2025-06-27- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: I want to call my guy Hayes Featherston over there and say, Hi, No, I don't want to get my guy mad at him. But but for people who actually want to save money and be thoughtful, assured partners, thank you very much for having us out. It is a big Friday. Yesterday was the second round of the draft. A couple of things happened I thought were important. First of all, Kobe Bryan and Mariy Williams got picked. I think that's great news for the former Cats. Kobe Brayan goes to Phoenix, Mariy Williams Drew goes.

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Speaker 2: To the Celtics.

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Speaker 3: Be if you leave behind the stupidity of they make them wear hats of teams that did not pick them because they haven't announced the trade yet, it is kind of cool to watch.

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Speaker 2: Kobe Brayan was there, both of them.

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Speaker 3: What I think is important is both of them got picked by teams that I think they can make. I think Kobe Brea can make the regular season roster next year. Amari signed a two ways so he may play some game. He can't play more than fifty games in the NBA unless they change the two way to a regular contract, which is what they did with Justin Edwards last year.

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Speaker 7: But both of.

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Speaker 3: Those teams, I think they will make those teams. I don't think there's a chance those guys get cut, and I think that's great for both of them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was so happy for both of them. Ma Mario was my favorite player from the moment he got on campus, went all year not thinking he'd get drafted. Then right before he get to the draft, starts getting some buzz and there he goes in the fifties to a championship contender, even though it'll be down a little bit next year. And then I'm just glad Kobe brad A got picked. He gets to play with Booker. But he was a big part of yesterday to anyone that watched in the green room, had his whole family there, his little brother was a star. So even though it was day two, it's cool that they get the second round a little bit of the green room.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was neat.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember that in years past where the second round kind of got green room treatment. From what I unders they actually explained the second round yesterday better than I had ever heard it explain before. They basically said, the first ten or fifteen picks of the second round, a lot of those guys have already worked out their deals before it starts. And then in the second in the second half, you're quickly calling the players agents and saying, can we sign you to a two way deal? If they say no, they just don't pick them. And then it goes like that. And so like Jackson, Robbinson's not on a team yet, and part of me wonders if he's waiting for a two way deal that's guaranteed rather than just getting picked up on a you could get cut deal.

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Speaker 2: We'll see.

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Speaker 3: Lamont Butler signed with Atlanta and who was the other one signed with Portland, But that's for summer league, so we'll see if they end up making the team. But I do think Ryan, Kobe Braa and Maury Williams will be part of those rosters.

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Speaker 6: I kind of felt bad for Mario a little bit because he got picked during a commercial break. He didn't get that moment of the guy walking out and saying it.

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Speaker 2: Well, so did Yo yok at? You got picked a commercial break pretty well for him.

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Speaker 4: I think they said that fifty times on the broadcast yesterday too.

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Speaker 3: The two people that got pickedor at commercial break were chas La Neier of Tennessee and Amari Williams.

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Speaker 2: Seems like you would want those two.

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Speaker 3: Schools to be in the thing, like who cares if the dude from Greece gets picked? If you should Tennessee and Kentucky fans might be watching.

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Speaker 5: You would think you might want to have that on the broadcast. I will say, being a Boston Celtics fan, I was very happy that they picked Amory. You know, they just traded away poor Zingis. I think that there is a good chance that Amory can can make that roster.

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Speaker 2: I think I think he will. I think they both will. Kobe Bray.

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Speaker 3: If you were to sit and say who had the purest shots three point shots in UK history, we've had this conversation about who you'd want to make it. You know, you say Doron Lamb, you'd say whoever you would say. But if you're just talking about who when it left their hands did it look more pure? I don't know that you could get to more than Devin Booker and Kobe Bran. Now they're gonna be in the same team.

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Speaker 4: I agree, especially on Kobe Bryan. And that's why I was so annoying to anyone that watched it yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I know you heard this.

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Speaker 4: Jay Bowis up saying Chaslnier is the best shooter left in this draft with Kobe Bray on the board, and I would get madder and matter every time he said that, because that's not even a conversation. But I agree that the Butler comparison, and if they're able to play together, that'll be fun.

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Speaker 3: And Sam Vicini, the athletics person, said he thought Booker was the best shooter in the draft period. I mean not just second round, but in the entire draft period, so I think that's also a very good sign for him.

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Speaker 2: I thought the coverage was actually better to watch.

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Speaker 4: I loved it that you didn't have actually some knowledge in there, and you mentioned Summer League. Summer League is gonna be must watch TV for Kentucky fans because might have reading Rob back in. So let's talk about five guys from this team that could be in it.

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Speaker 3: I think I heard Reid and Rob are playing okay, especially, I think I think Antonio Reeves is gonna be playing. I don't I think Justin Edwards may have played his way to where he doesn't have to play it, which is who would have ever thought, by the way, Justin Edwards of all, you know, when we talk about reading Rob and not exceeding in losing to Oakland that year, Shannon, we never mentioned just mentioned Justin Edwards, who by the time he got in the lineup was averaging double.

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Speaker 2: Digits in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: We had two of the top eight picks and a double digit rookie, and we lost to Oakland.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying, I don't even know. That doesn't even make sense. Uh you even saying that out loud. Justin Edwards though, as a guy, I've never felt more like.

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Speaker 7: Bad for a guy ever.

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Speaker 2: You were a you did feel bad.

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Speaker 5: I mean because you know, Kala kept putting him out there and he just he just was in his head.

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Speaker 7: You knew he had the talent.

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Speaker 2: But when you see it in Philadelphia, you see it now. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So Antonio Reeves was on that team too, Yeah, Pelicans.

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Speaker 2: Antonio also a first team All American Antonio Reefs.

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Speaker 3: So then, But so in the Summer League, Reid rob Antonio will all play. You're gonna have all five of those guys. I'm sure Jackson Robinson will end up a team we will have. We will have five guys on the team. So Ryan wept seven dudes in the Summer League. I think those games will be fun to watch. How about the fact though, that after all the year, after every thing that happened, Mark Pope gets more people drafted than John cal Perry.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Shon mentioned.

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Speaker 2: You can clap for that on your birthday. That's good news.

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Speaker 7: And Pat Kelsey Kelsey combined.

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Speaker 6: Combine, he had more because that's you know the knock on. There were no NBA guys on this team, and he couldn't even recruit NBA talent. I think he's already gonna kind of prove that all wrong.

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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't think he had any NBA guys on the team.

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Speaker 3: I mean I once I listened to them explain the second round, it makes a little more sense to me, But I.

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Speaker 2: Still I mean, Drew, I didn't think we had NBA guys.

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Speaker 3: And to me, John Caliperry had some guys he could point to as this is an example why you should go here, shake Gilges, Alexander Tyler, hero guys who were not projected to be draft picks who came here and became top fifteen picks. Devin Booker, Mark Pope is gonna have a story to tell people in the portal. I mean, sit there and go, hey, Kobe Brea was at Dayton and I got him picked. Amari Williams was that Drexel and we got him picked. I mean, that is a story Drew that I think when he goes into these portal classes, especially these kids that go to mid majors, that he'll really be able to sell.

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Speaker 4: And those two guys spending which rankings you look at in the portal rankings for that class, we're like outside the top sixty. I know, when we're in portal season, everyone focuses on getting the top ranked guys, but neither one of those dudes were big portal additions when you landed them and you turned them into the second round picks.

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Speaker 3: I would also note we got to remember this next year during portal season. Drew's point is very good. The high school rankings I think are pretty good in basketball. I think they do a pretty good job because they see all the kids play against each other.

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Speaker 2: But when we get to the portal.

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Speaker 3: Shannon, the kids from Iona don't play the kids from Alabama.

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Speaker 2: So we don't really know.

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Speaker 3: If you go look at the kids from the portal that got drafted, they are not the kids that were ranked in the top ten or fifteen of the portal rankings. Like all those dudes that went to Kansas State, none of those dudes got drafted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Drew is right.

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Speaker 3: A lot of these guys were ranked thirtieth, fiftieth, seventieth, so we got to remember that next time.

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Speaker 2: The rankings when it comes to portal are not very scientific.

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Speaker 5: One of the knocks against Caliperi was he doesn't develop players, and I feel like that.

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Speaker 7: Is one of Mark Pope's straight question.

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Speaker 5: It's taking those type of guys who are mid major players and making them into NBA players.

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Speaker 4: So I found myself happy for a due last night, and I'm glad Pope. Yeah, I had a pretty big smile. Especially the Lakers. I think that's a good fit. I didn't want cal To to have more picks than Pope or anything like that. And let's not get crazy, but I was happy for ad when they called his name cheering for a due.

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Speaker 6: I kind of was yeah when he I'm happy to see him get selected like that. You know, he's a guy that really kind of was the freshman and sophomore was not a star, but boy, he really blossom last year. Arkansas doubled's eight his poindium books.

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Speaker 3: I still don't think anybody knows how to pronounce his last name. I've heard it Guerreo Theoreau thorough At some point, I like, I think he should just change the way he pronounces it every year.

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Speaker 2: Every year it is a different pronunciation of his last name.

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Speaker 5: I've never actually heard him say his own name. I mean, I feel like that would be a betterive answer on how you say it.

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Speaker 4: I found on the Arkansas official website. They'll put princes the pronunciation yeah on their site. It has it two different ways on the same website, so they don't even know.

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Speaker 2: I don't think any of them know.

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Speaker 3: Now that gets us to this year, and I want to talk a little bit about I had a conversation on Wednesday, and then I had a conversation last night about sort of the early workouts they've been working out with the team for two weeks. Who's been playing good? Uh, maybe one player a little bit behind the rest of the group. But that's gonna take me a few minutes, So let's take an early break. I'll do it right when we come back. We are here at Assured Partners on Ali Sheeba way out in Hamburg.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk just second about the basketball. What we've seen so far, uh, in practice, et cetera. So I talked to I've talked to two different people. They both gave me essentially the same report. Number one report. And this is good news for me. Ryan is that if you watch the games on the court, two people stick out. One is the best player and one is the guy that's going to be the leader of the team. Best player Jalen Low apparently absolutely hardest worker on the team, comes in the earliest, stays the longest, has been playing great in practice, already running the team. Jalen Low has looked from why I'm told excellent, like exactly like the words used for me by one of the people. Was better than we thought he would be. Second one Mohammed Diabat, that he's basically become the leader, that he essentially organizes everything, and that he is quote a man playing with young guys and he's kind of making them stronger, et cetera. Both of those pieces of news make me very happy.

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Speaker 6: What about you, y, Yeah, it kind of goes with Mark Pope Toldgina interview. He said Diabata is the leader, no doubt about it. They kind of look towards him, gravitate towards him in the locker room, and Coach Pope said, too, for us to be great, Low has to be great. And I think we're going to see that.

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Speaker 3: I've heard him say that just even in like drills, just the shot selection for Low has been significantly better. It has been a universe so positive with him. I mean to me, I keep saying this, you win a national championship or you go to a Final four based in part on how good Jayalen Lowe is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, to be special, he's gonna have to be really good. Kentucky would be good no matter what. But if he can be like an even all conference kind of player, you can be talking about a really spectacular year. And with dia Bote, that's pretty much all I've been hearing is how awesome he is. I was excited when Kentucky got him because of his toughness and defense, and I feel like there's a little more than he showed at Alabama. But my excitement has gone through the roof since the team's gotten together because from parents going to these camps and some people that have been behind the closed doors and practices. It is just all positive around him and how he's the leader.

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Speaker 3: By the way, if anybody ever wants to if you ever want to think like you're really somebody because people come out and watch your shows and all that, just look what's happens when they bring out the food.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, your secondary to the food.

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Speaker 3: Like I'm sitting here telling you about your basketball team next year that could win the national championship. As soon as the food gets out, everybody's like Matt will be talking to you later. I will go and get the food. Yeah, you can see you certainly see your place when the food and.

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Speaker 4: They brought off the sliders.

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Speaker 2: I believe too.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll talk to you. Look at her.

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Speaker 2: She even got up.

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Speaker 3: She listened intently to every word I said. And now she heard the foods up and she's up to all right fair enough.

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Speaker 2: Also heard.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Colin Chandler just joined it because he had all the wedding stuff.

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Speaker 2: But he just joined it. In the last few days.

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Speaker 3: Colin Chandler looking excellent. Uh, as well Drew and they said the confidence up. As one person said, if you take last year at this time to this year at this time, it looks like two completely different players.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how it's gonna look at how I'll fit in with with Aberdeen, and however, Jasper Johnson turns out backing up low. But I still think we're headed towards a huge sophomore year for Colin Chandler. Athletically, he's got a lot more than a lot of other guys, and he had his big breakthrough March. I wish we could just play a little bit longer to see how far he could take that my favorite status. He scored more ports points in March than he did November, December, January, and February combined. I mean, he absolutely turned it on. Plays well defensively too, so I'm expecting big things from him.

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Speaker 3: Jasper Johnson's only been there a couple times because he's playing on the under nineteen team. By the way, for people who don't realize this, next starting Saturday, Jasper Johnson will be playing for Team USA next week all week on the under nineteen So they will have maybe five games next week where Jasper Johnson will be playing, probably get to play a lot. If you go to the Team USA website, you can see the schedule, but if you want to see Ryan one of our star players. He will be a part of the rotation for Team USA and the Under nineteen World.

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Speaker 6: Championship, a guy that I think is just gonna get better and better once he gets in there, gets a little stronger, gets some muscle put on it, because he's just a baller man.

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Speaker 7: He's a score.

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Speaker 6: He can go get your bucket anyway anytime. Anyhow.

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Speaker 3: So the first game is tomorrow, and I think it's I want to say it's at two fifteen or something like that. But they're in Switzerland or whatever. That's so, but it's all free. It's all on the Team USA website.

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Speaker 2: What time is it? Six hours difference?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think the game's two fifteen Eastern and eight fifteen over there.

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Speaker 2: I could be wrong.

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Speaker 3: You want to check, but they will be playing multiple games and you can see c Jess for Johnson the only here's the only negative piece of info.

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Speaker 2: I guy. I asked both people the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Well, what about Yellovich, Like, are we worried about him coming or you know with all this going?

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Speaker 2: And what I was told in both of him is essentially no comment.

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Speaker 7: Oh that's never good.

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Speaker 2: So that worries me a little bit.

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Speaker 6: Not that.

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Speaker 3: Here's how I read the no comment. I'm not saying that's what this is what they meant.

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Speaker 2: I read it as.

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Speaker 3: We have a president and an administration that's a little touchy, and we think it's more likely to be able to get this done if there's no public outcry.

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Speaker 2: I think it was kind of like.

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Speaker 3: A a hint of please don't do free enus and please don't do what we did like with bill Z. Yeah, just let us work on it behind the scenes because The one thing that could ruin it is if we make it a thing, because people don't like to make it that. Our leadership right now doesn't like when things are a thing. That's how I read it. So I'm gonna because I want that kid to play here, I'm going to take that advice. But I do think there wasn't an There wasn't a yes yellowch So just something to keep in mind.

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Speaker 2: But I would say to you.

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Speaker 3: No billboards, no movements, no anything, just let it hopefully happen.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense? It does?

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Speaker 4: I know this is different than big Z. Big Z was just his school missions and it.

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Speaker 2: Was just the NCAA.

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Speaker 4: This is a little bigger. But if Kentucky got big Z in after fall midterms.

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Speaker 3: So this isn't getting him in school, This is getting him into the couch.

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Speaker 4: There's there's ways, there's something we can do. We can pull this off.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we can, but I think we have to just I think you can.

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Speaker 3: Hay's position is we're just kind of waiting and then and then we hopefully it'll all work out well.

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Speaker 2: I would do.

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Speaker 6: I would get find Tubby's old fax machine and put it in the the office and let him, just keep waiting for that magical facts to come in.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that mays.

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Speaker 4: Just go get him and we'll figure it out later.

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Speaker 3: I think again, let's take the hint and this is just my thing too, that this is. This is a lot different than trying to get a dude chin and eligible.

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Speaker 2: For the NCAA tournament. This is a little bit of a different thing.

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Speaker 5: Fans aren't gonna make a big deal about it in June. But if it's November and he's still not there.

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Speaker 2: My advice is. My advice is don't make a big deal about it at all. Just cross your fingers.

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Speaker 6: That didn't have somebody tell you that if he's eligible, he could be a starter. He's that good.

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Speaker 2: I think he's huge.

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, I think if we have him, we have we have depth at every position but point guard. If we don't have him, I do worry a little bit about the biggs because you're you're asking Maliki Moreno to be really good, and it may take him a year or so, in my opinion, to be to be ready to play.

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Speaker 4: I see him as a FOI and if he doesn't come, that's just more mo Dia bat for us. I don't think anyone will play over thirty minutes next year because they're so deep. But if Yellowvich weren't to make it over here, I'd say just give Diabate all the power forward he ones.

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Speaker 3: And there's a part of me that wonders if they brought in the Potter Kid as a Yellowitch insurance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're pretty different styles, but maybe for just another body.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So A five nine twenty two eighty seven. So that's my Shannon basketball player update.

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Speaker 7: I like that.

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Speaker 5: I did see Pope use the word jaw dropping when talking about Marino, So that's good, you know, I like, not beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Good jaw drop.

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Speaker 3: One person rights, one person rights. Did Ryan watch the second round of the draft? I'm scared to ask this question. My mom got mad at me yesterday when my mom got mad at me yesterday when I said, Ryan, you should have watched the draft.

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Speaker 2: Did you watch the second round of the draft.

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Speaker 6: I watched it all, but like the last two picks.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'll take it. That's good.

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Speaker 4: You gave up on Jackson Robinson.

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Speaker 6: The two picks had to go, so I uh had.

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Speaker 9: To go home.

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Speaker 2: Hey, where'd you have to go? At? Eleven o'clock at night.

00:22:09
Speaker 6: I was at yoga girl's house. I had to drive home, so I listened to the last week takes on the Raid.

00:22:12
Speaker 4: Weekend curfew in high school. You got to get home.

00:22:15
Speaker 2: No, you don't drive home, you stay over there.

00:22:17
Speaker 6: Oh, don't be don't you still got a kid at home. I gotta get home.

00:22:20
Speaker 7: You can't leave Hi by himself.

00:22:21
Speaker 4: He's got to send an example.

00:22:22
Speaker 5: This bomb surf for the you know, the last four hours, but it can't be bombs for another ten minutes.

00:22:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's only going to college in a month and a half, hopefully.

00:22:32
Speaker 4: I watched the whole set.

00:22:33
Speaker 2: That's the movement we need to do. No kidding, Have Joe Sigde to college.

00:22:36
Speaker 6: He's on he I can tell you this. He's on the waiting list for housing. He may be stuck at my house for another year.

00:22:41
Speaker 2: Congrats, but you know you would love that.

00:22:43
Speaker 3: If I'm nine eight twenty two eighty seven, We'll take a break and be right back.

00:22:46
Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio Run.

00:22:51
Speaker 3: I'm back. It is Turkey Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. All right, So Shannon, I got asked a question last night on the text machine that I thought was interesting.

00:23:03
Speaker 2: They said, Matt, what.

00:23:04
Speaker 3: Is the song that you like the best, that that least like identifies you like? Meaning, what is the song that the lyrics and everything you like, but it has nothing.

00:23:15
Speaker 2: To do with who you are as a person.

00:23:17
Speaker 3: And I was thinking about it and I decided this song a country boy can survive because nothing he does in this song is something I can do.

00:23:24
Speaker 7: You're the country boy that can't survive.

00:23:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't survive if there was a problem. I could not survive. I can't skin a buck, I can't run a trout line. I would not spit beech nut in anyone's eye.

00:23:37
Speaker 2: I would not be.

00:23:39
Speaker 3: Called he'll billy by a friend. And I don't live off the land. So I mean there's a lot of things here that I do not do. With that said, I do love it. You know, when he says there ain't too many things these boys can't.

00:23:53
Speaker 2: Do, I can do none of those.

00:23:54
Speaker 7: That's right.

00:23:55
Speaker 2: One of the.

00:23:57
Speaker 3: Things that like without a chipotle, I'm in trouble.

00:24:01
Speaker 2: But it is an awesome song. And when he says I.

00:24:03
Speaker 3: Didn't like to spit some beach dude, I'm like, yeah, I would. I don't even know where you get beach nut, but I would spit it in their eyes.

00:24:12
Speaker 7: He would be doing it. You'd be the guy behind him cheering them on.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: Yes, right, I did the one talking trash, but where I couldn't get hit. So I wanted you all to think, I will say grace and ma'am, I will do that. But I want you to think about here. What are the songs that you like the most that you don't relate.

00:24:30
Speaker 2: To it all?

00:24:31
Speaker 3: You think about them and then send them to John and he will play them in the second hour. Okay, so you send it. This is mine, the Matt Jones' favorite that is just not me at all.

00:24:42
Speaker 4: Do tell John I can't s you can tell you during the break with the.

00:24:48
Speaker 3: Kentucky Office Highway Safety ks R Safe Summer Driving Tour has brought us to assured partners right here, Ali Sheba Way. Everybody's gotten their drakes, but there's still more drakes if you come. And then of course I'm gonna give away the It's tickets before we go to the phones. Did you see the uh the the weather fight.

00:25:07
Speaker 7: Good weather beef local.

00:25:08
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was a great It was a great weather fight yesterday because you had I get there was a big storm.

00:25:14
Speaker 2: You know.

00:25:15
Speaker 3: I wasn't here early, but apparently a big storm hit out of nowhere.

00:25:18
Speaker 4: Yes, oh yeah yeah, stuff all over the grounds.

00:25:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, bomb went off in my neighborhood.

00:25:22
Speaker 3: And that led to uh a nerd weather fight based on Doppler warnings, which I think are the best things to fight about, shitting right.

00:25:30
Speaker 7: Oh yeah.

00:25:31
Speaker 5: Anytime those nerds start arguing about what's on the Doppler radar, I am listening.

00:25:35
Speaker 3: I am too. So Chris Bailey was the one who did it. So Chris Bailey produces something, some picture and says, you know, hey, National Weather Service, this storm blew somebody's roof off and it wasn't even important enough for you to say anything about it. And then Bryce Bryce Jones do you do we know who Bryce Jones since he works for WDRB and Louisville. He retweets it and is like, hey, do stop crushing the National Weather Service. Oh so Chris Bailey comes back and says, now here's where the beef gets struck. Chris Bailey says, you realize this storm has produced wind damage and flash flooding.

00:26:13
Speaker 2: I'll be real you do you are we good? Oh?

00:26:18
Speaker 4: I feel like he was probably snapping when you yeah.

00:26:21
Speaker 3: But Bryce Jones comes back says, I'm not disagreeing with what you said in particular, but this constant National Weather Service bashing is getting old. We don't have to agree with what the National Weather Service says, but making it your personality trait is exhausting.

00:26:37
Speaker 2: Oh that's all.

00:26:39
Speaker 7: Wow.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: So Chris Bailey ain't gonna let that finish?

00:26:42
Speaker 8: No?

00:26:43
Speaker 3: Can You can't take that smack down and not respond? No, girl, Chris Bailey says, two snaps and a twist.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: You don't even follow me to know what I do or don't do.

00:26:56
Speaker 3: I'll take up for the people I cover all day, every day and don't care if I have to step on your toes.

00:27:02
Speaker 2: To do it.

00:27:04
Speaker 6: Roth the bike who won Chris Bailey.

00:27:08
Speaker 3: Chris Bailey was sassy or I don't think there's any doubt about that. Bryce Jones was like, hey, give everybody break, and he was saying, you.

00:27:15
Speaker 2: Do you girl?

00:27:17
Speaker 5: Why does Bryce love the National Weather Service so much? Like you know, if it's wrong, why would you not, you know, crush it. He's a couple of Yeah, I guess.

00:27:24
Speaker 3: So I love weather Man beef. I mean, we already knew Chris Bailey and Bill meck don't like each other, and then we found out that Mark Weinberg doesn't seem to like anything. And now Bryce Jones a new guy coming out of nowhere. He's smacking people around.

00:27:39
Speaker 5: It's all the same station too, d RB right, you know, Bill Mex Elliott w I'm talking about for Loo though.

00:27:45
Speaker 7: Do any of.

00:27:46
Speaker 2: The weather people get along like you've been here a while?

00:27:49
Speaker 3: Was TG thunderstruck just dropping elbows everywhere?

00:27:53
Speaker 6: TG and Bill Mecky had their moments when TG was at Channel twenty seven.

00:27:59
Speaker 4: Ron Rhodes fight whoever the other people are.

00:28:02
Speaker 6: Marsha YACKI was the queen. Nobody ever want to fight.

00:28:04
Speaker 7: Marshay yacht is such a dorky thing to argue over too well. A lot of the waterfronts got my third hair.

00:28:09
Speaker 3: They get so angry at each other, and there's clearly a lot of jealousy. Because Chris Bailey has like one hundred and thirty five thousand followers.

00:28:18
Speaker 2: He is the social media king of it.

00:28:20
Speaker 3: And it's clear that Mark Weinberg's and the Bryce Jones and the Bill Max are trying to come with the King.

00:28:25
Speaker 7: Your baron Mactric pressure is off. You got it all wrong. Such a dort. God well, Ryan.

00:28:31
Speaker 4: Hall, y'all is looking down on all of them with this million viewers. Bryce Jones father is a KSR listener. If I'm not, I mean, listen, go Bryce. Just adding that to the is what Bryce Jones and Chris Bailey just keep fighting each other. I'm I am enjoying.

00:28:45
Speaker 5: Like the guys on Wave three never seem to argue with anybody, Kevin harn and Brian Good.

00:28:50
Speaker 7: I watched them. They never argue with anybody, but these guys from DRB are fiery.

00:28:54
Speaker 4: They would all lose. To me pulling out my phone and looking at the weather app, that's the Yeah, that's the real villain that.

00:29:01
Speaker 2: That's not nice. Who's up next, Tyler? Tyler? Go ahead, go ahead, Tyler.

00:29:09
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I got a hot take on why being left and why Marko and the football team hasn't been very verbal this year about the football.

00:29:18
Speaker 2: Go for it?

00:29:19
Speaker 8: Do you do you think Mitch has already put something in their ears that basically given the majority of the budget to basketball in the oncoming years.

00:29:29
Speaker 3: Well, I can say listen, I think he would say if you hooked Mark Stoops up to an honesty an honesty jacket, which is that doesn't sound.

00:29:41
Speaker 4: Put your jacket.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: Put on your honesty jacket. Mark Uh.

00:29:46
Speaker 3: He finds it very frustrating that it's that you know, well, I mean, he would tell you. He would sit here and say we had five million dollars for in al and a lot of teams were playing against that twenty million dollars.

00:29:59
Speaker 2: And I have said that him. I will listen to that excuse.

00:30:04
Speaker 3: Once you beat Vandy and Missouri and those teams consistently, But that's not an excuse to get pounded by Louisville and pounded by South Care.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: At least is not an excuse.

00:30:15
Speaker 3: But do I think when Mark Stoops is gone, whenever that is, we are going to have a harder time finding the coach, probably because we will not be investing as in football as much as a lot of the other SEC schools are. And would you think that's a fair statement.

00:30:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I'm sure that's very frustrating for student knowing the teams he's competing against are getting a lot more money than he's getting trying to compete against him on the football field.

00:30:40
Speaker 2: And I get it. But Shannon and I also get like.

00:30:45
Speaker 3: Kentucky basketball has got to get its money, Like I mean, Alabama, they'd like to have a good basketball program, but they ain't gonna cry if they don't.

00:30:53
Speaker 2: We've got to have a good basketball program, you do.

00:30:55
Speaker 5: Is there any argument though, that football makes more money for the school, So maybe they are. Of course they deserve that amount of money that the basketball team's getting.

00:31:03
Speaker 2: Well, but remember when I did that poll in Somerset.

00:31:07
Speaker 7: I'm the one to say that I would give it to basketball.

00:31:10
Speaker 3: You're just doing what the fans want, don't I think the fans you gotta catch twenty two? If you're Mitch Barnhardt, you got two scenarios. You can put a football program out that you pay the most money to of any schools, but it won't be as much as the teams you're playing. Or you can put a basketball program out where our traditional rivals all out spend us. Which one are you gonna do? I mean, do you think Kentucky fans are gonna be cool? If Duke Carolina, Louisville, Connecticut, and all these schools that do not play in the SEC and do not play in the Big Ten decide to put all this money into basketball and we don't.

00:31:46
Speaker 2: They're not gonna like Kansas is gonna be.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: Just think about all the best consistent programs in basketball.

00:31:53
Speaker 2: None of them are in our conference, and.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: Very few of them are in the Big Ten, So these other schools kind of have an advantage.

00:32:00
Speaker 4: Kentucky's in one of the toughest spots. I think probably every SEC school but Kentucky would happily load up on football and let basketball be what it would be. But you just can't do that. We're the one school that can't, and then that automatically put you towards the very bottom, if not last, in the SEC if all the other teams don't mind putting it all towards.

00:32:15
Speaker 5: That's why they were the vocal leader at not having a cap right so they could.

00:32:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you can power.

00:32:21
Speaker 3: From what I understand, it was Kentucky basketball. All the SEC schools agreed to produce the same number of scholarships for each sport. So, for instance, when I said the other day that swimming was having scholarships cut, what I have since learned is every school in the SEC is having the exact same number of scholarships, and swimming every school in the SEC is doing the same in baseball.

00:32:43
Speaker 2: Same they've agreed to, like make it fair, we all do the same.

00:32:46
Speaker 3: Then it got to revenue and Kentucky Basketball was like, no, nah, don't do that.

00:32:52
Speaker 2: We'll be with you on the.

00:32:52
Speaker 3: Scholarships, but we ain't gonna be with you on the revenue. And that in and of itself, Ryan ended that discussion.

00:32:58
Speaker 6: It has to be that way. I mean, there's no other way to put it. So I can see why Coachtops is frustrated about it, but there's just no other answer.

00:33:05
Speaker 5: It has to be that way for Kentucky basketball. How about win some games in the conference at home? And we could talk about how much money should.

00:33:11
Speaker 6: Be about beating Vandy at home one.

00:33:12
Speaker 3: But there is a sort of catch twenty two on that. If you take the argument of we gotta win some football games for us to put money into it, the fact that you don't put money into it makes it.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: Harder to go win those football games.

00:33:25
Speaker 7: There is a catch argument.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: There is a chicken and egg thing there.

00:33:29
Speaker 4: Because you want results from him, to give him more, but he's like, I need just a little bit to get some results and get the ball.

00:33:34
Speaker 5: So there what happens when we give them more and you still lose to vandy at home.

00:33:37
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00:34:26
Speaker 2: All right, So Shannon, you.

00:34:30
Speaker 3: So this is your song, This is the one you say, but it doesn't apply.

00:34:34
Speaker 5: To you absolutely. Man, I feel like a woman. I don't feelow at all like a woman, but I still like this song.

00:34:39
Speaker 3: So when this comes on, all right, if you're like hearing it. Do you go, man, I feel lack of woman? Do you get sassy about it?

00:34:46
Speaker 7: Like christ? I go, man, I feel like a man.

00:34:49
Speaker 4: No, I've bet he pops his hipnap.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: It's okay, you can.

00:34:55
Speaker 7: You can get a song. I mean it is is Shania Twayne.

00:34:57
Speaker 2: I like that, but like else, BLUEG should do it.

00:35:00
Speaker 7: Maybe we should. Yeah.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: One person says, Matt, you said trout line and it's trot line, which tells me you really don't know anything about it. First of all, I always thought it was trot line, like my entire life. And then I was listening the other day and I thought it said trout and I was like, well, maybe they mean like a line for trout And then I stream.

00:35:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't. Again, I don't. I'm not a I can't survive.

00:35:27
Speaker 7: I don't think any of us would.

00:35:28
Speaker 3: But but I always thought it was trot And then I talked myself out and if I should have gone with my natural instinct.

00:35:33
Speaker 4: How long would you survive? As a country boy would go any day or two?

00:35:37
Speaker 3: When I hear people talk about like doomsday preppers and having all that stuff, I know, if the apocalypse come I'm dying first, like I've respected that.

00:35:47
Speaker 2: It's fine. I'm good with it.

00:35:49
Speaker 3: I don't why do people want to be alive forever? Especially I don't understand people who are religious and Christian.

00:35:54
Speaker 2: You believe there's an afterlife. Why are you trying to live.

00:35:57
Speaker 3: Like like as a machine for two hundred and fifty years, like to just you know, if it's my time, it's my time.

00:36:04
Speaker 2: There's no reason to sit there and sit in the room.

00:36:06
Speaker 3: Under my house eating pinto beans hoping to survive.

00:36:10
Speaker 7: I know a doomsday prepper.

00:36:11
Speaker 5: The same guy was talking about my neighbor that has the Kentucky hat in the Louisville Jersey. You go to his basement, He's got like bottles of water.

00:36:19
Speaker 2: How do you want to live?

00:36:20
Speaker 3: Why do you want to live eating pinto beans and water for the rest of your life and not seeing dirt?

00:36:25
Speaker 7: I guess I don't know. Well is it?

00:36:27
Speaker 3: We don't know. I'm just saying, what about you, Ryan? Are you a doomsday prepper?

00:36:32
Speaker 6: I am absolutely not a doomsday prepper. And if it's my time to go, peace out.

00:36:36
Speaker 7: Take me, dude.

00:36:36
Speaker 2: I'm good.

00:36:37
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna starve and eat dirt and rocks and poop and public I'm you and.

00:36:44
Speaker 7: So basically you turn into a horse.

00:36:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, you become more chot.

00:36:48
Speaker 3: One things I've learned about when you run out of things to say, it just gets more childish.

00:36:54
Speaker 2: It is, it's that's exactly right.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: We are here to sued partners on Ali Sheep away to get people out of the sun.

00:37:01
Speaker 2: We've moved the chairs close, so I feel like I feel like we're all getting to know each other.

00:37:05
Speaker 4: Hopefully we don't brush your teeth.

00:37:08
Speaker 3: Hopefully nobody stinks a couple things. Quickly you go back to phones. I would love for you, if you get some time this weekend, listen to my two new episodes of Interrupted by Matt Jones.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: They're very different.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: I interviewed my friend Aaron Fleeener about what it's like to be a caddy on the PGA tour. He caddies for JT Posting. He tells some really good stories. If you've ever wondered what that life is like, I think you really enjoy it. Plus he's entertaining. And then I interviewed a guy about Iran and Israel, a Ron in Israel, and I think if you know very little about it, you'll find it very interesting because he sort of summarized it for to the use of another term, summarized it for people who don't follow it, Sham Layman's terms. And I thought he did a really good job. And I've gotten a lot of good feedback on that, so I hope people enjoy.

00:37:56
Speaker 7: I'm gonna listen to that that's tonight.

00:37:57
Speaker 3: That that interview, it's already they're both on podcasts aired last night, so you go to Interrupted by Matt Jones and you can see them. There's I think we've done really good stuff. The news with Billy and Drew has been really good. Interviews with Bomani, Ryan McGee. I'm trying to get as many different topics as possible.

00:38:14
Speaker 2: And I have a big I have a pretty big.

00:38:17
Speaker 3: Name scheduled to come on at the end of July, like a name that when I announced that, people can go, how in the world did you get them to come on? I'm very excited somebody who's been very prominent this week has agreed to at the end of July, I come and talk to me.

00:38:31
Speaker 7: Wow, I'm impressure. You got Donald Trump on the show. Amazing interview Donald Trump.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: I would not interview Donald Junior. I don't think, but I would interview Donald Senior.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: I don't think that's at the mirror. Would you shout here's next, Jerry, Jerry, go ahead.

00:38:50
Speaker 10: Jerry, hey, hey man, on your on your on your point about the house money, the house money.

00:39:00
Speaker 11: Yes, that's that's one of my points. Why why Mitch Barnhart's gonna have a hard time because a lot of football fans.

00:39:07
Speaker 10: Like me me.

00:39:09
Speaker 9: Are done paying out for crap football.

00:39:13
Speaker 2: Okay, but that's but Jerry, let me use you as an example.

00:39:16
Speaker 3: You call hang on, you call here a lot and complain about investment in football, et cetera. So when you say you're done paying for crap football, you realize that decisions like that will only make it worse. That when people stop spending money on football, it will only make it worse. The argument, if you want to make it better, should be I'll call Mitch Barnhart and help them invest in football. But that's I understand why you're making that argument. I would say the same thing if I were you. But you realize you put Mitch Barnhart and leaders in a difficult spot when you say, if you don't win, I'm not spending money.

00:39:56
Speaker 11: Sure, and that's why the point of my bigger point is is that without caps nationwide, not just conference caps, almost your spendy sports, it's gonna be bad for football because but you can't.

00:40:11
Speaker 2: They do it.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: It's it's it doesn't matter if it's bad, it's illegal. So because it's illegal until i'most say this time blue in my face, because every sports show has somebody that calls and says, we need to put a cap on how much money these guys make, Well, it is illegal until the n c a A agrees to treat the players and employees and they collectively bargain until they do that, or until Congress makes a law that allows them to do it. Until one of those two things happened, it is illegal. So you can hope it happens till the end of the world, but it is illegal.

00:40:50
Speaker 11: That that was my point I was getting to, is that that's gonna should create more pressure on Congress.

00:40:56
Speaker 9: That here's why I think the NBC wanted caps is that looking at football, they're looking at basketball. The SEC has fought theaters to get basketball well, but like football, they finally have done it. And now it's the exception of Kentucky, all these SEC schools are going to make your basketball team uncompetitive because all the money's gonna go to football.

00:41:15
Speaker 2: Football.

00:41:16
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see.

00:41:17
Speaker 3: I don't so far, that's not been what they've done. I appreciate the call. So far, they're still invested in basketball, you know. Listen, I hope Congress passes something. I think they can, but let's be real. They can't pass a budget right now. I mean, they've been trying to pass a budget for two months, the same party's in power, and they still.

00:41:34
Speaker 2: Can't pass it.

00:41:34
Speaker 3: The idea that they can pass drew by partisan college sports reform.

00:41:40
Speaker 2: It's hard to feel confident about it.

00:41:42
Speaker 4: You know, this is a big change they're making too, having to decide on Still, what sends out more to me is that Jerry has turned on UK football. Is what it sounds like in our last few calls, these last few weeks. Yeah, if you don't have Jerry, you don't have anyone.

00:41:53
Speaker 3: But until they either treat players as employees or Congress passes a bill, there will be no cap It doesn't matter how much people want it.

00:42:02
Speaker 2: It's illegal.

00:42:03
Speaker 3: Unless that happens, We'll take a break and be right back to see it's Kentucky Sports Radio.