2025-02-21- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Up Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes dal Jones February fourteenth and fifteenth. Then catch Lucas and Selnik February twenty first and twenty second, and don't miss club favorite Ian Bag February twenty seven through March first. Comedy Up Broadway opened and downtown Lexington in nineteen eighty seven, and they're still bringing the best in stand up comedy to the area thirty eight years later. Call eight five nine two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Up Broadway dot.

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Speaker 2: Com off Broadway. Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio. You're live.

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Speaker 3: Look at this give people in a Mexican restaurant. They get excited at Poppies in Palomar. It is Friday, February the twenty first, and we are here. Ready go You can give shallon Clarks Puppy Shop full nine eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this distion sponsored by the TJ.

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Speaker 2: Smith Office. You call TJ. O'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: We are out here in a part of town that I don't get to a lot, but I when I came this morning, I thought, wow, this.

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Speaker 2: This area has grown a lot.

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Speaker 3: Right at Palamar what is the name of this play at the Lamar Fountain, Palamar Fountains, right out here at Poppies, Mexican restaurant in this area has exploded, and Poppies is here. You know, I really like when people come to Kosbar for games. But with that television screen, you know, if we're full, maybe make your way out here, because what an absolutely cool environment. The third Poppies location out here in Palomar, and we are here to celebrate. Tomorrow is National Margarita Day, So all day here at Poppies tomorrow, three point fifty Margarita's all day tomorrow at Poppies.

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Speaker 2: That seems like a pretty good deal.

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Speaker 4: I think we should sample all of them today, just to make sure they're ready to go.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what, I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm feeling generous. Shit, yeah, that's what I'm feeling. So I talked to Marcos, who owns Poppies. We made a little side deal. I'm going to if you come to the show from now until noon that's for those of you here. And if you come until noon I'm buying everybody one margarite.

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Speaker 4: That got the crowd excited, all right, So that's for me.

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Speaker 2: So you can, I guess, tell your server.

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Speaker 3: But for those of you that are on your way here, you can to come take your lunch and get a margarita on Matt.

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Speaker 2: I mean not literally on me, but I will. I will pay for it.

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Speaker 3: I don't want a body shot on a Friday morning, but I will. That's it's right.

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Speaker 5: I will.

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Speaker 2: I will pay for one margarita for everybody in here.

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Speaker 3: Drew, I feel like that doesn't include you three, but I'll go and.

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Speaker 5: Break the ice and be the first one. You know, Tomorrow is the holiday. I'm more of a Christmas Eve guy than Christmas, so I'll be a margarita eve gotten celebrate during the show, so you guys all enjoy that.

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Speaker 3: And uh and tomorrow it's three point fifty all day out here. And Poppy's Quadro, so they've got one out there there on campus above Charlie Brown's. I've been to that one a ton of times, the original, that's the original. Then they got one right next to the bar drive through Mexican Restaurant, which you don't see a lot and then one out here. Uh, and the great food and Marcos the owner is a really nice guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you talked to the puppies. Quatro getting ready to come in so leric air exploding just like this area out here, This whole area here has been exploding.

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Speaker 3: I guess he's gonna name him Shannon by the Spanish? Uh number sequence? Do you know how to count in Spanish? How far can you go?

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Speaker 6: You know those trace?

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Speaker 2: All right? What I just said? What the fourth?

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Speaker 6: One? Quadru?

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, go all right, all ry.

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Speaker 3: I didn't ask you, all right, I didn't ask you, and you were wrong anyway.

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Speaker 2: You can't scream one that. You can't scream and then be wrong, sayce and then what septe? Septe is close? And then what's not? And then what's ten?

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Speaker 6: Dose? No, that's two?

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Speaker 2: Uh you know that's that's one two zero ds? Right here you go. Let's tell you got some of the numbers correct.

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Speaker 7: Poppy Kat coming when he gets to his tenth restaurant. Then I'll know it about that, right.

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Speaker 2: Then you can dose. You're so smart, that's true.

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Speaker 3: Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine in seven seven two seven seven four, five, two, five, four. We only have Ryan Lemon five games left in the college basketball regular season. Kind of crazy to think what such a fun year that it's been. But we are down to five games and tomorrow we probably have the game that if you saw it on the schedule at the beginning of the year, you would go that might be the hardest game on the schedule at Alabama. We didn't know Auburn would be quite as good as they are, but at Alabama is a spread out Drew.

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Speaker 5: I don't know it'll be this afternoon, be this sa right as the show.

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Speaker 2: What do you think it's gonna be? By the way?

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Speaker 5: Oh boy? Seven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say like eight or nine.

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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a hefty We don't have the injury report, but I'm suspecting no Robinson, no Butler go down to Alabama. To me, this is a free money game. Like I don't this gonna be one of the few games I watched with no nervousness because I just don't really think we have a chance to win, So I'm not gonna be nervous.

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Speaker 2: Do you give us a chance to win?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little chance because like you said, you're playing with house money. You can go down there and just play loose, not a lot of pressure. All the pressure's come on Alabama. They've lost to in a row. They're kind of limping a little bit, and so I think, you know, if you go down there and just play loose, you got a chance.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've said a bunch this year.

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Speaker 3: This is a game where I don't think we have a chance to win, and then we go win. So I mean I said that at gin Zaga, they good Zaga. I said that at Tennessee, and now I'm saying it again, Drew. Maybe I hope I'm wrong again. I mean, I do think they play bad defense. We'll be able to score. The question is just, well we be able to score as much as they do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, similar styles, they're just a little bit better at it and much healthier right now. I mean, the game at rough was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: What was it like fun for a game we lost? That was a lot of fun?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, one two ninety seven something like that. Yeah, and Alabama hit two more threes than Kentucky did wins by five. So I think it really can come down to a three point shooting contest. They've been reeling a little bit defensively. Teams have been scoring on them. So if Kentucky can go shoot on the road, I think they have a chance. But I mean Alabama, they they put up a lot of points. They care the top five offenses in the country.

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Speaker 3: What's interesting about them is they can put up a lot of points in a short period of time. They also can go ice cold, and they can go like four or five minutes where they don't score. They did that against Missouri Shannon at the start and then really never came back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they were.

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Speaker 3: Down twelve nothing and at that I don't think they got it closer to six the whole rest of the game. I think it's gonna be important. We're gonna get a chance to make a run. We have to do it. But most importantly, these guys gotta hit shots like they're gonna be They're gonna get open looks. Alabama's gonna give you open looks, and guys like Brea almanor Perry Noah uh Oway the car.

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Speaker 2: They're just kind to make up.

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Speaker 7: If you remember, going back to the first game at Rup, Alabama went on a nine to zero run there at the end of that's essentially what won them that game.

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Speaker 2: The game was back and forth.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. The other thing too.

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Speaker 7: In these last two losses for Alabama, their opponents have gone to the line seventy nine times. So if Kentucky can play physical, physical down low and get to the free throw line and not try to avoid contact.

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Speaker 2: That's not really how we play though, Well that's.

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Speaker 6: That's the way they need to because I think that could be a key to.

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Speaker 3: Way We've talked about Kobe Brea. Drew's made this point all year. This team kind of rises and falls based simply on whether or not Kobe Brea makes shots. He's gonna have to make how many tomorrow to win? I think it's a high number. I think it's like five, maybe six.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say five when you were asking that question. He's got to he's gotta he's got to connect him downtown because those three guards for Alabama, they're not got shy. They're gonna be boning them all over the place.

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Speaker 3: The thing that stuck out to me in the last game the most is we got absolutely abused by Grant Nelson. Andrew Carr just could not say Grant Nelson really has not been great this year, but Andrew Carr had no chance. We put Almanor he was worse, Like, somebody's gonna have to guard that guy. Do you think they switch up, maybe put Williams on him, Like how do we handle him?

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Speaker 5: I think that's the whole game. It was kind of just to wash everyone not named Grant Wilson, Nelson versus Kentucky and Lexton. But he had twenty five points, like eleven rebounds, really did most in the second half. When Kentucky was trying to come back. Carr was just getting into his back injury at that point. I think he even missing maybe the next game. So part of that was Carr being hurt. I think it's a big game for Car. He even spoke about it like he's looking forward to this. It's kind of a makeup game because he played so poorly in that one. He couldn't hang with Nelson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's no reason on paper that Carr should not be able to. I mean, Grant Nelson's not a crazy good athlete, but he just out that. The Alabama game was a game where I felt like we got out hustled at times, and like you can you can even if we don't make the shots. We should make the effort and not give up what we did last game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was man Nelson was doing everything. We made Hiven all American that day. But this is a good chance for car to step up, and if he's helped ready to go, you know, there could be a money game for him if he shows you can play against one of these guys. Gonna kind of used him earlier in the season.

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Speaker 3: So let's just say that I'm right and that this game is kind of a no lose game. Four games left after that, so I'm gonna throw this in consider this one too.

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Speaker 2: We got at Oklahoma. Is that Tuesday or Wednesday?

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Speaker 5: Wednesday?

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Speaker 3: Tuesday Wednesday night at nine o'clock, then we play. We've got Auburn at home, LSU at home at Missouri. I think we it would be awesome if we could go three and two. I'm kind of back and forth between three and two and two and three is what we're gonna do? What do you Drew think we're gonna do in these last five games? If we go three and two, I think we're almost certain to get a bye and not have to play on Wednesday.

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Speaker 6: If we go two and three.

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Speaker 2: We might still get a bye, but it's not certain.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I'm gonna go two and three before Vandy had been finishing this stretch. Three and three, beat Vandy, LSU, and win at Oklahoma. On the other three, I just think it's a lot to ask. I mean, Missouri, when the schedule comes out, you think, oh, Missouri, last game of the year, A team that didn't win a game last year. Now that was probably the hardest, maybe of the hardest of the group. They just wanted Alabama. You get Auburn at home. I mean, those are maybe the three hardest games on the schedule, and you've got them all here at end the season. But as long as you beat LSU at home and get that one in Oklahoma, I don't think those are gonna punish.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Oklahoma might be playing for the NCAA Tournament in our game. I mean, they may not make it anyway, but if they're gonna have a chance, they're kind of hovering. They gotta beat us on their home floor. So that's gonna be a massive game for them.

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Speaker 2: What do you think we do in.

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Speaker 6: These I agree with Drew. I would say two and three.

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Speaker 7: You know, last week, if you were to ask me, I would say maybe they could beat Missouri. But after seeing Missouri play the other night, they looked like the best team in college basketball against Alabama, So unfortunately, I think two and three is the most likely.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say three and two because I think we're either gonna steal. I think we're either gonna steal. I'm predicting us to beat Auburn at home with one caveat. If you give me Butler or Robinson, one of those guys plays, we're beating Auburn. If they both don't play, then I'll say no. But if one of them plays, we're beating Auburn. If not, I think we can win at Missouri. I think this is the game we can't win, but I think we can win the rest of them.

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Speaker 2: Bright.

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Speaker 4: I think we all agree. This season is so crazy. It won't surprise any of us if they beat Auburn and then go and lose at Oklahoma. I just kind of see how this season has been so far.

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Speaker 2: This year, I thought you had more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one sentence, one sentence. It's the third time I've looked at you one sentence. You're not in a talkative mood today now, I.

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Speaker 4: Thought I made a very impactful statement. I was waiting for it to sink in.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I don't know if it did.

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Speaker 5: With all that for him, with Auburn being at home, you hopefully have Kobe Brea. It's crazy his splits of home versus way. A man does not play well on the road, but if you get him in Rapperena, I don't know if it's the crowd or sleeping in his own bed, being comfortable there or what, but he's a different player at home. So I do think of the three, even though Auburn is the best team, having it at home, I think is the best shot to win one.

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Speaker 2: Let me get give you one encouraging stat that I saw yesterday.

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Speaker 3: We were awful, awful most of the year defensively. I think at one point we were like Ranke ninety seventh in the kim Pom.

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Speaker 2: Defensively, we've gone.

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Speaker 3: Up in two weeks forty four spaces in defense our kim Pom rating, even though we've lost games, we've risen quite a bit. I think we're up to like seventeenth or something, which will help us because that had been our lowest rating. Our defense, Ryan has gotten significantly better.

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Speaker 2: In the last few weeks. What do you attribute that to.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of it is just the fact they don't have Butler and they'll have Robinson. The other guys had to step up. I think the effort has been better. They held Vanda twenty one points in the second half, maybe their best defensive half of the season, and that one without your best defender even playing that game.

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Speaker 2: Could I also say Shan, I think Omari raises his arms now in defense and block shots that usually I'm only half a kid like.

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Speaker 3: I feel like he's he has become a rim protector in the last few games in a way that I don't know if somebody told him to raise his arms, but he the team's shooting percentage we play against it, the rim has fallen dramatically, and I actually think he's a big part of what a concept raise your arms in defense if you're a rim productor but yeah, he's really stepped up, you know, with Carr battling that back injury.

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Speaker 7: I think he's been other than oh Way, maybe our most valuable player of the last few games.

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Speaker 6: Oh I think he triple double and going perfect the other night.

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Speaker 2: I actually think he is our most valuable player at least.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not for the year, that might be Butler, but for the last few games definitely, I think.

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Speaker 5: So too, especially Garrison. He almost seems to have reverted a little bit from earlier in the season. So I think Williams is your MVP as important as Butler is. And I also think part of the reason the defense has turned it on is uh they figured it out when Mark Pope tore the Old Miss locker room apart. I think seeing Mark Pope lose his mind after that Old Miss game might have made them realize, Okay, we need to lock in. They did not release a.

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Speaker 3: Video of the journey in the locker room when Mark Pope came out with a bloody hand and a broken chalk, that's.

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Speaker 6: The video we need that.

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Speaker 2: I want to see the video because I can't see Mark.

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Speaker 7: That's been the narrative though for fans like this guy is not hard enough on these guys.

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Speaker 6: I think if we all saw that video, we'd have a different.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that Do you think happened? Like It's like, I mean, he did have a bloody hand. You have to like beat things up to have a bloody hand.

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Speaker 6: He'd he punched something.

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Speaker 4: He had to punch hit something.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: If I were guessing, I would say the bathroom attached to the locker room might have had a little dam.

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Speaker 2: You think whatever, he just wait bit you know that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, let's I don't know anything that happens behind closed doors. But if I did, the bathroom might have had something.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like somebody It sounds like some scuttle button. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I'm just guessing. But the fact that he did that. You know, we all love you, we all love the ted ted Lasso attitude.

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Speaker 2: But that old miss half was so bad last would get angry too.

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Speaker 5: He needed he needed that moment. I know that might not have been in his character, but even he said, I had to run white hot to get my message across. And they really have improved it that since then.

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Speaker 7: I just know, Like when I'm at home and I want to punch something, I go to like maybe my mattress, maybe a pillow.

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Speaker 6: I'm not gonna punch a wall.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you what I learned a few months ago. Don't punch through glass on your door. That is, that's not what you want to do. If I'm nine eighty seven, it is a free margarita for everybody here, Yes, out here at pat Poppies. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Working back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the Poppies.

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Speaker 3: Out here on it's called Palamar What showers mountains?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Palamar showers, Palmar showers, Yeah, Palmar fountains.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna open a fourth Poppies location right next to the new Public's out on Citation Point.

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Speaker 2: That's in a place where I could go there quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: I can walk to it from I go through the drive through of the one next to the bar sometimes so.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: By the way, speaking of the bar, we had amazing trivia crowd last night. Uh. Good questions of which I don't know how many you would have gotten, right, Ryan, But it seems like your team, you and your team have just quit.

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Speaker 2: What what has happened?

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Speaker 4: I think we need a new leader. I think our current you're the leader. That's what I'm saying, our current team leader leader not doing a job rallying the troops.

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Speaker 3: And well, there's three more qualifiers left. You're gonna that's it? Well, I mean it is February.

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Speaker 4: I guess.

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Speaker 5: So wow, looks like a good young crowd. Excuse me, like a lot of college kids.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of the college kid thing is is increased, but we still have a lot of the same general people that win.

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Speaker 2: We're getting it.

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Speaker 3: Taco Week, by the way, is the week of the SEC Tournament. They'll have different tacos here every night. Did you want let me go to the text machine first?

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Speaker 2: One person rites Matt Vandy sixty one points versus Kentucky is the lowest total all season long for Vandy and the lowest we've given up. I think our defense is getting good.

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Speaker 5: Maybe yeah, I mean especially after they gave up a lot in the first half. What Vandy only scored twenty one after halftime. You have Edwards who played so well down in Nashville and held him to ten or eleven points. I think they only had one other guy in double figures with ten. So it's really a great job overall. And you're doing that with with Butler and street clothes, but made it so much more impressive.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't get a lot of questions like this, Shane, until I'll answer it. Okay, this is a law question. Oh, I read one law question Ryan, answer the law.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, let's do that, all right.

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Speaker 3: Session, I'll tell you what you can give, what you think the answer is, and then i'll give you the really Okay, Okay, Matt. Recently a co worker of mine was working and was attaching a Bible verse to the sign over her desk while sending a company email. Nothing sinister, harmful, just the verse? Is that a civil rights violation that she was threatened with being fired? Okay, Judge Lemon? Is it a civil rights violation if you're working somewhere and they say you cannot attach a Bible verse to a company email?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 4: I know we have freedom of religion, but I believe there's a stipulation in there that you can't force it on people or like, you can't say it it's in schools, so I'm gonna say you can't say it in business.

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Speaker 3: No sort of No. So the First Amendment applies. We've talked about this. What does it apply to.

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Speaker 4: Freedom of speech, freedom, religion, freedom?

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Speaker 2: It applies to the government. It's only what the government does.

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Speaker 3: So if you work at a private employer, your private employer can tell you if you work here, no, you can't attach religious things to your email. Now the government, there's an argument the government can't do that, although that's even complicated, but a private employer can do it. For your First Amendment rights are only with the government. Like if you I won't use poppies. But if you were working at mommy's, uh, mammy squamis if you were working if you were working at mommy's, if mommy said no, you can't do you can't do that in here, Mommy's has a right to do that as long as they're not being discriminatory.

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Speaker 2: And that's a whole other conversation.

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Speaker 4: So what if it was like a school or a public.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the government, so then the rules are a little different with government. But if it was government, a student could do it, teacher probably couldn't do it. So that's the that. There you go, there's your law.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 3: I'm twenty three eighty seven. Did you watch the hockey last night? How many of you watched the hockey last night?

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Speaker 2: Raise your hand.

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Speaker 3: That's got to be the most people in the show that's ever raised their hand that they watched hockey.

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Speaker 2: Yep, I'm gonna make you a prediction.

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Speaker 3: I think the rating for that hockey game last night is going to be the highest hockey anything in fifteen or twenty years that Americans have watched.

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Speaker 2: All three of you watched it. Did you enjoy it?

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Speaker 4: I know really nothing about hockey, but you get into it because the United States, it's like, you get that Olympic feel. We want to win, we want to beat Canada.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what what we were even playing for?

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Speaker 4: No, Like, the's this little tournament they made up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah they made it up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, four, they just made it up.

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Speaker 2: So you watched it.

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Speaker 4: I watched not a lot of it, but I watched a little bit of it.

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Speaker 2: Did you watch it?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: And overtime got beat by that that slap shot there at the end. But yeah, I was really expecting USA to win the whole thing, and I'm a little disappointed they didn't. And now we got their prime minister talking trash to.

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Speaker 2: To It's be fair.

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Speaker 3: We've talked some We've been saying we were gonna make them the fifty first state. I feel like they it's understandable they might be a little frustrate.

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Speaker 6: To take our game. We're not trying to take their game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I actually thought the trash talking was pretty funny. I mean from both of them, did you enjoy it?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, I didn't miss a single minute. I even watched a thirty minute lead up to it, had UK women on a side TV watching both. By far the most hockey I've ever seen in my life, and I I couldn't get enough of it, even just like I loved when we scored and they played freebird right at the guitar solo and they like panned the crowd and everybody's in costume. That just looked like such a great environment.

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Speaker 3: I even at the bar at Trivia there were people that came dressed in US gear to watch. I thought it was if you're talking about a sport, that made the right decision having that tournament. I mean that I love watching hockey, but like most people don't.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think.

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Speaker 3: When's the last time people have talked this much about hockey.

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Speaker 6: I mean miracle on personally, I mean.

00:21:05
Speaker 3: In my lifetime never Because the Miracle on Ice I was like two years old.

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Speaker 2: I think it's like the best thing they've ever done.

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Speaker 5: And my my guy Matthews, who I didn't know about till yesterday, I had three shots on goal in overtime there and that uh, the goalie for the Canadians. So it was also a lot of fun to watch.

00:21:22
Speaker 2: If I'm nine to eight, oh, twenty two eighty seven, who's up next? Kentucky?

00:21:26
Speaker 5: Joe was up?

00:21:27
Speaker 3: Oh good, that's that's the one that I wanted to start a couple open lines.

00:21:31
Speaker 2: You should know that by our first call.

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Speaker 3: If I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, go ahead, Joe.

00:21:39
Speaker 8: Joe, Yes, you said, Joe, you did to take Kentucky Joe.

00:21:45
Speaker 2: All right, Joe, don't start with me this morning. Go ahead?

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Speaker 8: Okay. Hey, Hey, I think the WAP hits and I have a great game against the pack Germs. They're gonna tack, they're gonna tatle tales up, and I think I think I think we're big bombing the three.

00:22:03
Speaker 3: Well, we better if we're gonna if we're gonna win, we better bomb the threes.

00:22:06
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to hit a lot of them. Joe, You doing okay? Otherwise?

00:22:11
Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, I got old birthday coming up soon on something. I'm hitting the magic age.

00:22:17
Speaker 2: Wow, I mean, you're you're gonna be eighty Oh no, man, what's what's the man?

00:22:25
Speaker 8: I'm setting you younger that I'll be seventy.

00:22:29
Speaker 2: Why is it the magic eight if you're gonna be seventy?

00:22:33
Speaker 8: I don't know. I'm just saying that. I don't know. I'm feeling good today.

00:22:38
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no magic eight. Why isn't it the magic seven?

00:22:43
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:22:44
Speaker 8: Just it's a good it's a good uh, A good number. I get.

00:22:48
Speaker 3: I'm all right, sure, I guess it is. Thank you, Joe, appreciate the call. It's the magic eight for his seventieth birthday.

00:22:55
Speaker 4: I thought that man, he was turning eighty.

00:22:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I would have too.

00:22:58
Speaker 3: All Right, everybody free marguerite from me. Yay, we'll take a break, very back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio quarterback. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Here, Live and Poppies eight five, nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. I like when we go to places like this because I think there's groups of people who come in who maybe are not even here.

00:23:19
Speaker 2: For the show. Like I'm not sure if those guys are and they're gonna they're gonna get a free.

00:23:23
Speaker 6: Margarita and the Indiana fans out here for the show.

00:23:25
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's here for the show. It's why. That's why you're wearing the Indiana gear, right, or you don't know who I am. That's okay, Well I tried to ide you look you look like a nice guy.

00:23:36
Speaker 3: I remember tomorrow at all the Poppies locations, three point fifty Margaritas. I don't know if the college students know that, but that one aboth Charlie Brown's will end up packed if they do.

00:23:46
Speaker 5: I've frequented that location too. That's a great spot.

00:23:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that one will be uh will be wild. So we got some breaking news, Rick, there we go. The New York Yankee announced this morning they are getting rid of their facial hair policy. They will allow players to have mustaches and well groomed beards for the very first time in the history of the Yankees organization. They were the only team in sports that did not allow you to have facial hair. But George Steinbrenner's son, Howe, says, it is now time to get to the modern age and allow beards and mustaches. Ryan, you're a baseball guy. That was the one thing the Yankees were known for. There were some rumors that there guys over the years they haven't gotten because they wanted to have facial hair.

00:24:35
Speaker 2: Do you think it's a good idea to modern their policy.

00:24:38
Speaker 4: I think it's maybe a little overdue that they should have changed that years and years ago. Yeah, they keep that, but yeah, guys like you know, Johnny Damon and some of these guys that were just known for having big, bushy beards, they get traded to the Yankees. All has to come off. Every bit of it.

00:24:52
Speaker 7: Really dumb role to begin with, in my opinion, Like what are you showcasing clean faces? What does that have to do with baseball? Who by the way, you play in dirt?

00:25:02
Speaker 2: Well, well, I would say just to play Devil's advocate.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: As a hockey person, you know, in hockey they have hockey beards, and during the playoffs it's like bad luck to shave. So by the finals everybody looks like like scraggedly old men. And so I've often wondered like they should get those guys not to do it, because by the time you get to the end, everybody looks.

00:25:28
Speaker 2: Like a homeless man.

00:25:30
Speaker 3: And I did wonder if like maybe that was partially what the Yankees want to do.

00:25:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, but playoff beards they can be magic. I mean, you're not you're not modeling for a calendar. You're trying to win a games. Who cares what's on your face. I think it's very smart of them to change baseball. When you look at other sports, it's going the wrong direction and popularity, and I think old time rules like that have been part of the problem, not that one specifically, but it is nice that they're catching up with the times.

00:25:52
Speaker 2: Would you, uh, what about you? If you you haven't, what if.

00:25:58
Speaker 6: They said you can't?

00:25:59
Speaker 2: I gonna say, let's say I would shave it.

00:26:01
Speaker 5: You would shave it, Definitely you would, because I like, I mean, I would think it's a dumb rule. But if the rule is the rule, I'm not gonna fight back over just a.

00:26:07
Speaker 2: Beard, So you wouldn't care enough to fight about.

00:26:09
Speaker 5: No. I mean, I like my beard, but if you know, if I needed to shave it, you look.

00:26:13
Speaker 2: Like a different person without a beard. Yeah.

00:26:15
Speaker 5: I actually accidentally shaved it all the way off a couple of summers ago. I didn't even know who I was there for a while, But I mean, if I were somewhere where I needed to do it, I could part ways.

00:26:23
Speaker 7: I would have been perfect for the Yankees. I don't really grow facial hair to begin.

00:26:26
Speaker 2: With you can't grow it.

00:26:27
Speaker 6: I can, but it's just not it's not nice.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: But it's like patchy.

00:26:30
Speaker 7: It's kind of patchy. It's kind of like the Johnny Depp look.

00:26:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, if this white keeps coming in, I'm gonna have to shave the beard. It adds about fifteen years to me with these white hairs.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's harder. I have the same problem. You get white a lot quicker on your face than you do on top. Who's up next?

00:26:46
Speaker 6: Steve?

00:26:47
Speaker 2: Is up next?

00:26:48
Speaker 3: Steve? Go ahead, Steve. You know, man, Steve, I can't hear you. Are you you on Wi Fi or something?

00:27:02
Speaker 2: He now? Yeah? I mean I love you all, but it's a phone. Do we not know how to work them? Go ahead?

00:27:12
Speaker 5: Man? That hurt?

00:27:13
Speaker 2: Man? Well, I love you, Steve, Steve, I love you. You've called the show forever.

00:27:19
Speaker 3: But you know you have to talk into the phone in order for it to work. It's a pretty simple product.

00:27:25
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, I feel bad now.

00:27:29
Speaker 2: It's okay, don't feel bad.

00:27:30
Speaker 5: The cat.

00:27:32
Speaker 8: I'm just kidding, man, I'm sorry about the phone. I'm sorry about the phone.

00:27:38
Speaker 2: Really, okay, Steve, we're good. We're good.

00:27:40
Speaker 6: So what you're saying is you're sorry about the phone. Is that his call?

00:27:44
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Steven.

00:27:48
Speaker 6: He just wanted to call in to say you' sorry about his bad phone for Steve.

00:27:52
Speaker 4: Wow, the layup and you swatted it into.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: The I did not do anything. I just we couldn't hear any other colors.

00:28:01
Speaker 6: You want to rose to's next?

00:28:03
Speaker 2: All right? I'm sorry, Steve. You know I love you, but I.

00:28:06
Speaker 6: Agree with you. If you're gonna call radio show, at least have a good connection.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:28:10
Speaker 3: Eight five, nine, two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We talked about this yesterday.

00:28:14
Speaker 2: I want your take on So the new SEC football schedule with the nine games, then maybe playing a Big ten team. Now, let's talk Louisville. You're Mitch Barnhart.

00:28:25
Speaker 3: Let's assume this happens twelve games, nine of them against the SEC. Every year you get randomly assigned a Big ten team. Those are ten games. You got two games left. You're Mitch Barnhart. Are you playing Louisville. Let me give you the ramifications of playing Louisville. You'll never have eight home games again. If you play Louisville, you'll only have seven. So you know right now we have seven to one year eight. The next year we will only have seven because we won't be able to ever get eight.

00:28:55
Speaker 2: Second, it will be a potential loss.

00:28:59
Speaker 3: So if you want to get the buck, you go from basically two definite wins to one and maybe a loss and then third revenue wise, it's gonna hurt you because you'll go from a guaranteed revenue game to only every other year a revenue game. Are you playing but it's also your rival and a team your fans want to see you play?

00:29:21
Speaker 2: Are you playing Louisville?

00:29:22
Speaker 4: I think if you're Mitch Barnhart, your duty is to make money for the athletic program, and you want those home games. I think you want those two home games every year, and I think that outweighs playing Louisville your rival.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: So you're gonna so what's not me?

00:29:36
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're heart.

00:29:38
Speaker 3: Making you the athletic director, you are athletic director, Ryan Limit. Are you canceling the debt game? Don't put it on Mitch, It's on your shoulders. You got to make a decision. Are you canceling the game?

00:29:49
Speaker 4: If it's for me and I'm I'm the athletic director, No way, I'm canceling that game.

00:29:53
Speaker 2: Where are you coming up?

00:29:55
Speaker 6: He's gone from here to here?

00:29:56
Speaker 4: What I gave you? Mitch Barnhart's philosophy, the first one not gonna give away his two long games.

00:30:02
Speaker 2: Where are you coming up with the extra money?

00:30:04
Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna dance naked or something and raise some money for everybody.

00:30:08
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people are gonna pay for Mitch Bartnhart to be naked.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: No, seriously, you're losing if you do.

00:30:14
Speaker 3: If you play Louisville, let's say, I don't know what the number is, but you're losing like five million dollars, probably a whole lot.

00:30:21
Speaker 2: Where are you making it up?

00:30:24
Speaker 4: Hopefully you make it up in your home game. You get good crowds and make it making it up that way.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: Hopefully the budget is not hope, But what are you doing?

00:30:33
Speaker 7: We're gonna do some fundraising. We're gonna get that money back one way or another. Here's the thing. You do. Not cancel that Loibill game. That is your biggest right. Well, if you only play one game of season, you gotta play lo Bull. I'm not gonna run scary from them. We play them, Drew.

00:30:47
Speaker 5: You know me, I'm I think I might be the biggest Louisville hater that breathes, but I think it would have to go. I mean, my favorite memories are Stevie getting loose and Lamar fumbling. But just if you're outing an SEC game and all you other stuff going on. I know we don't love those cupcake opponents, but you got to have a couple of them for home games and to give you, guys somewhat of a game that's not as emotional. So I think I would have to cut ties with it.

00:31:10
Speaker 3: Let me ask you all again, put yourself in the shoes of Mitch Barnhardt.

00:31:14
Speaker 2: Obviously we would all like to see us play Louisville.

00:31:17
Speaker 3: But if you had to make that decision, how many of you are going to continue playing Louisville like Ryan and Shannon, how many of you are canceling the game?

00:31:26
Speaker 2: So it's about sixty forty play. I think this is gonna be a tough decision.

00:31:31
Speaker 3: I will say Ryan, if they adopt him, they're gonna do it in the next couple weeks.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: They'll either do it or not.

00:31:36
Speaker 3: If they adopt this nine game schedule plus a game against the Big Ten.

00:31:40
Speaker 2: I don't The Louisville.

00:31:42
Speaker 3: Game's going away, I think, and that will be that will stink, at least for me.

00:31:48
Speaker 2: But I think it's it's almost inevitable.

00:31:50
Speaker 4: Because we feel that in our heart we want to play Louisville. Mitch Burnarch is looking at it the business side of it. He knows the advantage of playing those two home games. That's what's gonna happen. They go to nine games, We're gonna lose the Louisville game.

00:32:02
Speaker 2: I did hear Nick Saban say Drew though that he thinks if you do the schedule like this, where the conference play is the only thing that decides who goes to the playoff, He said at that point he thinks if he was a coach at Alabama, he'd only want to play good teams cause it doesn't hurt you.

00:32:19
Speaker 3: And he was like, why not play exciting games? He was like, I'd only want to play good teams. So, I mean there might be some teams that actually would continue a game like Louisville.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: I don't think Mitch is one of them.

00:32:29
Speaker 6: Though.

00:32:29
Speaker 5: Well, that format they're talking about where the postseason is only your conference games the matter then I could be talked into keeping it, but as it is now. And I even thought this before the Big ten stuff, just going to nine alone, I thought they're gonna part ways with it. And then anytime Stoops has been asked about it, on the rare occasion Mitch Barnhardt speaks, they both sound like it's not gonna last.

00:32:48
Speaker 3: Here's the thing I don't this will be something we will spend a lot more time talking about after the basketball season ends. I don't think people realize what a budget crisis Kentucky.

00:33:02
Speaker 2: Athletics is gonna be in in the next few months. Like the people that can give big money to that school, they're probably gonna be going to them on their hands and knees this next year.

00:33:13
Speaker 3: And it's not just Kentucky. This's gonna be all over the country. But I know it's the case with Kentucky. Imagine you create a budget. Kentucky was one of the very few athletic departments in the country that made money, and all of a sudden, they just say, twenty two million dollars more.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: Of expenses are coming.

00:33:28
Speaker 4: Wow.

00:33:29
Speaker 3: Plus you got to pay off this settlement, which was like another thirty million dollars before I just think I don't really know what these schools are gonna.

00:33:39
Speaker 2: Do without money coming from That's a great question. I don't know.

00:33:42
Speaker 3: I mean I think a lot. I think Louisville. I've made this prediction before, I'm gonna make it again. Louisville's gonna be the first school in the country to take private equity money in their athletic department.

00:33:53
Speaker 2: You wait and see it's coming. Louisville's gonna end up getting an investor to invest and take a percentage of the profits of U of L. That is coming.

00:34:01
Speaker 3: I don't think Kentucky'll ever do that, but I do think it's coming for Louisville because these acc schools. Now, imagine you had to do it and you were getting twenty million dollars last a year in revenue than the SEC.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: Because that's what's happening for these schools.

00:34:13
Speaker 4: If you're those schools, you're gonna have to take that. If you're Louisll you're gonna have to take that.

00:34:16
Speaker 3: That's why when I see Louisville offering all these kids huge in i OW money, I'm like, where are you getting this? Like I Lula didn't have anybody go to their games now, like, where are they getting this money?

00:34:28
Speaker 2: I don't understand.

00:34:29
Speaker 5: And the hater and me as I'm canceling the louisvill game would wave and say go buy and disappear into obscurity because you don't have a conference that matters or money.

00:34:37
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00:35:11
Speaker 2: Fountains, It's ksa welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here live at Poppies. Got everybody here.

00:35:25
Speaker 3: You at the location out here in Palomar, one next to the bar there on South Broadway, and one down on campus. One person writes, Matt, why are you so mean to the callers? I feel like you're too mean to your audience. I just bought everybody here in Margarita?

00:35:39
Speaker 2: What else? What else do they want?

00:35:41
Speaker 4: The people here love you today. They really have love Steve.

00:35:44
Speaker 2: Steve's one of my favorite callers. Steve, you know that. But we just got to get your phone to work before we go to the phones. Did trivia last night? Let me try a couple of these on you. Okay, all right?

00:35:54
Speaker 3: First of all, you hear a lot about about about spending in the government. Want I said, what are the eight things we spend the most money on in the federal government? Ryan, Let's see if you know what is the one thing we spend the most money twice as much as we spend on anything else in the federal government?

00:36:13
Speaker 2: What is it?

00:36:14
Speaker 4: The military?

00:36:15
Speaker 2: That's actually third?

00:36:16
Speaker 3: Ten years ago the military was first, but it's not even close to first.

00:36:20
Speaker 2: Now what's first?

00:36:22
Speaker 1: Uh?

00:36:24
Speaker 2: You may know, No, this is what none of us will ever get it.

00:36:29
Speaker 3: Social security. Everybody lives too long, well, no, not too long. I want everybody to live a long time, but they live a lot longer than we thought they would when we created the program.

00:36:39
Speaker 2: So social Security is first? Do we know? Can anybody else guess anything else? Defense was third? Get anything else in the top eight space program?

00:36:47
Speaker 3: Somebody say medicare medicare second, So social security is first, Medicare second. We spend nine one hundred and fifty billion dollars on care for people sixty five or older when it comes to social Security and Medicare.

00:37:02
Speaker 2: Defense is third? What else? Dik coke would be high for me, but it's not.

00:37:08
Speaker 3: Anybody know. What's fourth? What's the fourth thing? We spend the most money on? Interest on the debt?

00:37:13
Speaker 2: Well done.

00:37:14
Speaker 3: People don't realize interest on the debt and in ten years interest on the debt will be our second biggest thing we spend money on. So one thing that's there might be a little argument we should get the debt out a little bit.

00:37:26
Speaker 2: What's fifth?

00:37:28
Speaker 3: What else would we What are two other things you think of when you think of the government. Anybody who do we take care of? From the government, who do we spend money on veterans?

00:37:41
Speaker 2: Veterans is fifth? And then what's sixth.

00:37:45
Speaker 3: Medicaid, which is basically health care for poor people, And then it's a huge drop to everything else. But those are the sixth things where we spend by far the most money.

00:37:56
Speaker 6: Anybody get all those correct? Last night, a lot of people would get like of those.

00:38:00
Speaker 3: Almost nobody said interest on the debt. They just don't think of that. Who said that?

00:38:05
Speaker 6: Over here?

00:38:05
Speaker 2: Somebody? Well done?

00:38:07
Speaker 3: That's a that's are you an accountant or were you at trivia last night? All right, let me do some ages. I always like to do ages. Good you get you get it correct? If you're two years young or two years old, so you have a four year range.

00:38:19
Speaker 2: How old is Elon musk forty two?

00:38:24
Speaker 6: I'll say forty eight.

00:38:27
Speaker 5: Forty nine.

00:38:28
Speaker 3: He acts like he's in his forties, but he's fifty three years old. Elon must How old is Kareem Kareem Kareem abdul Jabbar?

00:38:38
Speaker 4: He is uh, he is seventy he's eighty one.

00:38:44
Speaker 6: Wow, seventy eight.

00:38:45
Speaker 5: Seventy seven.

00:38:46
Speaker 3: You two would have gotten it. He is seventy seven years old. Drew gets in exactly right, Rand Paul howlds.

00:38:53
Speaker 6: Ran Paul oh Lord oh r Paul? Fifty eight he's older than that? Sixty three, I don't know.

00:39:00
Speaker 5: You gotta be kind of young to fight your neighbor. Right now, I'll go fifty four.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: Shannon's good at this, sixty two Shanon gets that when then finally I gave you Ram Paul?

00:39:09
Speaker 2: How old is RuPaul?

00:39:11
Speaker 6: Paul oh Man?

00:39:14
Speaker 5: Is that his dad? Or is that the entertainment?

00:39:16
Speaker 2: That's his brother?

00:39:16
Speaker 6: Ram Paul? I have not thought of that name.

00:39:19
Speaker 5: And RuPaul is sixty six?

00:39:21
Speaker 2: Sixty six?

00:39:22
Speaker 6: How do you think sixty nine sixty two.

00:39:25
Speaker 3: You two would have gotten? Sixty four is RuPaul? So there you go. Those are the kind of questions.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: You get it.

00:39:30
Speaker 5: You get it a lot on this this segment here, That's what we tried to do.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: Who's up next? Sarah is up next? Sarah? Go ahead, Sarah?

00:39:39
Speaker 9: Hey, guys have this Friday. So, speaking of law, I had a UK law student give me two takes last time, and I want you'all opinion on them. Okay, this one is that will never win anything with Mark Pope. False So I don't know if he's been asleep for six months or what but false? The second one is that?

00:39:56
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, what's the second one?

00:40:02
Speaker 9: Oh? Sorry, I think you said pod h the second line. Hal was still here, he would have the same record as Mark Pope has here with whatever team he you know had, so aka Arkansas team, not the record he Arkansas, but the record mars here and he doubled and tripled down on it and I don't get it.

00:40:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that both points are stupid, all right? So, so Mark Pope is going. Mark Pope will win here, I think now, I mean I don't I don't know what information anybody would have to suggest that he won't win here. Let's just take BYU. He was a four seed last year at b YU. Are they going to be a four seed this year?

00:40:40
Speaker 5: Drew b Yu?

00:40:42
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:40:42
Speaker 3: No, no, so he while the new coach may end up good, Mark Pope was better than what came back.

00:40:49
Speaker 2: But the Caliperi thing is easy.

00:40:51
Speaker 3: He has the team he would have had here there, except the team here might be worse because I don't know if we would have gotten John L.

00:40:58
Speaker 2: Davis. I don't know if we would have gotten John L.

00:41:00
Speaker 3: Davis, even though he hasn't been great a dude Thierro had already said he was going to transfer from here, and he's the best player on that Arkansas team. So that Arkansas team drew is fifteen and eleven, and yes they won the game here, but they've had a worse season. I don't know how anybody could think we'd be better off this year with Cal.

00:41:19
Speaker 5: I think it's silly to say, Pope, I don't win anything, appreciate the call. Weird to say pop on anything. But if you want to be a hater, be a hater. But I don't know how you can look at Cal's results when he has some of the players you'd have here. They had a much easier non conference schedule, by the way, much eas I think it would be significantly worse.

00:41:35
Speaker 2: And let me ask you all this.

00:41:37
Speaker 3: Let's say John cal Perry, we're the coach here right now and he was fifteen and eleven here. Do you think the vibes would be positive around this place? Do you think the crowds would be good? I mean, there's something about change that just leads people to give a little bit of the benefit of the doubt.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: He would have gotten Ryan no benefit of the doubt this year.

00:41:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, the vibe and the crowds were already going down the last his last two years. Remember how wet it was last year. He doubles down and has that again this year. It's bad.

00:42:05
Speaker 3: Imagine if we'd lost some of the games that he lost there here forget it.

00:42:12
Speaker 5: Well, they've been Duke with veterans in leadership. He would have had all those freshmen. You would have lost to du