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Just The Cats 10-07-26 · Just The Cats

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett. Hello, Big
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Blue Nation. Welcome to Just the Cats on this Wednesday,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: October 7th. I hope everybody's doing well. Today is yet
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  Speaker 1: again just an absolutely beautiful day. But, you know, Justin,
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Saturday is not looking so great. Yeah, thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the hurricane. Have you heard that? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck? We haven't had a hurricane all season long.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's going to be one destroy LSU and Kentucky?
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  Speaker 1: Well. Come on. All right. Let me ask you, though.
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  Speaker 1: Does that set it up better for UK that there
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  Speaker 1: could be inclement weather?
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  Speaker 2: How so?
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  Speaker 1: Because usually when you're the underdog and there's bad weather,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of sets a tone for the underdog to
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: have a better chance to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: If you take care of the football more times than not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'd agree with that. Yeah. So, I mean, right now it's,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at Louisville. It doesn't say Lexington, but right
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  Speaker 1: now in Louisville, it says we've got a 65% chance
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  Speaker 1: of rain. Sunday is worse. It's a 95% chance of rain.
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  Speaker 1: So I think Saturday, I mean, it just depends on what,
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  Speaker 1: what time of day it's going to be raining, but the.
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  Speaker 2: Chances are better on Sunday for rain. That means night.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine Saturday night is going to be pretty gnarly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Oh, boy. All right, then. Does that scare you?
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  Speaker 1: Does that scare me? I would rather have a clean
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  Speaker 1: game as far as weather-wise because, you know, will that
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  Speaker 1: keep some of the fans from coming?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: You don't think so?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: You think they will show up no matter what?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the Kentucky fan base is really, really
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  Speaker 2: excited about this one. I think they– see opportunity sitting
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  Speaker 2: in front of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just, I don't think anyone's going to be scared away.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about the football game in just a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes, but I really think the, the, the story
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  Speaker 1: of the day is last night, UK basketball hosted pro day. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, it wasn't mentioned. Evidently, am I the only
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  Speaker 1: one missing this stuff? I see other people as far
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  Speaker 1: as media members saying, why are we finding this stuff
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  Speaker 1: out so late? That's the part I don't understand. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting a little, I don't want to say irritated, but
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  Speaker 1: it is concerning that so much of this is being
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  Speaker 1: notified to the media and to the fans at such
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  Speaker 1: a late period. We're only finding stuff out a few
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  Speaker 1: days before. Would that bother you? Or is it just
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  Speaker 1: like no big deal? No, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: We made so much about, I don't know if it
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  Speaker 2: was on this show, but we made so much about
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  Speaker 2: the Indiana, or lack thereof, fans that.
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  Speaker 1: They're paying on Friday. Oh, no, we talked about it Monday.
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  Speaker 2: That was only announced, I think, a week, maybe eight
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  Speaker 2: days before that event took place.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so it's a similar situation in Bloomington where
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  Speaker 2: it's just nobody's finding out about anything until really late.
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  Speaker 1: Are we just not into basketball this year? We're so
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  Speaker 1: excited about football that Indiana's doing the same thing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: basketball is just past time for when football season starts again.
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  Speaker 1: Might have something to do with it. Man, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's something else for Indiana. Of course, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: pictures up there at.
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  Speaker 1: What's the little Coliseum called up there?
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  Speaker 2: Simon Scott Assembly Hall.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Nobody cares about the Simon Scott. Who is
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  Speaker 1: Simon Scott, by the way? That's who donated the money
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  Speaker 1: for it to be renovated. Oh, okay. I got you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, then. Well, to me, all my life, it's
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  Speaker 1: been called Assembly Hall. It was never known as, until recently,
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  Speaker 1: Historic Memorial Hall. It was always Memorial Hall. But now
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  Speaker 1: we've added the Historic Memorial Park.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it Coliseum?
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  Speaker 1: Or Coliseum, yes. I got Assembly Hall on the mind
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  Speaker 1: right now. But, yeah, Coliseum. Memorial Coliseum. But it's now
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  Speaker 1: Historic Memorial Coliseum.
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  Speaker 2: I don't hate it.
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  Speaker 1: It's different. I mean, I'm fine with it. It is historic.
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  Speaker 2: And it's only getting more historic.
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  Speaker 1: You think so? Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Because volleyball and women's basketball. True. I would agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: Or worse than all kinds of history.
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  Speaker 1: But, listen, I think that UK basketball did a nice job. Uh, it's,
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  Speaker 1: I watch it for a few minutes and that I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of done with it.
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  Speaker 2: Was it televised?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, a little bit of it. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I saw like, I saw obviously tweets with
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  Speaker 2: videos on it that the media members were posting, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know if it was televised.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, but here's the thing. Um, you know who my
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  Speaker 1: prediction was as far as who was going to be
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  Speaker 1: the surprise player of the year. Uh, do you realize that?
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  Speaker 1: He was kind of the one guy a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people talked about last night. It wasn't just Malachi Moreno,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't just Milan Momchilovic. It was Usman Ndiaye
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  Speaker 1: they talked about. They said he stood out like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And plus, as far as the points that they scored,
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  Speaker 1: he scored the second most.
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  Speaker 2: Who scored the most?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. Who won? Well, no, it was actually Malachi.
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  Speaker 1: So Malakai combined four game points breakdown by player was
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  Speaker 1: Malakai had 15, Usmane had 13, and Milan had 10.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Wilkins and Frank Kepnang were right after that.
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  Speaker 2: Kepnang or Kepnang? I'm going to mess that up. I've
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  Speaker 2: been saying Kepnang. And also, speaking of him, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of had a change of heart on him yesterday. Oh, really? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you remember how I've been saying all offseason that I
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  Speaker 2: was– I don't really expect much from him. Dude's 25
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: years old playing college basketball still. But I didn't think
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that he came from Washington. Who else
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  Speaker 2: came from Washington?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Zoom Diallo. Those two guys have played with each other,
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  Speaker 2: which who knows if they'll actually see this floor at
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  Speaker 2: the same time. But if they do, that could be
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  Speaker 2: a big advantage for not only Kepnong, but for Zoom
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  Speaker 2: Diallo as well, because they know each other's games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, I did kind of have a turn of heart
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  Speaker 2: in regards to Frank yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Now, let me clarify. The game was, or
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  Speaker 1: the game, the Pro Day was not on traditional. It
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  Speaker 1: was on SEC Plus.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So, that's the way I was able to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: I could have watched it on ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And because YouTube helped with that, right? What's that?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't YouTube allow for all the SEC Plus or ESPN
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  Speaker 1: Plus stations to come on now? And that's how it
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  Speaker 1: came on. I have no idea. Yeah, I believe that's
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  Speaker 1: how it happened.
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  Speaker 2: But if you've got ESPN Plus, then you could have watched.
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  Speaker 2: Because they'll have SEC Plus and that stuff. Well, I've
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: got that box thing, so I can pretty much get anything.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love that thing. My birthday's next Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really? You want me to spend $ 400 on you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah. All right, then. I am curious, though, with
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  Speaker 1: all the basketball talk because of last night, they did
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  Speaker 1: say almost every team showed up from the NBA. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They said it was like two and three deep from
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  Speaker 1: each team. And that Mark Pope was very happy how
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  Speaker 1: the team looked last night.
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  Speaker 2: That's great to hear.
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  Speaker 1: It is good to hear.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, do we put stock in anything Mark
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  Speaker 2: Pope says anymore? Because I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I have to tell you, no, you can't. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I love his enthusiasm. It is compelling. but I just
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  Speaker 1: he's it's almost the boy cried wolf in the opposite
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  Speaker 1: way so I just take it with a grain of
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  Speaker 1: salt let's just find out how the season pans out
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  Speaker 1: let me see a couple of games uh exhibition would
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  Speaker 1: be nice but you don't really get much out of
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  Speaker 1: exhibition games is that fair to say I.
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  Speaker 2: Know it's not fair to say really I think you
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  Speaker 2: can pull a lot from an exhibition game I mean
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  Speaker 2: well I mean Oftentimes, it's wrong. I mean, think about
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  Speaker 2: last year when Kentucky beat Kansas. No, you beat Purdue.
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  Speaker 2: Or Purdue, that's right, Purdue. Who was number one in
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  Speaker 2: the country preseason. That was a horrible predictor, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, you see how the regular season plays out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So that's why I don't put much stock
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  Speaker 1: in the exhibition games. That's prime example right there.
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  Speaker 2: When is the first one? They got to have one
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  Speaker 2: coming up. It's coming up soon. I don't remember what
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  Speaker 2: the date of it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'll look it up.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's several exhibition games tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, didn't we talk about it yesterday? Because there's
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  Speaker 1: tickets available. I don't think I gave the dates of them, though.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, so with UK playing last night. I was
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  Speaker 1: entertained by it. I was excited because I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about it because my guy, Usman Ndiaye,
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  Speaker 1: looked really good. Everybody was talking about him. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: my prediction is not so far off.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: No, we don't. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe my prediction isn't that far off. Heard some good
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  Speaker 2: things about Wilkins as well. Well, you're exactly correct. Alex
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  Speaker 2: Wilkins looked pretty good last night too. So as far
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  Speaker 2: as the coming season, let's start talking about it right now.
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  Speaker 2: What is a successful season going to look like for
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  Speaker 2: Mark Pope in his third season? Let's talk about it
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  Speaker 2: from the standpoint of the non-conference games. Conference games. How
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  Speaker 2: does the UK finish in the conference? And how far
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  Speaker 2: do they go in the SEC tournament? And how far
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  Speaker 2: do they have to go in the NCAA tournament?
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  Speaker 1: All right. So let's start with non-conference. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: a non-conference success does UK have to have in order
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  Speaker 1: for Justin Kalen say, this is going, this might be
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  Speaker 1: a fun season.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you, you don't want to drop. Any
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  Speaker 2: games that you shouldn't drop, that's first and foremost. You
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  Speaker 2: have to win all the games that you're favored to win.
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  Speaker 2: All right, first game is Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: November 3rd.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a 40 point blowout.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But that tells you when, when the, that's, that's
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  Speaker 1: after the exhibition games, but anyway. Yeah. All right. So
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  Speaker 1: non-conference you got of the big games. All right.
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  Speaker 2: You ready? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I won't go through the other teams that we really
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  Speaker 1: should be. I mean, in James Madison, Manhattan, Northern Arizona, those,
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  Speaker 1: the Grambling State. Sacred Heart.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Playing a girls high school team.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. So Kansas. Kansas. You got at Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's Indy.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: That's in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: It is in Indianapolis? Yeah. Okay. You've got, I think
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  Speaker 1: Wichita State is still a pretty good game, even though
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised there was still tickets left
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  Speaker 1: for that game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but with that being at home, that
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you got UK at Virginia, which I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: right now, I'm traveling to that game. That's a tough game.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to that game in Charlottesville. And then
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  Speaker 1: you finish it out with UofL and North Carolina before
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  Speaker 1: we head to SEC play. Well, you got Sacred Heart,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, and Gardner-Webb. So, of those games, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think UK has to do in order to say,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: this might be a fun season? So, again, you got Kansas, Indiana. Virginia, UofL,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. So five games right there. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: a record? We don't have to go through each game individually,
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  Speaker 1: but if you want to, you can.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you find a way to go 3-2
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  Speaker 2: in that stretch, that'll be really telling of what this
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  Speaker 2: team is.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what I was saying. And it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really matter which of the teams is 3-2, right?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah. And honestly... With it being non-conference, you could
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  Speaker 2: probably get away with going two and three in that
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  Speaker 2: stretch as well, but that's going to cause a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of unrest with the fan base. They're not going
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  Speaker 2: to want to lose three of those five games.
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  Speaker 1: I think the minimum has to be three games for
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  Speaker 1: the fans to stay engaged and for the fans to say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a fun team. This might
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  Speaker 1: be a successful season. And of those games, I think
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky has to beat The border teams, they have to
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  Speaker 1: beat Indiana. They have to beat UofL. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you right now, if they lose to Virginia, I
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  Speaker 1: think it'll bother the fan base, but it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be devastating as if they lost to Indiana or UofL.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. With the losses this year, every
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  Speaker 2: loss is going to frustrate the fan base. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter if you lose that game on November 10th to Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: The fan base is going to be frustrated with every
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  Speaker 2: single loss this season because that's just a product of
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  Speaker 2: what Mark Pope has done to them the last two years.
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  Speaker 1: Now, of the other three games, Virginia, North Carolina, UofL,
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  Speaker 1: or Kansas, which games does UK, which ones should they
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  Speaker 1: really win? I mean, I look at this and think, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think losing to Kansas, well, it'll bother a
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  Speaker 1: number of fans because of the fact that Kansas is
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  Speaker 1: right behind us in all-time wins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that matters from that standpoint. North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: is not as big a deal other than, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all of us of a certain age. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: whole Dean Smith era. And that's when we really started
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  Speaker 1: disliking North Carolina. Yeah, but I don't think it's that
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  Speaker 1: big of a deal to lose them as as as
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  Speaker 1: much as it would be to Kansas. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I disagree with that. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead. ACC.
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  Speaker 2: Hubert Davis is why. Yeah, that's a good point. You
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  Speaker 2: can't lose to that dweeb. At least Bill Self's had
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  Speaker 2: a really good career and won titles, but Hubert Davis,
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  Speaker 2: good grief, you.
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  Speaker 1: Can't lose to him. Okay, you changed my mind. I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of Virginia, this isn't Tony Bennett's Virginia anymore. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's still a solid team year in and year out,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a game that I know it's on the road.
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  Speaker 2: That's a game Kentucky should go in and win.
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  Speaker 1: You would think so.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, if you're asking me to predict a day out
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  Speaker 2: of those five games, I'd go 4-1.
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  Speaker 1: Really? I would.
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  Speaker 2: With the only loss coming to Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: So that has to be for UK, in your mind,
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  Speaker 1: to have a successful season. within their non-conference games, you
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  Speaker 1: believe now, instead of 3-2, UK has to... No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: staying at 3-2. But you're predicting they'll go 4-1. I'm
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  Speaker 1: predicting 4-1. Okay, I understand now. Yeah, because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's now three teams in the ACC. That's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of an indicator how well UK would play in
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  Speaker 1: the ACC. Two ACC.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is three. Yeah, Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: No, three.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Louisville.
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  Speaker 2: That Louisville game on December 12th.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: From an outsider's perspective, I am... pumped about that game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that game's going to rock.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the fan base with U of L
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: is losing their mind right now because you talked about
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: it yesterday a little bit. You've been listening to U
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: of L radio. I've now gone and listened just because
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: curiosity got the best of me. What is it? Curiosity
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: got the cat killed the cat or killed the cat.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: There you go. So here's this cat right over here.
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  Speaker 1: It killed me yesterday, but it, it, Not really because
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I kind of enjoyed it, but it was rebirth for me.
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  Speaker 1: But I looked at it and thought, oh, my. If
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: UofL is losing their mind because of football right now,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: if UofL basketball does not succeed, Man, they're going to
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: lose their minds over there. It's going to get bad.
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  Speaker 1: In a huge way. So I think more of the
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: pressure right now is on Pat Kelsey than Mark Pope
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: to succeed.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: I really think so. And with them going through this,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: you got to believe Pat Kelsey is now feeling the heat.
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  Speaker 1: It's like with all the money they spent on that
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: basketball team, they had better succeed and they had better
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  Speaker 1: succeed far more than Mark Pope is going to be required.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I still think Mark Pope is going to be required
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: to have a good season. I don't disagree with anything
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: you just said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, it does put a lot of pressure on
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey, but who knows? Pressure can create cracks or
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: it makes diamonds.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: It can make cracks or create diamonds.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: That's right. That's the phrase.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Okay. I've literally never heard that phrase. How? I don't know.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: You didn't hear the one I said the other day
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: about the funeral.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're 60 years old.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Are you not?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: What does that have to do with anything?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: You've been on Earth a lot longer to hear these phrases.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't say a phrase that you've never heard.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: You're 60 years old? Well, thanks for making me feel
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: so freaking old now. Guess what?
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: You turn another year older tomorrow. I do.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: So, newsflash.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Hopefully you get a birthday present with the Rays. Wouldn't
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: that be fun? With the Rays and the race. If
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: the Rays win tonight... Yeah. I'm losing my mind. Does
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Michael Bennett go out on the town?
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I'll have a hard time going to sleep, I'll tell
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you that. And then if my horse wins... On Thursday, tomorrow?
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can come back to Louisville, Kentucky.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I might. I won't need a plane. I'll just run back, okay?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now. Add me to Red Bull.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: They give you wings. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. No, you
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: don't want to see me, especially right now, as hyped
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: up as I am. You don't want to see me
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: with a Red Bull right now, okay? I don't know
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: why I continue to look at a blank screen, but
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I look at a blank screen. I know you can
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: see me, but I can't see you. Just turn the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: YouTube stream on that screen. Oh, I haven't even thought
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: about that. I probably should.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: All right. We got to take our first break. When
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: we come back, let's talk about the conference schedule. We'll
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: talk about that. What does Mark Pope have to do
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to make it a successful season for this team? And
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: then we got the football news. I definitely want to
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: talk about that because you know what? We're three days
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: away from what I think is now the biggest game
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: of the season. It would bar none. I know Alabama
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: was a big game, but this is the biggest game.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Because it's the next one.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Well, it is. Exactly. If we were playing Vanderbilt, I'd
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: say it's the biggest game of the season. So there
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: you go. Let's take a break.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: 502-414-1450.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: You want to text me on the Whiskey Thief text line.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: If you want to call in, 502-384-1450. Or you can
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: tweet me at JustTheCatRadio. We'll see you in a minute.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: This is Just The Cat.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Let the good times roll.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Let them knock you around Let the good times roll
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Let them make you a clown.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's weird.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: All I can hear is the narrow, narrow. That is
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: just the weirdest. By the way, I almost picked this
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: song today. Good song. I love the cars. Rick Ocasek,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: by the way. But, yeah, I almost picked. I always
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: liked the cars. But, you know, that's an old song
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: right there.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I figured that was appropriate for your foray up to
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: New York tonight.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate it. But the cars.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Good times roll.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I am not kidding. It's been a long time since
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I've been this excited before. I mean, I was excited
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: when I went to see a concert at Red Rocks
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: this summer. There are things I've been excited for, but
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I can tell you, man, just... I don't know how
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to explain it. So anyway, let's get to the text line.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Whiskey Thief text line 502-414-1450. See, I didn't say it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Nobody else gets that except you and me. John here for,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: oh my goodness. Okay, hold on. I didn't realize you
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: had texted that many times, John. Michael, good luck tonight
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and safe travels. I think you meant safe, not save.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to save my travels because I'm not
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: saving at all. This was One expensive plane ticket to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: get up there. I blame my Yankees. We'll get it
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: done tonight. We'll talk about that a little later because
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: their starting pitcher has something going on in his lifetime,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: in his life right now. Yeah, yeah. So we'll talk
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: about that in a minute. Hey, Michael, thanks for bringing
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: up on Crosstalk that the home environment for Saturday will
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: be a sold-out craziness. Look, despite being listed as a 9.5
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to 10 point, home underdog against Lane Kiffin's number 10-ranked
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: LSU squad. The ruckus environment at Kroger Field, no, it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: not Kroger Field, sorry, it's Commonwealth Stadium, John, is expected
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to give the Wildcats a major boost. Hey, remember when
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the Bluegrass Miracle 2002 LSU actually has not won a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: game in Lexington since then? Even that victory required a
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: miraculous deflected 74-yard Hail Mary pass on the final play
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of the game to escape with a 33 30 win. Yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that was a guy. Morris was the head coach back then.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I remember the student body actually up on the goalpost
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: trying to bring them down, not realizing that UK had
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: lost that game. Justin, just to let you know, that was,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that was terrible. Uh, or how about, uh, the more
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: recent time, the 2021 defeat, the last time LSU traveled
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to Lexington in 2021 and unranked Kentucky team, uh, Physically, well,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: where'd it go? It just disappeared.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Physically dominated the Tigers in a 42-21 blowout victory. We
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: do have a chance, and I can't wait to see
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: how it plays out.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Good Lord, John, you are in the mood to write today. Also, Justin,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a home field advantage matters. And you know that for Nebraska,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: when filtering strictly for home games, they are outscoring opponents
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: by an average of 44-14. Wow. Demonstrating a massive hometown advantage.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that smothers opposing offenses. Also, Nebraska ranks number two nationally
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: in total yardage gained at home, averaging a dominant 520.7
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: yards per game across their home matchups. Good gosh. Look,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Michael and Justin, I believe the football Cats fans will
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: be happy Saturday and maybe some Hoosier fans will not.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Here's the deal, John. I love that you bring up
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: those Nebraska stats. Here's who they played at home.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Nebraska.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Because he thinks Nebraska is going to beat Indiana, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: he thinks Kentucky is going to beat LSU.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Whatever. Do you, John. But Nebraska at home has played
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Bowling Green, Ohio, North Dakota, and Maryland. They played nobody.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I don't read anything into those home stats, John. I
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: really don't.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And I think you wouldn't read into the home stats
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: with IU, too, who they haven't really played anybody. No, absolutely.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You would be completely transparent about that, and I appreciate that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: One person texted in, Michael and Scoots, this is Austin
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: from Cordon. Understandably enough, what.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: What Mark Pope has done so far isn't up to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the standards of Kentucky. Part of it isn't his fault
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: because of injuries, but I do feel like this is
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the year for him to prove that he could be
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the coach here. My question to you all is if
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Mark Pope had brought this current team that he has
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: now in for his first year, Would we be excited
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: about this team? And do you think that this team
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: is better than the team he had his first season?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That's a great question right there. I'm going to tell
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you right now, Austin from Cordon. Yes, we would be
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: ecstatic about this team if this was his first team.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Because it would be year one and there's the unknown.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yes. Oh, that's part of it. But I think he
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: means from a talent level. Because the talent level his
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: first season wasn't as good as potentially this team right here.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: And I think, hold on, the combination of Malachi with Ndiaye,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: with Zoom Diallo, I think, and I'll answer the question
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: right now, I do think this team is more talented
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: than the previous two that he's had. But you can't
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: use the injury excuse anymore. I get it. He's had
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: those injuries. That has been a bit of a pill
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: for Mark Pope, but you cannot make that as an excuse.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Everybody has injuries. Go ahead, Justin.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I was just curious where you rank this team in
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: terms of talent out of the three he's had. Out
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: of the three?
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I'd say number one.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: And then where would you put the other two?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: First year is number two, and last year is number three.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I think that's the correct ranking.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but, uh, yeah, I, I just, I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: think definitely because you got, uh, you look at year
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: two of Malachi, this is going to be a big
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: step for him. And I think he's going to prove
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: us all right.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Not wrong.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Right. I think he is going to be a force.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I think the addition of Milan Momchilovich is a huge addition.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I'm so proud how you say that. Oh, really? I'm
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: so proud of you.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: How about Ousmane Ndiaye? How do you like that?
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's Ndiaye.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, it is? It's Ndiaye?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I think that's how you pronounce it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I'm saying it wrong?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. I don't know. I was so proud of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: myself with that one.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're close, so I'm proud too.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I know. You can say all you want. I suck
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: at names. I just suck at them. I wish I didn't.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I wish I could remember names, and I wish I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: could pronounce them correctly. But, by the way, I had
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a dream last night.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: That a truck backed up in the front yard of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: my house and I'm in the bedroom and I saw
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: this happening and he puts it in full blown reverse
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: going as fast as he can to blast through my
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: front door. Oh, I did not sleep well the rest
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of the night. What does that mean for your race?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: What does it mean for my race? What does it
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: mean for my, uh, for the horse tomorrow? I mean,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: what does it mean for a lot of things?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I loved.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: See, I don't. The rest of the night, I sat
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: there and thought about, how do I escape? And the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: only thing I can think of is, well, I'm going
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to the closet and hiding. I'm like, that's the dumbest
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: thing you could ever do. But isn't that fun?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: You're basically watching a movie while you sleep. No, it
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: was disturbing to me the rest of the night. So
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I thought, well, maybe I should escape through the bedroom
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: or the master bedroom, a master bathroom window. And I'm like, no,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: fat boy can't get through that window. That's what I
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: thought about. I thought, oh, I'm going to get halfway
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: through it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Be stuck. They're going to come get me and drag
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: me out. Really? And then I thought, well, the bad
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: guys are going to come around the other side of
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the house. They'll catch me sneaking out the back window.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: This is going through my mind all night long. And
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that's why I love dreams, because where does that even
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: come from? How are you sitting there basically in another
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: dimension while you're asleep?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. They're just so fun.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Well, what scares me is sometimes I have dreams that
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: come true. It's like, I don't want this to happen.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That doesn't happen for me. It doesn't? No. I have,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: what do they call it? Deja vu. I'll have deja
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: vu every.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Now and then. Oh, I have deja vu all the time.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Well, that's part of it right there.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: It might be, yeah. I've always wondered where deja vu
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: comes from. Maybe that's it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know. Or as Billy Crystal said, deja ju.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Which I thought was funny. I mean, he's Jewish and
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: he said that, but... Anyway, it was a funny joke.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: But no, I am worried about that. I'm so hyper,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: yet I'm scared, okay? That's how my day has gone
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: so far. It's ridiculous. But all right, let's get back
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: to the Whiskey Thief text line. One person said, just
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: checking in. Wanted to make sure you were going to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: be on the radio this week. Yes, I've been on
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the every day this week. What's the problem? Oh, my gosh.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I love you. You make me smile so much.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Are you a horseman or a radio horse, Michael?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I know. I know. But, you know, I'm having fun.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: So there you are. Let me get to this one
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: because this guy has really been going at it. I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. If you're scared, take your butt to church. See,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I love that. That, you know, Will Stein said that
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: on this show when he came on for the first time.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: And I had to take a minute. What did you
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: just say? I think I did ask him, say that again.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And he said, if you're scared, go to church. And
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I thought, that's a great line right there. Have you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: ever heard anybody say that?
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Okay.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: That's common for you.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: If Michael is going to say, oh, my, then he
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: has to say it like George Takai does. Who's that?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I have no idea who that is.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Text her. I'll have to look that up. I don't
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: know how he says that.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, my.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Okay. If the Rays win, does the battleship go tarps off?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: That's a great question.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do they?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine me in Yankeeville taking my shirt off
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and showing this big, and I got to have a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: beer in my hand, just to let you know. I am... Oh, yes.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: If the Rays win, I'm going tarps off. I just
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: got to have... You got to have the full experience there.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And I want all the Yankee fans just yelling at me.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Are you ready for George Takai? Okay, who is he? Oh,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: my God. Oh, that's the guy from Star Trek. Isn't
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that the Asian guy from Star Trek? Yeah, but this
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: clip's from Third Rock from the Sun. Oh, it is? Yeah. Well,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: it's the actor from there, so I'm thinking of the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: right guy.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I believe so.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, my. How's that sound?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Someone needs to put the phone down and just enjoy
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the Cheetos.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I don't get it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I don't get it either.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: There you go. I had some Cheetos last night.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, did you really?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Matter of fact.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: 48 Handley said, Tar Heels kind of slid into mediocrity
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: in recent years. Phil Ford isn't walking through that door.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: For Kentucky, I like Wilkins. You do too, Justin. I do.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not that excited about Moreno. I don't know why
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you should be, 48 Handley. He has to prove it
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to me. Give me the over on IU's total victories
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, my.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, Deja Vu was a strip club at Longfield and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Taylor Boulevard, yes.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I'm so familiar with the address, 48 Andrews. We're not
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: going any further with that, okay? Just leave it there,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I....
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I like Alex Wilkins. I mean, listen, I am just
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: keeping myself intact until the season starts. I want to
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: get excited about this team, but I think last year
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: really messed it up for me for basketball. I have
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: to wait and see. And listen, like I said a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes ago, I love Mark Pope's enthusiasm, but
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I got to have him prove it to me first.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And I think you're the same way, Justin. Yeah.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And it makes sense to be that way. But also,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: on the flip side of that, you're a fan. You know?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, as a fan, shouldn't you allow yourself to
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: dream big in the offseason, regardless of what you've seen
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: in past seasons?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Because that's what makes being a fan fun. Right. You
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: get to go into every year just dreaming about what
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: could possibly happen.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: You're exactly right. So, all right, we got to take
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: another break. I have been on time today. I'm doing
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: a great job.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: 502-384-1450.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: You want to call 502-414-1450. Keep those texts coming in.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to your other one here because
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to switch it over.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: It's football.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to switch it over to some football
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. But I still want to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: talk a little more about basketball. Then we'll take all
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of next hour talking basketball or football today. and get
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you ready for it. Because we got today, we got
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: tomorrow to talk football, and we got Friday to talk football, okay?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: We are going to talk about so much. So you
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: check in, Texter. I'm here. You come talk to me
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: about this football game. And then, unfortunately, you had to
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: say soccer yesterday, didn't you? You had to say soccer.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that, too. So stay right there. More
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Just the Cats coming right up.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: We'll be right back. That's a different.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Version. Good version, right? Yeah, I like it. Well, I've
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: always liked Tears for Fears, so everybody definitely wants to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: rule the world. I can tell you, Will Stein wants
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to rule the world right now, and he's succeeding as
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: far as Big Blue Nation. That's right. He's doing a
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: great job. All right, let's get back to this, and
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: then we will talk. I promise you, we're going to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: talk to UK football in the second hour. But let's
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: talk about the rest of the season as far as
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: in conference for UK basketball. If you want to text
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: in 502-414-1450. The only thing as far as the conference
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: play I'm disappointed about is we're playing Florida one time.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: And it's at Florida for the last game of the season.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: They're the best team in the SEC. I want to
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: play the best team in the SEC. I'm kind of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: different about that. But I'm kind of bummed that they
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: don't come to Lexington. Are you disappointed about that, or
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you have no feeling either way?
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Really? No.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it would be kind of cool
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: seeing Denzel Aberdeen come back.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Is he even going to play? Who knows?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But I think as far as Denzel Aberdeen,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I think he would get a nice applause if he
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: was starting and it was going to be during the introductions.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would boo him. Do you?
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I think there would be a faction that would, yeah.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: You think so?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Just because, let's see, last season didn't go the way
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Kentucky fans thought it would for him.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: But I don't think it's on him, though. I don't
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: think you put last season just on one player. And
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's Denzel Averdeen. But, all right, you
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: look at this and you think, okay, What is a
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: successful season for UK in the, let's just talk about losses.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: How many losses can they sustain for the fan base
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: to be happy in conference play?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a set number of losses.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I think it's more so about the seating.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Where does UK have to finish then in the SEC
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: as far as seating for the SEC tournament then? I
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: think that's a fair question. I would say top four.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Top four, really? I'm probably top three. I think finish
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: fourth in the conference, I think there's going to be
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a faction of the fan base that's going to be like, yeah,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: it's not good enough. But you think four is okay? Yeah.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a good SEC. Because clearly Florida's the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: best team in the conference, right?
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd agree.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: All right, who's two and three? Because right now you're
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: saying UK is four.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Definitely not LSU, I'll tell you that.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Listen, I think they need to make
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a rule that only teams that play LSU can only
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: start four players. And, I mean, you've got 15 players
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: on UK's roster, and they're going to play four players
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: on LSU. It's crazy. It is crazy. I mean, it's
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: not going to be a fun season for them, no
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: matter what happens. It's not going to be a fun
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: season for them. Who's going to be the second best
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: team in the conference?
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: That's a great question. That's where it gets a little
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: muddled for me. I don't know if it's going to
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: be Alabama, Texas. I know has gotten a lot of
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: hype this off season.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And Tennessee, Tennessee.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. See, I left off Arkansas too. Yeah, but I
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: don't like the roster. We talked about that last week.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's a good roster.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm missing something with Arkansas, but yeah, something about them.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just, And, of course, February 20th, UK plays Arkansas
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and Lexington. I think the glamour of Cal coming back
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to Lexington, that's kind of over, isn't it? I mean,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: it's nice he's coming back. Clearly, we hope we win,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: but it's not going to be one of those do-or-die
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: type games. Is that fair to say? I think the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: UofL game is bigger than the Arkansas game. If I
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: was completely honest, I would agree.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: But anytime Cal comes back, it's going to be big.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, no.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to discredit it. It'll be a big game,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: but I don't think it's like as big as it
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: was the first year and last year, because I think
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the first year he comes to Lexington back to Lexington
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: for the first time since he was head coach. And
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: then it's the first time we go to a little
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: or not little rock, um, Fayetteville to face him on
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: his brand new Coliseum. So I think that's kind of
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: that being enamored about that stuff. And we walked away
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: one in one. I think the fan base is okay
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: with it. I don't think they have to look at this. Oh,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: we got to win this game. They want to win
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: this game, but it's not like, oh, if we lose it,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it's not as big a deal as it was the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: first season. Am I wrong about that?
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: No, I tend to agree with you on that. But again,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: every loss is going to be big, no matter who
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: it's against. Every loss is going to be bigger than
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: it needs to be.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I still think Tennessee is chomping at the
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: bit to play Kentucky.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: By the way, Kentucky is fifth in the odds. Like
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: if we're talking about winning the championship, they're fifth in
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: the SEC.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: So who are the other four teams?
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: You got Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and then Kentucky. See,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that. And then listen to this.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So you can get Kentucky at 35 to one. Can
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: you explain to me why LSU is 48-1, Alabama is 58-1?
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense. Why is LSU even on
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: this list? They don't have a team.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess they're predicting that the players that haven't
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: been approved to play are going to be playing. That's
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the only thing I can think of.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Or that they're going to get some ballers off the streets.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: There's nobody left. How do you do this? Seriously. School
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: has been in session for the last month. How do
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: you go back and say, oh, by the way, these
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: players are joining my school and they're going to start
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: class a month and a half later?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's an option at this point. The
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: only thing I can figure out is you're going to
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: have to do what Tom Crean did at Indiana. You're
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: going to have to go into the rec center and
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: pick out a few guys to join the team.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: What was that movie with Nick Nolte that had Rick
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Pitino in it where he recruited all those players illegally
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: to play at some fictitious school? Do you remember that movie? Okay.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Blue Chips. Blue Chips. That's it. Blue Chips. And to me,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: that's going to be the same situation. Shaquille O'Neal was
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: in that movie. Yep. Uh, but yeah, that was a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: good movie by the way. It's going to be, it
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: has to be a situation like that. So, uh, we'll wait.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: It's going to have to play Nick Nolte. Just telling
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you right now, he's going to have to talk all
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: season with that. Good luck to him.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Uh, I, I, exactly. I think the same, uh, as
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: far as the worst team in the conference, it's not
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: going to be Vanderbilt. I'm surprised more people aren't talking
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: about Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt is going to be good. Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: And I, I almost put Vanderbilt, uh, Man, it's one
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: of those teams. They might have Kentucky on that list
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: as fifth. Vanderbilt's got to be right behind them. And
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I agree with it. It's Florida number one, and I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: think it's not even close with anybody else. Todd Golden's
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: got it going on in Florida, and good for him.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: But I really think, man, I don't know why I
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: want to say this, but I'm almost putting Rick Barnes
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: and Tennessee ahead. I'm making them number two.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know why.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: See, I don't either.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: If Nate Ament didn't go to the draft, I'd be
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: with you on this, but I don't know why there's
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: belief in Tennessee.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I don't either. I still believe UK's going to sweep
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: them again this year, and it's just going to drive
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Ball Nation just crazy because Rick Barnes can't figure a
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: way to beat Kentucky. And I truly believe that. I
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: don't believe in Texas. I don't think Texas is going
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: to be that good.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me neither.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: But for Kentucky to succeed, I think they have to
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: finish third in the SEC. Now, you said fourth. Now,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: how deep into the– forget about the SEC. I think
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: it's nice if they make it to the semis. And
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that will be successful if they make the semis.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm kind of with– so Steven Peake
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: has been saying all offseason that what For him, at least,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: what makes this a successful season? You have to win something.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: You have to win either the SEC regular season, got
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: to win the SEC tournament, or you have to win
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the big tournament. And I'm kind of right there with
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: him on that. To be considered a successful season, you've
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: got to win something.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, realistically, I just don't see this team. Now, granted,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I said it a few minutes ago because I thought
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: that was a great question by one of the texters.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Do I see this as the most talented team that
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Mark Pope has had at UK? Yes, bar none. But
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: do I see them winning the conference? I don't. Realistically,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I do not see this team winning it.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Well, then you have to get to the Elite Eight.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: So then with the SEC tournament, I see them getting to...
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I don't see them winning the tournament.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, who knows? The tournament's so wonky.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, it is. I'm talking SEC now.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. But you're right. It is wonky, and it's
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: in a wonky place, Nashville, Tennessee. Wonkiest place in the world.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: What was the word that the guy used yesterday? Zibity? Skibity. Skibity.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: There you go. I was close. I mean, maybe the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: baby boomers are using gibity. But I said skibity right there, right?
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I look at this and think, okay, as far as
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament, for it to be successful, I think
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: they have to be an Elite 18. Yeah, I agree. So,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: there you go.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Got to push further than you ever have.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, too. Uh, but, uh, uh, John here, look, uh,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: coach Pope needs the basketball cats should have no more, uh,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: than six to seven losses. And I believe he needs
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to get the cats to no higher than three or
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: four seed in the NCAA tournament. And he needs to
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: make a deep run. So, uh, go get it done
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: or pack your bags coach. Wow. That's, that's pretty strong
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: from John, right? He's always Mr. Uh, he's going to
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: get it done, but that's man. All right. How many
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: losses do you think UK basketball will have this season?
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Let me do some quick math. I think they'll have nine.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Nine?
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think they'll have nine losses.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: That's not what you're looking for.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: No, it's not. Again, I'm trying to be realistic. And
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I think that's friendly. I really do.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say two in the non-conference. I'll stick
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: with that prediction.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: All right. We'll go.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're going to lose a lot more
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: in the SEC.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Let's see. One, two, three, four.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you counting while we're on the air.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I'll go eight.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: You'll go eight? Well, you were giving me a hard time,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: and you're only one game off for me.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: SEC's tough.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: It is tough. It's going to be a really tough conference.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: And I think some of the toughest games are going
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: to be at Tennessee. I think the Alabama game in
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Lexington is going to be tough. You've got to play
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: at Texas. I think even the Vanderbilt game down in
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Nashville is going to be tough. And then you finish
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: the season with Florida.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: But eight losses isn't bad.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: It's not?
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: No, it's not bad.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I think nine, you're getting a little close there. Yeah,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, you want to avoid ten. Yeah, you definitely
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: don't want to get into double-digit losses. If you do,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: then this is not good. It's not good at all. Anyway,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: all right, we've got to take a break. When we
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: come back, we're going to talk football, okay? So get
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: yourself ready. I want to see you text in 502-414-1450
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: or if you want to call 384- And we're going
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: to talk about this LSU game coming up. And, yeah,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about that soccer game. I mean, you're killing me.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: You had to bring up. Why did you bring up soccer?
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: They would have won if you had not brought it
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: up yesterday. Yeah, they would have.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: They went up against a juggernaut.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: All right, fine. A juggernaut. Come on. Zippity. All right. Zippity.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is. I'll see you in a minute. Hour
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: two coming right up.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: All right, now we're number two. And I'm looking forward
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: to this. I do. As soon as I'm done, I'm sorry, Justin.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I got to take off.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Are you nervous at all about leaving here at 10
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: and your flight takes off at 1130?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Or 1150? No, why?
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: They always tell you you should be at the airport
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: two hours before, but I know that I've flown out
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: of Louisville enough times to know that it goes pretty quick.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be worried about it either, but if you
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: have just a minor setback. Well, I would be worried
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: if I had to park a car, but my son's
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: picking me up. My wife dropped me off, and we're
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: just 10 minutes away from the airport. I'll get through.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: TSA fairly quickly because I'm the TSA pre, whatever you
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: call that thing. And that gets me through there fast.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: No big deal.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. No, it isn't a big deal. Come on, man.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: One person texted in. Let me get to the right
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: one here. I listened to Nick Roush podcast with LSU
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: media guy. LSU had a lot of injuries. That is true.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: And so do we when it comes to linebackers. That's
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: one thing Will Stein's been talking about. We are thin
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: when it comes to linebackers, and that sucks right there.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping they can step it up and figure it
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: out somehow. But I like that they are as well,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: but it just makes it even, doesn't it? I mean,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: they're probably, let's be honest, LSU's probably deeper than UK.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: I would say so.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's going to be the difference right there. Now,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: do I think UK can win? Absolutely. I firmly believe
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: UK can win. Do I think they will? We'll talk
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: about that later. I give them a chance at winning. Yeah.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I know you do, Justin.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how you couldn't.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I almost wish this game was at LSU.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Seems like they're playing better on the road than they
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: are at home. Right. I mean, the only loss they
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: had was Alabama in Lexington at Commonwealth Stadium. Hey, by
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the way, I like this team. They have height and
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: can shoot. Talking about the basketball team. Pope can coach.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Look at first-year wins, if you can remember. I do.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad you think Pope can coach. I'm worried
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: about it. I just... I want... You and I were
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: talking about what TJ Walker was saying, what, yesterday? Mm-hmm.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Repeat what he said yesterday on Kentucky Sports. I'm sorry,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Kentucky Roll Call. Basically, just how.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Mark Pope this off season is kind of, he's kind
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: of changed his persona a little bit. Like if you
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: think back to big blue madness, like standing up there
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: on the, on that big elevated thing, and he's just
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: got his arms crossed with this mean look on his
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: face and he's growing out the beard. He's, he's got
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the hair growing out a little bit, almost like he's just,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: he's trying to become this, this hard ass for a better,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: for lack of a better word. And, TJ was basically
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: just saying, I don't want him to be like that.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: I don't need my coach to change. I just want
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: the team to play like that. Right. The persona that
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: he's trying to put out, if the team plays with,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: that's for the best.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: See, I agree.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I thought it was. was a really good thing. And
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: that's not word for word. I probably did a crappy
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: job of passing that along. No, but I understand what
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: you're saying and what he was trying to say. And
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more with that. I mean, it's like,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: what are you doing? Just be you. Go out there
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: and coach. Now, if you need to adjust the way
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: you coach, go out there and adjust the way you coach.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Don't adjust the way you look.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just... Stop trying to change your persona. That's the
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: only part. I would agree with it. It's like, stop.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: You're looking goofy. But, hey, by the way, I like
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: this team. Okay, I just read that. So there you go.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Let me get to this one. I think they still
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: like it. I'm glad he doesn't. I think he still
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: likes Pope, too. One person said, someone needs to put
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: the– no, we got that. While kind of negative from John,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: he must have gotten into a bad batch. Wow.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: That was true though. John's taking some heat this morning.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: He's taking some heat the last week or so. I
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: mean the whole Mahomes putting Minchie up there with Mahomes
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: and Joe Montana was the greatest text ever. I'm just
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: telling you right now. And I loved it that John
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: said that he wants to be Darth Pope. what Mark
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Pope wants to be.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: It's Darth Pope. Perfect way to describe it.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't like all the all black look. I just,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: I just, come on. Our school colors are blue and white.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Now you got to admit the black and the blue
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: together is pretty sweet.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: And you know, the other non UK color I really
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: like is the blue with the gray. I don't like
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the gray. See, I don't like black is my problem.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: By the way, I can't believe I did not bring
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: this up earlier this week. Yes. The lineman, the defensive
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: lineman for Kentucky that was wearing the guardian cap on Saturday.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: I cannot think of who it was.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: But they were wearing the chrome domes. And he didn't
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: have a chrome dome because of his guardian cap.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: No. It was just gray.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: Ugh.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: See, you didn't realize that? I missed that totally. Yeah,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Every time they were out there defensively, I was like, man,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: this guy just looks funny. Everybody else is wearing chrome domes,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: and he's got his little gray helmet. Are they required
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: to wear those once they have a concussion? Is that
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: what- I don't think so. No, I think he- It's
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: just the elect to do that themselves. I think the
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: players can choose to do that themselves. You think his
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: mom makes them? Is that what it does?
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe. So when you see an NFL player or college
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: player out there wearing it, you think it's the mom
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: behind all this and saying, honey, I need you to
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: wear that guardian helmet on top of your helmet.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure there are cases of that.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: But majority, no, I would say not.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Especially not in the NFL.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: You think you're going to be playing in the NFL
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: and your mom's still telling you what to do?
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Listen, my mom.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Mom, I'll give you a million dollars if you shut
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the hell up.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: No, that's not the way you talk to your mom.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Stop that. No, my mom was always my mom until
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: the day she passed away. She would tell me everything
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I should and shouldn't be doing. And I loved every
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: second of it. My dad was the same way.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: I guess my mom tries to do that, but I
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: don't listen to her.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. You're telling your mom to shut the
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: hell up.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, if she offers a suggestion or something like
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: you need a haircut. Mom, it's my life. I'll live
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: it the way I want.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. That's what they should put on your tombstone. Mom,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: it's my life. Oh, my gosh. I love reading the tombstones.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: There was one that was done by a former actor,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Jack Lemmon, and he was all kinds of great movies,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: by the way. Jack Lemmon, on his tombstone, put, now
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: starring in, and then dot, dot, dot. I thought it
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: was hilarious.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I do. When people post funny tombstones, I think it's fun.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: To have fun after your life is done is even,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: I think, entertains so many people out there. With UK's
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: success so far this year, is Will Stein ahead of
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: schedule right now as far as where he predicted or
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: we predicted?
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Where we thought he'd be? Is that a real question?
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Do you think he's– I'm asking you. Don't make fun
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: of me. I'm making fun of you.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: There's not a person alive that would say no to that.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's ahead of schedule. You think so. I wonder
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: if Will Stein would say that, though.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Do you think U.K. fans are starting to believe in Kentucky? Again,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: another– That they can be a legitimate SEC contender?
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: This year, no. But in future years, yeah, absolutely. I
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: think people are thinking that. There's people that think that
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: for this year. Well, exactly.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I think the fun part is that this game is
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: sold out. It sold out right after the show was
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: over yesterday. And I'm curious. Do you think this will
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: be the biggest home atmosphere since the Alabama game or
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: since even a game before that? from another season. I'm
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: trying to think. I really think the biggest home game
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: atmosphere was not the Alabama game. I really believe it
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: was the 2018 Georgia game, the week after UK beat
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Florida in Gainesville. That, to me, was the biggest Commonwealth
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Stadium football atmosphere I've ever experienced. What do you think?
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think this one will top it. I do
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: think the– Top which one? The Alabama or the– I
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: think it'll top Alabama. So do I.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't think it'll top any of the
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: others in history. The atmosphere is going to be awesome.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. It's going to be loud. Fans
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: have all day to liquor up and come in and
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: have a good time.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: I love how you see that.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: It's going to be awesome.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: But I do think the rain maybe hinders things a
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: I'm worried about that.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I don't know. I do think the atmosphere, though,
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: is going to be a lot of fun.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: See, if the game sold out, I think they should
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: sell standing room only tickets.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Do you? Listen, I say fill it up as much
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: as you can. The fire marshal wouldn't agree with you,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: but yeah.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that what it is? Okay, the fire marshal's always...
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: We're not going to have a fire at a stadium
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: that's built by cement and steel.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: But if you do, you're not going to have a
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: way to get out.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: What is going to catch fire at Commonwealth Stadium? There's
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: not any couches there. Well, there are in one area.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Trash. Trash can catch on fire. Yeah, but it's a
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: small fire.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on. Let's... Let the kids have their fun.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Let us get in there. Let all the students, I mean,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: let every ticket sold, then let all the students come
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: in for free that want to come and let them
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: stand anywhere they want to stand. And I'm telling you,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: here's the other thing. If UK does win this game,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: they better let them storm the field. They better let
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: them storm the field. They will. I hope so. This
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: is Jay Betts' first one now. And I just, I
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: want to see, because if it was the other leadership,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I think they would have said, no, we're not storming
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: the field. It's like, come on, man. School can't afford it.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Let everybody that goes that game donate a dollar. And
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: then you've got a good portion of the fine right there, okay?
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Just come on. Let them have fun. This is a
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: big deal. Will Stein will appreciate it. The coaching staff
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: will appreciate it. And guess what? The stinking players will
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: appreciate it.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: And it gives a fun moment for everybody.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: It does. It really does. So I look at this, though.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: I know how much you do not like Lane Kiffin.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin really hasn't done anything to UK. I don't
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: think our fan base dislikes him like Tennessee, clearly Ole Miss,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: or Southern Cal. Did you see his interview from yesterday?
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch it earlier this week. No, I meant
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: to watch it, and I totally forgot. Tell me about it.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: What an absolute loser. What did he do? He was
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: asked about the Kentucky defense.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: And he talked in circles. Yeah, I think they do
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: some really good things back there. It reminds me of
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: some Stoops defenses in the past. They do some really
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: good things back there. They try really hard. They fight.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: They play hard. And I just think they do some
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: really good things back there. And it's like, Lane, you
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: just said a whole lot without saying anything.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: In other words, he didn't know anything about the defense.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: That's what it felt like. That's what it feels like
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: to me. The way you answer it is like he
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: had no idea how to answer the question.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Even under Stoops, they always fought hard, and they always
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: did some good things back there. What are you trying
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: to say, dude?
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. See, I would have gone back and asked him,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: can you explain what you mean by that? Can you
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: be a little more specific? He sounded like an idiot. Yeah,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: that does. I mean, that's not a good look right there.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: But I don't think the fan base, as far as
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: UK's fan base, dislikes him. No, because he's winning. They
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: won't like him once he starts losing. Well, I'm talking
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: about UK, not LSU's fan base. Now, I think LSU's
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: fan base will lose their mind if UK beats them.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Is there any way you think the fan base at
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: LSU is worried about this game Saturday night?
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: I would have to say yes. Majority are not, no.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: You don't think so?
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: No.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: You think it's just coming up here. We're going to
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: have a good old time. People keep walking through the studio.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: It's freaking me out. What is going on out there?
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: I'm in here in the studio. I don't know.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Can you go tell them they need to stop?
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hold on.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Hold on. Thank you. I really appreciate that. All right, quarterback.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Kenny Minchie for a minute. Uh, Kenny
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: continues to gain all kinds of tension after the South
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Carolina comeback win, right? Is he becoming the face of
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: the program? I know you can say Will Stein, which
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: I agree with you wholeheartedly, but let's talk about player wise.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Do you think Kenny Minchie is becoming the face of
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: the UK football program? I think an argument could be
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: made for, uh, Kentucky Darby instead. See, I don't disagree
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: with that either because I'm kind of there as well.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: It's almost like they got to figure a way to
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: market Kenny Square because that to me is the bigger
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: picture right there. Keeping Kenny Minchie one more year and
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: then having Kenny Darby come back however many more years
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: he can until he goes and gets drafted by the NFL.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Because he won't stay at any school for years if
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: he continues to be as productive as he has been
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: his true freshman year. I'm just hoping we figure a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: way to make a team around Kenny Darby. I think
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: that's your link right there. So you think it's more
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Kenny Darby than Kenny Minchie?
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because for me, at least, Minchie doesn't really stand out,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: which can be a good and a bad thing. A
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: bad thing for this argument, but a good thing for...
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: He's not making mistakes. Like, I don't know. He doesn't
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: do anything. Like, he's not going to have any spectacular
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: stat lines, I don't think. But he's going to take
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: care of the ball.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I think he's already had
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: some tremendous stat lines.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's had good stat.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: He's not going to. He's had one interception this year.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: That's a huge stat line.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Let me rephrase it. I love it when you get
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: like that. He's not going to put up eye-popping stat lines.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: But he's going to take care of the football. So really,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: it's not anything sexy. Now I know how your mom feels.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: I was ready for you to say, shut the hell up, Mom.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: I almost did. I almost did.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, you don't need to repeat on
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: this show. We have enough content, okay? I'm turning my
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: mic off. It's been a fun morning. I'll be talking
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow. I told you I was hyper today,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: and I'm so sorry. I should have hit you with
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: your own phrase. Let me finish. Yeah, you should have.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I love it. When you start acting like me, it
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: makes me so proud. I just want you to know.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: It makes me stressed. Oh, it shouldn't.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: We're just having fun. I don't want to act like
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Michael Bennett. Are you kidding me? No, yeah, you do.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: You want to act a little bit like me. Come on.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: All right, let me ask it this way then. Is
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Kenny Minchie already one of the most important UK quarterbacks
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: of the last decade? All right, before you answer your question,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you the quarterbacks that I thought of
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: the last decade.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: They've all been horrible.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I agree. Cutter Bowley, who played last year, you
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: got Will Levis, Terry Wilson, Steven Johnson, Drew Barker are
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: the ones that really stand out to me the last decade.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: The one that I would say that was good, and
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: there's only one, it's Will Levis, and I would just
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: say he was good. I really think Kenny Menchie is.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Or potentially. Not yet. But even though I asked the question,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: is he already? I mean, I kind of feel like
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: he is already the most important quarterback the last decade.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would say yes, just because he's the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: quarterback now.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: And he's four and one.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: You can't argue that.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: Doing this type of assignment. That's not the word I'm
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: looking for. Doing this type of. It's a word I'm
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: looking for. Yeah, like, I don't really like comparing now
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: to the past.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Because there was... Not a lot of good memories in
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: the past.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: No, not at all. I mean, even with 2018, which
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: was our best season, and who knows how, that was
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: our 10-win season. That was Terry Wilson, and honestly, he
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: was just an okay quarterback, wasn't he? He wasn't a
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: good quarterback. He wasn't even coming close to being a
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: great quarterback. I mean, I love Steven Johnson. I think
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: he was an okay quarterback. Everybody says Will Levis. And
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: you've heard me say this numerous times. I just, he wasn't,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: he was a good quarterback. I think if he had
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: had a better line, he'd have been better than that.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: I just, I just think he was an okay, a
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: good quarterback. He wasn't great. I think Kenny Menchie has
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to be not just good, but a great quarterback.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but let's not put that pressure on him.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Let him go out and continue
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: to do what he's doing. He's not listening right now.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: I love that guy. I heard he listens. Oh, he does?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: All right. But the word is on the street. By
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the way, this weekend, did you see where the UofL
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: commit Jahide Brown?
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Is coming to the UK LSU game? Card fans are nervous.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: That's a big deal. I mean, that's the pride and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: joy of one Vince Merrill, by the way.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: I think he's going, I want to say Florida and
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma as well. I wrote that down. I think it's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: Florida and Oklahoma.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Is it Florida and Oklahoma? I didn't think it was Florida.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: I think he just wrapped up a visit to Florida.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. He's going to Oklahoma October 17th, and he's going
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: to Texas October 24th. I think he just wrapped up
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: a visit. Is he going to stay? No. Yeah, see,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so either.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, he's not.
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  Speaker 1: With the way the season has gone right now for UofL,
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  Speaker 1: I think this Christian Academy, and by the way, my
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: alma mater, Christian Academy, shout out to Cal. Let's go.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Fist high. Yeah. But no, I don't think he's going
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: to say committed UofL. I mean, with him looking at
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: these three schools, and who, all right, let's look at that.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Who do you think has the best shot? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's Oklahoma. I think it's going to be between
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Texas and UK. I think Kentucky. And the only reason
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  Speaker 1: I say UK- It's definitely because of Will Stein, the
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  Speaker 1: success we've had so far this year, but it's close
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  Speaker 1: to home, too. I get the feeling he wants to
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: stay close to Louisville. And so what's the next best step?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: If you're not going to commit to UofL, guess what?
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Come on over. And listen.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Well, technically, he did commit to UofL.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to stay committed. Right, right. No, I
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: think it's Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: I do, too, because you look at– You look at
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Kenny Darby and it's real easy to say, well, look
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: at Kenny Darby's doing. You could come to Kentucky and
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: be a part of the Kenny Darby celebration bus. We
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: have a seat for you in that bus right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's an easy sell. Thank goodness it's
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: yard cutting day. I know, but anyway. All right, we've
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: got to take another break. 502-384-1450. You want to call 502-414-1450.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: You want to text him. We'll get to your text
• 1:06:05
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• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: more segments. Not just one, two more segments of Just
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: the Cats coming right up.
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  Speaker 4: Live and forget Now that the day is over I
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: got a new sensation Perfect moments When something's.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like watching myself on YouTube, just to
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: let you know. I don't like it. God, who is
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: the old guy up there and the other guy with
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: the backwards hat on? So, anyway. All right, then.
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  Speaker 2: You can't consistently watch it. You just got to do
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: a little peek over every now and then.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Really? Okay. All right, then. Yeah, it's really frustrating. Okay.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: And it's like 40 seconds long. And it's like, okay.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, I talked about this a long time ago.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Come on, Bennett. Get it together.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: So.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it's like, good gosh. And then one of my
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: closest friends is texting me at the same time. I'm
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: listening to you. Okay, Mike Snyder, thank you. I appreciate that.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: Shout out, Mike. Yeah, he's great. I mean, that guy
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: is so cool. So he's a guy I definitely like
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: to live vicariously through. So he's great.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, kind of like me with you.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Wait a minute. I live vicariously through you? No,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: I live vicariously through you. Oh, you do? Why is that?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Because you just get to do all this fun stuff
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: that I'll, quite frankly, never be able to do.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: Now, don't say that. What experiences that I go through
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: you would like to experience? Going to a playoff game
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: would be a lot of fun. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, owning horses, going to these races.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then you need to go to the races with me.
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  Speaker 2: Having a house in Florida you can pop into whenever
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  Speaker 2: you want.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, let's not go that far. Let's keep
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff to just you and me, okay?
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, everyone knows that.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll keep it to us when everybody else already knows.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Um, one person said, uh, the black Letterman jacket is
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: cool that Mark Pope, uh, last weekend, but the jacket
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: can't give you something if it's not, uh, inside you already. See,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: I agree with that. You can't fake that kind of stuff.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: But, uh, all right. Yeah. My buddy Mike's listening. All right,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: Mike Snyder. I'm talking about you anyway. All right. I
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: can talk bad about Mike Snyder too. He's done some
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: crazy stuff. No, no, no, no. I'll never forget the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: time he had a little too much. Uh, happy drinks
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: one night. Yeah. Let's hear it. And we're at Cunningham's
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: by the Creek where Harrods Creek is. It's a great
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: restaurant by the way. All right. And Mike was dared Mike.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: And this is like February, March. So no, nothing's warm
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: out there. I want to see you swim to the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: opposite side of Harrods Creek and back. Whoa. He proceeds
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: in the middle of February. I mean, he didn't have
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: a strip of clothes on and swim all the way across,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: not realizing there was a tree stump where he was
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: diving in. He hits his forehead with a tree stump,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: continues to swim all the way across Harrods Creek and back. Oh, yeah.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: That's my buddy Mike there. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What a guy.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: There you go. He's fun to hang out. And, boy,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: is he into the horses as much as me. So, yeah,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: we're into it in a huge way. One person hasn't
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: texted me since September. I appreciate you coming back in.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: That's a whole month ago. There you go. LSU can
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: catch on fire there. Ayo!
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: That's true. Good point.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can, and yes, they can. What if a
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: school wanted to distract Lane Kiffin and invited his former
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: girlfriend to come to the ballgame?
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: Just throw a frat party. He'll be there.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, you think that too? Could that be the distraction?
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell him there's not going to be all these
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: sorority girls there.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: He's in.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: All right. One person said storming the field will cost 500,000.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: That goes to LSU directly. I'm okay with that.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: Isn't it 250 the first time?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. They're calling it from last year, too.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: Once you started it, you start accumulating it every year.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: It doesn't start all over, which I think is dumb. Yeah,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: but you didn't storm the field last year, did you?
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: I thought it started at 250. No, we didn't storm
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: the field last year. When was the last time UK
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: stormed the field? So, yeah, it does. And that's the
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: other part that they change. They change the fact that
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: the money goes directly to the other school, which I like.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: But on the other hand, can't we just do away
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: with all this? What is so bad about storming the field, Justin? Seriously,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: what is so bad about that? It's dangerous. How's... There
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: is a way to protect the coaches and the players.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: They did up it to 500,000. Yeah. And who was
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: the last team that we did?
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't tell you.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: That's okay. Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like let– That's a Corey Price question.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Let teams, let fan bases, let student bodies have
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: their fun. They're not going out there to hurt anybody.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: They just want to celebrate.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: What– Looks like 2021, when y'all beat Florida, you start.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so five years ago, and now it's still $ 500, 000?
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 2: It was only $ 250, 000 then. Yeah, but you know what?
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: I bet there's a number of donors that would say,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: heck with it. We're giving that money. We're going to
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: have fun. And J-Bat needs to let them have their fun.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: Now, watch it just not happen, and it happens the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: other way. So 488 Hanley said, hold bad, Michael. You're
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: getting to the end of that diving board bragging on
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: that UK quarterback. John has him on Heisman watch. You
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: all both got to end up in the pool. That's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: an interesting way to tell me what to do. I
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: like it. I do too. Listen, I don't want to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: get in the pool right now because it's only what?
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: 50 degrees outside? That water is awfully cold. I don't
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: Pool days are done for the year.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are. And I agree. That's just one of
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: the things that sucks about summer.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: I hate when swimming season's over.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But anyway, for years, fans have always asked whether
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: football could survive basketball season. And I feel like today's
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: the question is whether football can steal attention from basketball season.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: And I think it already is, don't you?
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: It really, it depends on, yeah, to answer your question, yes,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: it is currently, but it is also... we're in the
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: middle of football season so it makes sense that it
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: that it would be now but it really it depends
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: on how these next few weeks go if you continue
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: to stack wins yeah i mean you'll go into basketball
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: season with with folks continuing to pay attention to football
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: which is really weird.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of to a point now i feel more
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: confident about the oklahoma game just because it's at oklahoma
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: doesn't make necessarily make.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: Me as nervous oklahoma stinks.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Evidently they do But, you know, we talked about this
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: not too long ago. I remember when the Cats paused,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: when Oscar Combs developed that incredible paper that was highly successful.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: Paper?
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: Paper. You know what I'm talking about. Shush. But you
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: knew when it wasn't a good football season because they
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: would already be talking about basketball. Basketball. And I can
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: tell you right now, they would not be talking about basketball.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: That's when you know a good football season is going on. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I do firmly believe that football can overshadow basketball. So,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: you're laughing at me.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not laughing.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: You're laughing at me too much.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not laughing.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: Like 40 seconds ago, you were laughing at me. I've
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: seen it.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: I've seen it in my school.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: I know. Yeah.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: Football can definitely overshadow basketball.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, absolutely. And it is. UK football attendance is
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: third highest increase in the SEC. Right now, UK is
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: averaging 61,000 fans, which is an increase of 6%. I'm
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: to the point now, and they're behind Missouri. That's up 11%.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: And then Mississippi State, credit to them. They're behind them.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: That's who's in second place, up 10%. I'm now wondering.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: If UK is regretting or will regret if they have
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: a successful couple, two or three seasons under Will Stein,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: making Commonwealth Stadium smaller in attendance. You know, because they
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: reduce the amount of people that could go to a game.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: What was that, three or four years ago, five years?
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: Whenever they did the last renovations. Do you think they'll
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: regret doing that? Because Mitch is gone. Jay bat's in.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: Will he consider, well, we need to bring those seats
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: back in.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, but that's going to cost money. It is.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: But it's also you're going to make a lot more
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: money if you have more seats available. I mean, I
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe they regret it. Maybe they don't. Either way,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: as long as it's a full house, I don't really
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: think it matters.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: But 61,000. I mean, that's not that big of a statement,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: especially when you look at in relation to all the
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: other SEC teams in the conference.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but, I mean, it's just not feasible for some
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: places to have a 100,000-seat stadium.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying 100,000.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: And Kentucky's one of those places.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think if Kentucky has, let's just say,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: three or four years of now they continue to sell
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: out pretty much every single game.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: Then it'll be expanded and it'll work itself out.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: And you think it will. So you think they would
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: move towards expanding? Absolutely. See, I would hope so. And
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: what do you think the right number is for Commonwealth
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Stadium to be? I really think Commonwealth Stadium, if they
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: did have success in football, I think it's like an 80,000-seat stadium.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: If you're winning and can fill those seats, yeah. I
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: would agree.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, then, look, let me ask you this. Can't
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: hear you. Yeah, I know.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: Got a leaf blower right behind me. Is that what
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: it is? Go do your job somewhere else, buddy.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no. He's got to do his job now.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Which UK sport has the highest ceiling right now? Is
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: it football? Is it men's basketball? Is it women's basketball?
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Or is it volleyball? Volleyball.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: Is it really?
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Because I'm kind of torn between three of them right now.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: I'm with football. I'm with your answer, volleyball, and I'm
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: kind of with women's basketball.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Here's my thing with women's basketball.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm ready. Because, you know, you got the
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: bromance now. Don't upset Kenny Brooks.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: LSU and South Carolina are behemoths in the SEC, and
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: they're always going to be. And eventually, will Kenny Brooks
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: get over that hump?
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: And be able to beat them? I don't know if
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: he's going to be able to beat them consistently, but
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: he'll have years where he beats them. But I don't
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: know that you're going to be able to do that
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: consistently enough to get to the top of the mountain.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: And on top of that, you've got UConn. You've got
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: UCLA that are good every year. I just think women's
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: basketball is so top-loaded. Whereas with volleyball, you've already proven
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: that you can beat all those teams. You've won a
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: national championship. You were a runner-up last year. So you've
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: proved that you belong with the big dogs in terms
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: of volleyball. So that's why I'm with volleyball.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: Okay. And I probably agree with that. And we're competing
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: with the big dogs so far in the SEC on football.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: We're almost there with women's.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: Are you, though? Because you got blown out by 28
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: against Alabama. You competed in the first half.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: But I don't think it's fair to say that you've
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: proven that you can play with the big dogs in
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: terms of football. You beat A & M. Yeah, when
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: they're number nine. That was one of the big dogs. Yeah,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: but that was just a– it was like you were
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: seeing the shadow of the big dog. And it turns
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: out it was a little bitty dog.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just– I still want to believe that they
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: were still the number 19 in the nation.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: I hear what you're saying. I hear what you're saying.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: Nobody can take that away. I brought up the thing
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: about Indiana with Illinois last year. Nobody can take away
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: the fact that they were number nine at the time
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: he played them. But I do think looking back at
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: the end of the season, it's not going to be
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: nearly as impressive as a win at the.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: End of it.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: I hear you. Let's just see, because you're not going
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: to say Oklahoma's a big dog either, are you?
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Coming into the year, I thought they were.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: All right, so LSU, let's see how they finish out
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: with LSU. And then you got Oklahoma, Vanderbilt. Then you
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: got Tennessee and Knoxville. Let's see how they play against
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: and compete against them. And then you got Florida and Lexington,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: Missouri and Columbia, and UofL. Thank goodness we don't play
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Georgia this year. I mean, my gosh, man. They're so good.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: They are good. They're so good.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Dude, I.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: I honestly think that Georgia's better than Texas.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, Georgia's my national championship.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: Are they really? They are, yeah.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: I've said that since the beginning of the year. I
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: really like this Georgia team. I hate to hear that
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: from my in-laws. Who went to Georgia, by the way?
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: It just gets old.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it does. But, all right, we got to
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: take our last break. When we come back, we got
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: to talk about this miracle medicine that saved a woman
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: up in Massachusetts.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, and I got to hear about Vernon, Indiana, too.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, we didn't talk about Vernon. We got to talk
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: about both of those.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: I might save the one. Well, we'll see how much
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: time we have because I think one should be talked
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: about today. and maybe save the one for tomorrow. So
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: at least bring up Vernon. Okay, we'll bring up Vernon
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: as soon as we get back. Vernon, Indiana. I appreciate
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: you reminding me of that. All right, stay right there.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: One more segment in Vernon, Indiana. We're talking about you next.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Stay right there.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: And now, I'm going to take you on a new sensation.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: A new sensation. Come here. A new sensation.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: Hey. Won't you come see about me? I'll be alone Dancing,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: you know it, baby Tell.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: Me your troubles and doubts Together This is the appropriate
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: song for about the story I'm about to talk about.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you right now, because this
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: is kind of like a rebel song, just to let
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: you know. I can't hear this without thinking of The
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. See, I can't either. Exactly. The very ending
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: And the actors just hold, he's got that trench coat on,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: walking on the football field with his fist held high.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So, here we go. A 67-year-old woman in Vernon,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Indiana was arrested yesterday.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: No surprise there.
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  Speaker 1: She was drunk driving, arrested for DUI, and doing donuts
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: in none other than the Vernon, Indiana courthouse front yard.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: I did see this.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: How do you like that? What an idiot. I loved it.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: And the amazing part was she didn't hit anything. I mean,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: there was an actual little brick wall there, like in
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: a little courtyard that And she hit none of it.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: It's like, how do you do all these reverse donuts?
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: And she hits absolutely nothing. I mean, shout out to
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: her and respect. Just telling you right now. I did
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: see a post. I can't remember who posted it, but
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: somebody reposted that video yesterday. And they were like, maybe
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: if you've had too many margaritas for lunch, you don't
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: get behind the wheel.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: So you're right. I mean, it is an incredible job.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: Just avoiding everything. Yeah. I'm curious what led up to this.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: Was it just drunk inhibitions? Was it something that had
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: happened in her past, maybe at the courthouse that she
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: was trying to get revenge for? I don't know.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: I need more answers. You're exactly correct. It's like, why
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: was she doing this in the courthouse yard? Because she
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: knew she was going to get arrested there. Not only that,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: but she was doing it in broad daylight. Yeah. So
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: they didn't have to go far to arrest her and
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: take her to jail. I loved the story. I hope
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: she's okay. I mean, I don't want to make fun
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: of her if she's disparaged in any way. But I
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: just think it's funny. I thought it was great.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: It's almost like she knew she was breaking the law.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: And she's like, you know what?
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Let me just go to the courthouse, do some donuts
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: so they know that I'm breaking the law. And then
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: they'll come get me. And I'll get three square meals.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: It looked intentional. For sure. Exactly. So now, Yankees tonight.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Yankees-Rays game. Game three. Yankees. Starting
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: pitcher Max Freed. Yep. Are you ready for this?
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going on with him?
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: His wife is expecting a baby any day. Uh-oh.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: But he said he is starting this game no matter what.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: That's bad news for you. See, that's what I think.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: He's going to come out pitching inspired.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, you think so?
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because, I mean, what if the baby's born, like, during
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: his performance?
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: You think that's not going to be on the back
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: of his mind?
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: What if his wife says, hey, I'm having the baby
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: right now. I need you to come to the hospital.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: No, that ain't happening.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: And he's getting ready to walk out onto the mound.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: That ain't happening.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: And he said, sorry, honey, baseball's more important to me.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: Because that's what it would sound like to me. If
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: I did that to my wife and said, no, no,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: I got to go pitch a game, She would be like, well,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: you need to find a new house to live in.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Doesn't that depend on if you already have kids, though? No.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: Like, if it was your second son, you don't think
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: she'd be okay with you missing it, even if you
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: were there for the first one?
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: And truth matters, I don't know if I'd be okay
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: with me missing either.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: I would be okay with it.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: You would, really? You would be okay with your second
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: or third child being born? It's like, sorry, sorry, Fred,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to get to you. I had more
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: things to do. I'd be at work.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, if I had already seen it once before,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: and I haven't seen that once before, but I can
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: only imagine how disgusting that is. I don't know that
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: I would want to be there for the second one.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: But good news is, this is his first baby. It is.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: That makes it worse.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: Well, no, if that situation does play out, I do
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: think that he would leave and go to the hospital.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: See, I couldn't concentrate. I mean, is there a player
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: out there? Yeah, there probably is a player out there
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: that could absolutely concentrate on the game and not worry
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: about his wife having a baby by herself. Now, granted,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: probably family would be there with them. But, you know,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: you're married to your wife. You should be there. I mean,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: and maybe part of this is me because I got
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: my Ray's quarter zip on right now.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: You don't want him to be there. No, I don't
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: want him to be there at all. You got to
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: be there for your kid, Max.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: Come on, man. Oh, yeah, exactly. Max Fried. I mean,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: Fried Chicken should be his name, okay?
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: She played college volleyball.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, she did? Yeah. Where? USC. The real USC. Oh,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: is she a looker?
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: She's kind of a looker, yeah.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think so because he's not good looking.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding? He's a good looking dude. He's a
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: good looking guy. I'm just kidding.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: Could you pitch during a game knowing your wife was
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: having a baby? Yes. Could you really? Yeah.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: I would use that as motivation.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: Credit to you. I can tell you I couldn't do it.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: And I would, I mean, if need be, I'd apologize later. Hey, look, son, daughter,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, I wasn't there for your birth. You
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: don't remember it, so it doesn't matter to you. Because
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: I was out there making millions of dollars pitching in
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: the MLB playoffs.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Patrick texted in and said, typical Jennings County, Indiana.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: Is that true?
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: All right. Then one texter said, Jamie said, does Freed
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: think he plays for the Knicks and not the Yankees?
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: Get your butt to that berth. I'm right there with you.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do this.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: I wonder how the wife feels about it.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: I think it's a fair question. I think it's a
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: fair question to ask this. What do you think about
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: the leaked text that came out from the Michigan tight end?
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't see this. Oh, you did not see this?
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: So there was a group chat after the last loss
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: Michigan had. And tight end, they've already identified him. The
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: tight end for Michigan, his name's Zach Marshall, was texting out,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: talking about questioning the offensive coordinator scheme and then also
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: said that, alleged that the offensive coordinator, whose name is
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Jason Beck, where he said that the, who Beck is
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: in his first year at Michigan, told all the tight
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: ends that none of them are valuable to the offense
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: at Michigan.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: Good to see things going so well up in Ann Arbor. Well,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: that's what I was going to ask you. Do you
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: feel like this is the collapse of Michigan football and
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: we're now witnessing it? I don't know if it's fair
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: to say collapse because Kyle Whittingham's in his first year there. So,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're going to have your ups and downs, obviously,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: when you bring in a new coach. But it seems
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: like maybe he's got some decisions to make in the
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: offseason in terms of his coaching staff or players or something.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: Feels like something has to change. Yeah, and I think
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of things have to change. I mean, it's
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: just a crazy situation up there. Now, the player sent out,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: Zach sent out an apology after doing all this. But
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: this is, to me, proof that you never, if you
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: want to criticize something, you never put in a text
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: message or an email. Because it's going to get leaked
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: out to everybody. Eventually, it'll get leaked out. You just
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: voice it. Don't text it. And that's the mistake he made. Hey,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: by the way, I just ran. across a crazy stat.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: And got regards to the NFL. So we'll stay on
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: football here.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: Do you know the Jacksonville Jaguars play 26 of their
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: next 30 games away from Jacksonville?
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: Is it because of their stadium? Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: So they gotta, they gotta go play in Orlando for a,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: For a 23-month stretch.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: So 26 of their next 30 games are not at
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: their home stadium.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. It does. And I think the Buccaneers
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: are going to have to go through that as well.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Because the Buccaneers are getting ready to do a crazy
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: renovation at the Raymond James Stadium down there.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: Hopefully it starts with Cut and Baker. Well, and Todd Bowles, too,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: for that fact. You don't like Bowles?
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: I think he's terrible.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm not a fan of his. Just like I'm
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: not a fan of this either. You brought it up yesterday.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it today, okay? You want to bring
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: it up then? Because I know you're singing the fight
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: song in your head as you're clapping. Indiana, Indiana. Okay,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: that's enough. Men's soccer. Yeah. UK lost to IU last night.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: UK fell to the Hoosiers 3-1. All right, let's move
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: on to the next subject.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: In all honesty.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: Yes. there's nothing to be ashamed of in that indiana
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: is are they the number one team in the nation
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: they're number two okay they're always good aren't they they're
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: always good yeah and they haven't lost a game yet
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: this season they they played some pretty big games so
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: far and and have been really untouched they did have
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: two ties this year but yeah yeah they're a really
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: good team there's there's no no shame in losing to
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: them okay fair enough all right then um One person said,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: can't we be excited for both? I love football, but
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: can't wait for basketball. They are going to surprise people
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: this year. I think Hawthorne and N'Diaye are going to
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: kill it this year.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: See, I agree with you, Dexter. You can be excited
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: for both.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, you can. And you should be. It's our school.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: It should never be about the UK football fans and
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: the UK basketball fans. That's frustrating to me. And both
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: fan bases should be rooting for your own school. I've
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: always had a problem with that. Yes, you should be excited,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad you are. 48 Handley back on, he said,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: here's a hint as to the winner of next year's
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby. Gilligan's Island, enjoy the game, Michael. I predict
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: the Yankees make an error tonight.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, I mean, that was a bunch
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: of errors that the Yankees had. Three errors in the
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: first inning. Can I bet on that horse already? Which one?
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: Gilligan's Island.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, can you really?
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: No, that's what I'm asking. Can I?
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think you can yet. I don't think that's
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: available yet.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: Imagine the odds I could get right now.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, that would be crazy odds. And then imagine if
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: it win, how much money you'd win. By the way,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns is in a stalemate with the New
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: York Knicks.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: I saw that.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, over his eligibility of a four-year extension, which he's
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: eligible right now. I mean, it's been 53 years since
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: the Knicks won a title, and the Knicks are holding
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: out on the 30-year-old Carl Anthony Towns. Don't you think
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: that's a little ridiculous?
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: Not really, because it's not like he was the best
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: player on the team. He's a good player. Who's the
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: best player on the team? Jalen Brunson, no question.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe the guy who won MVP. I don't know.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I get what you're saying, but Carl Anthony Towns
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: had a lot to do with it. No, he's a
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: huge piece of the team, no question. But I don't know.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a business. Yeah, it definitely is. But,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, Nick's offered him $ 200 million, in which he's
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: eligible to earn another $ 75 million on top of that.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so stop being greedy and accept their deal.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: Wow. If you were in this position, you would be
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: taking it. You would be wanting that extra $ 75 million.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: No, I would not. Absolutely, I would not. Oh, my gosh,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: you're killing me. I have said that my whole life.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: I would take whatever deal they offered me.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: Wow. Because, quite frankly, it's more money than I've ever had. True,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: but when you're offered even more money or at least
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: eligible for even more money, you're going to say, hey, man,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: I want all that money. I'll work hard for this team.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: It would be funny if he said, okay, I'm out
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: of here. I'm going back to Minnesota.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're only working hard for the team for, like, what,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: eight months out of the year?
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, you think he sits back and does nothing and
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: eats bonbons on beach the rest of the time?
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: At least some of the time, yeah.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: I would hope so some of the time. I have
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: often wondered.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: I got to name a band, Bon Bon's on the Beach.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, crap. We got to go. Okay. Oh, well. You're
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: off to New York? I know. I'm out of here.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: Go Rays.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: I'll see you on the radio tomorrow. Appreciate you listening.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: Appreciate all the texts. We'll see you tomorrow on Just
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: the Cats.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: Where you call my name.