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KSR

2026-06-17 KSR - Hour 2

17 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 25.383 Hoda Kotb

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25.784 - 36.368 Hoda Kotb

Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb is presented by CVS. It's that time to put on your jersey and wave your flag, whoever you root for.

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36.689 - 48.201 Joe Haden

Why do I watch the World Cup? That's like asking me, why do I breathe? and it's beautiful. The guys are young and cute and fit. It's not just a game. It's your culture.

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48.441 - 50.643 Perry Stevenson

I like watching it with my dad.

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50.803 - 52.024 Chad Johnson

It's a connecting force.

52.324 - 61.493 Madeline Fox

From Futuro Studios, I'm Fernanda Echavarri, and this is American Football, a show about soccer culture in the U.S. and its underdog roots.

61.513 - 69.66 Hana Müllerová

Listen to American Football on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

73.133 - 83.05 Perry Stevenson

All right, listen up. The Jonas Brothers here. Our podcast is called Hey Jonas. We figured since everyone has a podcast, we wanted to as well. And we've had some incredible guests so far. And now our good friend Niall Horan is joining the show.

83.27 - 93.587 Gregory Carr

How's it going, boys? Hey, Niall. It's the same thing with Slow Hands. Slow Hands is not about anything else, really, is it? You know, our taste so good can't be about food. You do the same, Nick, with some of the stuff that you've done.

Chapter 2: What are the main challenges facing Coach Pope this season?

625.155 - 651.332 Gregory Carr

There you go. There you go. He was a former UK assistant. And so sometimes there's reasons for these games. Right. You know, there's reasons for these games. They don't all have to be a top 25 team. Right. Like, we don't need ESPN, Showtime. I guess, what was the popular games like rivalry week? That's a hard word.

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651.513 - 652.193 Chad Johnson

Rivalry week.

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652.894 - 664.087 Gregory Carr

Yeah, and like we'll be fine. Kentucky fans will show up, but we got to win those games. And this isn't something that's going to bother like strength of schedule or something like that going into the decision-making time.

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664.347 - 665.809 Chad Johnson

Yeah, not with the SEC.

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665.929 - 671.215 Gregory Carr

We'll be fine. I was going to say, it's not really – no SEC team has to worry about that as long as they perform in the conference.

Chapter 3: How does the Kentucky basketball schedule impact team performance?

671.235 - 693.049 Gregory Carr

Yes. You know, that's usually – And who knows how many of those teams are going to win their conference. They've got to go back and play the same teams that are complaining about us playing. Right. It just makes us better. I think so. I think so. Like I said, I think I like it because going into last year, I was kind of upset.

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693.069 - 718.42 Gregory Carr

I think some of the teams, I didn't know if we were necessarily prepared for that. And so sometimes you need to take some time to prepare. Some of these games are good to prepare for. your next opponent and whatnot. And speaking of preparation, I just got to say this. I was listening to Coach McLean talking. When he mentioned Zoom being that quarterback for the team that we talked about earlier,

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719.378 - 731.403 Gregory Carr

You mentioned some of the guys kind of struggling with sprints. That's hilarious. I mean, is it? It's June. It is June.

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Chapter 4: What are the expectations for the new players joining the team?

731.743 - 760.726 Gregory Carr

And like I said, that's why we weren't around the coaches. You know? But, man, I think the only guy I think is acceptable is the only true freshman we have, Mo Williams, Maurice Williams. You know, I mean, if he's a little gassed because he's like, oh, man, I didn't know. I think everybody else is coming back. They played college ball before. They kind of know what to expect.

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761.087 - 783.86 Gregory Carr

Which they probably just thought they'd get back up to speed in the first week or two. But that's a week or two where you're worrying about getting your wind up versus... Getting better. Right. Exactly. So... Who knows? But you, of the two of us, you have never had an issue with sprinting. You're always one of the first to finish.

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783.92 - 801.697 Gregory Carr

You and Ramon were the first one and two guys in every sprint, regardless of how long we went in practice. I was somewhere in the pack, in the middle. Yeah, you were in there. Maybe that's why I look at it that way. I was just kind of thinking, you know what? I don't know, what were we thinking in the offseason? I don't know.

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802.437 - 820.055 Gregory Carr

That's something you can do on your own, sprinting, and you don't need any sort of equipment. Really, I feel like you just play pickup. Isn't that what we did? We just played pickup in the summertime. You go home in the summer. The season's over. You go take a little break. You might go see – you eat.

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820.615 - 830.285 Gregory Carr

You're going to probably eat and hang out and stuff like that, but you're definitely working out and you're – I mean, you're a little bit different than the rest of the guys. You got to get in the gym.

Chapter 5: How does the team plan to improve its performance this season?

830.345 - 851.31 Gregory Carr

That's part of your routine. I got to hit the gym. Yeah. And I got to, I got to get some runs in. I got to get some runs in. So that's, that's kind of, that was, that was kind of something that stood out to me. But I think, I think, cause I know one of the, we had some fans that kind of talked about Pope being soft on some of the guys. And I was saying that,

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852.758 - 873.024 Gregory Carr

with the competition that the pieces that we have coming in, I was saying that some of those guys are going to need to come in hungry. They're going to need to come in, you know, to be a championship team, because I mean, I'm going to be honest, I'm, everyone's hard on Pope. I'm, I'm not going to be, you know, the toughest guy on them, but I, I do want the team to be successful.

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873.104 - 896.424 Gregory Carr

And I mean, the ultimate successful, obviously national championship team. So I'm, I'm, I'm, maybe skip or I don't know, but I'm going to be a guy that kind of pushes. I'm going to want to push for excellence. I feel like that's what you're going to have to do, you know, going in. I mean, seriously, I mean, dude, yesterday they were trying to replace this guy with Nate Oates.

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896.444 - 918.983 Gregory Carr

You know what I'm trying to say? Man, leave Nate Oates in Alabama, please. And I'm not going to lie. Nate Oates, he's killing it in Alabama, though. He is. He's not doing bad at Alabama. But, you know... We got our guy. You know what I mean? So I want them to kind of make sure. If you got to light a fire under some of these guys, light that fire, man, you know, because we need them to bring it.

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919.524 - 942.874 Gregory Carr

Yeah. We need everybody to bring it, everybody on the same page, you know, because last year conditioning was something that people questioned. I myself questioned at times. Yeah. You know, I did like that they would late in games kind of get it together, and so I would kind of back off on maybe they're out of shape and maybe it's just they just need to get it together.

942.854 - 958.037 Gregory Carr

You know, they just needed to get on the same page. Sometimes that needs to happen, right? And so that's what it was as opposed to guys being tired and stuff like that because late in the games, you know, when you make your surge, it's like, okay, you got to be in some kind of shape, right?

958.738 - 977.607 Gregory Carr

But, yeah, you know, pushing yourself to be able to make those deep runs deep in the game and stuff like that, that's going to be very important. So, again, I like that the guys are in the lodge together. I like that the coaches are in the gym with those guys. I like that they're pushing those guys. I like that where everything that I see is high energy. You know what I'm saying?

977.627 - 1004.887 Gregory Carr

They seem to be patting each other on the back. You know what I'm saying? High-fiving each other. You know what I mean? We got some real high jumpers. I think I saw Hawthorne. He was touching the second row. You know what I'm saying? I mean, that boy got bounced. You know? And so, yeah, man. So, you know, like I said, going into this season – Once again, I'm thinking championship.

1004.907 - 1032.132 Gregory Carr

I'm still thinking championship. Absolutely. Championship or apparently it's championship or bust, but there's somewhere you can fall in the middle between the best we've done at Sweet 16 under Pope and the championship, but you can't finish below. Like we were talking about this before. You can't finish below your highest achievement. I don't think an Elite Eight will do it either.

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