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No, no, 89 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:30.600 that's that's a smart thing to do, because you got 90 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:31.839 to stick around and write. Yep. 91 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.319 I was at the Orient until about eleven and got 92 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:37.360 a bite to eat after late because didn't eat much 93 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:39.759 at five o'clock early tip, which I love. 94 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.519 But uh got back to here about one today. So 95 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:48.240 you find out, well, Butler's not going to play, then 96 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.720 carr is game time. He played what I'm in in 97 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.519 ninety seconds, you admitted to me before went on the air. 98 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:59.240 You were very surprised. I'm not shocked at Kentucky won. 99 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.800 Yeah, it was also it's very eerily similar to the 100 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.439 game down there two years ago where Kentucky just lost 101 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.199 to South Carolina was a quad four loss. At the time, 102 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:11.399 I actually finished as a quad four loss at home. 103 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:14.279 It felt like all hope was lost. I forget exactly 104 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:18.279 if both I don't I want to say case either 105 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.319 Cason Wallas, ors Vere Wheeler or both of them were out. 106 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.519 It was one of the other and Adu Thierro, who 107 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.959 at that time was a very skinny, undersized fresh over 108 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.920 I guess too tall to be a point. I don't know, 109 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.240 just six ' nine skinny guys kind of a tweener. Yeah, 110 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:39.920 was running point and very very discombobulated Tennessee, always stifling defensively, 111 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.600 and Kentucky went down there and they won a absolute 112 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.399 slug fest. It was like sixty three fifty five against 113 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.839 the number five ring team in the country, and this 114 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.920 game was eerily similar, except this is a better Kentucky team, 115 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.000 I think, than that one. And you know, Kentucky came 116 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:55.720 out of the gates and kind of made a statement 117 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.439 where they hit four to five threes early, they're up 118 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.680 twelve to four. They let go the rope at the 119 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:03.279 end of the first half, which was frustrating, but you know, 120 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:05.360 they came out same way in the second half. I 121 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.800 think they got the lead to eleven when Trent Noah 122 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:12.279 hit that three from Marlin County. Yeah, and they opened 123 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.279 the half on I forget the exact run, but I 124 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.639 know they scored the first six or seven points. 125 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:17.759 Of the half. 126 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:20.439 Theay had the breakaway dunk to make it thirty four 127 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.199 to thirty three. They never trailed again, so they kind 128 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.480 of were outside the last two minutes of the first 129 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.680 half in control of the whole way. They nearly let 130 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:30.759 go the rope. A couple different times, which scares you, 131 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:35.040 but overall gritty, gritty performance and a surprising but huge 132 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:35.879 win for this team. 133 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:39.920 Mark Pope got a call tonight on the show about 134 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.439 those last few minutes in the first half, and that 135 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:45.279 has happened more than once this year. That was an 136 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.680 eleven zero run. Yeah, you've covered every game you've been 137 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:53.439 at most of them. Yes. Is there a contributing factor 138 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.560 each time or is it just one of those things 139 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:57.079 that's happening. 140 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.560 I think really it's the last three games. I think 141 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.560 it comes down under fatigue, simply put. And it's not 142 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:04.360 an excuse. They got to get better with that. But 143 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:08.040 when you're down in this game's case, Lamont Butler and 144 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.399 Andrew Carr and Kirk Curious, so you got to remember 145 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.399 this guy they were counting on who's been out since 146 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.399 beending in December. At Vandy, they didn't have Andrew car 147 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.680 Lamont Butler was not himself, probably shouldn't have been playing 148 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.240 in that game, and then obviously down Carisa. And then 149 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.920 the Alabama game, same thing. Butler and car both fighting 150 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.720 through stuff, not looking themselves, and Carisa down. It just 151 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:30.600 seemed like they ran out of gas and all at 152 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.040 the end of each of those halves. Yeah, and you 153 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:35.000 know last night was more the same. You saw Jackson 154 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:37.959 Robinson was dealing with cramps. Otega Oway was banged up 155 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.879 after that huge hit he took on the Tonk. I'm 156 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:42.759 just glad he's okay. Mark Pope said he was okay 157 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.759 on the radio show tonight. That was a it looks 158 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.120 so bad, it looks so it was violent. We were 159 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.240 underneath that basket. The media see that was a I 160 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:51.639 don't know how he got back up from that. I'd 161 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.519 still be laying on the ground at Thompson Bowling. But 162 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:57.040 uh yeah, I think it's been fatigue for sure. I 163 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.439 think it was a twenty to four run for Vandy 164 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:01.639 at the into the first half, and then a six 165 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.439 hour run to finish the game in that one. This game, honestly, 166 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.040 I know Kentucky out scored Tennessee in the last five 167 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:10.560 minutes of the game, but they didn't hit a field 168 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:11.680 goal in the last five minutes. 169 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:13.839 They spent a lot of time at the line. I 170 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:15.839 spent a lot of time at the And that leaves 171 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.519 me to my next question. My next observation is for 172 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.519 as pretty for lack of a better term, as Mark 173 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:27.879 Pope's offense can be yeah, and efficient and assist of 174 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.959 made field goals and all that free flowing whatever you 175 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.360 want to call it. But in the last five and 176 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.240 a half minutes, the ball would stick. 177 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.840 It did, Yeah, it did, and uh, it's hard to 178 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.600 explain why. I mean, obviously you want to kind of 179 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.480 grind things out late when you're up, and you want 180 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:45.399 to try to get as much time off that clock. 181 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.000 But yeah, the ball sticked, and there were some turnovers too, 182 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:51.559 And honestly, Tennessee got off so many shots because I 183 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:53.720 want to go count, I know they had eighteen offensive rebounds. 184 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:55.399 How many were in the last three minutes of the 185 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:58.960 game there like seven? It was ridiculous. 186 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:03.279 The three point that came after what four offensive four 187 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:05.559 four by Lanier to make it a one point game 188 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.240 with four offensive rebounds really four opportunities. 189 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.039 So look they got they got away with one a 190 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.000 little bit toward the end there, But at the same 191 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.399 time they did they controlled this game really from start 192 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.080 to finish. I'd love to see how long they were 193 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.679 in the lead for this one. It probably thirty six 194 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.120 thirty five minutes. So you can't be overly critical, especially 195 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:27.679 when they're short handed. A win is a win is 196 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:31.039 a win, especially going down to Knoxville against a really 197 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.200 the number one defense in the country per Ken Palm. 198 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:37.360 Even after tonight or even after last night and doing 199 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.840 it shorthanded, you can't complain too much. There's still some 200 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.440 things that worry you, for sure, But what are they 201 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.240 six and one against top fifteen teams. 202 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:46.960 That's ridiculous. No one, no one has a resume like 203 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:50.120 that right now. Well, as I mentioned, Billy's off tonight, 204 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.519 Bo Robinson is in and bois if you don't know, 205 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.159 one of the Go Big Blues Brothers, and I'll come 206 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.159 back to the Tennessee game. But obviously one of the 207 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:00.720 hottest topics looking ahead, and Mark Pope addressed it tonight 208 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:04.320 on his show is Arkansas coming in with a certain 209 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.840 head coach. And the debate has been going on really 210 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:12.799 since since Caliperi left is how will you treat him? 211 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.480 How should he be treated by the fans, by the 212 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:19.519 crowd coming into upp arena? How will the Go Big 213 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:20.919 Blues Brothers approach this? 214 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:24.039 Well, I can't speak for the other half of the 215 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.080 Go Big Blues Brothers TBA, so if you want to know, 216 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:33.159 get to the game Saturday. As for me, I probably 217 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.639 will not cheer, but I'm not going to boom. Yeah, 218 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.039 I just keep my hands in my pockets. And when 219 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:41.840 the Kentucky lineup goes Patrick Whitmer does this thing, then 220 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:42.440 I'll be cheering. 221 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.879 I gotta save my energy for the game. There you go, 222 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:46.440 But I'm not going to boot Calip. You gotta wait 223 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.279 all day for it too. Nine o'clock tip. 224 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.159 And I go back to this, And yes, I can 225 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.720 be frustrated about how the last four years ended with Caliperry, 226 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.279 but he was always nice to me when I ran 227 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:57.919 his Collins shed It first year when I met him 228 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.840 Mountain in public and him and I had a twenty 229 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:05.480 minute discussion at dunkin Donuts one morning, real about our dogs. 230 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:07.360 Dying of all things. Oh my goodness. 231 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.440 And this was I think two years ago. And it 232 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.320 was almost like he kind of came down to my 233 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:17.039 level and we had donuts or came up to you 234 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.159 maybe or maybe I came up to it. 235 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:19.799 I don't know. 236 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:22.440 We were on the many level. Where were that level? 237 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.159 What that's good to hear? And it was kind of surround. 238 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.919 I'm like, this is John cal Perry. We're not talking basketball, 239 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:30.200 We're talking about dogs. 240 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:32.600 Dying and how did that come up? At a donuts shot. 241 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:36.440 I walked into dunkin Donuts on Broadway one morning and 242 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:38.600 he was sitting there, and I remember on his calling 243 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:40.559 show he was talking about his dog dying. He was 244 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:44.879 just so upset about this, and I just randomly said, hey, coach, 245 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:48.240 I've been there. I'm thinking about you. It's not easy, 246 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.080 not easy at all. And they looked at me. 247 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:53.440 He goes, how'd you do it? How to do what? 248 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:55.399 And I don't want to turn the show into my 249 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.639 braving process of my dog? Did you take him to 250 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:00.519 the vet? And then all of the sun this just 251 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:04.159 opened up this conversation. Yeah, for twenty minutes because he 252 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:05.080 It's interesting. 253 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.200 I mean I had interviewed him one on ones Aaron, 254 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:13.519 you have too, but never had the opportunity to speak 255 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.679 to him away. I mean I tried a couple of times, 256 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:21.159 you know, on the perimeter of a work setting. He 257 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.519 wasn't having it just just a you know, a little 258 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.799 chit chat. Nope, wouldn't have just completely ignored me. All right, 259 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:31.159 that's fine, that's fine. Uh but yeah, that's that's that's 260 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.279 a little bit of a different situation. It was. 261 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:34.519 And when he said, how'd you do it and not 262 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.600 tell him? I said, look, yeah, I buried him and 263 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.159 probably took a shot of bourbon and I played all 264 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:41.720 the way up. He smacked me on the knee. He goes, 265 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:46.360 you will Rascal you wow? Yeah, Well, you know it's 266 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:47.519 funny a different side. 267 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:52.240 I never had the opportunity to speak to Ellen Caliperry. Uh, 268 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.759 just never did until I think it was the last time. Aaron. 269 00:12:55.799 --> 00:13:01.120 We were at the house on selection Sunday and I'm 270 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.440 in the back of the room and there they had, 271 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.279 at the time, I think, three dogs and they were 272 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:08.480 kind of locked up in a sun room because the 273 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.799 house was full of people, and I kind of leaned 274 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.039 over and she was standing there and I said, what's 275 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:17.639 the breed on that dog right there? And whatever? And 276 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:20.360 we start talking dogs, you know, So there you go. 277 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:22.080 So they were a dog family. 278 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:24.879 To bring this full circle, yeah, he was on a 279 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.919 Tuesday morning and they were getting ready to play Arkansas 280 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.159 that night at nine o'clock and I just looked at him. 281 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.240 I said, coach, give him hell tonight, and he said 282 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:33.080 thank you, and that was it. 283 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.679 Wow. Cool, that was a coincidence playing Arkansas that night. 284 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:40.159 You got along with him, didn't. 285 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:44.159 You that was all right, nothing crazy, He didn't. I 286 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:46.320 don't think I covered him for five seasons. I don't 287 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.000 think he ever learned my name. My best interaction was, 288 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.279 you know, I asked him after the Georgia loss two 289 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.279 years ago when they lost down there, because that was 290 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.679 a game they were completely lethargic, and I asked about 291 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.240 the energy the bank can remember to it? And then 292 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:02.679 the next game, Yeah, the next game in Starkville, it 293 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:05.200 was a one eighty and someone asked him about the 294 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.519 one eighty and energy level and he said some while 295 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.960 looking me dead in the eye. Some guy in the 296 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.960 media told me last game, so it was. 297 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:13.600 It was funny. 298 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.159 I remember that look. And you know what, I'll give 299 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.039 him more credit. If we're going to keep giving him credit. 300 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:22.159 He's doing a pregame press conference to what he Yes, 301 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.080 he's speaking with Arkansas. 302 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:26.840 The first this year. It's the first first and several 303 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.480 years he hasn't he didn't know. I think he did 304 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:32.679 one last year, the Champions Classic game. He did the 305 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.080 Champions Class that's true, that's true. And of course he 306 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:39.039 had to do pre tournament, yeah, you know, but regular 307 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:44.000 season never nothing. So in a way, I keep saying, 308 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.440 especially when Kenny was still here, we were better off. Yes, 309 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.360 we got better sound bites. Yes from really from all 310 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.519 the assistant coaches. Yeah, and now we don't talk to this. 311 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.399 They weren't trying to drive the drive the narrative. 312 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.639 It's a complete difference now we I've never I couldn't 313 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.080 even tell you what Cody Fieger, Alvin Brooks, Jason Hard 314 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.440 I'm sure they're great guys. I couldn't tell you what 315 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:04.960 they sound like. Yeah, they were to say something over 316 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:06.679 the phone and like they're a caller on this show. 317 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:08.320 I'd have no clue with that. I spoke to all 318 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:11.519 of them just just to say hello prior to pro day. 319 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:15.159 And Cody Figuers a Packers guy, naturally we chatted. Yeah, 320 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.799 but otherwise, but I mean, yeah, I've had plenty of 321 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:22.759 talking to. Hope was so accessible, you know. Before we 322 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:27.120 get to the break, speaking of Hope, your counterpart where 323 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:30.039 they Go Big Blues Brothers. Yes, he was part of 324 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.399 an award winning photo correct which we saw posted this week. 325 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:36.080 So John Coffee, the other half of the Go Big 326 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:39.679 Blues Brothers entertainment act. Then we bring to Reperena for 327 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:40.159 Home Dame. 328 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:40.720 He's Jake. 329 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:43.159 Yes, he is Jake, and he's got the physique for 330 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:48.279 it too. The press conference last April, which was introduced correct, 331 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:51.240 I remember that spring day. I'm here in the iHeart Megaplex. 332 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.840 I'm running baseball. We are running late to get down 333 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:56.879 to Repperena a couple of blocks away. He is so 334 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.559 mad at me that I am running late doing baseball, 335 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.279 your job, doing my job. Correct. We get down there. 336 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:05.159 There's a line that held the press conference up for 337 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.120 about thirty minutes. There were so many people trying to 338 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:08.120 get into Reperena. 339 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:09.720 We may have line. 340 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:12.039 Jump just a little bit to get the appropriate seats. 341 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.840 We're right in front of Coach Pope. He does press conference, 342 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:19.200 He makes the rounds on the reparena floor. Brother Jake 343 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:21.480 reaches out his hand. Mark Pope reaches up his hand 344 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:26.120 from the floor. They get this great, great picture normally 345 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.360 from the student paper Kentucky Colonel. Her name's Abby Cutter, 346 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:34.519 and over the weekend she won first place for best 347 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:38.480 Sports Photography in a student publication from the Kentucky Press 348 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.879 Association Award. So Abby was in the right place at 349 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.960 the right time. Out of everything that I've heard since April, 350 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.120 you were late I got the best picture out of that, 351 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.279 and I've always told him if I wasn't late, you 352 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.399 would have never had that picture. Yeah, and he still 353 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.159 wants to argument with me about it, you know. 354 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:54.039 And then I've got a soft spot in my heart 355 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.840 for the Colonel. You worked for the Colonel. I worked 356 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.000 for the Colonel for you did not know? I thought 357 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:01.559 you did. I did not. But how'd you dad working 358 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:01.960 for you? 359 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.000 That's true when you were in school, you worked for me. 360 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.319 That's right, speaking of the colonel, and you know this. 361 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:10.519 I've done a deep dive on the Kentucky Colonel since 362 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:14.720 the fall. The archives are available online finally, so if 363 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.039 you want to go back and look what Dick Gabriel 364 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.000 wrote as a student, it's a lot of fun to 365 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.400 get in there. Oh, I've enjoyed it, and you learned 366 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.240 so much about the campus and just how Lexington was 367 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.000 back in the seventies, and it's a lot of fun 368 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:26.319 to tell. 369 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.039 I posted something the other day and you might have 370 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:33.400 seen this, Aaron, but I did. It was actually fifty 371 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:39.079 years ago this spring that I literally fell into my 372 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.400 career in radio because working for the Colonel, I would 373 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:46.640 sit next to the campus radio station and I looked 374 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:49.160 over one night and there was warn't to three people. 375 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:53.200 Usually there was just the station manager, no equipment, no nothing. 376 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:55.319 And I looked over to him and I said, aren't 377 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.519 you doing the game tonight? As well? I lost my 378 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.720 announcer and I'm just watching the game. Wasn't even look 379 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:02.000 at him. I said, you know, I've always kind of 380 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.839 wanted to try that call me. So we set up 381 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:07.440 an audition. I got the gig. Did three years of 382 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.759 play by play for basketball and football home games while 383 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.960 I was working for the Colonel. So when I got 384 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.200 out of school, I'm looking at newspaper jobs and I 385 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.240 fell into a radio job. It just happened to be 386 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.400 open here in Lexingon, which got me onto the UK 387 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:24.960 network a year later, and I've been there ever since. 388 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.200 So it just dumb luck. And it was fifty one 389 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:31.599 years ago. Then I covered Aaron You'll appreciate this my 390 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:35.680 very first war City basketball game because it was a 391 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.759 year they went thirteen and thirteen under Joe Haul and 392 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.119 I kept bugging the sport. I covered rugby soccer, and 393 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:46.359 I volunteered to cover freshman basketball. You remember that when 394 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:48.279 they had a freshman team. Yes, And it was the 395 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:52.240 last year for freshmen, and I said, I'll cover the 396 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.720 freshman team. He's like, all right, well, I'm fine, whatever, 397 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.720 you know. And there were like ten games or so, 398 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:00.240 but I kept bugging him to do a varsity. He 399 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.279 had me to a feature story on one of the 400 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.440 players and the team was terrible. We're thirteen and thirteen. 401 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.279