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Speaker 3: Good morning, Kentucky. How we doing. It's not Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: where's Matt Jones. Matt Jones is in Fallujah?

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Speaker 3: My Take, the number one sports podcast. We've been hosting

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Speaker 3: Kentucky Sports Radio. PFT. What you're gonna say, Well, first

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Speaker 3: of all. We know ball.

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Speaker 4: We know ball, and I think every caller should start

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Speaker 4: out today by admitting that we know ball. Yeah, maybe

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Speaker 4: we turned you off in the past because we said

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Speaker 4: So we know everything there is to know about Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 4: So we want to hear from you. Do you think

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Speaker 5: Hey guys, good morning. I agree with everything you've said.

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Speaker 3: Charlene, you actually sound a little emotional right now. Your

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Speaker 5: Yeah we did, Yeah, now we did well. I'm not

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Speaker 3: That yes, that's a fact. It is. And you make

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Speaker 4: He he doesn't look right wearing that color, either the

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Speaker 5: You're not wrong, You're absolutely right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, Charlie, he literally said it. He literally said it.

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Speaker 5: That's what he told him. Told him always right before

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Speaker 3: not a good Thank you so much for your calling.

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Speaker 3: Uh there are better days ahead, I can tell you

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Speaker 5: Oh I know it. I have never so excited love

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Speaker 5: At an exhibition game in Evansville, Indiana of the Indiana

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Speaker 3: I love that. You're a real me.

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Speaker 5: My daughter, my little daughter, and I could raise her

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Speaker 3: I love that. I love that, Charlene, thank you so

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Speaker 5: Marks the Bomb, thank you, Bomb Bomb.

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Speaker 3: I love Pope, the Charlene. I could hear it in

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Speaker 3: I want it to be a victory party.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want us to have Champagne live on the air,

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Speaker 3: I'll say it right now. Kentucky basketball is gonna win

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Speaker 3: a title before Arkansas. I agree, fact, I agree. Hey,

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Speaker 3: is Kentucky back right now? Oh? So bad. I think

438
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Speaker 3: we're back, so back, by the way. I don't know when, Shannon,

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Speaker 3: When did you guys start charging people to comment on

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Speaker 3: the site? Oh the paywall?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that happened when Matt sold the site

442
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Speaker 2: to someone else.

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Speaker 3: Fun and all that money to Ukraine. Whatever happened to

444
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 3: free speech? Yeah? You ever hear something called the First Amendment?

445
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 3: We can get you to log in. I just logged.

446
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Speaker 3: I just I just I just paid. I paid. We've

447
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Speaker 3: got to reimburse you now. Yeah, our our bandlets said,

448
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Speaker 3: tell me this is the only episode I skip, also

449
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Speaker 3: giving my exact examples from today's episode. Oh, that guy's smart.

450
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Speaker 3: That guy's smart. Yeah, that guy's smart. Someone asked his

451
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Speaker 3: Mark Pope on the hot seat.

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Speaker 4: You know, might be you know what I think. I

453
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Speaker 4: think we should be at Kentucky. The expectations are different

454
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Speaker 4: from b YU.

455
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

456
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Speaker 4: You gotta win now. Yeah, you've got a lot of energy.

457
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Speaker 4: You're saying all the right things right now. I need

458
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Speaker 4: to see it on the court.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Shannon, did someone on this show call

460
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Speaker 3: him coach Poops? Say it again? I'm sorry I was.

461
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,639
Speaker 3: I was taking a call from our our special guest.

462
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Speaker 3: Someone said, I mean our own guy have said coach Poops?

463
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, who said that?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 2: I think when during a conversation of trying to match

466
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Speaker 2: together Stoops and Pope, that that came out of somebody.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mistake.

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Speaker 4: I like that because you you have to have like

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Speaker 4: a celebrity couple named from like Branjelina.

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Speaker 3: So it's coach coach Poops. Yeah, I like that. Okay,

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Speaker 3: that that that that's fair. I was just making sure

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Speaker 3: that there was no slander because we are Mark Pope. Guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get a little producing on the air here. Our

474
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Speaker 2: special guest called in. Uh, we're going to get a

475
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Speaker 2: call back in about four minutes when we take So

476
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Speaker 2: we're up against the heartbreak here, all right, So.

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Speaker 3: Let's do a heartbreak and then we have a very

478
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Speaker 3: very special guest who is going to call in. You

479
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Speaker 3: do not want to turn off the radio. I can

480
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Speaker 3: guarantee you that it is the first time he's ever

481
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Speaker 3: called into this show. And we back right after this.

482
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Speaker 3: TJ Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ He'll make them pay.

483
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Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage.

484
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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones. All right, we're back part of my

485
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Speaker 3: takeover Kentucky Sports Radio. We're waiting for our very very

486
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Speaker 3: special guests to call back in. He shouldn't have any

487
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Speaker 3: moment now we're waiting. Do you want to take another

488
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Speaker 3: call while we wait for him. Well, I'm hoping he

489
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Speaker 3: calls in any any moment. People are saying it might

490
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Speaker 3: be Jack Golkie, who is a personal friend of ours.

491
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Speaker 3: He did work out with us. Love to have Jack Golkie.

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Speaker 2: You guys wouldn't stoop to that level.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's not like we had Sam Decker on

494
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Speaker 4: the show, yeah in twenty sixteen.

495
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Speaker 3: Now, we wouldn't do that to you, guys. I do

496
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Speaker 3: love Golkie.

497
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Speaker 4: I wonder if Kentucky fans, if there's a small part

498
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Speaker 4: of them that we're like, you know.

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Speaker 3: What, respect respect to Golkie the guy.

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Speaker 4: He was awesome and Golkie actually might be the man

501
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Speaker 4: who's responsible for the uprising of Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 4: You can point at that moment and say, thank you, Golkie,

504
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Speaker 4: you saved Kentucky.

505
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Speaker 3: He's a Franz Ferdinand of Kentucky basketball. Yeah, was that

506
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Speaker 3: the ol Gabrielle Prince. He's a Gabrielle Princi and then

507
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 3: everything was great for that. Yes, everything worked out right

508
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 3: after that happens, So you'll be good. What nineteen fourteen, Yeah,

509
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Speaker 3: well really good years after.

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Speaker 4: I think we traced the rise of Tom Brady directly

511
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Speaker 4: back to Gabrielle princip assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Everything that's,

512
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Speaker 4: everything good that's happened in the world has been because

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Speaker 4: of the start of World War One. Yes, a lot

514
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Speaker 4: of bad stuff too, but you can just you know,

515
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Speaker 4: God bless the broken road that brought us back to glory.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Shannon, has he called back in? Do you want

517
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Speaker 3: to try to call him?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

519
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Speaker 3: Maybe Shann's talking to him. You might be Talking's good.

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Speaker 3: I feel like that's good. Okay, here we go. All right. So,

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Speaker 3: for the first time ever in Kentucky sports radio history,

522
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Speaker 3: we want to welcome on a friend of ours who's

523
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Speaker 3: been on part of my take. He's a legend in

524
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Speaker 3: the state of Kentucky. He's a horse racing Officionado. It

525
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Speaker 3: is Saint John's head basketball coach, Rick Patino coach. Are

526
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Speaker 3: you there.

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Speaker 6: I am good to be with you, guys.

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Speaker 3: It's great to hear from you. We're very excited to

529
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Speaker 3: have you on We're So we've hosted this show eight

530
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Speaker 3: years in a row whenever Matt is on vacation, and

531
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Speaker 3: we were the first to say that cow was on

532
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Speaker 3: the hot seat eight years ago. So today has been

533
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Speaker 3: a victory lap for us, and we thought there's no

534
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Speaker 3: better guy to have on to pump up Big Blue

535
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Speaker 3: Nation your relationship with Mark Pope than coach Rick Patino.

536
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Speaker 3: So let's start there. I have some Saint John's questions

537
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Speaker 3: as well, but what are we getting out of Mark

538
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Speaker 3: Pope as a basketball coach?

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Speaker 6: Well, obviously I'm extremely biased because he was my captain

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Speaker 6: of a national championship team and was a great captain,

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Speaker 6: a tireless worker, and I absolutely love him and what

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Speaker 6: he did for a program. But that being said, when

543
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Speaker 6: I was not working, I traveled out to see him

544
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Speaker 6: coach a small school Division I school, a Grand Valley

545
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Speaker 6: of something like that, and I was blown away for

546
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Speaker 6: how good a teacher he was. And then I watched

547
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Speaker 6: every game I could at BYU and love their offense.

548
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Speaker 3: Was.

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Speaker 6: It was great ball movement, great player movement. And I

550
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 6: just think Mark does a fabulous job at communicating with

551
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Speaker 6: his players. He has a great way about it and

552
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 6: he has a quality that very few of us have.

553
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Speaker 6: He has incredible humility and for somebody who at a

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Speaker 6: very young age just as a tireless work and his

555
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Speaker 6: accomplishing things, he's always maintained the same humility that he

556
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Speaker 6: had back when he was a player. And Mark would

557
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Speaker 6: you know, obviously guys like Antoine and those guys are

558
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Speaker 6: all guys from inner cities. And my language wasn't the

559
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Speaker 6: greatest either, But every day would Mark if he made

560
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Speaker 6: a mistake, he would say frick and constantly frick, frick frick.

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Speaker 6: And finally, after a weekness, I said, Mark, I can

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Speaker 6: tell you whatever God that you pray to, he knows

563
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Speaker 6: what means. So why don't you say it or drop it?

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Speaker 4: They're just words. Yeah, it doesn't matter if it's A,

565
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Speaker 4: if it's an R, if it's a you. I think

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Speaker 4: the messages get across coach. When when they hired Mark Pope,

567
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Speaker 4: you you were saying that, you know what, it might

568
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 4: be time for Rick Patino to cut a check to

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Speaker 4: Kentucky's nil program.

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Speaker 3: Is that something that you're actually considering doing well?

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Speaker 6: I actually cut a check to the football program because

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Speaker 6: I'm a casual friend of of Mark and and Eddie

573
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Speaker 6: gran and I cut a check to the football program,

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Speaker 6: but I would definitely cut a check if Mark needs

575
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Speaker 6: me for anything, no matter what. Except for my firstborn Michael,

576
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Speaker 6: he could have it. He's just the first. Absolutely, I

577
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Speaker 6: absolutely love Mark and would do anything for you for

578
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Speaker 6: his program. I'm very I had. I always called University

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Speaker 6: of Kentucky Camelot for me. I never had a bad year,

580
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Speaker 6: never had a bad day. They treated me like a king.

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Speaker 6: They treated me with great respect, so I only had

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Speaker 6: Obviously I didn't get treated great when I was at Louisville,

583
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Speaker 6: but sitting back on and examining it today, I totally

584
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Speaker 6: understand why. So I am very, very fond of the

585
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 6: University of Kentucky rooting for football. I sent the baseball

586
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Speaker 6: coach at text wishing him good luck. So I'm very

587
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Speaker 6: bullish on Mark in the football program and hope they

588
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Speaker 6: do great.

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Speaker 3: I love it, And I think the thing that Kentucky

590
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Speaker 3: basketball fans should be excited about, and maybe you can

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Speaker 3: speak to this more is Kentucky basketball in the last

592
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Speaker 3: few years now. Obviously Cal had success at the beginning

593
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Speaker 3: of his run, but in the last few years, it

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Speaker 3: feels like the actual coaching x's and o's. Maybe wasn't

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Speaker 3: there all the time Mark Pope, if you watched him

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Speaker 3: at BYU, the guy knows how to coach basketball. And

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00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 3: maybe you could speak to this specifically, but like being

598
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Speaker 3: able to coach guys and put them in the best

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Speaker 3: sets to be able to drop winning plays the end

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Speaker 3: of games. I feel like Mark Pope is the perfect

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Speaker 3: guy for that.

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Speaker 6: He is he look Mark Pope is. He tried to

603
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 6: become a doctor and it wasn't his Niche. Mark Pope

604
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 6: was a Rhodes Scholar candidate, and he's just an extremely

605
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 6: bright person. And combining his credentials about being bright, he's

606
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 6: an excellent teacher of basketball. He also has you know,

607
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 6: he was also a terrific basketball player that got the

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Speaker 6: maximum of his abilities because he gave it all every

609
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Speaker 6: single day. A great leader, he showed great leaders. Everybody

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Speaker 6: in the team just thought he was the best guy

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Speaker 6: in the team in terms of never said a negative

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Speaker 6: word about a teammate, never said a negative word about

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Speaker 6: his coaching staff. Loyal to the point that you couldn't

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Speaker 6: quite believe it. And he and his and his wife

615
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 6: and children are the same way. Just wonderful wonderful people.

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Speaker 6: And you know, look, how did a terrific job. But

617
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Speaker 6: what happens with a lot of coaches. I mean there

618
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 6: are exceptions in the rule. I think Bill self and

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Speaker 6: I think Mike Shuzhevski. You know, you run out of familiarity,

620
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 6: breeds can tempt you there a long time, You get

621
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Speaker 6: a little stale. You need another journey. And so everybody,

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Speaker 6: this is this is now Mark Pope's time, and cal

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Speaker 6: cal was great for the University of Kentucky, brought them a

624
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Speaker 6: lot of success, and we wish them certainly well at Arkansas.

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Speaker 6: And then now it's time to move on and have

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Speaker 6: a whole different brand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, you said it.

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Speaker 4: Uh, coach, do you have any message for the Kentucky

629
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Speaker 4: fans that are listening right now? I don't know if

630
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 4: you've had an opportunity to address them over the last

631
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Speaker 4: few years here, but that we've got a lot of

632
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 4: them listening right now, that that care about you, that.

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Speaker 3: Care about program.

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Speaker 6: Look, I love the Kentucky fans to me are very

635
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Speaker 6: very special.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 6: They were and treated me my family with great reverence.

638
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Speaker 6: I got nothing but great things to say about the

639
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Speaker 6: Kentucky fan. I totally get it today. Why they were

640
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 6: bitter at me of going to University of Louisville. I

641
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 6: was going back because the reason I was going back

642
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 6: is I loved Kentucky so much from my UK day

643
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 6: and wanted to relive that love of love of the sport.

644
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 6: But right now they have a fabulous program with all sports,

645
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Speaker 6: and I think that I think that's going to be

646
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 6: a special special time for Mark Pope and the University

647
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 6: Kentucky walkouts because I think he's good. I think the

648
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 6: fans are going to fall in love with Mark because

649
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 6: the thing about him, the Pope didn't matter. The name

650
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 6: on the back never mattered to Mark. He could care

651
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 6: less about individual glory, could care less about it if

652
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 6: anybody mentioned that he played a great game. It's always

653
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 6: about team. It's always about Kentucky and Jeff Shepherds and

654
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Speaker 6: Ron Mercer's and Nash Burns and all those guys that

655
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 6: I coach. It was always about Kentucky, Telfrey, Fellhouse, Farmer,

656
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 6: all about them. And I used to always kid those

657
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 6: guys in the locker room. They always give every time

658
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 6: they put the jersey on. Telfree would tear up and

659
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 6: I said, something wrong with you Johnny and not feeling well.

660
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 6: He said, no, every time I put that uniform, Mom,

661
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 6: I just came believe I'm putting it on. I said,

662
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 6: we'll get over John. We got a big game man. Yeah,

663
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 6: that's great.

664
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Speaker 3: Yeah, playing for the playing for the name in the

665
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 3: front of the jersey is important, especially in today's college basketball. So,

666
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 3: speaking of that, you have practicing about twenty minutes, How

667
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: is your team looking this year? Because it looks like

668
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 3: you guys added some really talented players. You were right

669
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: on the cusp last year. It was your first year.

670
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 3: How how do you feel like this team is going

671
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 3: to shape and put and be put together when you

672
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 3: guys start playing ball in November.

673
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 6: Well, we're much bigger with seven to one seven foot

674
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 6: six ten six ' nine a backcourt. I never thought

675
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 6: I'd coach another guard as fast as Peyton Siva, but

676
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 6: I have a young man from Utah, Daveon Smith, who

677
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 6: is faster as faster, if not faster than Peyton Siva.

678
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 6: I have Kadari Richmond from Seaton Hall as a first

679
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 6: team All Big East Basketball player, sime And Wiltshire who's

680
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 6: a sophomore now who's also a terrific god. So the

681
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 6: backcourt is really strong, the wings are very strong, and

682
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 6: the centers, although they don't have great experience, a very big,

683
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 6: big and talented and athletic. So I'm really bullish on

684
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 6: this basketball team. We were supposed to play Kentucky but

685
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 6: couldn't work it out, and I'm hoping that we can

686
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 6: come to Lexington next year for our thirtieth reunion and

687
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 6: Kentucky can go back to the Madison Square Garden the

688
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 6: following year.

689
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 3: I that Yeah, Kentucky, quick duck and Patino. I love it.

690
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 3: You step up to the plate, give give the people

691
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: what they want. Coach.

692
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 4: Are we planning on wearing more suits this year? That's

693
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 4: very important for us.

694
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 6: I wore all suits the whole season, just about with

695
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 6: the exception of a white out where I wore a

696
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 6: white jacket and jeans. Outside of that, I wore suits

697
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 6: the whole year.

698
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 3: I like that.

699
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 4: It doesn't feel right when you look on the sidelines

700
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 4: and you see coach Patino wearing like a polo shirt.

701
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: We want to see the suits every game. Coach.

702
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 6: I'm definitely gonna be in them, and you know what,

703
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 6: I believe in it. It's something I've done all my life,

704
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 6: So why not continue. Why change? There's certain things you

705
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 6: have to change. You have to change the way you

706
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 6: coach players today, the way you run your offenses, defenses,

707
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 6: treat them off the court as well. But certain things

708
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 6: should not change. And that's one of those.

709
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, coach, in these spring and summer practices, what are

710
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 4: you looking for this early on as you're putting a

711
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 4: team together. What are you keen on in practice that's

712
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 4: telling you, Okay, we could have a good team this year.

713
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 6: You know, I made a mistake last year. I did

714
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 6: not have my team ready early in the year because

715
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 6: I was just focused on player development, working on this

716
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 6: skill development, and I didn't work on a lot of

717
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 6: team things defensively, and we were not ready early. We

718
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 6: were ready late, and it probably stopped us because the

719
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 6: NCAA no longer cared about the last ten games of

720
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 6: the season. They were treating the first ten equal to

721
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 6: the last ten. So now I understand that I don't

722
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 6: think the net means a whole lot. I think it's

723
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 6: really quad one wins, quad two wins, making sure you

724
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 6: don't lose like we did to Michigan, a quad three.

725
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 6: You never expected Michigan to be a quad three game.

726
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 6: But it was, so I'm gonna have the team more

727
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 6: ready defensively going into September.

728
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 3: I love it, Coach. I have one last question. I

729
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 3: missed you. I saw you were at Saratoga for the

730
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: Belmont Stakes. I was there as well. Yep, how did

731
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 3: you do? I hope you did better than me. I

732
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 3: lost about twenty thousand dollars that weekend. Not great, not great.

733
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 3: I was. I thought I had figured it out. I did.

734
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 3: The one thing you can't do on a horse racing

735
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 3: weekend is win the second race of the first day,

736
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: because then you think you got it figured out, and

737
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 3: then I don't think I want to race for like

738
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 3: fifteen races in a row. But how did you do?

739
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 3: And and what do you guys? Do you have some

740
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 3: horses coming up?

741
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Speaker 6: I do. I'm racing tomorrow. I have a horse called

742
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 6: Agalos to Great, who's the name of my agent in Greece,

743
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 6: And Agalos the Great is running at Aqueduct getting ready.

744
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 6: It's a prep race coming off of long vacation to

745
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 6: get ready for a big steak at Finger Lakes. I was.

746
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 6: I believe I was two for twenty two and getting destroyed.

747
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 6: And I went back and tried to renegotiate my contract

748
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 6: with Saint John's. But I did. I did get out

749
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 6: on the last race when I was leaving, and if

750
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 6: you could win the last race, you could cut your

751
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 6: losses in half.

752
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, that way? Was it the last last race or

753
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 3: the second? I won the second to last race on Saturday.

754
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 3: That was like a like a fourteen to one shot,

755
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh man, maybe I did figure

756
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 3: this was it.

757
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, this was a it was a long yeah, I

758
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 6: think it was the same ars.

759
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was on the turn he came out of.

760
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 6: Note. Yes, yeah, yes, it was, Yes, it was. That's right.

761
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. You need to when you have a bad weekend

762
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 3: and at the tracks, you need to just turn to

763
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 3: our our good friend Mike Ropoli and be like, come on,

764
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: let's go.

765
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 6: I got. I told my wife I'm never I'm never

766
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 6: going to the track again, and she said I've heard

767
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,919
Speaker 6: that now eleven hundred times.

768
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 3: Right, horse racing for the rest of the week. That's

769
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 3: what I do. And then I wait for them. So

770
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: you said, Aglos, there he's racing at Aqueduct tomorrow. What

771
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 3: race is he in? Because I'm gonna I might sprinkle

772
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 3: a few Nichols on him.

773
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 6: You know, I don't know. I think it's the fifth race.

774
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 6: I'm actually traveling to Tampa for unfortunately for a funeral,

775
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 6: and I won't see it, but I know it's I

776
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 6: think it's the fifth race. My other friend Chris marra

777
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 6: hoo holds, his family owns the Giants. He has a

778
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 6: horse in the race, and we're betting dinner to see

779
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 6: which horse finishes out of who.

780
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 3: I like that. I like coach.

781
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 4: I'm actually I'm taking a trip to Greece next week

782
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 4: and I was hoping that you could you could maybe

783
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 4: teach me something to say, a good phrase to say,

784
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 4: or any tips about.

785
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 6: When are you going to be When will you be there.

786
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 3: I'm going to be there Saturday through I believe Saturday

787
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 3: full week.

788
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 6: I'm going July the sixth to see them try and

789
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 6: qualify for the Olympics. I try to help the federation

790
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 6: a little bit there. And you're going to Athens.

791
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 4: I'm going to be traveling around a bit. Yeah, Athens,

792
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 4: then checking out some of the beaches too.

793
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,240
Speaker 6: Great, So I'll be you say, you have to understand

794
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 6: the greetings they always say, Kelly Matta for a good morning,

795
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 6: Kelly Spata for for afternoon, Kala Nita, this good night,

796
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 6: and you always just by just just saying yes us,

797
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 6: that's hello, goodbye, Paula, Hello, you're welcome. Hello. Uh polsise,

798
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 6: Uh that you got about seven eight expressions and of

799
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 6: course the firm expression that you have to use if

800
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 6: somebody cuts you off. Malacca.

801
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, malay. I love it. Well, coach, I know

802
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 3: you got practice coming up. I want to thank you

803
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 3: so much for calling in.

804
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 6: Uh.

805
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 3: We're excited about Mark Pope, excited about Saint John's this year.

806
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, and have a great practice.

807
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 6: All right, guys, tell Mark I love them.

808
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks so much. That was coach Rick Patino calling in.

809
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 3: Kentucky sports radio history has been made full endorsement Hatchet buried,

810
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: hatchet beary. Well, no, I wouldn't say so, you know,

811
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 3: thanks for us on this day. Yeah, Rick Patino is

812
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 3: always welcome on this day. Yes, but uh, thank you

813
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: to coach Patino. I told everyone they got to they

814
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 3: got to stay tuned in. For all the people who

815
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 3: uh usually say they turn it off after two minutes,

816
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 3: I think we deliver. You can tell this guy loves Kentucky. Yes,

817
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 3: he really cares about the state of yes.

818
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 4: And he kind of it sounds like he kind of

819
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 4: feels bad about going to Louisville.

820
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, I get it.

821
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 4: Well, maybe not, he doesn't feel bad, but he understands

822
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 4: the hate that he got from Yeah, Louisville.

823
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you know, you know, it's good to

824
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 3: see that. You know, everything's being minted and he's clearly

825
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 3: rooting for Mark Popez. Are we all right? We're gonna

826
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 3: take a break. When we come back, we'll finish up

827
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 3: hour one. We also want to hear from you, Kentucky

828
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 3: sports fans. Eight five nine two eight zero two two

829
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 3: eight seven. That's a Clark Pumping Shop phone number. We're

830
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 3: gonna take a break, quick break. We'll be back right

831
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 3: after this.

832
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 4: Hello, Kentucky, we're back. It's the part of my takeover.

833
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 4: We want to hear from the people of Kentucky.

834
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 3: So give us a call. Eight five nine two eight

835
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 3: zero two two eight seven. We made history today, pft.

836
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 3: I feel good about it.

837
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Twitter right now and it looks like

838
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 4: that that might have made some news there Applecross, Kentucky.

839
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 3: You're talking about it. Shout out to.

840
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 4: The guy that's listening to us right now with his

841
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 4: cell phone on his clip on his belt, like your

842
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 4: new quarterback has right, that's the new style. He's stocking

843
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 4: shelves in a grocery store. So if you listen to

844
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 4: us right now, uh we we certainly appreciate.

845
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's there. The someone tweet is a video guy

846
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 3: just in the grocery store. No headphones on. Just listen

847
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 3: to the show. That guy rocks. But yeah, that that

848
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 3: was That was very cool. I don't think that we

849
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 3: ever thought that Rick Patino would call HIMO Kentucky Sports Radio.

850
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 3: All it took was Matt Jones going to North Korea.

851
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. So and then you know magic

852
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 3: can happen. He loves you guys. Yeah, that much is

853
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 3: very clear.

854
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,479
Speaker 4: Have you seen, by the way, the picture of Brock

855
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 4: vandergriff the quarterback for Kentucky. No, let me so this

856
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 4: is this, This is the pick right here, that's the quarterback.

857
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 3: Dude. That he might be a hoss, he is a

858
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 3: certified This is a big hoss.

859
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 4: And he's got the cell phone clip on his belt.

860
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 4: That's quite a move for a high school kid. He me, yeah,

861
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 4: he is a fifty year old high school kid.

862
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah, I wouldn't. He looks he looks

863
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 3: like if you went and tried to date his daughter,

864
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 3: there'd be there'd be some hard questions.

865
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 4: Oh, he's got some shirts that he takes, some prom

866
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 4: pictures of him holding like an over under shotgun, and

867
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 4: he's just he's intimidating the hell out of his daughter's date.

868
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So you're in good hands with Kentucky football,

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