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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. Now here's nit coffee,
Well not exactly nit coffee, but I

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am well, I'm they pulled me
out of the bullpen. I'm Scott Fitzgerald

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coming to you along with John Alden
over there in Studio E. Nick will

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be back next week as he's on
a well deserved vacation and had a great

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chance to talk with Nick when we
were at the Kentucky Derby out of Churchill

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Downs, off the air, talking
a lot of inside baseball and whatnot,

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but we both One thing we talked
about was how much we certainly appreciated being

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able to cover the Kentucky Derby and
be around these horses, and as we

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get to every year, it is
certainly a perk of this job. Not

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only does Churchill Downs take care of
us in every respect, iHeartMedia takes care

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of us. They're like, hey, go cover it, go have fun,

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just go enjoy, go enjoy the
crowd. And that's exactly what we

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did. So we love our horses
here and it's hard to believe another Derby

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is coming gone, hard to believe
in another Preakness coming gone, but that

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leaves one more big race, and
that, of course is the Belmont Stake.

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Sad Sarah Telga in the site I've
been following for years now, and

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when I was asked to fill in
for Nick, I immediately went to these

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guys to say, hey, can
I talk to you? And that of

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course is Racing Dudes. Racing Dudes
dot com is the website. Curtis and

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Curtis, I hope I don't butcher? Your last name? My friend?

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Is it Kelly? What? How
do you say it? You're close?

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You're close. It's tallow word,
but you almost at it? All right?

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I got you, boss, Nick
nickname or call sign Magic is when

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I see they call you right,
Yeah, that's the easy way to do

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it. Just call me Mague.
That's been my nickname with the Racing Dudes

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for almost a decade now, Sweet
brother, So where does magic come from?

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Can I ask you that it's not
a great story. When I first

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joined the Racing Dude, I was
there. I asked if I said I

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was new to horse racing, and
I asked them if I could edit their

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articles in exchange for them, you
know, teaching me about horse racing basically

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was my way of saying like,
you guys are really smart with the horse

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racing, but your grammar, your
syntax not so graceful. Let me help

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you with that. And one of
the first things that they texted me when

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I first started working for them was
hey, something's ready for and your magic.

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But they put something's ready for you
magic because I live in Los Angeles,

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Magic Johnson the Lakers. Yeah.
Yeah, it just stuck like glue.

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Ah. That's awesome. All right, dude, Curtis, And tell

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me kil Ward, Am I going
to get that right? Cal word?

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Can I say that cal a word? Like you're having to work a word?

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Cal a word? There you go, I got it, Buss,

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you're correcting me too, dude.
Appreciate it only comes to you as right

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right, No, no, no, I get it. Hey, listen,

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I appreciate you making some time because
I reached out to you guys and

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and you said that you know,
first you were Roger up. You said

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yeah, absolutely in your West Coast
guy too. So and I'm glad you

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are because I want to talk to
you a little bit about West Coast racing

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as well. But certainly again,
the website is racing Dudes dot Com all

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right, Curtis, as we talked
about the Derbys in the rear view,

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sees the Gray had a great run
at the Preakness missic Dan of course to

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Kentucky Derby. Where does that leave
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know, there seems just to be
a lot of interest for the Belmont Sakes

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this year, which is great to
see both as a fan and someone who

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works in this tourt. But the
Velmont looks like we could have a really

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competitive field. People who had bet
se ear lyon in the Kentucky Derby and

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thought that he might have been the
best horse so that he should have won,

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Well they're going to get their chance
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the Belmont Stakes possibly. What's interesting
this year, Scott is unique. They're

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doing construction on the actual Belmont Park
racetrack, so demolishing the grand stand,

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rebuilding. It's going to be this
big, state of art facility. What

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that means is for two years they're
now holding the race that race weekend upstate

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New York at Saratoga. The way
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and a half with a distance,
it just wouldn't work out. We'd be

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starting in the middle of a turn, so instead it's the amount of the

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quarter. So it's the same distance
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it up a little bit, Scott, it makes it so horses that maybe

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you look at them and say,
not a quarter stretching it mount and a

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half no way. Well now they're
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they think this is a good prep
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Serazoga has a Grade one race worth
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to cast six hundred thousand dollars Great
Toe Race, so there's a lot of

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money to be made at Saratoga.
Maybe use this as a prep as well.

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Nice Curtis callowed, joining us from
racing Dudes dot com. We're talking

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about the Belmont and talking about the
state of horse racing in general. As

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Curtis mentioned, there are several changes
this year, and keep an eye and

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again, if you want to see
more of these guys, I recommend you

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get on board. They've got their
podcast, they've got their free picks.

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Racing Dudes dot com is where you
want to go. Curtis, you're a

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West Coast guy, obviously that is
where Bob Baffort is home to. That

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is his home territory. I think
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Broken Horses, did not paint him
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from Churchill Downs, but they love
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talked to with Scott Wykoff from WBA
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And now we have hiss or heisa, however you want to say it

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here at Churchill Downs? Are we
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twenty twenty four than we were prior
to all this? And where does that

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lead Bob Bafford the great question.
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absolutely in a better place since the
introduction of HITSA. That's really been the

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main thing. The unfortunate situation,
Scott is that for decades with all of

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the individual companies only in different sections. You know, there's the New York

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Racing Association, California Horse Racing for
the Kentucky horse Racing, so they're all

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different and independent, and then the
operators of the tracks are all different from

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each other. So it's like if
you had thirty two NFL teams that each

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owner had complete jurisdiction and say of
what they wanted to do. It's a

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complete madhouse. There can be no
law, no order, no consistency.

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And when it comes to horse racing, yes there is the history of Layton

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drug youth and abuse with these poor
animals, But this sport did not regulate

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itself nearly well enough and had every
chance, and there were people, there

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are top trainers in the game that
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at least publicly, and it never
worked, and it lasted up until it

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was the March. With March twenty
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down, the SBI rated two well
known trainers down in Florida and they were

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serving you know, long sentences for
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this huge undercovered drug team that day
uncovered. So it is very unfortunate that

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the sport got to the point that
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the FBIRA and now hits US.
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seems a lot better. Safety numbers
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had a completely safe week at Churchfield
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just a few way more than there
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so it's in a better place.
What's interesting about the Bob back up part

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is that the Kentucky Derby continues to
set record handle numbers, meaning more people

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are betting money or there's more money
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the last two years, Bob Baffert
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don't know how much of that is
related to one another, but it is

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astounding that some people said when Baffert
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be horrible for the sport. Nobody
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we've seen the opposite happen. Yeah, you're right. Curtis Callward's joining us

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now. He is again with Racing
Dudes. You can go to Racing Dudes

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dot com. I highly recommend you
go there. I've been following them for

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years. They've got a great podcast
up there. You can get their free

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picks. They'll help you out there, that's for sure. Even betting one

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a one is out there as well. And we'rest course talking about the Belmont

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that's going to be running much different
Belmont this year than what we've seen in

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the past. All Right, till
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Curtissey of course got the double at
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is the hottest jockey right now out
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it's hard to say. Brian still
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continues to do well. It's hard
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of May, that there's not anyone
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interesting is that, potentially, it's
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potential that Mystic Dane, your Kentucky
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go to the Belmont State, as
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won the Kentucky Oaks Brian Hernandez.
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it's going to have a very tough
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the Philly or does he ride the
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to do, But it makes for
an excellent storyline. Again, we're talking

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with Curtis cal War to get with
racing dudes and Curtis. You look at

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the record numbers at the Derby.
It was a great turnout for everybody there.

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We saw more than what we probably
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Does horse racing need to do any
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more? I mean you look at
the new paddock area at Churchill and that

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was clear to me when I was
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that I mean, this is the
gold standard. You look at church and

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you'll get a track like Keenlin.
That's amazing. But after what we had

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seen, with all the accidents and
leading up to etc. Is horse racing

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done all it can do? Is
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Can the sport get bigger? Can
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it had back in say the forties
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get back to those dates. I
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and they have every right to feel
how they want, But there are enough

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animal activists out there who will continue
to push the narrative that horse racing in

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general just is bad. There is
are you know. I won't bore you

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now but there are plenty of examples
of the way the horse racing actually is

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good for the horses. For example, a horse in the wild is fifteen

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percent more likely to die that it
just you know from some for the cause

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out there, than it is a
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not all of them, but a
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all. But take a back to
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going to be ever back to that. There's always more can do you know,

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trying to there's different way people trying
to figure out how to way promote

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the sport a different way. There
has been a push lately to push kind

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of a Hollywood glitz and glamour about
it, and that I hasn't been very

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well received from everybody that I've talked
to you. But I think making it

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as friendly to people betting as possible. It's a lot more intimidating you want

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to bet horse racing than if you
want to say, you want to bet

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a basketball like Kentucky versus Louisville,
Like you know, you take a or

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b you take who's going to win, maybe you bested total something like that.

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More tracing it there is ten,
fifteen, twenty horses in a race,

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and all of this confusing data points
to try and tell you who to

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bet or who nots to bet.
So I think making it easy for people

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to get interested in betting and learn
about betting and feel comfortable doing it,

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that's what drives the sport. So
it is the betting truly. Curtis Calowo

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joining us again the website Racing Dudes
dot com. We're talking horse racing and

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the state of horse racing in twenty
twenty four. Curtis, as we're seeing

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more and more expanded gaming coming up. Now, that was the big talk,

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that was the big debate here with
our lawmakers. I'm sure there were

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some that are well vested in the
horse industry. We're concerned that once Kentucky

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went full on with expanding gaming,
that would cut into the purses the horsemen's

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game, that people wouldn't bet as
much on the horse as they'd be betting

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on other sports. What are you
seeing, as you guys are there on

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the forefront of the betting game,
pretty much nationwide, has expanded gaming hurt

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the horse game. Not for the
big days people are setting. We're constantly

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seeing records be broken for not just
the Derby, but for Preakness, dates

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for the Velmot, for the Breeders'
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first weekend in November. As far
as what the racing duds are doing,

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you know, we're trying to figure
out new ways to attract people over at

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our end, so we're trying to
be a lot more educational. So if

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you're trying to get into horse racing, we have a YouTube channel where we

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have every possible video they're explaining what
we like. We're very open on social

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media, by email, communicating with
people. So we know that the way

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to grow the sport is to help
people feel comfortable getting into it, and

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so that's just what we try to
promote over there. And I like what

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you're doing there, Curtis. I'm
looking at im at racing Dudes dot com

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right now and I recommend anybody go
there if you're driving and you can't figure

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it out, or you want to
say, hey, I heard you talk

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to somebody Scott at WHS dot com. Is my website or is my email

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address? Excuse me? You guys
have a section. It's right there.

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It's betting one on one and you
go in there, and you some of

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the titles how to handicap pace and
explaining lead changes, horse racing, betting

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tips. You've got your racing dudes, picks and products, explained that kind

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of thing. That's awesome. And
I'll be honest with you, Curtis,

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and this is in no way it's
not a Peyton doorsman or anything. It's

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why I went to you guys.
You know, I wanted to figure out

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how to bet, and you guys
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it's there, So I think.
So what you're saying is that's the key

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is what some of these places are
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of embrace folks, is make it
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me to lay down. In fact, dude, I was at when I

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was at the track, I actually
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have the app on my phone,
I still went to the window. And

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I was amazed at the number of
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was a a well greased betting crowd, but it seemed to take them forever

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to try to bet. They were
the way they and then the poor person

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behind there had to sit there and
and and just tell them how to bet

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the horses, how to do what
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saying. I think, you know, if you educate people better on how

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to bet, you know, they'd
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Of course, winning cures everything,
that's for sure, But I think

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you guys do a great job.
Curtis, Before we let you go,

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I want to talk to you real
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Preakness year West Coast guy, what
are some of the races we should be

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looking at? If people go to
racing Dudes dot com, they get educated

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over the next couple of weeks,
what are some of the things we should

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be looking at? May put some
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previews up for whatever big races.
Right now, it's a little bit of

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a slow time, but if you
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example, which will be two weeks
from this coming Saturday, we'll have a

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free preview with our pick who we
both who we think is going to win.

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do? Is I like the three
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we go through every single horse and
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to win, how could they get
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way where you can understand that.
You know, we will link back to

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a lot of different videos and that
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help people out. I don't have
a Belmonte for you yet. We still

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we're in the field for probably another
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is looking to try horse racing,
or if you want to try our website,

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we do South Pick, but we
also have free wind picks every single

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race, every track, every day. So if you wanted to play Churchill

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Downs this weekend and try us before
the Bellmont or before you actually give us

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any money, you go right on
the front page. You can see where

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this got at the top there.
Free pick every single check every single day

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in America, you know. And
what I like is you've also got a

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wagering calculator on your website too,
dude, that has big buttons. So

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yeah, I can go because it's
really cool because I can say, okay,

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let's say I want to put five
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pardon to your point a pent effect. I had no idea that was even

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a thing, So it's there and
you can put that down. I mean,

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you really are dude, Curtis.
You guys are dudes. You are

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a one stop shop. It's why
I went to you, guys, and

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this has certainly been an honor to
talk to you, Curtis. I hope

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I can put you in my Rolodex
and call you guys as we get closer,

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maybe Derby next year as well Breeders'
Cup and maybe into our phone meet.

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I'd like to do some more stuff
with you guys and talk to you

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a little bit more, absolutely with
the player speaking with you and being on

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the station and on air with you. Really appreciate you reaching out and your

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support, and anytime any reach right
out to Scott would be weren't happy to

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hop on with you or if someone
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All right, brother, you enjoyed
that West Coast lifestyle, will you?

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I'm jealous for my days of living
in San Diego. Thanks. I've been

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in the thing top in the sports
all day long. Not gonna all right,

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brother, Hey, Curtis, take
care of yourself. Brother, we'll

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talk down the road. Well,
Curtis Is, he's a good dude,

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and they're good Dudes at Racing Dudes. Again, that was not a paid

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endorsement by any means. I found
them on my own. I have been

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following them for years and I just
now had an excuse to talk to him,

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and I'm glad I did. They're
good people. They will educate you

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how to bet. Racing Dudes dot
com is the website. Well, I

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mean, come back, We'll talk
some more sports with John Alden. I'm

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Scott Fitztrol filling in for it Nick
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I'm telling you, man, you
are riding a cool vibe because I

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was just talking with Curtis Calwood from
Racing Dudes and he's out in Cali.

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Dude, that's a Cali song.
Oh yeah, that's a Cali song.

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That's that's my that's living in San
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my god, dude, that's sitting
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Ironically, three eleven was my apartment
number and smoking a cigar on a

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Friday after work, we had palm
trees right outside of our apartment. I

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shared an apartment. You're just a
traveling man. You've been all over the

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place, dude, I just Anthony
Boorde is my spirit animal. Okay.

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When I'm in a bad way,
I dial him up and uh and he

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soothed my soul. But man,
that I'm here, that's uh, of

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course not it's that one. And
slightly stupid is my other one. Okay,

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I gotta be careful. And I
played slightly Stupid because you can't play

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everything on the area. And it
was so funny because I don't know how

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it was, but I was doing
some stuff with the University of Lovall hockey

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team and one of the players,
I don't know how. We were all

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standing around, we were talking and
I mentioned slightly stupid. He goes,

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oh, you listen to slightly Stupid? I go, yeah, I listened.

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I hadn't know anybody else did.
Here. In fact, I was

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gonna try to take my wife to
a slightly stupid concert when they were in

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Cincinnati. You have to wear masks
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what I mean, if you go
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gonna be real hungry when you leave. So no, it's definitely calible,

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ye, but appreciate Curtis Coward joining
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talk some more when we come back
after break and wrap up this great two

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days. This has been to really
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We got to the start of the
NHL plass. I am gonna talk

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a little stick and puck. We've
got some baseball coming up. The Reds

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trying to speaking of Sandy Man,
where is the San Diego vibe coming from?

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That's who the Reds are playing again
tonight, so they're gonna take them

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on. We're gonna talk a little
National League Central Baseball and we're gonna find

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out. The Cardinals end up playing
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that game they were playing first off, and then they were gonna play the

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second game after that. We'll see
how they do, and hopefully the Reds

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can find a way to get this
thing turned around and get that bullpen in

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shape after what was just a straight
up successful season last year. Expected much

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better from the Reds. But we'll
see what they can bring up and then

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well maybe if we have time,
we'll get into a little NFL talk.

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A lot of NFL teams are buzzing
down because it's OTAs the Bengals start their

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OTAs next week and this on the
heels of pein Court Stadium making some improvements,

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and you know, I heard everybody
talk about that, and you know

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they need to make these improvements.
You know, they gotta do this,

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they gotta do that. And honestly, every time we've gone up there,

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it's been a great time. I
didn't really notice anything. It's the one

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stadium that is taking a lot of
heat is of course Arrowhead Stadium where the

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Chiefs play. In fact, I
forget the Texas player's name, but he

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was drafted by the Chiefs and got
to the locker room. He's like,

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oh man, He's like, because
if you've seen the Texas locker room,

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it's amazing. It's just immaculate.
So he said, yeah, the Chiefs

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are going to try to do some
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So we'll we'll talk about that,
we'll run that down. I'm gonna

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find my way in front of the
TV. I put all my chips in

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on the Rangers to go on and
win the Eastern Conference and that was before

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the playoffs started, so hopefully I'll
be away. I'm gonna hit the gym

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up when I leave here, and
if it's gonna be like last night,

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I'm going to hit the gym and
then go home and have something to eat

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and crash, So I'll probably end
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Speaking of scores, I did want
to bring you up to speed on

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what's going on at the SEC Baseball
tournament. We talked with Darren Hendrick,

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voice of the Cats. It was
South Carolina beating Arkansas six to five.

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So now that is going to set
up a rematch tomorrow morning here on Sports

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Talk seven to ninety. It is
going to be the Kentucky Wildcats and the

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Arkansas Razorbacks, and the Cats are
going to have to win if they want

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to stay alive. Now they're going
to make the NCAA tournament, there's no

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doubt about that. But it would
be nice for all the ups and that

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the Cats had this year and after
really just taking it on the chin.

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Oh my god, it was just
such an ugly game today, losing eleven

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to nothing, that in eight innings
to LSU at the in the first game.

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But they're going to take on Arkansas. Looks like Arkansas was just in

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Lexington May third. They were there
that weekend and the Cats dropped the first

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game ten to three. They came
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three, and then again seven to
four. So we'll see what they can

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do. We'll see if they can
pull it out and maybe survived this thing

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and move on. Also, coming
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Loulesvelle Cardinals. They're going to be
playing. They'll play Clemson. That's pretty

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much just really in all honesty,
just for pride. Unless they can find

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a way to rattle off some wins. We'll see what they can do.

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And as we mentioned when it came
to the other college baseball tournaments, a

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lot of the other teams still in
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Eastern Kentucky was in their double elimination. And then again, we've just got

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some local talent that's playing here.
So the one thing and still alive as

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well in a Big ten tournament.
Yes, that's right, thank you,

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John. I'm glad you said that. Yeah, they're gonna play the Ohio

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State tomorrow. They're gonna get it
going with them. You know. I'm

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so glad that they finally deadened the
sound of the bat that used to be

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the one thing that always stood out
about college baseball. It was the ping

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ping when they would hit. So
they've dulled that down a little bit.

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We'll see, we'll see what they
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knows. But as I was talking
with Darren that it's awesome that we can

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have two wonderful programs with two beautiful
stadiums. Again, I get the rivalry.

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You hate each other knowing, I
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he's a devout. I mean,
Louisville Cardinal baseball team walks on water for

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as far as he's concerned. They
now, he admits when they do wrong,

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they do wrong, but he admits
they they just walk on water.

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He came in today with an lsu
hat on. He did all that.

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He took them town. He took
them to town. So he's gonna come

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in with that and and do his
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but that's that's the rivalry. But
we are blessed to have two teams,

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two beautiful stadiums. We did get
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time we were in Lexington. It
is just beautiful, as is Jim Patterson

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Stadium. I know that's been the
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They've been promised upgrades to Jim Patterson. Haven't quite happened yet. But

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looking at some of these baseball stadiums
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have it pretty good. But while
we're talking about baseball, I guess we

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got some time doing not John,
we're not taking a break here for ba.

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No, you're good. Oh good? Okay, I was. I

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wasn't sure were time still getting used
to I wasn't sure we were taking a

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break. All right, Well,
as long as we have time, we

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might as well talk a little bit
about the Reds because they're trying to get

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their fortunes turned around. And they
again open that series with the San Diego

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Padres along the banks of the Ohio
last night. And I will never forget

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when my son came home and said
to me a few years ago, his

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dad's god by the name Elie Dala
Cruz that's in the Red systems. You

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gotta check him out. And so
this is when someone was younger is like,

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okay, somebody on TikTok tell you
this, and he's like, no,

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you got to check him out.
And I was like, okay,

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all right, And so apparently he
might have been onto something because last night

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pitch and it's on the ground on
one hot pot the glove of the first

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basement, thrown it words, they'll
tear him into right field. Day La

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Cruz heading for second run, Will
score throw it a second not in time.

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It's a double for Dey la Cruz
and at RBI. Yeah, that's

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the great time. He threw on
wlw li Day La Cruz last night,

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doubling the Fernando Tattoos Junior that scored
Will Benson and that's all they would need.

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They going to beat the Padres last
night two to nothing. Andrew Abbitt

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going seven innings in the shutout.
He allowed just four hits and struck out

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two. That's what they're gonna need
more of if the Reds are gonna make

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a move here. And I don't
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Green seems to be coming along.
He's got to get better control of that

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slider. But he's coming along the
two by the way back at it weather

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permitting tonight. I didn't get a
check and see what the weather's doing in

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the Natti tonight. But they're gonna
send one into Nick Martinez to the hill.

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He's gonna go up against San Diego's
three and four Michael King. Now,

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when you're talking about the Saint Louis
Cardinals, they finished up Game two

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of their series. It was suspended
in the bottom of the sixth due to

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inclement weather at Bush Stadium. It
was tied one to one at the time

406
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of the suspension. They wrapped it
up earlier. Today the Birds got a

407
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three to one win. Nolan Gorman
drilled the two run home run and then

408
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winning effort. The Birds get the
series win, coming off a seven game

409
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losing streak. They're gonna play their
schedule game today. They were supposed to

410
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play it today. I'm gonna try
to get a score. They sent Kyle

411
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Gibson to the hill. He was
taking on Baltimore lefty John Means. Now

412
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also in the National League Central,
a team that is right on the heels

413
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of Milwaukee. That would be the
North Siders of the Chicago Cubs. Lookitch

414
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beg Chopper, right side bellancer comes
into score. Cubs win the ball game.

415
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The Cubs win it, and the
Cubs win the ball game in ten

416
00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:23.440
names by a score of four to
three. I think the Cubs win the

417
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ballgame. Uh. But by the
way, the Cardinals, they're up five

418
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to three on the O's in the
bottom of the eighth. That was former

419
00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:34.160
twenty eighteen first round picking the Cubs
out of Stanford Nical Horner. He came

420
00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:37.079
through an extra as the Cubs beat
the Braves. That I thought that was

421
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gonna be a good series. But
the Brave boy, I don't know whether

422
00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:42.039
what's going on with them, but
they beat the Braves four to three and

423
00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:45.359
ten innings, Luke Little getting his
first winning relief. So if you're looking

424
00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:49.079
at the National League Central, the
Brewers winners last night over the Marlins seven

425
00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:52.240
to five. The Cubs now a
game and a half back with that win.

426
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The Pirates, who some left for
dead, are only five and a

427
00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.559
half out. They beat the Giants
last night seven to six. As we

428
00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:00.759
mentioned, the Birds are trying to
make some noise. They went into the

429
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:04.000
second game this afternoon six back of
the Brewers. They can pull it to

430
00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.960
within five and a half depending on
what Milwaukee does tonight. And of course

431
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:14.240
the Reds are down eight games in
the division now. Last night just down

432
00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:17.359
the street, when we're at former
twenty nineteen third pick of the third round

433
00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:21.559
pick of the Marlins out of Wright
State, Peyton Burdick wit Yard five hundred

434
00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:26.400
feet and the Louisville Bullpin shut down
Toledo the Tiger's farm system seven to five.

435
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.319
They'll play game two tonight at six
point thirty. So a lot going

436
00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:32.799
on, a lot of moving parts
in baseball, John, I don't know

437
00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:37.400
if you're an avid baseball fan.
Baseball for me, so I've never been

438
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the biggest baseball fan. I used
to get into college baseball. There was

439
00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:44.640
a phase in my life whenever I
was really into it for whatever reason,

440
00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.640
I was really into all college sports
right before I got into that college space

441
00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.519
myself. And then I also played
a little baseball back whenever I was really

442
00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.039
just a kid. Once it became
so I went from t ball all the

443
00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:00.680
way up the kid pitch, and
once it got the kid pitch started hitting

444
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.000
and stuff like that, that was
it for me. I couldn't do baseball

445
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.240
after that. Yeah, I hear
you. I was for me. I

446
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:08.519
was rnny much in the same boat
you were, And I went up to

447
00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:11.720
we had what they called the senior
Major leagues, and I was never that

448
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.960
good. I just wasn't good at
baseball, but I would go to the

449
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:18.920
ballpark because I just like being there. It's a good vibe at a ballpark,

450
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.960
That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
So when I played, so now

451
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.759
what I did when I lived in
San Diego, what I would do is

452
00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.240
I would go to the ballpark on
Friday night after I got off work and

453
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:33.039
I was a single guy. I
did it by myself. I could go,

454
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.440
I get a couple of beers.
I'd sit there and watch them,

455
00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.960
kind of like my happy hour.
Most people go to a pub. I

456
00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:44.359
go to the ballpark and then I
would skip Saturday, and then I would

457
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.319
go back to the ballpark on Sunday
because Saturday was always like that free giveaway

458
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:51.640
night, so like everybody's coming down, everybody's trying to get this, this

459
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:53.079
and this, and they went their
free stuff. So I would go on

460
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:56.880
Sunday because a lot of people wouldn't
go on Sunday. It was a cool

461
00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.720
vibe on a Sunday, and I
get seats right there. It was Qualcomm

462
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.160
Stadium at the time, right on
the bullpen. I saw some good players.

463
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:06.480
I mean, I got nice pictures. I still have the eight by

464
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:11.200
tens a couple of them eleven seven
by seventeen's like John Smoltz when he came

465
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:14.440
out with the Braves and their heyday
and got some good pictures of these players.

466
00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:15.400
But I would just go sit at
the ballpark and that was my inner

467
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.720
piece. And I still do that
to this day. I will go and

468
00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:22.039
if my son goes with me and
we go down here to sucker Field,

469
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.920
we may say two words to each
other the whole night, the whole day,

470
00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.759
but we just love sitting at the
ballpark. And many times we'd go

471
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.960
up to Cincinnati and it was always
the day game. It was the afternoon

472
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.759
game because we go up there because
I don't know, for whatever reason,

473
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.920
but it'd be hot, but we'd
sit there. And my wife doesn't do

474
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.960
heat well, so like she rarely
will go to the ballpark with especially in

475
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.559
the thick of the summer games,
because she just even at night sometimes it

476
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:49.440
can be pretty hot. Send it
at the ball games. But did you

477
00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:53.519
have a favorite food that you like
when you go to a ball You know,

478
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.680
I always love a good pretzel,
a good salted pretzel. And I'm

479
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.559
the kind of guy like all the
salt put as much saligy want on there

480
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:04.079
that may be unhealthy for you,
but that's a ballpark food is for yeah,

481
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:07.680
meant to be unhealthy. Do you
ever do do you ever do like

482
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:11.920
the you get the crazy dogs,
the crazy menu items that people have.

483
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.599
I'm pretty basic when it comes to
a lot of things like that. Yeah,

484
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:17.640
I get a nicke. It has
made fun of me before. There's

485
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:19.960
a lot of there's a lot of
foods that maybe the average person, especially

486
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.880
like ballpark foods, that the average
person would order. I just don't dabble

487
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.920
in that kind of stuff. Yeah
see, And that's and that's become sort

488
00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:33.519
of that's become sort of baseball is
doing now, is that people people like

489
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.319
to go in and they like to
try the foods. They'll have big food

490
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.319
unveils and they'll try to outdo each
other in the foods. The other big

491
00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:45.000
to do is, of course,
the alter egos that baseball teams have.

492
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.559
And this really happens in minor league
baseball. And there's a guy if you

493
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:49.880
follow him on TikTok, I'll try
to get his name for you. I

494
00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:52.079
was watching his video the other night. He takes a look at these and

495
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:57.680
he breaks him down. For example, like you'll have the Eugene Emeralds.

496
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.640
They're a team that are the high
affiliated the San Francisco Giants. Well,

497
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:07.519
they'll play one game a year,
maybe a few as the Exploding Whales.

498
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:11.519
And if you go back, if
you can look this up on YouTube and

499
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:15.480
see the story in nineteen seventy it
was the body of a massive sperm whale

500
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:18.839
washed up on the beach in Florence, Oregon, and the way to get

501
00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:22.759
rid of the whale was they exploded
it. But that whole thing blew up

502
00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:29.880
literally in their face because parts of
the whale kept falling around. You'll have

503
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.880
to go look at it. It's
the Eugene Exploding Whales. A couple of

504
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:37.279
the others. This team, for
me has one of the best names in

505
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.039
all minor league baseball. That is
the Hertford yard Goats, the Double a

506
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:45.480
affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. They
play as the Hartford Bouncing Pickles. So

507
00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:48.680
when is a pickle not a pickle
if it doesn't bounce? And that's what

508
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.400
they said in the nineteen The basis
for a nineteen forty eight Connecticut state law

509
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:57.079
that says the targeted pickle sellers whose
product was unfit for human consumption if it

510
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:00.839
bounces, don't need an ounce.
So now the team has got new jerseys.

511
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:04.960
They picked them up. They call
themselves the Bouncing Pickles. And then

512
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:10.039
you have the and what I think
are two of the great names because Brendan

513
00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:12.480
Fott, who of course went to
Bellerman went to Trinity and sant Martha played

514
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:18.519
for the am Amarillo sod Poodles.
They're the double A affiliate for the Arizona

515
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.440
Diamondbacks. They play as the Amarillo
calf Fries c alf Fries. They're also

516
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.440
known as Rocky Mountain Oysters. There
are a polarizing food, a fried food

517
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:32.319
delicacy. The sod Poodles, who
operate out of Texas's Panhandle, announced their

518
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:36.039
calf Fries alternate identity. Well it
was it last year, last year,

519
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:38.279
the year before they yeah, it
was last year they announced it. And

520
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.680
you know, that's the cool vibe
with Minor League Baseball and if I can

521
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:47.079
look up the x feed that it
is. But there's I follow like m

522
00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:49.039
I LB promotions. If you go
there, you can see all the different

523
00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:53.400
promotions that they give away, and
it's really cool the way they track this

524
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.880
stuff and you can look it up, but nobody does it better. Than

525
00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:01.240
minor league baseball in some of the
and it comes not just with not just

526
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:05.559
with the uniforms, but also with
the food that they serve as well.

527
00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:08.400
I think if I go to a
ballpark, I'm with you. Now that

528
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:10.440
I'm in this health kick, I
don't eat the way that I used to

529
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.279
unless it's Saturday and it's my day
of gluttony. But I know one of

530
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:17.480
my favorites we mentioned yesterday that I
loved it. I was, I love

531
00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:22.839
the South Side of Chicago. So
when you go get a true Chicago dog,

532
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:24.640
you can get them at you can
get one at Wrigley if you want.

533
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:27.680
I mean, it's just loaded up
and it's got everything out it,

534
00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:30.319
and you know a Chicago dog when
you taste it. Which is really funny

535
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:34.079
because when it comes to pizza,
I can't stand in Chicago style pizza.

536
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:37.319
I'm the same way the deep dish. Nah, dude, that's cast role.

537
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:38.799
That's not a pizza on you.
That's what I'm saying. You might

538
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:42.799
as well have a plate of lasagna. But I know people that swear by

539
00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:45.480
it. I'm a New York pizza
kind of guy all the way. I

540
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.640
love that that thin christ you fold
it in half. You know, you

541
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:51.240
can take a New York pizza and
everybody's all, you're from Michigan. You

542
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:52.920
don't like the Detroit style, No, because Detroit styles a lot like deep

543
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.000
dish. It almost means it is
a little more tolerable than the Chicago style.

544
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:00.119
I'll say that. But they are
in the same family for sure,

545
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.039
right right, right. But the
one thing that I did love when we

546
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:09.400
went to the NFL Draft was we
went to and this place was packed the

547
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:13.880
whole time we were there, Lafayette
Coney Island. And it's interesting because I

548
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.240
said, we're going to Detroit,
Guys, I want a coney and I

549
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:20.160
want a Burner's. And I's like, what's a coney dog? Well,

550
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:22.880
to be honest with you, it's
a glorified chili dog. And it just

551
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:27.319
depends on who you ask. And
so we went to Detroit and you go

552
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.640
to Lafaytte Lafayette' chili dog. And
if you've ever seen the Kid Rock video

553
00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:35.319
for roll On, they have a
competitor that's right next to them. I

554
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.880
think it's American Coney Island. It's
the one that's right next to them.

555
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.319
That's where Kid Rock rolls into with
the Uncle Cracker, and they have a

556
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:45.240
coney dog there. They said they
sold in the two days of the NFL

557
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.400
Draft ten thousand coney dogs. And
I know for a fact because when we

558
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:51.880
were in there that place you couldn't
move. You couldn't move. So you

559
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:53.839
go to these different places. Chicago, if I go there, I'm gonna

560
00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:57.279
get the Chicago dog. People ask
me all the time, do you like

561
00:33:57.319 --> 00:33:59.720
the Chicago dog or do you like
the Coney dog better? You can't compare

562
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:01.839
them like trying to pick a favorite
kid. You know, Coney dogs have

563
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:06.960
their own taste. Chicago dogs have
their own taste. When I go when

564
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.360
I was in San Diego, the
Big Delicacy, there was a Rubio's fish

565
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:14.119
taco. Fish tacos were amazing,
which is really just kind of of taco

566
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:17.199
with fish in it. But it's
just something about the way they prepare them.

567
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:20.639
What was it when we had we
went to Seattle. I was trying

568
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:22.400
to remember what we had when we
went up to Seattle. But you can

569
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.119
have the different delicacies that are out
there. Do you think the hot brown

570
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.679
is a good Louisville delicacy or do
you think that it should belong to something

571
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.360
else is like the iconic Louisville.
No, no, no. What was

572
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.760
interesting was we went to It's a
place out in London. It's an old

573
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.119
train station. We went there for
Christmas dinner. I think it was the

574
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.599
second ever, the second ever hot
brown I've ever had since I was in

575
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:50.559
Kentucky, and it was amazing.
I told my wife, I'm like,

576
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:52.280
how do I not eat more of
these? How did it? Because people

577
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:54.000
come in at all the time,
they go, well, we're gonna come

578
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:58.519
in and visit. We want something
that's that's unique to Kentucky. And I

579
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.599
said, well, you guys probably
want a hot brown and I can't make

580
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:06.519
those, so let me take you
out for a hot brown. And those

581
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:09.079
are I couldn't make them, and
there's certain places that do them right.

582
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:12.679
God, wish I could remember the
name of this place. I'll figure it

583
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.159
out. I'll find out what it
was. But they made it like it

584
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:17.400
was no other. And I was
trying to think, if you go into

585
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.199
Indiana now, some of the delicacies
in Indiana. Oh, there's another place.

586
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:24.159
When we're talking about sports joints that
we want to go to. You'll

587
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:27.360
have to forgive me because I'll look
this up every time we go to a

588
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:34.360
game and IU it is a a
bar slash pub that's up there is Nix

589
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.800
English Hut maybe no, no,
no no, But I'm looking it up

590
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.880
for you as we kill now kill
Roise. I know where kill Rois is

591
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.639
and I know they Oh man,
that's gonna bug me now that I can't

592
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:49.360
find that. I'll know when I
see it. But we go up there,

593
00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:52.360
and I love it so much that
I can't think of it now when

594
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:53.840
I go there. But see,
we'll go up to Bloomington. That's one

595
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:58.400
of my one of my favorite when
I do go see a when I do

596
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.239
go see a college football game,
Bloomington's one of my places on my list.

597
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.960
I just I love that. I
love going to Bloomington. I'll find

598
00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:07.960
it, brother, darn it.
I wish I could find it now.

599
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.039
But those are the places I like
to go to when I hit up.

600
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:13.840
When we were in Toronto, it
was very interesting when we were there,

601
00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:16.079
people would tell you one of my
favorite things to do when we get to

602
00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:21.519
a new place is one we walk
everywhere, Like I can't tell you the

603
00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:23.840
steps we took in Toronto, but
our favorite things to do are you just

604
00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:28.079
duck in somewhere and you go,
okay, help me out where do I

605
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:31.480
need to go. So we did
that and we were in Toronto in September

606
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:37.079
of twenty nineteen because it was right
before, right before the pandemic hit.

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We walked in and Toronto on a
Saturday afternoon on a fall day is a

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lot like it's a lot like Marty
Gras's just a party. I mean,

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everybody's outside, everybody started drinking probably
about ten in the morning. We walk

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in. There's these two southeast behind
the barn. If you've ever seen I

611
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don't know if you have you seen
Letter Kenny yet. No, that's what

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I haven't seen. Oh my god, Letter Kitny. I live in.

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There's two guys in Letter Kenny.
These were the two guys that were in

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this bar. And we're like,
man, where do we go? Where

615
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do we go? What are we
doing? They just start going on and

616
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on and on. They're like,
you go here, you go here,

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you go here, you go here. And it turns out they were absolutely

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right. But that's how you find
these places. And you know, I

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just try to find these places and
look a him. And since we're gonna

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go to break, I'm gonna find
this place in Bloomington and what it was,

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and I can't think of it now
because I'll find it. We're talking

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about places to go food die before
we come back and wrap things up.

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But a great show. We'd been
fun to sit in with you here.

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I had a lot of guests coming. This has had a great guest Darren

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00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:32.719
Hedrick, thank you, and of
course Curtis col Ward, thank you so

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much as well. We're gonna come
back and wrap things up here before we

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get to the Thursday is a new
Friday part of the week. I'm Scott

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Fitzgerald. He's John Alden. We'll
be right back after this on Sports Talk

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seven ninety. Oh man, Well
Clark would love you for playing that one.

630
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Dude. He's a Zach Brown guy. Oh yeah, that's good stuff

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there. Hey, brother John,
this has been so much fun, dude.

632
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This was a very fast two days. Bro. It has been a

633
00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:00.480
pleasure and we will have you anytime. Oh man, I sure do appreciate

634
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:04.000
you, Bro, I appreciate it. I thank Nick coffee, and thank

635
00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:08.239
you all for listening. It's a
good grind again. Yeah, I'm I'm

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tired, but it's a good burn. You do what you love, you

637
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.519
love what you do. And it's
been that kind of spring and I'm looking

638
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forward to some downtime on the Memorial
Day weekend and I've been going it feels

639
00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:23.079
like since thunder and it's gonna be
nice to enjoy some downtime. John,

640
00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:27.239
enjoy your holiday weekend, Bro.
You deserve it. You work as hard

641
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.320
as anybody else here. No no
one's don't mean to kiss you, but

642
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:31.840
you're behind, but no one who
works harder than the great Scott fish Year.

643
00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:37.079
Well, thank you, John,
you have been so kind all this

644
00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:39.119
year at iHeartRadio. You guys have
really taken care of us. Tony and

645
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Cruz now will be back on the
air starting at five o'clock tomorrow morning,

646
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.639
and then Joe, Jackovino and I
will be on the air Saturday morning and

647
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:51.440
what we like to call Radio Study
Hol a special Memorial Day edition of Study

648
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.639
Hall, and we'll remember those who
have fallen before us and service to our

649
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country and a very special time to
remember, a big day of racing.

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And may you appreciate the day and
be able to spend it with your family

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00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.440
and your friends and just enjoy.
So for John Alden, I'm Scott Fitzgerald,

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and for all of us here at
Sports Talk seven ninety and News Radio

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00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:13.880
eight forty whs. Have a great
evening, everybody. Remember Thursday is the

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new Friday. We'll talk to you
tomorrow at five on news Radio eight forty whas