2025-09-2- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes the always hilarious Joe Dombrowski August twenty first through the twenty third, Then from Gutfeld and the Joe Rogan Experience. Catch Jeff Die August twenty eighth through the thirty and don't miss social media sensation John Christ September fourth through the sixth four Tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called E five nine two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Off Byway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, September the second. I am Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill where.

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Speaker 2: You can come out have lunch with us.

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Speaker 3: It is another perfect beautiful day, like we're gonna look back and go, man, how did we get all this great weather in a row? It's here and you can come have uh, have lunch and see the guys. It's Ryan Lemon, Andrew Franklin. Shannon is on the first of seventeen vacations during the football season. You give Sean Clark's puppet Shop Fall one, eight five to nine, eight twenty two eight seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. And this is sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office. If you called TJ, he'll make them pay. There's a guy Ryan who on the text machine, he keeps a vacation day tracker, yes, where he keeps track of us to see how many days of vacation. And uh, last year was it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Last year I.

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Speaker 3: Won because of that big trip in the summer. Right, It's the only time I've ever won. But I believe going into I think this is his eighth year of tracking it. Shannon has won six of the seven years. And uh so I actually appre I give him credit for that. That's pretty amazing accomplishment. Well, Shannon has made it known.

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Speaker 5: He gets four weeks vacation and he's gonna take every single second of that entire four week.

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Speaker 4: Acation to four differently. But I'm for it.

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Speaker 2: Listen, if he can get that, look, he can, he go for it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he also does them. He doesn't care what's going on in the sports. That's the thing. I try to do mine at the most dead time possible so I don't miss anything. It could be Final four whatever, I'm going to the beach.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is oddly a week the NFL Star College Football starts. I saw that, but you know, I wonder if there's something happening with him and cut Man. I saw no filters off this week too, they all together maybe, so all right, so let's talk UK Toledo. I mean, that's the big story. Obviously, it happened a few days ago, but we haven't been on the air since then. Cats win twenty four to sixteen. It was kind of what you might have figured.

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Speaker 4: We won by eight.

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Speaker 3: The spread kept going back and forth between seven and a half to ten, so clearly that's where people thought it would come. I was of the opinion rhyme that I thought Kentucky, even though the game was a one score game most of the game, I always felt like Kentucky was kind of in control of the game. It was very frustrating to me. They got up ten to two and they just couldn't make it a two score game. Turnovers. It was just like, come on, just making a two score game, and they couldn't. And then in the second half it felt like we kind of were rolling, and then they let the score a couple of times at the end, sort of put their guard down. It ends up being probably what I thought was best case scenario, which is a win, but a frustrating win, and pretty much every leaves everything up for grabs in terms of what people are gonna feel about the team.

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Speaker 5: Uh next weekend, old miss, I'm with you, very very happy they won. I wasn't gonna care if they won by one point. They just needed to have to win that game. They got to win, So I'm happy they won. Not I'm like everybody else, not thrilled with the offense, especially the passing game.

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Speaker 4: You know, maybe better than we would have thought.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, with the two things we thought going in defense would dominate, they did. Running game, an offensive line would dominate, and they did so if they just got to you know, maybe it's just because it was Calzada's first game, these new receivers first game, and the passing game was just all but here. I asked Drew this question when I came in. They go to Macklin early in the game, like maybe first possession, he makes a great catch down on the right side, and then he disappears. He's a non factor.

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Speaker 3: There were I was very happy with the defense. By the way I think I saw. We were maybe fourth in the country like in week one and getting too the quarterback wow, like a crazy high number. We also were like third from last in in QBR or something, so like we It all depends on what you want to see. I mean, there was some really positive stuff and then there was a passing game that you know, I don't know what to say about, but let's let's drew your overall takeaway.

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Speaker 4: My overall takeaway is thank God for that seventy nine yard run in the fourth quarter, because I was pretty disappointed like everyone else for three quarters. What'd they have? What was it ten to two at the start of the fourth it was, and you're one touchdown. You needed an interception to set you up at the twenty nine. So if you had talked to me in between third and fourth quarters, I was about as disappointed as you could be. Now the run game really got going. They leaned on a Moore got it going in that seventy nine yard run. Pad the stats. But I was leaving the stadium. I said I would be happy with a win no matter what. I lied a little bit. I was pretty so you were disappointed, just I mean, it's one game. I don't want to judge, so one reminded me yesterday. Last year Old Dominion almost beat South Carolina in Week one, and South Carolina goes on has a great year, so last year we crushed. There could be overreactions, but I wanted a little more out of Cazada and the offense even though it was Week one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair. So let's quickly go through the good good. I thought defensive line was great. I think we have like I think we legitimately have an SEC defensive line, which we which we haven't really had in the last few years.

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Speaker 2: Offensive line not great. I think good, much improved.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if Bush Hampden's this will be better than the big Blue Wall. Maybe he should have been careful about that, but I think it's still it's still certainly good enough.

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Speaker 2: You know, quarterback not good. But I will say I had.

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Speaker 3: Some people, you may have heard me on the postgame show say I wish somebody would look and see how the wide receivers were.

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Speaker 2: Had multiple people who know football watch the.

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Speaker 3: Watch the film because they have the all twenty two available on ESPN. YEAHLUS said our receivers never open, like never open, now, you know. One person said, look the quarterback's gotta throw them open sometime fair enough, But like there was some people riding me going our receivers may be a real problem, like not able to get any separation against the against the SEC defensive backs. You throw in a quarterback that I don't think is exactly Peyton Manning, and so now you might start to get concerned about the past.

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Speaker 5: That's good to hear you say that, because just as well, because me I put all the blames on Calzada, I felt like.

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Speaker 2: Rever it's on. It's the same result.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I felt like Kalsado was just wait, you know, a second too slow. Just get rid of get rid of it a little quicker, a little sooner. But maybe he couldn't, maybe because the receivers were not open.

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Speaker 3: But part of me is like, okay, if it was Calzada, that's a fix up. Like it's one person has to fix their job, or you got another guy. If it's a whole set of receivers drew, it's hard for me to figure. Now you can say, and I think this is correct. Toledo apparently has two guys in their second that will play, that will get drafted in the NFL. Right, they have like a third and fifth round. So that's good, I guess. But then there's a whole lot of SEC teams that have guys in their secondary they're gonna get drafted in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: So if you had told me before that game, three receivers caught a pass and it was like Fred Ferrier Gilmour than I think Macklin had won. I mean, law, I thought they were going to be feeding the ball over and over, just getting it to him. However they could. He barely touched it. I got excited earlier. I thought Hester's down the sideline was a catch from my seat. I still say it's a catch, and that kind of thought they'd get him going. But then there are only one other big shot fumbled, so two of your.

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Speaker 2: Now a great throw by the way, I mean that was a great throw by him.

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Speaker 3: The throw to the end zone that ended up being offensive pass interference was it was a good throw. They were however, like one for fourteen on throws longer than ten yards, which is not you know, and that would ended up in a fumble. So like that, so those are those are concerning stats.

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Speaker 4: But you win.

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Speaker 2: That was the most important thing.

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Speaker 3: And now old miss comes I had the sense in the postgame show. My general belief is the mood of the fan base has not changed one way or the other. It didn't get better, it didn't get worse. It's kind of like everybody's in a holding pattern and then says, tell me, talk to me on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Would you agree with that?

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Speaker 5: I would agree with that. I'm kind of in the same boat. You know, we'll see what this team is really made of. Make some adjustments, maybe cause Ota plays better when you got old miss coming into town. You know, while we're talking about this, though, the tight end, we've been begging for the tight ends to be more involved for twenty five years. Our two leting receivers were two tight ends.

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Speaker 3: I wanted them to be more involved. I didn't particularly want us to, however, only complete five passes to the wide receiver the whole game. That's I also have to say. I mean, I'm gonna be real. I don't understand Bush Hampton. I just I don't understand his play calling. I don't really understand what the goal of the offense is at any given point.

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Speaker 2: You know, I keep getting told we're gonna establish a running game.

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Speaker 3: Then we do, and then like on those two possessions where we're on the other side of midfield, we go throw six out of seven passes, none of which are complete. To me, that was what was a one score game. We need to get it to be a.

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Speaker 4: Two score game.

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Speaker 3: I don't I feel like he passes when I think he should run. He runs when I think he should pass. He may just have opposite brain to me, and maybe that's positive, but so far I haven't seen it.

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Speaker 4: My biggest complaint with him is how in the world do you take a safety that who calls that play they're in the pistol and run the r p O of Calzada ten yards behind the line of scrimmages hung him out to drive there. You don't even call that to put him in that spot. But that was my biggest complaint with him. Yeah, just line up, run between the tackles and get a few yards and get some cushions.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people very that were very angry about I should have should have headed the ball. But at the same time, why put him in a position where he can make a bad decision and get and get in trouble.

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Speaker 5: So think they did or it didn't show their hand with Old Miss coming in they look conservative.

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Speaker 4: I don't believe that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if they did, that's if they did, I would say, that's insanely stupid, because that team could have beat you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean if if they were quote unquote holding things until Old Miss, then y'all are a lot cockier than I would have been, because we could have lost that game. I mean, Toledo, I knew they were talented. We talked about like, why do people say I didn't realize in sort of getting some of my our prep for our NFL show, I didn't realize Toledo has five guys on that roster projected to be drafted.

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Speaker 2: Drafted just for the record, we have one.

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Speaker 3: Now, a lot of our other guys are better than their guys, but they have a lot of dudes. I mean, they have a guy in the offensive line that's supposed to be a second round pick. I mean they you know, so, so I don't hope we didn't take that for granted.

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Speaker 4: Nah. I mean maybe if you were hiding something early, but you would have gone to the deep to the playbook as that game went on. I mean it was a touchdown game in the fourth quarter, so of course you're gonna pull out it more stops to get some points on the board.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about some people that were good. Alex Safari, he was great. Like the dude that's projected to be picked in the dress.

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Speaker 4: He was great. He was everywhere.

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Speaker 5: Man, He's that guy was just every time there was a play, you look up and he's getting off the bottom of the pile. So yeah, I think we expect the superstar season from him.

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Speaker 3: Is it Stephen sack em souls, sackam Souls, Sacam Souls.

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Speaker 2: Where'd we get that name?

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Speaker 4: Uh? They've been calling him that since he set foot on campus, so I don't know, but he he showed us on Saturday. Why he has that nickname two strip sacks.

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Speaker 3: That does feel like a name someone would call into this show and get though, well let's take credit for it.

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Speaker 2: We should, well we should call him sack them Souls.

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Speaker 4: But he was great.

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Speaker 3: I mean he and I think is even though they got three sacks, I think they got a lot of pressure even when it didn't show up like I thought. The defensive line and just the pass rush in general was great. Brad White, you know, I know last year was a little bit of a step back, But generally speaking, I'm good with Brad White's defensive coordinator as long as he wants to be. I feel like he always has a game play and at least as you prepared.

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Speaker 5: It seemed like that was the game. I can't remember a game where we had that much pressure on the quarterback. They were brought all kinds of pressure all game long on that Toledo Heisman candidate quarterback run.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that hurt his heisman. He didn't look like a heisman. No, he didn't mean at least whoever said that I think might have been reaching a little bit. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He was the same guy who said that Lamar Wilkerson was going to Kentucky. Did you are running backs got like them?

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Speaker 4: Right? The two stars. I was worried for a while. I mean at halftime they had twenty rushes for sixty yards three yards of carry when the Toledo defensive line wasn't that intimidating. So I was worried. But they got it going. Can't be critical. It's a fourth quarter game. In the fourth quarter they found found it out. Doubt all's wrong. Like I said, that did a lot of work for me moving forward.

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Speaker 2: I will say got those numbers.

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Speaker 3: It was positive about them because I judged these guys by what happens when the first hand gets on them, and I thought they were pretty good at getting another yard or two after the first hand gets on him, you know, the bad of all time, where like Chris and Bennie at that they're not on that level. But I still feel like those are guys who can like on third one, third and two, we won't get stopped the line of scrimmage over though.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they definitely get that extra yard after they take that first hit. And I just like the fact we got two of them just kind of rotating them. We got fresh legs back there most of the game. So I'm really excited about these two guys can do the rest of the season.

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Speaker 4: They're running hard too. Yeah, gall and especially he almost needs to be a little more patient. He was energetic, bouncing off everything in there.

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Speaker 2: So overall grade the game.

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Speaker 5: You go first, Drew me. I looked at you, Okay, I'm gonna give him a B.

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Speaker 2: You can give him a B.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna give him B. Yeah, defense probably an A, offense, probably a C. So I'm gonna give B.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I C plus I'll go be minus. I'll be positive after a three day weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to be minus. I can't give him a solid B and I the only reason I'm not gonna go C plus is I do think we have a chance to have a really, really good defensive line and that could be big for us against some of these SEC teams, you know, And uh, we had a couple.

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Speaker 2: Times too, we got a little unlucky.

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Speaker 3: We got a couple of strip sacks that we just didn't recover the ball. And to me, once you get a strip sack, you should recover that like sixty or seventy percent of the time because you got a guy back in the backfield.

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Speaker 4: We didn't. That's unlucky. Wasn't scoring territory.

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Speaker 3: It was in scoring territory. Yeah, so, uh, you know, I still be minest we won that one thing I was not. It was not a given to me. We were gonna win that game. So I'm glad we did.

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Speaker 4: After that offseason, this is in the time to be picky. Sure, we have more questions right now than we probably want, but at least they want to move.

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Speaker 3: At least they want now. We're gonna take a break when we come back, we have to talk about the atmosphere. There were more comments in my text machine about the atmosphere than the game.

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Speaker 2: I was not there, Drew was, Ryan.

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Speaker 4: Were you there?

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Speaker 2: I didn't go, so I want to hear what Drew has to say.

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Speaker 3: But then we just got to talk about because it's always been an issue, but it feels like it was more of.

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Speaker 4: An issue Saturday than I've heard in a long time. We'll deal with it right for this, Okay.

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Speaker 6: So.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back.

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Speaker 3: Take you sports radio E if I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven. We got people here from Greenup County. We got Lexington, would you, Frankfurt and Louisville all in nice here today.

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Speaker 5: Already had a great crowd here for the game on Saturday. Good pregame crowd for breakfast. It was kind of fun. Just feel that feeling. You can get that true blue feeling.

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Speaker 3: Good pregame crowd, good post game crowd. To those of you, it came postgame. Uh, you all came at once and there was a lot of people and we got a little uh, we got a little backed up. So I apologize for people who had to wait. We we we've decided, having seen that we're gonna bring in. Everybody's ordering the burgers, which is good, but they take a little long. Yeah, so we're gonna bring in another We're gonna bring in another grill nice, okay, said, so we'll have we'll be cooking them out maybe out front, just because you know, everybody's ordering the new burgers, which is great, but they just take a little longer.

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Speaker 4: So we got to add some help. Our kitchen is as big as it is. Yeah, we don't much.

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Speaker 3: You can't do a lot about it if I'm not two twenty two eighty seven text Machine seven seven two four five two five four one person right. Still drives me crazy that we snap the ball with three seconds last left on the playcock. You're playing a great team, why not run or playing a team you're better than, why not play some tempo? I agree with that, but that's just I think we're barking. That's never gonna happen. I mean, we're gonna always be waiting until the last second, and you know.

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Speaker 5: And I don't know this, but I think that's just stoops way he wants to play. He didn't want to play tempo.

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Speaker 4: And it is stoops.

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Speaker 2: But like it's just it's basic math.

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Speaker 3: When you play teams, you're better than you want as many plays as possible, so you take away the randomness.

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Speaker 2: Like when we play Georgia, we'd like to have as few a.

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Speaker 4: Plays as possible.

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Speaker 3: The theory is the more plays we have, the more chance for them being better to showcase itself.

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Speaker 4: But when we're.

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Speaker 3: Playing a team, we're better than we want as many plays as possible, because the theory is over time, the better team will win and the randomness will take it away, and they don't believe that I'm good with what they do. Like against Old Miss, I want them to slow it down. The more plays we have, the better chance we lose. But against Toledo Drew we should move. We should be doing as many plays as possible because we're better than them.

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Speaker 4: A different sport. But to twenty fifteen Final four not teach us. Anything can take you basketball Wisconsin, basketball possessions, more car perfect example.

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Speaker 2: Of the better teams.

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Speaker 3: One of the things one of the reasons cal would always scream push it is he knew that the more possessions you get, the better. Now sometimes they got away from that, like in twenty fifteen Mark Pope, same thing the worse the team, the faster we play.

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Speaker 2: When he you know, when we played Florida, he made the decision.

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Speaker 3: Our best chance is we is to just we can shoot threes more, so let's put him as many of them up as we can. We seem to go against our strength by playing against a team that's worse than us and then slowing it down.

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Speaker 4: I just, well, you said it that I don't stoop some Timptons. I just don't go together. It's not gonna happen field position. Let my defense rest. All right, let's talk about atmosphere.

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Speaker 3: I got more texts and comments about atmosphere than ever.

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Speaker 4: The thing.

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Speaker 3: First of all, decent crowd drew, wouldn't you say, considering? I mean, I didn't know if it would be like that. I actually thought the crowd was pretty.

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Speaker 4: Good, right, Yeah. I didn't do much tailgating, but in my direct walk to the press box a great tailgating scene too.

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Speaker 3: It was, and it was great here, so I mean, I think people were into it. I was told music was particularly awful. Rick with love? Okay, are you gonna hear this?

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Speaker 4: With love? Rick? I'm listening?

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Speaker 2: But with love? Are you listening?

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Speaker 4: With love? Always okay.

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Speaker 3: I was told it sounded like Rick was running the ox cord at the game.

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, nothing's wrong with that for you, but maybe for everybody else they want a little bit more mojo. I heard particularly awful and they didn't play Grove Street, which why'd we take away the one thing that we had drew You were there and that are those complaints valid?

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Speaker 4: They're very valid. In the press box, we can't hear very well, but we can at least know kind of the song that's out there. And before we even heard a lot of complaints, this is early in the game, we were joking about how it is hard for the DJ with young verse old to find a good song. They managed to play songs that young didn't want to hear and that old didn't want to hear it. No one wanted to hear those songs. I was getting messages in the second half from all over the stadium, including one guy who's been to every game for a long time, and he said, I have the message, put it right here. This is the worst music I've heard in my entire life in CommonWell Stadium. What they were doing there, and then the Growth Street thing that has to be intentional.

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Speaker 2: It has to be intentional, and that's the one.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So whether people liked it or not, now you have little old ladies in the crowd going play the party song like the part like everyone has accepted that song?

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Speaker 4: Now, why would you stop it? Why that atmosphere? Best I could tell from the press box, and I know a lot of it was the play on the field, and that's part of it. That that looked like we went back fifteen years for atmosphere. I agree. I thought we were in like two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 3: We had a flag that they must have gotten out of my car. It had strands ripped on it like it was it was. It was a ragged old flag, Like how do you not it's game one? How do you not have a flag that doesn't have a rip down? And of all the flags that was ripped, it was the flag. Wouldn't like you couldn't rip the Tennessee flag, Like why why is it our.

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Speaker 4: Flag that was ripped?

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Speaker 5: We could probably get Grow Street Party played again, but it's gonna take a whole lot of money.

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Speaker 2: Now that's the reason not to play.

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Speaker 4: Got hurt. It did hurt. I avoided Saturday here's the problem. You all laugh at this, and that encourages.

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Speaker 3: He sees the he sees the people, and and we know it's because no one laughed at home.

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Speaker 4: No one laughed laugh laughing. See Mario saying, what are you doing? Mario encouraged.

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Speaker 3: We are trying to move him to not be the dorkiest old man.

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Speaker 4: You're laughing at him.

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Speaker 2: That's the problem.

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Speaker 4: You encourage you. This is when I laughed. When he can't stop laughing at himself. It's Saturday night, and tell that joke. I know, no you did.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I've kept it in my pocket till it since Saturday night. All right, No, think it went over grade? I would disagree, all right. So but back to my point, it is a.

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Speaker 4: We have a.

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Speaker 3: Hard enough time here getting atmosphere going for a variety of reasons, including our sound system came out of my eighty nine Honda that I drove in high school. Like we have the worst set. Frederick Douglass has a better sound system than UK, and I've been told there's nothing they can do about it without it paying a bajillion dollars, and they don't. It's hard for me to believe, but literally, you can hear the feedback coming through it.

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Speaker 2: It's awful.

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Speaker 3: But even beyond that, can we not get someone there with some connection to creating an atmosphere. They've done better at basketball. It's still not great, but it used to be bad at basketball. They've done better at it, right, they have.

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Speaker 4: And this is one of the things we were laughing at is imagine you're this college kid at your first game getting excited in the biggest moments are two two like we just have a coal whistle is like our real a good damn doo walk.

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Speaker 3: I mean I like that some, but that's not you should not be playing at a football game.

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Speaker 4: I love a slowburger fries and a bottle ski, but I don't understand the connection. And we've done it for seven years, now, what.

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Speaker 5: Does this point it me? I felt like they had actually made some improve it to me too. The video course, Yeah, it's just so bad. And look, the play on the field is part of it. I know that that's part of it, but like third quarter, it's the.

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Speaker 3: One thing everybody wants. They have to bring that back. I mean they have to, right. I was told that someone at UK and they gave me a name. I'm not gonna say who, but somebody pretty high up was like, we need to get back to our Kentucky roots. No, no, I love music from Kentucky more than anyone.

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Speaker 2: No, not in a football game. It's a party, it's not a it's not a banjo.

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Speaker 4: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 3: This is why I thought you were doing the DJ and rick because like this would be what they would.

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Speaker 4: Play, right, cold play.

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Speaker 2: I know it's co play. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: You shouldn't play cold play, uh at a at a UK football game.

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Speaker 2: But this is what, like you said, they played limp biscuit.

00:23:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, so very part of the whole game. Honestly, you could see people looking around, like who wants to hear limp biscuit? That's what I meant, Like the young verse olds can be hard understand that, Like young kids probably don't want to hear T and T. But you know that's a big stadium, so I get it. No one wanted to hear a limp biscuit. Nobody.

00:23:32
Speaker 3: I think T and T is not perfect, but like it's okay, yeah I'm excuse me, T and T. But like you can't, yeah, you can't do limp Biscuit. I mean that captured nobody.

00:23:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you.

00:23:44
Speaker 3: I don't totally Uh, I don't know what they're trying to accomplish. They got to fix it though. We got old miss coming in. We need to you know, we need to have a heck of an atmosphere. That's our one our biggest advantage going into that game should be the atmosphere. Now, Mark Stoops had his postgame show last night, or his Bunday Night Coaches Show, pretty uneventful and and not very exciting, except somebody called in clearly joke like, clearly trying to be funny. And let me just say, I I don't like when people try to be funny and like A'm like, I could hear in his voice a thing that would often make me want to hang up on it, right, I could hear it in the guy's voice, the caller. But in the call, he asked Stoops if he was motivated, and you could see on Mark's face in the video that he wanted to find the kid and wring his neck.

00:24:46
Speaker 4: You could just see it.

00:24:47
Speaker 3: You could see in his face he was like, if I see you out somewhere, it's oh. But he kind of like tried to he was like, I'm always motivated and he didn't like now again, Drew, I'm of.

00:25:01
Speaker 2: The belief man, just roll with it.

00:25:04
Speaker 3: The Wildcat during the catwalk held a sign that said motivated and it had this the drawing like I thought that was great.

00:25:11
Speaker 2: I don't know if he got in trouble or we posted.

00:25:14
Speaker 3: I hope he didn't, but I thought that was kind of cool, Like didn't embrace it. But it is clear Mark Stoops is not having the motivated thing at all last night.

00:25:25
Speaker 4: That was obvious. Yeah, that call, you could tell he was pretty antagonistic with it and Stoops his tone immediately changed. And you know, if they don't win many games this year, I think he's just gonna get a little more of the motivated motivated needling that people are kind of already doing it because they know it. They know it irks. You can take away the power of it.

00:25:45
Speaker 3: If he was just like, you're exactly right, like he could have recreated the pose right and he could have said, I'm motivated, bring me one of those T shirts.

00:25:54
Speaker 4: Let's go, I'm ready, like it. Shouldn't you do that? Shouldn't you do that?

00:25:57
Speaker 5: If you were him, of course you should have done that just kind of lean into it. Make it part of your your persona this whole season. Man, you know, be the motivated guy because we all would, we all would rally around it. I think for sure.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: It's not like he's calling him something awful, you know, if he was like being a real jerk.

00:26:12
Speaker 2: That if it was something. But motivated is a good word, isn't it?

00:26:15
Speaker 4: Grateful? Everyone should be motivated.

00:26:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you get almost.

00:26:26
Speaker 3: So he didn't like that, very obviouslyn't like that now, Lane Kiffin said in his press conference yesterday, Tucky's very well coached. They came out and surprised us last year, and he had some line like we're gonna have to surprise them back. And as soon as he said it, I was like, oh no, I think he had me.

00:26:46
Speaker 4: I did. It made me nervous. I'm not gonna when he was because like, clearly that loss bothered I mean as it should have.

00:26:52
Speaker 3: It kept him out of the playoff if we if they beat us, they're in the playoffs. So if I'm an old miss fan, that was one of the worst losses I've had in a decade. So they're clearly gonna want.

00:27:01
Speaker 4: To prove a point and the way it happened, Stoops broke character and went forward on fourth and seven with a sixty three yard Even Kentucky fans were like, what in the world did Mark Stoops just do? So I think that adds to it. I've even heard Kiffin after that game kind of saw Mark was like, what was that? Like, where'd that coming from? Mark's That's not you.

00:27:19
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever been more shocked by a play than that one. When they lined up, I assumed they were just trying to draw him off sides, and then when he threw it deep and then he caught.

00:27:30
Speaker 4: It, I was in the stadium. I lost it.

00:27:34
Speaker 3: I mean I was jumping on people I didn't know who weren't even fans of Kentucky, and but I think they saw the spontaneous joy so much they just let me do it.

00:27:43
Speaker 2: Ryan, it was crazy that that worked.

00:27:46
Speaker 5: Then it was it is so out of a Stoop's character. But if you want to be successful in the SEC, you've got to take chances, like You've got to do things like that.

00:27:52
Speaker 2: He needs to do more of that.

00:27:54
Speaker 4: And then adding to it, we won by recovering a fumble in the end zone after that play, like that wasn't even the touchdown that's set up. We fumbled on them. So it's just and if you're going to be mad about missing the playoff, losing on a sixty three yard bomb, then recovering a fumble in the end zone and they missed a little.

00:28:08
Speaker 3: Short field goal, they had a little short field goal to tie the game, and then they and he hooked it last.

00:28:12
Speaker 4: Cliffin hadn't forgotten that one. Yeah, who's up in that first?

00:28:15
Speaker 2: Got Jerry up first?

00:28:19
Speaker 4: Jerry? Of course it leads with Jerry. Yes, all right, Jerry.

00:28:25
Speaker 6: Hey man, Well you were right about the environment. But that's why I watched those twelve thirty games, is I mean, the state was a little flat, but it's that those twelve thirty That's why I watch those twelve thirty games. It's always flat, and I always worried that Tuops team would be flat too if they weren't, which is good. Yeah, they won the game, but uh but yeah, the big thing is they they did win the game. They very easily could have lost against Aldo, but the defense they hadn't a going to that last drive because they they deliver that knockout blow.

00:29:02
Speaker 4: I agree with that.

00:29:03
Speaker 6: And then uh you, Oh Miss runs that tempo too, and they didn't defend it very well. I mean, oh Miss. I mean they were playing a direction school that sucks, but they but they scored their first cheap plays.

00:29:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate the call, and I'm not to cut you off there. I appreciate the call. Jerry's right.

00:29:23
Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to be worried more than you already are, Toledo goes tempo and goes ninety five yards over the course of like eight or nine plays, Old Miss will go tempo the entire game. And so we're gonna have to figure out what to do about that, because that was the moment Toledo did that. Their coach was probably like, why didn't we do this whole game now? Again, we were sitting back and just trying to kill clock. So maybe if it wasn't the end of the game, that drive doesn't happen. But that was an ideal at all.

00:29:50
Speaker 4: No, and you shouldn't let up. But I do wonder if they let up a little bit and knowing the game was in hand there and you're right about Old Miss, they're not just a little bit of their number one in tempo every year they're not kind of tempo. They are tempo now.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: The quarterback's not as good as.

00:30:03
Speaker 4: What they had. Two interceptions, two interceptions. Speaking of speaking.

00:30:07
Speaker 3: Of last year, Barryon Brown, first of all, I got robbed on that top that he did, Like, he got completely robbed.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: I don't know.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: I don't know how they overturned that.

00:30:16
Speaker 3: He had five catches twenty five yards, so it was a lot of them were very short.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: But that play in and of itself was pretty amazing.

00:30:23
Speaker 5: I was watching when that happened. Yeah, I thought for sure he was Indians on it. I felt excited for him to get that moment. You know, him and Dame both to get a touchdown on their first game their new team would have been awesome.

00:30:32
Speaker 4: You know.

00:30:33
Speaker 3: I mean, we both Drew. We both think it'd be great for Dane to be on the team. You were pretty adamant that you felt like Barrion needed to be somewhere else when you watched him have that game with LSU. Is there a part of you that said, man, I just watched a group of guys not get open.

00:30:47
Speaker 4: It'd be nice to have him this year. Did you think that at all? No, because it wasn't really personal to him. It was just that whole room needed a reset, and he was kind of the bigger reason of that. I was actually kind of excited for him. It was the whole Baron Brown experience. In the no their first series, I think he had an illegal motion penalty if they can move, and I even wrote on that penalty, I said, just wait, he's gonna do something spectacular later in the game, because that's what he does. Then that catch came. Then his final stats were about what very similar they were last year. So it was really the whole Buryon experience. That's a good way of putting it. It really was the Barryon experience.

00:31:22
Speaker 3: The illegal motion penalty had my text machine just lighting up for people, going, see here we go, and then he makes that catch and people ride. Man, it'd be nice to have a guy like that like he But you know, they don't even have him return They didn't have aim returning kiss.

00:31:36
Speaker 4: I surprised me. That's that surprised me.

00:31:38
Speaker 3: He was preseason All American in a couple places in kick returning.

00:31:42
Speaker 4: They didn't even have him returning kids.

00:31:44
Speaker 5: I thought he'd get more playing time doing that than he would maybe a receiver exact opposite. But you know which We mentioned Macklin earlier. He I thought he gonna be the go to guy. He catches that one ball and then like, I don't think he was targeted the rest of the game.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: Macklyn, Macklin and Law combined for one catch that can happen, that's supposed to be our two best receivers. They can buy for one catch that's not good. Nope, stop overpaying for sunglasses. If you tired of buy an expensive sunglasses only to lose or break them, or worse, you don't even wear them because you don't want them to get dirty.

00:32:12
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00:32:42
Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight five.

00:32:43
Speaker 3: Nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, A couple of things we've got. If you're in Bowling Green, We're doing a show Thursday at the Mint to start the NFL season.

00:32:54
Speaker 4: So the Mint in.

00:32:55
Speaker 3: Bowling Green, we will be down there on Thursday. We do We've done that the last couple of years. Friday is our big country Boy show before the first big home game against Old Miss. We're at Country Boy in Georgetown. For those of you that have never been to that show, I think it's probably one of the most fun shows we've done. And it has been argued that Kentucky football has been on a downward slide since the last time Ryan Lemon did a motivational speech.

00:33:16
Speaker 4: I'm making you bring it back Friday.

00:33:19
Speaker 3: Hey, country boy, you haven't done it in two and a half years, and let's be honest, we haven't won an important home game in two and a half years. It's time for you to do it, and I have I can't promise it, but I have in the works the possibility of somebody that could.

00:33:34
Speaker 4: Make that really really cool.

00:33:36
Speaker 3: I'm not promising it, but I'm just saying if you're there Friday, there's a chance that, I think.

00:33:41
Speaker 2: But either way, they'll.

00:33:41
Speaker 3: Definitely get the speech because I just told you and I'm just telling you about it, so.

00:33:45
Speaker 5: I have many days to prepare.

00:33:47
Speaker 3: Barry, I'm Brown, by the way. I also you mentioned the full experience. He also got an argument with his head coach during the game that got caught on television. Two perfect Barry and Brown game. Yep, But I will say been a little critical of him. That was definitely catch spectacular got robbed. If the rule is when you cross the plane you score, I don't understand why it's different when then way after you score you drop the ball.

00:34:10
Speaker 2: I know that's a rule about a catch in the NFL.

00:34:13
Speaker 4: I get it.

00:34:14
Speaker 2: But when you cross the goal line, that's supposed to be different. The plays dance.

00:34:17
Speaker 3: So think about how many times you watch a football game the guy jumps up and he crosses it with the ball, then he might fumble it and it's still a touchdown.

00:34:24
Speaker 2: Why is it different right there? That doesn't make any.

00:34:26
Speaker 4: Sense to me. Even with the finish the catch rule, I thought he still finished the he ended up almost in the stands, but I still thought he maintained control. I don't like that rule at all.

00:34:36
Speaker 3: Nonsports thing really quick, somebody needs to let me know what the excuse my language, what the hell's going on in London Kentucky? All right, you know, for y'all that don't know, I don't know either, But just get on TikTok and put London Kentucky.

00:34:52
Speaker 2: I mean it is, there is wild stuff.

00:34:55
Speaker 3: I saw a video last night people tried to fight each other in a parking lot, like like, all I know is the mayor and the city council seem to be on opposite sides. But I thought like people didn't like the mayor. But now it seems like it seems like the town's like divided in half. Like half the town is on the mayor's side, half the town is on the city council side. It has something to do with that time the guy got killed because he went to the barn to get whatever. But it seems like the people that are angry, now that's not even what they're angry about.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: People are calling each other names.

00:35:25
Speaker 3: I guess they're having an impeachment hearing tomorrow morning that is being streamed live. They're expecting like hundreds of thousands of people.

00:35:34
Speaker 2: To watch live.

00:35:34
Speaker 3: It's like captivated the country, and even though it's only an hour from where I grew up, I don't really know what's going on, do you.

00:35:42
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:35:42
Speaker 5: The goes back to that with the weed eater thing, right, I think it.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: Started with that and it's morphed into something else. I don't think it's.

00:35:50
Speaker 3: About because that was the like the sheriff for again, there are so many characters.

00:35:56
Speaker 2: It feels like I need a I need a outline.

00:35:59
Speaker 3: But all I know is I get on TikTok and it is just people screaming at each other but no context of what's happening.

00:36:06
Speaker 4: Drew, I'm with you. It seems much bigger on TikTok than it does around town. I've not heard one peep about it outside of TikTok. But there's a little floating head girl that she's got all the all the hot gossip, and I keep up with everything.

00:36:18
Speaker 2: She There's like some brothers that people don't like.

00:36:21
Speaker 3: And then there's a woman that was on the city council and it felt like I saw her throw a rolling pin at somebody rolling Pin. Maybe it wasn't rolling Pin, but it's just I would like to know because everybody's like tomorrow is going to be the craziest day in the history of local government, and I don't know what's happening.

00:36:39
Speaker 4: And I go, well, it's during the show.

00:36:41
Speaker 3: That's what I'm not about taking the show there and doing it. But like we'd had to be outside and I don't know what's gonna happen.

00:36:48
Speaker 5: They had a live reporter inside reporting on what's going on, and tell.

00:36:50
Speaker 3: You what can I give you the assignment of between now and tomorrow, trying to at least give us the cast of characters.

00:36:57
Speaker 5: Okay, come on with the cast of Pear.

00:36:58
Speaker 4: You have TikTok. That's gonna make it a little hard for you to figure it out. I can if you have one.

00:37:06
Speaker 3: Of your friends, though, don't be biased. Don't because they might say it's this person's far true. We need an unbiased because on TikTok, opinions are split.

00:37:15
Speaker 5: About who's right kind of car read Shepherd, would he know what's going on?

00:37:17
Speaker 4: Or maybe if you're in London to no, you should just text Ruynea and they can compare all the.

00:37:21
Speaker 3: Notes yeah, either way, I'd like to know because on TikTok there was a rolling pin.

00:37:26
Speaker 5: A rolling pin was thrown.

00:37:27
Speaker 3: There was a great there's a great video online and some of the people the things are screaming are not good. And I'm not taking up for anybody because I don't know if the people what they're saying about each other's correct. But what I did know is there were people yelling at each other going way out blah blah blah, and there were just some police officers just watching like they're just watching and.

00:37:47
Speaker 4: These people are yelling at each other.

00:37:51
Speaker 3: And there and the police officers just like, well, I hope everybody has a good day.

00:37:56
Speaker 4: Guys.

00:37:57
Speaker 3: One guy's just trying to do his delivery like he's walking through him like with the box.

00:38:02
Speaker 4: It's great, it's it's good stuff, all right.

00:38:04
Speaker 3: Who's next, Adam?

00:38:06
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Adam.

00:38:11
Speaker 7: I don't know who your guy at UK is, but tell them that I don't know what going back to Kentucky football atmosphere means, but we don't need any more money, Bony, you know.

00:38:21
Speaker 3: I think what they said, what I was told is they said we want everything in the stadium to reflect, like the music to reflect. Kentucky, which is just a horrible idea because while I love Kentucky music, it's not football music, right, It's like picking and grinning music. It's not and that's not what you play. Like Mario's rolling his eyes right now. Like I love Tom t Hall, but I don't want to hear ravishing Ruby when we're driving down trying to score a touchdown.

00:38:50
Speaker 2: I just don't think I think that's the thought.

00:38:54
Speaker 4: Right right. Well, to be more positive.

00:38:58
Speaker 7: About the Jerry said that, you know, we could have easily lost that game. We also could have easily blown them out. We could have a lot of points on the on the field and just to going into next week if the offense looked bad. But here's some zero sex only three penalties yep, third down convertson much better than last year. Correct, And then you talk about all the lost points on the field. You know, if Rodriguez doesn't fumble that ball in the red zone, we score there. And how many times do we get the ball of near midfield and then we didn't turn I.

00:39:37
Speaker 4: Totally agree with you.

00:39:39
Speaker 3: I think if you were to say just quality of play, that was probably a two touchdown win. That mistakes we made made it an eight point game. Would you agree with that?

00:39:51
Speaker 7: Yeah, I totally think so. I think they left a lot of points on the field that that could have really blown that game open. And unfortunately, did you ever feel like we were gonna lose that game?

00:40:03
Speaker 4: I did.

00:40:04
Speaker 3: I didn't either, and I appreciate the call. I didn't either. I never felt like we were gonna lose. And uh so, that's part of the reason I didn't have a terrible feel about the game is I didn't never really think we were gonna lose.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: The moments into that game, seeing that defense, I knew Kentucky was gonna be in a good spot whatever the offense was doing. I mean what they hold him to fifty five sixty yards rushing the big Chip trainum storyline coming in. Your old running back's gonna come make you pay, and he had I think forty one yards that that defense was locked in. That's why I was never too worried, or never really worried at all. Yeah, and really they gave up.

00:40:36
Speaker 5: You know that that last touchdown with what a minute to go, You take that away. It is a two touchdown win. They just got a little prevent defense. I think got a little lazy there at that last drive.

00:40:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, no penalty or it's only three penalties. Uh, no sacks. The turnovers are frustrated. I mean that that's you know, the turnover and also just I consider when you get the ball at the thirty seven you don't move it.

00:40:59
Speaker 4: I almost consider that turnover too. And Willie's fumble was like, I don't remember the exact spot on the edge of the red zone twenty five he was around there. That was would have been a big scoring opportunity. It did feel like it was ten to two for way too long. Three quarters. It was ten to two.

00:41:12
Speaker 3: We could not get the points that would make it a two possession game, and that was frustrating to me that you're like that. I felt like, the moment it becomes a two possession game, this will be over.

00:41:23
Speaker 4: And we just couldn't do it for a long time. If they didn't explode and that with some good running in that fourth quarter and the hangout, what if we had just won ten to two. I mean, I guess you're still happy with a win, but what a very uneventful day that was for three quarters. Yeah, well, I mean we at least we're not Alabama. True it's a kick to go to the Music City Bowl right now, by the way.

00:41:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do want to talk about I want to talk about some of those some of those other games from Saturday, including poor last night.

00:41:52
Speaker 4: Poor Bill Belichick told y'all over on infants under on wins that might be true.

00:41:58
Speaker 3: Too, over on infants under on wins, the bel check season ahead interesting.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: Hef I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

00:42:06
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