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This is the basketball edition that features my guest, number 30 of the Iowa basketball team, Connor McCaffrey.
Welcome back.
Thanks for having me.
Hopefully I get some of these
right.
We'll get to the double, double dumb ass here in just a little bit, but I guess let's start with it.
The thing that everybody was roasting on the team about was the Eastern Illinois game from your perspective.
What do you think about that one?
Yeah.
I mean, it was, it was a bad game.
Obviously, me and Chris not playing doesn't help by any means, but we still should have been able to beat them.
Not much to talk about, honestly.
We didn't play well.
We're ready to go.
Sort of a Christmas let down, I guess.
And just got to bounce back against Nebraska.
How hard is it as an athlete that a team that you are facing that in your mindset, you know that you probably have them, but when you're upset by them,
How does that affect you?
Or do you just get past it quicker than most?
Anytime you get beat, anytime you lose it, you know, it sucks.
It doesn't really matter if it's team you're supposed to beat or not supposed to beat.
But I mean, definitely this one like lingers a little longer, especially with Christmas, but I feel like we just got to take it out on Nebraska and Penn State and Indiana and then they're out after.
Yeah, I get you.
How long does a loss usually stick with you?
Like, how long before you can shake it and say, all right, let's put that one behind us and move forward?
Because I hear that all the time in post-game press conferences of most athletes.
Well, I just got to put it behind me kind of a thing.
How long does it stick with you?
It depends.
It depends when you play next, honestly.
OK.
Like when you get and then like, yeah, it depends on your next game, I would say.
As you were talking about the Nebraska game coming up.
So we're in Big Ten play right now, Nebraska.
How hungry are you to beat up on that team?
Yeah, I mean, we're, we're definitely excited for that one just because just to get back out there.
Um, it's kind of like, we played Wisconsin, but then we had like some other non-conference games.
So this is kind of like the, the real start of big 10 play.
So anytime you're getting out there against a team like Nebraska who like people rightfully so, but nobody's really respected them in the past couple of years, but this year they're actually good.
So we got to be ready to go.
Like the past couple of years, they really weren't any good.
Like, you know, they just, they couldn't put it together.
I don't know what was going on, but this year, whatever they had going on is fixed and they're playing really well.
So we got to be ready to go.
And it's already, like they said, a game sold out.
Like it's a, it's a really cool arena.
Um, it'll be loud.
So we got to be ready to go.
You mentioned taking some time off for Christmas.
What are some early Christmas presents that you remember getting that, uh,
kind of piqued your interest or things that you still remember today.
Any time I got shoes, that was always like big time.
Like I was like the biggest shoe guy in the world.
Yeah.
And so I didn't get like always get a ton of presents, but like I would always pick out the shoe present to open first.
Like I would feel around for the boxes and feel for that little ridge on the side of the box.
That was kind of what I went with.
And so if I could ever find some shoes, that would be my go to.
always and then that I mean that that carries through to today because like I'm definitely like I'm a little bit of a shoe collector now still like I got a bunch of shoes in my closet and I need to get rid of some honestly so if you if you're a size 14 let me know it's
funny enough I am a size 14 so there you
go
yeah I'll
send you some pictures or something because I need to I need to sell some sell slash just get rid of some of my Jordans because there's too many and I'm gonna be
moving around soon and I can't be, you know, using an entire trunk full of space on a trip just for shoes alone.
Right.
So am I going to get a jock to jock podcast discount on this one or what are we thinking?
I think you will.
I think you have to.
Okay.
I mean, I appreciate that.
That'd be kind of fun to have a pair of Jordans that we're sitting around in my, uh, my co-host possession, I guess, as it were.
Were you always a Nike guy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Cause I mean,
I was into like the gear of my dad's teams, I guess.
And like when I first started really getting into it was like getting into shoes and whatnot was once we got to Iowa, because that was like, you know, I was getting older and that was kind of when I started first figuring it out.
And we were Nike.
So it was just, I feel like I could have been, I could have been an Adidas guy if Iowa was Adidas, but they're not.
So I was just always a Nike guy, if that makes sense.
And like,
The affiliation with Jordan and Nike was always big too for me.
Not the most valuable pair, but which pair is your favorite that you currently have in your shoe collection?
Oh, um, probably.
Well, okay.
So like I'll wear pairs and then I like my, what I wear and then like some of my favorites are completely different.
And then there's like ones that I do wear, but very rarely.
So it's all kind of different.
But I would say like if you could offer me the most amount of money for one pair of shoes in my closet and I still wouldn't sell them would probably be the OVO Jordan 8's.
Those are probably my favorite.
Retro 8's OVO like it's a collab that they did.
Those would be the pair that I really like a lot.
And then ones that I wear a lot would be like the cool gray 11's.
One of them and then I've been wearing a lot of Air Force ones recently
Not on the court, right?
Yeah, no, just walking around like the cocaine white Air Force ones Just like, you know, I have the Looney Tunes Air Force ones like I have the uninterrupted Air Force one like I have a bunch of different a bunch of different styles that I'll go with
sure now when you hold on to a pair of shoes like that
There's a special way that you have to take care of those types of shoes.
Hold on just one second.
I happened to bring my boy with me today and he just decided to drop a $300 mic on the table here.
Oh, there you go.
Might want to fix that up.
It might be a $500 mic.
There's that too.
He was spinning it around a couple of times and decided to just drop it right on the table.
So, you know, there goes my paycheck for the next week.
It didn't break, did it?
No way.
No,
it didn't break.
But we're
good.
We're good.
Anyway, getting back to it, there's got to be a special way that you take care of the collection.
You don't wear as much.
I know that there's people out there that have thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of shoes that they've never worn.
What do you do?
I have like this shoe rack in my room and I put them all like I have a bunch of them on the shoe rack and then I have a bunch of them just still in the boxes.
So.
What I did when I was younger and didn't really understand is I would like, but I had like this another big shurak at my house in North Liberty.
And I would put them just kind of up in that rack and now throw away the box.
Well, that's stupid because when you resell or when you're just holding them for just to keep them in good condition, you should keep the box.
So that way, you know, the dust and everything, whatever stays off of them.
And so for some of them, I didn't do that, which was dumb, but.
Now I've been better with that and I've kept more shoes in good condition and I'll also like I have like this cleaner and so if I notice a pair getting out of whack, I'll get a little cloth or something, use this cleaner, wipe them down, clean them off and then try to put them in a better spot.
So I don't think we asked this on the episode where we talked about what shoes you wear on the court and the options that you have.
Money's no object.
Nike comes to you, you're designing a shoe.
What are some of the features that you want on that shoe that if it was the Conor McCaffrey shoe as it were?
Oh, that's an interesting question.
Um, I would want them to be light, first of all, because I'm not, I can't jump.
So I need them to be light so that I could get every bit of, every bit of height on my vertical possible.
So that would be the number one star.
Then I would say, I used to like high top shoes, but not recently I've been work.
wearing more low top and just taping my ankles.
So I would say maybe a low top shoe, very light.
The Nike symbol doesn't have to be too big, but I want it to be kind of natural.
And then I don't know, I would definitely, I would have like a lot of different colors.
Like I wouldn't do like just the generic like black and gold or black and gray, white and black.
I would do like, like pink, gray.
black, blue, red, like I would do like a crazy colorway like that, like purple and try to mix some stuff together.
And that would be like my signature, like like a rainbow kind of kind of design, I guess, just to be just to be a little unique and different, I guess.
So I know that you've got to travel to Nebraska as we're recording right now.
I'm going to hit you with this question.
What's the name of the shoe?
I would say like the CMAC ones.
OK, yes.
You wouldn't put 30 in there or have you always had 30 as a number?
I would put like I would maybe put a number 30 on the shoe somewhere, but I wouldn't necessarily put it in the like I wouldn't put it in the name.
Let's talk about tattoos because you've got a couple, right?
You got some ink.
Yeah, I got I got a little too much ink, if you ask my mom.
Really?
A little too much.
When or where did you get your first tattoo and where meaning, where did you get the tattoo?
Where was it put on?
Not on your body.
Gosh, I'm asking the damn wrong question.
Where did you get it done?
There
we go.
Like where, like what parlor, what tattoo
place?
Yeah, what tattoo parlor?
Gosh, everything that just came out sounding bad.
Well, my first tattoo was the one I have on my forearm that matches with my brother.
Yeah.
That's it.
You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live, which is store Scott quote from his, um, from the SPS.
And that was the first one I got.
And I got it at the place in Cedar Rapids called like platinum rose or something like that.
And there's like downtown.
Yeah.
But that was, but I've kind of switched around then because that was my first one.
And then like, I was kind of like, Oh, you know, I'm only going to get one, but then they're kind of addicting.
And I think most people with tattoos will tell you that.
But then I wanted to get my next one.
But I didn't want to go to Platinum Rose because I tried to go up there again.
And I thought it was a little expensive, which I know when you're the better artist, you just charge more per hour, which makes sense.
And I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be one of the best spots.
But I wasn't to a point yet where I could be doing that or cared that much about the intricacy of
what was going to be put on.
I already knew and it was easy and it was just like a copy and paste type job.
So then I switched to this place in Iowa City, but then that artist moved to like Texas or something.
So then now I go to my guy in West, I always forget, is it West Branch or West Liberty, something like that, but Starks, Matt Starks and he's, he's really good.
And that's where I've gotten like,
both tattoos on my thighs, my entire chest, one on my forearm, and yeah, that's it.
Do the significance of the
tattoos tie to anything in your
basketball career?
Honestly, no.
I don't have any basketball tattoos yet.
I have family related, cancer related, and racism related.
Those are the only three, really.
I should get a basketball tattoo.
That's maybe my next idea.
When I get that, I'm going to tell my mom.
It's Brian's fault.
I'm going to say that she's going to be
pissed.
So she said, no, no more.
That's it.
You've had enough tattoos.
She says, that's absolutely you're done.
She doesn't say that because like I'm 24 years old, like she can't really tell me like, like I feel like she can't like put a complete.
makes on it, but she doesn't want like if she had the choice, she would say be done.
Yes.
What's your dad think?
He says, I look stupid, but he doesn't care.
He can't.
His players for years have been getting tattoos everywhere.
So he can't, he can't say.
I mean, he, I guess it's different because he has my dad too, but he doesn't, I don't know.
He picks and chooses his battles a little differently.
When you're talking about some of your teammates and some of the players that you've had the joy of working on the court with,
Have you seen anybody that's got a tattoo?
You're like, Dan, that's a really cool one.
Oh yeah.
All the time.
Like I follow, like there's pages on Instagram, like inked MBA and stuff like that, that you can follow and they'll like post all these different ones.
It's actually one of the ones I have on my farm is kind of based off like one that's doing the MBA.
So I've kind of, I definitely have stolen some, not like exactly, but just the idea.
And then you kind of just make it your own 100%.
You, I think that's how a lot of it.
Goes is like people just steal because they all think it looks cool or whatever and they want to see different styles and what it looks like on their bodies
Do you prefer the color of a tattoo or a colored tattoo or do you like just kind of the more stylized black and white as it were?
Definitely more like black and white and stylized not I don't want like I would never put color on I Since they never I would maybe put color on it feel like it was only a little bit and like it went with it, but I wouldn't
And like, honestly, I don't even know if I'll actually get any more tattoos, because I already do have a lot.
How many is a lot?
I guess I see what I see on TV, but I'm sure that there's more.
Yeah, I mean, I have my entire chest tattooed, and then I have both my entire quads, and then I have my bicep on my left arm, and then both my forearms,
and then that's it.
It sounds like you're like half birdman right now.
I mean, you could just go the rest of the way.
That's the thing.
See, that's why I got to cool it down.
I'm running out of spots like for my kids later in life.
Right.
I need to put their name somewhere.
Where am I going to put this Nike Air Jordan tattoo that I really wanted to get?
Damn, I ran
through
them.
Exactly.
Can't find the spot.
Oh, I guess we're gonna have to go on the face.
How much would your mom absolutely disown you if you got one on your face?
I would... Nothing against people that have tattoos on their face.
I just couldn't pull it off
in
any way possible.
So I would disown myself first.
It's coach McCaffrey.
He's coming from the bench with his post
Malone look.
Oh God, it would be just insane.
My mom would be like beside herself, but she has no, like that's nothing to worry about.
I never want to be like sleeved up, visible, you know, everywhere.
I've kind of filled all the spots that you could really see with smaller ones.
You know, like, I mean, you can see them, but like if I was to go to a job interview or something, the only one you would really notice would be the one on my forearm, which is the cancer one that I matched with my brother.
So I wouldn't really, I don't want to be, you know,
completely covered in any way.
One last thing that I've got before the double, double lemass comes up.
I had tagged you on Twitter here about a week or so ago.
And I know you probably didn't catch it because you've got like 16.2,000 followers.
Well, no, I just completely, I, I'm deleted Twitter.
I'm off Twitter.
I've been off Twitter all season.
So that's how I missed it because I haven't, I do not have Twitter right now.
See, and, and I had tagged you, the, uh, the one with the blue check mark in something saying, this is why my middle school coach would pull me off the floor.
It was a 12 year old kid running underneath the basket.
He throws the ball up over the back of his head.
He hits the, the, uh, the basket and then essentially does a DX crotch chop.
And then the coach pulls them off.
And I said, Connor, this is the reason why that coach didn't want me in the game very often.
Cause I was like this.
That's why you would be out.
Yes.
Uh, coach, if, if something like that happened and I was that kid out there, you benched me for the rest of the season.
Season might be a reach, but for sure the game, there were 16 seconds left in the game.
So I'm benched the rest of the game.
You're probably suspended next game too.
Damn.
Okay.
The
season though, just a kid, you know, maybe a reach.
Uh, it is up on my, uh, do I Twitter since I didn't delete it yet at morning Marshall, you can find it on there.
Uh, I did tag the Conor McCaffrey that's no longer on Twitter anymore.
You probably got the right one.
Yeah.
You got the right guy.
It's just, I'm not,
I'm
completely off of it.
Yeah.
You're sick and tired of people tagging you and stuff like I just tagged you.
So no, that's not it, but I'm missing out on a lot of news being off.
Like that's, you
know,
where I see a lot of stuff.
You're also missing out on a lot of people that are just coaching you from the couch.
So that's
why you get rid of it in the first
place.
Double, double dumb ass.
What we're going to do is I'm going to get you two news stories.
One of these is actually from 2005.
I'm going to read the story to you, read you the headline.
And if there is a city associated with it, I will give you that so that you can have a better shot to figure out which big 10 school it might be.
Are you ready?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
This state's Department of Transportation is looking for successors to Betty Whiteout, Snowby Juan Kenobi, and Plawie McPlawface launching its now annual Name a Snowplow contest for a third year.
Is that Illinois, Minnesota, or Nebraska?
And we'll continue with the next one.
Think about that here in just a second.
Okay.
In the next story, it took Kent Broighill over 40 years to pay off his university parking tickets.
college student finally getting around to paying off his campus parking tickets at the University that happens to be in Lincoln.
He went to school in 1974 and was supposed to pay off the fines before he could collect his diploma.
Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska.
Which one do you
want?
You gave away the parking ticket one.
I gave you the city.
Did I give it away to you?
Well, yeah, Lincoln.
I'm not an idiot.
We're going there today.
It's from Lincoln, Nebraska.
There we go.
There you got another one.
Yes.
Yeah.
Come on.
See, you're not on that one.
All right.
What about the other one is the other one?
State Department.
Yeah.
Snowplows.
Is that Minnesota or is that Illinois?
Minnesota.
More snow.
Bam.
Two for two.
I'm getting back.
This is where it starts.
Congratulations.
You've got four.
I think you're four and eight right now.
So I'm heating up.
You, you named your shoe.
Would you name a snow plow?
No, 30 characters.
I mean, snow be one Kenobi.
That's pretty cool.
That's a pretty good one.
Yeah.
One of my friends, uh, zo does this like snow removal business and he calls it zo snow.
So maybe that, that's what I would name it.
That's awesome.
Where's he, where's he based?
I think like around here.
I don't know.
He's probably pretty or Chicago.
No, he is busy at
this.
He has Twitter and he got that
too.
He's probably off of it.
I actually don't think he has to
go snow.
You heard it here, folks.
Um, finish the episode.
Anything else you want the fans to know going into the games, the big 10 schedule that's upcoming here,
what do we have played two games by the next time we talk probably?
Yeah,
it
sounds about right.
I mean, we got Nebraska, you got Penn State and Indiana coming up by Thursday, January, Jan five.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, the big 10 is tough, you know, no easy game.
So we got to be, we got to be ready to go.
And every single night, anybody can beat anybody.
There's no easy ones this year.
There's no Nebraska's of last year.
That's not, you know, it's different now.
So we got to be, we got to be locked in and ready to go out of still night.
Cause any, like literally, I would say if, you know, for the listeners, we're never out of it, but it's not like we're ever gonna locked in either.
Like we can not, we're, there's a lot of different ways that this can go.
So if you win the big 10 championship this year, you're getting that tattooed, right?
I would get something.
I'm not going to get like champs, 23 tattooed,
but I would, I'll do something.
Yeah.
Deal.
Who used all the Wi-Fi?
Ah, apartment life.
Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.
Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.
Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station Apartments.
Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer.
Internet included a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.
That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.
Union Station Apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes Properties.
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apartment?
