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Speaker 4: All right, good morning everyone.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to this Wednesday Wednesday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Ryan Lemon joined by Super Mario Maitland and Shannon Dude.

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Speaker 5: This morning, as always kitext Sports Real sponsored by the TJ.

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Speaker 5: Smith Low Office called TJ What happens, Shannon will make

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Speaker 5: them pay, He'll make them pay. Letter Today, We'll have

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Speaker 5: So Happy June teenth to everybody. Kind of a federal hall.

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Speaker 5: It is a federal holiday. A lot of officers are closed,

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Speaker 5: coming out here the Chaos Bar and Grill today because Shannon,

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Speaker 5: we're playing musical Chairs today. It's one of those days

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Speaker 4: It is game day.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the UK baseball team the game got against Florida,

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Speaker 5: the UK Baseball team is going to start. So we're

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Speaker 5: the UK Baseball pregame show. So we're gonna get you

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Speaker 4: Bar and Grill. I'm pumped.

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Speaker 5: And while we're doing it, we're still gonna be doing

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Speaker 4: I'm pumped. Man I see you got the Kentucky jersey on.

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Speaker 4: I'm sporting the blue the Kentucky hat on. Yeah, I'd

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Speaker 5: It well, because the other day I wore an EKU

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Speaker 5: Shannity explain it all, make sure we got it all right.

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Speaker 5: At eleven, at ten forty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what happens, We're gonna break away from our affiliates

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Speaker 2: To twelve forty AMWSFC, That is the Summerset affiliate that's

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Speaker 5: like absolutely, Well, Now the question is after you win

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Speaker 2: We talked about like what Menji Oon would do with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't think you can necessarily go

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Speaker 5: All right, already, Shannon, and are baseball guys pitching.

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Speaker 4: How many pitchers are there on the actual Sentucky baseball team.

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Speaker 5: They've probably got fifteen sixteen pitchers, don't you think, Shannon,

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Speaker 4: So we definitely have options. So that's that's the good

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Speaker 2: what benji ow And has done really just masterfully going

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Speaker 5: He's got you know, Cam O'Brien in the bullpens, he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you know again today, if you

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Speaker 5: the game. Well, you know, we can't call live action,

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Speaker 5: to it. That's exactly right. So you know, and Tom

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Speaker 4: They care, They care, And I don't know if we

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Speaker 3: It's got to help recruiting.

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Speaker 2: And and then I think the good thing about Kentucky baseball

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Speaker 3: So I think that's the main benefit.

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Speaker 4: They made the.

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Speaker 4: Forever be remembered. And then you get the build on

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Speaker 5: So we are live at Chaos Bar and Grill. Uh,

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Speaker 5: He's gonna be in here and sitting down when he

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Speaker 4: Man he's racking up those visits. He's been here a lot.

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Speaker 5: He's been here a lot. So Jash will be here

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Speaker 4: My favorite UK player of all time, Elis.

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Speaker 5: Because he's now the head coach of tbt's team. Long Familia, very.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a very special time. So we got

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Speaker 5: UK Baseball team gonna win to today, We're right back.

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Speaker 5: This is Kentucky Sports Radio. This is without out our

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Speaker 5: Whiskey Thief song and they already Yeah, anytime Shannon is

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Speaker 5: But yeah, this this You like Hooty the Blowfish, don't you.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what you're gonna say that.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, you don't know Mario, Hooty and

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Speaker 4: No, what is that? Educate me?

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Speaker 5: Probably the greatest rock and roll band in the history.

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Speaker 4: I heard this song. I'm starting to hear it play

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Speaker 2: Ryan has an unhealthy obsession with Darius Rucker. But Hoody

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Speaker 3: When this album came out, So oh, okay, what you were?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he can correct you. Not one of the best,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I think maybe we should play Hoody the

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Speaker 5: Blowfish every break today, Shannon, just to educate Mario.

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Speaker 2: So that's your excuse, that's the reason you want me

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Speaker 5: Eight two to eight seven. That's the Clark's public shop

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Speaker 5: We do want to say we had to cancel Singo

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow thing's Wednesday, Yeah, Tomorrow, Thursday, we have UK Trivia Night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got your questions, I got questions ready to go.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's UK sports. It's not just basketball. It's primarily basketball,

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Speaker 5: Price may be here. No, I gotta be there. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: You we catch on your phone, you're out a five

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Speaker 5: nine two eight two to eight seven. Who's our first collar? Shannon?

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Speaker 6: Wanted to, uh say, just a couple of quick things

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Speaker 7: And I know it seems like, well they got to win,

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Speaker 4: A lot of times they just they play without being scared.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 7: And I think that, uh uh, they're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 7: Shannon said they.

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Speaker 4: Were gonna win it all.

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Speaker 7: I agree with Shannon.

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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna win it all.

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Speaker 4: And I believe in the Cats.

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Speaker 8: Go Cats.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate a good boat call.

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Speaker 4: Nice good funk.

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Speaker 5: I just got an update, Shannon. A little gotta report

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Speaker 5: have switched Burkes, who's been batting third, with Ryan Nicholson,

439
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Speaker 5: who's been batting six. They flip flopped him. So Ryan

440
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Speaker 5: Nicholson is batting third and Devin Burks is batting six today.

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Speaker 4: Adjustments, the adjustments.

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Speaker 3: I kind of like being the visiting team here.

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Speaker 2: You know, you have a chance to come out, jump

444
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Speaker 2: on them early, you know, build up a little confidence

445
00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,400
Speaker 2: and and you know, make the the posing team Florida

446
00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,680
Speaker 2: be on their heels from the very start of the game.

447
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Speaker 3: So I kind of like being the visitors today.

448
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Speaker 5: And and sometimes just mixing up the lineup a little

449
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Speaker 5: bit sometimes it will give you a little extra juice sometimes.

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Speaker 4: So finally, I'm sure it would help. I loved what

451
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Speaker 4: Alan Conna said. He said that Kentucky baseball typically bounces

452
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Speaker 4: back after the losses. I think they have it. I

453
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Speaker 4: think they're gonna bunce back to night. Yeah. The tough

454
00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,080
Speaker 4: part about it. You said they're gonna be playing twice today.

455
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Speaker 4: If they win against Florida, they'll play against Texas A

456
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Speaker 4: and M. Is that right correct? Yeah?

457
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Speaker 5: The winner of this Florida Kentucky game gets Texas A

458
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Speaker 5: and M tonight at seven.

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Speaker 4: Good. Yeah, good news that you've got bad news. Good

460
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Speaker 4: news is that you don't play Texas A and M

461
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Speaker 4: right off the bat. You play Florida. You've had success

462
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Speaker 4: against Florida in the past. And the bad news is

463
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Speaker 4: that you're gonna run into the Texas A and M

464
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Speaker 4: once again. We know, we know the time that they

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Speaker 4: have So eight five, nine, two, eight oh two to

466
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Speaker 4: eighty seven?

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Speaker 5: Who's next? Shannon Will Will go ahead.

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Speaker 9: Will gent On. In the College World Series, you can

469
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Speaker 9: only activate twenty seven on your roster, so they restricted

470
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Speaker 9: to twenty seven. Kentucky carried fourteen positional players, got you

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Speaker 9: thirteen pitchers. Okay, to quote the garden Ernie Banks, let's

472
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Speaker 9: play two.

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Speaker 5: Very good, that's right, let's play two today, I'd answered

474
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Speaker 5: your question.

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Speaker 4: Mario.

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Speaker 5: There's thirteen pitchers that they got to carry for on

477
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Speaker 5: the World Series roster, and Shannon, they may use every

478
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,000
Speaker 5: one of them today if they have to. Yeah, Johnny

479
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Speaker 5: full staff today.

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Speaker 2: Playing playing a doubleheader like that, you may have to.

481
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's winter, winter, go home. You got

482
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Speaker 2: to throw everybody out there and see what happens.

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Speaker 4: You know, Texas A and m gambled. They didn't.

484
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Speaker 5: They didn't start their Ace in the first game, started

485
00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,200
Speaker 5: him for the game against Kentucky and it paid off.

486
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,640
Speaker 5: You know, it was a gamble for them that paid off. Well. Now,

487
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,719
Speaker 5: like Shannon said, maybe pooser, you got to bring him

488
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Speaker 5: in maybe tonight if you need an arm. You can't

489
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Speaker 5: gamble tomorrow. You gotta win today.

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Speaker 4: The biggest, biggest game of the season right here. Yeah,

491
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Speaker 4: it's coming up.

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Speaker 5: Eight five nine two two eight seven is next, Shannon, Wally, Wally,

493
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Speaker 5: go ahead, Wally.

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Speaker 10: Well, actually I had a great trivia question for you

495
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Speaker 10: for Thursday, but I was going to give it to

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Speaker 10: you off the air because it'll be a real stumper.

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Speaker 5: If you'd like to use it, well, you can get

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Speaker 5: it right now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to hear it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we may you be able to get.

501
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Speaker 10: This well, and it may be more wildly known. And

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Speaker 10: the joke's on me. But eight off or up? Uh,

503
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Speaker 10: I'm sure you were aware. Also was in the cattle business. Yes, Uh,

504
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Speaker 10: do you know what what breed he raised?

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Speaker 5: Oh, i've heard this. I've heard, I've heard, I've heard this.

506
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,159
Speaker 5: That's the main reason he didn't take the job at

507
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Speaker 5: Duke because he got his cattle farm here.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know Duke was trying to get him. Oh yeah, go.

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Speaker 10: To saved it for a Thursday. But my grandfather actually

510
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Speaker 10: bought something from him. If you want me, I can

511
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Speaker 10: tell you, unless you'll look it up.

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Speaker 5: No, go ahead and tell us Herford Herford Cow's that's right.

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Speaker 5: I had I had heard that. I don't I'm not

514
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Speaker 5: Where was where? Where was the farm here in Fayette County?

515
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Speaker 5: Was it in Fantt County?

516
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Speaker 4: Somewhere?

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Speaker 3: He hung up?

518
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Speaker 5: Oh he hung up. I don't know IF's sure exactly

519
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Speaker 5: where his farm was. But when we'll get that to

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Speaker 5: eight five nine two two two eight seven, got another one, channing,

521
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Speaker 5: let's go to free bird, free bird, Go ahead, free bird, guys.

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Speaker 4: Now we doing what's up?

523
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Speaker 5: Super Mario?

524
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Speaker 4: What's up, man? What's going on? You ready for today?

525
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 5: I'm getting ready to Hey, got a question. I know

526
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,920
Speaker 5: during the during the regular season, Uh, when they play

527
00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 5: a double hitter, they play seven innings.

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Speaker 4: Are they playing in seven innings today? Since it's a

529
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Speaker 4: college World Series?

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Speaker 5: I bet nine? I bet they play nine. Yeah, they'll

531
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Speaker 5: play nine today. At this level, probably they're probably gonna

532
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:11,360
Speaker 5: squeeze it all in.

533
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Speaker 4: You said that this can last five hours.

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Speaker 5: Well, I was joking. It'll be a long game, I think,

535
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 5: with a lot of pitching changes and a lot of

536
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Speaker 5: run score I think. But yeah, they'll play nine innings.

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Speaker 5: That could be a long day for the UK baseball

538
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 5: team if they're playing two today.

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Speaker 4: If anybody can do it, you can can do it.

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Speaker 5: They can do it. So all right, appreciate it, free bird,

541
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Speaker 5: thanks for the phone call. All right, we're getting ready

542
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Speaker 5: to take our break. We come back. He's here, Jasper

543
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Speaker 5: Johnson is here. Look at it, got his Team USA

544
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Speaker 5: hoodie on. We've just won a gold medal in Argentina

545
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Speaker 5: for playing for Team USA. That's crazy. Little little Jasper Johnson.

546
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Speaker 5: I knew hi when he was born. Now look at him.

547
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Speaker 5: He's his basketball superstar. Just had unofficial visit with Kentucky,

548
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Speaker 5: so we'll kind of get the lowdown on where he

549
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Speaker 5: is with his recruitment and everything. But he'd be enjoyed

550
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Speaker 5: to talk to him. Sitting a little bit so and

551
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 5: now there's a.

552
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Speaker 4: Little more hooty and the blowfield's terarious. So it is

553
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Speaker 4: Darius Rutger. Yeah, right back, my guy, We're right back. TJ. Smith,

554
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 4: personal injury attorney called TJ.

555
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Speaker 3: He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back live at kas Bar and Grill.

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Speaker 5: Today is Kentucky baseball getting ready to play Florida in

561
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 5: an eliminate elimination game out the College World Series. But

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Speaker 5: kind of an exciting day.

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Speaker 4: Mario, we got a superstar. Here's at a superstar right

564
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Speaker 4: next to me. How about that? I'm pumped.

565
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Speaker 5: Jasper Johnson joins us. Just got back from Argentina after

566
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Speaker 5: winning a gold medal with Team USA. Man, congratulations, how

567
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 5: was all that?

568
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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 8: It was great.

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Speaker 11: It was a great experience, a great opportunity to be

571
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Speaker 11: able to, you know, go over overseas and play for

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Speaker 11: my country and bring back the gold Middle.

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Speaker 5: Now I may be wrong in this, but I think

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Speaker 5: you're the only guy from Lexington ever to play for

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Speaker 5: Team USA. Now, Street, We've had guys from University of Kentucky,

576
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Speaker 5: but not from the city of Lexton. You are the

577
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Speaker 5: first one. I mean, that's that's awesome.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 5: I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: I didn't even know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm fairly certain.

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Speaker 4: And you said you knew Jasper since he was little, right,

584
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Speaker 4: I'm telling you, well, I've known his mom and dad

585
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 4: since they were in high school. Okay, I go, we

586
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 4: go way back.

587
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 5: I guess some great stories to tell you.

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Speaker 4: We'll get to that later though.

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Speaker 5: But let's go. Uh when you when you got ready

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Speaker 5: to load up and go to Argentina, I mean, did

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Speaker 5: you gotta have a little pitch me moment? Like is

592
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Speaker 5: this for real? Are we really doing this?

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Speaker 11: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Definitely?

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Speaker 11: I mean me, growing up, I never thought like you

596
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Speaker 11: could really go and play for a Team USA until, like,

597
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Speaker 11: you know, maybe you get to the NBA or things

598
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Speaker 11: like that. But I mean me being able to, you know,

599
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Speaker 11: go through the tryouts and make East finalist list and

600
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Speaker 11: hearing my name being called that I made the team.

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Speaker 8: It was. It was a great opportunity. It was a blessing.

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Speaker 4: So you're in Argentina, Jasper, I gotta ask you, was

603
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Speaker 4: there anything that shocked you out there? Just just being

604
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Speaker 4: out there it's gonna be on and off the court.

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Speaker 4: What was that like? Yeah?

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Speaker 11: I mean the people cheat us like we was like

607
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Speaker 11: celebrities down there, So I mean that part was pretty cool.

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Speaker 11: And I remember, you know, I was walking, We was

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Speaker 11: walking around like the little area and and I mean

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Speaker 11: we was seeing some kids and things like that, signing

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Speaker 11: autographs and stuff. And I seen like some little kid

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Speaker 11: had like a Kentucky shirt on everywhere. Itzy seeing that,

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Speaker 11: you know, people whites our sport over here and still

614
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Speaker 11: love it down there.

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Speaker 8: So it was crazy cool.

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Speaker 5: So I ask you, did you get to do some

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Speaker 5: touristy things or was it all basketball down there?

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Speaker 8: We did some.

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Speaker 11: We were like a little tour bus around the area

620
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Speaker 11: for a couple of hours. We got to visit this

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Speaker 11: soccer museum and see some different things because you know,

622
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Speaker 11: Leone Messi is from there, so seeing a couple of

623
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Speaker 11: his accomplishments and things like that, so it was cool.

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Speaker 4: Now I know, you have another local guy, Malchi Marino,

625
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Speaker 4: who also played with you talk about like the relationship

626
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Speaker 4: that you guys kind of you know, bonded over there

627
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Speaker 4: while playing for you.

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Speaker 11: It was good, you know, me and Maley coming from Kentucky,

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Speaker 11: so you know, trying to represent as best as you can,

630
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Speaker 11: you know, competing at a high level, just having fun.

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Speaker 11: But I mean our relationship has been pretty good. I've

632
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Speaker 11: known him for a long time, so I mean seeing

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Speaker 11: him and where he is now and seeing me where

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Speaker 11: I am is a good thing.

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Speaker 4: Cool story cool.

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Speaker 5: So you know, for those who don't know you, you

637
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 5: grew up here in Lexington, went to Southern Middle School,

638
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 5: played a couple of years at Woodford County. Now you're

639
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Speaker 5: at Link Academy playing and what cities at Missouri Branson, Branson, Missouri,

640
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 5: Oh are You're doing all the honkey talking and Branson

641
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 5: and you get your old time photo and you and

642
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Speaker 5: everything down there.

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Speaker 4: So so this is.

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Speaker 5: You've kind of just exploded in the last several months

645
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 5: on the recruiting scene. What do you attribute that to?

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Speaker 8: Really? Just working?

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Speaker 11: I mean, me and my dad be in the gym

648
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 11: and since I was a little kid, and you know,

649
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Speaker 11: my grandfather being on me about it, you know, just

650
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Speaker 11: giving me a message and seeing what I what I

651
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 11: could really do with myself if I just keep working,

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Speaker 11: so I mean staying dedicated to that and seeing where

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Speaker 11: I can go.

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Speaker 8: Now it's a blessing.

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Speaker 4: I see the clips on YouTube. I see it all

656
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Speaker 4: over my social media. Jasper Johnson, huge fan. And you

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Speaker 4: talked about the work, talk about can you explain what

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Speaker 4: does it look like? What did your training regimen? What

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Speaker 4: does it look like for you every single day? Right?

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Speaker 8: So?

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Speaker 11: I mean normally I wake up probably like five five

662
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Speaker 11: point thirty, uh, you know, go to the him, shoot,

663
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Speaker 11: get a couple of shots of a couple hundred shots

664
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Speaker 11: of them, come back home, you know, eat breakfast, sleep,

665
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Speaker 11: I'll have to do like my agility strengthening training and

666
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 11: so lifting and things like that, and like stretching. Uh,

667
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Speaker 11: and then I probably rest again and then probably go

668
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Speaker 11: back and shoot later at night and get some more

669
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Speaker 11: want to you know, work out.

670
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Speaker 5: So yesterday you had an unofficial visit with Kentucky. Can

671
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Speaker 5: you feel comfortable enough talking about that? Okay, how did

672
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Speaker 5: it go and what did you what did you like?

673
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Speaker 5: What did you didn't talk to Coach Pope about?

674
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Speaker 11: I liked it to lie, I mean coach Pope. You know,

675
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 11: he really gave me a message that you know, he

676
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 11: really is, you know, prioritizing me. You know that he

677
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 11: wants to coach me. But I mean I really like

678
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 11: to get to see in their offense and see them practice,

679
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 11: seeing a lot of new places. See they got a

680
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Speaker 11: whole new team. Yeah, be very interested to see how

681
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 11: they do this season. But I really enjoyed my visit.

682
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Speaker 4: So what factors would you say, Obviously you're you're still

683
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 4: in the midst of your recruiting process, what factors would

684
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Speaker 4: you say it's going to be important to you when

685
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 4: choosing your college. What are some of those factors to you?

686
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 4: Your family? What does that look like.

687
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 11: Really a program that's you know, best fit for me,

688
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 11: somewhere where I can you know, go and make mistakes

689
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 11: and grow from them. Coaching staff that really trusting believes

690
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 11: in me. And I know coach Pope, you know, was

691
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 11: talking to Sammy Yesiday and he was saying that, you know,

692
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Speaker 11: like he feels like I'm one of the best scores,

693
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Speaker 11: if not the best scorer in the country. So you know,

694
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 11: his offense and that he set up you know, he's

695
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 11: been trying to, you know, see if I can fit

696
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Speaker 11: into that, and he thinks I can. So I mean

697
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 11: him telling me I can come in there and impact

698
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Speaker 11: day one.

699
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Speaker 8: It means a lot.

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Speaker 5: And they don't need to sell you on what Kentucky

701
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 5: basketball is all about. I mean you lived it. I mean,

702
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 5: your dad's one of the best defensive players to ever

703
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 5: played football. Here, your uncle Derek, who wanted the few

704
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 5: guys to start on an offensive line and the defensive

705
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Speaker 5: line in Kentucky. Your grandpa Alvis was on the staff

706
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Speaker 5: at Kentucky. I mean, you grew up knowing what Kentucky about.

707
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Speaker 5: They don't need to sell you on that, do they.

708
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Speaker 8: No, they don't.

709
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Speaker 5: So what are you looking for then? When you're when

710
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Speaker 5: you're trying to evaluate your schools, I.

711
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Speaker 11: Mean, I know each school has a different pitch, each

712
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 11: school has, you know, something new to offer. So I

713
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 11: mean really just staying patient with my decision. I mean

714
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 11: making sure that whenever I make the time to make

715
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Speaker 11: my decision, not making the right choice for me. So

716
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Speaker 11: I mean it's a lot that goes into it, but

717
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Speaker 11: I mean I'm just being patient about it and praying

718
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Speaker 11: about it.

719
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Speaker 5: What are some of your other revisits you've got? Can

720
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Speaker 5: you talk about that who's coming up?

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Speaker 11: I take a visit to Alabama this weekend. I go

722
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Speaker 11: to Illinois I think Monday and Tuesday right after that,

723
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Speaker 11: and I'm not sure in the future after that, but

724
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Speaker 11: I mean I have those two visits plan right now.

725
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Speaker 5: There have been to who else have you been to?

726
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Speaker 11: I've been to North Carolina, I've been to Missouri, West Virginia, Auburn,

727
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 11: I've been to a couple of schools.

728
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Speaker 5: Officially, Well, we got to take our break right now

729
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 5: to get ready for the baseball broadcast. But if you

730
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Speaker 5: usally want to listen to the rest of our interview

731
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 5: with Jasper Johnson's do you have to switch to twelve

732
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Speaker 5: forty w SFC AM and summrset. We'll do ks RB

733
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Speaker 5: streaming on that channel because when we leave you, when

734
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 5: we come back on the WLAP to be carried he

735
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Speaker 5: it'll be the UK baseball games.

736
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Speaker 4: We'll take our break.

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Speaker 5: We have a lot more with Jack talk about come

738
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Speaker 5: back here at kas bar and Grilli be right back.

739
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Speaker 5: This is Kentucky Sports Radio. See this is hooting the Blowfish.

740
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Speaker 5: Isn't this good stuff? This is good stuff right here.

741
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Speaker 4: He doesn't know who that is. I guarantee he doesn't know.

742
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Speaker 5: Who that his mom and dad may have listened to

743
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Speaker 5: Hooting the Blowfish and you've heard Have you heard any

744
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 5: of this? Yeah? Yeah, Nowoki knows Hooty the Blowfish. Welcome back,

745
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 5: Ryan Levan, Murrio, super Mario Maitland, and we're joined by

746
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Speaker 5: Jasper Johnson here. For those of you who are trying

747
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 5: to listen to the UK baseball game again, you have

748
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Speaker 5: to switch to w LAP or w KRD if you're

749
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 5: listening to KSR streaming. Obviously you're twelve forty WSFC in Somerset,

750
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Speaker 5: so we'll get rady for the baseball game.

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Speaker 4: Josh, we talked to you.

752
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Speaker 5: A lot about, you know, your recruiting and playing for

753
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 5: Team USA and Argentina. Have you enjoyed the recruiting process

754
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 5: or is it kind of stressing you out? Do you

755
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 5: wish it'd be over? And how do you finally decide

756
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 5: what you're gonna do?

757
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I've been enjoying it.

758
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 11: I mean me as a little kid, you know, looking

759
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 11: up seeing you really want this opportunity to be able

760
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Speaker 11: to happen. So I mean now that I'm here and

761
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 11: having these opportunities to talk to these different coaches.

762
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Speaker 8: In schools like that. I mean, I'm really enjoying the process.

763
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Speaker 4: You talked about the process and the opportunity, and you

764
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 4: have the opportunity that a lot of kids don't necessarily have.

765
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Speaker 4: But that comes with the pressure too. How do you necessarily,

766
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Speaker 4: you know, balance the pressure and handle the expectations and

767
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 4: the pressure being such a five star recruit.

768
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Speaker 11: Oh, I really don't really looking to the pressure that much.

769
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Speaker 11: I mean, I know I'm in this position for a reason.

770
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Speaker 11: So I mean I feel like if I keep doing

771
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Speaker 11: what I'm doing, working out and staying committed to the grind,

772
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Speaker 11: I feel like I'll be I'll be good at whatever.

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Speaker 4: I do for sure.

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Speaker 5: You know, Coach cal started recruiting you before he left here.

775
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 5: I was there when he came over to watch you

776
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Speaker 5: play at Woodford County and the Alvis Johnson Classic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

778
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 5: Man, dude, you couldn't miss that day.

779
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 8: I couldn't.

780
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Speaker 5: I mean, you could not miss ten to three, ten

781
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 5: of eleven, right, ten of eleven for three and I

782
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 5: every type you hit one, I look over Cal and

783
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 5: he would just be smiling. Do you have a good

784
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 5: relationship with coach Colt?

785
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 2: Yeah?

786
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 8: Yeah, I did.

787
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 11: I mean he talked to me for since my sophomore season,

788
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 11: So I mean he's been really interested in me, and

789
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 11: it was recruiting me then. So I mean we've been

790
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 11: to a good relationship, but I mean seeing him leave

791
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 11: was really a surprise to me. But I mean we

792
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 11: still can communicate to each other.

793
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Speaker 5: And if I have heard the story right, Orlando and

794
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 5: Tiguell was like trying to be your best friend, like

795
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 5: he loved you. He wanted you so bad he did.

796
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I know he is at Illinois, so

797
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 11: I'll go up and see him Monday and Tuesday.

798
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Speaker 8: So I mean, yeah, we got really close. Me on

799
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Speaker 8: coach Orlando, is.

800
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Speaker 5: That the reason you're going to Illinois just because of him? Yeah?

801
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 8: Definitely.

802
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 11: I mean I like the program as well, but I

803
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 11: mean him being there, you know, gives him a plus

804
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 11: for sure.

805
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 8: But yeah, we were really close.

806
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Speaker 4: You know, I got the basketball questions. I'm a huge

807
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 4: basketball fan, Jasper, and you know you talked about, you know,

808
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 4: the game you had at Wilford County and I'm seeing

809
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 4: you just like you kind of remind me of James

810
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 4: Harden a little bit. And I'll see a little bit

811
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 4: of D'Angelo Russell in your game here and there. Who

812
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 4: do you model your game after I want to ask

813
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 4: you that.

814
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 11: I mean, I don't really model my game after anybody.

815
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 11: I say, but I mean me just being a basketball

816
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 11: fan as well watching the game. I mean, I can

817
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 11: always pick up some things from here and here and

818
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 11: there and different players. But I mean really, I mean

819
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 11: also like D'Angelo Rustling. You know, me and him pretty close.

820
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 11: Oh guy, Yeah, you work out a couple of times

821
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 11: and things like that. He calls me, takes in on me.

822
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 11: So I mean, I say him, if anybody cool.

823
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm trying to compare you to James Harden,

824
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 5: and I said Roger Harden.

825
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 4: Roger Harten, James Harden.

826
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Speaker 5: Yeah, James Harden, And I said Roger Harden. Roger Harden's

827
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 5: a little white guy that played the UK in like

828
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Speaker 5: the eighties. He's right handed. I'm trying to say, James,

829
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 5: you were left handed. He's left handed. But your game

830
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 5: is a lot him. You like the little shift, shifty,

831
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 5: shaking bakers, hit it right in your eye kind of game.

832
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Speaker 5: You agree with that?

833
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Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure.

834
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Speaker 11: I mean anything I can do to create a space

835
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 11: and great offense, I mean it's what I'm really good at.

836
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 11: So I mean, doing whatever I can be creative when

837
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 11: the corey he just helps me play.

838
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 5: Did you hate to give up football? I mean, coul

839
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 5: you used to be a big football guy. You grew

840
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 5: up in a football family. Was that kind of tough to.

841
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 4: Give up football?

842
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 11: I mean I really enjoyed playing football. But I mean

843
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 11: my grandfather, I mean, it was one game when I

844
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 11: was at Wolford. You know, it was playing and I

845
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 11: think my receiver had caught a pass. I mean we

846
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 11: were playing men the whole game, and I mean, like

847
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 11: the next player, I think he got like a like

848
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 11: a sleep or.

849
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Speaker 8: Something, and I hit him like real hard.

850
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Speaker 11: And then my granddad was like after the game, He's like, nah,

851
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Speaker 11: I think I think you're gonna have to be done

852
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 11: playing for now, but.

853
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 4: It's over with.

854
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 8: So I mean, yeah, I mean it was. It was

855
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 8: good that I enjoyed playing football.

856
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 5: Did I know you you understand how much your dad

857
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 5: meant to not just the Harrisburg community, but for the

858
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 5: state of Kentucky. You know, here's a local kid, National

859
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 5: Defensive Player of the Year, small town Harrisburg, Kentucky. By

860
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 5: the way, the day you probably heard the story of

861
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 5: the day he committed to UK, we had like two

862
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 5: eat the snow that night. It was awful. We had

863
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 5: to drive from Lexington down to Harrisburg and it was

864
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 5: two feet of it was that was the famous dusting

865
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 5: of snow in Lexington that night, and it was two

866
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 5: feet of snow to go down there. I mean, I

867
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 5: know he's your dad, but do you understand, like, really,

868
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 5: how great of a history history, the history he's got

869
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 5: playing at Kentucky.

870
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Speaker 11: I don't get too much stop hearing, but no, I

871
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 11: know he was He was pretty He was pretty good.

872
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 5: One of the best defensive players ever played in Kentucky. Yeah,

873
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 5: so I know. So that's the football. You grew up

874
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 5: in a football family.

875
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 4: I did.

876
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 11: I mean him my uncles both on on my mom's

877
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 11: side and my dad. Yeah, I mean growing up in

878
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 11: a football family. I mean they still talk to me

879
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 11: about it, saying I'm soft and things like that.

880
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 4: It is.

881
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 5: What about big brother. He's sitting over here. He you know,

882
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 5: he played college football.

883
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 11: So football family played me as well in basketball. Like

884
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 11: when we work out in the Warnings. You know, he

885
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 11: thinks he's big brown.

886
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 4: Gotta love them, know, right, yea, man, you talked about football.

887
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 4: I want to kind of go back to basketball. A

888
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 4: little bit and ask you about the necessarily parts of

889
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 4: the parts of your game that you want to improve on.

890
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 4: It's a huge summer for you. What are some things

891
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 4: that you're looking to improve on going into your your

892
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 4: your last season.

893
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 11: Really grow on my IQ. Like I said, watching the game,

894
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 11: learning some different things. I know that the game changes

895
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 11: over time rapidly, so I mean me being able to

896
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 11: adjust and play through different things. But one thing that

897
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 11: I'm really working on now was, you know, my physicality.

898
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 11: So I feel like whenever I go to college, I

899
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 11: can try to prepare myself in and hopefully give myself

900
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 11: the best opportunity I can to you know, be able

901
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 11: to get drafted.

902
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 4: Oi's to men you're playing, but the high school kids

903
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 4: and different level, different level. But I love to hear that.

904
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 5: So I know, if you kind of in your mind

905
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 5: got a top ten list or a top five list,

906
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 5: you kind of already kind of know what you're thinking.

907
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I created a top ten not too

908
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 11: long ago, a couple of months ago, so that I

909
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 11: mean I was really planning on, you know, committing this summer,

910
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 11: but you know, with all the coaching changes and things

911
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 11: like that, I mean I had to reopen it, you know,

912
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 11: take some visits to different programs where different coaches have

913
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 11: landed and things like that. But I mean, yeah, I

914
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 11: kind of know we're a couple of schools that, you know,

915
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 11: I will be considering when I when I get down

916
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 11: to cut my list.

917
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 5: Now, there was a there was some reports that you

918
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 5: may reclassify back to twenty twenty four.

919
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 4: That's not accurate, right.

920
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 11: I mean, it was an option, definitely, But I mean,

921
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 11: as of right now, I don't think.

922
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 8: I don't think I'll do that, you know.

923
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 11: I mean just trying to, you know, get as many

924
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 11: accolades as I can and really enjoy the high school

925
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 11: game while it's here.

926
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 4: So you know, you know what I love about this

927
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 4: kid already. Know this is my first time meeting him, right,

928
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 4: He's taking his time in the recruiting process. That's true.

929
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 4: As much as I want to see him in the

930
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 4: Kentucky Fldcats uniform, he's taking his time. I got to

931
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 4: give respect for that. I like that.

932
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 5: So what is next for you this year? Where will

933
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 5: you play this year? Can you talk about that?

934
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:49,959
Speaker 10: Yeah?

935
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 11: I mean I had a good season at Link Academy

936
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 11: last season, but I mean our head coach coach Bill left.

937
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 11: You know, he's at a Baylor now, so I'm not

938
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 11: really sure if I'll be going back there. I mean

939
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 11: I have a couple of options, you know, maybe maybe

940
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 11: even coming back, you know, trying to play down here

941
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 11: in Wolford County again.

942
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 8: But I mean I don't know as right now.

943
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 5: We talked about that this week. The high school memories

944
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 5: you make with your high school teammates, sometimes those are

945
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 5: no matter what college, that's your best memory.

946
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 11: Yeah, definitely. I mean it's a great time. I enjoyed

947
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 11: my my season that link. I mean me being one

948
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 11: of the younger players on the team and competing with

949
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 11: the older players and things like that. But I mean

950
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 11: seeing them in college now at different locations and still

951
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 11: communicating with them.

952
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 8: I mean, it's it's it's good to have.

953
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 5: What when do you need to make that decision? Like

954
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 5: is it coming up or not?

955
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 11: Really not really too soon, but I mean I want to,

956
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 11: you know, try to make my decision before I say,

957
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 11: before before April or July. Sometimes sometimes this a month maybe,

958
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 11: but I talk.

959
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 4: About your decision college no college.

960
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 8: Sometime soon, pretty soon a couple of weeks or a

961
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 8: month or so.

962
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 5: You think that's that's got to be coming up. But

963
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 5: then as far as you may making a decision, you

964
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 5: sayed originally you maybe wanted to make it the summer.

965
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 5: You're thinking maybe next spring now after the season is

966
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 5: taking his time. Well, that just means that all the

967
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 5: coaches will be just keep coming around and just watching

968
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 5: you play.

969
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

970
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, is coach.

971
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 4: Cal keep recruiting you from Arkansas?

972
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 11: Yeah, he is a coach Cal and coach saying, you

973
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 11: know them making their Swiss to go to Arkansas. I

974
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 11: mean yeah, they still contacting me, trying to get me

975
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 11: to go on to visit up there. So Matt might

976
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 11: have to plan that soon. And you know, just doing

977
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 11: our relationship as well.

978
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 5: Now I'm going back to your dad again. You know there

979
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 5: was a time he almost played basketball Kentucky too.

980
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, is it true?

981
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 5: There is even a jersey, a frame jersey with Johnson.

982
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 4: Fifty two on it right at home.

983
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 5: A Kentucky basketball jersey that they were going to give

984
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 5: him to play.

985
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 4: Yep, all that for Tubby Smith.

986
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 8: I don't see it though, Like when we work out,

987
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 8: he tries to play me as well.

988
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 11: No, it don't go too good for him. It doesn't

989
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 11: go good for him. He scored three times on me

990
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 11: you want it? He scored three times times? Well that

991
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 11: you know he was after the football season.

992
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 5: Tubby always tell me had a uniform for him to

993
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 5: play basketball at Kentucky that one season and football all

994
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 5: because he was his future. So he didn't play.

995
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 8: It would have been crazy, I think, do what he did.

996
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they're with with with coach Pope now recruit

997
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 5: Is is he the one you're the closest to, or

998
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 5: you or is just one of the assistant coaches talking

999
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 5: to you most.

1000
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 11: I mean I've talked to all the consistent coaches. I

1001
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 11: mean each one has reached out to me. You know,

1002
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 11: it takes me or call me individually. But I mean

1003
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 11: I feel like Coach Pope is really putting in the

1004
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 11: effort to, you know, try to try to recruit me himself. Really,

1005
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 11: I mean he calls me, facetimed me a lot. He

1006
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 11: actually came to Argentina to you know, watch the games

1007
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 11: and see me play. So I mean see him playing

1008
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 11: in that effort, I mean it really means a lot

1009
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 11: of it shows a lot.

1010
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 5: I didn't realize that. So he came and he came

1011
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 5: all the way to Yeah, that's pretty good. Recruiting visit

1012
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 5: right there down there and watching. But I know he

1013
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 5: was down there in or something in Spain or somewhere

1014
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 5: down there somewhere. Well, listen, man, best of luck to you.

1015
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 5: Think you represent Lexington very well, Southern Middle School, Woodford

1016
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 5: County High School, University Kentucky for family here. Very proud

1017
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 5: of you, dude. Does he grew up in Blossom like

1018
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 5: you have as a player here and we wish you

1019
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 5: nothing but the.

1020
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 4: Best, all the best. Thank you for coming off there.

1021
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 5: Thank you, Jasper Johnson. All right, we'll get ready to

1022
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 5: take our break because the UK baseball team is about

1023
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 5: to play Shannon. We're a couple of just a couple

1024
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 5: of minutes away from first pitch, now, I believe right.

1025
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 3: I try it.

1026
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 2: I want to be multitasking, trying to host the show

1027
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: and also trying to watch the game at the same time. So,

1028
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 2: uh yeah, we're just about five minutes away I think

1029
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 2: from first pitch.

1030
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 5: Well, we've got the game on here at kaspar and Grill.

1031
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 5: We invite everybody to come out here.

1032
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 4: I mean, it's juneteenth.

1033
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 5: Most people aren't working today, so come on out, filling up,

1034
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,959
Speaker 5: filling up, have lunch with us. Paul's here for crying

1035
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 5: out loud, So we'll get ready for Kentucky. Look at

1036
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 5: that and Florida first game I meann elimination game for

1037
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 5: the UK baseball team.

1038
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 4: So big day today, big day to day. They win.

1039
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 5: They play again tonight at seven o'clock, so that's kind

1040
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 5: of crazy. All right, we come back. You know the

1041
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 5: baseball game is going to be going on. Taylor County.

1042
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 5: Shannon on deck. You do your Taylor County homework.

1043
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, yeah, Taylor.

1044
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 5: Taylor County and countdown to the counties. We'll get to

1045
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 5: then and we come back. Ryan, Mario, Shannon the dude man,

1046
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 5: appreciate it. Jaffeer Jackie Johnson joined us web. Tyler, you

1047
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 5: was also at eleven thirty. We'll be right back. This

1048
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:11,959
Speaker 5: is Kentucky Sports Radio.