2025-09-24- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: Hi, Welcome, good morning. It is Wednesday morning, September twenty fourth.

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Speaker 3: But we've got a lot to talk about today, kind of a newsy afternoon if we cut off the show yesterday. And of course the big story was SEC football schedule. We already knew drew our three common opponents for the next four years was South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida the next four years, they're gonna be on the schedule. But then they came out with the rest of the schedule, and there's some quirks in it. We got it. I think it gonna be fun to talk about some of the quarks in like, for example, like they're gonna play at South Carolina three in the next four years. Plane out South Carolina Saturday, Plan out South Carolina again next year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought we'd get away from some of the common ones to welcome in things like an A and M and others that we'll get to. But that was one of the early surprises keeping that going. But they are one of the one of the permanents.

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Speaker 3: But the down the flip side is Florida is playing here in Lexington three in the next four years. You got Florida at home this year, Florida at home next year.

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Speaker 4: And hopefully like this year, we can get them in November. Uh, well, we'll see how that goes. This is this upcoming game. It's first time that's happened since like the eighties. But if they're gonna give us Florida at home, I hope we can get them as cold as possible.

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Speaker 3: So what the SEC did? They came out with your your opponents over the next four years. They've not set the date to the times or anything, just your opponents. And since they're now going to the nine game schedule, one year, you're gonna have five home games. The next year you're gonna have four home games, and then five and then four. So the years that they've got four home games, that's when Louisville will be home. They have five home games, that's when the Louisville be on the road. You like that? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah. My big takeaway was just like we know that the teams in the SEC are hard, and we know we're about to play them all. Eventually. We knew this was coming, but when that came out and just visual of all those logos, it was just like, oh my god, what a gauntlet Kentucky has to go through coming up, None of it with surprises that you're gonna have Alabama and LSU and in Texas. Again, we knew that was coming, just but just seeing it handed to us some of the stuff that Kentucky's have to go through coming up was just kind of like a wow moment for me yesterday. How things have changed. It's not it's not getting those teams from the East every year anymore. It's we're playing like I don't want to get too far ahead, but onto one of the years. It's just an absolute murderers row of teams. And it was just a big wow seeing it all put together last night on that show.

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Speaker 3: Shit And it is kind of sticker shock, like Dre Drew said, when you see who you've got to play this year, like Okay, let's look at next year like, oh that doesn't get any better. It's kind of like you do have like sticker shock.

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Speaker 2: That's life in the sec You just gotta get used to it going to nine games in the SEC now and they're just looking at some of the teams you gotta play. I don't know, are they gonna keep these in order as they are on the graphic, like when we start with Florida then going so it could be in any combination. Yes, so yeah, because I was looking and going, Okay, we want we don't want Alabama LSU back to back. So there's a good chance that it won't be like that. So I think depending on how it is aligned and who you play when I mean, that could also make it either more difficult or maybe easier, depending on, uh, the the order that you play them in.

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Speaker 4: We were just so used to it for many years, and from many years of the West was a lot more dominant. I mean, we had Florida and you know, I guess Tennessee's had our number a while, but these were still a little easier. And then our our permanent was the Mississippi State. So yes, every once in a while Alabama would come to town, or every once in a while you get the LSU game, and that was fun. But now they will just give it to you all at once, like just this upcoming season hosting Bama and LSU. Yeah, two of the biggest logos in the SEC, and we've never really had that. It's never been that way before. But that's what we're gonna have to buckle up and get used to. That's why, as you called it cigaret shock yesterday, it was just kind of like, oh, yeah, this is for real. It's they're really mixing up and we're gonna get everybody.

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Speaker 3: So next year they'll have four SEC home games and Louisville'll be home, so the four SEC home games or Florida again. Got Florida this year, Florida next year Alabama, LSU, Vanderbilt and then they go on the road to South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, back to Texas, A and M and for the first time, we'll play Oklahoma at Oklahoma next year.

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Speaker 4: I think we got that. That might be our best of the bunch. Alabama, who knows, they can have a new coach, who knows, who knows what's gonna happen with Alabama next season. They're they're obviously not loving Caitlin de Bor right now. LSU would be good, but Vandy hopefully Pavia won't have another some kind of loophole where you can play a ninth season.

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Speaker 3: It was tooting the Vandy horn on the pre show today.

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Speaker 4: But they'll be probably hitting reset a little bit. And then Oklahoma they still have it quite figured out the SEC yet, even though they just got a big win. So next year, I actually don't hate it. It's the ones on down the road, and yeah, you know, we don't know what those teams will look like either, but at least we're getting in Alabama where there might be some question marks.

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Speaker 3: So they've got it set up where it's on a two year to rotation. So these schools, we're just playing Alabama, LSU, Vanderbilt at home in two years those will be the road games, and then at Missouri at Texas and m at Oklahoma in two years those will be the three home games out of that group right there. I do like how they do that, so every two years you're playing each team home and away.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the season after next we get to go to Oxford again. I complained that there was like a fourteen year drought where to go to the Grove during the years when you can really enjoy the Grove, But the SEC is now again us that'll end up being like three trips in six or seven years when you get to that. But it's the twenty twenty eighth season that kind of had a little knot in my throat when that pomps up on the screen. Where you go at Tennessee, at Alabama, at LSU, at South Carolina. There's not gonna be a harder road schedule possible than that, and not even knowing what those teams will be, but those are just four of the absolute toughest places to play, especially Alabama and LSU, and you're going to both of them.

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Speaker 3: If you're a fan, Shannon and you see that makes you throw up, like, oh my goodness. If that is just like Drew said, that's murderers row right.

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Speaker 2: There, you've got to hope that by twenty twenty eight some of these teams have just taken a big step back.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 2: We had a guy that called in on the pre show that said that Texas A and M hasn't played a football game in Kroger Field since joining the essence.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 4: Correct, that's true.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 2: So twenty twenty eight will be the first time that will happen.

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty eight, Texas A and M comes to Croger Field for the first time, and then in uh, where's the Oklahoma home game? The Oklahoma game that's also in twenty twenty eight, should say, so, Texas A and M and Oklahoma make their first appearances in Croger Field, both the same season in twenty twenty eight. I mean, you know, fans love that, you know, especially fans from opposing teams. If it's a game in October, they'll come up and go to Keenland, go to the go to the football game. I look forward to Texas A and M and Oklahoma coming in.

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Speaker 4: To be honest, I'm surprised they waited so long to get A and M here. Yeah, I don't know why I didn't just flip it. I mean, we've only been A and M once. It's crazy they've even played one time since they've been the conference. That one was a little surprising. Also, you mentioned that goallin is It's not just that the teams are hard. Those are trips you want to make, and not a lot of people can back up and go to Baton Rouge one week, then the next week hit Tuscaloosa and you know Tennessee the others involved that. I mean there's some jam pack road trips in these whereas ones we've wanted to do forever, their bucket list trips, and they're especially in twenty twenty twenty eight. They're so thrown together. It's just gonna be tough being a fan to hit them all.

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Speaker 3: So, just looking at the schedule, do you prefer the twenty six and twenty eight lineups or the twenty seven twenty nine.

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Speaker 4: I'm a one game at a time guy. I'm just looking at twenty twenty six. I like that.

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Speaker 3: I've got twenty twenty five to go through yet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that's true. One game in time, South Carolina. But just just for this exercise with the years, I like what we have next season, and we'll worry about on down the road later because you know, who knows what Alabama will be a lot of these teams are hitting reset next year, and you're getting them at home, and then of course the three regular opponents are what they are.

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Speaker 3: Shannon, what about you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess next year you're being able to host Alabama and LSU. Not that playing at home has really been to Kentucky's advantage at all, but you know, if you're looking at just the big time programs coming into Kroger Field. I like Alabama and LSU coming next year.

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Speaker 4: You know the thould be John sum Raw's Alabama coming into Lenson.

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Speaker 3: True John sum Ralls Florida or you're your You're Florida as your common an opponent. You're kind of catching them at a good time. You know, they may be a couple years before they get back on their feet again with if they make a coaching change everything. So you got Florida at home three in the next four years.

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Speaker 4: As a as a lifelong Kentucky fan, it's weird to not even really fear the Florida game anymore. But that's kind of the spot we've been in with how things have turned lately, going back to when Stoops first broke the street. I mean, Florida is still tough and the you you count all the wins you can, but we've been spoiled to have a little more in the last five or six seasons. Would have been three in the last six.

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Speaker 6: I think, yeah.

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Speaker 3: And South Carolina you're stuck with them again for the next four years, and they've kind of had your number the last couple of years. Maybe things can turn around this weekend. You catch them at the right time, but you've got to go on the road one of the toughest environments in the conference, to play at South Caro line of three in the next four years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's just that is what it is. I mean, we've been playing them forever. That's why the Florida I don't even just gloss right over that. That's I've only known playing Tennessee, Florida in South Carolina, So those are just that's nothing new to me. It's the the my eyes popped a little bit. CNLSU and Alabama listening.

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Speaker 3: To each they're listening back to back the hopefully.

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Speaker 4: Out Yeah, but at least on the graphic there was a oh okay.

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Speaker 3: And then that the year in twenty twenty eight when you got to play and on their field at Alabama, at LSU, at Tennessee, then at South Carolina all in one season.

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Speaker 4: How many of you, I mean, I don't get to go to many football games. I've been to a lot of the basketball. How many of these have you actually done? The road trips.

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Speaker 3: I've been to Florida, I've been to South Carolina, I've been to Tennessee, I've been to Alabama. I've been to Georgia. I've been to Mississippi State.

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Speaker 4: Uh so, which one of you? Which one would you try to play off that you haven't done. I got to get to Baton Rouge. Well, I wanted to. I've still not been to Oxford the last two years. We've been to Oxford. I've tried to go down there because Dane was playing and it just didn't work out. With the Frederick Douglas edule in our skates little here at KSR. If you're going to Oxford you have to get your hotel. Maybe the moment it allounds because yeah, because you ended up staying an hour and half away. If you're not.

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Speaker 3: Prepared, Shanna, what about you?

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Speaker 2: What would you do as far as what the trips?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Uh for next year. Well, we've been to Oklahoma, right, we've been there. I mean we've been in the state of Oklahoma. Yeah, necessarily not for a game, not for a game, but we've been in the state of Oklahoma. Texas A and M. I think would be fun.

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Speaker 3: You went to Texas the A and M game, didn't you. I went to Texas, Oh, the Texas game. That's right.

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Speaker 4: I've only done Naylan in Texas. I haven't done in Vandas.

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Speaker 2: I think Nayland Stadium would just be too much, like it's just too much orange, too over the top. Their fans are crazy. I don't know if I would enjoy that. Texas A and M would probably be my pick for next year.

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Speaker 3: I don't know the Kentucky fans that went to the Texas A and M game Kentucky game down there and came back just raving how awesome it was. They were treated nice. The fans were great down there, even though they won. You know, Kentucky lost the game and won it. Really I think impressed by the graciousness of everybody down there.

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Speaker 4: Oh I loved Austin. That was just last season. I'm glad we get to go back here in a couple of years. I will do that one again, for sure. That was a I've never been anything like that. That didn't eve feel like Kentucky Athletics plays the same sport as that school. And that's no offense to UK. I mean, Texas has all the money in the world. They're a big power. But that was an unbelievable game day atmosphere, and there's a lot of Kentucky fans down there too, because we had never made that trip, so we we carved out our own little spot for pre and post game.

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Speaker 3: I really feel like the Texas game here at Kroger in a couple of weeks come to be the opposite. Mean, a lot a lot of Texas fans there that weekend, and it's Keenland, and it's Keenland. They're gonna they're gonna overtake the town. A lot of that burnt orange all over the place. So that's what I expect to see. All right, So there you go. There's our opening segment talking about the SEC football schedule. Eight five nine two A too two two eight seven. We will make this Ask Anything Wednesday if you want to. We got to talk about Matt Cincinnati Reds. We've got some other fun topics I want. I can't wait to ask you this one question, though, Drew. So we'll take our break come back fall line will be open. Eight five nine two O two two eight seven. Ryan Drew and Channon this is Kentucky's Port Radio. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan Drew and Shannon here. Eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven. It's Ask Anything Wednesday. It's so so weingnsday here at Chaos Bar and Grill. I got Drew, I got this one topic on here I can't wait to talk to you about. I'm gonna go ahead and get to it.

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Speaker 4: I'm good.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say it later in the show, but I can't wait. We just went over the whole SEC football schedule for the next four years. That's not the big story in the SEC. Kentucky plays South Carolina Saturday down at South Carolina, big game. Mark Stoop doesn't like Shane Bamber, Shane Biemer doesn't like Mark Stoops. That's not the big story this weekend. Georgia plays Alabama. That's not the big story this weekend. The big story has to be Ole Miss is getting ready to play LSU, and it comes out yesterday that Lane Kiffin's daughter is dating LSU star linebacker with Weeks. If you saw the Saturday down South thing they had this summer about SEC football, he was a big star that for LSU. Lane Kiffin's remember said again, daughter is dating LSU's star linebacker and they play each other this weekend in Oxford fair Foul.

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Speaker 4: Oh uh, you know I'm a big fan of love. I love, love, and the heart wants what at once. So congratulations to the happy couple'll come be a little awkward at home. I was confused. Lane replied and said take the over was his kind of statement when that came out. I don't really know what Lane was telling us with that.

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Speaker 2: Does that he's gonna run the points up there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna run over the defense. Weeks as a captain of.

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Speaker 4: His daughter Landry, they're very close. They TikTok together, they do get get ready with me videos. Uh, they have a pretty big Lane and his daughter have a big social presence on there. I wonder if maybe also maybe she's just kind of taking once for the team here and getting get a little bit of playbook.

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Speaker 3: All you think.

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Speaker 4: So she's really leaning into the over maybe, I mean Dad's her first love. You know, maybe hey Dad, watch out for this. You know they're gonna be running this. I think there might be a little of that going on too.

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Speaker 2: Shannon, Well, we always talk about gamesmanship. I think this is gamesmanship on another level, is it not. But if you're a wit Weeks, I don't know if you want to rock the boat too much when you got Lan Kiffin you're about to play, and you know, like Druda said, I mean, he may be running the score up on these guys if ole Miss gets a lead. So I like it. Though, I like it. It's good controversy, it's good talking points for us. But I wonder, do you think Lane Kiffin knew about this relationship before this.

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Speaker 3: Week or I don't know. That's a great question.

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Speaker 2: Think that he found out along with all of us.

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Speaker 3: That's a great question. Yeah, she's secretly date dating with Weeks, the LSU linebacker behind his back, and then it comes out on game week, the week they play each other, they post the picture all snugly bugly together, and here we come. I'll go ahead.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying, if you're him, I mean, there's a lot of fish in the see and you're you're star football player at LSU. This is a big gamble a rival coach's daughter. I mean, he's he's risking at all with this one. I mean, this is if this doesn't work out, you know this, this one probably won't go away.

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Speaker 2: Well, so then LSU's got South Carolina after does Shane Beemer have a daughter? Next week?

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Speaker 3: You know, well, the that Saturday down South documentary they did on SEC football. He Weeks became a very likable character for LSU. I mean they went to him a lot. He was came across as a very likable guy. He's obviously one of the best players on their defense. But it is kind of a kind of a boss move to date the daughter of the team you're getting ready to play this week. I mean to publicly making the announcement you're dating the opposing coach's daughter.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the timing, and you know Lane trolls. It's like I said, his daughter always goofing off on the internet. I would expect Lane knew about this and the the hard lunch as the kids call it. It was very intentional being this week, and that could be I think everyone would be in on the joke. If not Lane, Uh, Lane be wildly distracted here and probably overmotivated. I'd be checking Lane's emotions getting ready for this week if he truly didn't know his daughter was dating his opponents start defensive player.

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Speaker 3: So, Shannon, who's it more emphasis on Lane Kiffen trying to prove something to LSU or wit Weeks trying to prove something to Lane Kiffin. I almost almost leaned that way.

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Speaker 2: Weeks kind of fired the first shot. So now it's on Lane Kiffin to respond, like, wait a minute, you're dating my I. I you can date I guess whoever you want, right, But I just think it's it's great that it's coming out the week of just a couple of days before these uh these two teams play each other and it comes out, So I love it. I think it's I think it's great.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Lane's not afraid of an age gap. Does we have a sister at least any relatives might need to watch out. Lane might fire back.

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Speaker 3: That's very true.

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Speaker 4: Oh Joey Freshwater or whatever his nickname used to be.

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Speaker 3: And I guarantee you he is going to try everything he can to put a lot of points on that LSU defense, just to like prove a point to the future son in law.

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Speaker 4: Possibly, not that we need another reason to watch this game, because this is gonna be an exciting game, but it does. Your eyeballs are going to look a little closer knowing what's going on behind the scenes. They're no longer behind the scenes.

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Speaker 2: Think about it like this, If let's say Wit Weeks and LSU beats LSU, and let's say that whit Weeks ends up marrying Lane Kiffin's daughter. He's gonna have this over his step dad for the rest of their life. Every Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas, family get together, family are region. He's gonna be able to hold this over Lane Kiffin's head. What is vice versa?

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Speaker 4: What does she wear to the game?

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Speaker 3: Where does she sit?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you sit with dad and the fam. You do one of those half jerseys, one of those half jerseys.

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Speaker 3: If she sits on the ole miss side with the family. But where's a wit weeky.

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Speaker 4: That you can't do that? That's that's that's too far.

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Speaker 2: Well, she's sitting in his lap in this picture. Maybe she's Week's lap on the sideline.

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Speaker 4: Who knows if she wears a whit Week's jersey, she needs to be on the LSU side. Can't be sitting in the family seats wearing the other guys jersey.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know where she If she would sit in with the family, which she says it with WIT's family.

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Speaker 4: I would assume Lane was in on this. With the way it came out this week, Well.

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Speaker 3: I liked his tweet where he said take the over because I think's par to put a lot of points in it. So my question for you guys is, have you ever dated a girl that maybe was a Louisville fan or went to a rival school or anything like that? Ever?

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Speaker 4: Oh god, no, did you date a school.

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Speaker 3: Girl in high school that went to a rival high school or another high school?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: Anyone when I was a kid that said they dated the girl in the at the rival school that were making them up. That was I was there at the other school. My boyfriend and girlfriend, they go over there. You know, we we we usually, you know, Madisonville. It's not like we're not like a big city where these schools everywhere we had, we had our county schools. So I didn't date outside uh the circle.

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 4: I could never date it to your original question. I couldn't fake it with a Louisville fan or a Tennessee fan.

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Speaker 3: But we see it all the time. People that are married to a Louisville fan. They walk holding hands and got the Kentucky shirt on with the Louisville shirt on. They're holding hands.

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Speaker 4: And that's cute. Though I couldn't do it. Mine would be at home when you want to watch the game, and I don't want that on the.

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Speaker 3: T you can't watch the game together, and we're.

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Speaker 4: Not We're not gonna have a flag. I don't want to see your your your orange or red clothes. I couldn't do it. I know people pull it off and they got their nice little house divided bumper stickers and flags out front. That's cute, But me, personally, I couldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: Shannon Drew and I both grew up in rural areas. You grew up in the big city. You grew up in Mount Washington.

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Speaker 2: Bullet East, Washington is not a big city. You're about to find that out next week. No, I didn't date anybody outside of Bullet East. All the pretty girls in Bullet County went to Bullet East. You didn't date in the Bullet Central or North Bullet All the good looking women we're at Bullet East. This is the way Bullet County is divided up.

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Speaker 3: Now. I gotta admit, the Pickens were slim at Pike Central High School in Pikey County, Indiana. So I needed a girl from a rival high school for a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Was that trouble?

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Speaker 3: Uh? It was just a little weird when we played that team and she was sitting with her classmates from her school. You know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: What about when you were on the field, Well, she's supporting you or her high school.

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Speaker 3: Her high school, That's what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, wet, you're saying, like you said, we played.

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Speaker 3: That team sheep set on the school of her high school.

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Speaker 4: What about when you all went to like a game that you weren't a part of over something? Did you did you mingle with fet side or make her come over to your side?

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Speaker 3: I mingled on that side.

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Speaker 4: Any sports that you didn't play, if you were going.

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Speaker 3: To do a football game, yeah, or and I went to her side a little bit something.

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Speaker 2: Is this the same girl that called in when we were at the speedway?

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Speaker 3: No, No, that was Carleen Carleen. That's when that's when Colleen and I are on a breaktht. Yeah this this was Shannon Davis from Washington High School.

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Speaker 4: No, we're just calling him out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah I dated a Shannon.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's not at all.

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Speaker 4: That's weird for all of us currently.

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Speaker 3: So if you have are you if you're a house divided? How do you handle Live Tennessee Kentucky fan Tennessee Louisville fan Bellerman Kentucky Wesleyan whatever it is eight five nine two O two two seven. That's the Clarks publishop phone number. You want to call and give us a board and get on board. We'll we'll get you. We do. We do have a lot of updates about Matt. Is there an update on Matt right now?

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Speaker 4: We're doing our podcast today, so I'll have more.

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Speaker 3: But all you doing it? I thought you're supposed to do it yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got pushed it today. Yep, that happened. Uh No, I'll talk to him after what happened.

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Speaker 3: What happened yesterday?

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Speaker 4: We're supposed to want it yesterday, Mario? Where are you laughing at?

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Speaker 3: It?

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Speaker 4: Got pushed back today? We're doing to today. Immediately after this, I'm doing the NFL show at noon. Logistically I don't know how that's possible, and then his podcast at one thirty.

00:22:29
Speaker 3: So you're doing two hours of KSR, one hour cover zero, one hour of his podcast, all back to back to back.

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Speaker 4: What's that face for, Mario? Yeah, Well, I'll have mad updates tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Updates tomorrow. Yeah, he still don't have a phone.

00:22:42
Speaker 4: No phone, no phone. I don't even know how he got that out to message us to us before the show today.

00:22:46
Speaker 3: Well, take our break, come back. Go to the phone line eight five nine two aight oh two two eight seven, Ryan, Drew and Shannon. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:22:53
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00:23:01
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones podcast. Listeners can't hear that where Shannon played I fell in love with the farmer's daughter. He fell in love with Lane Kiffin's daughter.

00:23:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not a song that says that.

00:23:10
Speaker 3: I told Drew during the break. I love everything about that story. If I love the fact they waited till game week delibered to come out. I love the fact she's sitting on his lap. I love the fact that Kiffin tweeted out take the over. I love everything about it. And then you said there may be a reason for all this publicity.

00:23:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's all marketing. He's got like, well the game. I think they have a documentary coming out. I mean, he and his daughter, they pop up on a TikTok all the time. This is just another Lane doing something online, is what I see. I would be shocked if that's surprised him. I would say, this is pretty choreo craft. Well, they did not to take away your your excitement in it, but this is probably he was probably well aware that this was coming.

00:23:47
Speaker 3: The fact that they did it on game week either yeah it was total on purpose or a complete setup.

00:23:52
Speaker 5: You know.

00:23:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. I felt there's like a I can't remember it's a thirty for thirty or there's some ESPN documentary on the kid coming out like tonight or tomorrow. So uh, but now the love is real though, Ryan, look at brou I know you're a big believer in love. Love is real. I just think the timing and all that is probably pretty Qorey.

00:24:08
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00:24:38
Speaker 3: Ryan Drew and Shane here Kentucky's Ports Radio. Clark's published out phone number is open eight five nine two to eight oho two two eighty seven. It's ask anything Wednesday. We got a couple of collars we want to get to Shannon. So who we got first, Gene? Jean, go ahead, Jean, yes, sir.

00:24:52
Speaker 5: We played Oklahoma at Commonwealth Stadium September the eighteenth, nineteen eighty two. Ill me dang Claver and Spurs season.

00:25:01
Speaker 3: Okay, very good. I didn't know that how to go ahead?

00:25:06
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was. It wasn't Kroger Field, you guys said Kroger Field. But we did playing that Commonwealth station and we lost.

00:25:14
Speaker 3: Well, Gene, I appreciate.

00:25:15
Speaker 5: That My wife's due date was that day and we were both there for the game.

00:25:22
Speaker 3: She was there on her due date.

00:25:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, she was, and she was the next weekend.

00:25:28
Speaker 6: Uh, she actually had the baby.

00:25:30
Speaker 5: We played either Kansas or Kansas State, and we tied that game and Jim Claburn went zero ten and one.

00:25:38
Speaker 3: I remember that season and that was the game he tied. All right, I appreciate Gene, thanks the boom call.

00:25:43
Speaker 4: All right, thank you for the fact we lost twenty nine to eight to Oklahoma. Before that, we lost twenty nine to seven to Oklahoma at Oklahoma.

00:25:52
Speaker 3: I didn't realize Oklahoma ever played here.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: He got one one point better, that's right.

00:25:55
Speaker 3: So with an LA home and home series, I guess with Oklahoma.

00:25:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty nine to seven and turn her out and made a little close for twenty nine to eight.

00:26:02
Speaker 3: I if I could have predicted, I would have predicted that Oklahoma would be in our schedule. I just felt like next season. I just felt like with Texas these first two years where we would get Oklahoma then and this new rotation coming up.

00:26:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's still like going through teams. They still didn't feel like they're in the conference from now, since we haven't really had much of a connection to them other than the oh Way buzzer beaters and basketball. We just haven't had that run in yet.

00:26:22
Speaker 3: That is true with both basketball games this year. Always beat both beat them both times on a buzzer beater, including down at the SEC Tournament, one of the best finishes and in a long time.

00:26:30
Speaker 6: And H.

00:26:30
Speaker 4: Shannon mentioned this, We've been through Norman. I know their game day atmosphere is big, but if all the ones on my bucket lists, I'm I'm still much more excited to get to Baton Rouge. I know many Kentucky fans have already been there because we've played there several times, but I haven't done that one. And at Tuscaloosa being on the schedule, we don't get that often.

00:26:46
Speaker 3: Well, the night game at LSU that Dennis Johnson was talking about yesterday when they kicked the last second field goal to win, you know, down in Death Valley at night and under the lights with a tiger being pulled around the field in his cage, that was. That was a big win for them back then.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: The one I remember is being down by fifty and Dorian Baker hitting a guy and flexing, and I was at home watching, like, just come on home, We're down fifty, Why are we flexing? At LSU? That was That was not too long ago, but I wasn't able to pull that trip off.

00:27:12
Speaker 3: There was a game at LSU that Rich rich Brooks team lost pretty bad and I started a lot of the ditch Rich and that other son of a blank?

00:27:22
Speaker 4: What did that say?

00:27:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't very good, but then they've been the kind of rallied after that. That was kind of their last loss and they kind of rallied and got hot after that.

00:27:30
Speaker 4: I remember, Yeah, but good memories playing them here in Lexington. What have we won the last two?

00:27:34
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:27:35
Speaker 4: No kidding, Yeah. I enjoy hosting him a lot more than playing there. But that is one I want to get to in twenty twenty eight.

00:27:41
Speaker 3: Eight, five, nine, two to eighty seven? Who's next? Shannon to end?

00:27:44
Speaker 6: Dan?

00:27:45
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Dan, here you guys, we'll go have a good day A long time you tell you back from the days of Sonny Collins and Art Steel and Jimmy Dan and all them boys. I'm wondering is we started having this on TV every year of the Big Blue Man, and this year seems like it's going online again. I want to know what happened there. And I also want to give a shout out to my man. I'm from Harrian County, go Mount Mam. But this year we're all behind you. Have great year, man, And thank you guys for the call.

00:28:23
Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate the phone call. Yeah, I think Trenty is gonna, I think, surprise surprise the people las year. They're gonna surprise more people this year.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: On the basketball court, Oh, he's gonna make it impossible for him to sit on the bench. You know, when they built this roster, he looked like he'd be an odd man out. But as the summer workouts went on and the few practices we've heard from so far, it's gonna be impossible. Let's put trent on On on the court. And anytime they put out a highlight video, it seems they include him hitting the corner three in it too.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: The TBT guys this summer talked about and if we asked them, you know, who are they most impressed with? The Trump Noah was one guy they all talked about.

00:28:55
Speaker 4: And Pope said that just naturally in his system what he asks of guys, there's all was a huge jump from year one to year two. I mean, that's not new unique to Pope system, but he says, especially in his the way he coaches them, that there's still a lot of you know, doing things for the first time as a freshman. That's obvious, but he said second year guys going back to you know, his Utah Valley days. He has there's several examples of guys having big jumps in that one to two gap, and he expects that of Noah Chandler this year.

00:29:23
Speaker 3: Well, that's what you. Chandler's been the guy you've said all along, you expect a big jump from him.

00:29:27
Speaker 4: Definitely. I think that think both of them. It's why the depth is so good. It's gonna be hard to guess, you know, who's really gonna get the minutes or who's gonna be standing out overall. But both of those guys as sophomores haven't really turned it on late and to hear him, and they hit some big shots in the tournament as freshman, I don't think there's any way they'll go off quietly, and as sophomores, they're gonna be in the mix.

00:29:47
Speaker 3: So we since we're talking basketball, they've kind of leaked out some clips from practice. I mean, I know, we all get excited we see the clips are just like a minute clips of highlights and stuff. But anything you're your take away, anything and that you've seen so far.

00:29:58
Speaker 4: On Monday, I mentioned that, but Malchoi Marino had a pretty filthy dunk. That's another one that just because the roster construction and him being a freshman and so many bigs, I wondered about him. I know he's a freshman, all American, but you think, is he gonna be like thirteenth? But in the clips you see it's you know, he and Garrison have been going at it. You still gotta get quaintings healthy and yellowch is just getting here. But of watching the practice clips, that stood out to me, there's been a lot of good Chandler highlights of the notes and things we hear. The most exciting is just that low any concerns people had about low you can kind of dial back to your any worries a little bit. It's looking like he's gonna be really good at running the show. Him and O Way as a one to two and whatever you put around him could be about as good as anything.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: Yeah. Jeff Goodman said that when he was on with this liked him. He said, make no mistake about it, this is Lowe's team. He's the leader, he's a floor director. They're gonna go as he goes.

00:30:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it was no secret when they got him out of the portal that they had two other guys that they were going after first it was you know, covered pretty well. You lose one to UCLA and its kind of looks like he's a third option. And then people bring up his efficiency numbers at pit and how the team stunk. So there were some people when you when you get low, you're like, oh, is this really gonna work out? But since he's been on campus, we've heard nothing but great things about him as being a leader and just a point guard and that, uh, the efficiency stuff will be a little better now that he actually has good players around him.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: Let's go back to Clark to puppy shop phone line, Shannon, who he got, Dennis? Dennis, go ahead, Dennis.

00:31:26
Speaker 8: Yeah, I want to know how.

00:31:29
Speaker 5: The sec.

00:31:31
Speaker 8: The football is such a whole beautiful job of det your schedule. For example, we got to go to South Carolina back to back years. Florida has to come here back to back years. I mean, I don't understand why why they Well, you had that.

00:31:53
Speaker 3: You know, appreciated Genie, and that is kind of a quirk in the schedule. They had already made the schedule up for the last two seasons where we kind of had the home and home with these teams not going to change they had to redo everything starting next season with the four common opponent the three common opponents for the next four years. And it's just kind of a quirk where they got Florida at home and back to back years and on the road at South Carolina and back to back years.

00:32:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm sure they did whatever they could. I mean, this is not an easy task and they just hit a hard reset. They didn't really control recent that. Yeah, they wouldn't have old miss us going on a miss next year if they considered recent we've done lately. This was a complete hard reset because we think about what Kentucky's done recently. I mean, do you know Florida, do you know Alabama? Do you know these other schedules. I mean, this is one big puzzle piece they had to put together, and they can't imagine there was a perfect solution to make it completely fair across the border, they would have done it.

00:32:44
Speaker 3: That's a good way to put it. It was a hard reset. You didn't they didn't consider what had been happening in the last two seasons. They had to complete league because they're added a nine game schedule.

00:32:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean in South Carolina, come in here. Back is that the worst thing. I mean, we play them every year. It's just this is a brand new thing. They're starting up. They couldn't have on team by team and said, oh, you went there last year, Well we can't do that again. That would have been impossible for every team in the league. I know what, Kentucky, we say, Oh we just did that. Every school probably has a couple of those. It's not every school.

00:33:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at schedule. Probably there's every school that are repeating a game from the year.

00:33:14
Speaker 4: They've been working on this quite a while. I'm gonna assume they did the best they could and probably had a lot of brains in that room.

00:33:19
Speaker 3: It's get another call, Shannon. Who we got, Aaron? Aaron? Go ahead, erin, Hey, Ryan.

00:33:25
Speaker 6: Levon, what's going on?

00:33:26
Speaker 3: How are you, Aaron?

00:33:28
Speaker 6: I'm good. I'm at work. Uh just now turned on. I've been missy all morning blowing off leave. But uh, what what do you think Our chance is going to Columbia Saturday and winning? Not my prediction. I think we go down our at least coverspre if not win.

00:33:46
Speaker 3: Well, appreciate Aaron hold that thought, because Jojo camps here in the whole second hour, We're going to talk about South Carolina. He knows a little bit about how to beat South Carolina.

00:33:56
Speaker 4: I'd say he knows a lot of bitt.

00:33:58
Speaker 3: So Jojo is here, gonna talk a lot of football the next hour, so we'll get to that question a little bit. So it's take our break. We'll come back, go back to the phone line for one more segment than JoJo's gonna join us. He's here. The over under whether he was gonna make it or not by eleven o'clock was not good. He made it. I made it early.

00:34:11
Speaker 4: Got his cat'scre on too.

00:34:12
Speaker 3: We'll take our break, come back. This is Kenteki Sports Radio. All right, Welcome back Kenteking Sports Radio. Ryan Drew and Shannon Jojo Kimp's going to join us for the whole second hour, talk a lot of UK football. We'll get to all that.

00:34:23
Speaker 4: I feel like I just did half the show. Them over here talking off there already talking about South Carolina.

00:34:29
Speaker 3: Corey Price is unbelievable.

00:34:31
Speaker 2: He is.

00:34:32
Speaker 3: He found the high school, my high school senior picture and Shannon Davis's high school senior picture at the rival high school. Oh wow, look at that.

00:34:40
Speaker 2: The thing that stands out to me is you both have the same haircut that was.

00:34:44
Speaker 4: That was the eighties.

00:34:45
Speaker 3: Man, get the hair, you fluff it back. Wavy hair, Yeah, for sure, I had all kinds of hair back then.

00:34:52
Speaker 4: It looks like she's on a swing. At first I thought she was a golf caddie, like she's holding the flag there. I didn't know what was good because she is on a swing. Good job, Corey Price, Corey Price. So all right, you just calling out high school sweethearts on on there. Several years later, Thursday.

00:35:06
Speaker 3: Last she was a naughty, naughty girl. All right, two seven, that's a phone number. Uh well, four Jojo gets here. Let's go ahead and get our red segment out of the way, because if Matt was here, we probably would have led with the Cincinnti Rids. They going into last night, they were tied for the wild card, but they were gonna actually had the edge because they owned the tie breaker against the Mets. All they did was go out and lose, and all the Mets did would win, go out and win. So right now, going into tonight, the Mets have a one game lead over the Reds in that final wild card spot with five games left. Shanding I believe is that right game?

00:35:44
Speaker 4: Is that right? Yeah?

00:35:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still think all the pressure I said this on the pre show. I feel like all the pressure is still on the Mets because the Mets have to win it out right, All the Reds have to do is just tie good and they're gonna get in. So I think it's still, uh, you know, the pressure still rides on the Mets right now.

00:36:00
Speaker 4: ESPN. I'm looking at it gives them a thirty six percent chance.

00:36:03
Speaker 3: Well, tonight's whether you're a baseball fan, I mean a Reds fan or a Pirates fan or not, Tonight's game could be awesome because Hunter Green is pitching for the Reds and Paul Skeens is pitching for the Pirate I mean this, Yeah, this is a Game seven type matchup. Your two great pitcher. Skiings is eras like somewhere around two Greens is not is just a little higher than that. These two guys have had a great season. I don't know what the over under is on runs, but I'm going the under in this game because this could be an awesome pitching duel that means a lot for the Reds.

00:36:33
Speaker 4: Do you think the Reds get it done though? With Skeens being on the other end.

00:36:37
Speaker 3: Hunter Green has been awesome, Shannon. I mean, if there's one pitcher you want going against Paul Skans, it's Hunter Green. But Cincannay's offense is just not the most potent. So I would probably bet the under and bet Pittsburgh.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we touched on this a little bit yesterday, and the schedule plays into the Reds favor the Pirates, not with Skeens. They should have gotten the one last night. That's the one you needed to get if you were going to get two out of three. This one's gonna be tough tonight. But then you've also got the Brewers coming up after the Pirates. They're already the Brewers are already in the playoffs, so you have to think they're gonna be playing you know, a lot of their backups. Sure, I still I feel like the are the the Reds have a good chance of getting in.

00:37:16
Speaker 4: So you're going under that it's a low number, and seven still going under seven, I.

00:37:21
Speaker 3: Probably still would in this game. This could be like a two to nothing type game between Skins and Hunter Green. What do you feel like, I'll be rude for the Reds. I caught a little bit of last night. You know they've been I've kind of had them back in Like many people, that was pretty disappointing. I have a lot of Reds friends. The group text was going crazy.

00:37:38
Speaker 4: I think they get it done tonight, but without any real analysis special and it's kind of.

00:37:42
Speaker 3: A secret Pittsburgh Pirate fan. Yeah, hat fan.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: I mean they're my secondary team, but the Pirates don't have a chance to make the playoffs, so I'm pulling for the Reds to get in.

00:37:55
Speaker 4: I'm just really like chaos and I want them to get in. While Matt's on a zebra's back with women and can't watch the game.

00:38:01
Speaker 3: You know, he woke up this morning and immediately went to the box score to see how they did. They sure did well.

00:38:05
Speaker 4: How he immediately went to the front desk and said, do you all have a newspaper? I need to check the red score. I think that's what he did, but it's on his mind for sure, and it's killing him that they got hot right as he left. This happened last year when he went to uh to wherever he went all over Europe and then Kentucky Baseball gets hot and goes to Omaha. This is what his baseball teams donational.

00:38:26
Speaker 3: I don't think there's that's a coincidence. The Baseball UK team went to the World Series and now the Reds have a chance go to the playoffs when he's out of the country.

00:38:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm rooting for that chaos.

00:38:34
Speaker 3: Uh, we did take Tomorrow. We are at ham Days in Lebanon. We were down there last year. We're going back this year. Uh rocated right there in downtown Lebanon.

00:38:43
Speaker 5: Uh.

00:38:44
Speaker 3: But I guess we got a little controversy going on because instead of doing a Haybale toss, we're doing a hog calling content.

00:38:50
Speaker 4: We aren't doing anything, Shannon, what's up? We got a message last night from Billy that says we're all calling the hogs. Tomorrow's in the Hogs.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: I'm playing Billy on call Hogs. Billy won the haybell Toss last year, and yeah, he's too chicken to defend that. So he called up the people in hand Days and he said, please come up create any kind of contest you can, just so I don't have to defend my little trophy that I carry in my back pocket or everywhere I go. So they decided to come up with a hog calling contest, and I'm not so sure that any of us really want to do it because it's a very Arkansas razorback thing to do.

00:39:22
Speaker 4: I make fun of Cal for calling the hall we're in. I don't know if he'll notice. We're in a bit of a rival room with Arkansas. Yeah, they even mail us their razorback nuggets here. Occasionally. I think if we go on the air and have a hog calling contest, we're just giving them. You know, you'll want you want to? Now, are you want to do an l's up contest too?

00:39:41
Speaker 2: A cat calling contest? Billy says, you can't do that. That's not politically correct to do a cat call. But I don't know, I don't.

00:39:48
Speaker 4: I say we all, uh just like forfeit and Billy becomes the two time champion of ham Days and we you know, we know how much Billy loves this moment. Oh yeah, he has the I think the trophies here now, Okay, only thing is why don't we just we let Billy call the hogs he's the two time him because we love him days. This is nothing against them, very true, but I just can't be hog calling on K s R.

00:40:11
Speaker 3: That's what we make fun of Now this the way Arkansas calls the hogs is not the way you call the hogs out on the farm. Okay, So I think that's what we're supposed to. We're supposed to be the way you call hogs out on the farm, not in Arkansas.

00:40:23
Speaker 4: All right. I just sometimes I think our self awareness needs to get a little higher. And you know, we make fun of hog calling. You know, Am I wrong?

00:40:30
Speaker 3: I may be the only guy who's actually called the hogs.

00:40:32
Speaker 4: Well, how does it go? Tell me? Because I only know their way.

00:40:35
Speaker 3: Here's how if you get your practice. Hey, if you're on a farm and you're calling the hogs, it's like this.

00:40:39
Speaker 4: So that's what Arkansas does? Am I crazy? Isn't that what Arkansas does?

00:40:46
Speaker 3: Does that pig sue?

00:40:48
Speaker 4: It's I mean, same same pig.

00:40:52
Speaker 3: Sue, That's how they did.

00:40:53
Speaker 4: It's not right, okay, but we're there's still we're still suing in both.

00:40:56
Speaker 3: You're still suing.

00:40:56
Speaker 4: Okay. I'm not to sleep on this one. I feel very uncomfortable. I would rather throw the haybells again or anything.

00:41:04
Speaker 3: Well, I put the haybell trophy in my car to make sure we get have it for Billy's humble brag. When we're down there tomorrow, he may walk by home with two trophies.

00:41:11
Speaker 4: Now I'm telling you, I'm excited to get some of the Country Ham done there though I'm still figuring out my hog calling situation that that's one of my favorite places to go. So come see is tomorrow taste.

00:41:21
Speaker 3: We'll be at Ham Days and Lebanon. Last year was raining, so we went inside the gym there and the community center the gym right there, so we'll see what the weather does whether we're gonna be inside outside. We were just down in Lebanon at the corn Read Hemp Fields down there, so we're going back.

00:41:34
Speaker 4: To the Rocker country.

00:41:35
Speaker 3: Johnny Rocker is a sponsor of the show tomorrow. You know Johnny Rocker, role player of the game has come. It's a huge hit on the KSR pregame show.

00:41:42
Speaker 4: He gave us some nice bottles of bourbon last year to Mario wears his Lebanon shirt like every other day that we got last year. So Mario is the most excited.

00:41:50
Speaker 3: So come on out and see as in Lebanon at Home Days and then Friday we're at Bywater Farm in Georgetown, So back to back remote shows this weekend Thursday and Friday. So another one we've done, like forever, love that show too, So all right, well take a break, we come back. Jojo Kipps gonna join us. We're gonna talk UK football. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. H