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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 6: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, April the twenty first. I'm Matt Jones here on a It's gonna be the start. I think this is the start of summer today right now, right now, okay, today, I just feel it within the the weather. It's gonna be in the like eighty at the end of the day. Summer begins today, April twenty, first day after four to twenty Shannon's favorite day of the year. You can give shallon Clark's Ump Shop phone line eight five nine eight twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna open up the phones in a minute.

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Speaker 6: A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four In this edition sponsored by the TJ's Miidlaf called TJ's make some pay. We're gonna do something we do, you know, every three months or so, thirty second day.

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Speaker 3: Where people can call.

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Speaker 6: I think this is a day for BBN like a group therapy or a group just get it out their day, because I think a lot of people are frustrated, and then there are people that are frustrated that people are frustrated. And just on a selfish note, Ryan Lemon, I don't want everybody just going.

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Speaker 5: Man Jones raising member. I'm gonna let everybody give their.

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Speaker 6: Own opinion some thirty second thirty seconds yeh of opinion.

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Speaker 5: Shit, we got the buzzer. There we go.

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Speaker 6: So so we will set that up the best part of the next segment. All Right, we're just this one. We're gonna go today because I got energy. I have to energy for for really three reasons, Okay, what are they? Reason one because I was telling Shannon, for some reason, I found myself in the last six months just walking down the street going gods up to something, Gods up, just something I've decided. I think that's the most successful ad campaign in the history of our show.

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Speaker 1: Shannon, Well, you're welcome because you heard it first.

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Speaker 6: For me, the one of the time, I can't think of a hook of a song for people who don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess does it run on podcasts the commercial average.

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Speaker 1: I know it runs during runs during the show, So.

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Speaker 6: If you listen on podcasts, you may not hear who's the singer. That's the one thing I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: That's the Carson Byer.

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Speaker 5: Carson Byer.

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Speaker 6: We know the hook for a song, and it's worked because if you might feel that you're down and now what happened, Shannon.

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Speaker 1: God's up to something.

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Speaker 5: God's up to something.

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Speaker 6: I think, and I think a successful ad or song is one that stays in your head and that has worked. If I was at a club, which I would not be, but if I was and that came out, or that came on Ryan, I'd be excited.

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Speaker 3: You'd be putting your boogy shoes on, getting down, getting dirty.

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Speaker 6: And I've heard all of you at one point, yes, sing that hook, including Mario who doesn't even know who, like Bruce Springsteen is, Mario will be walking down the street and just go, God up to something. So it works, Shannon, that's advertising right there.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 4: You've heard it probably one hundred times now and you can get it out of your head.

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Speaker 1: It's an earworm, yep.

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Speaker 5: So I want you to play it next segment so I can say it again.

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Speaker 3: The hook works. We know the hook, but does the ad work? We don't know the sing.

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Speaker 1: I want to give you the verse the verse.

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Speaker 6: No, no, no no, I want to come with the hook. I've heard the verse a couple of times, but I want. I want the hook. It works because that song works.

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Speaker 1: It works because.

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Speaker 5: Yes, the song works, because the song works.

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Speaker 1: Great analogy.

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Speaker 5: So Carson what's his last name again, Carson Fire? I want you to go for advertised.

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Speaker 1: I want you to go by his music, yes, because.

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Speaker 6: God's up to such. Also, just let me just say a good message. Listen, if something, if something bad's happening, you feel better.

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Speaker 3: God's up to something.

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Speaker 5: If something good's happening, you go.

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Speaker 3: We'll see God's up to something.

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Speaker 1: It works the next wait for that one to come out that.

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Speaker 6: I don't think that one will because God's not thinking about you, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, God doesn't care.

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Speaker 6: That was the original lyrics, and then Garson came in and changed it and it was better. Okay, second thing, I you know yesterday you start, you started getting news in the afternoon that Donnie Freeman was not gonna pick Kentucky start, and then it I think it got announced in the evening, but by about four or five o'clock it became pretty clear he was going to go to Saint John's. And that's a diabolical move, which we have to talk about. But I realized what a different viewing experience watching my other teams is versus watching Kentucky. Kentucky is still the one I care about the most, but the Reds and the Hurricanes are our next for me, along with the Bears, but they don't play very much. And watching the Reds and the Hurricanes is such ryan a joyous experience because he especially the Reds because if they lose whatever got.

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Speaker 1: On and forty other games, there's one hundred and forty more.

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Speaker 6: But they're winning, yeah, and it's exciting and I'm like putting on fake mustaches, like. And then the Hurricanes were in a double overtime playoff game. Did you see that they hit the winning goal, They celebrated, they danced, people left, and then they came back five minutes later and said it was off sides. So Shannon, a lot of people in you know, the Matt Joneses of the stadium. As soon as they hit what they thought was the winning goal, they sprinted out the door to beat the traffic.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 6: But then the refs came back, wow, and said it was off sides. And then they were They showed video. They were pounding on the goers trying to get back in and theyouldn't let him back in.

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Speaker 3: All the fans got locked out.

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Speaker 5: Ship and I think you have to let him back in.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, if you're that much of a fair weather fan, you it's not fair weather.

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Speaker 5: They thought we won, Well.

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Speaker 4: That's what you get for thinking you should have stayed if you know.

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Speaker 6: You see, I would have been outside because the moment we hit the winning goal, I'm I'm gone get out here and beat the traffic, beat the traffic.

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Speaker 4: I almost did that at the Braves Reds game last year. If you remember that one when the break I do remember that, when the Reds came back and tightened up.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I do remember that. Actually, so they so apparently they're there. They were pounding on the door and they would not let them back in.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 6: And then it was like an hour later that they scored the goal that won.

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Speaker 5: But a lot of people weren't.

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Speaker 3: They they're stuck out in the parking lot.

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Speaker 6: But my point in watching, I watched both those games back to back because I had such joying excitement, But it wasn't the stress that UK basketball.

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Speaker 5: Is, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Well, especially for you, you have a hard time watching UK basketball.

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Speaker 5: Do you not find UK basketball stressful?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely stressful?

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Speaker 1: You K football?

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Speaker 3: UK basketball do.

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Speaker 6: You find it stressful? It very stressful. I don't find my other teams is stressful. And I don't know what that is. I think it's a combination of I always was nervous for UK basketball, but never regular season games until.

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Speaker 5: Post COVID, and it felt like post COVID.

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Speaker 6: I think it was because I thought we could literally lose any game at any time, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, because I didn't feel that way for ten years.

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Speaker 6: I think it's it has become that like it's just stressful to watch.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if other people agree, but I find it stressful.

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Speaker 3: Are we just too emotionally involved?

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Speaker 5: And I can thigure.

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Speaker 6: Out maybe I am too emotionally fault. But the thing is it's that emotional involvement that makes it when we get a special win, that makes it feel so good. That's a good point, you know, the reason that beating Duke when when Pope was right when he first.

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Speaker 5: Got Yeah, that felt special.

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Speaker 6: Beating Arkansas this year, and we've beaten Tennessee like four times, but there's bit's been so stressful, which gets me to the recruiting yesterday. You know, do I care about Donnie Freeman?

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Speaker 5: Not really, Chinnon.

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Speaker 6: I didn't have a thought about Donnie Freeman until a week ago.

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Speaker 5: If you had just told.

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Speaker 6: Me Donnie Freeman, I think, doesn't he work on refrigerators in Bell County?

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Speaker 3: Who he played for?

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Speaker 6: But then I convinced myself, because you know, you start seeing video and rankings, Okay, well we gotta have this guy. And then there's some guy named Sebastian. If you had told me we needed a basketball player named Sebastian, I would have thought no. But then I convinced myself, well, if we don't get Donnie Freeman, at least we'll get Sebastian. And we ended up getting none of them, neither of them in what I think is objectively a failure.

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Speaker 5: But I got.

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Speaker 6: I was really bummed last night, and I'm like, why I didn't even know who these guys were.

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Speaker 5: Shannon, Right, we.

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Speaker 4: All thought have to do like a crash course on who these guys are, quickly learn who they are, and then.

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Speaker 6: And then become very invest that we have to have this, we have to have them now. I think it is objectively true that UK completely fumbled this situation. I don't know how you can come up with another solution. They had two guys who both visited here, both of them expressed significant interesting coming here, and both of whom UK thought they could not only get they had. They decided they wanted one over the other. The other said, look, I got to decide, and they go, well, just give us a day.

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Speaker 5: And in that day he.

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Speaker 6: Went somewhere else that's ransick, and they did that because they were like Freeman's Ars.

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Speaker 5: And then he kept waiting and he kept waiting and.

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Speaker 6: His agent was like, all right, they want to give us more money, and then they find somebody to do it, and it's Pope's mentor.

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Speaker 3: It's stinging, a little patino at.

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Speaker 5: To brute comes in and can nails in.

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Speaker 6: It's kind of a crazy thing and it seems like once again, for about the tenth time in two years, Mark Pope and his staff have misread the market and have lost guys that seemed almost assured to be Kentucky players by their decision making. And it's frustrating. I actually think it's really frustrating. Now, could they scramble out of it, go get somebody really good, maybe even get somebody better by overpay. I mean they can, but it's just another example line of decision making and recruiting with this staff that has been not just bad for Kentucky, but I would say objectively bad. There are people who cover this saying that Kentucky's having the worst portal season of anybody. When you consider what they could have gotten versus what they're getting.

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Speaker 3: I think you summed it up perfect what fans feel like. You know, losing Donnie Freeman was a hit, but when you lose these ten guys you're talking about, that's a major hit.

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Speaker 6: We'll just go through some names of guys that Kentucky thought they had that they didn't get, right, Yeah, Donovan Dent back in the day, right, the Wilkinson kid, Yes, the famous one. You had, Magoonguay the first time Rob Bright, Donnie Freeman, Sebastian Ransick, who else. I don't think they thought they were getting. Actually they try, but I don't think they thought. But those are six guys that I think Kentucky thought they had.

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Speaker 3: And the freshman kid, the big kid this year.

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Speaker 6: Well yeah, I mean Christian College and Collins. Yeah, that was that was, that was.

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Speaker 3: Kentucky was the leader for him for however.

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Speaker 5: Done people thought?

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Speaker 6: And then no, and yet Pope and them still don't have a GM, still don't think they need help. It's very frustrating, and I can see why I think fans get too negative, but I can see why they're negative. Yeah, it's hard to see if they fumbled. They had two guys, they could have gotten either one of them, and they found a way through decision making Ryan to get neither.

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Speaker 3: That's a bad, bad look when you're still trying to recruit some kids, like why aren't these why is everybody leaving? Why does nobody want to commit to Kentucky right now?

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Speaker 5: No, but this is Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: We probably have And so I don't want people to think I'm a doom and gloomer.

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Speaker 5: This is just true.

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Speaker 6: Kentucky probably has third through fifth most money in the country to give away. There's probably a couple of schools that have more. Louisville I think is given away excuse me some more this year, maybe Saint John's.

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Speaker 5: But we probably have third, fourth or fifth most money.

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Speaker 3: So that's not the excuse.

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Speaker 5: And we can't get people to come here. So what is it? Well, there you go. I don't know. Look, maybe God's up to something.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you're down to nothing, but God is up to something.

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Speaker 6: Well, maybe he will be. Maybe we'll get that kid from Iowa State who's better than all these guys. He still make go pro though, right NBA, Oh.

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Speaker 5: He's probably not coming here. I'm just trying to.

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Speaker 3: That's that was there. Everybody Yesterday's like, Okay, didn't get done, Freeman. Who's next?

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Speaker 7: There is?

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Speaker 6: There is no There is no next that's on their level unless you get there's a couple guys that are better than them, but that we've never really thought we had a chance with the kid from Iowa State and then Alan Grays from saying the two guys we played in the tournament, they're both better, but I don't think anybody's thought we were getting get them. But then again, we thought we were gonna get these guys and we didn't get them. So maybe if we don't think we're gonna get the other guys shaneon, then we do get them.

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Speaker 4: I feel like Stokes, we're all in at this point. We gotta get him. If we don't get Stokes, I don't know. I don't know if it matters who we get if as far as the fans positivity going into next season, I feel like now.

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Speaker 1: We're all in.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think if you got one of those Diawa State.

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Speaker 1: Guy or gonna make fans go all right, let's go.

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Speaker 5: It should because he's great.

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Speaker 6: He might be the best player in the portal if you were to get And again I don't even know if we're talking to him, but he's probably the best player in the entire portal.

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Speaker 5: So yes, that would be.

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Speaker 3: I hope now they at least make a phone call to talk to him, don't you.

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Speaker 5: Listen. I will tell you this. I don't want to be negative. I want to be positive. I like being positive.

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Speaker 1: You've also got to be realistic, but you do have to be realistic.

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Speaker 5: And here's the thing. I want to be positive. Give me something to be positive.

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Speaker 6: About I'm positive about Alex Wilkins, yes, pretty positive about Zoom Diallo. Yes, but right now the lineup we have right now ain't winning anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, our roster has some desperate needs and the way the fillo's needs of getting slimmer and slimmer.

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Speaker 6: And it's getting slimmer and slimmer. All right, So here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna let the fans. You got thirty seconds, Shannon open it up eight five twenty two eighty seven is make sure yours it's working. Thirty seve, you tell us what do you think? Are you still optimistic? Are you pessimistic? Whatever? A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We will take a break, be right back. It's kiss I.

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Speaker 5: Mean, how can you not.

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Speaker 3: That's a great hook.

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Speaker 5: Oh, i'd say, I don't know that I've heard this part.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anything else?

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Speaker 5: See, but he knows to keep repeating the chorus. Right. I love it now.

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Speaker 6: I think it's even better Shane, and you were talking about the Yeah, but that's that's.

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Speaker 5: Actually legitimately think that I'm not it's a good song.

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Speaker 1: There you go, so that byre you're a fan. Farson Bayer yeah.

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Speaker 6: Is he playing at Manchester Music. I mean Manchester Music all gets these massive crowds. It feels like every night I don't know who's playing there, but like they must be killing.

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Speaker 3: It, even like last night, on a just a nandom night.

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Speaker 6: It'll be like all these people everywhere, And of course they end up parking on my street and I sitting there want to tow them, but I don't. But but they just they get huge crowds. Good for them, man.

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Speaker 3: I guess you could charge people to parking your parking lot there in your little dr.

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Speaker 6: I heard more about the bathroom situation there during the Dwight yo got we gotta get some more porta potties. Really, it was apparently four thousand people, fourteen porta potties.

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Speaker 3: And no line.

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Speaker 4: People just massively ratio that is not a good ratio at all.

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Speaker 6: They ran They apparently ran out of beer right as Dwight yoakam started, which meant only liquor from then on.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, yeah, and then that means more of a demand for the exactly and that means more like that's that's not good, one person writes Matt.

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Speaker 6: Before you go to the calls, each of you be honest, don't try to to sugarcoat it. What do you think is the main reason we're not getting the players?

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Speaker 5: All right? Do not film this. I don't want dime. I don't want people yelling at me. Mario. I know it will go, but it's not worth it.

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Speaker 3: Go for it, right, I hate to have to go first.

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Speaker 5: Well you do.

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Speaker 3: My just my opinion. I think he's having a hard time connecting with these kids. I think it's got to do with just maybe he's getting in his own head and he's just having trouble connecting because it's not just a one off thing this year. We went through it last year portal season. So you think he just weirds about it's a better way to put it. Yeah, okay, shit.

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Speaker 4: I think putting way too much focus on the tradition that Kentucky has what it means to play at Kentucky, I don't think that means nearly as much as it did ten years ago before NIL existed. So I think trying to rely too much on the history of Kentucky is costing some recruits here.

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Speaker 6: For Mark Polm, I think for me, it's it's a combination of a bunch of things that got us here. But now in the last week or so, they have the brand of Kentucky has become tarnished in the world and we're kind of looked at a little bit as suckers. And how we got here was I think a little bit of what Brian said, a little bit of a couple of contractual issues with players last year. And then now it's almost like we're not cool to go to and so guys are looking for reasons to not come here, and our money as soon as it's matched, they're just going somewhere else.

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Speaker 5: And so.

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Speaker 6: We have a branding pr problem, and it's and it's we're and we're just keep we keep digging ourselves.

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Speaker 7: In a hole.

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Speaker 6: And every time you lose somebody, it just hurts it more, absolutely, you know.

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Speaker 3: So it's Kentucky gonna lose lose situation almost.

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Speaker 6: Now they're just gonna in my opinion, the only way you get out of it is Mark Pope's gotta have a fundamental restructuring of how.

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Speaker 5: He goes into this stuff. Uh huh. And I don't somebody smarter than me is gonna have to be the one to do it. They're gonna. But then, but until then, I think the only way out is.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna have to vastly overpay, which brings its own set of problems because next year they're gonna go, well, you pay this dude, so like it's that's not a but I don't think he has a choice. I think they have got to go. They wanted to keep a budget. They didn't want to be last year we became known as the twenty two million dollar team, and as Kyle Tucker pointed out, they did nothing to dispel that. Even though I don't think they spent that amount of money, I think they wanted people to think they spent that amount of money so that it looked like we were the go old standard. But the problem is now we look like suckers because we didn't play well and we spend all this money and we're seen as money bags that you can then use to leverage to get to go where you really want to go. And because and every time somebody picks up somebody else over us, our brand decreases. So we're like we're like a store where you actually have a pretty good quality of goods, but people just don't think you do because it's well, you know, that's I don't know, target or whatever, you know.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just I think that's what happens.

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Speaker 6: And like, that's a tough cycle, and you know how you get out of that cycle really good PR, And we're not doing any PR, and so we're just stuck in this spiral.

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Speaker 5: And I think the only way you get out.

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Speaker 6: Of it is you go overpay for a couple of players, get some dudes to come in here that may and then we win.

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Speaker 5: That's it, because they've screwed.

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Speaker 6: The PR part has been a disaster and the fact that we're losing these players and then the PR part, we're just in like a death spiral.

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Speaker 3: So, like Shannon said, is the only way to save it you have to overpay and go get Stokes.

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Speaker 6: Well, you have to do what you did with Alex Wilkins. With Alex Wilkins, they went and they gave him the most money and that's been their one win. Zum Diallo didn't have any other options really in terms of top money. So now I think you have to go to either the kid from Iowa State. I don't think Stokes wants to go here. Maybe he'll end up coming. I hope he does, but clearly if he wanted to go here, he'd already done it, but he might not want to go to Kansas either, because he's got I think you got to get one of these dudes, one of these because the top four players in portal's still available, and just go, all right, what do you want, Let's do it.

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Speaker 3: What do you want, Let's do it.

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Speaker 6: They have to do that because otherwise the perception is just so bad. All right, thirty second that's it. That's that's the end of my opinion. Let's go to the thirty seconds.

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Speaker 8: The horns ready, Joe, go, thank you man, quickly, go get Dwayne Pevy please. I know he might not be the number one choice for your fan base, but he's number one in my heart. And secondly, keep the heart Thorn kid, do not let you walk Mark Pope. We've got to have hem. And then go get the Graves kid from what PARTSA knowing on the West coast, Xanta, Clair, we gotta have you. Thanks a lot, goodbye.

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Speaker 5: There you go. Uh.

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Speaker 6: By the way, today is the last day for the portal. There still could be someone that enters here that we don't know. And then Hawthorne, Hawthorne, he's gonna leave.

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Speaker 5: He's got to say that today.

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Speaker 6: So I think you can assume if we get through the day without him entering, well, now you got him, and.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he sees this roster like, oh I got a better chance to play now.

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Speaker 5: This point, at this moment. Yep.

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Speaker 6: Right, so we'll see, all right, the whole next segment will be your cause. If I'm nine to two eighty seven's KSI TJ.

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Speaker 6: Billy Donovan leaving the Chicago Bulls after six years. He'll be a free agent. You think he coaches again college pro?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I think he's just one of those guys like Patino. He just eats it, just once it all the time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Uh so are you if you're North Carolina? Are you kind of pissed?

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Speaker 8: Now?

00:24:20
Speaker 3: You didn't wait on.

00:24:20
Speaker 5: Any So I think I think they should have wait. I mean, but that's easy to say, because then what would they do with the portal? Right? Yes, you know, so that's easy as player.

00:24:29
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00:25:07
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00:25:08
Speaker 6: CRC company, not roofing Company dot com slash ks R. All right, let's just go. Blue thirty seconds go.

00:25:20
Speaker 9: It doesn't take a genius.

00:25:22
Speaker 5: It's all right.

00:25:22
Speaker 6: We don't skins. I appreciate the call. We don't do skits. Just your normal voice, all right, just your normal voice. His name was Blue Jerry thirty seconds.

00:25:34
Speaker 10: Well basketball, Well we'll see that. I'm really excited about the football team. AFT great spring game Saturday, and you were asked, at the last time you had a second game like Alabama this this year eighty one eighty one, eighty two, eighty one at Alabama and Bear Bryant was the second game, A two O the pluming Bear Switzer.

00:25:52
Speaker 11: I think we're gonna have a really great So that.

00:25:53
Speaker 6: Is probably the last time I appreciate the call for in Commonwealth.

00:26:00
Speaker 3: It's amazing.

00:26:01
Speaker 5: I got myself excited about it. Yes, like that's that's.

00:26:04
Speaker 6: One of those weekends, like you should just go ahead and find a way to be in town. Michael Todd go thirty seconds.

00:26:11
Speaker 12: Yeah, man, I've been Uh, I've been optimistic from day one with Pope.

00:26:15
Speaker 8: But I mean I'm at the point right now that I just need to fast forward this time next year.

00:26:20
Speaker 13: I just I don't.

00:26:22
Speaker 12: I'm tired of the specials. The beautiful is after nothing special and beautiful.

00:26:25
Speaker 11: When you say it five hundred times.

00:26:27
Speaker 12: So that's where I'm at.

00:26:29
Speaker 5: Thank you appreciate the call.

00:26:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is a little less special and beautiful if it can, like not everything can be special and beautiful, can it?

00:26:37
Speaker 5: Shannon?

00:26:38
Speaker 4: No, remember that beautiful tournament run we were supposed to go on. Is it going to be special. Does anybody remember that?

00:26:43
Speaker 3: But many if you're winning, it is beautiful and special.

00:26:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you should the words do need to vary? Yeah?

00:26:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, or eat elite Elite.

00:26:52
Speaker 5: Eight If I'm nine twenty two eighty seven league.

00:26:55
Speaker 6: Go.

00:26:57
Speaker 8: Yeah.

00:26:58
Speaker 12: I just wanted to say, I think a lot of this just falls back on the administration. They let it out like you said, we're Scrooge McDuck. We got tons of money, come get your money. So now everybody's using us as a prop and it's just dooming gloom Stokes think coming. And is our next coach pronounced Jay.

00:27:15
Speaker 10: Lucas or Jie Lucas?

00:27:17
Speaker 6: Appreciate the call. I'm not commenting on the next coach. It is Jay uh. I remember we used to have that debate when he was a recruit.

00:27:24
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, is it Jay or is it Jo? I think they I think Kyle's exactly right.

00:27:28
Speaker 6: Though they had every chance in the world to say that twenty two million dollar number was wrong, and they.

00:27:32
Speaker 3: Didn't, right. I think they wanted that perception that we are the gold They said, we spent we spent one because we are the gold standard and can come to Kentucky basketball.

00:27:40
Speaker 6: And and you know, had we won, that doesn't necessarily look bad, true, But then when you lose and.

00:27:47
Speaker 3: You got dig Baytal kind of making fun of you online.

00:27:50
Speaker 6: I don't think I think we spent the most, but I think it was very close with other schools. But the perception was we spent more than everybody. I think we want that perception, don't. Well, I don't know if we did, because now it looks like we're the guys that just will go and throw money at people.

00:28:07
Speaker 3: In the moment, I think we wanted it.

00:28:09
Speaker 6: But if you win, like Michigan spent all that money and they won, so it looks like it was well spent. We spent all that money and we lost. It's kind of like in basebar right now, the Dodgers, nobody would say they spend too much money. They win, but the Mets have the second highest payroll and they're on an eleven game losing. Yeah, so why go ahead thirty seconds?

00:28:31
Speaker 11: I think this Johnny Freeman loss could be like Great Osi War where we find Andrew Carr type player ends up being a better fit.

00:28:39
Speaker 5: I thought, yeah, that was what that.

00:28:41
Speaker 6: Was, what Ransick was supposed to be. I mean, I appreciate the call like there was. That was what Ransick was. He was gonna be Andrew Carr and then we made him wait because we thought we were getting Freeman, and we got neither one of them, and Ransick ends up at Florida.

00:28:58
Speaker 5: State, and you know is what it is, Joseph thirty seconds go.

00:29:06
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, the problem isn't that we missed on Donnie two weeks ago. None of us even knew who this dude was, and I'm still not sure he even would have been a good fit. But the problem is Pope targeted from.

00:29:15
Speaker 5: Day one and missed.

00:29:17
Speaker 9: But this is all correctable. We need to go up to the Iowa State kid and the other best players in the portal and pay them whatever they want. We're not the A's playing moneyball, where the Yankees going for championships.

00:29:29
Speaker 6: Thanks, guys, totally agree with that. It's not I think the first part is especially important. It's not that we can't win without Donnie Freeman. Right, most of us didn't know who Donny Freeman was, and I think it was a legitimate question of whether or not a banger, power forward guy.

00:29:46
Speaker 5: Was what we wanted.

00:29:46
Speaker 6: Anyway, we kind of did that with Mo, but he's exactly right, whether we want Whether it was a good idea or not, Pope thought it was.

00:29:54
Speaker 3: Yes.

00:29:55
Speaker 6: Pope went into the Here's what Pope did when he went into that portal. He said, I want three guys, Rob Wright, Alex Wilkins, Donnie Freeman, and I want moreno Back. Those were the four pillars. Got moreno Back, got Alex Wilkins, but the other two pillars he didn't get. Now he replaced right with Diallo, which is good, fine, but there still is a sense when you're Kentucky and you go target, you get them. Yes, this is Kentucky, right of course. And then a lot of our second choices were kind of like, oh, I guess we're the second choice, so we'll go over here.

00:30:36
Speaker 5: And now we're like, oh, where's our third choices? And a lot of them are gone now too.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: So that's what they have to understand what happened, Ransick that you can't play that game with some of these guys.

00:30:46
Speaker 6: I mean, Louisville brought their top two choices on campus together and they both signed to me, locked them up. We gotta do what That's the kind of stuff Kentucky should be.

00:30:56
Speaker 3: Why can they not lock them up?

00:30:57
Speaker 5: That's right, Shane, Go ahead, Shane.

00:31:02
Speaker 7: Winning a title is never easy, but as fans, we just want a roster capable of cutting down the nets in March. And let's be honest, Mark Pope has never assembled a squad that screams championship caliber, and the past team's beard seeing Kentucky on the schedule now they actually look forward to playing US. If a Pope led team actually went all the way, it wouldn't be as a preseason contender. It would just stun the entire basketball.

00:31:27
Speaker 5: World appreciate the call. I think Shannon, he had that written down.

00:31:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he hit it right at twenty eight, just.

00:31:34
Speaker 6: By the cadence. I think he had it written down. And normally I'm anti writing it down, but I think.

00:31:39
Speaker 5: It worked well.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: It worked for that.

00:31:40
Speaker 5: I know he wrote it down.

00:31:42
Speaker 6: He didn't totally like I'm guessing he wrote sometimes I know when people wrote it down. I'm guessing he wrote it down, but I don't know for sure. But if he did, Shannon, that's how you write it down.

00:31:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you timed it out perfectly. It's the buzzer on him. But he stopped right at eight twenty nine.

00:31:58
Speaker 5: It made it go Charlene. Oh, Charlene, how's Billy Bob?

00:32:03
Speaker 1: Huh?

00:32:04
Speaker 14: Okay? So I think when Jasper went to Oregon, I started investigating, like why Oregon. Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, is an Oregon alumnus. He ran track there and they just signed a multi year deal with Tyrone Stokes for Nike, and I think he's contributed over a billion at the university. I think he would pull Tyrone out there.

00:32:33
Speaker 6: All true, Some of that info had been out before about Phil Knight and Nike. Be interesting to see if Stokes goes there. Yes, with Stokes and Jasper, the ain't gonna be enough basketball.

00:32:47
Speaker 3: They say it was either Kansas, Kentucky or Oregon.

00:32:50
Speaker 6: Added Oregon. Yes, Oregon's like, which makes you go, uh oh. That was an interesting because Oregon wasn't really.

00:32:57
Speaker 3: Not on the radar so much so to speaking, it is.

00:33:00
Speaker 6: But I mean, honestly, if Tyron Stokes goes to Oregon, that's an even worse look for Kentucky. If he goes to Kansas, that's always been the school he kind of favored, it stinks, but you go, you know what, it's Kansas. But if he goes to Oregon, here's what it is. If he goes to Orgon, Nike has told him, you're going to a Nike school, and he's like, I don't want to go to Kentucky.

00:33:25
Speaker 3: Even though Kentucky may paying more money than he still don't want to go.

00:33:27
Speaker 6: Nike's paying this money. If he goes to a Nike school, it's Nike paying the money. But if he picks organ he is basically telling the world I had to go to a Nike school and I didn't want to go to Kentucky. That's that's the message. I'm not saying that that's good or bad. I'm not saying there there are red flags with Tyron Stokes that make people skeptical. I get it. That's why Duke didn't really recruit him. That's why I get it. But with that said, he was down to Kansas and Kentucky, and if all of a sudden he goes to Oregon, Charlene's right about the Nike thing, it's.

00:34:06
Speaker 5: Just because he didn't want to go here.

00:34:09
Speaker 6: If they haven't spent two years for recruiting him, it'll just be because he didn't want to go here. And that's also not a good look. He's gonna be the coolest player in America. He's gonna be the number one pick. And if it looks like he just couldn't stand the thought of playing here, Shannon, that's not a good look.

00:34:28
Speaker 1: No, not at all.

00:34:29
Speaker 4: Not if you lose out just because he doesn't want to play at Kentucky.

00:34:33
Speaker 6: If he goes to Kansas, it's not but he's wanted to Like, that's different to me.

00:34:39
Speaker 5: He's connected to self.

00:34:40
Speaker 3: Who said he was going to come back just to coach him.

00:34:43
Speaker 5: Whatever. But if he goes to Oregon.

00:34:45
Speaker 1: He'd be out there with Jasper Johnson after Jasper left.

00:34:49
Speaker 3: Huh, how do you recover from that?

00:34:52
Speaker 5: I don't know. You just have to hope that God's up to something what he is, So we're going to be down and out. Yeah, we'll be right back. Well, Joe no.

00:35:04
Speaker 1: Osborne, only the song ever written about God.

00:35:08
Speaker 5: That's right.

00:35:09
Speaker 6: Well, I mean there were some hymns back in the day that probably the God's up to some amazing grace. I think God's up to something that is in the power rankings of God songs. Yeah, quickly, uh, you know people, you guys know this, but my hymn knowledge. I challenge many sports radio hosts to go if we if there was gospel hymn Jeopardy, you'd win. I see they're bringing did you see they're bringing back they're bringing Sports Jeopardy. Did you see this that's gonna be on ESPN. It's really Yeah, Joe Buck is gonna host it. Yeah, would you watch sports Jeopardy?

00:35:45
Speaker 3: I at least I might know some of those questions regular Jeopardy. I don't know any of the questions after that.

00:35:49
Speaker 1: One guy stumped the schwab er.

00:35:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, well stumped the schwab Yeah, it's died.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: Didn't I think he died?

00:35:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Schwab died.

00:35:58
Speaker 1: Can't bring it back then?

00:35:59
Speaker 5: Actually think it was that long ago?

00:36:00
Speaker 3: It wasn't it?

00:36:02
Speaker 5: Yes? But I enjoyed stumped the sho.

00:36:04
Speaker 6: That was the show though you never like you want to talk about a show that probably the only show that had no groupies, Like there were no women you picked up, no more women being on.

00:36:17
Speaker 5: I don't.

00:36:21
Speaker 1: Mean there wasn't a line out the door for that.

00:36:23
Speaker 5: I don't think there were no. I don't think there were a lot of women that were stumping the shop.

00:36:31
Speaker 6: We have an announcement, Ryan Lemon, Uh, A lot of people have been wondering when this was gonna happen.

00:36:37
Speaker 5: Next week? Is you're eating so low? Week? Is gonna happen? Gonna happen?

00:36:44
Speaker 1: Started a year ago.

00:36:45
Speaker 6: You thought that people You thought people forgot, but they did not. We will start Monday, Ryan Lemon will eat so Low beginning on Monday. I'm riding it in the calendar one week from Monday through Oaks Day. Ryan eats solo. Are you excited?

00:37:04
Speaker 3: I've I've actually done it a couple of times since we had this. Of course I was wild eggs, but I did go eat.

00:37:08
Speaker 5: A while the sun is waiter there.

00:37:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, myself count sin and that the sun can come over and talk to you during You have to go in. You have to do what I did last night. Last night went to Ramsey's. Haven't been to Ramseys in ten years. Probably walked into Ramseys set at the bar. All the waitresses still wear the ties. Yes, why do they do that?

00:37:31
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's the kind of their thing.

00:37:32
Speaker 5: Why did why they do that? Shane? Waitresses wearing the ties?

00:37:35
Speaker 4: I don't know, But I have one question. Can Ryan set at the bar? Does he have to be at a table?

00:37:39
Speaker 6: He has to be at a table I said at the bar, all right, gonna be at a table.

00:37:45
Speaker 5: I paid for him. I'm going to give you a company credit card.

00:37:48
Speaker 4: No affiliation with anybody there though, right, No, you can't.

00:37:52
Speaker 6: And you are walking in cold to the restaurant. As a matter of fact, you I might assign you the restaurant.

00:37:58
Speaker 3: There's somebody comes up and talking, I'm.

00:37:59
Speaker 6: Gonna sign you the restaurant. She said, well, yes, you can get say, but that's what we should do. She and we should have signed the rest.

00:38:04
Speaker 1: That way, we know there's no affiliation. He doesn't.

00:38:06
Speaker 6: No affiliation. I can like figure out how crowded. I want it to be.

00:38:11
Speaker 1: Hm, Ryan's gonna hurt the chicken fingers everywhere.

00:38:14
Speaker 3: You gonna go to cast bar, one night bars, waffle house.

00:38:17
Speaker 6: No, you're going. We will assign that. We're also going to try to diversify your palette.

00:38:23
Speaker 3: All right, if you send me to one of those Indian places, you have to me hate.

00:38:27
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna you know, so starting Monday, you're eating solo.

00:38:33
Speaker 3: I guess I need to check this with yoga girl. She's in. Oh, she's in, she's in. Okay, Well, we.

00:38:39
Speaker 6: Haven't talked about it, but she's gonna be she's she's gonna I think she's gonna have this Monday for Friday.

00:38:45
Speaker 3: Okay, that's it, Monday through Friday next week, next week.

00:38:48
Speaker 4: But she's got to wait out in the car while he eats, so she has she has told her they both need some time apart.

00:38:55
Speaker 1: Wait in the parking lot. Honey, I'll be back in thirty minutes.

00:38:58
Speaker 6: Third right, thirty seconds. Terry Shepherdsville go.

00:39:02
Speaker 13: I'm so glad Buckle of tone down his back mark Pope. He's very intelligent individual. You don't think, as will Stein says, he's he's covered up in a church, scared to death because he didn't get didn't get Freeman. He's got a plan. And as far as this notion that he can't relate to these kids, he's got four daughters from seventeen to twenty five. You don't think he knows how to deal with drama.

00:39:25
Speaker 6: Thanks, well, I mean, I hope he has a plan. That's a very good that's an optimistic take on it. By the way, will Stein will be on this show tomorrow at eleven thirty.

00:39:37
Speaker 3: Very cool.

00:39:37
Speaker 6: We're going to do it's a special. He's going to introduce the team to us. We're gonna talk about actual people on the team.

00:39:44
Speaker 3: Good.

00:39:44
Speaker 6: So that's tomorrow at eleven thirty. Will Stein will join us. Braiden, go ahead, Braiden.

00:39:52
Speaker 15: Where we are. Where we are at as a program feels like a finger home. When I have kids, my kids will look up to me, say, Dad, what was it like back then we used to roll in the world and college basketball? What was it like in the Pope area?

00:40:06
Speaker 10: Dad?

00:40:07
Speaker 3: Pathetic?

00:40:08
Speaker 10: Kids?

00:40:08
Speaker 5: Pathetic? Wow, appreciate the call. I don't understand the funeral home part. What does that mean?

00:40:17
Speaker 3: I mean, we're almost dead.

00:40:21
Speaker 6: That's depressing. People think I'm negative. Ship that guy's talking about brutal. Yeah, Well, what do you think it would be like to work at the funeral home?

00:40:32
Speaker 5: People? You think they? I guess they just get used.

00:40:34
Speaker 1: To a lot of silence, Yeah, very quietays have to wear suits.

00:40:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, wear that.

00:40:39
Speaker 3: There's always sadness.

00:40:41
Speaker 5: Everybody had died. Never know.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: I got a friend that works at a funeral home. What is it and bombs the bodies. It's like he's like a director and everything.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: But does he just become I guess you become numb to.

00:40:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's just another job he has to pick up bodies, you know, bring them into the funeral home and bomb them.

00:40:57
Speaker 1: He does all of it.

00:40:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, m James, go ahead, James, James.

00:41:09
Speaker 1: Okay, you can't just sit in silence, all right?

00:41:10
Speaker 5: I know James.

00:41:11
Speaker 6: By the way, yoga girl just texted me and said, Ryan can't can't do dinner next Thursday night solo.

00:41:16
Speaker 5: He's helping me at school. What does that mean?

00:41:18
Speaker 3: That's okay?

00:41:19
Speaker 6: So that means you'll do Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from okay?

00:41:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you doing for an art fair? It's her big it's her super Bowl.

00:41:27
Speaker 5: But what are you doing?

00:41:28
Speaker 3: I set up and tear down and clean up and put tape stuff to the wall.

00:41:33
Speaker 7: I'm very valuable.

00:41:35
Speaker 5: I am very very valua, very valuable. Paul.

00:41:37
Speaker 11: Go ahead, Paul, Paul, Yes, can ill hear me?

00:41:46
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:41:48
Speaker 11: Three things? Number one, do you think Mark Co could recruit Patrick Patterson, Daniel Worden and John Hood? They were all taught fifty guys. I don't think you can do that. Number two, where are we finding a new ad? God? I think that's the high hiot on the list. Number three, why do we not build an outfield deck at a new baseball.

00:42:10
Speaker 6: All right, on the first one, I actually think he could. Those are actually kind of the guys I think Mark would do pretty well with. So yes, I think in theory he could recruit those A D. What are you hearing on the AD.

00:42:22
Speaker 3: I heard we're going to have one week and a half ago, so I have heard nothing since then.

00:42:25
Speaker 5: I thought there was like literally gonna be an announcement.

00:42:29
Speaker 3: I think there were plans in place for one.

00:42:31
Speaker 5: Do you think they changed their mind?

00:42:33
Speaker 3: I don't know what has happened, to be honest, I don't know. But maybe that person decided against it. Maybe they're still negotiated.

00:42:37
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:42:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was told that it was happening and then it just didn't. But then again I was told we would get Freeman RANSI, so we didn't.

00:42:49
Speaker 5: We didn't.

00:42:50
Speaker 6: So I don't know, But I I they need to get one now, yes, right, I mean you need to get one now because you're there's big deals. I mean just things like they're going to decide whether to expand the NCAA tournament, Like there's a lot of stuff.

00:43:07
Speaker 5: We need to have a voice in the room.

00:43:09
Speaker 3: We're a leaderless program right now.

00:43:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, Well, take a break. Come back out number two. Continue to take your calls. Ryan's already nervous about even by himself. It's KSR