't think I can't imagine many fans
were like, oh, nope, I'm out on him. In fact, yeah, like you know, you obviously can't do that. And I'm sure he knows that that was you know, I would hope that like even though he felt like, I'm not offending anybody, it's just you know, it's just slang how I talk with friends or something. I'm not sure if he said that, but I'm sure a lot of people did say that on his behalf. But you know, even if that is the case, like, you still can't do that and you shouldn't do that. I mean. Plus,
he's also had the instance where he had to cancel a concert. Yeah, maybe multiple and some people thought maybe because like he was hung over or something, and then threw the chair off of a bar. I'll give it the bite of the doubt. On the concert, I don't know if I believe it, but you know that that's at least something to where it hasn't been like a recurring thing. But throwing the chair off of the bar or off of the balcony at a bar and landing on Broadway in Nashville, that
was the confirmation for me that, like, he's untouchable. And I don't think he should have been canceled or been you know, sent to prison, like don't. I don't think that that is an unlike. I don't think that's something you can't come back from. But the very I mean, nobody cared at all, Like and he could have killed somebody. I mean, honestly, it would have hit could have killed them. Yeah, I mean that that's I don't think I'm being dramatic or exaggerating, like quite literally that
you could have killed somebody by doing that. And I think what endangerment is a charge that a lot of people probably would have received in that, But he didn't. I don't think I think it was something you know, more minor. So Yeah, he's on I mean, he's on top of the world. There's no doubt about it. And I can't say that I'm like a fan of his music, but I realize he's really talented, if that makes sense. Like I don't seek him out, but I can see that
he's really talented in a different way than most musicians. Like. To me, he's a good writer, he's got his own sound. He's like the next evolution of what the twenty tens have with with bro country. I think he still kind of fits that under that umbrella, but it's kind of taken in me. I feel like he's way more talented, if that makes sense. Like, I think he's a phenomenal writer. I think he's a really
good singer. I think he actually is genuine like I think he's I mean, I would agree with you meaning like, I don't think this is some kind of a fac odd like an act or something like that. And that doesn't make me a bigger fan of him, but I can at least you don't respect that, you know, in clearly he's you know, uh, probably not gonna have a tough time getting any woman that he would want. But I don't think it's because he's a pretty boy. It's I think it's
just because he's super famous and he makes great music. And you know, I'm not saying as an ugly looking dude, but you know, he's he's on top of the world. There's no doubt about that. And another guy that like, these aren't people who I think old older people probably who you know, see Morgan Wallen in Post Malone there. They just think these guys are you know, talentless hacks that are just big because of the Internet. And what are these young people listening to? You know what I mean?
Like, that's probably not something that would you'd be surprised to hear somebody of the older generation say. And I get it, but I actually think both those guys are super talented musicians. That are that are I think they're artists, that's the best way to put it. They are artists, that's fair. And they made a song recently that it's probably like top of the charts
now. And if you told me ahead of time these two guys are working on a song, I'm just gonna assume it's probably gonna be awful, But it's actually really good. You know. It's it's not a hokey sing along stuff that you get from a lot of the stupid country music songs that are out there now. But yeah, yeah, I'm a sucker for that one Morgan Wallen song where it's like Monday night was just another night. He's like naming the days of the week. Oh yeah, yeah, it's like a
dance song. He's, he's, it's very it's an earworm right there. I can't think of like we all we listen to music so much differently now than we ever have, Like albums are you know, albums nobody goes and buys them right, like you just stream them. And there's still albums being
put out by great artists and they do well. But I think because we have access to it at all times, Like if the people who love Morgan Wallen love Morgan Wallen, right, so it gives you a chance to where you actually have, you know, the ability to get super familiar with every single song and if you do put together an album that's really really good top to bottom, good chance that if you maintain momentum, you're gonna have countless
radio hits on that album. Didn't used to work like that because you couldn't just play a song anytime you wanted. You had to pop open a CD player or a or a you know, a tape player, or listen to the radio, and you know that, I think that has helped the people who have a lot of momentum and are clearly good at what they do, people just consume their music. It's almost like it becomes part of their personality, you know what I mean. Like sometimes I fit into that category.
Maybe not on this show, but if I'm having a conversation with some friends, I can get lost in what I've been listening to. You with music, Yeah, music's great. I oftentimes remind myself I should listen. I should just kind of you know, listen to music more, you know, frequently, like when I'm at the gym, I don't listen to music. I listen to podcasts, I listen to interviews, and I watch shows that
I'm on the treadmill. And you know, it's almost like it never by doing that, I feel like my brain never really like resets in a way that I'm sure people have said this, And I don't want to sound like ramatic, like I'm you know, super deep into music, but in a way, it's therapeutic to listen to music, you know what I mean? Yeah, sure, kind of, as you said, kind of you know, kind of get lost in it. All right, that's a good question.
Let's go to the text line. I've neglected you guys today, and I do apologize, But this text says, Nick, I'm fascinated, like you by all the adults that think they're gonna have the same time they had when they were kids to play this n Cuba video game. It's all anybody is talking about in my work. Yeah. Again, we talked about it yesterday. The fact that this game was already so popular and then it went
away and now it's coming back. That is I think the biggest factor here as to why there's been so much you know, buzz for this new EA Sports college football video game. But I actually think in a way, you know, this is this is nostalgic. I think for people, I think there's a drum. There's there's somewhat of a a fascination from people to you know, kind of relive that air of their life when they didn't have kids in a full time job. Like I'm not saying you had to be a
teenager in high school, but you could be. I mean, if you're my age, Like the last time this game came out. Do you know when it was John twenty fourteen, Yeah, ten years ago, twenty fourteen. I was in my mid twenties. I was a young stallion John. I promise you you won't believe me, But I was not really, But I like to imagine I was. I mean, I you know, I didn't get hangovers. I was. I was. I mean, I was in my you know, in my in my zone. I don't want to
say in my prime because that sounds bad. But like, you know, we weren't. We weren't talking about having kids yet we were living. We were living a great life. We were traveling, and if I wanted to spend an entire day playing a video game, I could. Now there's nothing I could spend an entire day doing because I have responsibilities I have. You know, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be good for me, because you know,
I got, I got. You know, when you have kids, it's not only just something that changes your life for you know, the obvious reason, but you know you you don't have much time to yourself, and you know you it wouldn't even enter my brain to to like, hey, here's what, here's what I'm gonna do today, I'm gonna block off six hours to play a video game or just or do you know, play music
or something like, you just don't have the ability to do that. So not to get super deep about it, but I do wonder if there's some people that are, like, you know, kind of chasing this desperation to kind of go back to that nostalgic era that you probably are that you probably didn't take advantage you probably you feel like you didn't take advantage enough because now
you you know, you don't have the ability to mean you do. But like it wouldn't be I just knowing people in my position, meaning you know, married with two young kids, if I just said, hey, sorry today I'm out, I'm gonna be in the basement all day playing video games. Like I don't think my wife would divorce me. But like that that wouldn't be cool for me to do that, you know, I just it
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wrap it up on the other side. I don't know this song, but I get the feeling that this may not be a song that's speaking that highly of America. Maybe is it not? Is it complaining about America? Doing a little complaining with America. Had to throw a little Creed in there, but it's kind of fain. We're always complaining. You're not gonna You're not gonna get any complaints from me when it comes to Creed. Good stuff. So the Hawk to a Girl really made a lot of horny men online upset
as they get set for holiday weekend. She has released a video and let people know that she does not have an only fans, will never have an only fan, So quit asking. So sorry, guys, I'm sure there's many of you that wished that that was not the case, but it actually was pretty And I don't know, there's part of me that thinks she's like a like a what do they call him, a plant? An industry plant.
I mean she's not, she's not a musician. She's just but her not existing much at all and having no social media at that age before any of this happened. Like it's why people think some of this stuff is all made up. Yeah, just like when the Richmond North and whatever happened to him? What again something? Yeah, because you know that that was suspicious and you know, I'm sure he's still around, but like that faded pretty quick, didn't it, because I think other people realized this was this was
just an internet thing. But she talked about like some things that have been good for her since this happened. She got to quit her job at the Spring Factory, which to me sounds made up. She you know, the Spring factor. Yeah, I mean then that sounds like something made in an
old movie or something. And then she talked about the bad part of it is that you know, she actually has to get dressed every day and not dressed like Adam Sandler, I think is what she said in the video, and she said that her family's not comfortable with paparazzi following her everywhere, and she was really upset and she said, no only fans, but she also she was really upset about people who are making t shirts and merch and selling it and she's not getting a dom And I'm thinking, like, honey,
welcome to the Internet, like happens every day. All right, we're out of time. Everybody enjoyed the holiday weekend. We're back on Monday. Happy fourth at July. Everybody, take care