2026-01-06- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones welcome back.

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Speaker 4: I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio AF. I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. We have some breaking news. Shannon running on a Florida safety Aaron Gates transfer has committed to Kentucky. He was their starting safety last year. Got hurt at various points during the year, but just reading about him, was very talented. Just had a hard time staying on the field. But he will be. Uh this coming to the University of Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Take the place. Maybe Jordan Levitt who graduates. You got Ty Bryant coming back. So maybe those are starting safeties right now. You're ready, ready in the backfield.

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Speaker 4: There you go. So that's I think they're fifth guy they've taken in the portal. So the woman's name is Brynne Brown, not barry On Brown. No, and Brenee Brown. Shannon. Here's what I did. I went online and I just searched the first video I could find them. Okay, and I'm just going to play you this is her on the podcast. Have you heard? I listened to three seconds and then I was like, you know what I want to hear it. I want you to close your eyes and see if you could hear Mark Pope saying this exact things as we went to some hard places.

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Speaker 5: But I don't think we'll ever talk about anything more important than this, because it's not fear that gets in the way of us being braved with our lives and our life. It's the armor that we reach forward to self protect and we're afraid, And the hardest work is being aware of what is.

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Speaker 3: My armor when I'm afraid?

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Speaker 4: Is that what's not to push this train?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Dump that you have to dump the you wow, Brene, potty mouth.

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Speaker 3: Pope would never say that.

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Speaker 4: Pope would never say that word, Brene, But now the rest of it sounded like him. Fear is the armor that keeps the truth from like the rest of it sounded like you. So you have to go get your armor to protect potty mouth Brene. Get us find well you got it though, right? You called got it?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I got it?

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Speaker 4: You call it?

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Speaker 3: Hit the button?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Brenee.

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Speaker 8: Wow.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people seem to like Brene. My mom seems to like Brene.

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Speaker 2: That did sound like something we just heard Mark Pope say last night on his Coaches show.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't exactly scream Kentucky past.

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Speaker 4: No, it doesn't. Okay. A couple things here, First of all, I wanted to get your take on my New Year's resolution.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what is it?

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Speaker 4: Made? A New Year's resolute? So I was looking the other day and I hit my two thousandth contact in my phone nice, and I thought to myself, I have all these contacts. How many of these people do I really keep in touch with?

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Speaker 2: It?

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Speaker 9: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Huh?

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Speaker 4: And the answer is not two thousand, right, probably more like fifty. So I thought, Okay, one of two things needs to happen. Either I need to be more proactive at being nice to people in my life or I need to not have them be contacts in my phone. Right. If you can and have some interaction with a person where you do something nice for them, then why are you kind of keeping them around? Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So, as part of a resolution to try to be more giving to people I care about, I was like, you know what I'm gonna do is every day I'm going to randomly pick a contact in my phone and do something nice for the very nice. And if I feel like, for whatever reason, I either can't or I wouldn't know what to do, then Shannon, there's no reason for them to be in my.

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Speaker 2: Phone delete, just delete, Yeah, because.

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Speaker 4: There's some people that just aren't in your life anymore, right, or maybe you just don't like them.

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Speaker 3: That's most of my contacts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I've done one a day, starting with the letter A, and I pick a different person with each letter.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh.

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Speaker 4: I think I'm going to be on today. I'm on F. But it's actually been very nice. Five people so far. One of them is a really good friend of mine that I just don't hang out with a lot. So I'm going to enter with them next week.

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Speaker 2: Very nice.

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Speaker 4: I somebody that I have, uh you know, has worked with me over the years, but I probably didn't feel like I'd been as appreciative to them as I should. I asked them what their favorite restaurant was and bought them a gift card to the favorite restaurant.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And a couple of people I just wrote and said, hey, how you doing. Haven't talked to you in a long time, And it's been very rewarding and I hope to keep it up for the rest of the year. I think it's a good And then I've deleted some people. I've deleted like three people because I didn't even know what I would write them. And if you don't even know what you can write someone, then why are they in your phone?

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Speaker 3: I have names in my phone book that I don't even know who they are, like what I understand put them on? I don't even know exactly.

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Speaker 4: And so you know why not? Just so it's actually been and now we'll see if I'm able to keep it up. But it's actually been pretty good.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's going to come a moment and it may already happen. Will you reach out to one of your friends and they just just that simple gesture you're making may make a difference in their day and their life.

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Speaker 4: Well that's yeah.

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Speaker 2: Maybe going through some things and maybe you reaching out, maybe getting together with them is just what they needed in their life. Good for you.

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Speaker 4: So second thing last week I had to do a little photo shoot. I was hoping we're going to talk about this for ESP. They wanted me to take a couple of photos. I showed you the two What are you laughing? Go ahead? I showed you the two that came out of it. Yes, what did you think? I'm not posting them? Okay, just for the record, I'm not gonna post.

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Speaker 2: Can we be honest? I mean if you want the one picture, the headshot is like something would be in your senior yearbook in high school or on your tender profile.

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Speaker 4: I did not not the one they took it.

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Speaker 2: That's not the one they want to represent. I think a sports talk radio host.

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Speaker 4: Actually, that would be the one you would use if I wrote a motivational book, exactly, I wrote a Brene Brown book. Is it that the picture they would use?

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Speaker 2: How to Find Your or by Matt Jones? And you open up the jacket and there's your picture on the inside, cover your hand in your head, smiling, cheesy smile your tender profile pictures? What that is?

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Speaker 4: And what's the other one?

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Speaker 2: The second one is you, that's Matt Jones. You got your hat on, kind of got your knee up, you kind of leaning in. That's the mat I know. I don't know tender profile, Matt Jones. I know the other one.

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Speaker 4: Well, they're both good pictures, good pictures.

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Speaker 3: No, No, the second one's good. The first one's cheesy. And I hope, I actually hope they use that one because the worst form.

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Speaker 4: Why because it makes me look like a con person.

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Speaker 3: Like Ryan said, it kind of looks like something that would be like you know when you go to get your your senior pictures, that's the one that they would use, like, hey, can you put your put your palm of your hand right there on your chin and kind of look like you.

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Speaker 4: I feel like they're going to use that one.

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Speaker 2: So it's a good picture. Don't get us wrong. It's just not a sports talk radio I get that picture doesn't scream sports talk radio to me.

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Speaker 4: It screams it means.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to single and I'm ready to meet the one was the most likely to succeed in the yearbook.

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Speaker 4: That's not what I won, by the way, And.

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Speaker 2: What did you win in high school? Brainiac?

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Speaker 4: I think Bobob won most likely to succeed. Yeah, I think I won most studious.

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Speaker 2: You felt like you got a little resentment towards Bobob on.

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Speaker 4: This, so bo Bob was going to succeed and has he has. But studious is not the one, nerd exactly, That's not the one you want.

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Speaker 2: Well because the only thing, the only one they can find you was on your bean bag chair in your library.

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Speaker 4: And I'm a perfect example though of you can be that like I was a huge nerd, Like this was sad one of my friends, uh passed away or somebody I went to high school with. We weren't close, but I knew him passed away just this week. And when I saw that, it made me sad because you know, you know, have you had people in your class died?

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Speaker 2: No, it's very said.

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Speaker 4: It's something kind of sobering about it, like you think about them, but you're also like, that person is my age. You know, he died, and I was thinking about the last time I saw him, which was like ten years ago, and he was like, he came up to me and he goes, the fact you talk about sports for a living is the craziest damn thing I've ever seen. And I was like, yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 2: They knew he was nerd boy from Middlesbrough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean remember they would send me to the library to read because I'd ran out of classes to take. Yeah, and so he was like, I can't we goes. We all just can't believe it. We love it, but we can't believe it. So I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: I was voting my senior year, what's that best school spirit?

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Speaker 4: I could see that though I can see that you would have school spirit, I totally could see that did you win something?

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Speaker 3: I think I want anything. I was house too mediocre to win anything.

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Speaker 4: Okay, did you win something, Mario? Yeah, you just won most likely to post a thirst trap on Instagram? Who's DG? What's up? DG?

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Speaker 9: Hey?

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Speaker 7: God?

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Speaker 11: Just one hear y'all thoughts.

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Speaker 12: I'm scrolling through X last nine and seeing an interesting stat that Kentucky Hoops had posted that projects us to go sixteen and fifteen and seven and eleven in sec play. Yeah, you know, I think for sure that what you're doing in the present is what trajects what you're gonna do moving forward.

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Speaker 11: But let's just say that we do do that, and moving forward, we don't get any top recruits. I know you said multiple times you don't see a world that Mark Pope doesn't come back for year three, But what does that kind of do for the state of his position going into year three? Is it kind of a make or break year?

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Speaker 4: Yes, And in that scenario you just laid out, In that scenario you laid out, it'll be a make or break year. I appreciate the call. They'll have to kill it in the portal and there will be skepticism all summer, and it'll be a very high pressure year for Mark. In that scenario you lay out, I think we're gonna make the tournament. We'll talk more about this tomorrow because our game is tomorrow night. I was looking at the schedule. I think tomorrow night is huge, Yes it is. I think Tomorrow night is huge, and I think Saturday night's huge, but I think Tomorrow night is huge. You cannot lose that game.

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Speaker 2: Not at home, not the Missouri.

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Speaker 4: The schedule sets up to where if you can win these home games, you're probably all right. But there's not a ton of opportunities to steal them on the road because our road games are hard. Yeah, but there's not a ton of times you should lose at home. But when you could lose is Wednesday, and we can't have to win Wednesday. Wednesday night is huge. Yes, we'll talk more about it tomorrow. Mike, go ahead, Mike.

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Speaker 9: You know, man, all that words said last night, you know, I was just like it because I listen for the basketball stuff and the clote that stood out to me more than any of those because because I'm kind of like those, you know, those players, I'm probably taining that. When he's going on and on with that trap I can't even understand. But he said nobody was going under the screen.

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Speaker 4: He did say that. Well, no, he said they're not coaching anyone to go under the screens.

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Speaker 9: Okay, I thought he would saying they weren't going under it.

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Speaker 4: I was just like, I think, I think now, I mean, somebody can show me that I'm wrong. But I think he said they didn't coach them to go under the screens, which I hope is correct. If he said they don't go under the screens, that I'm with you, that would drive me crazy because they do it all the time. But I think he said they don't coach them to go under the screens.

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Speaker 9: But one more thing, you know, they were toughing a lot of people say the pieces don't fit, which kind of maybe, but I actually think he's just playing the wrong pieces because if you look at the two best stretches that this team said, it was the second half of that Indiana game and the second half of that Saint John's game, and he let the guys play that should be playing and they went on sixteen old runs, seventeen old runs, and that's I mean, good basketball.

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Speaker 4: You might be right. I think that's a fair point. I appreciate the call. When he played in the Indiana game, it was low Oway, Aberdeen, Garrison quaint no Garrison who diabate probably, and then in the Saint John's game it was low oh Way Williams, Diabatee quaint right. When he played those lineups, we were really good.

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Speaker 2: So how can you only play that lineup one minute of other day against Alabama? That second lineup you talked about, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know j C. What's up j C?

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Speaker 13: And that, Uh, the only thing I could think of him not starting is Dalen Lowe. And why he wouldn't say it, I don't know. But let's just say, all right, Dayala Lowe is still healing. You need to heal as much as possible. He's doing better, whatever. But there's a world in which we go up ten two and we and what we're doing on the floor looks like we have an advantage, and he just sets Jalen Lowell he doesn't playing, Yeah, but because really what he wants to do.

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Speaker 4: But how does I don't understand if he didn't play in the game at all, that argument could make sense to me what he said, But how does coming in the game there, I know, But how does coming in the game four minutes later help his recovery.

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Speaker 13: Because he had to because he had the plane.

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Speaker 4: So you're saying, if we were winning, then maybe the.

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Speaker 13: World, there's a world we could beat somebody without jaging.

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Speaker 4: I see what you're saying. You're saying, maybe then they wouldn't have to play. Okay, fair enough. I just know, and I appreciate the call. We've played four major conference teams this year, and when Jalen Lowe is checked into the game, we've been losing all four of them. I don't know how that's positive.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that guy is inside Pope's head. Maybe that's what Pope's thinking. We're gonna try to get as many minutes as we can with Jalen low on the bench and kind of protect him as much as we can put him in when we need.

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Speaker 10: Go?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Did you? I did? You?

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Speaker 12: Were?

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Speaker 4: You were attested at ten o'clock the night before? Did you really? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you were scrambling to get fifty two in?

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Speaker 4: So I got him in. I'm gonna I'm actually ranking them one to fifty two. Yeah, and then I'm gonna put them out. I might do that today, if not later in the week because I don't want to Some of them I wouldn't recommend, but like the top fifteen or twenty I would. So I'm gonna put them out so people can have already started year two.

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Speaker 2: I'll rank my books I read last year.

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Speaker 4: Also, go ahead, let's hear them.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I got to one great list.

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Speaker 4: Say so you didn't even get one.

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Speaker 3: I don't even think I cracked open a book even I saw like it said the average person reads four a year. Yeah, you, Ryan and I are breaking down that average.

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Speaker 4: I read fifty two. So YouTube, Shinny, did you read a book?

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Speaker 3: I don't think I did.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So three divided by fifty two is seventeen point three amongst the three of us on this show.

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Speaker 3: Honey, I read seventeen point three on average.

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Speaker 4: I got to fifty two. I had to do a lot of reading in November December because I got behind.

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Speaker 2: So you're already started for this year.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm reading two books right now. I'm doing How do you.

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Speaker 2: Read two at the same time? How do you keep them straight?

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Speaker 4: It's actually I think my mind has been corrupted by the phone that I can't just read one. I almost need to go back and forth in the same way that people need to flip channels. So I tend to read like one fiction and one nonfiction at the same time.

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Speaker 2: And you're able to keep it straight, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Because one of them is real and one of them is not. And I have a general ability I remember which one is real and which one's.

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Speaker 2: Now this fascinates me. Do you read one a night or you kind of it's hard.

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Speaker 4: To read one? No, No, in the same night. I'll read them both, you will. I tend to read non fiction while awake fiction to help me go to sleep. Huh. Generally speaking, you could.

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Speaker 2: Read one earlier in the evening and then when you go to bed, pull out the other one.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 4: Generally that's not always hot works. But in order to catch up, Shannon, I cheat a little bit towards the end. I only read short books in December, like two hundred pages so I can catch up.

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Speaker 3: Have you see these people that can like speed read and I'm like, there's no way you're taking in that information. They just go read.

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Speaker 4: I can't speed read, but I read very fast.

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Speaker 3: But they just touched the page and.

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Speaker 4: That I couldn't do that. Okay, yeah, I couldn't do that.

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Speaker 9: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how people do that. Tianni Key. Kenny Brooks said last night will likely be back before the end of the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a good update from him. On his coaching show last night. We've been talking a lot about Pope on his coach show, but Coach brook said that they don't not for sure when, but does expect her back by the end of the season.

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Speaker 4: Did you see Michigan State tom Izzo, Shannon, They kicked out former player Paul Davis, Yeah, from the game for yelling at the ref. Yeah, And Paul Davis kind of was like playing it up, trying to get the crowd to boo the ref, and tom Izzo came on the floor and yelled at Davis get out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably not doing them many favors by yelling at the ref.

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Speaker 4: Which Kentucky player would be most likely to get kicked out of a game from the crowd? See, I don't think DeMarcus would because I don't think he would get that. You need somebody who's that No, I mean, I think he cares, but I don't think he would, like, I don't think he would do that. You almost need somebody who like is coming to a lot of games and and like switch switch switches from player to crazy fan.

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Speaker 3: Mhmm.

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Speaker 4: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like somebody that probably have to be somebody Fromentucky.

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Speaker 4: It probably needs to be somebody from Kentucky or somebody who goes to a lot of games. That's kind of what I would I have an answer Richie Farmer.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was thinking Richie, but I don't know. Does he get that fired up at these games?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, you see the Texi sins during a game. Sometimes I could see Richie losing it on a riff. Do you I.

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Speaker 2: Didn't think about Richie. That's a great answer. I was thinking Sean Woods.

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Speaker 4: That's that's a good call too. Although did he he's that passionate about the game, about being a Kentucky fan.

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Speaker 2: I think he is. I think he's become that since he's come back to Lexington.

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Speaker 4: One question. There's a guy who used to play at Kentucky named Jonathan Davis. Yeah. I keep seeing these videos of him on social media with Alan Cutler and he's mean to Mark Pope. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I actually I heard him on cutlor show yesterday. Why is he so mean to He was cooking. He was like, look what does he do now? He's like a financial advisor, financial planner?

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Speaker 4: Well, he seems very angry.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was very critical.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's him.

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Speaker 2: I could see it being him.

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Speaker 4: Because I I haven't thought about that guy in a long time. I liked him when I was a kid because he wore glassy and I had glass. Good call man, he gets angry, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Got mad yesterday. Cutler just let him cook too. And he was very critical of a lot of things.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Josh, go ahead, Josh was the guy.

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Speaker 7: Hey, first off, Darren Feldhouse.

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Speaker 4: Good call. That's a really good call.

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Speaker 7: That's a really good at the King of the Bluegrass. And the only people I heard in that gym was his brother, which is the head coach. And Darren Steulthhouse.

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Speaker 4: That's your answer, he's scary. You win, you win. That's the answer. That he is more likely than Sean and Ritchie. Darren Feldhouse is a great answer. Yes.

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Speaker 7: One more thing, because Pope looked so confused on the sideline. Oh oh, sit him Benching, see what happens then, bench Pope.

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Speaker 4: Oh oh, so here's the thing about Otaga. I appreciate the call. Most people will tell you in the and and Pope acknowledge there were big time arguments during the game Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 4: And I told you that on the post. Yes, I had a friend who said they were yelling at each other all the time. Generally speaking, the names you hear as being the ones yelling a lot are Otaga and Diabat, not at each other, just an everybody.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 4: But I still feel like those two guys bring it most of the time.

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Speaker 2: I've never thought there's lack of effort on either one of their parts ever.

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Speaker 4: But they are definitely two of the guys chirping uh huh. But it's not necessarily to each other. It's just they're the two of the mainlands. Is this a Debbie? Debbie? Yeah? Hi, Debbie?

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Speaker 14: Hello? How are you guys this morning?

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Speaker 4: So yesterday I said that Stephen Wilson said there ain't a lot of debbies anymore. Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 14: Well, I find them everywhere I go because everybody keeps calling me somebody else.

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Speaker 4: So are they under forty? Are they under forty?

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Speaker 14: No?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so Steven might have been right.

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Speaker 3: With the most of.

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Speaker 14: Them, we're over forty. I am over forty twelve, So yeah, I can totally. I can agree with that.

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Speaker 4: I just have thirty seconds I want you to get to make your point.

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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Okay, I.

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Speaker 14: Have a two part question with me Chew's tendency to drag out making coaching changes and things are going bad, and how long do you give Pope to get it rapped? And the second party is if he doesn't get it right before Mitch retires. Do you think the new ID will take.

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Speaker 13: Care of it?

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Speaker 4: Let me let me it's a long answer. Let me do it after the break. All right, Debbie, thank you very much. We'll take a break, be right back. Okay. Sorry. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 4: Eminem, Yeah, Eminem had a lot of hits. You do young people, Mario like Eminem? Like, did he did? People care like? I don't think people were ask how big? I don't think younger people were ask how big Eminem was? Would you say, Eminem Shan was the biggest rapper during his day, at least until I mean, I don't keep up with my music like in our day? He said?

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Speaker 3: Ours? Yeah, like, uh what late nineties, early two thousands.

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Speaker 4: I mean he was bigger just in terms of as a star than even like you know, Tupac, Biggie Snoop was pretty big too.

00:24:16
Speaker 3: Was Snoop had like the longest staying power he did.

00:24:20
Speaker 4: Still big. Now did you see Stoop calling the basketball game last night?

00:24:23
Speaker 2: I saw him interview Steff step going in the game.

00:24:25
Speaker 4: Or something called the basketball game last night the Warriors and Clippers, And as Steve Kerr got kicked out, you gotta hear him. Okay, He's like tell him Kerr, gim Kerr go Kurt like it was, you gotta hear it. It's great. Stoop. Englewood's here and I don't I don't think Steve Kerrs from Inglewood, but but he was. He was good. He's everywhere, just a little. One person wrote, are you guys only saying the Unforgettables were hot heads? No, because I actually have a better answer even than Darren Field. Oh you do, which I'll give it a second, Okay, And I just realized, I do think all four of the Unforgettables were kind of hot heads.

00:25:05
Speaker 3: That's why they're unforgetable.

00:25:06
Speaker 2: That's why people loved him. They get four of them were kind of hot heads. Yeah, they ranked the hot heads of the of those four, well, I'd probably said feld House one, Woods two, Richie three, f feld House, pel Free four.

00:25:21
Speaker 4: See, I would have even so when they were playing at UK, I would have maybe put Pelfree one. You think you would have? But now I do think he's probably I don't know him or Rich he's the bottom. Yeah, it's either Darren or Sewan for one. Number one. That's not the answer.

00:25:39
Speaker 2: Though, if one better than those guys Cameron Mills, uh, you know what?

00:25:44
Speaker 4: Yep.

00:25:45
Speaker 3: And he's got a loud mouth too able to hear.

00:25:47
Speaker 4: On Cameron Mills. Yeah, he's the one most likely to get.

00:25:50
Speaker 2: Kicked out because he goes all the games.

00:25:52
Speaker 4: And if Dave Baker was on the court, oh god, forget about it. Can I tell you something before I answered Debbie's question that I heard yesterday that blew my mind?

00:26:04
Speaker 2: What's that?

00:26:06
Speaker 4: Now? I can't confirm this, but this is now pretty much being universally agreed upon by the internet. Okay, so do you know you know Erica Kirk? Yes, Charlie Kirk's wife, widow widow? Yes? Do you know who she dated for a year and a half?

00:26:23
Speaker 2: I saw that, Camra Mills, George's Josh Harrelson.

00:26:27
Speaker 4: Really did you know that?

00:26:30
Speaker 2: No idea?

00:26:32
Speaker 4: I had no idea.

00:26:33
Speaker 2: When he was playing for the Knicks she was they dated, and then.

00:26:36
Speaker 4: When he went overseas whatever country he played in, people in that country called her the first lady of that country.

00:26:45
Speaker 2: I guess there's pictures of the two of them together that she scrubbed off the internet.

00:26:48
Speaker 4: They're scrubbed off the internet, but you can see the replies where people.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: Replied to them called them a cute couple.

00:26:55
Speaker 4: About their relationship apparently dated for a long time.

00:27:00
Speaker 2: I had no idea.

00:27:01
Speaker 4: I had no idea. And I know George, or at least knew George pretty well. Yeah, no clue.

00:27:07
Speaker 2: He came in and sat with us to do a show around that time.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: So, Shannon, did you know that, No, I had no idea.

00:27:16
Speaker 3: George and Erica Kurt Jeans Short's riling in the ladies.

00:27:20
Speaker 4: And so like. There was a video about it and the person didn't know who George was. Yeah, I saw that and was laughing that they called him George.

00:27:29
Speaker 2: She kept calling him Joshua Harrelson.

00:27:31
Speaker 4: She kept saying he she dated Joshua Joshua. Joshua has never once called him josh Eva.

00:27:38
Speaker 3: Just for the ladies, I think is Joshua.

00:27:40
Speaker 2: She thought it was funny that they called him for sure.

00:27:43
Speaker 4: That's a Joshua picture, yeh. See the hat is matt Matthew. The other picture is Matthew Matthew Matthew Hoppa This is Matthew Hopper. The hat is matt The holding my chin is Matthew.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: Please don't let him use that one. Why because that's no.

00:28:01
Speaker 3: We want them to use that one so we can make fun of it.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: But you told me you thought it was good for your tender profile or your high school senior.

00:28:08
Speaker 3: Think that doesn't look like a good sports No, Ryan's trying to be nice. Ryan, say what you really mean?

00:28:14
Speaker 2: Look like a little wienie. That says I'm a weenie.

00:28:23
Speaker 4: No, it says I'm the intellectual.

00:28:26
Speaker 2: Now, I'm sure the ladies would love that photo. You look good. Cute handsome guys are like good. I'm gonna list that guy talk about sports.

00:28:34
Speaker 4: So don't use that one for sport. Correct. So if ESPN picks that one's veto what the one? You gotta gave me? Like seven? I ve toed like two of them. Oh god, so you actually approved that one was better than somebody I got to. Some of the other ones were even more that way than that one.

00:28:53
Speaker 3: Ones that didn't make the cause.

00:28:54
Speaker 2: He did kind of show us a couple of where you're standing up. One of those was pretty good.

00:28:57
Speaker 4: Yacause you're like action shot though I don't think they're gonna they needed one for like that's got to be. Well, one of these has to be my head shot me action doing what I'm just standing against the wall laughing.

00:29:08
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I gotcha.

00:29:08
Speaker 4: Yeah action.

00:29:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, the action is he's standing up laughing.

00:29:13
Speaker 4: It's a good action. No, it's me playing baseball if I'm eighty seven. The question about would would would Mitch Fire's Pope? No, he would not. I see no scenario Pope were to lose his job at the end of the year. None. But now if he didn't have a good year next year, I could see it.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think regardless what happens this year, next year three would be the make or break year.

00:29:38
Speaker 4: But there's nothing. Do you agree no scenario he would lose it.

00:29:41
Speaker 2: I don't.

00:29:42
Speaker 4: I can't. I can't. And the kinds of things that would do it are not things Mark Pope would do, correct, So I don't. I can't see a scenario.

00:29:51
Speaker 15: Cody, what's up, Cody, Hey, Matt, how are you guys doing today?

00:29:55
Speaker 4: Good?

00:29:57
Speaker 9: Hey?

00:29:57
Speaker 15: I had a football recruiting question. If you're taking those, go for it. So I've been keeping up on the quarterback situation and I saw where Cutter looked like he was headed as Arizona State yes, and it felt like their quarterback might been the top guy in the portal. And there for a while, it felt like Kentucky was that decision. But as of last night, I don't feel like that's the case anymore, and it looks like more of Notre Dame's back up correct And I'm wondering, are we seeing another Jami deal?

00:30:27
Speaker 4: No, I think that might have to I think it's worth noting. I appreciate the call. There is still and I still have many questions related to the Jmi deal as it pertains to basketball recruit They're still unknown to me. I've still asked for an interviewer to at least talk to those folks. That hasn't happened. I think it could happen in the next couple of weeks. Has not happened yet, so I am just putting pause on my Jami basketball questions. They have not been answered for me, one way or the other. I, however, do not think JMI is an issue for football, and I could explain why, but that probably would take a podcast, and I don't want to end the show with it. I'll just say this, the football players, especially the ones that come to Kentucky, don't make as much money and don't have the leverage the basketball players do because we're not recruiting the top ten kids in America. True, so our issues about NIL, to me are basketball issues. I think Kentucky, while we don't have as much money as like Ohio State Oregon, we've got enough to be good. And I do not think that JMI will have an impact. The only situation it ever could is like an elite, elite quarterback, and I think the only time that could have happened was Levitt, and I do not think Levitt didn't end up here because of that. So, to answer your question, and I do not think it is at this point an issue at all in football, remains to be seate about basketball.

00:32:08
Speaker 2: I agree with you about Levit. I mean, when Lane Kiffin's calling you at LSU and Miami's calling you that they're in the final four of the playoffs right now, you're gonna listen.

00:32:16
Speaker 4: I think we would have gotten him over Miami.

00:32:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:32:19
Speaker 4: I think LSU and Lane Kiffin were just the one. And then I think he also wants to figure out like wanted to explore all options in Kentucky. They didn't want to end up with musical chairs without a chair, true, right, that's I think that's a big thing Nebraska. The reason will Compton was so mad is he's worried it's musical chairs and they didn't end up with a chair.

00:32:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why you know they had the elon quarterback on campus. He's a potential backup. Well, he may still come here as the second straight.

00:32:49
Speaker 4: Right as a backup, but they needed a starter and they didn't want to get out of it without one. Dave go ahead, Dave.

00:33:00
Speaker 10: Getting back to Pope and some of the stuff he says, it's kind of pleasant. In the last week or so, he said in an interview that the reason he didn't start Lowe was that he didn't want him in the initial scout for the other team. He's the secret weapon.

00:33:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. I mean you don't think Nate oates scouts Jayalen Lowe. I mean, like he's our best player. Everybody's going to scouting.

00:33:28
Speaker 6: And the second thing is, I don't understand. In the postgame interview when they ask him why Cam Williams didn't play more, he said that Cam needs to take better advantage of the time that he gets. Well, he was eight or ten from three in the Spellerman game.

00:33:42
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm with you. I don't understand that either. And then the second half he came in and immediately hit a three. Yeah, I agree. I appreciate that the scout answer does not That doesn't pass the smell test for me. I mean, you don't think they scout the dudes on the bench.

00:34:00
Speaker 2: You don't think they know Jalen Lowe is gonna play.

00:34:02
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll say this, if our scout doesn't include the other team six man, it ain't a very good scout, very true. Ring in the New Year with a new ride at Don Franklin. Choose from thousands of new and certified pre Own vehicles go the distance with powertrain protection on certain certified pre O makes and models, every backups backed by five year parts one of dy It's Don Franklin Auto dot Com, Driven by Family. If you get a vehicle anywhere but Don Franklin, you're missing out. Go check it out at Don Franklin Auto dot Com. We'll take a break, come back. Final segment, Kazar, welcome back, take you Sports Radio, got some breaking new Shannon running non a. Tucky added another commitment. Tennessee offensive lineman Max Anderson has transferred to Kentucky. No idea if he's.

00:34:50
Speaker 2: Good or not, but to say he's a guarter a tackle.

00:34:53
Speaker 4: Says he's an interior offensive line So that's that's the way they do those now they just say interior man.

00:35:00
Speaker 2: They got two of the five, they lost all five of them.

00:35:02
Speaker 4: They got two. Played in fifteen games in the SEC. Yeah, that's it. He played right guard, left guard, and center for the Balls. Four star recruit.

00:35:14
Speaker 2: Okay, so our centers from Baylor, pretty good program. This guy's from Tennessee, pretty good program.

00:35:19
Speaker 4: Yeah. Rebuilding the offensive line, yeah, which they.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: Need, absolutely desperately need.

00:35:25
Speaker 4: So so there you go. I don't again, don't know. He was a red shirt flat freshman last year, played in fifteen games, So there you go.

00:35:35
Speaker 2: I'm really we're bringing in guys from New Mexico State and Illinois State.

00:35:39
Speaker 4: In his recruiting class of twenty twenty four, he was the number eighteen interior alignement in the country.

00:35:44
Speaker 2: I trust trust him.

00:35:47
Speaker 4: Sounds like a good player.

00:35:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I do a lot of interior lineman.

00:35:51
Speaker 4: Well that's kind of my specially evaluated.

00:35:54
Speaker 2: I thought, so, what does he do?

00:35:56
Speaker 7: Well?

00:35:56
Speaker 3: You want to break it down, Well, the.

00:35:57
Speaker 4: Thing is the way he can, you know.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's always important.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: Footwork uh huh, arm length uh huh yeah, very important.

00:36:06
Speaker 3: You want t recks, arms, pancakes.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: I saw where Jagger entered the NFL draft.

00:36:11
Speaker 4: Good for him. Ye, hope it works. Hope it works out for him. Ks Bar back open today and will be all week. We will be there tomorrow, yes, for the show. We will also be there tomorrow for the pregame show for the game, so we'll be there a bunch tomorrow. Hope you'll come out. I do trivia a week from Thursday. Okay, week from Thursday will be my next trivia and we'll go from there. But tomorrow we'll be tomorrow and Thursday we'll be doing the show.

00:36:37
Speaker 2: Game. Tomorrow night's at seven, so pregames at four thirty tomorrow.

00:36:40
Speaker 4: I think you're right. DraftKings, I guess you go to DraftKings dot com. Use promo co KSR bet five, get two hundred dollars if you in bonus bets if you win. Let's do Louisville Duke. Louisville's a one and a half point favorite at home tonight against the Duke Blue Devils. Ryan, who you got?

00:36:59
Speaker 2: I cannot pick Louisville. I don't like Duke, but I can't pick. I'm picking Duke. Don't not just cover win a game, Shannon.

00:37:05
Speaker 3: Ye, I think I'm agreeing with Ryan. I would take Duke money line on this one, especially if m.

00:37:09
Speaker 2: Kil Brown's not playing.

00:37:11
Speaker 4: I'm going big on Duke. Yeah, kil Brown's not playing.

00:37:17
Speaker 2: How's how's Louisville the favorite? I know they're home, but like they just lost to Stanford.

00:37:24
Speaker 3: Just Duke kept somebody out or I think so?

00:37:27
Speaker 4: Don't think so? Duke's only lost one game. I mean, I mean Louisville can win, But how are they favored?

00:37:35
Speaker 2: I'm the Matt Jones lock of the week.

00:37:40
Speaker 4: That's my Matt Jones pensive pose from that's my guru pose lock of the week.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: You get your hand resting in your head resting?

00:37:50
Speaker 4: Am I wrong about that? Am I wrong? That's stop thinking about my picture. I'm not asking me about the game.

00:37:59
Speaker 2: They got the Who's not the best player in Boozer? They're playing really good. Lovel's coming off a loss. Their best players out.

00:38:06
Speaker 4: One person rights Matt I don't know if you saw all the rich people in the world went to Saint Bart's for New Years, would you all like to have been there? Did you see this?

00:38:17
Speaker 2: I did not see this.

00:38:18
Speaker 4: Apparently, of the one hundred biggest yachts in the world, Okay, so presumably one hundred of the richest people in the world, right, all right, forty six of them were in Saint Bart's this weekend. Forty six of the one hundred biggest yachts in the world. Wow, we're all in the same place. So like all these tech billionaires. Tom Brady was there. He was dancing with Alex Earl, which like Brady's Mike Alex Earl. I don't know what she twenty three, twenty four. But they were all cozy. That was the place to be. And then we ended up going and getting the Venezuela President and they all got trapped there. Did you see that?

00:39:00
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

00:39:01
Speaker 4: They closed the airspace, so they're stuck there. Well, they finally got to go, but for like forty eight hours they were all stuck. There's some great videos online of rich people freaking out because they are not allowed to fly home. Even Leonardo DiCaprio really was getting the Lifetime Achievement Award from this film group, and he had to miss the ceremony because even he couldn't get out.

00:39:23
Speaker 2: Wow, and these guys were used to flying whenever they want at the minutes notice.

00:39:28
Speaker 4: And and people were going crazy. So would you like to have been there with all those rich people? Sure you say that, But don't you think you would feel like you didn't fit in? Of course I would, but.

00:39:39
Speaker 2: I want to be there.

00:39:40
Speaker 3: They know what your net worth is?

00:39:42
Speaker 4: Oh that you think they would think Ryan's a billion?

00:39:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, just because he's there company you have to have money to But like.

00:39:47
Speaker 4: What if you can't get on those yachts? Like all these yachts are there and everybody's partying, and you're sitting on the beach like going, hey, what about Ryan?

00:39:55
Speaker 2: Well, I definitely looked the part of a millionaire. Oh for sure, I think they let's bring that guy in our yacht. He needs to come in. And you think they would bring you on the and have some champagne in kevy aar?

00:40:05
Speaker 4: You think they would? Yeah? I think of all the people there, the supermodels, the celebrities, they think they would invite you.

00:40:12
Speaker 2: Super model would see me and getting very thirsty.

00:40:15
Speaker 4: They would not. They would not, I don't think, especially.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: If I take my shirt off and I'm flexed on the beach, get dehydrated.

00:40:24
Speaker 4: Matthew, Go ahead, Matthew.

00:40:28
Speaker 8: I hate to be the one to tell Ryan this, but I don't know any millionaires that have holes in their socks.

00:40:31
Speaker 6: But I'm not.

00:40:33
Speaker 4: I don't know, may not. And these were the millionaires. Oh yeah, but go ahead, the no holes they might not even have.

00:40:40
Speaker 8: That's exactly right, matt you should stick the volleyball scouting. You're into your offensive Lineman broke Cab was a lackluster.

00:40:48
Speaker 4: Well what should I have said?

00:40:49
Speaker 6: But what I really want.

00:40:53
Speaker 8: All I know is pancakes.

00:40:54
Speaker 4: So I guess you got you.

00:40:56
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't even know what.

00:40:57
Speaker 4: By the way, our new center, our new center for Baylor, ESPN named it one of his blocks last year, the pancake of the week. Oh they did. So we have mister panks pancake. We go ahead, blueberry so chocolate chip. I don't know, but it was. It was very popular.

00:41:14
Speaker 8: What I really wanted to call and say is I know we all love Mode and we all love Jane Quainton's but I just don't know how we play those two together on offense. They're both just big bodies. They required, you know, being a paint to bang get offensive rebounds, and we talk about floor spacing and shooting, and I don't see how those two guys helped either of those things when they're in together.

00:41:36
Speaker 4: I think it's fair talk about appreciate the call. It completely fair question, and I wonder the same thing. Yeah, uh, it worked against Saint John's because they can't shoot either. But does that work against a team that puts up ninety? I don't know. Probably not, So that goes back to the roster being poorly constructed. But while I agree with that, that's not any for when we don't play defense and we get like they should be able to play defense at least, maybe we'll struggle scoring, but we shouldn't give up ninety.

00:42:07
Speaker 2: That's a good defensive line up. If you got those two guys down in.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: Theory, that's a really good That's how we want to get Saint John's was our defense.

00:42:13
Speaker 2: Saint Johns couldn't score either.

00:42:15
Speaker 4: So I think that's a fair question. But that doesn't explain the problems against Alabama. No, if we lose seventy eight, seventy one because we can't score. Then I think you bring that up when we give up ninety and give up open shot after open shot. That ain't because we're playing diabatee and acquaintance together.

00:42:33
Speaker 2: That's why I thought yellowch would be a guy that could come in and shoot the three. But he's zero of.

00:42:36
Speaker 4: Ten, who even remembers if he's on the team. Yeah, I mean forget he's on the team. So all right, well, thank you folks, very much. Fun show. We will see you tomorrow at Ksbar. This is being Kentucky Sports Radio.