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It's time for coffee and company,
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine

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day, Holy crap, I don't
know who the hell we think when we

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are get off our show, idiot, the kids are playing or trail off.

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The countries are screwing it up.
Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother,

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gold Play Inner Murals. They're supposed
to be mature adults, but they're really

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not. Who's the kid here?
Who's the kid here? Are you kidding

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me? Now? Here's nick coffee. I know it'll never be a national

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holiday, but it should be a
local holiday. The Monday after Derby weekend.

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We should we should not have to
do anything other than just relax,

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refresh, recover. And yes,
you know Derby Day is Saturday, so

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we did have yesterday. But man, Derby week is such a it's such

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a party for a lot of folks
in a lot of different ways. And

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you know, I did k do
a whole lot of partying of the last

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week or so, but just and
I had look, I had days off,

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but I spent those days at the
track and it was a lot of

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fun. But yeah, it's it's
always sad when it's over, right,

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because again, as somebody who's never
claimed to be this big horse racing fan.

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My love is for what comes with
Derby week in this and really not

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just Derby week, Derby season.
And now it's over and it's kind of

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sad, but I'm not really sure
it could have gone any better, you

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know. And I say that as
somebody who didn't make a single bet.

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Actually I made one bet on the
Derby, ended up picking Sierra Leone just

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because you know, I felt like, let's pick that one, and it

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was involved right down the stretch.
But it was mystic Dan that that got

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to victory and what a finish it
was. So we'll talk a little bit

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about that today. I mean,
I don't want to completely ignore the race

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because it was a phenomenal finish.
I'm not sure we'll ever see one quite

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like that again, because I'm not
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I think it was nineteen forty seven
was the last time there was a three

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way finish that was that close?
Yeah. According to the pr folks over

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at Churchill Downs, it was the
closest three way finished since nineteen forty seven,

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when Jet Pilot won by ahead and
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the other horse was felanx so an
epic finish, no doubt. And look,

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every city has an event, not
every city, but every big city.

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And we're not a huge city,
but I feel like there are many

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cities that have, you know,
an event, right, Like it's people

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when people think of your city that
aren't from there, they think of an

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event that's nationally known or maybe globally
known that takes place in said city.

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Obviously, ours is the Kentucky Tucky
in Kentucky Derby, And I feel like

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every year we execute meaning you know, I mean, we have really nothing

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to do with it, right,
you know, we're just spectators, fans,

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locals, but you know, the
event itself is phenomenal, and now

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we got to wait a whole year
before it's all happened again. Oh bit

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everybody. Coffee and Company that is
us. Happy Monday. Hopefully you enjoyed

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your Derby weekend. We are a
field by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven

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ninety. My name is Nick Coffee, the company man mister John all On

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alongside today as we take you up
until six o'clock, three hours with you

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and certainly a lot to get into. John, did you enjoy your Derby

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weekend. I did, and I
know I said this last week, but

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like the Derby hype never really hits
me until we get to the actual Derby,

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and I'm talking about the actual race. Yeah, And even though I

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don't really go to Derby parties anymore
or even go to the track for that

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matter, there is something about watching
the actual Derby race that, even if

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I don't truly understand how special is, it just feels different. And I'm

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not trying for no I know exactly
what you mean, but that's exactly how

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I felt on Saturday, as someone
who for years now I've become content with

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just knowing that, like, I'm
never gonna be horse racing guy, but

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it is one of the biggest sporting
events of the year and it takes place

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right here in our city and it's
just two minutes. But man, it's

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electrifying, and I think you can
you can, Like I watched honestly just

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hoping that one of the three horses
that my three year old son picked would

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come in first, second, or
third so he could say he had some

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kind of a winner. Like that
was really and honestly I wasn't really that.

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I mean, his mom told me
which ones to bet. I popped

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open the app bet him, but
like I didn't. I was just enjoying

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the race and in that two minute
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hour. Sometimes it feels like ten
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you know, it's it's electrifying.
It's it's just it's an experience. And

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I don't really think you can say
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people, but it's it's a special
event, and you know, just I

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think for me, you feel as
if there are there's a collectiveness across I

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don't know, I don't want to
say the world, but it kind of

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feels like that at times, Like
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not true, but it feels as
if every single person on planet Earth is

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tuning in to watch this and it's
taking place. You know, heck,

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maybe you're there, maybe you're at
Churchill Downs, or maybe you're somebody that's

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at a derby party here in Louisville
and you know, hey, just a

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couple of miles away, that's where
this is taking place, and all eyeballs

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are are on this event in our
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So yeah, I was I mean, I don't I don't think you could

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have had a better finish. I
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those who probably were really close to
having a big winner, and you know

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they they didn't. You know,
they lost just by hair right, we

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saw the photo finish. But you
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this is what really you know,
makes it fun for a lot of people.

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But you know, if you take
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at the event itself and the race
itself, I'm not sure it could have

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it could have been any better.
I mean, mystic Dan getting it done.

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Obviously, it was a heck of
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Brian Hernandez Junior as they pulled off
the you know, I mean they won

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both the Oaks and the Derby.
I mean, how special is that?

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John? I believe I heard somebody
say it hadn't happened since two thousand and

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nine, so that's pretty rare.
If you would have told me that that

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had never happened before, I would
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feel like that is insane. Yes, So congratulations to those guys, and

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I'm sure this is rather common,
but everything i'd heard from McPeek following both

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the Oaks and the Derby. I
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jockey, and I just felt,
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felt like a level of camaraderie right, like they're you know, they're both

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crediting each other and collectively enjoying the
win. It's not you know, some

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trainer acting as if he's the one
who you know, is responsible for all

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the success. It was. It
was cool to see and I'm a sucker

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for this. It's one of the
you know, pure things in sports that

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you know, I still can be
you know, romantic about, and that

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is people who achieve the ultimate goal, which if you're in horse racing,

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I would say winning the Kentucky Derby
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to see them truly be not overwhelmed
necessarily, but like, you know,

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to have that payoff right, to
have that moment where you know, you

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you could do this for a long
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part of many derby's, but never
have that happen. And they had it,

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They had that moment and it was
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So yeah, mystic Dan getting the
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and fiftieth run for the Roses Sierra
Leone Forever Young. I mean, I

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think there's certain angles and if you
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is, and you slow it down
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convince yourself in certain moments that each
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actually won the race. I mean, that's how that's how close it was.

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So yeah, another another great Kentucky
Derby and again now we got to

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wait for another year. All right, So again just like we we you

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know, we always do. We're
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that invested in the actual sport itself. But you know, good Derby

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overall. But I want to talk
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think Louisville fans are starting to get
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impatient, because you know, I
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their basketball coaches decided to just,
you know, stop trying to get players

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and you know, and just assume
that this eight man roster that he has

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is all he's gonna need. But
you went through a few weeks where it

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felt as if there was you know, really non stop momentum, right,

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whether it be guys that are scheduling
visits, coming on the visits and then

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you wait a few days later and
they commit, and that's that's kind of

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slowed down. But it's because you
know, things have slowed down in the

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portal. It's now closed. There's
still a lot of players available, but

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you got to wonder, you know, is there a name Louisville has not

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been publicly linked to that we're going
to find out about, because I wouldn't

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be shocked if there's not, just
because again, a lot of the dust

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is settled, right, there's not
a I mean, there's still plenty of

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players available, but most of the
big names have already been have already decided

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what they're going to do. So
I guess now we just kind of see

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how do they finish? Right,
How how does this roster you know,

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come together in these next few weeks, Because I would I would imagine by

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I don't know, late May,
we're going to know what this roster looks

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like, not only for Louisville but
for Kentucky as well. So great Osibor

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had his visit and really quiet,
I've not heard anything good I've not heard

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anything bad, meaning I haven't heard
anything at all. But that's been the

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case for all of his visits.
Right, he visited Kentucky, and I

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wasn't, you know, as plugged
in for his trip to Lexington as I

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was at least attempting to be for
his trip to Louisville. But there was

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really no confirmation, like if he
was even there. We thought he was,

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but there wasn't pictures, There wasn't
like a you know, a bunch

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of social media stuff that showed him
out to dinner, and if there was,

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I must have just missed it.
But this guy, according to Tilly

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Donovan, is as close lipped as
anybody that has gone through this process of

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entering the portal, scheduling visits,
taking visits, and then you know,

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coming down to a decision. He's
at Texas Tech right now. He'll then

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visit Washington. We know Kentucky's not
going to be in the mix, so

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now we wait to see is it
going to be Washington, Texas Tech,

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or Louisville. Some people think it's
either going to be Washington or Louisville.

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So you know, now we wait, so again not hearing anything is going

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to make people worry, and I
get it, but I've not heard anything

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that would make you feel as if
his visit, you know, didn't go

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well, and it's you know,
they're just going to move on and pursue

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somebody else. I mean, I
think they feel good about what they pitched

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to him in every aspect. You
know what Louisville can provide with the role

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playing style, you know everything that
comes with Louisville, and of course you

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know in IL. I'm pretty sure
they knew they were going to have to

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make it a pretty attractive financial situation
for him through in IL, and I

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believe they did that. And now
we have to wait and see what he

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wants to do and we'll never know. But John, let's just say this

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young man, great Osibor, ends
up just deciding after visiting Washington to follow

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Danny Sprinkle. Once again, my
question to you is this, do you

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think he ever was going to go
to a different school and he just wanted

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to take advantage of these trips and
build up his brand, and I guess

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enter Washington with more value because you
know, that would be kind of a

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shady move. But then again,
like it's something that if I was in

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his shoes. I'd probably do too, because this is your chance to make

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money, right Like if you think, I think it would depend on how

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quickly he committed to Washington after the
visit, because if he does it immediately,

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that's a little shady. But if
he takes his time, then maybe

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is you know, really having a
hard time deciding which school, then it

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may seem like he actually took each
visit into consideration. But if it's a

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quick you know, in and out
for Washington, then that is a little

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shit. Like if he commits on
the spot, like that's just gonna be

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like, that's gonna But it's just
so wild how different it is now because

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what this young man would have done
would essentially be wasting all of these coaching

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staff's time, right Kentucky, Louisville
and Texas Tech. I mean, they

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do pay for your and I'm not
saying he's getting paid to visit because I

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don't really know if they do or
not. I'm not really sure if you're

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allowed to. But then again,
right now, as it stands, I

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feel like people are doing whatever they
want and hoping a doesn't find out,

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and if they do, they're just
gonna threaten to get a lawyer, and

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that's just where we are. But
when you go on an official visit that

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is paid for by the school,
they put you up, they fly you

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in, So you know, we'll
never know, right He could say,

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yeah, really came down to a
tough decision, but I'm deciding to follow

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Danny Sprinkle. But look, maybe
Danny Sprinkle told him, I'm gonna need

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you to make it quite clear that
everybody else wants you and these other schools

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are willing to pay for you,
because if I don't do that, then

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nobody's gonna pay the nil. So
I don't know, but he'd be a

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huge, a huge asset, no
doubt. And again I'd say, right

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now, we're all just guessing as
far as which way he's leaning. But

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again, Trulli Donovan, I think
it was yesterday, maybe maybe might have

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been earlier today had sat on his
discord that you know, he believes that

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this guy's as quiet, been as
quiet as anybody when it comes to just

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this whole process. So real quick
on the portal, there are it looks

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like twenty two players less in the
top one hundred rankings from ESPN, So

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twenty two of the top one hundred
are still available. Some of these are

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names we're familiar with, right,
like DJ Wagner's on there, obviously,

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Great Osabor is on there. And
then there's some guys like Coleman Hawkins of

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Illinois, who I think just put
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a you know, kind of a
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what I'm saying, right, Like, something bad happens to where he get

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you know, he finds out that
the NBA hates him, and he's realizes

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I got to go back to school
because I'm not going to get drafted,

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you know, that kind of a
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you know, I got asked that
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like what are you hearing about it? And I'm like, I'm not

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hearing anything. And then people's reaction, Oh that I guess that means we're

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not getting him, And I'm like, well, I didn't say that.

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I just I mean, first of
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would know. And I just think
because of this rare, probably never gonna

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happen again situation where you're building a
team from scratch with nothing but players that

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are in the transfer portal. It's
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right, you have eight guys now
at all those guys all kind of

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if you think about it, it
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was pretty early in the process,
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weeks go by and they just started
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seemed. And then again now things
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they are still recruiting players. You
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essentially free agency season. I can't
remember the young man's name who ended up

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going to Alabama. That was the
big man from Ruggers, right, Cliff

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Tough last name, yeah, Cliff, Yeah, something like that. You

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said it best. So he decided
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was a lot of money involved in
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to people thinking that, Okay,
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Yensu the transfer for Kentucky. Everybody
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not because they've added this guy from
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on the board for Louisville to get
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end up adding at least two more
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going to be oor Man, that
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add two bigs and then I think
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because that would give you ten players. Let's say they add two guys.

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Let's you know, wishful thinking fingers
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Sabor, let's say, you know, the other is is Landon Hatton.

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Who's that? That's the guy from
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I think he's going to Indiana.
That may be one that I missed.

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I mean, I could be totally
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was that to day it sounds as
if he is. He is what do

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they call it? Uh, it's
trending towards Indiana. Crystal ball? Yeah,

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I mean how about this? How
about inside the Hall they had they

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had a post up earlier this morning, the you know they they that,

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Yeah, it says here that crystal
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langdon Hatten to go to Indiana.
So I guess it hasn't happened yet,

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you know, I assume there's gonna
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think the rest of those spots,
because again, you get thirteen scholarships right

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now, ten would be used.
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where they get two bigs in the
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I don't I wouldn't even really know
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those last three spots would go to. I mean, obviously you want to

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get the best players possible, but
when you've already got ten, all newcomers

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that are, you know, probably
looking to compete right away, I just

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think it could be a tough sell
for Kelsey and his staff to go get

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a guy to you know. I
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hey, you can come in and
maybe be a starter, right,

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I mean, everybody's gonna have to
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stuff. But I just I think
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their situation where they're building a team
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nothing but the portal. For the
most part, I think the last few

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additions will probably end up being you
know, guys that their numbers don't really

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wow you, but they're there just
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right, I mean, we'll see. Also, I do want to

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talk some football today, because you
know, we still have a long way

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to go before college football gets here. However, we do have some early

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spreads from the folks over at DraftKings, including an early line in the annual

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Governor's Cup Game, but some other
games for Louisville as well that already have

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some spreads out there, so we
can certainly get into that. I'm about

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halfway through the Tom Brady roast on
Netflix and I'll probably wait until I finish

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it to talk about it on the
show. And I'm not going to,

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you know, spend an hour on
it, but it was all anybody was

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talking about last night as it was
live on Netflix. Netflix has done,

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I guess, a handful of live
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know, had to be one of
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in the brief existence of them doing
live live streaming shows. But it

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was a three hour roast of Tom
Brady hosted by Kevin Hart, and it

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became one of those things. And
I know you've seen this before, John,

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something just takes over every platform on
social media. It seems as if

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it's all anybody is talking about,
mostly national, right, because you know

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it's Tom Brady, and you know
it was. I mean, the amount

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of stars that were there that were
a part of it, that that you

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know, participated in roasting Tom Brady
was insane. But I felt like,

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Okay, well now I'm gonna have
to watch this because I feel like I'm

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clearly missing out because everybody's talking about
how great it is. And I watched

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about half of it earlier today.
It's unbelievable, and I got I'm not

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sure if I've ever watched a roast
before, Like I know what a roast

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is, I don't. I know
they haven't happened as much in recent years

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because you know, we've become very
politically correct and that kind of a thing.

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You know, nowaday and this day
and age, it would be.

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And trust me, there's already been
many things said last night that have become

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national stories to some extent because people
are offended by what was said in the

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jokes. But that's just that's not
a surprise. I mean, we know,

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we know what world we're in now
in twenty twenty four. But either

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way, like it's hilarious, but
it times like it's uncomfortable, Like that's

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just my personality, Like that's my
nature. Like I'm looking over because it's

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not just Tom Brady getting made fun
of and getting roasted by you know,

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his former teammates or you know comedians
who can be absolute savages because that's what

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they do for a living, make
jokes and make fun of people. Like

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it's crazy, but you know,
I get that. Not I want to

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say cringe, but like there's this
level of like, oh man, like

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I hope, I hope he's not
just smiling because he wants to cry inside.

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That was really mean. Like insulting
people is I'm not good at it,

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right, like you know, and
nobody should do that. So I'm

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not saying that I'm I'm bad at
it and everybody else is good at it,

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but like it's uncomfortable to me just
my personality and to hear somebody for

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you know, I didn't finish it, but it's it's three hours and it's

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just nothing but just savage insults to
Tom Brady and they're all really really funny,

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but there's just a part of me
every every so often when I when

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I was watching, I'm thinking,
damn, that would have that would have

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made me cry. Don't They usually
compliment them after they get done, Like

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that's all it is. It's all
a backhanded compliment then to any any compliment

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would then be turned into like something
else, some joke. Yeah, like

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you know, and I didn't.
I'd be honest with you. I didn't

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really know a whole lot about like
Tom Brady's personal life. Like obviously I

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know he got divorced and Giselle Bunchin's
at her name. I believe that she

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left him, And I don't know
if they're just making jokes, making stuff

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up, but like some things that
were said about her cheating on him with

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like a karate instructor, like damn, Like those are the ones that it

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looked as if there was some real
pain, you know, you know his

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face whenever he would do that like
smile, So I don't cry. Look,

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it was really really funny, like
you know, I haven't even finished

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it just yet, but it got
me thinking, like whatever happened, you

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know, whatever happened to roasts these
guys, like if we had Kevin Hart

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and Bert Kreischner or and I mean
I can't think of the young woman's name

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who was I think one of the
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I mean, she was hilarious and
I'm like, man, we should do

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this more often. But then I'm
like, actually, I know why we

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don't because everybody would get canceled.
That's just that's what it would turned into.

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But Drew Bledsoe if the quarterback,
of course, fill out of you

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know, younger folks may not know
this, I'm sure a lot of people

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do, but Drew Bledsoe was the
quarterback. He was the franchise guy for

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the Patriots until you know, Tom
Brady came along and completely you know,

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ended his you know, didn't end
his career, but you know, he

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became the guy off the bench briefly
there in New England before he ended up

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going elsewhere and trying to resurrect his
career. But then Tom Brady turned into

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being the best quarterback of all time. But the self deprecating set, if

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you want to call it that from
Drew Bloodsoe was really well done. I

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think I think the bar was low
because I didn't expect him to be funny,

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but he was hilarious. So if
you haven't watched it, and you

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you know, you're comfortable, and
you know you like stand up comedy kind

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of stuff, if you're somebody who
thinks roasts can be really funny, this

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this, I mean, this was
a me Even Kim Kardashian was kind of

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funny, which was kind of wild
that she got booed. So again,

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I'm not going to turn the whole
show into it, but I bet there'll

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be a lot of people listening now
that will end up watching it over the

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next couple of days, and at
some point I do want to kind of

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once I finished it, talk a
little more about it, because I mean,

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I don't know how many all time
greats or at least guys consider to

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be legends in their sport, like
Tom Brady. I'm not sure how many

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of them would do that because it
was brutal. Like I think it's just

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human nature for people to hear somebody
getting joked on and kind of like deep

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down thing like damn, that was
kind of mean. Like hope, like

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I hope, I hope he can
take a joke, because man, that

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would be that would be really hard
to take. And I don't give it.

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Damn about Tom Brady. He's doing
just fine. I don't feel sorry

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for him. But just even knowing
that and hearing some of the things that

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were said, I'm just like,
man, that was me. All right,

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quick break, we'll come back on
the other side. Keep this thing

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rolling along in his coffee and company
we are feel about Thornton's right here on

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Sports Talk seven ninety. That's the
right coffee and company rolling along here on

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a Monday. It feels good to
be back. I have now been on

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the air since Wednesday. Had a
nice long Derby weekend. Hopefully you guys

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enjoyed Derby as well. Weather was
weather was cooperative, wasn't it. I

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Mean, we got some rain during
Oaks Friday, but it didn't it didn't

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seem to last very long. And
in fact, I feel like the majority

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of the day, like when I
was there, it looked like, you

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know, it clearly had been raining
early in the day, but I feel

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like it kind of cleared up when
it needed to. But Saturday, man,

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when I got there, I don't
know if it's because of the walk

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and I didn't have to walk any
further than anybody else. I mean I

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parked at the shuttle spot and where
everybody are, and that was super smooth.

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I mean the idea of going to
park at the Exposition Center and waiting

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in a line to get on a
bus to get over to Churchill Downs just

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sounds like the worst. But man, it was perfect. I mean they

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had an unbelievable amount of busses.
They were all super nice too. We're

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talking like, I mean, I've
never know this probably will surprise them.

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You have never been a professional athlete, but I imagine like whenever you land

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on the plane and you get on
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as like an NBA player, an
NFL player, you know what I'm talking

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about, John, Those kind of
buses like that's what That's what we were

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on. Nice air conditioning. I
mean even they had the little things you

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could charge your phone with and the
lines went super super quick. So just

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when I heard that's what everybody was
going to be doing, I just expected

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it to be a nightmare. And
I'm not. I'm not real patient with

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that kind of stuff. I'm not
sure many people are. But I would

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have avoided doing that, you know, I would have. I would have

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I would have parked a mile further
than that and walked, just because the

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thought of you know, waiting in
line, and I mean I'm clustrophobic anyway,

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so like I just thought of being
crammed on a bus like gives me

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anxiety. But it could not have
been more smooth. So shout out to

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Churchill Downs for once again, you
know, putting on an insanely monstrous event

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and by all accounts, man,
they crushed it. And they had twenty

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point one million people w watching it, which was the most watched Kentucky Derby

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since nineteen eighty nine. I mean, that's that's a lot. That has

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nothing to do with you know,
the people of the track, because you

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know they were there watching in person, but still to see that many people

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tune in. I mean, I
am thirty five years old, so that's

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00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:19.240
this the eighty nine. I was
here in nineteen eighty nine. That would

408
00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:22.720
have been my second Derby. I
don't remember it obviously, I was,

409
00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.519
you know, almost two years old. But to know that that Derby that

410
00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.319
we just had a few days ago
had you know, it's the most watched

411
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.880
derby in my lifetime outside of the
one in nineteen eighty nine. I mean,

412
00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:37.200
it's kind of crazy because I'm sure
it's just those that want to push

413
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.640
you know, the you know,
the narrative that horse racing is dangerous and

414
00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:41.799
we shouldn't do it. I mean, there was a few years there was

415
00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:47.200
a lot of noise about that,
right because there were some unexplainable things happening

416
00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:51.480
with horses get getting hurt. I
mean, it was a very real issue.

417
00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:55.400
But they had a phenomenal week at
Churchill, not just Derby the race,

418
00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:56.720
but everything from I mean, I
don't think there was any issue in

419
00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:03.880
regards to horses being hurt or anything
like that. And you know there's there's

420
00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:06.559
some books that people are putting out. I mean no reason I know this

421
00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:10.400
is because I'm on this list that
I guess goes out to you know,

422
00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.119
a bunch of people that have radio
shows, and it's a PR company that

423
00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:17.359
is trying to get you to bring
on the author of different books to promote

424
00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:18.720
their book. And that's just not
what we do here. That wouldn't be

425
00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:23.119
I think a good a good you
know, the executive producer, mister John

426
00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.279
All the company man, would agree
like that, wouldn't That's not what we

427
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:27.759
do, right, you have somebody
come on and I mean, if it's

428
00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:30.799
like an interesting book, maybe,
but nonetheless, what I'm getting at is

429
00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:33.880
like there had been more noise than
ever in the last few years, that

430
00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.680
like, this sport eventually is just
going to not be a thing anymore because

431
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:41.079
people are going to realize how danger
it is. Is y're dangerous it is.

432
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.079
And again not to say that there
still can't be some issues that could

433
00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:45.640
happen, but a great week overall
when it comes to that, which I

434
00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.000
don't think there were any issues,
and what I can't figure out, and

435
00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:52.440
this is probably there's no way to
say this without it sounding like, you

436
00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.319
know, I'm thinking, like damn, why would that many people watch the

437
00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.759
Derby? Like I get it.
We just explained how there's something electrifying about

438
00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.960
watching those two minutes that it is. It clearly isn't just us, right,

439
00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.119
there's twenty point one million people that
watched it. I always assume like

440
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:14.559
it's always us that Again, I've
said this many times the Derby has Being

441
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:18.000
able to go to the Derby and
help with the coverage for has has helped

442
00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.160
me realize that the majority of the
people that are there are not from here.

443
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:23.519
But when I see twenty point one
million people watching, that's another thing.

444
00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.599
Oh yeah, like this is our
event, but man, everybody across

445
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.319
the world watches. But I didn't
feel like, I mean, I really

446
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.920
did not feel like there was any
any real big storyline leading up to this

447
00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:37.960
race. And again, I probably
wouldn't know it because I'm not somebody that

448
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.000
pays this close attention to that as
others. But I'm just surprised it ended

449
00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:44.480
up having that many people watching without
you know, I just didn't feel like

450
00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.279
there was a whole lot of buzz
about the field itself. I mean,

451
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.359
I don't know, maybe you disagree, John, It's a good thing that

452
00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:52.680
there were that many people that tuned
in, But I mean, maybe one

453
00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:57.480
thing is the fact that as each
year passes, there's more states that legalize

454
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:02.000
gambling, and maybe when people are
ambling online they have they're more inclined to

455
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:04.000
watch it from their house. That's
a good point. That's a good point,

456
00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.119
because yeah, I mean, let's
be real, there are people who

457
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.920
in the last you know, I
mean obviously here we we've not even had

458
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.519
it legal for an entire year in
the state of Kentucky. But over the

459
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.920
years really the last five years or
so, think about all the different states

460
00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.599
that have that now have online sports
wagering. Well, now you know these

461
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.079
sports books like DraftKings, I mean, they have their own app that is

462
00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:30.440
horse racing. Not you know,
it's it's tied to your DraftKings account,

463
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.440
but it's DK horse It's it's its
own app. So yeah, I mean

464
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:40.680
that that is one of the things
that initially when there was pushback from the

465
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:45.119
horse racing folks in this state as
far as them not wanting there to be

466
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.279
sports gambling allowed. Like sports betting, right, you could bet on horses,

467
00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.680
you can do the historical slot machine, but you know, they didn't

468
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.079
want you to be able to bet
on a college football game. They fought

469
00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:57.799
They fought it for a while because
I felt like they you know, I

470
00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:02.240
guess in their mind they would they
probably thought people wouldn't bet on horse racing

471
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.880
as much, they'd only bet on
other stuff. Well, what they came

472
00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:08.000
to realize, and it's happening,
is that the more people are betting on

473
00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.720
all kinds of stuff, the more
exposure it's going to bring to what you

474
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.319
can offer, which is the ability
for them to bet on a horse race.

475
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:18.599
So yeah, the Uh then,
I mean again, I would I

476
00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.519
just would not. I would never
have guessed that that we would have a

477
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.519
derby that ended up getting viewed by
twenty point one million people, and again

478
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:30.680
the most since nineteen eighty nine.
And obviously the finish was legendary. But

479
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.000
like, you don't know that going
in, right, We don't mean it's

480
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:36.400
not something you expect, right,
Like, it's not like you know,

481
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:38.839
it's not like we all tuned in
because we knew it was Game seven of

482
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.279
the NBA Finals and it's bird magic
or something like that. And maybe you

483
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.200
had a lot of people who are
like, well, it's one fifty I

484
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:47.799
was just gonna watch It's the one
hundred and fiftieth Kentucky Derby. Yeah,

485
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:51.720
uh, there was. There was
a whole lot of you know, it

486
00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:53.599
makes total sense. I mean that
one hundred and fifty years is a long

487
00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:57.160
time of doing anything. But how
about how about Martha Stewart? What do

488
00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:00.160
you think about that doing the riders
up? Did you hear about her?

489
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.400
Goof no, are you serious?
I saw her do the writers up?

490
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.079
But if she said anything wrong,
I didn't catch it. Oh she said

491
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.000
Connecticut instead of Kentucky. Well,
she kind of did you didn't hear about

492
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.359
this? No crazy fans from your
round the norvel, the city of Louisville,

493
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:19.960
and the common meals of Hucky.
I'm gonna say, Connecticut, I'm

494
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:26.960
welcome. Used at one hundred and
fifty and anniversary race. I'm sorry that

495
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.960
sounded so bad. I am looking
at the actual Louisville, which I didn't

496
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.720
even know this was a thing.
There's an actual Louisville Twitter account, like

497
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.640
at Louisville huh. I don't know
if it's part of like the Tourism Commission

498
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.079
or whatever. But they posted the
video, so that just assumed it would

499
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.359
be like, you know, decent
quality, but looks like it's just something

500
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:47.960
somebody videoed on their phone. Here
we go. This this should this should

501
00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:56.759
sound better. It still sounds bad. Sounds like microphone feed or something.

502
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.960
Still sounds bad. But either way, she's in What they I didn't understand

503
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:07.279
is what I mean. She's clearly
a very famous person, but like,

504
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:11.200
I just don't know what would have
what would have led to them thinking,

505
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.440
yeah, let's bring her in to
do writers up. Like if I was

506
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.920
thinking the same thing to her,
It's just like, yeah, it's so

507
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:22.200
it's random, right, Yeah.
For for for a derby like this being

508
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.480
the one hundred and fiftieth, you
would have thought you would have had more

509
00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:29.640
of a local flavor to it.
Yeah, And and because I mean,

510
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.599
I'm sure it was something that became
maybe not a maybe not a national thing.

511
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.920
I mean, it's one of those
things that this day and age,

512
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:38.680
like a lot of things, just
ends up being shared one hundreds of thousands

513
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:42.279
of times on social media. But
you know, I don't think it became

514
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:47.200
a national story where everybody was talking
about her goof there where she initially said

515
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:51.680
Connecticut and then corrected herself to say
Kentucky. But like when you have that

516
00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.839
position at the derby and like,
you know, the Derby's are event here

517
00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:56.440
in Louisville, that's what we do, right, and then you can't even

518
00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.960
get what state you're in, Like
it'd be even crazier she didn't correct herself.

519
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:04.960
Yeah, I mean, actually would
have been better. Actually, I

520
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.960
think I would have noticed it had
that. Yeah. So anyway, shout

521
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:13.880
out to everybody that Churchill down's who. I mean, obviously they're opening a

522
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.200
lot more than just derby derby season, but man, this is their big

523
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:21.359
event. This is what. This
is their time to shine and it just

524
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.039
I feel like it could not have
been better in all in all aspects.

525
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:29.359
And a big shout out to the
phenomenal photographer here in Louisville that has been

526
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:36.279
taking amazing photography in the sports world
for for a long time. I don't

527
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:37.759
want to, you know, I
don't want to make it. I don't

528
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:40.319
want to make him sound like he's
an old guy, because you know,

529
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.559
I think he's he's I don't know, I don't know how old he is,

530
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:45.079
but he's been doing it in a
long time. And his name is

531
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.599
Michael Clevenger, and I think that's
his name. Let me make sure I

532
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.279
get it right, because I need
to get his name right. He took

533
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:53.759
the photo that has gone viral because
it is just an It is one of

534
00:32:53.799 --> 00:33:00.160
the best photos you'll see when it
comes to not only horse racing, but

535
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.799
I think just live sports photography,
which again horse racing is a little different

536
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:06.039
than you know, taking pictures at
a football game or a basketball game.

537
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:07.759
But he's the director of photography at
the Courier Journal, and it is Michael

538
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:14.240
Clevenger, and I mean his picture, I mean, just absolutely amazing.

539
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:15.599
I don't know if you've seen it
or not, John, but I'm looking

540
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:19.200
at it. I mean, it
isn't that just I mean, that is

541
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:24.839
unbelievable. Is and you can feel
while looking at the picture. Again,

542
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:28.880
you guys can't see it obviously,
this is radio but I just retweeted if

543
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:30.880
you haven't seen it yet, But
like just looking at you know, these

544
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.160
three horses here, you know,
coming right down to the to the mean

545
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.400
to the wire, and you can
just see the crowd in the background,

546
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:43.200
the media people there, you know, on the dirt essentially. I mean

547
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:47.119
that's like you can feel the you
know, the adrenaline involved in this moment

548
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:51.039
and it's just you know, I
know it sounds super corny, but it's

549
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:53.039
but it's cool. I mean,
what a photo it looks like this.

550
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:55.480
I don't want this to sound like
I'm discounting it because it's a compliment,

551
00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:58.799
but it looks like it could be
a movie post. Oh absolutely yeah,

552
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.720
I mean it's it. In fact, it does. That's exactly what it

553
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:06.039
looks like. If you just told
me that this was an AI created picture

554
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.679
that they just wanted to get the
perfect finish to a race where you know,

555
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:15.119
clearly everybody in the stands is watching
to see that it looks as if

556
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:16.639
they both finished, all three of
them finished at the exact same time.

557
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:21.760
Like I would totally believe it that
it's that it's AI created because what a

558
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.719
what a shot. So again,
this you can't see it. This is

559
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:28.400
radio, like I said, but
if you're on Twitter, I just retweeted

560
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:32.199
it and you can find Michael on
Twitter at m clevinger underscore c J.

561
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.599
All Right, Uh, real quick, something I wanted to uh to mention

562
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.079
on the on the portal side.
How about Rick Patino. I mean,

563
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:47.440
I've always said, like I have
no real emotional attachment to Patino at Saint

564
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:51.000
John's. I'm not going to root
for Saint John's. I'm not going to

565
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:52.199
tune in to watch him, but
I'm not going to root against him.

566
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:57.360
And I do feel like instincts would
kick in and I would find myself like

567
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.440
if he's in the Big Eiast tournament, in a close game and it has

568
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.760
nothing to do with Louisville, I
would probably find myself pulling for Patino because

569
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:07.679
you know, for what fifteen sixteen
years however long, it was like that's

570
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.480
the guy I rooted for at all
times because you know he was Louisll's coach,

571
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.079
but he did, he did get
a get a big time transfer over

572
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:19.400
both Louisville and Kentucky. And I
did not hear that. I mean,

573
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:23.559
I was not aware that Nord Chadowmere
was like seriously considering Louisville, and I'm

574
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:29.000
not really sure if he was.
But you know, Jeff Goodman is as

575
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.880
connected as anybody in college basketball.
And also I know Jeff Goodman is very

576
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:37.039
very close with Pat Kelsey and his
staff. So for Goodman to announce or

577
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.679
I guess, you know, to
to I don't know if he I don't

578
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:44.000
know if he broke the news.
But when sharing to his audience of college

579
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:50.880
basketball fans that Nord Chattomere had picked, I'm sorry, not mean We'll get

580
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:54.599
to Nord Chattomere just a second.
But the young man who who Patino got

581
00:35:54.639 --> 00:36:00.119
that Louisville was in on and so
was Kentucky is Daveyon Smith, who who

582
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:01.559
again started his crew in Mississippi State, went to Georgia Tech, then went

583
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:06.199
to Utah, had a breakout year, and apparently Louisville was in on him

584
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:07.960
and recruiting him, but he ended
up deciding to go play for Patino at

585
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:12.840
Saint John's, so it was Nord
Chattle. It was Baylor who actually got

586
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.719
Nordchatdomere, which I'm not sure you
know. Again, Louisville also was believed

587
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:21.599
to be in the mix there,
but I didn't. You know, Sometimes

588
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:23.599
with these transfers, man, I
don't. I mean, I think it's

589
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:29.960
almost impossible to truly know what level
of interest there is on either side.

590
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.599
Right, Like you see initially the
list of twenty schools, thirty schools,

591
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.440
Maybe that these these that these guys
hear from, and then you hear of

592
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:40.280
visits being scheduled and then visits getting
canceled, and it's probably because you know,

593
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:44.800
academically they can't go to that school
or whatever it may be. But

594
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.599
that is one thing as as a
fan, that is as you know,

595
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:52.519
I'm probably not as crazy about this
as some others, but I'm locked in.

596
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:54.960
Man, I'm I'm as excited as
as can be when it comes to

597
00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:00.760
tracking transfers, figuring out who's going
to be on this debut roster for Pat

598
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:04.719
Kelse. But what you know frustrates
me and not really sure they're sure.

599
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.760
I'm not sure who there is to
blame for it, but like not having

600
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:10.840
any transparency. It's not like I'm
owde information, but like there's certain guys

601
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:14.960
where I'm like, yeah, I'm
really hoping that they get this guy,

602
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:16.480
but like should I even be thinking
about that? Like are they even really

603
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:22.519
in on him? Like you just
never know. So Anyways, Patino ended

604
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:25.760
up getting davey On Smith, and
I'd say Saint John's probably going to be

605
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:29.599
a preseason top twenty team next year. All right, quick break, We'll

606
00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:31.159
come back on the other side.
Wrap up at three o'clock hour. Keep

607
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:34.000
this thing rolling along. If you
guys want to join as you can,

608
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:36.400
you can give us a call five
OX two five to seven one seventy nine

609
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hundred. And if you want a
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sixty five three zero seven ninety again keep

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it locked right here. On Sports
Talk seven ninety I used to consider myself

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to be, you know, relatively
speaking, and a uh, someone who

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was more interested in the NBA than
the average uh, you know, a

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louivillion uh. You know, the
NBA doesn't really get much attention all during

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their entirely too long regular season where
they play eighty two games, and when

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college basketball is going on, it
seems like nobody's paying a lot of attention

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to the NBA around here. But
in the playoffs. I used to really

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get into the playoffs. In last
couple of years, I don't know what

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it is. I think the playing
game that they do is stupid. I

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think seven game series for all of
these rounds is stupid. But either way,

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you know, I still love basketball. So it just becomes like something

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this time of year. I'll just
turn it on when I'm in home,

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and it's kind of like background noise
when I'm doing stuff. Because I used

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to be a big NBA guy and
now I've never felt less like informed on

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the league. But I'll bring all
that up to say I'm now more invested

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and interested because of Donovan Mitchell and
what he's been able to do. I

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mean, he has been phenomenal.
Fifty points on Friday Night, I believe

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it was, and then another monster
performance that helped the Cavs clinch that series.

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Yeah, eighty nine points total in
Game six in Game seven, it's

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the second most in NBA history,
behind only Alan ivers And who scored ninety

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points in two thousand and one.
So a heck of a finish for Donovan,

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and you know he's he's he's the
best Louisville basketball player ever in the

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NBA outside of West Unseld And you
know Wes Unseld that was a long time

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ago when he played. Doesn't mean
it, what doesn't count, doesn't mean

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you know, I'm saying the hell
with it, But you know that was

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I mean, that's something that not
only myself, but a lot of people

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that are a lot older than me, they never witnessed the h you know,

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the career of Wes Unseld in the
NBA. You know, he was

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drafted in nineteen sixty eight and played
until nineteen eighty one. So you know,

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it's not again not discrediting it,
but of all the other players that

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have gone on to have really good
careers in the NBA from Louisville, right,

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I mean, Daryl Griffith was a
phenomenal player in the NBA. Not

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like a legend, but a guy
who had a hell of a career.

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And he's not the old one.
There's others, but I mean Donovan Mitchell,

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I know he's not you know,
won a national he's not won a

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title yet in the NBA. But
he's been a multi time All Star,

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All Star. He is a star
within the league, and he finds himself

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putting up some of his best performances
when it matters most. He did it

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in Utah for a while and now
in Cleveland. I mean, that's been

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a good trade for Cleveland and he's
been the face of that franchise. And

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it seems like even in the two
years that he's been there, every now

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and then before the trade deadline ends, you hear of his name mentioned as

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somebody that they may be willing to
part with. And I'm not sure if

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that's legit or not, because clearly
he's still there, but he's he's great,

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and you know, he's one of
those guys that his presence within the

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NBA right now. I don't know
how much it helps Louisville, but it

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certainly helps him to an extent,
right because when he has eighty nine points

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in back to back games in the
NBA Playoffs, and that's getting a lot

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of attention, people are gonna know
he played a Louisville. Now, will

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it lead to like a commitment from
a certain player, I don't know,

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But Kentucky having as much presence in
the NBA that they have, Like,

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let's be real, that is that
is why Cal could have years where he

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lose to Saint Peter's and lose to
you know, Oakland and Kansas State in

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the second round with Bruce Weber.
But he's still going to get just about

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any high school player he wants because
he puts him in the NBA and that's

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what kids want. And I know
Pat Kelsey didn't coach Donovan Mitchell, but

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still his I mean, having a
guy that is one of the stars of

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that league is something that even programs
that are currently more successful than Louisville can

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say, right like, you know, so really happy for Donovan. He's

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one of the rare guys that actually
got to know a little bit when he

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was here. And you know,
I can say he's a great guy and

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not know him personally, not as
if you know, we're gonna hang out

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and get dinner when the season ends. But you know, there's enough people

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rather it be people around Louisville,
people in Utah when he was there,

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people in the NBA. Like he
is well respected within his profession at at

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you know, at every level.
So I'm gonna I can't wait to see

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you know, if the if the
Cavs can keep this thing rolling along,

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and right now there are there's like
this online debate. It started. It

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started, I believe at ESPN Cleveland
because they're now claiming that Donovan Mitchell is

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the second best player in Cleveland Cavalier
history, behind obviously Lebron James. But

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there are still some Cavs fans that
argue that it would be Kyrie and not

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Donovant, which you know, I
don't, I don't. I mean,

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I have my own thoughts of Kyrie, and I'm not even sure if I

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can be objective because I think Kyrie
is a sensational player, talented guy.

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I don't think he's a winner.
I don't think he's ever won without a

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star helping him. And he's doing
that now in Dallas with Luca. Did

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it with Lebron, and it worked
when he was with Lebron, But clearly

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he was his team's stunk when he
was the man he was. He goes

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to Boston, had a good culture
there and he was he was a turret,

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and they moved on from him,
you know, he left. I

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don't know. I don't know how
it ended up playing out, But still

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like I'm totally I couldn't give you
an honest answer because I would not be

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fair because I don't like Kyrie at
all, and I'm a big fan of

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I mean, I'm a big fan
of Donovan Mitchell. So at least I'm

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telling you I would be you know, it would be hard for me to

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be objective there because I think Donovan's
a better player, better locker room guy.

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But you know, again, I'm
probably you know I'm biased. Yeah,

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eighty nine points in two games.
Unbelievable. All right, We've got

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one hour in the books. We've
got two more to go and a lot

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more to get into, including some
football talk. That's right. We've got

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a couple of point spreads for Louisville
football next year, including the Governor's Cup

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game against Kentucky. A trend continues
when it comes to who's favored in that

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game in the offseason. We'll discuss
it and also talk some more basketball stuff,

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because obviously I'd be a liar if
I tease this if I've got some

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big update when it comes to the
portal. But of the names that are

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available that we know, Louisville has
had some level of interest in. I

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mean, if they can get a
couple of those guys. I mean,

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I think you'd have to look back
at what Pat Kelsey's done and say this

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could be acentially be a tournament team. All right, one more hour,

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actually two hours left him. I'm
getting ahead of myself here