2024-12-30- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, December the thirtieth. I'm Matt Jones here live at the KS Bar and Grill on the day before New Year's Eve, the three hundred and sixty fourth day of the year. You give Shanna clocks puppet shop ful line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven A vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five to four. The scision sponsored by the t J Smith Loves You called Tjhill Make them Pay. We are here at Ksbar. There are still two days to play our contest to win uh to get to be a finalist to win eight thousand dollars from Country.

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Speaker 3: Country Roads, Country Roads Spirits. So hope you'll come in.

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Speaker 2: They already got folks here from Somerset, Lexi, Where are you from?

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Speaker 3: Lexington?

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Speaker 2: All right, so kind of a home crowd, Ryan, Good to see you to only two more days left to finish whatever you play to accomplish in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: I got your stuff. I gotta do.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've got some bills I gotta pay, I think before tomorrow, he gets. But I'm excited about the football games tomorrow night and then Wednesday. I'm I plan on watching all day Wednesday and I do anything.

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Speaker 3: Watch to watch all all the playoff games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good about it.

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Speaker 3: The last two on paper, look to be pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Once you got Oregon, Ohio State h and Georgia Texas and Drew, those look like pretty good ones.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It's just been fun on counting this past weekend today. It's just a great time of the sports season. I've been doing a lot of couching lately, and that's not going to slow down anytime.

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Speaker 2: Well, I feel better this morning than I have the last few days I've been I've been pretty sick.

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Speaker 3: Since Thursday. But you know, here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: I think I read that the best way to fight a cold or a flu is to fight it and to keep going with your life.

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Speaker 3: Is that what they say?

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Speaker 4: You know, I've never heard that. But you want to.

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Speaker 2: Go take it head on, go for it. No reason to just sit and let it fit fight. You gotta fight back. Drew out the flu wind.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Barney Fife said you fight fire with fire.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, don't give it to me and Ryan, but you know it's a minor setback for major comeback.

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Speaker 2: No, you know, I mean giving it to other people like you all would take it from me. I'm not gonna well no, so go back. Thursday night is about as bad as I felt in years, just like sick, and I thought, there is no way I can get up and go to Glasgow to borrow. But you know, we had already post pone this Glasgow one once because it was the day before Thanksgiving and I didn't feel like I just couldn't make the phone call and say I can't.

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Speaker 3: Be there again.

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Speaker 2: Of all places places, yes, they've been nice to us, and I had already postponed once, and so I got up Friday morning and drove to Glasgow through what I think was the most talatious rainstorm that Kentucky has ever produced Friday morning, and.

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Speaker 3: When I got there to Glasgow. But you know how, it's it's like the.

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Speaker 2: Jordan flu game. You get your you get your adrenaline, and you go right.

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Speaker 4: I hope the Summerset people that were there.

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Speaker 3: Realize Somerset it was Glasgow.

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Speaker 4: Glasgow realized how sick you really were. I mean you you kind of you pounded through those two hours and then you said you don't had to pull over to go to sleep on the way home.

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Speaker 3: Why do I tell you anything?

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Speaker 2: I was setting up a story, and that was the funness of the story.

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Speaker 3: Why would you throw that in? I was going through a timeline to tell a story.

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Speaker 4: I just hand leading you to it and spoiler spoil alert.

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Speaker 3: You know what? Why do I even try?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 3: Why do I even try it? She drew. You know what I was doing.

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Speaker 2: I was going through the timeline to then tell the story about and he just completely knocks it off.

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Speaker 5: I do hope the people of Summerset understand how sick you.

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Speaker 2: And he said, and thro the point of it says, Summerset, slow, start on the Monday.

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Speaker 3: There you go. Thank you very much. Well thanks to Ryan for spoiling.

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Speaker 2: What I was leading, didn't I tell you guys listening at like he didn't say exactly what he said because it was all going to lead to a major moment that now, well we'll just you stop, all right, So Drew, I'll tell you. So it was raining and Glance, it was raining in Glasgow. We get through the show and uh, you know, I we go eat right, And I said, and so I decided to drive home and.

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Speaker 3: You drive down that that Bluegrass Parkway? Right?

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Speaker 2: Which am I wrong? Did they when they when they drew that up? Did they just say we're not gonna put anything in between it? Like not one stop? Now, all it is is pictures of people that have been killed in between There's there are no there are no there's the Bluegrass. The Western Kentucky Parkway stinks, But I don't think I'd ever noticed that nothing's on the Bluegrass Parkway either.

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Speaker 5: It can make that drive fill twice as long because you're not really.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I had never noticed because I'm always having just left Lexington so I still have energy. You gotta really appreciate bart it empty as the Western Kentucky Parkway is right, it's pretty empty.

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Speaker 5: Bartstown's your little oasis there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we get there. It hits me.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the the having set there and been sick all night, hacking up along and then try to do that show.

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Speaker 3: It hits me. And I get to that Bardstown exit.

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Speaker 2: What else is out on that exit? Bartstown something? There's an old hotel. Yeah, well there's one hotel. And you know, I listen. I don't like to talk about brands.

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Speaker 3: For any time.

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Speaker 2: Any time I see a hotel, it says America's value in I don't. I don't necessarily, I don't know if if America wants to be associated with it. Maybe it's a value I don't know. But that's all there is at that exit and a gas station. And I was so exhausted, I said, you know what, I got to pull off here and go to sleep. And I this is three in the afternoon. You know, I'm like, I don't know about you. I don't know about you, but I don't sleep at three in the afternoon. And I'm also usually okay to make the final of the dry just pull over an America value in there?

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Speaker 3: Uh in Barstown, and I slept for like.

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Speaker 2: An hour because I was so I felt so bad, and I thought to myself, can you imagine somebody going to this America's Value In and pulling over and just seeing me sleeping there on the side of the the three not I mean, it was like I didn't even have an It looked like I didn't even have enough money to go inside the America Value In. I just would sleep in the parking lot of it, which is what I did.

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Speaker 3: Two things.

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Speaker 5: For one, this is the first I'm hearing of this. This is crazy that you pulled over and slept knowing it is who would have known? Did at any point you consider actually going in? Did the free agent? I have to did you think there's a bad thing?

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Speaker 2: Think about what's gone down inside the walls of the America's Value.

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Speaker 3: In, Because I always just want to think.

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Speaker 2: I want you to think about the person that stays there on the edge of it, because you're not even all the way in Bardstown, right, You're still fifteen or twenty minutes way. So if you've come to Bardstown for the bourbon, you're gonna go ahead and get closer to town, right.

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Speaker 3: And then they they're already building it.

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Speaker 2: Looks like a new hotel, So like, if you wanted to explore the area, you're probably gonna wait for that new hotel.

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Speaker 3: To come in.

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Speaker 2: Then if you're gonna go to Lexington, you're not gonna stay there. So I feel like the people that pull over there, I feel like I know what's going on, especially at three in the afternoon, So I felt like I whatever was happening inside the walls, it was better for me to be outside the walls.

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Speaker 5: What's your technique sleeping in the car? Do you just lay back the driver's seat way the.

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Speaker 2: Driver's seat all the way back. I have a car that it goes almost all the way back. You just turn on, move the stuff behind, turn on Willie's Roadhouse for ambyonce because I left the car running, and I know that's not good for the environment, but you know what, it was cold outside.

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Speaker 3: What are you supposed to do?

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Speaker 5: We can't have you die in a parking lot of America's Value in.

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Speaker 3: That was what a horrible way to go.

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Speaker 5: That's not how we can find you.

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Speaker 3: You know what a horrible way They putting the in the bituary.

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Speaker 2: He was found in the America's Value in parking lot, not even in Bardstown, twenty minutes outside of Bardstown, and.

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Speaker 5: People speculate, well, what's Matt doing there exactly forty five.

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Speaker 3: Minutes from home? It was daylight? Why was he there? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, came back. Then Saturday, yesterday, we can bring Ryan back.

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Speaker 3: I did go.

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Speaker 2: Well, Saturday, that was yesterday, was Sunday, Saturday. I went to the Bengals game. Still kind of sick, but I paid a lot of money for those tickets, so I wasn't gonna not use them.

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Speaker 3: And uh, that was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: That's the first Bengals game I've been to inside the stadium, maybe because you know, I can't go because of the Sunday morning NFL show ever, first time i'd been there in at least a decade.

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Speaker 3: And it was awesome.

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Speaker 4: Perfect day too man for late December to have that kind of day, and then you had an awesome game you got to watch.

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Speaker 2: The game was awesome when the overtime the Bengals. The Bengals are so stupid. I don't think I've ever noticed, like they're so sick. They lost that game like three times. I know that feels like they just kept winning it and then went ahead and lost it again, Like they're so stupid, like playing for a kick they I think they found this kicker at the America's Value in in Bardstown and he shanks it off the thing.

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Speaker 3: But they finally didn't win the last time.

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Speaker 5: Continue your weekend of value. You got to see the Bengals go three and oho in one game because Burrow won that three times. I couldn't believe they even gave them the opportunity at the end. I would have run the clock down and kicked the field goal when Denver went the link to the field the first time. Except Bengals have had so many moments this year. Yeah, where they should have won the game and coaching mistakes, clock management. They were lucky to win that one. But he almost did it again. I'm not a huge Bengals fan. I root for him because when the Bengals are good, you know, people will come to the bar and watch it.

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Speaker 3: So that's the only reason I care.

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Speaker 2: But am I right that t Higgins like that might be his last game in Cincinnati?

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Speaker 3: Am I correct?

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Speaker 6: Or?

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Speaker 5: Like here's talking to him going other places? Yeah, Patriots have been mentioned.

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Speaker 3: So again, what do I know?

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Speaker 2: But he had three touchdown catches and I thought again, I only host the NSFL pregame show on ESPN. I'm not like a fountain of knowledge. But I did think like he might be leaving at the end of the year. It's like they didn't even Why didn't the crowd do something like it's his last potentially his last game? Is it not known that it's his last game? Are they hoping he'll come back?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you know, I think you hate to lose somebody to free agency and go sign somebody else. I don't know if I'm gonna celebrate him.

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Speaker 3: So it hasn't been decided leaving.

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Speaker 4: I think he's gonna be a free agent. He opened to sign with anybody.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, he was the real you know, he won them the game. But then, okay, so you know you've been staying the whole time, right cheering. Let me say this, The cit stand thing, not a thing in Cincinnati. They stood the whole game, the whole game, everybody.

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna be honest with you. Can I tell you something, just me and you. There was a couple of times I wish people would sit down.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't say sit down or I'm gonna call the thing but I wanted to be like, look, it's the start of the third quarter.

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Speaker 3: This feels like a good time, Drew.

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Speaker 2: Just to take some time off and stand they I didn't know what NFL games, they stood drough the whole game. I remember that you're in the jungle. Yeah, you're up there, Houdan. Oh, it is a jungle. It's like Noah's Ark. There's one of every kind of looking person you can think of at a Bengals game. Like, that's a weird looking group of people.

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Speaker 3: I assume.

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Speaker 5: Being a Saturday where they moved the game where nobody had to work the following day, they were extra lubricated around the stadium.

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Speaker 2: Also, I mean, I've always said drunkest fan base the Bengals. Get them a Saturday afternoon holiday at four point.

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Speaker 3: Thirty on like a holiday weekend.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I mean it was, but it wasn't as fighting as I thought. If people weren't fighting, they were just hammered.

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Speaker 5: Booing Zach Taylor there at the end. But you did get to see a great game.

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Speaker 3: But then sort of like the show Susan, game's over.

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Speaker 4: Like crash sick again.

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Speaker 2: Well just my body just crashed because I probably shouldn't have gone to the game, but I wanted to go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we had parked in northern Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: All right, Look, I don't know what the mileage is from what's the name pay Corps Stadium?

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Speaker 3: Is that the name of it is now pay.

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Speaker 2: Corpse Stadium over into Covington to the Covington Chamber of Commerce garage.

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Speaker 3: Somebody could trace.

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Speaker 2: What that mileage is, but I believe it's eighteen point three miles.

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Speaker 3: The Blue Bridge, Yeah, okay, do you know the.

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Speaker 2: Blue Bridge from Covington to uh that has to be the world's longest bridge. The walk across there, and you know you're walking with thousands of people, huh, Drew, I felt like it was the organ trail I did. I thought I was gonna fall over and they were just gonna have to carry me home.

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Speaker 3: That was the longest walk of my entire life. But recovered yesterday. I'm ready for the week to start.

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Speaker 5: And it doesn't help that it's a bridge. There's no like I'm just gonna pull here. You know, you're on a bridge, and you know I like to walk fast. Ain't nobody walking fast on that bridge.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's you know, just you know, and they're hugging each other, let's take a picture, and it was. I wasn't in the best mood on that break, but overall, you you enjoyed the experience. I loved going to a Bengal I give the Bengals credit. I've been to a lot of NFL games. Most NFL games are not fun in person like a college game is. I think the Bengals are the exception. I you know, we went to that Steelers game. Man, we went to the Packers game. It was cool to be there. But eh went to a Bears game.

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Speaker 3: The Bengals stadium.

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Speaker 2: I know, because it was a big game at the end of the year, but the crowd was into it like they would be a college game, and I thought that was cool.

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Speaker 4: I've always enjoyed going to Bengals games because the environment there is really special, especially if you got They play like a big game. If the Steelers are there arrival, it gets rocking in there.

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Speaker 3: It was great in there.

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Speaker 5: Why weren't you there to see?

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Speaker 3: You see that Key's brother was there where I weren't.

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Speaker 4: You had a chance to buy tickets, they were just a little out of my price range.

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Speaker 3: So he's well, now we know how much his love is worth to you. I thought to take nine dollars for his love. It's the fees.

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Speaker 2: It's the yes, I love you enough for face value. But I'm yes, I'm not faging the fees. Your love is not that much. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine is seven seven two seven, seven four five two five four.

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Walk come back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, the text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt. I saw you at the Bengals game Saturday, No kidding. I did look at my dad and said, Matt, doesn't look good. I bet I didn't look good. And thank you for noticing that and saying it to your dad. I appreciate what a sweet thing to say. It was very sweet. I looked at myself, you know. I went to the to the bathroom there and they had this like broken down mirror, and I was like, I look like I'm falling apart.

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Speaker 3: So I I that I don't take that offence to that.

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Speaker 4: We we could tell you didn't feel good Friday at the remote in Glasgow, but you just pounded it through, got us through it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I tried, by the way for those of you, and glad I wasn't. I hope you understand. I wasn't trying to not be friendly. I just wasn't trying to touch any of you because I didn't want to get you sick. And so that's if I was and I kind of ran off a little bit. I didn't want to get everybody, you know, I didn't want to make all of Glasgow.

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Speaker 3: There'd be a breakout and it was my fault.

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Speaker 5: And then on top of that, you went to the value end and you don't want to see people after that either.

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Speaker 2: One person rights. My grandparents built that hotel in the eighties. It was originally called the Country Classic Motel and they ran it for several years and Conway Twitty would regularly visit.

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Speaker 3: The restaurant about that.

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Speaker 2: See see, I knew there was something pulling me to that restaurant, just the vibe of Conway Twitty from years past, having eaten there.

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Speaker 4: You'd think there'd be you know, Marton was a big tourist town. You think there'd be some bigger better Apparently, if i'd gone.

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Speaker 2: Two more miles. There was a better exit with a lot more stuff. Well, I didn't know sleep so UK basketball, it feels like we haven't played Drew since the I don't know, since like October.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it feels like there's been I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think it's when when the Christmas and New Year in the middle of the week, it's it's like two weeks just get completely like nobody's doing anything. And so I think part of it is we just haven't played during any of this time. But it does feel like it's been forever since we've watched Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean maybe historial show it's happened before, but this ten day break feels like longer than anything in the past.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't for a long time Kentucky and Louisville was between Christmas and New Year. I mean that it was like that for I want to say, like ten years, and then I think they started moving it before Christmas.

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Speaker 3: But there what am I right? This year? Earlier this year? This it used to be during this period of time.

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Speaker 5: That you lose by twenty with make it's a little sour. The game was in New York, so it does feel like a longer drought. I enjoyed having a Saturday off because basketball days can be a grind. I loved watching all that football, but I'm ready to get back over there to at night and see him play again.

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Speaker 2: ESPN did a New Year's gift. I don't know why they did it for New Year's and not Christmas, but they did a New Year's gift to each college basketball team.

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Speaker 3: Or maybe it was a new Year's resolution that would make more sense.

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Speaker 2: And the Kentucky New Year's resolution was needs to shoot more threes, basically saying the whole point of Mark Pope's offense is to get good looks for three, and if you take that away, it doesn't really help facilitate what he's trying to do. Do you agree with that as our new Year's resolution.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm going to totally agree, because they're having trouble hitting the threes. You shoot more threes, that could lead to more misses. At this point, like I said, I'm starting to just let myself believe they're not as good at three point shooting team as we all thought they were going into the season.

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Speaker 5: Statistically, they're nowhere near what we thought they'd be in percentage in just attempts. I mean, they had their lowest percentage in the lowest makes against Oho stated with I think four threes shooting like nineteen percent something awful. Look ahead. I don't want to get crazy, but since I was off, I did my brown research over the weekend. Okay, they're one of the best at country in the country and force you into twos. They don't even allow you to take many threes, So that'll be an interesting matchup tomorrow night.

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Speaker 3: That's that's what they do. Well.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna disagree with Ryan. That has to be our resolution because if we're not a three point shooting team, we're not good. I mean, this is not a team that can be really good and not shoot threes.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I know we haven't shot well, but at the same time, we don't shoot twos well. Well, we shoot twos if we get layups well, but if we don't shoot threes, we're not gonna be good. This team is built along around the idea of get open three point looks and take them.

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Speaker 3: And if we're if we're.

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Speaker 2: Shooting eighteen or twenty threes a game, we're not gonna be a team that can score more than seventy five or eighty, and if we don't score more than seventy five or eighty, we're not beating anybody good, so or at least not beating anybody good consistently.

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Speaker 3: So Ryan, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: They better shoot more threes, and yes, they need to go in, but I mean they've we've shown they go in when they get good looks.

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Speaker 3: They shot that they shot great the first five or six games.

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Speaker 4: And we're seeing opposing teams really put a lot of pressure on us and the perimeter keep pushing us out farther and farther and farther. You know, if we're gonna take more threes, the right guy's gotta take them.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 4: I think I would like to see Kobe Brad take more threes, for sure. I don't think he takes enough.

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Speaker 2: I want to see everyone on the team that's not Amari Williams shooting more threes.

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Speaker 3: Every one of them.

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Speaker 2: I'm serious, like they they there needs to my opinion, be less hesitancy. We like, if we get a look, take it. You know, when you're playing against a bad team, yeah, you can afford for one more pass.

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Speaker 3: But I think if anybody gets daylight, Drew, they gotta take it. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: The whole offense is built around defenses respecting the three and creating the space. So those easy twos you're talking about, you gotta be making your threes to the defense to stretch out there on you. Yeah, I keep saying it, and then they shot. Probably the next game. They've got to turn it on.

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Speaker 3: Eventually.

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Speaker 5: They seem to be so much better than what they've been in the last month. I guess for eighteen percent against Ohio State was horrible, but I mean they got to keep they gotta keep shooting them.

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Speaker 2: That's what the whole offense is designed around. Yeah, who's who's up first? Rick Ed go ahead?

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Speaker 3: And d hey Man?

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Speaker 6: Hey, I was a current transfer class? Which two players who you think fans should get excited about them as well?

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. I appreciate the call. You. You're all on this stuff better than me, Drew. The football portal class. How many guys have they taken now?

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Speaker 3: Twelve fourteen? No, it's more than fifteenish, fifteenish.

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Speaker 2: Which of the guys, if there's one or two you were to say, hey, fans, I get excited about this one.

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Speaker 3: Who would it be.

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Speaker 5: It's so hard to actually tell, but it seems like they did a pretty good job building the offensive line as best they could. When you at least look at how the guys were ranked on all the you know things written about and others they were considering, I think the line to give them credit when everything looks pretty bad overall that I think they did as best they could with the line. Quarterback, you know, Blackfi. I mean, they just I don't know who they're gonna throw to now. I don't know if we'll get to it. But losing Gilmour of the weekend was huge. You didn't go out and get a receiver. Yeah, So I'd say the line wins.

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Speaker 2: But Sam Green, the defensive lineman from USC, I'm excited about. He was playing great in their last three games of the year. They did everything they could to stop him. I think he's won. And then the linebacker that came from Marshall, that was a guy that was all conference. He was a dude that a lot of schools wanted. He wanted to stay relatively close to Marshall. If you're looking at two defensive defense, you know people who could make a difference in the game.

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Speaker 3: Difference makers. Those would be the two and then you gotta hope, like.

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Speaker 2: Drew says, the offensive line is good. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio orga back Techie sports Radio eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven.

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Speaker 3: Four five two five four.

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Speaker 2: We got Ryan and Drew here a couple open lines, you know, the post Christmas phone.

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Speaker 3: Lines a little slow.

00:23:16
Speaker 2: I also understand like you're you know, we haven't any had any games, but we your voice can still be still be heard. Let's talk about some former Kentucky guys what they've done in the last few days.

00:23:27
Speaker 3: We'll start with Chris Rodriguez.

00:23:31
Speaker 2: Bring him in last night, big series for the Washington Commanders, scores a touchdown. He only had thirty carries all year, but they used him on one of their most important.

00:23:40
Speaker 3: Drives of the year.

00:23:41
Speaker 2: Drew and Chris Rodriguez getting all kinds of love last night.

00:23:45
Speaker 5: That was awesome. I was watching live, watching live. They were at about the eighteen yard line and they just went to him four straight times and he buoyed all the way into the end zone to give him the go ahead touchdown. Never really carried it again other than those four or five times.

00:23:57
Speaker 2: I guess, uh the barstool, I said, done some sort of like lock parlay of the year, like a touchdown that like thousands and thousands of people were on and and all the rest had hit and all they needed was the Washington running back to score a touchdown.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: The starter Brian Robinson.

00:24:17
Speaker 2: So they were all online going Brian Robinson, Brian Robinson, and then they take Robinson out and put Chris Rodriguez in, and the people that people losing their mind, I mean losing their mind that Rodriguez got the touchdown.

00:24:30
Speaker 3: But he had a great run to it was like a run at UK.

00:24:33
Speaker 4: That's what I was going to say, because he like he bowled over two people and so it looked like we were used to see him run the ball like that. Yeah, just knocking people over, never got tackled for a losses seem like ever when he was here at Kentucky. That's the kind of guy he is.

00:24:45
Speaker 5: His first carry on that drive only went for two yards. But I said that the bill I was with, I was like, that's old school Chris Rodriguez not even knowing he was gonna.

00:24:51
Speaker 3: Get We don't know how much we missed that. I mean, we loved Ray Davis.

00:24:54
Speaker 2: He was great with the speed, and you know, some of the guys this year were decent, but there was something about Rodriguez. If it was third one, we weren't getting the first down. And really, since he's been gone, that third and one has been an issue for us ever since. And third and one with Chris Rodriguez, where Benny Steale was like, all right, well that's first day.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:25:11
Speaker 2: He always fell forward. It always fell forward. Then you have the Giants, they stink. But two Kentucky guys played well. They won yesterday against the Colts, knocked our neighbors to the North out of the playoffs.

00:25:24
Speaker 3: And want Dell had a big game.

00:25:26
Speaker 2: And then Drew Phillips, rookie out of Kentucky, gets the game winning interception.

00:25:31
Speaker 4: That's what was big, the big shocker we saw Drew Phillips. He's on the field a lot, but get that interception at that moment, big game winning for him.

00:25:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, he went four years without interception in the UK, still gets drafted because he played well other ones. He didn't have one in k That was his first career interception to steal the game. Rondell, not just the touchdown, he had a huge first down catch in the first or in the fourth quarter when they were driving the field. A big game for them, although they needed to lose. That is gonna see those guys.

00:25:59
Speaker 2: That may have cost them Sder Sanders, Drew Phillips. That might be a little good footnote for history. And then finally, Tyler Hero last night got in a fight with a guy named Amen He. I don't know they said that they were I watched it. I don't even know what they were mad at each other about. They just seem to get mad and the next thing they know, they were fighting and they sent them home and the coaches got kicked out.

00:26:21
Speaker 3: That was an exciting thing.

00:26:23
Speaker 2: Tyler Hero right in the middle of it, did his postgame interview with Sunglasses.

00:26:26
Speaker 4: On I never knew Tyler Hero was a fighter.

00:26:29
Speaker 3: I've good notice he him throw a punch. I think it's more verbal fighting.

00:26:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, like the NBA has a lot of fights drew where everybody just sticks their chest out and chests each other back and forth like they're just like, I don't know, it's like.

00:26:42
Speaker 3: That they fight with their with their pecks.

00:26:45
Speaker 5: Well they're counting on their teammates to hold them back because they don't really want to do anything.

00:26:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're right.

00:26:50
Speaker 5: They'll slowly go forward waiting to be held back.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: Basketball dudes don't fight, no, Like, if you're ranking non boxing sports in how much do they fight.

00:27:00
Speaker 3: I mean, hockey's clearly number one.

00:27:02
Speaker 2: Who's next football, basketball, or baseball because they all kind of don't. Hockey really fights, and the reps let him fight, but the others.

00:27:12
Speaker 3: All toned it down.

00:27:13
Speaker 5: While back I mean they would let the picture, you know, when they charged them mound, they'd let him go at it for a little bit, and they don't do that as much.

00:27:19
Speaker 2: What was our dude on the Reds that that went and tried to beat up the Pirates Dugout?

00:27:23
Speaker 3: That was one of my greatest a Mere Garrett.

00:27:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was like, I'm going to fight the entire Dugouts and I really liked that.

00:27:32
Speaker 3: Well.

00:27:32
Speaker 5: Two more on your your topic of former Cats. One Carrington Valentine had an big interception for the Yeah. But also did you see PJ in the fight where he shoved big dude from the suns down knocked him all the way to the ground.

00:27:45
Speaker 3: PJ.

00:27:45
Speaker 2: Washington broke up, but still no punches, right, No, but he it was a good shove.

00:27:50
Speaker 5: They don't very good shove.

00:27:51
Speaker 3: They don't throw punches now the NBA.

00:27:53
Speaker 4: Back in the eighties, they used to fight every game.

00:27:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's a lot of people who have this, like, oh, the eighties and nineties are were better and they were more physical. Roan Russillo showed a clip of a Celtics seventy six ers game in the eighties and he was like, yeah, you guys all remember like Game seven of the playoffs, but let me show you a little bit of a regular season game in the eighties, and they weren't fighting.

00:28:21
Speaker 3: They weren't fighting.

00:28:22
Speaker 2: There were like there were huge gaps of defense. The defense now is actually a lot better than the defense then. It's just we only remember the playoffs because we didn't have league pass or things like they do now to see the regular games.

00:28:39
Speaker 5: That and the Lamber Pistons did fight a lot. So anytime people bring up that argument, they just show a beer Bill Lambert highlight.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: But would you rather watch Bill Lambert play basketball for real?

00:28:50
Speaker 3: Like, like he wasn't skilled, you don't want to watch.

00:28:52
Speaker 5: Him till I was fighting?

00:28:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's up next? Abby? Is Abby? Go ahead? Abby? Hi?

00:28:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just had a point to make about the standing up versus sitting down and ruts. I feel like it is pretty similar to whether you should lean your seat back or not on an airplane seat. So I wanted to know if y'all think that is similar, and what your opinions are on whether or not.

00:29:19
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a good question. It's a good question. I appreciate the call. I think standing up in a game all right. So if you decide to lean your seat back in an airplane, who is being benefited except you?

00:29:33
Speaker 3: Nobody, nobody. It's an inherently selfish behavior.

00:29:36
Speaker 2: Now it doesn't mean it's a selfish behavior you shouldn't do, but it is selfish. There's no collective good in leaning your seat back. Standing up in a game has the collective good of energizing the team and helping it get arind, so not only does it benefit you, it benefits the team. So I think it's much more defensible to stand up during the game, Drew than the lean your seat back in an airplane, which I'm not I find really rude when people do, but I also do it myself, so it's a completely hypocritical stance.

00:30:10
Speaker 5: I don't mind the airplane thing. I will glance at the person behind me as I'm sitting, and if they really tall or something, I'll try to be considerate.

00:30:17
Speaker 3: But I mean, they built it, but you're tall. Like it.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: When people lean their seatback to me, it hits my knees. I can't it really affects my comfort.

00:30:26
Speaker 3: You're just a little shorter than meat. Does it not affect yours? Yeah?

00:30:30
Speaker 5: But I mean I'm like, well, they built the seat to lean back. This is part of flying.

00:30:33
Speaker 3: Oh well, I mean I don't get I mean, I take it.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: I don't get mad at them, but it it's like that in an economy seat. The difference between me being comfortable or miserable is whether or not the person leans their seatback.

00:30:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just gotta be respectful.

00:30:47
Speaker 3: Man.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: If like, if I lean my seatback and the guy behind me like, hey, man, do you mind, I would love it push it up a little bit if he's if it's a big guy like you behind me, I would lift my seat back up.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: But do you ever look before you do it to see what the person behind you?

00:31:01
Speaker 4: How you kind of get a peak? Would you slide in your scene and see who's behind you a little bit. If it's a little kid, I'm going back.

00:31:07
Speaker 5: I don't lean mine back every time, about half the time, but when I do, I really exaggerate my I'm kind of showing them that I'm about to do it. I'll lean forward and look back and kind of adjust how to announce I'm coming back, almost.

00:31:19
Speaker 3: Rub it in their face.

00:31:20
Speaker 5: No warning, just like, hey, in case you got a drink back there something, I'm coming back a little bit.

00:31:24
Speaker 3: You know.

00:31:25
Speaker 2: We still, by the way, haven't had the game. We haven't had a game since the whole sit stand. Tomorrow, tomorrow we have. Do you think people remember.

00:31:39
Speaker 5: I remember that's I'm watching section fifteen most of the game. I'm kind of hoping it's a blowout.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: But like if I think if there had been a game two or three days after that Louisville game, it would have been a big issue. But it's been I mean that Louisville game was the fourteenth, it's been two and a half weeks. You still think tomorrow there are gonna be people doing the whole stand thing.

00:31:59
Speaker 4: There are gonna be people that gonna stand just out of spite because it's become a hot topic for all of us and here UK. So I think some people are gonna stand just to be standing.

00:32:09
Speaker 5: I think I'm glad there was a cool and off period. If there had been a game four days later that might have led to an actual fight.

00:32:13
Speaker 3: What do you think the crowd's gonna be like tomorrow? I mean two o'clock.

00:32:18
Speaker 2: Have we ever had a game like this two o'clock on New Year's Eve? I mean I remember.

00:32:24
Speaker 3: Us we've played Louisville.

00:32:26
Speaker 2: On New Year's Eve a couple times, and we've played Louisville on New Year's Eve at noon.

00:32:32
Speaker 3: I remember that being a game.

00:32:34
Speaker 2: I don't remember us playing a team like Brown at two in the afternoon.

00:32:40
Speaker 3: On a Tuesday before. Do you think that? Do you? What do you think the crowd's going to be like?

00:32:44
Speaker 4: Well, you know, we had it like right before Christmas, but I don't think we've ever had one on New Year's Eve like this, OR'd be like someone playing like on December.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: We've played on December twenty third before in a game like this o'clock, but I cannot remember ever playing on New Year's Eve, because, for one thing, are people off work on New Year's Eve.

00:33:02
Speaker 3: They're not. It's not like it's a work day for a lot of people. It's not.

00:33:08
Speaker 4: It's a work day, Yeah, a lot of people. This is the longest drought I can remember between games, ten day drought in the middle of the season.

00:33:17
Speaker 3: But do you think it Do you think it's a full crowd tomorrow.

00:33:22
Speaker 5: I'm having a weird memory. Was was the Tubby game on New Year's Eve when high point came here?

00:33:28
Speaker 4: Maybe I don't remember.

00:33:32
Speaker 3: To a Tuesday at two o'clock.

00:33:34
Speaker 2: I can't remember ever a Tuesday at two o'clock game. So I don't know what it's gonna be like. And like I said, there will be people working. This is not This is not even the day before Christmas Eve, where people sometimes.

00:33:49
Speaker 3: Cut off a little early.

00:33:51
Speaker 2: This is New Year's Eve, Like people work on New Year's Eve up until like five or six o'clock.

00:33:56
Speaker 4: So parking is gonna be an issue tomorrow.

00:33:58
Speaker 3: You know, I would think parking would be a disaster tomorrow.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: I would think it's going to be because there's all he's gonna be all those people downtown who work who are usual yep, Like the market is open, banks are open.

00:34:12
Speaker 3: I just it's gonna be weird. All those people who plays at two o'clock.

00:34:18
Speaker 5: That the game might push them to not go into works might be like, let's not bother today.

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00:34:47
Speaker 3: How are you doing? Which where? What's your name? London? Where are you from, Corbin Richmond?

00:34:55
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's close enough. Nice to see you London. We will take a break and be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio, Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven seventy four five two five four uh. One person writes, Matt, I have an issue over Christmas break my brother in law and I got in a fight because I made fun of Tennessee football. He says I crossed the line by making fun of the balls too much. Do you think you should not make fun of your siblings spouse's teams during the holidays? I think you should tell him to quit being a snowflake, right, the same people, it's always funny to me, how the same people who online will say to me, like, Matt, why can't I make ish joke about this party or religion or race, gender? Like We'll make the most offensive jokes and then I'll go like, well, Tennessee stinks, and they'll go break you, like well, why is it not? Like you're okay making jokes? But that's the thing you draw the line on is the sports team? Like you think everybody's too soft, except you'll fight about your sports team. I uh so, I think that's I could feel the exact same way, make fun of your of your spouse's team or spouse, maybe not your spouse, but your your your brother in law, her sister in law's team.

00:36:18
Speaker 5: I don't even know what he said or did, but it's in bounds with me. It's all fair game. If we're doing a little rivalry.

00:36:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, and of all the things to make fun of, sports should break up the family the least.

00:36:28
Speaker 3: Like, why would you get angry about that?

00:36:30
Speaker 5: My dad is a Tennessee fan. Yes, father. He has a flag outside his house and I've been known to take it and throw it into the street. That's just what you do into the street. Yeah, as far as I can. But I mean that's see.

00:36:40
Speaker 3: You go to your dad's house, you take the flag, and you throw it in the street. Yeah.

00:36:44
Speaker 5: I posted a video of it one year. You can't have it in our neighborhood. Got in Lexington, Kentucky.

00:36:49
Speaker 3: That's that's what you do.

00:36:50
Speaker 5: That's part of the part of you go back and forth to the other team.

00:36:54
Speaker 3: Your sister needed to marry a tougher guy. That's what I'm gonna say that.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: The dude is obviously probably coming to content lucky for a family Christmas, and you're a Tennessee bag more, you better get ready for it.

00:37:04
Speaker 3: It's playing a road game, playing.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: A road game. That's exactly right. But to U two sad things. Two people passed away this weekend of Note. One was Jimmy Carter, former President probably UH widely considered to be one of the best people to ever be president. When he finished his presidency, spent his life, you know, building homes, habitat for humanity.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: Uh he was.

00:37:33
Speaker 2: He would travel around the world trying to bring peace to places.

00:37:37
Speaker 3: Uh he was. He was.

00:37:38
Speaker 2: Grew up a peanut farmer, which somebody asked me yesterday do peanuts grow from trees or the ground? And it saddened me that I wasn't sure the answer. I thought it was ground. You're right, but I wouldn't have sworn to it. It was really a fifty to fifty guess that I got right.

00:37:59
Speaker 5: If you're on whos been millionaire? Would you have called someone or said ground? Oh so you're telling me it's you got money, a lifeline and you got four options.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: But how confident are you in who would I feel like I could call. I would not call Ryan. It's pretty confident, but I wouldn't have known he would.

00:38:21
Speaker 3: You know.

00:38:22
Speaker 2: I would have guessed ground, but I would have been nervous about it. I'm not gonna lie to you. But but you know, he was president when I was born. And here's a crazy stat. Think about this stat. Do you know the last year a Democrat who had been president died.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: Now think about this for a minute.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: What's the last Democrat president? What year would the last Democrat president have died? Because there's been a lot of presidents die in recent years, but all of them are Republicans. Can you think of the last year a Democrat president died?

00:39:01
Speaker 3: Anybody know?

00:39:03
Speaker 4: I think Teddy Roosevelt.

00:39:05
Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt was a a Republican and that was like one hundred and twenty years ago. Do you remember some Democrats since Teddy Roosevelt that were president?

00:39:17
Speaker 3: Maybe John F.

00:39:17
Speaker 2: Kennedy, Yeah, he died in nineteen sixty.

00:39:21
Speaker 4: Three, he was the last one.

00:39:22
Speaker 3: No, how long did it?

00:39:23
Speaker 5: Grover Cleveland?

00:39:24
Speaker 2: The answer is Lyndon Johnson. But Lyndon Johnson was in nineteen seventy three, So there hasn't been a Democrat president died in fifty one years.

00:39:38
Speaker 3: That's amazing, isn't it?

00:39:40
Speaker 2: Because Clinton and Obama are still alive and so is Biden. So like fifty one years since a Democrat has died.

00:39:49
Speaker 3: That was that blew my mind?

00:39:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a crazy stat I would not even think to guess that far back.

00:39:54
Speaker 2: And another example of something you see in life sometimes where one spouse dies and then the other one dies not that long after, right, Like, it's amazing how long spouses will just end up living the exact same length of time.

00:40:09
Speaker 4: You know, I have a broken heart. You need to lose your spouse.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: He just had. He was also one hundred. Yeah, but yes he was. He was.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: I was ten years old when he got presidents He was like one of the first presidents I really remember and all that stuff in the late seventies. Man, there's a lot of stuff going on with the Iran hostage crisis and the gas crisis crisis, There's a lot of things going on. It is just short four year presidency.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: So you rest in peace to uh, to Jimmy Carter and then Greg Gumbel, who I don't know about you, but if I think of college basketball, specifically the NCAA Tournament, you think of Grant Gumble. He's hosted the selection show for thirty two straight years. Okay, he was on television. I mean he is probably more than any other sportscaster maybe al Mys, but he's been on television my entire life.

00:41:04
Speaker 3: He started on ESPN.

00:41:05
Speaker 2: He was on ESPN in nineteen eighty two, so he was on national television for forty two years. And he looked exactly the same all the whole time. He was seventy eight and he looked thirty eight. Legendary career, Greg Gumble.

00:41:22
Speaker 4: For all of us, that's how we got our parents and the NCAA tournament was hearing it from Greg Gumble for the first time. I never got to meet the guy, but I always heard he was just a great person.

00:41:29
Speaker 3: Everybody seems to say. Everybody says it's.

00:41:31
Speaker 5: A great person, and just said voice with March madness. I mean, you're watching a game and they say now to Greg Gumble in the studio and you get your updowns and he goes, let's.

00:41:39
Speaker 3: Send you out to Groundsborough.

00:41:41
Speaker 2: You know, Syracuse is down two to Vermont with twenty second.

00:41:44
Speaker 5: Ever, we'll never hear that again. To your point about how he looked, though, when I saw the news and it said he was seventy eight, I couldn't believe it.

00:41:51
Speaker 3: That he was that old.

00:41:52
Speaker 2: The same perm, Yeah, had the same perm his entire time, never.

00:41:57
Speaker 5: Changed it up. Yeah, it's gonna be missing March. Is he in like Jim Nantz. Yeah, you know, there's just some voices you associated with that tournament everything.

00:42:05
Speaker 2: So rest in peace to Greg Gumbel and Jimmy Carter. We'll take a break. We're gonna do some basketball, And the latest on the UK football roster, which.

00:42:14
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