2025-08-29- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 5: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio here live. We are now in downtown Lexington, right on Main Street, right in front of the Starbucks in city Center, the new one they just reopened it back. See, this is what's exciting Ryan. Let me you never know what's gonna happen when you're in downtown. Darius Miller just drove by, Just drove by, just drove by. If you drive by and you're listening, give us a hank or wave, just some sort of acknowledgement that we're down here. Ryan is already hot. You can tell he does not want to be out here in this sun.

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Speaker 6: We also get the slanti for the people who are walking by, have no idea what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: While we're out here.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well that's all right. Who cares like we can talk to them as they walk by right here across from bourbon On Ride. This is the kind of excitement you need when you're getting ready to have your first college football game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: That's a famous Lexington monument to that Sculler's clock. It's been here since like the nineteen thirties or something, so people know we were.

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Speaker 4: What what is it? I mean, I've seen it over the years.

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Speaker 6: But what is the free standing clock. It's been there I guess for like eighty years or something like that.

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Speaker 4: What makes it famous?

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Speaker 2: It's been there for like eighty years.

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Speaker 4: Okay, But but you said the scholar's clock.

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Speaker 2: What's the scholar It's just like a landmark like that.

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Speaker 6: There used to be like I think the Phoenix Hotel used to be right across the street. This was like the hubbub of downtown Lexington.

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Speaker 7: This right here was yeah, okay, this building right here, I ducked under a pool table because someone fired a gun and.

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Speaker 4: Said, oo, was that what used to be Trusty? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Other monuments?

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Speaker 4: Okay, that okay. So since we're telling stories about this building, the history of it, this is where drew through the Oklahoma City thunder party in that building. And it was upstairs up there where I got to watch DeMarcus Cousins and John wall in action. Uh In, James Harden and all those folks. Dan, yeah, Kevin Durant, like right up there in the top floor of that building.

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Speaker 7: Not the same night as the gunshots, No, not the same night.

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Speaker 2: I tell a little more history.

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Speaker 6: That building right there, when it was built was the tallest building I think west of the Alleghany Mountains.

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Speaker 2: This was yep, and it was first built.

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Speaker 4: Well, now it's not as tall as the biggest building in America that's blue one over. Huh. That's right, Pelik Ryan.

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Speaker 7: Could do one of those double decker tour buses downtown.

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Speaker 4: You can do it.

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Speaker 6: I come on, well, I got a retirement job e the greeter at Walmart or the tool tour bus guy.

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Speaker 4: Yes. And then of course they're building this new park right here. What is it Phoenix Park. They've been building that since nineteen seventy one. A lot of people don't know that.

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Speaker 6: I said, that's where the famous Phoenix Hotel used to be. Thus what it's called Phoenix Park. Phoenix Park, not Phoenix, Phoenix, Phoenix.

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Speaker 4: That's right. Let's do a couple of news items non Kentucky. Rick Barnes Drew given a lifetime deal.

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Speaker 7: I love that because at Indie last year in the Elite eight, there's a lot of buzz that he could retire when they lost. And now he went from I'm going to retire in April or March potentially to I now have a lifetime, lifetime contract. But you know, I wish him the best with that it didn't exactly work out here with our lifetime contract. Surprise.

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Speaker 4: Someone tried to how long do we I mean, how long is it? Hey? What's going on? Not you, sir? The car?

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Speaker 8: Uh two year contract?

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Speaker 4: Then well that's what I'm gonna say. How long could it possibly be? I mean, but I'm not I'm not saying he's gonna die. I'm saying how long is that person going to? I mean, how long is he gonna be coaching?

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Speaker 6: Well, apparently they finalized they deal and he's on the golf course yesterday, but he quit after the fourteenth hole because he never plays the final four.

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Speaker 4: We should have left him upstairs.

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Speaker 7: I love a good Ryan actually wrote on our board at nine to fifty this morning. After we were talking to him for the show, I said, I think this is gonna be a good Ryan.

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Speaker 4: What you feel? It just kind of had that vibe. It is odd to give a lifetime contract to someone who's never been to a final four, but nevertheless he he gets it, so he'll be at Tennessee. You know, he he owned cow for a while. But uh, I thought, pope, you know we I'm not worried about Rick Barnes. We've been very good at going to Knoxville. Since he's been there, he's gotten something rup that we didn't want to lose, and the record's pretty even since he's been there.

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Speaker 6: I thought there was some scuttle butt last year we played it the he was gonna maybe retire last year after the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in March, No, I heard from a Tennessee a person who gives a lot of money in Tennessee that they were already preparing trying to find their next coach and it ends up not not being the case.

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Speaker 7: Well, I don't know if I mentioned this, but in Annapolis last year at the Elite Eight, I'm at the press conference and that's what all the buzz was. Yeah, I was talking about that.

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Speaker 4: So who knows Kyle Schwarber four home runs was last night he becomes I don't know what the twenty first, twenty first player to every do the first player to do it. Scooter Gannett did it many years ago for the Reds. But Kyle Schwarber, you know, some talk he could be a Red at the end of the year from Cincinnati has talked about it. I think Kyle Schwarbur that's kind of a cool thing. You like when history happens like that.

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Speaker 6: I of you saw he came up in the ninth in chance hit five home runs in the game, and they had a shortstop pitching, and the pitch was like fifty eight miles an hour and he popped it straight up. He had a chance to hit five in a row with fifty eight miles an half to fifty.

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Speaker 2: Eight mile an hour, little little league.

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Speaker 4: Pick has Has anyone ever done that?

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Speaker 2: I don't think always ever hit five?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I don't think so either. I don't think they have. But still very cool last night. And then probably the biggest story Cowboys. You know you have a connection there. Micah Parsons traded to the Packers. Shannon, are you excited? I am.

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Speaker 8: I think we're going to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: That's what everybody tells me now that we've got them, So let's go.

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Speaker 4: Remember Darren Canard was traded to Green Bay and everybody said his Super Bowl streak was gonna end winning rings. Now he might win. You're a Cowboys guy, though, Drew sad.

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Speaker 7: The worst part was telling my wife she really loves the Cowboys and thought Jerry was gonna re sign him in time for the first game and to go to the Packers staying in the NFC. Now they're gonna be the main event. We certainly hated it. I couldn't believe Jerry let him go.

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Speaker 4: It felt like to me the Bears were gonna finally be able to consistently play with and beat the pack and now they end up getting the best linebacker in the league. Jerry Jones needs to quit right Well.

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Speaker 7: The thing is, if they had a decent GM, they could turn this into a great rebuild once you get past this little pr hit. But they don't have one of those, because they did get some first round picks that they can got two first round the next twoso want Jerry in charge of the rebuild right now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's hard. They've now traded Luca and Michael Parsons's right, in the last six months in that city.

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Speaker 6: City of Dallas, had these two young superstars, saw them bothally with months apart.

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Speaker 4: Crazy, That's exactly right. If I'm nine two, eight oh twenty two to eighty seven here in downtown Lexington, it's been nice seeing the people wave. It's weird when the people walk by the street because they kind of look at us like, uh, what do they do? Why are you all doing? Hey? Hello there, right there, I see you, sir. Who's up next year? Tyler?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Go cats, Tyler, go ahead, Tyler.

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Speaker 10: Hey, it's kind of skull my thunder. I called in to talk about Rick Barnes and that situation. I will one of my favorite parts of the show is when Ryan tells a joke and before anyone else starts talking, he's the first one to start snickering.

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Speaker 4: Oh, he's always the first one to the good thing about your jokes is you find them funnier than anyone.

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Speaker 2: I was dying laughing in so I couldn't wait to tell that one.

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Speaker 7: Right is Ryan's bestival?

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Speaker 4: Did you did you come up with it last night?

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Speaker 6: Well, I've used a joke before, but I haven't used it in the Rick Barnes conversation.

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Speaker 4: Saul So's it's multi fast. Yeah, you can bring it up a lot.

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Speaker 2: I can bring any time we talk about Tennessee anytime.

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Speaker 4: Any times it works. Yeah, I'm with you, Ryan, jokes are the worst but also the best.

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Speaker 10: I want addendum and this one kind of question with the Rick Barnes is like when this happen with cal like it was because UCLA was coming after him? Would anyone like legitimately, was anyone coming after Rick Barnes? Like, why did Tennessee do this?

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Speaker 4: Uh, that's a good question. I would think no one was coming after Rick Barnes. You know, they didn't really add a lot of money. I think they gave him a little bit more money. It's probably just a symbolic gesture, don't you think.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's probably something in there to get him to hang around the Food City Center for the rest of his life and.

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Speaker 4: Wave and I keep forgetting that name, the Food City. They made fun of Kroger Field.

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Speaker 7: I'm not gonna let I'm never gonna call it anything but Food City.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like to. I would like to make fun of the Food City Center and then we have Kroger Field. What they said, appreciate the call. I will say one thing about Micah. We had just taped episode one of the NFL podcast. I literally had just finished it. We went team by team, talked about every single team in the NFL, including the Cowboys and the Packers, and then that news breaks and so now we have to do at least those parts.

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Speaker 8: Oh wow.

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Speaker 4: Literally we'd take the whole thing. And it came out moments.

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Speaker 7: A half out of the building when Billy senters.

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Speaker 4: So that was very, very frustrating Ride.

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Speaker 6: I will say, yeah, all that prep time you guys put into this great show, this opening show, they got to redo parts of it.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, man, that's all right. We will We'll it over. And who's next, Trevor, Trevor, how are you, Trevor? Look at this? iHeart crowd out here, Trevor. Go ahead.

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Speaker 11: I'm doing well, Matty, unless I'm badly mistaken. I think last season Kentucky football ranks amongst the bottom of the polls when it came to on up poles, but when it came to offensive like plays per game. With this new offense, do you think we're going to get more plays off and with this you know run style that we're gonna do with the clock continuing to run a whole lot, do you think we're gonna have more plays, more opportunities out there?

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Speaker 4: That's a good question. Do you think you know when Bush Hampden was that boys, He's state, the tempo was pretty fast, he didn't throw a ton. They were still more of a they were. People thought of him as Will Levis in terms of or you know as William Cohen, but they ran more, but they did go tempo. Do you think we go tempo at all? Mark stoops and tempo. I just don't know. Hates tempo. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I mean if they get downhill and they're really bruising somebody, I mean they might try to speed it up a little bit. But I think we're in for the old schools it down. I want my defense to rest as long as they can.

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Speaker 4: That kind of that kind of all so, the the the thought of potentially uh lowest place per game that could certainly happen again, you think.

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Speaker 7: Might be in the conversation. One thing I like this year though, they'll run Calsada a lot more than we've seen with past running quarterbacks because they trust their second string. We've had quarterbacks like Levice who had legs, but in a second year, it's like, all right, we're not running you because if you get hurt, this season's over. This year, I think they're gonna use Calsada because if he gets dinged up, gets a stinger or whatever, color get in here.

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Speaker 4: Uh. You know, it's nice seeing all these horns makes you like feel like people are listening.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, we usually we're in a studio by ourselves. If we were upstairs, come down here and you realize, man, there's people actually listening to this.

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Speaker 4: I thought there would be more people like walking up and down the street, though, isn't it? Am I wrong? I feel like you, hey, I feel like we you normally have. There's this more foot traffic through here. What's happening?

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe everybody's left for Labor day weekend.

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Speaker 7: Uh maybe getting lunch right now?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well maybe I might have the lunch crowd probably gonna start pouring out.

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Speaker 4: I was just gonna sit here and talk to people, and everyone has disappeared, but hopefully, Uh, well, we still got forty five minutes. Well A five nine two eight h h twenty two eighty seven, couple open lines, give us a shout. You mentioned Nick kaal Zaka. What do we think Zion? What do we think is gonna happen with him tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 6: I loved his quote that he had this week where he said, like, you know, I have to be Clark Camp and every now and then I need to know what I need to be Superman. So I think, you know, he's got that experience he's played in the sec he knows what he when he needs to pull the trigger and went not to pull the trigger. He talked like he really comfortable now Bush hand him system already. So if he's good, this football team could be really good this year.

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Speaker 4: I think so too.

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Speaker 7: He needs to do a little bit of a game managing with the way they're gonna play, you know, short passes, hopefully use the tight ends. As I just said, he's gonna run a little bit. I don't know if we're gonna have this big world beater year where we're like, wow, Kalsada. You know, we're gonna remember this forever. But I think he's good enough for if their offensive line's good and then it just a disaster like a year ago, that that offense is going to surprise people.

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Speaker 4: Let's take our last three quarterbacks, Levis, Leary, vander Griff when the Calzada era ends, where's he gonna be on that ranking we're doing.

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Speaker 2: Levis first year were really good or second year when he was hurt.

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Speaker 4: You can separate him. Let's take our last four quarterbacks. Levis one, Levis two, Leary h vander Griff. What's what's how are you gonna do? Hey?

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Speaker 7: Hey, Levis is a clear one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, less healthy Levis is number one.

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Speaker 4: Levis one is one.

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Speaker 2: I almost put Hurt Levis.

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Speaker 6: Number two, and that'll put Calzata and then Leary and then vander Griff.

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Speaker 4: So I think it's clear vander Griff's last.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's clear.

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Speaker 4: Levis one is first. I think Levis two is probably second. So the question is do you think he'll be better or worse than Devin Leary? Isn't that ultimately the question?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Because because Devin.

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Speaker 4: Leary, why he's not great in hindsight? What as bad as we thought?

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Speaker 7: I mean he made the Ravens last year. I mean he's still in their practice squad. I mean, the NFL has a place for him.

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Speaker 4: So you think better than Devin Lee. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: For some reason, the only memory I have of Devon Larry right now is all of his passes getting batted down. I'm trying to think of a good Devon Leary memory, and it's not coming to me.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 7: I know the wins and the losses, but I think is a good Devon Leary memory?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it feels like we won some games. We try to think of a specific momentary, remember one either, But it feels like we should have one, right.

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Speaker 6: Well, he threw the touchdown pass the day and against Old Miss that got nullified when Barry Al was called off side. That was Devon Larry.

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Speaker 4: That would have been a good one.

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Speaker 7: We need Cala to be a little better.

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Speaker 4: Have we played Old Miss like four straight years?

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Speaker 2: Played him down there two years in.

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Speaker 4: A row and then so but we played them Levis's year. That was the year they reached the wrong about that. It wasn't Leary, it was Levis's second year. Was when they knocked that day they knocked it down because because Dane was a freshman, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think that is right.

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Speaker 4: How do I know your son's games better than you do? But I am right about that. That was sweet. We've played Old Miss three of the last four years.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, after going like I think we went thirteen years going to Oxford, get so us a lot.

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Speaker 2: You have Brandon our sales guy here.

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Speaker 4: I bet? I mean, like, we're right here, Like why you got to say that to us? We could be moderately.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, let us know if you found somebody.

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Speaker 4: And then I said, like who, and he goes Mark Stoops. He said, Mark Stoops was on Bobby Bones this morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I haven't heard anything of it, just saw it on social media. This is kind of a surprise. Yes, you go from pretty quiet offseason to Bobby Bones do what?

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Speaker 4: No, it's television. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, has he gonna look and say? Is this radio? Seven seven to seven seven four uh five two five four. One person writes, Matt uh chip train him? Would you bet on him scoring a touchdown? And against Toledo it's plus one seventy five. I can't bet on the other team, but I think that's a pretty good bet if you were going to do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I spot on all their their press conferences and what their reporters are writing and all that, And he had a great uh fall camp and they're excited about him.

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Speaker 4: What should note? UK Nebraska playing volleyball on Sunday on ABC, a network television regular season volleyball game, only the fourth time that's happened in the history of women's volleyball. They will be playing and it's UK and Nebraska, a great opportunity for the UK program. Who, as we've talked about, did you really throw the l at me? Who do you think you are? And you're wearing a blue hat too. I'm gonna tell your employer. Nevertheless, UK Nebraska his great chance for Craig Skinner and his.

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Speaker 6: Huge chance for this great exposure Sunday afternoon at noon to play in Nebraska, the number one team in the country, and you know, Kentucky coming off a national championship a couple years ago. This is a huge opportunity to kind of get some exposure for Craig Skinner's program.

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Speaker 4: And they are one, I mean Nebraska's number one or number one or two. This year we're in the top five. Also, should be a great game. They play somebody else Saturday, Lipscomb, which should be a victory. But then they'll get the opportunity on Sunday. Yeah, I mean Sundays are about to be the nfls. But right now there's one left that somebody can have and it's volleyball. Volleyball after all.

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Speaker 7: Day football on Saturday. So hopefully they have a big win.

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Speaker 4: The people who who know volleyball tell me we have a Final four contender and that none of the teams are quite as powerful as they usually are, and that Kentucky's got a shot to, if not be a favorite, to win the second one, win a second title, to do very well.

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Speaker 6: You know, we don't talk about the volleyball program near as much we probably should, but they have just been dominant. They won the SEC. What is it, Drew, like nine or ten years in a row of win the SEC. They've just get a powerhouse program over there.

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Speaker 2: We don't mention as much as we should.

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Speaker 4: I want to ask you a question, Drew. Are you one of these people who looks at real estate online all the time?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, here's the reason I'm asking. I have female friends in my life, all of whom send me houses when they look at it. And what I find fascinating is every time a new house comes on the market, they all send it within like twenty minutes. People get alerts. How do they find out about.

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Speaker 7: You're probably get alerts. I'm not that committed, but I have the Zilo app.

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Speaker 4: Yes I keep up with things.

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Speaker 7: I'm not getting immediate updates, but yeah, I think part of it is also, if you're not shopping, you just look around, like see the big houses in election or whatever.

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Speaker 4: I snoop around the listings and that's obviously your job. Do you do You do you feel that as well?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you're you can set up those alerts on Zillow or any of these third party sites.

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Speaker 4: What are the rules about like going if I want to look like let's say that I see a house and it's for sale. Yeah, okay, you can't just walk up and knock on the door, right, but can you? Are you allowed to creep around? No?

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Speaker 6: No, it is still private property. You have to set up an appointment with your realtor some A lot of houses have a private code. You can't even get to the get the key to unlock the doors. You have a private code process.

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Speaker 4: You know. Do you know how I can get in touch with my realtor?

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Speaker 6: You just kind of, you know, just reach out and touch him sometimes games It's Friday, man, it's Friday, and it's payday. God bless payday. Oh my gosh. Yes, I was down like a dollar forty three in my checking account last night. Oh really, I had a dollar forty three in my checking account last night. I have a dollar forty I did a dollar forty three cents on the cash out.

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Speaker 4: Yes. Speaking of a house that maybe should go on the market, I think I know one out in Master Sensation that might be a little big for the current occupier of it.

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Speaker 2: I think maybe one keep this movie with me. We could be rubies.

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Speaker 4: You you got to stop with the movie. How's it going? I keep getting asked.

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Speaker 6: Uh, well, you know my football watching buddy is not there at the house anymore, so, syan, I would have been watching Dane last night. So yoga girl came over and watched the entire game with me last night. She didn't leave to like one o'clock in the morning, and she did go to her own home.

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Speaker 7: Do you need anybody to like swim with you?

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Speaker 2: I'll check on this.

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Speaker 7: Yes, help with the pool.

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Speaker 4: Yes, holiness better. No.

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Speaker 2: I hate it.

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Speaker 6: I mean I really hate it. It's not fun. I need some companionship. So once't you come and be my roommate for a while?

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Speaker 4: All right? We need you to work through this, like I mean that we need you to work through it.

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Speaker 2: We can't have I'm not there yet. I'm definitely not there yet.

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Speaker 7: What if we all moved in with Ryan for seventy two hours and did a reality show that's I mean, the Barstool Beach House is killing it right now, the woman masters stations.

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Speaker 4: I'm out on that. One person rights, Matt. Do we score a defensive touchdown in the first three home games, I'll say, yes, if we get if that includes the Eastern Michigan game.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll say why not. And I'll even say that it's Ty Bryant doing it.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you know our secondary. Those four guys are all guys. Yeah, that's where are Usually we're worried about our secondary. This year, that's our strength, I think is our secondary.

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Speaker 4: One person rights, Matt. You guys have been so negative about the football season for months. Yet now you question why the fan negative? How can you do that, Kentucky. Last year the problems were the players. If you all had been positive all off season, that eleven percent number would have been much higher. It is your's fault. This fan base feels like it does. Wow, that's I I feel like I'm having the basketball situation two years ago in reverse. Those are the same comments people said two years ago. At some point, we are not the arbiters of fan We reflect, We do not we do not lead in terms of fan sentiment. And I don't know what people want. I mean again, I just used today as an example. I mean, we we are trying. We want people to call in about football, But every comment I get is either people going yeah, I don't know about the game tomorrow or about the couch car like, that's just how it is now. That may change tomorrow, but that is, you know, the University of Kentucky's fault. It just is.

00:23:00
Speaker 7: People don't need us to be disappointed in Kentucky football. If you've been following it, you're disappointed.

00:23:04
Speaker 4: I want Kentucky to be good. I want Kentucky to be exciting. I want Kentucky to be fun. That nothing would be better with us reopening our restaurant. But they're gonna have to go out tomorrow and play well for people to do that. If they do that, this fan base will be back on it. But if they don't, you think that eleven percent numbers negative, wait till the next week. We'll be right back.

00:23:27
Speaker 8: TJ. Smith personal injury attorney, call TJ.

00:23:30
Speaker 4: He'll make them pay.

00:23:32
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00:23:35
Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones, welcome back, take you sports radio here in downtown Lexington, waving at all the folks that are driving by and giving us hanks a five nine, two eighth twenty two point eighty seven. Uh, folks are riding in. Lots of message on the text machine, not many about football. One person writes, Matt, do you think that Ryan is the has the house to also have a dollar thirty seven in his checking account? That's gotta be I would say, yes, is the answer to that question.

00:24:08
Speaker 2: That's true. That's why I needed payday to come today.

00:24:12
Speaker 6: Well it came, though I still got bills I gotta pay, you know, insurance, insurance.

00:24:16
Speaker 4: Well that that's exactly.

00:24:18
Speaker 2: Oh well I didn't. I want to smitch something I forget.

00:24:20
Speaker 6: Okay, last night, Thursday's Child gave our own Freddie Maggert a really nice award last night.

00:24:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, so talk about that for a minute, because people ask me a lot how Freddy's doing. Why don't you speak to that? I get asked that quite a bit.

00:24:32
Speaker 6: Freddy's doing really well. You know he he'll be honest until he's got good weeks. He's got bad weeks. He has his trouble walking right now, but he's got to visit with him. Last night great to catch up. And Thursday Child gave him like an achievement lifetime achievement honor last night because you know, he's adopted parent, he served his country, he's on the board a Thursday's Child, So it was really kind of nice. I'm really glad I was. I didn't know it was coming, so I'm glad I was there to kind of witness it. And you got to talk to to talk to me for a long time. He wanted to tell you, guys, Hello, He's gonna miss doing the pregame show and he misses that. It's kind of one thing he really enjoyed doing with all of us. He's gonna miss that.

00:25:04
Speaker 4: I'm gonna miss that with him as well. Yeah, speaking of the pregame show, it is tomorrow eight thirty to ten thirty. The restaurant opens at nine o'clock, so we are serving breakfast. You never had our breakfast. It's always very very good. If you want to get there, people ask, well, what time should you get there? I would say get there a little bit before so you can ensure that you get a table. But we'll often, you know, people come and go. You'll be able even if you get there a little later. And then we do have the bus going from the ks Bar lot to the game. You do, however, have to patronize one of the businesses if you use the lot. They do enforce that, but it's only a dollar Drew to take a bus from the lot to the game, and honestly, with traffic, that's not a bad way to go.

00:25:46
Speaker 7: Heck out, Sometimes that bus can be a little fun little pregame. I've gotten some cats chance going on that before. Obviously you're just full of other Kentucky fans heading that way, so that can be its own little excitement on the way over.

00:25:57
Speaker 4: Big games tomorrow night. First of all, you meant we men into Ohio State Texas? You like Ohio State, Drew, who you got?

00:26:04
Speaker 7: Well, now I'm watching the big two lane game, to be honest with my minus four I just loaded up on that during the break.

00:26:11
Speaker 4: With So what about Ohio State, Texas?

00:26:13
Speaker 7: Oh and Ohio State? Tap?

00:26:14
Speaker 4: What'd you go with? Ryan?

00:26:15
Speaker 2: You said tex Ohio State at home?

00:26:18
Speaker 7: I was actually gonna take Texas in the upset there. I don't want to go against our parlay, so I'll go with Ohio State.

00:26:22
Speaker 4: I'm it's gonna be interesting. I mean, I can't remember a more hyped opening week game ever. I mean in terms of people being excited about it. You get arch Manning on the road, Lee Corso's last game. The game starts at noon, so it starts right after all these games go. I'm gonna take Ohio State for the reason you did. I just feel like they're not gonna lose that game at home. But they do have a brand new quarterback who I don't think it started one game for them, and that's his first one. Shannon, who you got?

00:26:50
Speaker 5: Give me Texas. I was gonna pick Texas until Ryan picked Ohio State, So.

00:26:54
Speaker 4: Well, you can take them. That's okay. Alabama goes on the road to Florida State, playing a row game, true road game in Tallahassee. Alabama is still a nine point favorite. Who you got?

00:27:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm still taking Alabama right there. I mean, Florida State has kind of been kind of a mess last year or so, so I'm going Alabama.

00:27:10
Speaker 7: Florida State will be improved, but Alabama's winning this one.

00:27:13
Speaker 4: Shannon.

00:27:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, I believed in Florida State too much last year, lost a lot of money on draft kings.

00:27:18
Speaker 4: They just you did that all the time. You were big on Florida State.

00:27:21
Speaker 8: Was and I screwed up.

00:27:22
Speaker 5: So I'm going to Alabama just out of spie.

00:27:24
Speaker 4: If for no other reason, I'm gonna take Alabama. But remember they've been the last couple of years had a game like this earlier they almost lost to South Florida a couple of years ago. You remember who won last night. So but I will take Alabama, LSU and Clemson play at nine game. That's a big game. It's if it wasn't for Ohio State Texas. That's the biggest game. LS that's the mayor. Did you just see that Lynda Gordon? That was Linda Gordon right there?

00:27:46
Speaker 2: Come on back.

00:27:48
Speaker 4: She literally just drove by just she's does she strives a mini van. I ain't go cats. I think that was her.

00:27:54
Speaker 8: She didn't honk, which she's not even listening, which was.

00:27:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, Clinda, you're just on the show, not even honking. All right, L s U, L s U.

00:28:02
Speaker 6: You know two teams that will probably have playoff aspirations, but a loss kind of put to one of them behind the eight ball right to start the season. So it's a huge game for LSU if they can get this one on the road. But I'm going Clemson, you're picking.

00:28:13
Speaker 4: Up, you're picking against our parlay and climps. Never believe in Dabo, but go ahead.

00:28:19
Speaker 7: I really don't like l s U and this Kelly era even that documentary, maybe hate them more, but I agree taking them here at Clemson. I don't like either of these, and I think LSU is the better team.

00:28:28
Speaker 4: Jane, and I assume you have L s U.

00:28:30
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, give the l s U.

00:28:32
Speaker 4: Sunday Night. Sunday Night football. Notre Dame in Miami, Catholics versus Convicts. Uh, they're reuniting, Drew. I gotta go with the Irish here.

00:28:43
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:28:43
Speaker 6: Notre Dame man after they lost to Milan Illinois last year, they were awesome, so I'm going to think they can carry that into this year.

00:28:49
Speaker 4: I'm taking Miami. They're at home. I think Notre Dame is gonna be cold and not not used to the heat there. That didn't make a sense, But I'm taking Miami at home to find Carson Beck earns his in I own money and gets this win in the first game. Who you got?

00:29:02
Speaker 5: Give me with the upset, I like him over Notre Dame. They need to find an conference to play in.

00:29:08
Speaker 4: And then on Monday, North Carolina Bill Belichick opens his post Jordan Hudson career against TCU at home. Who you got?

00:29:19
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go to North Carolina. I think they probably have a great year just because of all the circuits that's been going on over there.

00:29:25
Speaker 7: The North Carolina experiment is gonna be a disaster.

00:29:27
Speaker 4: And it's a disaster.

00:29:29
Speaker 7: Oh, she's gonna be a distraction. It's gonna just implode. And it all starts on Sunday.

00:29:35
Speaker 4: Excuse me, Shannon.

00:29:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of hope TC wins, just for all the fans to go off on Bill Belichick and Jordan.

00:29:42
Speaker 12: See, I want it to work. Why are you all hate on love? I wanted to work. I want it to work. I mean, why hate on love? I mean, this is a he finds love in his life. Wouldn't you want him to have success?

00:29:55
Speaker 4: And don't we need more Jordan Hudson with her gold digger clothing and accessories.

00:30:01
Speaker 7: I think you're reading my prediction wrong. I want them to stay together. I want the football team to suck. I want their love to be so big that he can't coach, falling, the football can't stand. I want us to learn that he had a weak spot and this great coach is actually gonna be Terri saying, and I'm pulling.

00:30:16
Speaker 4: For North Carolina. Those two kids going up against society, those two kids, that's what we need in this world. Two kids in love taking on the world. Go North Carolina.

00:30:27
Speaker 7: How about the add though to my prediction that they have a babydo by the end of the season. My goodness, Oh you think there's gonna be a little bit had a prop bet to my underprediction on their wins. So your par on infants under on wins. It's my official North Carolina prediction over.

00:30:44
Speaker 4: On infants under on wins. Yes, wow, strong prediction there. Didn't see that would come. And finally, Auburn and Baylor they played tonight. Can Auburn the Hugh Freeze get that you talk about a seat that will be hot? If you Freeze loses tonight against Baylor, which they could, it will be very hot. Who you got?

00:31:04
Speaker 6: I'm taking Baylor. I have no confidence in Auburn whatsoever this year.

00:31:08
Speaker 4: I'm gonna pick the SEC. I got all me too.

00:31:10
Speaker 7: It's a close spread though it's like one and a half two points. It's a tight win. So but I'm going to Shannon.

00:31:15
Speaker 5: Went in out go with the SEC. I'm taking Auburn as well.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: I am too. But just you, if we want people to not say that we're the most pessimistic, have a have Auburn win. Yeah, because if if Auburn loses this game, their fan base will lose their collective minds and it may happen tonight. I like when they guy just looks stared at me, stared into my soul the whole way he was walking. He gave me a little head and nod. He just looked right in my eyes.

00:31:39
Speaker 12: Who's next, Old Trev?

00:31:43
Speaker 4: How are you hey?

00:31:45
Speaker 10: I'm doing good?

00:31:46
Speaker 9: First time?

00:31:46
Speaker 13: Long time?

00:31:47
Speaker 4: Who are hey? Man?

00:31:50
Speaker 3: So?

00:31:51
Speaker 9: I know that you you're rooting for the Cats and you want to see him win six games, but you are the only one to pick five games, correct thinking there probably should be There should be some accountability if we do win six games, and I would like to see you host a one hour segment with Bob from Jamestown.

00:32:08
Speaker 14: If you are wrong.

00:32:09
Speaker 4: Oh no, I wouldn't do that to I wouldn't do that to the listeners. It's not even so much me as it would be the listeners. I couldn't do that, but I'll take accountabill. I want us to win six if you want to. If somebody comes up with something, if they win six, I'm glad to I'm glad to do it because I want them to win terribly. And I think five is still optimistic because it's still the over in terms of in terms of wins. But I'll I'll take whatever punishment you want. I appreciate the call. If they win six, we'll make you do something. When we're partying at the Duke's Mayo Bowl. Oh, I would like listen. The Duke's Mao Bowl would be a huge success for us. Oh my goodness, we were able to go something like that, I think it would. I think it would completely change the fortunes of the program. You win six, I think that number from eleven percent optimistic gets closer to or fifty. You get an off season of recruiting where I think they'll be able to I think they're gonna have money to do it, and I think.

00:33:06
Speaker 2: It would work out.

00:33:07
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, if this team can get to six, get to a bowl game, it'll be one of Stoop's best coaching jobs. And I know it's just six wins, but if he's able to pull it off with what he's got with fifty five new faces, it'll go down as one of his best jobs.

00:33:17
Speaker 4: Well, this Kentucky Skin Cancer Center talking some trash in their new ad do you want to read? Want me to read? Oh my goodness, I recently heard about a company that has.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: Grown g R O A n Oh my wow. I wonder who he's talking about.

00:33:33
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00:35:22
Speaker 2: Best campaign Jean Glover.

00:35:24
Speaker 4: They win him election, but he won our hearts and even more exciting, Shannon, the couch car just drove by. Now the route the rude drivers of Lexington would not let him get over, so he is circling the block get hit around. But a couple of things about the couch car very aggressive in traffic.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: He was he merged right into traffic anyway.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: He had no problem merging in. He stuck his nose in like it was the Bristol Motor Speedway and he was hurt heart and that was Terry Lomboni. He got his nose in.

00:35:55
Speaker 7: There's three lanes here. He's in the far winding. He almost made it all the way across.

00:35:58
Speaker 4: He was trying. How about the UK flag? That was exciting. So he's circling the box. Channon, we may just run and get in the car with him, but I don't know if he'll let us get on the couch, but we will see. It'll be the.

00:36:08
Speaker 8: Perfect way to end the show, just right off into the sunset, on.

00:36:11
Speaker 4: The couch, right off into the sunset. We'll see what happens.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: I've not seen it since he put the big Kentucky flag on the back.

00:36:16
Speaker 4: Two of them. There's two of them. So hopefully he gets back around here so that we can get on before this ends. Who's up next? No one, go ahead, make me excited. Wait a minute, that was weird.

00:36:30
Speaker 13: Hey man, I just I personally want to really thank you for you guys from interaction from yesterday, even though I came in on Wednesday, thinking I was only going to pay three bucks, but thirty dollars that was absolutely worth it for how you guys like seriously, I just I really want to appreciate just overall on the fact, how you guys being like I think but he said the number one rated like local sports radio in the entire nation, and you guys doing everything to be able to reach out to be interacted with the fans and be around people, and you just don't get.

00:37:01
Speaker 14: Like high big businesses of like that where people like that. So I really appreciate what you guys do with that a lot.

00:37:08
Speaker 5: Hey, no, I think we may have lost connection with the guys out there, but uh I thought I heard them coming back on. Really appreciate you coming by the bar man, glad you liked the wings. Sorry, we didn't give you as good as deal as what you were expecting. But I still think though dollar wings dollar per wing is a good deal.

00:37:25
Speaker 8: But we appreciate you stopping by there.

00:37:27
Speaker 4: Oh it is.

00:37:28
Speaker 14: Yeah, just do you guys' interactions in every way, it's really awesome. Like I just, it was every bit worth it for the money that.

00:37:34
Speaker 4: I did pay.

00:37:34
Speaker 5: All right, No, appreciate it. Thanks for the call eight five nine, two eighty seven. I don't know if they're gonna come back to the studio or what the plan is. It's just me right now until we get reconnected with the guys out on the street. Let's go back to the phones and talk to Jordan. Hey, Jordan, what's up?

00:37:53
Speaker 2: Hey?

00:37:53
Speaker 15: Yeah, just calling with some optimism for football. I think we we tried the high ceiling guys that didn't make it, but now we've got proven college guys. And I mean, I know Toledo is good in the MAC, but all MAC right tackle is our right tackle. All MAC linebacker is our linebacker. So it comes down to Jimmy jin Joe's and we're just gonna line up and run it down their throats. So looking forward to it. And then Yeah, kipching On, I'm with you on that.

00:38:18
Speaker 5: Like I said earlier, I don't know why there's so much hype about Toledo and the offseason. I feel like that's all I've heard about, Like like, we can't measure up against Toledo, and you know, if we play the game tomorrow and they lose, forget that. I said all of this because we got bigger problems on our hands. If we can't beat Toledo. But again, you're talking about a completely different team than you had last year. You're talking about over fifty new players that Kentucky brought in, so to compare last year's team to this year's team, I don't know where all the pessimism comes in.

00:38:46
Speaker 8: You know, there's a lot of unknown when you bring in that many.

00:38:49
Speaker 5: Players, But I would argue e, when you're bringing in an entire new team, there's just as much reason to be optimistic as there is pessimistic about the team.

00:38:58
Speaker 8: Does that make sense?

00:39:00
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean I think it kind of reminds me of the early Stoops teams like seventeen. Stephen Johnson not the greatest guy, but he's not going to lose your games, and Benny Snill is going to run it down your third. And I think we're going to do that. And I think Kissen's going to hang about seventy on an FCS school this week and then Stoops is going to line up and run it down to third next week and we'll win again.

00:39:20
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, I think the argument for getting to six wins, which is now what Ryan and Drew has picked.

00:39:25
Speaker 8: They finally come on board with me.

00:39:27
Speaker 5: By the way, I've been ringing the six and six bells since the offseason, since last December. So but the way that I think they get there is you win the games you're supposed to and then there's a couple of games that I think are swing games that you can still get. South Carolina on the road is going to be tough this year, but that's a team that you used to dominate if you're Kentucky. They won seven out of eight at one point during a stretch with Mark Stoops.

00:39:50
Speaker 8: I think they can do it again.

00:39:52
Speaker 5: You take care of Vandy, which again Vandy's tougher than they have been in the years past, but that's a game that's very winnable, and then you go on the oh to maybe knock off your biggest rival. You knock off levelle at the end, and I think that's how you can get to six.

00:40:05
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think there's definitely a path to six and six. I mean Georgia and Texas look, you know, not beatable. But other than that, I think you look at each game in it back and we could win any of them. So I'm not not conceding South Carolina. I'm definitely not conceding Tennessee or Florida at home, so those are all winnable, I think. So I'm looking forward to it, all.

00:40:24
Speaker 5: Right, Jordan, thank you for the call. We got Matt on the phone. Now, Hey, Matt, all right.

00:40:29
Speaker 16: So I'm down here. Drew has jumped onto the couch. Car is right back in studio.

00:40:33
Speaker 8: Yet I'm not sure if he is or not. Let's see, Ryan, are you there, Yes, I'm here.

00:40:38
Speaker 4: I'm here. Yeah, all right, so I'm here.

00:40:41
Speaker 16: Let's do quickly. Let's do our picks here. We've got Cats in Toledo. Kentucky is at this moment a ten point favorite. Ryan, give me the score.

00:40:51
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be a low scoring score, and I think it's gonna be that way all season. So I'm gonna say Kentucky twenty four to ten, twenty four tens my final score.

00:40:59
Speaker 5: I'm going tomorrow, Shannon, give me the Cats thirty one seventeen.

00:41:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:41:08
Speaker 16: So, I feel like Kentucky has basically had an offseason where very few things have gone right. They've made the decision to not promote this game heavily. But I still think tomorrow they come out and surprise people play better than our fans expect and end up winning the game. That's probably close for a little bit in the first half, but then in the second half the Cats find their speed and they go thirty one to thirteen. Kentucky wins against Toledo. We are going to have tomorrow our pregame show starts at eight thirty live from Ksbar. We will have the restaurant will open at nine. We will lead you up into the game. I'll be with you after the game. It is Kentucky Sports are at Kentucky and Toledo tomorrow. Shannon looking forward to it.

00:41:51
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00:42:17
Speaker 16: I never thought that this show would end with the four of us in four completely different plights. Recruit Franklin is right now on the couch car, right studio. I'm out on the street and you're in Loouisville. But tomorrow we will all be at the restaurant to celebrate Kentucky at Toledo. Football is finally here. This is bit Kentucky Sports Radio