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Speaker 4: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio present it

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Speaker 2: Jones This is not Matt Jones, but it is Jon

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Speaker 2: Fanta and Rob Dolster with you to start up hour

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Speaker 2: two here on a Friday morning, we start our two

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Speaker 2: in a big, big way. We had Willie Cauley Steyr earlier.

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Speaker 2: Now we get the Louisville perspective. A first team All

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Speaker 2: American in twenty fourteen thirteen and twenty thirteen National champion

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Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen, his number two retired by the Louisville Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: He is Russ Smith Rus ridiculous with fifteen points in

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Speaker 2: the Vill's winover Team DRC earlier this week to advance

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Speaker 2: to Monday night's quarterfinals at Freedom Hall nine Eastern Time,

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Speaker 2: when the vill meets love familiar Russ, Good morning. What's

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Speaker 2: the vibes like right now? Knowing that you are three

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Speaker 2: days away from the big game in the history of

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Speaker 2: the basketball Tournament?

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Rob, good morning, Uh Fanta, Uh, it's it's

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Speaker 5: it's fun. It's it's great right And not only as

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Speaker 5: a player, but I'm a major partner with the with

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Speaker 5: the TBT and a and a sponsor so of the

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Speaker 5: of the Basketball Tournament. So this, this as a whole

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Speaker 3: Russ, It's uh, it's good to connect man. I've been

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Speaker 3: with the Gauchos. Uh, It's it's been fun to watch

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Speaker 3: your growth. But I got a very important question to

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Speaker 3: Kentucky Sports Radio. I'm giving you the floor. Now's your chance.

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Speaker 3: Why is Louisville better than Kentucky? Why is life as

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Speaker 5: Why life as a car? I mean I would have

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Speaker 5: That's the best answer I could come up with. I'm

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Speaker 6: What is good.

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Speaker 2: Russ? The rivalry? I mean, you're going to have potentially

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Speaker 2: the rivalry? Because I know that you were in Lexington

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Speaker 2: But playing in the rivalry, the days that led up

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Speaker 5: Would say the robbery is definitely one of the one

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Speaker 2: Russ Smith is our guest right now in Kentucky Sports Radio. Russ,

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Speaker 2: have you talked with coach Patino?

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Speaker 5: Yes? Uh, Patino and I talk talk frequent. Uh. Definitely,

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Speaker 5: but that would be that would be dope. I'll send

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Speaker 2: What what are you up to right now? Tell everybody

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Speaker 5: There's a there's.

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Speaker 3: A bourbon bar.

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Speaker 2: There's a bourbon bar at Freedom Hall during TBT and

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Speaker 2: your mister and missus Bourbon. I know you got some

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Speaker 5: Right, Yes, absolutely, we've done a single bottle for the

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Speaker 3: That's how you know the people in the great state

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Speaker 2: Rob This goes back to what I experienced last weekend

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Speaker 5: Last last year was tough, and here's what happened. We

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Speaker 3: You just go around all day and all week and

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Speaker 2: Monday Night. He's coming off a twenty five point game.

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Speaker 2: You guys hit twelve threes as a team. It's you

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Speaker 2: In there, Russ. Let's go back to twenty thirteen for

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Speaker 3: Well, Russ, I can tell that you've just reading through

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Speaker 5: You are? We are?

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Speaker 8: Now?

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Speaker 5: I'm getting older, man, and I'm maturing. And then also

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Speaker 2: Russ. You've gotten some time around Pat Kelsey. How do

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Speaker 5: You know, Pat pass an amazing person, an amazing human.

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Speaker 5: I'm just really excited to watch them play.

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Speaker 2: Ross Smith. We appreciate you taking the time. Best of

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Speaker 5: Yoh, thank you so much. I appreciate you, Rob, thank

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Speaker 3: And we can see it.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, I'm on here as a sponsor, not a player,

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Speaker 2: One more promotion, Ross, one more promotion, go ahead, tell

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Speaker 5: Get your mister and Missus Bourban. I actually have our

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Speaker 5: enjoy that. We're in liquor bars, total wines. We're sold statewide.

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Speaker 5: We're actually in Rupperena. Uh so we'll be in Freedom Hall.

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Speaker 5: Just get your mister and Missus Bourbon. Give someone. We're here, man,

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Speaker 5: we're here. Thank you so much for having me guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Russ Smith. Have a great weekend. Well, we

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Speaker 5: Thanks, got you see you.

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Speaker 2: So that's Russ Smith, great stuff. We got a break

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Speaker 2: after this. An interesting comment from a fan reacting to

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Willie colly Stan and Russ Smith for joining

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Speaker 2: us ends the day's Kentucky sports radio show. We're in

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Speaker 2: for Matt Jones, John Fanta, Rob Doster with you the villain.

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Speaker 2: My Familia is gonna be plenty of fun month Today night,

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Speaker 2: nine Eastern time. They've already sold over ten thousand tickets

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Speaker 2: you could check out at the tournament, the social media councils.

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Speaker 2: That is gonna be one hot ticket. Eight five nine

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Speaker 2: We're asking you how you'll receive John Caliperry returning to Rop.

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Speaker 2: What you think Mark Polpe's gonna do here in year one,

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Speaker 4: Let's go to Joseph.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Joseph, Yes, sir, how are y'all doing? We're doing

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Speaker 9: Man?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 10: My thing is I was eleven when coach cal signed

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Speaker 10: I when I think back on Kentucky basketball, I think

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Speaker 10: this wasn't what it is today. You know, it's always

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Speaker 3: But I won't be one of those.

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Speaker 10: People you know I'll be.

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Speaker 2: I'll probably cheer for him.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: You will cheer for him. Yeah, Well, that that brings

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with Marissa?

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Speaker 10: I agree on a hundred percent. I told my friends

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Speaker 5: It felt like a breakup.

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Speaker 2: Rob.

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Speaker 3: I think that's probably the way to handle it. I

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the n clouds you know what happened during the process. Right,

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Speaker 3: But I do think there's a room for appreciation. That's

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Speaker 10: My expectations for Pope this year. I think finishing top

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Speaker 5: Recruiting wise?

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Speaker 10: Do you all think he can ever get like a

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Speaker 3: I'm not worried about that. It may not happen immediately,

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Speaker 3: I think half of them at this point have Kentucky offers.

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Speaker 10: Okay, okay, just seeing what you all thought about that.

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Speaker 3: And he'll get him.

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Speaker 2: He will, And he's already got a deep team here

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Speaker 2: Player of the Year in the CIA, and it's stout.

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Speaker 2: That guy's a house. If you look at me, he's

438
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Speaker 2: a unit. They got talent, They've already got talent, and

439
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 2: now it's how all the pieces are going to come together.

440
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 2: But Pope took BYU and made them a winner in

441
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Speaker 2: the Big twelve and year one, we cannot underestimate that

442
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Speaker 2: more your calls. Next, this is Kentucky Sports Radio TJ.

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446
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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

447
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 2: It's not Mad Jones, it's John Fans and Rob Dofster. Rob.

448
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 2: I did like the attorney drop in there, as we

449
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 2: had a slung about breaking up here. Oh man, that

450
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 2: was good. So Rob, can you tell that even in

451
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 2: July that Kentucky fans are juiced about the CALTP because

452
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Speaker 2: of the callboard. We have three more callers here, so

453
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 2: I would say that this is that's why, Like Rob,

454
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 2: I know you deal with this all the time. And

455
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 2: then we'll get back to the phones. We did the

456
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 2: d in Shortetown game last year when Ed Cooley returned

457
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 2: to Providence, and I remember getting I remember getting texts

458
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 2: the night before from other guys that we cover college

459
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 2: basketball with, you know, the Jeff Borzello's, Matt Orlanders, Kevin

460
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 2: Sweeney's or other teammates, and a couple of the texts

461
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 2: that we got were like, Yep, you're covering a game

462
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 2: between an average team and a team that is having

463
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 2: a downright awful year. What a what a great move

464
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 2: by you guys. It wasn't for the game, it was

465
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Speaker 2: it was for the scene. And like in other words,

466
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 2: it's this stuff matters to the people who sometimes are like, Ah,

467
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: you know, you guys are blowing it out of proportion.

468
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 2: You're no, we open up the phone lines. I asked

469
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 2: you earlier what your expectations were for Kentucky. Yeah, you're

470
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: some of you are going to weigh in on that.

471
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Speaker 2: But Rob the phone lines instantly blinked up when we

472
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 2: said how chical get received. So when people get sometimes

473
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 2: are like, you guys are all blown out of proportion

474
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 2: overdoing it. No, because there's interest, there's there's interest on

475
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Speaker 2: this very topic. I think it's as compelling a topic

476
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Speaker 2: heading into this year as any.

477
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Speaker 3: Well. It's also what matters to people, right Like, you

478
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 3: don't root for a team, you don't support a team.

479
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 3: You don't become invested in a team without becoming invested

480
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 3: in the people in it, right Like, one of the

481
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 3: criticisms of college basketball in recent years is that it's

482
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 3: been so difficult to be able to really develop that

483
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 3: investment in these players and find that way to kind

484
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 3: of watch them grow and watch them develop and want

485
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Speaker 3: to root for them over the course of four years.

486
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 3: So what kind of it turns into the coaches. It

487
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 3: turns into Okay, I am a John Caliperri fan and

488
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 3: a Kentucky fan, right, it turns into your rooting for

489
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 3: the people that are running the pro They are the

490
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Speaker 3: face of the program in this day and age in

491
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Speaker 3: college athletics, and when they leave, especially for another program

492
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Speaker 3: in the conference. You know, the Ed Cooley one was

493
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 3: a little bit different because with Kentucky fans, I think

494
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 3: there was an indifference about whether or not Cal is

495
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Speaker 3: going to come back, and some are probably happy that

496
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Speaker 3: he has gone, whereas I don't think at the time

497
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 3: a single Providence fan wanted Ed Cooley leaving that program

498
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 3: to go to another league or another team in the league.

499
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Speaker 3: So you see there's a level of vitriol there where

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's ever going to come back

501
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 3: from that. I don't know if there's ever going to

502
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 3: be a situation where he can come back to Providence

503
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 3: on like a I don't know, an alumni in twenty

504
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 3: years and have people cheer for him. Whereas once you

505
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 3: get past the initial shock of Col's at Arkansas. Once

506
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 3: you kind of get past the first couple of years

507
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 3: of him being there and people kind of get used

508
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 3: to it, I have no doubt that there will be

509
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 3: a warm reception for him in the future, especially when

510
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 3: he is not the enemy walking into rapp Arena. But

511
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 3: that matters to people, and it should matter to people.

512
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 3: And if it doesn't matter to you as a sports fan,

513
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 3: then you don't care about it enough to be able

514
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 3: to have an entire daily show dedicate two hours to

515
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 3: talking about Kentucky basketball. So yeah, it matters, It should matter,

516
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,719
Speaker 3: it will matter. And anyone that doesn't think it matters,

517
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 3: like you're just Jaden in this business. I'm not surprised

518
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 3: that Matt Norman and Jeff Boys a lord Jaden this business.

519
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 3: They're old these days, Fanta, They're not young and sprightly

520
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 3: with us.

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Speaker 2: Back to the phone, Shaddy, who do we got?

522
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Speaker 4: Let's go to Fred?

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Speaker 5: Oh, how you guys do it?

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Speaker 3: I'm great? Fred? How are you?

525
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 5: I'm fine?

526
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Speaker 6: You know, I'm a season ticket holder for forty five

527
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 6: years and I pay thousands of dollars a year for

528
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 6: the digits. I'm close to the floor and I want

529
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Speaker 6: to tell you.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad he left.

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Speaker 6: I think he'll get a good reception came back. I mean,

532
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 6: he didn't like lead for another school. He was kind

533
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 6: of driven away, and the feeling around the big donors

534
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 6: they it was time for him to go. And when

535
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Speaker 6: he left, he saved just forty million dollars on a buyout.

536
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 6: So I think he'll get a good reception when we

537
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Speaker 6: come back.

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Speaker 3: That is a great point, Fred.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he saved us a ton of money, and

540
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 6: he's a great recruiter, but he can't coach her in games.

541
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Speaker 6: It's obvious he's got to coach that everybody. And look

542
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 6: at his record for the past five years in the tournament.

543
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 6: And last time we went to that lead eight Auburn

544
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 6: out coaches and they went to the final four and

545
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 6: Arkansas people are gonna find that out first couple of years.

546
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Speaker 2: I mean, but I'm glad he left. I'm excited for

547
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Speaker 2: Mark Pope.

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Speaker 6: I don't care if he get a top ten recruiting class.

549
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Speaker 2: Look at the.

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Speaker 7: Fast past five champs.

551
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 6: They win on trans veterans extt Trump's talent any day,

552
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 6: and we've got a bunch of experiences in here. I'm

553
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 6: expecting great things. But I could care last week he

554
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 6: gets the top five recruiting class, because show.

555
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Speaker 2: Me the record. You can't win, right, show me the record, Fred,

556
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: you are what your record says you are.

557
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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 2: That's a great call. Great call, friend, cow. I will

559
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Speaker 2: cheer from him. Ian.

560
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Speaker 6: He's a great guy, good personality. He laughed because he

561
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 6: wouldn't love her anymore, and that means so much to him.

562
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 6: The biggest donor supposedly hadn't talked to him in a

563
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Speaker 6: couple of years. You know, he did some stupid stuff

564
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Speaker 6: like saying you were a football school right in the

565
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Speaker 6: middle of recruiting season, a basketball school right and middle

566
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 6: recruiting season, heard the football program. I mean, that was

567
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 6: stupid to do that, but he did it.

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Speaker 2: You're still there, rad, Thank you very much for the call.

569
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Speaker 2: You you spoke no lies, thank you. That's that's a

570
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with him more. Let's keep the rolling here, Shannon,

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Speaker 2: who we got Hello, Joe.

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. I've just got

573
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 9: a couple of things and I'll hang up and listen.

574
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 9: Can we talk and not skip over about the fact

575
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 9: that the only thing that Russ Smith could say that

576
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 9: being a Cardinal was better than a cat. Was the

577
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 9: population size of Louisville. It's not going to be eighty

578
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 9: or ninety percent read in Freedom Hall. The only reason

579
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 9: they had good attendance for the first few games was

580
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 9: because they haven't gone and seen there on basketball team

581
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Speaker 9: in two years. And Russ, your bourbon sucks it and

582
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 9: tastes like Ohio river water. Help down, baby.

583
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Speaker 5: Thinks, Oh man, Joe, Russ.

584
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Speaker 3: Russ tried his best to uh, to be able to,

585
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 3: you know, be the business man that he is, and

586
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 3: Joe just comes on to torches if I love it,

587
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: no great call.

588
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: Joe stepped out of his office to take a break

589
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 2: outside to literally spend sixty seconds and do that, and

590
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Speaker 2: then he's going to head back into work, and anything

591
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: that he does, anything he does the rest of the

592
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 2: day at work will pale in comparison to what he

593
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 2: just did there.

594
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: But hey, Fanta, he is not wrong. I try to

595
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 3: give Russ Smith an opportunity to say whatever he wanted

596
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 3: to say about Kentucky, and he said, yeah, you know,

597
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 3: Louisvill's a bigger city than and that's all he had.

598
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 3: I respect it, Russ. I respected trying to boys and

599
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 3: everyone off. But o man, great call Joe. Shout out

600
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Speaker 3: to Joe.

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Speaker 2: That was God. That was good. All right, next caller, please, yeah,

602
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Speaker 2: good morning ks R, Good morning Lee.

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Speaker 7: Hey listen, Cal will get booed in Kentucky. Yes he

604
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 7: will because of the last few years. Uh hey, I

605
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 7: supported him when he was there, and I was at

606
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 7: the National Championship Game in two eleven, and I've been

607
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 7: to one in seventy eight and one in ninety six

608
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 7: and ninety eight, and he just forgot that. He uh

609
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 7: he kind of liked Patino did that last year or too.

610
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 7: He thought he got bigger than University Kentucky.

611
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 5: And he's he's he's set.

612
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 7: His go on just getting kickbacks for getting people into

613
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 7: the NBA. And uh, he wasn't real nice to a

614
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 7: lot of UK people. But he's done a great job

615
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 7: supporting state of Kentucky and I always appreciate that.

616
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 5: Now I'm telling.

617
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Speaker 2: You, so, will you boo him?

618
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 5: Well? Will I boo? Oh? Yeah, I boo him.

619
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 7: I got season tickets and I boo him and and

620
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,719
Speaker 7: uh uh and now I might that boom if I

621
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 7: was in a neutral setting somewhere, but at Rupferenda, I'm

622
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 7: gonna boom, just like a boot Rick Patino when he

623
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 7: came back and flipped his office.

624
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 3: But me, let me ask you, how long is it

625
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 3: gonna be before you can you can appreciate what he did?

626
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 3: Is it just gonna be something where when he comes

627
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 3: back in where that Arkansas read that, it's gonna be

628
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 3: a problem, or if he comes back to like an

629
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 3: alumni like in five years, are you gonna be cheering

630
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Speaker 3: for him?

631
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 5: Then? Oh? Yeah, I.

632
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 7: Appreciate what he did. Believe me, I did. He brought

633
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 7: us back into dominance and and a major player. And

634
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 7: you know, it got to where we can see him

635
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 7: on ESPN on the road call there Kentucky b up

636
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 7: in the top five on everything. So I appreciate that,

637
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 7: I really do. I don't appreciate him hanging on the

638
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 7: last five years. And and uh, I mean, lord, he

639
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 7: gave us a break. He gave us a thirty million

640
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 7: dollar break, you know, So good for him. He's smart,

641
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 7: but he ain't smart so anyway, and Mark Polk will

642
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 7: do a great job. He will do a great job.

643
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 5: He loves Kentucky.

644
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 7: He's kind of put Kentucky fans back in the ownership

645
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 7: of UK basketball program, which Kle seemed to kind of

646
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 7: think he had the ownership of the universe of Kentucky.

647
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 5: But I go way back.

648
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,719
Speaker 7: Listening to Cotton Ash and everything else. And I've been,

649
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 7: like I said, four the eight national championships, and I'm

650
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 7: always gonna be Kentucky well Cats first, and not any

651
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 7: coach no matter who it is, and so and Louisville

652
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 7: if the only thing he can come up with more people,

653
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 7: that's pretty sad.

654
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 5: And you know it, and I know it.

655
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Speaker 7: There's you can go never Kentucky takes care of their

656
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 7: ex players better than any program in America.

657
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: Ever had and never will.

658
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Speaker 7: And if you don't, even if you sit on a

659
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 7: and you're loyal and you've been there four years, you're

660
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 7: gonna have a nice job and make a nice living

661
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 7: because UK's gonna make sure you they take care of you.

662
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 7: And other than that, I say that ails down the

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Speaker 7: level and.

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Speaker 3: Go get there, you go. Lee, appreciate you calling me in.

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00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 2: Thank you God. These fans are epic. I mean, it's

666
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: it's so good. It's I'm just I'm just gonna tell

667
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 2: you this here. The way that you guys, you Kentucky fans,

668
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 2: stand by your brand. I'm not saying I'm surprised, but

669
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 2: it is late July and Monday Night's game obviously helps

670
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: with the buzz and the momentum and and all of that.

671
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 2: But to me, this is why we do what we love. Ron,

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Speaker 2: This is why we do what we love because of

673
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 2: the amount of passion and the amount of energy that's

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Speaker 2: surrounding these programs. And it has not gone well for

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00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 2: you in recent years, Kentucky fans in March, which is

676
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: when it matters most. And I'm sure that you look

677
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 2: at Kansas and you look at Yukon, and to a

678
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 2: certain extent, Duke and Carolina, look, you want you want

679
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 2: to take back what is yours. You want that. You

680
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 2: think Mark Pope gets that and that gets us meter.

681
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 2: Mark Pope's an eleven out of ten and you're seeing,

682
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 2: you're seeing all of that energy I think produce what's

683
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: gonna be the rise is the best part, Rob and

684
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 2: we're about to see the rise start to occur. I'm

685
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: not saying that they're going to the elite a here

686
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 2: in year one, but I'll say it's gonna be fun

687
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 2: to see how this thing grows, because I don't think

688
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 2: Mark Pope's gonna fail I really don't. I think he's

689
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Speaker 2: gonna succeed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know I do love that. It is

691
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 3: July twenty sixth, it is a Friday, it is eleven

692
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 3: forty five am, and we've now had back to back

693
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: callers come in, call in and uh just roast a

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00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 3: player that graduated from Louisville eleven years ago about the

695
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 3: bourbon that he is making. I think that that is

696
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 3: tells you everything you need to know about Big Blue

697
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 3: on this fan base, and it's why we love what

698
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 3: we do. Man, it's only college sports. You don't get

699
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 3: us anywhere else. It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Great, great callers. Let's take another break. We'll be back

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Speaker 2: with one final segment after this. You're listening to Kentucky

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: and Rob, I've enjoyed these phone calls atleast have been

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, may the best phone calls the year?

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Speaker 2: Right, And I don't want him to stop now, Rob,

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00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 2: So we're this is for you callers. This is rapid

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00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: fire here. Okay, we got four callers. I want to

723
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 2: try to make everybody happy. So we're gonna give each

724
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: he about forty five seconds. We're not gonna react much

725
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 2: off them. We got like five minutes. Let's go with

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Speaker 2: the phones.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, Heaven go.

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Speaker 11: Hey, guys, you guys are doing a great job today.

729
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 11: Founcing back to your first segment talking about players being specialized,

730
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 11: one thing you guys missed on was Amary Williams, coach

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00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 11: Pope has talked about he's an elite passer. His over

732
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 11: under this year on the assist will be three and

733
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Speaker 11: a half. And then a quick shout out to my

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Speaker 11: son Walker Beck and his lovely and talented girlfriend Claire

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Speaker 11: Oath of Princeton, Kentucky for winning the prestigious two man

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Speaker 11: golf tournament at Lakewood National, Russell Springs, Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Go cats Hell's down, Hey, congratulations, congratulations, Next caller, David,

738
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Speaker 2: go ahead, David.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I'm a Collars fan, Go Cars.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to say rescue.

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Speaker 5: This be right.

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Speaker 10: It's gonna be eighty percent red and there and the

743
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 10: one thing about Louville is better than Lexington is our future.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna win the next eight out of ten. Go car.

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00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 4: That's a delusional call of the day.

746
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: Oh boy. Next Now, if the next color is a

747
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:24,240
Speaker 2: Kentucky fan, I want their reaction from that call just now, Gosha.

748
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 4: Cherrry, go ahead, Sherry.

749
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Speaker 7: That color is full of it.

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Speaker 8: The reason that I think that the Louisville had a

751
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 8: great attendance last week was the first game they played Bellermant,

752
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 8: and Bellerman has a great fans that brought all the attendants.

753
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 8: So there is no way that uh, there's gonna be

754
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 8: more red than Blue. Thank you guys, Rob, before the

755
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 8: before the how many callers we have in the queu?

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00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 12: Right now?

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00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 5: We got one? Right now? One more?

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00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 2: All right, hold on, we'll wait on the one. Rob.

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00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 2: This is for a this this is for a semi

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00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 2: pro basketball game on Monday. Now. Basketball tournament is incredible,

761
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: TBT is is? It really is fun? The elam ending

762
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 2: is second to none. But this is for a TBT

763
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:20,959
Speaker 2: game Monday night in July. Rob, will you watch?

764
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Speaker 3: Why it's awesome?

765
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 2: Will you be watching? Will you be watching?

766
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 3: Going to be doing? You know, because I'm going to

767
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 3: be in the Bahamas, Fanta, So I'll be watching the

768
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 3: Bahamas and I'm going to be enjoying it with maybe

769
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 3: a nice mister and Missus Smith Bourbon.

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Speaker 2: Well, I like mister and Missus Smith Bourbon. But the

771
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 2: caller who called earlier didn't did not. But we love

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00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 2: mister and missus Smith Burgh. And we thank Russ Smith

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Speaker 2: for join us. We think Willie call you Stein for

774
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 2: joining us. Tyler Helist by the way, he was getting

775
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 2: his phone fixed. He apologizes, He'll surely come on another time.

776
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 2: Back to the phones.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to Bill.

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Speaker 12: I had something I wanted to say but the Louisville

779
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 12: caller just threw me off. I mean, I know it's

780
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Speaker 12: noon and he's probably already drunk, knowing that his fan fandom.

781
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Speaker 12: But if he thinks that they're gonna win eight of anything,

782
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 12: it's gonna take him probably three years judging by their

783
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 12: previous their previous seasons. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna

784
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 12: boocal because I like what he did for the state. Uh,

785
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 12: don't get me wrong. I've been pissed off last five

786
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 12: seasons for U for what he's put us through as fans.

787
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Speaker 12: And again, I know Louisville. Louisville can't relate. They would

788
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 12: have begged to be, you know, in any type of

789
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 12: tournament the last two seasons. But you know, maybe maybe

790
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 12: next year, maybe if that guy whoever they got over there,

791
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 12: the flat bill guy, maybe he can do it. And

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Speaker 12: then lastly, I think I think Pope's got a pretty

793
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 12: good leash. I think he's got two or three years

794
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 12: to get something cooking. I mean, I'm I'm willing to

795
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 12: sit by because I think this guy loves the state,

796
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 12: loves the program. So he's got my vote. Guys have going, Thank.

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00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 3: You, Thank you. Eight wins in the next three years,

798
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: is what he said. Fanta eight wins in the next

799
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Speaker 3: three year.

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Speaker 2: No, No, that caller pre viously has eight Louisville wins

801
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 2: out of the next ten Kentucky games. By the way,

802
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 2: Kentucky's gone thirteen and three in the last sixteen meetings

803
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 2: of Louisville.

804
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 3: That's pretty good. That is pretty good. We got any

805
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 3: other callers?

806
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 4: No, right now, we're empty, But I think that we've

807
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 4: had enough epic calls for the show to lost the

808
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 4: entire summer.

809
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 2: Holy smokes, rob final thoughts here, because we'll have plenty

810
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 2: of content at the field of sixty eight as our

811
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Speaker 2: summer continues and then into the early fall. On your

812
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 2: expectations for Kentucky.

813
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 3: My expectations for them is to be in and around

814
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 3: the top twenty five for most of the year. I

815
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 3: think that they should absolutely be a tournament team. I

816
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 3: think that they should win at least a game in

817
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 3: the tournament. With the roster that they put together and

818
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 3: how old this group is. They have guys that have

819
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 3: won at a high level. We've seen lamon but make

820
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 3: a game winning shot in the final four. You know,

821
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 3: we've seen the success that some of these other guys

822
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 3: have had. Ansley Almanor is a is a guy we

823
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 3: haven't talked about much, but he has been part of

824
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 3: a team that upset a number one seed in the

825
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament before when they got roll, guys, I really

826
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 3: do believe that it's a tournament team that should be

827
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 3: winning twenty to twenty four games, that should be in

828
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Speaker 3: the top twenty five, top five in the SEC.

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Speaker 2: For Rob Doster our preuser Shannon, I'm John Fanta. Enjoy

830
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Speaker 2: your weekend, Big Blue Nation, thanks for tuning in with us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you the callers, Thanks to Willie Cauley Stein and

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Speaker 2: Russ Smith. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.