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Kentucky Connections & NASCAR Insights: Getting to Know Our Podcast Editor
Meet the wizard behind the curtain! After countless mentions throughout our podcast journey, we finally welcome Brian—our editor, social media manager, and all-around backstage MVP—to the microphone.
Brian immediately clicks with the team as we discover shared perspectives (like never having watched Star Wars) and differing opinions (baseball stadium dimensions remain contentious). The conversation flows naturally through college basketball territory, with real-time reactions to the Duke-Houston Final Four game unfolding before us. As a fellow Kentucky fan, Brian offers fresh insights on the Calipari era and coaching changes, contemplating whether 50 NBA players should have translated to more championships.
The GOAT debate ignites passionate takes, with Brian firmly in the Jordan camp while explaining why LeBron's constant complaining diminishes his legacy in comparison. We navigate the fragmented landscape of streaming services, lamenting how our entertainment options have scattered across platforms while prices continue climbing. Brian's experiences with different services provide practical guidance for listeners facing similar decisions.
NASCAR talk revs up the second half, with Brian sharing thoughtful suggestions for improving the championship format and reflecting on how driver personalities have evolved over the years. The conversation takes delicious detours through restaurant experiences, hilarious health code violations, and memorable food adventures—including Brian's disastrous first encounter with sushi.
By episode's end, you'll feel like you've always known the person behind our social media presence and podcast production. This special glimpse behind the scenes reveals the chemistry that makes our team work and reminds us that sometimes the most interesting perspectives come from those we don't always hear from directly. What questions would you ask Brian if you had the chance?
welcome back to anonymous podcast here once again with david and tyler. My name is first, you got it, you got it again. I did that just for you, thank. So last week we had our first ever special guest and he thought special was just meant for him Yep, but in reality special is really meant for our guest tonight. Yeah, because we've talked about him a million times at this point but nobody's really gotten to talk to the man, really get to know him a little bit.
Speaker 3:So they get to see his words on social media, but they don't actually get his voice.
Speaker 1:And for Bobby, he gets to see who I should not bet for because we had some wrong ones. But so tonight we have our editor, social media manager all around does everything in the background for us, brian on the podcast with us.
Speaker 4:Thank you all for having me on. It's good to be on. Yeah, you're 100% correct with the pics on Facebook.
Speaker 1:I guess it was Bobby. Do you just want to go ahead and apologize to Bobby now?
Speaker 4:Yes, I'm sorry, bobby. He asked me the first first week or so of me um, you know, making picks, who I picked? I think every pick that I made lost.
Speaker 1:I I do believe that first week, every single one that you're like, I'm picking this, yes, it was wrong. Yeah, if this was live.
Speaker 3:Bobby might pull in here in a minute so it's a good thing.
Speaker 2:Well, he was already here once today.
Speaker 3:That doesn't mean anything for Bobby?
Speaker 1:No, but he had the tournament today and then he came out here right after and I was like. That's never a good sign. You play around and you got to go the range after.
Speaker 3:Never a good sign he didn't play good.
Speaker 1:But, as always, get this out of the way. The stink eye from David, proudly sponsored by for you, I see it, I know it, cause I kind of skipped over it to introduce Brian, cause Brian was more important in this instance, I agree, so I wanted to get into that. Um, so you, I mean you at least get to be on once. I mean we may say, yeah, he's never coming back, but you at least get one. That's a good thing. But again, proudly sponsored by 4U Golf. Come check us out, either in person at 700 Old Hennestville Highway, brevard, north Carolina, or 4UGolf828.com, which is F-O-R-E. The letter U Golf828.com. We've said this a few times and it's still in the works and it's really just we're slacking a little bit. The online store is on its way. We've got a few things to finish up with it. Get it up and rolling.
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Speaker 3:Okay, so I'm glad you got that away, but I just want to go to this because we've already talked about it.
Speaker 1:We have.
Speaker 3:It's just for Will. Okay, brian has never watched Star Wars either, so Will. It's not just me. Okay, and we talked about it.
Speaker 1:So what you're saying is everyone from Kentucky is weird?
Speaker 3:No Because.
Speaker 1:Brian's from. There too, that doesn't matter. We're getting a really small sample size. If this was like Brian's from I don't know Montana, I don't know why that popped into my head Montana. Maybe it would be different.
Speaker 3:But you and Will are from North Carolina, so maybe it's North Carolina. That's weird. So let's say that to Brian.
Speaker 1:I would honestly like to see what the population is like. Who has not Like never, Because that's a different thing.
Speaker 3:Let's let Brian tell about Star Wars. Let's hear it. Brian Brian's synopsis of Star Wars.
Speaker 1:A man that's never seen. It tells you about Star.
Speaker 3:Wars. That's the point.
Speaker 4:I've never seen Star Wars. There's never been a time that I've had a desire to watch Star Wars, so I'm kind of on David's side with this.
Speaker 3:Thank you, For once I got somebody.
Speaker 4:You know and you all talked about on the podcast last week, I think it was that? Maybe it's an age difference. I'm 45 years old 45 years young.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4:And growing. Whenever I was growing up, star Wars was kind of for dorky people.
Speaker 3:It was.
Speaker 4:That's what it was known as, not that I think I'm better than anybody. That's what I'm hearing. I'm hearing that.
Speaker 1:I'm hearing that. I'm hearing that Tyler and I'm better than anybody. That's what I'm hearing. I'm hearing that I'm hearing that.
Speaker 3:I'm hearing that Tyler and Will are dorks. That's what I'm hearing.
Speaker 1:Well, but here's the thing. I'm not claiming that, I'm not. I mean, if you can admit it, I will say this I am not as big of a dork as Will. Will is much, much deeper into it than I am. I.
Speaker 1:I'm more of the mainstream star wars stuff I don't really get in deep to the back backside of things, where it's, you know, knowing about the history of someone that was on screen for five seconds like I, I don't know that kind of stuff he, he most likely does, so that that is different. Now, we were talking about this a little bit before we officially started recording, kind of like we always do. The question came up of when the original Star Wars trilogy came out 77 was the first one, 80 for the second, 83 for the third one, which is 4, 5, and 6, actually.
Speaker 1:Right, wait, 4, 5, and 6 was before 4, 5, and 6 were officially the first three movies.
Speaker 3:See what I'm talking about, Brian.
Speaker 1:When Star Wars was created, the plan was that was the only three, and then the popularity of it came back in. Let's see, 1999 was the episode one, so I mean it was gone for 16 years.
Speaker 3:I sometimes think am I missing something? Like should I go back and watch season C if I get into it?
Speaker 2:No you shouldn't, no, okay.
Speaker 1:At this point though I feel like you just got to be like no, I'm this late in life, I'm not going back Like what's the point?
Speaker 4:Just for the purpose of it right, yeah, almost at this point, yeah but I do, like I I said earlier, I do wonder if things changed with that release in 99. Uh, because it did become it, to me at least. It was a big deal back then. I remember in 99, whenever that that came out, yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a huge push because the first one, like I said, in 16 years. But then it was kind of something most, even most fans of star wars didn't know, unless you were really deep, that like, oh, hey, they're, they're doing more of those, right. It kind of just popped up, was like hey, here you go, here's new star wars, first time in a really long time.
Speaker 3:And yeah, it came out of nowhere, like I couldn't tell you how many there are. But for me and I kind of mentioned last week that goes into Harry Potter, lord of rings, all that stuff. I just never got interested in it. But this I mean, it's the same comment as last week.
Speaker 1:Like you are not a sci-fi, so that in all of those you're talking wizards and witchcraft and fantasy, and you know that if that doesn't appeal to you, which is a lot of people like, said brad brad's that way he doesn't have any interest in that.
Speaker 3:That's to me. It's because it's nerdy, like that's seriously what it goes back to for me.
Speaker 1:But then all of those things, though you're also talking about harry potter is what eight, nine movies? I don't know that many books, star wars is nine movies with more to come?
Speaker 3:did you watch any of those brian like? Did you ever feel the need to, or?
Speaker 4:no, um harry potter. I had a friend um me and my wife actually has a few friends, big harry potter fans, all into it, and I guess it's here. Two or three months ago, you know, I asked my oldest daughter. I said should we start those, because people really like some?
Speaker 1:you know that there are some people that are. Do you know that?
Speaker 4:yeah, she's like you know, my daughter's like no, so so we've, we've never watched so I've seen, I've seen every harry potter movie.
Speaker 1:Really never read any of the books, yeah they're okay like that's not. That's not something that I'm like oh, that's my right like I'm. I don't really care for the magic side of things, I guess that, that doesn't appeal to me as much.
Speaker 1:Um, but again, talking before the podcast, the one thing brian did say he liked was lord of the rings, excuse me, not lord of the. You said that and I've got to think about the. I guess nine movies there are of that series as well now. So Game of Thrones. So what about that? Did you like Not liking some of the other stuff, because that kind of goes along the same path?
Speaker 3:Okay, before you get into that, did you have the same feeling about that before you watched it, Like I don't have no interest in this because it's like Star Wars?
Speaker 4:Honestly, yeah, I did. Okay, Like you know, whenever Game of Thrones was really big.
Speaker 1:You didn't watch it as it was coming out. You watched it well after the film. Yeah, I just watched. Game of Thrones here four or five months ago here four or five months ago, oh okay, so yeah, it's been over a while, like they've already released.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you another you thought you was never gonna watch it already released the prequel. At that point I'm like what?
Speaker 4:are you talking about? There's dragons in this?
Speaker 1:thing I'm not.
Speaker 4:I'm not watching this but then I watched it and, yeah, I liked it. So I don't know.
Speaker 3:Uh, no, I'm not gonna watch star wars I was gonna say maybe, no, no, I probably won't, I can't, I just can't bring myself to it.
Speaker 4:No, I probably won't either, but Game of Thrones, I did enjoy that.
Speaker 1:I mean, is it possible that it's because it was really more of a TV show than a movie? Could?
Speaker 4:be. Could be Like a series, yeah.
Speaker 1:Really a TV show you develop things way more Right. Yeah, that's probably true, you can develop characters, you can develop storylines because you have so much more time. A movie, I mean, you're limited to some of the Star Wars two, two and a half hours, but a TV show, you can take an entire hour episode for one person Because you're like, yeah, I've got this many seasons, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's probably true. Maybe that's something that you liked about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd say that I mean I do like that about some of the TV shows, especially some of the HBO stuff, because they go way overboard compared to, you know, like a network TV show where it's 30 minutes and it's a really low budget and they're trying to keep everything simple. A show like that it's like no, we're basically making movies every week.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you mentioned that with HBO you have all these different TV things. Now Everything's online. Are we eventually just going gonna put those together and have cable again? No you don't think so?
Speaker 1:no, because they all want to charge different price I, I don't want 15 different things, but they're making a fortune that way, so like netflix every six months. They're up in their price I never watch netflix anymore.
Speaker 3:I watch, we use quite a bit of netflix because you gotta think like netflix does so many things, too, that other people don't do like.
Speaker 1:Netflix now has all of these different documentary series, whether it's about serial killers or whether it's sports stuff, you know. I mean, there's literally there's something for everything now. And then also now you've got another big section of people mainly speaking of people like my brother who Raw is now on Netflix. It is streamed live on Netflix. So you've got a big group of people that are moved over for that kind of stuff, and then all of their movies on top of it, not even counting the stuff that just gets put on Netflix. They do so much of their own stuff now.
Speaker 3:I like the YouTube TVs online, but I kind of want it back like it used to be, with just everything on one thing, yeah.
Speaker 1:You can make what your show at work on.
Speaker 3:DirecTV. Is that what it used to be?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think we ever see that again. I mean because you've got you think. You think about it like you pay for YouTube TV. Most people also have Netflix.
Speaker 3:Most people also have Amazon Prime and they that's a whole streaming service that joined what ESPN plus, and so Disney, hulu and ESPN plus.
Speaker 1:So yeah, we've got that, but we also have Netflix. And then you either have somebody in your friend group or family group that's got the paid version of peacock or that has the paid version of paramount or the paid, like they all are doing their own thing what?
Speaker 3:what are we? So, tyler and I got youtube tv. What are you watching tv on, bro?
Speaker 4:uh, we got the hulu and we got the live oh so you do live, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:No, how is it? I've never, I've never used it, uh it's okay, I mean uh that seems reassuring I want to switch right now, just off of that I feel like all of them is probably.
Speaker 4:You know, all has their pros and cons. You know, there's really no issues that I can think of. I don't like it. I know with youtube, tv like sports and stuff, y all have got like the split screen or stuff like that you don't have anything like that. See, I never watch that, though Really I don't either. It's too much, it's too distracting.
Speaker 1:Well, so I say this, I say too distracting, but it also bothers me that they didn't optimize it, so when it's split screen it doesn't take up those whole half of the screen, it's like sections because it's made for what was the point four, I think, or something like that, and so when you have less than four, all the time they'll do like three and I'm like well don't put it as three yeah, and then I also. What I don't like about it, too, is you can't pick it I can't pick.
Speaker 2:I want this game in this game correct, they just do a stream it's like whatever starts around that time, correct, okay, correct.
Speaker 3:So I don't. So you're probably not missing a lot. Which I'm not using that feature anyways, that's not something I remotely care about. To be honest with you, Maybe one day I'll be like the guys that have 10 TVs on the wall and all the games on.
Speaker 1:Well, so that's for me. If I'm going to watch multiple games, I just put it on different screens. Yeah, pull my computer or pull out my phone and I'll have a game I care a little bit less about, and then the big game on TV.
Speaker 3:This just hit me. I have a fellow Kentucky fan here with me.
Speaker 1:finally, you do have one.
Speaker 3:That's right. Yeah, so you got to be pleased too, right? I mean, I was pleased this year.
Speaker 4:I am. I made it to Sweet 16. I'm encouraged that we have a coach. I feel like that can coach don't.
Speaker 1:Don't start, because I already see your. I can see your gears turning and it's. I know exactly where some of these comments are going to go, so we're gonna stay in kentucky.
Speaker 3:You know well, calipari got sweet 16. What do you think about that?
Speaker 4:see, See ya, Look at the team, the athletes that Cal had, versus what we had. I feel like this year All of our guys came from Dayton, they came from Farley, Dickinson, they came from. You know we did have a guy one of our better players came from Oklahoma, but we did have the athletes that Cal had. You know, there were several games this year that I feel like if Cal was coaching going into halftime we would not make no adjustments coming out of halftime.
Speaker 2:He doesn't.
Speaker 4:And with Pope I knew in his staff that he had put together we would see adjustments and that second half we ran out-of-bounds.
Speaker 1:plays for the first time in several years.
Speaker 4:You know Cal Perry's big thing is every out-of-bounds plays. He'd just throw it into the big guy and figure it out.
Speaker 3:Hey, just get open Reliable talent yeah it's nice. So you know I loved Cal the first few years.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:First maybe 10, I don't know that when it started getting close to 10, it started getting a little rocky Right. You know Tyler's a big, you know proponent or whatever you want to call it. That Cal way underachieved for all the talent he had through there.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Now, I mean, I get the point but, there were several Final Fours, there was a championship, but with 50 guys in the NBA, do you think he under like? Should he have done more?
Speaker 4:Yes, I do. Okay, Like you said those first, I feel like you know we had the. You know we thought we was going undefeated there in 2015.
Speaker 1:Should have yeah.
Speaker 4:And 15 should have yeah, and I thought we had it. That's true. I thought we we had another year or two after that, but it pretty much went. I felt like downhill. You know we had a few good games, I mean few good years here and there, um, but we'd get to the tournament, and you know, with a really good team and get put out by. Kansas State.
Speaker 1:Well, it kind of felt like those few years of Duke where they'd come into the tournament. Everybody's like man, this Duke team's going to win it and go out first or second round.
Speaker 3:It's like all right what was the point of that? You had to sit and listen to Cal say it's all about March, it's all about March, and then go lose in the first or second round.
Speaker 1:But that's why, kind of like your exact statement, you said well, of course, arkansas made it to the Sweet 16. Look at the team they had. Kentucky made it to the Sweet 16 with a much lesser team. So then I go back to those old Cal days of where he's at Kentucky with the 30-something first-round picks and it's like yeah that feels like it's definitely underperforming, because he had the talent. He had way better talent than he even had at Arkansas now.
Speaker 1:He had way better talent than most teams have had across their history in a 15-year span. So I think that's where that really comes to me is that's where the underperformance feels like Not that as a whole. If you do that in your career what he did yeah, you're a hall of fame coach, but when you do it with that kind of talent, it's like all right, we should have seen. We should just seen more, because ultimately it comes down to championships like those teams should have won more championships than I agree, and I agree, and they were good teams, I'm not questioning that.
Speaker 3:How do you feel about Cal now? So, rick, for a while, rick Pitino, everybody hated him, especially when he was at Louisville. I feel like something's coming back around a little bit, myself included.
Speaker 1:They love him now, but he's making St John relevant, who's not been real up for years, so that's why people are going to pull back to him.
Speaker 3:It's because he was pope's coach, right, and you know everybody likes mark pope, knows he likes rick rutino and so you're kind of okay, I gotta kind of like rip it a little bit, are you? Do you hate cow?
Speaker 4:I'll put it like this whenever cow left, uh for arkansas, I was like you know, I'm not going to worry about what he does, you know, he's gone. He's gone from kentucky now you know I'm not going to worry about what another team does, but the first of the year when arkansas was struggling, I was watching every game I loved it.
Speaker 1:You know, I was loving every minute we did. We did that too when, when he was struggling, like we would put an arkansas game on yeah, couldn't tell you the last time watching arkansas basketball yeah, and everybody wanted to see what would he do. Yeah yeah, and he struggled, struggled heavily to start and all the Kentucky fans was.
Speaker 4:see, we told you that's what he's been doing. But then they kind of turned it around at the end of the year and they played well.
Speaker 1:Honestly, though, as an outsider looking in, for most Kentucky fans I feel like it's too early. It's too early to make that call, because most people are going to have more disdain or hate or disgust towards him now than you may in five years yeah it's just it's recency five years like in our mind.
Speaker 3:He'll be welcome back now it depends on if he's at arkansas winning sec championships or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I say that could change it too is if it kind of gets pushed as more of a rivalry, because in reality, like arkansas kentucky, that's not a rivalry. No, there's nothing there. It could become one because of him if they stay that relevant.
Speaker 3:I think. In my opinion, regardless, it was time for him to go. I don't care if he goes. If he won a championship this year, it would be time for him to go yeah. But you would have had to hear from everybody else how crazy you were.
Speaker 1:Having to hear it would suck, but we've both kind of made the call on both of our teams. At one point I was like, hey, it's time for Roy to go.
Speaker 3:After so many years.
Speaker 4:It's just don't start on this coach.
Speaker 1:I mean, listen, I've been seeing it all weekend. They're like, oh, we got this big-time transfer from Arizona. A center, a seven-footer Cool. What did Arizona do? That was the Caleb Love Show, like this kid didn't do anything. So, we're super excited about all these guys that are, like you're, bench players from elsewhere now coming to one of the Blue Bloods, and we're excited about it. For what? Like, I don't see anything there. These transfers.
Speaker 3:I can't figure out if they're good or not Used to the high school kids. You know there's a lot of hype and you knew who the top prospects were, and all that.
Speaker 1:So, like the grad transfers you could make an assumption on, because it's like, hey, these guys played three to four years at a big program, have a lot of experience, they're going to come help your team. That one's a little bit easier. I mean, you go back a few years even for, like Carolina Brady Manick. Without him that year they are horrible, like they would have had an awful year. He was a four-year starter at Oklahoma and then comes over here and basically gets himself into the NBA purely off of that one year. But he was one of those everybody expected to come over and be a good role player, give some good minutes, has a ton of experience and turn into a star but, like you said, these transfers, it's like you know.
Speaker 1:Carolina just got one from Arizona and one from West Virginia.
Speaker 3:I don't know much about either of them, you don't well hey, I don't mean to interrupt you, but they just made that a three-point game, by the way.
Speaker 1:They did right after a technical oh, I didn't say technical.
Speaker 3:By the way, we're watching Duke-Houston.
Speaker 1:Duke-Houston live in the Final Four.
Speaker 3:It wasn't a game, and now it's a game. Before we get it, Brian, what's your picks here? Did you do a bracket by the?
Speaker 4:way I did do a bracket. Who'd you pick? I got Florida, winning it all.
Speaker 3:Oh, so you're still there.
Speaker 1:So you're still in, but my final game was Florida and Alabama. I think a lot of people could have seen that though.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Alabama ran into what? I think is the best team in the tournament.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I feel that way.
Speaker 1:I hate Duke. I mean, I really do as a Tar Heel fan, I do not like them in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3:I'm sitting here hoping and praying that somehow Houston pulls this game out right here and knocks Duke out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the only reason I keep kind of wanting Duke to make it at this point is because I think Florida Duke makes best basketball game as a basketball fan.
Speaker 3:Give me a bad game.
Speaker 1:Get duke out just as a basketball fan, I I want that because I like to see the best possible game and I think right now that's the two best teams. Like I know, we made our picks last week and I mean honestly I picked florida. But auburn, florida both, I think, are playing great good teams could have gone either way. Right. It helps for florida when you got your point guard going for 35 like in college, you go for 35 rarely are you losing and you know, unless you're caleb love in arizona because you played duke like that. That's basically the only reason he did the exact same thing and lost I will say you know a lot of people, kentucky fans.
Speaker 4:Well, kentucky fans, their most hated team is Duke.
Speaker 3:Obviously, I don't care for Duke, but I think Cooper Flag has been very fun to watch this year Will made the argument this team is not like a normal Duke team, that they're more fun, they're more skilled.
Speaker 4:Yeah, some of them.
Speaker 1:Well, I think the big part of that, though, too, what he's saying is this isn't the over-the-top arrogant Duke team. Yes, because typical Duke team is not really in your face because they're not like the super personality type. It's just typically an ego thing.
Speaker 3:I still feel like Knipple fits their typical guys, though. See, that's the one I was thinking.
Speaker 4:I think so too. Yeah, Knipple, yeah. Typical guys though. See, that's the one I was thinking, I think so too. Yeah, Knipple, yeah. Oh, he is a Duke guy.
Speaker 1:He is that style of which it's hard, though as a basketball player, I like him because he can do everything.
Speaker 2:But he looks like he shouldn't. You can get him to do anything.
Speaker 3:That's what's weird.
Speaker 1:No, exactly, he looks like a dude that shouldn't be doing anything other than mopping the floor when the guys fall. But I mean he is. In my opinion, if Duke wins it, everybody's going to talk about Cooper Flagg, everybody's going to talk about how long Shire did all this. I think Knipple is the reason they win, because he can literally do everything. He's just a Swiss Army knife type guy and I don't think he's ever going to get the credit like the other guys, because he's not as flashy, he's a much more old style of play. Will makes fun of me all the time because he's like oh, you just like the simple old stuff and I'm like not necessarily, I just like a dude that can play. He can just literally do everything.
Speaker 3:I'm sitting here here I'm trying to think of things we've talked about, because I want brian's opinion on this stuff.
Speaker 4:And so now I gotta ask is michael jordan the greatest?
Speaker 3:yeah, absolutely okay, absolutely I thought we'd get, so I you know I feel he is.
Speaker 1:I also feel like it's hard to ask brian that, because of his age, yeah, yeah his age was the prime but like you you grew up watching 96 teams exactly like how how old you 16 and 96, okay, yeah, so that's like.
Speaker 3:But he watched jordan and now he's seen kobe and he can say the difference. You know, for me I was really young in that, like you said that, 90, you know whatever. It was mid 90s. So maybe I didn't know basketball, quite the same. You know as a kid, but you know you're 16 like you saw basketball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you saw the greatest player well, in reality, for me, the greatest player during my time was actually kobe like jordan is really more pre-lebron really jordan's more pre-me, because I was born in in 90, so I was as a child when he was really doing his biggest thing you know into early teenage years.
Speaker 1:But as a basketball fan, going back to really see his body of work, seeing everything he did, that that's where that comes to and I hate the side of leBron's stats show this. Lebron's stats show that it is easier to score in this era than it ever has been. But besides all of that, lebron to me ruins his legacy with every call he's arguing. Every call is a complaint call. He's arguing. Every call is complaint. He's all. I mean.
Speaker 1:I've seen it probably 10 times this week where the interview that he did, where I don't mind the contact, I'm a I'm a football player right and I'm like, if that was the case, you're not flailing your head flopping, doing all this stuff all the time like it is nonsense no, I heard that comment too, so I got really quiet, because it's a one point game I know they a nice little tip back uh tip and slam there but 20 seconds left one point game. It's down to free throws we'll see what you said.
Speaker 3:Will's probably already asleep earlier.
Speaker 1:He might be watching this game no, you're right, I realized what game, what game this was. He's absolutely awake. He's probably freaking out right now, most likely, but I also know like when he comes back and listens what we're talking about now, he's gonna be livid he is a lebron through and through. Lebron is the greatest there ever will be yeah, and I just I can't get behind that train. I don't feel like it.
Speaker 4:It fits the same thing no, no, you see the flopping and and everything he does and it's um. There's just too many antics with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4:It's too over the top it is, and I've seen a clip on. I guess it's X now Do you call it. X. Sorry to interrupt, I don't.
Speaker 1:I still sign Twitter. I can't help it.
Speaker 4:I was just trying to be professional for the podcast.
Speaker 1:You're in the wrong place. Listen, you're in the wrong place, if you like, you got to be that we're all the time.
Speaker 4:Twitter. It was a clip and I don't know if this was recent. I don't know when this happened, I didn't really look into it, but it was just. He ran into a player and you can see it wasn't much contact and he, like, hits the floor and he's like banging on the floor.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's from the other night, is it night, is it? I didn't know if it's recent or not.
Speaker 2:yeah they was playing the warriors, yeah, and it's like, yeah, he goes in there completely out of control.
Speaker 3:Yeah, runs into the guy and then, like, falls over like he died, but he's a football player. Yeah, yeah, he likes, or every time for some reason here lately.
Speaker 1:His new thing is every time he drives he somehow gets hit in the face yeah, he like grabs his head and he's like wanting them to go. Look it and it's like you were by yourself.
Speaker 2:It's halftime.
Speaker 1:Dude. What are you even on the floor for?
Speaker 3:It's just ridiculous stuff. They called it on flag a foul here, by the way.
Speaker 2:That's a questionable call in my opinion.
Speaker 3:You know what, maybe I don't care. I want Duke to lose okay. Just leave it alone.
Speaker 1:Gosh, that free throw form is bad hey it went in. That's all that well, but that's the thing with lefties. Lefty shooters are either the most pure no like perfect shooters or it is ugly what, and that was ugly, you talked about x.
Speaker 3:What age group doesn't know twitter and they just call it x? Is there an age group yet, or are they still?
Speaker 4:I don't think I don't know. No, I don't think so, because that's pretty. I think so Because that's pretty. I think we all call it A couple years, two or three years. Yeah, I think so, but at some point it's too new.
Speaker 3:There's going to be an age group where they don't know it was ever Twitter.
Speaker 4:Right yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know Well.
Speaker 4:But I an old thing now. Like those do exist, like can we go find our old pages? Somebody said you could here a few years ago and I went and looked for mine. I could not find mine. I probably didn't want to find it but who knows? What would have been on that exactly got your top five friends or top eight friends, whatever it was see I never did the myspace thing yeah, like I did it for a while when I met amanda, myspace was still a big thing, kind of.
Speaker 1:I mean, facebook was already starting to take over the stuff there. And she's like oh, you've got to make a MySpace. I'm like it's too late in the game for that. And then you get into it and I'm like there's way too much stuff. I mean, they're talking about all these different things you can add to your page and this I'm like that's too, much for me.
Speaker 3:I never did social media like that. Now there's so much stuff to everything. That was probably basic.
Speaker 4:Speaking of Facebook, like whenever your memories come up on Facebook, and I look at those first initial posts that I made, like when Facebook first started or whenever I first got. Facebook. I'm like who is that person?
Speaker 1:That is the weirdest stuff, but to me, like even the stuff that I go back and look at, I got a facebook in high school right and I look at it now. I'm like I don't even remember that part of life like that. Doesn't feel like it actually happened me too, because it's it's you start thinking pre kids, pre-marriage yeah, there's not a whole lot of that, that just stays with you yeah I mean once you get a family. It's just, that's all you I think it's.
Speaker 3:They've changed the way you um like the buttons and the graphics and everything but the way we used to word stuff that.
Speaker 4:That's what my thing is the way I worded stuff. I'm like that's odd. Yeah, who speaks?
Speaker 3:like that right yeah there was, if I remember right, facebook at one point would say like david, is that's when you would like complete the sentence? Yeah?
Speaker 2:point would say like David, is that's what it was, and you would complete the sentence. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And it was just like wait. What is that?
Speaker 1:But there's that period of time where you wouldn't talk to people but you'd poke them. Oh, I forgot about poking Like poking someone.
Speaker 4:And I'm like I don't remember when. No, that's not been around for a long time Somebody messaged me and my wife is in a group message. Somebody messaged us the other day and said what does this mean when somebody's poking us? And so it is still a thing, but what I've noticed is it's mostly older people that don't know what they're doing that ends up doing the pokes.
Speaker 3:So they accidentally hit it. Is that what it?
Speaker 4:is yeah, I don't know what it is, but I got a message from a person the other day that said so-and-so keeps poking me on here, and I said I think it's just somebody that don't know what they're doing on Facebook.
Speaker 3:Who thought that was a good idea. Let's put a poke button on here so we can just poke it.
Speaker 1:Like I don't think I've ever would come up kind of like the homepage of it and it is so different than what you have now, because you open it up now and it's tabs everywhere, marketplace this, everybody's stuff, and it's like before you almost had to go actually click to see that stuff.
Speaker 3:My Facebook is full of stuff that I am not following or anything. Oh, you just talk about it. Everything now feels like ads.
Speaker 1:So every time I go to Facebook there's one or two reasons.
Speaker 2:I go to.
Speaker 1:Facebook, because we all mindlessly scroll, because it just happens, or Marketplace. I mean, obviously you've got to go to Marketplace two or three times a day.
Speaker 3:You never know what's going to get posted.
Speaker 1:It's the new Craigslist. Oh, 100% stuff, it's just craigslist, though, was always poorly done, like the ad felt like it had to go through some server server in india it probably did and it's like and then it would pop up. There'd be all these like weird, like they put basically the data of how it posts in your ad.
Speaker 3:It just made no sense anytime I see something I might want to buy or a message in somebody they're going to buy something, whatever, I always click on the thing and look at their profile. Right. I can't imagine I went to meet strangers from craigslist.
Speaker 1:I didn't see what they looked like, I didn't know anything about their life, randomly just show up somebody's house like yeah, what's your address now it's like we can't show our yard because we're afraid somebody's going to find us on Google Maps. Yeah, before it's just like yeah, come get it.
Speaker 3:I bought a canoe once and I don't remember why I had this canoe I don't know if it got a good deal or something and I put it on Craigslist to sell it. And this guy showed up from like an hour away and he wanted to buy a canoe because some Amish guy I think it was Amish guy or somebody had told him that that was the best thing for your marriage was for you and your wife to get on a canoe and go down the river and stuff together. And so this random dude shows up at my house and that's why he wanted to buy this canoe for me At what point in time are you so far gone in your marriage that you're taking advice from an Amish.
Speaker 3:No, I think they were newlywed.
Speaker 1:Maybe it wasn't Amish, but it was some like old time and this is no hate on the Amish, because I'm like the Amish are intriguing, but they don't have the same things in their lives that they're constantly dealing with we used to go to Amish sales and was around the Amish, I can remember y'all used to do that stuff all the time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, have you ever been? Wow, that feels like an upset. It is an upset.
Speaker 3:Duke goes down, I can sleep tonight.
Speaker 1:Yep, wow, I do feel like this is a weird final though.
Speaker 4:That will be.
Speaker 1:Florida-Houston just feels like out of left field. Do what?
Speaker 3:Does that open it up for Florida? Do you feel like they got it? Oh, I feel so. Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll say this yeah, well I'll say this houston's super athletic, like that's a super athletic team. I think that's what put them in this game to beat duke. But yeah, to me, the length and just explosiveness of florida, I'd be surprised for houston to beat them it's gonna come back to that foul on flag.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's all. Everybody's gonna talk about.
Speaker 4:I missed it. I didn't, I didn't. I know you all said it was weak, so it's just, it's one of those.
Speaker 1:I feel like we see that a lot. Yeah, in reality, if they really go back and look at it, the guy's got both arms on him, kind of hooking him flag, kind of reaches through to tip it to himself, like it's. You know, it's one of those I'm like over the back right. Is that what it was? Yeah, I mean exactly what they call so it's. It's just one of those. To me it it feels like an odd time to call it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if it's foul, you call it. I don't care what time it is. I hated that in Maryland game or something I agree. I agree that if it's foul.
Speaker 1:it's foul, it's just. That's not the way they typically do it. No Like, if that's how we always call things. Fouls are fouls are fouls Cool. Call it that way. No, but we swallow our whistles for 20 minutes at a time because we want the game to get back close, or we want something to happen, or we can't change the outcome. Then it's like now. When you do, it feels like man, you just changed the outcome. But if you're calling it like that all the time, we'd say yeah, they made a call.
Speaker 4:I don't think you think twice about it. That's something you all have said before and I agree 100. The problem with officiating is a consistency, I think I don't think there is any.
Speaker 1:There's a big part of it there's none.
Speaker 4:You know, like you said you're going to call. You know, type the game, type one part of the game and then loose uh it feels very weird, it's.
Speaker 1:It's the same officials, both halves, yeah, but you're calling it completely different.
Speaker 4:It's like how am I supposed to know how to play they?
Speaker 1:do Like the first half. We're, you know, putting pads on and squaring up, and then this half. I looked at him wrong and got a foul Like I don't know how to play that?
Speaker 3:What is causing that? Why would they do that? And you know, I want to say you're not trying to keep that game exciting.
Speaker 1:And me and you have had this conversation before.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, I just realized I just won a bet. Oh, you did, holy smokes.
Speaker 1:You did actually.
Speaker 3:I haven't won in a while. That's good.
Speaker 1:But think about it. You're saying yeah, but there's still blowouts. And then you go look at Vegas and they were within percentage points, right?
Speaker 3:Vegas, Like I don't get it.
Speaker 1:I don't get it. They are very rarely and I mean very rarely off by much and I don't know how. Yeah, the amount of type, the amount of sports, the amount of games, both college, professional, everything, and they are like down to a T. Have you ever? And that's? Not something that I feel like is a true science, but they've got it down to it.
Speaker 3:Any of these new draft books. You do any of that at all.
Speaker 4:Yeah, which is DraftKings?
Speaker 3:Yeah that's the one.
Speaker 2:I've been using. But are you any good?
Speaker 1:No, I'm not.
Speaker 4:Just ask, bobby. I was going to say say if you are bobby's mad, yeah no, I mean there's been a few times um, like whenever it first came to kentucky. Uh, you know, you sign up, they give you so many you know free bets or whatever, uh, and so using their money I've done pretty well, but I I'm the type of person that I'm afraid if I did it too much it'd become a problem, so I don't.
Speaker 4:There was one game last week. It was like a whatever it's called an eight-leg parlay or something like that.
Speaker 3:Oh God, I hate parlays and I just went See, I like them. That made me nervous. I like them. There's too many things that can go wrong.
Speaker 4:That's the thing. If I had, I got seven out of the eight and I just needed like it was the Alabama game. Actually they're Nelson. I think it's Nelson. Yeah, big, yeah, big guy. He had to get like six rebounds or something like that, and he got like two or something stupid, and that was what knocked me out.
Speaker 1:You're like this guy's had six rebounds since high school.
Speaker 3:Yeah, when you look at this parlay you're like, oh, there's no way exactly but how did they know six?
Speaker 1:because they put numbers on the stuff that you're like, yeah that's, that's an easy one yeah, and then they end up right it's like okay, but even something like that, like rebounds, is not something you can yeah just say well, if this happens, this will happen, yeah it's random where that ball goes right like's no controlling that, and yet they can get it that correct, and I don't understand that when the parlays give you really good odds, it drives me crazy trying to keep up with it. I don't do any of the sports betting.
Speaker 1:I just never have gotten into it and I almost feel like I'm kind of like what you just said If I started to do a little bit good it didn't be like what David said. Man, I could put $100 on that. Look how much I would have won.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, so I'm like I don't even want to get myself into that situation, where then I've got to think about could I do that? I don't ever want it to become one of those like well, christmas is coming up, let me go do a couple bets see if we can.
Speaker 2:No, you're going to lose your Christmas money there's so many people that get into that and I'm not saying I for sure would I just don, but I think it's fun.
Speaker 4:so with par, with parlays obviously, like I said, eight leg, what was? How much was your bet you had to put in for that? It was like five dollars. It was gonna be quite a bit I would say what was your payout? I can't even remember it was it was have you had one that you've seen?
Speaker 1:probably a lot. There's a few hundred dollars, yeah okay, so yeah, for five bucks turn around into three, four hundred dollars like that that's a huge payout what's the thing?
Speaker 3:you only have to hit one and, yeah, a few hundred right to break even, and I and I've hit, I, I.
Speaker 4:I do it a lot in, or not a lot um, but whenever I would do it it was in college football and I would do a lot of college football. I love betting college football um like player props, especially with kentucky, like a team I follow pretty well so you can bet on kentucky games you're okay with yeah, yeah, I, I can't figure out.
Speaker 3:No, what I don't know.
Speaker 4:It's just weird because I think my fandom gets in the way yeah and I think, okay, yeah, kentucky's gonna win or they're gonna get this, and I bet and I lose yeah and if I bet against them, then I feel bad because I'm rooting against them in a way and and that maybe, and whenever I do bet it is you like player props, like so-and-so, to get you know 50 yards rushing or something like that. Hang on Like Kentucky football.
Speaker 1:You may have met five yards rushing.
Speaker 4:That was a stretch saying 50. We've had a few good running backs the last few years. Yeah, not last year. Yeah, we did do.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of college football, obviously both of us big ohio state fans, kentucky is the go-to. Like that's your 100, like that's your team, or do you have somebody else that you? No, it would probably be kentucky um okay, so you, you take fall off, is what you're saying?
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, um, not they started a little bit.
Speaker 1:They've had a few good years um the biggest problem they're in a conference that they can't win.
Speaker 4:Can't yep.
Speaker 1:They would have to do so much more to make that a thing I've said this before I grew up an Ohio State Buckeye fan.
Speaker 3:And then I moved to Kentucky as a young kid and kind of got into the Kentucky thing and so they kind of became my second team because I already had like a first love, Right. But I always have this thing if they played each other, how would I feel? Right yeah, and it's tough because, like Ohio State's my team and they win championships so I want to win. But if Kentucky was to ever beat Ohio State, that would be like a game changer. Yeah, so I don't know how I'd ever look at that. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't know. I don't know. You probably won't have to worry about it. The thing, is.
Speaker 1:I don't feel like that's a game changer, it's just like that's a one-off, like you got to do it multiple years in a row for me to be like hey they've actually done it Because it just doesn't feel the same.
Speaker 3:Maybe they're going to do it.
Speaker 1:Because I mean, at any given point, like we've seen upsets happen, like a one-off happens literally every year In some way shape or form Between basketball football. You know all the things. So, yeah, you know, for Kentucky to somehow upset, you know the Dave and Goliath matchup, you know David wins again, that just feels like hey, they did it this year, yeah, do it four more times, do it every year. No, I agree with you, but that me is just kind of where that feels because again, sorry Vandy, sorry Kentucky. Welcome to basketball season for Kentucky, welcome to baseball season for Vandy. That's what they're looking to, because that's just not a sport. I feel like they're ever going to run that conference.
Speaker 4:It's just too strong and I do feel like and, david, you may agree with me that the Kentucky football team and I know David has said for several years that he didn't think Mark Stoops was a great coach. Am I right about that?
Speaker 2:He has his moments.
Speaker 3:I think he's an all right coach, but I think he's got to take the next step. And it's like we just keep doing the same thing over and, over and over and over and then we take a step back and then we kind, of you know, I feel like the last couple years have been a step back.
Speaker 1:So what's the next step for a team like that? Because at that point you're like, okay, y'all won nine games a few years back.
Speaker 4:We've won ten a couple times, I can't remember.
Speaker 1:But it's like, okay, what's the next step? Because realistically that's not a team that should be competing for SEC championship.
Speaker 3:Brian knows a sports talk radio show from that area that everybody seems to know and I get really tired of the comment it's the best in my lifetime. And it's not just that show. There's a lot of people in that age that's a little bit older than us, and I'm like, okay, fine, but are we ever going to take the next step, or are we okay with this?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think they're okay with it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and they may be.
Speaker 1:I'm not Because for me, my question is like all right, what's the next step? Win 10 and then actually win 9.
Speaker 4:Like I think you need to do it a few years in a row, to make it like, okay, this is where we are, now, let's do the next step.
Speaker 1:But it's like what is the next step? Are you thinking they should be competing every year for SEC championship? Not every year, but you've got to be there, or like three out of five or two out of five.
Speaker 3:When have they ever been to SEC championship? They've not, but to me that's a team.
Speaker 1:I don't think they ever will it. That's that type of progress you could have done that with Carolina right.
Speaker 3:They've had a lot of down years as Carolina football, but then they had some years they started.
Speaker 1:Carolina football has a national championship.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree, it was way back when?
Speaker 2:but they've won it.
Speaker 1:There's a little bit difference there, because it's like hey, we've done it once. For a lot of teams it's like, hey, we've at least been there. I don't know what Kentucky's greatest thing ever is.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Didn't they do something in the 50s? I can't remember.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know for theirs, I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3:I think it was before everything was what it is now Before really the huge growth?
Speaker 1:I guess I don't know, I don't know. But yes, I mean, for like Carolina football, we also play in the ACC.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, like you're talking, maybe three other good teams can kentucky be acc football and scc basketball. Like I'd be okay with it. You know I might be okay with it all acc at some point kentucky goes to acc.
Speaker 1:I think they're good in everything could be. I mean, you think about like basketball. They'll be up there with, typically, carolina and duke, like those three would kind of go run it in In football, who knows, because I mean typically.
Speaker 2:I think you're going to see.
Speaker 1:Clemson, florida State, miami. That's your big three. Cops are here, be careful. Yeah, so that's your big three there. And then you know baseball. It's a crap. Shoot SEC's stacked and baseball's a whole different thing. But shoot SEC's stacked and baseball's a whole different thing. But I think they're better in everything by doing that yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean listen the.
Speaker 1:ACC's open. We've got California teams like it's. It's, it's free for all, for everyone, right? So yeah, I mean, I do think they would succeed in it and I and I think in other sports I could be wrong.
Speaker 4:But some of the other sports Kentucky, they are like in different conferences, like so, whether it's soccer or whatever the secondary stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah yeah that they are.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I, I don't think I've ever once looked at a kentucky soccer game I've heard that I couldn't tell you, or honestly even care like I.
Speaker 4:I hate to say that, but it's like I you get into some of the obscure college sports.
Speaker 1:Right, it's like all right cool.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1:Like no you know we talk a lot of sports but it's like, hey, we're, we're talking baseball, basketball football, you know we'll we talk about some golf and we we dabble in a few other things. It's like that's the extent. We're not talking lacrosse. We're not talking you know any of those things which, speaking of lacrosse, I don't know if he's listening, but shout out to JD, miss JD, I haven't talked to him in a while.
Speaker 3:I do too.
Speaker 1:I saw a post or something a day or two ago and I was like gosh, I need to be talking to him. Last time I talked to him, he took over coaching at his water, his alma mater yeah, d3 school.
Speaker 4:I will say that you all have talked about sports movies in the past. I know last week you mentioned again the Mighty Ducks.
Speaker 1:That's my go-to I love that movie.
Speaker 4:So my daughter, my oldest I told her here a few years ago she's like looking for a movie. She was about probably 14 or so at the time. She's like's a good movie to watch. I said I remember when I was young there was a movie called the mighty ducks. Check it out. She watched it. She's became a hockey fan so she'll watch the anaheim ducks, which is they're not a good team no, but I was gonna say I remember when anaheim did the logo from the movie when they switched.
Speaker 1:That was the second movie Right, Because they're at the Junior Olympics, whatever it is and they come out in the white jerseys.
Speaker 3:So they just used the movie to get popular.
Speaker 1:Honestly, that was one of the greatest marketing things of the time. They made that it's like, yeah, we don't even actually use that logo. We did it because of the movie and they became so many people's favorite team.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but they're still working. Yeah, she loves it. We went to two hockey games.
Speaker 1:So I'm not a hockey fan. Never have been. Hockey games are a blast.
Speaker 4:I'm starting to watch it. If you go to a hockey game, you will like it. Hockey games are a blast yeah.
Speaker 1:Hockey games are a blast. We used to have a little small one over here in Asheville, asheville. Smoke is what they were Like purple, they had like a dinosaur type thing. So much fun. That was like a youth group thing. We'd go over to hockey games over there and just had a blast. I didn't know what was going on, but it was a lot of fun. I feel like hockey is growing.
Speaker 4:I think it is, and me and her. We took a trip here a couple years ago to raleigh, went and watched the ducks play the canes. That was fun, the most fun we. The other time we went, we went to nashville watched the ducks play the predators okay that was I loved like during there's two intermissions during the games they have three periods. They had like a southern rock band just playing in this.
Speaker 1:That's Nashville. That's different, I know, but that's the home of that stuff.
Speaker 4:This is awesome. I want this in every arena I go to, but it was cool.
Speaker 1:So I've obviously been to very few hockey games never been to professional hockey games. So I feel like that would be a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 3:I've never been to one in person, but I've started watching it last year at the Stanley Cup, yeah, which hockey is what made me think of this?
Speaker 1:because we actually tried to pull it up on TV the other day.
Speaker 2:I got to get on a little bit of a soapbox here. Oh gosh, here we go.
Speaker 1:I am so sick of trying to watch a local team. It was a Hurricanes.
Speaker 3:It was a Hurricanes game. I wanted to put it up there we tried a Hurricanes game on.
Speaker 2:We live in North Carolina.
Speaker 1:Not available in your area.
Speaker 3:Where do I go find it? Who's it available for?
Speaker 1:Where is it available, because I'm just trying to watch it.
Speaker 4:We have a good friend at church. He's a huge Nashville Predators fan. Yeah, and since that's the closest, to where we're at Nashville is always blacked out. If the Ducks are playing Nashville, it's blacked out. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't understand that. I've never looked into that.
Speaker 4:That I don't know.
Speaker 1:I know because a friend of ours he is a huge Hurricanes fan and he used to talk about that that you actually had to watch it on a different service and I'm like then why are they even showing that it's on TV?
Speaker 3:Like it shouldn't even pop up in my area that it's on there. Literally. That channel was wasted because when I clicked on it it said it's not available.
Speaker 1:You can't even watch that channel. I couldn't watch anything on that channel and that was an ESPN network channel. How do you not watch that? I don't understand it don't make sense.
Speaker 4:It don't make sense at all. I know going into motorsports, it is supposed to rain.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it started to sprinkle behind me. Is that what it was?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I kind of feel the mist Getting into motorsports like the Indianapolis 500, for so long if that race did not sell out, the tickets to the race did not sell out. It was blacked out in Indianapolis because they was trying to get people to come watch the race.
Speaker 3:Don't give me a way to option.
Speaker 4:So I don't know if it has something to do with that, but I know that was their reasoning.
Speaker 1:Well, the problem is though, like for us, that's like five hours.
Speaker 4:Like this isn't, you know, 45 minutes up the road, the road.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll just go to it. Yeah, like this is a a trip like that's a whole whole thing so, yeah, I mean, I guess I get that with it with indy. It's like, all right, don't watch it, come to it, yeah, like you're here.
Speaker 3:Okay, fair enough, that's in a big city, don't block it out 500 miles away, you know? Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's silly there's a there's a race in new york and we got it blocked out in california you should just go. Just hop in your jet and go. That's the easiest way.
Speaker 3:So this made me think of one other thing, because I I need somebody on my side here. All right, need someone on the side, so bad. Okay, you've probably heard my pet peeve of the baseball stadiums I just had a feeling that's right. Let's see let's see oh okay, I heard this I heard this last week.
Speaker 4:You may not like my response okay, all right, let's. Let's see if you can make me a believer in why we should have this you're talking about the different dimensions and major dimensions, yeah, okay myself, I get what you're saying, for personally, I do like the little quirks in the different fields, whether it's the green monster in Fenway or you know, I think it was.
Speaker 1:Got a short porch in Houston there on the left yeah.
Speaker 4:Or Petco in San Diego.
Speaker 1:You've got the steel warehouse that is basically part of left field.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And if you hit it right at that spot?
Speaker 4:it's super short.
Speaker 1:Everywhere else is huge, right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so I don't know. I have to disagree with you on that, david. I like the weird things.
Speaker 3:I like the uniqueness.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But I feel like we can make the uniqueness like around the field, and make it feel the same. And one like we can make the uniqueness like around the field to make it feel the same. And one thing too, because that's such a stat driven sport like every like.
Speaker 4:If you go look at all history, it's all about the stats and home runs and I just I want to be equal, I want to know that it was equal, right? Yeah, I mean, I guess everybody has opportunity to.
Speaker 1:There's never there's never equal, there there's there's a steroid. There's never like that which that, to me, I'm like all right, if it was a steroid era, that's what you were, at this point calling it. Why are we keeping these guys out of the hall of fame?
Speaker 1:yeah, when everybody was doing it. It's not like these. Like four or five guys were the ones doing it. Like I was never a huge barry bonds fan yeah, but I also I'm not a barry bonds hater. I, to me, recognize barry bonds is the greatest hitter ever. I don't care how many steroids you take, if you can't swing well, see the ball well, do all those things well, you're not getting those hits you're not getting those home runs so that run him in what mc McGuire head?
Speaker 3:No, that was.
Speaker 2:McGuire and Sosa.
Speaker 1:That was a blast that made non-baseball fans watch baseball, just because it was something interesting.
Speaker 4:I got a funny story about McGuire and Sosa. So you know 1988, I was really into baseball. I think that was the year, maybe, that the Dodgers beat the Athletics. Mark McGuire played for the Athletics. He was the A's then. Yeah, yeah, he was my favorite player growing up.
Speaker 2:Whenever I was younger, baseball. This was little McGuire.
Speaker 1:He's a little fella. This was before steroids. Yeah, he's a little guy.
Speaker 4:Baseball was my favorite game to play, my favorite game to watch, so I was all into it. Back then fast forward to I think it was 98 um sosa mcguire. Um, you know steroid era, uh, mcguire hitting 500 feet home runs.
Speaker 4:So me and my buddy what felt like nightly right right so we I mean, like I said, huge mcguire fan you know that home run race took the you know country by storm that summer, yeah, um, so me and my buddy it's the night after mcguire had hit his 62nd home run, which was the you know home run to beat maris's home run record right me and my brother, me and my buddy just happened to be going through Cincinnati that night.
Speaker 4:Mcguire was playing in Cincinnati. The next night, you know, game had already started. I tell my friend, I'm like let's stop, let's watch McGuire. He's my favorite player. I can say I seen him the night after he broke the record. We go to park, get parked, we're running into the stadium, running into the stadium, we get on the concourse and we hear the announcer Now batting for Mark McGuire. John Mabry, it took him out of the game.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, are you kidding me? Yeah? We're running into the stadium. Is it too late for a refund? Yeah, no kid.
Speaker 4:I looked at my buddy.
Speaker 2:I'm like so did you stay? John Mabry, did you watch the game? Yeah, we stayed. Oh okay, yeah, we stayed there at that point you got to?
Speaker 3:yeah, I don't know. We stayed after all that I might be like forget it.
Speaker 4:I'm out we funny story just hearing them, john mabry, I'll never get never forget that name.
Speaker 3:Went to see mark mcguire and you got john mabry right, exactly, yeah I, and that's.
Speaker 1:That is where it starts to come into that like where I always complain about the load management stuff. Yeah, oh yeah, I don't care to take off 10 games in a year yeah don't take off 50 right don't take off 25, it's just. It just feels like it's too much right it just feels like it's a little bit too much for me I agree because that that to me is a term that only became prevalent. What eight?
Speaker 1:years ago, yeah like that's not a, that's not something that people ever even talked about that's a new term.
Speaker 3:Well, we said, though, there's too many games now. So there are.
Speaker 1:And again, maybe that's one way to fix load management. It's a shorter season, you don't have to anymore. Now there should be some guys that are like, oh no, I'm still going to do it, which that, to me, is stupid. At that point, but, all right. So for NBA, because that's where I think we see it the most, what's a good number? What do you think is a good number? Because we're at 82 right now.
Speaker 3:I could be real smart, but I don't know. I want to say 10. Well, like, realistically, like a professional sport.
Speaker 1:It's obviously going to have more games than college. What are they at now?
Speaker 3:College problem is NBA final, like the playoff series once they start, is so long Because there's all these different five-game series, seven-game series. I feel like that goes on for almost as long as the season. So if you're going to keep that, I'd like to see 50 games, 60 tops.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think like 60.
Speaker 3:I think so.
Speaker 1:I think in my mind where I feel comfortable is like 60, 65 yeah but I still think of that.
Speaker 3:Let's cut the finals back a little or the the playoffs is not just not the fine. I'm fine with seven games, you know finals well.
Speaker 1:So that other stuff, the, the seven games, you've got your conference finals, eastern, western, and the championship yeah, but how many do you have to get to those?
Speaker 3:Those are five-game series though? Yeah, but don't you play? How many different rounds.
Speaker 1:I guess I don't like the addition of these play-in games where you've got nine through 12 still have a chance to make it. I'm like, all right, well, you didn't make it through the whole season, why are you now getting a shot? And some of these are like sub-500 teams, like why are we even giving you a remote chance? Like I don't like that To me, like if you can't win at least half your games, you shouldn't even be here. Like that's a very weird thing to me.
Speaker 3:Is that like the college bowl games you used to do? Well, you had to at least win six games, or?
Speaker 1:something. You got to win six games.
Speaker 3:I don't think that's a thing anymore either.
Speaker 1:So no, it still is. I mean, it's bowl-eligible six games.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:You got to win six to be bowl-eligible, but it doesn't guarantee that you're in a bowl. No it guarantee that you're in a bowl. No, it kind of ultimately depends on if there are too many teams that win eight. Sorry, six.
Speaker 3:So is that what you want to do in the nba and I mean nfl might could do that too, because they get some of their.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean so you see some of the nfl.
Speaker 1:I mean there for a few years the nfc east, which is cowboys, eagles, commanders, now you know redskins, growing up giants there's a couple of times it was eight and eight made the playoffs seven and nine and you're the division leader and I'm like how, like right, like I, which is a little bit different there because it's it's a division leader, like the way that they do their playoffs, but the way that the nba does the playoffs, where it's like top eight, all right, why are we then doing play-ins for nine through twelve to possibly get in and 12 is only one, like 30 games all year?
Speaker 3:yeah like.
Speaker 1:I just don't get that and that, to me, is a waste of time and a waste of it's more games, it's what it's wasting the fans. To me, like you're making them watch more when it's like this game doesn't matter, I don't care what kind of run they go on, they're not winning I feel that way about most this season, regular season in most sports, professional sports, especially baseball, basketball, nfl so I get like why they're long, to an extent because it's like all right, this is the top of the top.
Speaker 1:You want to see them more.
Speaker 1:They're going to make more money that way it should be a little bit of a grind, but yeah, I think I think it's gotten out of hand. I mean, 160 something games for baseball, 82 for the NBA, plus the potential depending on how the series go. Same thing with baseball, depending on how the series go, you're feeling like you're playing 200. I mean it's just a lot. So, yeah, maybe I guess the best way to look at it for me who doesn't like load management short in the season 15 games.
Speaker 1:That's not a crazy number, they won't because, like you said, it's money. Yeah right, like nba especially, there is so much money moving around that league. It is ridiculous, I mean even to the point. You know they started doing the whole ads on the logos and or ads on the the jerseys. I, I mean, I don't even know how much they're getting for that, but you know they've got to be getting a lot, can they?
Speaker 3:get a four-year golf on a jersey.
Speaker 1:You take it out like a 10th mortgage? How?
Speaker 3:awesome would it be to turn on a NASCAR race and like there's a four-year golf car. Those are expensive too though.
Speaker 2:Oh, they are Getting those logos like it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean even thinking about something like as small as all the logos in golf, Like some of those logos on those guys' hats are like 50 grand for the year.
Speaker 3:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:And I'm like for something you can't even see on TV, but it has to work right, or they wouldn't spend the money. I guess, I guess so.
Speaker 1:I mean because it's an investment, so I think you got to look at it, though, too. Look at NASCAR, too. Look at nascar. Look at what most of those logos are right compared to, like golf, most of the stuff in golf I've never heard of right. But it's also not relevant to me. When you're talking wealth managers, you're talking lawyer firms, you're talking I don't have a need for those yeah but you go to nascar and it's the barbecue place and the home dep and beer and like like.
Speaker 3:When you're watching sports and NASCAR or whatever, you don't see commercials for Porsches and things like that, because, like the people that buy those aren't watching that. Well, we're seeing reality, like you start talking about like a Porsche.
Speaker 1:They don't market through commercials. Because if you can afford it, you're probably not watching much TV exactly like there you're like. Bentleyley has never once done.
Speaker 4:A commercial like bentley doesn't even put that their name is out there.
Speaker 1:No, you buy a bentley because you're in an elite group that you talk about that like it's just different.
Speaker 3:They're 100. True, if I'm watching nascar race and the barbecue comes up, I'm all for some barbecue oh% they're hitting the right target there.
Speaker 1:When you watch it you think about it like it's a bunch of hardware type stores, it's a bunch of food, alcohol, it's stuff that's just kind of everyday American stuff.
Speaker 3:Where golf is not. Food, alcohol, hardware that's everyday American stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess I mean more of what our budget allows. It's stuff that like we're going to shop at those type of stores, we're not. We're not shopping it, like I said in golf it's.
Speaker 3:It's literally like wealth management sometimes I tell my wife I'm like, because I'm doing a lot of odd jobs around the house, I'm like I just wish I had enough money to pay somebody else to do this that's. I don't need to be like huge wealthy, I just want to pay pay somebody else to fix it.
Speaker 1:I don't need millions, I just need enough that when I have an issue I call somebody and they come fix it. Yeah, that'd be fantastic.
Speaker 3:I can't imagine what that'd feel like.
Speaker 4:It'd be nice to know, right.
Speaker 1:Oh, it'd 100% be nice to know. It's like the meme that always goes around If I win the lottery, I'm not going to tell anybody, but there'll be signs. There'll be signs yeah, that's one of the signs Like, all my stuff's going to be fixed and I'm not dirty.
Speaker 3:I didn't have to fix any of it.
Speaker 1:I'm just here hanging out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do what you want to do, not what you have to do.
Speaker 1:Well, I think that's the goal in life. Success is freedom.
Speaker 3:I don't even care about money anymore. I guess money brings freedom, but it's all about to an extent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's the thing, like for some people. They don't measure success that way. Success is why I paid my bills. Hey, your chair is squeaking, I know, but I can't help it, I'm sitting.
Speaker 3:I can hear it on here it's squeaking over the thing, so yeah, they, they both started squeaking. I, if somebody's annoyed at this sound. It's Tyler.
Speaker 1:Blame me, I'll take it. Squeaking the chair.
Speaker 2:I don't care, he's going to be banned from the chair from now on. No, I'll just get some WD out here.
Speaker 1:I'm going to rock, with a steady stream of it just going constantly. So you'll hear the spray. You're not going to hear, right.
Speaker 3:I'm glad we got to get Brian on here, so we got to got to. You know, make sure there's nothing. We got to ask him before he's got to go or anything.
Speaker 1:I know I mean, there's always. There's always a million questions and we'll probably think of so.
Speaker 3:Brian got to be in town for right after well, I guess about 24 hours or so, it feels like, or something like that. But so we're glad you got to be here yeah, we.
Speaker 1:I think at some point, when we have good questions that we want to get other opinions on because we we do that a lot we're like I wonder what these people think about this we're just gonna start writing those down yeah because, like we've done that with will, we're like I wonder what he thinks of, or like we always are saying, like I wonder what brian's thoughts are no and usually we get a text a few days later. Yeah, well, here's what I think yeah and so I think we just got to do that.
Speaker 3:So then when he shows up, we've got kind of that running list of I think if anybody doesn't like the podcast, just send it to Facebook or Instagram so Brian can respond. Yeah, I'll play into Brian, I'll do it.
Speaker 1:Brian doesn't really have anything to do with topics or what we talk about but yeah, just blame Brian.
Speaker 4:It's okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1:He said, Because he's going to ignore it like the rest of us would. So I mean listen we'll take the praise, but complaints are going to just get filed in the compartment. We're not going to look at those Constructive criticism. We're all for it until we don't like it.
Speaker 4:That's how that typically works, right, it is. It is. So, david, you want to talk a little NASCAR.
Speaker 3:Yes, let's do that Finally. He's just been quiet over there.
Speaker 1:I knew at some point this was going to happen, because David really wants somebody to talk NASCAR with.
Speaker 3:I even told Will last week. I was like you've got to get back in NASCAR.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Will is a big NASCAR guy from long ago.
Speaker 3:What did he say? It's not modern NASCAR. Grandpa or somebody said there's only two times he cried. Uh was like he had something of dylan hart that got damaged or something. And then, when dylan hart died, yeah, yeah that that older group.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna like go take a nap or make a sandwich or something grease that chair. That's a good idea probably have time to go to the store buy some. I mean heck, I may have time to make my own grease.
Speaker 2:I'm not even sure at this point.
Speaker 1:But yeah, here's your chance. You've got a fellow.
Speaker 3:I'll ask this question.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:This year. What are we? I don't know. Are we 10 races in or something now?
Speaker 2:I don't even know, I'm not sure that sounds right.
Speaker 3:How many?
Speaker 4:do you think?
Speaker 3:you've watched? Do you watch all the races? Because some people like me I've said several times I have to see it all the way through. It just drives me crazy, right.
Speaker 4:No, I mean I don't have to watch the entire thing. I've heard you say that on previous podcasts, but I don't watch nearly as much as I used to.
Speaker 3:Okay, can you just turn on the end and just kind of see what happens?
Speaker 4:Yeah, kind of, and I'm always one of those people it's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm always constantly on Twitter, on social media, so I'm keeping up with it a lot that way as well. I follow a few different NASCAR reporters lot that way as well. I follow a few different nascar reporters, um, but yeah, I try to catch you know whenever I am watching it. There's a few races throughout the year that I will watch the entire race.
Speaker 3:Uh, your restrictor plate races daytona and talladega I still find those fascinating a lot of people don't like you know, it's a wreck fest and all the drivers are.
Speaker 4:Oh, I love kind of outspoken.
Speaker 3:I'm not like anybody. I love them. I think they're a blast to watch yeah, I.
Speaker 4:I would like to go to daytona or talladega one we've talked about that in the past yeah we're gonna have to go at some point yeah, yeah, we have uh, so we may have to make that happen because uh I think not a muse should send us there so we can report back to the podcast I think that that'd be great. Social media I think that'd be great.
Speaker 3:We could just make Tyler go with us.
Speaker 1:We could, we could. I was literally about to chime in to say I'm sick that week.
Speaker 3:I don't know what week, but I'm sick that week. You can still go. Hang on, where are we talking about going? I say Talladega.
Speaker 4:Talladega, you got to talladega, you gotta go with talladega. I would think and.
Speaker 3:But here's the thing we're gonna drive down and we're gonna listen to eric church eric church talladega song the whole way, I'm ignoring that talk.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to think about what golf courses are local there.
Speaker 3:No, that's my thought but so right now, right, because the big thing is drivers, and they're not with. They're not dylan hart, they're not even kevin harvicks and some of those guys who you pulling for right now um, I like kyle larson.
Speaker 4:Uh, I've grew up watching dirt track racing all my life. Uh, kyle larson came from the dirt tracks, uh, so I tend to pull for him um, I agree with you.
Speaker 3:I really like kyle larson too it.
Speaker 1:I don't know that. I've ever even heard that name.
Speaker 3:No really he's pretty good, you're missing out he's pretty good there's a lot of people say he might be the best driver in a long time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because he can drive anything yeah, he, he uh entered the ender indy 500 last year, um, also driving nascar. He, he'll drive several races throughout the year on dirt uh and wins a lot. But I like kyle larson, um, even though I like him, he and I think this is a problem with nascar right now is he don't have much of a personality. He doesn't. No, you're right, you talk about, you know, the dale earnhardt's in the past, the, the jeffordons, the Tony Stewarts, kevin Harvick even they had personalities. Most of these NASCAR drivers you don't know much about them.
Speaker 3:We said about other sports. There used to be this hatred towards your rival. Yeah, has that gone away in NASCAR too? Is that part of it?
Speaker 4:like they don't hate, they're all buddies I think so, and I think so, and I think that's caused the fans to not really like you know, like they used to. You know it used to be kyle bush. I did not like kyle bush same way now it's he's getting to the end of his. I think that's kind of going away a little bit.
Speaker 3:I'm starting to feel sorry for him. I am too as bad as it's going right now.
Speaker 4:So I don't know. I feel like NASCAR is missing that the two guys going head to head. You know they don't like each other and you're just waiting for them to come up to pass each other on the track and what's going to happen? That stuff don't happen anymore.
Speaker 3:much jeff gordon delan art was huge and then del jr type thing, and I remember um walmart in in corbin, kentucky when I was a kid.
Speaker 3:When the super center opened, del jr came there yeah, yeah and I remember going there and getting him to sign a thing for me and this is when he's like first becoming big and one of the audience members. Their question was something like do you hate jeff gordon? Or something like it was like a real and fans wanted him to say yes, yeah, and I remember he kind of laughed it off but in a way like yeah, I do no, whether he did or not. It was like the fans knew it's separate, yeah, and there is no that anymore.
Speaker 1:I have a question on that then Okay, like you said, you don't know if it was real, I think it was, so could some of that and not all, because I think there was more hatred and I think it's across every sport. I don't think just NASCAR. You go back to the NBA, you go back to NFL, you go back to even college sports A lot more rivalry type stuff. Yeah, so, using a wrestling term is it?
Speaker 3:is there some kayfabe to it or are they just kind of playing up the part instead. I don't think then there was.
Speaker 1:I think not way back, not way back. I'm not talking about, like you know, the days of senior, but junior and gordon. And as it started to trickle into more modern, did you start to maybe just see it? It was more of an act and not that they legitimately was with junior.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do think, maybe past him and more recent yeah, more recently.
Speaker 4:I definitely think, I definitely think. So it's almost like well here.
Speaker 1:Here's my character. I'm gonna just kind of play into it, but he might have been the start of that as he started getting older yeah and everybody was over Dillon Hart.
Speaker 3:So we're Dale Earnhardt. So we got to be Dale Earnhardt.
Speaker 4:Jr True, true.
Speaker 3:And then you saw Dale Earnhardt Jr go be Jeff Gordon's teammate Yep, and that was like, oh wait a minute, now what do we do? You know, I'll tear you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So that might have been the start of some of tell tal.
Speaker 3:All the time, too, we talk about golf and nascar points. I really love the way nascar does a point system anymore, right this is the new.
Speaker 1:This is the new point system, though right, I mean, it's been around a while now, but new compared to what?
Speaker 3:what it was prior gotcha do you find it the same way?
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah, I do, um, to be honest with you, it's not something that I check all the time, but I do know it is more clear about who's getting points for what position, and you know you're getting x amount of points for finishing here, finishing there, where, like you said in the past, well, you get x amount of points for leading a lap or doing this or doing that, and it was hard to keep up with.
Speaker 3:So it is, I agree it is, when it gets to the playoffs, how they make it very clear clear almost all the time of what's going on.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I agree with that. I think the only thing I don't like personally is how they end the championship in one. The championship is decided in one race. You go an entire season and you're going to crown that champion and who finishes of the final four guys that's remaining? Who finishes higher? You know, you may have your best guy have a flat tire on lap whatever, and so you can't control that so as fans.
Speaker 1:What's your fix for that like, do you have something in mind that you're like? I would rather see this.
Speaker 4:I'll give mine Then, David you can give yours if you want to. Um, the, the way they have it set up. Now is your final 10 races.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:Is pretty much what you know. That's that's where your champions are going to come from. They're going to take however many. I think it's like the top 16 drivers are running for points those last 10 races and say, after whatever three races it may be, they will eliminate some of them, gotcha Okay. So the way it is now is you get to that final race, they take the top four drivers. I would fix that. Make it the final three races instead of it just being one, one single race. Make it three races. Who's your top point getter in those final three races?
Speaker 1:not only that, so really make your finals more of a series instead of just a one-off. Yeah, okay, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 4:you know, let it be over those final three races. And also one thing I wish they would change is I wish they would rotate the final race Me and David was talking earlier. What ends up happening is you may have some team or some driver that does really well at that final track. They're going to win the championship a lot of times and there are certain teams that are really good at certain tracks.
Speaker 2:You're just saying more like rotate location yeah, like we should be at different tracks, okay, super bow, kind of.
Speaker 1:I mean we we talked about the same thing with golf. Like I hate that the finals is always the exact same spot, like I'm, I'm cool with yeah, because you're good at that spot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and we talked about again in the golf world so many people talk about.
Speaker 1:Well, this type of grass, this type of whatever this type of climate, you just, I just don't play well in this Right. It's kind of the same thing. You know, if a guy doesn't do well in a kind of more of a tricky course, a smaller track, where it's a lot more, you know, thought out, instead of just flat out racing compared to you know a bigger one, you can really open it up.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So yeah, I mean I understand that. I've always thought, yeah, we need to rotate it around, and at one point it was in Homestead, Miami and Phoenix, and that's kind of in the two. I feel like it is always that and I hate phoenix I don't like it. I never have like.
Speaker 4:It's never a good race they tried to flip the track and put the finish line on the opposite side, where it used to be. Yeah, and they reconfigured it and all this stuff and I'm like I hate this track. Why, why are we finishing it here?
Speaker 3:is that that's where they cut the first corner, like crazy right yeah yeah I don't get it. So I've that thought, like can we rotate that track around? But it's still kind of, you know, if that track falls good for you that year, then they're going to win it and everybody else. You've got to wait another year, you know. So I hadn't really thought of it that way. I really like the series idea because that's kind of how they do the rest of the playoffs. It's these three-r race, yeah series and we drop what?
Speaker 1:four drivers off everything or three, whatever it is, I can't remember. So if you did a series, would you incorporate different types of track, like would would one of the three be a road course, which I know you're not a big road course?
Speaker 1:fan, I don't know brian's thoughts on that so they do that in the final 10 races that brian's talking about sure, I'm just thinking like when you get down to your final four and say they decide to go with here's three races, do you do a super speedway, do you do a standard track and then do you do a road course, or do you do two regular courses?
Speaker 3:I'm okay with those in that final 10, but I'd like the last series to be what NASCAR is. They're short tracks or mile and a half.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I don't need super speedways, I don't need so you kind of just want like a standard.
Speaker 1:I say standard for lack of a better term, but standard track.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm okay having those. It's on you.
Speaker 1:It's not on a teammate, it's on you.
Speaker 3:I'm okay having those to get to the final four, but the final four should be NASCAR Fair.
Speaker 4:Make them different sizes, or a mile versus mile and a half. Yeah yeah, I don't want a road course, as much as I like the super speedways. Talladega and Daytona. That's such a.
Speaker 3:It's hard to crown a champion. Yeah, that probably doesn't make good for a final. No, it don't. So I wouldn't do that. And what's unique with NASCAR is, you know, these four are going for the championship. Everybody else is still out there, so they can affect you if they wreck in front of you or do something or whatever.
Speaker 1:So what are they racing for? Is there still money on the line For those places, I mean?
Speaker 3:Whatever If they didn't make the top 16, they're all racing for 17th, so they're still racing. They could fall way down the line. If they don't race so they're still racing they could fall way down the line if they don't race.
Speaker 1:So even then, I guess we talked about getting into the final four. Okay, everybody else is eliminated. What are they racing for now? So technically, fifth.
Speaker 3:Well, was it? The four are racing for fifth. There's four guys that can still get fifth because they were knocked out of that round. I think Brian.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it is Okay. Yeah, that's how it is.
Speaker 1:yeah, so those four of the from eight, basically eight to five. Right, you are now racing for those four spots that round right before the championship round. You're racing for those so the reason you're still trying to do well is, I'm guessing, placing is more money oh, yeah, yeah okay, so, so, and I guess in my terms, because what I understand, like, like golf winner gets X amount of dollars and even if you know you can't win, you're still trying to play as high as you can, because there's still huge money available.
Speaker 1:Much bigger than like standard races, and all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, so very similar in that aspect.
Speaker 1:I got you. That makes sense at least, because that's obviously. I know nothing about a NASCAR playoff. I know nothing about how that works about a NASCAR playoff.
Speaker 1:I know nothing about how that works, but yeah, I could see, though, like you're saying, kind of just, we've gotten here, you've had to go through all this and now one maybe track, that you don't even like you've got to go out and really perform at yeah, instead of, like you said, you get a flat season's over, yeah and no. Don't get me wrong, Part of that is anything you know. We were just watching NCAA tournament. Cooper flag gets a foul call on him. That is kind of their season. At that point, any one thing can technically derail it, but as a fan you must want to say, all right, well, let's truly see who's best right like over a three over a three race span.
Speaker 1:You see who's best. We say Like over a three-race span. You see who's best, not over one.
Speaker 3:We see this in other sports too, but I think even more in NASCAR. The best driver and team usually doesn't win in my opinion.
Speaker 4:No, not anymore. I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. It's just like we said whoever does best at that track.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3:I give some weight that they still got to get to that last track, yeah, but once they're there, you know, we've seen it, penske wins Phoenix a lot.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And they've been winning the championship when it's at Phoenix. Yeah, one of their drivers, they figured it out.
Speaker 1:So they got it so kind of for them, them, they're thinking if we can just get to the championship if we can just get there we do well, there we're good.
Speaker 4:It's like Hendrick at Homestead whenever it was at Homestead when it was there.
Speaker 3:That's when Kyle Larson won. He's good at that track. It fits his style of racing, so I agree. I think they gotta do something to help with that, yeah.
Speaker 4:Whether they will or not. I doubt it because it don't seem like NASCAR is, you know, they. It seems like whenever they do try new stuff, they go the opposite way of what people want. But I mean, I wish they would try new things.
Speaker 1:Let's just say this Many people have said that about golf for a long time yeah, that's changing as of like next year, like they're. They're like hey, we're actually throwing around the term match play for the first time ever, which is something fans talk about, but they're like, oh, that'll never happen, they'll never do those things. So maybe if some of these other leagues start making some changes like that, where it's like these are truly centered around fan, like really just, this is gonna be best for fandom, maybe they'll catch on. Now there's some sports that are always just we do what we want, we don't care right, and nascar may be one of those it kind of feels like one of those right now and again golf has felt that way.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, hey, there's hope, guys. As a fan you know, not a nascar fan as a golf fan I'm like we're seeing some of that's going to possibly change. For you guys.
Speaker 3:It's like there's still hope you know, don't give up, maybe, maybe we'll see. Um, it is exciting when you get to the playoffs. It's another little sports. The playoffs is more exciting than the regular season right but uh, it's definitely different than what it used to be yeah, I agree with that, I agree hey, we got tyler in on nascar talk that's right. That's right well I kind of just got bored of sitting here, so I figured I better jump in, somehow I'll book our trip to talladega yeah, let's do it
Speaker 1:you only need two tickets.
Speaker 3:I won't be there I think you would enjoy it more than you think you would, just because it would be in a live event.
Speaker 1:Like you may not care well, so here's the thing live events are always different like we've always said any kind of live event is going to be fun to me.
Speaker 3:I like stuff like that.
Speaker 1:You never know, oh, I would have a blast. A soccer game, yeah, like a true, like big soccer game, I think I'd have a blast, doesn't mean I'm gonna sit home and watch it on tv, yeah. But I agree, especially like you know you're talking about premier league over in europe. You know some of their biggest teams over there, which I've always heard you talk about soccer over there like that's their football yeah, like that that, like the way that they treat it like their, their life revolves around those teams.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, the energy and just the excitement that makes the whole thing.
Speaker 3:Whether the soccer game's fun or not, that makes it. I would kind of get that at a live NASCAR event.
Speaker 1:I mean I could see that being possible, just because a live event is, like I said, always to me a lot of fun.
Speaker 4:I've been to. Even though I'm a NASCAR fan, I've only been to one NASCAR race live Where'd you go?
Speaker 4:kentucky speedway it's closed now, um, but if I was watching it at home, just thinking back on the race, it would have been very boring, which, tyler, you probably think they all are. They are. Yeah, there was not many passes for the lead, not not much going on at all in that race, but it was fun being there and I enjoyed it and it was pretty cool, just, you know, watching the cars and watching the pit stops, how they was happening and stuff, and being able to watch all of them. It was really cool. I really enjoyed it. Um, you know, before the races and stuff, uh, like, some of the drivers came out, did interviews and stuff like that. It it was pretty neat. I had a lot of fun, um, but, like, like I said, if I was watching on TV it wouldn't have been a good race.
Speaker 3:See, I went once to Charlotte and it was the same way. I loved all the stuff going on. The only thing I missed was I wanted to hear the commentary. I wanted to hear him talking about the stories going on in the pits and things, and it was even at one point when they started lapping each other. At times you've got to kind of figure out, okay, what's going on here and this and that. So I missed that part. But if I'm not mistaken, I think you can get headsets and stuff like that to kind of get that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say how do you feel?
Speaker 4:Because I feel, like every baseball game I've ever been to, all the old men are in the crowd with listening to the game radio while they're watching.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, there's radio or tv.
Speaker 4:It's like they gotta have that commentary like they can't, just well I think the tracks like rent the things out they do, and when we went, that's what we uh, me and my dad did we got the, the scanner and you could listen to the drivers, but you could also tune in and listen to the radio.
Speaker 1:Call, okay, so for you did that make it more enjoyable then, yeah, yeah, I think so. As far as just sitting there with nothing.
Speaker 4:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Watching the cars go yeah.
Speaker 4:I think that would have been miserable. Not miserable, it was still fun.
Speaker 1:Way less fun because, you're not getting the full experience.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because really any other?
Speaker 1:sport.
Speaker 3:We did get Tyler in a NASCAR once yeah.
Speaker 2:He rode in Charlotte for like three laps, oh really.
Speaker 3:We all done it.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think he enjoyed that yeah but that's fun, because I mean anything going fast is fun.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Like that's a fun experience.
Speaker 3:So you'd be okay driving a NASCAR. You right like that. That's a fun experience, so you'd be okay driving a nascar. You just don't want to watch them probably I get it. Yeah, I mean that'd be a different.
Speaker 4:That'd be different I get it for you golf car next year.
Speaker 1:Talladega, let's do it tyler, I'm too big to be in a nascar for that long like those guys are short.
Speaker 4:Most of those guys are fairly small like they're.
Speaker 3:They're not big I have to be too much to be in an s car that long actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you would struggle so, uh, can we call a time out?
Speaker 4:I gotta, you gotta use bathroom, not to give too many details, but you remember tony stewart one year. Uh, he had to use the bathroom and uh, as soon as he won the race and he came out of the car and he's like the camera crew's right there, he's like, guys, y'all got to give a few minutes. I'm pretty sure it's the watkins glen, I believe.
Speaker 3:But he's like y'all gotta give me a few minutes, and he went in to change clothes yeah, oh, that's funny. Yeah, I mean, I guess, if you gotta go, you gotta go, especially if you're winning. Yeah, stop now you know?
Speaker 1:see, that's, that's one of those things. That's weird because I think back all the sports I've played in my life, all the seasons, all the games. I've never had to go during a game.
Speaker 3:I remember playing football in high school halftime. I was always going to the bathroom, yeah.
Speaker 1:So like. But I'm just thinking like during.
Speaker 3:I've never left a game being on the bench.
Speaker 1:Yeah, being in a game I've never left a game.
Speaker 3:Being on the bench, yeah, being in a game I've never been like.
Speaker 1:I think for me, maybe I gotta go, even whether it's, you know, need to pee or need to poop, whatever like.
Speaker 2:I've never needed to do that, like Peter in halftime yeah, like a little different, but I don't consider that the same.
Speaker 3:Really, even during the podcast I'll go beforehand and I think it goes back to the same thing in sports.
Speaker 1:I always went when I could because I was afraid I would have to go during yeah and so it's like let's just get out of the way so I don't have to worry about it yeah, I just like I feel like I've seen it more in the past few years, especially like nfl guys getting caught on the sideline peeing or needing to go back to the locker room, and I'm like that's never been a thing like it just feels very weird to me that I guess I don't know if it's just focused on what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:Whatever my mind does not go, hey, you need, you need to go. Yeah, so that that's, I guess, weird to me thinking. But again different, yeah, basketball game, football game, small increments of time nascar once they get in that car once they get you know going. What are most races like? How long?
Speaker 4:I'd say you're averaging. Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, david, I'd say three hours I was gonna say three to four three or four hours probably yeah, in a kind of a cramped tight position, a little different.
Speaker 3:I bet you get so much adrenaline and stuff, though, that you don't really think about it.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You're so focused on what you're doing, but you've got to be locked in for a long time. That's what's different about basketball, too.
Speaker 1:But at what point does adrenaline wear off? Because I mean anything like the first few times, like for you, first few times you play football.
Speaker 3:there's adrenaline there, but at some point it does go away. It's the wrong word, but like this locked-in focus that you kind of tune everything else out. Well, see but other sports are different.
Speaker 1:Like you think, like on the golf course, those guys go to the bathroom all the time, like they're out there for four or five, six hours, but there's a bathroom every few holes. Yeah, you know basketball you play a half, you go back to the locker room, there's bathroom. Same thing for football. Like play a couple quarters, half time, you go, you go in. That's. That's why I couldn't drive an NASCAR.
Speaker 4:It's very different and I think that's I think the most impressive thing to me, or for me that I could not do, is being able to maintain that focus that the NASCAR drivers do Say they're at Bristol Motor Speedway you got a little over half mile track. You know they're flying around there. I mean I can't imagine how focused they have to be during that race 500 laps, 500 laps around there you know, as fast as they're going and you've got cars basically the entire length of the track, the whole race.
Speaker 4:Uh, to me that's impressive, because I cannot concentrate like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'd be looking at somebody in the stands and then I'd be running into a car. You'd have to be so wore out, yeah, mentally it'd be super taxing.
Speaker 1:I can see that.
Speaker 3:The race the other day. They were shifting four times every lap and it was like 400 laps or something. I think it was maybe Martinsville where they were Probably yeah. And they're like that's 1,600 shifts.
Speaker 4:Yep, and you better not miss one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4:Your day's done. That's crazy.
Speaker 3:But no, it's not the same. I still enjoy it. For the most part, there's some boring stuff to it, but I still get into it. I do it since we're getting late here.
Speaker 1:Listen, it's the same for me. I'm not going to enjoy it. I'm not going to enjoy it now, but we're getting late, I don't know when we'll get you back on here.
Speaker 3:So do you have an early pick for NASCAR champion? Remember it's at Phoenix.
Speaker 4:It's at Phoenix, so you got to go Penske.
Speaker 3:I don't even know who's leading the points right now I don't either, I'll just say Lugano again, I'm with you, can't go wrong.
Speaker 4:I don't think. I don't think it's going to be Sendrick, that's all I'll say.
Speaker 3:It'll be one of the other two Penske cars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it may be Blaney. Current point leader William Byron. Okay, kyle Larson second. William Byron Okay, kyle Larson second. Chase Elliott third.
Speaker 3:Well, so they won races, right yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah. So, like you said earlier, they've done 10 races. I pulled it up, okay, this weekend will be 11. I just kind of guessed at that.
Speaker 3:I figured it was right around there.
Speaker 4:That's pretty good, David.
Speaker 1:Logano, ninth currently Okay, apparently okay, but see, when you win you go ahead of everybody else just by winning the race. Well, but especially early, early in the season you got most of your points from.
Speaker 4:yeah, I can see that yeah so so that's my, that's my pick, I guess we'll see, I would bet, but don't, don't take my picks.
Speaker 3:Nobody bet on that right now bobby, that goes for you.
Speaker 1:Don't take this pick I don't have a clue if bob's a NASCAR fan. Actually I didn't think about that.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I'm going to have to ask him next time. I don't know. I'm going to say that might be a pick, it'd be okay. If you pick a Pensy car. You're probably okay. Yeah, For sure. So, Tyler, you ready to get back in the conversation? No, I'm good.
Speaker 1:I was just thinking like yeah. I'm trying to think if there's any other pressing question for Brian, because there's always something that's like trying to get somebody else's thought on, we're keeping him late, or whether it's you know, you have a thought. I have a thought. Who's the tiebreaker? Like you know, letting somebody be that.
Speaker 3:Like I said, you need somebody to be on your side about something. Yeah, like there's plenty of those, so I don't have anything currently. I think it's been fun like people got to hear brian.
Speaker 4:We got to see that he agrees me with most things, just not the baseball stadium it's okay.
Speaker 3:You can be wrong about one thing, I guess that's okay yeah, I've had a lot of fun wrong about one thing.
Speaker 1:I guess that's okay. Yeah, I've had a lot of fun. Tyler's thinking yeah, I, just I, because I know there's something and I know as soon as I shut this off, I'm gonna have like five yeah I was like trying to trying to have something, but no, I'm. I'm super happy that we got brian on um. We originally talked for like oh yeah, we'll just do like 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:It's been an hour and a half and I knew it would happen, because that's typical, what happens like you just get going and it's with some people, just easy, you just you just talk like it just stuff goes a whole lot more simple than and I know brian kind of before we started he's like, well, I don't really have anything like, I'm kind of just gonna follow suit and it. And it's like, don't worry it, it's, it'll be easier than you think once you get going.
Speaker 3:Cause we normally don't have anything either.
Speaker 1:No, it just flows like that's. That's the and again, the great thing about sports it leads into so many topics. It does, yeah, Whether you know you're talking about NASCAR and then somehow you get on the tracks, you get on to you know the million different things. So, yeah, that that definitely does make it easier. Yeah, one quick question, because I did just think about this. Okay, and I don't know how the grading system for health code stuff works in kentucky. I don't know if it's similar to here.
Speaker 1:Oh, I gotta ask this question so do you want to go with this one, because this is something you brought up?
Speaker 3:no, go ahead. I think I know where you're going, so Brian if you go to a restaurant or through a drive-thru do you typically look at their cleanliness health safety rating?
Speaker 1:If?
Speaker 4:it's visible, so here it has to be In North Carolina, it is required to be visible Really, and maybe it is in Kentucky, I've just not noticed.
Speaker 2:But there is a few that I have seen. Oh, you're going to notice it now.
Speaker 4:I know whenever y'all talked about that previously and maybe this is what you all said. I can't remember, but in Kentucky used to, whenever I was younger, they would put them in the newspaper.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:I don't think I've ever seen that. And not only would they put the score of the news or the score of the restaurant in the newspaper, they'd also put what they was counted off on oh okay, so they were just like we're putting all the laundry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got you yeah I bet it made restaurants stay better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because then it was gonna be the paper because but that's the thing here, you get a low score, nobody knows why. Yeah, like you actually going to be in the paper, but that's the thing here, you get a low score, nobody knows why. Yeah, like you actually have to go to the website, go do the research, like, see all the things. But if you put it out there it's like, hey, we found a rat in the soup.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're going to try to do way better with that, because we all just assume that's probably little things, no big deal. It could have been something crazy, did you?
Speaker 1:ever go look those up. I know we talked about it.
Speaker 3:I didn't know, but I thought it was funny. It is interesting when you start looking Brian gets into town today and he's like we're going to go eat.
Speaker 1:Little.
Speaker 2:Caesars.
Speaker 1:No, because you suggested that like 15 times this week You're like, hey, it's right down the road, let's go. He's like, before I I go eat, I need to know what that restaurant was listen, I'll flat out call him out, because here's the thing there are some really good ones, yeah, like top notch.
Speaker 3:Really good little teasers not here like this one here quite a bit okay. I mean I was there the other day.
Speaker 4:So I tell you, I will tell you all a story. Uh and you, this may have happened whenever. Well, I know it's happened when you was up there living. It may have been whenever you was living up there. It happened in the town where you went to college okay um, there was a chinese restaurant, I think okay. And um, there were some people sitting there eating A Chinese restaurant, I think Okay. And there were some people sitting there eating and where their seat was, they could see into the back of the restaurant.
Speaker 1:That's never a good seat.
Speaker 4:You don't want to see some things and so they're eating and they look up and they see this worker hauling in like a big trash, can one?
Speaker 1:that's on, like that has wheels on it. Okay, so right, one, big enough, that's too heavy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, gotcha they see like four hooves sticking up out of the trash can they had.
Speaker 3:Once they did an investigation the worker had went and got a roadkill deer and was fixing it and serving it at the restaurant and they ended up getting shut down for a while yeah, you don't say yeah, that one should have been in the paper regardless, yeah, yeah, that that would be a fairly low score, I will assume that's funny because I I came within hairs of hitting one on the way here this evening yeah, first one.
Speaker 1:I watched it cross and I'm like there's always another, and so I'm sitting there hovering the brake waiting on it and it didn't come, didn't come. I'm like, all right, it's fine as soon as my foot touches the gas yeah, here it comes, and I'm like, of course, because that's the way it always works like you see the first one, never see the second one. So we'd had had dinner.
Speaker 3:If that was the case, no, you took it down to the Chinese restaurant and sold it, apparently, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know, ours here aren't bad. Well, there's one I'm not crazy about, but the other, the smaller ones, are not that bad.
Speaker 3:That you know of. Yeah, I mean again.
Speaker 1:It could be cat, I don't know no, hey, if it's good, I guess it's good that's kind of the way I look at it, when you get into meat like it's all the same. Oh, there's another one. We talked about that. Any, uh, exotic meats that you've tried no, not really.
Speaker 4:I'm. I'm very plain. Uh, frog legs is about it that's so nothing like.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's not really a crazy, crazy out there thing I have tried alligator meat.
Speaker 4:I did try that.
Speaker 3:I think it's the same too.
Speaker 1:I said I just feel like, really for our country that's not a super out there thing.
Speaker 3:No, I don't think so, because there's so many places that do that Frog legs should be out there, but it's really not.
Speaker 4:Whatever you think about it, that you're just going to go grab that bullfrog jumping across the grass, I'm going to eat his legs off.
Speaker 3:Here's the thing we're not going to eat the frog.
Speaker 4:We just want his legs, we just want his legs while he's jumping.
Speaker 1:But I mean I can remember as a kid, like some of these local lakes I mean it's a glorified pond but lakes and going, frog gigging and like these people are, I mean catching them, clean them, cook them and I'm like you know it's not really that weird of a thing and I know this is a much more rural place than a lot of places, but like that that wasn't uncommon. And then you really start talking about, like we're you know, a lot of gator and stuff. Yeah, louisiana, alabama, florida, some of those that's every day yeah, you're talking crawfish and all these things yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just very, very different For here not as much.
Speaker 3:Crawfish seems nasty. Yeah, I don't know if I could do that.
Speaker 1:It's not really much different than shrimp.
Speaker 3:It just feels weird, like the way the little bodies and stuff are.
Speaker 4:It's not really much different than that fry those little dudes up, yeah maybe all right now.
Speaker 1:Is there anything that, like you, just like I'm not even trying that and not talking like cat, dog, like I'm thinking more of, like some large animal or uh something different that other countries are just like. Yeah, we do that all the time.
Speaker 4:I don't know, I can't think of anything right off Like anything, like no, I don't know, maybe some kind of octopus or something like that. Yeah, that'd be weird, I don't know. Well, so for me, I don't think it's the meat, I think it's the presentation for me.
Speaker 1:Like you pull it out and it's just like because there's there's some videos.
Speaker 2:I've seen these asian countries and it's still moving octopus, it's like it's no, yeah, it's not, it's not dead.
Speaker 4:It's taking its tentacles and moving your fork off the yeah, like there's there's one, and like it's crawling out of this person's bowl and like, no, you haven't cooked it yet.
Speaker 1:why am I eating this?
Speaker 4:and like, oh, it nerves, and I'm like it seems like it knows what it's doing, it's getting away and you're just like no, you just eat it.
Speaker 1:No thanks, those are some crazy creatures anyways. Octopus is an odd creature, I agree with that it's octopi. I don't know if it is octopus, like out in the open water. No, no, because like I feel like it could pull me down and do it like I couldn't stop that right. Like you said, eight tentacles, they're a decent size ones. Gonna be pretty strong. Like what do you do against that?
Speaker 4:they're smart yeah, um, I did try. Uh, like I said, I'm pretty pretty boring with my eating habits. Did try sushi for the first time here. Was that? Was that a yay or nay? No, absolutely, not absolutely not.
Speaker 1:I feel like most people, which I'm not. I'm not a sushi person. Yeah, I'm not a huge fish person as a whole, but I don't like raw things yeah, no I'm more of a cooked food, cooked meat kind of person yeah me.
Speaker 3:My wife tried it several years ago. I thought let's just see what this is about. Yeah, and I took a bite and I said I felt like I went down to the pond, picked out a fish and just took a bite out of it. It still tasted the exact same, so I don't know what people see in it there there's so many people that are like that's the go-to.
Speaker 1:They love sushi and I don't know why.
Speaker 4:I had a former boss and it was a work thing that we had and she's like I had made a comment and I've never tried sushi and she really likes sushi. She's like we'll try it, we'll let the company pay for it. And so she's like, you will like it. So I get to puke on the company stuff I got you. So she orders it. And of all the places we went, it was in Somerset, so a sushi place in Somerset.
Speaker 1:I think it's where I first tried it. So that's the thing to me.
Speaker 3:If you're going to do sushi, I need to be close to the water. Yeah, that's not close to the water. It's like it can be very fresh. No, it's not coming from lake cumberland, I guarantee you that um.
Speaker 4:So she orders like different kinds, I don't even know much about.
Speaker 1:I don't know much.
Speaker 4:It's all raw fish, yeah, but she's she's like okay, try this, take one bite. No, she's like okay, you'll like this one I try it.
Speaker 1:So when you took these, did you actually like finish the bite?
Speaker 4:like absolutely not, yeah no, I did finish it.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, but I wasn't going to eat the not like continuing, yeah, yeah, no for me, for me, it's tried to bite, no spit it out like I can't even finish if anybody's never had sushi.
Speaker 3:Have you ever had sushi by the?
Speaker 1:way. Yeah, oh yeah, I've tried it. Yeah, no, if you never had, it took a bite spit, couldn't?
Speaker 3:Sometimes, when you're like, especially by the lake or something, it rains and you get this fish smell.
Speaker 4:You get the smell, I feel like.
Speaker 3:That's what it tastes like the smell.
Speaker 4:I can see that yeah.
Speaker 3:So I don't.
Speaker 4:But see that. So how many did you try? Try three or four, and she'd get the waitress over because at some point it's a no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just a no for me trying to find something is there any that tastes like hamburger? Or cheeseburger which one tastes like dino, because I'm confused.
Speaker 3:Can we go throw this on the grill for a minute? I'd probably love it fantastic.
Speaker 1:Well, so that's the thing like you take that fish out, grill it and then put the rice and all this.
Speaker 3:I'm like yeah, that could probably be pretty good.
Speaker 2:I got a long time to prepare a meal at that point.
Speaker 3:I don't know that's different too.
Speaker 1:That's a whole different. But like your statement about when it rains and you get that smell, that to me like when you have cooked fish. If you get that fishy taste, you didn't do it right. You shouldn't have. You should get the good flavor, but not that fishiness. That should be gone.
Speaker 3:You get the fish from the grocery store and it's make sure you cook it to a certain temperature. But here's some raw fish, right?
Speaker 1:But then they're like hey, you can't eat too much because you can get mercury poisoning. You can get this and get that.
Speaker 4:I'm like listen if.
Speaker 1:I'm going to engage in the type of eating that I want to eat like then I shouldn't have any real repercussions other than just stomach ache. We're starting to talk some type of really bad sickness. No thanks, yeah, I don't need that.
Speaker 4:No, so sushi was definitely a no-go for me.
Speaker 1:Have you been to the Brazilian barbecue or the Brazilian steakhouse?
Speaker 3:No, when they just keep bringing meat. Tyler talked about going there one time on a trip for work or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was in Orlando and they I mean you'll get the meat sweats Really Because it doesn't stop. You have a little placard on your table Green, they keep coming. Red, they stop, but you can flip it back at any given time. Yeah, I don't know that.
Speaker 3:Mine ever went red like they would bring something you want or well, so they have stuff on rotation.
Speaker 1:Um, there was, most of it was beef. Um, they had some lamb, which I was no on that, but they had a pork thing that was really good. A bunch of different types of steaks. It was all mainly beef and out of the steaks I had, there wasn't a bad one. Like every one of them I'm like, yeah, go ahead and bring me more.
Speaker 3:Yeah keep bringing it, and it's one of those like you're going to pay, obviously, because steak's obviously expensive too.
Speaker 1:but you're going to pay, obviously, because steak's obviously expensive too, but it was worth it. To me it's not something I'm going to go like yeah, we do that once a week. That's maybe a once-a-year thing, if that, because I felt miserable possibly for the rest of the week. But for that night, like it was a fun thing, like going out with everybody going to do that, and it was a ton of food on my budget.
Speaker 1:It sounds like going to golden ground so it reminds you of like the buffet style, because obviously the amount that they're bringing but they have like a small little buffet area so you can get like some different sides and some different things, which is kind of nice because otherwise you just have a plate of meat.
Speaker 3:If I have unlimited steak, I am not touching the side right. So what was nice? What?
Speaker 1:was nice, though, is like you would have some like I had like a baked potato with it and it kind of like would cleanse what you've got going on to get the taste of the next one. So then it's not just basically the grease of all the meat you're eating and you don't really know what's what, but no, it was it was fantastic.
Speaker 3:We always get on food. On this we do we do?
Speaker 4:That's all right, it just happens. I like food.
Speaker 1:I'm getting hungry now A good steak would be good, though A good steak would be great. We need to find us a Brazilian steakhouse to go to.
Speaker 3:Because I think you'd enjoy it. I would there's no question about that, it would be a fun thing, so that would be the thing. Brian comes into town, we'll find one, and then we'll record, maybe the next day, because that day
Speaker 2:is not going to be. We're not going to feel like doing it after that. You need a nap after you get out of here.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean, that'll be the thing Every time Brian comes in, we'll have to go do something.
Speaker 3:Whether it's a ball game or a race or something Make it easy We'll just come up with these reasons for him to come here. Make it easy We'll just come up with these reasons for him to come here Right.
Speaker 1:Hey, Ryan, National Championships this week. You want to come in?
Speaker 2:Yeah right, I'll be right there. We've already bought the tickets.
Speaker 1:We didn't even know you could come, which I don't know. I don't know that. I'd want to see the National Championship live as much as I would like it on TV.
Speaker 3:Same thing I want to commentary.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I do too. I want the stories.
Speaker 1:Which I do feel like we were talking about earlier. Nascar, I feel like I'd have a harder time, especially, like you said, the small tracks.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know who's in what position. Yeah, the way they're past each other, it gets hard yeah.
Speaker 3:But like when you think about football, basketball, it's a little to me easier to engage yeah, I won't replay, and replay, and replay yeah, I do too it's me and I want to hear about the backstory and why somebody's hurt going locker the locker room, and about their grandmother and the story behind why they started playing. I want all that.
Speaker 4:Yep, I'm with you.
Speaker 1:Alright, well, the last question before we go. You did talk about sports movies real quick. Do you have your top five? Top five no particular order, just like ones that you're like. These are my go-to is always like an easy okay, and david mentioned this one.
Speaker 4:Uh, it is a christian movie movie, but facing the giants, I I think is a great movie very low production.
Speaker 1:Yeah, great movie yeah, I like several of the movies of that studio great movies.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is very difficult because production value is so, but that one is still, so it's a good movie but it at times it's hard to watch because it's just rough.
Speaker 1:And if I'm not mistaking um.
Speaker 4:Like all the actors and actresses at least, at least those first few movies, it's just people from their church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's all local. It's like, hey, have you ever thought of acting? You got a part.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so I like that. Going back to baseball. Field of Dreams. I hate that movie.
Speaker 1:Field of Dreams I'm never, never gonna stop saying the quote, yeah, but people say that don't even know the movie I don't care, I know you. They don't even know the context well, no, but like that's a famous famous quote and it's like like that. I just have never enjoyed that movie. I don't know why yeah there's just something about it. The same thing like will will hates the sandlot I'm like.
Speaker 4:I like the sandlot. I've never seen it. No, I like the sandlot that's probably up there watch it um, and I like football games other than facing giants like uh, remember the titans? I've never seen that.
Speaker 3:So I've not seen a lot of. Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of sports so when you go back to Kentucky, yeah, you have to eat an Uncrustable while watching.
Speaker 4:Remember the Titans yeah, I'll have to do that.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I've ever met somebody that hasn't seen that movie. I have not not that's not like a child.
Speaker 4:I'm sure dragons now.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to think Was there a mascot that was a dragon, I can't remember. You ain't got the WD-40 over there yet.
Speaker 1:No, I know, but now I'm like twisting in it.
Speaker 3:I think I'm trying to keep myself awake. It's been a long day. Any other sports news come to mind?
Speaker 4:Um, I'm sure, once I get out, once we leave, I'll think of five more. Um. Did you like days of thunder, you know?
Speaker 3:that came to my mind right as you said that, uh, I just like days of thunder. It's so old.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I wonder if they do like a modern. It probably wouldn't be too good if they did.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I like days of thunder. I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I think the only NASCAR movie I've seen is Talladega Nights, so I can't really comment too much on that.
Speaker 3:You go watch Days of Thunder but I do watch Road Titans.
Speaker 1:I watch Sandlot, those are not on the same level.
Speaker 3:No, Regardless not even being a NASCAR fan, I think you'd like it still.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying I wouldn't like the movie, but those are not the same level.
Speaker 3:Just because of Tyler's answer. Did you ever watch Draft Day?
Speaker 4:No, because we bought him the movie for Christmas.
Speaker 1:I'm not the only one.
Speaker 3:I didn't buy Brian the movie either.
Speaker 1:I did see it was on a streaming service here recently and I was like at this point I just can't watch it, I know. At this point it is my Star.
Speaker 3:Wars. I gotta just let it be. You're missing out, I'm just going to have to miss out.
Speaker 1:We'll say a movie that I didn't think about at the time we were doing these lists I really like is Moneyball.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I've seen it. Moneyball is a good movie. I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Brad Pitt. I've seen clips Oakland A's movie. Okay, yeah, that's the.
Speaker 4:Good movie. I know what you're talking about. I've not seen it. I really liked it.
Speaker 1:It was a good one. It's just and it's a lot like you talked about with draft day, like you're seeing a lot more of the process and seeing some of that Like just seeing how they made, made the team that they did, like hey, we're not going to get this many home runs because we don't have the money, but if we sign two of these guys for a tenth of the price, they equal that amount. And just seeing the process they really went through, I thought that was a fun one to go through. So I like that one a lot. Obviously, we talked about Mighty Ducks fantastic, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:Which have you seen?
Speaker 1:1.
Speaker 4:You seen one, two and three I know I've seen one and two um, I can't remember three I know three is like back at, like the private school, I think the warriors or something like that I may have seen that one I've only seen like once or twice, because to me, it wasn't that good.
Speaker 1:It just wasn't, it didn't have that same draw to it. Right that the the second one, especially to me, had. That's my favorite one.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then the first one first one's good. Yeah, which have you seen? We've talked about that, have you seen?
Speaker 3:that I've. That's one I want to go back and watch in a while I kind of remember but it's not something that's on my mind fresh.
Speaker 1:That'll be a Disney Plus thing with the kids.
Speaker 4:Yeah, did you all. It seems like you all mentioned Blue Chips last week, is that right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Will brought that up. Will bring it up.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think that's one of his favorites. I think I could be wrong, but I think that movie had Patino in it maybe. But I think that movie had Patino in it maybe. Oh, really, Okay, I think. So there was something some.
Speaker 3:Kentucky connection somewhere in there. Now I want to watch it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and it may have just been a small clip of him on the sideline or something, Any movie that randomly has the Kentucky mascot, David oh now I got to watch it, kentucky's everywhere, don't even know
Speaker 1:what it is, but I got to watch it.
Speaker 2:Yep, yeah, kentucky's everywhere Don't even know what it is, but I got to watch it.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, like I said, I'll make that the last question because our 30 minutes turned into way way more, which, knowing ourselves 30 minutes was never going to happen.
Speaker 4:That was just a lie.
Speaker 1:We told you, but I appreciate you coming on. It was a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it. You do get an invite to return whenever you'd like.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:That's not something we throw out to everybody, just the two guests we've had.
Speaker 3:I don't know if we gave that to Will.
Speaker 1:I mean technically, we didn't tell him. No, we'll say that, oh okay, he didn't get the hey appreciate you but we're going to move in a new direction. We didn't give him that talk, so I think he's probably pretty good.
Speaker 1:But I appreciate Ryan coming on. I know we talked about our busy day but he's had plenty of travel and plenty of the stuff that goes on with it. But we're super grateful for what Brian does for us on all the social media and heck half the time I know what games are on that day because Brian's posting it.
Speaker 3:I'm the same way.
Speaker 1:I keep up with a lot of it. That way it's just way easier.
Speaker 3:And the times there'll be games. I know is coming on and I'll see it on Facebook and I'm like, oh for next season. I gotta get him posting when TGL is because.
Speaker 1:I never keep up.
Speaker 4:I did the last, the playoffs.
Speaker 1:I saw the playoffs but I was like I never could find it before then you almost have to go to the website.
Speaker 4:I did. It's hard to do it otherwise but it's one of those.
Speaker 1:I never know if it's Monday or Tuesday and then what time slot? Like you, just never know so I missed way more than I would like to, but no, but that that's been fun. I love seeing all that, all the different posts that you've been putting out and articles, and I think you actually put the Cooper flag winning yeah, I think so player of the year on there here recently yeah, and I'm glad to do it and glad to be a part of it he hasn't quit yet.
Speaker 3:We haven't fired him, so it's working it's working so far if I had to bet, does he quit before he gets fired. He's going to quit long before he gets fired.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt about that. I don't even think that's up for debate. But again, we appreciate having you on and I don't know exactly how we're doing this episode as far as putting it out there, because it may just be a a week of you get to maybe because I mean this turned into a much more full episode than we'll see. I don't know I think we're anticipated, but it's been fun.
Speaker 1:So it's kind of just happened. Yep, so happy to do it. Like I said, glad to have brian and come back anytime. Well, we'll definitely have to do one this week because we have national championship monday so yeah we'll do something.
Speaker 3:We'll have to do something.
Speaker 1:Do something so we'll figure that out, but we thank everybody for being with us and we will see you probably later this week. That's a rule.