2024-11-19- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, November the nineteenth, on a cloudy day here in Lexington, Kentucky. We are at the Ksbar in Grill where it is happy times as always. It's a game day, Game day. Kentucky plays tonight against the Lipscomb. What Bisons lip Iison's plural? Is it plural? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: We played the Bison last timing up. Now we have the Bison.

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Speaker 4: But I thought bison was plural just normal.

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Speaker 5: I thought fun fact. Both are acceptable. Both are exceptions to be different.

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Speaker 6: Look what we learned already today.

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Speaker 4: Why would I I want to I don't want to accept them both. We're gonna have to choose af I'm nine two twenty two eighty sevens the Clark's pupping' chop foul line a Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four in this distion sponsored by it TJ. Smith, Loubas, if you call TJ, He'll make them pay. I didn't know that. I didn't know Bisn's was allowed as a as a turn there was.

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Speaker 2: There was a bison joke in the Dad Jokes book that I was reading that Marsha gave me.

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Speaker 3: Would you like to hear it?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Would I like to hear your dad joke about bison? Sure? Why not?

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Speaker 3: What did the buffalo say when he dropped his son off?

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Speaker 4: Buy something?

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Speaker 3: Bison?

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Speaker 4: There you go? All right, it's a terrible joke.

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Speaker 3: Joke.

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Speaker 4: It's terrible joke, but that's okay. I like terrible jokes. Uh. Well, tonight, Kentucky and David uh Lips, whom they have played Arkansas this year already, They have played Western this year already lost. Both games were competitive. In the Arkansas game for about thirty minutes and then kind of lost by a lot. But then we're very competitive. Lost to Western there at the end drew, So it should be a good, good contest.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they've already played a lot of games. They've They also played Belmont in the Battle of the Boulevard.

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Speaker 4: Are you very you brought that game up yesterday? Are you had a big one? Do you know? They're not good in the second half? They were up ten, blew it.

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Speaker 5: They were within four against Arkansas ended up getting blown out at the end of their other loss, so they were up at halftime, end up losing. So they're not a second half team.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, that's good to remember if it's if it's close in the first half. I watched a little bit of Arkansas last night. They played the three hundred and fifty eighth ranked team in Kim Palm Pacific that was oh to sixteen last year in the conference. It was a five point game with eight minutes ago, and then they and then they pulled away.

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Speaker 5: So I got a text that it was within two did they get Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Actually did get a little earlier, but they were within two point having not that team had not won a conference game only one one in two years.

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Speaker 6: Well, the main thing is it's a tournament like atmosphere with the BBN tournament off the.

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Speaker 4: Condem It is the BBN Invitational tonight, one of the historic tournaments in America. We with Western, Jackson State and Lipscomb. Yeah. Yeah, you can keep your MAU Invitational, you know, you can keep your Battle of the Atlantis, you can keep all that. We got the BBN Invitational tonight. You can feel it, you know, you really can't feel it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, driving through town, I saw people going to work at lofices and people on the corner on.

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Speaker 4: The interstate truck. Yeah, there's just an energy in town. There's just a lot, a lot going on, you know. I I drove this morning from Louisville, and so on my drive, you know, that gives you a chance to think. Sure, I listened to, you know, part of the Bill Simmons podcast. He's unbearable now, but I still I still listen on Mondays with cut with cousin Sal And when that was over, I had some time with and then I realized it's like twelve days maybe actually more like ten days before we get in a car and drive to UH to Seattle. I mean it is. It's it's right here among us. You know. I put on Twitter that the various stops I think we're gonna make, although you know, depending on a couple of things, a couple might change, but but likely to stay the night in Iowa City, Iowa. So do our show that Monday in Iowa City for all the people that are Iowa City folks. Then Burk or no Logan South Dakota, Logan South Dakota, a Burke, South Dakota. It's one of those two times of the Dakota's. I don't know which one it is, but it's one of them. That's where my friend has his ranch, okay, which he says he's invited us to. But also he doesn't communicate a ton. I wonder if he's like realizing, maybe I don't want these people at my ranch, but we're gonna be in that town either way. Okay, you're really doing it. He's like, oh that well, I mean it's a guy I know like some he's in my he's in my Yeah, he's a really interesting guy. He was like, uh he ran for I think lieutenant governor of South Dakota. He was a he was a rodeo guy, and it was like a big time rodeo. He traveled around and did the the you know, still make Chyenne rodeo and then he got hurt and he ended up getting like paralyzed on the waist down. So now he's in a wheelchair. Uh, but he's still a leader in South Dakota, and like he's a really really nice guy. And he said, you know, I want you and your you to come to the ranch and bring your show one day. And he said it like offhand, you know, it's one of the things you say when you live in a ranch in South Dakota, like you should bring your your your show there. And then I was like, you know what, we might actually be going through South Dakota this year. And he's like, oh, yeah, well how many of them there are? Yeah, oh, ok so it's two weeks from now. Okay, but no, he said, I talked to him yesterday. He's still he's still excited to have it. So we're gonna go there and then either laerm Mee or Shy in Wyoming, then Salt Lake.

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Speaker 6: City never been. Marian and I were talking about that for the Boise Back.

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Speaker 4: Boy Eugene, Oregon and then Seattle because we don't play on that Saturday night until ten o'clock. So because we play so late, I was like, we should just use that extra day that Friday and go to Oregon. So we're gonna be uh in Eugene, and that will then cross off my fifty states. And I can say, like, Johnny Cash, I've been everywhere.

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Speaker 6: I know you You've addressed this, but people keep sending me messages. Will there be some sort of pregame show that people can come to that are out there for the game?

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Speaker 4: I hope. So, I mean I haven't started locking down places, but I would assume we'll pick a place in Seattle. Games at tens, so it would be seven thirty Eastern, four thirty Pacific. We'll probably find a place somewhere in Seattle close to the arena arena to do it.

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Speaker 5: I have a friend there, Jeff, who's offered to ask around, help.

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Speaker 4: Out somewhere close to the arena.

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Speaker 5: You're a friend with the ranch. Does he know he's up against another ranch on this trip because we're passing several.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna pass pizza ranch. We're definitely gonna eat it a pizza ranch. The Buffet South We love that, didn't we. That's the kind of the Upper Midwest place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the best pizza chain on the planet.

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Speaker 4: It's like if you want pizza uh and ranch, which, by the way, I don't understand why more people don't do that. I mean, does anyone dislike dipping your pizza into ran but like it? It's awful for you. But if you're just talking sheer taste, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, we did it. We're up in Green Bay. We ate it one and my friend's like, all these great restaurants up here, and you guys are gonna go eat it a pizza ranch.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it was excellent, and I think that was the right choice. So all of those places, I don't know if you all know things to do. I mean we've we've been to Boise, But if you have recommendations for Iowa City, uh, Burke, Laramie, or Salt Lake City or Eugene, Organ we'll take him in. Then anything along the way. We're gonna be driving through an Indian reservation. Right, there's gonna be which I which I've never been to. There's a lot of gonna be a lot of boring space. But you know what, that's what that part of the country is. So that's what we gotta do.

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Speaker 6: That's when we get to talk and get to know each other a little bit.

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Speaker 4: But we don't talk for people who don't for people who don't know how this trip goes. This is exactly what happens. Can I tell you exactly? I mean, you know I'm right about Okay, here are the car rides. We get in for like twenty minutes. We talked to each other, right like, we're very excited and we're like, hey, you know we're going to river. Then Shannon is the first one to check out. Shannon pulls out his iPad watch the movie, and he no, you don't watch a movie. You watch fifteen movies in a row, phones on and has zero interest in communicating with us at all.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to distract the driver.

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Speaker 4: If you just you have to distract you to distract me. You know. It's just Shannon is in his own world right right, Like he's not gonna talk to anyone until the car stopped.

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Speaker 6: No, but he's first one out. He's first want to tap out, put your headphones in, starts act.

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Speaker 2: Like you wouldn't be too lemon if it were. If you didn't have to be up there in those.

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Speaker 4: Drew is kind of in the middle. Drew reads some, Drew watches movie some, but then he talks some. Drew's kind of a middle communicator. Ryan usually sits up front.

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Speaker 3: Because he has to not about Joys.

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Speaker 6: I have to be there to when you want to talk about Trump.

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Speaker 4: Or I'm done with that. I take it. I don't know. I'm a week tell him about the captain. I'm a week into it, and and I could get upset, but you know what, I'm like, whatever, what's gonna happen? You know it's fine. Let's just take more crazy people then. And then now we have Mario to add. Yeah, so we don't know what Mario. I think Mario's gonna be talking a lot. Your job, Mario is to keep Shannon involved, all right, Shannon is not involved. Don't He's saying, don't bother. He wants you to bother. Don't want to talk to him and get to know him a little bit.

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Speaker 6: On the trip, we did discuss with Mario and Shannon the sleeping arrangements because they were kind of don't neither one wants to sleep with me. Who gets stuck with me?

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Speaker 4: Mario gets you. Shannon and Drew have paid their dues. You get to stay with it. You get to stay with Ryan. Now. He does snore a lot, and he.

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Speaker 5: Had Hopkinsville together.

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Speaker 4: He snores a lot, and then he walks into the bathroom and within moments makes it his own. And I'll just let you realize that yourself, like within within moments. So that's but it's a right of passage, Drew. Everybody's done it. I did it first. Then you've done it, Drew, and it's done it. So now it's Mario's time to stay with it. Stay with you.

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Speaker 5: I've had many knights with Ryan Lemon. He's a great roommate until lights out time. Then it feels like you're sleeping in a construction site. He's just such a good guy that you get through it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a good idea. Here's what you gotta do. Go look around town and see if you can find a place where they're using that machine in the ground that goes and just lay next to it and try to go to sleep in the after.

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Speaker 5: But it at least has a little cadence. You can fall over his He doesn't have a pattern. He's all over the place.

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Speaker 6: The thing is, Shannon and I have got it down pat though, We've got a little routine.

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Speaker 4: Shannon gets Shannon Shandon, you'd rather stay with Drew, right, So yeah, yeah, So Shannon gets to move don't don't speak for him. Shannon gets to move on. He's graduating to the next thing. And uh, congratulations, Mario, you get to spend time with this lovely young man.

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Speaker 6: And he says he stays up late. He stays up to like two in the morning every night, so he's gonna have to hear me.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, usually Drew and Shannon are the night owls. It's like usually you're the first one to go.

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Speaker 6: To bed, first one tap out, then me and then.

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Speaker 4: I don't know when everybody else goes because because they stay out. So that's that that all doing, Drew and Shannon things doing, true and Shannon, it's only two the only time you all talk to each other all year.

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Speaker 5: And I'm gonna bring by a super Nintendo this year, so it.

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Speaker 4: Should be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 6: That One more question is Max going, Uh he.

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Speaker 4: Might go if Lexington Christian loses before the fire, see.

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Speaker 3: Gonna we gotta strap into the top.

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Speaker 4: We have two rows yeah, we have Third Road ceating. You know, Mario was our hookup, used to work at Enterprise. Huh able tok. Mario got us the biggest already pulling his weight, already pulling his weight, so should be a lot of fun. The first show will be Monday in Iowa City. So if you know someone in Iowa City who would like to host, uh, that's gonna be our our first show.

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Speaker 6: It's been a couple of months and we've been to Iowa. So we were in Iowa.

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Speaker 4: We've been. I've never been to Iowa City.

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Speaker 5: We popped in there on because that's how I learned Iowa was there. We did we did a drive by. We did do a drive by.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we stayed.

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Speaker 5: We had a little downtown with market lights.

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Speaker 4: We stayed in Ames. We all stayed in Aimes on one of our trips, and then we've stayed in the morning a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of guy cities where mister Spectacular is from. We could just shock up with him.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's right, mister Spectacular lives in Iowa City. There we go, Shanon, you got we got we gotta get him to come by.

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Speaker 5: Right right, Yeah, yeah, Staya's house.

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Speaker 4: Mister Spectacular lives in Ahwa City. So anyway, so that's that's our schedule and I'm looking forward to to getting on the road Kentucky and Lipscomb tonight. Is it seven? Any reason? Drew you? You you think this game will be closer than the other games like this have been.

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Speaker 5: Well, Matt, they played Belmont and I'm just kidding. They have a very good player, like very very very good, probably gonna be the player of the year in that conference. He's already scored like thirty and twenty. He's six ' eight steps out shoots the three, so kind of like Cooper Flag. I was actually gonna say they're a little Cooper Flag ish. They have another All Conference player on the wing. Kind of can be the the canipple there. But otherwise, no, it shouldn't be an issue. Just don't let one of those guys go crazy. You should be fine. They shoot a lot of threes. We like that, but I think they'll struggle with Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: You keep playing teams like that, you know, we mean, we keep playing these teams that playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Agnavik, I'm not real great at the Asociation. Yes, he missed all of last year after a great sophomore year who's injured enter by wondering will he come back be good? He's scored thirty right away, so he's he's tough.

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Speaker 4: So Jacob Agna Civic is our guy to watch. A good test for Andrew Carr and Jackson Robinson who who and and even Brea took a little bit of the defense against flag against Duke Ye.

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Speaker 6: Breya is not what Brea. It's not the greatest defender. But he did okay on Cooper flag the other night.

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Speaker 4: They didn't do very good. I mean they they they, I mean they were abusing him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, like I said, he's not the greatest defender.

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Speaker 4: Neither is Car. Those two guys, No, they weren't. I thought Car did better in the second half. Yeah, Brea, they were picking him out every time. But Bray. But Bray hit a huge shot, I mean and got a huge rebound down the stretch.

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Speaker 5: He was active with his hands, was trying to rebound. He and Car both just lacked a little bit of that lateral quickness.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they just don't have a quickness for him. But they got to spin. They're trying to spin, and we were able to do it. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four are gonna take a break, be right back, talk a little bit more about the game. This is KSR. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I mean tell you driving out there, Gonzaga is good. I watched him last night. I watched them play the first half against San Diego State. They're good, like I I don't know, you know, there were people who said we're gonna take a step back. They're not. They're good. They're their point guard can play, they get up. I mean, they completely controlled San Diego State on their home court last night. That's gonna be a tough game that'll be. I'm not saying they're better than Duke or worse than Duke. They're probably similar, but it's gonna be a Duke level game. Aim. We're playing out there, So that's gonna be a tough, tough test.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a fully expecting that one to be probably the toughest non conference game that they'll play. They think they are better than Duke.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're the big guy. They came in here and when they won RUP last year. They still have nim Hard's and Hickman's and the many battle transfer hard.

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Speaker 4: It's a team allowed to have.

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Speaker 5: I feel like Nolan hick and we were recruiting him, recruited.

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Speaker 4: Him, Nolan Hickman here and decommitted. Yeah, I mean it's it's been forever. One person writes, Matt, my husband graduated from Iowa. Uh. There are must places to go, including George's Buffet, and you know I like a good buffet, especially with just a name Gabes. That's where Shannon will like it's his kind of place. I don't know what that means. And then Mickey's Irish Pub. Those are the three places. So it sounds like three three possibilities. In Iowa, we always have fun. And alway, do you know anybody went to the Iowa Wrestling thing? How did that go with Bellerman Shannon, that's your alma mater. Did they beat him?

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Speaker 3: I have not heard anything.

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Speaker 4: I would say no, yeah, probably not probably, you know maybe so. By the way, we're ranked in the top ten, yeah, number nine, number nine felt like uh. I think it was the highest rise for a Kentucky team in a rating in like ten years or something like a huge jump. Nice to have a top ten team after there were people earlier this year Didny Marncus in the preseason rankings and now up to number nine.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, very exciting. Kind of mentioned before the season how this will be different. We won't start at the top and fall. I even mentioned I'm kind of excited to be nineteenth and kind of climb our way up. Didn't expect a ten spots swing this early in the gates, but that's what happens when you beat Dukes. Very exciting to see Pope already up there in the top ten.

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Speaker 4: Great rise up the rankings ahead of Duke. You know, now you got to verify the two games this week. Shouldn't be too difficult. But you know, like the women's team played last night and was down most of the game after their big win. They ended up kind of passing them and pulling away towards the end. But I watched it. They came out slow, They were down eight or ten the whole game. Is there any worry that you think something like that could happen with the men's team.

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Speaker 6: I think you know the fact that the women played them just two days after they played that the big emotional game against Louisville. It's been a week since this Kentucky team has played, So I think that probably plays into it. They're probably itching to get back out there and play.

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Speaker 4: Well. Yeah, I kind I mean, it feels like it feels like that Duke gave was a long time ago. That does you know? I want to I'd like to see us go ahead and get out there and go Uh. The game tonight is on the computer. We will have it here uh here at the at the bar. It's the same thing like all of them. If you have the SEC network, you will be able to get it. But it is on the computer. And Travis Ford is on the call. Yes, you know that, Like I didn't. I've never heard him.

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Speaker 5: Do a game, have you No? And I heard him mention in like a radio interview he's gonna call some games this year. I didn't know if he's been in Saint Louis, Kentucky where he'd be, but yeah, he's popping up. I'm very excited to hear from the guy from Madisonville.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been uh he ever done a basketball game before that?

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Speaker 6: You know, I don't think so, because he's been coaching the whole time, you know, so they you know he did Cameron Mills did one game. Robbie Moss did a game. Nowobbie's doing a game.

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Speaker 4: So they tried people out. I wonder if.

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Speaker 6: They're yeah, or they're bringing in different players to sit in that chair when they have a computer game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know I I I think we talked about I called a game with Robbie. By the way, speaking of calling games, I practiced on a game this weekend and you took a random ESPN Plus game that was on replay, just picked it out. Uh, And I practiced for like a quarter, just just the rhythms of the play. But I hadn't done any research on anybody, just the rhythms of trying to call. I would make up people's last names because I didn't know all of them, but I just made up the names. But I tried. It's it's you know, it's hard because you don't know how much to say. But it's actually easier, I think in football than maybe in basketball and other sports, because you know, you just the quarterback drops back and you know, throws it to somebody or whatever.

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Speaker 5: About pre snap? Are you calling out the.

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Speaker 4: Formation and the movements and all that. I didn't say that they were in you know, uh, cover two or or or trips. I mean I didn't do any of that. I tried to. I tried to just kind of ad Myron handle it. Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna be more basic when it comes to that stuff. I'm trying to paint a picture more broadly in the in the listener's minds.

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Speaker 6: I think football is better because you know, you call the play than the kind of the color guy can break it down while you're thinking about, okay, what I'm getting ready to set up the next player or something. So football there is more time to kind of bounce off each other like that.

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Speaker 4: I like that.

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Speaker 5: You're also just making up their names.

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Speaker 4: Well, I did was a game. No, you were a bench, you were on the bitch. You were the backup quarterback. No I did. I would. I'd say, like, you know, Franklin drops back, looks over the middle. Oh, there's Jefferson running round like I put my friends in there. But yes, you were the backup.

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Speaker 5: Sounds like I was dialed in.

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Speaker 4: You were quarterback for one of the two. I'm not gonna say which too it was because I'm still working on the game, but it was. It was. It was a big Sky game, so it was that where going. Yeah, it was out that way.

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Speaker 5: Could you're taking it seriously not procrastinating getting your practice in early?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course I do all this, and I sure then they won't have me do it, but but just in case, gotta be ready to go for my bowl assignment. Who's up first?

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Speaker 3: Shit, Brian?

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Speaker 4: Brian? Go ahead, Brian A five nine eighty seven.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know you're gonna do great when you're making statements like how many Nimrods do you need? That was a classic while ago I did.

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Speaker 6: Did I say that nim nim brands?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, nim brands, that was a yeah, that was a different thing. That's the name of the guy on the team. Yes, but go ahead.

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Speaker 7: I mean it might not be Tom Hart level, but it's gonna be great for those of us to get to listen to you to do it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: So I actually got to I got a call back on what's Mario going to do as far as the periscope for us getting some video to see the road.

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Speaker 4: Mario will be taking video the whole trip. That's that's explicitly why he's going. So I think you'll you'll get a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 7: Looking forward to it. And then My last thing and I'll jump off, is how long is it going to be? What's the over under for Drew getting wet?

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Speaker 4: That's right? Are you gonna Are you gonna urinate all over the seat again like you did last time?

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Speaker 5: I might have to get that checked out because that was not fun on the last trip, just being wet the whole time. I might need to see if my doctor can get me in before Thanksgiving. You might want to try to get for people that listen, that was a big mystery. That's I began to actually wonder if it was coming from me.

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Speaker 4: But if you don't remember, he ended up sitting in a bowl of water the entire trip and we never figured out why.

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Speaker 5: Every morning we'd go to the car and that seat would be soaked.

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Speaker 4: Just tagger it out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, which you know, I'm wearing sweats because it's a road trip. The whole time they're getting soaked. So yeahe Mario, look what you have to look forward to. You're gonna be excited about it. Brock vandergriff is the quarterback this week. According to Mark Stoops, he will be the starter, says Brock has earned his starting spot. His I think his exact comment was, why would I switch it?

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Speaker 4: We'll talk about if you like that. Plus he had some very interesting comments about how he's approaching the off season and where he might screwed up in the past. We'll do that right after this. Kazar TJ.

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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four what presson rights? Matt, I'm so tired of Kentucky basketball not being on TV in the state of Kentucky. What are we doing? The future? Unfortunately? Yeah, I mean the future is there are nine hundred different platforms and you're gonna have to like, like I saw the new Big twelve contract which begins next year, they will have games on like six different platforms. They will have games on ESPN and its platforms, Fox and its platforms, UH, CBS and its platforms, T and T, Amazon, and Apple TV, which on one hand and gives you a lot of exposure, but on the other hand means you'll never really know where a game is at any given point. Indiana was playing the other night in basketball, and it was getting somebody good, maybe like South Carolina or something like that, and it was on like Peacock. And it would have never even occurred to me to look to Peacock for that game, like I would have. I mean, you might as well have just told me it was on like a radio station in Dubuque. I just would have never. I would have never even thought to look there. I think that's kind of what's what's happening now. For the sec all of our stuff is on ESPN, But the reality is they're trying to make it drew to where everyone has to get ESPN. Plus, I think you're gonna see five to seven starting next year, probably five to seven college basketball games of Kentucky's just on the computer. I think we're gonna get to a point that every time we play a stinky team, it's only on the computer, and that's just gonna be what it is.

00:24:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe Friday, we have one more after this. I think that's the last one. We had five early on in counting some of the exhibitions. Yeah, after Friday, after Friday.

00:25:06
Speaker 4: It's not going anywhere.

00:25:07
Speaker 5: I mean, the next year will probably add a few more. The NFL, they're so scattered this year, someone did the math. It would cost like thirteen hundred dollars to watch every NFL.

00:25:15
Speaker 4: Game, Which is why I know what we're headed to. I've been saying this forever. We're gonna just get back to cable. It's just gonna be like there'll be some company that bundles all the streaming packages and you just pay for that, and then you end up like the same thing as cable. It just goes over the Internet and is less reliable because the Internet goes out all the time. Like that's where that's where we're headed. But until then, like it just is what it is. The other thing is, if you're under if you're Mario's age, do you have cable sling? But again not cable, so like like they don't even know what that is, Like he's like sling they I mean.

00:25:51
Speaker 5: Have you ever had a twist the thing in accord?

00:25:53
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean like but they don't even like people that age don't even look at television like we do. All right, Like that's why part of why I continue to make the joke about watching it on the computer is people thirty and under, that's just what entertainment is. It's not they don't even I don't even think they think of TV like we do, Ryan, And that's just the way it's gonna be.

00:26:14
Speaker 6: When do they start doing it, maybe for SEC football that's what drives or you know, that's we.

00:26:18
Speaker 4: Already have them. I mean we already have games on there were the game Commert State game was on the computer.

00:26:25
Speaker 6: SEC games when we play other SEC teams, like.

00:26:27
Speaker 4: They won't do that because they because I mean, there's still value to them on I mean, they still have a ESPN channel and they still have an ABC channel, and the SEC football games are the most valuable property that they have. But the other games, especially basketball, you're just I think you're gonna see more and more of them as we go.

00:26:48
Speaker 5: I think before children like Mario are allowed to sign into these apps, they should have to have one night where they have to wait for the TV guide channel to scroll to the channel they want. They cannot look away and miss it, and they have to wait another two minutes and then have to wait that thirty minutes forty five minutes until your show actually comes on with commercials.

00:27:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, or I mean to go even to mine and Ryan's age, get a TV got oh yeah, yeah, get an actual piece of paper to see what's gonna be on there. But I would just say, you know, the days of expecting you to be able to turn your television on and see every game, they're just they're gone, and I don't think they're I don't think they're coming back, all right. So Stoop said, Brox quarterback, You good with it.

00:27:31
Speaker 6: I think he gives you the best chance to win. You gotta go with the guy that thinks gives you the best chance.

00:27:35
Speaker 4: To win in right now.

00:27:36
Speaker 6: But what we've seen, even though he hasn't had the greatest season, he's our best chance to beat to the Texas and Louisville. So yeah, I want him to be my quarterback.

00:27:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd voted for Bowlie, but I'm all right with it. He actually said one thing that made me feel a little better. I thought he just really underthrew Gilmour on that first ball that ended up being a touchdown. But Gilmore ran the wrong route, he ran a go route, So that made I guess that excuses Vandergriffs.

00:27:59
Speaker 4: Throw a little bit it okay.

00:28:01
Speaker 5: I thought his shoulder was something that just messed up and he couldn't complete that throw, but it was a miscommunication.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: I was wondering if he got if it got tipped or something. It was so bad, so if it was.

00:28:10
Speaker 5: If it was, it made me feel a little better about that because I was wondering just how healthy he is. But no, I mean, Brock went into Old miss and one had that beautiful ball to barry On that won that game. So I'm hoping he can channel a little more magic in Austin.

00:28:21
Speaker 4: Now. Stoop's also said I think he I think Mark thinks he's making a point when he does this, but like I think he says it like he says it on purpose hoping people like realize it, but I think he doesn't realize, Like it's just what it is. He likes to call it free agency, but I think he does it kind of with scorn in his in his voice. But it is free agency, Mark, like that's just what it is. And he said we have to go into free agency this year, and he acknowledged we have to make better picks. He basically acknowledged they've screwed up on some of the picks. Now what's interesting is I actually think they've done a pretty good job at quote unquote free agency. I mean, the biggest ones they've brought in have all been pretty successful. But he he basically said that as soon as the season ends, we have to get you know, two weeks worth of free agents and to basically rebuild our roster with it. And he's right, You're right.

00:29:19
Speaker 6: You know, Will Levis, Ray Davis, Devin Larry. A lot of our stars in recent years have been through the transfer portal. And I think the offensive lineman they brought in they really thought they were gonna be but they were.

00:29:30
Speaker 4: But he missed him. They dis missed it. I mean especially no offense to him, but especially Menzi. I mean, like Cox got hurt. I don't, I can't. I mean, he's I can't really blame him. He's had he's hurt both of his knees, and he was pretty good last year. He's just he's just blown out his knees. But that they missed on the kid from Tennessee. And I think his point was we can't miss anymore.

00:29:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, the currncern there is offensive line more than a position. The portal just doesn't have many Nope. I mean you can go find a skill player who wants more catches or more carries, or you can go find a linebacker like we David Dumas Johnson. He was a great addition. But there's not just a bunch of linemen sitting around on the portal. And if you find one, they're gonna command a lot of money. So even they're gonna have to shop there, but there might not be helped even find.

00:30:18
Speaker 4: No, that's a really good point. You may not have that many options, and that's why it's so important to use their phrase recruit and develop, and they just haven't done it at that position in recent years. It's interesting to listen to Stoops talk. I would encourage you to go listen to his press conference. I can't quite put my finger on what his tone of voice is. I thought earlier this year it was kind of resignation, like like he was just done. In the last couple of weeks, I haven't felt like it's like that. I do almost wonder if he's made up his mind yes I'm coming back, and has like put some resolve. But there is like an I don't want to say anger, but there is like a kind of defiance in his voice. And I've always thought he was kind of at his best when he had a chip on his shoulder, So maybe that'll be a positive. But I will say the last four or five weeks of listening to the Stoops talk, he has not sounded like the same person he sounded in the last nine years. The first two or three weeks, it sounded like a man Ray Leave. I haven't felt that way in the last couple of weeks, but it still doesn't really sound like him. Do you know what I mean?

00:31:33
Speaker 6: I know what you mean. Do you think it's because you know they lost four games in a row and he just is this is he built this up to where they were, you know, winning even ten games in a season, and they go through a four game louty streak. It eats at his pride.

00:31:45
Speaker 4: You think I think he's angry. No, I don't think that's it. I think he thinks he's getting too much criticism. That's how I read it. I think he thinks I don't think he thinks they've played well. But I think he kind of has a view of can y'all not give me a year? Like, like, why is everybody so angry at me. I do think that that's the team the tone I hear from him. Now, I might be wrong, but that's just kind of how I hear it.

00:32:09
Speaker 5: You know, I hear that too. He's very defensive in every Collins show or press conference. It's like a bingo card. We even text about it. In our group text. He says, I don't want to make a headline. I don't want to be quoted. It's like he's getting mad at stories and things that are online, and he says, I don't pay attention to anything on the internet.

00:32:25
Speaker 4: That's also a lie.

00:32:26
Speaker 5: But even last night, a sentence after saying that he's he caught himself, he's like, I read that Oregon had I mean, I didn't read someone sent me a newspaper.

00:32:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, I but there. He is not col but there are col tendencies coming out of his thing. I don't ever want all media members E excuse me. All coaches should be banned from saying I don't read her here. That is a lie. It's a lie. When every single one of them says it, they all care. And if they don't care, they have somebody care for him. It's part of the job. It's part of the job, and by the way, they should care. But I don't believe any of that. And you're starting to hear those kind of lines of well, I don't want to make any headlines. Well, if you don't read, how do you know that there are headlines? You know? Like he knows and he should know, but I don't. There's just like a little defiance that I it's not like him, and that's what makes me. These next two weeks I think are gonna be strange. I was convinced, just so you know, I was convinced that I thought he was done. I'm now having lots of people who three or four weeks ago said they didn't know tell me they now think he's coming back. But I hope it's with the right attitude, and I think a lot of it's gonna depend on what happens these next two weeks. I think, you know, how we play against Texas and whether we beat Louisville is going to mean a lot to this fan base, and I hope it means a lot in how his sort of mindset is. Because I haven't loved what I've heard the last few weeks. I'm just gonna be honest.

00:33:58
Speaker 5: I know, I'm with you ahead. Whatever happens, win or lose. The moment that Louisville game ends, all hell's breaking loose. Whether he's thinking about leaving, or he's going to the portal and finding people or finding a staff. That is gonna be a crazy week of UK football updates. Whether it's him staying and add new players and new coaches or him making the other decision.

00:34:17
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00:36:23
Speaker 5: Put some respect on the Lakers. They were big time champions last December. That's right, while we were on the road trip.

00:36:28
Speaker 4: I think that's right, Shannon, and I have a question for you if you think this is nice or not? Okay, so you love Full House, right, yeah. Dave cool Yer unfortunately has has cancer and so prayers to him in his recovery. So he had to have chemotherapy and he lost his hair. And you know sometimes people to show solidarity, when they do that, their friends or their family will will shave their head too. You've seen that before, right, So John Stamos decided to do something to sort of show solidarity and he and he did a video with his head with a bald head, and everybody was like, wow, that's nice. John Stamos a very handsome man to do that for his friend. It turns out he was just wearing a bald cap. Now is that nice almost the thought nice? Or is that almost like oddly not nice?

00:37:34
Speaker 2: That's almost mocking him by putting on a bald cap, Like, if you're going to show solidarity, you do the deed, you shave your head. Putting on the bald cap is just to me, making a mockery of it.

00:37:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, to me, you either like you don't have to do it right, you don't have to do it. But I don't know. I don't think that landed the way he wanted it to. I think it was almost like I'm sure he was trying to be nice, but he doesn't feel like that's nice.

00:38:03
Speaker 5: I agree with Shannon. It almost feels disrespectful. He's like, oh, I would never actually shave my head. I'm sorry you're dealing with that. I'm not shaving my head. Yeah, but I'll put on this costume that looks like you for a photo.

00:38:14
Speaker 3: Let me order this bald cap from Amazon, and.

00:38:19
Speaker 4: Do you just give me a hug?

00:38:22
Speaker 5: Say thinking about you. It's almost unintentionally, but it's almost like he's mocking it and saying that, well, I don't want a bald head.

00:38:30
Speaker 6: I think his heart was probably in the right place. But to that, that act tells me, Look, you're important to me, Dave. I love you, but you're not as important as my hair. My hair is more You're You're.

00:38:40
Speaker 4: Kind of important. But I do have a look here, now, I will go to Spirit Halloween for you.

00:38:46
Speaker 5: I feel that bad and get this bald cap.

00:38:48
Speaker 4: He does have awesome hair.

00:38:49
Speaker 6: John Stamos well, of course, and no one's expecting him to shave his head. But if he did, what a show of love.

00:38:58
Speaker 4: Do that? But I'm kind of like, either don't do it or do it. But you can't do that because I think I kind of agree with Shannon. I don't think it. I don't. I don't think it works. Who's up next, Tyler, Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Yeah.

00:39:12
Speaker 8: The doing what John Damis did is literally like the one thing you cannot do in a situation.

00:39:17
Speaker 4: I agree. It's like almost the worst thing you could do in that scenario. Yeah.

00:39:22
Speaker 8: So, hey, I go to Salt Lake City for work on some of a frequent basis. So you want some Salt Lake City recommendations.

00:39:27
Speaker 4: Well send them to me. Yeah, like, like send them to me in a message or something.

00:39:30
Speaker 8: Sure, okay, cool, Yeah, I will be with you though that I can make a case it is the most beautiful city in America. This is how close the mountains are. Like people think like Denver's a mountain city, but the mountains are kind of far from Denver. They're like right there.

00:39:45
Speaker 4: In Salt Lake City. Yeah, no backdrop in America. You're right, sir. For a major city is better than Salt Lake City. Yeah.

00:39:55
Speaker 8: Hey, going to the first game tonight at rough looking forward to it, side to see kind of the new area. Jane areno the Cats and did.

00:40:02
Speaker 4: Good to appreciate the call. What do you expect Crawb wise tonight.

00:40:05
Speaker 6: I think we're still riding high after the the pope honeymoon and now the win over Duke. I think we'll have a big crowd in here for pregame on a Tuesday afternoon, and a big crowd at rup for the game that I.

00:40:15
Speaker 4: Think it's gonna be a great crowd at the game. I just I think like people are kind of such energy for that thing. I mean just the amount of people that have given me tickets at this point, it's normally like twelve to fifteen. It's four like we got but I mean, like you can tell there's there's people when they want to go understandable.

00:40:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, I expect a good crowd. I assume people's after watching that Duke game, decided they'd go after that. I just want to go see this team in person. But it's riding so high right now.

00:40:46
Speaker 4: I had a friend h Ryan call me, well, he texted me, haven't talked to him probably seven or eight years, Like, didn't check in during Yeah, you know what I mean. I mean, which is fine, but like not it's special when not close. Just texted me and said, hey, man, you think you could get me some Kentucky Arkansas tickets? I'm glad okay, bold enough, I'll gladly pay face for them. Oh you think there's Kentucky Arkansas tickets out there for face value? That just nobody wants that. They're just like for Arkansas. He didn't say, like, hey, Jackson's Arkansas.

00:41:29
Speaker 5: It's one thing to say I pay whatever. I just don't have the opportunity to even find them, but to say, will you find them also, I'll yeah.

00:41:35
Speaker 4: If you'll say, like, if you can find something, I'm willing to pay whatever. I agree with you but like this idea. First of all, never ask someone for tickets if you haven't talked to them in years. I feel like that's just a rule.

00:41:47
Speaker 5: Not even an Eric happy beata.

00:41:49
Speaker 4: I looked back two of my married Christmas texts not responded to. When you get a when you get a second married Christmas text and don't respond, I'm never sending you another one. And I'm certainly not giving you Arkansas tickets of all the games too.

00:42:07
Speaker 6: That's kind of your thing. On Christmas, we all get this really nice text message from you.

00:42:10
Speaker 4: Will you get like a written one like where I actually talk about Yeah, But most of them, I'm just like, hey man, I haven't talked to you a while. Merry Christmas. All you gotta do is say Merry Christmas back nothing. But if you don't respond and then you ask me for UK Arkansas tickets, deleted contact. We'll take a break. Be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio.