2025-01-31- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, January the thirty first, the day before Kentucky and Arkansas get ready to play each other in one of the most highly anticipated games at rupp Ana that I can think of in my lifetime.

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Speaker 3: We are here at Whiskey Thief.

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Speaker 3: Whiskey Thiefs.

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Speaker 2: Their tasting room here open last October, allows you to taste their bourbon, which of course you can then get straight out of the barrel and their thieving system.

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 3: Nice to see all of you all. Sorry I missed yesterday.

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Speaker 5: How you feeling?

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Speaker 4: I feel a lot better.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember the last time I felt worse than I did last night, or first.

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Speaker 3: Or two nights ago I went. You know, just a little advice to people.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you're looking for cuisine, right you go to New York City.

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Speaker 3: Drew lots of stuff available.

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Speaker 4: They got Michelin stars there, they do.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if the chicken cheese steak in the Newark.

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Speaker 4: Airport is the way to go right that flight right.

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Speaker 3: Before the light and then there was a lot of turbulence. It was windy.

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Speaker 4: Turbulence on the flight or in the stomach.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, actually I felt completely good getting my cart, and I'd had in my mind, you know what I haven't eaten in a while?

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Speaker 4: Skyline.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, not before a flight, No, no, this after.

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Speaker 2: So I get to the skyline and as this is a true story, as I'm pulling in the skyline, I feel my stomach just like rumble a little bit, and I thought, I'm already here right Then I eat and.

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Speaker 4: When that the combination, when I got home that.

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Speaker 2: Chicken something had to be wrong with it, and then the other stuff saying all right, well, we're not gonna have fun with this chicken anymore.

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Speaker 3: It was a tough night.

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Speaker 2: And then so but thank you all very much for feeling and you know, with what's happening this week, if I could have been there, I would have you fought.

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Speaker 7: Fire with fire, putting the skyline into an upset stomach. But we had fun yesterday. We missed you, but you're glad you're back on your feet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't have missed today at all, because this is the you know, this is the day before.

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Speaker 3: What I think is.

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Speaker 2: As let's go Ryan, historically, I mean, how many how many home game moments are more anticipated than this. I'm just kind of like thinking back during my years covering UK. I think when when when North Carolina came in here and they they were number one and we were number two with Anthony Davis, and it was that that game in December, I think that had a there was there was a sense of excitement there. I also think two years before when we had played North Carolina and you kind of had the first big home game with John Wall and kind of the beginning of the Caliperri era.

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Speaker 3: I think that was a home game that was very people look forward to.

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Speaker 4: Then.

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Speaker 2: Of course when Wreck came back for the first time many years before that.

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Speaker 3: Those are three that just stick out to me.

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Speaker 2: Of you were counting down for months for those games, all three of those games being non conference games, all three of those games early in the year. Now you get this one, I mean in February against a team that's not good. I mean, they're not good this year, and yet Ryan, is it the most anticipated game that you can remember?

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Speaker 6: In Rupe?

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Speaker 5: I felt like Patino's first returner up against Tubby was number one. This one's getting up there, and even Patino and versus cal the first time. There was so much excitement leaning up to that game when they were gonna meet for the first time of Rupperina. So I know some of the older timers like me may say the Shack game, you know, coming going into that game with Shack and those guys coming into Upperina.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was tougher though because it wasn't on television, so like people, it was almost it was almost like a mythological game, right in some ways, You're right about that, but this one, you know, I it's odd because they're all The first time Patino came in, his Louisville team wasn't very good either, So I guess it's kind of akin to that. This is not about what's gonna happen on the court tomorrow, Drew. It's just about well, it's really I guess at first about the moment when he comes out. I mean, we've had days and days of people talking about that. You know, I've given my position. I gave it the other day, and then I've seen a lot online. Rick Patino released a video saying, hey, everybody give him around of applause. This is how I know Cow's slipping. That's the kind of stuff Cal would have done one day. Like back in the past about things, Rick was not everybody give applause guy, until recently in life. I'm getting the positioned or just my thought is, I think it's gonna be a little more positive than I thought it was gonna be a week ago. Like I just get the sense online that there are the sort of forces of.

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Speaker 3: Clapping or getting louder.

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Speaker 2: I still think there's going to be booing, but I don't think it's gonna I was expecting the chorus of booze tomorrow. I don't know that I expect that anymore, at least to just using the online experience.

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Speaker 4: I mean, go to the poll I put out.

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Speaker 2: It finished with silent number one, cheer number two, boo number three, although all the numbers were closed. Kyt put a poll out, you gotta think that's gonna hit the older demographic, probably a lot of people who go to the games. Honestly, it's about two thirds cheer, right, so, which makes me just think it's probably gonna end up with a better atmosphere for col than I would have thought a week ago.

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Speaker 7: Now, we had a poll on KSR the website, and it was it was just cheer, boo not a STA style option. It was forty nine point five to fifty point five. I mean, can you get more split than that?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 7: That really is as there are too many people traveling here and bragging about how they're gonna.

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Speaker 4: Boo till their throat bleeds for the boos and not be heard.

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Speaker 7: They're gonna be loud, But I still think it's gonna be more of an even split. I watched that Rick video. I did not have any memory of Rick getting booed that bad.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't there. I mean, I but he snuck in, didn't he?

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Speaker 6: Heyah, came to the other came through as.

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Speaker 3: If he was coming through the same But I was at the game. I remember watching.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to see Rick come through, and then all of a sudden he was just there because he came through the other side, and so there wasn't that moment.

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Speaker 3: I'll also be interested when they do the announcing again.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, just so you all know, those of us watching it on television, if you don't go, you're not gonna see any of this, probably because the Duke Carolina game is gonna be going on, so they're not gonna like they're not gonna switch. I mean we might not even see the start of the game, but we certainly will not see the intro because they will probably still be finishing the Duke Carolina game, so.

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Speaker 4: We might not see this.

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Speaker 2: The people like Drew that are at the game will probably be the ones that will have to put out where they do.

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Speaker 4: But I the.

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Speaker 2: I've heresed to see Ryan when they announce the things, will they linger on cal to give people a chance to have a reaction, or will they go coach of Arkansas John Calperry, And now you're gonna talking about like I just go so quick that nobody can take the time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's more eyes on Patrick Widmer and the PA guy reprinted tomorrow night than ever before, because what he's gonna do. He's had to say that guy's name an exciting different way for fifteen years. Now he's the opposing coach on the other sideline.

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Speaker 3: Think he puts any flare on it at all.

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Speaker 4: I mean he used to go on cal Perry. Yeah, you can't do that now.

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Speaker 6: If you do that, now you're putting the heat on the PA an. Now you just John Kelly Perry. And I hope he lets it breathe. Maybe we should wait about thirty seconds then introduceditar.

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Speaker 3: That would be.

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Speaker 6: This kind of on him interesting.

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Speaker 2: To see if they let it breathe or just if they if they tell the DJ the moment his name is called, hit the music for the.

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Speaker 5: Introll, they play that video, there's a video in between.

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Speaker 3: What if they hit it like immediately immediately.

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Speaker 6: So then it sounds like you're booing the video.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like little things like the pause there might determine how louty.

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Speaker 4: These are things UK should consider. I don't know if they are.

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Speaker 7: I would have like a y in mind that has you know, some more meaning than usual normally just grab whoever's there and famous hadn't done it in a while, I would really consider who if they made he's not coming, Cal said she's not coming, She's not it would have been good.

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Speaker 2: She actually think she would have gotten around the if if she was the why I actually think that would I that would have well she probably can't do that with Brad on the other side, but like that would actually kind of have been a neat moment.

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Speaker 5: I think it would have been a neat contrast to you know, not wanting them to succeed, but yet we love them in a way.

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Speaker 4: If we were down fifteen when they did it.

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Speaker 5: What about Tyler Ulis he's there, march him out, let him be the why.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's what's interesting. I've seen a lot of people say, I hope we don't do the players. I do not think we're gonna boo the players. I do not think the fans are gonna boo A. Do you know A do and Z we're both loved.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I would say Wagner was loved, but I don't feel like, hey, people hate it DJ Wagner like, I don't know that. I think the players, I know Ulyss would get cheers. Yes, I feel like those players would too. You know Brad who knows, But I don't think even he would get booed. I think it John would be the only one.

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Speaker 7: Well, I said that at the beginning of the year. I never thought we'd brew the players. But I heard in New York that they just gave it to Aaron Bradshaw the entire game.

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Speaker 4: And I'm thinking, if you're that mean to and Bradshaw, but I think that's not at home. I know, but I just didn't think they'd boo him either.

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Speaker 2: And I think Aaron Bradshaw epitomized something about Cow's players that we didn't like, which was there was drama getting him on the court, whether he was gonna play.

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Speaker 4: Even though he did, you know.

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Speaker 2: It didn't feel like he quite met his potential of what we heard, you know. I mean, it's not his fault, but I think in some ways, Shannon, some of the stuff that we're people were kind of tired of at the end of the era, he kind of embodied a little bit of that.

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Speaker 3: He was then on the clutch things.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would agree with that, But as far as the Arkansas players go, I have never cheered an Arkansas razorback player, and I'm not going to start tomorrow. So if I were there, I would boo them all.

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Speaker 3: You've been consistent from moment one.

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Speaker 5: You like boom boom.

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Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, I don't feel bad for them. Again, I said this. You know, a couple of days ago they left. They wanted to play for cal University, not for the University of Kentucky. So you know what they chose to go, We can boo them.

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Speaker 5: I've probably watched more Arkansas. Kentucky's the only team I've watched more than Arkansas. This she too I find myself watching a lot of Arkansas games, and I find myself, I don't know why pulling for those three guys when they're on the court, A Dude, DJ and big Z.

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Speaker 2: I've watched them a lot and they're bad. And which gets to the actual game, which has got lost during this We have to win this game after, I mean we have to have to for two reasons. One of all, we cannot lose to cal Perry after all that's happened after I mean, after you know, the off season of trash talking, and then we're good and they're bad and we can't lose. The second thing is they're next to last in the SEC, and an SEC where it is hard to find wins. When you play the team that's in next to last place in the league at home, you gotta win that game. We have South Carolina. We probably play the three worst teams in the SEC. We probably get them all at home, which is kind of bad luck. You'd rather play them on the road because you've went But nevertheless, South Carolina, LSU, and Georgia are the three worst teams. We get them, LSU and Arkansas three worst teams. We get them all at home. We have to win all those games. They're still all to.

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Speaker 3: Come, all three of them. That starts tomorrow, So leave Cal out of it.

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Speaker 2: It's a game you gotta win, Drew, just because it's a very winnable home game.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, if this is not Cal, this is still a huge game because this could be an actual hit to your resume losing teams home.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Kentucky's got a good net ranking. The third and quad one wins, they're in great standing for the tournament, and this wouldn't hurt you too bad, but it would bring you down a peg if you were to lose to a team like Arkansas at home, and.

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Speaker 2: The path to a winning record in the SEC SEC at least one by in the SEC tournament, maybe even a double buy like that Tennessee win kind of got.

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Speaker 3: You back on that path. You need to make sure you win this one.

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Speaker 5: To keep it going. So I'm gonna ask you a question, is there any worry in your mind at all that this is when Cal is usually exssed?

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Speaker 2: This is that you were gonna read my next segment when Cal was Cal, even in the last five years. So like everybody, everybody would agree, there's a cow from twenty ten to two thousand to COVID.

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Speaker 3: That was like great. Whether he was the bastard, second bast or third bet, it was great.

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Speaker 2: Then there was the twenty twenty to twenty twenty five cow that was a notch below that. Maybe too much is below that.

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Speaker 3: That cow won a game like this every year.

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Speaker 4: That cow went on the road.

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Speaker 2: And beat a team in a big game that you didn't think they had a chance at when they and they won.

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Speaker 6: His last one at Kentucky was at Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: I mean, think about that Arkansas game when Antonio Reeves was went for thirty seven or forty down there and we won. We've met multiple Tennessee games like that. Now, the question is is this cow even won notch below that? And they don't win anything? You know, I don't know the answer, so it maybe so far he hasn't. So far, I haven't won anything. So but if he's the cow of even the last five years, Drew, they win one of these a year.

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Speaker 4: I hope it's not tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: And they tend to do it when they're down some players. They went to Arkansas. Jacob Toppen was the point guard that Tennessee game. I talked about he was. I talked about it all week before Tuesday, like I was there. Two years ago. They were eleven and a half point favorite. They didn't have a point guard, they didn't have a shooting guard and still won that game. They're an eleven and a half point favorite tomorrow without their point guard.

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Speaker 4: It's that I've seen John Caliperry do it before.

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Speaker 3: We eleven half point favorite.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why that is already out. Huh, that's why it lives in the back of my head a little bit. And then I've seen John Caliperry do this more than once.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I find a little nervousness because I don't want to lose to cow But also he gets one of these every year, and for some reason, I feel like I think they already played Tennessee, but Alabama Auburn US He's gonna give one of us one we don't like, and I just hope it's not us tomorrow. Wait if I'm nine two eight h h twenty two eighty seven the text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, We'll take a break. We are here at Whiskey THEEP in downtown louisvill It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: The text machine blowing up early, which says to me that a lot of folks are getting excited about this game. One person rights, Matt. We got in an argument in our neighborhood group chat. It was eight eight boo cheer. I expect it to be everybody says silence will win out. I think the boers and the cheers are gonna go at each other.

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Speaker 6: We have a very small sample size here, but I know a few people here are actually going to the game.

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Speaker 2: Who's going to the game. Raise your hand, Okay, so let's keep your hands up. If you're going to game, all right, put your hand down. If you're gonna cheer. So does that mean the rest of you are all right? How many of you are gonna boo?

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Speaker 5: Nobody?

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Speaker 4: No boo? Oh, we gotta we had one of these a half.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So maybe it seems like the cheers have a little more force behind them. The booers may be a little more reticent. Does that mean if they start getting yelled out?

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Speaker 4: Shannon?

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Speaker 2: So, I just want to say, for the people online and I keep getting this that go oh, it's all the Matt Jones people there go boo. We don't have one person here in this audience who who says they do If he gets around of applause and that's what fans want to do, that's that's totally fine. I kind of also, though, agree with what he said yesterday. He goes, I've never heard an opposing coach get cheered in reperena, yeah.

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Speaker 5: We boo Bruce Pearl for crying out loud.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: So, I maybe John Pelfrey got cheered when he was at Arkansas.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe he did.

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Speaker 6: I doubt, I don't know, but Tubby maybe when he came to the high.

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Speaker 4: Point was a little sympathy game.

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Speaker 5: I think I think this year Pat Kelsey got some booze when he was introduced as the Louisville coach.

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Speaker 3: Well, of course, I mean we had no reason to cheer him.

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Speaker 5: I'm understanding we do boo opposing coaches. Backing up what Pope was saying, We're.

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Speaker 4: Sitting here asking your cheer.

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Speaker 3: Why would we cheer Pat Kelsey?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Well, I that's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: Let me just say this, if if they if people do boo and we get criticism, forget those people. They don't understand it. Now, they don't get this place. I don't care what they say. There have been some great articles written about the Pope.

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Speaker 3: Part of this equation. C. J.

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Speaker 2: Moore of The Athletic was that ks bar last Saturday for the Alabama game and talk to fans.

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Speaker 3: His article came out.

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Speaker 2: Today and I thought it really encapsulated drew the relationship we have with Pope, just basically saying our fan base, Pope gets all of it, Pope understands us and Pope in some ways does the exact things opposite that we were kind of tired of with Cal and that that's a big part of why everybody loves him.

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Speaker 7: I thought it was a great article, and with so many national people coming this weekend.

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Speaker 4: I hope there's a lot more of those to come. And if they do boo.

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Speaker 7: If Kentucky wins that game, I hope they continue to write the stories about how Mark Pope keeps winning and not making bb In a villain for booing you know before the game started.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't care if they make us a villain.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, somebody could only make you feel bad if you let them right.

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Speaker 4: So you can't.

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Speaker 3: You can call us a villain all you want. We were here, you weren't.

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Speaker 2: And once you go get those Arkansas media and fans and put them under a lot detector and ask them if they're really happy with what they ended up with.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they're probably ready to boot Caliparia at this point.

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Speaker 2: The fans feel like they won that that no, no, no way.

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Speaker 6: I mean, look what they're getting right now. Yeah. Who really thought that they were going to be at the bottom of the SEC when they hired John Caliperi. Yeah, they were all taunting us, we've got your coach, and now look where they're at.

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Speaker 4: That's gonna help them a little bit.

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Speaker 7: I think some people that would have bowed before the year thinking these are totally competing for the same tournament seed, you know, similar in the standings.

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Speaker 3: I think totally agree.

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Speaker 4: Some people will look at him be like, man, they suck.

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Speaker 2: If your goal in life was one thing to have Cal Perry not get booed and rough, this season played out exactly like you would have wanted to play it. We needed to be good, we needed to win big games. We needed for Pope to have been awesome, and we needed them to have stunk and those things. This is the best scenario for Cal not getting booed that you could have is exactly how it's played out. One person writes Matt Cal I've always thought, has his team played tight during big games? It's what cost us many times. Do you think his team comes out and plays tight tomorrow? Actually no, because I've always thought Cal was at his best when they had nothing to lose. So the best example for me was the twenty fourteen run. Think about it, when we were the eight seed. We played first game against Kansas State and we kind of were tight that whole game. We won, but then against Wichita State, Louisville, Michigan, Wisconsin, we were big underdogs in all those games. They came out and played, you know, free as a bird and ended up winning all of them. Then we hit the championship game and we play Yukon, who now were favored over. We played all these teams that we were big underdogs, and we played loose and free, and then we go play in a championship game, and because we are all of a sudden favored, we looked like we were so scared we couldn't do anything. We got down early and Ryan we didn't and we didn't win. I thought that that tournament in a lot of ways. Sometimes Cow's better when he doesn't have expectation.

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Speaker 5: I think, I think you hit it. I think, yeah. When they are the heavily favorite team Oakland Saint Peter's. You mentioned the Connecticut game, that's when they seem to be tight, not when they're underdogs. That's kind of when they play their best. I want to add one other thing.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if this will factor into the game tomorrow, but we've never played another team that has had players who have played more games at rupp Arena in the past, and that familiarity with playing there in rough Yeah may help them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little bit being seen what it is like for those guys as well.

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Speaker 4: Who's have a theory about those guys? Okay, I think big Z does not care about anything in the world, like the Booze. I think he'll giggle like I'm serious, but he's not gonna.

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Speaker 5: Get boot well me do.

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Speaker 7: I just think that all the stuff that one Pat Caliperry may be a dude, probably DJ. I think big Z is gonna be out there grinning, interacting with the crowd.

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Speaker 4: Remember how he was like a little kid last year. I think we'll get that.

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Speaker 7: I think of all of them, I think big Z's gonna play really well because he's gonna be happy to be back. He'll be loosen free, just mean in general the whole situation. I don't think he's gonna feel any pressure at all. I think he's laid back, like all I get to go back to Kentucky. I said last year he was like a fifteen year old when we would talk to him. I think he's gonna run out there and not even feel anything.

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Speaker 2: Just on a matchup scale, we're gonna take your calls. I've nine eight twenty two eighty seven on a matchup scale, we do some things really well. That is their weakness. You all remember Cal gave up threes like it was his job. I mean, he was really bad at guarding the three point line. And obviously we shoot really well.

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Speaker 3: From out there.

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Speaker 2: With that said, they do some things that really we struggle with. We cannot guard downhill drives and like a dude could score twenty five points tomorrow. I don't know who we have that's gonna guard a do and then even off the bounce. If Wagner was gonna have a good game, our guards are kind of the guards that could give him a good game because we don't guard slashing dribbles against Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: We let them shoot threes because we knew we couldn't keep them off the dribble.

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Speaker 2: I think Garkansas is gonna get a lot of chances to shoot threes tomorrow. I could see them having thirty five opportunities because we're gonna give them those shots.

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Speaker 3: But I do worry about garden to do. Who's garden to do?

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Speaker 4: Oh, you're right right, I mean the cars healthy, who's garden to do?

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Speaker 2: We don't have anybody who can guard to do. With that said, he can't guard the three point line. We're gonna get a lot of shots, so if we make them, we'll win.

00:22:59
Speaker 3: But I do worry. Worried about that and do match up? All right, We'll take your calls.

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00:23:40
Speaker 2: Before we go the phones, I do normally I don't take a lot of calls on remote, but I want to hear from people before the game today, Shannon, you and I share a fear of flying. Yeah, I hate it, so obviously the crash is tragic. First, you know, we had talked to them about a year ago about how there hadn't been a commercial airliner go down in the United States and years, and then happens on Sunday.

00:24:03
Speaker 3: Awful.

00:24:04
Speaker 2: You know, every time you get these stories, I'm sure this would be true about any flight, right, Like there are human beings on there that each have their own stories and their tragic You know, there was the.

00:24:13
Speaker 3: Guy who went to the airport he'd.

00:24:14
Speaker 2: Gotten text from his wife that they were about to land, and like that was awful.

00:24:18
Speaker 5: Then you got.

00:24:18
Speaker 2: Fourteen people with some association with the United States figure skating, and then the guy who's like kind of the dean of United States figure Skating, Dick Button, dies last night. So you have all this stuff happened. I'll tell you though, you know I was. I was flying that night too, from Newark to Cincinnati, and I you and I have had this conversation before when we got on a flight. One time, I was like, you know, I sit there. One of the ways I calmed myself down as I sit there and think, man, boy, think about how many flights have gone on since the last time these And then I'll look at a board, right and you'll see all the flights, especially the place like Newark Airport where it's huge. Oh, all these flights going here, and you go, well, you know, this is what I would always think to myself.

00:25:04
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, even if one was gonna go down, what are the chances it would be this way? And then that happens that same night. So this one like hit me harder than I think it would completely get it just because even I know, I mean.

00:25:19
Speaker 2: I'm blessed beyond belief. I wasn't obviously on it, but something about just flying at the same time you couldn't help. But when I heard it, just be like, you know, I actually be harder for me the next time.

00:25:33
Speaker 6: And at that moment though, I mean, you gotta get on the plane. You're not going to cancel the flight, that's what you think about to do.

00:25:38
Speaker 2: But like it's it's I think that almost every time I go to an airport, but especially.

00:25:43
Speaker 6: A big airport, I always here. You know, you got a better chance of getting in a car crash, which is true, but I would rather get in a car crash on the ground than a crash in the air, you know what.

00:25:52
Speaker 3: That sort of because I didn't feel well, I was sort of off my phone. Have they figured out why it happened?

00:25:56
Speaker 6: What what what the it's black Hawk right right? I think it was flying too high, was flying higher than what it was supposed to and because of that, that created too high Yeah, higher.

00:26:08
Speaker 7: Than what it's supposed to be, like two hundred and below and yeah.

00:26:12
Speaker 5: And apparently the pilots were looking at a different plane and not the one they hit, but they were like monitoring in different oners.

00:26:17
Speaker 6: And then the other aspect was they were short an air traffic control person. It was one person that was working. He was doing two people.

00:26:23
Speaker 2: It feels like a job though you can't, yeah, you can't. I also think if you're that air traffic controller, I mean think you. I'll be with you your whole like you know, anyway, awful situation. Prayers to all of those people. Who's up first?

00:26:37
Speaker 4: Up first is Devin?

00:26:39
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Devin.

00:26:41
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I got a statement and a question for you all. The first thing is, uh, look, the only reason why you don't know you don't boost somebody is if their team thinks after they've left your team, like when Kenny came to that little bit. Usually you would pull some let boot someone that that move. But you know what, oh brother, but you know what this guy cal Perry. He left after having the four worst years that he took a basketball history, and then he had the audacity to call us call you, so he delitted our program even more after that he took players that we.

00:27:23
Speaker 4: Wanted to have.

00:27:25
Speaker 3: No before you do another Okay, I go, thank you, appreciate it. Cut. I'm not sure what that call was, Uh, I haven't.

00:27:36
Speaker 2: It's been interesting to me, Drew to hear how many people say what he said right there That didn't seem to get.

00:27:41
Speaker 3: A lot of play.

00:27:42
Speaker 2: But there are certain segments of our fan base, at least a handful of people here and there who didn't like his statement when he left. It's to the recruit something like, it's the same thing, We're just moving cities. Like the insinuation being it was never really about Kentucky. It's just this is a roadshow and this is where I'm taking my my my show next that. I haven't heard it a lot, but there's some people that collor amongst all the oddities he said, is bringing that point up too.

00:28:11
Speaker 7: Yeah, that wouldn't bother me as much because it wasn't cal saying in front of a camera. He's in some kids living room, He's got to get him to Arkansas. Of course he's going to recruit against Kentucky like that. I've mocked it plenty, but it has affected a lot of Kentucky fans because that line alone, even though we heard it secondary and wouldn't say that publicly, it suggests.

00:28:29
Speaker 4: It was me me, me, me.

00:28:30
Speaker 7: Me in Lexington and I just moved, which is what a lot of people already had concerns with anyway.

00:28:34
Speaker 4: But that saying.

00:28:35
Speaker 7: I move headquarters to a different location, I get it. But I think he's been in front of the camera press conferences. He's been very gracious and grateful.

00:28:44
Speaker 5: He doesn't.

00:28:46
Speaker 3: A lot of chance to screw it up.

00:28:47
Speaker 7: But when he left for there, I thought we could get little bitty jabs every once in a while. I don't think we've got that public jab. I know we've heard stuff from recruits, but he's got to do that.

00:28:56
Speaker 4: I don't think he's done a lot of it.

00:28:58
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, right, let's boo or cheer, let's say whatever the reaction is. It's in the middle of the game, and he does one of his going after the refs, like going at him, and you know how it'll sometimes the play will stop and you see the coach going at him.

00:29:15
Speaker 4: Then he gets the heck boot out of him.

00:29:17
Speaker 5: Right, that's when it happens. If it doesn't happen as much when he's introduced. If when he goes off crazy on an official on a call that we think is it was made correctly, Yeah, that's when he gets the big boot.

00:29:28
Speaker 7: Remember a couple weeks ago, I said he's getting injected, and I'm sticking by that. If he gets the opportunity if they're winning or something, but if they're down.

00:29:34
Speaker 6: If he gets ejected, he'll get cheered.

00:29:36
Speaker 4: If I could get that prop bet I.

00:29:37
Speaker 5: Would do it. That's true. He's walked off the floor that if he got walked off the corner of coverybody, you're not gotta boo him.

00:29:43
Speaker 4: Then don't catch Then he leaves Arkansas. We never see him again. It just walks off.

00:29:48
Speaker 5: So what about what he said yesterday? He's got bazuka holes and if he boozs, it won't bother.

00:29:52
Speaker 3: To say that. He used to say that here too.

00:29:54
Speaker 5: Do you really think it won't of course?

00:29:55
Speaker 7: Not?

00:29:56
Speaker 3: Like Okay, this is the longer conversation than cal.

00:30:02
Speaker 2: Almost inevitably, when someone tells you that stuff people say.

00:30:07
Speaker 3: Doesn't bother them.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: They are lying, right, they are lying. It's inevitably the people that it bothers the most, like you know, like it first on myself when people criticize me, I get criticized as much as anyone in the in the you can it does bother me.

00:30:24
Speaker 3: I can sit here and go it doesn't bother me. Of course it bothers me. You're a human, are a human being.

00:30:30
Speaker 2: Like our president, he gets criticized a ton and he act, but of course it bothers him. That's why he holds these why he remembers everything right, because it bothers him.

00:30:37
Speaker 4: Cow's the same way. Cow.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: I can tell you.

00:30:42
Speaker 2: Cow knew what everybody said.

00:30:46
Speaker 3: He could do it to the word.

00:30:49
Speaker 2: He had people come bring him when people would say bad things.

00:30:54
Speaker 3: He hated it. And when and when you crossed him.

00:30:58
Speaker 2: I can say this because I didn't cross him for a long time, and I would want I'd hear him do it to other people. When you cross him, you're out, and he would what was the line he always used to use, you come after my house, I burned down your village or something like that.

00:31:15
Speaker 4: He lived that, So it's so ridiculous. To hear him go, I got Mazuka holes in me. Nothing bothers me.

00:31:22
Speaker 2: He can tell you articles that were written in the Basketball Times twenty three years ago, a newspaper doesn't even exist. He can tell you what was written against him because of how much it eats at he drew. So when I see him say all that, I'm just rolling my eyes. I'm like, dude, I don't know anyone in sports who has been more sensitive to a criticism than he has.

00:31:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, we heard plenty of examples when he was here of paying attention to the clutter. When he said he wouldn't, I do think. I mean, it's gonna hurt him a little, But I mean, these guys are high level athletes and coaches.

00:31:54
Speaker 4: They've been booed.

00:31:56
Speaker 7: That's how I if you can't handle being booed, how did you get it to where you are now? Because I think a lot of the things, I just don't think booing is that bad.

00:32:03
Speaker 4: It's not yesterday. I don't think booing is bad at all about Well it's not.

00:32:05
Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, but here, you gotta like you got to go into his mindset that he is at his best when he has an enemy He's always been like that.

00:32:13
Speaker 3: He's always been like that when he has an enemy.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: It used to be when he first got here, his enemy was Jim Calhoun, His enemy was pat forty, it was Jeff Goodman right then for a while it was Rick.

00:32:26
Speaker 3: Patino, and then it was Bruce Pearl. And he need he needed an enemy. He needs a person that he can go after.

00:32:35
Speaker 4: What happened to him in the last.

00:32:36
Speaker 3: Two or three years is we weren't good.

00:32:38
Speaker 2: Enough to where national people cared. So he his enemies inward. I was one of them, but the fans that he thought didn't give him. It was like his desire for an enemy is always there.

00:32:51
Speaker 4: What's weird to watch.

00:32:52
Speaker 2: Him now is is it seems like he's so beat down.

00:32:56
Speaker 3: He doesn't have an enemy.

00:32:57
Speaker 2: And that's part of the reason they're one in soev in the SEC is he can't find that thing to go out.

00:33:04
Speaker 6: Nobody sees him as a threat on he You remember the anonymous quotes from SEC coaches. A lot of them said, nobody fears this guy.

00:33:12
Speaker 2: They're laughing at him, right, and so it's like you've stared the bully in the face and now you know.

00:33:18
Speaker 3: But when he says it doesn't bother him. That's just silly. It would bother me. I'm not criticizing for it, boy, but it bothers him Ryan, of course it.

00:33:26
Speaker 5: Well, think about he kept bringing up to you something you said in two thousand and eight about him. He remembers that and brings that.

00:33:31
Speaker 3: Brought that up to you a lot.

00:33:33
Speaker 2: He there were I don't think he was listening, but someone in his office would take clips of our show out of context, send them to him, and then it would get quoted back to me two and a half years later, and they would go, did you say this?

00:33:50
Speaker 3: And this was back before Mario was filming stuff, And.

00:33:52
Speaker 2: I'd be like, I don't know, maybe, but that's it sticks in his mind.

00:33:58
Speaker 7: And somebody on his staff told me, now, this is when it was going good. But they would print out KSR and sit on his desk like he wouldn't even get on his computer and go to Kentucky's portrayo dot com. The blogs would be printed on sheets and when you get to the office, they would be sitting there like a.

00:34:11
Speaker 6: President getting a briefing.

00:34:15
Speaker 3: Wouldn't get the cliques.

00:34:17
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00:35:33
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00:35:41
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00:36:09
Speaker 2: Interesting call the day of the UK Arkansas game. Appreciate, appreciate confusing.

00:36:14
Speaker 4: Him with that Darryl Cope, Guy, Derry Coke, Derek Coke.

00:36:17
Speaker 2: Have we he he said, if you talked to Dale like like I'm often talking about my buddy Dale Jr.

00:36:24
Speaker 6: I think he called the wrong show. He's trying to call it, trying to call radio.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: I love Gary, but no, I also haven't talked to Jeff Gordon. I called him a bunch. He has a returned of my call.

00:36:35
Speaker 5: Who's that Tyler?

00:36:37
Speaker 3: Is Tyler?

00:36:38
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Tyler, Hey mad I'm glad you're feeling better.

00:36:42
Speaker 4: And uh Baker goes.

00:36:44
Speaker 10: Out to those people involved in the crash. But anyway, my uh, first thing is, if you think about it, you brought up the the analogy of the couple and the date and thing with cal Perry, Like, we don't really have a reason to be bitter. Like you know, when a girl and a guy or dating and she wakes up with him and you know, get somebody better. You know later on when they meet, she's not bitter and she's not being like boom, you know, she doesn't all have she's you know what I mean? Yeah, right, or one in seven and and we're seven one with with squad one wins, you know.

00:37:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with what.

00:37:27
Speaker 10: Patino says, like, you know, it's not really just about showing class. It's about showing uh. It's about showing uh like uh, you know what I'm saying, humil And because we could be in their spot, we could.

00:37:44
Speaker 3: Be Yeah, I get I listen, no offense to Rick. I love Rick.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: Uh, Well, I mean I don't want to say, I love her. I like Rick, Rick did the show. I appreciate it. Just a little word to Rick like you ain't grandpa, Now, okay, I love we love, we gave you out of applause. I love you like thank you. I want you to come back. But you are not like you're not the spokesman. Okay, you're still the coach at Saint John's.

00:38:09
Speaker 6: Like you just do yeah, tread lightly. It wasn't that long ago we were booing him.

00:38:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, watch your mouth. We'll start booing you again.

00:38:16
Speaker 4: You're not careful. So yeah, I mean, it's fine. He did the video.

00:38:19
Speaker 3: That's fine, that's I saw that video. More.

00:38:22
Speaker 2: Ryan is part of the col Patino hate each other, one up each other. You know, if you may famously remember Cal going to look like the bigger guy had Rick on his podcast and told us not to boo him when he was going through all his stuff. And now this is a chance to go, oh, now you kind of need me cow So I'm gonna be like, like, I mean, there's a little dance with those two. They don't like each other, and there's a little dance there. So but Patino's comments to me whatever he could say whatever he wants.

00:38:53
Speaker 3: They don't.

00:38:54
Speaker 5: That's so what I'm glad we need to talk about this Patino comment a little bit because when he was here you had to take thepposite of everything he said. We called it Patino ease. So when he says stand up and clap, is he really deep down thinking do you need to sit down and booth another thing like you said?

00:39:08
Speaker 4: Now?

00:39:08
Speaker 2: I think he's You know when when Cals, when Rick came in here post Katina pal and all that, and Cal was very much like, don't boo rig, don't boom rig, don't make Karen's shige for jokes, don't blah blah blah blah blah. There was a little bit of like coming at that from on high. And now Rick's doing it back right, But.

00:39:27
Speaker 3: They don't they hate each other. I mean they hate each other.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: And also, listen, Rick, your video did help pop alot, but that doesn't mean we need a video from you about everything else in the future, like you're not You're not Grandpa, You're not Joe B.

00:39:41
Speaker 5: Hall And he did say, I gave you some real good advice one time before. Listen to me this time.

00:39:45
Speaker 2: If I'm a saint, John's fan, I'm like, can y'all can you stop giving I'm like, we're in the tournament, like we're good, we may can you please stop giving advice to the other tick.

00:39:53
Speaker 6: He speaks more to our fan base than he does Saint John's.

00:39:57
Speaker 2: They're playing Madison Square Garden games sold out there, rocking, They're going at it.

00:40:01
Speaker 3: There's a park. They got to be like, how about what we're good this year?

00:40:06
Speaker 5: Will you focus?

00:40:07
Speaker 7: One hundred percent of my reaction to the Patino video was don't you have a team?

00:40:10
Speaker 4: They played Providence on Saturday. Yeah, I know he's got the Kentucky connection.

00:40:15
Speaker 7: I get it, But if I were Saint John's fan, it's like, over here, we need your attention right here.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: I think they play Yukon in a couple of weeks in Madison Square Garden and I saw tickets are going for like six hundred dollars apiece.

00:40:26
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, wick y'all could be a top four.

00:40:29
Speaker 7: Seed, just you could move Kentucky late in the tournament. I will throw out a scenario. Saint John's plays at noon on Saturday. They have airplanes that could get him there.

00:40:39
Speaker 5: Well, you want to get at calipery make nine o'clock.

00:40:42
Speaker 7: Dude, he could get he could have dinner, he could have a whole reunion.

00:40:46
Speaker 3: Right, So let's talk about the why real quick. What would be the perfect why?

00:40:49
Speaker 4: John Tyson.

00:40:52
Speaker 3: Make the Tyson Chicken people?

00:40:54
Speaker 10: Why?

00:40:55
Speaker 3: That would be funny.

00:40:56
Speaker 2: What would be the perfect why that they could actually do, because like the tea would be a funny why, but I don't think they would do that.

00:41:02
Speaker 3: What would be the why that you think would best? Sort of a pimize about Mitch Barnhart Mitch Varhart.

00:41:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, have Mitch Barnhart go out and do the why?

00:41:11
Speaker 3: That would be interesting. Really he hates him too?

00:41:16
Speaker 4: What if it?

00:41:16
Speaker 2: What like the ninety six team or something?

00:41:19
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:41:19
Speaker 6: Yeah? Who else does he hate?

00:41:22
Speaker 4: I think there's one the cow They can get along.

00:41:24
Speaker 2: I don't want say hated, but I don't think Cal and Uh and Derek Anderson got along.

00:41:29
Speaker 6: How about Matt Jones.

00:41:30
Speaker 5: Oh, that would be a good one. You and Mitch go out, arm in arm, do a double why.

00:41:38
Speaker 4: You do the right part of the why, he does the left arm.

00:41:40
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:41:41
Speaker 7: Just do I have a good one, though a serious one. If Willy is there, Willie's wife played at Arkansas. Willy has made it clear he loves Cal, but it's wearing blue. It's the cow era connection. So would you get a cow player or really, I doubt many would do, but not many around. Willy's the one that's around who has made it clearly, still loves Kentucky and Cal. He's got the Arkansas connection in his own household. I think Willy would be a good pick.

00:42:06
Speaker 3: Be interesting.

00:42:06
Speaker 2: I I you gotta be careful what you pick, because you want somebody who has any allegiance like they'd have to be all Kentucky.

00:42:14
Speaker 3: But Will he's Willy's not a bad one.

00:42:15
Speaker 2: Allright, We're gonna take a break, come back our number two here in Louisville, whiskey thief.

00:42:19
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