Speaker 1: Thank you, John.
Speaker 2: It is six oh five here on a Tuesday morning,
Speaker 2: Kentucky and this morning news Nick coffee back for day two.
Speaker 2: They let me come back two straight days. As I
Speaker 2: said earlier, I'm gonna keep doing this until they tell me,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, you're no longer needed, which I hope
Speaker 2: is a very very very long time from now. But
Speaker 2: I am really happy to be here, joined alongside Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 2: John Alden, and as you just heard there, John Shannon.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you guys when it comes to
Speaker 2: the commute on the way in. I'm sixty five north.
Speaker 2: I know John Alden is the same way, Scott are you?
Speaker 2: Are you sixty four? Okay? So how many lights do
Speaker 2: you typically hit? And I don't mean do you get
Speaker 2: stopped at? But do you stop? Do you end up
Speaker 2: passing many lights? Once you get to the downtown area
Speaker 2: making your way to our beautiful studios who are four
Speaker 2: Street Live.
Speaker 3: I come off Brook and then if I hit it right,
Speaker 3: if I get that light green, I'll hit the rest
Speaker 3: of them green all the way through, which is nice,
Speaker 3: which is a change.
Speaker 2: That's the exact reason why I ask, because I've been
Speaker 2: coming downtown for the last couple of years, however long
Speaker 2: we've been here, and you really never know what you're
Speaker 2: gonna get as far as are you gonna hit the
Speaker 2: lights or not. But in the morning, there's nobody else out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean there's no there's no there's no pedestrians, there's
Speaker 2: not many vehicles, and if you do it seems like
Speaker 2: if you hit a red light, it's you're gonna hit
Speaker 2: all of them.
Speaker 1: And I think the the.
Speaker 2: Traffic lights and the walkway it seems almost set up
Speaker 2: is and we do have to keep pedestrians safe, trust
Speaker 2: you are well aware of that, but it does seem
Speaker 2: as if it's catered more so, as if we have
Speaker 2: a lot more people walking than we do driving, And
Speaker 2: it just seems, you know, I'm a very impatient person.
Speaker 2: I've been working on it for a long time, not
Speaker 2: sure if I'll ever really improve in that department. But
Speaker 2: as I said, at each light, I'm looking around as if, okay,
Speaker 2: do we need this seemingly hour long walk, you know,
Speaker 2: the walk path, which I'm exaggerating clearly, And again the
Speaker 2: root of this is, I'm just a very impatient person.
Speaker 2: But when you hit, when you hit your first green light,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be smooth sailing. If you hit the red light,
Speaker 2: you know, it might take you sometimes maybe five more minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just depends.
Speaker 4: John.
Speaker 1: Are you still getting off at what is the exit
Speaker 1: Saint Catherine?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that ever since you and I were in
Speaker 5: the afternoon, probably not as necessary at this time in
Speaker 5: the morning, but it's become so routine for me that
Speaker 5: I just like to go down that way.
Speaker 4: At this point, it.
Speaker 2: Does seem like it might it might be a little
Speaker 2: bit of a longer journey from sixty five when you
Speaker 2: get off the exit off sixty five to get here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I kind of feel like you're less likely to
Speaker 2: hit lights in that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Some reason that that opening stretch when you get off
Speaker 5: of sixty five north off of the Saint Catherine's exit,
Speaker 5: if it's timed correctly, kind of like Scott was talking
Speaker 5: about a second ago with Brook Street, you can hit
Speaker 5: every single green light at the exact same.
Speaker 4: Time if you time it to be that way. So,
Speaker 4: but you've got to have a little luck on your side.
Speaker 2: There is something nice about being being downtown this early
Speaker 2: in the morning, whenever there's really nothing going on, and
Speaker 2: there's something kind of peaceful about it, which I which
Speaker 2: I kind of like. Uh, and so far, I don't
Speaker 2: know if I've adjusted because it's been two days. But
Speaker 2: the early the early starts have been have been nice.
Speaker 2: I mean last night I was thinking, Okay, well, here's
Speaker 2: your first night where you are needing to get needing
Speaker 2: to make sure you get to bed really early because
Speaker 2: you got to get up and do it again. But
Speaker 2: it all worked out, worked out naturally. I didn't really
Speaker 2: have to do anything I got. I woke up at
Speaker 2: three o'clock in the morning yesterday. Therefore, by the time
Speaker 2: we got to nine o'clock last night, I was, I was,
Speaker 2: here's where you're.
Speaker 1: Going to run in trouble.
Speaker 5: Here's where you're going to run into trouble. When you
Speaker 5: want to watch the Pacers on Thursday one, and you know,
Speaker 5: game one until at least ten o'clock unless it goes
Speaker 5: into overtime. That's where you kind of run into a
Speaker 5: bit of an issue because you got to get up
Speaker 5: on Friday morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if it was really any other game, especially
Speaker 2: in the NBA Finals, I'd probably be okay. But this
Speaker 2: is a rare situation where I'm actually watching your team
Speaker 2: that I'm a fan of. I'm a Pacers fan, so.
Speaker 3: And then you can't get to sleep after. I can't
Speaker 3: tell you, guys, how many Super Bowls I've missed. There
Speaker 3: was a run where I missed probably ten super Bowls
Speaker 3: because I had to.
Speaker 4: Go to bed early. That sounds awful, it was, And
Speaker 4: so finally I got smart.
Speaker 3: This was the first year that I told our boss Gus,
Speaker 3: I said, dude, I'm taking Monday after the super Bowl off.
Speaker 4: And I said, because I'm going.
Speaker 1: To I would have so much fomo.
Speaker 4: You learned right.
Speaker 3: And I've been in the position where you guys are
Speaker 3: at where your favorite team is playing at night, and
Speaker 3: it's almost it's in a weird, twisted way. It's almost
Speaker 3: kind of like Christmas though, because you wake up the
Speaker 3: next morning. The first thing you do is you go
Speaker 3: to your phone to see if they won, if they
Speaker 3: won your related. If they're not, you're like, well, I
Speaker 3: didn't miss much.
Speaker 1: Is this my life moving forward?
Speaker 4: That's how I missed the game. One comeback Nick against
Speaker 4: the Knicks.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, that wasn't a comeback that I
Speaker 2: think anybody was anticipating. That was one we may never
Speaker 2: see again.
Speaker 3: Well, what makes it worse, too, is now I've learned,
Speaker 3: like I literally fall asleep at home with the lights on, okay,
Speaker 3: but I have to get up and.
Speaker 1: There scaring the hell out of me.
Speaker 4: I tell you, guys, I tell you this. What was
Speaker 4: I go and my wife comes in.
Speaker 3: She goes, I can't go to bed now, because when
Speaker 3: I first started doing this, I was right where you
Speaker 3: guys are at. And my wife says, I can't. I
Speaker 3: can't come upstairs and try to get to bed in
Speaker 3: the dark. I can't see anything. I said, well, I
Speaker 3: have to get to sleep, and so I've learned how
Speaker 3: to fall asleep with the lights on. But yet in
Speaker 3: the morning, I can't turn the lights on when I
Speaker 3: get up. I have to keep things dark and fumble
Speaker 3: for my clothes.
Speaker 2: I mean, I knew this was going to be somewhat
Speaker 2: of a lifestyle change, given that it is such a
Speaker 2: different shift and a different schedule for me and all
Speaker 2: adjust but there is one specific comment that really stood
Speaker 2: out to me from Tony Cruz in one of his
Speaker 2: last shows over the last two weeks that really hit
Speaker 2: me and kind of made me realize, Okay, you can
Speaker 2: try to act like this isn't gonna be a big
Speaker 2: change it's going to be a big change because he
Speaker 2: was getting ribbed for how early he has to go
Speaker 2: to bed, because for many years, twenty plus years, he
Speaker 2: had to get up and start this show at five am.
Speaker 2: And he was kind of defending himself almost kind of
Speaker 2: like he was a tough guy and saying, well, you
Speaker 2: know sometimes on Fridays I step up till like nine
Speaker 2: thirty and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: My gosh, this is this my life now.
Speaker 3: Now, I told you sign for I told you in
Speaker 3: the bright next Saturday night store and money. Because when
Speaker 3: you ate one night this stay I'm up till two
Speaker 3: in the morning, I can see it's awesome.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, we got another update of trafficing
Speaker 2: weather coming your way right here on news Radio eight
Speaker 2: forty whas. That is six sixteen here at Kentucky and
Speaker 2: this morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick
Speaker 2: coffee with you. And if you have a five oh
Speaker 2: two area code, you might want to consider yourself lucky
Speaker 2: if you care about your area code. We'll get into
Speaker 2: it in just a second. But I'm not sure area
Speaker 2: code is something that you realize that you really I mean,
Speaker 2: clearly you have to have one to have a phone number,
Speaker 2: but the specific it's I don't think it's going to
Speaker 2: be much of an inconvenience if you have a different one,
Speaker 2: and I'll explain coming up here shortly. However, here's here's
Speaker 2: what we know that if you have a five O
Speaker 2: two area code that of course covers Louisville and some
Speaker 2: surrounding areas, it's expected to they're going to run out
Speaker 2: of phone numbers by the end of twenty twenty seven
Speaker 2: due to population growth and increased device usage. By the way,
Speaker 2: that's another factor that I'm not sure many people realize
Speaker 2: unless you've actually gone about setting one of these up.
Speaker 2: But you can go create a digital number like a
Speaker 2: Google Voice. You can have a phone number that is
Speaker 2: that is just basically an Internet line. I think you
Speaker 2: have to have a number attach associated to it, and
Speaker 2: you certainly have to have some Internet connection to even
Speaker 2: obtain that. But if you put in where you live,
Speaker 2: and you put in five two two, seven oh eight,
Speaker 2: five nine, whatever it may be, it'll populate a bunch
Speaker 2: of numbers. And I would imagine that one of the
Speaker 2: factors here is that because of this, and this isn't new,
Speaker 2: by the way, you've been able to get a digital
Speaker 2: number for quite some time, and that has that has
Speaker 2: probably led to a bunch of these numbers no longer
Speaker 2: being available. So the Kentucky Public Service Commission is addressing
Speaker 2: this by planning to introduce a new area code. Existing
Speaker 2: five O two numbers will remain unchanged, but new phone
Speaker 2: numbers will be assigned to the new area code. What
Speaker 2: that code is going to be, we still don't know.
Speaker 2: Public meetings are being held to gather feedback on what
Speaker 2: it should be, and I guess just get feedback from folks.
Speaker 2: But the first meeting was scheduled. This took place yesterday
Speaker 2: at the Nelson County Fiscal Court out there in Barchtown.
Speaker 2: And they're gonna have another meeting coming up on June
Speaker 2: fifth at six pm and this will be at the
Speaker 2: JCC Southwest campus. So these are meetings that are going
Speaker 2: to inform residents and get in put on new area
Speaker 2: code implementation, which I just if you live in Louisville,
Speaker 2: you don't have a five O two area code would
Speaker 2: feel off, But I think once you realize area codes
Speaker 2: are needed. Right again, if you're if you're jotting down
Speaker 2: a number and you and you just have assumed that
Speaker 2: everything around here is going to be five oh two.
Speaker 2: I guess that's where the biggest difference would be.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That was the hardest thing for me to get used
Speaker 3: to when I moved here, because I'd asked somebody for
Speaker 3: their phone number and they would automatically say, oh, it's
Speaker 3: five oh two five five five one two one two,
Speaker 3: And I'm like.
Speaker 4: Everybody always gave their area code beforehand. And I asked
Speaker 4: my wife, I said, why do people do that? And
Speaker 4: because we're so close in proximity to Lexington, then you
Speaker 4: have two seven.
Speaker 2: So where you grew up, was it very rare for
Speaker 2: someone to have a different area code?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was just and then and then when
Speaker 3: did marketing area codes become like, like for merch that's
Speaker 3: like the hot thing to do now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you see it in the gear all the times.
Speaker 4: True five oh two.
Speaker 3: Detroit celebrates three one three day on March thirty first.
Speaker 4: But yeah, excuse me.
Speaker 3: I thought it was the weirdest thing to just people
Speaker 3: would always go, yeah, my number's five oh two.
Speaker 2: To this day, if somebody takes my phone number, I
Speaker 2: say five oh two, and I just assume it's I
Speaker 2: think I do that because if they're gonna put it
Speaker 2: in their cell phone, yeah, yeah, you would need to.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even know this. When somebody gives
Speaker 2: me their phone number, I'm used to them giving me
Speaker 2: the area code, or I just assume the area code
Speaker 2: is five oh two. Sometimes I assume wrong. But if
Speaker 2: you were to just put a seven digit number in
Speaker 2: a phone and call it, it would work.
Speaker 4: Right, it will. Yeah, remember you used not one oh yeah?
Speaker 3: Of course you also remember when you used to have
Speaker 3: to pay for a long distance call. Now we don't
Speaker 3: ever give it a thought.
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be weird for me to have
Speaker 2: a number that was not five oh two. But when
Speaker 2: I saw this yesterday, I'm thinking, well, there's people I
Speaker 2: talk to daily that who've been in my phone for
Speaker 2: nearly a decade.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be able to guess their.
Speaker 2: Phone number, even if you gave me a lineup of
Speaker 2: different numbers to select, because once I put it in
Speaker 2: the phone and save the contact, I never look at
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean exactly.
Speaker 2: Anyways, if you get a new phone in the next
Speaker 2: in the coming years, it may not be five zho two,
Speaker 2: which again sounds weird, But I don't think it'll be
Speaker 2: as big of a deal as you might expect. All right,
Speaker 2: another update of traffic and weather is coming your way,
Speaker 2: as well as another update on sports from Scott right
Speaker 2: here the news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John
Speaker 2: at Is six thirty five here Kentucky and this morning
Speaker 2: news on news Radio eight forty whas. So, the Kentucky
Speaker 2: Transportation Cabinet studying that stretch of Bargetown Road from the
Speaker 2: Bullet County Line close to Mount Washington up to Bulah
Speaker 2: Church Road and Seatonville Roads. As John mentioned there, the
Speaker 2: study is much needed. I didn't do a whole lot
Speaker 2: of studying, but I'm in that area often, and I
Speaker 2: can tell you.
Speaker 1: Traffic is really, really bad.
Speaker 4: So it's no.
Speaker 2: Surprise that the councilman is asking for a temporary pause
Speaker 2: on new developments until this study is released. It's going
Speaker 2: to come out in August. And again, I don't mean
Speaker 2: to act like I genuinely do know what goes into
Speaker 2: these studies, but as someone who is in that area,
Speaker 2: not super often, but often enough, the traffic is crazy.
Speaker 2: And even before for the latest development, as far as
Speaker 2: just the new restaurants, the new shopping center, and it's
Speaker 2: great over there, that stretch between really Fern Creek in
Speaker 2: Mount Washington, there's a lot going on over there, and
Speaker 2: it's there's a lot of good restaurants businesses.
Speaker 1: But I really really.
Speaker 2: Don't think I've been in that area at any time
Speaker 2: in the last few years, maybe even longer than that,
Speaker 2: where it is not as bad as it gets when
Speaker 2: it comes to traffic in an.
Speaker 1: Area like that.
Speaker 2: Obviously, there's stretches of Shelbyville Road, Preston Highway, Dixie Highway.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna get traffic jams and just expect traffic,
Speaker 2: especially during certain times of the day with people commuting
Speaker 2: from work and whatnot in school. But that is a
Speaker 2: different level of bad at least from my experience. And look,
Speaker 2: I'm not some nobody likes traffic. Who does, But when
Speaker 2: it comes to where we are here in Kentucky, and
Speaker 2: I've always felt like we've always had it pretty good.
Speaker 2: We can get to a lot of places, we can
Speaker 2: go a lot, we can get really anywhere within our
Speaker 2: Kentucky and area, I don't want to say in a
Speaker 2: relatively short time, but without really bad traffic, it doesn't
Speaker 2: really take us a whole long time to get to
Speaker 2: a lot of places, especially compared to other cities, even
Speaker 2: some that are I mean Lexington. I've never lived there,
Speaker 2: but I know there's been studies previously that A's at
Speaker 2: one point they had some of the worst traffic you'll
Speaker 2: find they did.
Speaker 4: We found that out.
Speaker 3: My son played a lot of hockey tournaments there, and
Speaker 3: even because I'm like, how big is the city, it's not.
Speaker 3: It's it's big, but it's not that big. But it
Speaker 3: took forever to get every place. And I think, what
Speaker 3: to your point listening you talk about this, I'm like you,
Speaker 3: I'm impatient in traffic. So what's helped me is I
Speaker 3: dial up my app on my phone and it says, okay,
Speaker 3: your arrival time is, you know, six fifty six. As
Speaker 3: long as I know, I'm okay, I'm going to get
Speaker 3: there about that time, which it's pretty spot on.
Speaker 2: It is wild how accurate they can they can get
Speaker 2: you when it comes to time. I used to put
Speaker 2: it in my GPS and think, okay, well I know
Speaker 2: I know a different route, and I would and I
Speaker 2: would try to battle with my GPS app on my phone.
Speaker 2: I use ways and ways ways as a wedding over
Speaker 2: me as far as proving me wrong that I went
Speaker 2: away that I assumed would be quicker and Ways was
Speaker 2: Ways was right and Nick was wrong. But yeah, that
Speaker 2: just to me, see, and oftentimes I've thought, well, maybe
Speaker 2: this is just me complaining because I'm now sitting in
Speaker 2: traffic when I typically don't. But as more business as
Speaker 2: if popped up in that area New Fern Creek, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's an absolute mess. When you're on the Snyder
Speaker 2: and you are attempting you know, let's say you're even
Speaker 2: if you're going past that Bargetown Road exit on the
Speaker 2: Snyder heading east, you know you're still going to be
Speaker 2: jammed up because there's so many people lined up, like
Speaker 2: almost two exits back at times to get off at
Speaker 2: the at the Barchtown Road Fern Creek exit area there.
Speaker 2: So not again not surprised to hear that the councilman's
Speaker 2: asking for a temporary pause on new development.
Speaker 1: But the new development's great, it's just there's it's such
Speaker 1: a jam.
Speaker 3: It's so congested, dude, I'm telling you, And I know
Speaker 3: so many people have moved to that part of the
Speaker 3: city now that it bought because their houses were such
Speaker 3: a steal. I mean, they got a nice area, so
Speaker 3: it's a very nice area. They got a good house
Speaker 3: with a nice area, and they were down there. And
Speaker 3: to your point, when you're talking about traffic, I was
Speaker 3: also thinking about I remember Mayor Abramson announced that we
Speaker 3: were going to redo the Dixie Highway corridor because they
Speaker 3: had a lot of problems. And I was down there recently,
Speaker 3: and it's not perfect. To your point, you're going to
Speaker 3: get traffic anywhere. Those businesses totally understand that. But I
Speaker 3: think there have been improvements on Dixie Highway. Now there's
Speaker 3: maybe somebody who's sitting there right now listening to us, going,
Speaker 3: you're crazy, dude, I'm stuck.
Speaker 4: I understand that, but I've seen those improvements well.
Speaker 2: And if you are a business owner, I think traffic,
Speaker 2: for the most part's a good thing. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of people around, there's a lot of visibility, but man,
Speaker 2: there's a fine line of like people may avoid even
Speaker 2: getting in that area because it's such a such a mess.
Speaker 4: Now, sometimes you're right.
Speaker 3: But when I found out though, too, because that area
Speaker 3: you're talking about, you've got that big Walmart there, they
Speaker 3: do very well. I've been down that area quite a bit.
Speaker 3: You've got the cracker Barrel that's right off right off J.
Speaker 3: Schnyder So and.
Speaker 4: A lot of people.
Speaker 3: If you want to take the if sixty five is
Speaker 3: congested and you want to get down to Barnstown, if
Speaker 3: you're headed that way, you can just cut down here.
Speaker 1: So I have a lot of friends.
Speaker 2: My sister lives in Mount Washington, and her way of
Speaker 2: getting to us oftentimes is to just go Barchtown Road
Speaker 2: all the way to the Snyder and then head west.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I'm sure she's found some alternate routes
Speaker 2: because if you hit that And I was going to
Speaker 2: say at a bad time, but I'm not sure there's
Speaker 2: a good time, unless maybe we're talking like middle of
Speaker 2: the night, real quick. Worst city you've ever experienced traffic.
Speaker 4: Chicago, hands down. Even La is a close second.
Speaker 1: Chicago Atlanta for mehe was bad. Yep, real bad.
Speaker 2: All right, we got another update of traffic and weather
Speaker 2: coming your way right here on Kentucky And it's morning
Speaker 2: news on news radio eight forty whis six forty six
Speaker 2: Here Kentucky and it's morning news. Nick Coffee with you
Speaker 2: here on news Radio eight forty whs. We'll have another
Speaker 2: update in about ten minutes on Sports with Scott Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2: One of the stories from earlier was the addition of
Speaker 2: a Sonanda Frew, who goes by Sonny Frew. He is
Speaker 2: a big man from Germany who's going to join Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey's team. And he said something in a recent interview
Speaker 2: on the Field of sixty eight, which is an outland
Speaker 2: that covers college basketball, that I wouldn't say that this
Speaker 2: has become a humongous talking point among Louisville and Kentucky fans,
Speaker 2: but it is something that you don't expect to hear.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't think.
Speaker 6: And on the other side, I think they have a
Speaker 6: great fan base. My teammate he played at Kentucky last
Speaker 6: year and he told me Lugle like, they are the
Speaker 6: best fans in the whole world basically, and already right
Speaker 6: reached out tanks me some dms. I'm super happy, super thankful.
Speaker 6: So I can't wait to get over and touchdown in Louisvuo.
Speaker 2: So the hosts went on to ask him, wait a second,
Speaker 2: you're telling me you committed to play at Louisville and
Speaker 2: you had a teammate in Germany that played at Kentucky
Speaker 2: and told you that Louisville had the best fans, and
Speaker 2: he went on to confirm that that was the case.
Speaker 2: And the former player was Trey Mitchell, who played at Kentucky,
Speaker 2: I believe for just a season two years ago. He played,
Speaker 2: I believe in the last season of Cala Perry being there.
Speaker 2: And the reason I wanted to bring this up is
Speaker 2: because I don't know if this is going to do
Speaker 2: much to the rivalry, but I think we are in
Speaker 2: a very rare and certainly unique spot with the rivalry here,
Speaker 2: because clearly Louisville Kentucky when it comes to basketball. Personally,
Speaker 2: and I'm biased, I think it's the best rivalry in
Speaker 2: college basketball. I would put it above Duke in Carolina
Speaker 2: because to me, rivalries are all about fans. Players come
Speaker 2: and go, coaches come and go, And I think if
Speaker 2: you live in Louisville, there's so many of us that
Speaker 2: coexist together that I just think, you know, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's many of you listening right now that know
Speaker 2: exactly what I'm talking about. You're probably heading to work
Speaker 2: thinking about you know, you got a buddy in the
Speaker 2: cubicle next to you, and when Louisville and Kentucky play
Speaker 2: each other in football or basketball, you know that following
Speaker 2: day when you go back to work is going to
Speaker 2: either be a really good day for you, a really
Speaker 2: bad day for you because you're gonna have to maybe
Speaker 2: take your medicine, or maybe you're gonna feel great and
Speaker 2: glow because again, there's just so many on both sides.
Speaker 2: But I think again, when I say it's rare right
Speaker 2: now where we are, I think it's clear that on
Speaker 2: the Louisville side, And for those who don't know, I'm
Speaker 2: a big Louisville fan, I find it.
Speaker 1: Really really hard to diss like Mark Pope.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean dislike him as an eman, being
Speaker 2: I don't know him, but you know you it's easier
Speaker 2: whenever there's a villain on the other side, and he's
Speaker 2: far from that. He's I mean, I think he's a really,
Speaker 2: really good coach too. I think he had a great
Speaker 2: first season, and I actually believe his coaching was a
Speaker 2: bigger factor in their success in year one than anything else.
Speaker 2: And I can't speak for Kentucky fans, I'm not one
Speaker 2: of them, but I think they wanted to find Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey pretty easy to dislike and are having a tough
Speaker 2: time doing it.
Speaker 1: And what makes.
Speaker 2: It even more difficult if you're somebody that really just
Speaker 2: wants to get into the hatred and just and look
Speaker 2: when they play each other, clearly you know where you
Speaker 2: stand and you're not going to need any anybody nudging
Speaker 2: you one way or the other. You know where you're
Speaker 2: gonna you know, you know where your emotions are going
Speaker 2: to be. We become some of us, I guess I
Speaker 2: should only speak for me, become lunatics during this rivalry
Speaker 2: game and whatnot. But these two coaches, Mark Pope and
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey, you can tell that they genuinely like each other,
Speaker 2: respect each other. And not to say that other coaches
Speaker 2: that have been at both schools had real animosity. Will
Speaker 2: never get like what we had with Patino and Caliper.
Speaker 4: I mean that was that was.
Speaker 2: A personal rivalry that then just played. I mean that
Speaker 2: was that was cinema, That was theater as far as
Speaker 2: just you could tell the two made each other's skin crawl.
Speaker 2: But with Pope and Kelsey, they're not going to force it.
Speaker 2: They do respect one another. And what we didn't see
Speaker 2: a whole lot last year, and I don't want to
Speaker 2: nerd out too much on basketball. But because of injuries
Speaker 2: that Louisville suffered early on in the season and the
Speaker 2: injuries that Kentucky suffered a little bit later, you didn't
Speaker 2: you didn't quite see it, but they actually want to
Speaker 2: play nearly the exact same way A bunch of in
Speaker 2: rhythm threes a bunch, I mean they're they're striving to
Speaker 2: get open threes in rhythm, free throw line or layups
Speaker 2: around the rim, and I think it was right. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the last season for Pope at BYU, the last season
Speaker 2: for Kelsey at Charleston, they were both in the top
Speaker 2: three and three point field goals attempted per game. They're
Speaker 2: they're very so I think when you not only respect
Speaker 2: one another as coaches and seem like good dudes, but
Speaker 2: you also are similar as far as how you want
Speaker 2: to play the game, I think, you know, it's natural
Speaker 2: to the only thing, the only thing that makes them
Speaker 2: incompatible is one guy's coaching Big Blue Nation. When guys
Speaker 2: coaching coordination, that's that's really it. But yeah, good stuff.
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