2025-06-26- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Him to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio Present It by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now Here's Matt Jones walking back.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight FIM nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven Here in Shelby County at the Little Crooked Creek safari enjoin.

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Speaker 3: A hot day.

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Speaker 4: It's Kentucky Office, a Highway Safety KSR Safe Summer Driving.

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Speaker 3: Tour we have.

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Speaker 5: This was our third location. We went to Kenton County.

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Speaker 4: We were at a place in Lexington and now Shelby County, and we just saw, uh, there's a zebra. They said, the zebra is a loner, doesn't like to interact with the other animals, but seemed to like Mario, so.

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Speaker 3: That was nice. Yeah, I guess you gotta keep some of these animals separated. My fight a little bit. Learned a lot during the break.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I said, the zebra and the camel can't be in the same place. Remember, our friend Chris Tomlin used to write an article called Animal Friends. He could come up here and write Animal Enemy. He would write. He wrote for National Geographic for kids, and he would write about animals that were friends with each other that that you wouldn't think would be friends.

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Speaker 5: Not going to be the case with this cambel and ze.

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Speaker 3: He could he could learn a lot here. I like that Mario's getting along with the zebra. Did the zebra have a name? Did we learn that?

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Speaker 5: What's a zebra's name?

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Speaker 3: Zebra?

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Speaker 5: You like zebra? Brody the zebra? That's it?

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Speaker 3: So do you do all these animals? You have names for all of them? Oh? They lend themselves. So you like look at him and go that camel looks like a bob Okay, so what is like that one?

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Speaker 5: What's that? What's that? That's poppy?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Well, if there's anything not named, I think we'd be glad to name one of them if you want.

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Speaker 4: If no, he's not, he's not into that. I think he would have done it before I told him I didn't vote for Trump.

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Speaker 3: I think that probably tried to unplug the equipment when he's found that out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think probably. I think that probably did it.

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Speaker 4: Was I saw he's not a regular listener, so I think I could tell when I gave him that, he was like, who how did?

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Speaker 6: I like?

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Speaker 5: These people are a bumble words, But.

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Speaker 7: It's got to get the hell out of here. His sun in laws once set it up.

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Speaker 4: Mackenzie Mackinsley conveniently didn't tell him that fact, which I totally understand, I get it all right. Before I go to the phones eight five, nine, two, eight, twenty two to eighty seven, tell me about this quarterback.

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Speaker 3: We have a forth Potatoski.

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Speaker 4: We have a four star quarterback that is ranked number nine in America, the ninth best quarterback in America that multiple people are saying is going to pick Kentucky within the next week. My guess is would pick Kentucky before this July first thing. My guess is the idea that they want to do it before these rules come into place.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that, but that's my gas.

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Speaker 4: Get to July first, then all of a sudden the rev sharing rules apply, so potentially over the weekend or something, would end up picking Kentucky. On paper, this seems amazing and a little crazy that the ninth best quarterback would pick us. Give me a little bit about him.

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Speaker 3: I'd be a huge get, could really pop pop any moment he's really Kentucky and Oregon are the two finalists. Oregon just got a commitment yesterday, which makes us Fell even more comfortable. But Alabama was in his final mix. Went to the Elite eleven camp earlier this week, and really Shine won the MVP but was in the conversation for it early. He's also a two sports star. I think that's what's helped Kentucky so much is they've played up the baseball aspect too. There's also a chance he gets drafted really high and just goes to the baseball route. But this would be one of the bigger commitments in a long time. I know it's hard for people to get excited about things on down the road with Kentucky football when we have the season in front of us, but this would be one of the biggest quarterback gets that they've had.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the number nine ranked quarterback not from Kentucky. When's the last time we've had a dude ranked this high not from Kentucky commit as a quarterback.

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Speaker 7: Commit as a freshman's I don't know it's ever been one top ten quarterback.

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Speaker 3: When was the last time a freshman even I ended up playing? Where was was Morgan Newton?

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Speaker 5: Top ten?

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Speaker 3: He was pretty high. Yeah, I don't know if he.

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Speaker 4: But I mean the fact that we can't we don't know. I mean, this doesn't happen very much. I think the baseball thing is.

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Speaker 3: Part of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, mine own and Stoops have kind of worked together.

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Speaker 5: This is an interesting thing.

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Speaker 4: I wonder if we'll see this more often from what I've been told, maybe pooling their rev share money and saying you can get some of our baseball money and you can get some of our football money, which might lead to him being offered more than he could have to play one sport at Oregon. Kind of creative. Yeah, he's a very good baseball player. Kind of creative. If I like that idea, What do you think about getting a guy who, literally, I think is projected he could be like a top three round.

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Speaker 5: Baseball player, like third or fourth round.

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Speaker 3: Getting both a top three or four round baseball player and a quarterback that's top ten, that would be I mean that's a huge thing for both UK football in baseball.

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Speaker 7: I think if you're a place like Kentucky, you have to do something creative like that. If you're gonna try to get a top ten quarterback, play on. Let him think that, you know, he could maybe play do both sports. But I think the big fear is he's gonna get drafted and not play college football or college baseball at all. I mean, he's that good.

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Speaker 5: Well well, no, I mean the draft is coming up here A couple of weeks.

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Speaker 4: I think the baseball draft Kentucky since Vince Merriw left there on fire, has.

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Speaker 5: Gotten eight football commitments.

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Speaker 4: I mean when Vince left, we were down to two and one of them decommitted, so really one and they've gotten eight in the two weeks since he left. That's clearly a message, Dury. They're clearly trying to get this done. They're also focusing on Texas. Most of the players they're getting are from Texas.

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Speaker 3: What do you make of all that? It's pretty crazy. When the official visit season started at the beginning of June, they had one commitment and they were the only power for school in any of the big conferences that only had a single commitment at that point in next year's class. Now they're already in double digits in Texas. They've cast a wide net. Were used to seeing Kentucky and Ohio. When you go down the list, it is everywhere. They got another Michigan player, a tight end, got some out of Georgia, double dipped in Texas. They got a Texas defensive lineman yesterday. That's a good addition. It started a little slow with some players where you're like, this is really the caliber we want, but the last four or five have been really big gets and Ponatowski could be around the corner at any moment.

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Speaker 4: Well, you got to give you. I mean, we thought recruiting was done with Vince gone. They've seemed to bounce back and we're starting to see some other guys. That's good, that's a positive.

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Speaker 7: Great marketing move on UK's part. As Vince Lee's boom. Get all these guys to commit right now and the boom one after the other after the other. Got to get that momentum back that maybe they had lost when Vince left.

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Speaker 3: And Ponitowski's interview he said he liked the culture at Kentucky. What do we think about that? Really? Yea used to sea word saying culture look good, or if they told him to say, like hey break on our culture, say culture, or maybe he really saw something, but that was.

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Speaker 7: Such an emphasis on it made an impression with him.

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Speaker 5: Hope it will listen. I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: We are to the point and you're gonna hear me say this a lot between now in September. We are to the point that sort of complaining and being upset will only do so much. We gotta get as excited about this year as we can, cause it is what it is. At this point, there's no reason to just be miserable. I kind of feel like, I don't know, if you saw the GM, the Myers guy was with Steven A. Smith and Steven A. Smith was complaining about the Knicks or whatever, and he said, look, this the NBA Draft. Can we be positive about these guys since this, since once they're picked, they're picked. I kind of agree with him.

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Speaker 3: I sort of feel that way about UK football now, like we might as well be positive.

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Speaker 5: This is what we've got.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and all the complaints have been fairer, But I think you do have to give them credit for what they're doing recruiting, especially if they land a stud quarterback for the future whatever you think the future looks like. You at least have to pat him on the back for recruiting in June. Right now?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, who's up next?

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Speaker 3: Shit?

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Speaker 8: Free bird?

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Speaker 5: Free bird?

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Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hey guys, greetings from Trig Keunty. All right, you were talking about earlier. I think about like the games before Louisville, how disaster it would be that they don't get crowded. Then why are they still changing the uh? Rules for tailgating and pissing all the sands off. They don't want to come to this, don't you think.

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Speaker 4: It could be a start at that for a minute, So they made some new rules about tailgating.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. I read the rules. I mean, what is the difference, just that they're making people put their name tags on I feel like the only thing I noticed, and I wasn't in the weeds of it, but it looked like just tagging your tents and maybe putting your date thought instead of just expected it to be worse.

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Speaker 4: Me saying they were upset about the changes. But then when I looked at the changes, I couldn't figure out what they'd be upset about. It seemed like the only rule was that you had to put your name, address and phone number on your thing, which I mean, I guess I don't feel like that's crazy to say, put your name, address and phone number.

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Speaker 3: If it blows away, they'll know who it is because people already anything else about it. No, I mean, there's changes coming that weren't part of what was written yesterday about you know, they're bringing in some of those corporate tends might move people around RV Lott has complaints. But that story, I think Ross wrote it yesterday. I expected there'd be more in it that people be mad about. It didn't seem that bad.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, this year, you know, we've talked a lot about how the tailgating culture and all that, how bad it's gotten, or how much they've changed. This is gonna be the year that will tell the tale of it, because in the last few years we've either been good enough or the opponents were good enough that people's kind of got over it. This year, if the experience of going to the game is not pleasant, people are not gonna go.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's just I think that's just a fact.

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Speaker 4: So we're going to see in these various games, when we play Florida or when we play Tennessee, we're gonna kind of see where people are. And at some point UK has I feel like, I say this till I'm blue in the face. UK has got to prioritize the fan experience better.

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Speaker 5: I think they did better.

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Speaker 3: They're doing better than they did three years ago, but it's still not.

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Speaker 4: I don't think anybody sits there and says we'll be put a different way. I feel like people at UK take is a given that people are coming. Okay, they take it's a given that people are coming, and then adjust accordingly. I think they're gonna have to start doing things to ensure that people want to come, period, right, And I think that's something that really hasn't been their mindset in the last decade.

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Speaker 7: And it's gonna be more prevalent than in a season like this season, when they're the not the wins aren't on the field. They've got to make something for the fans. I mean, season tickets are already down. I mean, so what if they come out and they struggle, they lose a couple or games. People are going They're gonna be more orange in there for Tennessee and Texas than there will be blue.

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Speaker 4: A think, Oh I worry about that. You look at the Tennessee and Texas game. I mean, just take Texas. Texas has never been here. Okay, Texas has the richest fans. There's no fan base that is richer in the SEC than Texas. I'm not sure if people realize how wealthy the Texas University of Texas is. They are probably the wealthiest public school in America. With their alumni, they've never been here. Lexington is a lot nicer of a place to go than a lot of places you can go in the SEC. Then throw in it's the middle of October, it's during Keenland, which you know will get out there. Then throw in that they're good enough to potentially win a national championship this year. This might be the best Texas team they've had since Vince Young put all that in there. We are looking at a Texas takeover when they come. If our team is not playing at a left I mean, you could literally get a situation where there's more Texas people than there are Kentucky people. That is not a crazy scenario at all. We're getting the Texas takeover. You mentioned Keenland.

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Speaker 3: They still have that excitement about just being in the SEC, even though it's already have a year under their belt. It's all these new destinations they get to go. Lexington has become a huge tourist place. I don't know if y'all have noticed, but if you read any kind of those magazines at rank places, Lexington has really shot up the list of places to visit. So I think Texas is coming in strong. That'll be a Matthew McConaughey game. I'm sure we'll see him around town. You know, I didn't eve think about that because his dad played here. Yeah, so his dad played at Kentucky and he's a Texas fan.

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Speaker 5: If you're Matthew mcconnaie, you're coming to that game.

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Speaker 3: Or Texas wants this trip bad, They're gonna completely take over. It'll be burnt and orange everywhere.

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Speaker 7: Well, just like you went down to Texas last year. Fans like to go to a place they've never been. That's why I think it'll be a big Texas swarm in the Kroger field on they play.

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Speaker 4: By the way, the apparently the quarterback baseball player. Obviously, I said the draft was in two or three weeks. He's in the next year, so he will not be got a little more high school. Yeah, he's got one more year of high school. Listen, it would be good for Stoops if he gets that commitment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a lot of good news around Stoops if they get that. I know the rules about signing and how much you can play it up, but you gotta really, if you're looking forward to the future past this season, build around that kid, because that's you don't get many quarterbacks like that. I know Stoops doesn't use them. When's the last time we used a freshman commitment quarterback? But that'll be a big GIF if they pull it off.

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Speaker 5: One person rights Matt.

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Speaker 4: I've never had an argument in our family like the argument about Drew's ketchup comment last night. My daughters are mad about it. My wife is mad about it. For what it's worth, I agree with Drew, but not eating ketchup has caused major problems in our family.

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Speaker 3: I've got a lot of feedback about the ketchup. I don't feel like I said anything wrong. I'm not taking it back. He even set himself his daughters like ketchup. I assume they're probably young, probably under the age of twelve. Sorry to the wife, but I stand by it. I had a few people on my side who there were more than I thought I would have gotten, but I did hear from a lot of people who had done. Mario, you haven't you haven't eaten today?

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Speaker 4: You said you don't eat till noon. Are you holding out till our food thing at two thirty? So you're gonna be really hungry?

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Speaker 3: Like here?

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Speaker 5: You haven't you you haven't eaten at all? Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 3: Mario texted me about ketchup on the show. He was in Louisville. He was upset. Yeah, did you get any feedback from your unpopular opinion or no?

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Speaker 5: Nobody got mad at me. I don't.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure I know if the phone would ring on that one or not.

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Speaker 5: I will say this, I didn't get one.

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Speaker 4: This is all the folks that UK need to know every unpopular opinion that was said. Drew's ketchup one, Mario's breakfast one, what was yours?

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Speaker 5: TikTok one? Shannon?

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Speaker 3: What was yours?

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Speaker 2: Kentucky's football six wins?

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Speaker 4: Kentucky football six wins. All four of those got people writing saying they disagreed. You know what, No one took up for the UK pregame and post game shows. Not one person wrote me and said, man, they are awesome. Don't touch a thing, no one, And there are people that will argue with anything.

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Speaker 3: I say.

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Speaker 5: Nothing on that one. Just say we'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: A five nine two twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 5: Couple open lines.

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Speaker 4: Let's get get some folks in here before I go to the ones that we have. Did you hear the story about Hugh Freeze and what they did at Auburn? All right, so there's been some I don't know if Hugh Freeze hasn't been recruiting well or but there's been some fan discontent. So they looked up someone wrote on a message board for Auburn, Hugh Freeze has been playing golf every day and not working. And you know, it got its own life. So like the way people sometimes been giving Mark Stoop's a hard time, here, they were doing with Hugh Freeze.

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Speaker 3: So then somebody who did an ingenious thing. Do you know what they did? Or do I saw this? They are recording.

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Speaker 4: They went on the USGA site to find the handicaps for golf. And every time you play golf, if you want to keep up your handicap, you report what your score was. And they found that Hugh Freeze had played golf ten times in fifteen days in June. And the Auburn fans are now like, he's not working. He's played eighteen holes of golf ten times in fifteen days.

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Speaker 5: I'll note Mark Stoops no golf, it's.

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Speaker 3: Zero golf, zero golf. At June had played a little bit in May.

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Speaker 4: No golf in June, Hugh Freeze ten in fifteen days. If you found out your coach played eighteen holes of golf ten times in fifteen days, is that too much?

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Speaker 7: It is too much because June is maybe one of the most crucial months for football recruiting. It's a camp session, it's makeing you make your visits, and June is like huge when it comes to football recruiting. So you know, I've got family members that are big Auburn fans. They ain't happy with Hugh Freeze down there doing this.

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Speaker 4: Jaf Kay once said, you show me a man that's good at golf, really good at golf, I'll show you man that's neglecting something in his life, meaning either his family or his work. I always thought that was an interesting quote, Hugh Freeze. Would you be upset if you found out our coach had done ten to fifteen days golf?

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Speaker 3: I would, First of all, I believe this was al dot Com got to give them huge credit for this.

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Speaker 5: Let's pullshit worthy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you can go into the the USGA system and just look up golfers. Never would have thought to look up college football coaches in the South, but they had four or five that they found and reported on that. As you mentioned, Stoops playing the least. But I could see why fans would be all upset. There's some months were Okay, my coach to go recharge. He's earned some golf. But it's camp and visit season right now, Shannon upset if.

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Speaker 2: You're off the fan, Yeah, I mean, could you imagine if Stoops were out there and we found out he was golfing ten out of fourteen days or whatever it was. It's not like Auburn's good either.

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Speaker 3: What were they five or seven? Last year? There was a game in the last couple of years where there were rumors that Stoops had played that morning before the game, someone leaked a photo where there was a tea time under his name, which could have been him setting it up. It turns out he was him setting it up for a friend. But there were people very angry. We were about to play.

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Speaker 4: We had a game at night, and he had a tea time at like nine am.

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Speaker 5: Someone had taken a picture.

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Speaker 4: But it turned out that he was setting it up for friends that were in town at his country club.

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Speaker 3: But I I actually.

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Speaker 4: Think Auburn fans have a legitimate ten out of fifteen days, like you said, Ryan, in June, which is big for college football recruiting. June for college basketball kind of an off time, but June for college football is big.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, if you'd made the final four, even the playoffs, maybe we cut you a little slack. But man, when you're struggling, you're fighting for your job almost you need to be out there in the recruiting trail in the month of golf, during the dead period. For cried out loud, you can't golf during June like that.

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Speaker 3: I had a golf ten times in three years and I just working home my pajamas and talk to you guys, how is he able to do it?

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Speaker 5: By the way, from now on, they'll just not report their score.

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Speaker 3: Oh they're done. They'll use fake names in the handicaps. And by the way, it's easy. Just pick up the ball and don't report the score. It's much It's much easier to do that. Who's up next, Scott, Scott, Go ahead, Scott.

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Speaker 9: Hey.

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Speaker 8: I think at the end of the year we're going to have a really good UH football team. I think the the wins may not stars. It started back at matt Etlham and if you will look our best years, he developed two and three stars. And I think he's just better suited to be able to take some guys that may be hungry and have something to prove. And I actually think that there'll be an improvement this year and that maybe next year when he gets his guys back in there that he's comfortable with, I think that the football team may turn around.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so that I appreciate the call again, if you want to be optimistic A Shannon six Weeks, six wins Shannon about football, you would say Mark Stoops has always done the best when he has when he's kind of being underplayed, when he's being dismissed, when he has guys that sort of arnas you know, Arn is strong a players, he usually coaches him up.

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Speaker 5: I mean, is there an argument that that could happen this year.

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Speaker 3: There's probably a little bit to that. I completely agree that Stoops is a guy who probably likes to play from behind a little bit, whether than with the recruit he's trying to develop or being told he can't do something. That's usually when he's at his best is when his backs against the wall and he's the underdogs motivate. Yeah, when he's motivated. That's like right now when he put his golf clubs in the attic for the year and he's focused on recruiting. Yeah, you know, I agree. I mean his some of his best players were completely under the radar.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if UK was listening to the show, but UK put a picture right after we talked about him being thin and like how cal looked like. They put a picture out of him looking really thin, and I thought that, first of all, they were listening when they put that out. But he did look good. I mean, stoops stoop puts on and loses weight a lot, and he looks thin. He looks kind of like, I don't want to use the but he looks like he's kind of like ready to rocket.

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Speaker 7: He swagger back a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 7: The whole season, to me, depends on Calzada. He's gotta be good for this team to be good.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 7: Vandergriffkind struggled last year at the team struggle. Year before that, Leary kind of struggle a little bit the team struggle. If Kalzada is good, this team who maybe could pull out some wins. We don't think they can.

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Speaker 3: I think he'll be an upgrade no matter what. Yeah, I just worry about who he's throwing to Shannon.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little upset at our friend Tony Venetti. Would you like to know why what happened with you? I hadn't seen him in a couple of months. Ran into him yesterday and he came up to me and he goes, dude, are you like take You're taking ozimpic, aren't you.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I've just lost weight, and he was like, no, you don't have to lie to me you've taken ozempic.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, can't you just give me credit for losers?

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Speaker 3: Why you gotta say I'm taking ozimpic And he was like, you're not, and he wouldn't believe me.

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Speaker 4: And so people are saying the same thing about Mark Stoops. They're like, oh, he's just taking OZIMPI I feel like that's a bad thing about ozimpic, Like, I'm proud of myself.

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Speaker 3: I've lost way.

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Speaker 5: Don't be telling me I took ozempic Tony Venetti, and.

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Speaker 4: I feel like Mark Stoops should say the same thing unless he took ozempick, at which point then he can't say.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's taking ozempic. He's in the lab. They have all that exercise equipment over there. He's probably doing three of days. And I don't like Tony, who I heard was wearing a backwards hat yesterday, walking around with his backwards hat telling me I'm taking ozimpick.

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Speaker 5: Turn your hat around, Tony, be.

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Speaker 7: Proud of who you sell.

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Speaker 3: That's right. We'll take a break.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if there's anything wrong with taking Ocempic, but we'll be right back.

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00:24:09
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00:24:10
Speaker 5: There's one in Lexington, one in Louisville, and Shady Rays.

00:24:13
Speaker 7: Play right here in Shelby County too, right, yeah.

00:24:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's where the company start. You drive by it on the interstate. Now that big, amazing how much they've grown. We've set and watched Shady Rays and Cornbread hem yep, grow from like tiny companies to nationwide companies pretty much solely by yes, I mean I remember, I'm just kidding it go solely, but that, you know, big, It's been fun to watch.

00:24:37
Speaker 3: I remember standing over them when they were putting the last screw and the first pair of sunglasses they ever made. And now they got this gigantic facility right over here. You passed by same a cornbraad. We were in the fields with cornbread when the concept came up with the concept, and now look at them.

00:24:49
Speaker 5: What person writes is Vince leaving gonna be like Peev leaving.

00:24:54
Speaker 3: You're in Stoop's relationship.

00:24:56
Speaker 4: We'll get bad now that Vince left, like a basketball did with Peev. No, I mean I have direct communication with Mark. Not not a lot, but occasionally.

00:25:08
Speaker 3: So.

00:25:08
Speaker 4: No, I mean good, here's a good thing about Mark. I think he listens to too much criticism. But he's not the kind of guy who says, you can't criticize me. That's a cal thing Mark Pope. Same way. Like, if you're ranking the sensitivity scale of criticism, there's nobody that's been at Kentucky who was more sensitive about criticism than John cal Perry, which is why when cal Perry would always do his I don't listen to what they say. Even when I loved Cal, that was the most ridiculous thing ever, because Cal would like there could be a writer. I remember many years ago, when he first got here, there was a publication called Basketball News. Does anybody even remember that?

00:25:54
Speaker 3: I'm going to guess that they had basketball news.

00:25:57
Speaker 5: I think it was called Basketball News.

00:25:59
Speaker 4: It was like a nation wide weekly newspaper or something about basketball. Again, no one knows about it, but I guess Cal had been reading it.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: All is live.

00:26:09
Speaker 4: So there was some columnist on there who occasionally would criticize him for the whole you know, unfairly, the one and done and all that stuff. And whenever it would come in he would call me and Peevee and like be livid and say, what should I tweet out about this? And I would go, no one is reading this. The only way anyone.

00:26:32
Speaker 3: Will know it exists is if you tweet it out, like don't amplify, no one will even know it's happening. But he took.

00:26:40
Speaker 4: Criticism so personally. And you know, now go to the other end of the scale. There are guys who I don't even think know when things.

00:26:52
Speaker 3: Happen, right like Tubby.

00:26:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that Tubby ever knew what anyone ever said about him about anything.

00:26:59
Speaker 7: I don't think so either.

00:27:00
Speaker 3: You know.

00:27:01
Speaker 7: I think for guys like Stoops and cal they they try to rest on their laurels a lot of times, so when the things do go south a little bit, they get like, yeah, but remember when I did this? Yeah, I remember when I did that.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: Stoops does that. Stoops does the why don't people think about this? But I've never had Stoops tell me like Stoops has always said to me, I know, you got to do your job, Like he has said that to me probably thirty times before. He's then said, but but he always says that, And I appreciate that because you do have to do your job.

00:27:32
Speaker 5: But Cal never saw it like that really ever.

00:27:36
Speaker 3: Well Cal also had like didn't he pay someone to call into his radio shows in New Jersey? And like, well, I mean that's been that's been cal'sm for a long time. We'll see with Pope overtime, but I hope he's honest and what he said to you, and what he said openly about you know, I'm here to win. If I don't win, have at it. You know, say what you got to say, say what you're feeling, give your criticism.

00:27:56
Speaker 4: Pope said that not only publicly, like I said, he has said that to me privately.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: He says, if.

00:28:02
Speaker 4: I mean, he looked at me it was so refreshing and said, if you don't criticize me, this is not Kentucky basketball. If we ever get to the point that losing is okay, it's not Kentucky basketball.

00:28:15
Speaker 7: And we've got to that point in football where you know, we've had some success, we've had some really good years, so when things are not successful, we're going to criticize. I mean, you gotta take the good with the bad.

00:28:23
Speaker 4: I guess I've never really figured out I don't know how much like Mitch doesn't really speak directly to anyone, so it's hard to know what he thinks about criticism.

00:28:31
Speaker 3: I don't think he likes it, but he also doesn't tell you not to do it, so I have no clue what he thinks. I assume it's all of the email. They'll never be somebody that's more involved in UK sports that I will know less about as.

00:28:43
Speaker 5: A human being than I do. Mitch Parkarker.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: I've never spoken to him. This is my sixteenth year.

00:28:47
Speaker 4: One time Mitch invited me out to his farm. He has a farm out there in Midway right and he invited me or between Lexington and Midway, and he invited me to come out there, and he was very nice, like a great host, and he took me around on.

00:29:01
Speaker 5: A golf court on a golf cart and showed me his farm.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: He's very proud of it, like I don't think he I don't think he's out there tilling the land, but he he just like he's it's beautiful out there and he was showing me all of it. And I was there two hours and we talked and he couldn't have been nicer. He gave like he served a ham sandwich that was like a piece of ham and cheese and white bread. Exactly what you think Rich Barnhardt eats for lunch.

00:29:28
Speaker 5: That's what he eats, like no condiments.

00:29:30
Speaker 3: I see him pulling up to a little table with two chairs far offrom the farm and there's a picture of lemonade and two glasses there were. It was a long table.

00:29:37
Speaker 4: He sat on one end and I said on the other, like we were like an old British family.

00:29:42
Speaker 5: With that said, he couldn't have been nicer. It was wonderful.

00:29:45
Speaker 4: And then when I got back in the car, I thought to myself driving I don't remember one thing we said during those two.

00:29:51
Speaker 5: Hours, Like that's just how he is. He just doesn't reveal himself.

00:29:54
Speaker 7: I just felt like he does such a great job on the athletic side of it. He's kind of out of touch with the fans at times. One is important to but he does a lot of things really well.

00:30:03
Speaker 5: I think he's a net positive overall. Who's next? Will Will go ahead?

00:30:08
Speaker 3: Will?

00:30:09
Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, I got a couple of things for you. I know Kentucky has that sort of fake, fake tournament they have at Reparina. One problem I think we have is we have eight Division One teams in Kentucky and they playing seven different conferences. Yeah, so I wish they could play more because that's I think that's it would be good for our state if they were all able to play each other. And the second thing is there's a freshman softball player for Brackett County. She's her name's Kendall Johnson. Next week and starting tomorrow, she's playing in the Team USA, playing with Team USA in the fifteen under World Cup for softball. And she's over in Italy now and she's playing for the World Cup. I wanted to give her a shout out.

00:30:56
Speaker 3: Well, congrats to her. I think you know, I appreciate the call.

00:30:59
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna complain about our schedule because we have so many good games this year in basketball, I will say this, I'm little concern. One of the things that's important about RPI. Tubby was good at this, Cal ended up being pretty good at this. The stinky teams we played were good enough to win their conference, so they didn't kill our RPI. Just looking at the teams we play next year, we play like three of the worst teams in the country. Like I think we play I think Southern was like the worst team in the country last year, and we play them, So I am a little worried that can hurt you more than good games can help you. We're gonna play the team ranked like three hundred and fiftieth next year, so some of our steaky games, right drew maybe a little bit stinkier than they need to be.

00:31:44
Speaker 3: And I don't know the answer. I think Pope did that a little bit of BYU two, and he's done that in the past. He I think he has a method in why he does it. I don't know what that would be, but if you look at his schedule, or it could be because they do factor in margin of victory, that's what it. Maybe he sees, you know, he's a lot smarter than I am. Maybees a formula where if you beat a team by fifty it can help you.

00:32:03
Speaker 5: That's interesting, I hadn't you might be right about that.

00:32:06
Speaker 4: Maybe there's maybe he's looked at the numbers and beating but that means you got to beat him by fifty, like you can't win by eight or whatever.

00:32:13
Speaker 7: There's one guy that has figured out a way to use that to his advantage.

00:32:15
Speaker 3: His Pope. That would be interesting.

00:32:16
Speaker 5: I'd be interested to see, like if it maybe we'll ask.

00:32:19
Speaker 3: You, like, would I rather beat one team by fourteen?

00:32:22
Speaker 4: I'm gonna assume we're gonna win by fifty, but that would be maybe you're right about that.

00:32:27
Speaker 3: Who's next, Nancy? Nancy? Go ahead, Nancy.

00:32:31
Speaker 6: Hey, Matt, Okay, So I'm supporting you on the no shot deal on losing weight. I lost twenty nine pounds no shots, a lot of willpower, but it can be done. And so everybody thinks that, you know, oh, I can't wait unless I'm on those shots or something of that kind of you know, weight loss meds. That's not true.

00:32:51
Speaker 3: So if you just walk, you.

00:32:53
Speaker 5: Just if you just I appreciate that, thank you very much.

00:32:56
Speaker 4: If you just walk, if you're not someone that walks regularly, and you just walk, you'll lose.

00:33:04
Speaker 5: Seven to ten pounds quickly, Like quickly.

00:33:07
Speaker 6: Now I walk, Yeah, I'll walk in the morning.

00:33:10
Speaker 9: Yeah for an hour that.

00:33:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. Then ten pounds are harder, oh, ten pounds. If you're not someone that walks regularly, if you just go do it, you'll get rid of that first ten pounds pretty quickly.

00:33:25
Speaker 5: That is the Matt Jones.

00:33:26
Speaker 3: Weight loss tip of the Week. Does that include your walking where you stop and get skyline halfway? Is that also part of the tip?

00:33:34
Speaker 5: Well, you want to know the madness behind the skyline?

00:33:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to know it. If I walk from my house to skyline, here's the way, here's the math I do. The walk to skyline justifies the skyline. Okay, the walk back is my exercise. Ahh okay, that makes sense. Does that make sense?

00:33:53
Speaker 10: Yeah?

00:33:53
Speaker 3: Just so, just make sure you double the exercise.

00:33:56
Speaker 4: It's double the exercise if you're gonna eat Skyline. Now, if you want to eat normal food, you don't have.

00:34:00
Speaker 5: To double you.

00:34:01
Speaker 4: But if I I justify eating Skyline by saying, I'm gonna walk all the way out there, and now I've earned myself Skyline for the.

00:34:09
Speaker 7: Walk back, I like that. What about the donuts and the chocolate chip cook and we don't have to get.

00:34:14
Speaker 3: Into all that. He's a great chocolate chip COOKI he's ever made them. Thank you.

00:34:16
Speaker 4: You don't have to. You don't have to do it every day. I'm acting like I'm an expert. I'm just telling you I didn't take a shot. That's all I'm saying. Uh, tomorrow. We are Assured Partners seventeen ninety.

00:34:26
Speaker 5: Two, Ali Sheba Way or Hamburg in Lexington. Now here's the thing.

00:34:30
Speaker 4: First seventy five people get free food from Drakes.

00:34:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty good food.

00:34:35
Speaker 7: Food truck out there.

00:34:36
Speaker 4: We're gonna have a Drake's food truck for the first seventy five people at Assured Partners in Lexington seventeen ninety two, Ali Sheiba Way.

00:34:43
Speaker 7: They're a good host, right, we've done this before. Yeah, this one's maybe. I think we'll be outside and under a tent.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember a few years ago we went there. They had food trucks. A great great host for the show. Make sure you get out there. Close to my house too big, kind of hot. I'm not gonna lie to you, but you get free food, free food. It's close to Billy's house. Maybe Billy'll bite over.

00:35:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you want to do that, you could do that as well.

00:35:05
Speaker 4: If I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, we will take a break. Be right back here at the Little Crooked Creek Safari in Shelby County. It's KSR. Welcome back, take you sports Radio. I had some whispers from the basketball workouts, but it's gonna be a longer thing. I'll leave with that tomorrow. Let me give you one more thing with assured Partners tomorrow.

00:35:23
Speaker 7: Uh.

00:35:23
Speaker 4: Darius Miller is gonna be there at eleven am. He's coming to uh do a segment with us. So if you come out, you can meet Darius Miller as well. Love Darius, one of my favorites.

00:35:32
Speaker 3: Hadn't seen him in a while, but he's uh, he's local now after retirement. He's shuttled down around here.

00:35:36
Speaker 4: Put him up seat, you're yeah, he's he's struggling out here in the sun.

00:35:42
Speaker 5: All right, I got a question for you as a dad.

00:35:43
Speaker 4: All Right, My Carolina Hurricanes have a ton of cap space and are trying to make a deal to get like a star. They really of all the year they're they've been good for like ten years, but they're missing like one star and that's always been their issue. So they saved up all this money. They now have the money to get a star, so they're trying to get a trade to do it. They have a lot of people they can trade. They actually have a really good farm system. But one of the people that they could trade that other people would want is Rod Brenda Moor's is the coach's kid who So the coach's kid is one of the prospects that they could trade to go get a star. So you're the GM. You know the coach likes having his kid on the team. Can you trade the coach's kid? And, by the way, the coach usually signs off on it. Would you trade your kid to get the star that would make your team potentially be able to win a championship.

00:36:38
Speaker 7: I couldn't make myself do it. I couldn't trade my kid for somebody else. I just couldn't do it, no matter how good the other kid was.

00:36:45
Speaker 5: I would probably want you owe it to the team.

00:36:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't you owe it to the city. Don't you owe it to the hard working Carolina Hurricane fans that have supported you for twenty years to tell your kid get out.

00:36:59
Speaker 5: We need to GE's someone better than you.

00:37:01
Speaker 7: I love, but I love my kid. It's maybe not the best.

00:37:05
Speaker 5: Then we have to fire you.

00:37:07
Speaker 7: Oh I'm I'm taking the bullet for my kid.

00:37:09
Speaker 4: I so you would rather get fired than trade. It's not like you're trading your kid to the goulog He just goes and plays for a different team.

00:37:17
Speaker 7: Yeah, unless my kids signed off on it, I couldn't do it.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: I couldn't.

00:37:21
Speaker 5: So we're firing Ryan. Would you trade your kid?

00:37:24
Speaker 3: If I'm the head coach, I walk into the gym's office with my son, I set my son down and we trade him right there together, and I say, up here to win. I wanted to look him in the eyes as I shipped him somewhere else to let you know how serious I am about when.

00:37:35
Speaker 7: He's gonna be a little awkward.

00:37:37
Speaker 5: And you also teaching your kid a lesson? Yeah that, like you know, this is business, this is we I still love you.

00:37:42
Speaker 3: I'll see it Christmas. Yes, I will be No, he won't.

00:37:45
Speaker 7: He ain't coming around at Christmas.

00:37:46
Speaker 3: Now, fine, then I won't see him Christmas. But I love my sh know I'll fire. I'll fire him Christmas morning. Well, I will get around the Christmas. Trade him? How serious?

00:37:57
Speaker 4: And trade your son? If it means helping your team win a championship?

00:38:01
Speaker 2: Why are you asking me? You already know the answer to this. I mean, there's business, there's family. The kid has got to go. It is your job to put the best team out there. I don't care if it's your kid, your mom your grandma. You gotta trade them off and get the best players.

00:38:15
Speaker 1: Right.

00:38:15
Speaker 5: Let's look at it as a fan.

00:38:17
Speaker 4: Let's say Mark Pope had a kid, okay, and we're one player away from you know, there's now a hard cap on players fifteen.

00:38:24
Speaker 5: We're one player away from getting a title.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: There's a dude out there in the portal that, if he comes, is the missing piece to us winning a title. But I'm sorry, Mark Pope's kid has to go, and Mark says, I can't do it. I can't tell my kid. No, the Kentucky fans are gonna lose their minds.

00:38:43
Speaker 3: This is easier for me. All he has to do is scoop back one seat into the row behind him from the bench. So with the Pope family it's like he's on the team. But sorry, that's pot's gunn.

00:38:52
Speaker 4: Are you keeping your kid and then not winning a title for the Big Blue Nation?

00:38:56
Speaker 3: Yes?

00:38:56
Speaker 7: Oh, my good blood is thicker than anything else.

00:38:59
Speaker 3: John, he did this. He did do this.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: Employment line.

00:39:03
Speaker 7: Tubby Smith did this. You know, Hedd didn't sign some other guys because Saul was the point Saw.

00:39:09
Speaker 3: Could at least well yeah, I mean topic.

00:39:12
Speaker 5: But people didn't like it. People didn't like when he did that with Saul.

00:39:15
Speaker 7: But this dude, son's obviously good enough to play in the NHL. He's a good player. I can't do. It's no way I can look my son in the eye and said, dude, you're out. I gotta get somebody else.

00:39:23
Speaker 3: He's good enough that he's a good trade piece to go get something better.

00:39:26
Speaker 4: Brenda Moore and you have a chance to get a star. You gotta tell your son, and I from what I know of Brenda Moore, he would tell him.

00:39:33
Speaker 3: How long has he been there? I think that matter. See, yeah, he's got to look out for the franchise.

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00:40:12
Speaker 5: Who's next shift?

00:40:13
Speaker 3: It's good, Josh, Josh?

00:40:14
Speaker 11: Go ahead, Josh, Yes, first time caller, a long time.

00:40:19
Speaker 5: Why what's up?

00:40:20
Speaker 3: Josh?

00:40:21
Speaker 11: Okay? I'm with you on the no shot because in nineteen ninety or twenty sixteen, my bad I weighed three hundred and ninety eight pounds wow, and started started on vitamin water and minerals and CB deal. I also have a real bad case of sizures. But from two or yeah, twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen, I went from three ninety eight to.

00:40:50
Speaker 5: One wow pounds.

00:40:56
Speaker 11: I lost two hundred and eight pounds.

00:40:58
Speaker 3: Good for you.

00:40:59
Speaker 11: Nobody really read recognizes me for it.

00:41:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.

00:41:04
Speaker 4: A lot of discipline. Are you so you're you're? Are you in good health now?

00:41:11
Speaker 11: I still have ephilpic seizures pretty much every day, But yeah, I'm sir.

00:41:17
Speaker 5: That doesn't mean you're not in good health.

00:41:19
Speaker 9: I have seizures too.

00:41:21
Speaker 5: You can.

00:41:22
Speaker 4: I mean, I know it affects if you haven't fix your life much more than than mine does mine, But still don't we When people tell you you're not in good health.

00:41:32
Speaker 11: Well I'm in good health. I got back into UK neurology. That's what I'm really looking forward to. And I got my medical marijuana card.

00:41:41
Speaker 6: That's why.

00:41:44
Speaker 3: Well, I hope it helps you with that, and uh, I appreciate it.

00:41:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what it does for a whole lot of people. So I appreciate you calling certain good luck to you.

00:41:55
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, y'all have a blessed day.

00:41:58
Speaker 3: There you go.

00:41:59
Speaker 5: That's a good inspired story to finish today.

00:42:01
Speaker 3: Right, the two hundred and eight pounds, don't you forget those eight pounds.

00:42:04
Speaker 4: Cost two hundred and eight pounds, which is what we're gonna put on when we go to this kitchen here in just a little bit to test the food.

00:42:11
Speaker 3: I'm nervous. I'm already sweating more than I thought I was gonna sweat here today. I'll definitely be sweating when we eat the food.

00:42:15
Speaker 5: Listen.

00:42:16
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00:42:28
Speaker 3: Here?

00:42:28
Speaker 5: Mario?

00:42:28
Speaker 3: Here comes Brody the Zebra.

00:42:29
Speaker 5: There's old Brody the Zebra. Keep him away from everybody.

00:42:32
Speaker 7: He's got but on the hammock.

00:42:34
Speaker 5: He's a little bit of a loner. Is that what he's using the hammock for?

00:42:37
Speaker 3: We got along with zebra.

00:42:38
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