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Just The Cats 10-09-26 · Just The Cats

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Big Blue Nation. This is not Michael Bennett.
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  Speaker 3: This is Dr.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: John Fong again, subbing for Michael Bennett. Michael is in transit.
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  Speaker 2: He's coming back from a great trip from New York.
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  Speaker 2: But fear not, I do have my co-host here with me,
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  Speaker 2: Justin Kalin.
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  Speaker 3: Justin, how are you this morning?
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  Speaker 1: I am fantastic. I'm always super jacked up on Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that the weekend's here. So that's definitely the case
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  Speaker 1: here again today. I'm pretty pumped. I've got my donut
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  Speaker 1: beside me that I'm ready to eat here in the
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  Speaker 1: next hour or two. So it's good. It's a good Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Plus, you've got me as co-host. Let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 3: You are a professional in the utmost sense of the word.
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  Speaker 3: You're used to working with all sorts of other people.
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  Speaker 2: And you've developed a very good chemistry with Michael over
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  Speaker 2: the course of this show. How difficult is it for
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  Speaker 2: you to just suddenly kind of switch gears and have
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  Speaker 2: some guy like me who is so different from Michael
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  Speaker 2: come on?
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  Speaker 1: It's not difficult for me at all. I mean, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's different. But in this business, you have to embrace
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  Speaker 1: different and you have to be OK with being able
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  Speaker 1: to adjust to anybody that you work with. And I've
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  Speaker 1: fortunately for me, I've had a lot of experience with
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  Speaker 1: that because I do. I don't I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you know this or not, but I do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of play by play in the area. And I never
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  Speaker 1: know from a night-to-night basis who I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: working with. So I am constantly getting new color guys
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  Speaker 1: to work with. So I've had to learn over the
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  Speaker 1: years how to adjust to different people and the way
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  Speaker 1: that they talk because I'm not changing who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to be the exact same person that
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  Speaker 1: I am regardless of who I'm working with. So just
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  Speaker 1: having to learn other people and kind of their mechanisms
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  Speaker 1: and their ways of doing things, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: find it as a fun challenge. Let me say that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know you other than your on-air personality. And
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  Speaker 2: that on-air personality strikes me as being very outgoing and
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  Speaker 2: opinionated and very enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 3: You ever butt heads with Michael on something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Because he seems like he's just as enthusiastic and just
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  Speaker 3: as opinionated. Maybe that's what makes for such good radio
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  Speaker 3: on your end.
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  Speaker 1: Well, with me and him... it's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where I have to tell myself that he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a goof and a lot of the opinions that he's
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  Speaker 1: throwing out. I honestly, and this isn't a shot at him,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of the opinions that he's throwing out,
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  Speaker 1: I honestly have to wonder, does he legitimately believe this?
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  Speaker 1: Or is this like a, is this a radio bit
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  Speaker 1: type thing? Cause he says some ridiculous stuff. So yeah, we,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've definitely butted heads in the past, but
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  Speaker 1: it's never been anything serious at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: This stuff's all fun. It's supposed to be fun. We're
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  Speaker 1: here to talk sports like that. What a dream. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to ever take anything away from the
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  Speaker 1: radio if there is some sort of argument on the
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  Speaker 1: radio that I'm going to be like taking over into
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  Speaker 1: my real life and have bad feelings towards somebody for
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  Speaker 1: that reason. You know, when I walk out of this studio,
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  Speaker 1: I forget everything is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: You are absolutely right in that sports are a pleasant distraction.
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  Speaker 2: We've got enough more serious things in the world that
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  Speaker 2: we can fret over and argue about and die on
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  Speaker 2: the hill.
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  Speaker 3: Sports, I don't think, is one of those things. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm like you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that it is such a wonderful outlet
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  Speaker 2: for us to be able to express how we feel
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  Speaker 2: about something that we're passionate about on one hand, but
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, in the scheme of life, really
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really matter a heck of a whole lot. But
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  Speaker 2: I have noticed that a lot of times you do
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  Speaker 2: purposely and intentionally kind of I won't say bow down
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  Speaker 2: to him, but maybe a seed to some of the
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  Speaker 2: things that he says because, hey, at least on Just
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  Speaker 2: the Cats, it is his show, right?
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  Speaker 3: So you know your role.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to take the opposite role here with me, though.
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  Speaker 3: I want to make sure that you just speak your mind.
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  Speaker 3: You slap me down when you know that I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You give me what I deserve for all my bad takes,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that I do have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: bad takes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's really hard with you because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you're ever wrong, and your takes that I've heard have
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  Speaker 1: been great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see if I can set the matter straight today
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  Speaker 2: with some of these bad takes. But I was saying
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  Speaker 2: that Michael and I were completely different. He spent his
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  Speaker 2: time on the East Coast. I was out on the
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  Speaker 2: West Coast. I was out there following, I won't say
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  Speaker 2: my Dodgers. I've kind of adopted them as my team
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  Speaker 2: because my daughter lives out in LA.
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  Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of time out there.
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  Speaker 2: And when you spend a lot of time in a city,
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  Speaker 2: you naturally develop an affinity for some of their sports teams.
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  Speaker 2: I've always loved the Rams. I'm beginning to like the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: I was out there for, I think.
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  Speaker 3: It was game three where they lost to the Braves
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  Speaker 3: three to two, but had a wonderful time. Have you
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  Speaker 3: ever been out to Dodger stadium?
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  Speaker 1: I have never been to California.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 3: And is that intentionally?
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  Speaker 2: I know some people do not ever want to step
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  Speaker 2: foot in the state because how far off the grid
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  Speaker 2: they can become. But my feeling is, and tell me
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  Speaker 2: if this is a bad take, Southern California, one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest places.
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  Speaker 3: Not only to visit but to live.
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  Speaker 2: But if you live there, you've got to be very,
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  Speaker 2: very aware of certain ways that you have to commute
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  Speaker 2: because the traffic is terrible out there. The cost of
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  Speaker 2: living is very, very high. And they occasionally have an
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  Speaker 2: earthquake that can wipe everything out. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful mountains, the ocean, the lifestyle, healthy lifestyle, great food.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what else there is not to like
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  Speaker 3: about it once you get rid of the traffic, the earthquake,
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  Speaker 3: and the high cost of living.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, those are definitely some negatives. But no,
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  Speaker 1: me never being is not intentional. I want to go to...
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  Speaker 1: California real bad. I mean, especially Southern California. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big golfer. And the number one course on my
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  Speaker 1: bucket list is Pebble Beach. So I definitely at some
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  Speaker 1: point want to go to California just to play Pebble Beach,
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  Speaker 1: if nothing else. But, yeah, I've heard California's awesome. I've
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  Speaker 1: always wanted to go, just never had the opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's see if we can make it work.
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  Speaker 2: Because the Dodgers Stadium, probably one of the bucket list
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  Speaker 2: items if you're a Major League Baseball fan also.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful setting. It's right there in Chavez Ravine.
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  Speaker 2: You look out down the left field line. You've got
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful San Gabriel Mountains, the palm trees lining, the right.
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  Speaker 3: Field line, beautiful blue sky.
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  Speaker 2: When that sun sets over Dodger Stadium, it's one of
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  Speaker 2: the most beautiful scenes that you will ever encounter, not
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  Speaker 2: only in sports, but maybe in life itself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tick you off. Okay. Let's hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. is probably not even in my top 10
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  Speaker 1: stadiums that I want to visit. Matter of fact, it's
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  Speaker 1: not even number one in California. I want to go
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  Speaker 1: to San Fran's Park before I want to go to
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we touched on this last time. I
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  Speaker 3: thought you were a traditionalist.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you one of these people that wants to go
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  Speaker 2: to someplace? Not because it's got all these fancy-smancy urinals
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  Speaker 2: and bathroom setups, but because of the history involved.
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  Speaker 3: In all that.
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  Speaker 2: You walk into Dodger Stadium, they've got that center field
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  Speaker 2: area all built up now. They've statues of Sandy Koufax,
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  Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson. There's just a sense of reverence when you
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  Speaker 2: walk through those gates.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it is cool. And I'm definitely a traditionalist
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  Speaker 1: A little bit, but for me, I'm much more of
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  Speaker 1: an aesthetics guy, and especially if the aesthetics around me
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  Speaker 1: involve water, which is why I want to go to
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  Speaker 1: San Fran much more than I do L.A. Because when
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  Speaker 1: I'm the happiest, when I am truly the happiest in
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  Speaker 1: my life, I am surrounded by water. That is one
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  Speaker 1: thing I've learned about myself in 36 years. Put me
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  Speaker 1: near water, and I am truly happy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you definitely will enjoy Southern California then, because.
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  Speaker 3: There is plenty of water around there. You will be
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  Speaker 3: in your happy place. I promise you that.
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  Speaker 1: I need to go. You're giving me the itch to
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  Speaker 1: want to make it happen.
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  Speaker 3: But NLCS now LA versus Milwaukee, the ALCS Tampa versus
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  Speaker 3: the winner of Cleveland or Chicago. I assume that you
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  Speaker 3: watch some of that. Maybe not. Maybe you were like me.
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  Speaker 2: I was tuned in mostly to the NFL game last night.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't catch a lot of this, but evidently
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland rally tied the series at two, two. They've got
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  Speaker 2: the deciding game in Cleveland coming up.
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  Speaker 3: What are your predictions for, for that?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I don't, I haven't figured that out yet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know which way I want to lean because
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  Speaker 1: you had the White Sox win the first two games
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Then Cleveland goes into Chicago, wins two games.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been a really weird series where the road
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  Speaker 1: teams won every game so far, and that's very unusual.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, I was watching last night. I'm luckily independently
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  Speaker 1: wealthy enough where I can have a two TV setup.
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  Speaker 1: So I had the NFL game on one TV, baseball
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  Speaker 1: on the other. But It was a great performance by the,
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  Speaker 1: by the, oh my gosh, that was almost a slip
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  Speaker 1: of the tongue by the guardians last night. They had a,
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  Speaker 1: a huge sixth or fifth and sixth inning where they
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  Speaker 1: scored all nine of their runs in those two innings.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. They've started really hitting the ball
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  Speaker 1: a lot better, but again, Chicago's already proved that they
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  Speaker 1: can go into Cleveland and win. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: To me, give me a coin. Let's flip heads, or tails.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind having the two TV set up. I
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  Speaker 2: just don't seem to think I can concentrate and focus
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  Speaker 2: and jumping back and forth. I'm not a multitasker much
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to sports.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I don't want to sit here and act
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  Speaker 1: like I'm, I'm the best at that either because I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: it's more like, so I had the NFL game on
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  Speaker 1: the big TV and then the baseball game was on
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  Speaker 1: a smaller TV. So I'll do the occasional, like look
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  Speaker 1: over how are things going? If it's interesting, like, Like
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  Speaker 1: it was last night in that sixth round ending. I
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  Speaker 1: did watch a majority of that ending just because the football,
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  Speaker 1: my football game might've been at halftime at that, at
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  Speaker 1: that point, actually. So yeah, it was fun. It was
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  Speaker 1: a fun night, fun sports night.
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  Speaker 2: With your early wake-ups now, it has to be difficult
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: when these games run close to midnight sometimes. This reminds
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  Speaker 2: me of the times when I actually had a real job.
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  Speaker 2: When I had my orthodontic practice, we would see our
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: first patient at 7 o'clock in the morning. So if
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to go ahead and get my early morning workout,
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  Speaker 2: it was a 4.30 wake up for me.
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  Speaker 3: Now that I'm semi-retired. Yeah. I like these seven o'clock
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  Speaker 3: wake up calls. No big deal. It means I can
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  Speaker 3: stay up till midnight.
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  Speaker 2: That's also one of the reasons I love being out
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  Speaker 2: on the West coast. You're talking about NFL football starting
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  Speaker 2: at 10 AM.
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  Speaker 3: And then even the late.
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  Speaker 2: Games are over by eight. You've got plenty of time
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  Speaker 2: to do what you ever you need to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I you're right. I typically am in bed
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  Speaker 1: by 10 o'clock at the latest most nights, but Thursday
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: nights are kind of my exception because once I'm done
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: here at noon, I don't have anything to do until
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  Speaker 1: my football game later tonight. So Fridays are a, almost
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: every Friday is a heavy nap.
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  Speaker 3: It's Friday. Gotta love it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to circle back to this traditionalist idea of yours.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that major league baseball is even proposing cutting
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  Speaker 2: down the regular season from 162 to 154 games.
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  Speaker 3: Does that bug you much at all? To me, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's a step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: That is exactly the words that I used this morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's a step in the right direction. You want to
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  Speaker 1: You want to take away regular season games from me
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  Speaker 1: and add games to the playoffs? Yes, please. I will
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  Speaker 1: trade that any day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: And also, they want to expand the division series from
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  Speaker 2: five to seven games.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that's a good idea? How do you
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  Speaker 3: feel about that?
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: Great minds are thinking alike.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's take a step even more forward and let's
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  Speaker 1: make the wild card round five game. Give me, give
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  Speaker 1: me all the.
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  Speaker 2: Look, you're, you're playing 162 games over all these months.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're telling me that you're deciding your fate
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  Speaker 2: on a span of 48 hours.
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  Speaker 3: That to me just doesn't make sense. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and contract the, the regular season. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not so monotonous and boring and drawn out and
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and have more excitement. I was hanging
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  Speaker 2: on every pitch on these. these playoff games and baseball.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just not the case.
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  Speaker 3: In the regular season. You've got a regular season game.
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  Speaker 3: You're out there. You're doing other things.
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  Speaker 2: You are multitasking during that time, but now it's, your
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  Speaker 2: eyes are glued into that. And then the one other
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  Speaker 2: change and under, I understand all of these, if they're enacted,
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  Speaker 2: they first of all, have to be ratified by the
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  Speaker 2: players union, which I'm not quite sure how they're going
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  Speaker 2: to take all this, but they've agreed to allow the
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  Speaker 2: higher seated playoff team to actually choose their opponent. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine being the team that nobody wants to play or,
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  Speaker 2: or worse yet the team that everybody wants to play?
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  Speaker 2: What a slap in the face that would be. I,
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  Speaker 2: you like that drama, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: I can tell from your facial expression.
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  Speaker 1: I do. However, me and the roommate were talking about
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit last night. I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: should get to choose per se, but I do think
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  Speaker 1: they should put like the rays. They shouldn't have had
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  Speaker 1: to play the Yankees. They should have gotten the white
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  Speaker 1: socks who were the six seat. Like the, the, highest
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  Speaker 1: seed remaining should get the lowest seed remaining period. That's
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  Speaker 1: just how it should work.
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  Speaker 2: I understand it's time for our first break. This is
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  Speaker 2: not just the major league baseball.
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  Speaker 3: This is just the cat.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to come back on the other end
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to kind of zero in on what
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  Speaker 2: my real passion is. And that's university of Kentucky sports
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  Speaker 2: specifically this.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a football game coming up tomorrow night,
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: but I've Text in Whiskey Thief text line 502-414-1450. Let
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  Speaker 3: me know your thoughts on anything and everything on this Friday.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you on the other side of the break.
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  Speaker 3: This is Just the Cats, Dr. John Guang, Justin Kalen.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Now you're getting me back into the mood.
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  Speaker 2: I need to spend more time out there on that
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  Speaker 2: left coast.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was appropriate.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: On, on these breaks, are you and Michael working on
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: your plank time? Now I heard you talking about how
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: long you can do those planks.
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  Speaker 1: What's your plank time?
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  Speaker 2: I actually work on those. I know how important core
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  Speaker 2: strength is as you get a little bit older. So
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  Speaker 2: I could probably, if you asked me to hit the
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  Speaker 2: floor right now, I think I could probably do three minutes.
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  Speaker 2: If I work on it, I could probably get it
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit more than that, but it's, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to do if you're not used to it.
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  Speaker 1: I have a confession. So I did one during the
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  Speaker 1: break yesterday. I can't, I think it was like 12.5 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: not good, not good at all. I woke up this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I am sore, like sore, sore.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker 2 05,0 Yeah. Once you get over, I'd say
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  Speaker 3: probably the age of 30, you start using any muscles
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  Speaker 3: that you're not used to. Then you are going to
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  Speaker 3: be sore.
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  Speaker 2: And then once you hit that 60 year old park,
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  Speaker 2: then your.
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  Speaker 3: Chances of recovery are probably 50, 50 afterwards. So my
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  Speaker 3: recommendation to anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Out there who's working on your plank time and text
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: me in your plank time. If you can beat me
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: at three minutes, we may have a challenge going on
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  Speaker 2: and something like that. But go ahead and text in
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  Speaker 2: your plank time and let me know how many minutes
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  Speaker 2: you can actually hold a plank.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I do have one text into the Whiskey Thief text
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  Speaker 1: line from John. He says, in the words of Bugs Bunny,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: what's up, Doc? I am glad to hear you're filling
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: in for Michael. You always do a great job. All right,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: tell me if I am crazy. I have our football
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: cats winning this Saturday by three big ones. Hey, is
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: having Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kentucky in a $ 10 parlay just
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: plain madness? Take them straight up, but safer with the points.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Might just win some cold, hard cash. We'll got to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: go talk to you later.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I am going to continue my streak of picking
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Kentucky to win or lose and being wrong every single week.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I missed on Alabama. I missed on AMM. I missed
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: on South Carolina.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: By the way, I want to do a little bit
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: of house keeping on, on South Carolina. I haven't had
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: a chance to talk to much people. I'm still riding
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: a high on that. I did not expect them to win.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Certainly when they went down 17 to nothing, I think
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I was like everybody else.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I thought they were done, but here they come. Comeback cats.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Biggest road comeback in program history. Stein, Will Stein, he's
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: got some cojones. He goes for two, which, by the way,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I thought they were always going to do.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: That's usually the thing to do now, right? Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: If you're on the road, if you're the underdog, you're
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: going to have to go for two anyway.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and do it and go for it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But Kenny Menchie, I think that was a breakout game
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: for him prior to South Carolina.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: We all thought, well, this guy, he had this big reputation,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: but is he really that good? He had actually a
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: couple of really bad halves.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And then he comes through 11 TD passes now versus
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: one interception on the year. He's gone three straight games
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: without a pick. We need a big game right from
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: kenny minchi.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah do you do you feel like that he's going
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: to deliver over the course of the rest of the
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: year you have to feel kind of positive about him
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: don't you.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I definitely feel positive about kenny minchi i don't know
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: that he's going to put up the flashiest numbers but
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that's the one thing he's going to do is you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: mentioned the one interception three games without one He's going
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to take care of the ball. And that's really when
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you've got the playmakers around him and he's able to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: get it into the hands of those playmakers while taking
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: care of the football, that is going to be very
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: advantageous for Kentucky moving forward. You just got to take
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: care of the ball.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Will Stein says to take the easy money. We just
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: hope that LSU is going to have some easy money
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: for Kentucky to pick on.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's gonna be the case. Lane Kiffin,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: he's gonna come in here locked and loaded.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Get this.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I need you to kind of cover. I like your
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: weather report coming on. Here we have one of the
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: biggest games that I can remember in Kentucky football history.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: And we've got a hurricane that's kind of blowing in.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: How do you even say this? Is it a say
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: us hurricane? A say us it's causing havoc down there
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: along the Gulf Coast. Is it going to make it
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: up in time to ruin this beautiful evening that we
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: have all planned out?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: But the way I see it and from what I've
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: heard and I've looked at the forecast model and all
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: that a number of different times, I would anticipate nothing
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: in the first half. I really think the first half
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is going to be a clean game with no weather
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: involved at all. And then maybe you'll start to get
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: some sprinkles or drizzle in that second half. But I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be a full out wash
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in the second half.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: In other words, just, just bring your poncho, be prepared
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: And unless there are 50 mile an hour winds and
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: creating havoc and it's a danger, I'm encouraging everybody to
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: just ride it out. Kentucky football needs you to be
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: there and just live it up. If you're going to
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: get wet, you're going to get wet. What is the
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: big deal?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're hammered, what's it matter anyway? Just
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: make sure your phone and your wallet are safe. And
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: like a Ziploc baggie, they can't get destroyed. And yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: go crazy.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Here's one for you, Justin. Here's one for the listeners also.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: What is the worst weather? that you've ever sat through
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: or endured during a sporting event.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Does anything come to mind right off the bat?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I am very much a warm weather guy. I
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: like it hot. I like summertime weather.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I do also do not like the.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Cold at all. I was at an Indiana-Purdue game one
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: year that must have been 14 degrees. I mean, I
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: could go back and find the pictures, but I'm in
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: this huge, like, marshmallow jacket, and I've got a toboggan
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: on my head, and in the pictures I just look
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: absolutely miserable, and it takes me back to that day
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: because I was miserable.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: During that game.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I've been spoiled over the course of this media gig,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: always sitting in an air-conditioned press box during warm weather
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: and having portable.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Heaters by my feet during cold weather.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: But I can dial myself back to the days when
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I was a diehard Kentucky football fan. And I would agree,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: there were some late November games where sitting on.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Those cold bleachers, you were literally and figuratively... freezing your
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: butt off. It was miserable.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: And to add insult to injury, Kentucky was usually getting
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: obliterated by either Florida or Tennessee during those games.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not one to leave early. If I'm there, I'm
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: usually going to end up sticking it out. Or at
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: least I used to be that way. I may be
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: a little bit more prone to bailing out early nowadays
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: in my old age. Well, Like I said, you can
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: put your feet up. They've got the buffet just down
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the hallway.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: You got bathrooms at your access. It couldn't be any better.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I wasn't afraid that how.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Is the buffet? Steven peak kind of put it on
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: blast yesterday.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: You're talking about at Kentucky football games.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I would rate it on a scale of, I always
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: hesitate to criticize because it is free and we all
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: like free.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: There's value in free, right?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: But in regards to comparing it to some of the
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: other venues that I've visited, specifically even with Louisville, South
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Carolina comes to mind. It's probably a two on a scale.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Of one to 10. Yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's food, it's free, but there are a lot
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: of people who just go ahead and pass on it completely.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of times at these other places,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: they'll have a lot of snacks available too, which I
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: think actually increases the perceived value of the food is there.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: They can serve you hot dogs, but if they bring
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: out the hot dogs at the beginning of the third quarter,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: everybody's going goo-goo-ga-ga about it. It's just like they have
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: kind of lavished you with all this fantastic lobster and
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: steak and.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: It's all about the perception and the timing.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: With Kentucky, they've got the standard rubber chicken. They'll have
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: maybe a vegetable siding every now and then.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Cookies for dessert, but usually those run out. Once again, please,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not complaining, but I am complaining if you know.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: What I mean. You're just saying there's room for growth.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: There is.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: There is a lot of room for growth, both in
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: the buffet and for my stomach lining also.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: All right. I just looked at a recent projection for
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: this storm coming in. I'm going to stick with what
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I've said. But I do think and I didn't I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: don't know why I didn't think about this ahead of time.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: But the wind could could obviously play a factor in
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: this game.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: What are they predicting now? 25 miles an hour.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I know they had a lot of about a half
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: inch of rain. I thought I saw someplace 15 to
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: 25 mile an hour winds.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's right about right.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: But I mean, which that's not crazy strong. Obviously, when
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a hurricane is going through the entire United States, it's
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: going to weaken pretty much by that point. So maybe
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: it maybe it won't be the worst type of winds
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that you have to deal with. But I think that
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: could play a factor more so than the rain.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I do think that bad weather generally speaking will usually
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: favors the team. That's the underdog. And in this particular
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: case with Kentucky, what is it? I saw the line
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: move from 10 to about eight and a half.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Now, is that right? Kentucky is still a definite underdog.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: You throw in the fact that they've got all these injuries.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: They don't have any linebackers. They're going to have to
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: call on you or me to come in and step in.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I think the last.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Injury report I saw the report was, released on Wednesday.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I think it was updated last night.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: You still have linebackers, Antoine Smith, Tavian Wallace, Alex Safari,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: of course, are out defensive backs, Jaden Smith, Grant Grayton,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: offensive lineman.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Ava Selm.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Now the good news is that offensively wide receiver, DJ
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Miller and running back, Jason Patterson are no longer on
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the report.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: You've also got starting nickel. Aaron Gates are all back, but.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Again, Defensive tackle Kalen Edwards was downgraded from questionable to doubtful.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Total six Kentucky players remain listed as out. But LSU
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: also has people appearing, key players appearing on their injury
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: report too. of which Sam Levitt, he's not on the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: injury report now, but he says he's going to be
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: 100% by Saturday. He did have a so-called hamstring injury,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: but he called it a blessing in a way because
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: it forced him to become more of a pocket passer.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I buy that Lane Kiffin in his
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: weekly media press conference talked about how important it was
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: to provide protection for Levitt. Sometimes when he gets pressured,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the guy gets happy feet. I think if Kentucky can
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: go ahead and put that pressure on him, that will
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: be a real, real key to the game. They haven't
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: had much success against running quarterbacks, not only this year,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: but in history, it seems.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Like that these quarterbacks always run wild. on Kentucky.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: How important is it for the cats to make sure
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: they provide containment on Sam Levitt?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you think back to the South Carolina game, you, you,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: there was a number of times where Lenore sellers looked
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: like Lenore sellers of two years ago using his feet
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and that, that made life difficult for the Kentucky defense.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Cause there were so many times where you weren't able
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to get off the field on third down. And I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: was telling Michael yesterday that That's going to be imperative
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in this game tomorrow. You have got to find a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: way to get off the field on third down. And
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: then on the inverse of that, offensively, if you can
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: convert third downs and keep that LSU defense out there
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: as long as possible, wear them down, that too gives
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Kentucky an advantage in this game tomorrow.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Will Stein admitted that third down was critical. Kentucky ranks
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: near the bottom in terms of efficiency. Of course, that
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: one for 14 against Alabama will certainly bring your numbers
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: down quite a bit. But yes, they need to make
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: a drastic improvement, a drastic transformation in that. I heard
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you talking about the power K coming back. You don't
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: like that. thing on the field right now right the
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: circle did i hear you okay you like the power
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: k yeah i do like the circle round yeah.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: And i and the reasoning makes sense i mean if
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: they have to cover up the permanent logo that it
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: makes sense that they would have to throw a circle
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: on it i just i think it looks.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Dumb I'm pleasantly surprised at how many people do enjoy
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the actual logo itself of the Power K, because to me,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: it's very simple, but I think it's the symbolism that
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: really adds to how much people are really calling for it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: And what's really surprising is a lot of the younger
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: people who never even remembered Kentucky wearing the Power K
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: are also in favor of it. It was from 1975
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: to 91. Once it was revealed, the merchandise sold out
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: in hours. So evidently people are clamoring for something like that.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Will Stein referred to it as part of his dad's era.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: His dad, Matt, played under Jerry Claiborne in the 80s.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: To me....
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I think the power really is in thinking back to
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: how the diehard Kentucky football fan, the long suffering Kentucky
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: football fan suffered through all those bad years and continue
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: to come back. There's power in that there's value in that,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: but does a uniform really change a game's energy at all?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Do you, do you think that really matters in the
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: long run?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: It made to the players it oddly enough that being
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: my answer i mean i guess the fans get excited
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: about certain uniform combinations as well but obviously as a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: player if you wear a certain jersey maybe it feels
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: it feels a little bit different to you for whatever
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: reason but in terms of the power k for me
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: it's just it's nostalgic even if you didn't grow up
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: with it you've always kind of seen that logo and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: it is simple but it's What do they always say?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: The KISS method. Keep it simple, stupid. A lot of times,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that is the most effective type of marketing. So I
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: like the Power K. I just don't like the white
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: circle around it. That's my only problem.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: The doctor is in the house.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: We will continue to dissect this upcoming game, Kentucky versus LSU.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I've got a whole list of quick-fire topics in regard
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: to the game I'm going to be throwing at you
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: when we come back. Let's go ahead and take our
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: second break.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: This is Dr. John Huang and Jessica Halen on Just
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the Cats.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: That sunshine state where the bomb M10 beat. The state
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: where you never find a dance floor empty. And Pimp
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Speed on a mission for them greens. Leave me money
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: making machines, serving fiends. I've been in the game for
• 31:27
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• 31:34
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• 31:56
  Speaker 2: John Huang subbing in for Michael Bennett. Michael always talks
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: about squirreling, which my understanding is you go from topic
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: to topic. I'm going to try to avoid doing as
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: much squirreling as Michael does, but I can understand how
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: that can easily, easily take over the show. But For
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the time being, Justin, let's stick to Kentucky football. There
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: is a lot of purple and gold here in Lexington.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I understand that they are starting to flood the streets.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Of course, Kingland is in session right now. So I
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: am thinking there's going to be a huge influx of
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: of Tiger fans.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: These fans, they like to party. They have the reputation.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: When they have a usual Saturday night game, they are
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: usually hammered by Tuesday. So I'm expecting a loud, rowdy
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: crowd of Tiger contingent at commonwealth stadium on saturday what
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: say ye about that is that going to be a
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: big big.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Factor normally i would say well how do you know
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: about another fan base and how much they drink and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: all that but we actually have a recent example remember
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the college world series rocco's that bar that does the.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: I do yes i do i remember.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: That like 43 000 and the next closest was like
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: 18 000 so i'll rest my case there's there's your
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: proof in the pudding right there that yeah they're gonna
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: be Nice and liquored up. I'm happy that they're going
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to have a great weekend with Keeneland and then go
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: into the game. That's awesome. But hopefully they're walking out
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of Kroger Field with a big L.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I do hope that also, and I do hope Kentucky
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: fans extend the proper amount of hospitality. I don't want
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: them to feel too comfortable, but on the other hand,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: you don't want to let things get out of hand.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: And I can easily see how that can happen.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: When I was at Dodgers Braves, I had a Braves
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: fan sitting right next to me who, let me just say,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: to put it kindly, she was extremely, extremely passionate about
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: and supportive of her team. But at some point, you
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: do have to have a little bit of self-awareness, do
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: you not? if you're going into a rival stadium, you're
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: dressed in your visiting team colors, and you've got 40
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: other people giving you the stink eye, don't you think
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: that's a signal.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: To kind of turn it down a little bit? Or
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: are you the kind of person that would just do
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: the opposite and ratchet it up two or three notches?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I am definitely the opposite. I would ratchet it up
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: two or three notches because look at the end of
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the day, we're all fans. And if you're going to
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a game, especially a game in this day and age
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: where it's super expensive to get to said game, you
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: should be able to fan however you want. And if
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: that's how she fanned, let her be. Let her be.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: In a sense, I do agree with that.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: It's just, it doesn't make it any easier when you
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: have to continuously hear those rants and the Tomahawk chops
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: and all this going on when the team that you're
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: kind of secretly rooting for is kind of going down
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: the tubes.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: But you're right. As long as you're not doing anything
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: out of, if they're not doing anything wrong, if they're
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: not kind of encroaching your space or physically touching your
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: slapping your things like that, they really should be able
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: to do whatever they want.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: You're not one of those guys that wants people to
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: sit at games too. Are you?
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I will do a no comment on that. Let me,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: let me put it this way, you know, come back
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: at age 67 and let me know what you feel
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: at that particular time.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: If I make it there, I'll be more than happy.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Let me just put on my blue haired wig and
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: give me a front row seat.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: And I'll be perfectly happy from that point on. But no,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I won't, I won't intentionally tell anybody to ever sit
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: down but I'd be lying if I said sometimes I
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: didn't get a little bit irritated when everybody else in
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: the section is sitting down but there are two or
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: three people who always happen to be directly in my
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: line of sight remain standing for the entire game that's
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: the frustrating part oh.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Good stuff do have a few texts into the whiskey
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: thief text line uh first one says I think john
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: needs to call a hotline if he's making those bets
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: next one is biggest comeback since kim kardashian still the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: funniest outtake from parks and rec and then next text
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: says if you complain about free food then maybe you
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: need to check yourself sorry there's no filet mignon.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that in all my travels, especially to
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: NFL stadiums where they really roll out the red carpet
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: for media people, it seems like they want one-upsmanship. It's
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: almost like each stadium is trying to outdo the others.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: And there are always surprises. I remember in Cleveland, they
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: had this huge ice cream container that you just reach
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: I must have eaten.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: 15 ice cream bars during that time. Dallas always stands out. Great,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: great setup. They do have the.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Filet mignon out there for you. The lobster mac and cheese.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: It's fantastic.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I do miss those days covering the Bengals. Don't worry,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not going there just yet, but we can talk
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: some NFL later on down the line.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I want to.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Continue with this Kentucky rant. Revenge game. Is this a
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: revenge game for Joe Sloan? Fired as LSU's offensive coordinator.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Now he's calling Kentucky's plays against his old program. You
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: also have Nick Anderson, LSU transfer. He had 80 yards
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: and a TD, a go-ahead TD last week. Who has
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: the biggest chip on their shoulder? Or do they even
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: have a chip on their shoulder? I know when you
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: ask Will Stein about something like that, Now you can't
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: ask the coordinators directly because they don't give us access
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: to them during the course of the year. It's always
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: standard coach speak. No big deal. Joe's a great guy.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: He doesn't harbor any bad feelings. It's gotta be human nature.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: If you get fired from a particular institution, you want
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: to come back and beat the crap out of them
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: next time.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Don't you?
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, no doubt about it. But if we're talking
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: about chips on the shoulder, I, I, My answer is
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: going to be the same all year. I don't think
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: anybody has a bigger chip on their shoulder than one
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: William Stein. I really don't.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: And that that's simply because of the way he's built, right?
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: The way he's wired. Exactly. Yeah. And the little man syndrome,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: we kind of understand that. Don't, don't we?
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I, it always does amaze me whenever you go
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: to his press conferences and we're used to these big
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Paul wide football coaches coming out, speaking in front of
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: the media. And then here you have little old shrimpy.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: We'll Stein. Don't, don't quote me on that. Let's go
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: ahead and.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Revert, erase that from the, from the tape. But you've
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: got Will Stein. Who's who's no bigger than I am
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: out there. puffing his chest out and providing all these
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: wonderful quotes that we can use as part of our
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: media fodder.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So did Joe Sloan, was he with LSU last year?
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe so. That's where, yeah, he came directly
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: from them. Is that right? Correct me if I'm wrong
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: on that, but I thought that was correct.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I don't remember.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, anyway, I'm sure somebody will set us straight
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: on that.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not well-versed in Joe Sloan.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin, everybody's well-versed in Lane Kiffin. You either love
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: him or hate him. I don't mind him. I think
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: he's good for the game.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: anybody who is able to provide wonderful quotes above and
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: beyond the usual coach speak in these media sessions is
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: somebody that I gravitate toward. I like his lifestyle, his
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: hot yoga, not so much, you know, what he does,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: extracurricular activity on the side, if that truly is the case.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: But he does have some road problems. Lane Kiffin's only
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: road trip this year, a final minute loss back to
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss. Can Kentucky make it to straight? I'll go
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: on record and saying, no, they can't. I do think
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: that eight and a half points is pretty generous. I'd
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: probably take the points on that. But I think straight up,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be too hard of a
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: road to hoe, especially with Kentucky and their limited defensive positions,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: the players that linebacker being out. I think it's going
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: to be a long shot. You think there's a fighting chance?
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: That should make Kentucky fan feel really good then with
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: as much as you've been wrong this year.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Cause I'm always wrong.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I guarantee going into that Texas A & M game,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: you were saying this exact same thing.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Everybody was, though, right? You can't just put that on me.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody picked a win on that. If
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: you looked at Kentucky's schedule before the year and you
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: picked out games that Kentucky was sure to lose, then
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Texas A & M, I think, was on there as
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: number one. And LSU may be number two on that.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, maybe so. But, I mean, when you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: can go down to Kyle Field and get a win
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: like that, yeah, Texas A & M hasn't turned out
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: to be all that great, but they were number nine
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: in the country at that point. You can never take
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: that away. from Kentucky. And like you said, nobody expected
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: them to go down and get that win. And I'm
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: feeling pretty similar with this game tomorrow. Nobody, I mean,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I have heard a few predictions of people picking Kentucky
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: for the upset, but that honestly feels like just a
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: cute pick and not something that they actually believe. But sure,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: why not? I mean, they've shown that they can play
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: with basically anybody, including Alabama, for a half. So I
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: would not be shocked at all if we're in here
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: on Monday talking about a Kentucky win.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: We can always dream, can't we?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: And I think this is one of the things that
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: kind of gets me, and I'm preaching to myself right here,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: because as a fan slash media member, more so the
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: fan part, you end up really wanting to look ahead, right?
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: And how many people have you said, well, have you
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: heard say if Kentucky can just beat LSU, then they
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: got a couple of very winnable games coming up right
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: after that.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: They can be seven and one.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: And I'm saying, let's just go ahead and pump the brakes.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Let's listen to Will Stein. And he says to his
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: team all the time, play one play at a time,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: one game at a time. I think as fans, we
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: need to just kind of enjoy this ride right now.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Let's not put too much at stake in terms of that.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Let's enjoy this LSU.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Saturday night, one of the biggest games in Commonwealth Stadium history.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Let's enjoy it for what it is. Let's ride this
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: thing out. Win or lose, let's have a good time
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: on Saturday night.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily disagree with anything you said, but Will
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Stein kind of created this on his own, right? I mean,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: with coming out and starting this year 4-1, That's, to me,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that's the fun part about sports.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: A victim of his own success.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: You are literally, as a sports fan, able to now dream.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: And did any of us think coming into this season
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: that you'd be in a spot where you'd be able
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: to dream and think about what the best-case scenario could
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: be for this team? No, nobody thought that. So Will Stein,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: he has made that happen himself just by the way
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: his team has played these first five games.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Seems like that there's just so much more emphasis and
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: focus on Kentucky football. And people tell me all the time, well,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: it seems like people don't worry about Kentucky basketball anymore.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Do you realize that the first exhibition game is just.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: A week away? And my contention is, no, Kentucky fans,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: they've always been interested with Kentucky football.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Even when they stuck, they still had the following. This
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: is just the showing of what can happen when they
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: have the potential of being really good. So, yes, I
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: do understand the excitement. I do understand the projecting ahead.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, let's just hold our horses. Let's don't
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: lose sight of this precious present. As Rick Patino used
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: to say, let's really go ahead and enjoy it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, what do you think about Kenny Menchie and the fake.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Bulletin board material that, that got out all this stuff
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: about AI?
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Is it true? Is it not true? Did you fall
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: for that? Did you get gotten?
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I did not know. I mean, luckily I didn't see
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: it until I had heard, I guess they were talking
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: about it on Kentucky roll call and I heard them
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: talking about it. So no, I, I, I did not
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: get got, but I don't, I don't even know if
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I would have bought it anyways, but, Lane Kiffin's a dweeb.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I cannot stand Lane Kiffin. So I told Michael this yesterday.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: There is no bigger Kentucky football fan than me tomorrow.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: But just because I want that loser to go back
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: to Baton Rouge with an L.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: I blame a lot of this on on A.I. itself
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: because it's so easy now to come up with this stuff.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: AI is essentially, I'll say it as it is, it's
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: a pox on news.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: And sports coverage.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Word of warning, if you start delving into that, if
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: you post anything that's AI related, I think you've already
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: decreased your credibility somewhat. Am I just completely off the
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: board in terms of thinking that way? Even if you
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: retweet something, people are going to look at it from
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: then on and say, okay, he retweeted.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: AI once, is he going to end up doing it
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: one more time?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Great question. I hate AI too, almost as much as
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Lane Kip.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: We're coming up on this hard break. First hour has
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: flown by.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Hopefully the second hour will be just as entertaining.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Dr. John Huang, Just the Cats.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Just the Cats with Michael Bennett.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the second hour of Just the Cats, Friday,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: October the 9th, 2026.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Dr.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: John Huang sitting in for the traveling in.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Transit Michael Bennett. He should be back on Monday, but...
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: We're having some very spirited conversation about this huge Kentucky.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: LSU football game coming on. Justin, we were talking in
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: the first hour about how much extra interest there is
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: now in Kentucky football. Now that Will Stein is in
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: control and they are supposedly pretty good and have the
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: potential of continuing to be pretty good.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: In regard to television coverage, I.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Didn't know if you saw the report or not, but
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: evidently Kentucky Wildcats football is averaging 5.14 million television viewers
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: per game.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Where do you think that ranks in terms of teams nationally?
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, that sounds really good.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: It does, doesn't it?
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: I would say number seven.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: Oh man. Did you cheat?
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Did you see that?
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: They are ranking number seven nationally through five weeks. Right on, man.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: That's a guy who knows his television rankings.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: That's ahead of Florida. It's ahead of Tennessee and it's
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: ahead of Alabama. Seven of the 10 most watched programs
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: are sec teams.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Who's number one.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know who's number one on that. We'll
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: have to look that one up, but I would probably
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: think that it's Ohio state. Wouldn't you?
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I would guess Texas.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I'll see if I can find it.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: But Kentucky has traditionally been identified with basketball, but these
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: numbers really suggest that the football program is attracting all
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: this national attention. Now, the figures don't establish how much
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: of the viewership comes directly from Kentucky. versus opposing audiences,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I assume that most of it does come from Kentucky.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: So my question to you and to those listeners out
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: there is, if Kentucky football is one of the most
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: 10-watch programs in America, should we finally stop treating it
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: like a basketball school's side project?
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: I don't want to stir the pot.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: This is not a basketball versus football debate, but why
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: can't a rising tide float all boats in this particular case?
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: You all are, you're in a weird spot, kind of like,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and coming from a Hoosier, I feel like I'm, I'm,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: I can say this. Indiana football was never a thing.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Indiana was always a basketball school. Well, now you can
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: make the argument that it is more so a football
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: school than it is a basketball school. If Will Stein
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: continues to win and the Kentucky basketball program, like it's
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: done the last half decade, continues to struggle, Kentucky may
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: very well get to that spot as well.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Well, let me kind of put you on the spot then.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Do you think that by Kentucky football doing well that
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: it really hurts Mark Pope and his basketball program?
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Quite the opposite, actually. I think it helps because it's
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: taking pressure off of Mark Pope. Like, look at our
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: neighbors right down the road here at Louisville. They're two
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and three in football. That's not what the season they
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: thought they were going to have is. So now the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: inverse of that, Pat Kelsey has way more pressure than
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: he had coming into the season if Louisville football is
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: having the type of year that they should have had.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: So I do think the football team, it can relieve,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: it can help the pressure, or it can hurt in
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: that regard.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: What IU did was a strict outlier, though.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: They flipped the script in two years. And you just
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: don't do that. You don't wipe out 50 years of
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Kentucky basketball tradition, the history of the program with the
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: greatest tradition in the history of college basketball.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: You can't wipe that out.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I think Kentucky, for the time being, barring a couple
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: of national championships in football, which ain't going to happen.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I never thought it would either, my friend.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: They're always going to be a basketball school. Big Blue Madness,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people say it's kind of
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: served its time and it's boring.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: And to me, it is.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: I haven't really enjoyed Big Blue Madness for probably the
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: past decade.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: But there's still a role for that.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: For people who don't get hooked in, who aren't able
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: to get season tickets or aren't able to, for whatever reason...
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: come to Rupp Arena and watch regular season games. Big
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Blue Madness, it's a big event. It's good for the kids.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: It's great to introduce your kids to the program and
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: what it's all about. Evidently, it still sells out. I
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: know they give the tickets away for free, but it's
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: sold out in 22 minutes. Hope continues to joke about 120,000
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: seat arena. There are evidently a bunch more people in
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: line to get tickets. But it probably has run its
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: course in terms of excitement for the diehard fan. But
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I think it's a good indicator that Kentucky basketball.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Still rules the roost.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: I know this is just anecdotal, but if I go
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: ahead and put out a random post about Kentucky basketball,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: it still gets more clicks, more readers than anything that
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: I would put on Facebook.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: Kentucky football at this time. Yeah.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I believe that wholeheartedly because right now it is still
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: in my mind, it is still very much a basketball school,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: but just saying, watch that pendulum. It might, might start
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: swinging here before long.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: We've got three exhibition games coming up that nobody's even
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: thought about. Next Friday, October 16th, Little Rock, Travis Ford
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: is going to bring his Little Rock team in. October 23rd,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a big game versus Texas Tech.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: They should be pretty good.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: And then October 28th, the usual ho-hum University of Central
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Florida that nobody knows anything about or nobody ever cares about.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking that these games probably won't mean.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: A heck of a whole lot. And they shouldn't think about,
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: just think about what Purdue did last, last year.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Are you excited at all about any preseason basketball games?
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Not really. I don't, I don't really get into the
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: exhibition games. I mean, they're, they're neat to check out
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: just to see if you can try to figure anything
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: out about certain teams, but no, I like Indiana plays
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Butler on Sunday. I may try to find a stream
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: for it, but odds are, I probably won't because I
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: just don't care. It doesn't mean anything.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: And did it used to mean things though? I'm asking you,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: has your mindset changed? Because it used to be with
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: any Kentucky basketball game, whether it was a blue white
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: scrimmage or whether it was big blue madness, or whether
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: it was these meaningless exhibition games against directional state university.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Kentucky basketball fans always had those dates and times circled
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: on their calendar. Life stopped for Kentucky basketball.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: And that's no longer the case anymore.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: I have people who have followed Kentucky basketball for years
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: and years.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: Ask me, Oh, are they playing tonight?
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Which is unheard of 20 years ago.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Well, it definitely, so time definitely used to stop for
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: me in that regard because Indiana football would be one
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: in five at this juncture of the season. So it's, Yeah,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: it was like we were looking for anything to cling
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: on to. Soccer, basketball, whatever it was. So, yeah, it
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: used to be that way. But I do think with
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: the increase in exhibition games, like with every team playing
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: three of them now, whereas you used to only get, what, one,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: maybe two? and offseason that you could play leading up
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: to the season. So I just think with the increase,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and honestly, they're not the easiest to find. They don't
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: make them the most accessible, which if you're going to
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: play a scrimmage game or an exhibition game, make it
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: accessible so fans can watch it. Why not? Right? I mean,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: if we're all about TV numbers and money and all that,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: put it on national TV. Let's see it.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: And this is the world we live in.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I think there's really only one answer to that
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: and just start winning ball games is Mark Pope going
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: to win enough ball games this year. I'm interested in
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: your take is kind of a outsider, but a knowledgeable
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: outsider on something like that. Do you think Pope was
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: on the hot seat last year?
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: His seat was getting a little bit warm.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: He claims this is going to be, or I hear
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: a lot of people claiming this is going to be
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: his best team yet. What have you heard, and what
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: is your outside take on Kentucky basketball this year?
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: I do still think that seat for Pope is hot,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: especially if you come out and have a very underwhelming
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: season this year. But I'm with everyone else. I think
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: it has the makeup of a really good team, especially
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: if you get– any sort of production for Moose, Maine
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: and Jai, which he's gotten a lot of hype in
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. I honestly didn't expect anything
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: out of him coming into this season. So if he
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: can provide anything for this team, I think it takes
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: them to another level. But I do think He did
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: a great job putting the roster together. I mean, everyone
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: was so worried about that four position, but you look
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: at Njai, you look at Justin McBride, you look at,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, Malachi Moreno could play the four. There is
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: enough Frank Kepnong, another guy, that could slide into that
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: four or the five. So there's enough big guys there
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: to make that position okay, especially if Njai can provide
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: big-time minutes, and he's half of the product that everybody's
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: saying he could be.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: I agree. I think they are talented, but I don't
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: think they're immensely talented. I don't think you see any
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: of the guys that you did see come in through
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: the Cal era in terms of pure talent level. I
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: don't think there's a go-to guy.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit concerned that there's nobody that they'll
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: be able to depend on when they're on that road game,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: random Tuesday night, they're behind by 10 points. Who's going
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: to take the bull by the horns and put their
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: team on their shoulder and and win. I just don't
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: think you have that guy. Malachi, he was good last year,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: but he wasn't great. He's going to need to show
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: us that he's made a lot of progress. What constitutes success, though,
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: in your mind? What do they have to.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Do in order to kind of cool the the coals
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: on this hot seat this year.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: I said it earlier this week steven peak's been saying
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: it all off season but you have to win something
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: and i agree with him in that you have to
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: win the sec regular season win the sec tournament or
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: make a deep run into the elite eight is my
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: absolute floor like if you don't get to the elite
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: eight as hard as of a decision it's as it's
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: going to be for jay bat you just got to
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: cut ties and move on, bring somebody else in. That's
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: the way I see it.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: I think having Jay Bat as the new AD, somebody
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: who did not hire Pope, I think that also makes
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: the seat a little bit hotter. It's going to be
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: a little bit easier for him to kind of pull
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: the trigger on something like that. I don't want to
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: come across as sounding negative, but it's, it's just, you've,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: you've had so much disappointment over the course of the past,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: that it almost kind of filters into your way of thinking.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: What's really going to be different this year? Yeah, the
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: guys are a little bit more talented, but are injuries
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: going to end up staying away? That's been kind of
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: the bugaboo the first two years. They've always had critical
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: people go down. They're now extremely, extremely talented. Then at
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: the guard position right now, Pope says that this is
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: a team of decision makers, that he wants to be
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: able to put them in a position in which they're
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: able to make the good decisions. He doesn't want to
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: make the decisions for them. Now, I'm not quite sure
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: what that actually means. Are we going to be happy
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: with Pope?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Them making decisions when they've just thrown the ball six
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: rows into the stands? Do I want somebody who has
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: not shown that he's capable of making decisions, of making
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: those decisions? How much leeway are you going to be
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: able to put into these guards?
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: Look, I'm a military guy.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: I was a proud graduate of the Army Command and
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: General Staff College.
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: And during the time that I was in, there was a.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Lot of talk about about the United States versus Russia
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: and the way that they kind of had their strategy
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: in terms of their battlefield strategies. And with the Russians,
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: especially in terms of their pilots, they had a strict protocol.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: They had, if A happens, you go ahead and do B.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: If B happens, you do C. Whereas the American pilots,
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: they were given leeway to kind of make their own decisions,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: to assess the battlefield, and to kind of go their
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: own way, to make those critical decisions at critical times.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: And I think this is what Pope is trying to emphasize,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: that if he gives his guys enough leeway in order
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: to make the right decisions, then they're going to be
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: a team that's going to be hard to contend with.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure I buy it yet. I want
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: to see how that ends up playing out.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I do not want Kentucky basketball to be the Russians.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: In this scenario, I know that may be a hot
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: take here, but let's let's take the American strategy. Let's
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: make these guys try to make their own decisions because
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: they've all played basketball for a really long time. They
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: just haven't played together. So I'm sure that's that's come
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: together in the offseason. Heck, you had a trip that
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: you took earlier in the summer. I'm sure these guys
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: are at a point where they're comfortable with each other's games.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: I'm if I'm Kentucky fan, I'm hopeful going into the season.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: Do you really think that's realistic?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Here you have 14 guys who all played this time
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: last year with different teams, different systems. Is it realistic
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: enough to think that they can come together within a
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: short span of a summer and really be a fine
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: tuned machine?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, championship team? No. But can they rack up
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: a bunch of wins and keep the losses to a
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: minimum and compete night in and night out? Yeah, I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: don't see any reason why not.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Big games coming up during the regular season that you
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: want to make sure are circled. November 10th versus Kansas
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: in the Champions Classic. December 12th, Louisville at Rupp Arena.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: And December 19th, versus University of North Carolina in Madison
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Square Garden. I think if Kentucky goes two and one
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: in those, then they're set for a very, very solid season.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: If they end up anything less than that, then I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: think it's going to be a struggle. Game by game,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: the SEC is not doing them any favors. I think
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Florida is obviously the odds-on favorite to win that. I
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: think in regard to Kentucky having to win something.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know, to upset the.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: Gators in either the regular season or the SEC tournament
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: is a tall task. And if they don't do that,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: our fans are going to be happy. I'm not sure
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: they are. The bar is set pretty high.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: All right, let me throw this scenario out at you.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: You said two and one in that stretch. What if
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: the one loss comes to Louisville and then, On December
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: 20th or November 20th, whenever it is, you lose to
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Indiana in Indy. And you go 2-2 in that four-game stretch.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: That would not be good.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think that the natives would be very happy
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: with something like that, especially throwing in the emotional attachment
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: to the beating Louisville, the beating IU. That's going to be,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: those are huge. Kentucky has to win at least one
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: of those games, win both of them. And I think
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: you'll see a lot of smiles on people's faces.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Time for our first break in the second hour now.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: So we will come back and still a bunch of
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: different things to talk about.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: I can't believe how quickly these hours go by. Maybe
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: I am scrolling, talking too much. Fantastic. We'll get to
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: all of those when we come back on the other
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: side of the break. This is Dr. John Kwong, just
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: the cats.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: And they stay there. And they stay there.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: And they stay there.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: I got a whole lot of money welcome.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: Back just the cats dr john huang justin calen sitting
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: in for michael bennett when did growth street start i
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: think it was 2014 season right I think that game
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: versus South Carolina was maybe one of the most exciting
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: times I've ever been in Kroger Field. We talked about
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: how exciting this Saturday's game is going to be. My
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: question to you and listeners out there, what is the
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: loudest that you've ever felt that Kroger.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: Field slash Commonwealth Stadium has been?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: A couple other times that come to memory, of course,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: that 1997 game versus Alabama, Tim Couch to Craig Yeast.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: And probably this past.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Year, that Alabama game, I know it was an afternoon
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: game and it was a loss, but during the first half,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: you could actually hear the reverberations of the crowd coming
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: in through the press box.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: And that doesn't usually happen in Kroger Field.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: That place up there, I know we've talked about the
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: food being pretty sterile up there. The entire atmosphere is
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: pretty sterile, but we heard it during those Alabama cheeries.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking that we're going to hear some of the
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: same this year. What about you, Justin? Not just Kentucky,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: but Louisville games, IU games. Anyone stand out in particular
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: to you?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: I don't really have. Now, I have a moment. Like,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: I have moments within games that were really loud, but
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: I don't. Nothing jumps out to me from a standpoint
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: of just loud for the entirety of the game.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: All right. So if any of the listeners have a
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: particular moment, then a particular play, an iconic, memorable game
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: in Kentucky football history and basketball, we can talk about
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: a bunch of those, but in football, I think we're
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: hard pressed to come up with five or 10 to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: kind of fill that slot. But let me know.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Speaking of football, you brought up the TV numbers. So
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Texas is number one.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: There you go. 9.038 million.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: So nearly that's almost double.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Almost doubling.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: Then you got, this is a big state.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Then you got LSU, Wisconsin, Ohio state comes in at
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: four Ole Miss and Michigan.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Wow. Ole Miss. I think it's, that must be the
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin effect. Don't you think? Or the, the prior
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin effect. Maybe. Yeah. All right, Justin, you said
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: you had a couple of texts coming in.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Do you have a couple of texts in first one
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: says the, The basketball team for UK is going to
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: be really good. Stop paying attention to the polls and
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: letting outside noise in.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this idea of the polls in general, I don't
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: think that they're good for conversation. And I'd stop short
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: of saying let's just go ahead and abandon them because
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: they provide so much fodder for what we're talking about.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: But they really are very misleading because once you have
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: a particular ranking 1 through 25, then every subsequent ranking
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: is going to be based on.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: Your previous ranking.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: So if a team was misranked at the very beginning
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: of the year, it's going to take them two or
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: three weeks to kind of filter out to where they belong.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: Unranked.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Take texas a and m they were ranked in the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: top 10 so it looks like that they're probably not
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: as good as.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: They they ended up being it took them about two
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: weeks to kind of filter that out and that's what
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: you're seeing right now these voters they're kind of basing
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: everything on wow they voted the previous week that's true
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: do you like polls or are you into all of.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: That i'm kind of with you i i enjoy them
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: just for to give us something to talk about and
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: it may it doesn't really give you a great indication
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: of the way things are stacking up because everybody's just
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: got their own opinion in that regard i mean look
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: at the football ones you know like so kentucky gets
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: more votes this week and they drop out of the
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: top 25 like how do you get more points and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: drop out of the top 25 so it's just i
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: don't know everything's so subjective.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all these teams that aren't playing, you feel like, well,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: we can't really drop any of those. We can't penalize
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: them for having an off week, a bye week.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: So they end up staying where they are.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: One team, if you're playing on a Friday night and
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: all the focus and emphasis is on you, such as
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: like Pittsburgh the other night, then chances are people are
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: going to give you a little bit more credit than
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: maybe you deserve and vote you up.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: So, so many different factors go together. into that. It's
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: just not, it's great for conversation.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: It's not a very objective way of really being able
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: to tell who's who's who.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Patrick Murphy says, I know from experience about drunk
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: LSU fans, I spent a year down near Baton Rouge.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: When you say drunk, for some people, that is a big,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: big plus. For me, I'm thinking there's probably a limit.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: You want to go ahead and enjoy yourself, but when
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: you get to the point where everybody circles LSU, Baton Rouge,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: when I did my book with Derek Ramsey, he talked
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: about how the most difficult place to play was Tiger Stadium,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: mainly because the players were hammered there.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: They'd have things thrown at them. The players or the fans? Because,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, the fans were hammered.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: You should have beat them if they were hammered.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: I'm just testing you. I'm making sure that you're listening
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: to me. But they were getting stuff thrown at them.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: There was one time in which they were getting on
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: the bus. and a couple of the, several of the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: fans started actually rocking the team bus back and forth.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: I think that's a point where things get kind of
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: out of hand.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: That was about 40 years ago. I'm thinking things are
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: a lot different nowadays.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow. Patrick Murphy also says I was just
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: dropped off at home by where I'm getting my car's
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: oil changed. A very good service for those close by
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: and busy.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: It's a good way to pass the time.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: If they're taking 30 or 40 minutes to kind of
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: do the oil change, then what a better way to
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: spend it than listening to.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: Just the cats.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: He also lets us know that he'll be competing in
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: the APA Fall Louisville Regional Skill Level 4-5 tournament at
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Rail Yard on Sunday at 10 a.m. Two players from
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: the white tier will qualify for the APA National Tournament
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas next May.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: How about that? What exactly is that? I'm not familiar
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: with that.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: He's a big pool player.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: I see. I thought he was going to be planking
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: or something like that.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't be me.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: We'll call this the, this is going to be the,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: the Michael Bennett segment. I know that he often likes
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: to talk about non-sports related topics.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: I want to honor the way that he kind of
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: runs his show. So we'll throw a couple of non-sports
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: related topics out there. This is semi, semi sports related,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: but Keeneland does open the 90th fall meet October 2nd
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: through 24th.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: $ 10. 7 million in.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Stakes, and the Breeders' Cup is at Keeneland October 30th
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: to 31st. The track just went cashless in the dining rooms.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: How many times have you been to Keeneland, Justin, and
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: are you a big fan? You have a big Keeneland story.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: I'm about to upset you. I've never been to Keeneland.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: That doesn't upset me. Believe me.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about Keeneland? I guess is what
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: I want to know.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: This may be a bad take, but I don't like it.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: And basically for a couple of personal reasons, I don't
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: like crowds. I don't enjoy being around drunk people. And
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: I don't like traffic jams, and I have the unfortunate
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: aspect of living one.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: Mile from Kingland. Oh, do you?
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: So I know, especially on these track days, that traffic
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: is just going to.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: Be a nightmare around that area. You've got to find
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of circuitous routes to be able to get
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: around that, especially when they're letting out.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Now, my brother loves it. He lives there during the
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: fall meets. He takes his pictures and stuff. They love
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: the tailgating.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: On the hill. And it's really beautiful when you get there.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: Anytime that we have visitors come in, that's the only
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: time I ever go when I take them there and
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: they Always tell me.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is such a beautiful track. And it really is.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: When you compare it with some of the most beautiful
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: tracks around the country, it really is neat. My daughter
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: had her.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Wedding reception around that particular area. So I have nothing
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: against the beauty of it. It's just the event itself.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not much into it. I've probably been there maybe 10,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: 15 times. And like I said, I live a mile
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: from the track itself.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: My thing is, is I just don't want to get
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: dressed up to the nines to go there.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: You know, you don't have to, it's not completely that way.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: I can't go in just like a button down shirt. Right.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: Sure you can.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe in some of these highfalutin dining rooms, they
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: do have a dress code. But yeah, just coming in
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: and walking around, you see people dressed in all sorts
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: of attire. So that's another thing.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: California, Keeneland, we've got to go ahead and enrich your experiences.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: We do. Yes, very much. I do want to get
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: to Keeneland, but it's not. I mean, it's probably not
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: in the top 10 of my bucket list.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: Well, come on a weekday when it's not quite nearly
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: as crowded, but maybe we'll change your mind. Maybe once
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: you're there, you'll be completely hooked on that.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: You know what changes my mind when I'm there?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: The bets. If I win.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see, that's the other thing. I'm not a betting man,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: so I'm going in there. Okay, what do I do?
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: You look at those programs, and some people feel like
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: they swear that, those programs tell you everything you need
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: to know. And I'm sure that if you're knowledgeable enough
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: about that, that they can give you a little bit
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: of a heads up. But for me, I'm still picking
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: horse names that I like. And most of the time
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: I'm losing.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: So not a big, big fan.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: You should have bet on Michael's horse yesterday. Been a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: big winner.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: He's still trying to convince me.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: And I can kind of see how that if you've
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: truly got a, a stake in one of these things,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: how it could ratchet up your enjoyment fold 50,000 times.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: But then I'm afraid I'd get a little bit too
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: addicted to it.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: By the way, I told you that he was on
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: TV yesterday after the race. So he was... he was
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: just doing the interview and the lady's like, Oh, you're
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: a natural. And that's when he's like, he was like, yeah,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: I'm on the radio every day in Louisville. He did.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: Everybody's best friend, Michael Bennett.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: He did not shout out the show name. What are
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: you doing, Michael?
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: It's your opportunity and you blew it.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: There you go. He's, he's got, he's got that one
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: track mind on one hand and yet swirling off on
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: all these different topics on a, Speaking of which, are
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: you a movie guy?
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: You got big movie openings this Friday. Aaron Sorkin's The
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Social Reckoning with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg. I assume
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: that you did see that first social media movie when
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: it first came out, right? What did you think about that?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: And are you into this? Is this something that you're
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: going to make a point to see?
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: I did not know this was coming out. I have
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: not been to the movie theaters in probably, oh, I'd
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: say three years. I've probably been to one movie theater
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: in the last 15 years. So no, I think it's
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: safe to say I'm not a movie fan.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: I'm probably the same way.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: I think the last movie I saw in theater was
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: a movie called strays. It was a cartoon and only
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: because the main character was a Boston Terrier. And I've
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: got a 14 year old Boston Terrier named bingo, which
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: I just, yeah.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: He's, he's getting up there. He doesn't do a.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: Whole lot, but just kind of sleep, but he still
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: likes to play occasionally, but he and I, we have
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: been through so much.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: He's my first pet. I never had a dog before.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: Our parents, they didn't allow us to have pets when
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: we were growing up. I was a little bit scared
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: of dogs. I was bitten when I was little. I
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: never had a pet until bingo. And now you talk
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: about changing perception now. I don't see how anybody can
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: go without a pet anymore.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: I'm dreading the day when.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: He has to leave this, cross that, what they call it,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: the rainbow bridge. Now I'm learning all these terms. I
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: don't know if anybody has any hints about something like that.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: Please let me know because I am dreading that day.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: But yeah, Strays was the last movie that I actually
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: saw in the movie theater.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: He is 98 years old in human years.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: He is doing surprisingly well.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: And I think part of it is probably good genetics
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: when we picked him out. But also when he was little,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: he went running with me every single day.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking that that probably kind of strengthened his
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: heart and gave him a few more years. I'm hoping
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: it continues, but, man, it's bittersweet thinking about all the
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: times that we spent together. He traveled with me all
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: the time.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: When I was on the road, you know, my goal
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: was to make it to all these SEC road venues,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: and he was there with me by my side. A
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: lot of fond memories that go into that. So prayers
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: for Bingo. I'm hoping these last few years are going
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: to be highly productive and enjoyable for him.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Here's to hope.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yep.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: The other movie that's coming out is Other Mommy with
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: Jessica Chastain. I know you've seen some of those previews,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: and that scares the bejesus out of me.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: It's evidently a horror flick. I like Jessica Chastain.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: I think she was in Zero Dark Thirty, the movie
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: about Osama bin Laden and all that.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: But it'll be interesting to see how that does.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: I didn't know horror movies were so big, but I've
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: heard a lot of chatter about that. And then Tom
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Cruise's Digger opened last week. I've probably seen all the
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: Tom Cruise movies.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: I do enjoy him. I'll acknowledge that.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: But you said you're not seeing anything this weekend. Any
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: of the listeners out there, text me in. Tell me
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: I spend all my time watching sports. I just don't
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: have time for movies. And especially not scary movies. I
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: don't do scary movies. Not because I'm a wimp, but
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: just because they're all the same. Or at least that's
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: what I tell myself.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: So.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: I can have an excuse to not watch them, but yeah,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not a scary movie.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: Diversification is the key.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: We'll end up our Friday on the other side of
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: the break with some more Michael Bennett segments. We'll talk
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: about some non-sports related topics, or we can zero back
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: into the NFL. The Bengals have what I call a
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: do or die game. This is a must win against
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: the hapless dolphins, just the cats, Dr. John Wong, just the,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: Justin Kalen substituting for the great Michael Bennett. Just the cats,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: just the cats, just the cats.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: We'll see you in a few minutes. We'll be right back.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Welcome back.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: Final segment of Just the Cats. This is Dr.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: John Huang sitting in for Michael Bennett. I'm here with
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: Justin Kaelin.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: Justin, can you tell how much I enjoy doing this?
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: Am I having fun or what?
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, seems like you're having fun.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I want to.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: Thank Michael for letting me take the controls here. It's
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: just a matter of time, though. I'm going to say
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: something that is going to upset him, and then you
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: will never hear from me again. So I am walking
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: my talk. I am enjoying the moment right now. I'm
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: playing this up for all it's worth. We'll continue with
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: what we'll call my Michael Bennett lifestyle segment. We were
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: talking earlier about how perceptions change.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't have pets, now I love dogs.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: I used to cheer, stay for the game, now I
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: kind of leave early and tell people to sit down
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: in front of me.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: One thing that I did notice nowadays is that I've
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: never been a handyman. I don't know how much of
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: a handyman you are around the house, but I never
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: liked to fix things. And ever since I downsized into
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: my apartments, my life has been great. I walked out
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: this morning on the patio. I had a light bulb
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: that was out. What do I do? I don't just
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: go looking for a light bulb and change it.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: I get online, go to my management company, put in
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: a work order, and they're going to come in later
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: and change my.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: Light bulb for me. How great is that?
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: What is something that you happily pay somebody else to
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: do now that you could easily do yourself? Does anything
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: come to mind?
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think anything that I have to do,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: if I could afford to pay for it, I absolutely would.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: Because I'm kind of with you. Why should I do
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: something if there's somebody that gets paid to do that?
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: Unless you enjoy it, right? Unless you get some sort
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: of benefit out of it.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Like, I'm not trying to take jobs away from people.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: But now the one thing that I do enjoy that
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: I could pay for, but I probably never will, It's
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: like my, like lawn care. I love, I love mowing
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: grass for whatever reason. So I don't think I would
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: ever pay anybody to do that for me, but that's,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: that would be one example.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: So do you do it for exercise or is it relaxing?
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: Do you just like the smell of grass?
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: Do you like the look of your manicured lawn after
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: you finished mowing it?
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Let me just say, I don't do anything for exercise purposes.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: I do like the smell of the grass. I, I, it's,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: It's kind of my me time. I'll just throw in
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: some headphones and I'll just sit there and listen to
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: music or listen to a podcast while I'm mowing. It
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: is very relaxing.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: Along the same lines, though, I'm thinking back, I'm reminiscing,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about how quickly all these years have gone by. Hey, people,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: if you get anything out of these two hours, just
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: realize that life is short.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 3: I can tell you from experience.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: But I'm thinking back to my parents when they were
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: alive and all the things that they made me do
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: as a kid that I hated back then, but that
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: I appreciate right now. And That's my question to you, Justin.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: Is there anything that jumps out in your mind? For me,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: one particular thing that I think was pretty specific is.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: That they made me continue to study the Chinese language
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: even as I was young. And nowadays, if you're Chinese
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: and you can't speak Mandarin, then people don't really look
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: at you as pure Chinese. So my heritage is something
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: that I valued. And one of the identities of my
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: heritage is still being able to speak the language. I
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: don't speak it very well. It's kind of littered with.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: occasional English terms nowadays when I can't think of the word,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: but I can still carry on a pretty good conversation.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: But it was learning, doing my Chinese lessons.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: And I can't tell you how frustrating that was when
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: I was a kid. Every day after school, when all
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: my buddies were out there shooting baskets or throwing the
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: football around, I had to do my 30 minutes of
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: Chinese lessons. Hated it then, but it's probably one of
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: the best things my parents ever did for me now.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: What say ye?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: I would have killed for an experience like that. My
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: mom and my grandparents moved here from Germany when my
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: mom was nine. So they all speak German and my mom.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: never taught me German. I can, I can speak a
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: few phrases and a few words and I can count
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: and all that. I can do the basic stuff, but
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: I can't by any means carry a conversation. So that
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: is the one thing I wish they had taught me.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: But the one thing that I take away from my
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: childhood that I've taken into adulthood that I really appreciate,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: they constantly made me clean, whether it was my room,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: whether it was the bathroom once a week. I mean,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: they constantly were making me clean something. And now as
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: a result of that, I'm I'm a pretty clean guy.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you walk into my room at my house,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: you'd I'd like to think you'd be pretty impressed that
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: everything's like well kept together and putting it certain place.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: And I don't have a bunch of crap laying on
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: the floor. And that's that's something that I got from
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: my parents that I'm very grateful for today.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: Do you make your bed every morning?
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: Not necessarily.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I straighten it up. But making to say
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: I make it's a stretch.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: I think an organization does tell you something about somebody.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: If you walk into somebody's office and you see their
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: desk is clean and not cluttered, I think that does
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: give you a little bit more confidence that, hey, maybe
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: this guy will be responsible.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: He will keep appointments. He will return my phone calls.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: Whether that's true or not, I don't think there's been
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: any real study that shows that.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: But top of my head, I think that's a good indication.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: All right, what is something that everybody seems to love
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: nowadays that you simply still don't get? What is your
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: old man take? in regard to anything in society right now.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: And don't say TikTok. Are you on TikTok?
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: No, God, no.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: I still kind of don't get it.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: I can kind of see how somebody might get hooked
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: into it, but I still don't get it.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: Technology-wise, what is it? Is there any food items? You know,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: for me, that's always been Chick-fil-A. I still don't get it.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: You're talking about a chicken sandwich or chicken nuggets. What's
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: the big deal about it?
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  Speaker 1: And that's going to do it for just the cats. today.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: We can no longer have Dr. John Wong host this show.
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  Speaker 3: I told you I had bad taste. I told you
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  Speaker 3: I had bad taste. So you're a big Chick-fil-A.
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  Speaker 1: Fan, right? It's the Lord's chicken. How can you not
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  Speaker 1: love it? Come on, man.
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  Speaker 3: I still can't. I don't get it. But anyway, what else? Food, entertainment, technology,
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  Speaker 3: anything goes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to, I'm going to complete the circle here
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  Speaker 1: for you. You ready? Noodles and chili.
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  Speaker 3: They don't belong in chili. It is chili season right now,
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  Speaker 3: and we have to settle this once and for all.
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  Speaker 3: Beans or no beans, noodles or no noodles.
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  Speaker 1: All the beans, no noodles. You are a traditionalist, so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you are a traditionalist, so I could have predicted that. Beans,
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  Speaker 3: you see a lot of that in chili, especially the
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  Speaker 3: Tex-Mex kind. Noodles, a little bit more optional. I could
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  Speaker 3: probably take them or leave them. I'd probably take them
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  Speaker 3: if you put a gun to my head and forced
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  Speaker 3: me to choose one way or the other, but... I
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  Speaker 3: think that's personal preference.
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  Speaker 2: Once you start putting those extra additional carbs into it,
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  Speaker 2: then I'm not quite sure you can really call it
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  Speaker 2: chili anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm right there with it. Let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever put peanut butter in your chili?
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  Speaker 3: I have not, but I can also see how that
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  Speaker 3: could occasionally work. Also, you're talking about mainly as, as
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  Speaker 3: just part of the sauce, correct? No.
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  Speaker 1: So when my, like we'll make a big pot of chili.
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  Speaker 1: I'll throw it in a bowl and then I'll take
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  Speaker 1: a spoon and I'll put a couple spoonfuls of crunchy
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter in there and just mix it all in.
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  Speaker 1: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: I will try that.
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  Speaker 2: I think I could get into something like that. In
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Asian cooking, we have what we call
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  Speaker 2: this hoisin peanut sauce. Whenever you have a hot pot
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  Speaker 2: where you've got the big boiling pot right sitting in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the table and you're dipping all these
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  Speaker 2: uncooked meats and vegetables into it, the main go-to sauce
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  Speaker 2: is a peanut sauce, which has peanut butter in it.
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  Speaker 3: I think that could play very, very well in terms
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  Speaker 3: of a chili. Yeah. Are you a cook?
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  Speaker 2: You sound like you do a fair amount of cooking.
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  Speaker 1: No, I do no cooking. No, when I say we
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  Speaker 1: make a pot of chili, I mean the roommate makes
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  Speaker 1: a pot of chili. If I'm eating, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like going back to the conversation we just had. Why
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  Speaker 1: am I going to do something if somebody else can
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  Speaker 1: do it for me? I order out a lot. A lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that may need to change as time goes on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be your mommy and force you
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: to do all these healthy things. But based on everything
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  Speaker 2: that we've talked about, that is one area that we
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: diverse quite a bit is in terms of fitness and
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  Speaker 2: health and nutrition.
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  Speaker 3: It's true. And I need to be the good influence
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  Speaker 3: on you in regard to that.
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  Speaker 1: Would you believe me if I told you that back
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  Speaker 1: in the day I was a cross country runner?
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  Speaker 3: Anything's possible these days.
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  Speaker 2: But on the other hand, I didn't really see much
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: of the purpose in running cross country.
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  Speaker 3: So on the other hand, I could kind of see
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  Speaker 3: how that could have discouraged you for life from doing
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  Speaker 3: any of that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Got a couple of texts. I want to
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  Speaker 1: get in before we get out of here. First one
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  Speaker 1: says in their defense, wouldn't you have to spend most
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: of your time drunk to live anywhere in Louisiana?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Starkville is about the same experience.
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  Speaker 2: I disagree with that. I spent many, many times in
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: of all places, Leesville, Louisiana, but still I had the
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: Cajun flair, the Cajun atmosphere. I love the crawfish, all
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: that jambalaya. The food was fantastic. It was year round
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: tennis weather. Louisiana was a good place to be. If
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: you enjoyed hot, humid weather, I've always, I would disagree.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to go to Louisiana as well. I wouldn't,
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't hate living there myself.
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  Speaker 3: The culture is so different. So different. Very unique.
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  Speaker 1: Dexter says chili is whatever you want it to be. Noodles, beans,
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter. Just have fun with it. If it tastes good,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: don't question it.
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  Speaker 2: So here's where I need to really learn and up
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: my game. I should have done this lifestyle segment at
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: the very beginning of the show.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: Is that correct?
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: That way that would get plenty of people, plenty of
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: time to kind of respond in. Instead, we're talking boring
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: subjects like University of Kentucky football and basketball, right?
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: People don't want to text in about sports. We always
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: get the most text when we're talking something crazy.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: Well, what do you think is another one of these
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: skills that is slowly disappearing?
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  Speaker 3: People nowadays, I don't think very many people know how
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: to read a map anymore, right?
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: There's no need for it.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, or handwriting. Right now, everything is screen-related, reading
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: a map, writing on the screen.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: How about fixing things, right? You don't need to fix things.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: You can go on YouTube and it'll teach you how
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: to do it.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: Honestly, it's funny you bring this up because I've actually
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: made a concerted effort in my broadcasting career. I've thought
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: about typing out my game notes but i have i'm
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: still hanging on strong where i handwrite them for every
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: single game that i do because that's that's part of
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: my process i enjoy handwriting my notes and i just
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: i can't imagine ever switching over to a point where
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  Speaker 1: i'm typing everything.
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  Speaker 2: Out Yeah, my problem is once I write them down, remember,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a doctor. I can't read what I've written anymore.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: So I usually go directly now to the computer screen,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: and I type everything out, game notes. Even as I'm
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: covering a UK sporting event, if there's something I know
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: that I want to address in a column later on,
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  Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and type it out.
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  Speaker 3: It's so much easier to be able to cut and
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: paste also.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: You're not wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I think part of our ease of doing
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: things is– is how simple it has become with computers
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: and smartphones.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: So let me ask you this one. If a smartphone
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: disappeared tomorrow, what would you end up missing the most
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: about it? Is there something about our phones that you
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: are now completely dependent upon? Surely you keep your schedule
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: now on your phone, right?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: You don't hand write that out anymore, do you?
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: I actually, yeah, I have a magnet on my fridge
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: that I write my whole schedule on, to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 3: You're joking.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, tell me you're joking on that. No, I'm not. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: No, I do. I have a magnetized calendar on my fridge.
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  Speaker 1: But really the only thing about a smartphone that I
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: would miss is, would be just having the ability at
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: my fingertips to look up information. Like, for instance, I
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: was able to look up those TV numbers on my
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: phone earlier. So I would miss being able to quickly
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: get access to information that I need. That's really, I think,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: the only thing I would.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: And that's pretty important based on what you're doing, right?
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I know one thing I won't miss are
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: these spam calls. It seems like I'm getting five or
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: six of those every single day, and I don't know
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: what to do.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 3: Is there a way that you can permit?
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: I go ahead and press delete and report a spam,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: and I block, but they still just keep on talking.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: I think this is just the profession we have chosen.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: This is the world we live in, is it not?
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: It's annoying. I hate it.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: All right. What does that actually mean? Now you just
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: signaled me touchdown. Does that mean that we are 10
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 3: seconds and I need to cut it off right here.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: All right. 10 seconds. It's 10 seconds. Thank you for
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 3: joining us. Dr.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: John Wong sitting in for Michael Bennett on just the cats,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: maybe for the last time.