John Gafford

and i think part of it's the heat you know part of it's like but people just like roll up go into the garages shut the garages and stay in their house yeah like the sense of community that you had in those small towns i always look back at that like i think about a lot especially this time of year i think about like the lake city like christmas parade like everybody in town was out like the whole everybody not there was nobody not at that thing at that parade and like the lusty battle festival thing we had everybody in town was at that thing

It was really cool.

Big deal.

So did you go to EKU?

Is that where you went?

No, no, no.

Especially when it comes to sports.

Well, I'll tell you.

Vegas, dude.

Because of like...

maddox and because of like uh bryce harper and all of these guys have come out of vegas right they're all like like i mean there's like there's five of them that are just great players that come out of vegas so youth baseball here is insanity like when my kid started playing he was little he's like seven they're like oh who's this hitting coach i'm like what he's seven dude yeah

I'm just trying to like have fun, bro.

I was at – last week I went and met some friends at a bar to watch the SEC championship.

And one of the guys there is –

How can I say this?

One of the guys there works for some of the most influential people in Vegas.

I'll just say that.

And we were talking about club youth sports.

And this group of very wealthy businessmen in Vegas owns one of the biggest youth sports programs in the country.

And he says, it is so incredibly profitable because these parents will just pay anything to get their kids in this thing.