2026-05-05- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. I'm Matt Jones. Tuesday, May the fifth. Here at the KS Bar and Grill. You can give a show on the Clark's Publish Up phone line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four In this diition sponsored by the TJ.

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Speaker 5: Smith Office. If you call TJ, He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 4: We are happy to be joined after his paternity hiatus.

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Speaker 5: Drew Franklin.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, nice to have you back after the last month or so of daddom, and.

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Speaker 5: We appreciate you. You joined us. It's good to see you.

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Speaker 6: I had to step away for about three weeks to figure out how to be a dad. But then I thought I haven't been keeping up with the news. I could get back with the guys and see everything I've missed.

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Speaker 4: I said yesterday that like, after this amount of time, your kid's like, good right, No, your kids.

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Speaker 6: He's not even home. Mabbe's out running there. Kids just at home watching the kids, kids going to grass.

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Speaker 5: Better be, she better be.

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Speaker 6: I just missed you, guess honestly, had to get out of the house a little bit. I got college to pay for now, so I gotta start saving some money.

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Speaker 5: I gotta get back to work, got to do that. College is coming well in honor of you. Coming back today.

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Speaker 4: UH Today is sponsored by our friends at Golisano's Children and Golisano's Children's Hospital, at UK and Norton's Children, and it is.

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Speaker 5: A it would you say.

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Speaker 7: Nku you yeah, Nick you.

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Speaker 4: Anito natle Icu text to give campaign. So for people who don't know Andrew, You've been through that, not not through this with you, but in general uh, babies who are very little and we are seen right here how little we're talking about.

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Speaker 5: This is the diaper and the head and the what do you call it? Just a hat hat?

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Speaker 4: It's tiny, tiny of a n natal baby that would be at Goasanos at UK or Norton's and we at KSR are going to try to do something helpful to the community, which is raise money to sport.

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Speaker 5: How do you want to say? Niku ni nick you, nick you, nick.

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Speaker 4: You babies in honor of Mother's Day and Drew having a child, So you can take your phone out. We're gonna all do this together at ten thirty.

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Speaker 5: Okay, at ten thirty, We're all going to do this together.

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Speaker 4: For right now, we're going to be doing a donation campaign to try to raise money for these hospitals in ksr's name.

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Speaker 5: So are you are you excited about that?

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Speaker 7: That includes you will be giving to absolutely, they have a goal set today. I think we can reach that goal. You know, a lot of Mother's Day's coming up and a lot of mothers are going to be going through that me and nick you during Mother's Day, So yeah, they need the help support. It's a great way to do it today.

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Speaker 4: Both Golisanos. Everything's hard to pronounce in this world. Golisano's Children and Norton's Children Hospital. They deal with Level four nick Us, which is the highest level of natal care available. It can be babies weighing less than a pound. Wow, and we are going to help them out today. That'll be at ten thirty. So everybody, including all of you that are here, and Mario, your phone's going to be out too.

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Speaker 5: We're all going to donate, including me.

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Speaker 7: You don't think how little your baby was. The babies will probably that much.

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Speaker 5: Is tiny, like seven pounds, So these are to me less than a pound. That's right, it's amazing. We toured the nick You. We're very blessed. We didn't need the nick you.

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Speaker 6: We have a healthy baby, but a lot of mothers and babies and families aren't as fortunate, so that any donations today can go towards their care and just the family's stay over there a little longer than they anticipated.

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Speaker 4: So be ready at ten thirty, all of you at home, get your phones out, and we're all going to donate in honor of babies KSR and showing the heart of our KSR fan base. Now there's a lot to get to, but Drew, I guess we should start with it's.

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Speaker 5: Been a month and you've been gone. Yeah, what I miss guys?

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Speaker 7: Nothing?

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Speaker 6: Nothing at Actually, when I was leaving, they were putting up to come home, Rob come home, Donnie, come home, tiring banners.

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Speaker 5: That's right when I left, So the banner boys were just starting when you.

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Speaker 6: And I don't know if y'all saw. I put up my own banner in the hospital that Monday.

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Speaker 5: So we're good. And everything's been good since I've been gone. We went zero for three on.

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Speaker 7: The customers didn't have very good luck, but that was a that was a fun week.

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Speaker 5: Since then, it's been rocky. Probably. What are your thoughts from afar? Very convenient timing on my end.

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Speaker 4: You always do that, like you guys always I can't leave you guys are always gone. I mean you left and then Cali Perry left. You left, Like every time I took leave, something happened.

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Speaker 6: I took one Monday Tuesday when stoops flair with A and M. I took one Monday Tuesday when Cal left. Just just give me a little baby time, guys, a couple of weeks. Nothing will happen, you know it seemed to be pretty negative from my view. I wasn't online much, but I would check in a couple times a day. Obviously, all of it was ks r's fault, part of the reason I wanted to come back so soon as it could be also my fault as well in all this. But you know, it's it's hard to sugarcoat it. It's been a rough few weeks as a Kentucky fan. Even being away a little bit from my perspective, hadn't been the best time.

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Speaker 4: Has It has been rough, And we're gonna talk about that. But I didn't want to start with rough. Since you're here for the first time, tell me the good stuf. I wanted to start with something kind of more well, not even on topic.

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Speaker 5: Are you ready? I saw something and I thought this would be a good conversation. Started. Okay, so Shannon, you got to be ready for this too. All right, here's where we're gonna go. Here we go. I looked up there was an article that was on Reddit. You know, everything true is on rap ready, guy, Everything true is on Reddit? And it was the fifteen things that are cheap that you can do to improve your life.

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Speaker 4: Fifteen things that are cheap that you can do to improve your life. These are the top fifteen according to this author. And this author was on Reddit, so it has to be true, all right, And Shannon, we're all gonna agree. Decide if we agree these are things that can help your life, Okay?

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Speaker 5: All right? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Number one, throw away all your socks and buy twenty pairs of the same new socks so you don't have to worry about mismatching.

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Speaker 2: No, so I don't agree with that. No, why am I throwing away the socks? I already have a song.

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Speaker 5: So you can keep them if you want. But the point is have one kind of wear one kind of sock, so that then you don't like you don't have to worry about mismatching, and you are always consistent, and they need to be good comfortable socks.

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Speaker 6: It has not been forty eight hours since I've ordered new socks, so I'm in on this. I keep my sock to pretty pretty organized. I throw out stuff when they lose a match or get a little hole in them.

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Speaker 5: I like this.

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Speaker 4: I started doing this recently, of only buying one kind of sock, and then you don't have to sit there and go, oh is it this one is at the rate, just the one kind of sock.

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Speaker 5: I'm for this, so I'm I'm Withdrough.

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Speaker 7: Yes see, you've got my secret. All my socks are all Hain socks, so they would come out of the Washington Dragon line. I can match them together and don't same size, all same size, and like Dre said, so they get a hole in them, throw them away.

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Speaker 5: You showed that house there were three little piggies showing that your toes were out in my house too.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to hear that, Shannon. You disagree though, you want multiple.

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Speaker 5: Sock you know.

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Speaker 2: I think there's some times you reach in there and you're like, oh, which one am I going to get today?

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Speaker 3: It's as like a lottery.

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Speaker 5: Go number two. Cooking it home, I'm out.

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Speaker 3: I'm out too. I don't know how do you do that?

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Speaker 5: I'm out.

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Speaker 4: I would like to be able to do that, and I my hope is when I move into my new home, I will try to do it more. But I actually don't think it would make your life easier. Actually, they it will make your life harder.

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Speaker 6: I work, I cook at home several meals a day, and I'll admit it does it is harder. Like I spend my day, like what do I need from the grocery store? What am I cooking to? So, even though I do it, I don't agree with that.

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Speaker 4: I have enough regano with experient and all this, like I don't have the milk expire.

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Speaker 5: It's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: I have a rule when it comes to cooking.

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Speaker 2: If it takes me longer to cook it and then for me to eat it, then I'm not doing it.

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Speaker 4: And I think most things do. Yeah, so I so so all right, So mixed emotions on that number three. A library card? What's wrong with the library card?

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Speaker 7: I don't even know where the library is? Why do I want a library card? I don't read?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, butt, but this the point of this is this will make your life easier and better if you were to read, it would probably give you peace of mind. It would make your intellect. You would work your brain, which I think would be good for you as you get older, to kind of challenge your brain.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I can read the stuff on my phone. I don't need a library card.

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Speaker 5: Had a book?

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, you can even read things on your phone. If that's what you want, you can get they have e library car.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I was gonna ask does that count those? I haven't done it yet, but the was it Libby? Is that any I think that's one of them.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: You get on there and you rent from the library, but it's all electronic. I like the idea of that.

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Speaker 5: Shannon, Yes or no.

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Speaker 3: It's a no for me, dog, No for me, dog.

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Speaker 4: I hate that I work with you refuse to better their into the number three number four outdoor walks.

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Speaker 5: Yes. Huge fan of this, Yes, huge fan of this.

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Speaker 4: My favorite part of my day is when I go for an outdoor walk. I'm very much looking forward to my new neighborhood for that because where I am, you know, see Louisville. I can in Lexington, it's harder. I'm big on outdoor walks here.

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Speaker 6: Lately, I've added two days and worked in a couple of new cul de sacs as we're walking the baby, so I already enjoyed them before, but I've added a few extra steps.

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Speaker 5: Next a shower head and or b day like a new shower head.

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Speaker 4: I agree water pressure is key to me if I will spin more on a shower head than anything, because I think water pressure determines there's nothing worse than a little shower, shower head, A little dinky shower is the worst.

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Speaker 5: What about though you, I've never really done a lot of bedat.

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Speaker 4: I can see how it would I can see how it would be positive, but I've never really gotten to partake.

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Speaker 3: You know who has is our boy Billy.

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Speaker 4: He's got Billy hasn't been day. Billy used today to wash his face, which I've never understood.

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Speaker 3: He brush his teeth over it yet.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that's what it's for, but Billy does do it.

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Speaker 7: The people that have bidets swear by it. They say, once you have one, you'll never go back. But man, there's nothing better to wake you up in the morning that you get enter a good shower of a good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a shower head right next one?

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Speaker 7: Yes, on that one.

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Speaker 5: Talking less and listening more.

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Speaker 3: We're good at doing that on this show.

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Speaker 5: I'm really good at that. I listen a lot.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're sitting.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't say you are. This would be Shannon's thinking. He's the best at Do you think that's something that would be would be better for your life to talk less and listen more.

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Speaker 7: Yes, there is even a Bible verse. I think it says something like that the Bible, be still and listen.

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Speaker 5: To speak. Do you don't tell him what what the book?

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Speaker 7: You know it's in Deuteronomy?

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Speaker 5: Is it in Deuteronomy?

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Speaker 7: I have no idea what book is it?

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Speaker 5: What? James, Oh, he was good. I think it's a good advice.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say I'm the best at it, Drew, but I do think that's good advice.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I can do better on that one, but I agree. I think that everybody could benefit from listening.

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Speaker 5: Next. Journal again, that would involve you reading or writing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we started that, Matt. You did a journal for like two weeks.

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Speaker 4: I've done a journal at various points in my life. When I went to Europe, I did a journal every day when I have like things that are happening. I find journaling both peaceful. It helps you organize. Here's what's good about. When you write what you've done in your day, you are this is science, You're.

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Speaker 5: More likely to remember it. Right.

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Speaker 4: So, if you have a moment that you really want to remember, if you journal it, just repeating it in your brain helps you remember.

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Speaker 5: It and then you can always go back. I've gone back to my Europe trips.

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Speaker 4: And it helps me, remember where I went, what I did, and those kinds of things.

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Speaker 5: I'm supposed to be journaling right now. I've never done it before.

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Speaker 6: I was gonna do a baby a baby journal. With three weeks behind, started to do it. I can still catch up, though, I remember the last three weeks.

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Speaker 5: I see. I could see a baby journal being a great idea.

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Speaker 7: I've been meaning to do that. People reading too much, all right, people do journally. We watch Dateline when they find that journal. It's a game changer, It's true.

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Speaker 5: That's why you should do it in case you get murdered. So you can do it. Uh, spend money on a good pillow, good sheets.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, pillow. I'm all in on the pillow. When sleep out, theres gave us those pillows. My sleep schedule has been phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: I'm big on the sheets too, Like I don't have great sheets, but when I go sleep in a hotel with great sheets, I'm like, why don't I buy great sheets?

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Speaker 5: Because like there's a different.

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Speaker 3: Sit Here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Though, they cost money, I thought, But you're supposed to get cheap good sheets.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, cheap stuff, cheap good she.

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Speaker 6: Chef sales also washing them a good Uh, you know you should do that anyway, But after you've washed your sheets and made the bed, there's no better sleeping experience.

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Speaker 4: A long cord charger. It will keep your stress down. If you have a long cord charger, do.

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Speaker 7: You agree something to be said for that? You want that way you can sit in your favorite chair, sitting in your couch. You get that long charger while you're sitting there.

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Speaker 5: But see the charge.

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Speaker 4: A short charger is actually good for me, Drew, because it keeps me from being on my phone for periods of time. I'll be like, oh, the charger's over there, so I'll let it charge and that'll get me away from it.

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Speaker 6: That was my fault on this one too. I actually don't have a long charger by my bed anymore, so when I'm in bed, it's sitting on the night sand I can't reach it. I think that's been helpful.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, all right, here's another one, flass. I heard we're supposed to be doing this. Yeah, flossing's big.

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Speaker 7: I love it when I go to my dentist and she says, when's the last time you lost? And I said, when was the last time I was here?

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Speaker 5: And she said eight years ago. But you know, here's where floss really shows up your breath.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, your breath.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like I was a few years back. I was having some breath problems and I was like, I can't seem to get rid of this. And then when I went to the dentist, they were like, do you floss? And I went, well, I mean, don't get me with specifics, and they were like, that is the difference. And then once I did, Once I did, then it was lost scene.

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Speaker 2: As I think huge nothing worse to being flashamed at the dentist's office.

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Speaker 3: But I've moved on to water picks. You know, have you seen these water pics?

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Speaker 5: I have seen the water They gave me one of those, but that's a whole process.

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Speaker 3: I find that hard to water and push a button.

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Speaker 5: Billisday Shannon goes there to do it.

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Speaker 4: So those are There are others which we may get too later, but those are helpful tips that are small things that will improve your life, and I like those.

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Speaker 6: I do most of those, but I think I need to listen and floss and get a library card.

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Speaker 4: Listening's probably the one I need to work on the most. But you should consider reading Ryan, I do think it would, because you get older, you need to keep that brain working out.

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Speaker 5: Your brain does not get workouts.

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Speaker 4: Your body doesn't either, but your brain really doesn't get workouts.

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Speaker 7: I read this copy point here they gave us today. Didn't that count?

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Speaker 5: No, So maybe a library card.

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Speaker 7: I can't even tell you the last time I was in a library. I mean, I honestly sitting here right now. I may have been in middle school. I don't remember last time I was in in a library. Right.

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Speaker 5: It sounds like that's gonna be a no for you.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Golisano children at UK and Norton's children text to give campaign for KSR. We're gonna be starting it at ten thirty and I hope our fan base shows up and it shows their generosity as I know they will.

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Speaker 5: We'll take a break and be right back. It's KSR, Welcome back, and it's Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Uh, your girlfriend wrote in and said she is taking you today to get you a library card.

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Speaker 5: So how about that?

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Speaker 4: You're gonna get a library card out of the so one of the fifteen helpful things.

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Speaker 5: You're getting it today.

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Speaker 4: You're and knowing your girlfriend, you are going today, and I'm certain that's going to happen.

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Speaker 7: She does teach yoga classes at the Georgetown Library. I've actually been there to help her do stuff.

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Speaker 4: So I guess so you have been just you just said you haven't been since middle school, and now you're saying you've been there just recently.

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Speaker 7: I meant we go to library to actually get a book.

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Speaker 5: Well you're doing that today, according to uh, get a book. That's up to you and her. I don't get involved in your bedroommantics.

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Speaker 4: One person writes, Matt mark my words, if you get a beday, it will change your life.

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Speaker 7: Everybody says that is, once you have one, you'll never.

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Speaker 5: Give it up.

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Speaker 2: Temperature it would be a big deal, Like if it's really cold, that's the last thing you want.

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Speaker 5: But you probably could set it.

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, all right, if that's what people believe, I'm gonna real quick quickly, because there's gonna be plenty of time talking. I'm gonna do the other five real quick. One of them was, uh, again, these are cheap things that will help your life.

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Speaker 5: Friends. Yes, I totally agree with that you have friends. That that's great. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Number two meditation, I've tried that. It's hard for me because you have since still, but I think that's the point, right, have you ever tried to do that?

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Speaker 7: I've never you able to shut your mind?

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Speaker 4: I can sometimes, but like not always. So that's like one you have to work on.

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Speaker 5: Uh. And then finally, really good toilet paper, that's a must.

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Speaker 7: That's one thing. You don't ever want to skimp on cheap toilet paper. Go for the good stuff.

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Speaker 5: This is my eye.

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Speaker 3: Let's get judge.

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Speaker 5: I judge people by their toilet paper. If you if you, if you.

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Speaker 6: Have good toilet paper, then that means you care about your guests. Three things I don't go cheap on flights, toilet paper, and bourbon. I think you just got to pay a premium on all three of those things.

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Speaker 4: All right, Drew, Uh, since you've been gone the Mitch Bartenhart deal got ripped up. You were one of the two biggest knuckleheads critics on that deal. What did you make of the decision to rip it up after we were blasted for suggesting.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't a good idea?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, clearly this narrative that he was gonna sit around in a rocking chair and eat hay all day started about three knuckleheads and needed to stop. But uh, I think there was more than a couple of knuckleheads. We were some of the loud ones, but I think a few that pack even more of a punch some some donors, namely Brett Setzer being the obvious one. That and then when the governor just came over with the haymaker, I honestly couldn't even believe that happened. I was sitting there, and you know, sometimes your phone will blow up and it's not like okay, a lot of people just didn't decide to text me hey at once, like something has clearly happened.

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Speaker 5: I no, I'm being dead serious.

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Speaker 4: When I first saw the comment, I went to his official account because I was shocked. It seemed unlike his language, and I thought it wasn't I was.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know it was real, right.

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Speaker 6: I was sitting there, that's back when I was off my phone holding the baby, and I got like twenty texts in a matter of a minute. I'm like, all right, so someone has died or something big has happened, because everyone has just let me up at once, and I was just stunned looking at his tweet, like it's it's goutting because we believed it. But we're a bunch of radio hosts, even sets are getting involved. But when the governor has to make a statement, that's when it was like, oh, this is what a.

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Speaker 4: Great example of how you can't in leadership just wish that something goes away. They had this idea that they could do that and that like, yeah, maybe for a day people because and I also want to throw Linda Blackford ind at the Harold Leader too, because I think it got hit by every side, right Linda Blackford, she is kind of the writer for the intellectual class in Kentucky, like people like they all read her, right, we are kind.

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Speaker 5: Of the voice of like sort of the mass of people.

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Speaker 4: And then Brett Setzer is donor and then you get the governor in and like that's the loudest voice of all.

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Speaker 5: And they didn't have a choice.

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Speaker 4: But I think the dismissiveness that they had throughout the process.

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Speaker 5: Really just almost fueled it. It really did.

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Speaker 4: It almost fueled it, and it made what was an absurd decision to create a position that had no, I mean, it had no duties and an act like that was reasonable.

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Speaker 5: It was, I mean, it sort of showed how unreasonable it was.

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Speaker 6: My thing was, if y'all had just gone to lunch and made something up, people would have gotten over it. But they had no answers, like take thirty minutes, come up with an answer, lie to us if you have to. But they had nothing to say about it, which just proved it was a fake job. I couldn't believe they weren't prepared to at least put out some kind of statement because they didn't have anything to say.

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Speaker 4: When Eli Cappeluto didn't show up to the press conference, the retirement press conference at the end of the day, that told me two things.

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Speaker 5: One, they're pushing him out.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, I firmly believe that they pushed him out, that wasn't a well this is my They pushed.

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Speaker 5: Him out because if if, if that was a joyous moment Capalaluto shows up.

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Speaker 4: They pushed him out, And then I actually think it's very It was very rude of him to make him go stand out there on his own and have to explain it, and then he handled it.

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Speaker 5: As poorly as you could handle it yelling at everybody. So it was it was a it was a.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think part of the reason you're scene if you if you'll notice Jay Blanton at the UH at the the meeting last week going we've got to figure out and more get on board pr he they're acknowledging we screwed that up because I and I'm glad they did.

00:21:40
Speaker 5: Because they did screw it up.

00:21:42
Speaker 7: I always felt like if they had handled it the right way.

00:21:44
Speaker 5: He might have gotten away with it.

00:21:46
Speaker 7: People might have just kind of moved on for.

00:21:48
Speaker 5: Is it don't they do that in Scooby Doo shan it children, We would have gotten away with it. They if they had just better yeah, I actually think they would have got away with it, but they didn't.

00:22:01
Speaker 6: Like you can't name one job responsibility. You can't just make something up on the spot, like they.

00:22:05
Speaker 5: Were like, oh, we don't know what it is yet.

00:22:07
Speaker 4: I've had a few people say do you think that Mitch Barnhardt would would punch you in truth? And I was like, I don't think he's the punching type, but I mean it is a like that's a big amount of money.

00:22:22
Speaker 5: Now we don't know what they're giving him. Remember they met.

00:22:24
Speaker 4: They said afterwards Eli was gonna personally raise money first, So we don't know what he's gonna get.

00:22:30
Speaker 5: They'll still come up with it somehow.

00:22:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the job doesn't exist, so he may get maybe better for him, he gets money for doing absolutely nothing.

00:22:37
Speaker 6: Now, I really just worry about the Sports and Workforce Initiative at this point.

00:22:42
Speaker 5: Who's gonna run that?

00:22:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, and we know what it pays.

00:22:45
Speaker 6: I will I do it. I mean it's a million dollars job. We know it's a million dollar job. Ryan's gonna library card he can put.

00:22:52
Speaker 5: That's right.

00:22:53
Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eighty seven, We'll talk some basketball and raise somebody right for this KSR.

00:23:00
Speaker 5: TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

00:23:05
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00:23:08
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:09
Speaker 4: So your girlfriend, Ryan says, she's not only taking you to the library to get a library card, she's making you check out books.

00:23:15
Speaker 5: Yes, So I do have a suggestion for people.

00:23:17
Speaker 4: If you have a book that you think Ryan should should get, you should send him a message because Ryan, I want you to get books that don't scare you away. I think if I give you books they'll be like two. I want something that'll kind of ease you into reading.

00:23:29
Speaker 7: Well, the last book you gave me, the plot was really good. You like them?

00:23:32
Speaker 5: Well, do you know there's sequels out It's called the sequel.

00:23:36
Speaker 7: Well, then that's that's the answer.

00:23:37
Speaker 5: All right, So they're perfect. So now you have the second.

00:23:41
Speaker 7: Book, yes, because I really enjoyed the first one. All right, so the sequel, Okay, the sequel, the sequel.

00:23:46
Speaker 5: So there you go. There's your first.

00:23:47
Speaker 7: Book that get me through a week.

00:23:50
Speaker 4: Well, hopefully nobody checks it out from Libby or whatever before you can get it, because that would make it bad. All right, Two things here before we get to the phones. A Fi'm nine two eight oh two. Odie Smith passed away. People don't know. Odie Smith is probably one of the best players in Kentucky history that.

00:24:07
Speaker 5: You might not know about.

00:24:08
Speaker 4: He was on the nineteen fifty eight National Championship team team that beat Seattle.

00:24:14
Speaker 5: Then he went to the NBA. He is his jersey is retired. He went to the NBA. He was actually an All Star in the NBA.

00:24:23
Speaker 4: I saw an amazing story that TNT did many years ago about Odie Smith.

00:24:28
Speaker 5: I just want to tell it really quick.

00:24:29
Speaker 4: He played for the Cincinnati Royals with was it with Oscar Robinson?

00:24:35
Speaker 5: Red Arbach was coaching in the All Star Game.

00:24:37
Speaker 4: The game was in Cincinnati, so one of the players in the All Star Game had to miss it for some reason, and red Arbac thought it would be nice since they were in Cincinnati. He picked Odie up to be the extra player. Okay, so Odie is the extra player in the game. Game starts Odie's hot. He starts making shot after shot, so red Arbach says to keep feeding him. Next thing you know, Odie scores twenty five points and he's.

00:25:03
Speaker 5: The MVP of the All Star Game.

00:25:05
Speaker 4: They give him the ninth the a car like a nineteen sixty six Chevy as the winner, which he kept until he died.

00:25:14
Speaker 5: Really and he would drive.

00:25:15
Speaker 4: And this T and T did this video of him driving around in his in his Chevy and he the only All Star game he made.

00:25:23
Speaker 5: But he not only made it, he was the MVP.

00:25:25
Speaker 7: You know.

00:25:25
Speaker 5: Jamal mclaur almost did that one year.

00:25:27
Speaker 4: He was he was an All Star one year and was nearly the Actually they lost had they won, he probably would have been so uh so, rest in peace. Odie Smith, a national champion, aid.

00:25:38
Speaker 6: That All Star Game had sixteen Hall of Famers in it. Like the list of names, you'd know all of them. And then there's Odie Smith. It's named the MVP.

00:25:47
Speaker 7: I've never heard. That's an awesome story.

00:25:48
Speaker 5: But you're right.

00:25:49
Speaker 7: He is one of the best UK players that you don't know who he is or anything about him. Definitely Odie Smith.

00:25:54
Speaker 5: Mister Pace to pick your phone up.

00:25:56
Speaker 4: Okay, So the Gosano Children's Hospital at UK and Norton's Children Hospital in Louisville.

00:26:03
Speaker 5: We at KSR.

00:26:04
Speaker 4: I'm challenging the ladies of KSR. This is it's something you will come through it. This is for babies who are the tiniest and sickest babies in Kentucky. We are doing a donation to help those babies and mothers in the community. If your area code is closer to Lexington, you'll get sent your donation to the UK hospital. If your area code is closer to Louisville, you'll get sent to the Norton's Louisville Hospital. But here's what you text three four nine eight four three four nine eighty four and text in text nick nickou, nick you, nick you.

00:26:40
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get this right like a guy named nick. What are we texting here?

00:26:44
Speaker 7: Ryan three?

00:26:45
Speaker 5: Nick u?

00:26:46
Speaker 7: Nick you.

00:26:48
Speaker 5: Say so hard to say? Nick you? Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit? Nick you? There you go, all right? Text it and then it will send you a link to donate. Uh and donate.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: And you're doing this, uh for ks R, but in honor of ks R, but really but for these babies in Kentucky. So people ask me sometimes, Hey, what can we do to give back for all the listening you do right here? Look at everybody in this right here doing it, and you click to donate. And so if you will do that, you've got the rest of the day, the rest of the week to do it.

00:27:22
Speaker 5: Uh. And and we'll do that.

00:27:23
Speaker 7: Are you, folks to hear this on podcasting? Still do it later this afternoon? It's all day long?

00:27:27
Speaker 5: So are you are you doing to donate?

00:27:31
Speaker 7: He's posted to text the word donating and send me a link.

00:27:35
Speaker 5: Yes, what did you text the word? Why are you texting Tommy? Why are you texting Tommy? This is you We're trying to get Like I looked at his phone and it says tom trying to call me, Tommy, I need some money to donate.

00:27:52
Speaker 7: He's trying.

00:27:53
Speaker 4: All right, I'm don't. I'm in the process of donating right now. Uh so three four for three four nine. Text the word donate.

00:28:02
Speaker 5: And it will know.

00:28:03
Speaker 3: And I see you text in text.

00:28:05
Speaker 5: And I see you. Why is this? This is hard?

00:28:08
Speaker 4: And I see you three four nine and I see you put it on the put it.

00:28:14
Speaker 5: On our socials too, Mario. That'll that'll help make us a fancy graphic. Mario, Yeah, that'll help. Okay, who's up first? Ship?

00:28:20
Speaker 3: Justin?

00:28:20
Speaker 5: Justin? Go ahead, justin? Tell Tommy to donate. Yeah, probably will.

00:28:24
Speaker 8: I have a I have a couple of things. My first thing is, I think Post's part of what Post issue with the recruiting is. I think part of it has to do with Jasper and how Jasper didn't really get a whole lot of minutes. Granted he was part of Jasper too. But then another thing is I think the substitutions have a part to do with it as well. Over the last two years, Pope does the substitutions right when players get hot? And how can anybody stay hot when that happens? And then my second thing is all these the older generation, not all, but the most majority of them. They're always constantly telling other fans if you criticize anything about how Post running the program, that you should just go rout for another team. I'm sick of that. They say that the way we criticize is making other players not want to come here. But if with that logic, the way that they were treating Cal and his players, the same thing could be said about them, Well, don't tell me a second.

00:29:23
Speaker 4: It's not the It's not the case that people who are frustrated at Pope loved Cal, or people who frustrated at Cal love Pope. Like you know, I mean, people can be frustrated at both. Or people could have think think both of them should be great, like they're.

00:29:39
Speaker 5: This people, we have got to stop with the Cal stuff.

00:29:44
Speaker 9: What about that is just because gone, no, I know that it has nothing to do with It's like it's more so like they said, they say that because I people like me want to criticize how the pope, how he's running it in his teams, that because I'm my criticis criticization is keeping players from wanting to come here. But they did the same thing to Cal and he but.

00:30:06
Speaker 5: Again, you can you say they you're assuming that everyone is on in one of two.

00:30:12
Speaker 8: No, I didn't say everyone. I said the majority, the majority.

00:30:15
Speaker 7: Of the right.

00:30:16
Speaker 4: Cal, I appreciate you, but we got to stop talking about Cal.

00:30:21
Speaker 5: And I mean, we can talk about him, but we got to stop acting like Cal.

00:30:24
Speaker 4: Is relevant to our current situation. Cal is not relevant to our current situation. Cal is at Arkansas. Cal is not going to be back here. Cal is not our coach. When you bring up.

00:30:35
Speaker 5: Cal and say, look at look, look at the way Cal did this gay Cal did That's why I thought Mark at the end of the year comparing his amount of wins to Cal and the sec like all of that. Col's gone.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: We can talk about Cal in the context of chatter, but it has no effect on what's happening right now. What's happening right.

00:30:55
Speaker 5: Now is happening right now. And one thing I do agree with the caller on is I am so tired of people telling other people in the fan base.

00:31:10
Speaker 4: That they are or aren't a fan by what their feelings are in a given moment. What I said yesterday about Barnhardt when talking about Oscar and memorial is also true with Mark Pope.

00:31:23
Speaker 5: I think everybody should support Mark Pope. I want him to win.

00:31:26
Speaker 4: With that said, you are you can still be a UK fan and think a coach isn't working out.

00:31:33
Speaker 5: You don't. It is not the case that to be a fan you have to say that everything the leader does is correct.

00:31:42
Speaker 4: You know, in politics, when you those of you that hated Obama, you didn't hate America. Those of us that don't like Trump, we don't hate America. And if you love Pope, you're a Kentucky fan. And if you don't think Pope's the right guy, you're still a Kentucky fan. And I'm kind of over listening to those arguments. And then because of space sing online, they're happening at a crazy amount.

00:32:03
Speaker 7: I love that colors that I didn't agree with, but I did agree with he said, don't I do agree with the first part. Don't tell me how to fan. You know, I'm a fan. I love my team and I'm pretty sure we played cal this past year and I'm pretty sure we beat him this past year.

00:32:14
Speaker 4: Also, for some of a younger fans, this idea that what's happening right now has never happened before.

00:32:21
Speaker 5: Drewid's false. Our fan base has been through this before. Our fan base was split down the middle by Tubby Smith. Yep, Joby Hall.

00:32:29
Speaker 4: Half the people wanted Tubby Smith and half the people did and they got mad at each other. And you had a website called Tubby's Defenders and then you had a website that was and that was just what it was. And a lot of them sometimes our younger fans are like, we're killing the team now.

00:32:44
Speaker 5: This is just this is the way it is here. Joeby Hall dealt with it. Tubby there was even a few years. Rick dealt with it right before he won a title. Remember, well, well he can't win the big one. Cal dealt with it. This is just what happens when you're the coach here.

00:33:00
Speaker 6: Oh, I just saw this week. It was a Herald Leader article. I want to say, from like eighty eight. It was kind of the end of Sutton and it had it had like letters to the editor.

00:33:09
Speaker 5: It was awful.

00:33:10
Speaker 6: But it's basically just like people didn't have Twitter, so they had to write it to the Herald Leader to publish it. But I mean people were going crazy and being critical back then. It's just the platform has changed. That people are able to do it. So it seems louder.

00:33:21
Speaker 4: Half the Louisville fans last year wanted Pat Kelsey fire. Well now he has a great recruiting class and they've all hidden their.

00:33:27
Speaker 5: Opinions, but that's what they want. Like this is just what fans do.

00:33:32
Speaker 4: And you know, but I do think with the cow thing, like like I'm fine with people talking about cow, but this idea that somehow what happened during the last is the last couple of years of cal is relevant.

00:33:45
Speaker 5: Now it's just not he's gone yep, and he's.

00:33:48
Speaker 4: Not coming back, and we look pathetic when we sit there.

00:33:52
Speaker 5: And like cry over spilled milk.

00:33:54
Speaker 4: It's like imagine if you had a buddy who was still crying over a woman that left him two years ago, you'd be like, son, we go out.

00:34:01
Speaker 5: We get together, man, we suck it up and get over it. Dude, let's go we kinda get out and like meet someone for you gotta get out of the house. Yeah.

00:34:11
Speaker 6: So anyway, there's just there's so many people in this fan base, and people fan so different. There are people and I'm not this way, but good for you where they exist to just be like it's fine, we're gonna be okay. We can have zero players on the team and there's a certain fan and like, that's fine, we'll find fourteen before NeXT's good.

00:34:28
Speaker 5: That's fine. If they want to do that, that's totally fine.

00:34:31
Speaker 6: And then on the other end, there are people that worry about everything. Well, I have friends that heck the twenty fifteen team. They're like, oh my god, stuff, I don't know about it. We can still be better. It's just people fanned completely different, and there's so many of us. It leads to a lot of arguments online these days.

00:34:45
Speaker 4: And you know, a lot of the conversation is basically, also, do Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, and Shannon the Dude do we get to have our opinions? And some people think the answer is no, we don't. Like we somehow have to be spokesman to where we have to take a position or else we're somehow selling the world.

00:35:06
Speaker 5: Out, and I just I don't agree with that. I have made a decision.

00:35:10
Speaker 4: Though, that I'm going to talk about a little later about how I'm going to approach at least partial part of this.

00:35:16
Speaker 5: But we'll we'll say that did you donate.

00:35:18
Speaker 7: I haven't done it yet, Tommy.

00:35:21
Speaker 5: Don look, I know you.

00:35:24
Speaker 7: I got it called up. The show started. I put my phone down so I don't get yelled at you.

00:35:28
Speaker 3: Buckle up, put your phone down.

00:35:29
Speaker 5: All right, you got the commercial break, and you can call Tommy too. I expect. By the way, when I look at the list of names, Tommy better beyond Tommy. Tommy better be on there.

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00:36:02
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00:36:08
Speaker 7: Good, Tommy.

00:36:11
Speaker 4: I'm still looking. I don't see a donation from tany Tommy yet.

00:36:15
Speaker 7: I haven't reached out to him yet.

00:36:17
Speaker 5: I thought he was listening. Why is he calling you.

00:36:20
Speaker 7: During the show probably wasn't listening to see forget that you're on here.

00:36:24
Speaker 5: Probably all right. I love that I have people in my life that call him from ten to twelve. I'm like, you know what, I'm.

00:36:30
Speaker 7: Just mentioned that on the show yesterday.

00:36:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, people who call from ten to twelve. I don't understand that, all right. So we've already had nearly one hundred people donate. You all out there, if you're listening on podcasts, you as well. Three four nine to eight four h nick you, nick you to donate, and we already raising money for Galasano Children's at UK and Norton's Genderal Children's Hospital.

00:36:56
Speaker 5: Ryan got his in.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: He was having some trouble shanning with the pictures. Know the pictures you have to verify.

00:37:02
Speaker 5: The yea human.

00:37:03
Speaker 4: I looked and he was on round four of trying to verify that he was a human.

00:37:07
Speaker 3: With the picture.

00:37:09
Speaker 5: Car Yeah, but he was. So I took it from him and then I had it. I made it work.

00:37:14
Speaker 7: What are all the sailboats and the one was motorcycles? Well like the handlebars was in one picture. So I clicked it. I clicked it and I got denied.

00:37:24
Speaker 4: I took it from him Shain and I was able to navigate the proof I like the prove your human.

00:37:30
Speaker 3: And rhymes like the fail he's a robot.

00:37:34
Speaker 5: I cannot do it. Ef I'm nine two oh twenty two eighty seven.

00:37:38
Speaker 4: What do we think about Drew the Memorial Colisseum naming thing. It kind of became an issue some yesterday online. Obviously, Oscar said he would quit supporting UK sports.

00:37:49
Speaker 5: If they did it. Wait wait, wait, where are you on that?

00:37:53
Speaker 6: I've been waiting for this for a long time. I'm glad they said they're going to keep the memorial name intact, because you know, memorial that carries a little more of an impact since it's honors people. But I just assume we'd get to this day eventually. I still think every time Mark Pope says the sacred cloth that we wear, I think, well, you're gonna have a patch on that the next couple of years. It's just it's the world we live in. I was surprised Oscar's reaction was intense as it was, because it is just I just I thought everybody assumed we'd get to this point eventually.

00:38:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was.

00:38:25
Speaker 4: I was surprised by Oscar's reaction as I said, uh, as I said yesterday, I understand like he has a right to that reaction. I I that's not my reaction, but I understand his. You know, for me, I don't consider it as if they do this, I don't consider as disrespectful, uh to veterans. But I also understand if people would, I just would have a different opinion.

00:38:51
Speaker 5: But I'm you know, Oscar's not gonna be the only one that has that opinion.

00:38:54
Speaker 4: So I mean, you're you're gonna I don't know what the breakdown of the fan base will be Ryan, but there will be some people who do not like it. I don't think the there was as much outrage maybe as I thought there'd be. I think more people just kind of understand this is how it is. And then of course there's the patches.

00:39:10
Speaker 5: The patches are gonna happen. Oh that's coming.

00:39:12
Speaker 4: The patches are gonna happen. What do you think about having patches ads on the jersey.

00:39:17
Speaker 6: I've already been rolling my eyes a little bit when we're talking about playing on the front And I get it. I love Kentucky as much as anyone, but I'm like, I know for a fact, but in the next three years playing for the front will have some kind of sponsorship on it.

00:39:29
Speaker 5: So I've been thinking that for a while.

00:39:32
Speaker 7: It's already on you know, other sports, So it's just a matter of time. We're getting the college athletics. But you know, you hit the now on the hit about the memorial costumias. To the older generation that used to go to games there, they view that place differently than the younger generation that thinks that's just where the women's team play and the gymnastics team play. You know, it's just a different perspective of how you view that arena.

00:39:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I, like I said, I don't think that that perspective is illegitimate. But I also just think like that, I I just kind of take the view that's that's the way this is gonna be.

00:40:03
Speaker 5: And so.

00:40:05
Speaker 7: That's where everything it's it's it's.

00:40:07
Speaker 5: It's it's life. And also, if you want to compete, I get it.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: I mean I get it, Like you can't say we need to have money like on some level.

00:40:16
Speaker 5: If you want to compete, this is what it is. So I I get it.

00:40:20
Speaker 4: But I also don't think it's I don't think it's disrespectful because I think as long as they keep the memorial in.

00:40:25
Speaker 5: At that gym, what they've done out in front of that or.

00:40:29
Speaker 4: Memorial colisseum to honor all the people who've died from every county. I think it's beautiful. Actually, so I I I'm not. I'm not as negative about it as so, as long as.

00:40:39
Speaker 6: They're very intentional in keeping the memorial part of the name, keeping all that stuff. Now, if they took that down to start slapping up logos, of course there should be outrage, but they need to be very careful, especially with memorial.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: Who's up next, Joey? Go ahead, Joey, I got one thing.

00:40:55
Speaker 8: You don't want to scamp on his MAPELSRP and catch up.

00:40:58
Speaker 1: But anyways, I.

00:40:59
Speaker 5: Actually agree with maple syrup is huge and you have to have the right amount if you just have to. Waffles are not the best without mate, but with maple syrup it's God's it's God's dish. Go ahead, amen.

00:41:12
Speaker 8: How do you feel about Big Blue Madness?

00:41:13
Speaker 1: How do you think that will end up?

00:41:15
Speaker 7: And hope if you're listening, come on, man, when ages we need some words of inspiration.

00:41:19
Speaker 8: You got to be a leader.

00:41:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I hear you in front of every camera you can get into you know.

00:41:25
Speaker 7: Yeah, and now you're just like missing an action.

00:41:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, big wee madness has been Uh appreciate its call. I mean it's been a little better, but they still don't know how to do that. I'm hoping part of the change that comes with a lot of this new leadership is that they figure out a better way to do that because it's not been good.

00:41:43
Speaker 5: Uh it's a little bit little but been a little bit better, but it's still not what it needs to be. Hopefully, you know, some of us, you just got to put on a show.

00:41:50
Speaker 4: You know, get the people at Churchill and put on the Derby. They seem to know what to do. That's being serious, like like they need somebody to help with a vent, just making it a thing.

00:41:59
Speaker 7: That's what that event is is. It's a show. It's not really a basketball event. It's a show. So yeah, entertain is they did take a step up. I think last year.

00:42:06
Speaker 5: Little it was a little better last year. I do. I do think it was a step in the right direction last year.

00:42:10
Speaker 4: So hey, if I'm nine two eighth, twenty two eighty seven, we will take a break, we will come back hour number two hopefully.

00:42:17
Speaker 5: What's his name, Tommy.

00:42:18
Speaker 4: Hopefully Tommy is donated, and hopefully you have two. We'll take a break right back. Tokaia suck.