2024-12-23- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes Derek Strue December nineteenth through the twenty first. Then catch Lexington Native League Emberl for two hilarious shows on New Year's Eve, and don't miss Brian Bates January third and fourth. Comedy Off Broadway opened and down down Lexington in nineteen eighty seven, and they're still bringing the best and stand up comedy to the area thirty seven years later. Goll eight five nine two seven one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Comedy.

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Speaker 2: Off by Way. Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 3: Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, December the twenty third. I'm Matt Jones here on a beautiful Monday morning in Lexington, Kentucky. You can give Sean the Clark's Puppet Shop full line. It is eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven.

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Speaker 2: Four five two five four. In this edition sponsored by the T J. Smith Office. You call TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: I've got Ryan Limon here, Drew is out on vacation, Shannon is out on vacation. Max Duffy was supposed to join us, but I'm looking at the clock here and he's not here.

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Speaker 2: Extra set of headphones there.

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Speaker 3: Now, I know the AUSSI uh sometimes has late nights, but it's ten oh four.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where he.

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Speaker 3: Is, and so we may see him running up here at some point. But the Aussie with a rare missing the call here this morning at ten oh four.

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Speaker 4: He'll make it, but it is kind of rare for him to see him not at you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So here's the thing, Mario. If by ten, if by the second segment he's not here, then you just get to come in here and sit and we'll move you in.

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Speaker 2: How's that all right?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 2: We got a nice crowd here this morning.

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Speaker 3: This would be your last chance come join us at Kaspar before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: We've got a big day here today you got this and then tonight I'm hosting my final trivia of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: You can call.

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Speaker 3: There's still a handful of spots for reservations, but I would call sometime this morning to get your team. As I said before, don't call unless you're coming. There's nothing worse than then we tell people they can't come because we have a spot. That we have a spot, and then the people don't show up, and then I want to cuss them out, even though I don't know their name.

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Speaker 2: You know, they leave their numbers. So sometimes I think about just calling them and leaving angry messages, but I haven't done that yet.

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Speaker 4: I think you get a really unique, fun crowd. It'll be different today because the folks that are coming in for the holidays never get to do your trivia. They're home, been in the house for probably over the weekend. I gotta get out of the house. They're going to come to night to play your trivia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this will be kind of probably a different group. I've written most of the questions, not all of them. So here's what I need. Everybody's help here for just a second, Mom, if you're listening to this, go ahead and turn off the radio. I'm being serious. Don't don't like turn it off right now. This isn't about you. But you'll understand. Just turn it off for about three or four minutes. Okay, I've given my mom a chance to do that. Well, you'll understand why. Okay, Okay, all right, so I have.

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Speaker 2: My from my mom. I figured it out. She better have turned it off. But it's a it's a real it's it's a really good gift. Uh. I had to get it delivered to Middlesbrough.

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Speaker 3: It gets there New Christmas Eve, hopefully, fingers crossed. Don't shake your head, It's gonna get there. They had guaranteed shipping. Don't be pessimistic.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it was thoughtful and this and this was the only way to get it done.

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Speaker 3: Larry is a hard person to buy gifts for. Yeah, I mean, what do you get a man who doesn't do anything, who just likes, who's just happy? Like literally, I could get him anything and he would be happy. But that almost makes it too hard, right, Like, if you can get somebody anything and they're happy, it becomes impossible to figure out one thing that you can get, right.

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Speaker 2: So I asked my mom, I said, what should I get? Uh? What should I get? Larry? We probably have this conversation every single year.

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Speaker 3: I've gotten him every form of hoodie, sneakers, hat, like, I've tried everything that could relate to me that you could possibly get. And he said, you know, and she said, you know the thing that would make him the absolute happiest And I said what And my mom said, pajamas.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Now I can't imagine anything making me happy less than pajamas. But you know what, It's not about what I want, right, It's about what he would want pajamas. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: I've been fortunate, I've done pretty well for myself.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to go by him like Haynes pajamas from Walmart, right, you know what I mean. I want to get him something nice. Right, I got my mom something nice. I don't want to just walk in with this raggedy old pair of pajamas and be like, here's some socks and underwear, Larry. But mom says he wants pajamas. So here's my question, and I want to use group thing in the city of Lexington today? Where could I go to get my dad the nicest pajamas? Now, he doesn't want one of those like silk Hugh Hefner models, Right, I know what he's gonna want. He's gonna want some warm cotton.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what materials are good, just something nice. So where is the place in Lexington, Ryan I could get the nicest pajamas seven seven two seven seventy four five two five four.

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Speaker 4: For a nice pair of men's pajamas? Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't either, That's why I'm saying it, and I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know I can go get some cheap pair somewhere, but where could I get something nice something like?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Because honestly you could go to Lazarus, Macy's or JAC Penny's.

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Speaker 2: But is that where they have nice ones? Jason?

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Speaker 3: I mean, is there even still a j C. Penny at the mall? There's still a JC Penny?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, at the mall? Really, yes, there is.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I have not one clue. What's it for? Mall? Right now? Like you could tell me I haven't been there in eight years? Do you know it's there? Clearly? You know j C. Penny?

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Speaker 4: Well, just because I was there last night in the hustle and bustle and traffic, and so you were getting like that bar and went through J C. Penny. You know, I like to park outside of J C. Penny.

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Speaker 2: You like to go through J C Penny.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, to get in and.

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Speaker 3: Out well besides J C Penny. So if someone knows, let me know, because I'd like to do that.

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Speaker 4: So you want to get him, you just need to know where, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, that's what he wants like, I could get him a nice watch, but he's not gonna wear it, So like, why don't I get him something he actually wants.

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Speaker 4: There's gotta be some men's stores here in town that had well.

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Speaker 2: Somebody will know.

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Speaker 3: Somebody will know the answer to that, and let me know. So seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. I said that almost as a distraction.

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Speaker 2: To what we have to talk about to start, which was at basketball game Saturday that was brutal.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's a twenty point loss to a team that has really struggled to start the season. They did have Aaron Bradshaw back, which they hadn't had for a lot of the year, but really just almost like we were never in the game. I mean, we had a little bit early, but then they got a lead and we just I think we cut it to six once in the second half, but otherwise just beat. You know, I was sitting here watching it at the bar, and this place was full really good energy, and I could just feel in here people wanted to be excited, but they just couldn't get excited. I'm sure that's what it was like at Madison Square Garden too. I complete just I mean, we just got crushed both sides of the ball, couldn't stop them, couldn't score. I mean, it's a pretty bad loss. So my question for you is how much does it mean? Does it matter or is it like, well, that's a fluke and that happens.

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Speaker 4: I'm in the boat where it doesn't change my view of the team yet. But it sure was a stinky way to go into your Christmas holiday, to get your butt kicked like that. But you go ten minutes out scoring a field goal, You're like, it can be hard to beat anybody.

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Speaker 2: You go ten minutes.

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Speaker 4: It was like over nine minutes, I think without a field goal.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's gonna be hard to beat anybody.

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Speaker 4: You get on a situation like that.

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Speaker 3: I yeah, I'm a little more down on it than you are. I think a lot of my worries about the team sort of manifested itself.

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Speaker 2: Now. Get don't get me.

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Speaker 3: Wrong that the amount of fan policing that occurs right now is just out of control.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm with.

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Speaker 3: I heard this Ohio State guy who was yelling about Herbstreet, and by the way, I got some Herbstreet thoughts too, But the amount of and he was talking about Herbstreet seems to want to police the Ohio State fans, the amount of self proclaimed fan policers online about whether you're too positive or you're too negative. Everybody gets to have their own reaction to these games, whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm not on the negative we stink side for me personally, I think that's going a little far. But a lot of my worries about the team manifested itself in that game. You know, we really really really struggled to get shots off the bounce. Yeah, and these teams are learning just keep extending the defense out as far as you can push us as far out as you can and make us beat you off the dribble, and we just we can't. We just don't really have any guy except Butler who can really take their man off the dribble and it makes it to where, you know, it just can go really long times without scoring. And then defensively, we just don't have a lot of guys who can just man who can do the same thing to them that they can do to us. Right, Yeah, so we can't get into our rhythm to do the thing we're best at, which is shooting threes. I mean, we only took twenty two threes and how many of them were open?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot, you knock them down.

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Speaker 2: I think there were a lot.

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Speaker 4: There were four of twenty two from Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Did you think we had a lot of open looks? I thought we had a lot of semi contested looks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess. I'm thinking early in the game we got some open looks, just didn't go down and kind of get well in the.

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Speaker 3: Second half, I didn't feel like we got anything off. Yeah, and when we did, it was like a semi contest. I thought the wrong guys were taking the wrong shots.

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Speaker 2: And then our.

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Speaker 3: Dudes tried to start beating their guy one on one and shoot contested layups, which did not work. Yeah, and it just didn't It didn't work. Now, do I think this team is still good? Yeah, I definitely do. Do I think this team can still do really well this year? Yeah, But we're gonna have some stinkers this year. I just think this is the first of I think we're gonna have three or four of these this year where we go play a team and we just get beat because we just don't have a guy who can bail us out of these games consistently.

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Speaker 4: Do you let it creep in your mind at all that maybe they're not a good three point shooting team as we thought or as good as we thought. Is it starting to creep in your mind a little bit yet.

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's six or seven straight game that's true, where we haven't really shot the ball well.

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Speaker 2: I think the bigger issue.

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Speaker 3: I still think when they're open and they're in the flow, this team can shoot lights out. But I think I think our problem is one step before the shot. I think we're having a really hard time, yeah, getting looks, and I think, you know, Pope's got two weeks now before the Florida game to figure out what are our counters gonna be to this press press defense. When I'm in by press, I don't mean full court, I mean like up on you the minute you get the.

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Speaker 2: Ball across half court. I just don't think we've had an answer for that yet.

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Speaker 3: Against Gonzaga, they ran some back door cuts that really worked, but nothing worked against Ohio State.

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Speaker 4: No, you said, is we don't We don't have the ass out of the buttle. We don't have that guy that can beat you off the mounts. Get on the other end, whoever Robinson or Brea was guarding man. They've beaten him off the Brown of the Mounts a whole game.

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Speaker 3: I mean they it was clear. You got to give their coach on the other side, deeple a credit. He would run, he would run pit guys off picks until he got one of his best players. Usually it was the point guard, but it was also the was the other guy's name that was good besides the main guy, one.

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Speaker 2: Of those two dudes. As soon as Brea, Robinson.

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Speaker 3: Or Carr or even Williams got on him one on one of the basket and they get and they and they got it every time. I mean they their goal was get Butler or o Way off these guys, get anybody else on them, and then one on one of the basket and and that was a real problem for us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we've seen now the last three or four games the blueprint of how to Millie cause cause Kentucky some problems getting physical with him inside doing exactly what you just said. Just find out the guy who's gonna have Brea or Robinson or some one of those guys on him and just be I mean.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you do about that, because you need him to play because he's the only one that can consistently make shots, but he cannot guard anyone. So I'm not Don't get me wrong, I say I much more pessimistic than I am. I still think we win every home game except maybe Tennessee. Do you believe that they should? And I still think we'll steal some road game. But if you go back and look at Pope. I said this before the season, but then we talked about it on the postgame show, go back and look at Pope at BYU and at Utah Valley. He has a very similar pattern, which is he will beat some teams that you do not expect him to beat, like we did Duke, like we did Gonzaga last year. They beat Kansas on the road by fifteen. But then he'll throw out some clunkers, like games that you go, what were they lost to?

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Speaker 2: Like Central Florida at home by seventeen.

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Speaker 3: I think Saturday was what was our first like Pope clunker, where you go, what in the world just happened?

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Speaker 4: It seemed like for the first time too, that for the minute the game started, they just didn't have it, like there was just nothing there there, you know what.

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Speaker 3: It reminded me of that Pope game in the tournament last year against Ducaine. I believe Byu and Dukane were maybe the first tournament game, was it, because I think Drew and I were sitting there in Pittsburgh watching the.

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Speaker 2: Day games at the time.

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Speaker 3: I obviously didn't think Pope would be the coach, so I didn't care about b Yu Ducane, but it was on and I remember Dukane got up like fifteen early in the game, and the by you just could not come back at any point, And that kind of reminded And I ended up watching a decent amow of that game, and it kind of ryan reminded me of the game we just saw right here.

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Speaker 4: When they're shooting poorly from threes four of twenty two, going to ten minute scoring drought without even getting a field goal. I mean, they've got to find some answers. This is what was it? The Clemson game they had a long scoring drought also.

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Speaker 3: They did, but they they were able to defend that Clemson team decently well. We just could not defend the athletes, and of course Aaron Bradshaw ends up having his best game as a player as a college player.

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Speaker 2: That was kind of of a bummer too.

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Speaker 4: Is your bigger concern on the offensive end of the defensive end?

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Speaker 3: Well, defensively, I don't think we're gonna get any better. I mean, I just I feel we're just we're just I don't think we're so Really it's offensively because we're gonna have to out score these teams. Yes, I mean, think about how we beat Louisville. We beat Louisville ninety three to eighty five. Louisville scored eighty five points against this We're just gonna have to score in the eighties and nineties to win with this group. Now, I think next year we're gonna have some good defenders, But with this group, you gotta score in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: And nineties to win.

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Speaker 3: So I'm a little concerned offensively because we're I don't think we're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Get much better defensively as the year goes on.

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Speaker 3: If I'm nine to two, eight zero, twenty two eighty seven, it is our Christmas edition here of KSR.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Ellie, how are you We're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio working back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Rick, You're gonna play Christmas songs today? Apparently what is this?

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Speaker 6: This is Felice Novidd by jose Felici On.

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Speaker 3: So you started with police Novi Dodd started being multicultural? Rick, right, like a sort of liberal Rick showing up here on the day before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 6: I'm a man of many faces.

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Speaker 2: You are?

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Speaker 3: You are definitely a man of many faces. Well Christmas to you, Rick, by the way. One person writes, Matt Ryan mentioned Lazarus. There hasn't been a Lazarus in twenty years.

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Speaker 2: Does he have any other old department stores he would like to go to.

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize I even said that. I'm thinking that corner store. I know it's Macy's. I guess did I say Lazarus when I was trying to talk about Macy's.

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Speaker 2: Are there any more doll hairs?

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Speaker 4: I don't think so, Not in Lexington.

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Speaker 2: Any more daw hairs. You see doll haares running around like the people? Yeah, a lot, there's still a lot. There's a lot of doll heres that Mario is here with us. Mario, how are you?

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Speaker 7: I'm good? How you doing?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what? What do you think happened to Max? I hope he's okay.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little concerned because, like he would not usually be late, and then he's not responding.

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Speaker 2: So I hope he's okay. That's not good.

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Speaker 3: You know, we may have to send you out to knock on some doors and make sure he's good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: What What are you doing for Christmas? Are you going to Florida?

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Speaker 7: I'm going to my girlfriend's house.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to your girlfriend?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Have you ever spent Christmas with her family before? I have?

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Speaker 4: I have?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So here here's the serious question. Do they hang us stocking for you?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely? I get my own stocking.

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Speaker 2: With a lot of confidence. You get your own stocking? Yeah? What what do they give you?

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Speaker 7: Gift cards?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 7: Kill?

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Speaker 2: Dated this woman by the way, like four or five years? Wow?

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Speaker 8: So when are we gonna just go ahead and you put me on the spot.

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Speaker 2: I know, why do you think I brought you of? I don't know. Right now? What are we waiting now? Four or five years? You're not getting any younger.

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Speaker 8: She's in school right now, so I'm waiting until she finishes up school and then maybe, you know, we can see what happens.

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Speaker 2: At would you invite us to your wedding.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, Okay, you guys are going right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what it is, but I will.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys will get to invite.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well good. What do you think of the game Saturday?

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Speaker 7: Disappointing?

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Speaker 8: If I had to bring it to one word, disappointing is the word. I was really expecting a comeback. Guys, like I was.

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Speaker 2: You're the most optimistic guy.

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Speaker 3: Mario walks around this bar, He walks around this bar, ride and he just like looks at tables and goes, we still got time.

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Speaker 2: You ready? Here we go, Here we go.

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Speaker 8: He said that a few times on Saturday. I mean, when you look at it, Gonzaga game. We were trailing, so I was really expecting a good, good comeback, and pretty much with those these tough games, like we always start off slow. So like I was really expecting to come back and we couldn't get stocks.

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Speaker 7: Do you think anything?

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Speaker 2: Do you does that? Where are you riding that? We?

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Speaker 3: I mean this is now how many games in a row if we started slowly? I mean not just Duke and Kenzaga, but even like Colgate Western Kentucky. I mean, it's it's it's it's become kind of a pattern.

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Speaker 4: It does me just a little bit. Yeah, they're not coming out of the gate, you know, firing on all cylinders. I think it was twenty one to twenty or twenty to twenty or something like that, and then all of a sudden they just went ice cold. In Ohio State Wills Aaron Bradshaw's kind of when he started to takeover, took over the game, and of all people, the guy that dominate the game is our former guy.

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Speaker 2: Everything that we thought he was gonna be. You saw it. I saw it, Yeah, you saw it.

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Speaker 3: And that guy he hit outside jumpers and he was able to handle like all the things that we wished kind of had happened here when person rights, Matt, does this make you agree with cal that we got to go get dudes to be good? Maybe we were wrong to throw that away. No, we need we need a couple more dudes. But like Pope did the best he could to get a roster this year, I don't blame him.

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Speaker 2: Next year they're gonna have those duds.

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Speaker 3: I mean that next year they're gonna have a couple of freshmen, probably three freshmen at least, that can come in and immediately make impacts, and then you combine them with older transfer guys maybe another year of o way some of these freshmen. Like that's I think Ryan how he would like to build his team, but he had to do something different this year.

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Speaker 4: You know, we should credit him on what he was able to build just in a short amount of time. These guys he's got right now, we saw again how valuable Lamont Butler is to the team. When he went out with foul trouble at the Ohios. They just kind of started to dominate, and especially on the defensive end, we had nobody on the Bremmer to stop them.

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Speaker 3: Do you were you surprised, Mario can't We couldn't guard them. I mean, we just could not guard them. They got whatever shot, they won it.

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Speaker 7: I wasn't really surprised.

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Speaker 8: I've seen it like that through the past games that we were not known to be like a great defensive teams at times we are, though, like at times we can't sixty eighth.

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Speaker 2: In the country and Kim Palmon defense.

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Speaker 8: But as far as like last night, yeah, I wasn't surprised. We couldn't get a stop. That was the main thing, And I said it to you I was like, we can't get, we can't guard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right now we're tenth in offense, ryan sixty eighth in defense.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think they'd be ranked sixty eight. If it feels like they'd be lower than that, well.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's adjusted for schedule, strength and stuff. Good team, so that's probably part of part of it.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, they still gave up eighty something points to Louisville in a win. I mean, there's still some defensive problems going on with this team.

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Speaker 3: I was told by somebody there that North Carolina had more fans at the game than we did.

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Speaker 2: Does that surprise you? Yes?

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Speaker 4: I thought it was all pretty much all blue in there.

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Speaker 3: It was just different shades Hobby Dang, But I mean I would have thought more Kentucky for apparently Kelly Kentucky had a big crowd, but Carroll it was.

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Speaker 2: It was like Carolina, Kentucky, no u c l A, no Ohio State.

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Speaker 4: And North Carolina struggling. I'm surprised they had that much of it.

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Speaker 2: They they got a big win. Yeah, that was a huge win for them. Who's up first?

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Speaker 6: Got Cameron up first?

00:21:19
Speaker 2: Cameron, go ahead?

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Speaker 9: Cameron, Hey, Matt first time long time.

00:21:24
Speaker 2: Who what's up? Hey?

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Speaker 9: Just a few things, you know. First of all, I've listened to you all for a long time. Love listening to the show, and I love the insights you all give on not only Kentucky basketball, but Kentucky football other UK sports. So, like I said, and you know, I've loved listening to the show for a long time. And and another thing, I went to Red State Barbecue yesterday in Lexington and it was really really good.

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Speaker 3: I'll cut you off because you're saying nice things, but I just got like thirty seconds.

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Speaker 9: Oh no, you're good, You're good. But yeah, I gave you all a shout out on Twitter. And and also, I don't know how this Kentucky basketball season in SEC play could go. We could we could you know, sail in it, or we could be really you know, it could go really bad. I don't know. It could go either way.

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, Are you worried it all?

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Speaker 3: And I appreciate the call. Are you worried at all? It could go bad? I hear people saying like, do we even know we'll go five hundred in sec? Do you worry about that?

00:22:25
Speaker 4: I am not worried about it going bad. Like you said, I think there's gonna be some clunkers. There'll be some Knights where they have troubleshooting the basketball like they did against Ohio State. But overall my view of the team, that's still very happy.

00:22:34
Speaker 2: I have to protect this home court. Yeah, like that's gonna be the key.

00:22:37
Speaker 3: We cannot lose at Repperena because we're gonna lose some on the road. That's just gonna happen. But you know, you could be twenty one to ten and be like a four seed or a three seat, Like that's how good the SEC is. But we have to protect home court. We cannot lose games here at Rupperina. That's why that Florida game is gonna be so important. We'll take a break, Spiritbacks.

00:23:01
Speaker 2: Welcome back Techie Sports Radio pre Christmas edition.

00:23:04
Speaker 3: We are off tomorrow Wednesday, Thursday, we are here at Chaos Bar. Friday, we are in Glasgow at the Don Franklin. I one of the things I like to do on this show. We were trying to.

00:23:15
Speaker 2: Teach Mario things.

00:23:16
Speaker 3: Yes, right, Mario, tell people how you spell Glasgow on the on the official thing.

00:23:22
Speaker 2: Tell people how you spelled it.

00:23:24
Speaker 7: I spelled it g L A S S G. How does that ending go?

00:23:30
Speaker 2: D l o Well, let's see I want to see Glasgow.

00:23:33
Speaker 7: D L A S S.

00:23:34
Speaker 8: This is how I spelled it, but I learned how it's correctly spelled.

00:23:38
Speaker 7: It's d l A S S G l o W. That's how you spelled it.

00:23:44
Speaker 3: As glass glow like it was like a part like like you go to.

00:23:49
Speaker 2: A glass glow party. That was a lot of wrong letters.

00:23:53
Speaker 7: A lot of right letter.

00:23:55
Speaker 2: But I learned.

00:23:55
Speaker 8: I learned, So no second second s and no, that's why you have the comments the comments they did.

00:24:03
Speaker 2: But you know you and I you know I love you. But we talked a little bit about your spelling. Yes, like Nick rous would win a spelling bee over you, which I didn't think that was even plausible. I don't know about Nick Gause.

00:24:13
Speaker 7: I've heard about his spelling.

00:24:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then I've seen yours.

00:24:18
Speaker 3: So we're gonna have to not to work on your spelling. Did you never did you never get when you were a kid. Were you never in a spelling bee or anything?

00:24:24
Speaker 8: I never was in a spelling bee. As I got older, my spelling got worse. I was I was a lot better, like I was top tiers spell, So do you.

00:24:32
Speaker 2: Like, oh, you were top tier?

00:24:35
Speaker 3: So like, I don't know about Like, I don't know how to spell every word, but sometimes I'll look at a word and I'll go that.

00:24:41
Speaker 2: Just doesn't really look right. Does that ever happen with you? Like?

00:24:44
Speaker 3: Did you look at glass Glow and say this town can't be named Glass?

00:24:48
Speaker 2: No? I did not.

00:24:49
Speaker 7: Whatever it was in my head was the correct version.

00:24:53
Speaker 2: That's nice.

00:24:53
Speaker 3: So you just look at something and whatever you think it is, that's what it is. So Ryan, does it feel good that maybe you're not the worst speller on the show anymore?

00:25:01
Speaker 4: I feel I'm kicking some spelling ass with it with him, and.

00:25:03
Speaker 2: I'm a better speller than Ryan. I don't know. Wait a minute, do you really believe that? Yes?

00:25:09
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, you know what spelling b I think Ryan versus Mario spelling bee's coming.

00:25:16
Speaker 2: I'd be good. I can't believe I'm saying this. My money's on ride, your money's on right, I'm seen her spelling. All right, I've improved the doughter's wrong.

00:25:25
Speaker 3: I mean, on TikTok, your spelling is not good.

00:25:29
Speaker 2: I've improved the doubter's wrong.

00:25:30
Speaker 3: Ryde, all right, I tell you what that's that'll be a post Christmas Ryan versus Mario spelling Bee. I got rotten Ryan living minus two thirty going into it.

00:25:41
Speaker 2: That's just Nick Roush. However, third place.

00:25:43
Speaker 4: Yes, we can definitely take Nick rous.

00:25:46
Speaker 3: Speaking of Nick Rouse, one person writes, Matt I turned off the UFL volleyball game this weekend and ks r's Nick Rousch I think was in a Louisville shirt at the U of L volleyball game. What do you make of that? Well, first of all, Nick, first, did you watch any of the volleyball this weekend?

00:26:06
Speaker 7: See it?

00:26:07
Speaker 3: It was pretty exciting, I have to say, in a pretty amazing story. I mean, first of all, U of L their best player got hurt in the semifinals, and then I think her name's like Anna de Beer, and then they came back and still beat the number one team in the country. Pit So that was in the crowds, you know, they had twenty one thousand people there. Then in the finals, though, they lost to Penn State, whose coach not only became the first female coach to ever win a volleyball title, but also is battling breast cancer and so they won kind of in her honor, which I think is a really really cool story. And they won it, you know, a road game basically against Louisville for the national title.

00:26:46
Speaker 4: Great, that's the best story of the weekend to see that, the way the team celebrated around the coach obviously still struggling with breast cancer even to this day. You know, you are in the game, so tough to win in uppon his home floor, but they did it.

00:26:57
Speaker 2: So Nick Rouse, his won used to play volleyball for Louisville. Yeah, so that's the backdrop.

00:27:05
Speaker 3: Now his wife doesn't play volleyball for Louisville now, but his wife used to play. She is not a coach. So here's my question for you. Nick had on a red shirt and he was on TV. He is claiming it didn't say Louisville on it, that it was just red. Other people are claiming that it said Louisville. No one has the screenshot. But here's my question for you. This set of circumstances. You cover Kentucky, you're a UK fan, You go to a Louisville game, but your wife played for Louisville, not on the team right now, can you wear a Louisville shirt to a Louisville volleyball game.

00:27:49
Speaker 2: If your wife played there.

00:27:51
Speaker 8: I'm surprised he put itself in that situation. I mean wearing red in that setting. And then I understand your wife was a Louisville you know, alumni or the case. Maybe, but still you can't. You can't go in that setting and wear you're saying, no, no, absolutely not, Ryan.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: I think red is the one color you cannot wear. He can wear black, he can wear white.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: Can he wear a Louisville shirt? No? So we all agree, cannot even if you're white. Well, what if his wife is a coach? Yes? Okay, so whife the current coach? Yes?

00:28:22
Speaker 4: Yes?

00:28:22
Speaker 2: Why former player? No?

00:28:25
Speaker 3: No okay, So let me you agree. Here was what I was gonna say. I don't think you could wear anything that says Louisville on it. You have to say, honey, I'm sorry, I have personal obligations.

00:28:41
Speaker 2: I support you. If you played, that's different because I.

00:28:45
Speaker 3: Don't have a problem with him wearing red, but it can't say louis So he could wear red life.

00:28:51
Speaker 2: It was like a Christmas sweater.

00:28:54
Speaker 4: It is Christmas season.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: Would you be okay with him wearing a Christmas sweater? That has the color.

00:28:59
Speaker 2: Is that okay?

00:29:00
Speaker 7: Christmas weather is okay.

00:29:01
Speaker 8: But if it's just a red plain T shirt no letters on it or no nothing on the T shirt, he can't wear it.

00:29:07
Speaker 3: So you're gonna look at your future wife and say, I don't care what you've done.

00:29:12
Speaker 2: I ain't a part of it.

00:29:13
Speaker 3: She knows, she knows, Wow, she knows.

00:29:18
Speaker 4: It does hit a little different because Nick's job is to cover UK football primarily.

00:29:23
Speaker 3: He also apparently said it was the best atmosphere of any sporting event he's ever been to.

00:29:28
Speaker 2: WHOA, you gotta slow down what you think like? You's got to slow down there? You know I've been to good.

00:29:36
Speaker 3: I was at a Louisville I sent that Louisville West Virginia football game what twenty fifteen, twenty years ago? That was at night on a Thursday night night, and that was an amazing atmosphere.

00:29:46
Speaker 2: But you can't say a Louisville game is the best atmosphere? Do you agree? Right?

00:29:50
Speaker 4: I think?

00:29:50
Speaker 8: Not?

00:29:50
Speaker 4: Like I said, in his position when he's covering Kentucky so football.

00:29:53
Speaker 3: Get on Nick Rouse here on Christmas. You can't be doing that. As Ay Busheer would say, Who's next? We're one hundred and fourteenth in the country in three point percentage.

00:30:03
Speaker 6: Madison is up next.

00:30:04
Speaker 3: That's not gonna be good enough, like we We're not.

00:30:08
Speaker 4: We can't.

00:30:09
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to be better than that if we're gonna be really good this year, Madison, go ahead.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:30:15
Speaker 5: First of all, Merry Christmas.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you as well.

00:30:21
Speaker 5: I got a couple of things. One, do you alst I know we lost to a Hall of State, But do you all consider this team an NSA tournament team?

00:30:31
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:30:32
Speaker 5: Yes or no?

00:30:33
Speaker 2: Yes?

00:30:33
Speaker 3: And then of course we're of course we're an NCAA tournament team. I mean, if you beat Duke and you beat Gonzaga on neutral courts, you are certainly should be an NCAA tournament team. And I think a still highly seated NCAA tournament team.

00:30:49
Speaker 9: All right.

00:30:49
Speaker 5: And then second, how far do you think we'll drop in the post? Do you think we'll stay in the top twenty five? You think we'll drop out?

00:30:57
Speaker 2: For Madison, why would you think we'd drop out of the top two twenty five? We were number four in the country last week.

00:31:03
Speaker 5: Oh we got beat by twenty points. I just want to I know.

00:31:06
Speaker 3: But other teams lose too. Yes, we will stay in the top twenty five. Ryan, I would say we come in somewhere ten to twelve maybe something like that.

00:31:15
Speaker 4: Would you agree, Yeah, I think the question would be do they fall out of the top ten, and that's going to be close.

00:31:20
Speaker 2: Would you put us in the top ten? I think I still would.

00:31:22
Speaker 4: I mean you still beat Duke and Gonzaga, who I still think are two of the best teams in the country.

00:31:27
Speaker 3: And I do want to have some perspective when the season started. I think if we had told any of us you looked at the non conference, you said, we go eleven and two, wouldn't we have all taken it?

00:31:36
Speaker 7: In a second, absolutely, in a second.

00:31:38
Speaker 2: I think we all would have taken it.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: We would have said we certainly would not have thought the two losses would have been Clemson.

00:31:46
Speaker 2: Ohio State and Ohio State.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: But I think we definitely would have taken it. And honestly, for our resume, beating the teams we beat would be better than if we lost to Duke and Gonzaga, Ryan, and beat Clemson in Ohio State. Your resume is act you're right off getting those wins.

00:32:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, your tournament resume to beat the Like I said, two of the best teams in the country, one basically on their home floor. I think speaks volumes for you, Rea, You.

00:32:08
Speaker 3: Think part of it bothers us because Auburn won by four yeah last week?

00:32:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, that definitely hurts Auburn. The team that everybody says the best of the country, best in the SEC, ran that Ohio State team off the floor the weekend before.

00:32:21
Speaker 3: Did you like Mark Pope's postgame comments where he said this is going to eat at me the entire Christmas break? He basically was like, you can't lose like this and then go into a two week break. It's gonna bother me the entire time. We're gonna come back. And he said something like this will be the turning point of the year, which I thought was a very bold statement from our coach coming out.

00:32:44
Speaker 2: Did you like that?

00:32:45
Speaker 7: I loved it? I loved it, man.

00:32:47
Speaker 8: I mean Mark Pope, he always is known to make adjustments on his end, but I feel like this is a good fuel for them.

00:32:54
Speaker 7: You have good fuel to their fire. You know.

00:32:55
Speaker 3: You like that coming out and saying, I mean it's very different from Wait till March and all the stuff we used to this is I'm gonna lose sleep during Christmas over this.

00:33:06
Speaker 4: I want my coach to hurt when they have a loss, Like say, I don't want my coach to say, well, heause I get to go one of my dogs. I'm gonna go watch the Alaskan bush People show, you.

00:33:14
Speaker 2: Know, Alaskan bush People.

00:33:15
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear that. I want my coach to heard it. That's what Stoops is good about. Man, after a tough loss, you can hear it in his voice. I heard that in Pope's voice.

00:33:23
Speaker 3: I thought that was the perfect answer for our fan base. Our fan base wants you to care as much as we do. I mean I our fan base wants you to wants to think that it eats.

00:33:35
Speaker 2: It you like it eats it us. So I love that answer.

00:33:38
Speaker 3: I thought that answer. You know, we talk about what fans need to hear. I don't know if fans were listening to that at the end, but they should have, because that is what they need to hear.

00:33:47
Speaker 4: That's a after that butt whooping, that's exactly what I needed to hear. That my coach is upset and he's gonna lose sleep over Christmas. Break Yes, because I am too.

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00:34:48
Speaker 2: So what is this? Is this another Christmas rick jam? Is this Paul mccartny is.

00:34:53
Speaker 6: Paul McCartney wonderful Christmas time.

00:34:55
Speaker 3: Wonderful Christmas time, different kind of Christmas jam between what Shannon plays what Rick plays for the Christmas holiday.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: I like this one.

00:35:03
Speaker 4: It's a good choice. Rick Christmas song shout out here at the bar.

00:35:06
Speaker 2: Ali Tucker is here.

00:35:07
Speaker 3: She's a former KSR writer, one of the ten funniest people I've ever met, like as she's absolutely hilarious. She has a podcast about youth sports. Right, what's it called youth sports? The s is a dollar sign, Well you can go get it. Ally she goes viral like she has these discussions about like the future youth sports and they go viral online. So former KSR also soccer coach here in Lexington.

00:35:35
Speaker 4: She did a great man with Ronnie Robinson from Franklin County. It's a great story and that great podcast. Good listen while you're on.

00:35:41
Speaker 3: From one person says Matt and Nick Roush's name one of his kids, Duke is that another strike?

00:35:47
Speaker 2: Yes, suspect sus with the sus that is that is it?

00:35:54
Speaker 4: They said, Corey Price found the picture of Nick. The red shirt is a Bob Ross Christmas red t shirt.

00:36:00
Speaker 2: So it doesn't say Louisvallon didn't say Louisville.

00:36:01
Speaker 4: He had a red hat on, have a red hat on and a red flannel shirt over the Bob Ross T shirt.

00:36:08
Speaker 2: Sus. I think that's that's pretty sus.

00:36:12
Speaker 3: One person writes, Matt, I'll take Mario in the spelling contest. Ryan can't spell his way out of a paper bag.

00:36:18
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you.

00:36:20
Speaker 4: What you don't realize I got third place in the Otwell Elementary Spelling business Man.

00:36:24
Speaker 2: That was in nineteen sixty one.

00:36:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just remember the word that knocked me out, gall bladder knowledge.

00:36:33
Speaker 2: Well, that's fitting that.

00:36:36
Speaker 3: One person writes, Matt, I heard you on ESPN Sunday. Thought you were very funny. Here's my question. With all the controversy between ESPN personalities, who have you worked with that you liked.

00:36:48
Speaker 2: And who haven't you liked? Oh? Wow, good?

00:36:51
Speaker 3: Well, I don't have that, you know, Ryan Clark and Pat McAfee been going back and forth, and Ryan Clark and Aaron Rodgers. I don't have the pull to be able to say who I don't like, although I could give you a couple, but I won't. I won't do that. Who I like obviously, Meyron is number one. Yeah, Dan Orlowski has always been great to me. I think he's a really really nice guy.

00:37:17
Speaker 4: Uh does a good Matt Jones impersonation to.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: Jeff Saturday was always very nice to me. Love to talk to me about Jared Lorenzen. He was I've talked about how Matt Brown, who's now been the North Carolina coaching now retired. I really liked it. Love HERM Edwards, herm Edwards. I'm gonna have herm Edwards. He offered the host during the summer that dude is a character.

00:37:39
Speaker 2: Now.

00:37:39
Speaker 3: I mean, if you if you don't listen to anything else I do. In the second hour every week of the Matt and Myron podcast, turn on when we have her Edwards on because he is out. He is a trip and he really likes us as well. So he's really good. Joe fortenbab pretty much most of the people I've worked with coach Ian Fitzsimmons I like, I like Amber Wilson.

00:37:58
Speaker 2: So I've had a bunch that I've enjoyed.

00:38:00
Speaker 4: Are things better between you and Sal Powell?

00:38:03
Speaker 7: Yes?

00:38:03
Speaker 2: Sal likes me now, Okay, yeah, he didn't like me for a long time.

00:38:08
Speaker 3: I'd say the person that now the most tension is with is probably Seth Greenberg, But it has nothing to do with my time at ESPN. It's the it's it's the whole col thing.

00:38:19
Speaker 4: I think other people.

00:38:20
Speaker 3: But I've worked with a couple of people who's who I wouldn't put Seth in this. Seth is fine, but I've worked with a couple of people that that suck. Yeah, that are like, have.

00:38:30
Speaker 4: You done a show with Harry Douglas yet?

00:38:31
Speaker 2: Oh?

00:38:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've done a bunch with him. Remember he worked in my law firm in Mauisville, So I like him. But there's a couple people on there that are behind the scenes just absolute jerks. And like you can tell the producer, you can always tell how somebody is.

00:38:46
Speaker 2: About whether or not the producers like him. Huh and yeah, And.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: The producers will tell you who who is nice and who stinks and some of them stink.

00:38:54
Speaker 4: Who is the guy that came up and got you said you're sitting in his chair?

00:38:57
Speaker 3: Field Yates But that was like a misunderstand I don't dislike him, but but but there.

00:39:03
Speaker 2: Was a couple yeah that that.

00:39:08
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not gonna play it because somebody else but my boss already thinks I criticize asked being too much. Well, let's talk about one of the ESPN people. I've only interacted with him once, but he was fine with me. But Kirk Herbstreet feels like college football fans are kind of turning on herb Street a little bit. He he went off on Ohio State fans.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: Did you see that went off on him?

00:39:31
Speaker 3: Said, you guys are being too mean to Ryan Day even if they lose to Tennessee, it's fine, you know, blah blah blah. And Ohio State fans for a dude that played there, they have completely turned on him. And I read this article this week that basically somebody said they feel like Herbstreet has become a joyless figure just lecturing fans left and right.

00:39:55
Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?

00:39:56
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, he's been on Ohio State Homer forever because he that's his team.

00:40:01
Speaker 3: He wants them to So he moved out because he said he moved to Nashville because he said the fans were too mean to his family.

00:40:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, too mean to him. So I don't know you can kind of relate to this morning anybody where people kind of coming after you over the cal thing are coming after him now for the Ohose State thing.

00:40:15
Speaker 3: It's tough because when you're one of them people like get even Maddy, So you know, I have some sympathy for him from those few months of the Caliperry thing, but he also man, he'll just go at those people.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: I don't know. Do you like Herbstreet? He's been on TV for twenty plus years.

00:40:34
Speaker 7: I don't even know who that is, to.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: Be honestfully, wait a minute, I don't even know that. How do you not know who that is? I don't know who that is? What do you mean you don't know who that?

00:40:46
Speaker 7: If I see him by picture, maybe I'll read like you don't watch TV?

00:40:50
Speaker 2: Do you not? A lot? See?

00:40:52
Speaker 3: Your generation? Just baffles me? Like your generation does not watch television? I don't want you don't. Do you know who Lee Corso is? No?

00:41:01
Speaker 7: He looks kind of familiar a little bit.

00:41:04
Speaker 2: Can you believe that? Do you know? You know?

00:41:06
Speaker 7: I know the big the big personalities, but he's.

00:41:09
Speaker 2: The biggest person. Herbstreet's the biggest. He calls all the biggest games. Do you know who Chris Fowlery is?

00:41:16
Speaker 7: He sounds familiar, But you're a huge sports fan.

00:41:22
Speaker 2: How do you not know who these people are. Who's Troy Aikman.

00:41:26
Speaker 7: No, I don't know who that is?

00:41:28
Speaker 2: Tony Romo?

00:41:29
Speaker 7: Now that sounds familiar, dude, Chris collins Worth.

00:41:34
Speaker 2: Are these old football guys? Yes?

00:41:36
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I'm more like basketball. Give me some basketball guys. So I just named you the most Joe Buck. Don't know who that is?

00:41:46
Speaker 2: No? Wow, I do not.

00:41:48
Speaker 4: I feel so old right now. Wow don't you feel old right now?

00:41:52
Speaker 2: Yeah? But like I.

00:41:58
Speaker 3: Just said, what do you don't know who Kirk kerk Street is? I am lost in words. It's one thing not to know Cole Kublick. Wow, all right, I gotta take a break. Well we will, we will take a break.

00:42:10
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