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Just The Cats 10-15-26 · Just The Cats

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett. Hello, Big
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  Speaker 1: Blue Nation. Welcome to Just the Cats. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Michael Bennett on this Thursday, Justin Kalen's birthday. Yeah, woo-hoo!
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  Speaker 1: It's my birthday. Oh, my gosh. I've never heard a
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  Speaker 1: person celebrate themselves more than you in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: And I love it.
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  Speaker 3: You only get so many birthdays. You might as well
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  Speaker 3: make the most of every one of them.
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  Speaker 1: You think so? Okay, good.
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  Speaker 3: You never know when it might be your last. That
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  Speaker 3: is true. My gosh, that is true. The older I get,
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  Speaker 3: the closer I am to it. But you never know
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  Speaker 3: when it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're right. I've done a lot of dumb
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  Speaker 1: stuff in my life that it's like, how the heck
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  Speaker 1: am I still alive? I mean, I've been thrown off horses.
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  Speaker 1: Horses fall on top of me. Accidents. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 1: been thrown off a four-wheeler. I still can't believe Michael
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  Speaker 1: Bennett is alive. So I've done stupid stuff in boats.
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  Speaker 1: You name it, I have done it. I jumped on
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  Speaker 1: a shark one time. What? Oh, I absolutely did.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't know I did. I didn't know I did. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, when did my foot hit? All right, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: Time out. Rewind.
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  Speaker 3: We need to hear the origins of this story.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the Bahamas and I was jumping in
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  Speaker 1: the water and somebody said, don't, don't, don't. And I
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  Speaker 1: jumped in and there was a shark right there off
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  Speaker 1: the boat. Yeah. It swam off. Thank goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it was, it was, and I'm like, come on, dude,
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  Speaker 1: it really was not. And the captain even came down
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  Speaker 1: and says, yeah, that was a shark. That's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was a big one or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. It was probably three feet, four feet. So
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  Speaker 1: no big deal. Hmm. Yeah, I scared it off.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, there you go. Yeah, I, Michael Bennett, have done
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  Speaker 1: stupid stuff all my life, just to let you know.
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  Speaker 1: Proud of it, some of it, no, I'm not proud
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  Speaker 1: of it. Proud of it. Anyway, but yeah, you never
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  Speaker 1: know when you're going to celebrate your last one, and
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  Speaker 1: good for you for celebrating yours like it is your
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  Speaker 1: last one, because you're right. That's the way you should.
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  Speaker 1: You should celebrate every day like it's your last day. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I try to. Yeah. Do you really?
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  Speaker 4: I try.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't always succeed with that. It just flies by, though.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, I can't believe how old
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  Speaker 1: I am, because it's like, there's no way I'm that age.
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  Speaker 1: Happens quick. It does. Yeah. Happy birthday to you. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you have a nice one today. Did you have
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  Speaker 1: a nice time last night?
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I ate lots of sushi. Probably too much sushi. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Got a giant big old cookie as my dessert. Got
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  Speaker 1: it for free. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, no, we had a great time. It was awesome. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: last week, Mason took me out in New York. And
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  Speaker 1: you know how the people sometimes come up and sing
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  Speaker 1: to you?
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Did they? I asked them not to. Come on. And
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  Speaker 1: they still did it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine. I don't know. I don't like that
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  Speaker 1: kind of attention. It was kind of cool, though. There
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  Speaker 1: were two girls that were sitting next to us. It
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  Speaker 1: was their birthday, too. And they were twins from L.A.
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  Speaker 1: That's fun. Which was kind of fun. Yeah. So we
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  Speaker 1: celebrated our birthdays together. But, yeah. I didn't look up
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  Speaker 1: who you celebrate your birthday with. What celebrities?
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  Speaker 3: I think I've looked this up before, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: think there's many good ones.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really? No.
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  Speaker 3: I remember being very underwhelmed. With who I shared a
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  Speaker 3: birthday with. Let's see if I can find it.
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  Speaker 4: Usher.
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  Speaker 2: Usher.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, wait. That was yesterday. Oh, shoot. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's very underwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: It is?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Keisha Cole. Who's that? Exactly. Okay. I mean, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go. Are you ready? Yeah. Emeril Lagasse. Don't
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  Speaker 1: know who that is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: He's the famous chef from New Orleans. He's on the.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I believe he is bored over here at
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan College. I do know. Yeah, Bailey Madison. No idea.
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  Speaker 1: She's an actress. She was in Pretty Little Liars, Original Sin,
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  Speaker 1: and Good Witch. I have no idea. You said Keisha Cole.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never heard of her.
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Joshua. He shares a birthday with me. Heavyweight boxer, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Mesut Ozil, who played for my favorite soccer team, Bayern Munich, for.
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  Speaker 1: A few years. Okay, good for you. I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea who that is. He looks like a frog. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You got Paul Walter Hauser. whoever that is whoever that
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  Speaker 1: is yeah sebastian yatra a latin pop singer oh that's
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  Speaker 1: that's probably good and then you got babar azam international
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  Speaker 1: cricketer yes heck yeah that is awesome right right there
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  Speaker 1: alone that you should celebrate you and babar azam i
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  Speaker 1: i'm shocked that i'm saying his name correct.
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  Speaker 3: Lauren betts remember her from ucla she was a beast
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  Speaker 3: oh really That's a good one to share a birthday with.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if she would like to be considered
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  Speaker 3: a beast.
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  Speaker 1: I think she would.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Because she is.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think Emeril Lagasse is your famous one. That sucks.
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  Speaker 1: See what I mean? That sucks. That's very underwhelming. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if Emeril Lagasse would appreciate that too much.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really care if Emeril Lagasse cares about that
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  Speaker 3: too much. I think he comes to the Derby every year.
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  Speaker 3: Who's the other chef that.
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  Speaker 1: It's really famous here. Bobby Flay. No, from here. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: from Louisville? Yeah. Yeah, it's the Asian guy. I can't
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  Speaker 1: think of his name. Oh, it's not what I'm thinking of. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not? He owns what? What's he own? 610 Magnolia. No.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking of the guy that owns like River House,
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  Speaker 3: or at least he used to. Brendan Sketch 23.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Lamas. Anthony Lawless. Anthony.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's something Anthony. Okay, I have no idea. He's on
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  Speaker 1: Bar Rescue all the time. Oh, he is? Yeah. Anthony Lamas. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Good for you. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: who that is, but I'm glad you're celebrating that. So congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: But the big plans for today are what?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was going to link up with my dad
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  Speaker 3: for golf.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not looking good.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, weather-wise, I think we'd be okay. But
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  Speaker 3: he called this morning. He's dealing with a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of an injury. No, what happened to your dad?
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  Speaker 1: He woke up. He said his toe was hurting.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: What? His toe is hurt.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he was just feeding me some
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  Speaker 3: BS or if he's being serious, but we're not golfing today.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm looking for maybe another person to link up
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  Speaker 3: with so I can golf because that's all I want
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  Speaker 3: to do on my birthday every year is I want
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  Speaker 3: to play golf.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like gout. He may have mentioned that. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't want to throw him under the bus. Oh, okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I said it. You don't have to agree. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the old guy's got some gout going on. That sucks. Anyway.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: What else? Golf is a maybe. It's not great weather
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  Speaker 1: today for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think the rain is moving out here shortly.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be cart path only. I can guarantee it.
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  Speaker 1: Probably so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to have to walk everywhere. Maybe I'll go
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  Speaker 3: play a par three. That'd probably be for the best.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a par three around Louisville? There is one
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  Speaker 1: in New Albany.
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  Speaker 2: Really? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll go there. Do they have lights? Can you
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  Speaker 3: play like all night long? No, but there was, that'd
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  Speaker 3: be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: There was one up in Northern Kentucky in Florence, right
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  Speaker 1: off a 75, 71, 75 that had the lights on
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  Speaker 1: it and you could go play at night. And when
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  Speaker 1: I was a little kid, my sister took me cause
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  Speaker 1: that's where her husband's from. So they lived up there
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  Speaker 1: and she took me. It was a, it was a blast.
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  Speaker 1: I do wish night golf was more of a thing. Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I would love to go at like 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: at night and just play.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I did in Scotland years ago, but it was still daylight.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't night golf.
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  Speaker 3: I know night golf's pretty big over in Asia.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, is it really? They play it a lot. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that. Okay. All right, then.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, no, just watching baseball. I've got
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  Speaker 3: to go over to the other station today, get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of work done.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll have to do that at some point. What
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  Speaker 1: about dinner tonight, though? Is your mom taking you out?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Where's mom? She took me out
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. Oh, okay, she did. No, we did that
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I did have a texter during my show send me
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  Speaker 3: a $ 37 Papa John's gift card, so maybe I'll just
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  Speaker 3: fall out on some pizza tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get a $ 37 Papa John. Well, they can't
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  Speaker 1: afford you because you're older than 37. Oh, that's, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, you don't have to,
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  Speaker 1: just give me $ 10.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Just drop 10 bucks off and I'll be good to go.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just kidding. I don't want to pilfer anything
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  Speaker 1: right now, but $ 37. That's, that's, that's pricey right there.
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  Speaker 1: Nice for you. I'm going to ball out. I'm telling you. $ 37.
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  Speaker 3: What can you get at the old Peepa G? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'll probably get some pizza, some breadsticks. Clearly, you're getting pizza.
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  Speaker 1: I'll throw in a brownie, probably. Oh, they have brownies?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Oh, yeah, good brownie. Get you
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  Speaker 1: a little Diet Coke on top of that. Maybe so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I might even snag a two-liter. I never get
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  Speaker 3: a two-liter from pizza places.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. But I got $ 37 to spend. Wow. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so if you use it, because there are some places,
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  Speaker 1: like if you go to UK as part of the
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: media for basketball, they give you a gift certificate to
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  Speaker 1: go use at concession. Yeah, what, like $ 11? It's not much.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you go use it and you don't
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  Speaker 1: use all the money, you lose it. There's nothing more.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't want anything else from here.
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  Speaker 1: What can I do with another $ 5? You can't take
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  Speaker 1: it to another one? No, you cannot. You lose it. Whoa.
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  Speaker 1: You understood me correctly. It's the chintziest thing I've ever
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  Speaker 1: seen in my life. You can only use that at
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  Speaker 1: one concession stand. You are correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't use it all, you lose it.
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  Speaker 1: So if I go buy a hot dog and a
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  Speaker 1: drink and only use $ 10 of it, guess what? You
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  Speaker 1: lose the rest. That's crazy. Isn't that the dumbest thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world? That is dumb. First time I experienced that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, are you serious?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what if you want like a hot dog
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  Speaker 3: and then you want an ice cream and they're sold
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  Speaker 3: at different places?
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  Speaker 2: You can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: They are sold at different places. So you're stuck. That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. But I guess I should
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  Speaker 1: be thankful, hey, I get a couple of things for free,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and I guess if you wanted to
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  Speaker 3: get an ice cream, it's probably, what, three, four bucks?
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  Speaker 1: It's not too terribly much, but no offense to the
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  Speaker 1: people that go nuts for that Rupp Arena ice cream. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you don't like it. I don't get it. I forgot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's soft serve. What's the big deal? I know. So, anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of basketball, we do have a few things to
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  Speaker 1: talk about as far as that goes. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to join us, 502-384-1450. You want to
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: text me on the Whiskey Thief text line. If you missed,
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  Speaker 1: because you had all kinds of text messages. It was unbelievable. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you missed it, you can text here at 502-414-1450
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  Speaker 1: on the Whiskey Thief text line. Mark Pope took stage
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at the SEC Media Days for basketball. said he
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  Speaker 1: is accepting the pressure just like he did as a player.
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  Speaker 1: And the first thing I thought is, is that the
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  Speaker 1: same kind of pressure? I mean, Pope doesn't believe it's different.
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  Speaker 1: So my question to you, do you think the pressure
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  Speaker 1: of being a head coach is the exact type of
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  Speaker 1: pressure he had when he experienced being a player at UK?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I don't think so either.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure it's comparable, but I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that it's even particularly that close. I'm right there with
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  Speaker 3: you because not only are you the pressure within yourself,
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  Speaker 3: but you've got the pressure of your players performing. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's completely different. So, for instance, I think the
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  Speaker 3: pressure of coaching is far more difficult. because of the
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  Speaker 3: fact that it's out of your control, at least you
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  Speaker 3: can get in the game and try and have a response.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas when you're the coach, when you're a fan, that pressure, granted,
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  Speaker 3: fans don't have the pressure that a coach does, but
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  Speaker 3: because that's their livelihood. So if they lose, you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to lose the potential of losing your job or
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  Speaker 3: your salary. But there is that pressure there. And I thought, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: This is completely different. And I think it's, what, 15,
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  Speaker 3: 20 times more pressure on a coach than there is
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  Speaker 3: on a player.
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  Speaker 1: I would say. I don't know if I would go
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  Speaker 1: that much over, but yeah. Oh, I do.
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  Speaker 3: I do think it's significantly greater.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I looked at that and I'm like, wow, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you brought up a good point there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as a player, you can go in and try to
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  Speaker 1: change things with your play. And as a coach.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, you can make adjustments, but if your guys aren't
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  Speaker 3: playing well, there's nothing you can do.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I know some people were blaming Pope
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  Speaker 1: for some losses last year. It's like, well, he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: out there on the court. I get the argument going
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  Speaker 1: both ways, but sometimes you do have to make adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions. And I just
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  Speaker 1: think that decision-making process is a lot more challenging and
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  Speaker 1: a lot more– pressure intensified for the coaches than it
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  Speaker 1: is for the actual player. Couldn't agree more. And I
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  Speaker 1: heard him say that. I appreciate what he's saying, but
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, no, it's not. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: would love to dive deeper into that and see what
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  Speaker 1: kind of answers he would give me. Nobody followed up
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  Speaker 1: on that? Not really. Yeah, which I was kind of surprised,
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  Speaker 1: a little disappointed on. The other part was Zoom Diallo.
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  Speaker 1: I did enjoy this. Who else was there with him?
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember right offhand, but it was Zoom Diallo,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it was Momchilovit. Okay. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember who the third one was. But anyway, Zoom was
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: out there, and he admitted that he is a lambatarian.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me? You heard me correctly. What is that? That's
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to see if you knew what that was.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming that means he only eats lamb? You're exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: Very good. I don't think, if somebody said I'm a lambatarian,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I would predict what it was. Well, pescatarians,
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  Speaker 1: you only eat fish.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: You're right. Pescado is fish. So I just, I'd use
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  Speaker 1: my context. Wow. Nice job, Justin. I'm very impressed by that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I, if there was one thing you could give
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  Speaker 1: up in life, eating the rest of your life, what
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  Speaker 1: would it be? And you had to eat just one
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  Speaker 1: thing the rest of your life. If I, so I'm
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: giving something up or I'm only eating one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Both.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I can give up fruits and vegetables cause
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  Speaker 3: I don't eat them.
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  Speaker 1: Really? You don't eat fruits or vegetables?
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  Speaker 3: Not really.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I can give that up, no problem. Although, I wouldn't
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: miss salad. I wouldn't miss salad. I do eat a
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: salad from time to time, and I always enjoy it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: But if you ate one thing the rest of your life,
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: what would it be? Biscuits and gravy. It's always that.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: It always is. That answer will never change.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do that. Yeah, I'm just not a biscuits
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: and gravy kind of guy. It has to be really
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: good gravy with lots of sausage. I mean, it would
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: have to be from a certain place, obviously. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Which- I normally eat that on my birthday, too, but
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know that I'm going to
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: make that happen today. Well, that's so sad. We've got
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: to change that.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Well, handle the second segment by yourself. I'll go pick
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: some up.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, go. I'll be happy with that just because I
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: know you'll be happy and you'll be there listening to me.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: But you'll miss Kenny Brooks and something I set up
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: just for you. No, I said just the second segment. Oh,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: just this. Yeah, so we'll break here. Can you get
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: there and back that quickly? Well, here's the deal. We'll
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: break here.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: We'll plan to skip a commercial break, and you just
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: talk by yourself for the next 40 minutes.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that's not going to go over well. But, yeah,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Zoom Diallo admitted he's a lambatarian, and that is a
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: real word. He only eats lamb because he loves lamb.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: That's the only reason he does it. He wanted to
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: try something different, and he did this time at Washington,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: and that's when it started. He said, I love lamb chops.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: And he eats it with mashed potatoes and french fries.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I thought that was funny, too.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: What?
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, you heard me. So he'll eat lamb chops with
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: mashed potatoes. Exactly. That's exactly what I thought. But, I mean,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: think of the amount of time that he's working out,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: so it's not going to hurt him. But I don't
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: know if I could eat that much lamb chops. I'm
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: a seafood guy. I could give up steak. I could
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: give up chicken. I could give up pork. I think
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: pork I would miss the most. Yeah. Because I love ribs.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And bacon. Bacon, too. But chicken, I'd miss fried chicken
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: because I do love that. And I don't know. I'm
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: not big on steak. Have you ever had lamb? Oh,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: very much so. I love lamb. I don't think I've
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: ever had lamb. Yeah, there is an Indian restaurant that
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I go to here in Louisville. And my wife always
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: gets the same thing, chicken tikka masala. And I'll get
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: lamb tikka masala. I bet you've never had it, have you?
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I bet I have. Lamb or tikka masala? Tikka masala.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: It's delicious.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Because I used to work with, when I was in
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: one of the hotels, there was an Indian guy that
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: worked there.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, nice.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: He would bring in food all the time, and every
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: time he'd be like, try it, try it. So I
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: would try it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And did you like it?
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: There were a number of things he brought that I liked,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: but there were also a number of things he brought
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: that I was like, eh, that's not for me. So
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: you think you tried lamb?
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Honestly, I have no idea.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. I enjoy it. Lamb chops are some of my favorite.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll sneak it out. Rack of lamb? Oh, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: love rack of lamb. Delicious. So I think it's a
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: little pricey, though, if I remember correctly.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: But I enjoyed what Zoom Diallo had to say. I
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: enjoyed what Milam Mamchilovit had to say. And so that...
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I thought they did a nice job. I thought Mark
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Pope did a really nice job yesterday, other than saying
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that he's accepting the pressure like he does as a player.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not making fun of him whatsoever, but I am
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: questioning whether that is true or not. I would have
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: to say the pressure on a coach is completely different.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: It can't be the same as it was when he
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: was a player. No way. Anyway, we got to take
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: our first break.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: 502-384-1450.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: You want to call? 502-414-1450 if you want to text
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in on the Whiskey Thief text line. Stay right there.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: This is Justin Katz.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: This wind chills like a movie screen, playing back those memories.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Cheap cold beer and an open box party going down
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: in the parking lot. First time planes and Friday nights,
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: tailgate talks and crossing lines. Happens to me every time.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I got my hometown in my headlight.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Might as well go ahead and call in late. Yeah,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I already know there ain't no way I'm going to
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: get to work on time in the morning. At least
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: they got me a beautiful excuse.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Girl, I'm going to blame it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: All on you. And the way that you close your
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: eyes late at night.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: 502-384-1450 if you want to call in. That's another really
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: good song right there by J.D.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: 502-414-1450.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: To text in on the Whiskey Thief text line or
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you tweet me at Just The Cat Radio. Let's get
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: through a couple of these. One of my favorite names
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: just texted in, Cheeseburger Eddie. God, that makes me laugh.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Scoots. Thank you, Cheeseburger Eddie. What? He's new
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to this show. Has he been texting your show a
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: lot longer than this? I'm not sure. You'll have to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: go back and look. Where has he gone? Where has
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: he been, and who put this whole Cheeseburger Eddie in?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I put it in. Oh, you did? Why did you
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: name him Cheeseburger Eddie? Because that's what he named himself. Oh,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that is it. Yeah, he's new to us.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: If a texter sends in a name for themselves, I'm
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: going to put it in the text.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: See, and I like that, so I'm glad you did. Hey, Michael.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: John here. I knew you were busy, but please take
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a look at your Rays today. Enjoy it while they
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: are still playing. Also, Michael, thanks for getting Coach Brooks
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to come on. You are awesome. Just go get that
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: hole-in-one and have a great birthday today, my friend. Thank you.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: That was for you. Sounds like it. Yeah. Hole-in-one would
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: be incredible. Yeah. I've been close. My dad has been
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: even closer, but he never got one. Really?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You've never got one either. No, I've never gotten one.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I've hit the pin several times, but I've, yeah, I've
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: never gotten one. I've gotten an Eagle a few times on,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you know, lots of birdies, but never a hole in
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: one birdie. Well, I mean, what do you, okay. No,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not that good, but I mean, okay.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Fine.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Senior tour. Gosh darn, Justin, sorry if you can't golf today.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: If I was a local with you, I would go
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: with you. One good thing about that is we would
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: laugh for sure and you would win because I am trash.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: That's from John as well. I know that, John. Oh,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you do? Yeah, he came to our scramble one year. Oh,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: he did? Not great. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Whose scramble?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: The Big X scramble. Oh, really? That you never get
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the invite to. That I'm never invited? Yeah, exactly. Maybe
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: one day we can have a just the cat scramble.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, I promised her I would do this,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: but we do have a new listener this morning as well.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Want to shout out? Want to shout out Sarah, former co-worker.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, past co-worker.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: What?
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: We were texting a little bit last night. She was like,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: how can I listen to you? And I was like,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: here's how you listen. And I told her I'd give
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: her a shout out.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Wow. So there you go. Shout out, Sarah. Okay, good.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who over the weekend was saying
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I'm listening as well. It's like, oh, please do. When
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: people say, I'm going to go listen, I tell them,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: please don't. It's the dumbest show in the world. Please.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. I embarrass my family. I embarrass myself the most.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: But anyway, they always laugh. I'm going to listen. I'm
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: going to listen. Oh, I know who it was. So yesterday,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I'm on the phone for a long time with this
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: guy over in Lexington. He's with a website called Equibase. E-Q-U-I-B-A-S-E. Equibase.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And I had to sign up for that apart of Naira.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And the guy's like, yeah, you sound familiar. And I'm like, oh, really?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I said, okay. Well, and then we're chit-chatting. I said, well,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: he goes, you having a good day? And I said,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I'm having a great day. I'm still celebrating UK winning
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: this past weekend. And he goes, oh, I was at
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the game. So he's in Lexington. Okay. I didn't know that. And, uh,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I was, he goes, where were you sitting?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I said, well, I was up in the press box.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Cause I do a UK radio show. Oh, which one?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I said, uh, uh, it's called just the cats. And, uh,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he goes, wait, are you Michael Bennett? Are you the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: guy that died? I'm like, oh my gosh.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And I have risen as well. So yeah, the guy
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: asked me if I'm the one that died. That's hilarious.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I'm like, thanks a lot. Uh, 48 handle. He said, um,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: The pressure is different as a coach, but he played
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: for Patino. He's no stranger to pressure. You can handle
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: it or you can't. Yeah, you know, I don't disagree.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's definitely pressure on both sides. Oh, absolutely
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: there is. I just think it's completely different. I mean,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that's one of the questions I want to ask Kenny Brooks.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Is there extra pressure for Claire Strack because of the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: fact that she is a preseason All-American? And I'd have
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to say there's pressure on her. But is there as
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: much pressure on her as there is on Kenny Brooks?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I would say no. Yeah, probably not. And so the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: same goes for Will Stein. The same goes for Mark Pope.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of all the coaches that have
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: coached at UK. And I'm talking basketball and football. Who
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: do you think was... The biggest pressure cooker when you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: played for him. And I would have to say, as
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: far as basketball, it's probably Rick Pitino. Listen, I wasn't
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: allowed when Adolph Rupp was there, but I was when
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Coach Hall was there, Joe B., Eddie Sutton, Billy Gillespie,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Rick Pitino. Well, I'd say the craziest was probably Billy Gillespie.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He probably didn't feel any pressure because he didn't care.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I think he cared. I wouldn't say he
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: didn't care. I think he was too liquored up to care.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I think that's part of the problem. I think that's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: how he handled his pressure, which I'm not going to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: make fun of.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: No.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to make fun of that at all.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: He had issues outside of basketball because of all the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: pressure that was mounting within his head. And I think
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: that's really sad. Because he was over it. And I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: hope he's okay. But who do you think? John Calipari.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Mark Pope, who do you, in your mind, would have
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: been the most intense coach that would have put the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: most pressure on his players to perform? It probably was
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Ricky P. See, I think so, too.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Although, I would say Cal's probably a close second, just
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: because he had expectations coming in. He had won a title.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, he'd done some really nice things in his
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: coaching career, so he probably added pressure to them.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Because of that. Yeah, and I left off Tubby Smith, too.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to think who would be the easiest
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to play with. And I'd probably have to say Mark Pope, probably.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I just don't see him as intense. You know, there
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: would be times, as much as I think that Tubby
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Smith was out there having... Well, not necessarily having fun,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: but he could get intense in a couple of seconds.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: The look he would give you when a player would
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: screw up, man, it was pretty intense.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: But....
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who it would be. I would
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: probably say Mark Pope is probably the one that really doesn't.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Who was it yesterday that said he's really laid back? Oh,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it was Denzel Aberdeen, wasn't it? No, it was Brandon
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Garrison that said that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Brandon Garrison said he's just, he's really laid back. And
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I think that as well, looking outside in. Now, every
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: now and then I think Mark Pope gets pretty intense,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but I think that's few and far between.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: He definitely comes off as one of those coaches that
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: wants to be one of the boys, you know? And
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: he wants all of his players to feel that way
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: as well, wants it to be just some big bromance
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: throughout the entire team. That's the way it comes.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Off to me. But that's not a good thing, is it?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: It can be.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, I would explain the exact same way about
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Will Stein, and it's working for him.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: What is the difference between Mark Pope and Will Stein?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: We don't have enough time. Well, all right, give me
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a couple then. Because I agree with you. I think
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: they're similar, but I think there are some major differences.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I think Mark Pope is a little too laid back.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I think that Will Stein does get intense, but he
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: can still be that guy that is like, I don't
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: know if it was nurturing the other night when he
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: took the kicker and took him aside and say, dude,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I see you every day. I don't think it was nurturing.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I think he was just being a coach and that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: was the best way to canopy both. Yeah. Can it be?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you want a nurturing coach? Yeah, you do. Absolutely.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: As far as football, who do you think has been
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the most intense coach?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. I would probably say Rich Brooks. Yeah,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, you'd have a better understanding on this than me.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Basketball, I can chime in. Football, I don't. That's okay.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I'm just good with the history. That's okay. Joker Phillips, nah,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: he was a player. You said Mark Stoops was pretty intense.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Mark Stoops was intense, yeah. I mean, you could have
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit of fun with him, but he was
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: more intense than he was having fun. But I just.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, as soon as you ticked off Rich Brooks, man,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you knew it was coming, and you did not want
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: any part of that. One person said Bear Bryant. Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: that's before my time, 48 Hanley, so I'm sorry. I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: can't chime in on that either.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Illinois chimed in. Thank you very much. I'm so happy
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: with this update. Cold Brew Chronicles Episode 4. Here we go.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I know. I kind of like this episode. Cold Brew Chronicles, okay? Today,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I learned you can receive a restraining order for a
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: certain parts of a building. Went to the restroom this
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: morning and was stopped by maintenance. They told me until
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: my body adjusts, I'm not allowed in there. When I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: asked what should I do when nature calls, they handed
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: me a bucket and told me to handle it out back. Oh, boy. Oh,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: come on now. Now we're getting to the point where
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: we're exaggerating a little. I do love the Chronicles, though.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Cold Brew Chronicles. That's a great name, by the way.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Josh texted me yesterday right after he sent his text in,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: and he was like, I can confirm all of that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: What? Is this Josh?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: This is somebody else? Yeah. Josh's number. Josh works with him? No, no, no, no.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: He was just confirming what cold brew does to your body.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, it does?
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: It cleans you out? I guess. I'm not drinking it. Really? Huh. Well,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: does regular coffee do that too when you're drinking it warm?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not a coffee guy. I don't know. I have
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: no idea either. So I don't know. Prune juice does.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I always learned that prune juice took care of the plumbing.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a nice way to say it. I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: don't know how else to say it. Pretty crass either way.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Five-star defensive lineman Kellen Hall is the new number one
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: prospect in 28 rivals rankings. How do you like that?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Who is?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Kellen Hall, the kid from that defensive lineman from Christian
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Academy here in Louisville. He's deciding between UK, Ohio. He's
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the one that threw the L's down the other day.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: But it was the LSU L's down. Is he the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: one that was committed to Louisville? Yes. Okay. He's considering UK,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, Oklahoma, UT, Alabama, and UofL. And he was
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: supposed to go to Ohio State last weekend, but he
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: passed to go to the UK game. So a lot
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: of people are now predicting he's going to go to UK.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: A big get. It would be a big get. could
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Will Stein get a number one of number one before
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Mark Pope does? Because Mark Pope has not done that yet.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You know, the number one recruit in all of that
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: particular year. And he's gotten some number one recruits. But
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: he's gotten three of them so far. Two in-state, one out-of-state.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: But can he get a number one of number one
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: before Will Stein? I kind of believe that Will Stein's
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: going to get him. I would say so, too. Really?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, it just feels like he's got more momentum.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: And time may or may not be running out for Pope.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, yeah. I just think Will Stein has a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: better chance because he's just– recruiting if they continue to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: win because how many more games you think they should
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: win in order to start getting all these commits to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: start dropping it to uk because they now believe in
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: will stein i don't think there's something you don't think
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: so you think they're going to drop in there anyway
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: even if they don't win which i know they're going
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to win more games this year But even if they don't,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you think they're going to start dropping in at UK?
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Because, I mean, you can see the writing on the
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: wall with Will Stein and what he's going to be
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: able to do at Kentucky. I mean, what he's done
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: so far through six games has been ridiculously impressive. Like
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: you said, there's going to be more wins stacking up. So,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I don't think there's a number– Specifically, I just think
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: if you keep looking good week in and week out
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: and maybe surprising folks along the way, that stuff just
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: happens naturally.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: If they can win this game this weekend, I think
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: they start dropping. They start dropping and they're committing to
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the U.K., They don't want to wait around anymore. It's
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see because now, you know this,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: this came out yesterday. UK is now asking for season
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: ticket deposits. If you don't have season tickets this year,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: they are now taking deposits of $ 100, non-refundable deposits of
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: $ 100 for season tickets next year. That'll put you in
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: priority status.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I saw that. It's like, that's pretty cool. And, and
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I have to believe there's going to be a lot
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of people out there. They're going to start dropping the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a hundred dollars down there and like, okay, I'm in,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I want my season tickets back. I want to be
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a part of this, uh, get me in. And so
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I can be on that priority list. Are you surprised
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that they're not even half? Well, they're halfway through the season.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: They're already asking for this. I mean, you got to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: strike when the iron's hot. And you've got to be
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: proactive with it all too, right? I mean, if you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: see the numbers increasing week in and week out this
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: year and you feel the excitement within the fan base,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: that's only going to continue to increase.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And I just, it put us, it's like, whoa, that's
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: pretty aggressive. But on the other hand, put a smile
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: on my face. Because if UK season in football was
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: not going this well, I don't think they would be
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: asking for this right now.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Do you?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: They're only doing this because the season has gone so
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: crazy successful. Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, yeah. All right,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: we've got to take another break. 502-384-1450, 502-414-1450. Text me
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: on the Whiskey Thief text line. Stay right there. This
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: is Justin Katz. This is one of those songs I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: hate interrupting. Sorry about that.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: 502-384-1450.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Such a good song right there. If you want to
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: call 502-414-1450, you want to text in on the Whiskey
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Thief text line. 48 Hanley said, with horses, you oil them.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And I said it correctly, by the way.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Oil.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Oil.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I know. I don't know why I've always said oil
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: or bowl. Boil. I have no idea where it all
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: came from, but that's. I guess because my parents said
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: it that way. It's the only thing I can think of.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: But yeah, with horses, you oil them. So oil them.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: By the way, quick shout out to Jamie bringing us
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: some donuts.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, he brought you some donuts too? He's an absolute man.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: You are going to gain 50 pounds today, by the way. Well,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: you have to take one of them because it says
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: happy birthday boys on the box.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, it does. So you got to have one.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: What kind of donuts are they? They look very similar
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: to the ones you brought.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, seriously? All funny. They're from EK's. You ever heard
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: of EK's? I have not. Me neither. They smell delicious. Yeah,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: there's nothing better than smelling fried dough.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: I am going to gain about 38 pounds.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. You are, and it's deserved. So anyway,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: but UK football amid their incredible year is already asking
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: for the season tickets. I mean, it's just one of
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: those things I love. Here's the other thing that, you know,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: we're talking about before we went on break. The other
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: thing that I really love, UK offensive line, uh, named
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: to the Joe Moore award mid season honor roll. That's
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: pretty nice because which recognizes the most outstanding offensive line
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: unit in college football, which was announced yesterday. Cause you know,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: we were happy the first game against Youngstown. Then we
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: got a little nervous. We were happy the first half, uh,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: versus Alabama, but That second half, man, it really took
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: it out of that line. And you thought, okay, I mean,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: first of all, we recognize we can't have anybody else
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: except for the starting players out there. And now it's
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: just vastly improved. And I think they've done a great job.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: And it makes me feel like... The big blue wall
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: has that chance. If it's not back, it has a
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: really strong chance of being back. Oh, it's back. You
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: think so?
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: The way that everybody's throwing that term around.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's back. Okay. I hope you're right. But I just,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I don't want to jinx it. I mean, the more
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I talk about this, the more it's like, okay, they're
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: going to lose Saturday. I am worried about this. We're
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: two days away. This will be, I have to believe,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: one of the biggest away games for us that we've
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: played in a long time. And I would have said
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that about Texas A & M, and I would have
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: said that about whatever, what other away games we got.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: You know, we got at Missouri, at Tennessee. It's like,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: good gosh, when does it end? But I feel like
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: this is going to be the most attended away game
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: that UK has ever seen. I hope so. Now, uh,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: with that comes the injury report and, uh, uh, and,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: and UK is still struggling with some injuries, mainly coming
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: from the, um, linebacker room. So Oklahoma, uh, is missing
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: some people as well. Now the part that was surprising
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that came out yesterday, the, the injury report, uh, is
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: that CJ Baxter is on the list as questionable.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: What happened? I mean, he was just talking about Adele
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: with Paul Feinbaum the other day. He didn't look injured
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess the good news with that is
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: you've got Maybe not plenty of depth, but you've got
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: some depth behind him in that running back room.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Jason Patterson. Patterson's been good.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: It goes deep.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Who was the kid from last week? Gosh dang. Barnes. Yeah,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I think Barnes was a good looking back last week. Yeah, absolutely. But,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: you know, you want CJ there. You want your starting. Listen,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I think he'll start.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: And, I mean, you got to think about him coming
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: from Texas as well.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: And his probably disdain for Oklahoma that comes with that.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. That's the other part. Because he's got motivation with
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: this ball game. Not just for UK, but because of
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the fact that he used to play for Texas.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: So, uh oklahoma's dealing with injuries themselves with injuries that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: wide out they've got that one wide receiver that's been
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: out uh that's a huge loss for them they got
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: a running back out the offensive line is struggling and
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: and could be without multiple starters this saturday uh depending
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: on how the question was are able to play or not.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: So that's another factor that we're looking at, you know,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and tomorrow we'll get more into the ball game because
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: tomorrow we got a full slate. You got the game
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Saturday versus Oklahoma, and then you got UK basketball tomorrow night.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: What is that? It's seven o'clock against little rock. Is
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: that televised by the way? Uh, I didn't see if
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: it was or not, but I'm sure it's probably on
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: sec plus it'll be televised, but just dependent upon where
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: you got to go watch it. So, uh, It is
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: on SEC Plus.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Also ESPN Plus. You got it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: You got ESPN Plus. You got SEC Plus. Well, if
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: you got YouTube, you got it, period.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: True.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: YouTube TV. Yeah. Which I'm so glad I got that
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: a while ago. But anyway, congratulations again to the offensive line.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: The O-line coach, Cutter Leftwich, has just done an incredible job. Yeah.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. And it is kind of getting
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: that feeling that John Schlarman is helping and guiding Cutter Leftwich,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you know, who's no longer with us, which I wish
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: he was. He was such a great guy. But that's,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: to me, the main part of the team. I mean,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: when you go out and recruit, don't you start on
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the offensive line or do you start somewhere else?
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you are going to start somewhere else,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: maybe D-line. But it has to be line play either way.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, either way. Exactly.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Because, I mean, how many times have you seen a
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: game decided because of the trenches?
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: All the time. Exactly. And that's one of those things
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: that you saw it last weekend. That's how much the
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: offensive line, because that was a defense, LSU defense, that
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: was considered one of the best in the country. And
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: they blocked them the entire time and allowed for big plays.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Just to watch that final play in overtime should have
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: shown you how much this offensive line has just meant
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: to this UK football team.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was fantastic. I loved every second of that.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Although I don't give them that much credit for that
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: play in overtime. I give more of the credit to
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: just the play call and Kenny Minchie's wherewithal to know that, hey,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: if I send these three guys out, they're going to
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: follow him and I'm going to have a wide open lane.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But, I mean, it was.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Without the blocking, obviously, on that play, he's probably not. Actually,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I think every one of those offensive linemen could have
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: let their guy just come straight to.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: The backfield and Kenny still scored.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Like that's how much room he has.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I think four or five people could
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: have scored in a row. I mean, they were being
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: so well blocked that nobody could penetrate to try and
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: stop whoever was going to. Because I've watched it several times.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Every time I watch that last play, I still get,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: my heart starts beating and my blood pressure goes up.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, is he going to, and I know
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: he's going to make it, but I still get nervous
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: about it. Because I'm thinking, how long does he, in
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: his mind, does he, how many steps does he take back?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Is he counting that? Is he counting the seconds? Or
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: is he just looking on there to see when it
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: opens up and then just takes off?
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things that's going through my
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: mind to try and figure out what is going through
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Kenny Minchie's mind on that one play. And here we are, what,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: six days later, five days later, and we're still talking
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: about it. That's going to be a play that's going
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: to last in the UK fan base for a long time.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: And just the fact watching Will Stein put up the fingers,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: two fingers. that's going to last in UK fan base
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: mind for a long time. You're going to see a
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: lot more of it.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: And I couldn't agree more. And you, I hope you do, uh,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: buzz texted in and, uh, he said, uh, players get
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: bench coaches get fired. That's the main difference. Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: And I think that's a big difference for that fact.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: So well said there, uh, uh, buzz. Um, Jolie texted
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: in for you. Happy birthday, Justin. I hope your day
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: is filled with all kinds of scooty goodness. Thank you, Jolie. Yeah,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I love it when people say cheers. That's one of
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: those words that just makes me happy. I've got a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: buddy that I've grown up with. Every time he texts me,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: when he's done, he just says cheers. And I'm like,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: I kind of like that. I've always liked that. Is
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: that kind of a snooty way to say cheers? Goodbye?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: No.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: It's just a different way to say it. Because I
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: think a snooty way to say bye is ciao. That's snooty. Yes. Okay.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: So you agree with me from that standpoint. Because I
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: had a guy I used to work with a long
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: time ago. He was from Michigan. And he always said ciao.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: And it always just kind of irritated me. I can't
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: hear that word without thinking of the hang-up. Oh, my gosh.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: That's a great comparison. And Ken Jeong. He was always like, ciao.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Well, that was his name in the movie. Oh,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: that was? Yeah, that was his name. Yeah, he didn't
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: say it. That was his name. No, that was his name.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: But no, when somebody says ciao to me, it's like,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: are you Mr. Hollywood or something? I'm expecting dark sunglasses
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: in a dark room, and you're telling me ciao as
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: he walks away. I don't know. I always thought that
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: was kind of goofy. But yeah, I'm not going to
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: say his name. Nobody would know him around. Really? Oh, Keith. Yeah, Keith.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: There you go. I wasn't serious. No, Keith. Nobody knows
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: who he is. He's from Michigan. He lives out in California.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: We'll track him down.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: He lived in Michigan, moved to California, and then he
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: became Mr. California. So, yeah. Good talking to you, Michael. Ciao.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, my gosh, man. And for some reason,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: every now and then, it'd make me hungry. But, anyway,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: all right, we got to take a break. Hour 2
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: is going to be coming up. Plus, not only that,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: we might have a couple people call in and say
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: hello to you. Okay? And Kenny Brooks is going to
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: be calling in, too. So, stay right there. Hour 2
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: coming right up at Just the Cats. Welcome to Just
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: the Cats with Michael Bennett. All right, 502. What was that?
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: You there? Are you there, Justin? Hold tight. Yes, I'm
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: on the phone with J.D. Shelburne. Oh, my gosh. Are
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: you kidding me? Well, I don't know if we're on
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: the air or not, but I guess we are. So
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: this hour, we're going to have Kenny Brooks. At about 925,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: he'll be joining us for a few minutes. So I'm
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. But anyway, if you haven't known already,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: but it's Justin's birthday. And I think someone was calling in.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: So is he coming on the air with us?
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: No.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: He said he'll let me do his thing. Or he'll
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: let me do my thing. I didn't know we were
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: getting him on air.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: That was a surprise. Yes, he's supposed to be on
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the air with us. Unbelievable. You hung up from him?
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I did. Oh, my gosh. I'll text him. That was
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: a surprise. I can't surprise you with anything. Okay, never mind. Whatever. Oh,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: my gosh, man. He was supposed to come on the
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: air with us. He's coming.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: You kill me sometimes he didn't say that i know
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: he didn't say it but i just i can't just
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: i'm trying to surprise you with a little something special
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: so let's forget it i i just i i do
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: uh okay good good morning hold up hold up okay
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: this is good morning jd good morning how are we
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: doing down in nashville tennessee.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: And I'm up checking. Thank you. I'm up there checking
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: the stocks, man. Get this stock market back up, man.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Come on. We're talking. Well, this is not just the stocks.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: This is just the cats. So anyway, but.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: I've called the wrong number. My fault.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: J.D. Shelburne is joining us. Of course, it's J.D. Shelburne
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: day on the show. So thanks to thanks to my
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: good friend, Justin Kalen, who likes to every other Thursday
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: is J.D. Shelburne between that and Jimmy Buffett. But, you know,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: I texted you a little bit ago. It was a
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: surprise to have you call in and then, you know,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: stinking Justin hang up, hangs up for me. I wanted
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: you to come on the air with us. I didn't
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: know that.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Well, it's your birthday. I was coming up with a
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: little surprise for you. So welcome in, J.D.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Hey, well, first of all, how much do I owe
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: you guys for J.D. Shelburne Day?
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: You owe me absolutely zero. No, no.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: No, no. We're always going to plug you, my friend,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: and or your music, because we just played one of
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: my other favorite songs just a second ago. Which is?
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: Man, I love when you do that.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Well, J.D., can you guess? You know what my favorite
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: song of yours is, right?
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, actually.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Church Rebarco.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And what is my second favorite song of yours?
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, second favorite.
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: Ooh.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: That's a tough one. Is it really? I think you
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: play it, the first song.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, Back Row Canal.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. I love that song.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you do. That's the first one we play.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: You played at the State Fair this year, and it's
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: your first song, and you come out, and your guitarist
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: is out there playing ACDC, and I'm like, oh, my gosh.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: JD's really switching up, and then it goes straight into
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: that Back Road Kind of Love, and I love that.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we play it every night. We do that same
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: intro every night. It's always a great way to get
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: the crowd going before we come out on stage.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: It's always fun.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Well, J.D., and I know that song, more specifically that
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: music video, has a special place in your heart, right?
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: It does, man.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: We shot that video in Nashville a few months ago,
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: and I was able to talk my wife into being
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: in the video, which is really hard to do, so.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: that was, that was always.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: Kind of a fun moment ever in music video with me.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't be very hard to convince me to
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: be in one of your videos. I just don't think
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: you'll ever ask. So, but how excited are you about
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: this football team? I want to get your opinion. Are you,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: are you going to be able to come up to
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: any of the ball games?
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I, I, wasn't kind of sure of my tour schedule.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of scattered here and there, but my tour
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: schedule actually slows down in the, in the kind of
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: foot in the football, start of basketball. But I don't know.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: We'll see, man. I mean, this football team, I mean, if,
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: if we win Saturday, I mean, are we, I feel
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: like we're in the playoffs. I mean, we have to
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: win Saturday, obviously, but man, I mean, they, they picked
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: us to finish what kind of towards the end of
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: the conference first year.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Here we are like, When I saw our logo in
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: that college football playoff scenario, I guess it was one
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: person that picked it. I thought to myself, wow, Demi
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Coltshield for a moment.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: How could it not? Basketball season, we got our first
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: exhibition game tomorrow night. Are you equally as excited about
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: basketball or is really football taking over like it has
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: with me?
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, football's kind of taken over. I am
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: pretty excited about basketball. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not exactly, uh,
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: jumping over the couch or anything just yet, but, uh,
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: I will be watching tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: watching on TV. So we have, I mean, I think
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: we're going to be a lot better than what the
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: media is portraying us to be. I did see a
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: nice article that Dick Vitale wrote last night, kind of
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: gave us a little bit of praise, which was good
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: to see. Cause it seems like everyone's kind of down
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: on Mark Pope right now with his third pressure. You know,
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: do we have any elite guys? I'm not sure. I
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: think we got a couple. I mean, I have no idea.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: But I really hope that, you know, we can win
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: some ballgames. And I'd love to see us, you know,
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: win that Champions Classic game against Kansas. That's my first
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: big game we need to win.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: J.D., how about with your son? Are you passing this
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: all down to him? Is he kind of buying into
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: the whole Kentucky thing?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Or how's that all going?
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: He's kind of buying into it, yes. I know when
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: I grew up, you know, as a kid his age,
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: you know, we were watching Kentucky games all the time.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: I grew up watching all those former, you know, great
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: Kenny Walker, Rex Chapman, you know, the Unforgettables. And so
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: he did kind of excite me the other night. He
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: came running in the living room and sat down on
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: the couch and was, you know, watching the dunk contest
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: with me and stuff like that. So it was really
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: kind of– it kind of gave me a sense of
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: more pride to see him like actually– get excited, but
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: I didn't even say anything to him to come in there.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: And you know, he knows that Kentucky was playing on TV.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: So I did love that.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And how could you not JD Shelburne's with us,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: JD kind of give us, are you coming up this
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: way anytime soon to play or what's on your list
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: in your schedule?
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: I will actually, I will actually be in Louisville Saturday
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: after Saturday afternoon. I'm actually I'm doing a private show
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: in Nashville tonight for U.S. Bank, which I'm pumped about,
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: but I'll be up there Saturday for the third year
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: in a row. I'm playing the Portland Fall Festival over
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: there near Westport Road. I'm doing a show. We play
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: at 1230 on Saturday. This is our third year in
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: a row playing for the Portland Christian School. We'll do
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: an acoustic trio thing at 1230 and 230 on Saturday,
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: so we're looking forward to being up there and playing
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: that area. I've got a couple more shows before the
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: end of the year in Louisville, so looking forward to
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: getting up there.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that. So, Do you have anything
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: else you want to ask birthday boy? Are you good
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: to go? I'm good to go.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you taking some time for us, JD. I was,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: that was pretty cool of you to call in and
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: thank you for the birthday wishes as well.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: Hey, anytime that Michael Bennett wakes me up, I'll do
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: whatever he says.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I woke you up, JD, but it's
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: always fun here in front of me, my friend, but
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: safe travels on the road out there. Okay. Let's go
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: write that number one hit next.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: Get us to the football playoffs.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: You will be my guest if we go to the playoffs.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: We're going together, okay?
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy. That's J.D. Shelburne right there.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Happy birthday, man.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I just tried to give you a little
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: surprise out there, and you answered the phone and then
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: hung up. But anyway. He said what he needed to
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: say when I picked up the phone. He said what
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: he needed to say, but not on the air.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know why I didn't put it together that
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: he was going to come on with us.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That was just a lapse of judgment. Okay.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: I just had a donut in my Yoohoo over here. Oh,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: my gosh. I'm kind of on a sugar crash right now.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you, I have only had a third
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: of the donut. And you're full? No, it's not that
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I'm full. It is going straight to my head. I mean,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting the shakes over here. Because, you know,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I hadn't had this kind of sugar in a long time. Yeah,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: it's true. It's like, okay. I have to say, there
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: is a guy out there named, let me get to it.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: It's Gator Analytics on Twitter. He is becoming my new
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: favorite follow, maybe. And he did a really cool one
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: just a few days ago. Or, no, yesterday. Asking the
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: most hated person in the SEC. And there's one that
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised about who's number one. But then you
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: get down the list. I'm kind of surprised about a
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: couple of them here. And then you go a little
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: further down the list. I'm really surprised about one. But
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: let me go through this. And this is he's truly
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: gone to analytics. It's analysis who tracked banter across SEC subreddits. Okay? Okay.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Now, no surprise, the number one
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: hated person in the SEC is one Lane Kiffin. But
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: number two surprises me. Number three, not necessarily. And number
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: four really surprises me. So number two is Oklahoma quarterback
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: John Mateer.
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: That's exactly was my response. Shane Beamer is number three. Now,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: I know UK fans really dislike him, but I didn't
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: know everybody outside of Big Blue Nation would dislike him
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: as much as they do as well. Number four really
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: surprised me. Are you ready for this? Texas quarterback Arch Manning.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: As the most hated person in the SEC. I think
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: we're using the word hated wrong here. Oh, we are?
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: Because I don't think John Mateer and Arch Manning are hated.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: I just think people hate on their game because they
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: are overrated.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Well, it says it rates it by negative mentions per 1,000 comments.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, just think about it. John Mateer and
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: Arch Manning are getting all kinds of negative comments. But
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's, again, I don't think it's a
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: hate thing. I think it's just based on their play.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: If it's a negative comment, to me, that's the part
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: of being hated. I can go on a message board
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: right now and be like, John Mateer stinks. That dude's horrible.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: And that's going to go down as a negative comment,
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: but that's not me hating John Mateer.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: All right. That's just me hating his game. Okay.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: Whereas with Lane and Beamer, I think theirs probably is
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: more hate because they're goofballs.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: All right. Brent Vindables is number five. Really? Steve Carseesian. Sarkeesian. Sarkeesian,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, is number six. Eli Drinkwitz is seven.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: He should be higher. Really? Mike Elko is eight.
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Really? What did Mike Elko do to anybody? I think
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: it's all the Texas fans is what it comes down to.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: A & M fans? It's all the A & M
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: fans that are going out there and going off on
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Venables and Mateer and Elko. Yeah. Jeff Lebby from Mississippi
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: State is nine. Alex Golish, the brand-new coach at Auburn,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: is 10.
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Clark Lee is 11. I'm done here. Exactly. Here's the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: one that really surprised me. Are you ready for who's
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: 16 out of the top 20 are? Sure. 16 is
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Mark Stoops, and he's not even at UK anymore. He's
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: at Texas. No, but they have him listed. They're listing
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: him as a UK. And so, yeah, I was kind
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: of surprised about that. The least hated was Kalen DeBoer. What?
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: That's exactly my response, too. How's Kalen DeBorn out at? See,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: I thought he'd be a lot higher. Yeah. Nick Saban
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: is right behind Mark Stoops at 17. So there you go. Yeah,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: if you want to go check this out. I really
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: like this guy because he puts up some interesting analytics.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Of course, he's a Florida fan, but it's called Gator Analytics.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I love how he says this. At Gator Data 88.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: So that's great. But, yeah. Good data. Yeah, it is
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: good data. So one person texted in, Scoots, the unthinkable
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: and unstoppable book is sold out on Amazon. I will
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: order it when it is replenished. Oh, that's a bummer.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: What are we talking about? That's the Indiana book I
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: got on Monday. I didn't tell you about that? No,
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: you didn't tell me about that. So there was a
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: book came out recently. It's called Unthinkable to Unstoppable. And
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: it's just about Indiana football the last couple of years.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: That's from Jimmy Ref. Yeah, it's.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Awesome really i've read i i cannot put it down
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: i have been controlling myself and only reading one chapter
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: a night but last night i literally we got to
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: the signetti part where he was hired and i couldn't
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: stop i think i read five chapters last night.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Really yeah it's awesome okay uh i i know uh
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: one particular person is going to like this uh And
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: that's John. The Phillies made it official and dropped the
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: interim manager with Don Mattingly. John's not going to like that, though. Oh, really?
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: Because he wanted to fire Aaron Boone and hire Mattingly.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: At the Yankees. Oh, is that what he wanted? Okay, yeah.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's happy for him. The Phillies. That's what
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: I figured. I figured he'd be happy for him. But, yeah,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: he led the team to a 79-55 right after they
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: fired the other manager who lost 10 of the first
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: 19 games. So good for Don Mattingly. Some guys just
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: have it. Some guys just don't. It's crazy how some
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: do in baseball. Because coaching, being the manager of a
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: baseball team is different than like coaching basketball and football,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. It is managing. But I thought
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: that was good for him. I was happy for him.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know if you saw this.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: The Brewers are now 3-0 over the Dodgers. Yeah. What
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: do you think of that?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's not the series that I thought it
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: was going to be.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Here's what I think. It's a huge, gigantic sigh of
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: relief from the entire country because they're so sick of
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: It is, but it's also a disappointment because going in,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: this felt like a series that was going to be awesome.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: I was fully anticipating seven games. We're not going to
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: get that, and that sucks.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well. But I am any time the Dodgers.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Uh, do you like what, uh, well, we got to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: take a break, don't we?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's go ahead and take a break. Uh,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: when we come back, uh, we'll have a couple of
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: minutes and then we'll have Kenny Brooks on the head
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: basketball coach. Yeah. UK, uh, women's basketball team. I'm looking
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: forward to that because I, again, another little present for you. And, uh, I,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I think, uh, we'll, we'll get a little birthday wish
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: out of him as well towards you. So anyway, stay
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: right there. More, just the cats coming right up.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: This American pie Sweet home out.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Of Babylon Cuts like a.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: Knife I was free falling She was born to be
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: wild There's a girl to my left headed home with
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: a hunts. Gonna try to catch them both.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: 502-384-1450.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: If you want to call in, that was fun having
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: a JD on for a few minutes, even though you
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: hung up on him, but, uh, Jeez, man. Please don't
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: hang up on the next call, okay? Oh, I won't.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I know he's sketchy. My goodness. So, yeah, let's make
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: sure he comes on the air, not just talk to
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: you for a few minutes, okay? He might not wish
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: you happy birthday when you answer the phone. That was
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: very selfish of me, wasn't it? Absolutely. By the way,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: speaking of kind of crazy news, I don't know if
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: you saw this or not, but defensive lineman– Sebastian Blue
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: has decommitted from UofL. I did see that. He's the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Trinity kid, right? Yeah, the Trinity kid. Three star. Something's
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: going on. Yeah. What's happening with big dog? I, uh,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: isn't that bark? I don't know, man. I, uh, it's, it's,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: it's a little uncomfortable right now, but, uh, maybe he
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: wants to consider UK too. So, I mean, that's the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: hot thing right now. It's like, why, why, why do
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: I want to do that when I can go to
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: the big boy school and play in the sec and
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: play in the sec. Exactly. So I just, it's interesting
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: what's going on. And I listen, I'm not wishing ill
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: because they're they're my good friends over there. But it's
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: just it's got to be a tough road right now.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: So as we wait on Coach Brooks to call in,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: I I don't know if you saw this or not. Justin,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: you let me know when the phone rings. OK, a
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: person in Austin, Texas, bought an interesting box from a
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: yard sale. Did you see this story? I did not.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: The box contained World War II memorabilia. Are you ready
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: for what it had?
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: Six live grenades.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Whoa.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: They bought from a yard sale six grenades that come
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: to find out the Austin Bomb Squad was called and
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: determined they were, in fact, very live, but did not
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: pose an immediate threat. I'm like, wait a minute. If
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: they're alive, don't they pose an immediate threat? I guess
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: they do because you're on the phone. So I just
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: thought that was one of the craziest things I ever heard.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: No one was charged, but I'm trying to figure out
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: why would somebody put into a box six bombs or
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: grenades and just leave them there? I mean, you're talking
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: about something that's 80 years old. You don't know what's
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: going to happen with those things. But anyway.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: By the way, I will answer that after we get
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: the greatest coach on Kentucky's campus. Coach Kenny Brooks joining us.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: What do you say, Coach Brooks? This is Michael Bennett.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Mike, how you doing, man? Thanks for the introduction, but
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: after that win on Saturday, I don't know if I
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 6: can even dare to take that claim.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on now. No, yes, you can, because you
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: know what? We've got all kinds of faith in Kenny Brooks.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: You are bringing back the brand of Kentucky that you
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: say you have claimed this is a different type of
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: school because of the brand. Talk about what you mean
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: when you're talking about the brand.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: It's just a brand, man. Whenever you think Kentucky, it
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: obviously is synonymous with basketball. One of the reasons I
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: always had a dream, I wore the Power K when
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: I was younger and living in Virginia, although I will
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: have to admit I was saying the K's there for Kenny. Nonetheless,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: it's a full circle moment. Full circle moment that I
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: get to don the K and just go out. When
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: we go out, when I go out and recruit, doors
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 6: are open that haven't been open for me before just
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: because I'm associated with Kentucky. And that just gives us
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: the opportunity to recruit high-level young women and bring it
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 6: in and try to position ourselves to win championships.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, you've talked, you mentioned the players that
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: you're bringing in. Of course, you brought three, not just one,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: not just two, but three McDonald's All-Americans. I mean, what
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: kind of impact do you see them making early with
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: this team?
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  Speaker 6: They'll make an impact for sure. All three have been
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: as advertised so far during the 16, 17 practices we've had.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: They're high-level IQ players. They work hard, and they still
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 6: have a lot to learn. But there's no doubt in
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 6: my mind that they're going to be major contributors for us.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know if they'll start. One might.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Two might.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 6: They're putting themselves in a position to at least be
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: in contention for that. But I've been very pleased with
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 6: them and the way they've performed so far this year.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Of course, we're talking about Madden Greenway, Savvy Swords, who
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: I love. She's got the greatest name ever, Savvy Swords,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: to be able to be playing for UK, donning that blue.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I love that name. I'm rooting for her. I'm rooting
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: for all of them. And Emily McDonald, who another– here
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: she is, a McDonald's All-American, and she's truly a McDonald's
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: on top of it all. But, yeah.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 6: Well– In the day and age of NIL, they all
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: have some cool things going for them. So they get
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 6: out on the court, and they perform well. Savvy, she
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 6: does have a great name. We like to call her Savage,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 6: but she's so kind-natured, she doesn't even like to be
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 6: referred to as Savage. But she plays that way, and
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 6: then they all have something. But they're even better people
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 6: than they are basketball players, and that's a testament to them,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 6: their families. Just the way that they represent, I'm just
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: so excited and very proud. It's like a proud papa
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: moment when we put them out there on the stage,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 6: when we put them out there to mingle with our fans.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 6: Just the way that they represent our program.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: Coach, I'm curious, when you look up and down this roster,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: outside of those three All-Americans, freshmen that are coming in,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: You've got a stacked roster. I mean, between O'Neal, I
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: know you're really excited about Sivka, obviously Clara Strack.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: I'm curious, how deep do.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: You intend to go this season? Do you want to
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: go 10, 12 deep? Is that too many? Do you
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: want to eventually cut down the roster? Because if that's
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: the case, I do not envy you having to try
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: to make those decisions because you've got a stacked roster
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there are a lot of storylines that we have.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: It's funny, when I go through media day or I
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: go through scenarios where they want to talk about our team,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 6: You know, we continue to talk and talk and talk,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: and you just named a whole bunch of names, and
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 6: you didn't even name Asia Boone.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 6: You made over 103 pointers for us last year. Or
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: Diana Collins, who started every game for Alabama last year.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 6: So it's just, you know, a testament to my staff.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: You know, we did a really good job in the
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 6: summer and the spring putting this roster together. It was
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 6: very intentional. We wanted players who really complemented each other,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 6: not just throw out a collection of talent. But we
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 6: did a really good job of players who really, really
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: compliment each other. And the mainstay was to try to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 6: get people to compliment Claire Strack and give her the
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: opportunity to work without double teams. And we feel like
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: we did that because pretty much everyone on our team
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: shoots the basketball. And so it So it's a daunting
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 6: task as a coach when you're deep, but I think
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 6: we definitely could go 9 or 10 deep this year,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: and we're really, really excited about that.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: You know, Coach, every team needs players who become better
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: than expected. Who on this year's roster do you think
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: could surprise U.K. fans this season?
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know if it would be a surprise
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 6: because she comes in so heavily decorated. But they haven't
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 6: seen her. And I would say the one who has
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: pleasantly surprised me more than anticipated would probably be Savvy Swartz.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: And it's not because I didn't anticipate her to be
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: great right out of the chute, but she's well beyond
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: her years. She plays like a Wally veteran. She plays
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 6: like she's been in college for a few years, understands
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 6: the system, her versatility. I've had her play in four
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 6: positions for me already this fall as a freshman, and
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 6: she hasn't missed a beat. I mean, she just understands it.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: She gets it. She knows our pace. And I just,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: I keep trying to stump her and we can't, you know,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: and she knows, she knows the plays from every position
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: and she goes out there seamless, whether she's playing in
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 6: the post or in a perimeter. And I knew she
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: was going to be good, but you never know about
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 6: freshmen until they get there. And she's well beyond her years,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 6: and I'm so excited about her.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about this year's team. Is it going to
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: be a team that wins with defense, transition offense, physicality, shooting,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: or could it be something else completely different?
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: You know, to be honest, we're trying to figure out
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: our identity right now. And for a coach in this
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 6: day and age, for a coach who says they got
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 6: it all figured out, they're probably giving you coach speak
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: because with the transfer portal, that's all you're really trying
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: to do is just trying to build that chemistry and
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: trying to figure, you know, who fits where, who plays
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: well with who. So, you know, I would definitely say
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 6: our offense is ahead of our defense right now. And especially,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 6: you know, you coaches, you know, we go through this
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: period of time right now where if your offense looks
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: really good, You can get mad because your defense is
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: not good. You know, if your defense is good because
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 6: you're scrimmaging against each other, then you're like, okay, my
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: offense is not really good. So we won't really know
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 6: until we start playing against some other people. But if
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: I would have to guess right now, we're going to
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 6: be a fun team to watch offensively. We still have
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 6: to form our identity on the defensive end.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: You know, you've talked about that chemistry before. You mentioned
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: it yesterday at SEC Media Days. By the way, did
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: you have a good time yesterday?
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: Well, yesterday was a busy day. After that, I got
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 6: back from Alabama, and I went and had to speak
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 6: to a contingency of about 500 people. Holy cow! It
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: was a busy day, but whenever I get to talk
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: about my girls, it's always.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: A good day. Yeah, and that's the way when I
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: talk about my horses. I mean, it's a great day
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: when I get to do that, because you're right. But
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: talk about the chemistry because in this day and age
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: of NIL and the transfer portal, that's got to be
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: difficult to really establish that identity every single year. How
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: do you do it? Is it difficult every year to
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: get that chemistry going with a team quickly?
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: It is difficult. Obviously, you have to be very intentional
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 6: in your recruiting and you have to make sure that
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 6: you're going to get kids who are willing to sacrifice
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: a little bit of themselves for the betterment of the team.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: And so we went out in the spring, and there
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: were a lot of people who had great stat lines
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: and storylines, but we felt like they just wouldn't be
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: a good fit for what we were looking for. And
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: as we assembled this team, talent obviously is up there.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 6: But we also wanted humble kids. Kids were going to
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 6: come in, and we did a really good job. We
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: hit jackpot with that because they're a great group of
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 6: young ladies to be around. You know, they don't get
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 6: in trouble. They're 3.5 in the classroom. They're always on
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: time for meetings. And so how you do anything is how.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: You do everything.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: If they're conscious about all of that, they're going to
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: be conscious about their basketball. And we've been right. And
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: they work hard.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: They get along.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: They're fun-loving. They laugh. They smile. But they also know
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: when to turn it on and to get really serious
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: about basketball. So we've got a great group to start with.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 6: We're not there chemistry-wise yet. We're still learning each other.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: But I think that's going to be the process for
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: a while. And as long as you can win while
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 6: you're learning, it's going to be a good thing.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would not have liked me as one of
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: your players. 3.5, I mean, I would be barely 2.0.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 6: But, you know, I also would say this. You know,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 6: it's the evolution of college athletics. You know, they do
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: have brands. They do have opportunities. And as an old
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: school coach, you know, I've had to bend a little
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 6: bit for maybe a photo shoot here or there. But,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: you know, it's part of the process now. And as
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 6: long as we all can bend a little bit and
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: understand it and evolve, I think it works out for
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 6: both parties.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: You know, the SEC, as you go through this gauntlet
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: again this year, is as talented again this season. But
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: what separates the teams that are good in this league
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: from the teams that can win the conference this and
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: contend for a national championship?
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 6: Well, I think we all have talent. You know, you
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 6: look up and down the landscape of the SEC. Everyone's
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 6: got talented players. Some probably a little bit more than others.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 6: But what I think is going to be the most
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 6: important thing is the chemistry aspect because we're all implementing
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 6: freshmen or implementing transfers. Not a lot of teams. There's
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 6: some who have, you know, A lot of people coming
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: back are really important people coming back. But I think
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 6: the teams that really understand each other and gain that
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 6: chemistry the quickest or the best, they're going to be
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 6: the teams to be successful because everyone's loaded with talent.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 6: And I think the deciding factor is going to be
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: the chemistry and just the willingness to play with each other.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 6: And that's how teams are going to separate themselves in
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: the SEC.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about Clara Strack, your All-American that came back,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: thank goodness, averaged 17 points last year, 10 rebounds. I mean,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: she could do everything. What parts of her game has
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: improved this year? I mean, how good can she become?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, as a.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 6: Perfectionist, you know, all people want to make leaps and
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 6: bounds as opposed to where they were. But when you
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 6: get to a point and you're already great, then those
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 6: leaps and bounds are going to be like little incremental steps.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 6: So she's taking really a focus on fine-tuning a lot
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: of the little things, footwork. We really worked on her
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 6: three-point shot this summer and this fall. We shoot them
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 6: every day, and I think that's the last element of
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 6: her game in order to make her even better, is
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 6: to be consistent with her three-point shot. We stat every practice,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 6: and we tally it up. We have cumulative stats for
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: the preseason. And she's made more three-pointers than anybody on
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: our team.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah. So that's been the next evolution of her greatness.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: But I would probably say the biggest jump that she's
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: made that would be most impactful for us is her
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 6: leadership qualities. You know, for years she's always been the
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 6: youngest on the team. She's still not 21 years old yet.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 6: She won't turn 21 until the middle.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Of the winter.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: But we've always put so much on her shoulders and
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: responsibility that's probably been beyond her years. But this year,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 6: after watching Georgia Amor and watching Tiani Key lead our teams,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: she's ready to step up and be that leader. And
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 6: I've noticed it. I've noticed how she's changed in the past.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: She might have been barking at her teammates for not
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 6: doing something right just because she didn't really have that
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 6: understanding of how to lead people. And now I can
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 6: see her pulling people to the side, and I can
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 6: see her saying it in a manner that, you know,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 6: the players want to follow her. And that's just a
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: tremendous asset that we will have because when your best
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 6: player is your best leader, then it's easy for the
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 6: other players to follow.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: And that makes your job easier as well, right? Absolutely.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, gosh. People want to give me a lot of
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 6: credit and a lot of things, but I've been very
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 6: fortunate to have my best player always be my best leader.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: And it makes my job a lot easier.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it does. When you're looking at this team
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: right now, what is the biggest question mark on this team?
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 6: Well, I think the toughness aspect. And I don't want
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: to alarm people. I just don't know yet. You don't
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 6: know someone until you've actually been in the trenches with them.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 6: And I've only been in the trenches with Asia Boone
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 6: and Clara Strack and Gabby Brooks. And so the others
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 6: I've watched from afar and I anticipate– But you've got
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: to be able to go through it when adversity hits.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 6: You don't know how people are going to react until
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 6: adversity hits. And that's going to be a deciding factor
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 6: because we're talented.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: We're tall.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 6: I think one of the most unique aspects of our
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 6: team this year is that we're probably going to start
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 6: across the baseline 6'5, 6'5, 6'5. And they all can run,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: they all can run past and shoot. And so that's
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: going to make us very unique, but okay, but how
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 6: tough can we be? Can we utilize that size to
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 6: our advantage? You know, when things get tough, are we
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 6: going to be able to come together? Those are all
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: things that are, you know, it's like just watching a documentary.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: You don't know what's going to happen until it starts
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: to happen. And that's my job to continue. to make
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 6: sure that we are mentally tough. We are physically tough.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 6: You know, I know they can pass. I know they
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 6: can run. I know they can shoot. But, you know,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: what happens when adversity hits?
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: Is there another, I'm curious about this, is there another
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: Division I coach that you talk to on a regular
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: basis that you consider a good friend, you feel comfortable
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: talking about basketball strategy, or just shooting the breeze with?
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. Sean Poppy. Sean Poppy was my associate head coach
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: at Virginia Tech for six years, and now he's the
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: head coach at Clemson. And as the basketball gods have it,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 6: for some reason, and I'm winking, it's probably a storyline,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: we get matched up with them in the SEC-ACC Challenge.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 6: I love that!
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 6: So, you know, he and I, we always have a pact.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 6: We don't want to play each other because we do.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: We share a lot.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: I probably talk to him at least once a week,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 6: maybe twice a week.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: Sometimes it's about basketball. Sometimes it's just about our families.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: Sometimes it's just really good to have somebody that, you know,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 6: in this ever-changing landscape of college athletics, is just somebody
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 6: to bounce ideas off or to just make sure that
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 6: I'm still sane because I don't understand a lot that's
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: going on. And when he tells me he doesn't understand
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 6: it either, then it makes me feel better. But we
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 6: vacation together.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's somebody who really helped me develop. our program
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 6: at Virginia Tech. But he's more than just my assistant.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 6: He's one of my best friends.
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  Speaker 1: So how's that going to be when y'all finally meet
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: up with each other and your two respective teams?
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 6: Well, I think they tried to pit us against each
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 6: other and thinking that it was going to be awkward.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 6: But he's actually coming in, I think, a day or
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: two early and our families will get together. Our wives
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: have already said they're going to sit together and they'll
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 6: cheer for both teams.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 4: And, you know, because.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: It is competition, and I want to beat him in
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 6: the worst way, and he wants to beat me in
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 6: the worst way. But we have so much respect for
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 6: each other, for what we've done for each other in
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: our careers, that the game is not going to interfere
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 6: with that. We actually even share practices with each other
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: right now, even knowing that we're going to play each
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 6: other in December. But that's how confident we both are,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 6: and you need to have that. Just that release, that outlet,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 6: because not a lot of people understand, you know, what
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: we as head coaches go through, not even your assistant coaches.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: And so to have him to be able to, you know,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 6: just just unload or just, you know, have an ear,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 6: somebody who actually. knows exactly what I'm going through. It's
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: such a pleasure.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it is because you know how much, are
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: you aware of how much you've made women's basketball fun
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: again at UK and how much the fan base just
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: absolutely loves what you've done. And for that fact, loves you,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Kenny Brooks.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 6: Well, you know what? I have an inkling when, uh,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: when we go out and Kentucky fans are so knowledgeable
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 6: and they're so respectful that, I can be out, and,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: you know, I know somebody might know who I am,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 6: but they'll wait until I'm finished eating, and they'll come over.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: And the most powerful thing that I hear is, you know,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 6: people will thank me for coming here. And it kind
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: of took me aback, you know, but it happens a lot,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 6: and people will say that. And my wife just looked
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: at me one day, and she said, it is amazing
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: how in such a short time the people of Kentucky
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 6: have made us feel welcomed. And she, I mean, she's
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 6: blown away by it. And she asked me the other day,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 6: she said, why didn't we come here earlier? And I said, baby,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 6: we weren't offered a job earlier. So, but that's just
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: a testament to, you know, the fan base, the people here,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 6: how they've made my family comfortable. I have adult children.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 6: who have since, you know, moved on, and they want
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 6: to call Lexington home. They can't wait to get back
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 6: to Lexington. But, you know, we just love it here.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 6: We love, you know, everything about it. Love the state.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 6: Never lived outside of the state of Virginia before I
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 6: came here.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 6: And the people here have just made us feel, you know,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 6: so much comfortable. And, you know, I just– you know,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 6: I like good basketball. I like fun basketball. I don't
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 6: like the– the wrestling matches or the 45 to 43 game.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: I want to be able to showcase our young ladies'
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: talents and how talented they are. without a wrestling match,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 6: and so we try to play a style that's very
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: appeasing to the fans.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: Well, Coach, take it from me. I'm an Indiana fan.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: I've hated Kentucky my whole life, but I mean it
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 3: when I say I think you are the best coach
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 3: on campus, and Michael's right. You have made Kentucky basketball
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun, and I'm proud to say that
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: I'm a fan from afar, and you're doing a wonderful job.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: And by the way, coach, I scheduled you to come
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: on today because it's Justin's birthday and you are his
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: favorite UK coach. Absolutely.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 6: Well, tell him happy birthday. I appreciate that. You know,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 6: like I said, it's been a blessing. Sometimes I have
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 6: to pinch myself. And when I say I'm the head
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 6: women's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, it still
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 6: gives me chills.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you, if I ever see you
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: out to dinner with your family, I'm interrupting. There's not
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: an empty chair. I'm dragging one over. I'm sitting down. Now,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: I will buy dinner, but I'm sitting with you. I'm
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: going to take up the entire time, and I apologize
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: if that ever happens.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 6: Well, it's more than welcomed, and we appreciate it, and
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: we will oblige. We'll make sure we have conversation with you.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 6: My wife will be okay with it.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Well, Coach, it's always fun having you on. I really
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: love it when you come on with us because you
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: just– hear the excitement that you've got in your voice.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: Cause I know this is going to be the last
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: two years you've been here. It's just been so much
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: fun and it's going to be, and now you're really
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: building something. And I just want to commend you on that.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: And thank you as part of, from the heart of
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: big blue nation. Thank you so much.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you guys. I love coming on and I
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 6: appreciate every, everybody, their support and you know, come out
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 6: and see us. It's going to be a really fun
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 6: team to watch. and it's one of my favorite teams
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 6: I've ever been around.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 6: Just because they do it the right way. They represent
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 6: our university, our program in the right way.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: Well, Coach Kenny Brooks, thank you for taking the time
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: to join us today.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 6: All right, guys, you have a great day.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: All right, good luck in the season. All right, that's
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: Coach Kenny Brooks of the University of Kentucky Women's Basketball Team.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: How do you like that? The absolute man. Isn't he
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: fun to talk to? I'm not kidding. I love– I
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: get so excited between him, Craig Skinner, Will Stein now.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just– to talk to these guys, it's
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: just so much fun. All right, we're going to take
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: our last break. Stay right there. One more segment of
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: Just the Cats coming right up.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: It's a calisthen on a combine steering wheel east wing
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: hammer driving nails and.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: 502-384-1450 you want to call 502-414-1450 you want to text
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: in i had one more person calling but you weren't
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: in the studio he's.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: On oh he is oh good bring him on oh
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 3: woo biggest man i've ever met in person woo orbsu what's.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: Up woo.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: How's it going, Justin? And happy birthday, buddy, man. I
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: hope Indiana will do good as football as Kentucky is
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: doing this year.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Lou. I appreciate it.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's the perfect way to come into a show,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: and I appreciate that. Lou, last time I checked, the
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: Hoosiers 6-0, Cats 5-1. One's better than the other.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Well, until this weekend. Tell them, Lou.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that tells you how much I follow Indiana, man.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: But I did renew my passport so I can come visit.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Well, how many games have you gone
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: to the football team? Have you gone to many?
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I just missed the LSU one because
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: I knew it was going to be great, and I
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: wanted to watch it at home, and it delivered. The
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: deuces permanently stay up in the air. Everybody's getting the deuces.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where I walk in and walk out.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: Well, are you headed to the basketball game tomorrow night, Wu,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: or Zoot?
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: No, I am not. I want to see this team
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: in the auction, and I'm tired of reading the injury report.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: Come on, we can't have a $ 20 million team and
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: four guys that are supposed to perform already looking for excuses.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: You see, I'm right there with you. Hopefully that's not
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: going to be the case.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: Sounds like you're down on the basketball team, Luke. I,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: you know, the, the, the expectation bar has raised times 10.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: It's, you know, it's whatever my company gives me a
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: budget to lift up a business off the ground, except results.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: So do I, that, that just natural, right?
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. It is natural. And you know what, if
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: you don't get the results, then we got to go
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: on to the next person because that's real life today
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: that's the reality of how you keep and lose a
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: job it's the results of it uh by the way
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: uh that was really bad news we got yesterday about
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: otago away going to miss the entire season due to
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: an achilles injury i don't know if you saw that
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: woo but uh His tendon was ruptured and had to
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: go through successful, thank goodness, successful surgery yesterday to repair
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: his Achilles.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awful. I feel for him. All the faults
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: go to his family, too. I know there are. full
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: of tremendous accomplished athletes and hopefully he will recover soon
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: and come back even stronger. But, but, but yeah, that's,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: that's awful news.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. So, all right. Well, I know
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: you got to go, but I thought, I appreciate you
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: calling in and wishing my buddy over here. Happy. We
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: miss having you on, on a regular basis that we do.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, we're going to do it more often now that
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: we have something to talk about, such as basketball. Good, bad,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: or ugly. There are other sports like football and women's
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: volleyball I can't relate too much to, but I'm not
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: as versatile as you guys are.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think you're versatile, just not in the ways
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: you want to admit. So, Wu, Orbs, great having you
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: on for a few minutes. I really appreciate it.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: Talk to you later. Bye. All right.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: Take care, buddy. Let me get to a couple of
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: things real quick before we have to go. Patrick said,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: happy birthday, Scoots. I hope today treats you greatly. Thank you, Patrick.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: And then Michelle said, happy birthday, Justin. Thank you, Michelle.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: Sent with loud effect. I love how. Did it really?
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: I mean. I'm loud, so it makes sense. You are
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: definitely loud. But we didn't get a chance to talk
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: about this. So John Calipari took the stage yesterday. saying,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: if I'm looking around in this room, most of you
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: don't really know basketball. That's when I don't miss Cal.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not wrong. Yeah, but, I mean, is
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: that necessary to say, though? Probably not. That's the problem
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: I have right there. It's just not necessary to say
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: something like that. I just, I never understood, and it's
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: kind of one of the reasons I wanted to bring
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: up as the last topic, because I knew many people
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be listening today, At this point, but I didn't
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: like that. I don't know. I don't know how many
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: people are listening. By the way, tonight the Seahawks are
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: playing the Broncos at 7 o'clock. Don't tell me the spread.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Spread's going to be 12 and a half. I don't know.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just guessing. I didn't know if you were going
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: to give it out or not.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: Why? No.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: We play guess the spread on Spears on Thursdays.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, we do?
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to cheat. I have no idea what
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: the spread is. I don't pay attention to the spread
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: as much in professional sports. In professional sports. I do
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: in college. I don't know why I don't NFL and
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: NBA or baseball. That's interesting. Yeah, it is interesting because
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a crazy take. But anyway, so... I
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: hope you had a good birthday.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's been a great one. Yeah, and I appreciate
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: you for doing all that. Although, next year, let's not
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: go that route because you unintentionally created more work for me.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on! I'm trying to do less work on
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: my birthday. It wasn't a nice surprise to have Warbzude or... No,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: I told you, thank you. I appreciate it. Or JB
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: come on, or... But yeah, it was a.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: Lot of work for me.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry. I don't want to work on my birthday. Fine,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: I won't give you any work next year. Jeez, I'll just...
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: Tell people, sorry, we're not taking calls because of the
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: fact that we can't have Justin Markin over there.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: It was definitely a fun second hour. Yeah, and you
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: asked some great questions to Kenny Brooks.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, so I think he legit, I was
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: told by the young lady that is his sports information
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: director that he really enjoys coming on this show, that
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: he has fun with us. He should. And he sounded
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: like he was having a good time with us. So anyway.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: I can't believe I ran through all those players, though,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: and I didn't say Asia Boone.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: That was bad. That's okay. No, it's not. It's not
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: a bad move. I mean, that team, you're right, is
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: so deep this year. It's crazy. It's hard to keep
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: up with who's who. So, all right, how much time
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: do we have? About 30 seconds. 30 seconds.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, we're going to talk about UK-Oklahoma, and then we've
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: got to get you ready for the basketball game, too.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, UK, granted, it's an exhibition game, but we've
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: got UK Little Rock. What's that? And it's Little Rock. Yeah,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: I know, but still, we get to see basketball. That's true.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. Big weekend. So, we'll get you
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: ready tomorrow. Everybody, have a great day. Appreciate the phone
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: calls from JD, Coach Brooks, and as well, Woo Orbs.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow, everybody. Point the grills for the
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: hills of that green bell star.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 5: Way on out. Like a man when we cross that
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 5: cattle guard.