2026-01-21- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones quarter back.

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Speaker 4: I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven the text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four Here at kas Bar and Grill, it is wingsday. You can come out have lunch. I hope all of you will come out, uh for the game. Tonight four point thirty is our pregame show. We'll be here and then of course the game is after for the watch party. They've gotten some celebrations that looked awesome in here Saturday for the Kentucky one, and you got to watch Mario jump around and take a shirt off for the LSU one.

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Speaker 4: So you can get all of those going.

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Speaker 5: So apparently Tyti Washington had eleven points last last night in the NBA.

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Speaker 6: I have totally lost track of Titak. He's on the Clippers, no idea he was an NBA. Uh.

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Speaker 4: The Don Lemon thing is they went into a church.

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Speaker 5: The preacher of the church is one of the head ICE officers, and so that's why they went in to I guess.

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Speaker 6: In a church service.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's poor form.

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Speaker 5: I was telling this man right here, the people that so if I were to rank people in politics, that frustrate me.

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Speaker 4: Number one are confident stupid people.

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Speaker 5: I really don't like confident stupid people who just most people on television now are stupid. Not all, but most people are stupid. And when they speak with confidence and they're stupid, they make me mad.

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Speaker 6: But I have a.

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Speaker 5: Special place in my heart for confident stupid people on my side because they make it worse for us, because they do things that make it harder for us. Like I would think, if you're a Republican, you should really hate all these little young like racist people that now have Internet platforms like the fwin days kid Like, you should really dislike them because they're the like they're hurting you in my opinion.

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Speaker 4: Well, for me, I don't.

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Speaker 5: Like people who think, oh, there's things Ice is doing that we're not coming with.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I would agree with that. So I'm gonna interrupt the church service. No, people don't know. That doesn't help. Why do you think that helps? That hurts, It's gonna make people go, why do you interrupt the church service?

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Speaker 7: Nobody wants church service being around.

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Speaker 5: My grandmother would have been in there, she would have been tithing, praying, singing, God singing.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, So I don't.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't like that because you're hurting the cause, like we're on the If you believe you're on the right side of the cause, don't do things that objectively make it worse. And I would think interrupting church services would make it worse.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure he thought he was making a big splash. I'm gonna make a big statement, and they're gonna be talking about me. I'm gonna get all kind of cool.

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Speaker 4: Did talk about you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: But it doesn't help. It doesn't help the cause.

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Speaker 6: No, it doesn't at all.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, if I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty se let's talk about football for a second. With Indiana winning the national championship, the conversation has now gone to, Okay, well, who's the next Indiana?

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Speaker 4: Right, who's the next team that can do something like Indiana?

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Speaker 5: And we Kentucky are a pretty good contender because we've been terrible in our history, just like they have correct new coach, yep, new system, some excitement in recruiting. Do you think let's leave aside. Indiana did an historic run. Okay, sixteen to zero national champion lost two games in two years.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that level.

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Speaker 5: But do you think that Kentucky could have a Indiana like transition to their program to where they can be a contender, even if not a national champion.

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Speaker 6: I think the answer is yes. I never thought it would be a yes, but after I saw Mark Stoops and then we'll get ten wins a couple times. It can be done with the right player evaluation. You budget the right way, you get the right players in here, you get the right quarterback. I think it can be done now. Like you said, maybe not a sixteen and oh national championship run, but you can have another ten maybe pushing to get in the playoff type run.

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Speaker 5: You gotta have the quarterback, Drew. I think that's the key. You gotta have the quarterback. When we had Will Levis, all right, so that worked out. You gotta have the quarterback. The last few years we haven't had the quarterback, and then you have to find the right players around them. He was able to bring all those dudes from James Madison.

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Speaker 4: That helped.

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Speaker 5: Do you think are your expectations about what Kentucky football.

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Speaker 4: Can be have they changed?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Really it's not even Indiana. What they did was extraordinary. It's the other teams that were in the top twenty five all year, where it's like, oh, Georgia texts in there, Vandy's in there. There's a bunch of logos we're not used to seeing in the mix.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 7: They didn't all get to the final prize like Indiana. But I think Kentucky can join that club in spurts. It won't be consistent every year we're in the conversation, but you can get in the conversation. Just you need a good roster, but a good quarterback or like a star edge like when you had Josh Allen. You need like one or two stars and just good pieces around you.

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Speaker 4: You need to use the parlance studs, the studs that you can feed.

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Speaker 7: You need to find the studs.

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Speaker 5: So ACC and Big twelve teams, I don't really care what they do because they're playing in a different conference. So ACC, like Georgia Tech, having success doesn't convince me of much because half the teams they play stink right. Big ten SEC teams convince me. But I would still argue from top to bottom, the SEC is better than the Big ten. The Big ten's been better at the top, but you get down to I think the Purdues and the Minnesota's and the even the in the ACC the Cows and the like. It's just they're not as good. So I get a lot of excitement about Vandy being good. Right, And what did Vandy had? They had a star quarterback? Yep, right, they had really good coaching. That makes me excited. You know, Missouri has over the years been good again, really good quarterbacks, two or three of them go to the NFL. Good coaching. So I do genuinely think it is possible. And as we've talked about many times, I think we're in a five to seven year period in college football where the order is gonna change as to what the programs are. And this is when we have to kind of take our advantage.

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Speaker 7: And being in the SEC is harder, but you'll also get more credit for nine to three seasons.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and if we just get in.

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Speaker 7: The bracket at that point, who knows you were good enough to get in the field for the playoff and we were in to schedule in a couple games.

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Speaker 5: We'll have a schedule where nine and three can get you in because we will play the nine SEC games and then we will play Louisville, who as long as Louisvill's pretty competitive, that's gonna be better than when these other teams are playing but State.

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Speaker 4: And so if you were to beat Louisville, you're.

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Speaker 5: Gonna have ten really solid games on your schedule, and so Ryan, your strength of schedule can be very good.

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Speaker 6: So do you think our fan base will understand that we're in this triangle of Indiana, Louisville Kentucky? Is are more pressure on Jeff bromin Louisville and Willston of Kentucky pressure listen.

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Speaker 5: I I think there were a segment of the fans. I was one of these fans who said it'll never happen here, and so my standard was lower.

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Speaker 4: That now changes it can.

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Speaker 5: It's theoretically possible, right, So now your standard is gonna change without question.

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Speaker 7: There's also you know, we're all fans, been fans of Kentucky forever seeing the national conversations right now. We're not listening to it because it's on, but people are sending me. I guess On the Barstools show this morning, they're all talking about Kentucky's the next Tibby. No, no, no, it's it's it's not him. It's like the the.

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Speaker 4: Fox well, he wrote the story Bobby ray No, No.

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Speaker 7: Not the post I'm talking about on TV there comparing Kentucky to Indianation.

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Speaker 5: But the barstool shows talking about it because Bobby Reagan wrote about it.

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Speaker 6: Whatever.

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Speaker 7: Other national people to Josh pay you name them, people that never mentioned Kentucky unless to say look out for sleeper that might win seven or eight games. They're all having the who can be the next Indiana and Kentucky seems to be a pretty consistent answer across several of these national conversations.

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Speaker 5: We are definitely the program that looks the most like it. I mean, we are definitely the program that looks like they do because we've had no good history basketball school.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: That's the other thing new coach, right, I mean I I we do fit the blueprint. Now, the question is is it a blueprint or is it a one year blip, Like is this something that can continue happen or is Kurt Signetti just like the best coach that ever walked the planet?

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Speaker 4: Will We'll see. We don't know the answer to that question.

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Speaker 7: I think it's a little bit about that. He also woke up a fan base that has a little more money that wasn't going into football, so I don't know if we'll have the Indiana money or even the Vandy money. That's another thing people aren't saying much Vandy. The Nashville rich people have just gotten into Vandy. He didn't even go there and throwing money at it. But it all took a Pavia or a Signetti to waking those people up and getting that in. You gotta have a coach and some star power to even get the ball rolling.

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Speaker 4: I think you.

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Speaker 5: I think there are a substantial amount of people that would like to donate money, that need to feel like it's fun.

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Speaker 4: And this way.

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Speaker 5: And you just have to remember we haven't been fun in a lot of years in basketball or football.

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Speaker 6: One one sec home game in three years now or something like that. You know, if if you believe in winning the game up front, we've got the studs up front. I think it all falls on our quarterback. If Minchi's a guy that can you know, he hasn't played much. He's got all of his potential, but he's not played much. If he can come in and play really well, I think this team could do something next.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna come down to him.

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Speaker 5: Yep, We're gonna have to see what he is and if he's good in the pre and we have no idea and if I'm UK, will give my advice to the University of Kentucky. If you believe in this Minshi kid for real, and I assume you do, that's why you got him.

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Speaker 4: You need to promote the heck out of him. You need to get.

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Speaker 5: This fan base excited about him the rest of these guys, like, we're not gonna know these guys, Like we don't really know these receivers, and we're not gonna really know these running backs and you know you got this. I mean, how many players on this roster are fans gonna really know what Willie Rodriguez and Ty Bryant?

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Speaker 4: I mean? So you've really got to make us and it starts with the quarterback. You gotta make people believe in Kenny Minchew.

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Speaker 5: And if you do, then I think fans are gonna be really excited. But that's gonna be I think a six month process that they really need to take serious.

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Speaker 6: You know, they they didn't do it with Levis when he came there. They came on the show, but will.

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Speaker 5: Did have an oversized personality, you know, and he was eating mayonnaise and all, like he was drinking mayonnaise and like he was doing his own thing.

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Speaker 6: So I think if Mitchie could come in and kind of win us over also with maybe some interviews and some personality with like there's so hard.

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Speaker 4: To find any tape of him even online.

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Speaker 5: Against Notre Dame, but even like, he didn't have that much high school tape.

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Speaker 6: It's amazing. They all say he almost won the job, but yet he didn't play Harley at all.

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Speaker 4: Up there.

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Speaker 7: You know who I heard that about, Brock Vandergriff, Remember that conversation. Yes, he almost won the Georgia job.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we'll see.

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Speaker 7: I agree with you on the marketing, though he can't do it himself. I know the Stoops area is a little different last year, but that was embarrassing spring through fall. They need to be all in on. Look at what we have over here.

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Speaker 5: Weinberg Jack Here comes the bad Boys tweet. Be careful when you see ice maps posted. They are horrifically wrong. Ice is not a crete one to one, not even close, so these maps are guaranteed to be wrong. It shocks me to see this from meteorologists who should know better.

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Speaker 6: I want to know now, who put the ice map?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody put up an ice map.

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Speaker 5: Somebody used to somebody do research find out why Mark Weinberg's mad?

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Speaker 6: Did he just post that this morning?

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Speaker 4: Jay posted twenty minutes ago.

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Speaker 7: I searched a map that was something completely different.

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Speaker 4: Who put up the ice maps?

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's an early shot from Draymond Weinberg.

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Speaker 4: There, who's up next? Let's go to Diana Deanna go ahead, Dana, Hey there.

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Speaker 9: First off, I just want to thank you with you were all talking about the catfish story. Brought back an old memory of my dad and the albino catfish that lived in our holler. But anyways, that's not what I was calling. So I always listened to you guys getting ready for work, uh and on my drive the next morning. So yesterday's podcast, Drew had a comment about the biggest you could pay basketball fan after the Willstein comment and stuff, and said, you know, he thinks that the biggest fan is one that goes to all the games home and away. Disagree with you, I, drest, I disagree with you totally. Basically, what you're saying is to be the biggest UK fan you have to have money because we know these games aren't cheap in the travel.

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Speaker 4: I'm with you.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm with you. I didn't like that comment by Drew, but I was well defend.

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Speaker 7: I was thinking of the people who actually are at the top level. I'm not gonna use names, but I know people who have had broken down cars.

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Speaker 9: Trying to get the game.

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Speaker 7: Think of the people who don't have money that still go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there are too many people that go to every game that don't have money.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I said, try, let's skip my my staatement holders.

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Speaker 9: I would argue, I'm with you.

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Speaker 4: I don't think you have to go to any games to be the biggest fan.

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Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I would say that the biggest fans may go to like one game.

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Speaker 4: A year.

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Speaker 10: Exactly.

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Speaker 9: I live in Ohio. Now, I've been up here since twenty nineteen. I may confess I might be the biggest UK fan in Ohio. You can ask all my friends, family, everybody. My schedule is resolved to ground the game before we go out to dinner with friends. They say to Kentucky point or not. I'm involved in a Collie rescue and we do a lot of zoom meetings before we schedule Zoom meeting, the question is asked, Bianna, whatnot does to catch?

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Speaker 5: And I think whether you are the biggest fan, although it sounds like you are the biggest fan in Ohio, that might be a debate, but your general point, I think is a valid one, which is and I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 4: I don't think you have to go to games to be the biggest fan.

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Speaker 5: I think if you are the biggest fan, you would like to go to games, so you might have to work yourself to try to get to games. But no, I would say the biggest fans I know of Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 4: A lot of them go almost never right because.

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Speaker 5: Either they don't live here, or they don't have the money for it, or they just for whatever reason do not.

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Speaker 6: There's something about those fans that don't get to go to the game, that live and die by the radio call, the TV call. It's almost more emotional for them because maybe we get sport a little bit, We get to go any time we want and go to the game and kind of get a little spoiled those people.

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Speaker 5: And this bar is full of those people every game day who this is their one trip a year, so they come. They come here before the game or after the game, and it's like the one time they come that. I'm totally with her on that. And you know, Drew can be snobby with the elites because that's who Drew hangs out with to Jeff Ruby's and I understand that, right, And that's not doesn't mean they're not big fans, but I mean not everyone is in your social strata.

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Speaker 7: Let's put paychecks on this table first and then have that conversation. I did not say that at all. I said the people that are doing everything they can to get to games. I know people who have had a van breakdown on this way to South Carolina. There was a guy in here not too long ago that drove from Seattle so we could see a women's game and a men's game I think maybe the last football game. I don't mean the blue glasses guy that has seats. I mean people who are spending money they don't even have to try to get there, probably irresponsibly.

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Speaker 6: Look, he's literally on the patio right now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 5: Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. One person writes, uh, what does Ryan think about the three hundred and sixty five buttons?

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Speaker 4: Girl?

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Speaker 6: I've not seen it?

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Speaker 4: Have you not seen this?

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Speaker 6: Huhuh?

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Speaker 5: See this is but you all saw don Lemon on your thing. I had the three hundred and sixty five button girl?

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Speaker 6: What is this about?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Somebody wrote something I believe on TikTok that was like how do you measure?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Like what are you gonna do in the new year? Like what's your what's gonna be your new year thing?

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Speaker 4: Okay? And this girl wrote.

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Speaker 5: I Am going to have three hundred and sixty five buttons and everybody was like, okay, what why?

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Speaker 8: What?

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Speaker 4: What are you gonna do with three hundred.

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Speaker 5: She said, each button represents one day of the year, and everybody's like, okay, but what And then she got and people came asking her question.

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Speaker 4: Then she got mad, says, it doesn't need to make sense to anyone but me. That was her thing.

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Speaker 5: Okay, now that's just normal interaction, but it took off and now people are all using her phrase her name was Tamara, to mean it doesn't need to explain makes sense to anyone but me, to.

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Speaker 4: Explain all their actions.

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Speaker 5: And I thought, Ryan, it actually is a perfect phrase for you. It doesn't need to make sense to anyone but me, because that's kind of what you do.

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Speaker 4: Saturday Night Live even did a skin.

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Speaker 5: About this one, and she's accepting no interviews, So like the New York Times tried to interviewer, all these people are trying to interview her to get what does she mean by the three hundred and sixty five buttons, And she's like, it represents each day.

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Speaker 4: Of the year.

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Speaker 5: Well, what are you gonna do with them? It doesn't matter what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 6: With them, as long as it makes sense to me.

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Speaker 4: And that's you.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that most people understand what you do, but it doesn't have to make sense to anyone for you.

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Speaker 6: So you're like, Tamara, I thought you were gonna say, like each button had like you know, be be kind, laugh today, have like a little motivation.

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Speaker 4: It has nothing, just faster. They said, are you gonna wear the buttons? No? Are you gonna put the button somewhere? No? Why you have the buttons? Then it doesn't need to make sense to anyone but her but her.

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Speaker 7: Well, I thought when you first thought thought she was gonna wear them.

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Speaker 4: I did too.

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Speaker 6: Each one would be a little motivation. So if you see somebody you look good today, that's my button, says.

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Speaker 7: I have thoughts and ideas of what she could be doing, but I want to invade her prophecy because whatever is going on, it is very personal about life.

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Speaker 4: But she does not care what you think about her.

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Speaker 7: But I'm trying not to think, but I'm wondering what she could be doing.

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Speaker 5: So I think that's why the Internet took hold of it. Is they're like, what is it? And more importantly, why won't she tell us what she's doing with the buttons? And now she refuses to say anything. She's like like she's gone silent because she has her button.

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Speaker 6: She could have started a movement with these motivational butts.

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Speaker 4: She already has a movement and she doesn't even want it. What I like about it? It's her movement. Who's next?

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Speaker 6: Let's go to Charlene.

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Speaker 4: Charlene, Go ahead, Charlie.

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Speaker 8: Hello, Matt, Ryan and Drew and Shannon House, everybody.

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Speaker 4: Everybody's good.

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Speaker 10: All right?

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Speaker 8: So I'm calling in because for Christmas, my sweet daughter gave me the best Christmas gift ever, which was a flight from Tampa to Lexington tomorrow to see Kentucky play on Saturday. Oh wow, and her and she and her boyfriend are coming down from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to meet me there. And we had this wonderful weekend of bourbon and uh tastings and travel plans, and now we're like, oh, well, I guess we're not going.

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Speaker 4: Why aren't you going? You should come?

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Speaker 5: You get you'll be able to get Yeah, here's the thing. No, you'll be able to get here. You're coming on Thursday. You'll beat the snow. Get a hotel close to the arena, you can the game. The game will still be packed. Now, you might not be able to, like go to the bourbon tasting, but everything else you could walk. You could walk to ks bar, you can walk to restaurants like. You'll be fine at the high end.

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Speaker 4: You're great.

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Speaker 8: We were afraid that some places would be closed.

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Speaker 5: Yell, some paces might be closed, but some places will not be closed. I can't imagine we'll be closed unless it's like twenty four inches. Like we're gonna be open on a game day. So you yes, you need, still need to come. You'll be here before the snow and by sound of your Monday, you'll be able to fly out.

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Speaker 8: Have they ever canceled a game?

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Speaker 4: They won't cancel. Yeah, they won't.

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Speaker 10: Please.

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Speaker 8: Let me just shout out to that daughter. Today is her birthday and I'm very proud of her, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Today is also my mother's birthday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah night, Happy birthday to my mom.

00:23:25
Speaker 4: It's her birthday too. We'll take a break very back KSR.

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Speaker 7: TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

00:23:32
Speaker 3: He'll make them pay now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:38
Speaker 4: Welcome back, takey Sports Radio.

00:23:40
Speaker 5: Bryce Jones, the young weather man, just tweeted out if I see another meteorol just posting ai slop snow total maps five days out, I might lose my mind. Yeah, this is just what happens with weather.

00:23:58
Speaker 4: Their anger, screaming at the clouds they are. They're angry because you know, I could see why it happens.

00:24:03
Speaker 5: If you're a weather guy, you spend most of your time just being like all right, you know, not doing much, and then all of a sudden, when it comes, you're ready to fight people.

00:24:12
Speaker 6: You get such a kick out of it too. That's what I love about it.

00:24:14
Speaker 5: I just love what I love watching him fight because it is so clear they hate each other.

00:24:19
Speaker 4: I mean, Bailey and Mack.

00:24:20
Speaker 5: I know personally, Bailey's a really fun dude, but I don't think he likes mec. I don't think Mech likes Bailey. There's there's definitely it's like heated rivalry the weathermen, but they're cordial.

00:24:33
Speaker 6: They're they're mitching cow.

00:24:35
Speaker 4: Just like just like the book, but it's two other guys.

00:24:40
Speaker 7: It would never work. But I wish there were a setting where we could get them all on a stage and they have five minutes to forecast or the philosophys and then the then we get a winner when we see what happens.

00:24:50
Speaker 5: And then Weinberg is clearly the the you know, he's the ass of the group, but like, I don't know him. He may be an awesome I'm just seeing his online persona. And then there's the outside of the internet dude who's now making like millions a year, and these guys with her.

00:25:08
Speaker 4: Are like, why look at that guy. Stop making all that money with your weather haul on. Y'all.

00:25:13
Speaker 7: See his advantage is they got local TV on, they gotta cut in.

00:25:18
Speaker 4: He can bring in any time.

00:25:19
Speaker 7: He's he can be live for eight hours if he wants.

00:25:21
Speaker 5: He can do whatever he wants. And he's just living in Pikeville, so he's bored. So he's just getting online and being like, look, there's a there's a hurricane, there's this, you know.

00:25:29
Speaker 7: And they're having to be like, oh, back to Trader.

00:25:31
Speaker 5: If he takes the view, he takes the view that I told you about the draft, which is why should I do my own research. Let's just let them do it for me and then I'll do That's what he's like, y'all tell me the snow.

00:25:44
Speaker 4: I'll just tell them.

00:25:45
Speaker 7: And I'll be live on YouTube.

00:25:48
Speaker 5: It's exactly right, you all have to show Chris Russo screaming into the TV. I'll just talk about the weather. It's how it works. Two major upsets in high school basketball last night. Okay, Saint x number one in the state, hadn't lost yet. They lose to north Oldham. North Oldham came into the game eight nine and they beat St.

00:26:12
Speaker 4: X so a major upset.

00:26:13
Speaker 5: But what if I told you that a young man named Pierre Rondo scored fourteen points. Pierre Rondo is Rajon Rondo's eighth grade son who lit up the number one team in the state for fourteen points.

00:26:30
Speaker 6: He's an eighth grader and he is legit. He's a guy that's gonna be a superstar. Don't know if they'll send him to OTE. He may not finish at North Oldham was at Overtime Elite.

00:26:40
Speaker 4: That's where he's going to high school.

00:26:42
Speaker 6: No, I'm saying, I don't know if he'll end up going to it.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: Clearly you think he will, or you don't just bring up over time.

00:26:47
Speaker 6: Even even Rajan went and played at Oak Hill his last two years from Louisville East Head.

00:26:51
Speaker 5: But you don't just pick DRU Overtime Elite unless you think he's going to overtime.

00:26:54
Speaker 7: He's only in eighth grade. You already trying to ship him off.

00:26:57
Speaker 6: He's a superstar. The kid is legit good.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: I guess eighteen. He's in eighth grade.

00:27:04
Speaker 7: I'm not trying to say we should go on Michael Avery Billy Gillespie here, but let's let's get an offer out that way. He's gonna be one of the top players in that class. First of all, you have that conversation and get it over.

00:27:14
Speaker 5: You have to have Rajion Rondo's kid here, Yes, right, you have to. I don't even care if he ends up being one of the top players. He's Rajion Reindo's kid. His name's Pierre. We've never had a basketball player named Pierre, So Pierre Rondo north Oldham.

00:27:31
Speaker 4: You must are you scooping that he's going to overtime? Elly?

00:27:34
Speaker 6: Do you misunderstand what I was saying. He'll go to a place like overtime elite? How do you do?

00:27:40
Speaker 4: And I feel like that very specific. You know, his dad washed o'khill. He could have said o'kill.

00:27:46
Speaker 3: He was dropping that in there.

00:27:47
Speaker 4: He was dropping that.

00:27:48
Speaker 6: That's just where all the good players seem to go.

00:27:50
Speaker 4: These days.

00:27:51
Speaker 6: Name another one, Jasper Johnson. Who else the dude to place for uh Alabama? Can watch his name.

00:27:59
Speaker 4: Final on pylon. I don't think he went there though.

00:28:03
Speaker 6: What else the man went over to you over time? There were teammates with.

00:28:09
Speaker 5: Pier going over time, and he knows, and he's and he realizes he's slipped up and said it. He's turning red right now. He's turning red because he knows. Nobody knows. Eighth graders in Kentucky like, well, okay, well I don't see yeah basketball eighth graders in Kentucky like rhyme scoop.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: I think I think that's exactly what happened.

00:28:33
Speaker 5: What person writes Matt Now that Bob and Jamestown was with Mario?

00:28:38
Speaker 4: Are you believing more in ghost No? I'm with Mario.

00:28:41
Speaker 5: Less less after I saw the guy and watch Mario interview him and then the people, I mean, it's it's it's it's older people trying to make some sense of life, can't explain what's happening, so it's got to be ghosts.

00:28:57
Speaker 3: Did you hear what the guy said to Mario?

00:29:00
Speaker 4: What did he say?

00:29:00
Speaker 3: He said that an alien put a booger in his son's nose.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: He said, an alien put a booger in his son's nose.

00:29:07
Speaker 3: You didn't see that video.

00:29:09
Speaker 4: I didn't watch it all the way through. And that needs to be just for.

00:29:12
Speaker 5: The record, Mario, in your editing, you need to just have a five second clip that says alien booger in my nose.

00:29:21
Speaker 4: That's all you need to say. That will go viral. You need to let people know what he's saying.

00:29:27
Speaker 5: You got to do that because alien, he said, an alien put a booger in his son's nose.

00:29:33
Speaker 7: Ten second video. Watch the watch. The impressions go up.

00:29:38
Speaker 4: And I'm supposed to believe in ghosts.

00:29:40
Speaker 7: This guy's hurting, hurting the alien on he's like, don lemon, he needs to cal him down. When I saw Paul and Mario when they got back and they were like that dude made me believe less. I knew it didn't go the way it should have. But Bob's outfit was stole the show.

00:29:52
Speaker 6: Had no doubt about it.

00:29:53
Speaker 4: He looked good, he did did did you enjoy being with him? Here?

00:29:57
Speaker 5: Come on the mic here for just one second, Mario, tell me what and be honest, tell me what. Hanging out with Bob is like, uh, he's he's.

00:30:08
Speaker 11: A little bit odd, but he's a cool dude. He was showing me like pictures of his new car that he got. He got looking at the card is here, it's like a Corvette. Okay, he was already and he was like just showed me. It was kind of random how he just like brought it up. But I was like, how.

00:30:21
Speaker 4: Would you describe the ghost crowd? A lot older folks. Were there any other black people?

00:30:30
Speaker 6: No, there's no, there's no black people.

00:30:31
Speaker 4: All white people, all white people, all white people. How many people?

00:30:35
Speaker 11: I would say about fifty or sixty people. It was packed in there. The church was it was a lot of people in there. It was in a church. It was in a church. It was kind of like, it's kind of odd.

00:30:42
Speaker 4: Though that churches would have a ghost thing. Yeah.

00:30:46
Speaker 11: I was kind of nervous walking in. But I sat in the front row, so I was like I was front and center.

00:30:50
Speaker 5: Were people, I would were people trying to talk to you, like what are you doing here, young man?

00:30:54
Speaker 11: No, not really. They didn't really care about me. They were focused on the aliens and everything.

00:30:58
Speaker 4: Did he sell a lot of books? He did.

00:31:00
Speaker 11: He had a long line of books, long line of people like just buying books.

00:31:05
Speaker 4: Did you think why you watched it then it was a scam? I didn't know. I didn't think it was a scam. These people really believe it though. That's the crazies. I mean, people believe in scams. Yeah, yeah, I would look at Ryan Lemmon's life. Yea is a good example.

00:31:22
Speaker 5: Noah, like people can it can be a scam and people still believe in it. Yeah, I won't buy the book. You weren't buy the book. What was the what was the weirdest thing?

00:31:31
Speaker 11: Someone said, well, the alien, the alien and the burger thing like that was kind of weird. The guy who's running the whole thing, he said, like he gave me a story and he said that the alien planted a bogger in this kid's nose and he said that they do that normally, like aliens just they do that.

00:31:47
Speaker 4: No, it's just what that's just what they did device.

00:31:51
Speaker 5: It's it's a track said it was a tracking device, and that's.

00:31:55
Speaker 4: What they do, so that like all the time, it's just normal. It's just normal. That makes a lot of sense.

00:32:01
Speaker 5: Now, what was uh did did you find that Bob?

00:32:05
Speaker 4: Did he talk a lot.

00:32:07
Speaker 11: He was quiet at first, and then you know, once he warmed up to me a little bit, he started talking to me a lot more and showed me his car and we didn't.

00:32:14
Speaker 4: Showed you his car, like a picture of it.

00:32:16
Speaker 11: His new car. His new car is like a red Corvette. It was really nice. I was like, Bob, you should take take me out in it. Whenever you get his head, you.

00:32:24
Speaker 4: All should go looking for ladies. You involve in the Corvette. Absolutely not. Well, I'm glad you went. That was very nice. It was fun and I appreciate you doing that. Who's next, Let's go to Peggy. Peggy, go ahead, Peggy.

00:32:38
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning guys, and happy birthday to you and your mom.

00:32:43
Speaker 4: Thank you.

00:32:44
Speaker 10: This thing about being the best fans, not because you're date. Yeah, those of us who cannot ford tickets, we are listening to every game, to good and bad. And those of us who collect all kinds of memorabilia because that's what we can afford. And those of us who have like me, I have prints all over my house. I have all kinds of boggles that I've collected.

00:33:27
Speaker 6: I have.

00:33:30
Speaker 4: You, Peggy, I believe you. The problem is Drew here.

00:33:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, Peggy, I don't think you're the biggest fan, Peggy.

00:33:40
Speaker 4: I mean, Drew's being kind of harsh here. Don't you think I'm just let we got a collection.

00:33:44
Speaker 7: We got collectibles, that's good. What else we got?

00:33:48
Speaker 10: I mean, I've my house is totally decorated year round.

00:33:54
Speaker 7: You I'm not saying I'm the biggest fan. I'm not. I've not claimed that.

00:33:58
Speaker 5: Okay, So Peggy, I I actually think you are at least one of the four biggest fans.

00:34:03
Speaker 4: And I'm sorry about Drew a bigger fan than me. Peggy.

00:34:06
Speaker 7: I'll admit that.

00:34:06
Speaker 4: I really I am sorry.

00:34:07
Speaker 5: About Drew because I I've been taking up for you.

00:34:11
Speaker 4: But you know, sometimes you can't convince people.

00:34:14
Speaker 10: Of things right. And I have a UK.

00:34:18
Speaker 4: Tree right now, UK Tree.

00:34:20
Speaker 6: There we go.

00:34:21
Speaker 7: I vote for Peggy. I vote for Peggy Clement. Is this the biggest fan ever?

00:34:26
Speaker 4: She's in the conversation. I appreciate the call, Peggy.

00:34:28
Speaker 5: We we should maybe during the off season due who's the biggest UK fan? We need to figure out, Shannon what the criteria is, because I do think that's or is it just in the eye of the beholder.

00:34:39
Speaker 3: I can tell you who it's not it's not Will Steine, so it's gonna be Yeah, it's gonna be somebody else.

00:34:44
Speaker 5: You didn't want to say it was Will Snett. But I mean what makes it? Is it like doing thing? Is it what you put in your house, to your body.

00:34:52
Speaker 3: And your your daily life. How much of that is dedicated to like Kentucky football or best Well.

00:34:58
Speaker 5: I mean that's a good question, but like that's a little weird because then it would be.

00:35:02
Speaker 4: I mean, people like me and Drew it is probably at.

00:35:05
Speaker 3: That point we know that people spend two hours like listening to it, then they're they're grouped into that too.

00:35:11
Speaker 4: No, I would say, okay, let me put it like that.

00:35:14
Speaker 5: I would say, for you to be the biggest UK fan, I yes, listening to this show is a prerequisite, or at least if you don't like if you don't like us, then you have to listen to some show. Listening to some daily UK show I think is part of it. You have to watch every game, every game, and if you miss it for whatever reason, you have to go back and watch or follow it on your phone while you're out doing the thing that you had to do. Right, you have to you have to like follow the roster. You know, you may not know all the players, but you follow the roster. Football it's hard to know all the players. But certainly basketball, right you know every player.

00:35:56
Speaker 4: What else does it.

00:35:57
Speaker 7: Have to tree? Obviously you gotta have UK tree.

00:36:01
Speaker 6: I think your list of the pregame show, but definitely the postgame show after a game.

00:36:06
Speaker 4: Which one both football basketball is like ours or jmis ours ours? Okay?

00:36:13
Speaker 7: Pretty much if there's a UK something on, you should be tuning in kind whatever that is.

00:36:19
Speaker 5: I think attendance is you try to go to games when you can. And then I think you need something that's a centerpiece of your life that says you are a UK fan. It could be a tree, it could be something in your house, it could be your car. It could be a tattoo on your arm, if that's what you want, but you need something that sort of says in a major way.

00:36:43
Speaker 7: I'm a Kentucky fan. I was gonna say minimum one UK tattoo. Some people gave up your body. Some people don't get tattoos at all. Not the biggest fan, then I'm sorry.

00:36:54
Speaker 5: Also extra points if you named your your your child after a UK person, that's true. Good, Yeah, all right, you know if your name is Kleinna Ozibu Ozubuki Ray from Harlan County, then Glenn.

00:37:09
Speaker 7: Ozubuki Ray, I wouldn't. I would hand it to that person. If they had a tree, I would give it to that person.

00:37:15
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00:37:43
Speaker 4: Welcome back at this Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:37:45
Speaker 5: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four h sitting here.

00:37:52
Speaker 4: People are giving things that would make you a big fan.

00:37:55
Speaker 5: Uh. One person says you you don't remember not watching the games like you're you've been there since childhood to where every time you're I think that's true. Although there are people that joined later in life. I don't want to like take them out, but I do think like you have it from as a little kid, that makes.

00:38:14
Speaker 4: It more part of you.

00:38:16
Speaker 7: Especially at Kentucky. It's a generational thing. It's passed to us. But we know plenty of people who didn't grow up in a household that loved it and they find it along the way and they become big fans too. But most of us a grandparent or you know, it's it's been handed down since birth. We've been a Kentucky fan.

00:38:30
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:38:31
Speaker 5: One person says, Matt, my dog's name is Azabuki, so pets pet's name for Uk is good, but it's still pet when you do child.

00:38:42
Speaker 4: One person writes, my cat's name is Calla Perry.

00:38:46
Speaker 7: It's good pun.

00:38:47
Speaker 6: Remember the guy that named his daughter's last name was Perry and named her Cali Cali Perry here in Lincoln, Kentucky. Oh really yeah, he called in the show. So I just named my daughter Cali. My last name is Perry.

00:38:58
Speaker 5: You think so if you name me your daughter that, then you don't want him to leave? True, because if you get tired of his coaching.

00:39:05
Speaker 7: Yeah, see I'm dealing with this is I have to name a girl, and I keep thinking this child will have to go to job interviews and introduce themselves, and I have that responsibility right now. What do you so like when you name your daughter Cali Perry, she has to go.

00:39:22
Speaker 4: Before you get before.

00:39:24
Speaker 7: I think we're gonna wait and look at her and be like, you're a blank.

00:39:28
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're gonna like see what I wasn't.

00:39:33
Speaker 6: Since then work.

00:39:35
Speaker 7: But I'll take a I'll take a handful of names in there and just be like, you look like a.

00:39:40
Speaker 4: So you have like four or five possibility.

00:39:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, you look like a rage on or you look like a Kolina.

00:39:45
Speaker 4: So, but so you are going to agree on the pre names? Probably? Yeah, we already have it.

00:39:50
Speaker 5: You know.

00:39:50
Speaker 7: It's a running list. There's actually an app. It's like tender, but Abby's on one end and I'm on the other, and the name pops up and we slape swipe left or right and it tells me when me and Ab be matched all day. It's actually genius that exactly way. We don't have to just sit at home and go over a list all night. I can just pull up my phone right now and be like, Nope, don't like that one. Don't like that one, and when I swipe right, it'll be like Abby also swiped right on that name.

00:40:13
Speaker 4: Oh it is a genius, kind of a genius app. So you look.

00:40:17
Speaker 7: Do I want Vanessa?

00:40:19
Speaker 4: No? Leana?

00:40:20
Speaker 7: No, you just keep going?

00:40:22
Speaker 4: You want let's go through. Let me read them, Hannah, yes or no?

00:40:27
Speaker 7: No offense to Hannah's out there. I'm gonna go Kennedy, Uh, you know, Frank there. They're geniuses on on health, but maybe not.

00:40:34
Speaker 4: This, No kiddy, how about Emmercy.

00:40:35
Speaker 7: I'm just gonna keep swipe press. I need to read them, Presley. I don't want people listening to be offended that I didn't want to like to do there, and.

00:40:42
Speaker 4: That's good for you to be offended. Journey, that's gonna be a no for me.

00:40:45
Speaker 7: Dog.

00:40:45
Speaker 4: Rachel.

00:40:46
Speaker 7: Rachel's right over there, Hello, Rachel, I love your name. I'm gonna go know there.

00:40:49
Speaker 4: Oh we know what's Rachel? I just sit here and swipe.

00:40:52
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, though I haven't seen yes from you yet. Jennifer Ryan's got a Jennifer sky Blair Juniper.

00:41:02
Speaker 4: Isla like Lee Eleanor.

00:41:07
Speaker 7: But I didn't match, no match, Well, maybe hasn't gotten to it.

00:41:11
Speaker 4: Ye, all right, Well, that's back to a very interesting idea though. It is what's what's the name of the app?

00:41:17
Speaker 7: Kinder instead?

00:41:19
Speaker 4: Is it's brilliant.

00:41:21
Speaker 7: It's like tender free free promotion thereinder or kinder, I don't know how you pronounce it, Probably kinder kinder.

00:41:27
Speaker 4: Interesting.

00:41:27
Speaker 5: All right, let's do Draft ball Life in Kentucky and Texas. Pregame show starts at four point thirty here at ks Bar. We know that Drew may name his child eleanor uh, but we do want to know from DraftKings bet five win three hundred dollars.

00:41:41
Speaker 4: Cats are five and a half point favorite. Who you got?

00:41:44
Speaker 7: Actually six and a half. Now it's climbing. I think Kentucky wins. But if I'm betting on the DraftKings app, I would take Texas at six.

00:41:51
Speaker 5: And six and a half. I would take Texas too. I don't know how you can. I mean, I think we win, but I think six and a half's a lot.

00:41:56
Speaker 7: A lot of points.

00:41:57
Speaker 6: I'm saying with you guys, Yeah, I think Kentucky's gonna be ugly, be another rock fight. But they they've got to hit shots. They can't try it out. They gotta try out score this team they're gonna be in trouble.

00:42:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, so six and a half, Shannon, I think you I go with Texas six and a half.

00:42:08
Speaker 3: If you guys Kentucky wins the game, but I think six and a half I would take Texas.

00:42:12
Speaker 4: All right, Well, there you go. Our pregame show starts at four thirty four.

00:42:16
Speaker 5: Uh. I feel like I need to find a woman just to do the app with me. It's it would be a fun app. Just keep swiping over and over.

00:42:26
Speaker 4: Just could you and I find a kid together.

00:42:30
Speaker 3: Get them tender, and then go to kinder.

00:42:33
Speaker 4: There you go. I'm not trying to date you. Can we pick kids days. I'll see you in the pre game four thirty KSR