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Speaker 1: But you talk about you know that old cliche. You

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Speaker 1: Hit a grand slam, hit a hole in one, whatever

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Speaker 1: a unbelievable entrance coming off that bus with all those

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Speaker 1: And the last guy gets off carrying the trophy is

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Speaker 1: Mark Pope, our new coach. Sometimes fairy tales right themselves,

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Speaker 1: and this is one that we're gonna talk about forever

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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk a lot about some of

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Speaker 1: And after today what we just saw today at Roup

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Speaker 1: You can hear us ramble all week on KSR. So, billy,

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Speaker 3: You know there's been tweets from former players, uh from Caliperry.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you one thing, baby, we were here

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, Jordan, Ryan, Billy, what's up boys? How's it

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Speaker 7: We are back in full force. I am here at

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Speaker 7: I know I'm not the only one. It sounds like

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Speaker 7: big Blue. Thanks for taking my call, Ryan, Matt love you, buddy, Billy,

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Speaker 9: Welcome.

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Speaker 10: It is the Her post press conference show. I met Jones.

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Speaker 10: Ryan Lemon is here with me. Ryan, thank you for

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Speaker 1: We're all like walking on clouds right now. I think

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Speaker 10: I'd like to hear what you guys think about all

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Speaker 10: And to the people that were there, I'll be interested

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Speaker 10: not a game that I can imagine. I can't imagine

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Speaker 10: that one was. So let's just get into it. I

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Speaker 2: Who's up first? Snoop? Snoop? How are you? Snoop?

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Speaker 11: I'm doing good? Hey, man, we haven't had a revival

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Speaker 11: mean this was just amazing. Pope, He's like he could,

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Speaker 11: he's like a preacher.

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Speaker 12: Man.

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Speaker 11: I caught the Holy ghast listening to him today, Like,

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Speaker 11: I mean, this was like, this is next season. You

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Speaker 10: Well, how about him saying, how about what he said

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Speaker 10: expectations here to win. That's a pretty amazing thing. And

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Speaker 2: We're not waiting I just I loved it.

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Speaker 11: He said all the right things.

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Speaker 9: The man.

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Speaker 11: The man is so good at talking. He could get

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Speaker 11: religion to Jesus. I'm telling you, there ain't nobody like

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Speaker 11: I mean, he's not gonna have any type of problem.

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Speaker 11: He Oh Man, I talked to Holydos. I was in church.

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Speaker 11: thing on YouTube. No, I went to church again. I mean,

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Speaker 11: it was just amazing today. The big Blue and Bible.

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Speaker 11: That's what you might as well call him next season,

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Speaker 10: Let me tell you something everything about today. Okay, Ryan,

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Speaker 10: you were at the bar before. It was just people everywhere, right,

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Speaker 10: I mean, people just everywhere going and get getting excited.

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Speaker 1: We had a standing room to get in at like

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Speaker 2: The twenty minutes before I'll remember forever with the music playing.

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Speaker 10: It's an example of how if we ever were able

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Speaker 2: It would be in there.

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Speaker 10: I don't know that that'll ever happen, but if you did,

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Speaker 2: Who's next, Wendell, Wendell, go ahead.

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Speaker 13: Wendell, Hey, idiot, an honor and a privilege to be

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Speaker 13: on the Billy R. Rutlich postcap re Bival show. And uh,

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Speaker 13: the guy that spoke before me said exactly what I

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Speaker 13: He was across from the Baptist preacher and a politician.

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Speaker 13: Dude can talk, man, he and he's not just spouting

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Speaker 13: off long garble agook. He had things to say, and

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Speaker 13: everything from the from the basketball for years, and I

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Speaker 13: I just felt like, this isn't going to get any better.

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Speaker 13: It's the same old thing over and over again.

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Speaker 2: And uh, he's certain.

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Speaker 10: I don't know if I think there's a lot of people, Windell.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of people that felt like you.

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Speaker 10: And what I mean by that is I looked around

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Speaker 10: about you know, they had essentially spots for the big

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Speaker 2: But also I was looking in the crowd and I

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Speaker 10: I felt like I saw faces that I haven't seen

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Speaker 10: you've been around longer even than me. Did you get

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Speaker 10: that feeling like there's just a lot of faces in

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Speaker 10: here that maybe for a few years, just haven't that.

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Speaker 2: It almost seems like they're excited to be back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And a lot of those guys that got

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Speaker 1: I said twenty eight years ago, going back to ninety six,

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Speaker 10: I don't think you're the only person that felt like that, listen.

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Speaker 10: I mean, everybody loved the cal Era, everybody loved the players.

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Speaker 10: It was so exciting, but there was a sense I

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Speaker 10: sort of Kentucky was secondary to everything else. And I

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Speaker 13: At some point next summer, not just coming summer, but

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Speaker 13: the next summer. You need to have a show where

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Speaker 13: you sit down and analyze, because you're good at this.

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Speaker 11: Analyze.

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Speaker 13: Where everything started going wrong when the disconnect happened was

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Speaker 13: Calipari and what it was like when that bus rolled

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Speaker 13: into that arena today, just like in ninety six, and

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Speaker 13: all those people came out and I'll leave it with this.

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Speaker 13: I halfway expected Rictino to come to that bus take

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Speaker 2: I thought I did to.

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Speaker 10: You know, when I asked him about the schedule, I

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Speaker 10: I thought he was really close to saying that. I

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Speaker 10: appreciate the call, but you know, the when the bus, okay,

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Speaker 10: so take the bus thing. So the bus like about

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Speaker 10: in on the bus, and I was gonna send it out,

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Speaker 10: and then this guy goes, please don't send it out.

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Speaker 10: We want everybody to be surprised and excited, and so

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Speaker 10: I didn't. And it was very cool. I mean, it

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Speaker 10: was like people as soon as they opened that big

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Speaker 10: and I thought that was really awesome.

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Speaker 1: You've heard me say. One of my greatest moments ever

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Speaker 1: into Ropperena and it was completely packed that day. Grown

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Speaker 1: men were crying as they had get off the bus.

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Speaker 1: And then here's Mark Pope, the last kuy off that

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Speaker 1: if you didn't get chili bumps at that moment, then

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Speaker 1: that was really special.

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Speaker 2: And we have to take about talking about the crowd.

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Speaker 10: I mean, the place is full, completely like that, not

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Speaker 10: They put banners because they assumed they that they were

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Speaker 2: They didn't need to. They took the banners down. Yep,

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Speaker 10: And honestly, had they pulled out the seats on the sides,

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Speaker 2: More people, but I don't.

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Speaker 10: They were expecting eight to a twelve thousand people, that's

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Speaker 10: The place was completely packed and they turned people away

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Speaker 10: and I feel sorry for those people. But as the

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Speaker 10: people just kept coming in, I kept thinking, I cannot

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Speaker 10: It really was unbelievable. And they had set it up

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Speaker 10: assuming I think Ryan half the people that came would come.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because they had the stage was, you know, up

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Speaker 2: It was it was really really, really really cool. Who's next, Cameron? Cameron?

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Cameron, first time? Long time? Who are.

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Speaker 14: So just sitting there watching? Obviously the elephant in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not an elephant to me.

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Speaker 10: I mean, I I just everybody needs to assume he's

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Speaker 10: hang over BBN, to not enjoy the excitement, because if

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Speaker 10: he comes back, let's consider it the greatest.

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Speaker 2: Bonus of all time.

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Speaker 10: But my full expectation as of today is that he

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Speaker 10: It was cool, the hole Shepherd and all that. I

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Speaker 10: honestly don't think Mark bum meant to do that. But

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Speaker 10: I mean, everybody should dream and be excited, but I

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 14: So one other thing was just sitting there watching Mitch

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Speaker 14: and all that looked like Mitch Barnhart was just breathing.

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Speaker 15: Sighs of relief.

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Speaker 14: So obviously it was time for cal Well.

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Speaker 2: I asked that schedule question because I mean, look that

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Speaker 1: Oh shit, to call.

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Speaker 2: The idea of playing in those tournaments, you know, it

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Speaker 10: As if somebody Ryan had said to him, Hey, talk

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Speaker 10: like like he hit all the notes, didn't he Like

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Speaker 10: he hit all the notes.

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Speaker 1: And talk about playing defense. He threw that little nugget

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Speaker 10: Oh you know he said, will mix up the defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: that's what he said. We will mix up the defenses

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Speaker 2: That had to be intentional, right.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there's no doubt. Yeah, but of course we all

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Speaker 1: we ate it up. That's something the fan base has

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Speaker 1: been climoring for for years Mal Invitational winning in Nashville,

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Speaker 1: playing defense, playing his own I think we'll see all

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Speaker 10: He literally hit every single note of what he of,

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Speaker 10: what you would want him to say, Who's next, syndicate, syndicate,

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Speaker 10: how are you hey?

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Speaker 16: I'm doing great, man. It's I was there and you

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Speaker 16: talk about an emotional event. It started by we talked.

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Speaker 16: We caught Ryan before he hited out of the stadium.

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Speaker 16: We called them going down the escalator, perfect timing. I

437
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Speaker 16: had my daughter with me and I was telling Ryan,

438
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Speaker 16: I haven't felt this good about UK basketball since about

439
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Speaker 16: ninety six. And that's when you knew the players, when

440
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Speaker 16: they would stay a year or two. And after that era,

441
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Speaker 16: after that cal era, you know, it was great, but

442
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 16: then the players would leave and it was hard for

443
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Speaker 16: us to know the team again. I think that's what

444
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Speaker 16: was broken. I think that's what's brought back. But you're

445
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,919
Speaker 16: talking about the twenty minutes before the jumbo tron and

446
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Speaker 16: they were showing all the people around and the babies.

447
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Speaker 1: They were holding the babies up.

448
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Speaker 16: I tell you one of the coolest things was is

449
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 16: they showed like three like popes and black suits and

450
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Speaker 16: they stood up and was like had their hands up

451
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Speaker 16: like in praying mode and sat back down. And then

452
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Speaker 16: they had the Pope guy there and it was like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're dressing a full pope outfit ride. I don't

454
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Speaker 2: know if they had full pope outfit. They maybe showed

455
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Speaker 2: him on TV.

456
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Speaker 1: Cameron right Pikeville. One's who that guy was.

457
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Speaker 2: Okay, And it was absolutely amazing.

458
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Speaker 16: And my daughter said, Daddy, this is the best experience

459
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Speaker 16: of my life. And that just that rolle to me like,

460
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Speaker 16: you know what, this is our bonding years of bringing

461
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Speaker 16: back the family and the UK basketball all together. And

462
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,719
Speaker 16: then when they came in in the bus with the

463
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Speaker 16: police leading them in front of them, and just a

464
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Speaker 16: whole crowd goes wild.

465
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Speaker 2: And then they just start coming out one by.

466
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Speaker 16: One and they're yelling at goos due to Dya And

467
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,399
Speaker 16: as they're coming off the bus, you could feel a

468
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 16: rebirth of excitement. And if you wasn't there for this,

469
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Speaker 16: oh my gosh, TV will not play what it did

470
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Speaker 16: to my heart today.

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Speaker 2: Go big Blue baby. I agree. I appreciate the call.

472
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Speaker 2: It was. It was really it was really special.

473
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Speaker 10: It really was a I knew it would be good,

474
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Speaker 10: but it was better than I thought.

475
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Speaker 2: And and and it was I mean a.

476
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Speaker 10: Good you know, fifty percent of it's Mark Pope, but

477
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Speaker 10: fifty percent of it were the people in that building.

478
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Speaker 2: I mean the people in that building. You could just

479
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Speaker 2: feel how excited it was, and it was kind of

480
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Speaker 2: a throwback. I really liked.

481
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Speaker 10: One of the student journalists, a young woman, asked a

482
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Speaker 10: question that I thought was really good. She said something lying,

483
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 10: the older fans know who you are, and then Marbo

484
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 10: was like.

485
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Speaker 2: The really old fans know who I am, Like he

486
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 2: made a joke.

487
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Speaker 10: Yeah, And then she said, but what about for younger fans,

488
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Speaker 10: how would you introduce him? Which I thought was a

489
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 10: great question. Yeah, right, I thought that was a great question,

490
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Speaker 10: and he then did it. He said, I'm a person

491
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Speaker 10: who loves this this uh I loves basketball, loves my family,

492
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Speaker 10: loves this state, and loves God. And I was like,

493
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 10: great question, great answer, right, I thought to me, Ryan,

494
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Speaker 10: that was kind of a great sort of I don't know, compilation,

495
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Speaker 10: compilation of the day.

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he comes across like he's one of us. You know,

497
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Speaker 1: it's no longer players first program, it's a fans first

498
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: program because he's one of us, you know what I mean?

499
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, Well, Ryan thank you for coming in, ye brother,

500
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Speaker 10: stepping in for us.

501
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Speaker 2: Enjoy yourself. I will see you tomorrow at the bar

502
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Speaker 2: for the show. All right.

503
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Speaker 1: The bar was hopping today, man. All those people came

504
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Speaker 1: in for like tailgating before they went down to rupt.

505
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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun.

506
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Speaker 2: It's great.

507
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Speaker 10: All right, Well, thanks right, we'll take a break. Aff

508
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Speaker 10: nine two eighty seven. We're gonna go till seven thirty

509
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Speaker 10: here on the well. Is it Let's just call it

510
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 10: the KSR post game Show because I don't know if

511
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 10: we have a sponsor, but we're here.

512
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Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a second.

513
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Speaker 10: Walking back, it is the ASR post Press Conference show.

514
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Speaker 2: Drew just walked in.

515
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Speaker 10: Drew was there too, Drew, you were there with me

516
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Speaker 10: the whole time, kind of standing there beforehand. What do

517
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 10: you think about him?

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Speaker 17: Uh?

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Speaker 18: That was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.

520
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 18: It really was just I parked on the other side

521
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Speaker 18: of downtown before it started, about an hour hour and

522
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 18: a half before, and I'm walking that way and I

523
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 18: see lines that are going like down the block and

524
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 18: wrapping around Rapperina, and I'm thinking, kind of half jokingly,

525
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 18: are they gonna have enough seats? And then you get

526
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 18: inside and they really didn't have enough seats. There were

527
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 18: people hanging over the edges, there are people outside. I

528
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,719
Speaker 18: knew Blue would get in and make a statement, but

529
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Speaker 18: never in my wildest dream would it be what it

530
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Speaker 18: turned out to be. That was absolute insanity.

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Speaker 10: You are a little you're a little younger to be,

532
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 10: so you were like a little kid during ninety six,

533
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 10: but you still are somebody who you know felt that

534
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 10: time of life. How much did you enjoy kind of

535
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 10: the nostalgia of all the moments.

536
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Speaker 18: Well, I wasn't that little because I camped at Rick

537
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 18: Patino's summer camp overnight with Jeff Shepherd was my coach,

538
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Speaker 18: and Mark Pope wasn't my coach, but I remember him

539
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 18: being a lot, so that is my era. I have

540
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 18: so many Meadowlands branded shirts at home from that ninety

541
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Speaker 18: six run. So really, just the nostalgia alone is what's

542
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 18: so exciting. We'll see what happens with the basketball, but

543
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Speaker 18: having all those players there and it wasn't just his team. Afterwards,

544
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Speaker 18: I stayed a little later, talked to our boy Rommel

545
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 18: and Wu and Richie, just seeing from all generations everyone

546
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 18: down there being excited and kind of bringing UK together

547
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Speaker 18: was pretty special today.

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Speaker 2: Very very cool. Who's up next? Don? Is next? Don?

549
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Speaker 2: Go ahead? Don?

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Speaker 9: Hey, Matt, how's it going this evening?

551
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Speaker 2: Doing good?

552
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Speaker 11: Good?

553
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 9: Congrats on the Big Pop.

554
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Speaker 2: When they introduced it, that was surprising. Drew kept making

555
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Speaker 2: fun of me sitting there next to his wild.

556
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Speaker 9: So I sat watching it from home and what I

557
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 9: didn't miss was all the coach speak. Coach Pope sounded real, direct,

558
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Speaker 9: real poignant with his responses, and I really do feel

559
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Speaker 9: like there's been a disconnect between the fans and the program,

560
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 9: and today it felt like it really did change.

561
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Speaker 10: You know what's interesting to me about speakers? Okay, as

562
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Speaker 10: a public speaker myself, I'm always interested in how people

563
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 10: are or are not affective public speakers. So there's really

564
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 10: two different ways to be a really good public speaker.

565
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Speaker 10: One is to be kind of like cal Perry, and

566
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Speaker 10: this is what politicians often are. They can they give

567
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 10: all the right answers, they're charming. Then there's another way

568
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 10: to be a really good public speaker where you're just

569
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Speaker 10: like insane, mainly real, you know what I mean? Like

570
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 10: when you talk, you you can feel the emotion out

571
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 10: of a person while they're talking and you almost as

572
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 10: you're watching them, are cheering them on because of how

573
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Speaker 10: real they're being. I thought, for me, that's what Mark

574
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Speaker 10: Pope is and was today.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and exactly just to ape what you just said.

576
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Speaker 9: I was like, even though I was watching from home,

577
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 9: you could really the emotion and everything was really tangible.

578
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 9: I mean you could feel the love, the respect, the reverence.

579
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Speaker 9: I mean it was deep and really meaningful. I mean

580
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Speaker 9: I'm not trying to be like real philosophical or nothing,

581
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Speaker 9: but I mean you could tell, you know, he really

582
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Speaker 9: he's he's gonna live that and such he does come first.

583
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Speaker 2: And Drew, I agree with you. I appreciate the call. Drew.

584
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Speaker 10: I'm not I mean, I'm not too uh too you know,

585
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 10: powerful or confident to say that. You know, I got

586
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 10: a little teary eye. I'm not gonna lie watching those

587
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 10: I love. I love pictures to music I always have

588
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,719
Speaker 10: and the videos and it was interesting to me, you know,

589
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 10: they they added some things to the videos that haven't

590
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Speaker 10: been in the past, and.

591
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Speaker 2: It was just but it was you couldn't help but

592
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 2: be a little emotional, right.

593
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Speaker 17: Uh.

594
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Speaker 18: When I first walked into the building, Billy asked me

595
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Speaker 18: how it went and I said, there were a lot

596
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Speaker 18: of adult tears in reperna Tis.

597
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Speaker 1: There were a lot of adult tears.

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Speaker 18: I haven't got choked up a little bit just when

599
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 18: there was a go big blue chant, the way it

600
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 18: was ringing out through there. I mean, you know, we

601
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 18: hear rub get loud for games, but for that to

602
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Speaker 18: be a press conference, I'm still kind of in disbelief

603
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Speaker 18: what we just walked out of.

604
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Speaker 2: There were a lot, That's a good way to put it.

605
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Speaker 10: There were a lot of adult tears, scrum man tears

606
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 10: across that building.

607
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Speaker 2: Who's next, Tyler? Tyler? Go ahead, Tyler?

608
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Speaker 11: What's going on?

609
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Speaker 2: Matt? What's up?

610
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Speaker 19: So today?

611
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Speaker 15: I I'm thirty years old.

612
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Speaker 20: I've watched col my entire life since I was twelve

613
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Speaker 20: years old, fourteen.

614
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Speaker 21: But Mark Pope is the guy that you see a

615
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Speaker 21: guy shoes a three no, no, no, no no, and a yes.

616
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Speaker 11: He is someone I'm.

617
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Speaker 22: Super excited about living Florida.

618
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Speaker 23: But man, I'm so excited.

619
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Speaker 2: Well listen, I don't think there's anything.

620
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Speaker 10: I'm sure there are people listening to this who from

621
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Speaker 10: the moment it was announced, we're excited, okay, and kudos

622
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Speaker 10: to them, But I think most fans probably add the

623
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 10: reaction similar to or maybe even worse than mine, which

624
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 10: was Oh, no, is this what we're doing, and then

625
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 10: kind of coming around and going, Okay, if this is

626
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Speaker 10: what we're doing, this is what we're doing, and now

627
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 10: two days later almost being like, yes, this is what

628
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Speaker 10: we're doing and I'm excited about it. And I think

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Speaker 10: that's kind of how a lot, if not all, of

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Speaker 10: the fan base is.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I take somebody, We're we're back.

632
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I love it. Do you agree with that?

633
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Speaker 10: Drew like there should be a psychological study of the

634
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Speaker 10: group think change in fourteen hours from ten pm on

635
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Speaker 10: Thursday night to noon after Barnhart did that interview and

636
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 10: then Patino put out that video Like that fourteen hours,

637
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Speaker 10: it felt like the entire.

638
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Speaker 2: Fan base's mind just changed completely.

639
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Speaker 18: I think I said on the show that day, we

640
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,479
Speaker 18: just need to sleep. We had to get that out

641
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Speaker 18: of our system. You know, sometimes you're angry and you're

642
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 18: not yourself because you haven't eaten.

643
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Speaker 2: Right.

644
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Speaker 18: We just were caught off guard. That was Mark Pope.

645
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Speaker 18: We all love Mark Pope. Nobody was anti Mark Pope.

646
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Speaker 18: It was we were a little surprised in our reaction.

647
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Speaker 18: We threw it out there quickly on the internet, as

648
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Speaker 18: we're prone to do. Once we got some sleep, I

649
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 18: feel like most people woke up and they're read to rock.

650
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 18: I even had a couple of people stop me today

651
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 18: after the press conference saying that they tweeted some awful

652
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Speaker 18: stuff that night, but there as one hundred percent in

653
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Speaker 18: as they could be. I think the fan base you

654
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 18: just needed to have a night of that because we

655
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Speaker 18: were in shock of how it went down.

656
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Speaker 2: But they're good now. I think you got to give

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Speaker 2: a lot of cranit to Mark Pope and to everyone

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 10: The You saw in twenty four hours the beast of

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Speaker 10: the BBN in every direction right like, you saw how

661
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 10: it can go the wrong way sometimes, and then you

662
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 10: saw how it rallies around itself and takes care of

663
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Speaker 10: its own and that made today really really special.

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Speaker 2: We'll do one more for the break. Who's next, Luke, Luke,

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Speaker 2: go ahead, Luke.

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Speaker 21: Hey, Matt just wanted to say I did what every

667
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 21: great Kentucky fan does, which is call in to work

668
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,479
Speaker 21: to make sure that I made it to Rupp Arena

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Speaker 21: today for this press conference. I'm so excited for Coach Pope.

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Speaker 4: He just gets it.

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Speaker 21: He's one of us.

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00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 13: And just to have that, to have.

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Speaker 21: That moment's day, it was one of the most incredible

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Speaker 21: things I've ever seen. I mean, twenty twenty one, twenty

675
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 21: two thousand for a press conference.

676
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 9: Are we absolutely insane?

677
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 21: We're a bunch of nut jobs. And he gets it

678
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 21: and he loves it, and I just I can't wait

679
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 21: for November. I can't wait to see him and to

680
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 21: see the team that he assembles, and to see the

681
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 21: zoom offense, the five out zoom offense that he's gonna run.

682
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 21: I'm so excited for everything. It just feels like a

683
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 21: weight has been lifted off of the shoulders.

684
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Speaker 10: See you were there, You were there, tell me because

685
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 10: I mean when you're on the floor, you know you're sitting.

686
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 10: It's a little bit different doing the press conference, sitting

687
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 10: with the media because the media is not cheering, you know,

688
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 10: they don't don't intentionally. Drew I think had to kick

689
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 10: me a couple of times so I would stop clapping. So, uh,

690
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 10: what was it? What was it like in the crowd?

691
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 21: I think they definitely drank their beer this morning, that's

692
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 21: for sure.

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00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 15: It was wild.

694
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Speaker 21: I mean, when they when they open those doors, we

695
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 21: bolted for the front, Me and my me and the

696
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 21: wife bolted for the doors to get in there, and

697
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 21: there were tons of people behind us, and it was

698
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 21: just amazing to sit there from the opening and just

699
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 21: watch it continue to fill up all around us, across

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Speaker 21: from us, above us. It was unbelievable and I can't

701
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 21: believe the turnout, but never ever doubt the power.

702
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Speaker 9: Of the big consation and Pope is stoped.

703
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 10: I appreciate the call. I just got a message with

704
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 10: somebody who goes to a lot of games. That's the

705
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 10: most electricrough atmosphere I've ever seen. I was there with

706
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 10: my son. He killed it. It was an awesome celebration.

707
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 10: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: Through any final words before the show.

709
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 18: Tomorrow, Uh no, just I guess the Cats are back,

710
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 18: go big Blue.

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00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 2: That was wild seeing that.

712
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Speaker 18: Like I said, I'm still a little disbelief, but I

713
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 18: really I'm not surprised everyone showed out, because that's what

714
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Speaker 18: this fan base does.

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Speaker 10: All right, thank you, Drew, appreciating. Okay, tomorrow at the bar,

716
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 10: we will take a break.

717
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: We still got an hour left to take a calls

718
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Speaker 2: Mark Pope. His celebration began. This is ks R quarterback.

719
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Speaker 10: It is kiss our host Mark Pope Press conference show.

720
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 10: Scottie Scheffler's leading by three and the Masters. It's like

721
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 10: he's gonna probably take it. This will be a second

722
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 10: one and then he will go home and his wife

723
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 10: is going to have a baby soon. It sounds like,

724
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,439
Speaker 10: so congratulations, best golfer in the world.

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00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 2: Billy, you didn't get to be there, But did you

726
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: like what you heard from Mark Pope?

727
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 24: I did, besides trying to watch the Masters here on

728
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 24: this Sunday. I enjoyed the preacher vibes like you guys

729
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 24: were talking about. And I also liked Tom Leech's line

730
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 24: where he said the captain is now the coach. I

731
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 24: thought that was a great way to start.

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Speaker 10: It's very jim nance ask here on Master Sunday, right,

733
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 10: the captain is now the coach?

734
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 2: I like it? All right, who's up next?

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jeff.

736
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Speaker 2: Jeff, what's up? Jeff?

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Speaker 25: Hey, Matt, I just dropped my daughter off and so

738
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 25: I'm getting in my truck.

739
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 2: You hear a little bit of racket. But anyhow, I

740
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 2: just to tell you about my day.

741
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Speaker 25: I got up this morning and I'm a pastor in

742
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Speaker 25: south central Kentucky.

743
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Speaker 2: About all post to two hours away, a little over and.

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Speaker 25: I hate to say it, but in offany and anyhow

745
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 25: I got this morning. I go to church and I preach.

746
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 25: As soon as I get out of church, I'd drive

747
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Speaker 25: Alection until my daughter lives here. One lives here, one

748
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 25: goes to college at UK. And so I picked up

749
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 25: my daughter that lives here, and we had downtown and

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00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 25: I asked her, I said, do you think anybody will

751
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 25: be there? I don't do social media much. She said,

752
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 25: I don't know, and she works downtown. We parked in

753
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 25: her parking garage and we get out and we walk

754
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 25: out and you can see down the street and there

755
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 25: are people everywhere, everywhere you look. And we're there an

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Speaker 25: hour and a half or so early. And then I

757
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 25: heard that people have been waiting in line for hours

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Speaker 25: before we go.

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00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 10: I mean, there are people there starting at at noon,

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Speaker 10: if not earlier. And like I said, I was there

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Speaker 10: at two thirty, two hours before and it was just

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Speaker 10: a madhouse. I was actually a little bit worried or

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Speaker 10: they're gonna be able to get everybody like crowd control

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Speaker 10: to get them in, But they did and turned out great.

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Speaker 10: I'm glad you made the drive from Albany, sir, and

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Speaker 10: I hope you have a safe drive home.

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Speaker 25: Okay, yeah, yeah, I will. And I just want to

768
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 25: tell you that what they're telling you is real. I mean,

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Speaker 25: or you know what you was there, but what the

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Speaker 25: people your listeners. It was like a religious experience someone.

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Speaker 25: I hate to say that because I really.

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Speaker 2: Do as a preacher, you would know what it is, right.

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Speaker 25: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was like a religious experience.

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00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 2: And the tears were real, and.

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Speaker 25: The and you know that you so far the people

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Speaker 25: that have talked on this and what you've said, it's true.

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Speaker 25: Every point that they've made is the way we feel.

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00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 2: No, you're right. I want to get some other people

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Speaker 2: on though, real quick.

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Speaker 10: I appreciate the call that the uh there were people

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00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 10: from I just personally. You had him from Albany. There

782
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 10: was somebody I talked to. You drove from Columbus, Ohio.

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00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 10: Somebody from Knoxville, Tennessee. Talk to somebody who drove from

784
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 10: South Carolina. There was another person I met drove from Pennsylvania.

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00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 10: I mean, how many fan bases are gonna do that?

786
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 10: Who's next?

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00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 2: Crystal, Crystal, go ahead, Crystal. Yeah.

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Speaker 25: We we got there by eight thirty.

789
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Speaker 7: This morning.

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00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 25: We was first in line at the door.

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Speaker 3: We come from Knoxville, and uh that.

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Speaker 11: I have to say, that was the greatest experience I've

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Speaker 11: ever had.

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00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 25: That was the first time I ever got to be here.

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00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: Bruh.

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00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 3: My husband and our kids have been there before, but

797
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Speaker 3: not me.

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Speaker 10: So so you you were first in line.

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Speaker 25: We were.

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00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 2: That's awesome, first in line this morning. So you did

801
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: you get to sit in the front row?

802
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 7: Well, I the kids did, but I didn't because I'm

803
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Speaker 7: in a wheelchair.

804
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Speaker 2: So I got you. Well, Crystal, I'm so glad you

805
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 2: got to go.

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00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 10: I'm so glad you got to go, and I'm glad

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00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 10: you enjoyed it and was your first time in Rupperena.

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00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 2: Awesome. It was definitely good, Crystal, appreciate it. You be

809
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 2: careful going home.

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00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you, y'all have a good one.

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Speaker 10: See, that's what it is, and that I'm gonna get

812
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 10: I'm gonna get choked up thinking about it. But that

813
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 10: to me is why this place is special. And that's why,

814
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 10: you know, that's why I'm so excited for this and

815
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 10: I so wanted to work is you know, Mark Pope

816
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 10: is one of us, and over the years I've kind

817
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 10: of you've heard me. I've said you shouldn't hire somebody

818
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 10: just because they went there. But you know, we've never

819
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 10: done that, or at least in my lifetime. They did

820
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 10: it with Joe b but we've never done that in

821
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 10: my lifetime. And it does feel different to be honest

822
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 10: with you when it's one of years. So maybe maybe

823
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 10: I was wrong about that. We'll see, but it was

824
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 10: very cool.

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Speaker 2: Who's next, John, John, go ahead? John?

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Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, Matt real quick. I was the last caller

827
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 4: the other day before Mitch came on with your interview.

828
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 4: Mark Pope said, verbatim what I said to you on

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00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 4: the on that are on the radio that day that

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00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 4: this is bigger than the players, it's bigger than the coach,

831
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 4: it's bigger than the university. And the one thing that

832
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,760
Speaker 4: has never wavered through the history of UK basketball is us,

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00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 4: the fans, the piper who put and and the coolest

834
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 4: thing that he said today, all the exit and those stuff,

835
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 4: well we're gonna see all that, but he said something

836
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Speaker 4: that I think will resonate throughout this bb N for

837
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Speaker 4: years to come, and that is passion wins championships.

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00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 26: You have to have that.

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Speaker 4: It's deep inside you. And when it comes out, it's different.

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Speaker 10: It's different. Yeah, well this is gonna be this is

841
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 10: gonna be so different. I mean, I you know, today's

842
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 10: day of celebration. And we as fans, though, are gonna

843
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 10: have to to sort of realize this is gonna be

844
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 10: so different. The kind of players he brings in are

845
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 10: gonna be very different than the guy's cow did. We're

846
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 10: not gonna see like five McDonald's all Americans in a year.

847
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 10: That's not gonna happen. And we're probably gonna take some

848
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 10: kids that people are gonna go, well, that's not the

849
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 10: kind of kid that comes here. But the thing that

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00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 10: people have to remember is this is a different way

851
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 10: of doing it. It's not the wrong way, it's a

852
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 10: different Hang on a second, sir, it's a different way.

853
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 10: And so we have to get accustomed to everything's probably

854
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 10: gonna be completely different. But at the same time, you

855
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 10: want to give a coach the ability to win his

856
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 10: or her way. Calc got players to coach his way,

857
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 10: and for the majority of the time it was successful.

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00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 10: Now we have to let Mark do it his way,

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00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 10: and it will be a very different way.

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Speaker 4: And I think you might see a little bit of

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Speaker 4: a clone, and with that, I'll add this. They said

862
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 4: the same thing about Farmer Woods, feld House, tel Free.

863
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 4: Patino added one stud in there, and those guys played

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00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,240
Speaker 4: their tails off every second they were on the floor,

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Speaker 4: regardless of who the opponent was.

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Speaker 9: They didn't stop.

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Speaker 4: That's past.

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Speaker 10: Appreciate you, Carl. There is a yeah. Appreciate it, sir.

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Speaker 10: It's gonna be different. But I do you know, it's

870
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 10: hard because in part of saying why I like this

871
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 10: so much, I don't want people to interpret it as

872
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 10: shots on the past thing because I don't.

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00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 2: But part of it, I gotta be honest. It is refreshing.

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00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 10: It's refreshing to sit and listen to a coach do

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00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 10: a press conference and the answers are real. It's not

876
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 10: slogans like, it's real. It's from the heart. I love that.

877
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,720
Speaker 10: And by the way, I love what he got Travis

878
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 10: Perry up to get that ovation. If they if anybody

879
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 10: was worried that kid was going to the portal, he

880
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 10: ain't going to now because that was a cool moment too.

881
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 10: Travis Perry got an unbelievable ovation from the crowd when

882
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 10: Mark showed him Who's next?

883
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 2: Meredith, Meredith, how are you, Meredith.

884
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 7: Hey Matt, what about that? And Paul's you guy?

885
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 17: When you were asking a question?

886
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 10: Oh, well, that was I'll be honest with you, that

887
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 10: got me that. It left me speechless. I didn't see

888
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 10: it coming, so I blushed, and then I forgot what

889
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 10: I was going to ask, and I thought I was

890
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 10: I thought I was going to have like a Joe

891
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 10: Biden moment there for a second, and then I was

892
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 10: able to figure out what I was. I was able

893
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 10: to figure out what I was going to say. But

894
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 10: it was that was that was very cool. I'll be

895
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 10: honest with you.

896
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,320
Speaker 26: I mean, today was freaking awesome.

897
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 8: I've been to Big Boy Badness in the past, and

898
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 8: I think that's the life time I lan was.

899
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 7: A few years ago.

900
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 11: I was like, this suck.

901
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 7: I'm not coming back to Big Blue Badness. But if

902
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 7: this isn't.

903
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 11: Anything, oh it's Big Blue Madness will be insane.

904
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 10: It's gonna be insane next year, Like like, the only

905
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 10: thing that's going to match this will be Big Blue

906
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 10: Madness next year. You're exactly right about that, Like that's

907
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 10: gonna be the Big Blue Madness had kind of withered

908
00:42:59,040 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 10: on the vine a little bit.

909
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: I bet it gets reinjected next year.

910
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, oh yeah, thanks Matt.

911
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

912
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 10: Five nine, two eight, twenty two eighty seven. Let's do

913
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 10: one more and then we'll take a break. Who's next, Mike, Mike,

914
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 10: what's up, Mike?

915
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 15: Hey, Matt, this is Mike. I'm traveling down the Bluegrass

916
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 15: Parkway Recorde County, and we drove two and a half hours.

917
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 15: I know for some people that's not very long, but

918
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 15: then we stayed in line for about an hour and

919
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:25,959
Speaker 15: a half and now driving two and a half hours back,

920
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 15: so you're looking at over six hours and people will

921
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 15: think that's absolutely nuts. But I would do it again

922
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 15: tomorrow in a heartbeat, just for that atmosphere, the two

923
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 15: things real quick.

924
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, though you did you

925
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 2: think it was worth it?

926
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 15: Absolutely absolutely, And I would do it again in a heartbeat.

927
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 11: And I'll tell you.

928
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 15: I got in and we had to stand in the

929
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 15: walkway up in section two thirty, did not have a seat,

930
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 15: but it was perfectly fine, and there was lots and

931
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 15: lots of people I don't want to guesstimate that were

932
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 15: behind us, and I just would be interested and to

933
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 15: see how many people they had to turn away because

934
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 15: you know, just not being a I feel bad.

935
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 10: For those people because I'm sure there are people who

936
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 10: really really wanted to come and weren't able to get in,

937
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 10: and that actually makes me sad. But I have to

938
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:18,280
Speaker 10: tell you, I was shocked. I mean, I thought they'd

939
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 10: get I was optimistic. I felt felt like in the crowd,

940
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 10: like I thought it was gonna be like twelve thousand,

941
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 10: and I thought that was a pretty optimistic thing.

942
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 2: I didn't think there was any way they would pack

943
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 2: the place.

944
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 15: Yeah, and when I got on this morning and saw

945
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 15: where they only had like six sections kind of initially reserved,

946
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 15: I told my wife, there's no way that's gonna work.

947
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 15: I knew there would be more than six sections worth,

948
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 15: whether they fill up six.

949
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 4: Seventeen or something like that.

950
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 10: There were six sections filled by three point thirty an

951
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 10: hour before it started, you.

952
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 15: Know, so I knew that wasn't gonna work. But I

953
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 15: never agreeed that they would have to turn people away.

954
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 15: But anyway, that's just part of uh BBN and I would, uh,

955
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 15: you know, drive for five hours of standard line for

956
00:44:58,560 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 15: an hour and a half to do it again tomorrow

957
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 15: if it conna do it, but uh.

958
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 11: You hit on it.

959
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 15: Just a little bit while ago. I think my favorite

960
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 15: part and then I'll hang up and listen. My favorite

961
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 15: part was when the reporter asked about him recruiting Kentucky kids,

962
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 15: and that's when he had Travis Perry actually stand up,

963
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 15: and I think Travis Perry kind of impromptu did the

964
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 15: why right there, and uh yeah, I think look back

965
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 15: at it and some of our best years when we

966
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 15: had a roster with multiple Kentucky kids, and uh, you know,

967
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 15: I kind of got the impression that Coach Pope is

968
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 15: gonna kind of look at recruiting those kids if he

969
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 15: feels like that they can play on that level.

970
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 2: I think that's right.

971
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 10: Well, I think the other thing he's gonna do is

972
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 10: I appreciate the call. I think he's gonna have a

973
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 10: full roster, you know, and in recent years we actually

974
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 10: had a bunch of players this year, but there have

975
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 10: been years we've only had like eight players.

976
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 2: You know.

977
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 10: The walk ons oftentimes have been really honestly guys that

978
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 10: were Cow's friends, kids or like people he knew or something.

979
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 10: I think you're gonna see a lot of Kentucky faces

980
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 10: on these rosters, Like.

981
00:45:58,480 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: I hope the kid that from.

982
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 10: Harror maybe maybe he he ends up Noah, maybe he

983
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 10: finds a way to find his way here instead of

984
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 10: South Carolina.

985
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna see a lot of that and

986
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 2: h and.

987
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 10: By the way, Billy, how about week one of Mario's

988
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 10: time at KSR, my man asked a question.

989
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.

990
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 24: The confidence he's got, I absolutely love it.

991
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 2: How about that kid? The confidence? My man asked a question,

992
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 2: and you know what it made me think of?

993
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 10: In two thousand and seven, I asked a question at

994
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 10: Billy Gillespie's press conference or two thousand and eight, whatever

995
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 10: it was, right, I guess it was. What fall of

996
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 10: two thousand and seven? I asked a question at Billy

997
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 10: Gillespie's press conference. I was scared to death. That's what

998
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 10: my mom famously said to me. If you're gonna do

999
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 10: sports on television, you gotta get a haircut.

1000
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 2: Do you remember that story building? Yes, And it kind

1001
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 2: of made me mad.

1002
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 10: But she was right because I had a lot of

1003
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 10: hair back then, and I remember being petrified, and I

1004
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 10: asked a question, and it was kind of cool to see.

1005
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 10: Now what Seventeen years later, in his first week on

1006
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 10: the job, Mario asked a question. We'll take a break.

1007
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 10: If I'm nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

1008
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 10: A great day to day that it really epitomizes the

1009
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 10: best of what Kentucky basketball is about. This is Kentucky

1010
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 10: Sports Radio, quarterback. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I know

1011
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 10: I keep saying this, but a very very cool day.

1012
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 10: We got seven minutes on this segment and then we'll

1013
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 10: have thirty more minutes the top of the hour. But

1014
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 10: so let's just go ahead and get right to the phone.

1015
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 10: Who's next If I'm nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty.

1016
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: Seven, Chris is next?

1017
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 2: Chris?

1018
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 20: Go ahead, Chris, Hey, this is Christen Jacksonville. Yeah, the

1019
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 20: some thing's up, that entire thing. He gets it, he

1020
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 20: gets it.

1021
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 2: Yep.

1022
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,720
Speaker 20: It was great, he said all of the right things.

1023
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 20: I was watching watching for here a home in Florida,

1024
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 20: but I would have loved to have been there. That

1025
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 20: moment that started off with a bus and all the

1026
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 20: players walking off of it with with him was great.

1027
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,720
Speaker 20: The moments with the interactions with you guys, the media people,

1028
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 20: the funny moment when he recognized Alan Cutler and then.

1029
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 2: Asked about Oscar Combs.

1030
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 10: Let me tell you, let me say something about that

1031
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 10: real quick. Okay, so Oscar wasn't there. I thought that

1032
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 10: was awesome. Okay, Oscar Combs to me, I mean Oscar,

1033
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 10: I consider Oscar Comb's.

1034
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 2: A legend to me. And when you're when you're doing

1035
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: the mount rushmore.

1036
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 10: Of people in Kentucky basketball that didn't play, it's like

1037
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 10: Kaywood Lefford, Bill Kiteley, Oscar Combs and then you're gonna

1038
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 10: throw Tom Leech on there next. I to see him

1039
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 10: give him his flowers in front of that crowd.

1040
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 2: That's it.

1041
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 10: That's why it gets it, sir, You know what I mean,

1042
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 10: like to call, like to mention Oscar so I hadn't

1043
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 10: done this in a long time.

1044
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 2: I love that. I just love that moment. An Oscar deserves.

1045
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 20: That, agreed and at that moment, for that applause for you,

1046
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 20: after some of the junk that's been throwing your way

1047
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 20: unjustifiably about the lap from the loud but small segment

1048
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 20: of the fan base, that was great to hear you

1049
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 20: get that applause also, Maggie Davis for hers too. But yeah,

1050
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 20: you talked about a few minutes ago. Mario's had quite

1051
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 20: the first week with you guys, been thrown right.

1052
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 2: Into the deep end of the pool and then begin answer,

1053
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 2: ask a question this week or today. I loved it.

1054
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 2: I loved it. I love that, I love it. I

1055
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 2: love it. I love that he asked a question that

1056
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 2: cracks me up. But go ahead, one final thing.

1057
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 20: And I know all of the focus for this should

1058
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 20: be really on on Mark Pope and everything, but that

1059
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 20: clip from DeMarcus Cousins and you did the follow up

1060
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 20: tweet and everything. Uh, with the full context of that interview,

1061
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 20: people need to not pile on it.

1062
00:49:58,520 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Let let I agree with that.

1063
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 10: I agree with that for all these guys, for DeMarcus

1064
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 10: and all of them, like, let them listen, this is

1065
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 10: their coach. Let them have you know, the same way

1066
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 10: a lot of our fans vented when the cat, when

1067
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 10: the Pope news happened.

1068
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 2: Let them have their moments.

1069
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 10: Those guys will be back, Okay, those guys will This

1070
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 10: is their home. And I agree with you. Everybody needs

1071
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 10: to show these former players some grace.

1072
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 2: For me.

1073
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 10: I put out that clip. I didn't even I had

1074
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 10: not even seen the full context. And then when I

1075
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 10: saw it, I put it all out as well. You know,

1076
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 10: I disagree with DeMarcus about the Kentucky Arkansas who will

1077
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 10: have more games on TV.

1078
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 2: Whatever.

1079
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 10: DeMarcus was great here, and I agree with you, we

1080
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 10: need to show them all grace.

1081
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1082
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 20: Throughout that whole thing, he repeatedly said we when he

1083
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 20: spoke about UK, Yes, he closed with at the end

1084
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 20: of the.

1085
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 2: Day, I believe Blue. I will always want success for

1086
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: that university.

1087
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 10: Yes, he did, and that's what that's that's exactly what matters.

1088
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 10: I'm glad you said that. I appreciate the call. Who's next, Albert, Albert?

1089
00:50:58,760 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Albert?

1090
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 23: Hey, mat how y'all doing today?

1091
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 2: Doing great? All right?

1092
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,919
Speaker 23: Cat was here in fifteen years and we only had

1093
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 23: try high school basketball players on his teams. And you

1094
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 23: said Thursday that history has a way of repeating itself.

1095
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 23: And all of our banners have high school players from

1096
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 23: Kentucky that were reporting rolls on those championship teams, all

1097
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 23: of them. So I was glad to hear him say

1098
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 23: that he was going to recruit some of the ball

1099
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 23: players here in Kentucky. I hope what you said about Noah.

1100
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 12: I was hoping someone would bring that up.

1101
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 9: I hope that kid comes.

1102
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 10: He's committed to another school, so he can't talk out

1103
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 10: about that, and you know, but yes, I know you.

1104
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 2: I hope he does too.

1105
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 23: And we got two coming up next year, the kid

1106
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,959
Speaker 23: from Great Crossing and then another legend's son, Johnson's son

1107
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 23: that'll be available next year.

1108
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 2: Right, That's correct. Got two top recruits next year as well.

1109
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,720
Speaker 12: So we can't lose them.

1110
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 23: So I'd like to end with this, coach, cal can

1111
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 23: have hog Heaven, but Kentucky just got the.

1112
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 2: Pope who thank you very much. I appreciate it.

1113
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 10: And you know, listen, whatever else would Danny Hurley and

1114
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 10: Scott Drew if they had come here, I think they

1115
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 10: would have succeeded.

1116
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 2: I think people would be excited.

1117
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 10: But what happened today, they wouldn't have had that reaction

1118
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 10: like that reaction would not have come for those guys.

1119
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 10: That reaction today, that moment was because of who he

1120
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 10: is and because of the fact that he played here,

1121
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 10: et cetera. That's what that was, and that's special. That

1122
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 10: wouldn't have happened with any other coach in the country.

1123
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 1: Who's next, Cameron's next?

1124
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 17: Cameron, go ahead, Cameron hey Man, longtime listener, first time caller.

1125
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 17: So I just wanted to say that at first, but

1126
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 17: my question today is I got there about three point thirty.

1127
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 17: It was a great crowd, it was an awesome turnout.

1128
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 17: But I'm gonna take it to a different kind of conversation.

1129
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 11: What about that.

1130
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 17: Big man from BYU.

1131
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:10,439
Speaker 26: He threw Louisville into the mix?

1132
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 17: What do you think about that?

1133
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

1134
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 10: I mean when it comes to players, uh, I three

1135
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 10: guys from BYU entered the portal the day the day

1136
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 10: he was announced, So you gotta think there's a decent

1137
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 10: chance that those are dudes that we end up with,

1138
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 10: right So, but beyond that, I don't really I don't

1139
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 10: know about any of the players. I mean, I know

1140
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 10: that they've already talked to the kid from Oklahoma State.

1141
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,879
Speaker 10: The guard the Oklahoma State had that was really good.

1142
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 10: It's in the portal. But we'll just see. It's gonna

1143
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 10: be interesting because, like I said, evaluating players is gonna

1144
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 10: be different. Like in the cal Era, we used to

1145
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 10: just evaluate, like, okay, who are the best players?

1146
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 2: Cal go get the best players.

1147
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 10: Now I think we have to look at it as

1148
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 10: he needs to go get one or two studs, but

1149
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 10: he's also gonna get due to fill roles, and that's

1150
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 10: not something We've really done a lot, you know what

1151
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:04,399
Speaker 10: I mean?

1152
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 3: Yep, I hear you.

1153
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 17: Well, thank you for giving me your time and go

1154
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 17: catch appreciate it.

1155
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 10: So like, take that kid from BYU, that Ali Khalifa kid,

1156
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 10: that is not a kid that would have ever been

1157
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 10: recruited by Kentucky during the cal era because he's not

1158
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 10: gonna beat like he averaged six points a game for

1159
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 10: you know, five rebounds, five assists.

1160
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 2: But in BYU system, that dude was really good. So

1161
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 2: it's just.

1162
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 10: We're just gonna have to learn to look at players differently.

1163
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 10: He's still gotta go get a couple of studs. You

1164
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 10: gotta have a couple of studs, but I think you're

1165
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 10: gonna see dudes now who fill roles rather than just

1166
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 10: getting the eight most talented guys that you can find.

1167
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,959
Speaker 10: He If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven,

1168
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 10: We're gonna take a break and come back.

1169
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 2: We got two more segments. This is KSR looking back.

1170
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 10: It is the KSR Postgame Show. If I'm nine to

1171
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 10: two eight h twenty two eighty seven, Scottie Scheffler's on

1172
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 10: eighteen about to win the Masters. If you were on sixteen,

1173
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 10: Billy and you were up by three and the wife

1174
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 10: went into labor. Do you walk off or do you

1175
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 10: finish the round?

1176
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 24: No, you have to finish the round. It seems crazy

1177
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 24: that he would walk off, because walk off.

1178
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 2: He said he would walk off on seventeen or eighteen.

1179
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: Imagine he's on eighteen. He's walking up.

1180
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 2: Right now. They telling me say his wife's in labor.

1181
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 2: Does he walk away now? I don't know? Okay, he

1182
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 2: said he would have. I guess it.

1183
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 10: We'll never know, because it looks like he's gonna finish,

1184
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 10: finish and get the win.

1185
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 2: All right. Who's up next? Gary? Gary? Go ahead? Gary?

1186
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 22: Hey, Matt, thank you for.

1187
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 10: Having me on.

1188
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 22: I just wanted to say a couple of things. I'm

1189
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 22: from Somerset and I drove up here this morning, but

1190
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 22: I wasn't even sure if I wanted to until my

1191
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 22: wife looked at me and said, with how much? Who

1192
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 22: care about this program? You need to go because this

1193
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 22: is a once in a lifetime opportunity and if I

1194
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 22: have any message to give to the listeners.

1195
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 12: Ord was she right?

1196
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 22: That arena wasn't like anything I had ever experienced? Well,

1197
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 22: I know, but rub today was the loudest I have

1198
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 22: ever heard.

1199
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 2: Rub Oh, there's no doubt. There's no doubt.

1200
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 10: I mean outside of and I appreciate the call, outside

1201
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 10: of in game moments where Kentucky hits like a game

1202
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 10: winning shot, or like when z hit.

1203
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 2: Those threes this year or tay Sean with five three.

1204
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 10: Outside of that, that's the loudest I've ever heard RUP

1205
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 10: And I think I could make the argument that the

1206
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 10: hour before the press conference started, that's the loudest hour

1207
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 10: consistently I've heard the arena ever. You know, there have

1208
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 10: been pops that were higher, okay, but I'm not sure

1209
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 10: that there's ever been more of a you know, concerted

1210
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 10: hour straight of something better than that.

1211
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 2: What's next?

1212
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: Jeff is next?

1213
00:56:58,840 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 2: Jeff?

1214
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Jeff, Hey, first time, long time, Thanks for

1215
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 8: having me. I uh, you know, I just hadn't heard

1216
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 8: it commented on yet, and sorry if I missed it,

1217
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 8: but manh arena. I wasn't there, but the arena got

1218
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 8: really loud on TV when he when he had the

1219
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 8: Shepherd comment, and I was just curious if we had

1220
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 8: any idea of what what's going on with Reid and

1221
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 8: I'll hang up and listen.

1222
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:24,919
Speaker 2: I would say, assume he doesn't come back.

1223
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 10: If he does, that's awesome, but I think everybody should

1224
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 10: operate with the assumption that he will.

1225
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 2: Not come back, so appreciate it. Call Uh.

1226
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 10: You know, I just I don't want for the rest

1227
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 10: of the time here that we're enjoying. You know, there's

1228
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 10: a lot gonna happen over the next two weeks, right

1229
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 10: Like Pope's gonna hire staff, Okay, So then so you

1230
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 10: got that he's gonna get players, So you got that,

1231
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 10: And then I think they're just you know, there's gonna

1232
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 10: be a lot going on. I just don't know that

1233
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 10: everybody should hang on waiting on Reachip. But there's a

1234
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 10: lot more stuff that's gonna if it. If it happens,

1235
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 10: that's all. But I think the everybody should just assume

1236
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 10: it is likely that he he goes.

1237
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 2: To the draft. Who's next, James, James, Go ahead, James.

1238
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 5: Hey man, it's a long time listener, fourth time caller.

1239
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 2: All right.

1240
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 5: We are in Sarasota, Florida. And when Ryan started the

1241
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 5: show today, I could fill his tearing up as much

1242
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 5: as me and my cousin did. Two adults in the

1243
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 5: living room crying.

1244
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 10: Yeah, doing this so long. He he covered Mark Pope

1245
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 10: and now to see become a coach. That's pretty I'm

1246
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 10: sure that's amazing.

1247
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 2: He felt it.

1248
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 5: I felt it, and so so there was a caller

1249
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,479
Speaker 5: a couple of calls ago that said he took away

1250
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 5: from passion wins championship what I took away from today?

1251
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 5: He said, Entitlement brings sorrow, gratitude brings joy. I love,

1252
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:56,439
Speaker 5: Oh my god, how much going I have here?

1253
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really it, like because he is.

1254
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 5: So oh my god, it's just we are just overjoyed.

1255
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 10: I'm sure that someone has said that before. I appreciate

1256
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 10: the call. I mean maybe Mark came up with it.

1257
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 10: I don't know, but that was when he said that

1258
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 10: that really is a great like entitlement brings sorrow, gratitude

1259
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 10: brings joy, And that really is.

1260
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 2: A really great line, like, because you're right about that.

1261
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 2: When you have.

1262
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 10: When you have expectations, that can make it hard to

1263
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 10: be happy, too high of an expectations. But then when

1264
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 10: you're thrilled with what you do every day and are

1265
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 10: just you know, have gratitude, it is a lot easier

1266
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 10: to be consistently happy. So I love that, and you

1267
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 10: could tell. I'm not sure is any person who was

1268
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 10: happier on this planet than Mark Pope was today.

1269
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 2: What's next?

1270
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: We have the Pope from Reparina on the line.

1271
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 10: Okay, so is this sarahre You the guy that was

1272
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 10: dressed in full papal.

1273
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 2: Gear, Yes, sir, Yes, sir? Was Matt And what's your name?

1274
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 12: Cameron?

1275
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 2: Right? Cameron? How first of all did you just have that?

1276
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 2: Did you just have a pope costume like on your own?

1277
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 11: So?

1278
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 27: I had it back in October for Halloween. Uh, And

1279
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 27: I guess it was just a sign that Mark Pope

1280
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 27: was coming to Kentucky.

1281
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 10: So you decided I'm gonna put this on and drive

1282
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 10: to Lexington, right, I did.

1283
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 27: Well, So I'm from Parkville originally, I'm a University of

1284
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 27: Kentucky a lum, and I live here now, so it

1285
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 27: wasn't It was a sure drive, but I didn't want

1286
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 27: to miss it.

1287
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 10: So for people who don't know, I mean, you were

1288
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 10: dressed like as the full Pope, like you had the hat,

1289
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 10: the robe, like you had it all. And they looked

1290
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 10: like every television station in the state was interviewing you.

1291
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 27: Right, well, yeah, and walking in I should have set

1292
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 27: up a booth and you know, now thinking about it,

1293
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 27: charge dollar a picture because it felt like Mark Pope

1294
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 27: at the end of his pressure getting surrounded and I'll

1295
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:03,439
Speaker 27: never forget standing outside rep arena starting to catch chant.

1296
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 13: That's uh.

1297
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 27: I don't think I'll have a better moment until I

1298
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 27: get married.

1299
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's very cool. Well, good for you, man, it

1300
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 2: was cool to see you there.

1301
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 10: And uh, I may have gotten your first picture when

1302
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 10: you got in the arena, but uh, you were, you were.

1303
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 2: Right there behind Mark. That was cool. So thank you man,

1304
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 2: Appreciate you calling. Appreciate it.

1305
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 11: Thanks Matt.

1306
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. It was interesting. He says

1307
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 2: he's gonna he said he wants to play in Mauie Billy.

1308
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 2: I love that. Right.

1309
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,479
Speaker 10: Playing the preseason tournaments that was a no for Cal.

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Speaker 10: He said that Saint John's too hinted about playing.

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Speaker 2: Saint That's gonna happen. By the way, we're gonna We're gonna.

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Speaker 10: Be playing Saint John's in this arena. That is going

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Speaker 10: to happen. Now, let's just talk about what it's gonna

1314
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Speaker 10: be like next year with Arkansas come just it's gonna

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01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 10: be wild. It's gonna be well, I don't know, I

1316
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 10: mean probably not. I'm gonna think but it's just gonna

1317
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 10: be more like the overall joy. And if we were

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01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 10: to win, if we were to beat Arkansas in that arena,

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Speaker 10: that'll be one of the most memorable, memorable games that

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Speaker 10: the school has ever had. I don't think there's any

1321
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 10: doubt about that. Who's next, Jerry, Jerry, what's up?

1322
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 2: Jerry?

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01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 15: Thank you?

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Speaker 12: Hello?

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01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead, Jerry.

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01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 12: Oh sorry it's Gary, but sorry, Matt. But I first

1327
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 12: met Mark Pope. I'm forty three. I was in eighth

1328
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 12: grade and I got his autograph, him and Jeff Shepherds,

1329
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 12: and I was there in ninety six when they pulled

1330
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 12: the bus in. I've been to a couple of games

1331
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 12: since then, and here lately things just hadn't been the

1332
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 12: way that they used to be. And I was there

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01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 12: today an hour before when you're talking about and I

1334
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 12: sitting there watching, there's that reparreenda filled up and I

1335
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 12: got filled with so much emotion that I sat there

1336
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 12: for twenty straight minutes with tears of my eyes, kept

1337
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 12: trying to quit because this is something that's great, and

1338
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 12: it was awesome, but just the feeling that I had

1339
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:11,080
Speaker 12: again that this is that this is UK again, that

1340
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 12: this is this is not John Caliperry University. This is

1341
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 12: the University of Kentucky. And that's it was just overwhelming.

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01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 2: You know, I know what you mean. I mean, I

1343
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 2: do I know, I know what you mean.

1344
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 10: Like there are times that an individual can have such

1345
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 10: a dynamic presence and cal Perry does that, it can

1346
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 10: overshadow everything else, you know what I mean. And it

1347
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 10: felt like today was like a reclaiming of the university,

1348
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 10: not as like a negative like cal took it or

1349
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 10: anything like that, but right for fifteen years, Kentucky basketball

1350
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 10: was John Caliperry and his ability to get guys to

1351
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 10: the league.

1352
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 2: That's what it was.

1353
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 11: And it was great for a while, and it was great, but.

1354
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 2: It also was like that's what we were known for.

1355
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 10: It was John Caliperry gets guys to the league at

1356
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 10: Kentucky and that was his his process and it worked

1357
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 10: for most of the time. Today was Kentucky basketball is

1358
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 10: Kentucky basketball, and that was really cool.

1359
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 12: It was it was and it was pretty cool to

1360
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 12: get your your little standing ovation because you deserve it. Maw,

1361
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 12: we appreciate everything, y'all. Do you all keep us, you

1362
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 12: all keep us that heart that's been going since as

1363
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 12: a kid.

1364
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 2: You keep that.

1365
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 12: Going by your love for the university, and I just

1366
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 12: appreciate everything y'all do. Thanks Mane, thank you very.

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01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 2: Much, sir. I appreciate it.

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01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 10: Hey, five nine, twenty eighty seven, Let's do one more

1369
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 10: and then we will take our final break.

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01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 2: What's the next, Jeff, Jeff, go ahead, Jeff.

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01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 9: Yes, we have Mark Stewts. Now we have Mark Pope.

1372
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 9: So we've got Marky Mark and BBN as the Funky

1373
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 9: Bunch feeling those good vibrations.

1374
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 2: Wow, how lone did that one take you to come

1375
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 2: up with? By the way, a.

1376
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 4: Couple of beers, fair enough.

1377
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 2: I like it.

1378
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 10: Appreciate the call. That's a good reference though, for the

1379
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 10: age of people like us. The you know, the nineties

1380
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 10: are back. Bill Clinton's president, Mark Pope's a coach, Marky

1381
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 10: Mark or the references.

1382
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 2: That's where we are.

1383
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 10: He if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,

1384
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 10: we will come back. We will take a final break.

1385
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 10: Scotty Chefflin wins the Masters, the Reds get a sweep,

1386
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 10: a lot of good stuff. We'll take a break right back.

1387
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 10: This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is It's

1388
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 10: like E Sports Radio if I'm nine two, eight oh

1389
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 10: twenty two eighty seven, We'll go to right before seven thirty.

1390
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 10: We're the only fan base it has a postgame show

1391
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 10: after a press conference on a Sunday. But also we

1392
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 10: continue to have full line, so we could probably go

1393
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 10: into the night.

1394
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 2: Who's up next, Shane, Shane? What's up? Shane?

1395
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 9: Hey, Matt.

1396
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 6: I just wanted to reiterate the feeling we had in

1397
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 6: Rougher Ends today grown man tears choke up. My first

1398
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 6: year as a student on campus was ninety eight. I

1399
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 6: saw Anthony Davis block. I saw Boogies put back in

1400
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 6: the sec best non game environment since Cal's first midnight Madness.

1401
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 6: I was one of those fans that was deflated on

1402
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 6: Thursday night. Literally decided to go to rough At three

1403
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 6: fifteen today from Louisville. They split the lines as I

1404
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 6: walked up. I was lucky to have a seat.

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01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 2: It was magical. So what happened now? They split the line?

1406
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 12: What?

1407
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 11: Yeah?

1408
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 6: As I was walking up, they had the lines doubling

1409
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 6: out for a Roperna. They split the lines as we

1410
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 6: came in to make to make the entrance go a

1411
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 6: lot faster. Yeah, but like literally like hundreds of fans

1412
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 6: probably got left outside.

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01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 10: Well that's too bad. But I mean, I don't know

1414
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 10: what else they could do. I mean, you can't make

1415
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,200
Speaker 10: more seats happen. They were trying again. I think they

1416
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 10: thought there'd be like ten thousand people, so when you

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01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 10: get double that, I just don't think they had their

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01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 10: Actually think it went pretty smoothly considering how little infrastructure

1419
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 10: was there, you know what I mean, Like there was

1420
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 10: no one out there monitoring the lines, and it was

1421
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 10: kind of like it could have been a lot worse

1422
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 10: all things considered.

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01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was wild man Like, you know, the fire

1424
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 6: marshal if he has showed up them in a problem

1425
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 6: because you know I saw people loaded up in the

1426
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 6: in the hallways and the alley ways.

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01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 10: Oh really, I didn't know that. I didn't realize that. Well,

1428
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 10: maybe the fire marshal looked the other way. That was

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01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 10: probably what happened. I appreciate, appreciate the call. I couldn't

1430
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 10: believe watching how it just kept filling up and filling

1431
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 10: up and filling up and filling up, like and then

1432
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 10: all of a sudden, you know, fifteen ten minutes before

1433
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 10: you were like, this place is gonna be full, this

1434
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 10: place is gonna be full. I can't believe it, and

1435
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 10: I don't even I think the people that worked at

1436
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 10: UK couldn't believe it either.

1437
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 2: There was like a is this real? Who's next? Shane

1438
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 2: from Gray, Shame from Grayson? How are you.

1439
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:03,959
Speaker 28: Hey?

1440
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 11: How to go?

1441
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 28: And man? Take a time today?

1442
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 2: Yes it is you call the ESPN this morning. That's right.

1443
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 28: Yeah, I've been all over today a Matt. I was

1444
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 28: like most people. I thought when the Mark Pope hire

1445
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 28: come in, I put the big question mark up, like, hey,

1446
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 28: Mark Pope really okay? And after you know everything we

1447
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 28: went through last few days, I'm on board one. Winning

1448
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 28: cures everything. At the end of the day, What is

1449
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 28: a successful season look like at the first year of

1450
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 28: the end of Mark.

1451
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:40,679
Speaker 10: Park Let me see, let me see what the roster is, right,

1452
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 10: So I want to see what the roster is.

1453
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 2: If he's able to.

1454
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 10: Get a freshman or two, right, or if he's able

1455
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 10: to like let's say again, I'm not saying he'll get

1456
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 10: This is just a guess. I have no idea if

1457
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 10: there's even a chance. But I heard they're trying to

1458
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 10: get the Liam McNally kid. The mcdonal's all American. Who doesn't

1459
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 10: have a school yet. Well if he comes, right, what

1460
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:02,599
Speaker 10: if they go get two or three of the best

1461
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 10: guys in the portal?

1462
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,639
Speaker 2: Well, then that's one thing I.

1463
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 10: Do think though, like they'll be I'd be shocked if

1464
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 10: they're not really competitive and good next year.

1465
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 2: Are they gonna win the national championship next year? No?

1466
01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 10: I think they're probably not. But can they be really

1467
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 10: good make the tournament?

1468
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1469
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 10: My expectation is why not? I mean in the portal

1470
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 10: era you can go. I used to say back in

1471
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 10: like twenty fifteen, when Cali leaves, whoever's next, that next

1472
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:32,640
Speaker 10: first year is gonna be awful because we won't have

1473
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 10: any players. Well, now you can go get some players, Shane.

1474
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 10: So I actually think there's no reason we can't be

1475
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 10: competitive and good next year.

1476
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 2: Now what does that look like?

1477
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 10: Let's talk about that when you know, right before I

1478
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 10: go to Europe or right when I get back, when

1479
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 10: we know what the roster is, right.

1480
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:55,120
Speaker 28: I think that if he can make the tournament in

1481
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 28: his first year, I think we're off and running and

1482
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 28: he will be success. What the university can take it?

1483
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't know why that couldn't happen. So I

1484
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 10: I you know, with the nil thing. That's a big

1485
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 10: thing now and I appreciate the call. That four million

1486
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 10: dollar pledge is huge. I thought the three things that

1487
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 10: changed this fan base to me, One the announcement of

1488
01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 10: the four million dollar pledge from two donors, one of

1489
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 10: whom is you could guess, and I don't know who

1490
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 10: the other one is. To be honest with you, I've asked.

1491
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 10: Nobody's told me, so I don't know who the other

1492
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 10: one is, but you can guess who one of them is.

1493
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 2: That's huge. That's huge because.

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01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 10: That'll mean we probably have more innile money than any

1495
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 10: team in the country the first year. The second thing

1496
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:46,479
Speaker 10: was Mitch Martinhart's interview was the most stream moment in

1497
01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 10: the history of KSR. Billy, we just learned that yesterday,

1498
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 10: even more than Contina Pale. Mitch's interview Friday was the

1499
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 10: most stream moment in the history of KSR. That meant

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01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 10: a lot. And then second, and then I heard Rick

1501
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 10: Patino's video. I thought, Rick, the combination of those three things,

1502
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 10: I think flip the fan base into a good place.

1503
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 10: Do you agree with that, Billy?

1504
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 2: I do?

1505
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 24: And you could feel it change over the span of

1506
01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 24: those hours after KSR was over. It almost felt like

1507
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:18,599
Speaker 24: it was in the process, if not already a changing.

1508
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1509
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:23,640
Speaker 10: I think those three things together kind of led the

1510
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 10: people going all right, let's do this. I think that

1511
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 10: I think that was It's amazing that it happened, but

1512
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 10: I do think that morning everything kind of changed.

1513
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:34,639
Speaker 2: Who's next? Nick? Nick, go ahead?

1514
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 29: And nick a Matt first time caller?

1515
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 2: Who are.

1516
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 26: You know?

1517
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 29: The biggest thing is just like if you just run

1518
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 29: by a repperena. At the time that they were letting

1519
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 29: them in, there were fans lined out like I'd never

1520
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 29: seen before, and we couldn't even park.

1521
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 2: To get in. Yeah, where were people parking?

1522
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 10: I was sitting there thinking about that, Like, you know,

1523
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 10: a lot of those lots they usually have.

1524
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 2: Open for games weren't open. So I was just.

1525
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 10: Sitting there thinking, where are all these people gonna park?

1526
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 10: And I don't know what they did.

1527
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 29: We drove through the parking garage at les Live and

1528
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 29: through the parking lot next through up and there was

1529
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:16,720
Speaker 29: just no parking. I've never seen anything like that in

1530
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 29: my life.

1531
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, me either.

1532
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:20,879
Speaker 10: I mean at the end of the day, like nobody,

1533
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 10: I don't think anybody was ready. I can tell you

1534
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 10: the chaos bar and grille. We we weren't staff for

1535
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 10: we got some. We got some called some people in

1536
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 10: because we did. We weren't ready. I mean, I don't

1537
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 10: think anybody was ready for what it was. But it's

1538
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 10: still that spontaneousness. I have to say, sir, don't you

1539
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 10: think that made it kind of special?

1540
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 11: Oh?

1541
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:40,040
Speaker 17: It did?

1542
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 29: And and my drive back to Middlesboro, Kentucky is made

1543
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 29: just by seeing the lives of the big the big

1544
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:46,479
Speaker 29: Blue nation.

1545
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 10: Hey, I love it, Middlesboro, Kentucky. Be careful going home

1546
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 10: and say hi to the chicken in Barbara bo on

1547
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 10: the way. Let's do five more and then we'll call.

1548
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 2: It a knight. Who's next?

1549
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:56,879
Speaker 1: Gary in Orlando?

1550
01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 2: Gary in Orlando? How are you.

1551
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 23: Wow?

1552
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:02,679
Speaker 30: I've been shaking in my boots if I was gonna

1553
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:06,760
Speaker 30: get on. Let me say this. Everybody talks about all

1554
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 30: those tears in rough today. I'll guarantee you there's a

1555
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 30: lot out of all the clubs around the country that

1556
01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 30: meet every week at bars and nightclubs and wherever to

1557
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 30: watch these games, and there's a lot of tears. I'm

1558
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 30: ore in too. And thanks Wlap and thanks Matt for

1559
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 30: the guys you do so that us out here, far

1560
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 30: and away from Lexington can continue to carry the torch

1561
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 30: and go big blue.

1562
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:39,840
Speaker 2: All right, go big blue. Thank you very much. I

1563
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,719
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Gary. No bigger fan than Gary in Orlando.

1564
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 2: Four more? Who's next? Ben? Ben? Go ahead? Ben?

1565
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:50,679
Speaker 26: Hey, Matt, first time call her, very short time listener.

1566
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 2: All right, what's up?

1567
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 26: So I moved down to Lexington during the pandemic. I'm

1568
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,559
Speaker 26: from Sucuse, New York. I'm thirty five years old. All

1569
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 26: I know is Syracuse Orange, and so i've been. All

1570
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 26: I've experienced with UK basketball has been compared to everyone

1571
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 26: else's disappointment. And so my wife decided, hey, let's go

1572
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:13,759
Speaker 26: to today's event.

1573
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 2: And when you.

1574
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,759
Speaker 10: Went, So that's interesting. So you hang on a second.

1575
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 10: You didn't like grow up a Kentucky fan. You've just

1576
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:22,600
Speaker 10: moved to Lexington and you decided you wanted to go

1577
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:22,840
Speaker 10: to that.

1578
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:26,799
Speaker 26: Yeah, I mean, growing up, I was only a Syracuse

1579
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 26: fan because that's where I'm from, Syracuse. Or it was

1580
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 26: awesome to see the lovely ninety six National championship with

1581
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 26: Syracuse losing to Kentucky. So that was kind of funny.

1582
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 26: But so I stood up and you know, tried to cheer,

1583
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 26: and I'm telling you that, you know, experiencing the four

1584
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 26: years of disappointment for Kentucky standard, I got chills. I

1585
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:49,840
Speaker 26: had literally goosebumps. I turned to my wife and I

1586
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 26: had goosebumps watching the intro video all the pomp and circumstance,

1587
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 26: because in Syracuse you're not getting anything like that. And

1588
01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 26: for a fan of only four years of bas you know,

1589
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:04,600
Speaker 26: the bad years of UK, for me to have gooseponsor

1590
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 26: with just an unreal feeling, and just to give you

1591
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:10,639
Speaker 26: the experience of a non Kentucky fan that's very going

1592
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 26: to become a Kentucky fan.

1593
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 2: That's very cool.

1594
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 10: I'm glad you said that because Syracu's got a great

1595
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:18,680
Speaker 10: tradition too, and for you to be able to appreciate that, I.

1596
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 2: Think it's very cool. Thank you for thank you for calling.

1597
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:21,680
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call.

1598
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 10: So we actually have a heart out here in three minutes,

1599
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 10: so I'll have to go. I'll have to go even before.

1600
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 10: We usually don't have a heart out for the show,

1601
01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 10: but we do for this one. And there are people

1602
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 10: who are telling me million that there are people still

1603
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 10: sitting in garages right now. I feel sorry for those folks.

1604
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 10: But again, I don't know that people were prepared for

1605
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 10: the crowd that ended up being there tonight.

1606
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 2: Who's next, Josh, Josh? What's up? Josh?

1607
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 12: Hey, Matt?

1608
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 19: Just man, just just one of that want you to know,

1609
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 19: you know, I'm your age. We've actually have a lot

1610
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,000
Speaker 19: of mutual friends and things like that. Man, there's a

1611
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 19: lot of guys that's like me that you know, they

1612
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 19: don't always agree with what everything you say and do.

1613
01:15:57,400 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 19: And man, I just want to say how much I

1614
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 19: appreciate you for for staying in you know, firm and

1615
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 19: you know all the battles you follow on social media. Man,

1616
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:07,680
Speaker 19: it just says a lot about you because you never,

1617
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 19: you know, you never, you handled a lot better than me.

1618
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 19: But that's not what I call about. I mean, I'll

1619
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 19: tell you, I tell you what's really cool is Mitch

1620
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 19: Barnhart not the all start now.

1621
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 4: I mean, look at our.

1622
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 19: Football coach, or baseball program, our women's basketball program, now,

1623
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 19: our men's means it's the all time high for Mitch

1624
01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 19: Barnhardtsin's he's been here.

1625
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 11: Well.

1626
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 2: UK athletics is in a good place.

1627
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:30,320
Speaker 10: You know, the the the higher I think unifies. It

1628
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 10: was nice to see Nick Mini on there, and it

1629
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 10: was nice to see a lot of coaches of the

1630
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 10: other sports.

1631
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 2: You know this, This was a this Mitch had to

1632
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 2: stick his neck.

1633
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:44,800
Speaker 10: Out for this one, right like I mean this he

1634
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 10: put he kind of put his coaching higher legacy on

1635
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:52,599
Speaker 10: the line with this, and you gotta get you gotta

1636
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 10: give somebody credit for doing something that that takes some guts.

1637
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 10: That was that was a gutsy higher and it looks like,

1638
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 10: at least initially before the game, it's paid off.

1639
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 2: Now we'll see what happens when they play.

1640
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:05,640
Speaker 10: I'm listen to you tomorrow. See appreciate it, Thank you.

1641
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 10: Let's do We'll do one more here real quick. Who's next?

1642
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 2: Kim Kim? I got about forty five seconds.

1643
01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 31: Hi, Matt, It's Kim.

1644
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 11: Hello, Hi.

1645
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 31: I just wanted to call because I'm one of the

1646
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 31: younger fans who was little when ninety sixteen was about,

1647
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 31: and we pretty much grew up with the Caliperi era

1648
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 31: and so that's kind of all I've ever known. So

1649
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 31: today watching the press conference, like, I feel rejuvenated as

1650
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:35,599
Speaker 31: a fan because I honestly feel like my fan who

1651
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 31: was kind of going downhill a little bit the past

1652
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 31: few years, I wasn't as psy excited about Kentucky basketball,

1653
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 31: but after today, I'm just so pumped and I'm excited

1654
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 31: to watch it with my family and my dad and

1655
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:48,400
Speaker 31: my sister and we're just really excited to be in

1656
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 31: the Big Nation.

1657
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 10: Well, good for you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it,

1658
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:53,640
Speaker 10: and glad and I appreciate the call. I'm glad to

1659
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:55,640
Speaker 10: see young fans will get to know about Mark and

1660
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 10: know a lot more about the history of the older older.

1661
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 10: Let me just say this to everybody that was there

1662
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:07,599
Speaker 10: today was the best of Kentucky basketball and Big Blue Nation.

1663
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 2: If you were there, you felt how special it was.

1664
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 2: If you watched it on TV, though you still you know.

1665
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 2: This place is not like anywhere else. I was at Duke, been.

1666
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 10: Around Carolina, Kansas, Indiana, Ucla. All that stuff's nice, but

1667
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 10: there's no place like this. And it's been a long

1668
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 10: go of it in the last few weeks, etc. But

1669
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 10: we got where we needed to be. You got the

1670
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 10: right guy running it, and now next year's gonna be

1671
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 10: a lot of fun trying to win the way Kentucky

1672
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 10: used to win. Thank you all very much for listening.

1673
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 10: I will see you tomorrow at Kspar. This has been

1674
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 10: Kentucky Sports Radio