2026-01-05- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones quarner back.

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Speaker 4: I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text Machine seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four. We're gonna be at the bar Wednesday and Thursday for people who want to come watch, and then Friday we are in Louisville at Cornbread Hem, so I'll view Louisville UK fans. We'll be down there Friday for a rare Louisville show, so be ready, and Wednesday and Thursday at the bar.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: The game is Wednesday night. We'll obviously be doing stuff at the bar for that, and then I'm contemplating having a will Stein watch party for the Oregon game Friday night. Still deciding if we're gonna do that because I don't know if people are rooting for him to win or not.

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Speaker 2: Where are you on that argument? I'm gonna talk to you much about it. Still want him to win at this point. If he was gonna lose, I wish he would have lost the last game, so we would have had him for this portal. Uh huh.

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Speaker 4: Now that we've lost him for this week, then go win when that's our advertisement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the more he succeeds now, the more people want to play possibly played ever again.

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Speaker 4: Beat that Indiana team. Yeah, that's a great win. So yeah, at this point i'd like him to win. I probably would have liked him to win anyway. I think it's a good advertisement when they show him and they have success, that's good. That's good. So, uh, twenty twenty seven. I'm gonna get back to the phones in just a second. I want to go over this, uh some some other stuff. You want to go real quick. All right, So things happened when I was gone. Tolly Hole closed.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was big news that could it kind of came out of nowhere. Then. No, it was like two days before December thirty first they're closing into the year.

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Speaker 4: There's a generation of people Mario was probably in this generation that don't understand like tally Ho to them is like a restaurant. Yeah, like if kas Bar were to close, people would be sad. But it was like a restaurant and you ate there and you have fun. But like restaurants open, they closed, But tlly Ho was like an institution. Absolutely, especially if you were of a certain generation, if you went to college in the mid nineties through probably the two thousand and fifteen twenty twelve, right, tally hol was the one place you went and eight out on camp like people are used to that campus now being there's a lot of places, But there was a time there were like three places tlly Ho. Uh what would you call it? Two keys Linus, Yeah, right, that was it. That was all There were just people. There wasn't stuff. And then the CD.

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Speaker 2: Store, which I think is still open, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: No, it's not that CD store is still open, ceed Central or whatever.

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Speaker 2: By the McDonald's, right, that's still open. Mario says, No, it was open. There was a time that was a whole vibe.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, all right, but that tally Ho, like you could go in there on any given night and you'd be like, oh, I want a burger. Hey there's Tayshawn Prince. Yeah, And and this was like he'd just be sitting there at three in the morning hanging out. Burgers were good, greasy food is always the best, still good, and it was like we didn't have as many options, so that option wasn't people. We would walk from Transylvania to eat the Wow right yeah, in the middle of the night. So now I mean it's still there and like it's good. I ate there a couple months ago. But I think a lot of the nostalgia for closing goes back to what it was when we were young. Would you agree with that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's when it was on Limestone right there by campus. If you went to UK, you went to you went to tally holl at some point. You're nobody.

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Speaker 4: Nobody that went to UK from nineteen ninety three to twenty twelve did not go to Talia.

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Speaker 2: You absolutely went there. No One.

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Speaker 4: Everybody and probably everybody went to Trains yep, probably everybody that lived in Lexington. But if you like that was the vibe, that was a vibe Tuesday Night I talked about I've talked about this as Mary. Before Tuesday Nights on Limestone they would release new CDs at CD Center. No, I'm not kidding, Shannon. You know, like when a new Nirvana CD or or would come out, people would get there at midnight. They would release Tuesday Night at midnight and people would get there and they would line up down the street and whatever band you liked or musical artists you it was like you got to have a party with those people. Shannon you got to meet everybody that also liked the person you liked, yep, and you would eat it two keys or excuse me, you would eat it tolly ho. Maybe you partied it two keys and then you lined up for that CD. And a lot of times on Tuesday nights, my friends and I would just go and buy whatever CD came out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I used to have a lot of bands I didn't even like, just because I wanted to go do the Tuesday night thing there. They people don't understand that now, Shannon, but that was a thing back then.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. I remember visiting some friends.

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Speaker 3: I didn't obviously go to Kentucky, but I had friends that did, and we always ended the night at tally Ho going there.

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Speaker 6: After you.

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Speaker 2: Lost this vibe when it moved off Limestone.

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Speaker 4: I got. I guess they sold that billing in the UK, right, just had to go. Yeah, UK's gonna put by, don't know. And they tried a couple places on their door arm or something. They're gonna do. Well, no, but they're doing where they are now.

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Speaker 2: They bought Yeah, all they did that.

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Speaker 4: Place they are now. I think UK brought it too.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's kind of sad, man like I said, it was a Lexington institution, so.

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Speaker 4: That was too bad. The I did the New Orleans Ball I've been waiting to talk to you about this, so most nervous thing I've ever done in my line. Not I mean, I'm I'm not kidding you. Never been more nervous. Maybe the first show I did for ESPN was close to that nervous. I think I was more nervous for this. You know. I spent the days leading up to it practicing, and I was like, I'm this is not my this is not my skill set. Okay, this is not what I'm good at, and I know that. But I'm gonna get through this and I'm gonna make it good just by sheer willpower, okay. And I worked so hard at it. Like I remember, I knew the players, how to pronounce their names, backstories, I learned everything. I know more about the town of Bowling Green than the mayor himself. Bring them on here. I know more about your town than you do. Right, everybody that ever went to Western, everybody that ever went to Southern Miss how Hattiesburg was named after this dude. This dude cheated on his wife, Hattie, and he wanted to make it up to her. So he took her to a new town and named the town after came. How about that shit?

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Speaker 6: How did that work out in the story though? Does she come back to him?

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Speaker 4: That she did and her name was Hattie and so she they named it Hattiesburg because he cheated on his wife and needed a new town.

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Speaker 6: He's still a cheater, thought, But she lives.

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Speaker 4: In history, Hattiesburg always for her. Did you know there was a nuclear test in America? Once everybody thinks about the one in New Mexico. Oh no, there was also one in Hattie's Badies in Mississippi, right outside of Hattiesburg in nineteen sixty. We blew up a bomb underground to see what would happen.

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Speaker 6: How did you work that into the game?

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Speaker 4: Didn't get in. There was a lot of information that I had that I didn't get to.

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Speaker 6: Like, if you had repassed that was a bomb you could have you know, could have tied that in.

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Speaker 4: It was like when they dropped the nuclear bottle Paddiesburg. Didn't get that in. Met with the coaches before the games.

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Speaker 2: How'd that go?

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Speaker 4: That's weird. But here's the thing that's crazy, Shan, I don't think I knew this. Did you know that? Before the games? These coaches will tell you what they're gonna do. No, these coaches tell you. They tell you the trick plays they're going to run. Now you can't you promise not to tell the other team, and the other team tells you the same thing. So Southern miss was telling us the trick play. They were telling us what to look for when so like a trick play would come and Myron would point and be like this is because they'd be like, watch out, this is where we'll do a loop de loo and the play and the announcers know. I knew that Western was going to put their backup in Yeah, no, Maverick, he told us. But it's amazing that they trust these announcers shann and not to say anything.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, these announcers know all this stuff.

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Speaker 4: But then they see that's the thing I've learned, you know, when Tony Romo would.

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Speaker 2: Call out the place because.

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Speaker 4: See they've been hiding this way that I'm like the magician, you remember the magician that told all this, showed you how to do all the tracks. These they announcers they know because the coaches tell them before the game.

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Speaker 6: Was so smart you're wrong.

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Speaker 4: He was told, I don't know enough about football to get all of it. But the TV guy that did it with us was this guy named Renee. He did it with a woman, Courtney Lyle. Two of the nicest people. Will forever be indebted to them. They helped me so much. Courtney Lyle and Renee whatever his name is, im Puglow. If you ever see those people, give him a hug. They couldn't have been nicer than me. But Renee knows football. He's like a police officer down in Florida that also calls games. He he knew everything because the coaches were speaking his language right, and they'd be like when you see us when you see a twelve three formation and be like, oh okay, I need to write it down. That's how they know, right.

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Speaker 2: Sure they tell you I told you this as soon as you walked in. I was so proud of you. I may have been more proud of you during that game than anything you've ever done. And it was out of your comfort zone. You had never done it before ever in your first games on national radio on ESPN Radio, do it a Bowl game? You would tell you were prepared, you knew what you were talking about and I was. I tell you, I was more proud of you than praying me anything you've done on this show here. But I got to admit two things. They go to the They go to you in the middle of the first quarter. Hard had to be tough. I had to be in the middle of a drive.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're calling the game, Shannon, even though it's not on the radio, I'm just calling it for the ether because they want us to have the play in case case does that happen. So then all of a sudden they just go five seconds you're live. That freaks out? Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: And and they had a early on like terrible injury, terrible injury, And you had to cut talk through that like you just came to you.

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Speaker 6: When you're watching the game and somebody.

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Speaker 4: Gets exactly somebody gets hurt, what do they do They go to commercial? Yeah, they we didn't go to commercial, couldn't They just went to you, guys. Do you say when a man is lying on the ground and can't move and they say kill seven minutes of airtime?

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Speaker 2: It's tough without a field.

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Speaker 4: Reporter and I talk about the bomb under Hattiesburg during that time, I wasn't prepared for that. I didn't know what to say. That was tough, and you can't just be like, well, I hope he gets better.

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Speaker 3: That's when you dip into your medical background and like that was because we.

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Speaker 4: Had just come on the air, and then there was a seven minute pause and they didn't take the commercial break because we had just come on the air.

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Speaker 2: And then there's a long touchdown run and you did a great job calling it. You're so excited and you're like, oh, there's a flag. I guess that doesn't matter. So that's another thing.

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Speaker 4: The Superdome Shannon has the highest announcing point of any stadium in America. Is it really okay? You need a sherpa to get up there?

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Speaker 6: Did you have your binoculars?

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Speaker 4: See the problem with the binoculars, though, is you can't follow the ball. Think about when you wear binoculars. It's a very narrow thing. So I tried to do the monoculars.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't.

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Speaker 4: But I thought they said, you can call it off the monitor. Okay, you have a monitor. Yeah, here's the problem. It was a regional ESPN game, which meant the monitor was three seconds by oh, so I couldn't call it from the monitor.

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Speaker 2: That makes it even more impressive.

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Speaker 4: I had to call it even though these people look like ants to me right now. Thankfully I have a spotter who helped me. But it's hard. Oh you can't even see the guy's numbers up there. And then this is the old man problem, Shannon. You know I'm to the point now. Uncle Matt's gotten a little older. The eyesight ain't what it used to be to read up close. I had to buy readers, all right, So when I get up close, put on the readers. So what's the problem. Can't see the play with the readers on?

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Speaker 2: Uh huh?

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Speaker 4: So the play happens readers off. Then I need to look down at my thing and see who what the name of the person? Readers on, readers on. So I'm just sitting here going readers on, readers off, readers on, readers off. And this man, he's a nice man, but he looks at me and goes, maybe you should get bifocals. I'm not bifocal age you, Okay, Well, apparently I am sometimes when it comes.

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Speaker 2: To these games. But one more thing I gotta say about it, all right, it was so nice to see dufin Schmirks join the broadcast booth for a couple of plays did I What did I do? Oh? My favorite one is when you you asked Myron the question about who's been in the super Dome the most outside of football games, and he guessed, correct me, the Pope.

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Speaker 4: He said, the Pope, and Dufin Smirks was right.

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Speaker 2: There that God.

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Speaker 4: Id that I did do that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: When I finished. Okay, so I got first of all those of you that listened, and a lot of you did. Yeah. I heard through a source of ESPN they were shocked how many piss people listened through the app. Nice like it. You all showed up in the app. Thank you very much. When it was over, I got very nice feedback, and then a week later a really nice note from my boss with that said. I walked out of there about as proud as I've been to myself in a long should have been not because it was great. I think by the end we were pretty good. We had some rough points, I get it, but I knew how hard I worked on it. Yeah, and I knew that I hadn't like bombed, because I kind of worried I was gonna bomb the day before I was freaking out. Mario Myron was like, all right, man, what we gotta do. Where's like overconfident Matt here, you're freaking me out. He's like, You're gonna do great. He kept telling me Shannon, I was gonna do great so much that I kind of yelled at him, was like, stop saying that. Yeah, he's psyching you out, yeah, because he's you know, too much, and You're like, well, they don't really mean that. Something's not right. But by the end we went out to dinner that night, This was the night of the twenty third, just me and him, and it was a really like proud mom, like we've been through something. He has never done it either, exactly, you know, neither of us had ever done it. When I told my producer Shannon before it starts, he was like, so, you know, what's your all's experience? How often have you done this? And I went never, Admirron goes well for football. Never.

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Speaker 2: He was like, oh, what do I got myself in?

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Speaker 4: No, he was. He was a nice man, but he was dead serious and he had to look like, are you kidding me? Neither of you have ever done this?

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Speaker 2: Put me with you two guys.

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Speaker 4: I later found out they think I'm the only person ever that's done a debut broadcast national ESPN.

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Speaker 2: Right, not even a high school game.

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Speaker 4: We had done zero, zero games. So I was proud of myself. You should have been.

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Speaker 2: And it was you show me that note during halftime. You said, Man, it's the most chic thing I've ever been part of.

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Speaker 4: Hardest the first half, By the second half, I got a rhythm. First half might be the hardest thing I've ever done in radio.

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Speaker 2: But you couldn't tell it. You guys pulled it off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well anyway, well.

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Speaker 6: Put you guys so far away too. It's like they can.

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Speaker 4: That's where it is. That's where everyone does it. That's where everyone does it. But normally you had like a monitor, but because this was like a secondary not huge thing for ESPN, our monitor was three seconds even.

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Speaker 2: In the stadium was three seconds delay. Crazy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if I'm nine two eighty seven, We'll take a break berry back to Caissel, welcome back. Take you sports medio. If you're buying a premium for roadside assistance or getting gouged for phone insurance, doctor visit copeys feel more expended to go to UK Federal credit Union take advant of the Blue Vantage Checking packed with benefits go beyond the basics twenty four to seven road side assistance. It's Blue Vantage Checking from the official Credit Union of the University of Kentucky, UK Federal Credit Union. All Right, we've had people waiting on the phone. Let me give them a chance here, Susan, go ahead, Susan, Hi.

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Speaker 7: Matt, I just have a basketball comment, and then I'll hang up and listen. This getting down by double digits, like I think, is partly related to the starting lineup this year, but it also happened last year. It's been consistent through the Pope era in every Marquee game. We get down big against Duke, against Gunzag against Alabama. And it made me think of a comment Pope made last year, which was, the first half is just for gathering data.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't.

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Speaker 7: I'm sure, I know, I'm sure that's not all that's happening. But it does look like we just rolled the ball out there. Go let's see what happens, and then we're a totally different team after halftime. So I just want to ask the coaches if they could please please please gather data before the game. Yeah, that's a great pregame prep like this seems to be the point of watching film and pregame walkthrough, so maybe we could just do that before halftime.

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Speaker 4: Susan, I think that's a great point. I appreciate the call this team. Mark Pope has shown himself to be a pretty good coach at adjustments. But why do you think we seem so unprepared at the start of games.

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Speaker 2: It makes zero sense to be that smart of a coach to be all your analytics as everything is involved and she's try It's not just one off thing that happened against Alabama, It's happened now for a year and a half. Get down early, have to fight and claw. You get down twenty in the first half against these good teams, it makes it hard to come back against anybody.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've been down double digits in half of our games.

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Speaker 2: It makes no sense.

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Speaker 4: I bet you of those I bet you most of them are in the first half.

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Speaker 2: Yes, usually like the first half.

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Speaker 4: We were down double digits against Saint John's, we came back and back. Last year we were down twenty plus to Gonzaga. We did come back. But you can't keep giving yourself those holes.

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Speaker 2: Take out that second half against Saint John's. I'd like to see what our point differential is in these other games, these other six games, because it's got to.

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Speaker 4: Be it's gotta be Badase Chrease, go ahead.

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Speaker 8: Hey guys, good morning. I just wanted to something that's been on my mind about it is. I think everyone's kind of touched on a lot of the Pope topics, But my biggest issue is that I do agree. I think we're stuck with him next year, and I just don't know what we have to look forward to with him. He's proven he can't recruit, he can't land the lead players. I'm just not sure what we have to look forward to and unappropriate.

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Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate the call. It's it's not looking good for the recruiting, but it's not over. Yeah, I mean, I'm hopefully looking forward to them being better than they are. I do think he has a major issue with pr with the fans right now, but it's not I'm shocked that's an issue with him. I thought that would be something that wouldn't be a concern. I thought he would understand and talking to the fans better than any coach were Yep, I really did I thought that'll be one, you know, that'll be one that'll be no problem, And I'm surprised.

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Speaker 2: But I also.

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Speaker 4: I hesitate how to say this because I don't want to. So if you go over the years and you look at the coaches and I'm now talking not about coaching basketball, Okay, I'm talking about pr like understanding the fans since I've been doing KSR. When Billy Gillespie got here, his folks were like, and we weren't nearly as popular then, they were like, tell me about the few k families. Same thing about cal Perry. They did the exact same thing cal Perry probably better than anybody. Mark Stoops, same thing, will steinfolks, same thing popes haven't, which is okay, they don't have to do that. But I have had good conversations with Mark twice. But I have found it odd that like they haven't really done that at all, And I kind of thought, well, it doesn't really matter. Mark played here. He understands the fans. You know, they did that awesome event down here last year. Sure, And I was like, you know what, I get it. It's fine, like they don't need it, But I don't know this Mark Pope since the Louisville game has not been that guy, And I wonder is there somebody that, like, wh who's telling them what to do? You know what I mean? Like, who are they listening to? Who are they talking to? I don't know. There's never been a staff in the time that I've been at KSR where I've known less about the people that work here, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know anything about the assistant coaches. I don't know anything about anybody there. Do you No, I don't. I mean, do you like Jason Hart, Alvin.

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Speaker 2: Brooks, I know where they came from. Nothing ever spoken to him. Cody Figer, Nope.

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Speaker 4: No idea. Mark Fox I knew before he got here. So that's one person I know a little bit. Don't really know Mark Pope.

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Speaker 2: The Robinson guy that's on the statue.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't even recognize him. And I'm not the only one I've talked to the other people in the No one knows the like they are.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 4: I think Cody Figer is close with matt Orlander and Jeff Goodman, which is how those guys know everything stories. But I so it's hard to like sit here and say, like I knew John cal Perry, I knew Mark Stoops, I knew Billy Gillespie. I knew what they were like, I kind of knew what drove them. I kind of knew what who they were. I don't know Pope. I don't really understand him at all, So it's hard for me to know what's going through his mind. So like when Mark Stoops would do something stupid, I would understand why because I kind of knew Mark Stoops. I don't understand why Mark Pope was rude to Tom Leitch either. I don't understand him, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: And the fact he can't relate to the fans is just baffling because he's one of us.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand it. I really don't. And and he wasn't like this last year. No, So we'll be right back. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ and make him pay.

00:23:36
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Speaker 6: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: That's the first time I've ever seen Mario perk up at the music we play like you, because I guess we probably don't play that much hip hop on this show. And like as soon as he heard I understood the sign. Man like he was you he like he like she was. He was happy like.

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Speaker 6: Money, Yeah, take money.

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Speaker 4: Well, Pope said he understood the issue he did hearing it. What do you think about that stat that? So let me let me actually before I before I sort of muddy the waters. Who are the five best players on the team in terms of if you were to put a lineup and say who should beat the lineup? What would you say?

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Speaker 2: Jalen Lowe, well take it away, Cam Williams, Diabat and acquaintance.

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Speaker 4: That's who I would say. Yeah, they played one minute together.

00:24:28
Speaker 2: Insane at your best squad and you play one minute on the floor together.

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Speaker 4: They played one minute together, those five.

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Speaker 2: That's coaching malpractice.

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Speaker 4: That's what we said about Cal two years ago. Yep played one minute together. That is a failure in decision making failure. Now, maybe you put that group and it doesn't work. Who knows, but how do you not try? I bet you eighty percent of the listeners to this show would have given those same five people, yes, right, and they played one minute together.

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Speaker 2: The fact they didn't play Cam Williams Harley at all just baffling. Coming off the game he had against Bellerman. You're having trouble scoring and you got him sitting on there on the bench.

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Speaker 4: So what do we say about all the family members that are chirping? So Jasper Johnson's uncle, former UK player, has been online quite a bit frustrated Jaden Quaint's dad. Yes, Well, what do we say about that?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, social media is everybody a platform and they're not happy when things are going. You know, Jaden Quainen's dad is chirping a lot about coaching moves, coaching decisions, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 4: That's not good.

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Speaker 2: That's not good. He's your stud that just got helder.

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Speaker 4: That's his dad.

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Speaker 2: That's his dad.

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Speaker 4: It's also your only top recruit, Yeah, your one NBA. Let me know, two highest rank recruits that Pope has gotten. Both have family members publicly criticizing the coach. When you're wondering about getting recruits in the future. That's tough.

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Speaker 2: It is tough.

00:25:57
Speaker 4: That's tough. If you're one to go get top or play in your two hivest profile recruits already have family members complaining about the situation. That's tough.

00:26:08
Speaker 2: Other family members of other recruits are gonna see that well.

00:26:10
Speaker 4: They all know each other.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

00:26:12
Speaker 4: The Jasper Johnson things interesting. I'm not saying Jasper Johnson should play more. I don't really know, but I will say this, Jasper Johnson is known a lot more than most recruits ranked him because of social media and in terms of the recruiting landscape, Jasper Johnson's known by every good player in the country because of his overtime, elite and all that. Him not playing matters. I'm not saying you should plain just because of that, but it does matter. Now a couple little things. First of all, Kentucky women, Yeah, what a win. Had a huge movie you were Gone. They won yesterday, But the win Thursday night's the win.

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Speaker 2: That was the wind.

00:26:49
Speaker 4: That's the win. Shannon wentning on the road on dressed like Kim Mulky, like everybody's coming in but dazzled with their hair frayed, and everybody's like, girl, you look good. And you know what, it didn't matter because Tony Morgan Powell three at the buzzer.

00:27:07
Speaker 2: Somebody UK told me one of the top UK women's wins in program history.

00:27:11
Speaker 4: I mean, it probably is the top women's win in the regular season.

00:27:17
Speaker 2: Right to win on the road at LSU, one of the perennial powers.

00:27:22
Speaker 4: Out there dressing like Kiein, like he's coming out of a raging bone ad walking out there, and then still losing huge.

00:27:30
Speaker 6: Win fifteen in one.

00:27:32
Speaker 3: I mean it's yeah, it's been a heck of a season so far, heck of a year.

00:27:35
Speaker 2: Now.

00:27:35
Speaker 4: They lost the girl last yesterday. Yeah, she she's like, what fourth fifth best player? Probably she's definitely.

00:27:43
Speaker 2: She had seventeen points and sixteen rebounds the other night.

00:27:46
Speaker 4: Against l SU.

00:27:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was.

00:27:47
Speaker 4: That's a big law. I mean, looks like maybe out for the year, right.

00:27:50
Speaker 2: Just located elbow.

00:27:51
Speaker 4: I think they weren't very deep, so that's a big law hurts. But Morgan's been so good.

00:27:58
Speaker 2: We thought we'd missed Georgia Amore. Morgan come in and kind of fill those shoes and doing a good job.

00:28:02
Speaker 3: So a dislocated elbow sounds like that would be excruciating.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: How long are you are? You? Like out for the years?

00:28:10
Speaker 2: I don't know. Is it her shooting him elbow? I don't know.

00:28:13
Speaker 4: Can you put your elbow back?

00:28:16
Speaker 6: I think they can pop it back. It's not shoulders, yeah, yeah, I mean it's no.

00:28:19
Speaker 4: I mean I don't think she's permanently going to have this, okay, but can she play.

00:28:23
Speaker 2: Pop it back in place?

00:28:25
Speaker 4: I don't know. Kelly Brooks, Kenny Brooks did the little Shannon butt heead dance? Did you see where? I don't feel like no one's noticed that, but I mean everyone noticed him doing it. But that's what butthead used to do. When you would dance. He would take his fist and.

00:28:40
Speaker 6: Go underhand it jab. Yeah, you didn't get video.

00:28:44
Speaker 2: On that, Mario. That's what you didn't get video of.

00:28:47
Speaker 6: Do you think he makes that noise when he does it?

00:28:49
Speaker 2: I hope he does. I think he made it. But when one team is struggling, that team is succeed tremendously.

00:29:01
Speaker 4: Yes, I do have to note one of the craziest things I've ever seen in sports. You all probably didn't spend a lot of time knowing this. Last night A and M Women played Georgia Women. Okay, probably didn't care?

00:29:15
Speaker 2: Did you did not care?

00:29:16
Speaker 4: With four minutes and forty seconds left in the third quarter, A and M Women led Georgia Women forty eight to thirty one. Right the game went to overtime, so A and M's women were up seventeen game ended up in overtime, Georgia one in overtime. Now let's do a little math. There was four forty one left in the third quarter. Huh, okay? How many minutes were left in the third quarter? If they've been through four forty one? Four forty one, okay, Now add the fourth quarter? How many minutes or do they played?

00:29:51
Speaker 2: Ten minutes?

00:29:52
Speaker 4: Ten minutes?

00:29:52
Speaker 2: Okay, so fourteen forty one.

00:29:54
Speaker 4: Now I added five minute overtime?

00:29:55
Speaker 2: What is it? Nineteen forty one?

00:29:57
Speaker 4: Nineteen forty one? Guess how many field goals Texas A and M's women had in the final nineteen forty one?

00:30:05
Speaker 2: What is it?

00:30:06
Speaker 4: Zero?

00:30:07
Speaker 5: No?

00:30:08
Speaker 2: Wow? They didn't make another shot the rest of the game, entire half they scored.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: They scored ten more points, but all on free throws. Noel did not score another basket for the rest of the game. They were up seventeen with four to forty one left, lost sixty four fifty eight in overtime, and did not score for nineteen minutes and forty one seconds of action.

00:30:38
Speaker 2: That's going to keep the coach up at night. Will we not score a field goal in almost twenty minutes?

00:30:42
Speaker 4: That has to be one of the craziest stats I've ever seen.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: Agreed to go that long.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: Wow, and they were good enough to be up seventeen.

00:30:51
Speaker 2: And it was at A and M.

00:30:53
Speaker 4: I don't know where it was.

00:30:54
Speaker 6: I mean, that's you talk. It just falling apart. Do you think the game is over and score again? All right, we're done.

00:31:02
Speaker 4: I would like to watch how many shots they missed. True, I mean, it has to be fascinating just to watch them.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: Even the second half of Kentucky played Georgetown eighty four. At least we.

00:31:12
Speaker 4: Scored a couple buckets none, none, Steve, go ahead, Steve, Steve, all right, oh Steve, Jude, go ahead, Jude. Well, yes, sir, can you hear me?

00:31:29
Speaker 8: What did you think of Naosi's comments about Kentucky's passing and his press conference last Saturday?

00:31:36
Speaker 4: I thought, that's how you use analytics.

00:31:38
Speaker 2: Yep.

00:31:39
Speaker 4: When nat Oates gets up and says, we watched game tape and we realized that their assist numbers aren't bad, but when you break it down, most their assists came against bad teams. He said. You would sit there and you would see, oh seventeen assists, oh twenty assists, oh twenty two. They must be pretty good. But then that was where against the bad teams. And then he said, but when they played the good teams have very many assists, and then he broke that's analytics right there, Like analytics is not just stirring numbers, it's actually looking at the stats and seeing patterns. And he saw that when we played good teams, our assists go down. He said, we knew they weren't going to pass, so we would collapse on the guy who drove, and it worked. Most coaches wouldn't like give that up say that they did that, but Ryan he did. And that's what analytics are supposed to be. That's why Natoates is a great coach.

00:32:26
Speaker 2: You don't think the Missouri coach heard that comment too, and now he knows how to maybe how to play and defend Kentucky Wednesday night.

00:32:31
Speaker 4: The question is did we know that before? Shannon?

00:32:34
Speaker 6: Apparently not.

00:32:35
Speaker 4: Do you think we knew that we had only had seven assists when we throw the ball into the post in thirteen games? We should I don't know if we did or not.

00:32:43
Speaker 6: With all the analytics that mark post, we should know.

00:32:46
Speaker 4: If Natoates knew that, we should have known, and if we know then I would wonder, Shannon, why have we not correct?

00:32:51
Speaker 6: Why wouldn't It's a great question.

00:32:53
Speaker 2: Maybe Pope did talk about that, and he did talk a lot after the game.

00:32:58
Speaker 4: He did not Isaac, go ahead.

00:32:59
Speaker 5: I I just wanted to offer my perspective real quick. I don't know if this will help anybody, but it helps me understand kind of mark Pope's mentality. Of course, I don't know him personally, but for my own job, I know when the pressures, you know, starts to rising, I slitch locations in my job. Job I'm at now is a lot more high intensity, a lot more sales, a lot more just pressure, and so I know what that comes, you know, different emotions to come out of me. I get a little bit more frustrated, a little bit more angry. So I don't know if that's necessarily where Post's head is at, but I can personally relate to him in that sense, and I just hope he gets out of the funk. It took me a while to get out of it, but once I did. Man, we've been we've been rolling where I'm at. So hopefully he can do the same thing.

00:33:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean maybe, so I appreciate the call, but like he's got to do it. You know, somebody wrote me, Matt, have you all reached out to ask Pope about these issues? I say this, honestly, I wouldn't even know who to call. I really wouldn't. I wouldn't even know there. I have more people now that I can talk to in the will Stein coaching staff that's been here for three weeks than in the entire rest of the athletic department. So I wouldn't even know who to contact. Not that I mean, I don't think necessarily Mark Pope should come on an interview on KSR right now. That's probably not the greatest idea. But fans have these questions and like he'll have a does you have a press conference today? He's got these coaches show show? Yeah, but I mean, what's that? I love Tom, but like he's not. He didn't answer Tom at the last show answering today either.

00:34:33
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Speaker 4: We'll take a break right back, so Kez welcome back, take you Surpports Radio. Final segment brought to you by Serve Pro Number one choice and clean up in restoration. Whether it's moldfire storm, or water damage, We've got a pro for that. We're the ones who make it like it never even happened. Serve Pro sponsor Bowl Games and sponsor saving your house or business. Servebro dot cot com dot com. We hope you don't need it, but if you do, se r v pro dot com. One person writes, Matt, I actually saw you last week. Missed you on the show, but saw you from afar at the New York Islanders game. I didn't want to bother you, but I didn't want to wave and sagkats I was there. Yeah, they play the Utah Mammoth. By the way, did you know they tore the Belmont Racetrack just down?

00:36:05
Speaker 2: I thought they were just remodeling it.

00:36:06
Speaker 4: So they've moved the Islanders arena next to the Belmont Racetrack. Okay, it's torn down, the rebuilding the whole thing. Yeah, like it's crazy. So anyway, I saw that, but while I was there, I don't know if this guy saw that. Sheennon almost got in a fight.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: Oh really, I take your picture? No, you almost?

00:36:30
Speaker 6: Okay, I gotta hear it.

00:36:31
Speaker 4: I had to stand up against racesm Okay. All right, So here's the situation seven to Mammoth over the Islanders games.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: Basically, oh huh.

00:36:42
Speaker 4: Uncle Matt had splurged a little bit to get tickets, like the really good ones. Yeah, like right behind the ice.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: Oh, wow.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: Two minutes, three minutes ago, games essentially over most of the stadium's left. Guy sneaks into the section. Shennon, I'm fine with it or do I care? Right, there's plenty empty seats, no difference to me. But he sneaks in the section. But he does sneak in.

00:37:06
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:37:07
Speaker 4: Security guard comes over, tells him he's got to go. Now.

00:37:12
Speaker 2: If I was a security guard, would I let it go? Maybe?

00:37:15
Speaker 4: But you know what, it's his job. Shannon gotta tell you. Sure walks up, young guy, nice guy I think he's Hispanic, comes up, says the guy need you to go back out, Sir, your seat's not here. This dude play fifty five falled Long Island, Like, think about what you think of Long Island, Staten Island. That's this guy.

00:37:39
Speaker 2: Uh huh.

00:37:40
Speaker 4: He stands up and goes, okay, mam, Donnie, that's the new mayor of New York. He's like, oh, all right, Mandani. Yeah, so you're gonna kick all the white people out of stadiums now, come on, dude. First of all, this dude's Hispanic, he's not even muzzle. Secondly, don't be a jerk, right, So then he starts saying, oh, I guess this is what happens to us now Mondani voters, this is what happens. And finally, me and another guy, just a random guys, like, dude, stop get out. At that point, security's coming. They ask him. They escorted him out, channing no. So this guy's next to me and I are like, what is with that dude? And I looked at the security guard. I go like, man, I'm sorry. All of a sudden, I look up Shannon. He's at the top. He comes sprinting down the stairs. Yeah, like sprinting down the stairs like he wants to fight. He gets to me and he starts yelling. Somebody stops him, like somebody stands in between, and he starts yelling at me everything you can think wow again, continuing to say, mandantie, who's not by the way, that's New York City. This isn't even New York City. We're not even in New York City, right, He's yelling this dude's losing it. And so then I, you know, I chirped back and I'm like, just don't be a racist, dude, Like, why are you yelling at this guy? He's just doing his job. They end up Shannon dragging this man out of all with two minutes to go in a hockey game. His daughter is looking on.

00:39:26
Speaker 2: Oh now it makes it even worse.

00:39:28
Speaker 4: Mortified, he ends up dragging him out, with him screaming about Mondanni as he's getting taken up the stairs.

00:39:35
Speaker 3: Well, I guess there's a good thing security did it before you had to, Wright, because it would have been way worse if he had to deal with you.

00:39:41
Speaker 4: I would not have focked the man, but I would have. I was ready to say strong language.

00:39:45
Speaker 2: Well you had it out.

00:39:46
Speaker 4: He was being like held down by the officer. I tried to make a joke.

00:39:52
Speaker 6: That didn't hit, didn't land.

00:39:54
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody really was like, well, if he was a Mondani.

00:39:59
Speaker 2: Voter, yeah, he would have just let you sneak down right. Nobody got that.

00:40:05
Speaker 4: It doesn't look like you get it. Get it well because he's socialist, like everybody gets Okay, Yeah, you didn't get it. That's why it didn't work. My audience didn't understand it.

00:40:15
Speaker 3: Shane, I want to get back to like the fight that might have happened, Like what would have done? Would you have gone like a kick to the groin, would you have.

00:40:22
Speaker 4: I had this other guy.

00:40:23
Speaker 5: Guy.

00:40:23
Speaker 2: I had the other guy. He's on your side.

00:40:26
Speaker 4: I was gonna give him the old onesie going to fight.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna fight.

00:40:33
Speaker 4: Sin and trying to end racism, that's all I was trying to do. I wasn't trying to fight.

00:40:37
Speaker 6: It sounds like you did it. I think it's over now, racism is over. He just solved like world peace.

00:40:44
Speaker 4: Now, I think I think it occurred. And then as he got dragged off, people clapped yeah, and then the game ended. The game was over like right after that.

00:40:53
Speaker 2: People don't want to witness that kind of stuff.

00:40:55
Speaker 4: He lost his mind.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: That's sad. And it was daughter.

00:40:59
Speaker 4: This random guy who was like five foot eight, didn't say one negative word, just said, sir, you can't sit here doing his job. He just was doing his job right. Well, good for you.

00:41:11
Speaker 2: For standing up for racism against Yeah, against racism.

00:41:15
Speaker 4: Shannon not four? Did he I did? Oh my god?

00:41:20
Speaker 2: It was again against side.

00:41:22
Speaker 4: Do you think I'm on on the right side. I'm not four.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: You're not four again.

00:41:26
Speaker 6: On the left side.

00:41:31
Speaker 4: Somebody's gonna take that clip, Shane didn't go. Nice job, Matt, Thanks for standing up. Four races.

00:41:40
Speaker 2: Go for you.

00:41:41
Speaker 6: Don't run for office again.

00:41:43
Speaker 4: Seeing this man literally when I was thinking about run for Senate was like, you think I could speak be your campaign spokesman Shannon.

00:41:49
Speaker 6: No, absolutely not.

00:41:54
Speaker 4: That would have been the worst decision of all time. Well, there you go.

00:41:59
Speaker 2: Good for you.

00:42:00
Speaker 4: It's nice to be back.

00:42:01
Speaker 2: Good to have.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: Are we gonna beat Missouri? It's Wednesday. It's not tomorrow, it's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. Are we gonna beat him Wednesday?

00:42:07
Speaker 2: I thought we would until I saw what we did against Alabama and saw how they beat Florida. Now I'm not so sure.

00:42:12
Speaker 4: We have to win. We'll talk more about this. Both of these home games we cannot. I feel pretty good about it against Mississippi State, but we gotta win Wednesday.

00:42:20
Speaker 2: Have to they beat Florida, Yes, they did a good Florida team. We got it. We got problems.

00:42:28
Speaker 6: He's gonna start the season, that's gonna be.

00:42:30
Speaker 4: He's gonna say anything good in the press conference or in the coaches show tonight. No, No, I'm gonna listen history under one point five calls he takes, I'll go under does Bob and Jamestown cap he tries, But he's.

00:42:45
Speaker 2: Not gonna get in all right.

00:42:46
Speaker 4: We'll see Bob and Jamestown's call in the postgame show. It's why we don't take his call. Did you hear it?

00:42:52
Speaker 2: I didn't hear it.

00:42:53
Speaker 4: He said we need to shoot three more five pointers. We'll see tomorrow. He didn't so