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I'm your host Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

Very excited to be joined as always by Sean Smith,

but also our Malachai Marano,

Kentucky's first commit in the class of 2025.

Malachai, what's going on buddy?

Nothing much.

How y'all doing?

Thanks for having me.

So we've had Jasper on before, so we wanted to make sure the spotlight gets put on the first guy, the first domino to fall in Mark Pop's 2025 recruiting class.

So we appreciate you coming on man. This is gonna be a blast and got a lot of fun fan questions and things like that.

So it's been a couple of weeks.

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