2025-02-10- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones water back.

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Speaker 3: I number two Kentucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Cas bar now open if you want to join us. Had a fun day here Saturday, full crowd early in the morning before the game, then during the game, uh, and then when I did the postgame show after the game. It was a fun, fun day in here. And then Otaga Oway had a signing yesterday. Mario documented a lot of the cute pictures. Nice job with the crowd coming out with no notice. I mean we didn't even we didn't even know for sure he was coming until like seven o'clock. And then they changed the time at like ten o'clock because we were supposed to be two to three point thirty. Then Mark Pope called a film session for three o'clock. Normally he gives him Sundays off. He called him in for a film session, so we had to move it up to one o'clock so Otaga could get to his film session. But normally they Sundays off. They said, no, we need a film session because we got Tennessee coach and.

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Speaker 1: People still came. Line was out the door before you started at one o'clock, so they were excited to come meeting.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like it looks to be a very young crowd too. I mean, the kids loved coming out meeting all the players. Like you said, Mario did a great job of cathering and all. But that when Tago walked in and that line was out the door, I knew he was in for a fun afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Was impressed.

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Speaker 3: I mean, big shout out to UK fan base because you know, one of the things is they wanted to do these signings, but they didn't want to announce it for a Sunday lose and then have people complain, so they were like, we're only doing them after we win. But that means there's like no time to promote it really and so to have that crowd with really no time promoting, big salute to everybody for that, for making the otaka seem to.

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Speaker 4: Really enjoy it, and on Super Bowl Sunday when people have a lot of plan we.

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Speaker 3: Didn't mention, by the way, our commercial, the UKFCU commercial, So you had told me it was gonna be between the first and the second quarter, That's all we were told.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was I was excited.

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Speaker 3: I turned the TV you know, we have it on, and then there we are, and we come on and you spit directly in my face, which is really nice to have a debut on, if not national television, at least local television, just with Ryan Lemon spinning directly in my face. You know, they use like cameras that make you look like a movie star. So I'm glad that I got to be movie star. Good getting spit in my face, But that was neat. I have to say it was kind of cool to have a commercial on the Super Bowl. I mean, I know it wasn't It's not quite Sydney Sweeney and the Harry met Sally commercial, and I'm not on Bill Belichick's girlfriend's level, but nevertheless, it was still cool.

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Speaker 1: I got to re tell this story because you were a trooper that day. Man, I'm telling you, you stepped up and took one for the team. Because I was supposed to just spit water on the floor, and then you said, let's do it again. I'll aim spit on me. You had to get like a red jacket on.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I was like, if I'm gonna come out here and do this, let's make it funny. And I was like, you know, if you're can have a spit take. Having it go in your face is funnier than on the ground. So I was like, just you know, it's not something I say a lot in my private life, spit in my face.

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Speaker 5: But I was like, you know what, just as a run. Not definitely not.

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Speaker 3: To ryme, but I was just like, you know what, spit in my face, and uh and and.

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Speaker 5: And it worked.

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Speaker 1: He said you got one take again.

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Speaker 5: I said, if you don't get this take, it's not happening. And then they did it, so you know what it is.

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Speaker 4: So you got to do it for the bit. You're an actor. You channeled your Daniel day Lewis. You got completely into the role and sacrifice that. Everybody's got their thing. Daniel day Lewis had my left foot, Lincoln.

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Speaker 3: I have a Sasquatch commercial with Kobe Brea and UK Federal Credit, and everybody has their sort of one that that that the sticks out.

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Speaker 4: Did you get sick after Ryan spit on you though, because you know sometimes he has these head colds and sun headaches and all the stuff he going on and.

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Speaker 3: Get sick, But that was like it was like a week later. So I don't think. I don't I don't think he did. He he did that too.

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Speaker 1: It good performance behind the scenes. As soon as it happened, all the entire crews like it. Win in his mouth and win in his mouth.

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Speaker 3: Another thing, Shannon that I don't like to hear people just say out out yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean like you don't need to be screaming.

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Speaker 3: It went in his mouth everywhere lives forever.

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Speaker 5: So so there was that.

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Speaker 3: Now I have one more story I want to tell you that is nonsports, and then we'll get back to Kentucky. I may have laughed harder yesterday, Drew than I've laughed in a long time.

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Speaker 5: So I went old school.

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Speaker 3: Lexington this weekend to restaurants like everybody always likes the hot new thing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah right, I went old school. I went to two of the oldest restaurants in this city.

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Speaker 3: First, I went to Paisanos out on Nicholsville Road. Yeah, I hadn't been there in thirty years. And I say this with love and reverence. They haven't changed the place at all since then. I haven't changed it thirty years. They haven't changed anything. Same rolling chairs.

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Speaker 5: Right, So food's good.

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Speaker 3: They were a little understaff, which having done this restaurant, I've learned to kind of have sympathy for right but very old school, you know what I mean, very old school. And the crowd, the crowd there looked like it was like casino night on a casino on the Mississippi River.

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Speaker 5: Like it was.

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Speaker 3: It was like the buffet at four point thirty. But you know what, food was good. It's usually good. Then yesterday my parents were in town and we went to Dudley's. Oh wowka, you know Dudley's. This, Yeah, I love Dudley's. It's a very like old school Lexington thing. So Larry and I are sitting on one side of the table. Mom is in the booth. This poor server all right again, I don't blame her. She was doing the best she can. She's walking, and she's walking behind us, and she gets about five feet behind us, and I hear her like trip, and you know how you can hear plates fall.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hear it fall.

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Speaker 3: And then there's like a two second pause, and all of a sudden, two seconds later I hear troop and Ketchup has flown through the air over top of me and landed directly on Larry's bald.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, he is I don't you have to.

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Speaker 3: Understand, all of you that have seen I love Larry. Larry's eighty seven years old. But there is now ketchup on his pants. There is a like a cupcake, a little blop of ketchup on the top of his bald head, like on the peak of his head, and a.

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Speaker 5: Little dollup is hanging from his ear like an earring.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now he sees it.

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Speaker 5: Was there something about Larry. That's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: He sees it on his pants and he's wiping up his pants.

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Speaker 5: But I look at him.

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Speaker 3: He has a ketch up on the top of his head and an ear ring of ketchup, which I don't think he can feel, hedn't know it. And I fall on the like I cannot stop laughing. Poor ketchup head. He's sitting there with ketchup on his head, and I, rather than cleaning him off, I just couldn't stop laughing. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen. I then come I cleaned him off. There of course mortified, right like they're mortified. They feel awful, But I want to thank them because I will have the picture of Larry with that ketchup head, like literally that is in my brain forever.

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Speaker 5: Ryan.

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Speaker 3: It was one of the They ended up giving us free desserts, which they didn't have to do.

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Speaker 5: I should have paid them for the ketchup that was on the top of his head.

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Speaker 1: Funny just hearing you tell the story. I can't imagine sitting there saying, I putter, you didn't take a picture of him before?

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Speaker 5: You want it too?

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Speaker 3: But I was like, I feel like that. My mom wouldn't don't you post that? But I but I couldn't.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't help it.

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Speaker 4: With his little I would love I would love to see a photo of that. I went to Dudley's week ago too. I guess, I guess we're playing all the hits. I had a good time there. No, it's very good.

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Speaker 3: People should people should go there, all right? Tucky and Tennessee tomorrow, how do.

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Speaker 5: You feel about it?

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Speaker 4: Before South Carolina, I said, four game win streak incoming. I'm sticking with it. I doubt Tennessee takes forty five three pointers this time around and clanks the fourth of them. That was very helpful in Knoxville. But I still like how Kentucky's getting back to full health, assuming we have Jackson Robbins in a little better off after the After the game Saturday, I had a big brace on his wrists.

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Speaker 3: I kind of didn't like we put him back in because then he got hurt, like one play later and he was holding his I mean we were up twenty at that point. It felt like we could have you know, because I worry about that. That's his shooting hand. Now he did make a couple of threes, so I feel like he's not you know, he's clear, but I do work that's something you know, as a person with a wrist injury that can linger, and we need it to not linger. So my view is, man, make sure we because we can't score what the amount we need to score without him putting him buck.

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Speaker 5: So I hope, we hope we get that help. I was.

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Speaker 1: I was worried about him. His first couple of shots were short, you know, hit the front of the rim. That he finally got on track and hit a couple. I'm like, you mean, when I got about twenty, just pull him out, just sit him down, no sense reinjuring it. And then of course he did. Now, last time we played Kentucky went down there, you know, really short handed, didn't have Butler or Car probably have our best win of the season to win down there without those two guys. Now you got now you got him back at full strength, and you got him at home. You gotta look as good as Tennessee's defense was, we still found a way to exploit it last time without Butler and Car.

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Speaker 3: But do you think like the fact we won down there makes it less likely we win here? I mean with during col Era, there was a couple of years where we beat them there and they beat us here. It was like it was odd we kind of alternated. I think they did that with Florida. This year they beat them at Florida. Florida beat them in Knoxville. H Do you worry about that at all?

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Speaker 4: A Litto, I haven't swept them much with Barnes there, and but the recipe is gonna be the same, sag off and dare them to shoot. Hopefully it's as bad as it was the first trip down there. But that's what the game will come down to if Tennessee take advantage of those threes.

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Speaker 3: It is worth noting that we beat them without Butler and Carr, and we're gonna have those guys, and you got to think we have a better chance. Car specifically, I think, you know, can help with the matchup with their big guy Igor or whatever his name is, because he gave us, he gave us problems down there, So I think Carr will be an extra. You know, that guy's slow, so it's got a guy Car I actually think can defend a little bit. Yeah, he had a big game.

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Speaker 4: Amar played well in that game too, had a big double double, so hopefully he can run that back. I also just think the crowd will be a big part of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So what about the crowd do you expect?

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Speaker 3: I mean, we most of the time, these big games against big teams, we tend to play on Saturday. Our Auburn game coming up is on Saturday. This is a Tuesday night. You think the crowd will be ready to rock. I think we've seen it. They absolutely will bring it to allrow night. You know, we've gotten lucky none of those nine o'clock Tuesday night games, which kind of maybe's fans stay away from these seven o'clock games. Man, the crowds have been absolutely fantastic so far. We have had a lot of I mean, the only nine o'clock game on the schedule during the week as we play at Oklahoma at nine o'clock. But we've gotten very fortunate about having the games B seven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and really just since the Pope era has started, Rupp has just been a different animal. It's been good for just about every game. This Saturday was awesome. I have no doubt they'll show up even though it's a Tuesday night. It's Tennessee. They'll want to be in there and pack it and be loud.

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Speaker 3: Now there's another big game, which is tonight. UK women are at Old Miss. Now, let me set up for you the UK women's.

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Speaker 5: Thing here for a second.

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Speaker 3: We've only lost one game in the conference. This team is twenty and two. They're gonna probably be ranked in the top ten this week. Yeah, for the first time in a long time for UK women. They play at Old Miss tonight. They're favored. Kentucky should win. Oh missus good though, but they can win if they win, though, Thursday night is gonna be one of the biggest if we win, one of the biggest games we've ever had here in Lexington. You know, South Carolina already has a loss in conference, has a loss. Texas has a loss, so do we. But we played Texas here and we still play LSU here. Now we have to go to South Carolina. They're gonna play Texas here. If we win tonight on Thursday night for first place in the SEC, it'll be the first time two top ten teams have played each other in here.

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Speaker 5: In like a decade.

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Speaker 3: You have to go back to when Matthew Mitchell went against the Lawson at not Loston. I'm sorry, why do I was forget her name, Chris, No, it's South Carolina, Oh don don Stateley. When they had that game eight or nine years ago that I went to. They played on a Sunday and they were both top ten.

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Speaker 5: This will be the last.

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Speaker 3: Time I'll have a top ten matchup, and we we'll probably have that here Thursday.

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Speaker 5: But we gotta win tonight to set that up.

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Speaker 1: I think Kentucky's don't announced it to sell out. The Texas game's already sold out. I believe should be.

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Speaker 3: I'm going yep, I mean like that, this is gonna be one of the more exciting women's.

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Speaker 5: Games that we've ever had at this school.

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Speaker 3: I mean it like it's But now you gotta win the night to set it up. But there's a chance Thursday night. Drew you're talking about one of the elite environments and elite games that Kentucky has ever had for their women's program.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, I said Pat Summit. I remember a Tennessee game going to one over there when Matthew Mitchell was the coach and some it was still the coach. And I mean it, you would have thought Memorial was Ropperina, how rowdy it was. And it's only gotten better. The venue has gotten better with the remodel. I think it's gonna be awesome in there. And tonight's game and that game are both nationally televised two, So if you can't make it.

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Speaker 3: For people who don't know that game is on ESPN two and the game Thursday night, I believe it's on ESPN.

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Speaker 5: I believe it.

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Speaker 4: I think it's back to back ESPN two, back to back ESPN two. I mean it's it's on national TV.

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Speaker 3: So tonight let's all watch. But then Thursday, if we win tonight, we're doing a thing Thursday just like that. To me, what Kenny Brooks has done at UK is worthy of celebration, and then Thursday night is the chance to do it, cause you're getting I mean I didn't think we'd have a match up like that here in a long long time.

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Speaker 1: You get that win, then you can really start dreaming about some special things going on. So if they get that win.

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Speaker 3: Then they'll play LSU the next week and you're like, wow, we could win the SEC.

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Speaker 5: Yeah you know. I mean that is if they can win these two games this week.

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Speaker 4: If they win tonight, it's ties the best start in school history through twenty two games, just to show how well they're playing.

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Speaker 5: And like, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I do think we're allowed, now, Shannon, to put were Wolves of London on there. Well, I think so it is. I think it has to be like twelve seconds or under, but just on the intro. So okay, we're allowed to do that. I don't think we can do all the other stuff, but I do think we can do were Wolves London.

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Speaker 1: So, Shannon, the music selection adds so much to our show.

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Speaker 5: I hate that.

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Speaker 3: I hate that can That's one of the things I hate for the podcast people. But it's like you know, I mean, it's all radio shows on podcasts.

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Speaker 5: Uh, it'll get It'll get worked out.

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Speaker 3: Someday, like I heart, and the music companies will reach some resolution, I'm sure, But for right now, uh, we we're gonna have to get some band to just give us all their music.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how we're gonna be able to do that.

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Speaker 3: The Texas game is not sold out, by the way, not sold out, so Thursday night, if you want to go, I mean, this is a top ten women's matchup, and I'm sure it'll be sold out by game time, but if you want to go, there.

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Speaker 5: Are tickets now for Thursday night.

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Speaker 3: It's the next two games after that that are sold out, the two weekend games. But Thursday night against Texas, you still there's still a handful.

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Speaker 5: Of tickets left.

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Speaker 4: They play Thursday and turn around play Sunday there too.

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Speaker 3: Did someone tell me it's supposed to snow eight inches tomorrow? When did that happen?

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Speaker 1: Three to eight inches? I think they're projecting starting this tomorrow morning?

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Speaker 5: Like, who said that was? Okay? We played Tennessee tomorrow. Yeah, I just know.

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Speaker 4: Got the snow out of my yard from the last one.

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Speaker 5: What is that? Well?

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Speaker 3: Now that now that might make a difference. I'll tell you this though, When it snows like that, the people that go.

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Speaker 1: To the game more into it, more into it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they feel like, we're gonna say this to all of you that are listening.

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Speaker 3: If it gets if we get eight inches of snow and you can't come here, send me the tickets and let me give them away so that that arena is loud, all right.

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Speaker 5: I mean I'll I'll.

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Speaker 3: Make sure i'll because there'll be people here who would walk to that in Lexington. Don't let your seat go unsold because of the snow. Yeah, not for the Tennessee. Not for the Tennessee game. If this were some other like uh, you know, terrible game, that's different. But for Tennessee, we got to have a crowd in there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is big for SEC tournament seating. You're placing the conference Listen, get to buy.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be hovering most likely around seven, eight, nine, ten in the SEC.

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Speaker 5: So that so to get a bye and did not.

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Speaker 3: Have to play five games in five days, which is what you would have to do. We gotta win some We gotta win at least one this week to make that happen.

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Speaker 4: You'd feel comfortable over Tennessee though, you'd have the same record with the tiebreaker there, and they still have some tough games. This is big for the head to head with where we got some bad luck because Old Miss was about to lose to LSU and then they went and came back.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about those Saturday games for a minute. Clips and Beats Duke. Yes, we've played both of them, so it really didn't matter.

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Speaker 4: Cooper flag falling down here.

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Speaker 3: Cooper flag is now falling down at the end of three games, you is that just coincidence? Like, why is my man just does he just trip? Why does he have why does he.

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Speaker 1: Have three fall downs at the end of three games? You gotta think the fact that's happened three times. It's something he's doing mentally, like he's not gonna get in his feet set When he tried to make that jump stop, he just tried to move too fast, do too much.

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Speaker 5: And this was like a banana peel fall.

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Speaker 3: Like this was like like he would like it was like like that one was a wild.

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Speaker 4: One as a cartoon looney Tunes fall right in the big moment. But I mean the story of that game, I didn't care who won. Really, it was so good to see Dicky V that intro that was not I admit I just got a little wet there a little bit watching Dicky V have his moment and.

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Speaker 3: He you know, his voice is not as strong, but he's still got the inders, you see, right, Like he's still got the pinty.

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Speaker 5: Beer coop of flags a real thing, baby.

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Speaker 3: And even though I can't stand Duke and like I don't, I like it's fitting he does Duke games because that's really his thing. You know he loves he loves the whole dupe thing Clemson, though, Shannon, I still loved the dude on Clemson. Well, you you were at wrestling, so you didn't see it. The dude at Clemson that tore us up, that looks like just a regular guy schefter, Scheffler, Sheefflin or whatever.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how is that guy good? He he tore duke up to you?

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Speaker 3: How is this dude that doesn't seem one bit athletic?

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Speaker 5: He had twenty rebounds against us? How does he do it?

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Speaker 4: He had double against them too.

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Speaker 2: It was I remember that guy though when we were watching it at the bar of the Clemson.

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Speaker 3: Looks like me with Carrott Top's hair, That's what they say, but it's not.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that's fair, But like, how does he do it?

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Speaker 4: I don't know such a YMCA game And that was my first time watching Clemson since we lost to them. It was just a flashback to that with him and the guy. But it looks like he's fifty. Maroline Clipson back to a dark place.

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Speaker 3: That Clemson team is sorry, because then you had cal Perry and Arkansas. They were down twenty to Alabama with six minutes left and ended up having a shot at the end to tie it.

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Speaker 5: Big Z just decided to become Novitzky at the end.

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Speaker 1: Big Z end up with twenty four twenty five points. I think he hit four or five three pointers.

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Speaker 3: Worst mustache I've ever seen, Z? What Someone tell me? What is happening with Big Z's mustache? Did you see it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I squinted. Now you had to squitch to see it. Yeah, I saw it.

00:21:20
Speaker 5: He looks like in like.

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Speaker 3: A British detective show, how there'll be just one guy with a little like that is Z.

00:21:28
Speaker 5: That's the worst mustache I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: He shut the ball so well I would keep it. Maybe that's, you know, a good luck charm for him.

00:21:35
Speaker 3: He looks like he's like trying to change his identity for a party or something like in be French.

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Speaker 4: I think he's one of those long like cigarettes that are in the hole We're.

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Speaker 5: This mustache is I've ever seen in my life? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: But he was incredible. I mean they would have gotten destroyed if he hadn't taken off in the second half. He was the entire offense that game, and it was a little hard to watch as someone who still loves big Z.

00:21:57
Speaker 3: Did you see yesterday when they I told Hugh B. Brown goodbye? I missed it. I didn't see.

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Speaker 5: That ninety one years old.

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Speaker 3: You know, I watched about the last quarter of that game, and like it's clear, like his voice, he's I can see why he's quitting, but his mind is still like he's seeing things on the court. And they kept showing highlights of him, and there were a couple of things that I thought were cool. One he was like an old man pistol pete. They showed him at like a basketball clinic, and he was in on a basketball clinic.

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Speaker 5: Like on the streets of New York.

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Speaker 3: So he's surrounded like by all these young black kids and he at this time is like fifty five, and he's throwing it between his head and between his legs and all, and they're going crazy. Also, you know, he coached the Kentucky Colonels. Ye, so a lot of the videos are from when he was then. And on his goodbye he said, my two years with the Kentucky Colonels were the happiest two years of my life. That's awesome because you know he won a title I think with them as well. And so he had the suit and the Kernel's thing, so that was kind of.

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Speaker 5: Neat as well.

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Speaker 4: I liked all the players. When Sugar's hand and there's a part where he says, can we pause for a moment while I'll have a tear like you know, you could tell us just getting to him for everybody say that out loud.

00:23:14
Speaker 3: It's spent his whole life and to still even be trying at ninety one.

00:23:19
Speaker 5: To me, that's inspirational.

00:23:20
Speaker 3: Like when these old guys like Corso and Vital and you be doing. It's easy for people to say, hey, just move on, but there's also something inspiring about a person that wants to keep going even if it's not great, they still want to do it.

00:23:32
Speaker 5: I love that about him. We'll take a break, be right back' KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

00:23:42
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00:23:45
Speaker 5: Here's Matt Jones, walcome back.

00:23:47
Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Hey if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven some text machine ones, we've kind of been just talking. Let's go to their seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person writes, Matt, do you still think it's since firing when senators want to be a senator when they're ninety years old less?

00:24:04
Speaker 5: So I think those guys can step us.

00:24:07
Speaker 3: I'm not saying they can't be in the workforce, but you know, some of these men and women like Mitch and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Grassley and some of those man he's Stebby.

00:24:18
Speaker 5: You know, we y'all can keep going.

00:24:20
Speaker 3: I just with the announcers thing I think is probably that's a little different to me.

00:24:24
Speaker 5: You know.

00:24:25
Speaker 1: I think it was during the Clemson Duke game, Corey Alexander said he was telling a history about Hue Brown. He said he would come out like an hour and a half two hours before every game with a yellow notepad and write down notes for the game. Who's already call?

00:24:37
Speaker 3: I'll tell you when you get around like real professionals, and you see what they do to prepare for the game. Like if you ever get a chance, if you're at a basketball game, walk.

00:24:45
Speaker 5: By Tom Leach and look at his note.

00:24:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's got this big card and it's got so much stuff on it, like so much stuff, and I'm not gonna when it comes to ESPN people, some of them have it and some of them don't. Not gonna say which one switch, but some of the ones I think that you see that you're always like man, that person's always prepared.

00:25:07
Speaker 5: Go look at go, look at the go look at the notes.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I do for the show, like you gotta you do the things like I have my list of topics, I have my super Bowl topics. I have the reads that Ryan will forget to do, like I've got all the things right here. They do that for play by play and they have notes on each player.

00:25:23
Speaker 5: It's pretty impressive.

00:25:24
Speaker 4: And they'll go to the extra mile and call a school and make sure they're pronouncing it.

00:25:28
Speaker 5: I can't even say the wordiation right.

00:25:31
Speaker 4: I remember even Freddie would do that for football games, and I thought that was so good.

00:25:34
Speaker 3: Freddy's notes were unbelievable. Freddy for just our pregame show would have crazy enough.

00:25:40
Speaker 1: Front back of pages. You know, Tom Leech, I heard him tell a story one time he learned how to get to his show prep from Kwood. Okay, I said, Kaviod was very meticulous in his show prep.

00:25:50
Speaker 3: Before you got I think Kwood kept all of his and I want to say that back when the old UK Museum was there, they had all of k Wood's old prep cards. I don't know what happened when that museum. One of the real shames of Kentucky basketball is when that museum shut down, the stuff just got dispersed, like like it you know, they gave it to donors. Some people just came and got stuff, and like the history of UK basketball just kind of got dispersed out into the world. And that's that's that's a little bit of a shame to me.

00:26:23
Speaker 4: If anyone's been to Kansas at the Fog they have the museum, you walk through it and you see, like every year they have everything in there. And for Kentucky to have so much tradition that's just in garages, right, that's not stuff you can recreate.

00:26:35
Speaker 3: One person writes Matt you talked about Kendrick Lamar saying it wasn't for us. Who do you think the NFL's demographic is. But that's the point. They don't do it for you because you're watching the game anyway, right.

00:26:47
Speaker 5: The goal and the.

00:26:48
Speaker 3: Super Bowl is to get people who don't normally watch the game. They know you're gonna watch it because you care about the game. So what they're doing is they're putting a halftime show to get people who wouldn't otherwise watch the game. What are if you're gonna be watching the game anyway, then you're gonna sit through it. Their goal is to get It's the same reason Taylor Swift they show her at the games. It's not because they think Bobby football fan likes Taylor Swift. They want little girls to tune in to the game hoping to see Taylor Swift.

00:27:17
Speaker 5: And that's that's the goal.

00:27:19
Speaker 3: So the halftime show, they not like us because it ain't for us right Like it's there like he's doing it for somebody else.

00:27:27
Speaker 4: That's the point. And millions of people are watching. There's not an artist that everyone's gonna like, Like maybe you wanted Jason al Dean. Okye, everyone's gonna.

00:27:34
Speaker 3: Go Y's a lot of people saying that, like, why don't we get somebody?

00:27:39
Speaker 5: Everybody would like, tell me who that is?

00:27:42
Speaker 3: Who is the person that could play the Super Bowl that every different group of people would like.

00:27:48
Speaker 5: Who exists?

00:27:50
Speaker 1: Dolly?

00:27:50
Speaker 5: Dolly is the only one I do think. But Willy, I love Willie, But Willy's kind of slow.

00:27:57
Speaker 3: Now, if you listen to Willie like it's not I don't know if he could handle that state Dolly could. Dolly could get up there and start do leaning and then bring Beyonce on for a song and take like and and those women might do it too with it.

00:28:12
Speaker 5: That could work.

00:28:12
Speaker 4: But even though you have kids going wise Dolly out here, you just can't please every demographic.

00:28:16
Speaker 3: But she might be the only person is Dolly Parton. And I don't know if they would give it to her. I'd before it, but like people like, think of a rock band, like what rock.

00:28:28
Speaker 5: Band is everybody gonna want to hear?

00:28:31
Speaker 4: I think my I like Kendrick. My biggest complaint was it should have been a little Wayne. Now, I know that's not gonna please everyone either, but he is mister.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: Dwayne would pass out in three minutes.

00:28:41
Speaker 4: I don't know if we should have had the big timers and juvenile.

00:28:44
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, I would like that.

00:28:47
Speaker 3: But my question is, if you think Kendrick is gonna make the why would they like juvenile?

00:28:52
Speaker 4: And like, you know, I'm not saying that's the answer, but my pick would have been that for the New Orleans Ties.

00:28:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, but still that doesn't peel to everyone.

00:29:01
Speaker 3: I saw a lot of people say Bruce Springsteen, I love Bruce Springstey. You can go to Bruce Springsteen concert and you won't see one black person, not one, So that's not gonna work.

00:29:14
Speaker 4: And young people watch the super Bowl and don't listen to Bruce Springsteen.

00:29:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, when's the last time you were on a college campus and saw young people listening to Bruce springste Never. I mean, you know, somebody suggested the Killers and that that one song everybody does know, but you could bring them only for.

00:29:29
Speaker 1: That one song, because.

00:29:31
Speaker 5: Then who's gonna care about their other song?

00:29:32
Speaker 4: I think part of that's what made UH some of the past better, like they'd bring guests of all kinds of genres. I wish Kendrick had worked in a few more people, even if it's still in hip hop. In the past, it seems like there's been seven or eight people joining the show and it was just mostly him.

00:29:46
Speaker 5: And I've got something that we don't normally do on here. Okay, I'm going to give a Trump compliment.

00:29:53
Speaker 3: Okay, by the way, there are five hundred things that I keep my mouth shut about that I would complay, but I'm gonna give roll.

00:30:00
Speaker 1: The tape, Shannon, okay, marking the tape.

00:30:03
Speaker 3: He announced last night, probably because he was bored that, uh, he's getting rid of pennies.

00:30:08
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:30:09
Speaker 3: I've been on this train, yep for a decade. I was antipenny before.

00:30:14
Speaker 5: It was cool. Yeah, you were. I hate pennies.

00:30:17
Speaker 3: I've always hated pennies, and then I read one time that they cost like one point one cents to make and they're only worth a cent, which I'm not I'm not a math major, but that strikes me as something that in and of itself should have made us get rid of pennies. That would be the only thing I needed to hear. And he says he's gonna get rid of pennies. Great decision. Getting rid of pennies should have happened long ago. There's no reason to happen.

00:30:43
Speaker 1: I am on the no penny train. Also, this is a good move by him. Okay, if he wants to go to Nichols, then next year, just to slowly eliminate the coins that we.

00:30:51
Speaker 5: Don't need anymore. You want to get rid of Nichols too? Why the way?

00:30:55
Speaker 3: My mom just suggested Ray Charles for the halftime hasn't he been dead for like twenty years?

00:31:00
Speaker 2: We can't dig?

00:31:01
Speaker 1: That would be a a half time.

00:31:02
Speaker 3: I will say, Mom, if they could get if they could get Ray Charles back, I would watch that Tupac.

00:31:08
Speaker 4: That would have been cool.

00:31:10
Speaker 5: It's been dead for like twenty years, has it been okay? All right?

00:31:14
Speaker 1: So let's let's maybe John Lennon can join him.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: Ray Charles Tupac and John lennonution.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: I would listen back to the pennies, What is the argument for keeping them? Is there an argument? There can't There can't be an argument for keeping it.

00:31:30
Speaker 2: So then we get a round everything up to the nearest nickel.

00:31:33
Speaker 5: But that's fine, that's what I do.

00:31:35
Speaker 2: Any what he says is he gonna get rid of pennies, though, I mean there's a which is pennies out there.

00:31:41
Speaker 3: No, they'll just stop making them. They'll give you some option where you can bring your pennies and turn them into nickels and dimes, and then they'll get rid of them. And then at some point they'll just people will stop using them because they won't be taken anyway. Like there's a time in American history where they had a half cent piece.

00:31:59
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:32:00
Speaker 3: Now, They're just gone, and that's what will ultimately happen to Pennies as well.

00:32:04
Speaker 1: Nichols next year.

00:32:05
Speaker 5: My mom just wrote R I p ray Charles.

00:32:08
Speaker 3: Sorry Karen, Mom, I'm sorry you had to learn that he's gone.

00:32:13
Speaker 1: I do want to mention one more super Bowl thank you?

00:32:15
Speaker 5: Switch Okay.

00:32:16
Speaker 1: Former UK player Darien Canard has now won three Super Bowls in a row.

00:32:20
Speaker 5: Think about this.

00:32:21
Speaker 3: Darian Canard becomes only the sixth player in NFL history to win three straight. Wow, he is you want to talk about trivia question nobody will get. Yeah, there are only six players in NFL history who have won three straight Super Bowls and Darien Kanar is now one of them because he was on the Chiefs the last two years and he was on the Eagles this year.

00:32:44
Speaker 4: And his is the most impressive because he's only been in the league three years, Like I mean, just every summer. Does he expect to win the Super Bowl?

00:32:50
Speaker 5: Now? Yeah?

00:32:51
Speaker 4: And if you're a team wanting to win the Super Bowl, you gotta take a chance and try to go get him.

00:32:55
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm also I'm for the plastic straws. But people who keep saying he's going to get rid of paper straws.

00:33:03
Speaker 5: He can't do that. I do want people to I want y'all to do this for me.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: I don't care if you are the most deranged anti Trump person or the most pro Trump person. Take a moment in the next few days and read the Constitution so you at least understand what the power of each branch of government is. You as president can't just ban paper straws like that's not in your powers.

00:33:31
Speaker 5: Right.

00:33:32
Speaker 3: You can't just shut down the Department of Education. That's not in the president's powers. He can say he's gonna do it, but he can't do it. Congress has to do that. Now he may do it, but then the Supreme Court's gonna reverse him. So just whether you love him or you hate him, just read up on what the power of the They are not God.

00:33:55
Speaker 5: They have limits to what they're allowed to do. I just need to say that.

00:34:00
Speaker 3: But I am glad he's getting rid of pities. I do think he can do that, and that's a good decision.

00:34:04
Speaker 4: I did wonder, like, do people just storm into probably owned business and change their straws. I don't think you can do that.

00:34:10
Speaker 5: Strust Now he can say.

00:34:13
Speaker 3: We he can make regulations that allow the continued use of plastic straws, which is probably what he'll do.

00:34:20
Speaker 5: But he can't just be like, if you get a paper straw, you're going to prison. That's not what the president does.

00:34:26
Speaker 1: I got what more? I want to ask you, Bob, I don't you want to talk about it front.

00:34:29
Speaker 5: I'll give you my answer as honest as I can.

00:34:31
Speaker 1: He wants to make Canada the fifty first state unless.

00:34:35
Speaker 3: We're gonna go back to imperial times where we invade people at gunpoint and make you.

00:34:41
Speaker 5: Can't do that either. And let me why would Canada want to be the fifty first?

00:34:46
Speaker 3: Of all, Canada is bigger than we are here. The idea that they would take all that land and go, you know what, give us the same rights as Rhode Island. Like, if Canada did want to join the country, they they probably demand to be like ten or fifteen states.

00:35:04
Speaker 5: They're not gonna be one.

00:35:05
Speaker 1: Month stage at the hell of a state.

00:35:07
Speaker 3: And we act like people in Canada just fell off the turnip truck.

00:35:10
Speaker 5: They have a pretty successful country.

00:35:14
Speaker 3: Right, yes, you know they have more oil and lumber than we do.

00:35:20
Speaker 5: So why would they just be like, yeah, we'll be like Delaware. They're not gonna do that.

00:35:25
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00:35:26
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00:36:19
Speaker 5: So Dolly could do it.

00:36:20
Speaker 1: Dolly could do it.

00:36:21
Speaker 5: I mean Dolly could do it.

00:36:22
Speaker 3: Like she could do it in a perfect way because she could come out do like Joe Lean with Beyonce, do nine to five, bring Taylor for a song, maybe bring out.

00:36:36
Speaker 1: Like Miley cyrus Is or goddaughter my there you.

00:36:39
Speaker 3: Go and like just have like and they all would do it cause its dog absolutely, like that's the only woman who could get all of those people to kind of play second fiddles. Dolly is the one that could do it. So if I'm the super Bowl, that is one Ryan I could see trying to make.

00:36:57
Speaker 1: Half And if there's the one person that could have a tracked a large audience young old life.

00:37:03
Speaker 3: And the thing about Dolly, she what's great about her is it's twenty twenty five, and in twenty twenty five, the site of Taylor Swift makes some people boo, the sight of Kid Rock makes other people boo.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: And all this nobody's booon.

00:37:18
Speaker 1: Nobody's booon.

00:37:19
Speaker 5: Dollar, nobody's booing dollar.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: Like you take the most Christian religious person deep in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, they love Dollar.

00:37:28
Speaker 5: You take the gay community in New York City, they love Dollard.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: You go to black people, they love Dollar. You go to white people, they love Dollar. Like that's an amazing trait she has, like like that's really and it is. I don't know if there's anybody else in America that has it, and that's really that's kind of beautiful.

00:37:47
Speaker 5: So I'd love to see her do it.

00:37:49
Speaker 1: If there is even a remote possibility, they should do it soon forth too lately, I agree.

00:37:53
Speaker 5: I agree, matter of fact, do it next year, next year, just do it.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: That's the time I think she knew to bring out snoop, just to really really sure she can do that world.

00:38:04
Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody wouldn't do it. Is there any musicians they wouldn't go out there with her? No, I think anybody would anybody because they all love her, like because she's been around for so I mean, my grandma loved her.

00:38:18
Speaker 5: Like.

00:38:18
Speaker 3: There's a generation people that remember when she was on what the Kaz Walker Show or whatever when she was thirteen.

00:38:24
Speaker 5: In Knoxville, Tennessee.

00:38:25
Speaker 3: Really and now you know she's in her seventies and still does it. I don't mean to turn this into a Dolly show. I'm just saying I really like Dolly.

00:38:33
Speaker 5: All Right.

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00:39:14
Speaker 3: A couple more things to get to before we finish. Billy Gillespie is leaving or is being pushed out. It looks like at Tarleton State probably gonna be the if you think about at the end of his coaching career. That's just my guess. Maybe gets some with us an assistant or somewhere or whatever. What's you gonna be your final memory of Billy Gillespie beyond the sort of American swimming pool, like beyond all that, Like what's it gonna be?

00:39:41
Speaker 1: It's funny you say that, and the first thing pops in my head is him and Cutler running down the hallway. I don't know if that's gonna be the memory forever. How I remember Billy?

00:39:48
Speaker 3: Do you think you can finish you can feel like fond of him? Like is there are there any sort of positive feelings you can have about him at all?

00:39:58
Speaker 5: Or is it just is it just gonna be negative? It's pretty negative.

00:40:02
Speaker 4: I'm not, like, you know, upset at him, and I wouldn't boo if they brought him back. But that was the end of my college career, Like I was at college for the end of Tubby and the Billy years. That was not a great run for someone who grew up wanting to go to UK to watch basketball. So got a little extra like I said, not anger, but just disappointed in how that all went. His health and like, yeah, you know we mentioned it on the show recently. You know, he made the big donation of Dan's blue and cried a little bit. You know, he's got he's got things that you can cheer for, but the basketball was just so bad and the stories around it.

00:40:32
Speaker 3: I just find him to be kind of a tragic figure, like like he was almost given so much that he couldn't handle it. I think there was a good person in there, but his demons made it hard. Like I do think he genuinely cared about his players. He wanted this to work so much, but his personal demons I think overshadowed it, and I always find that a little bit tragic. I think he loved his players so much that he oddly treated them poorly because he wanted them, and that's it. I just you know, Ramel and Joe had a big impact on how I looked at Billy because they were like, it was almost like they were looking at their kid when they were talking about him. They were like, I love Billy. He doesn't know what he's doing and he doesn't treat us well, but we know he loves us. And I always kind of found that because Remel and Joe would take up for him.

00:41:32
Speaker 1: Ramel on this show has had great things to say about Billy Gillespie. And you know there's a story where he bought a car from some woman. I think maybe was in Danvil.

00:41:39
Speaker 5: He hurt.

00:41:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, he heard a woman had I want to say, had some sort of cancer and she was selling her car for let's say, a thousand dollars and he went and bought it for like seven thousand. Uh huh, so that she would like, you know, and there's a good person in there, but he also did a lot of not good things, even things, So I just can't even be kind of a tragic figure. But I tend to be like, I feel sorry for people, So I'm a little bit of a softie.

00:42:08
Speaker 4: Yeah. My cousin's a JUCO coach, one of the national chief and Billy was coaching ranger with the other team, and they know each other a little bit from the Juco ranks and speaks holly of him. It's just all the stuff that happened in Lexington, it is hard to turn off.

00:42:20
Speaker 3: I also want to say, if you get a chance, go on kas Are today. We have a long profile interview with Andrew Carr where he talks about the back issues he's had, but also his part if you like Andrew Carr or Eve if you just want to know more about him, Tyler did a great job with that. Uh so, uh go check it out on Kentucky Sports Radio dot com.

00:42:40
Speaker 4: Nothing else, just for the old photos of him as a kid. He was a gymnast. A little fun fact from the story. Yeah, he's kind of a gymnast.

00:42:47
Speaker 5: Check that out.

00:42:47
Speaker 1: All right.

00:42:48
Speaker 3: Tomorrow we'll be back here at Kaspar ten to twelve, and then of course the Kentucky Tennessee game.

00:42:53
Speaker 5: Uh.

00:42:53
Speaker 3: I've already gotten some tickets to give away to morrow, so we will see you later.

00:42:57
Speaker 5: It's been Kentucky Sports Radio