2025-01-17- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington, welcomes Kentucky's own Ariel Elias January ninth through the eleventh. Then from the Southern Fried Chicks Comedy Tour catch club favorite at a May January sixteenth through the eighteenth, and experienced the outrageous comedy of Casey Rockett January twenty third through the twenty fifth. For tickets to all show is called eight five nine two seven to one joke or purchase seats online at Comedy off Broadway dot.

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Speaker 2: Com Off Broadway.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday, January seventeenth here at Bespoken Spirits in Gray Line Station with the crowd probably already bigger than gonna be at the Louisville.

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Speaker 3: Basketball game tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: This is the first first time that I can ever remember back to back remotes in one place, and we are here at gray Line again Bespoken Spirits, the partner of the club Blue Nil Bourbon. They also do a bourbon for Lennard Skinnard called the uh hell House, which which is quite a name. Whiskey Myers, a country singer, I like Uncle Chicken. And then Uh Sable they have a bourbon not not the Sable. I want to try that one Sable in partnership with the movie The Best Man movie, Uh Tay Diggs, et cetera. These folks at Bespoken Spirits here at gray Line and they have their launch party tonight. Uh right here.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Shannon Drew has already got into the hell House. They started early. It is early, but it is early. But this this bourbon, you know you need to try because it is really really good. They gave us some samples last week. I took some home. I'm not a bourbon guy, but it's really good.

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Speaker 4: It is. Uh.

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Speaker 3: It's a great day.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky and Alabama play tomorrow at noon, another early start and another big game. It's just every day, sha a different big game, big game, big game, this one Alabama coming off a whole loss, surprising the old miss and now we get them here. I have I have friends who are like trying to get tickets, who are telling me the tickets on the secondary market are insane. But you know what, We're giving away two of them today right here in this bag.

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Speaker 5: That's right, come on out, you can grab those tickets. And I'm not really worried about the early game. You know, we had that eleven am start for Florida and they came out and scored six points, So I think tomorrow is gonna be much of the same.

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Speaker 3: You know, you can tell when people have gotten bougie Drew.

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Speaker 4: Where's my friend Steven Hornet they see here with Club Blue, He's gotten very boogie because I said these are amazing tickets, and he came up to me and he was like, listen, be careful when you say they're amazing. He was like, they're only center court up like fifteen rows. This is not the tickets on the floor. I'm like, I still feel that's pretty amazing. Center court fifteen rows. I think people will take it to.

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Speaker 6: Anyone here gonna turn those down. You win is for everybody else.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good ticket. I mean that's you're pretty boozy. When you're like, oh my feet aren't on the front row. I don't know if those are good, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these are fantastic tickets. People live their whole life hoping to chance. One chance is get these tickets. You get it today.

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Speaker 3: Somebody will have a chance today.

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Speaker 4: Well it is uh, it is cold, but the cats have Bama tonight. I've got a big day today.

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Speaker 3: Ryan and I.

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Speaker 4: Are going to at two o'clock be filming a commercial uh at ks Bar for UK Federal Credit Union with Kobe Brea. Right, although I think he may have already done this part, I kind of I don't know if he'll be there. But you and I are in a commercial with Kobe Brean. They've asked us to get ready for it. You know this is uh, we haven't done a commercial in a while. Are you excited today?

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Speaker 2: I actually got up shaved, shave my go tee off for the first time in a month and half. I want to look my best I did for the commercial.

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Speaker 3: I didn't even notice you have taken all your gooes.

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Speaker 2: Because I look so damn handsome. You are just taking aim back a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was it was great.

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Speaker 3: A lot of gray. So you're trying to like have a baby face for.

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Speaker 2: The commer I think, you know, you got to look your best.

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Speaker 3: You know, have you read the script?

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Speaker 2: Uh, well, I don't have to do a whole lot.

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Speaker 4: What's I was gonna say, it's ship and they kind of made in the script. Yeah, like I know, Kobe Bray and I are doing this thing where like I'm I don't spoil it, but it basically includes uh Ryan, his whole role is to just spit water.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think you can do that. I'm very confident in Ryan to be able to pull that one off. It's probably one take.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to do it.

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Speaker 4: His entire role in the commercial to sell going to the UK Federal Credit Union is to have him spit water.

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Speaker 5: How that ties into the script? I don't have to spoil it.

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Speaker 4: You don't tell the finale of Sopranos until it's over. But are you glad that that's what they decided to use Ryan for?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. I'm sure that the casting director is like, we got one guy for this job. Call Ryan right away. He'll nail that water spinner.

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Speaker 4: And so then this evening, I am speaking to the Kentucky Young Farmers Association.

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Speaker 7: Drew.

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Speaker 4: Last night, I sat down to try to figure out. Okay, three hundred farmers from across the state that are young, what do you say to them? And I don't really know because I don't know a lot about farming. The other thing I'm trying to figure out is what I wear. You know, I have that cowboy hat. But I'm worried I'll walk in there wearing the cowboy hat, and then I would have the I'd be the only person with a cowboy hat. Oh possible, at which point then I would look like a clown. So I feel like I'm gonna not take the cowboy hat to the farmer's convention because I don't want to be the only guy in a cowboy hat.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: And then you know, I'm gonna talk to the farmers about farming things, cows, soybeans, crops, all kinds of good stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm confused.

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Speaker 6: You're going to a farming convention and you're worried you're gonna be the only got a cowboy hat. Where else would you wear a cowboy hat?

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Speaker 3: That's the place.

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Speaker 4: But see, I kind of think like when they're at the convention, maybe they don't wear the cowboy.

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Speaker 5: Probably like the John Deere hat. Maybe the camo has.

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe they dress up.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is a convention and it's a dinner, like they may decide like this is when they wear So I just I know I'm.

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Speaker 6: Suddenly over at thirty five and a half cowboy yet that's the over.

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Speaker 4: Under I'm going over.

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Speaker 3: So it's close enough.

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Speaker 4: I can walk from my house, should I carry the cowboy hat, decide whether or not.

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Speaker 5: To walk in, you know, kind of scope out what's going on, read the room, and then decide and then decide. Okay, gave fair decision.

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Speaker 4: And then later that night is my friend Byron Roberts. There's a tribute concert for him at Manchester Music Hall with lots of musical guests and you know the rumors of surprise. Guess that I think is definitely the first time in Lexington for me to break out the cowboy hat.

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Speaker 2: That's why you gotta take it with you, Like, if you need it for at the Farmer's Convention, you've got it, but you definitely want it for that concert tonight, so yeah, just take it with you just in case.

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Speaker 4: But all of this is just to set up for tomorrow where Kentucky and Alabama will play at noon in my opinion for the Cats. This is the kind of game that if you win, Okay, now we can start talking about maybe we could win the SEC. Right, I mean this is that's actually not something that I have thought was likely. But with broom out still probably for a couple of weeks Auburn are one game against them is in rupp Arena. We don't have to go there, so, like, you know, if there was ever a tie breaker, you'd get to have that one. I think, Drew, you know, if we can win this one, what what?

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Speaker 3: What's?

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Speaker 4: What? Do we think the spread will be? By the way, very tight?

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Speaker 3: You think you think Bama is a fan, Baba's a favorite.

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Speaker 6: I think that'd be tough to do. But maybe I think it's gonna be like one point.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you can I'm gonna say Bama by like one or I've bet one or two. I bet but either way because just because their numbers are a lot better than ours, and I could see that being how they get favored. But do you agree with me? If you win this game, you could start going okay, maybe we are a contender to win the SEC.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so. I mean, you don't want to cheer for injury or be happy about it. But Broom going down, that's a big hit to them that it's an opportunity for someone to compete with Auburn. Right now, you're tied with Alabama. I think Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida are with Kentucky just behind Auburn. You've already got Missus undefeated, already got one on Florida. Though you win this one, I think it's huge.

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Speaker 4: It's you would you would have the tiebreaker over Florida. Now we still have to go to Alabama, right So the other part of this is if you lose to Alabama and you still have to go there, then it becomes hard to figure out, Okay, how are we going to pass them if we still have to go there. We still got two games games against Tennessee. But if you want to have a chance to contend for the SEC regular season title, you win tomorrow. I mean, I think if you lose tomorrow, it's not the end of the world, even though it's a home game.

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Speaker 3: But if you win, I think it sets up some real possibility.

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Speaker 2: And I feel good about it really because you know, Alabama plays the way that we want to play, and that's why we kind of Excel. Like we said, that Florida game is one of the you know up both of you played a high efficiency. I think it could be the same thing tomorrow. I don't know if somebody's going to have a Justin Edwards performance like we got last year, but somebody needs to step up and knock down some threes.

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Speaker 4: Per year. We scored what we scored one hundred and twenty points last year. Yeh game, I mean it was just an absolute insane performance offensively.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, That's why I'm so excited tomorrow, win or lose, this is gonna be a fun basketball game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Alabama's number one in the country at ninety points. Kentucky's right behind him. I think both coaches are gonna look at each other and be like, let's put on a show. Let's get up and down, Let's make this a fun game. Regardless of winning the SEC, because I think Auburn, still without Broom, is gonna be tough to beat. This will be huge for Friday in the SEC tournament and seating in the NCAA tournament. Getting a win over team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one of the things that I really think about is that Friday is the double by the double buy requires top four teams in the conference. This is the kind of game where you'd start to feel good about getting that. I mean, remember, this team could have an amazing record and still be like a five or six seed in the SEC tournament. Alabama, thoughways struggled right in the last few weeks. I mean that they're not even when they've won, it hasn't been exactly They've not been completely efficient. You know, they went to A and M could have easily lost that game. That was what they had. Fifty fouls called or something during that game. Then the Old Miss Game, oh mis led most of the game and beat them, and beat them. I think we're catching Alabama when they're not yet really rolling.

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Speaker 2: And maybe it's a good time to do it because I think going into before the season Eaven started, I thought they were the best team in the conference. Auburn and Oos taken that crown.

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Speaker 4: Four of their five starters from a Final four team back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the series kids back is one of the best players in the conference.

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Speaker 3: Great Nelson, the big dude.

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Speaker 2: The Old Miss Games win. It puzzles me because I kind of watched a little bit of that that was going on the ear. I all miss was up by fifteen eighteen points. A lot of the second half ended up being a ten point win. They kind of dominated that game.

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Speaker 5: Alabama had twenty one turnovers in that game. Yeah, so it's completely uncharacteristic. The key is, I think for this game, keep Alabama under eighty points. Every time they score eighty points or more, right.

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Speaker 4: There's yeah, I mean, I think if you keep them under eighty, you're gonna probably beat them. I mean, Mark Sears is their best player. A lot of people had him as a preseason National Player of the Year and he's been good, but he's not been what I think people thought. Lamont Butler will probably be on him. How do you think that matchup goes.

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Speaker 6: I'm pretty confident with Lamont Butler guarding just about anybody. But Sears led the league last year through four SEC games. Now he's averaging like twenty so he's starting to get it back up a little bit. From the non conference. They also took Auburn's Aiden Holloway. He's tough, he was an All freshman last year, made an awkward transfer going from Auburn Alabama for them, so they have a lot of recognizable names and star power that have played a lot of good basketball already.

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Speaker 4: We can tell you played against A and M Mark Pope said that they looked and basically said, we wanted them to shoot threes, and then they made a bunch at the beginning, but then didn't make one in the second half.

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Speaker 3: This is not This is not a team you can let shoot threes.

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Speaker 4: If you let this team shoot threes, they can score one hundred on you like that. They're gonna have to go out on him and make them beat them at the rim. Now, we've seen some teams have success doing that against Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: Do you think Alabama, kid.

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Speaker 2: I you know that that's the key, you know, I think once again, Alabama a very strong offensive rebounding team. It seems like every time we play an SEC team. Now that's their skouting report. Very strong on the offensive glass.

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Speaker 3: Well, this one's not. This one's not.

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Speaker 4: I'm saying you want them to beat you at there. You cannot let them shoot threes. If you let them shoot threes, you're you're done, because they they will make them. You gotta make them beat you at the rim. You gotta make Grant Nelson beat you at the rim. Do you think they can do.

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Speaker 2: That Amaro played so well last week. You know, he seems to be coming on and on, and by the way, I thought Pops did something really good about it. Mario considering this, he said, when he was playing at the Drexel, you know, he barely touched somebody get called from a faculty. He was so much bigger and stronger than everybody. Now he's kind of learning how to play in the SEC where he can be more physical, and I think we're seeing that. I think he played money his best game of the season last week.

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Speaker 4: They just, you know, I don't know what to say about this because I've been critical of his arms down there. Amari is leading the country in rebounding efficiency, and it feels like to me he should still be getting four or five more. He is literally, literally after the last game, leading the country in rebounding efficiency and it doesn't and.

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Speaker 3: It feels to me, Drew like he could still be better than that.

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Speaker 4: He is right now on pace to be like one of the best rebounders we've had in twenty five years. By the numbers, only Oscar right now is in the higher offensive efficiency than Amari.

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Speaker 3: I know it's crazy to me as I watch it, but it's true.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and as much as we you know, love Butler and what Jackson Robinson to be this big star, the guy that's really having the biggest impacts in Mario. If you look at numbers of like usage, the offense goes through him more than anybody else on the team. He's leading in rebounding. I think the last two games he's even taken another step forward and at least get a little more physical. Like Ryan said, I think he's getting comfortable in the league.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they have they have a stat where it's like, of the rebounds you should get, how many do you get? And he's literally number one, and the next nine all playing like little leagues, like in the small leagues where some big guy can just get every rebound.

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Speaker 3: He's the only one in the Power five that's in the top ten.

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Speaker 4: That's crazy to me watching because I still see him sit there with his hands down. But you know what I mean, the numbers are what they are, you know they He's clearly done an amazing job.

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Speaker 6: I think keeping him in the game will be very important tomorrow, like two quick fouls or something like that, and Mamori has to go down and we have too much Garrison. I think could be an issue. I need a big a Mari game tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: We've got a couple of lines eight five, nine two, eight, twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: Rick, I have breaking news.

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Speaker 4: The Supreme Court this morning decides nine oh unanimous that TikTok is banned in the United States starting Saturday, nine oh, starting tomorrow, starting well the nineteenth.

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Speaker 2: So I guess that Sunday Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Now it is interesting. So even so legally basically what for you? So you know what the Supreme Court decided is the law that was passed which said it was banned. The Supreme Court just said they can do that basically doesn't violate the First Amendment. And it's nine oh. You always hear me say when it's nine. Oh, there ain't a lot that's not I know. So that means it's pretty I mean, well, it's not pretty unanimous. It's completely unanimous. But last night Joe Biden said, because technically it's supposed to start Sunday, which would mean he would his administration would have to enforce it, he said that out of deference to a new president on Monday, he would wait and let the new president decide whether to enforce it. So that means it'll come down to what Trump wants to do the next day, and he has suggested he might not enforce it, so we'll see. But this but I I don't know how Congress can pass a law and then the president just not enforce it. I don't think you could do that. So we'll see what they end up doing. But at least for now the law is constitutional, which means another kind of notch against TikTok staying for.

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Speaker 5: If Trump has any ability to keep it, I mean.

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Speaker 8: But.

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Speaker 4: He was the original person that wanted to ban it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but now the new presidency, new term, right, he's come in and look like a heron, say people will like it.

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Speaker 4: But the whole reason this started was he was the one that wanted to get rid of it. And now you're right, he might come around and say, I'm the one that saved it.

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Speaker 5: You say, nobody will remember that first place.

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Speaker 3: No, nobody knows, probably.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, I actually thought there'd be a couple of the liberals descent. But nine oh, that says, so TikTok might go away. Just after we built our account. We have twenty two thousand followers, and we got it going, and now go does it?

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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts about the president of TikTok supposed to be in the front row at the inauguration on Monday.

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Speaker 3: I don't get that. I don't.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if I fully buy that TikTok could be a national security issue, I get it, Like I think, listen, I like it, and part of me is like with you, Shannon, like we already give him everything. At the same time, I underst stand why it could be. I mean, we essentially give all of our personal details to a country that is hostile to I get it. With that said, I don't understand inviting the head of TikTok to the inauguration, Like, if it's so bad that we have to get rid of it, why is he at the inauguration. I don't under I do not understand that.

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Speaker 5: I don't get that.

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Speaker 4: But I also don't understand why if they were against it, then they might flip it. I think it's just like it just shows how nobody really believes anything. It's just like, well, people like it, so I don't want to get rid of.

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Speaker 5: My favorite part of this whole thing is we're worried about giving up our information and there are TikTok users who are going to this all the app that has an agreement in a language that's not English, and they have no idea.

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Speaker 4: What they're First of all, you want to talk about the American people being dumb. As a protest against TikTok going away, a ton of American young people went to another Chinese app that explicitly said in the terms we will give your stuff to the Chinese government and and signed up out of protest. Like it goes to show lakes, people drew at the end of the day, our dumbness is part of the problem more than anything.

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Speaker 6: Last time I got on sik SoC a few days ago, it was people introducing their new spy that they met on the new app, like, I'm switching to this app, this is my new spy. And then they're like playing it up like it's a game.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know that everybody thinks it's a Joe.

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Speaker 3: Who can I get it?

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Speaker 4: Like, I don't want it to go away.

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Speaker 3: Either, because I really do like it.

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Speaker 4: But we'll see so anyway, that'll be one of the decisions that will be be made. But Supreme Court upholds it nine to oh eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. One person writes in and goes, Matt, we have to hit threes. What is the magical number of threes we have to make tomorrow to beat Alabama? What do you Oh, that's a good question.

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Speaker 9: I'll go.

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Speaker 4: Twelve. Twelve. That's a lot.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's a big number.

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Speaker 6: I was going higher. I'm gonna say thirteen. Okay, so you got way might be in the hundreds tomorrow. I think both are gonna light it up.

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Speaker 4: Do you think, though, we have to hit thirteen to win, like if we hit last, we can't win.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'll stick with my answer.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna say ten. And the reason I say that is because Alabama one of the things they do really good defensively is guarding the three. So I think the best really tough to knock down that many threes against them.

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Speaker 4: I mean we you know, you know my dis uh my dislike of mid range jumpers, but you actually can get as many of those as you want against Alabama.

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Speaker 3: And because they'll get they give them to you.

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Speaker 4: And part of the reason we scored one hundred and twenty last year, we hit a lot of threes, but people don't remember we actually hit a lot of mid range jumpers. K likes to shoot, and so you're gonna get a lot of those. And we have a couple guys that seem pretty good at it. Jackson Robinson seems pretty good at it. Butler O way, they are actually seem like pretty good at those things. Jackson Robinson, that's money for him. It seems like, you know, he gets them. Once he gets his feet set, he can hit it. Yeah, So I don't want to see Kobe Bray. They'll go another one or five. He's one of five last two games. He's gotta he's gotta nail coach. I think, I think you're right. He's gonna get shots. He's gotta make up who's up first, and is up first? Ed go ahead in.

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Speaker 8: Hey man, I was reading a couple of days ago the price for a ticket to see Arkansas, and it's over a thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Yes, as of now, it is over one thousand dollars to get in for Arkansas. I bet it'll go down, but that's what it is right now.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what was my next question. I mean, if they keep having a bad record, do you think the price is gonna draw?

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Speaker 3: I mean, Drew, maybe a little, but I mean it's gonna.

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Speaker 4: Go down, just because it always goes down right before the game. But I do think Drew. The reason people want to go to that Arkansas game has very little to do with whether or not they're good. It has to do with that moment when Cal walks in. That's why people want to go.

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Speaker 6: I think people might be more excited to go if they continue to suck, honestly, because they'll go in a little comfortable and not having to sweat out a game. I wonder, and this wouldn't be a big hit to tickets, but I wonder if the Arkansas fans that are gonna come are like, Nope, I don't want to do that anymore, and they're gonna back out exact be a big percentage of the crowd.

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Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question if he were to go, I mean, they've got three semi winnable games. They play at Missouri, then they play Georgia at home, and then they play Oklahoma at home. Now, they could lose all the three of those games, but yeah, but they also could win them. But let's say they lose them all and they come in here oh to seven and they were to beat us, What would that happen?

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Speaker 2: It would be awful for Caliperi to have a bad team and come in here on our own floor and beat us the first time they face each other. That would be awful.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna win one game against a good team. He's gonna they are he even in his worst teams, they'd always win one. Surprise on the road. We just can't let it be us, Amen, because he's gonna do it once. He'll win one of those. He always does we just can't let it be here. We'll take a break and be right back. We are here but Spoken Spirits. It's this KSR.

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Speaker 5: Quarterback.

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Speaker 4: It is Tucky Sports Radio here at Bespoken Spirits. If you're in the area, come on out here. You got a chance to win the Kentucky Alabama tickets. Also at noon, they're going to give a tour of Bespoken Spirits back here. You can see all their veryou stuff, Leonard Skinnered Whiskey, hell House, and they can also make private labels for folks as well. Here at Bespoken Spirits, they're giving out stuff here for people. I think they're enjoying it. You know, I didn't. But you don't expect to talk about two government things in the first hour of the show. But there is another decision that came yesterday that will have a major impact on college sports, potentially major impact. So I could literally bore you to death because I teach a two hour class every year at Georgetown on this topic.

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Speaker 3: So I'll try to distill two hours.

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Speaker 4: Into one minute. Title nine, as it applies to college sports, requires schools to give equal opportunity to men and women in sports. That's been interpreted over the years by the Department of Education to mean scholarships. So they basically said, you have to give people equal opportunity.

00:24:12
Speaker 3: You have to give them equal scholarships.

00:24:14
Speaker 4: It didn't necessarily mean though, that you have to give them equal money. Okay, So like, for instance, you can spend more money on your men's team their travel than on the women's team. That is allowed under Title nine. I think a lot of people don't realize it doesn't mean equal, It means equal.

00:24:32
Speaker 3: Opportunity, all right.

00:24:33
Speaker 4: So now starting in July, schools are going to be schools are basically going to be revenue sharing money twenty two million dollars a year, sharing with athletes. Most schools had decided to give seventy five or eighty percent to the men's football team, ten to fifteen to basketball, five to women's basketball, and then the rest to all the other sports. That was kind of all of the NCAA's agree as to how the money was gonna go. Yesterday, the Department of Education said, hey, Title nine, when it says equal opportunity, that will also include inile money revenue share. Now, a lot of people who don't know the law are out there saying that means they're gonna make them split the money equally. I don't think that's what that means, but it is gonna mean equal opportunity, which is going to mean the school is gonna have to like the school is gonna have to prove that it makes sense to do it the way they do. So. For instance, if you're at Iowa, where Caitlyn Clark made you all that money on the women's basketball team, and you still pay your women's players less than your men's basketball players, you're gonna have some explaining to do, right, How can you justify doing that when the women's team made more. I don't read a decision as saying they will have to give eleven million dollars to the men eleven million dollars to the women, But they're just saying that the same rules that always apply will now apply to this. Then you throw in a wildcard that we're gonna have a new president on Monday, and his Education department might look at it differently than Biden's and might just say, we don't think that's the case. So it's up in the air. But I will say this, right, a lot of athletic departments had created an entire system based on something that now another wrench gets thrown into. So, for instance, if your a football program out there that went and recruited a roster thinking you were gonna have eighteen million to give them, and now you have twelve million to give them, you might have a problem. You might actually so it will be interesting. I think the next three or four months. I said this before, but it's now even more true after the decision yesterday, the next three or four months will be the most chaotic three.

00:26:57
Speaker 3: Or four months in college sports.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: On the back end of it, it'll be better than it is right now, but we are going to see chaos for the next few months as schools try to figure out how to set up this new system.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: That's crazy man, because he's athletic, bug budget. They're set up a year or more in advance, and now just like that, it's rich wrong. It's all wrong. We gotta do it, redo it against look in schools.

00:27:21
Speaker 5: See.

00:27:22
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it puts.

00:27:24
Speaker 4: I actually think the decision is probably the right decision, and I don't think it has the impact people think. I don't think they're same. Men and women have to make the same amount of money. But because we don't Drew know exactly what it means, it makes it really hard.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: I was told Mitch Barnhart, and.

00:27:41
Speaker 4: Again this is a scuttle button, not a scoop, But I was told Mitch Barnhart met with like the forty biggest donors to UK Athletics and basically looked at him and said, we need X amount of money from each of you all to get through this transition. And I don't know if people will do it. And it was let's just say it was not a small amount of money. I think all these schools are dealing with this right now.

00:28:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, you talk about it getting chaotic. I mean, it's been so chaotic and it's just gonna keep getting worse. And we say on this show that you know, we don't have a lot of sympathy for these coaches making all this money, but at some point when the rules keep changing, that has to be a little difficult on them. When when they're just truly uncertain of what rule they're gonna be playing with in one month, that's got to be hard to fill these rosters because this is a pivotal point and a lot of a lot of teams a year of what they're gonna have for next season, and if the rules are gonna keep changing, and.

00:28:33
Speaker 4: Not to again bore you with law. Trump can change what Biden's administration just did, but he according to the law, once the president does it, you have to have a really good reason to change it, and it will be hard for him to explain what the reason was when it's only a few weeks later.

00:28:49
Speaker 3: So that's why I said change, And I have no idea what's.

00:28:52
Speaker 4: Gonna have to change.

00:28:53
Speaker 5: Probably a lot of scholarships, recruiting opportunities as well. You know, you promise a guy X amount of dollars, all of a sudden, you got to change that, and.

00:29:01
Speaker 3: You're also gonna have to raise it now.

00:29:03
Speaker 4: I will say the winners in this, even if they don't get equal money, women's basketball players.

00:29:09
Speaker 3: Are about to get paid.

00:29:11
Speaker 4: Like if I was If I was a young women's basketball player and I could go to the WNBA, but I could take this new fifth year of eligibility. Girls take it because there's gonna be money next year that there just wasn't in years past.

00:29:27
Speaker 3: Who's up next?

00:29:28
Speaker 2: Kentucky Joe is up next?

00:29:30
Speaker 4: Oh good, Kentucky Joe. Go ahead over there, good morning, good morning.

00:29:39
Speaker 10: I first make comment, and I'm I'm hoping I'll be able to good song.

00:29:43
Speaker 4: Oh that's right.

00:29:44
Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, I did say I wanted a song. Let's just do the song. Okay.

00:29:48
Speaker 4: So what is the name of the song.

00:29:51
Speaker 10: You're gonna see the name is called it's called ol Mama. It's called it's called ol Mama. O mama, mama.

00:30:03
Speaker 4: Okay, I can't.

00:30:04
Speaker 10: He's running on on on the high oush Omama.

00:30:09
Speaker 3: He's running on high octane or maybe.

00:30:12
Speaker 4: Oh mama, oh mama, O mama, omama, he's running on half.

00:30:17
Speaker 10: No, no, it's it's old Mama.

00:30:20
Speaker 3: Okay, just one, Oh my, okay.

00:30:22
Speaker 10: It really called Obama.

00:30:25
Speaker 3: Okay, let's plenty old Mama.

00:30:26
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Joe, go ahead, and let's start the song.

00:30:33
Speaker 10: All right. Mama is tad a special.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: Build the ball?

00:30:44
Speaker 9: Mom can make opposition go crazy the.

00:30:52
Speaker 10: Ball, Mama.

00:30:54
Speaker 9: This coach my team has an lay, so they also have playing back easy, okay, always the best fun?

00:31:08
Speaker 10: Does it all? Oh mam ron on high up day, you can't teammate.

00:31:22
Speaker 3: Here's here's the thing, Joe, we're gonna have to work on this one.

00:31:26
Speaker 4: You're right, okay, Joe, hang on, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Jo.

00:31:39
Speaker 10: Teammate.

00:31:40
Speaker 4: Okay, Joe, Way.

00:31:47
Speaker 3: Joe, Joe.

00:31:49
Speaker 4: Alright, Joe, this you're writing a Dostoyevsky novel. I need you, all right, So here's the thing. I need you to, like cut the verses down. You're right, like these are sort of meandering sentences. This we we got it. We need an editor for the for this. I mean, there's something there, but it's a little it's a little much. Joe, Okay, can we can we try to cut it down a little bit, not again, like not now, but like during your spare time.

00:32:19
Speaker 10: Well, I mean I'm just serious in that way.

00:32:22
Speaker 4: Well just in a way that makes musical sense, you know, when it follows like a musical pattern and you know that kind of thing. Yeah, it was a little bit and there was a little bit of Lord of the Rings to the length of it. But Joe, I appreciate it. I think it's gonna give the team exactly what they need going into the Alabama game. A man, we don't have to apologize. Listen, you were working, Joe. I'm still here. It's fine, don't worry about it. We're good, Okay.

00:33:03
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, there you go.

00:33:05
Speaker 3: Hey, straight song, Joe, great song.

00:33:09
Speaker 5: But the moment, there's no doubt, think about completely.

00:33:12
Speaker 4: A lot of long words, longest words I've ever heard of it, opposition, a lot of words.

00:33:17
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00:33:49
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00:34:09
Speaker 3: Drew, we got to talk for a second about.

00:34:10
Speaker 4: Louisville, So like, I want to make fun of them for this, but I also don't want to be like too mean, because I think part of this is nice, but part of it is a little sad. I mean, for those of you that haven't followed Louisville since we beat them, they're five and one in the ACC. And they're five wins include beating like pretty much everybody good in the ACC that's not due. They beat North Carolina, they beat Clemson, they beat pitt wake Forest is the only other team with the winning record. They haven't played yet. I mean, they have a chance to finish with an amazing record. Actually, and I'm not I mean they're good. I'm not sure they're that good, but I mean they're probably. I think they're probably gonna finish second in the ACC. So good team. Still can't get ready to go to their games. They had Mike Rutherford, who I like a lot, who does card Chronicle tweet out last night, I'm giving away a thousand tickets on the radio. Let me say that again, a thousand tickets on the radio. Apparently, once again, one of their donors bought a thousand tickets and today they're giving them out all day to people who will go to the game.

00:35:20
Speaker 3: Now, nice gesture by whoever did it.

00:35:23
Speaker 4: I think it's cool rather than leaving them empty to give them out. So I'm not like crushing it. But this is a team that is going to make the NCAA tournament after years of being bad, might be the second best team in the ACC. Is playing Virginia, who I don't think they've beaten in Louisville in like a decade now.

00:35:43
Speaker 3: Virginia is still not good, but they haven't beaten them in a long time.

00:35:46
Speaker 4: And you have to give out a thousand tickets just to fill the arena of one of the best basketball programs in the history of college basketball? Are you shocked?

00:35:55
Speaker 6: Actually, at this point, I'm not shocked, but it is crazy that this continues to happen. If I'm Pat Kelsey, I at my next press conference, say.

00:36:04
Speaker 4: Do you want not like me?

00:36:05
Speaker 3: Are you out there? I'm doing everything I possibly can't.

00:36:09
Speaker 6: Tell me what I need to do to get you all to come support this team.

00:36:11
Speaker 4: A thousand tickets on a Saturday at home against Virginia when if you win, you'll probably be right. I just Ryan, I can't believe it.

00:36:23
Speaker 2: What I understand they're lower arena tickets to me, like, that's what I thought I heard on the radio this morning.

00:36:28
Speaker 4: No, No, surely not. They're not lower half of them or some of them lower arena. See that. That's crazy to me. If they I don't know if that's true. But if that is true, Ryan, that's crazy.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: It's shocking, honestly. I mean I give them an a for effort. I mean, they're they're trying everything they can to try to get fans in there. The fact that they've kind of just like Drew keeps saying, they're broken. They can't get over the what's happened the last couple of years, and Kentucky just beat them this year. I don't know, they just can't get over all that. But they're good. Yeah, I mean they're pretty good this year.

00:36:58
Speaker 4: It's crazy, I I just I don't get it.

00:37:01
Speaker 5: First of all, a thousand tickets to me, it sounds like a logistical nightmare. I'd rather just take them all and double them out of a window and say people just take them.

00:37:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, but can you imagine if you can call in, get all their emails, forget forget about it would when we do eight tickets and my fingers are like no more.

00:37:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, but their coach came in and did more than Kenny Payne did in two months than Kenny did in two years. Thirteen wins, and you're still not excited enough to go see your team playing.

00:37:27
Speaker 3: I don't get it.

00:37:29
Speaker 4: I mean, I will just say to louisvill fans, like your team. Besides the fact you can't iron your uniforms or wear the same uniform correctly, your team seems likable, the coach seems extremely likable. They're gonna make the tournament.

00:37:44
Speaker 3: The fact that you have to give.

00:37:46
Speaker 4: Give away a thousand tickets like give them away, that is shocking to me for an ACC game against Virginia.

00:37:54
Speaker 6: I think the next step is, I know this sounds ridiculous, but I think you just got to fill the umpsitter with a concrete and call it a loss to get the smaller venue, and they're never gonna fill that thing again.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: There was a time that Wards, there was a time that was the number three ranked attendance fan base in the country, behind Kentucky and Syracuse. It would be Kentucky, Syracuse, Louisville, and somehow it's gone to this.

00:38:17
Speaker 2: Awesome arena one of the best in the country, great environment for college basketball, and they've got a good team. It just doesn't add up. While they came.

00:38:24
Speaker 5: They had like those cardboard cutouts during COVID. Yeah, and we maybe put some of those in the youngazenter to fill it up.

00:38:30
Speaker 3: I like that idea. Actually, who's up next?

00:38:32
Speaker 5: Jay?

00:38:33
Speaker 4: Is up next? Jay? Go ahead? Jay?

00:38:37
Speaker 7: Hey man, what's going on? Hey?

00:38:38
Speaker 10: I got two?

00:38:39
Speaker 7: I got two quick things.

00:38:42
Speaker 11: So you've been kind of driving me.

00:38:44
Speaker 7: That's with this because you're born around women, and you keep saying when you're talking about how politics over a team with this team, that the greater is hold.

00:38:55
Speaker 11: In some of the parts, or something like that.

00:38:58
Speaker 3: The whole is greater than the whole is greater than the some of the parts.

00:39:04
Speaker 7: The sum is s um.

00:39:07
Speaker 11: The saying is the thumb is greater than the parts.

00:39:11
Speaker 4: No, it's not the sun. The saying is the whole is greater than the sum. That's the same. The whole is greater than if you add up each individual. If you add up each individual part, you would get a number or a group that's not as good as the whole.

00:39:28
Speaker 11: Is right, but some and whole are the same word.

00:39:33
Speaker 4: I didn't make the saying up, sir, like.

00:39:36
Speaker 7: I didn't make the same up.

00:39:37
Speaker 4: The saying is the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

00:39:41
Speaker 3: That's the same. I didn't make it up.

00:39:44
Speaker 11: Okay, Well, here's is what I really wanted to ask.

00:39:48
Speaker 3: Did you think I meant?

00:39:49
Speaker 4: Did you let me hang on a second, sir? Did you think I thought some was s O m E some whole? Did you think I think it literally? Did you think I'm so stupid that I thought the whole was like a hole in the ground and so it was just one of the parts.

00:40:03
Speaker 7: I don't think I thought you anyway.

00:40:12
Speaker 11: The point of that saying is that Hope have gotten a lot out of these players, correct.

00:40:18
Speaker 7: Could you imagine?

00:40:19
Speaker 11: Can we imagine for two seconds, what if he was the coach of last year's he what he would have got out of a Justin Edwards with somebody like that with a yeah, I.

00:40:30
Speaker 4: Don't know, you know, I don't know, And I appreciate the call because I don't think he would have ever recruited a Justin Edwards like just because Justin although I mean shot well against Alabama last year, but that wasn't his strength. Guys that take people off the drill, like take a DJ Wagner or Justin Edwards Drew. I don't know that a guy like that is a dude that he would recruit, you know, but now Reed Shepherd, Rob Dillingham and Antonio reeves it. Maybe even Aaron Bradshaw, I think he'd recruited all z he'd of those dudes. I don't know if those driving guys that Cal liked. I just don't know if that's the kind of guy that he would recruit.

00:41:07
Speaker 6: No, and even if you had him, I mean, here we go, we're gonna do it again. But uh, he wouldn't have put Justin Edwards as the three hanging around the perimeter. Probably would have played a little smaller ball and gotten reading Robin there more. But we we don't have to bring that paint up again.

00:41:18
Speaker 4: I do think Aaron Bradshaw would have played well Andrew. Honestly, I think he's kind of a big that would be Obviously he wanted Ze so clearly he thought he could do something with him.

00:41:28
Speaker 2: I guarantee one thing, Pope would have played. The right analytics have told him what's the right line up to play?

00:41:33
Speaker 6: Those analytics were clear last year.

00:41:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean you know. I mean it doesn't matter because it's not gonna happen. But Reid, Rob and Antonio with Pope are breaking like all time records for most three. I mean they're like they would have been unbelieving and they were still really good way cal but they would have been unbelievable.

00:41:55
Speaker 5: Mario hen Berber, we just can we just go back to some whole because that conversation made me full drunker than any perpon some old parts, at.

00:42:06
Speaker 6: Better than a few of the parts.

00:42:07
Speaker 3: This guy thought I thought it was s O m me.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: He did. He thought he thought I thought, Okay, we'll be right back. We're here, bespoken spirits, this chaos r