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Just the Cats 7-1-26 · Just The Cats

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Big Blue Nation, Welcome to Just the Cats. My
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  Speaker 2: name is Michael Bennett. On this Wednesday, July first. Hard
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  Speaker 2: to believe we're already to July, but here we are today.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to give this call, you can do
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  Speaker 2: that at five o two three four fourteen fifty. You
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  Speaker 2: want to text me on the Whiskey Tee text line,
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  Speaker 2: you can do that at five oh two four to
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  Speaker 2: one four fourteen fifteenn tweet me at Just the Cat Radio.
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  Speaker 3: As I have Matthew Childress here.
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  Speaker 2: He's already told me he comes in here this morning
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  Speaker 2: says I've already checked out.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, oh my gosh, man, you can't check out
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  Speaker 3: right now and say that. But I'm checking out. No,
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  Speaker 3: you said I have checked out?
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, true, I said. Every day I'm checking out
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more, are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I need two hours, so that's that's all I
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  Speaker 2: need is just two hours of you and then you
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  Speaker 2: can check out all you want.
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  Speaker 5: This.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about Thursday or Friday, because you know
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  Speaker 2: I'm out Thursday and Friday. This is this is officially
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  Speaker 2: our last day together. Well, I hope you're not being facetious,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean it. When you came over here and
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  Speaker 2: I said, this is our last day together, I am
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  Speaker 2: sad about it. I I Matthew, I'm gonna take a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Then you don't say your word. Okay, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 2: you right now. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you.
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  Speaker 2: When you came here for the first time, I thought, man,
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  Speaker 2: you've got potential in radio. You you know sports. You
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  Speaker 2: not afraid to talk, You're not afraid to speak your mind.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to know, don't you dare give up
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  Speaker 2: trying to be in radio, all right, because you do
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  Speaker 2: heavy career in radio, and you need to find your
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  Speaker 2: voice when you move down to Tampa. If it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: work out, you need to find somewhere else. Do a podcast,
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  Speaker 2: do anything. You do a wonderful job. And I want
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  Speaker 2: you to know how much I appreciate the time and
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  Speaker 2: effort that you've given me over the last what seven,
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  Speaker 2: eight nine months, however long you've been on this show.
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  Speaker 3: It has been a lot of fun. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: miss you dearly.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 4: That means a lot to me because I am gonna
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  Speaker 4: miss you. I am gonna miss doing this show. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, it's one where it's literally just because it's
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  Speaker 4: like my last week. I'm also packing at home and
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  Speaker 4: all this. Yeah, I just you know, I wish I
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  Speaker 4: had a little more time to get everything together a
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  Speaker 4: little stressed out, but I it's it also upsets me
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  Speaker 4: when I come in here, like it's one of those
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  Speaker 4: where like I just sometimes I feel like I just
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  Speaker 4: rather ripped the band aid off already. I mean like
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm just teasing it every single day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it makes me sad to think about it because this
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  Speaker 4: is maybe not this exact situation is my dream. But
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  Speaker 4: I've always wanted to talk sports for a living. I've
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  Speaker 4: always wanted to have a voice, like you said, and
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  Speaker 4: I've worked really hard to get to this point just
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  Speaker 4: just to do this, whether it's you know, successful or not.
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  Speaker 4: So it always meant a lot to me when you
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  Speaker 4: let me come on your show for the first time.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I filled in for Justin and then you
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  Speaker 4: let me come on after that, and yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we made it a regular thing and it was it
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  Speaker 4: was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I told you you kind of became my mentor in
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  Speaker 4: this work. Like I kind of built around what I
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  Speaker 4: do as of how you do it. I learned a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the way that I talk and the things
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  Speaker 4: that I do I learned from you and Justin, which
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  Speaker 4: was a really cool experience and helped me out a lot.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm still looking, I'm still working. It's just unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: this particular field is kind of dying. Yeah, and everywhere
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  Speaker 4: I call, they're laying people off, so they can't hire anybody.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna keep looking and I'm gonna keep trying
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  Speaker 4: because that's that's the that's honestly, Like, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I know Paulina got a job down there, but.
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  Speaker 4: We've been talking about moving to a bigger city for
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  Speaker 4: a long time so that I can have more opportunity
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  Speaker 4: and more stuff to do within this kind of rain right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Wow, you need to go introduce yourself more to
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  Speaker 2: South Florida and meet those people at the University of
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  Speaker 2: South Florida, because when they meet you face to face
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  Speaker 2: and hear you talk about your passion with radio, they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna want to have find a way to get you involved.
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  Speaker 2: And so somewhere, somehow you're gonna find something. So I
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  Speaker 2: hope you do a pray that you do and and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully you'll succeed at that and uh and live out
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  Speaker 2: that dream and continue to live out that dream. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what, if y'all ever move back up here,
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  Speaker 2: like I've said before, if y'all ever move back up here,
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  Speaker 2: you've always got an opening on this show right here,
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  Speaker 2: you always will.
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  Speaker 4: Well that means a lot to me because we're well,
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  Speaker 4: we'll definitely come back up here in the holidays and
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  Speaker 4: stuff like that, and I'll text you maybe I'll come
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  Speaker 4: on from Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well that would be great. I would appreciate that. So
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  Speaker 2: but you know, and I don't want this to be
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  Speaker 2: our last segment. As far as soccer, I mean, can
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  Speaker 2: you can you call in at least and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: give your fill in on the soccer until it's over
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  Speaker 2: and done with her.
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  Speaker 3: If you can't, can't, I should be able to, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: It also just depends on, like when I get a
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  Speaker 4: job and when that all stuff happens, because I'm still
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  Speaker 4: interviewing for stuff and good it's tough right now.
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  Speaker 2: It is tough out there, But I know I wish
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  Speaker 2: you were the best of luck. I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people out there that have listened, have messaged me
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  Speaker 2: how they hate that you're leaving, and uh so you
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of people up here that really appreciate
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  Speaker 2: what you do and enjoy listening to you, and you
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  Speaker 2: giving me crap and you giving me this, that and
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  Speaker 2: the other, and uh but enough of the love fest.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you, Patricia, Paulina and I can go to dinner now.
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  Speaker 4: Ooo?
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  Speaker 3: Really are you buying?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: Why am I always the one buying?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's all I was expected to pay for
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  Speaker 4: Pauline and myself. You can pay for your wife. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'll pay for her, I guess. But you know, if
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  Speaker 4: you pick her checkup, I would be really appreciative of that.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, a little later in the show, our
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  Speaker 4: new producer and co host is going to be on,
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  Speaker 4: and he kind of let the cat out of the
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  Speaker 4: bag last night, and that's okay. I was going to
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  Speaker 4: surprise everybody, but I screwed that up. I think last week,
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  Speaker 4: what last week or week before? Technically John Spears just
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  Speaker 4: said it on air yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Oh we did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that was kind of obnoxious. I wasn't telling anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Why did he tell everybody on the air yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Well, because I think that like he didn't think anybody
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  Speaker 4: didn't know at this point, because he wasn't like releasing
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  Speaker 4: it as some breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, oh, blah bla blah's gonna be on
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  Speaker 3: next week. Yeah. I think I think he just expected
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  Speaker 3: everbody already knew.
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  Speaker 2: No, no one knew, and then Justin was trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep it a surprise, which I appreciate Justin trying to
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  Speaker 2: do that. But yes, Justin Kaylen aka Scoots is coming
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  Speaker 2: back to the station, which I'm sad about you leaving,
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  Speaker 2: but I am excited about Justin coming back because that's
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  Speaker 2: the one thing I was worried about if this station
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  Speaker 2: was going to bring some yahoo in here that you know,
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  Speaker 2: We've been lucky because I really get along with you,
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  Speaker 2: and I really get along with Justin, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if I could have survived if it wasn't one
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  Speaker 2: of you two, and if it wasn't I is just like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if just the Cats would have been
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  Speaker 2: here if it wasn't Justin.
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  Speaker 4: I was interested to, you know, maybe get a little
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  Speaker 4: nosy and find out who they're bringing it in here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I am thankful we don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about that. We got Justin Kaylen coming back.
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  Speaker 2: He's bringing back Sunrise with Scoots. He didn't let me
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  Speaker 2: know because he announced it on Twitter last night and
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  Speaker 2: I said cross talk question mark and he didn't answer me.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if cross Talk's coming back. I
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  Speaker 2: know one person that would love to see cross talk
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  Speaker 2: come back, and that would be one TJ.
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  Speaker 3: Walker.
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  Speaker 2: So but because he was always coming on cross talk,
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  Speaker 2: how much he had to have his cross talk every
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  Speaker 2: single day. But I love the way that TJ. Walker
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  Speaker 2: supports That always made me laugh. But can I tell
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  Speaker 2: you something I saw this morning on the way into
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  Speaker 2: the studio. Yeah, I might have seen one of the
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  Speaker 2: most ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life. So
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  Speaker 2: I saw these people riding something around Bowman Field, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to know, is this a common thing or
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  Speaker 2: an unusual thing? And maybe I'm missing out on something.
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  Speaker 2: So there was a couple going around Boone on the sidewalk.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a bike. It was like a a treadmill
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  Speaker 2: that they were riding. They were literally standing up on
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  Speaker 2: this thing that looked like a bike, but they didn't
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  Speaker 2: pedal like a bike. They stepped down, so they went
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  Speaker 2: up and down kind of like a cross country skiing
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  Speaker 2: made into a bicycle, And I'm like, that might be
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  Speaker 2: the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life,
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  Speaker 2: or it might be the most brilliant thing I ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: Mid Do you happen to know anything what I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to describe here? I have literally no idea. I don't either.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the name of it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to look it up. But it looks like a
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  Speaker 2: StairMaster met bicycle, met cross country Nordic track. And it
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  Speaker 2: looked absolutely ridiculous. And I'm thinking that poor guy, his
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  Speaker 2: wife probably forced him to buy this. Now they got
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  Speaker 2: to exercise on it and ride this thing all around.
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  Speaker 2: It just it looks I'm sorry, it looked ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: It just did. Yeah, I can't even we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So imagine a guy that is standing
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  Speaker 2: up on a bicycle. It looks like a scooter with
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  Speaker 2: the exception of it has these things that you're pedaling down.
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  Speaker 2: You're not actually peddling like a bicycle. It doesn't go around,
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  Speaker 2: you're just stepping one side the other side. You step
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  Speaker 2: down it and the other side comes up, so it's
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  Speaker 2: like an elliptical. You can ride exactly. Yes, it was
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  Speaker 2: the I'm not kidding. I just I'm like that poor guy.
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  Speaker 2: Please tell me he didn't pick this that his white
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  Speaker 2: forced him to do.
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  Speaker 4: There's some things that you know, I understand that it
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  Speaker 4: probably is. It's exercise, and exercise is great for you. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: there's a line of embarrassment that I won't cross. That's
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  Speaker 4: one of them for me. Yeah, what are they for you?
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  Speaker 4: I think that one hits the list. Yes, I'll be
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  Speaker 4: honest with you. I don't care how much. Maybe in
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  Speaker 4: my later years I get into cycling. I'll never wear
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  Speaker 4: one of those like skin tights and helmets exactly. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: never in my life. While I'll wear that, yes, right
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  Speaker 4: there with you. Oh the last one. Actually have two more,
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  Speaker 4: all right. I will never wear water shoes ever.
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  Speaker 3: What are water shoes?
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  Speaker 4: You don't see those people at the beach in the
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  Speaker 4: pool who have those like mess shoes.
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  Speaker 2: They wear water Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, never all right,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, the last one, right, those people who wear
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  Speaker 2: those shoes they have the toes in it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Oh, you just took it away from me.
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  Speaker 2: I am literally in the airport on my way back
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  Speaker 2: in Spokane, Washington, on Sunday and this guy is sitting
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  Speaker 2: down and has his feet spread out and he's just
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  Speaker 2: all comfortable and everything, and he had those shoes on
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  Speaker 2: with with the ones that show you that your toes
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  Speaker 2: that you have to fit every little toe into into
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  Speaker 2: the shoe. Those are Please tell me no one really
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  Speaker 2: wants to wear them.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently people actually like them, like apparently they're super comfortable
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  Speaker 4: and people like which. I don't understand how you got
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  Speaker 4: fabric rubbing in between your toes? All right, that can't be.
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  Speaker 3: My middle school basketball coach wore those to every practice.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to be kidding. Have they been around that long?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been around for a long time. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: realize that. No, it would literally play against us in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Come on see, I couldn't concentrate if somebody was wearing
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  Speaker 2: those as we're playing basketball. It's like, dude, I'm either
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  Speaker 2: going to stomp on your foot or you got to
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  Speaker 2: take those things off because that's just ridiculous looking.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean the other thing I wouldn't wear.
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  Speaker 2: You know how people wear the long tights that go
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  Speaker 2: all the way down to your ankles and then they'll
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  Speaker 2: put shorts over them. I I don't know what they're called.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the women wear them quite a bit, yoga pants. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they make them for men too. And there's one thing,
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  Speaker 2: that's one thing I'll never wear, and you're right, I
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  Speaker 2: will never wear the bicycle stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: And I've seen guys that are overweight that are wearing
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  Speaker 2: the bicycle stuff. I'm like, dude, come on, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't understand what what does it do is? I have
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  Speaker 4: no idea of dynamics? Are you going faster? I'm confused.
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  Speaker 2: They want to pretend they're in France and they're doing
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  Speaker 2: whatever that bicycle Yeah, Tour de France. They want to
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  Speaker 2: do Tour Tour the uh river with their live strong armbands.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Tour de river Road.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's where they they always seem to ride
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  Speaker 2: around five five point thirty when traffic is that it's
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  Speaker 2: worst down the river road.
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  Speaker 3: I never understand that. It's like, can't you go to
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  Speaker 3: a park?
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  Speaker 4: Cyclists also like ride in traffic as if they're invincible.
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  Speaker 4: I yeah, like I understand they tendly have the ride away,
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  Speaker 4: but these people don't even pay attention, like they just
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, I could kill you right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not just that, but they go through stop signs,
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  Speaker 2: they go through red lights. It's like, that's what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing? They don't care.
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  Speaker 4: They fully expect you to stop at it in a moment,
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  Speaker 4: and they think they're completely safe.
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  Speaker 2: I almost hit a guy on the River Road that
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  Speaker 2: went through a stop sign. I didn't see him coming,
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  Speaker 2: and I had to slam on my brakes and he
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  Speaker 2: tells me I'm number one. I mean, it's just like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, ude, you just went through a stop sign.
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  Speaker 2: I yeah, I lost it. But anyway, those are the
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  Speaker 2: pet peeves that I have. I like the fact because
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  Speaker 2: you and I do come up with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the same stuff. We were similarly thinking in mind right there,
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  Speaker 2: I think so yeah, but without a doubt right there?
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's good if you want to
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  Speaker 2: be like Michael Bennett. I I tend to think some
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: days I don't want to be like Michael Bennett. But
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  Speaker 2: here I am. I. Yesterday we didn't talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I had it down, but I wanted to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Today was Mitch Barnhardt's final day at the University of Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: And open a new bottle of bourbon and celebrate. Did I? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we would I do that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He's gone to move on. Well, all right, let's let's
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: talk about the negative first. What what does what does
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  Speaker 2: Matthew Childress think about the negative with Mitch Barnhardt at UK?
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  Speaker 2: But then I want to finish with positive, because we
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  Speaker 2: should finish with positive.
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  Speaker 4: I'd say, in my lifetime lifes lifespan. The first negative
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  Speaker 4: for me was probably the Billy Gillespie higher. Ooh, that's
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  Speaker 4: a good one right there. That was a really big one.
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  Speaker 4: And that was early on in my life. So that
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  Speaker 4: was something like when I grew up, I really only
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  Speaker 4: knew Billy Gillespie until Cal came in.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was a complete miss right there. Right, that was
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  Speaker 2: one bad one.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you could have hired Cal earlier and you
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  Speaker 3: guys didn't. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Then you kind of get him later on, so it
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  Speaker 4: kind of it doesn't really matter at that point. You
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  Speaker 4: get him anyway. Yeah, he has some great ears here,
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  Speaker 4: And it's just the way the stuff with Cal ended,
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  Speaker 4: it seemed like it just didn't make any sense. He
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: takes stoop side for no reason at.
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  Speaker 3: All other than you know, their friends or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And that completely backfires on the athletic program of the
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  Speaker 4: Unitiversity Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a whole This is a basketball school
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  Speaker 2: versus wait wait, wait, wait, this is not just a
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  Speaker 2: basketball school, and every coach should have taken offense to that.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I remember Vince Merrill and Mark Stoops what
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: they had to say about that off off air in private,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: but they weren't happy about it.
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  Speaker 4: I get you're not gonna have perfect relationships with everybody,
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: but it's just a way that it was handled with
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  Speaker 4: him leaving. I think I think miss Barnhart got off
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: with murder in terms of Cal just saying you don't
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: have to pay me anything. I'm just gonna leave, and
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: you know Arkansas will handle it. I to this day,
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: that's one of the anomalies in sports. I cannot believe
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: he was generous enough to not make Kentucky pay.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Because I don't think he wanted to leave. I think,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: truth be said, I don't think Cal. I think it
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: was a bluff and Cal really did not want to leave.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: You k he probably didn't, and Mitch and and Cal
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: did not get along. Uh, you know, the go between
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: was widely known as uh uh Peevy Dwayne Peevey who's
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: now at uh De Paul. And when Dwayne left it,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I mean their relationship completely fell apart. It was bad
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: enough as it was when Dwayne Peevee was here, but
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: when Dwayne left and went to De Paul, it was
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: even a thousand times worse. I really think Cal really
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: wanted Mitch tole even Mitch was happy that Cal was leaving,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: and they didn't have to. I think the worst thing,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: You're right, the worst hire was Billy Gillespie. Who was
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the best hire? Mm because I think you can say
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a multitude of people.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, the thing, see, this is the weird question
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: is you can either say I don't think Minchiona's on there, No,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I might be Kenny Brooks yeah, or why am I
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: blanking on the Bible coach Craig Skinner, Craig Skinner, I
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: think it's Craig Skinner. I think it's I think it's
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: by far Craig Skinner. You could you could throw Mark
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Stoops in there, even though you know it's obviously felt
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: falling apart this last couple of season, but he is
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: the winning his coach of cok football history. You could
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: make an argument. I wouldn't agree with it. I would
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: say it's Craig Skinner. But I think that Mark Stoops
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: being in Kentucky as long as he was is also
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: a misfire. I think that that probably ships to the
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: sailed a long time ago, especially after the whole South
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Carolina nonsense where he was fully gonna leave and then
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: they didn't want to hire their texta am, Yes, sorry,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: texa Am.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I was thinking' Scott Sanderfield. I'm right, he was going
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: to South Carolina. Yeah, but uh, he was.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Gonna leave, they didn't want him comes back, and then
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know, I feel like that was kind of odd.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: And then finally the cherry on the top is just
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: the Jami stuff yea, even though it's working for football.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Like that's where I'll give him grace, because it does
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: work for football. It's just you have this almost half
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: a billion dollar contract with a media company that seems
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: to just be hindering your basketball program, which is your
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: red and butter more than anything. And you're signing this
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: for what like fifteen something years, way too many years,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: and then you just and then you're leaving right while
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: it's going on, So it's not even like it's a
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: oh when I leave, it comes with me. Yeah, Jay
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Blatt has to come in and figure that out.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know what. See, I'm right there.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with him.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Mark.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: That's one of those where I get he's done good things,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: but he's been here for twenty six years.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Like, I hope you've done some good things.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly somebody else thinks he's been doing some good things,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: all right. I think he left out rich Brooks too.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I thought rich Brooks was a really good hire and
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: he was way down the road. You know, I forgot
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: about rich Brooks. Yeah, Parcels. They really wanted to hire
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Parcels first from the Giants, and he was going to
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: come and then he bailed on him last minute, and
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: then they went ahead and got rich Brooks. When was that,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, this is back in the early two thousands. Yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have. Like I literally grew up knowing Billy Geleslie.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I didn't know anything before that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, rich Brooks was a football coach. I know that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I just felt like that was the first like that
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: era was when I started I gotcha yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, Guy Morris was the coach at the time,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and Guy Morris really wanted to have a higher pay
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: contract for all his assistant coaches, and Mitch Barnhardt said, no,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: we're not going to be doing that. So they went
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: out thought they had par sales and he didn't do
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: it last minute, and then they went out and got
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Rich Brooks, and Rich Brooks did a nice job. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: was really disappointed when Rich Brooks left. I thought the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: hire of Joker Phillips, you would have thought that would
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: have been good, but that was an absolute debacle. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: then you go out there and you get Mark Stoops.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: And the part I will give Mitch Barnhardt a lot
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: of credit with is that he was patient with all
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: these coaches. There are a lot of athletic directors out
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: there that will bail on you to save their own
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: job instead of being confident enough to listen, I think
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: he's the right guy and back that person, whereas most
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: of the AD's out there don't. They just like, well,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I'll get rid of him, I'll go hire somebody else.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And that's where you just continue to have this carousel
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: of coaches that come in and you're never getting anywhere. Now,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: You're right about Mark Stoops probably should have happened when
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the whole thing happened with Texas A and M. But
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: here's my biggest criticism of Mitch Brooks. I'm Mitch Brooks.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Mitch Barnhardt. He should have left six years ago. He
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: stayed six years too long, He let Cal stay too long,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: he let Rich, he let Mark Stoops stay too long.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: And I we'll just have to see how the hire
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: of Mark Pope is. I'm not willing to say yet.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not willing to say I'm not backing Mark Pope.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Of course I'm backing Mark Pope. But let's just see
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: how year three of Mark Pope goes. If it goes well, boom,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I'm backing them even more. If it doesn't, it's gonna
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: be hard. And I think it's unfair to a new
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: ad to come in here and make a lot of decisions.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Whereas you're You're right, Matthew, your hands are completely tied
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: behind your back when it comes with this whole jmidal.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I think to me, between all right, what do you
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: think was worse the JMI ideal that Mitch Barnhardt orchestrated
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: or the lifetime contract with John Caliperry, which he luckily
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: got out of without any kind of payment from the
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Universe of Kentucky.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's the m ideal. I do too, because
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I think that you the JMI deal on paper seems
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: like it can work, and like I said, it's working
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: for football. It's just the fact that you entered the
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: University of Kentucky and now Ja Blatt and you know,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Mark Pope and all you know, Will Stein and all
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: these other coaches into a long, long contract that's it
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: completely convoluted an extremely confusing it to kind of build
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: revenue in a system that isn't regulated yet. So like
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: we might have NCA sanctions and rules that basically either
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: can can benefit JMI or completely hinder it even more,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So like we don't even
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: know what's going to happen with NIL yet. So just
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: the idea of making this contract at all in a
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: state where we're in the wild West, Yeah, it just
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: gives me the feeling that like five years down the road,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: this JMI thing is gonna have to be scraped. They're
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: gonta to find a way to get out of it,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: because it's gonna do. It's either gonna work perfectly or
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be the worst thing for Telly Sports apt.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I just think it's gonna make it even worse. I
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: have no confidence in Jmi and to the point where
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, Jami, either you changed this or you've
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: got to go. UK has to figure out how to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: get out of this, because the other issue is you've
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: got a president of the university that's been there a
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: little too long too, and Eli Cappoluto is just like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: my goodness, man, how much long are you gonna be
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: at UK?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: So this is this is the confusing part for me
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: because whenever the Jay My stuff happened, I know we
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: have to go to break.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I'll say this, sorry.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I feel like it was Mitch Barnhardt explaining that his
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: point of I don't like the nil situation. I don't
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: like the fundraising situation, and he kind of just pushed
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: the fundraising to a company. So now like Kentucky has
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: this much money and they're going to have it, so
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: thankfully I don't have to do that anymore. But then
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: you bring in Jay Blatt, who's a fundraiser, so like,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: what is the point.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Exactly what're bringing him in when you just gave it
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: to a complete company, Like.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I guess the point I'm trying to make is, how
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: is he going to go out to donors and say, hey,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: we need ten plus million dollars and the donors don't
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: just say don't you have five hundred million from blah
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: blah blah?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Right, Like, how how do you pitch that you can't?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting to see how he does.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's got to be a completely different angle
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens in what transpires. But I
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: wish Jay Bett the all the luck in the world.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, Jay bad, am I saying blat, Yeah, you're
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: saying bla, that's bad. That's okay, you can say what everyone. Listen,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: you've already checked out. You've already told me you have
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: checked out. You're probably gonna call me Michael Bennet or
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Benton or or Mike something or that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Mitchell.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead deck our first break. When
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: we come back, I want you to give him a grade. Okay,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: think about it. During the break. Let me know what
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: grade you'd give Mitch Barnhardt for his career at the
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: University Kentucky. Start right there, a lot more justic Kat's
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: coming right out.
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: Sails are Fool Days, Rain.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Ben not play.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I found it, I sent it to you. Did you
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: look at it? Talk about the bike thing? Yes, yes, Elliptico, Yeah,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that thing is horrendous.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm not an idiot.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: The enama, I don't even like I want to feel
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: like embarrassed for the people that are using it. It's
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: just one of those moments when I see an when
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I see an item or an idea or a product
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: or something, and I think, like ten to fifteen human
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: beings had to sit down in a conference room and
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: somebody had to pitch that idea and they thought, I'm
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: jumping on that right now. Yeah, and all those people
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: need to be fired immediately.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't look to see how much they are,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: but I did see an advertisement. Several of them are
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: for sale on eBay. I'll give you. I'm gonna guess
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: they're for like fifteen hundred dollars apiece.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I bet they're more than that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not kidd And I looked it up
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: a second ago and there were more advertisements for the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: for them on sale at eBay than any than their
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: website coming up.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: The cheapest one. Oh please, no, so do you want?
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, there's actually okay, Wow, there's a stand up version.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: There's an elliptical elliptical bike. Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: The stand up version I was right on is fifteen
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: hundred dollars.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: The cheapest elliptical bike, which is the one the pictures
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: that you saw right, twenty five hundred dollars. That's the cheapest.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: See I'm seeing one for four thousand dollars, one for
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: thirty six hundred dollars. eBay has it for twenty four
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars. It's like, you've got to be kidding me.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I I just I did, no way would I ever
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: consider doing anything like that. So he left to go
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I I will. You're getting a free advertisement out of
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Michael Bennett right now. I wish you the best of luck.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Uh but uh but anyway? Uh one Ohio guy texted
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: in five O two four one four fourteen fifty my
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: favorite moment of Matt on The Big Essex when he
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: guest hosted Just the Cats when you were out and
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: he thought, here I go again.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: By uh uh.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: White Snake was played in the Titanic when Scoots played
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: out of a commercial break.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Is that true?
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, it was true. I made a mistake. I made
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I had a brain fart on the air.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what were you thinking? White Snake was
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: played in The Titanic.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: The intro to White Snake sounds eerily similar to the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: like the theme song for Titanic, the very beginning of it,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: like the instrumental part. Really, so he played it for
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: a second. I'm not like, I'm not saying that it's
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: not identical. It just sounds a little similar.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, pull it up. But I want to hear
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: this song. It's called Uh, well, I've already gotten away
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: from it. It's called White Snake. Let's see White Snake. Uh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: here I go again. I mean, I know this song.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: It was a very famous video back in the day
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: because the lead singer uh of White Snake was dating
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: this actress, really pretty actress back in the day. And uh,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I don't remember her name, and I don't remember the
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: guy from my sixth name, but I certainly remember the video.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: All Right, you got it? That sounds like White Snake
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to me. As I'm playing, I know this does not
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: sound like Celene Dion Okay, now go play. I have
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: no idea Celene Dion and whatever. The Titanic theme is
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: near far wherever you are are, I know my heart
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: goes on or whatever it is. It's something like that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: It's just there's no way they sound the same. Okay,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: is it coming up? Yeah, so it's not I want
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: to preface. Okay, it's not the actual interring play. It's
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: just like the rhythm which is played. It sounds very
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Oh it's it's now the rhythm.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: You're you're gonna, You're gonna hear it, I promise, Okay,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: any day now, okay, fair enough. It doesn't very similar.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: It's not.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: It just sounds similar. Celine the Honest singing White Snake.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I think White Snake has a case here that sounds
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: very similar. I know the difference between the two.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: They sound similar. They do sound similar.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, I stand corrected, Very good, Matthew I. I had
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: never noticed that those two songs sound the very similar
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: to each other. But that's awesome, right there. Josh texted out,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Taani Katan that was it?
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you? Josh was the girl's name.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: She had that thing spread all over the hood of
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the car in the video.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. She was in a movie with Tom Hanks.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I think it was called Bachelor Party, and that was
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: her first breakthrough movie. I don't know if she did
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: any movies after that. She dated a Los Angeles Dodgers
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: baseball player. Then she started going out with the Whitesnake
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: lead singer, and they put her in this video Tawny
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Katan and she's she's on the hood of a car
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: trying to be as sexy as she can.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: That was back in the day when MTV was really big,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: with all the music videos and that kind of stuff.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: My good, what's that when MTV was good? I think
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: that's a fair thing to say. Of course, MTV is
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: completely gone now and some other weird station that it is.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: But one person texted, tany uh Latan, Now it's it's Katan.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: It's not Latan. I don't even know who you're talking about. Well,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: if you go look up White Snake in that song
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the video, you'll see who she is.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: She just saw the video.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Oh you didn't think she was pretty? I didn't know
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: who that was. Yeah, that's her.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Random Oh no, no, no, no, she was an actress
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: that was actually in a movie with Tom Hanks called
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Bachelor Party, and it was a really good movie. It
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: was one of those It was before Tom Hanks became
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Tom Hanks, you know, the very serious actor.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: He made goofy movies.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, after all, he was in a sitcom back
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: in the seventies called or eighties called Bosom Buddies, and
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: it was the dumbest show ever, but it was successful
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: and that was his start in entertainment. You've never heard
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: of Bosom Buddies, have you?
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: No? Yeah, that's okay. You're just you're talking on air
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: and I'm waiting for you to be done.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I know, Sorry about that. Uh, let's talk about Mitch
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Barnhart grade. Uh what kind of a grade? Because I
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: don't want to influence you. You're kind of on the
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: outside looking in. What kind of a grade for the
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: twenty six years that Mitch Barnhardt dedicated to the University Kentucky,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: would you.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Give him for his career C minus? Oh your hardcore? Wow?
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I mean twenty six years brought one basketball championship, Yeah,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: he bought.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: He brought multiple rifle championships, he brought volleyball championships. He
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: almost had a championship in cross country let me just
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: talk about rifling. Just bring rifling. Absolutely, cheerleading was one
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of the best in the country. Uh, that's a part
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: of all of it. That's all a part. You can't
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: just say basketball and football and that's it. You got
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: to you have to include the entire athletic department. Yeah,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I think that is a part of it.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: There is.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Look, I know you can't just do basketball football in
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: this right. Yeah, I agree that, right, but there's a
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: level to what your sport matters. I'm sorry, I'm just
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: gonna to be honest. I'm gonna be blunt here. I
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: disagree with you. Kentucky could have eight hundred thousand rifling championships.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't even put it on our resume if I
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: was much Barnhart.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, I see, I would because again, it's not about
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: two sports. He is in charge of all of the
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: athletic department.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: But it's also the two major sports war right. One
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: through about ninety percent of his tenure, it was terrible football, Yes, football,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: the other one. You brought one championship ninety percent.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I think that's a kind of strong there. Rich Brooks
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: had really good seasons and Mark Soops had some really
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: good team was winning his coach.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: He had two ten win seasons, one of them got vacated.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then he is I think he's only a
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: five hundred coach, all right, then, like, yeah, he's the
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: winning his coach, but it wasn't like a great win percentage.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: It wasn't like he was you know. So you don't
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: want to include volleyball. You don't include baseball going to
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: the World College World Series for the very first time
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: ever in years. You don't want to include women's basketball
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: that is really on the up and up.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: It's been really bad for a really really long time.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Matthew Mitchell did a really good job, and then yeah,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: he misfired on the coach after that, and then he
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: brought in Kenny Brook.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: All of the things are listening are recent, and that's okay.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: But I'm saying he was here for twenty six years
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: and this stuff is just now.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: And you're going to give him a seamid. I'm going
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: to give him probably a beat. I think that's very generous. Okay, Wow, man,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: all right, then well that's not how I feel. All right,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: So Mark Pope, as we had mentioned yesterday, somebody texted
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: it into me, which I really appreciate. Mark Pope was
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: on John Rothstein's podcast yesterday. If you didn't watch it,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: I know you can go back and listen to it,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: and the one thing that really stuck out is that
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: John Rosstein started talking about Rick Patino and Mark Pope
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: said he is open to a home and home against
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Saint John's and uh Rick Patino the head coach. Uh,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: they aren't there yet but will be in the near future.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Do you like the sound of that? Does that sound
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: promising or does that sound like he's just trying to
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: be nice?
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know, honestly.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I mean Rick Patino, if like, is a pretty straightforward dude,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Like he's kind of been that way. Yeah, So I mean, mate,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: maybe I could see it happening.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Is it good for UK? I see this more as
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: a game that's good for Saint John's more than it's
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: good for UK. Is that fair to say? Or it
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: might be good for pro both programs. It certainly would
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: get a lot of attention. You know, you got a
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: player that's going to play against his former coach. What's
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: happened last year and Mark Pope got the best of that,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: but it was on the neutral site. Do you like
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: that they potentially could be playing home and home. I
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: think it would be fantastic because I would like to
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: see Rick Patino bring his team back to Rapperina and
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: let Brick Patino get his ovation, which to me is
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: absolutely deserved.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: I think it'd be good for both. You do, I
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: think it would be okay.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, like you already said, what I was gonna
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: say is that, like he comes back and the fans,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: you know, appreciate him and this and that. Like, I
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: don't think it goes any deeper than that. Like, I mean,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I don't think necessarily either of these teams really get
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: anything out of it. It'd just be for the fans
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: stuff like that'd be the only reason.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be a good game. I mean, yeah, it's
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: a good game. But I mean, you could get good
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: games for anybody. The only fear I have is that
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: you're getting you're in the SEC, you get good games
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: every day.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: True.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: And uh we've already had one former coach come back,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: John Calipari, and they came back. There should not have
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: beaten Kentucky, but they did. And that's the one thing
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I fear is that now Rick Patino will come in
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to Reparina and beat Kentucky again. So I don't know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: it's just I think it would be good for both programs.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be really good for Kentucky and bring
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: a good, good competitive school into Repperen and so the
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: fan base can watch a really good game because most
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of the games outside of the SEC schedule are not
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: very good games. And that's that's just always one of
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: those things. I hate, these neutral site games. I just
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: don't like them. Pope also said that UK is fully
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: active in getting one more player to make the roster.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I mean that would make it right now, UK stands
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: at fourteen players. That would make it fifteen players. Was
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: he referring to Costa Rica, because you know Costa Rica
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: is now there's people giving.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Their load of.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Confidence that he's going to commit to UCLA. I mean
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: that just came out yesterday that you know that little
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: guy over there, Chris what's his name, Chris Cronin is
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: going to be getting Yeah, well whatever his name is,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: that's a anyway, I just a you're raising your voice me. No,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: absolutely not. Never would I do something like that. You
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: don't get the joke. No, you haven't seen that mccrona inview.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, I forgot about the Yeah, that was
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: that he's a clown. I know you said the players
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: like him. I love mccron do you really.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: I love mc cronin for the same reason that I
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: love like Donald Trump.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Is not that I agree with the things they do
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: or say.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, I think they are unintentionally some of the funniest
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: people on the planet.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: You know, does that make sense? It does.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: Like the things they do, their ignorance makes me laugh
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: so much that I just enjoy them. I'm trying to
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: think there's only one coach out there that I like
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: that is of a rival, and that would be Rick Barnes.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: For some reason, I've always liked Rick Barnes, and I
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: can't answer you. Answer you why, I tell you why.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: I just like Rick Barnes. I think he does a
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: nice job. I think Tennessee made a mistake by giving
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: him a lifetime contract. You thought they would have learned
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: from Kentucky don't give a lifetime contract, and Tennessee did it.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean they're still making elite eights, Yeah.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: That's about it, and they still beat Kentucky when accounts.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: But you know Kentucky still continued to sweep them during
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: the season. I would rather lose in the season and
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: beat them in the tournament. But uh, that's just kind
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: of how I feel. All Right, we got to take
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: another break. I five O two four one four fourteen fifty. Also,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: we're on YouTube. You can look us up at Big
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: X Sports Radio Louisville Plus. At the top of the hour,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: my new producer is going to be here. So wait
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: for that too, stay right there. More just the Cats
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: coming up after this.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: No, no, you keep playing this.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Somebody sent me a picture and said that, uh, Kanyie
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Katan passed away in twenty twenty one. It's upsetting. So
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: she's not no longer with us. I'm so sorry to
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: hear that. Yeah, that's that's terrible news. But here we
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: are talking about I don't think I'm talking bad about her,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: but happy Bobby Benia deferral day. Benie is set to
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: collect another one point one nine to three million from
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: the New York Mets today, as we will each July
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: first through the year twenty thirty five. That's coming from
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: John so Local John, So thank you there, John. I
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: appreciate that. That was one of my topics for a
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: little later. But that's okay, we'll go ahead and talk
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: it right now. I mean, that's just an amazing thing
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: that's happened because of the two thousand buyout agreement, where
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: the New York Mets deferred five point nine million dollars payout.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Instead of paying the lump sum up front, the Mets
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: agreed to pay him nearly one point two million annually
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: from twenty eleven to twenty thirty five, which includes a
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: negotiated eight percent annual interest rate. I think every player
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: should try and do something like this. While he was
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: never selected in the amateur draft, he was later picked
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: up by the Chicago White Sox in the real five
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: draft on December tenth, nineteen eighty five. I have to
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: get this rookie card. Yes, you're right about that, John,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I agree with him. I think this would help a
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: lot of players out there if they defer their salary
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: like this, because then they won't be spending all their
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: money and think they're in they're invincible with all their money.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: What they don't need to do this?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: They make millions of dollars, just learn some financial literacy.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: They don't learn to be a little more. They don't
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: do it, So what do you do at that point?
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry if I literally do not care about these
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: rich people were going broke, I don't care.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: You don't really generation so well, yeah, generational wealth.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: But you decided to buy seven voats, You decided to
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: buy three homes, You decided to buy a new home
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: for every city you played in. You decided to have
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: this many families you gotta take care of now, all
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: these decisions you decide to make because you went broke
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: as your fault. I we don't need to be deferring
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: money to people that. These people don't need severance. They're gajillionaires,
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: they're fine.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think you've checked out. I think you're fully
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: engaged in this show. I just wish because you said that,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: get them a financial advisor, give them a wealth management advisor,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: get them something. But I'm telling you, colleges don't do
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: it because they're getting they're paying these players all this money,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: and neither does the NFL, the NBA, or any of them. Okay,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: and these guys go out there and just I got it, entourage.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna spend I'm gonna go out there and
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: buy a brand new car and buy my all my family.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: And before they know it, it's like, what you feel
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: my agent got how much of this money?
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: I mean they're not.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Educated enough to know, Michael. Yes, I literally leave this
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: job tomorrow.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: You think this place is gonna pay me for like
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: four months while I go find another job?
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Or you think if I.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Found a job going, hey, can I defer a third
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: of my salary so that when I eventually leave here
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: I'll just keep getting paid?
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: No, they're not gonna do that. Why not ask? And
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: I'm making a hundred times less than these people are.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: They don't need that. Yeah, okay, all right, my goodness,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: are you okay?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: What do you think about Colin Chandler?
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Last week the former UK guard uh set it on
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: a podcast where the uh uh BYU is a program
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: that cares about their athletics. Is that a knock and
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: a shot at UK?
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Why is it not? I mean it sure sounds like
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a knock.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I saw this quote and he even comes back on it,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: and he saw the replies. He got to it and
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: was like, this isn't about Kentucky and we stopped looking
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: into this stuff. The dude was just trying to he
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: was doing his pr answer for by oh, okay, okay,
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: I don't think this has anything to do with any university.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think this has anything to do with this
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: and that. Like and I saw the post, I saw
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: the quote they made. I saw the replies as well. Yeah,
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: blowing this out of proportion. Okay uh.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: He also said that he and his wife mutually agreed
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: to the move back to bring him young and Utah,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: do you believe that? I mean, maybe, I know his
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: wife probably had.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: I don't believe that at all, But I mean, you
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: don't think that like six seven million dollars are gonna
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: pay him is gonna help with that?
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: You don't think that he would have been paid that here? No? Yeah,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: is he getting six or seven? Men? See why?
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: I just know it's more than he was getting a
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: Kentucky Brown Yeah, I just try not that much.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: But he's getting more than I think he would have got.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: The old saying goes happy Why happy life? She wasn't
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: happy in Lexington and she wanted to get back to
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: the family. That's what I think. Colin Chandler, Why would
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: you leave Kentucky where the fan base is Rabbit over you.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: They love you, and you've got a better shot at
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: going deeper in the tournament, hopefully winning a championship than BYU. Ever,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: will you can't convince me anymore that a player would
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: pick BYU over UK because of their fan base.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I've never been to a
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: WYU game, so I could.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: I don't need to go to a BYU game. I
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: already know the answer. I mean, the dude is they'll
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: be half packed next year in regular season games, whereas
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: exhibition games will be not sold out, but they'll be
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: pretty full and the fans will be going crazy. Just
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: like when he's out out and about walking around the sidewalk,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: fans will be going to him wanting his autograph, wanting
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: a picture with him. When he goes to BYU, he'll
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: be walking around the sidewalk wherever BYUS is in Utah,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: and nobody will say a word to him.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, fine, Look, I generally don't think he cares. The
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: dude like I think his wife obviously wanted to go
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: back to U I U, you know, for her business
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: and whatever. Right he is getting paid a hefty lump
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: some to go there. I don't he's coming to the
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: end of his career. I don't really see him having
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: a huge NBA career. I mean maybe he's just I
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: don't think he cares.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, you think he's going to have an NBA.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Career, that's if I'm saying. If he does, I don't
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: think he'll be very happy. I think he can make
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: like a two way contract somewhere and have a try,
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: and I think he's athletic enough for that. But I
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: don't think he's I think he's just taking the money,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: doing what his wife wants to do and saying, you
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: know what, I'll get paid for one more year.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: We'll put this money away. We can do whatever we
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: want after that. Yeah.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I was disappointed about Oscar she Bay, you know, in
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: him just being totally dumped speaking of his contract in
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: the NBA.
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: I mean he's just undersized and he never developed like
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: an offensive side.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they say it's because a lot of the reasons.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: He can't shoot the three at all. Yeah, but he
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: gets rebounds.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: And he scores. Okay, doesn't that matter. That's ninety percent
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: of the league, Michael.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So it's all about even your big
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: man going out there and making threes.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: But right now, Yes, that's where the sport's going. I
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: love you playing this white Snake. Yeah, I'm playing Whitesnake
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: right now. Oh my gosh.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: This song back in the day when this movie came
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: out was so overplayed. But anyway, here we go. When
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: we come back, come back, because my new producer is
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: going to be here. Justin Klin, I want you to
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: meet him. We'll be right back. Hour two, coming right up.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: All right, nour number two on this Wednesday, July first.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Hard to believe. I mean, I just can't believe it's
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: July first. We are halfway through twenty twenty six, and
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: before you know it, we are going to be uh
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: talking about Thanksgiving, Christmas and everything else. Is like, oh
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: my goodness. But joining us right now is a gentleman
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever met before, but we'll
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: see if you know he jogs my memory or not.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: But our new producer also hopes of some show that's
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: called Sunrise with Scoots. We'll have to see if we're
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: going to do any cross talk because he never answered me.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: But justin Caylin, how's my best friend doing well?
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: Michael Bennet. Before I say anything else this morning, I
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: have got to start out with Man, it feels like
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: a great day to beat some Bosnians.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking about, but I
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: guess it's that stinking soccer. But well, yeah, exactly, And
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I bet you can guess how much of this World
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Cup I've watched. But justin you'll be proud of me
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the entire time as you as you've been listening somewhat.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: My friend over here, Matthew Childress, has had a segment
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: twice a week about the World Cup. I mean, come on,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: you gotta give me a little credit for that.
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah. No, I've heard the soccer segments. I've really enjoyed
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: the soccer segments. I am unlike you, Michael. I have
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: watched every single game. Maybe I missed a game here
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: or there, but I have. You might as well have
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: given me that fifty thousand to go sit in that
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: box in Times Square, because I have watched a ton
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: of soccer the last few weeks. It's been awesome.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: I forgot all about that. You're right to fifty thousand.
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I completely forgotten all about that good memory right there.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: So Uh, you know, I was a little worried as
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: what was going to happen when you know, when Matthew
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: was hired back and taken over for you, and then
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: who's going to take over? When Matthews headed to Florida
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: and all this just transpired, and then Lloyd behold, you're
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: coming back? What kind of give us a little rundown?
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: What all happened here?
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: So I don't really want to get into it all
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: that deeply because I'm pausing to look at it in
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: the mindset of what happens happened. Everything happens for a reason,
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: which I also had the same mindset with as to
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: my return. I mean, everything happens for a reason. So
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: there were some things that needed to go a certain direction,
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: and low and behold they did. So I decided, you know,
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: it'd be the best move for me to just come back.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: I love big X, I love doing my own show.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: I love interacting with the text line on each and
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: every show that I produce or do, so it's just
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: for me. It was a no brainer. I just I
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: missed the interaction with the text line and the listeners,
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: and that was that was something for the last five
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: weeks that to be honest with you, I've really struggled
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: with now. I will say, on top of that, it
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: has been very, very nice watching sports from a gambling
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: perspective or just stay I want to have fun perspective
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: as opposed to well, I gotta have a take on this,
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: so let me pay attention and get my takes ready,
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: so that part of the last five weeks has been
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: very enjoyable.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: So, should we have a little segment of you know,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: because this is our last time to do this, a
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: little segment of Scoots and Toots, which was my dream,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: baby is you know, when when I retire and leave,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: I was hoping that Scoots and Toots was going to
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: take over just the cats and Matthew. I'm just gonna
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: hand it over to you and let everybody enjoy a
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: little Scoots and Toots.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: Let's do it.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: That's an interesting decision, Michael, because I have nothing prep
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: for this.
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: We're not talking.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: About We're not supposed to have anything prep.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: This is just you know, go as you are, all right,
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: So justin you said that you've obviously been watching a
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: lot of the World Cup, and you've been jumping into it,
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: and you've been really excited about it. Is is this
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: your first iteration of this US soccer team or have
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: you been bought it before?
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: I can honestly say that I have never been bought in,
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: and I don't know that I am one thousand percent
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: bought in on this team. And that's not that's not
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: a knock on this USA soccer team. They have been
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: very enjoyable to watch. I think they've got at least
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: two more games left to play, maybe three wins. We'll
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: see what ends up happening if they end up having
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: to play Belgium. But no, I mean, for me, Matt,
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: it's just I know how good the rest of the
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: world is. I mean, if you've watched France this World Cup,
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: they are looking like completely unbeatable team. So I don't
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: know that anybody gets past them. I mean, you've got
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: a bunch of the world powers that are always, in
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: my opinion, going to be better than the United States.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: Does the United States get lucky and push through eventually
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: and win one of these World Cups? I do believe that,
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: but I just I don't think that it's this year.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Although this team has been a lot of fun to watch,
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: so it's it's been very enjoyable.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Like I said, well, there have been surprises, some surprises
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: as well. Matthew, right, and Justin because of the fact
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: that Germany went down, wasn't there another real big one
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: that just went down recently.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: The Netherlands, but they lost the Netherlands they lost to
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: Morocco though Moroccos are a really good team.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Oh they are? Yeah, okay, all right, So if.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Y'all all right, so should we just do the segment
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: right now of soccer is and have Justin involved in this?
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: How much time do you have, Justin?
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: I got as much time as you perfect raise that.
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: Let me rephrase that, I've got as much time as
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: you want to pay me for. Michael Bennett.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, well nice having you on this morning, Joe,
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: but go ahead, Matthew. I mean it's it's they play tonight.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: They're playing Bosnia and Herzegovina. So it's twenty two on
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: eleven tonight.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Twenty two on eleven. I have no idea what you're saying,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: because they're playing Bosnia and Hurtzegovina as a joke.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: Okay, I was thinking they were playing.
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: I don't get it because their country is named Bosnia
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: and Hurtzegovina.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: There's eleven players for team. Come on, is that another
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: nobody got Nobody got this joke?
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't get it. I did, thank you, justin
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Okay, how much soccer I've been watching?
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, how did you expect me to?
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: That wasn't even a soccer joke. It was a play
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: on work. It was just a joke of playing on words.
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, well, it's like saying, when somebody has to
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: play Robert Morris, well they should win that one because
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: they only got to play one guy.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, same thing.
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: Similar.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Oh boy, that's bad.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: Okay, right, they played Bosnian the night they play at
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: eight PM. I think the coverage for that game starts
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: actually at six. This is also the first time in
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: World Cup history the United States will play a knockout
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: round on primetime television. It's always been playing in kind
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: of garbage time on TV. It's been played early in
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: the morning, so the world wasn't really watching about that.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: There wasn't really watching. But all eyes are gonna be
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: on the US tonight, which is super exciting.
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: From what I've watched in this tournament, I've seen before,
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: like in the in the qualifying stage. This is a
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: team you can't really sleep on. Michael, I kind of
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: compared them to you the other day to like an
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: eleven and seeing the tournament. Yeah, they're a team that
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: you know kind of got They made it in by
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: their winning their conference.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: And you know they have a lot of veteran leadership
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: on this team. It's a lot of all.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're led by a guy in the name
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: of Edin Jecco who's like forty Okay, this is look,
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: they're starting strikers. Dude, he's been around since I have
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: been a child. This dude has been a large name
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: in soccer for a long time. He's playing a lot
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: of really high profile clubs. So his career well, Messi's
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: that old too, isn't he Yes, he is nowhere near
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: Messy level though.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Oh he's not.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: He's good, but he's not He's not messy good. This dude,
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: he is probably is going to be his last World Cup.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: I'd imagine he's the guy you kind of need to
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: look for in terms of the attack. But on their
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: defensive side, they do have some decent young talent. This
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: is a team that plays really well together and they
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: can get going really fast. You saw it in their
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: last group stage game and they won three to zero
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: or three one.
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: They're gonna play a similar style to how we've seen
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: when we played Paraguay, we played Australia, where they're gonna
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: try and slow this game down. They're gonna try and
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: get a goal off the counterattack and then basically take
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: over them and then then from there and then try
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: and run the score upon us from that on. But
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: so the goal for us here basically come out be
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: the aggressors. Pressure, counter pressure, you know, step on their throats.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: If you have to try and get a goal early
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: and just run away with it. It's gonna be our
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: goal for tonight.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm sick of hearing in regards to
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: this game is that it's gonna be a tough one
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: for the United States. I don't die that. I think
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: the United States runs away with this thing that I'm
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: feeling a three zero, three one type game. Yeah, Bosnia
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: and Hertz Convenia is okay, But I just I don't
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: think this is gonna be a tough game. I think
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: the US wins this game comfortably. I woke up feeling great.
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: I still feel great. Time eight o'clock tonight, I'll feel
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: great US Rocks Base.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: He's making me nervous, Matthew. I'm just gonna tell you
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: right now, anytime he predicts something good for, you know,
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the team that you want to win, he always loses.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, how do you feel about Justin's prediction? It
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: does make me a little nervous.
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: Of the times that we've done scoots and Toots and
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: we talked about Kentucky basketball. It seems like every single
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: time you pick Kentucky to lose, they win. Every time
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: he picks them the win, they lose. So that does
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: in the back of my head a little bit. But
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't disagree with Justin. This is a
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: game that the United States, if they play their brand
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: of soccer and they play it the way they have been,
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: even if they're not playing their best game, they should
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: win this game.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: I my original prediction was arount three to one.
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: I think they get an early goal, maybe they give
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: up one in late time, late stage in the game
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: or something like that. I think if they play a
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: pretty poor game, they can still win this game around
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: like two to one or so. The only thing we
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: need to do my biggest goal for this matchup, and
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: you've seen it across World Cup already. Do not let
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: any game go to penalty kicks.
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: Do not.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: Our goalkeeper has no experience.
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: He's young, he's athletic, and he's a great keeper, but
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: he plays in the MLS.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: He's not, you know, been tested in this World Cup
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: very much.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: Yet he's only had to make three or four saves
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: total his entire World Cup campaign. Stay out of penalty kicks,
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: keep this game in regulation time, get it done.
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: I agree with Justin.
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: I think that they I haven't been impressed with the
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: way Belgium has looked. They're another team that's relying on
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: some very very old men on their team. They got
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: Kevin de Bruyne and Romolu Lucaku who have been on
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: their team for a really, really long time, but they're
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: both pushing their forties. These guys don't look anywhere near
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: they have been. They haven't been impressive. I think they
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: could beat that team if they get there. But tonight,
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: like I said as Bosnia, I agree with Justin on
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: this this one. Rarely I'm gonna agree with Justin. I
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: think they should handle business in this game you know.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: What impresses me the most, Justin, is that Matthew doesn't
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: use a single note and he knows all these players.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: He can say their names perfectly. It's like, how do
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: you do this? But I'm sorry, go ahead, Justin.
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: I was just gonna say I completely agree with the
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: whole penalty situation. I mean, look at Manuel Noyer with
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: Germany the other night. Dude came out of retirement to
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: play for them and then has to face penalties and
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: low and behold, they end up losing. But I'm said
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: for years, penalty kicks are the best way to end
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: the soccer game unless you have a dog in the fight.
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: Then suddenly it becomes the worst way to end the
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: soccer games. So I agree, do not go to penalties
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: to night, please.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: And that's the thing is because these teams they play
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: like a similar RANDF soccer we've seen where they'll put
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: five guys in the back line.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: They'll try and slow the game down.
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: Because a lot of these teams, especially when they're playing
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: against the Germany's, the Brazils, the Portugals, they're gonna do
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: their best to slow this game down as.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Much they want to go to penalty kicks. They don't.
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: They don't like, yes, they're gonna try and score in
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: the game, but their goal is to try and make
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: it through extra time. Get to penalty kicks, because then
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: it's basically a fifty to fifty shot. It's can can
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: you get lucky? Can one team be Is our mental
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: state better than theirs?
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: Can our goalkeeper guess right one or two times? Like
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: these teams want to go to penalty kicks. These underdogs,
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: that's how they win these games. So if you're the
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: United States, you cannot play conservative. I know this is
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: a stage you know you have been at pretty frequently.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: And these the players here, they play in their first
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: World Cup ever four years ago. They have a World
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: Cup under their belt. They have the confidence you to
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: go out there and be the aggressor like you've been
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: the last two games.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Where is this game being played, Santa Clara. It's in
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: the forty nine ers stadium.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, thank you, because I you say Santa Clara,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: I have no idea. That's that's the thing that's really
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: ticked me off about this whole thinking soccer thing.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: Stop with the.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Whole I know these stadiums by their name it's Levi
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Is that right. I believe it's Levi Stadium, Yes, exactly,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: so I know them by that. I just I don't
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: get the same. But I don't get it.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: The rest of the world does not know those stadium
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: names much.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: That's not my problem. That's what they'll learn.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: Why, that's why it's Boston Stadium.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: In dallas Borough.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but but you know what you want me to
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: learn soccer, then you learn my stadiums. Okay, I think
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: it's even trade. Now we're getting political on this.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, we're not getting political at all. Stop it.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Yah, Tampa can't come soon enough for you. Just kidding,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: I should That was a little overboard.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: No, it's okay. I'm just as excited as Michael ben. No,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: it's not true. You know that's not true.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: So don't ever say something Justin he I want you
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: to know this, Okay, this is something that we all
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: joked about for a really long time. Obviously, the entire
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: time you haven't been here. He has called me Justin
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: Kaylor every single day, every single day.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: No, wait a minute, I am I not surprised by that.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, and guess what, when you come
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: on Monday, I'm gonna start calling you Matthew, so.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: Well that will be unaccepted.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: All right, So you're you're starting back up seven o'clock
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Monday morning. I'll be there and then you're gonna be
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: here on all the shows up until what noon I
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: believe it is, or eleven.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: And the best part about being gone. You've been working
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: for your dad and you've lost a little bit of weight.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Is that true? Is that still happening for you?
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: I have, yes, I'm down roughly fifteen pounds.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: Actually, so I was really excited about this week with
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: it being as hot as it's gonna be, and I
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: was like, man, I'm gonna lose so much weight this week.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: My plan was to I wasn't even gonna drink this week.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: I was like, hecky elves, I'll lose all tons of weight.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: Well, have to drink.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 5: Then I woke up on Sunday morning and my right
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: foot was killing. So for the last two days I
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: have been treating it like I had a gout flour
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: up or something. I've never dealt with gout, so I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: had no idea what it felt like. So I was
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: just under the assumption that it was gut well, come
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: to find out, it's something my mom deals with as well.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: I've real some sort of stress ligament in my foot,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: and so for the last three days I have looked
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: like the most crippled personal life, like I can barely walk. So,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 5: needless to say, I didn't get to work with Pops
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: this week, which really sucks because I would have dropped
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: another ten pounds. But yeah, it's been good. It's been
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: nice losing some weight I needed to do that. I
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: needed to lose probably about forty more pounds, so I'll
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: have to find a way to manufacture that when I
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: get back in radio.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: I know t J. Walker is dying to know. Are
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: we gonna be back up with crosstalk?
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: I reckon we can bring no no.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: No, don't let me for something. I Am not here
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: to tell you what to do on your.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: Show, Michael, Michael, you know me. I'm a man of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: the people. What the people want, the people get. They
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: want some cross talk, We're gonna do some.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: I think we need to take a vote. Then we
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: should we find out if people want If they do it,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: then yes, then if they don't, then know.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: I like it. I'm down, all right.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Matthew did you have something else you wanted to say.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: You were reaching over there.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, justin, can just come in here
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: and just crank up they turn the AC off, cranking
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: up to like eighty in here and then sweat them.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: No, No, I mean this place is.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: That's a good point, you know, Matt. It's funny you
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: mentioned that when I was actually living down in Jacksonville
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: and I lost about sixty pounds one year. I would
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: get in my car after work, and you know how hot.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: It's ridiculously hot. But I would get in my car
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: after work and I would roll my windows up and
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: I would crank my heat as high as it would go,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: and I would ride like that all the way home.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: So I just sweat bullets all the way home.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Wow, and you didn't see a therapist after this?
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: No, no, it's it's just it felt like part of
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: my weight loss for a tine.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: Interesting. Okay, well that's that's a sauna. I mean, I
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: bet that car smelled all kinds of crazy.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: Luckily, I don't stink when I sweat, so we were good.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Everybody stinks when they sweat. Don't give me that, Michael.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 5: Come run a mini marathon with me.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: You don't smell after No, I'll be good.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: Hey, I see Scoots and Michael Bennett run a mini marathon?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: Is the day that I actually I'll put money on
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: the Reds to win the World Series?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: What now? Why? Why do you?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Why do you give me such low confidence that I
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: couldn't run a mini marathon?
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: Would you run them any marathon? Michael?
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like it, That's what I thought. Yeah,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: I just I don't know. It's just I've always wanted
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: to do the mini here in town, just to say
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: I've done it. My wife has done it. I just
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just I hate running, all right.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: One more thing, justin how are you feeling about the Reds?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: Looking ten times where I stated last season.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty well done with the Reds. I have not
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: paid attention. I do watch the score basically every night,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: but I do not watch games anymore. They this season's
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: felt like it's been over for a few weeks now.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know if either of y'all saw the kirkkurb
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: Street text or tweet from last night. He was fonding
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: to a fan and basically said, this season's been over
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: for weeks, and I agree with that. It's They've had
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: fun moments, but I can't do it anymore.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: Spears brings it up literally every show talking about all
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: the Reds won again or lost it again. And we
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: had a conversation the other day about they're only like
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: four and a half or five and a half games
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: back from the wild Card and I'm like, John, stop
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: telling me this.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: I don't care. They could be forty five games back.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: I don't care.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: They could be half a game back for all I care.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: Stop trying to give people hope. We're just getting out
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: of here.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: I agree. I'm honestly at this point, I'm more excited
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: for the TVT.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: One topic that I wanted to bring up with Justin
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: on the air, and Matthew, I want your response first,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: because I don't want it to be swayed anyway from
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: our good friend Justin Kaylin. But Justin Calen's joining us
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: right now because he's coming back Monday with Scoots Sunrise
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: with Scoots, as well as producing and co hosting on
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: justic Cats Now. So it was announced that Lebron James
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: is no longer going to be with the Lakers, and
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: he waited to make that announcement until the day after
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: his son's Bronni's contract became guaranteed with the Lakers, which
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: happened the day before Lebron Williams made that announcement. I
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: want to know from you, matth was that a good
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: move or was that something that? I mean, he really
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: took it to the Lakers doing something like that.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, this man has screwed the Lakers over the
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: past four years in drafting Bronnie, putting all this capital
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: in him. He basically got the Lakers to pull him
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: out of the G League, put him on the roster.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: He's gotten minutes now and now he's basically forced them
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: to finalize his contract, keep them there on the Lakers.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: He's gonna get dropped of the G League basically immediately
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: assume as Lebron's off this team.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: So it doesn't do I respect it? Not at all?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Not a single bit do I respect this at all.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: This dude wasn't even a top He wasn't even a
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: starter for his college team at USC when he played there.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: This dude's in the NBA making money.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: These are the people that Michael Bennett feels bad for
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: because they run out of money too.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: I do not yet.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: This man is piggybacking his career for Bronnie to make it,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: make a career out of himself in the NBA. He's
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: basically just banking on hopefully he locks in at some
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: point gets good enough where he doesn't need his help.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: And boy, Bronnie times running out.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: You got to figure this out, all right, justin when
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: you saw that, what did you think about it?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: First? Let me say this, there are three things that
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: I have not missed the last five weeks, and I
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: don't know how I'm gonna deal with them when I
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 5: do get back into the studio. But man, I've been
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 5: really excited not talking about Lebron, not talking about Taylor Swift,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: and not trying to not having to hear you struggle
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: through Sayla familiar. Those three things not being in my
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 5: life have been absolutely incredible. So we'll cross that bridge
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: when we get there in terms of when I get back.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: But now, I mean, it didn't I didn't think anything
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: about it. I mean, they've got to be their own person,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: right Like, if you're Bronni, you can't cling to Lebron
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: your whole life. So at some point, Papa's got to
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: throw the bird out the nest and see if he
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: can fly, you know, so I think we've all knew
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: that Lebron the likely landing spot was probably gonna be Cleveland.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: That just seems like what makes the most sense in
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: your career, where you saw it in your hometown and
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: all that. So I think what Bron's gonna go back
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: to Cleveland? And I don't really give one iota about
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: Bronnie and what he does from here on it.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: See, I kind of ranked this up there with Bruce
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: Pearl and Steven Pearl. What Bruce Pearl did to Auburn.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Which do you think is worse what Bruce Pearl did
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: to Auburn or what Lebron James did to the Lakers?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: Bruce, And it's not even close.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: See, I think you're right. I believe that, Matthew.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Are you kind of on the same page as far
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: as that goes to Bruce Pearl was far worse what
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: he did to Auburn than what Lebron James did to
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: the Lakers?
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not close.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, all right, then let me just check and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: all right then anything else we need to add here.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: I know I've got a couple of texts Josh said
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: justin Scoots never left. He just took off the first
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: month of the I sixty five shutdown to let the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: smoke clear.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: I think that that was that was a huge advantage
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: to this all going down when it did. Yes, very
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: very well, said there.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Josh One Texterter said, Scoots is back. Gee, I guess
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: sometimes people don't know what they've got till it's gone.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, I would definitely
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: agree with that. So, I mean, I I listen, I
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: love having Matthew, I want. My problem is I want
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: both of you here. That's my problem. And because when
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Matthew leaves, I mean, it's just going to be kind
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: of sad. But at least I got you back, so
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: that that's that's the best part. But justin I I
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: will say, I'm excited that you're coming back. I mean,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: it put a smile on my face. I know I
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: screwed up a little last week because uh, I know,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: I know, I don't.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: Want don't worry. Don't worry. Michael john Spears yesterday on
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 5: his show just said it outright.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, at least I didn't do that.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: I did keep a little bit of a secret. I
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: never said your name, but I just said he's coming back.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I didn't mess up, but I am excited
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: and can't wait for you.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: Any more Scoots and tuts. Are we done with the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: scoots and toots? Guys? I don't have anything else.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: Oh it's so sad man. I don't prep prepared. You
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: should have been prepared.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't prep. I'm sorry.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: I thought Justin would come with all the material. It's
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: his Oh, his job already.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: Wow. Is there a segment you want to start up
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: Justin before you take off?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: No? I didn't prep either because I haven't been working
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 5: and radio.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Don't worry because you have. You don't prep anyway. You've
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: always told me I just get up and get ready
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: to go, which I love.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: You're not wrong.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, congratulations. I'm proud of you on the weight loss.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of you for making the decision to come back,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: and I know a lot of people are going to
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: be excited about that. So looking forward to Monday, you'll
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: be back seven eight ms sunrise with Scoots and then
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: you know, be right here with me on Just the
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: Cats too.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: Yep, absolutely as well. And if anyone's listening to this,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: tell your friends let everybody know that we'll be doing
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 5: this thing starting up on this Monday. Yeah, I am
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: excited about it. I was excited to come on with
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 5: you this morning, Michael. Thanks for having me, and hopefully
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 5: all enjoy the rest of your show.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: Well, and not just that, but hopefully, like maybe forty eight, handly.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: Will come back at this point, don't you.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: There are people that say I'm no longer coming back
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: to listen to this radio station.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 5: There have been several people that I've been in touch
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: with and I know no longer listen that we'll be
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: back in the fold. Actually, I'm so personally guarantee you.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad to hear.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: All Right, that's Justin Kaylen justin, have a great long weekend,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: and we'll see you Monday morning, bright and early at
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: seven am. See guys, go USI all right, there you go,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Justin Kaylin aka Scoots. So all right, we're going to
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: take a break. Uh and I'll get back to your
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: text as well. But if you want to text in
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: on the Whiskey Thief text line, do that at five
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: O two four one four fourteen fifty stay right there.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: More than just the cats.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: Favorite winter the spring.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: If you want to make a.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: Look at yourself, if you want to look at yourself.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: I think that's my favorite Michael Jackson's song. Really man, Yeah,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: it really is. I've always loved that song and the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: sad part about it. I want you to continue to
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: play it. But yeah, I love that song. Is that
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: that's your favorite one?
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: Uh No, I mean it's a good one. I'd say, Oh, Man,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 4: smooth Criminal, I really like. Yeah, Dirty Diana, I really like.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, thirty Diana. My two favorites,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: are they really? Okay?
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: All right, then, what do you think about justin coming
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: back to take over for you when you take off?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: What tomorrow? When's your last day? Tomorrow?
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 4: Friday, tomorrow, tonally tomorrow, totally. My last day is Friday,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: but we don't have shows on Friday tomorrow.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: It's tomorrow, okay, and I'm out tomorrow. So but I mean,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm genuinely excited about that. Yeah, I hope you
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: are too.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 4: I was, you know, like I said, I'm upset to leave,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: and yeah, I was interested to see who was going
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: to fill my spot. So I'm glad it's somebody that's,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: you know, been here before and somebody that I got
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: to know and somebody who trained me in what I
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 4: was doing, and I wouldn't be able to do the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: things that I do now without Justin.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: So I'm glad he gets to do it again exactly.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: UK announced yesterday and UK Athletics has a multi year
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: partnership with an app called Hoot.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of Hoot? I don't think so.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: I don't either.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: I' never heard of WoT until yesterday. It's a real
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: world social platform built on human presence and designed to
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: transform how fans experience game day together. It's a three
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: year deal, developed of course by JMI.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know what this is going to be like.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: It's an app called Hoot. Hoot is in tom a
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: location based, presence centric social platform designed to connect you
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: with real time happenings, events, and people in your immediate
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: physical vicinity. In other words, you cannot use this app
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: and remark on it, post videos, or any that kind
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: of stuff unless you are physically at the game. So
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: if you're there, you get to communicate with other people
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: and do all kinds of stuff. If you're not there,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: you're not a part of who. I don't know.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's I feel like, you know, not
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: trying to dog on anybody's ideas. Yeah, I feel like
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: this is the worst thing for sports I've ever heard of.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's counterproductive. Why would you want people
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: on their phones during the sporting game.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: Exactly, That's what I think. It's like, I don't I
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: want to watch the game. I don't want to sit
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: here and be on my phone commenting about stuff or
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: I guess yea, the idea is is cool. I guess
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: you know you're connecting with people who are watching the
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: same thing you are, but you should be watching the game,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: right I'm going to the game to literally witness the
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: game happening in front of me, not be on my
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: phone and commonly on some app I don't know. I
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: saw this and I thought, Okay, this is unusual. I
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: don't see how this is going to work. But I've
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: been wrong before. I mean, I'm not of a generation
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: that grew up constantly on your phone, even though I'm
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: pretty much constantly on my phone at this point and
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: I'm constantly on social media.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: CEO here in this quote just lies how so, he
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: says we did not build whot to be another social app.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: Those already exist, said Drew Gordon, co founder and CEO
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 4: at WHOT. We built it to be the first real
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: world social platform where human presence is verified, moments are real.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: What happens online finally imagines what happening in the real world.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 4: Yik yak exists. That's already a thing. I've never heard
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: of that one after school exit. Oh, yak yak is
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: like really popular in college right now?
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: Really.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 4: Yik yak is an anonymous social net social networking platform.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: Yik yak. What it is. It's a It's a message board.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: You can spell it why I k y ak and
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: it's cover its logo say literally, yak.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: I am missing out here? Okay, go ahead.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: It's an anonymous social networking platform slash like a it's
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: more like a forum. You can make posts and stuff,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: but nobody knows who they're from, and you have to
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: be within the vicinity of Oh, here we go again.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: So this is becoming popular as far as you're only
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: allowed to use these apps in a certain area.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, So, like colleges uses a lot because you interact
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 4: with only people at like UK and U of L
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: are on campus and you just make posts about what
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 4: you're around and they're just post the more funny.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: That's the exact thing this is, except this is for sports.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: But I feel left out though. I mean, if I'm
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: not at UK as a student or if I'm not
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: at the game, it's like, well, I'd like to see
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: what's happening there. I'd like to be a part of that,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: and they're not gonna let you do that.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It just sounds very so it's not.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: It's not in the arenas. It's just Lexington, like the
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: city of Lexington is where you can use it, where
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: you can use yak yak, No, you can use whot
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: is what I'm looking at.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: Oh so I have to so UK fans around the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: world can only I thought you could use it only
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: if you're at the game. It's a transform how fans
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: experience game day together.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 4: Ahead of the tour twenty seven academic year. Who will
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: activate the in quotations Big Blue Nation canopy, which is
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 4: the areas of which you have to be in to
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: access that stuff?
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: Right? Well, to me, that's the parking lot and it
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: says this area surrounding the.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 4: City and this is only on game days, it says
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: on game days, creating a live digital layer spanning UK
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 4: Athletics venues, tailgates and campus in addition to downtown Lexington.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, in addition to downtown Lexington. Okay, so you can
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: be in the vicinity of Rapperina because they're also going
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: to have that big entertainment district out there. So I
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: assume Commonwealth Stadium and the entertainment district will be able
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: to be a part of that, and then if you're
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: downtown Lexington, you'll be able to be a part of
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: it at Rapparina.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: It's just I don't know. This just sounds dumb.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 4: It just sounds like, am I is this an old man?
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 4: Take No, it's a stupid It just sounds like Twitter.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 4: But you have to be in a certain area to
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: use it. Wow because it says why though, and they've
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 4: changed the names for things to make it sound unique.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 4: It says share your I feel like I'm just dumping
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: on this company right now. It's just share your experiences
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: with echos, in quotations, post echoes within the app, story
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 4: style updates that let fans share real time photos, videos, posts,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: and on the ground moments. Every social media app does that.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: You can post stories anywhere. Now Connect instantly with hoot me.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 4: Hoot Me enables fans within a canopy to message when
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, you can message people on this app?
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I just dumb. It's literally it's literally just Twitter,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: but you could only use it within this area, all right.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: So in other words, they're not going to improve Wi
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: Fi or any kind of sure are you even going
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: to be able to get on see exactly? So? Are
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: you going to be able to use Wi Fi there
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: because so many people will be on Hoot or is
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: it going to be to a point where you can
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: only get on Hoot and you can't get on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: TikTok or anything else. So they're making it to just
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: one site you can use on social media.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I didn't like this. It
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: sounds kind of hokey to me.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 4: Look, when you're jumping into these spaces that have mega
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: corporations in them, you know, like Meta X and like
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: all these things and face all this stuff. Yeah, you
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: have to have something that's genuinely unique that brings people
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: like why would I use this over that?
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah? And this just I'm reading this quot right here.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 4: It says as someone who grew up in Kentucky and
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 4: also had the privilege of being a student athlete at UK.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 4: This partnership is incredibly personal for me, said Ferguson Gordon.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 4: Big Blue Nation is one of the most passionate communities
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: in sports. All blah blah blah talking about Big Nations.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: Great.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: This feels like this was an idea this person had
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: and they use their connections at UK to start it up.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, so it's an inside job in other words,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: like I like, I get that, You're like, I just don't.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: My thing is when I'm looking at these is what
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: would bring me to this over just using Twitter, you
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like, what am I?
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: I want to talk to all of Big Blue Nation
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: when I'm out there wanting to post something, not just
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: the people that are at a game or in a
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: certain vicinity.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: I want to be talking to everybody. This just doesn't
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: it to just communicate with the people that are around you.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: You're at the game, Yeah, just talk to them. It's like, okay,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: I'm going to text the person next to me on hoot.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: I just somebody's got to explain this more to me.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: As far as why is this a good thing. I mean,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: I'm just not catching on.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: Evidently, maybe it goes live and it becomes like something
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: super niche like like yakiyak, like it only works in
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: college campuses and stuff. But it's the point where like
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: it's just an app that does the same thing that
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: every other social media platform does, but this one you're
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: constricted in it, like you have to be in this.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I see, I understand, I just don't
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: see the appeal though. I don't. That's why I don't
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: get it either. I'm not I'm not honest saying.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: We're missing something. But okay, all right, then we gotta
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: take our last break. When we come back, I do
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: want to talk about Man the Nationals and Red Sox
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: went at it last night. Of course, that always makes
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: me smile as far as what happened. Plus there is
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: a college football team that's now doing this on their jerseys.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that as well. Stay right there. One
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: more segment of Just the Cat's coming up on this Wednesday.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: Were our last segment on this Wednesday before I take
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: off tomorrow and Friday, but be back Monday. So I
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: hope everybody will have a nice long fourth of July weekend. Uh,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: we never did get your prediction though. As far as
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: the game tonight between Team USA and Bosnia, what what?
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: Is gonna happen? As far as the game.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 4: I think that they're gonna try, like I said, and
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 4: slow this down as much as possible. They're gonna try
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: and play heavily defensive. Because of how much pressure of
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: the US the United States brings and how fast paced
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: they play, They're gonna try and slow them down a lot.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 4: My official prediction, I actually agree with Justin on this.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 4: I think that it would be around three to one.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: I think that the United States is gonna be able
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: to get an early goal, kind of ride momentum throughout
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: this game and take control.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: That's if they play their game.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 4: I think if we're talking straight knockout stage, I could
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: see this going one to one and then two to
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: one late if United States plays pretty poorly. But I
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: think that they'll play really well. I think it'll I
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: agree with Justin. Think it'll be that three one. That'll
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: be my fincial prediction. All right, did good? Uh?
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: I know you didn't see it, but the Nationals played
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: Washington nasall played the Boston Red Sox last night. Have
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: you seen the replay of it?
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: No?
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, it turned really interesting in the fourth inning because
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: you had Kate Cavelly on the mound for the Nationals
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: and then you had First Basement for the Red Sox.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: Wilson Contre's as the batter. Well Cavelly for the Nationals
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: through a really nice breaking ball for strike three, and.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 3: You could.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: Hear Cavelli yelling, sit down, boy. Contrera's responded, you talking
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: to me, and then the Red Sox First Basement approached
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: the mound after which made both benches clear, and then
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Contreras is seen throwing his helmet
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: at the Nationals pitcher.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: Kate Cavelly.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: Multiple ejections, and the sad part about it, this is
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: Contrera's second ejection in two games in a row. Now,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: after the game, Contrera said, listen, I've kind of let
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: my psyche get the best of me. He's originally from Venezuela,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: and he said that the earthquakes, the really tragic earthquakes
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: that's happened down in Venezuela over the last week, have
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: really affected him and that's why he reacted the way
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: he did. Because last Friday, he hit a home run
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: and people saw him crying in the dugout.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: He yelled.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: When he was going across the bases, he yelled Venezuela.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: And then when he got to the dug out of
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: the people saw him crying. And so evidently it has
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: really affected him. And but let me ask you this,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: cade Cavelli the picture for the Washington Nationals. Should he
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: be yelling sit down, boy? I mean, that's really derogatory.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, I'm somebody that is all for
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: trash talk.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: Are you really okay? I think it's a part of sports.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: But I guess it depends on the connotation calling somebody
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 4: boy is a little crazy.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that part doesn't bother me. I mean, I know
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: some people are say, oh, they try to make it
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: a really derogatory thing. But no, no, I don't think
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: he meant it that way. I don't think so either.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: I think he was just yelling at him whatever. I've
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: had worse things in my life. I think everybody else has.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just trash talk. It's in a sport.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: We're grown man like.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: Move on.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean it should have just ended, right, there.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I never like trash talk and I wish
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: it hadn't happened. But anyway, Wisconsin Badgers football team will
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: have a jersey patch this coming year. The sponsorship is
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: going to be Culvers. Oh fantastic? Is it really why
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: I love Culvers?
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: Do you when?
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: Is it about Culvers that you like?
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 5: So?
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: I think it's the quality, like it is my favorite
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: fast food chain. Is it it is? Wow? There is.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: I have genuinely never gone to Culver's and gotten something
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: that I didn't like. I think it's I think their
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: burgers are the best. I think their chicken sandwich are
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 4: the best.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: I think they're they call it. They don't call it
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: ice cream. They call it custody. They have a custard there.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: I'll yeah, custard. I love It's really good. Every time
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: I go there. That it's a bad thing. I have
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: to get custard and I get it the hot fudge
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: and the nuts on it. Whoop cream. That's the way
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: I like it. And uh, but no, their hamburgers are good.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: I think their fried fish is really good. Never had
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: the chicken though.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: When I was talking to Van Hiles when you were gone,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: Oh actually, uh, you know I told them that I
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: was going to Tampa and everything, and he told me
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: to go to this place that's actually also in Chicago
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 4: called Portillo's.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: Oh bravo. Portillo's is unbelievably awesome.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 4: I had heard of it. Yeah, I've obviously never been there. Yes,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 4: but he was talking glowingly of this place. Oh Van
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 4: Hous nailed it. So I'm like, I immediately take a
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 4: Pouli and I was like, we have to go to Portillo's.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: Apparently, I don't know if there's one in Tampa. I
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: know there's one in Saint Pete. That maybe what he's
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: talking about. Yeah, I think it's in Saint Pete. It's
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: right there off of sixty six. It is literally ten
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: minutes from my house. Yes, I'm excited to try it. Yeah,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: and they have the real Chicago dogs. That's when I
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: was really disappointed. There is a place in Saint Matthew's
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: called Lonnie's. Oh Lonnie Chicago Dog. Yeah, iland morning exactly.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: I was so bummed when they shut down because there
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: is something about having a real Chicago hot dog, and
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: that's what Portillo's is. I mean, Portillo's is based in
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: Chicago and they have they have really good ice cream,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: and they have really good I.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: Don't like chocolate, but I love their chocolate cake. It's amazing.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: So yeah, you'll you'll have good at Portillo's. I'm excited
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: to try it. Yeah. I'm a big hot dog guy.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah are you really? I am too?
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: And I love sausage. I'm a big sausage guy. They
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: have sausage with cooked onions on top with mustard. Man,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: you just don't want to be around me. About an
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: hour later, okay, uh so, yeah, Wisconsin is doing this.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: Is this the start of college football going to become
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: the next NASCAR Jersey?
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: I don't think it'll get that far. I mean these
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: schools are just looking for any way to make more money. Yeah,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: put in their nil. So I don't blame them for it.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: I mean it's just the way capitalism works. We just
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 4: put advertisements on anything that has you know, white space
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 4: on it.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I read this article the other day
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: which I never knew this.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: You've heard. You know who George Fromer is, right, goey
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: who makes the grills?
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: Right, that's hilarious that you say that. So he was
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: a boxer, Yeah, I know he used to. Okay, Okay, well,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: the first thing when I was like growing up, like
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: I always knew him as that. One of my all
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: time favorite Office episodes was when Michael Scott had the
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: George Foreman grill next to his bed because he liked
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: the smell of bacon in the morning, and he stepped
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: on the George Foreman grill and then proceeds to wrap
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: his foot in the bubble wrap, which I thought was hilarious.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: But did you know George Foreman.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: He made at the height of the George Foreman grill.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: They said he was making anywhere from four and a
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: half to eight million dollars a month. I mean that
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: blew my mind away. Over time, he made over two
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: hundred million dollars from just the George Foreman grill. I
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: thought that was incredible.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I knew about it, and I was
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: a little kid, so it was popular.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 4: They had George Foreman on Nickelodeon episodes, Well did they really?
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, he was on Trunk and Josh one time.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, I didn't know that. All right, let me
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: get to a couple of texts before you go. One
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: person said, sucks Doormat is leaving. He has really grown
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: into a radio personality over the last few months.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 4: That means a lot and that nice. Hoping I get
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: to continue that song, yeah, Matthew said, Culver's is good.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 4: I haven't been there much. Also, thank you for everything
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: you have done for the station. Matthew, no idea if
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 4: this is your last day or not. So No, tomorrow
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 4: is last day with me on my show. Yeah, tomorrow
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 4: will be doing I'll be on like all the remote
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: shows from like twelve to five thirty tomorrow you will
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 4: will still be on those.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 3: But this has been a last show on this Yeah, yeah,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: but I.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: Am looking forward to this. It released last week. Larry
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: David has a new show. Have you seen the advertisement
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: for this. It's called Life Larry in the Pursuit of Unhappiness.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: There are seven episodes of it, and it's about the
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: history he's taking. It's kind of his taste on what
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: what has happened in history of the United States, his
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: flair for the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: United States.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 3: I can't wait for it. Are you not a cribby
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: enthusiasm kind of a guy? It's okay, whoa, I'm my
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: favorite show? Oh boy?
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 4: Okay, there is a there's a Twitter account that's gotten
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 4: really popular yes of this week. Yeah, and what they
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: do is they it's kind of a joke, but they're
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 4: tweeting every day up until July fourth, as if the
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: things that happened this week in seventeen seventy six are
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: happening right now. Yeah, as like a promotionally, okay, that's
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: kind of cool, as like a promotional stunt for July fourth.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 4: So like, yeah, on July fourth, they're gonna say they
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: signed like they're tweeting as if it's live, and it's
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: just it's super funny.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: That's pretty I kind of like that. What's it called?
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: What's the account?
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: I saw it the other day. We'll text me later
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: I try and find it. Yeah, I would like to
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: watch that. So all right, man, well you got big
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: planes for the weekend. You're moving yep. When you're leaving.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 4: Sunday morning probably like Saturday early day morning. Oh my,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: and you're gonna drive down two cars. Uh yeah, we're
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 4: gonna drive to Georgia to her grandfather's house.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, good, you're gonna break it up a little. Yeah.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: He unfortunately recently passed away. So they're giving away a
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: lot of hist so we're getting actually a lot of
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 4: our furniture from his house.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 4: And then the moving company is meeting us in Georgia,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: and then we're just gonna there.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, Well don't don't speed through Georgia.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: I've learned that lesson, especially south of Macon. Man, they
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: patrol it like crazy, those County mountis there down there.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: So uh but anyway, Matthew, it's been pleasure.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know. Yeah, you got to call in next week.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: We were not stopping this soccer segment until the World
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: Cup is over.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: You have to call in. Oh well, you let me
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: know when you go back to Tampa. We'll go get
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: lunch or something.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds good. Well, we'll definitely do that. But
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: it's been a lot of fun. I'm here you on,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: and I wish you nothing but you and Pauline.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm invited, but who knows. I am.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, if I'm invited, I'll be there. So anyway, I
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: wish nothing but the best for the two of you.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: I love you man, you take care of you. I
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: love you too, Michael, thank you so much. All Right,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: we'll see you Monday on just the Cats. Everybody have
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: a great, safe July fourth, We'll see you there.