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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to our number two. Dwight is on his way
to Cabo. Yes, that's the same thing I said yesterday.
He had some problems with travel. If you follow him
on Facebook, you know we are brought to you by
the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. The roads were fine,
perfectly fine. The folks Bill Bell in charge of the
roads the last couple of days. He gets an A plus.
The roads were perfect driving in. You drove in about
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four am this morning and your road was fine.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Correct, yeah, correct, this morning everything was fine and dandy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And then schools were all back today. At least they
made that call early yesterday. So people in families, that's
the hardest part about families is that you know when
you wake up and there's an unexpected snow, it's like,
oh boy, who's staying home with the kids? I you know,
everyone knows where I stand on the NTI. I just
if you have to do it long term, it's just it.
It just doesn't work. It didn't work during COVID, doesn't
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work for snow days. Just call the snow day, have
them come back to school today and get started again.
I don't know how much they got accomplished yesterday or
how many kids act they showed up in front of
their laptops or computers at home, especially when they had
the cable company had some issues with internet in huge
sections of Louisville, so they were saying that. And again,
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like I said first hour, there are kids like me
that would have used that as an excuse, even though
if I had internet or not, because most people have
hotspots on their phone, so they can use that. Tonight.
Last night Kentucky got They lost by three to North Carolina.
That's the third loss in a row from Mark Pope
and the Kentucky Wildcats after they spent twenty two million
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dollars on their roster. Isn't the season that they thought
they were going to have and they have to play
number eleven Gonzaga on Saturday. Get ready. At some point,
when you start to lose a lot, it starts to
compound and the snowball rolling downhill. And there is truth
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in sports of saying, hey, once you get used to losing,
you get used to losing. Just like winning. When you
win all the time, you somehow find ways in the
fourth quarter or the second half to win. This weekend
biggest matchup of the year i U in Ohio State.
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In Ohio State, I just read an article. They've lost
a couple of five star recruits in the last couple
of days. They're Ohio State. They'll go find some more guys.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
There's just not enough money to go around. I mean,
losing five stars at Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They lost a five star recruit Chris Henry Junior and
four star wide out Caden Dixon Wyatt. That's it just
sounds like a wide receiver, Caden Dixon Wyatt. They are
the ones going to USC and I don't know. I
don't know where the other guy is going. So again,
when you can step in and go, we'll give you
a hundred thousand dollars more to come on over here
in USC is no slacker, you know, in the middle
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of Los Angeles, kind of a busy town in a
pretty good program. So I think they're still focused on
on this weekend. I think i U is not. They're legit.
The only thing that in both trenches.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
As a fan is that last year. I know this
team is different than last year's team, but they they
looked scared against Notre Dame in the playoffs last year.
I know this is the big ten championship and not
the College Football Playoff. But I hope they come out
looking like the team that they should be.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I think the Penn State game and it showed a
lot and what I'll call is the catch, Yes, is
it propels you confidence wise?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I cannot remember a catch in college football. In the NFL,
there's plenty of catches, but in college I can't remember
a greater catch ever.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Catching it the high point, turning your head down and
hitting that toe with literally a blade of of green
grass between you and the out of bounds to win
it in the end was crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's the difference between an undefeated season and not. Right there,
That shows how hard it is to go undefeated in anything,
really in college football in general. You say winning a
college football game or a football game is the hardest
thing to do in sports. Yeah, I think that proves
it right now.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Winning a football game is the hardest thing to do
in sports. I've said it forever. It's every game is
like a novel. You can play great for three quarters
and lose it in the last. Every calling plays, to me,
is the hardest thing. Down distance, time on the clock,
and personnel on the field, all those things come into
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play on every single call, and second and third is
different than third and seven. I mean, and with this
time on the clock and everything else, everyone knows the plays.
They're the same plays. They're call different in each offense,
but they're the same plays. When you call them makes
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you great or not. And sometimes people go, that's a
terrible play call, But you don't know the personnel on
the field, who's hurt, who's not, what the other team
has been giving the offense. Because that's good offensive coordinators.
You take what they give you. They're giving you the
underneath stuff. Okay, we're gonna throw that and gain seven
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eight yards every play until you stop it, and then
we'll figure out what you're giving us. Now. I love football.
I could talk football all day. The TSA charges forty
five dollars, not eighteen dollars. I apologize. Forty five dollars. Wow,
the original charge is going to be eighteen. They moved
it in the last couple of weeks to forty five dollars.
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If you don't have your real ID, you could still fly.
They're going to examine your stuff a little bit closer.
But forty five dollars is what's gonna cost you, And
people like Dwight that still doesn't have his real ID,
he'll pay it. He has a passport, so he's straight.
In the break, you went, you you were? You checked Spotify,
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and Spotify is a feature. My heart's better.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But they have a feature where it by your listening
habits will guess your age.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, so that way, man, how old are you?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I'm it's how I actually am. Yes, I'm twenty eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You're twenty eight years old. How old does Spotify say
your listening habits are?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Spotify thinks I'm seventy one years old. I was a
little surprised it was that high.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I knew it would be.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I was thinking more fifties or sixties. I said forties.
I said, because you listened to older heavy metal. And
that's that's really has to be what got it to
the seventies. But man, seventy one, I can retire.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's the thing about listening habits. People are eclectic. I
will listen. I mean it's crazy. Yes, I have some
Taylor Swift, but I also have Frank Sinatra, Brank and
some heavy metal. H It's all over the place. I
can't imagine what it would say about me. I kind
of want to know. Now. These stories really interested me
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because it's crazy to think there was a lost masterpiece
artwork it was found four hundred years later. Being an American,
I can't even like wrap my brain around it four
hundred years. Obviously, in Europe, Peter Paul Rubens christ On
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the Cross went missing in sixteen thirteen, but recently was
found inside a townhouse in Paris. It was sitting in
someone's townhouse in Paris. It's been lost since sixteen thirteen.
They sold it. Obviously. It is priceless, by the way,
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so it's one of those artworks from the seventeenth century
that that are just it's priceless. But it did sell for.
The final bid was two point seven million dollars for
Paul Rubens christ On the Cross. It's been lost since
sixteen thirteen, which fascinates me. Another one, I'm about to
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freak you out with, dude, Okay, So I couldn't sleep
the other night Jackie snoring away, so I went downstairs
and I watched this is where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Least it wasn't a Civil war dot downtown Abbey. No, No, not.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Worse, but I guess no better. I watched three episodes.
It was a three part series on King Tut. It
was three hours. It was three hour. I watched all
of it. It was three hours. Okay, So King Tut
there wasn't much in his sarcophagus.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sarcophagus, sarcophagus.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You know the gold obviously the gold laid the mask
and all that was in there, right, and he was
in there, but laying on top of him was a dagger. Okay,
but ready to freak you out, Okay, the dagger was
made of metal. Don't hit the thing yet. I'm gonna
I'm gonna queue you, I think. Okay, So the dagger
was made of metal. It was iron. Iron wasn't really
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used for another eight hundred years.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They now have the technology to find out where the
iron came from, because they're like, where did he get iron?
If they weren't using iron for eight hundred more year,
eight hundred more years before iron became a thing. They did.
They put it in this machine and they said, the
iron in this in this dagger is not of planet Earth.
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It's from It would have to be from a meeting year.
The only pot well, there's two possible one is a
meteor crashed in Egypt made of iron. They got the
iron from the meteor and made this dagger, which still
comes not from this earth. Or what do they say
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about the pyramids?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh yeah, that's what I was thinking immediately when you
said that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yes, that that the Pyramids got help, that that that
the Egyptians five thousand years ago got help from Aliens.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I mean, why else would those would those big triangular
building structures be so mysterious and unable to be reached
by humans legally.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And done and done to the millimeter, yeah, and to
and the math involved, and then how they're related to
the stars.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
If there's ever an apocalypse in our lifetime, the Pyramids
will be involved somehow.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So I I kept having to rewind and go, what
did he say? The dagger? The only thing in his
coffin was this dagger, And the dagger is made of iron,
and the iron and the iron was not of this world,
and I was it literally matches no iron on planet Earth,
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so it had to come from outer space. That should
be a bigger story, but.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It won't because if it was a bigger story, that's
now this specific thing wouldn't cause widespread panic, but it
would cause curiosity, and they don't want people to, you know,
dig deeper into that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I watched three hours of this thing and at the
end you'll the conclusion. What I mean a lot of
people know this, but King Tut and his family were
weirdos the reason that they were so messed up. And
then after he died, he did not have children because
he basically couldn't at that point because they had so
inbred for generations, so many generations he had, he had
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so many things wrong with him. He probably spoke with
it an impediment because his mouth what didn't form correctly.
His both his legs were messed up. He had a
left foot, so he walked. They even did this, so
they taped a guy's feet up that would match the
ailments that he had, and then put those little dots
on them. And then you know how they make them
walk on a treadmill. Yeah, and see how his what
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his gait was, So they go, this is how King
Tut walked thirty five hundred years ago. I love these shows.
Freaks me out a little bit. But he was messed
up and his dad was even weirder.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If they ever brought back something like Unsolved Mysteries, you
should be the host.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Of the version of that show.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
A notas that for free. So again, three hour documentary.
I think I went to sleep at three. It was
midnight and I was like, I can sleep, went down
and wants a King tut thing on. I don't know
Netflix or whatever it was, but I couldn't believe there
was plenty of there. And I now want to go
to Egypt because I've never really wanted to go in
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that area, but now I want to go to Egypt
because they built this billion dollar museum. The New Egyptian
Museum was a billion dollars and it's it's one of
the biggest buildings in the world.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's unbelievable, and they sort of built it not in
the ground, but so it represents, you know, everything that
was buried. So there's it seems like there's sand on
top of the roof, right, yeah, So it's just like
you drive down into where you park and go into
the museum.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
That's spooky.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It is really kind of spooky, but it's umongous. It's
one of the biggest buildings in the world. I kind
of want to go now ride a camel.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
This is maybe just me thinking out loud. What would
happen if, you know, in a war situation, if a
country decided to attack the pyramids and destroy them.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well that they've done that for thousands of years. I mean,
there are so many places that were saying, well, you know,
here's the site for whatever. Mteps, YadA, YadA. It was
destroyed in the eleventh century by whoever, right, and they've
done that for forever. How do you destroy the undestroyable
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thirteen thousand tons for each block? What do you what
do you use to blow that? It would take forever
to do that. I mean there and they used to
be painted. It used to be white and there was
gold tip on the top. They used to be painted white.
Can you imagine that at the time these three pyramids
they were painted white?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, none at all.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
No dude, Egyptians freaked me out. All right, We're gonna
take a short break again. The dagger made of iron
eight hundred years before iron was a thing in King
Tut's scarfecus not of this world. Back after this on
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NewsRadio eight forty whns.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Ah, it was ninety five.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Should have gone with your initial instinct at nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Six, Oh no way, I thought that Jilossoms were ninety six.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Jim Blossoms was ninety six.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
What I just, for whatever reason, think of like the
Jim Blossoms and Google halls all all around ninety eight
ninety nine. So that was earlier than I thought.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Go find parent Johnson for me, Go find parent, Yes,
because parent's going to come in and talk about the
Louisville Arkansas game right now?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Arkansas?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh yeah, Arkansas, Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
There he is there, he is here, he comes Parent Johnson.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Tonight, John I had my headphones off. Can you do
the Arkansas for me again?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Arkansas?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
OK?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So tonight it's not just cal and Louisville. It's it's
also Kenny Payne on the bench tonight. I just listened
to his final press conference, not his final I don't
know if it was his final it was. It was
the press conference after the last.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Loss with the Titanic reference. Yes, the type reference people
jumping off the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well, that's a good idea to do.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I felt like ten years ago, I.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Forgot how embarrassing that press conference was that was bad.
He blamed everyone else but himself. He's don't blame me,
and he started rattling off people to blame.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Uh, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That was just again people wanted to all control delete
that era, and we've moved past it. Now we've got
the Kelsey era. And if they win tonight, Paron Johnson
on their floor, people are going to start because I
think they're looking at Louisville and they're like, Oh, I
like that squad. They win tonight, it's going to start
to get people to really talk about them.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, No, I think this is going to be a
great game. When you talk about a couple of things,
I'm kind of nerding out about this game, okay. And
and the reason why I'll tell you this is the
pace of play. Okay, Arkansas and Louisville's pace of play
is in the top twenty. So for example, Louis Louisville
is averaging ninety six points per game, and so like,
that's wild to say.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm trying to think, when's the last time that happened.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
So Louisville is twelfth in the country in the shortest
average possession per length, the average per possession is fourteen seconds. Okay,
Now here's the kicker on the other side. When you
look at what Arkansas does, they do the same thing.
They are top twenty in the country in pace, they
are like thirteenth to forty. They're like somewhere between fifteen
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and seventeen. So they're gonna get up and down tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Okay, your Quinet Essential col team, right.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay, Louisville's deep enough because if we all know the
factor that can ruin it refs. Yeah, if refs start
calling TICKI tack on going to the rim. So if
you get you know, you bring the ball up and
you're like, RIM's open, I'm going or you pull up
and shoot, somebody's gonna whatever, gonna get fouls. You start
calling a lot of fowls. I don't know how deep
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Arkansas is.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, you know, I'm glad you brought that up. And
it's really when you say that right there, it's gonna
come down to rebounding. Louisville is top five in the
country and rebounding right now in the country. Arkansas only
has one the Braso kid. He averages They have one
guy that averages more than six rebounds.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, but isn't that a symptom of we put more
shots off, there're gonna be more rebounds.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I think when you look at I think if we
win this game, it comes down to the backboard. We
on average beat every team on the backboard by thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
A game that's gonna be the secret defense and backboard
is gonna be whether this team goes to the Final
four or not.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yes, and you know, and so now the only concern
that I do have about this, and this is something
that me and you have discussed off the air. We
take a ton of threes, So now we got to
see if the ball goes in. Forty one percent of
our points come within outside the three point line. Conversely,
Arkansas scores sixty points withinside the three point line. We
are fifth in the country and two point field goal
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percentage defense. So if we can take away that right there,
and we can control the backboard, I think we can
win this game. The only thing that concerns me is
when you're on the road, and this is the true
road test, that is the ball going A guy's gonna
be a little tighter on.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
The three point shots. I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
And now you have to really pay attention to to
night this the A Cuff Kid and Mike McHale Brown. Yeah, okay,
these guys are more than likely going to have their
names called in the lottery. Okay, So this is one
of those things like I have something to prove how
these guys are gonna go back and forth.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Today Paron Johnson, how many players on Louisville team can
create their own shot?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Four?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I'd say I say three to four. I think I
think Roots can create his own shot. You know, Conwell's
averaging twenty points the game, he's our leading scorer, and
he's shooting lot He's shooting forty percent from three, like
him Alan Or do we have two guys shooting forty
percent from three? And I know Mikail Brown's only shooting
thirty percent three, He's shooting thirty percent from three, and
then Halffield and half Field. Shit, I mean he' shooting
a great percentage. So now when you talk about this, now,
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the question is can they guard the three point line?
And that's what I want to see, if they can.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Really give to Kentucky. Yes, they did a great shot
out on them. That showed me in the first minute
of the game when they went out and guarded Kentucky
at the twenty six foot mark. They they weren't waiting
for them. They went out and got him at twenty seven,
twenty eight feet away from the basket. I said, oh okay, yeah, okay,
here we go again. This is going to be a
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race up and down the floor. Cal again. I miss Cal,
you just I miss Cal.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
His press conferences were so great.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
They they're awesome.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
They're entertaining, even though you it's like it's kind of
like a lifetime movie. You want to turn it off,
but you can't turn away from it. So that's why
I love what he does when he's on there.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Cal is Cal's a lot like you know, she thought
your little quirky stuff that you did when you were
dating was awesome. Then you get married and that stuff
irritates you. That's what happened to Kentucky fans and Cal.
He said the same stuff at the end that he
said at the beginning. Don't don't get it twisted. It's
the same exact things he said. It's just he started losing.
Is why you didn't like it anymore?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, me irritated. The press conference is the same. The
colors are just different.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
We would drag it out. I remember one of his
first games. Remember he used to come out to RUP
after the game and talk to the to the fans
in the arena, Remember they the microphone. He would talk
to the ones that would stick around. And I remember
one of the first games because we were recording, Lachlan
and I would record every one of these because we
knew he was going to say something. And he said,
we're not turning the ball over enough. We're all like,
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what did he say? You're right, we turned over twelve times.
We didn't turn over the ball enough, as what I
told my players, And we're all like, this guy is insane.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
You know that. That's funny you say that because Arkansas
they don't turn the ball over a lot. They don't
force the opponent to turn the ball over a lot.
And that's that's the thing that he's always been able
to do with the John Walls and the Aaron Bledsoe's.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No, no, no, his own team, his own team turning
the ball over. He was saying, we don't turn the
ball over enough, as in his own team turning the
ball over. We're not trying hard enough is basically about that.
But okay, so what's the point spread?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Do we know that point spread on this game is
a three and a half. It's three and a half
right now. I think it'll drop down to two and
a half and the over is one sixty one sixty eight,
I believe in a half.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
How do you use basketball, coach? How do you use
the Egyptian Magician?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You know, I think you play all those guys. But
one thing I like about him is he opens up
the floor because when you bring him out, for example,
you have to respect his three point shot right now?
You do?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
And so because of that, he takes all the shot
blockers away from the basket, which allows to that throws
those back door cuts for guys to get to the hole.
And then you see guys like Russ post Up or
Michale Brown could come off a pick and roll because
if you help too much in the lane, he can
kick back to him for three. So he just really
makes the court two times bigger for them.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Do you park him on the elbow like we did
Gorgy Young? Remember that he would pass through the elbow
and if not he turned around, just shoot the jumper
from the elbow.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You know, I wouldn't mind that, But because like he
can shoot the three so well. Pat Kelsey runs a
very European Australian style offense. He's gonna lift them all
way upside of three point.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Have you seen the shot selection piece where they put
the dots? Oh yeah, oh where the shots are? Yeah?
And after the three there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
There's like one shot, the mid range jump shot.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Nobody, nobody takes those shots anymore. It's few and far between.
But I tell you what, you know, we are very
much at the rim, or we are very much outside
the three point line. So now the real question is
can we knock down the three point shot in this
game tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I look this game. I love the early nineties. You know,
Rick was at Kentucky, but Arkansas had these super teams.
Bill Clinton was president and he was from Arkansas. So
these games I remember on Super Bowl Sunday, Kentucky played Arkansas.
Bill Clinton was in the arena. They were they won
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a national title. Yes, and those fans are legit basketball fans.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, I mean, I mean they I felt like I
knew a lot more about Arkansas basketball. Back in the day.
They had Corus Williamson, they had Chorus Williamson. Back in
the day. And he was down there doing this thing
with Nolan Richardson and they had it forty minutes of hell.
It's what they used to call it. So this is
this game is going to be very friend I tack
like that it's going to be a throwback game from
what they used to see because this pace is going
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to be tremendous. Here's what I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I recommend Louisville fans, if you've been out, get back
in because this year is like a throwback year. We
are going down to Arkansas, which reminds me of the nineties.
We're playing Indiana, Louisville's playing Memphis. This is the old
school schedule. It ain't soft in the preseason. This is preconference.
It is not a soft schedule. And they're playing all
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the people we love to hate.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Well, I was would I would go ahead and say
the last game that they had against Eastern Michigan and
n j T, it was fun to be winning games
by forty, scoring one hundred points.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, you need those games too.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
To tie onto what you just said. I hope you
guys enjoyed it, because now here's the gauntlet. You saw
how good Duke was yesterday saw how good North Carolina was.
The ACC is a little bit back to where it
has been in previous years, and as Pat Kelsey said,
he's not ducking the smoke.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
This is going to be, for better or for worse.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
One of the most tested seasons that Louisville's had, and
now will kind of go back to put a bow
on the Ali Khalifa thing, the Egyptian magician. He struggled
very much against Cincinnati. That was one of their last
big because they just have huge dudes all over the
floor right as like you said, Pat Kelsey is pulling
them out and all you have to look for when
he's out there. I feel that he's really no much
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of a threat other than passing. So Cincinnati allowed him
to do that. That took away those back door lanes.
He wasn't getting getting any of that. Louisville just happened to.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Make a stroke.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's hit some three, he's wide open.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He can got to go out and guard him. I
think you can be objective about Kentucky, Yeah, because I
don't think you're that kind of fan or a basketball guy.
I think you can be objective because there's a lot
of I don't have a lot of Louisville people on
to talk about sports because I can't find somebody that
will tell me what, you know, objectively of what they
think Kentucky can they I haven't seen enough of them
(25:55):
to give an opinion about it.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Is this a fixable team? They're not bad? They just
don't have a point guard? Okay, uh, you know they
they do a lot of things well, and you know,
and then here's the other thing. I don't really want
to put a make a decision on what this team
is until I see Jaden Quinton's come back.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okay, all right, and he's injured.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Yeah, he's coming off the ACL repair, still a few
weeks out. Yeah, they say he's going to be back
in sometime in maybe January more than likely. So right now,
that kid's going to be your savior. You got to
stop the bleeding somewhere. But the young man from the
Pittsburgh I think the low kid, Yeah, he got hurt.
He's got hurt early, so that that really hurt in
my opinion. And then now you've got Chandler, the Chandler
(26:38):
kid playing point guard, and he's really an off, he's
really a two. So they're kind of they're trying. They're
trying to get things there, They're trying to.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Get things way too early to jump off them. It's
the season's way too long. You know how teams are
out of the top twenty five and in the last
two weeks of the season and conference play they fight
their way in, they make the tournament and make a run.
I've seen it too many times. I've seen it too
many times. But how do you how do you spend
twenty two million dollars not have a port gard That's
like buying Mercedes and forgetting the tires right, I mean,
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I mean you spent a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
They still spending them, man, they're still spending that. They're insane.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Do we get any money over here at football?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Ok?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, but that's exciting for them too. They're going to
announce will Stein. Was he around when you were?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
No? No, But I know will I know his mother, Debbie.
She has the sissy cakes. You got to get you
the orange Julius one, and you got to get the
blueberry lemon you got I.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Know, Blakie, I know the other one.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Oh yeah, you got to try those two. Man. They
are unbelievable. It's it's got to be conflicting for you
as a trinity, the guy to have guys at both
schools like and here's my thing, Like I'm I don't
like this because so I don't like this because I
want Will to do well like that's so like for me,
this is the this is this is not it's kind
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of I got a pit in my stomach about this
because Will's a great guy and he did a lot
of great things when when at Teddy Bridgewater got hurt,
he stepped in and played a lot of good games
with Louisville and he was here. So but he's not
on the player's side. He's on the business side, and
he made a business decision and he now he's home
and his family can go down to Lexington and see him,
and I wish him the best. But like man.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Again, I've pulled away from it the last couple of years,
and I will say I want Kentucky football to be good.
I want the rival to be healthy. I want Louisvie
to win the Governor's Cup every single year. I like that,
but I want them to do well in the SEC.
I don't want them to be a doormat because then
football's better in Kentucky. Everything makes it better. High school
football is better. Then there's more eyeballs on us, and
(28:37):
I don't know. Look, we're all assuming he's going to
come in, score a bunch of points and win some games. Dude,
he's got to put his staff together, yes, and he's
got to recruit the right players. He's going to take
a ton that we're going to go to Oregon are
now going to come to Lexington and he's going to
do that. But it's it ain't easy to win if
you're Kentucky in the SEC.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Especially if you've never been a head coach before.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, well it's just it was hard to win before.
And now now you add Texas and Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
They won ten games in a season twice with Marks
in one hundred years, No, in a hundred years.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, I mean so now and then then the
other thing you got to say to yourself, what is
the expectation? So I mean, it's eight good enough there anymore?
Or is it not? I don't think March. I don't
think March Duds necessarily should have gone or should or
should have stayed. But like h there's a guy that's
at Maryland named Buzz Williams. Yeah, and he always he's
a basketball coach, by the way, and he talks about
(29:31):
the seven year theory buzz and he says like, if
you haven't won a championship and you're that a school
for seven years, yeah, now it's kind of like, well,
what are we doing with this guy? After seven years?
People get tired of you, like they haven't Like if
you were at Texas A and M, Well you've been
here seven years and you haven't done anything but gone
to the tournament. Well it's Texas A and M. It's
the football school. I've done more than a lot of
other people. So, like, you're not happy with my Resse's divorced.
(29:53):
It's no one's fault, but we need a break up.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You know, Tubby was the same way. It wasn't like
Tubby was still doing well. It was and he was
losing a couple more games than he used to, but
that was just a divorce. It was like, look, there's
no real reason for us to part, but this ain't working.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, you know, taking eggs all the top.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Ten years is the longest in college basketball coaching or football.
It doesn't matter either sport. Ten years is a long time.
We just got stupid with Rick being here twenty years
and Denny being here thirty that was just that's not normal,
and we got used to that. So how long, Kelsey stays,
I will tell you ten years is a mark to
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where you're like, where are we going with this? Yes,
so we'll find out. Paron Johnson, thank you, my friend,
No problem, good right man, short break, We will come back.
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(30:54):
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but lots of pasta. Thirty seven seventeen, Lexington Road in
the Heart of Saint Matthew's back after this on news
radio at forty wh
Welcome to our number two. Dwight is on his way
to Cabo. Yes, that's the same thing I said yesterday.
He had some problems with travel. If you follow him
on Facebook, you know we are brought to you by
the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. The roads were fine,
perfectly fine. The folks Bill Bell in charge of the
roads the last couple of days. He gets an A plus.
The roads were perfect driving in. You drove in about
(00:22):
four am this morning and your road was fine.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Correct, yeah, correct, this morning everything was fine and dandy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And then schools were all back today. At least they
made that call early yesterday. So people in families, that's
the hardest part about families is that you know when
you wake up and there's an unexpected snow, it's like,
oh boy, who's staying home with the kids? I you know,
everyone knows where I stand on the NTI. I just
if you have to do it long term, it's just it.
It just doesn't work. It didn't work during COVID, doesn't
(00:52):
work for snow days. Just call the snow day, have
them come back to school today and get started again.
I don't know how much they got accomplished yesterday or
how many kids act they showed up in front of
their laptops or computers at home, especially when they had
the cable company had some issues with internet in huge
sections of Louisville, so they were saying that. And again,
(01:12):
like I said first hour, there are kids like me
that would have used that as an excuse, even though
if I had internet or not, because most people have
hotspots on their phone, so they can use that. Tonight.
Last night Kentucky got They lost by three to North Carolina.
That's the third loss in a row from Mark Pope
and the Kentucky Wildcats after they spent twenty two million
(01:35):
dollars on their roster. Isn't the season that they thought
they were going to have and they have to play
number eleven Gonzaga on Saturday. Get ready. At some point,
when you start to lose a lot, it starts to
compound and the snowball rolling downhill. And there is truth
(01:58):
in sports of saying, hey, once you get used to losing,
you get used to losing. Just like winning. When you
win all the time, you somehow find ways in the
fourth quarter or the second half to win. This weekend
biggest matchup of the year i U in Ohio State.
(02:18):
In Ohio State, I just read an article. They've lost
a couple of five star recruits in the last couple
of days. They're Ohio State. They'll go find some more guys.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
There's just not enough money to go around. I mean,
losing five stars at Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They lost a five star recruit Chris Henry Junior and
four star wide out Caden Dixon Wyatt. That's it just
sounds like a wide receiver, Caden Dixon Wyatt. They are
the ones going to USC and I don't know. I
don't know where the other guy is going. So again,
when you can step in and go, we'll give you
a hundred thousand dollars more to come on over here
in USC is no slacker, you know, in the middle
(02:53):
of Los Angeles, kind of a busy town in a
pretty good program. So I think they're still focused on
on this weekend. I think i U is not. They're legit.
The only thing that in both trenches.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
As a fan is that last year. I know this
team is different than last year's team, but they they
looked scared against Notre Dame in the playoffs last year.
I know this is the big ten championship and not
the College Football Playoff. But I hope they come out
looking like the team that they should be.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I think the Penn State game and it showed a
lot and what I'll call is the catch, Yes, is
it propels you confidence wise?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I cannot remember a catch in college football. In the NFL,
there's plenty of catches, but in college I can't remember
a greater catch ever.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Catching it the high point, turning your head down and
hitting that toe with literally a blade of of green
grass between you and the out of bounds to win
it in the end was crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's the difference between an undefeated season and not. Right there,
That shows how hard it is to go undefeated in anything,
really in college football in general. You say winning a
college football game or a football game is the hardest
thing to do in sports. Yeah, I think that proves
it right now.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Winning a football game is the hardest thing to do
in sports. I've said it forever. It's every game is
like a novel. You can play great for three quarters
and lose it in the last. Every calling plays, to me,
is the hardest thing. Down distance, time on the clock,
and personnel on the field, all those things come into
(04:39):
play on every single call, and second and third is
different than third and seven. I mean, and with this
time on the clock and everything else, everyone knows the plays.
They're the same plays. They're call different in each offense,
but they're the same plays. When you call them makes
(05:02):
you great or not. And sometimes people go, that's a
terrible play call, But you don't know the personnel on
the field, who's hurt, who's not, what the other team
has been giving the offense. Because that's good offensive coordinators.
You take what they give you. They're giving you the
underneath stuff. Okay, we're gonna throw that and gain seven
(05:22):
eight yards every play until you stop it, and then
we'll figure out what you're giving us. Now. I love football.
I could talk football all day. The TSA charges forty
five dollars, not eighteen dollars. I apologize. Forty five dollars. Wow,
the original charge is going to be eighteen. They moved
it in the last couple of weeks to forty five dollars.
(05:43):
If you don't have your real ID, you could still fly.
They're going to examine your stuff a little bit closer.
But forty five dollars is what's gonna cost you, And
people like Dwight that still doesn't have his real ID,
he'll pay it. He has a passport, so he's straight.
In the break, you went, you you were? You checked Spotify,
(06:04):
and Spotify is a feature. My heart's better.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But they have a feature where it by your listening
habits will guess your age.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, so that way, man, how old are you?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I'm it's how I actually am. Yes, I'm twenty eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You're twenty eight years old. How old does Spotify say
your listening habits are?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Spotify thinks I'm seventy one years old. I was a
little surprised it was that high.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I knew it would be.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I was thinking more fifties or sixties. I said forties.
I said, because you listened to older heavy metal. And
that's that's really has to be what got it to
the seventies. But man, seventy one, I can retire.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's the thing about listening habits. People are eclectic. I
will listen. I mean it's crazy. Yes, I have some
Taylor Swift, but I also have Frank Sinatra, Brank and
some heavy metal. H It's all over the place. I
can't imagine what it would say about me. I kind
of want to know. Now. These stories really interested me
(07:08):
because it's crazy to think there was a lost masterpiece
artwork it was found four hundred years later. Being an American,
I can't even like wrap my brain around it four
hundred years. Obviously, in Europe, Peter Paul Rubens christ On
(07:31):
the Cross went missing in sixteen thirteen, but recently was
found inside a townhouse in Paris. It was sitting in
someone's townhouse in Paris. It's been lost since sixteen thirteen.
They sold it. Obviously. It is priceless, by the way,
(07:55):
so it's one of those artworks from the seventeenth century
that that are just it's priceless. But it did sell for.
The final bid was two point seven million dollars for
Paul Rubens christ On the Cross. It's been lost since
sixteen thirteen, which fascinates me. Another one, I'm about to
(08:17):
freak you out with, dude, Okay, So I couldn't sleep
the other night Jackie snoring away, so I went downstairs
and I watched this is where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Least it wasn't a Civil war dot downtown Abbey. No, No, not.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Worse, but I guess no better. I watched three episodes.
It was a three part series on King Tut. It
was three hours. It was three hour. I watched all
of it. It was three hours. Okay, So King Tut
there wasn't much in his sarcophagus.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sarcophagus, sarcophagus.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You know the gold obviously the gold laid the mask
and all that was in there, right, and he was
in there, but laying on top of him was a dagger. Okay,
but ready to freak you out, Okay, the dagger was
made of metal. Don't hit the thing yet. I'm gonna
I'm gonna queue you, I think. Okay, So the dagger
was made of metal. It was iron. Iron wasn't really
(09:23):
used for another eight hundred years.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They now have the technology to find out where the
iron came from, because they're like, where did he get iron?
If they weren't using iron for eight hundred more year,
eight hundred more years before iron became a thing. They did.
They put it in this machine and they said, the
iron in this in this dagger is not of planet Earth.
(09:55):
It's from It would have to be from a meeting year.
The only pot well, there's two possible one is a
meteor crashed in Egypt made of iron. They got the
iron from the meteor and made this dagger, which still
comes not from this earth. Or what do they say
(10:18):
about the pyramids?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh yeah, that's what I was thinking immediately when you
said that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yes, that that the Pyramids got help, that that that
the Egyptians five thousand years ago got help from Aliens.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I mean, why else would those would those big triangular
building structures be so mysterious and unable to be reached
by humans legally.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And done and done to the millimeter, yeah, and to
and the math involved, and then how they're related to
the stars.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
If there's ever an apocalypse in our lifetime, the Pyramids
will be involved somehow.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So I I kept having to rewind and go, what
did he say? The dagger? The only thing in his
coffin was this dagger, And the dagger is made of iron,
and the iron and the iron was not of this world,
and I was it literally matches no iron on planet Earth,
(11:23):
so it had to come from outer space. That should
be a bigger story, but.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It won't because if it was a bigger story, that's
now this specific thing wouldn't cause widespread panic, but it
would cause curiosity, and they don't want people to, you know,
dig deeper into that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I watched three hours of this thing and at the
end you'll the conclusion. What I mean a lot of
people know this, but King Tut and his family were
weirdos the reason that they were so messed up. And
then after he died, he did not have children because
he basically couldn't at that point because they had so
inbred for generations, so many generations he had, he had
(12:03):
so many things wrong with him. He probably spoke with
it an impediment because his mouth what didn't form correctly.
His both his legs were messed up. He had a
left foot, so he walked. They even did this, so
they taped a guy's feet up that would match the
ailments that he had, and then put those little dots
on them. And then you know how they make them
walk on a treadmill. Yeah, and see how his what
(12:25):
his gait was, So they go, this is how King
Tut walked thirty five hundred years ago. I love these shows.
Freaks me out a little bit. But he was messed
up and his dad was even weirder.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If they ever brought back something like Unsolved Mysteries, you
should be the host.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Of the version of that show.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
A notas that for free. So again, three hour documentary.
I think I went to sleep at three. It was
midnight and I was like, I can sleep, went down
and wants a King tut thing on. I don't know
Netflix or whatever it was, but I couldn't believe there
was plenty of there. And I now want to go
to Egypt because I've never really wanted to go in
(13:06):
that area, but now I want to go to Egypt
because they built this billion dollar museum. The New Egyptian
Museum was a billion dollars and it's it's one of
the biggest buildings in the world.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's unbelievable, and they sort of built it not in
the ground, but so it represents, you know, everything that
was buried. So there's it seems like there's sand on
top of the roof, right, yeah, So it's just like
you drive down into where you park and go into
the museum.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
That's spooky.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It is really kind of spooky, but it's umongous. It's
one of the biggest buildings in the world. I kind
of want to go now ride a camel.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
This is maybe just me thinking out loud. What would
happen if, you know, in a war situation, if a
country decided to attack the pyramids and destroy them.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well that they've done that for thousands of years. I mean,
there are so many places that were saying, well, you know,
here's the site for whatever. Mteps, YadA, YadA. It was
destroyed in the eleventh century by whoever, right, and they've
done that for forever. How do you destroy the undestroyable
(14:15):
thirteen thousand tons for each block? What do you what
do you use to blow that? It would take forever
to do that. I mean there and they used to
be painted. It used to be white and there was
gold tip on the top. They used to be painted white.
Can you imagine that at the time these three pyramids
they were painted white?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, none at all.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
No dude, Egyptians freaked me out. All right, We're gonna
take a short break again. The dagger made of iron
eight hundred years before iron was a thing in King
Tut's scarfecus not of this world. Back after this on
(14:56):
NewsRadio eight forty whns.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Ah, it was ninety five.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Should have gone with your initial instinct at nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Six, Oh no way, I thought that Jilossoms were ninety six.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Jim Blossoms was ninety six.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
What I just, for whatever reason, think of like the
Jim Blossoms and Google halls all all around ninety eight
ninety nine. So that was earlier than I thought.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Go find parent Johnson for me, Go find parent, Yes,
because parent's going to come in and talk about the
Louisville Arkansas game right now?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Arkansas?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh yeah, Arkansas, Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
There he is there, he is here, he comes Parent Johnson.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Tonight, John I had my headphones off. Can you do
the Arkansas for me again?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Arkansas?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
OK?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So tonight it's not just cal and Louisville. It's it's
also Kenny Payne on the bench tonight. I just listened
to his final press conference, not his final I don't
know if it was his final it was. It was
the press conference after the last.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Loss with the Titanic reference. Yes, the type reference people
jumping off the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well, that's a good idea to do.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I felt like ten years ago, I.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Forgot how embarrassing that press conference was that was bad.
He blamed everyone else but himself. He's don't blame me,
and he started rattling off people to blame.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Uh, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That was just again people wanted to all control delete
that era, and we've moved past it. Now we've got
the Kelsey era. And if they win tonight, Paron Johnson
on their floor, people are going to start because I
think they're looking at Louisville and they're like, Oh, I
like that squad. They win tonight, it's going to start
to get people to really talk about them.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, No, I think this is going to be a
great game. When you talk about a couple of things,
I'm kind of nerding out about this game, okay. And
and the reason why I'll tell you this is the
pace of play. Okay, Arkansas and Louisville's pace of play
is in the top twenty. So for example, Louis Louisville
is averaging ninety six points per game, and so like,
that's wild to say.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm trying to think, when's the last time that happened.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
So Louisville is twelfth in the country in the shortest
average possession per length, the average per possession is fourteen seconds. Okay,
Now here's the kicker on the other side. When you
look at what Arkansas does, they do the same thing.
They are top twenty in the country in pace, they
are like thirteenth to forty. They're like somewhere between fifteen
(17:21):
and seventeen. So they're gonna get up and down tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Okay, your Quinet Essential col team, right.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay, Louisville's deep enough because if we all know the
factor that can ruin it refs. Yeah, if refs start
calling TICKI tack on going to the rim. So if
you get you know, you bring the ball up and
you're like, RIM's open, I'm going or you pull up
and shoot, somebody's gonna whatever, gonna get fouls. You start
calling a lot of fowls. I don't know how deep
(17:47):
Arkansas is.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, you know, I'm glad you brought that up. And
it's really when you say that right there, it's gonna
come down to rebounding. Louisville is top five in the
country and rebounding right now in the country. Arkansas only
has one the Braso kid. He averages They have one
guy that averages more than six rebounds.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, but isn't that a symptom of we put more
shots off, there're gonna be more rebounds.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I think when you look at I think if we
win this game, it comes down to the backboard. We
on average beat every team on the backboard by thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
A game that's gonna be the secret defense and backboard
is gonna be whether this team goes to the Final
four or not.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yes, and you know, and so now the only concern
that I do have about this, and this is something
that me and you have discussed off the air. We
take a ton of threes, So now we got to
see if the ball goes in. Forty one percent of
our points come within outside the three point line. Conversely,
Arkansas scores sixty points withinside the three point line. We
are fifth in the country and two point field goal
(18:43):
percentage defense. So if we can take away that right there,
and we can control the backboard, I think we can
win this game. The only thing that concerns me is
when you're on the road, and this is the true
road test, that is the ball going A guy's gonna
be a little tighter on.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
The three point shots. I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
And now you have to really pay attention to to
night this the A Cuff Kid and Mike McHale Brown. Yeah, okay,
these guys are more than likely going to have their
names called in the lottery. Okay, So this is one
of those things like I have something to prove how
these guys are gonna go back and forth.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Today Paron Johnson, how many players on Louisville team can
create their own shot?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Four?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I'd say I say three to four. I think I
think Roots can create his own shot. You know, Conwell's
averaging twenty points the game, he's our leading scorer, and
he's shooting lot He's shooting forty percent from three, like
him Alan Or do we have two guys shooting forty
percent from three? And I know Mikail Brown's only shooting
thirty percent three, He's shooting thirty percent from three, and
then Halffield and half Field. Shit, I mean he' shooting
a great percentage. So now when you talk about this, now,
(19:42):
the question is can they guard the three point line?
And that's what I want to see, if they can.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Really give to Kentucky. Yes, they did a great shot
out on them. That showed me in the first minute
of the game when they went out and guarded Kentucky
at the twenty six foot mark. They they weren't waiting
for them. They went out and got him at twenty seven,
twenty eight feet away from the basket. I said, oh okay, yeah, okay,
here we go again. This is going to be a
(20:07):
race up and down the floor. Cal again. I miss Cal,
you just I miss Cal.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
His press conferences were so great.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
They they're awesome.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
They're entertaining, even though you it's like it's kind of
like a lifetime movie. You want to turn it off,
but you can't turn away from it. So that's why
I love what he does when he's on there.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Cal is Cal's a lot like you know, she thought
your little quirky stuff that you did when you were
dating was awesome. Then you get married and that stuff
irritates you. That's what happened to Kentucky fans and Cal.
He said the same stuff at the end that he
said at the beginning. Don't don't get it twisted. It's
the same exact things he said. It's just he started losing.
Is why you didn't like it anymore?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, me irritated. The press conference is the same. The
colors are just different.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
We would drag it out. I remember one of his
first games. Remember he used to come out to RUP
after the game and talk to the to the fans
in the arena, Remember they the microphone. He would talk
to the ones that would stick around. And I remember
one of the first games because we were recording, Lachlan
and I would record every one of these because we
knew he was going to say something. And he said,
we're not turning the ball over enough. We're all like,
(21:14):
what did he say? You're right, we turned over twelve times.
We didn't turn over the ball enough, as what I
told my players, And we're all like, this guy is insane.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
You know that. That's funny you say that because Arkansas
they don't turn the ball over a lot. They don't
force the opponent to turn the ball over a lot.
And that's that's the thing that he's always been able
to do with the John Walls and the Aaron Bledsoe's.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No, no, no, his own team, his own team turning
the ball over. He was saying, we don't turn the
ball over enough, as in his own team turning the
ball over. We're not trying hard enough is basically about that.
But okay, so what's the point spread?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Do we know that point spread on this game is
a three and a half. It's three and a half
right now. I think it'll drop down to two and
a half and the over is one sixty one sixty eight,
I believe in a half.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
How do you use basketball, coach? How do you use
the Egyptian Magician?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You know, I think you play all those guys. But
one thing I like about him is he opens up
the floor because when you bring him out, for example,
you have to respect his three point shot right now?
You do?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
And so because of that, he takes all the shot
blockers away from the basket, which allows to that throws
those back door cuts for guys to get to the hole.
And then you see guys like Russ post Up or
Michale Brown could come off a pick and roll because
if you help too much in the lane, he can
kick back to him for three. So he just really
makes the court two times bigger for them.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Do you park him on the elbow like we did
Gorgy Young? Remember that he would pass through the elbow
and if not he turned around, just shoot the jumper
from the elbow.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You know, I wouldn't mind that, But because like he
can shoot the three so well. Pat Kelsey runs a
very European Australian style offense. He's gonna lift them all
way upside of three point.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Have you seen the shot selection piece where they put
the dots? Oh yeah, oh where the shots are? Yeah?
And after the three there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
There's like one shot, the mid range jump shot.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Nobody, nobody takes those shots anymore. It's few and far between.
But I tell you what, you know, we are very
much at the rim, or we are very much outside
the three point line. So now the real question is
can we knock down the three point shot in this
game tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I look this game. I love the early nineties. You know,
Rick was at Kentucky, but Arkansas had these super teams.
Bill Clinton was president and he was from Arkansas. So
these games I remember on Super Bowl Sunday, Kentucky played Arkansas.
Bill Clinton was in the arena. They were they won
(23:39):
a national title. Yes, and those fans are legit basketball fans.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, I mean, I mean they I felt like I
knew a lot more about Arkansas basketball. Back in the day.
They had Corus Williamson, they had Chorus Williamson. Back in
the day. And he was down there doing this thing
with Nolan Richardson and they had it forty minutes of hell.
It's what they used to call it. So this is
this game is going to be very friend I tack
like that it's going to be a throwback game from
what they used to see because this pace is going
(24:04):
to be tremendous. Here's what I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I recommend Louisville fans, if you've been out, get back
in because this year is like a throwback year. We
are going down to Arkansas, which reminds me of the nineties.
We're playing Indiana, Louisville's playing Memphis. This is the old
school schedule. It ain't soft in the preseason. This is preconference.
It is not a soft schedule. And they're playing all
(24:28):
the people we love to hate.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Well, I was would I would go ahead and say
the last game that they had against Eastern Michigan and
n j T, it was fun to be winning games
by forty, scoring one hundred points.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, you need those games too.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
To tie onto what you just said. I hope you
guys enjoyed it, because now here's the gauntlet. You saw
how good Duke was yesterday saw how good North Carolina was.
The ACC is a little bit back to where it
has been in previous years, and as Pat Kelsey said,
he's not ducking the smoke.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
This is going to be, for better or for worse.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
One of the most tested seasons that Louisville's had, and
now will kind of go back to put a bow
on the Ali Khalifa thing, the Egyptian magician. He struggled
very much against Cincinnati. That was one of their last
big because they just have huge dudes all over the
floor right as like you said, Pat Kelsey is pulling
them out and all you have to look for when
he's out there. I feel that he's really no much
(25:20):
of a threat other than passing. So Cincinnati allowed him
to do that. That took away those back door lanes.
He wasn't getting getting any of that. Louisville just happened to.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Make a stroke.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's hit some three, he's wide open.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He can got to go out and guard him. I
think you can be objective about Kentucky, Yeah, because I
don't think you're that kind of fan or a basketball guy.
I think you can be objective because there's a lot
of I don't have a lot of Louisville people on
to talk about sports because I can't find somebody that
will tell me what, you know, objectively of what they
think Kentucky can they I haven't seen enough of them
(25:55):
to give an opinion about it.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Is this a fixable team? They're not bad? They just
don't have a point guard? Okay, uh, you know they
they do a lot of things well, and you know,
and then here's the other thing. I don't really want
to put a make a decision on what this team
is until I see Jaden Quinton's come back.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okay, all right, and he's injured.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Yeah, he's coming off the ACL repair, still a few
weeks out. Yeah, they say he's going to be back
in sometime in maybe January more than likely. So right now,
that kid's going to be your savior. You got to
stop the bleeding somewhere. But the young man from the
Pittsburgh I think the low kid, Yeah, he got hurt.
He's got hurt early, so that that really hurt in
my opinion. And then now you've got Chandler, the Chandler
(26:38):
kid playing point guard, and he's really an off, he's
really a two. So they're kind of they're trying. They're
trying to get things there, They're trying to.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Get things way too early to jump off them. It's
the season's way too long. You know how teams are
out of the top twenty five and in the last
two weeks of the season and conference play they fight
their way in, they make the tournament and make a run.
I've seen it too many times. I've seen it too
many times. But how do you how do you spend
twenty two million dollars not have a port gard That's
like buying Mercedes and forgetting the tires right, I mean,
(27:07):
I mean you spent a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
They still spending them, man, they're still spending that. They're insane.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Do we get any money over here at football?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Ok?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, but that's exciting for them too. They're going to
announce will Stein. Was he around when you were?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
No? No, But I know will I know his mother, Debbie.
She has the sissy cakes. You got to get you
the orange Julius one, and you got to get the
blueberry lemon you got I.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Know, Blakie, I know the other one.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Oh yeah, you got to try those two. Man. They
are unbelievable. It's it's got to be conflicting for you
as a trinity, the guy to have guys at both
schools like and here's my thing, Like I'm I don't
like this because so I don't like this because I
want Will to do well like that's so like for me,
this is the this is this is not it's kind
(27:52):
of I got a pit in my stomach about this
because Will's a great guy and he did a lot
of great things when when at Teddy Bridgewater got hurt,
he stepped in and played a lot of good games
with Louisville and he was here. So but he's not
on the player's side. He's on the business side, and
he made a business decision and he now he's home
and his family can go down to Lexington and see him,
and I wish him the best. But like man.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Again, I've pulled away from it the last couple of years,
and I will say I want Kentucky football to be good.
I want the rival to be healthy. I want Louisvie
to win the Governor's Cup every single year. I like that,
but I want them to do well in the SEC.
I don't want them to be a doormat because then
football's better in Kentucky. Everything makes it better. High school
football is better. Then there's more eyeballs on us, and
(28:37):
I don't know. Look, we're all assuming he's going to
come in, score a bunch of points and win some games. Dude,
he's got to put his staff together, yes, and he's
got to recruit the right players. He's going to take
a ton that we're going to go to Oregon are
now going to come to Lexington and he's going to
do that. But it's it ain't easy to win if
you're Kentucky in the SEC.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Especially if you've never been a head coach before.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Well, well it's just it was hard to win before.
And now now you add Texas and Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
They won ten games in a season twice with Marks
in one hundred years, No, in a hundred years.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, I mean so now and then then the
other thing you got to say to yourself, what is
the expectation? So I mean, it's eight good enough there anymore?
Or is it not? I don't think March. I don't
think March Duds necessarily should have gone or should or
should have stayed. But like h there's a guy that's
at Maryland named Buzz Williams. Yeah, and he always he's
a basketball coach, by the way, and he talks about
(29:31):
the seven year theory buzz and he says like, if
you haven't won a championship and you're that a school
for seven years, yeah, now it's kind of like, well,
what are we doing with this guy? After seven years?
People get tired of you, like they haven't Like if
you were at Texas A and M, Well you've been
here seven years and you haven't done anything but gone
to the tournament. Well it's Texas A and M. It's
the football school. I've done more than a lot of
other people. So, like, you're not happy with my Resse's divorced.
(29:53):
It's no one's fault, but we need a break up.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You know, Tubby was the same way. It wasn't like
Tubby was still doing well. It was and he was
losing a couple more games than he used to, but
that was just a divorce. It was like, look, there's
no real reason for us to part, but this ain't working.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, you know, taking eggs all the top.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Ten years is the longest in college basketball coaching or football.
It doesn't matter either sport. Ten years is a long time.
We just got stupid with Rick being here twenty years
and Denny being here thirty that was just that's not normal,
and we got used to that. So how long, Kelsey stays,
I will tell you ten years is a mark to
(30:33):
where you're like, where are we going with this? Yes,
so we'll find out. Paron Johnson, thank you, my friend,
No problem, good right man, short break, We will come back.
Don't forget lots of pastaasts up on, buy lots of
pasta today. If our house would not be the same
around the holidays without lots of pasta, whether you have
them put it together for you, the big ZD or
the designers or whatever you want. At Tokalini's, I like
(30:54):
to get the ingredients, bring the family into the kitchen
because I got a new kitchen. What's up? And get
the whole family in the holidays is big Italian thing
when we start cooking in the kitchen. I like to
do that. But I get all the ingredients where else
but lots of pasta. Thirty seven seventeen, Lexington Road in
the Heart of Saint Matthew's back after this on news
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