2025-01-23- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 4: Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 5: Now Here's Matt Jones walking back.

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Speaker 2: It is our number two here Kentucky Sports Radio. It's ks bar and grill. That guy just lounging back. I like it A five nine two eight oh twenty two to eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. One person writes, Matt, I watch that clip during the break. That's the most awkward thing I've ever seen. It's pretty awkward.

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Speaker 6: I told you during the break. I don't know if I want to see it. If it's that cringe worthy. Man, that's personal stuff, family stuff, I don't want to.

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Speaker 2: I guess somebody writes me that Billy Corgan did have a relationship with his dad but Bird did not. Well, that would just make it even more so. That would add to the.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and Bird's like a fiery dude, you, I mean, he's the type you've seen him. It's part of a bit, but he'll yell at anybody. I'm surprised that didn't get a little more heated. Shows that how he was.

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Speaker 2: He was not happy.

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Speaker 6: Shame on Howie Mandel though, for doing that kind of ambushing him like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of things he oh durs of all. Happy fiftieth birthday. She say no deal, no Deal. I saw they did that. They have a deal no Deal Island.

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Speaker 7: I watched it yesterday.

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Speaker 2: How could you even do that?

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Speaker 7: It's terrible. Plea I watch about anything, I'll recommend about anything. Do not give your life to dealer no Deal Island.

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Speaker 2: That's really strange. Don Franklin, by the way, so first of all, happy fiftieth birthday to Jason Lowe. You know, since they brought them here, I do a fiftieth birthday shout out, So happy birthday to you. In Illinois, we are at Don Franklin on Richmond Road tomorrow. What's the address.

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Speaker 6: It's the Hyundai Hondayhunday Hunday, Don Franklin Hunday tomorrow on Richard.

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Speaker 7: Four, thirty four to forty Richmond Road.

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Speaker 2: Thirty four to forty Richmond Road. And I'll be giving away some UK tickets tomorrow at the show as well. So not for the Arkansas game, for a future game, but thirty four to forty Richmond Road. So we will see you see you tomorrow. Also, Philip little moment to think about one of the true Kentucky high school sports legends, Philip Haywood. He was the coach at Belfree. He was in a car accident on Saturday and Saturday and he passed away yesterday. He had coached at Belfree for forty one years, created an absolute football powerhouse deep in the mountains. As I used to say, if you want to go to Belfree, go to Pike. We'll take a left and then just keep going and it's gonna be a while, and then you'll get there, and then you would get to this stadium on a hill, which was this really cool site. Forty one years, multiple state championships, passed away, and I know that community will be devastated. So God bless his family. Prayers to all of them. And Philip Heywood.

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Speaker 6: Simply put, he was the eight off up of Kentucky high school football all time winn as coach, like almost five hundred wins, eight state titles, and all the lives that he touched out there in that Belfry community. I mean, he was he was a titan, he was a leader, he was a father. Figured, you're a lot of guys and there is a huge loss for that community.

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Speaker 2: He invited us up when we were there. Yeah, during COVID, when we were going to the high schools and he was a really great, nice man, but just kind of when you get the stereotypical view of what a high school football coach is to a local community. Mister Haywood was like that and just really really sad to hear the news.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean right, Ryan's a titan. We throw a legend around way too much, but he is an absolute legend in the state. And all the accolades you've been naming off, plus several many more and things stories around that community we'll never hear just such a huge impact.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So our prayers to all of those folks tonight. By the way, if you're in the area, get your team together my trivia. I'm spending a lot of the day kind of writing the questions. I already have some good ones. But our January trivia is ready to go, So bring your team out here. If you haven't yet, you might start at about one o'clock. Call and make a reservation so you can get your slot. But doing some trivia tonight, you said you can't go because you have a hot date.

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Speaker 6: Well, I have a birthday dinner, a pre playing birthday dinner tonight with a young man used to live with me, live with me for about a year.

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Speaker 2: So you're not taking your girlfriend. I'm taking Josiah. Okay, all right, Well I was just making it just us boys. It's us boys dinner boy. Yeah, boys, Okay, we're good. Well, but I will see everybody here this evening, hopefully at ks Bar. But after one o'clock call and make a reservation if you need it. We mentioned yesterday at one point in the show, Liam Cohen decided not to take the Jacksonville Jaguars job. He's gonna stay as the offensive coordinator for Tampa Bay. When I heard that, Drew, that says to me, he must have some kind of agreement with Tampa Bay that after the coach it's there that all retires.

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Speaker 7: He'll be the coach. Otherwise you wouldn't do that. Yeah, it looked like he was heading to Jacksonville. You get that news. There's got to be some promise that just hasn't gone public yet. I know the AFC South is really bad at football. Maybe want to run away from that, but it sounds like he's about to get a promotion.

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Speaker 2: I really, Shannon did something stupid yesterday when it comes to this, and it's not my fault, but it's kind of my fault. So Tony Kahan is one of the owners of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Oh yeah, yeah, well his dad owns it and he's the son. And then he also owns ae W Wrestling. So you know, I said this yesterday, but it was much more embarrassing than I'm letting on. I saw this thing yesterday morning that said, you know, Liam Cohen will be the next coach of Jacksonville. So I'm like, oh, here's a chance for me to kind of say hey to Tony. You know, obviously try to keep a good relationship with aw because of OVW Right, Like, they got all the money in the world, and we like to pay our bills and so like it would be nice to have a continue to have relationship with him. So I send him a text and go, hey, man, you got a great one in late Liam Cohen. It's gonna be Awes And I send it not thinking anything about it, and then it comes out that Jacksonville wanted him and Cohen turned him down. Now think about when you sent him you got a great one, and then they like didn't get him there. Yeah, So now do I do you just leave that out there? Shannon or do you right back and go oops, or you didn't want him? You didn't want him anyway?

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Speaker 5: He stinks you should type back just kidding.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you could say just kidding when you just completely blew it like that.

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Speaker 7: I would urgency, would play here, but you said you got a great one. I would then follow up and put almost with a little asterisk like I typed, that didn't mean I meant to work the word almost in there.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's kind of throw it in his face. I don't I don't know what to do.

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Speaker 7: He got a great one in Josh Hans Allen is what I meant to say.

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Speaker 2: We've talked he and I've talked about Josh Allen before.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're just in a bad spot.

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Speaker 2: I think I think I just messed up. I jumped the gun and thought he was gonna get him, and now I look stupid.

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Speaker 6: You could you know, play still play the good guy, say Liam's loss and send that to him it's not his loss loss?

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Speaker 2: Oh do you think that words? Maybe, Shannon, what do you think putting in Liam's loss? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like he needed you way more than you needed him.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's what works. But I will say it was kind of a little embarrassing. Have no response from him yet, no response yet? Who's up next?

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't respond to that either, Joe, Joe, go ahead.

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Speaker 8: Joe, Hey, matt uh, I propose that the Cassar Club is there. I have a casser through the Year's questioning comment question?

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Speaker 9: First? Did that work?

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Speaker 8: Listening to that? Yesterday? I had a I had a crazy case of deja vou, And I'm honestly asking, did two, three, four, or five years ago you have a sort of contentious interview with Jay Will where he repeatedly called you MJ? Or did I dream that? Has that happened before cast?

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Speaker 2: Even normal conversations with Jay I've done. I did a podcast with Jay during COVID and even normal conversations, he and I get a little contentious, just because that's who I am and that's who he is. As far as the MJ thing, Yeah, he's called me MJ forever and I don't really know why, because no one else calls me that.

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Speaker 8: That was driving me nuts. I really couldn't. I really wasn't sure if I was dreaming or not. The comment is.

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Speaker 7: Actually I looked up when Ryan said he didn't want to talk about Rashad Caruth a triggered a memory I searched. I wrote a story in twenty fifteen that says Jay Williams was a guest on KSR where he talks about Kentucky, A and M and Rashad.

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Speaker 2: Caruth didt me say what it said?

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Speaker 7: No, it's just a link thing, but twenty fifteen Jay was on the show. All these memories are coming together, so like when.

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Speaker 2: When we do this, as long as we have, things get lost. I have some vague memory that maybe Jay Williams has like something really negative about Rashad Kruth, but I don't remember any specifics or what it would have been. So you know, I'm not sure, but go ahead. What was your second thing?

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Speaker 8: The comment I have is last week you were talking about the Spurs going to that lower tier club in the FA and Ryan asked, I feel like we've talked about this before. This sounds familiar, and you mentioned the emergency goalies in hockey, and I just wanted to remind you one of my favorite conversations five ten years ago was when Arsenal went to play some small tier that had a backup goalie that was three hundred and fifty pounds forty five years old, called the roly poly goalie.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.

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Speaker 10: Do you remember that.

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Speaker 2: That's a good room. Well, I didn't remember the teams, but I do remember the roly poly goalie. I don't know if he was three hundred and fifty pounds, but he was a larger guy. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And then there was drama after that that never really made American news because he ate one of those English pies on the bench during the games.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he did.

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Speaker 8: Some of the betting sites. Some of the betting sites had a prop up and he got suspended and fined because he was working with his buddies to say I'm gonna eat a pie.

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Speaker 2: He did it. Jared Lorenzen there, Well, I appreciate the call. Yes that that. You know, we always laugh about Jared Lorenzen's story about looking up the gatorade color and calling an end. But in today's world that would have probably gotten him in trouble because you wouldn't you wouldn't have been allowed to do that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no doubt he would have gotten in trouble, you know, not to find his friends hate it's blue gatorade.

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Speaker 2: That blue.

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Speaker 7: He told that one on the KSR Football podcast a little after the fact, but it's still a funny admission.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of football on SEC Radio yesterday, one of the announcers, I think Aaron Murray says he thinks Kentucky will be the most improved team in the SEC next year, significantly better than they are this year. Do you believe that's true, Drew.

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Speaker 7: Uh, I will say they will be significantly better than this year because this year is that bad. I still don't have a lot of optimism that that will lead to enough wins to make everyone happy. But if we're being fair to Stoops and honestly Eric Wolford, they had a good offseason. I mean Wolford did a good job getting that line together. We won't know what it really is until they're on the field in September, but to this point, if you gotta pat them back a little bit, that doesn't change my hope for the year. But they did well in the portal.

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Speaker 6: I think they'll be better, but like Drew said, it may not translate into wins just because the way the schedules laid out next year. So but I do think they'll be a better football team.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think they're gonna be a lot better now, whether or not you could be a lot better win five games. I mean, just give you an example. Think about how hard our schedule was. This year. We played five ranked teams. Next year we play seven. It's gonna be this way almost every year now, you know. So we thought your schedule was insanely hard, and now you get two more ranked teams next year.

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Speaker 7: You don't want to make excuses for the football program right now because a lot of the stuff is on THEMB and how they've handled it. But if you line up every se team schedule and put them in front of you next season, no matter who you are, just being objective, you would go, holy cow, Kentucky got hosed on this schedule next year. It's not like any other schedule in the conference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's the hardest one. Now. Part of it is because we're not the best. So like we're seeing as the early one. Did you see the hockey fight last night?

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Speaker 6: They just literally just showed it. I just saw it for the first time.

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Speaker 2: Did you like it? First of all, if you didn't see these two teams are playing each other, I think it's like Toronto in Columbus. The game is like one minute into it. So these dudes clearly came on the ice going I want to fight that guy, yep, because you can't in a minute get to the point that you're ready to fight. And not only they fight, they just pound on each other because in the NHL they'll let him fight until they fall down. Huh right, So Shinnon, it looked like to me they had a mutual agreement they would hold each other up, Yeah, just so they could pummel each other.

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Speaker 5: I'm watching it right now.

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Speaker 2: The guys in each of them is holding the other one by the left hand and the right hand is just pummeling them, and somehow they don't fall down, and they spin around in a little dance and just beat each other up for like a ton of minutes in a row.

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Speaker 7: It gets to a point where it's just bang bang. They're just trading one after the other. It's pretty fun to watch.

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Speaker 6: I've always been amazed how they're able to do that, to hold onto your opponent's jersey to keep you from falling down, and fight on skates all at the same time.

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Speaker 7: This Reeves guy that was in it. I don't watch hockey, but anytime I see a fight seems.

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Speaker 2: He's in it.

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Speaker 7: He gets the enforcer.

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Speaker 2: I don't know when you get to fight a minute in that means I wanted to fight anyway. Ain't waiting right there skating without us. I don't know if they have a personal thing, if they went on Howie Mandel's podcast or something like, I don't know what it was, but it was clear they wanted to get into it. If you're looking to remodel your kitchen, bath, basement, or even your whole home, but like me, you don't even know how to use a screwdriver, call the pros at a State Renovations, a family owned, full service renovation team that comes through a ten year guarantee and they can make the project complete for you. They give you a fixed quote, no surprise costs, and they'll tell you how much it costs to remodel your home. They are from Lexington, Shelbyville, Lawrenceburg. They're passionate about the quality of their work and the satisfaction of their customers. Read about the entire step by step process at a state renows dot com that's like renovations r e n os dot com State Renos. We will take a break and be right back a Fi'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Couple open lines, as ks are welcome back. Take you sports radio eight f I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The South Laurel KSR Club in the house. South Laurel favorites apparently in the thirteenth region. We'll see, we'll see what you're able to do. I don't know. I want to see a play out first, but it's it's nice having him here.

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Speaker 6: If this is true to the favorite you know, North Laurel with Reed Shepherd and that group had that great run. Now in the same county, South Laurel stepping up and being the kings of the thirteenth region.

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Speaker 2: That's right. When I was in school, you had what Corbin Clay County, Harlan and now Laurel County. You know they've taken all the you know, they've taken the favorites role in that region. Well, I'm gonna believe him.

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Speaker 7: I don't see North Laurel or any other high school in this bar listening to KSR right now.

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Speaker 2: Man, Well, last year Harlan County went to the championship. What am I talking? Yeah? All right, and our boy with the long hair. Oh he's back. He's back. He's playing, even after he had a firework accident and I think lost at least maybe one finger, and he's back playing. You got to give that kid.

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Speaker 6: A lot of credit playing in the all right now, because he's pineval is Pine and well he's uh, he's playing. He's in the two A. I'm sorry, he's in the two A. Harley County's in the two A.

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Speaker 2: Remember we just did the predictions for that.

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Speaker 7: You say a control, doesn't you know when he was missing a finger? We don't stay out long or I'll be back not taking much time on he said, what a control as his last name? I guess there he was missing a finger. They're like, oh, he'll be back. We're not missing much time with a little finger.

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Speaker 2: Whatever it was, it's true. We don't miss a lot of time with a little finger. Each row, all right, I don't know when the last time I thought about each Row was. But he was up for the Hall of Fame, and Eachi Row did uh was not unanimous for the Hall of Fame. He was one vote. One person didn't give him their vote, which has become a tradition over the years, Like one person didn't vote for like, uh, you know, Derek Jeter and all these people. There's always one person who refuses to vote for them because they don't want them everyone to be unanimous, right, So I guess Hank Aaron many years ago didn't get in unanimously, and there's been this idea that since then, well, if Hank Aaron didn't get in unanimously, then no one can ever get in unanimously. Now, Mario Rivera actually is the only person who has gotten in unanimously in the last twenty five years. Do you think it's ridiculous, Ryan, that these stupid Hall of Fame people take themselves so seriously that they can't make anyone unanimous.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm a baseball guy and I'm a baseball fan through and through, but the self righteousness of some of these sportswriterers that vote for this is so ridiculous. You're not going to vote for a Chierro for the Hall of Fame. He's one of the greatest players we've had in our lifetime. It's ridiculous that they do this.

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Speaker 2: And they well and they know that, Like, it's not like they don't think he should be in, they just don't think anyone should be unanimous, which is stupid.

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Speaker 7: You're on the panel to vote for who you think should be in the Hall of Fame. You don't get together conspire for I mean votes. Here's your piece of paper right down, or they in the Hall of Fame or not. And if you don't think Eacherroa Schuld be in the Hall of Fame, you shouldn't have a vote that should have been a unanimous I didn't know about Jeter not being unanimous. I get what you're saying, but you're not there to control.

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Speaker 2: They did do it for Mariano Rivera, so it's like clearly somebody thought I'm gonna be the guy that doesn't do it for each of ow and of course it's it's anonymous, so you can't ever hear who it was.

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Speaker 7: That person's gonna die off and in twenty years the voters will be back to unanimous and historial show we had all these greats that didn't get a vote. Yeah, and all the people that you know orchestrated that you're a baseball guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the guy should have to say he's the one that didn't vote for him. Why don't they let the fans vote anyway, I think the fans should have just as much as, say as some guy in the media, like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, guy, disagree. You don't want to let the fans vote, I mean, because the fans will end up making like just some dude, like somebody will go viral on the Internet and they'll make Jake Paul in the Hall of Fame. Like you can't let the fans hall.

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Speaker 5: Of Fame of YouTubers.

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Speaker 4: Maybe, but I mean, yeah, no, you can't let some random guys in the media should get to decide who's in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it can't be the fans. We like, what was it they they wanted to name a ship or something in Britain and they were like, which of these famous people should we name it after? And they ended up naming it the general public voted body Mike, boat Face or whatever.

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Speaker 5: That sounds like a name you would come up with.

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Speaker 2: Can't you can't leave it. You can't leave it to the fans. Like fans, they just want to make it a joke, right, They don't want too much.

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Speaker 6: But why, Shannon, why do they have to remain anonymous? Why don't we we when they shouldn't. In the AP twenty five pole. We know how they vote. Why do they have to be anonymous for the Hall of Fame?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, shouldn't remain anonymous? Who's next?

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Speaker 5: Adam?

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Speaker 2: Adam? Go ahead, Adam.

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, I hope you'll let me rant for a little bit. I'm so sick of the national media acting like, you know, Kentucky fans are just out of their minds for comparing Pope and Cali Perity, Like it's human nature to compare what was and what is. Yeah, and you know, cal Perry was one of the most polarizing coaches at the greatest program in college basketball for over a decade. Like, I don't know what you would expect. You know, how many times did you hear Nick Saban's name brought up during an Alabama football game this past year? They don't talk about that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the idea that we're gonna not talk about cal is just absolutely ludicrous. It's just absolutely ludicrous that that people expect us focus on your team like that is the most because everyone knows if it was the opposite. Do you think Seth Greenberg, if we were zero and five in conference, wouldn't have said, you know, you think the fans regret running off Caliperi. Now, of course he would have. Of course he would have. The focus on your team is the dumbest narrative of all. You know, it's human like that, and I appreciate the call. Like the car says, it's human nature Drew to say what you could have had versus what you have.

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Speaker 7: Definitely, there's examples all over the Saban's a good one. I was listening to Tom Leach this morning. They brought up Oklahoma still talks about Lincoln Raley and that's been four years and no one's telling them to shut up. It's very natural when you have a big coach that was well liked and had success, they move, You're gonna keep tabs on them to compare to I make the right decision. Are we in a good spot or they are in better spot? That's human nature, and I think it's insane to ask people not to do that.

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Speaker 6: It's a good point. I hadn't thought of what if coach k had gone to NC State. You don't think Jay Will would have been talking about that. Keep an eye on that.

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Speaker 2: Of course they would have it. He also went in conference.

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Speaker 7: He's on the schedule.

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Speaker 2: He went in conference, Like he didn't just go to some random school. He went to a team we play. He is going to be walking into this arena in nine days. Wow, sneaking up on him nine days, he's gonna walk in there. Can't lose that game. Is he getting booed? Yes? Yep. So I actually thought as we got closer it'd be more likely he wouldn't get booed. But I feel like he's getting booed. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I was leaning not getting booed before the season started. I thought there'd be a few, but I thought Rupper would be pretty respectful. As the season's gone on, he's getting booed. It's happening. Yeah, he's getting booed. Now if he had been oh and seven, would that have been sympathy. We just can't let me say this. You're gonna hear this a lot for me next week. We cannot lose that, can't lose it. We cannot lose that game.

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Speaker 2: On the one hand, they're not good, like you've got to win those games at home. But also we cannot lose.

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Speaker 7: That game, which you gonna score sixty points.

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Speaker 2: We cannot lose that game first sixty one. Just no, can't We'll be right back. TJ.

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Speaker 5: Here's Matt Jones, Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio A nine twenty two eighty seven. Got folks here from all over eastern Kentucky, and then of course got our South Laurel people. I guess they're eastern Kentucky too, kind of barely hanging on eastern Kentucky, but I still would call it eastern CA.

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Speaker 6: That's kind of what we said it before, kind of the gateway to the mountains.

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Speaker 2: He makes the best restaurant in London.

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Speaker 7: What local honey, Local honey.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever eaten. There is Weavers hot Dog still open, local honey, that's it. I'm gonna have to try that. What's the place that you go and sing karaoke at once every couple of years?

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Speaker 6: When we had a wild night there at that place? That one night, what's it called, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Know what it's called. It's like a Thursday night. It's like the Townhouse Grill or something like that, Old town grill, Old town Grill. He got really intoxicated in saying karaoke there one night and it was really really funny and ridiculous. We got to talk about something that that I think is not pleasant, which is that Louisville might be good at basketball. I mean, they beat SMU on the road by like thirty the other night. You look at their schedule, they don't play another good team the rest of the year, not one. They don't play one team that's even decent the rest of the year. I mean they it is not an exaggeration to say they could win every game left on their schedule. Now, they might drop one or two, but they have five losses and they may not lose again, which is wild. They have a shot at finishing the ACC like fifteen in one or seventeen and one in the ACC because the ACC is so terrible. They've already played Dukes, so they already have their loss in that one. I mean, are they good, Like, are they, like legit really good? They've won like nine in a row.

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Speaker 7: They're good. They're definitely good. No arguing that. To call them really good, it's just part of this is the ACC so bad, so it's hard to get a good read. But they've won every game since losing Kentucky, whatever the streak is at now, and the analytics predict them to win out as you're saying a lot of those very comfortably. So I think they're gonna up with a good year. Which now that we have that win on our resume.

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Speaker 2: What do you think if they go like seventeen and one in the ACC Like, are they are they like a Final four contender? I mean, is that team we played in rup is that a Final four condenttion?

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Speaker 6: I think we all have to admit they are good. I don't know if they're a Final four team because if we saw them, you know, they can be exposed quite a bit. But they've got that hip burn. I think he's a really good point guard that could probably put him on his shoulders and make a big run.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing. When we get to our tournament resume. We've talked about our resume as, oh, we beat Duke, we beat Gonzaga, we beat Florida, we beat A and M, we beat Mississippi State. It might be the case that at the end of the year, Louisville is right there at the top of the teams we beat. I mean, there's a decent chance that they're gonna finish the year in like the top ten because they don't really play anybody, so they could be they could be a three seed, maybe even a two seed on in a tournament if they don't lose anymore.

00:27:02
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're gonna have a great record and a lot of their wins. Not to I'm just creating them a little bit. But they've got some big logo win that They've beat Virginia twice, but people don't know. Virginia is like one hundred and fiftieth.

00:27:14
Speaker 2: They beat Indiana, but Indiana stinks.

00:27:17
Speaker 7: They're big logo wins.

00:27:18
Speaker 2: Yes, they beat You're right, they beat Virginia twice, but they're terrible. They beat West Virginia was terrible. They beat which is over. But but they beat North Carolina, you know, they beat they beat pitt. I think I don't know if they've played Wake for us. That maybe the only decent team they haven't played yet, But I.

00:27:34
Speaker 7: Think that's what they played next year next week.

00:27:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like they I mean, they're gonna go on a heck of a win streak and you know.

00:27:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're good. The resume is gonna look good. It's just when you get to tournament time having not with that conference being so bad, I wonder how good they really are.

00:27:48
Speaker 2: Okay, so would you like them to have a great record so that it gives us more of a you know that that would make that win a much bigger win.

00:27:56
Speaker 6: This scenario you just put through, that's gonna end up being one of our better wins. I think it does help our resume up that you want them to kind of continue to play.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, the thing is, I can't hate Pat Kelsey. I want to, but you say that video of him hanging out the car he's driving down the road, and these dudes seem and they're like Pat Kelsey was up, and he like rolls down the window AND's like go cards like lily like puts his tongue out and he kind of seems like a fun guy. I don't know if I like that that the Loivell coach is fun.

00:28:26
Speaker 7: We had two Italian guys who wanted to murder each other for over a decade, and now we're all very confused because Louisville fans are like that Pope guy's pretty nice, and we're like that Kelsey go looks like a good time.

00:28:36
Speaker 2: No It kind of extinks that everybody likes each other, but I guess that's how it is. Who's next, Emma, Emma, go ahead? Emma?

00:28:46
Speaker 8: Huh, I'm emma.

00:28:48
Speaker 2: My cheer coach is there with stop or your cheer coach is here? What is your cheer coach's name?

00:28:58
Speaker 10: Brianna Sosmore.

00:29:00
Speaker 2: Rihanna is sitting over here. She has the Ladies of KSR shirt on, and she's your cheer coach. Emma.

00:29:07
Speaker 10: Yes, I wanted to tell you that she's a un C fan.

00:29:12
Speaker 2: Oh, she can't hear you right now. She just said that she thought we needed to know you were a North Carolina fan.

00:29:21
Speaker 7: Calling and telling on her cheers.

00:29:23
Speaker 2: Wow, how do you tell on your cheerleading coach on the air. Aren't you worried she's gonna make you run laps? No, it's okay, it's okay, all right, well, Emma, thank you very much, Go go ahead.

00:29:40
Speaker 10: She is a huge fan of Matt Jones.

00:29:45
Speaker 2: She says, you're also a huge fan of Matt Jones, which is very nice. Well, thank you very much, Imma. And Rihanna will let and you're gonna are you gonna stay up Brianna to watch Caleb Wilson pick North Carolina tonight, catch it tomorrow. See. I also didn't think about you have to call him that. Kenny Smith is on that show on North Carolina Grad. So that also may make some sense why he's going on there to do it.

00:30:09
Speaker 6: Hadn't thought about that angle. That does kind of add to it a little bit.

00:30:12
Speaker 7: I hope I might use a fake name.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: That there might be some it.

00:30:18
Speaker 7: Might be some laps.

00:30:19
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so draft Kings use DraftKings promo code KSR bet five get two hundred dollars on Draft Kings. I've been on a cold streak, so my NFL picks are good, but my college basketball I don't even know. Why do I bet on college basketball. I'm terrible at it. It's a sport I know the most, and it's a sport I do the worst on which there's got to be a lesson in.

00:30:39
Speaker 7: That I'm getting killed. Arkansas minus one was good for me other than that I'm losing everything.

00:30:43
Speaker 2: It's really unbelievable the way's this is a sport I should know, and I just don't do very well on it. But anyway, promo code KSR bet five get two hundred dollars, download the DraftKings app, get yourself ready for the tournament. Not a lot of great things to pick tonight, so I'll just go random here. Wichita State is at Memphis. Who you got? Why not? Let's go Memphis since I have no idea.

00:31:09
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Memphis taking the Tigers in that one.

00:31:11
Speaker 2: Maryland plays Illinois, and you're probably like, I don't care about Maryland. I don't care about Illinois. There's two dudes who are gonna go in the lottery in this game. Can you name either one of them? Nope, no idea. Do you know what, Kenny?

00:31:22
Speaker 7: Yeah, I could get Illinois. It's uh not Big Z's brother, although he's really good.

00:31:27
Speaker 2: It's like his name is like Jack. Yes, he's really really good. And then Maryland has a guy that when I watched them play, I don't know how he's a lottery pick. He's not in shape, he doesn't hustle. He like his name's Derek Queen, and I have no idea why he's a projected lottery pick. When I watch him, I don't get it, you know what I mean? He just looks like he's like just kind of out there. And then he's always projected in the lottery.

00:31:57
Speaker 7: I looked at a mock draft for easily, and I guess I've been paying close enough attention because there are a few people projecting the lottery. I'm like, I'm not haven't even had eyeballs on this person, and he's included.

00:32:05
Speaker 2: But anyway, they're playing tonight. Who you got? Let's go Illinois. I'll go Maryland. I'm gonna go Illinois. They are at home and they've been They've been pretty good here, like finally, Lakers Celtics. They end up playing twice a year. This is one of the nights. This is the game from your childhood, Ryan, who do you have?

00:32:25
Speaker 6: I kind of grew up a semi Celtics fan, so I'm always gonna pick the Celtics over the Lakers.

00:32:29
Speaker 2: Look at you. Look, Look, I'm mad Mario gud Celtics, Larry Bird Baby, Mario. Is Bronnie your favorite player? Now? Seriously? Like, do you have a poster of Bronni in your house? It's okay if you do. Are you and Bronni and Bryce like the boys there? He loves the Lakers so much. Who you got?

00:32:50
Speaker 7: I'm just looking at it, Mario. I know what I have to pick now, I gotta pick the Lakers. But I'm wondering would he pick if he were the Lakers GM, would he want Bronnie or Ansley Almanor on the team right now?

00:33:00
Speaker 2: Because he loves both? YEA, which would you rather have? Would you rather have Brodny or would you rather have Ansley Almanor see Ansley omanor see like he loves him, Ansley Domanor. I'm gonna take. I'll take the Lakers to pull off the upset tonight at home in against Boston.

00:33:16
Speaker 6: I did see where Jared Vanderbilt got activated for the game that I he hadn't played all year.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: I don't think so well. They've you know, Dalton Connect's been good. Yes, it's a dude from Tennessee. So e if I'm nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven, I gotta learn to wear a hat like Cam Newton. The fact that he goes on television like that is amazing to me. We'll take a break of very back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome Back. Final segment here Kentucky Sports Radio. Shannon, you're playing Smashing Pupkins. Do you like the Smashing Pumpkins? Was that one of your many bands that you liked in that area.

00:33:51
Speaker 4: They were like top ten. They weren't one of my favorites. But I like Billy Corgan.

00:33:55
Speaker 2: Yes, I've had a lot of conversations with him over the years about wrestling. Uh. You know, interesting dude. Uh, very very passionate about the about pro wrestling. By the way, he really yes, And I told you this. I think when it happened when he called me the first time his phone, it just pops up smashing pumpkins. Yeah, it's so crazy. And when you answer the phone and it just says smashing pumpkins on your phone. I think that's really odd. Were you a big fan when they were No, I mean I liked I liked it fine, Like like he had had this song and then you had Watching in the World Is of Embire, Yeah, Bullet.

00:34:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that one tonight, tonight today today.

00:34:39
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, he was he was good. It seems like he takes himself very seriously when it comes to music. I found him more pleasant to talk to about wrestling just because he was like a lot chiller about it.

00:34:50
Speaker 7: I'll definitely be watching the full version of the Bill and Bill incident that we were talking about earlier, so as the showments.

00:34:56
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, all right, So I do this every year. I enjoy with Ryan because he knows nothing about this subject. Uh. The Oscar nominations came out today. I'm going to I'm going to to give you the names. Okay, you tell me what you know about these movies and you can't say nothing. Okay, you have to say something, all right. First, this is nominated for Best Picture Wicked.

00:35:22
Speaker 6: It is a spin off of the Wizard of Oz and Ariana Grande is the Good Witch. And I don't know the name of the lady who plays the Bad Witch.

00:35:30
Speaker 2: Okay, but it got nominated. I've seen it. No, okay, Honora, do you know what that's about?

00:35:35
Speaker 6: I have no idea what that's about. So if I have to guess, it's something about space, it's not about space. It's about a cover us kids.

00:35:46
Speaker 2: I think a high end uh prostitute who meets a man and then it like takes her into kind of a crazy, crazy lock.

00:35:52
Speaker 3: Oh.

00:35:53
Speaker 6: I didn't see that coming. Yes, did not see that one coming.

00:35:56
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be very good. It's probably gonna win. Oh is it's probably gonna win a right next? Oops, my phone. Okay, Uh, the brutalist.

00:36:04
Speaker 6: I don't know anything about it, so I say it must be a bang bang shoot him up type of movie.

00:36:07
Speaker 2: Gangsters Wrong, Adrian Brody plays a guy who something about architecture. It's three and a half hours long. Oh that's a long time. What do you think you're gonna watch it? Not a chance? Okay, A complete unknown. I saw that one. That's the Bob Dylan movie. Oh you saw it? Yeah? I said it got nominated.

00:36:26
Speaker 11: He got nominated, Uh, timidly Timothy Chevrolet charblay sham chamalay. Yes, he should win Best Actor because he was phenomenal as Bob Dylan.

00:36:37
Speaker 2: Was that a good movie? I really enjoyed that movie. Okay, so you've seen I saw one normally you've never seen, ever even heard of? Okay, Conclave. I saw that one over here. My goodness, I saw two movies all year you think of Conclave.

00:36:52
Speaker 6: Conclave was great and it ended horribly. Remember I told you after I saw it. I liked the d I hated the ending, but you liked everything.

00:36:59
Speaker 2: I did enjoy watching the movie though. All Right, Dune Part two. I have no idea what that is.

00:37:05
Speaker 6: That's gotta be a Uh, that's gotta be a psycho thriller type movie.

00:37:08
Speaker 2: It's I've not seen it, but it's like sci fi kind of stuff. Yeah, Amelia Perez, no idea.

00:37:17
Speaker 6: She sounds like she's like, almost, say, a Hispanic warrior that leads people to victory.

00:37:24
Speaker 2: Not exactly. I'll let everybody look that one up. Oh no, really, not exactly a warrior that you know. Okay, y'all could look that one up. I'm still here. I don't know anything about that one.

00:37:39
Speaker 6: So that's gotta be that's gotta be a one that pulls at your heartstrings, kind of a sad, sappy Tactually don't know what this.

00:37:44
Speaker 5: One's gotta be about. A really old person, right.

00:37:47
Speaker 2: Shannon, Look up what I'm I'm still over here, Like, come on, don't forget about look that one up, Shannon, I actually don't know what that one's about. Will you see what?

00:37:57
Speaker 4: A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil nineteen seventy one.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so there you go. So like there's a dictatorship, her family gets hurt, but she's still here. I won't be watching that one. Okay, it could be good, could be good.

00:38:21
Speaker 6: Uh, Nickel Boys, I don't know about that. That sounds like something maybe I might want to watch. That sounds like what.

00:38:28
Speaker 2: To tell me? Why? In your mind? You hear the term Nickel Boys and you think I want to see that because it's a comedy. I hear that.

00:38:35
Speaker 6: I think that'll be a funny show to watch. A comedy, not a comedy.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's hard to describe. I've read the book a long time ago by Coulson Whitehead. I think you would like it. What's it about, man, Well, just you can't get into it.

00:38:49
Speaker 12: You want to hear with the imb So, yeah, it was IMDb said, chronicles the power of power full friendship between two young African American men navigating the heroin trials of reform school together in Florida.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's a better description. That's a good description. Okay, that's a good description. So you would want to say that doesn't sound like it's a comedy. It's not a comedy. I think we can say that. And then finally, the substance.

00:39:14
Speaker 6: I don't know anything about this one. This has gotta be a this has got to be like, all.

00:39:18
Speaker 2: Right, what if I told you it start Demi Moore. Uh, she's making a resurgence. You know, she's on landman, but she's making a resurgence in part because of this movie.

00:39:26
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna say then it's she's got to be a powerful woman that is overcoming the odds and surviving and thriving.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: Surviving and thriving, like doing what.

00:39:38
Speaker 6: You know, Maybe she's had a tough go of it. Maybe she's uh, you know, struggling financially, but she finds herself and.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: Off though really but what would the substance be part of it? Well, she's, uh, she's found the go go, She's got her mojo back. The substance is the mojo.

00:39:56
Speaker 5: He's kind of on the right way.

00:39:57
Speaker 2: Wow, sort of. It's a horror movie. It's a horror movie about how Hollywood women have to like do all this stuff to themselves to try to stay beautiful. And like she has this like thing. It's like a horror movie. It's like thing growing in her hurl things.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: Like what it says a fading celebrity takes a black market drug, a cell replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

00:40:25
Speaker 2: Yes, there you go.

00:40:26
Speaker 5: Well Ryan wasn't far off really well a little bit.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: She's good in land, man. So you've so you've seen two of the ten. I am just stunned. I've seen two of the ten that have been nominated. And how many of the rest of them would you like to see?

00:40:40
Speaker 6: Probably zero, especially at that three and a half hour movie. I ain't watching that one. There you go, Clint, go.

00:40:47
Speaker 10: Ahead, Clint, Hey, guys, yeah, uh, going back to the Hall of Fame thing real quick and talking about like the one guy that's you know, not voting. I don't know if it's the same guy every time, but there has to definitely be one dude to just hates the Seattle Mariners, right, because Kim Griffey Junior definitely should have been the first. So so there, there's definitely that. And I think, like each roll if I'm not mistaken, on his eighth game, and then in the major leagues he hit three hundred and then never dropped below it for the rest of his career.

00:41:19
Speaker 2: No, I didn't know that.

00:41:20
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's pretty.

00:41:21
Speaker 9: That's pretty.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: And then appreciate you're go ahead.

00:41:25
Speaker 10: But then one other thing. Finally, I don't know if you mentioned it or not, but I'm pretty sure Billy Corgan's maternal grandparents are from Hopkinsville.

00:41:31
Speaker 2: Hey, people keep roting me, writing me that I appreciate to call Billy Corgan's grandparents from Hopkinsville who knew mother's parents. Yeah, I think that's what he said. I'll be dang, So.

00:41:42
Speaker 7: I'll be dang.

00:41:44
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00:42:09
Speaker 7: I got a mouthful of soilth laer.

00:42:10
Speaker 2: They're all eating. That's okay. I'm hosting trivia tonight. If anybody has a suggestion for a question, Drew, let me know, because because.

00:42:18
Speaker 7: I got to make him good for our January game. I'm sure they'll be wonderful. You always have a little unique way of presenting them.

00:42:24
Speaker 2: Yes, Don Franklin tomorrow and then Kentucky Vandy. I'm ready to get the drew. I'm ready to get the team back on the court, aren't you.

00:42:31
Speaker 7: I mean the week break is kind of a little fun, does as much work, But I miss watching to play basketball. Are you want to get back out there? So that's the thing about this team.

00:42:38
Speaker 2: We only have fourteen more games, Like, this team is so much fun to watch, Ryan, I'm not looking forward to the season ending because of how much I enjoy watching.

00:42:47
Speaker 6: I think we're all the same boat. We want to see him on the court all the time. But maybe Lamont Butler use this week kind of heal up a little bit. The dude's been banged up like he's been playing football on the set.

00:42:55
Speaker 7: They needed a big break.

00:42:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually, thirteen more games, so we got to make sure we take advantage of all of them. Appreciate everybody listening. We will see you tomorrow at Don Franklin. This has been in Kentucky Sports Radio