Tennessee vs. Kentucky Sweet Sixteen Deep Dive,Jordan Gainey Best Vols Story & Nico Iamaleava Year 3 Growth With FanRun Radio's Russell Smith & TheCatsPause247's Aaron Gershon
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by FanRun Radio's Russell Smith joins the program to talk about enjoying the ride for Tennessee's latest NCAA Tournament run, the best story on this year's Vols team, and Nico Iamaleava Year 3 growth for Tennessee football. Then, TheCatsPause247's Aaron Gershon joins the program to talk about if Kentucky can sweep Tennessee, the Lamont Butler vs. Zakai Zeigler battle at point guard and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Russell Smith, Aaron Gershon
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate it. I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:09.0 | All right. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from still the A for a mention Chase Thomas community live from Knoxville, Tennessee. Everything School, H.Q. |
| 0:17.6 | Joining me from Fan Run Radio, one of my favorite radio voices. He couldn't do anything else with the voice that Russell Smith has. Russell, good afternoon, sir. How are you? Couldn't do anything else with the voice. Couldn't do anything else with the skill set, quite frankly. So I'm just, I couldn't have a real job. So I'm doing doing all right, man. How are you? Pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah. It's just |
| 0:39.0 | kind of like we're, we're, we're, we're grizzled bets, uh, sports media events where it's like, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Like this is kind of the path we're on and then we're just going to see this through and see what happens. Yes. Good thing, uh, the radio business is, is humming along. |
| 0:53.1 | So, oh, it's good to get on the, on the internet. |
| 0:55.8 | That seems to be where everything's headed. |
| 0:57.2 | So, oh, it's good to get on the internet. That seems to be where |
| 0:56.5 | everything's headed. So thanks for having me. Absolutely. And thank you for being here. Make sure you |
| 1:01.8 | are listening to Russell in the afternoon, Monday through Friday at Fan Run Radio and also on their |
| 1:07.1 | YouTube channel that they're live streaming all day long over there on fan ride radio as well. |
| 1:13.7 | Russell, the first thing I want to ask you about, and you're not going to believe this, |
| 1:17.1 | we're going to talk about Tennessee basketball here out of the gate. |
| 1:19.7 | But I'm curious based on when you think back to what you thought about this team before |
| 1:25.6 | the year got started, like post transfer portal, |
| 1:28.5 | post everybody, like you got a good idea. Like even Estrella being out for the year knowing that |
| 1:32.7 | he wasn't going to be available. When you think back to what you thought about what this team's |
| 1:36.4 | ceiling was, did you think they were a team that was going to make it to the Sweet 16 and maybe |
| 1:42.8 | even get back to where this previous year's team got to in the elite eight. |
| 1:47.5 | Man, it's a good question. |
| 1:48.5 | Like, it's been a weird season, right? |
| 1:50.8 | I mean, they go on these win streaks and you think, man, this is a great team. |
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