2024-11-12- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone on Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, November the twelfth. I'm Matt Jones. It is that kind of day that you like when you're a Kentucky fan. Probably the biggest non conference game since COVID, one of the biggest games in years.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky and Duke Day.

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Speaker 4: And you give Sean Mclark' pupping shop phone line eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven a vision Auto glass text machine seven seven two four five two five to four of this diition sponsored by the T. J. Smith Lovas you called TJ here, He'll make them pay. We are here at the KS bar and grill, and guys, this is like for fans, recent fans of this show, this is the kind of day that really built this radio show. Days where it's the day of a major basketball game, you go back. I'm sitting here thinking about since we started here. Two thousand ten, New York City, Kentucky versus Yukon John Wall two thy ten, you got Kentucky versus North Carolina right here at home.

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Speaker 5: In a massive game.

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Speaker 4: Two thy ten, Kentucky versus Louisville, Patino versus cal for the first time when DeMarcus Knox Jared schwapsire right in the head. Twenty twelve Champions Classic Kentucky versus Kansas, when Anthony Davis announces to the world, I'm the best player in college basketball. Twenty twelve right here in Ruperena, when North Carolina comes to town. One versus two in rupp Aerna leads to the famous block shot. Twenty fourteen Champions Classic, a team people thought could go forty and oh playing against Michigan State. We lost that game, but we'll act like we didn't. With the Harrison Twins that was in Chicago twenty fifteen in New York City, Kentucky the team that did almost go forty to oh blows Kansas off the map twenty fifteen Chicago, Illinois, Kentucky and UCLA where we hold them to like six points the entire game. I'm sitting here going back. I gotta go back now. That's a decade for the games that I think Kentucky fans are as amped up as they are for this one tonight in Atlanta, Kentucky and Duke Ryan lem and I couldn't be more excited.

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Speaker 5: This is, without question, for.

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Speaker 4: A pre January basketball game, the biggest game since we all shut down for COVID in the spring of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's because they're so excited about what's happening now with our program.

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Speaker 4: You think, yeah, I mean it's exciting. Yes, are you what I'm just saying, like, do you feel that energy as well? Yes?

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Speaker 2: I definitely feel that energy as it does everybody else do.

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Speaker 4: It's a program.

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Speaker 2: We saw it for buck Nell for crying out loud on Saturday. The place was packed in full for buck Nell. Everybody's excited about what this programming team's gonna do this year.

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Speaker 5: I they also think Drew.

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Speaker 4: It's Duke. It's the fact that it's Duke. There's something about playing duke. We've only beaten them twice in thirty years. Twice in thirty years. It's kind of an amazing statistic. One of those years we won a national championship as well. I think playing Duke Krzyzewski may not be there, but it still has that sort of appeal. They have three guys projected in this morning's top eight in the NBA Draft on that team. You can't help but be excited.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm absolutely excited. I thought you were gonna run through a wall there when we started the show, But I thought that same thing. I mean, I've been looking forward to this game for I mean, like everyone else months. Really. Yeah, in the past, I'm not saying it was a drag coming into these, but the Champions Classic, I got to where I was dreading these. I mean, they tossed four in a row. It was always a usually the first loss in the season. But I've had this game on my mind since the summer. It's been living in my brain and it's finally right here in front of us, and I'm feeling really good about where Kentucky stands in it's.

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Speaker 4: One in six in our last seven Champions Classics.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully that goes away today.

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Speaker 4: So all right, if you are a long time listener of the show going way back, you'll remember that there was a time that, you know, through donations or sponsors, we were able to do fun things on the Champions class Well.

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Speaker 5: That kind of went away.

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Speaker 4: But then this morning I got a message from someone on the text machine said, I have four lower arena tickets to the Champions Classic.

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Speaker 5: I can't go. I'd rather give them away than sell.

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Speaker 4: How nice is that? How nice is that? Because they probably it's a woman, Yeah, a woman said it. And how about the I mean, like probably could have gotten good money for as.

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Speaker 5: Well, you would think. So I thought, okay, how will I do it?

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Speaker 4: Well, one, I'll give away a cuple on the show, Shannon phone lines are closed because we're not gonna let anybody cheat to do it. We will give those away at about ten thirty. But then I thought, you know, there's something magical about being a student in these moments, right, But like being in a student when you can just it's a one time in your life you can just drop everything and just go. So I put on social media. If you're a UK student, first person to get to the bar, I'll give you two tickets. And then you know, it costs money, Drew, to drive to Atlanta. You gotta get food, gas. The trump of inflation has already started. I'm just kiddnapped, du That was a joke. He's not even president. But no, I mean it costs money to get all the way down there. So I thought, you know what, uncle Matt, I'll throw in a couple hundred.

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Speaker 5: Bucks for gas and food.

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Speaker 3: Right, of course, help people get there.

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Speaker 4: So whoever the first ones to get here, they get to go. If you're a student, all of you all, I'm sorry you already lost. The tickets have already been one. Unfortunately, these two guys got here in ten minutes. Now I want you to come up here and hear their story. Come up here just a second. This is I love this story. So these two dudes both go to UK, Shannon. They both got here, let's say seven or eight minutes after I sent out the tweet. Okay, they got here at almost exactly the same time.

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Speaker 5: What is your name? You got to turn his mic up there?

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Speaker 3: You go.

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Speaker 5: What's your name?

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Speaker 4: Say it again? Connor?

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Speaker 5: Connor. Okay, Connor was the first one here.

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Speaker 4: But for reasons I don't understand, Connor didn't get out of his truck. I don't know if he thought people were gonna come to him. He thought this was sonic and I was gonna show up on roller skates and hand him and hand him his tickets, so he didn't come in first. You, however, came in. What's your sir?

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Speaker 3: I'm Brad Brady.

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Speaker 5: So I was ready to give.

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Speaker 4: The tickets to Brady, but then Connor came in, and Connor said, well I was outside. I felt bad for Connor, but Drew, I was just gonna have to say, Connor, sorry for graduation. That's what I was gonna say. But let me tell you what Brady then said. Brady and Connor talked. They both realized Ryan that they didn't hadn't asked anyone yet. Yes, and Brady and Connor said, well, why don't we just go together? Brady and Connor don't even know each other, and they're gonna get in the car Ryan and drive to Atlanta to the game together.

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Speaker 2: Dude, that's Big Blue Nation right there. They're so excited about the game. They know your brother's excited about the game. Let's just go together and enjoy it together.

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Speaker 5: So Brady, you're a senior, sir, Where are you from?

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Speaker 4: I'm from Louisville. Louisville. Where'd you go to high school?

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Speaker 3: Trinity?

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Speaker 5: Trinity Connor?

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Speaker 4: Where are you from?

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Speaker 3: Where'd you go to high school?

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Speaker 5: All right, so we got two.

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Speaker 4: Private schools, Trinity and Little Trinity LCA. These are yes on Amendment two kids right here, I'm kidding. I'm kidding with LCA. Max is a coach at LCA. Now you got Trinity. Okay, so you guys are gonna go down there. Now, I've I've given you the tickets, I've given you the cash. My only rule is you're gonna document some of your trip. Will you do that for me? Yes?

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Speaker 5: What are your majors?

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Speaker 3: Hospitality, management, tourism.

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is the kind of thing you have to do. You're gonna have to You're gonna have to set up trips. What about you?

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Speaker 3: Management and finance.

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Speaker 4: Everybody's managing things every now. Okay, you're gonna send me and Mario your videos. Have you been do you have you been to a road UK game? Before.

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Speaker 3: I've been to road basketball games before all over the place. I've been to some NBA games on the road.

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Speaker 4: I've been to the Kentucky Ones.

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Speaker 5: Have you been to Kentucky Ones?

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Speaker 3: I don't think I have it.

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Speaker 4: You have not, have you?

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Speaker 3: I went to the Champions Classic when I'm not sure what year was, but Duke had Zion r J.

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Speaker 4: That was that was that? That one wasn't good. They don't notice I didn't bring that one up during the That was rough. All right. So you guys are gonna be our good luck charm, I hope.

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Speaker 5: So now if we if we.

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Speaker 4: Win the game, I'm gonna give you all, I'm gonna give them some incentive, okay, uh to to cheer herd. If we win that two hundred dollars, it's probably gonna cost more than that. I'll give you two hundred dollars when you come back, Okay. If we lose the rest of it's out of your pocket. All right. So this is like a it's like a bet uh connor where you don't know where, you don't know anything.

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Speaker 3: I like it, all right.

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Speaker 4: Now, what are you all going to talk about on the way to Atlanta? You don't know each.

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Speaker 3: Other, probably getting to know each other.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair.

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Speaker 3: Then you figure out the last name and figure out where we go from there.

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Speaker 4: Like, what can you say your last names? Harrison, Harrison, Brady one A.

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Speaker 3: W I N E but pronounced like one A.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's like wine. But I didn't know we had someone fancy here, Brady one, go there and get this win A. Well, hope we get the one A. Hope you guys have a great time. Leave one of you, leave your email with UH, with Mario and UH we will call in the post game show. I assume you'll be coming back, call the post game show and let us know how it went.

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Speaker 5: All right, have a good time.

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Speaker 4: That's all. I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love the fact that these guys came in there and with no intention, woke up with no intention of going to the game.

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Speaker 4: Now they're going, I'm sorry for you. I am. I'm sorry you don't get to you didn't get it. But you know what, it's next time. The next time, you'll make it work. We ended up having probably another five or six students.

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Speaker 5: Yes, UH, try to.

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Speaker 4: Come in Ryan, but these were the first two and now big Blue Friendship hopefully develops with with one A and KHN.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, before we went on, I asked him, do you guys know what time you're leaving yet? They're like, no, we haven't got that, we haven't got that far yet.

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Speaker 4: Well, they're just mad, So it would have been hard to make plans.

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Speaker 3: This is something I feel like I would do. And honestly, if we didn't have our KST Bar party tonight, I'd ask if I could just hop in the back seat and going out of tickets experience.

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Speaker 4: If I hadn't just sent him to Owen County, I was putting Mario in the car too and just telling him to But but you know he's he's he had to drive a lot last week, so I'll give him tonight. I love this.

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Speaker 3: It'll be the time of their lives, winter lose, and hopefully it's a win and win a for them. I mean, give me my car with a random person and driving to Atlanta. That'll be an experience the Old River forever.

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Speaker 4: You got lc A, you got Trinity, you got all this, like uh well, but if you got Protestants, you got Gentile, you got to got Catholics, you got them all together. Nobody talking religion till they get to least probably a lot of the time right in solving world conflicts. I think it'd be good.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you like to have this opportunity when you were a senior in college and somebody come along.

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Speaker 4: This is Jersey exactly. This is the kind of thing I would have done their seniors. Class, doesn't matter, doesn't like who who at all? Class when your senior year, perfect time connor have a good time, guys. I'll see you. I'll send you tickets in the next few minutes. Okay, look at these eager guys. They're so happy.

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Speaker 3: They don't know who's driving, who's paying for gas, They don't have each other's phone.

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Speaker 4: I handed them meet one hundred dollars, so they at least want to split the gas.

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Speaker 2: They are gonna have a great time. This will be one of the times of their college career. Remember that, Remember that time that Matt Jones gave us tickets on the spur of the moment we drove down to Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: Watch Kentucky be sorry for this guy because he was. He didn't get him, and he has just a sad look on his face here and it's like it happens though, you know what contests everybody can't win. Contest ed mcmahond can come to everybody's house with the big check.

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Speaker 5: Shannon he had. He can only pick one.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna sit here there and watch the guy. Our winners got up and left it.

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Speaker 2: We gotta go pack, We gotta get ready to get out of here.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we don't have a third ticket, but you should just hop in with them if you'll find one when you get down there.

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Speaker 4: Scalp have all kinds of random people go so there. So we did that.

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Speaker 5: We'll give some other tickets as well.

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Speaker 4: Now for Duke Kentucky, I've done something I'm gonna talk about probably in the second hour. I've ranked the ten all time most annoying Duke White guys. That's it's a long list. You can have a very you got more than ten. As I was making the list, I realized it could be twenty deep. Cutting it to ten was kind of hard. But but Drew, I have that in preparation for time.

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Speaker 3: You could have all first team, second team thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen for a hateable Duke White guys.

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Speaker 4: But I will tell you where you begin. You can do it by decade. This group today they're good. Yeah, three of the top eight picks in the draft. I mean, Cooper flag is gonna get all the attention, and he should. He's a great talent, probably the best talent to come into college basketball since sign But the other guys can play too. I mean the other guy's what's the one kid's name, I can never pas Proctor's the point guard, but the.

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Speaker 5: The thele Canipple.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, that kid has had that kid has had an awesome start to his career.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's kind of getting some Reid comparisons and how he was four star prospect. He eventually got top twenty ish I think. But I mean he's just a do it all player. He's hitting all his threes, uh well, shooting like fifty percent, which is still very good. I think he's seven for fourteen through two games. He can go in and rebound. He's just a really complete player for a true freshman that you know, Cooper Flagg's getting all the attention, but he and a couple others are in that from.

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Speaker 4: That point guard is not one of the first rounders. He's not no common uh Mayok is the center and he has projected to go eighth in the draft, so I mean, you're looking at it.

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Speaker 5: This is the kind of team the Cal used to have.

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Speaker 4: All this talent, all this projection, you don't know who's gonna be good, and then you have our guys six and a half point underdog. I watched a video where Mark Pope today said we're playing to win, and every possession tonight is about winning the game tonight. Can't gotta love it. I'm excited. I haven't been this me personally, haven't been this amped up for forget.

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Speaker 5: About a non conference game.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to think the last time I've been this amped up for a regular season.

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Speaker 3: I agree, and not to dump on how it's been lately, but I'm about to I'm ready to be the team that's prepared in this year. I mean last year, what was Kentucky up fourteen on Kansas in the second half and we just watched them slowly freshman and away and then had to hear about how their freshman the year before they had they were about to go up three with ten seconds ago in Michigan State and somehow losing double overtime. I'm ready to be the team with the experience that's not gonna have these mistakes and being told, well, they'll eventually get better. They might not win, but they're at least gonna be in it. I agree because of the preparation that we haven't had for so many years.

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Speaker 4: Hey, if I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, the text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Good luck to Brady and uh and Connor. I love this and we will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Anywhere else, welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. If I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. People seem to really like these two guys who are decided to go. One person wrote in and said, Matt, I know Brady win A Is that right, Brady Wine since he was in high school. He's from a good family, and they're gonna have a great time. And another person says, I know Connor from right here in Lexington. Dude's the nicest guy ever. So it seems like we gave it to two nice people.

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Speaker 2: They did seem like they're two good dudes. Yeah, don't know each other, yeah, but they'll get to know each other, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, by the end of it. They'll be uh, they'll be celebrating. It'll be very exciting, Shannon. Just for the record, if you look at the text machine, a lot of people get offended really easily about my joke. It was a funny job. Oh yeah, the Trump joke again again, you would think they were making fun of people. So it's a joke, and it's funny that all the people don't, oh your face, don't get offended, snowflakes, Why are you getting a fit? It's funny.

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Speaker 3: That woman from yesterday though, his wife, the guy that called in, she doesn't like those jokes. Oh yeah, trying to fix your relationship with her.

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Speaker 5: If she doesn't.

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Speaker 4: And if you don't like then you're probably not gonna like the show. I mean, think about how much hard a time I give Ryan, and Ryan is my friend. Okay, Like that's just gonna be, uh, you know, it's just gonna be how it is. If I'm nine to eight, two eighty seven. Now, Stoops made a comment yesterday that I want to talk about as well, So I'm gonna save that for the second hour because I you know, I want to do the basketball part of this as well. So let's go ahead. Should I do my ten most annoying White guys right now.

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Speaker 2: It's the most the thing I'm the most excited about this show today, Right, So I.

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Speaker 4: Went through Duke history and again for some of our younger fans, you, I think Zion changed the perception of Duke a little bit over the years, but Duke was when for thirty five years, maybe forty years, Duke has kind of been to me, the great program that produces the most annoying players.

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Speaker 5: Would you agree with that?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we think about them slapping the floor and just being annoying little pists just just playing basketball. They are, They're always doing too much.

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Speaker 4: And often they're really good, Okay, So I mean, I think it's very important to say if they didn't play, we wouldn't know who they were, right and if they were terrible, it wouldn't it wouldn't matter. So part of what makes up my list of the ten most annoying Duke White guys is they had to be pretty good to be on the list, not all of them, but most of them. So here we go, coming in at number ten in honor of the fact that he will be there tonight. John Shire, you may remember, you may know him as the coach now, But John Shire was a whiny player who always had a face that was like that was him as a player. Now, I think he's gonna be a pretty good coach. But John Shire had a lot of annoyance too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a captain of a very hateable duke team, I believe the national championship team.

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Speaker 4: So that Wannie face we had to see a lot of when he was a duke player. Number nine, and this is personal to me. Cherokee Parks, Oh, Cherokee Parks. They said was gonna be the next Lightner. He wore goggles and I didn't like it because I was in high school and I wore goggles. He had the same bowl haircut I did, and other teams fans would chant Cherokee at me, and I did not enjoy it. Cherokee Parks is number nine. I've still glad he's on the list because he kind of got lost.

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Speaker 2: He was in the Latner shadow, but he was annoyed or used to wear a headman even once in a while.

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Speaker 4: His sister is the lead singer of a of like a punk band that whose name I can't say on the air, Shannon, you should look that up.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of who that is.

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Speaker 4: It has a bird for anatomy that I can't say on the air in it, but his sister was a lead singer Pump.

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Speaker 3: Number one say, I hate to do this. Young Matt Jones had some Cherokee Parker.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to hear you say that. That's not very nice.

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Speaker 4: That's what he's gone. But you are honestly right. Number eight a collective group, A collective you know, threesome of Plumbleys. There are a lot of Plumbleys. I think there are still Plumlee's coming out today. Duke, for one period seemed to have ten to twelve plumb Leys on the team at any given time, and Drew I hate it all.

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Speaker 3: Somewhere in Indiana there's a Plumbley farm where they just keep making them and sending them to Duke.

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Speaker 4: Number seven. A lot of you wouldn't have him on the list, but you should. Matt Christiansen, do you remember Matt Christiansen? Always wanted to fight, always was always was whining. When Duke lost to Indiana here in Reparina, he got a big technical foul that swung the game. A lot of Duke fans don't like him because of that.

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Speaker 5: Matt Christiansen.

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Speaker 4: He is a Mormon, normally I would like that about him, but was not a Matt Christiansen.

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Speaker 3: Another one of those annoying guys that was easy to hate. If you're watching to do.

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Speaker 4: Again, it's notty think of him. He was a snotty guy. Number six Chris Collins. He was the first little guard duke guy that wasn't any good, that got way over praised. He couldn't guard Drew, yet people would always say, oh, Chris Collins, he's so tough. He's so tough. He's now a college coach at Northwestern, But I remember when he was an annoying basketball.

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Speaker 3: You're right again, I would give Chris Collins buckets today.

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Speaker 4: Yes. Number five Bobby Hurley, Yes, he was great, But again, you think of him now as a coach. I think of him as the guy that always looked like he was smelling the fart, throwing lobs to Grant Hill and Christian Laightner and was of course part of the Big ninety two.

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Speaker 2: He absolutely has to be on this list, and he deserves to be in the top five.

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Speaker 4: Number four also, now you think of him as a Lakers genius. But JJ Reddick was the worst. And he was the worst because he was also really good. Every time it looked like Duke was gonna lose, Reddick would come off a screen, push his guy off, shoot a three, and then get called for a and one.

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Speaker 3: No, he was the one that fouled the guy. Yeah, Reddick, I don't want to say. I mean he kind of had the jerk in him too. There's some he'd go out and play beer pong all night and then just come and hit a bunch of threes in your face. But he's had a bit of a rebranding, he is.

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Speaker 4: But at Duke he was the worst. Now he's smart and kind of funny, but then he was the worst. Number three nobody I hate per square inch more than Wojo. Wojo was awful. First of all, he would wrap people up, and he wrapped mcglore up in a choke hold, and then Billy Packer complained that mcglure was hurting him. He won National Defensive Player of the Year and he wasn't even a good defender. He was everyone exploiting him, and somehow he won National Defensive.

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Speaker 5: Player of the Year.

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Speaker 4: If you were to look up the phrase which gets overused white privilege. It would have a picture of Wojo in it.

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Speaker 5: He was the most overrated player.

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Speaker 3: Duke's all time leader in floor slaps. He did it the most No.

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Speaker 4: Number two, No dirtier player in the history of college basketball than Grey. Nobody ever played dirtier. Was found a way to trip, whine and scream. There is no one that I can remember in college basketball who should have been kicked out of more games that was not than Grayson Allen. You still do it. He should actually be.

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Speaker 3: A prison he should not be allowed to play basketball.

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Speaker 4: And then finally number one, obviously we could name the award for him. Christian Layner one of the best players in the history of college basketball. I grant you had one of the best games in the history of college basketball against US, I granted, But he stepped on a menu Timberlake, and more importantly, he ruined my childhood. The nineteen ninety two team was the team I embraced more than any team in the history of Kentucky basketball. Four dudes from that were seniors, three of them from Eastern Kentucky, and that little punk decided to step on a player and then make the shot that made me cry. Christian later number one, hatable white dude.

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Speaker 3: Number one, watable opponent period.

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Speaker 4: Here are number one. We hate this game and I didn't even put in your Philipowski's right.

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Speaker 5: There are others, but those are the top ten.

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Speaker 4: When we come back, we'll give somebody else tickets to tonight in Atlanta Scasar TJ.

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Speaker 3: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

00:23:16
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: I am excited. I am an excitable boy today.

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Speaker 5: Shannon's right.

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Speaker 4: I just this is like energy that I just haven't had. And I've had it for football in the last few years, you know, had it for various games, you know, but in terms of a pregame energy and excitement, you know, I get it for the March games. You can't help it. You can't help but get excited. But for you know, I don't know, it been a while. I've kind of been used to losing these games in November and December, this one especially.

00:23:47
Speaker 3: It's been really bad in the Champions Classic, and it's been really bad in the Duke Series. I wrote last night, Popes changed everything. Can you just please change this night for us too.

00:23:56
Speaker 4: We haven't beaten anybody besides Michigan State in the Champion's Classic since twenty fifteen, and.

00:24:02
Speaker 3: That took a historic Tyres Maxie break out performance in the garden.

00:24:06
Speaker 4: And we are here.

00:24:07
Speaker 2: We hear excuses. Well, you know, we haven't we have worked against the defense. We haven't put our defense in. We haven't worked against his own you know. I mean all this like we're built for March. You know, these are young kids, Pope. No, he understands we want to win, and he wants to win this game tonight.

00:24:20
Speaker 4: Yeah a five nine two eight to oho. Uh, twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four. By the way, tonight the women's team plays at six. Uh. The men that'll start nine to fifteen, nine thirty. We're gonna hear be here at ks Bar because it's cold. We have the patio shutoff so it's not even more you know, kind of limited seeding. We're all gonna be here. We also have country Boy for all basketball games this year. They've just started this the Big Blue Cup Special. Nice you get this cup? It says country Boy on it has our state flag on it like that, and it's twelve dollars for the first poor and then ten dollars refills and you keep the cup. It's a good So that will be during every game day it starts tonight for this one. I expect a good crowd here tonight. Even if it's just me, I'm gonna be screaming like that, right, so at least have us. I also going to do the rapid reaction live from here, so uh, there might even be I've been I've been contacted about potentially somebody from a national UH network sending a camera here to uh to show the crowd during the game. I don't know that that's gonna happen. They're still deciding.

00:25:29
Speaker 2: But big road environments, this place is awesome to be at, especially Tuesday nights.

00:25:34
Speaker 4: Sometimes you know it's a little it's a little different. But I don't think it's gonna be like that, not tonight. I think tonight people are excited, all right. So here's what I want to do with giving away the tickets. We've done this to where I decide who gets it. We've done it this where Ryan decides who gets it. Ryan always ends up picking the ones with the heart String store. Right then we did it, the one where Shannon picks it. Shannon is usually the biggest journy about it, right, I can't pick the one that's that's sort of the biggest jerk. But we really have never learned how Drew.

00:26:06
Speaker 5: Would pick, would would would pick winners?

00:26:08
Speaker 4: Okay, that's never really like Drew has never had to himself select. We don't know. Is Drew is as hard as big as Ryan's. Does he like storylines like me? Is he just a jerk? Like shit?

00:26:23
Speaker 3: Do people have said when they met Drew he was not very nice?

00:26:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are a lot of people that say Drew's the biggest jerk of the group, that he's sort of a sneaky jerk, that you don't think he's a jerk, closet jerk, but then he's a jerk. So I'm gonna let Drew pick tonight. Now here's the thing. I have two tickets. You can be anywhere, but you have to go. You cannot sell them. The person that gave these away promised me they wouldn't sell them. I know those two kids that came, I know they won't sell them. So I'm asking just a promise from you. That you will go eight five twenty two eighty seven. You give us why we should pick you. Drew will get to decide, and Drew can use any criteria once because it's the Drew Franklin Champions Classic suggestion. Do you are you excited about this? Very excited, And I'm in a great mood. You know, I'm not gonna reveal my criteria or give any hints. I don't want to sway what people will say. We'll say I probably won't take the Shannon approach and make a kid craft can eliminate that one.

00:27:17
Speaker 5: I won't do.

00:27:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, excuse me, was it, Billy? Yeah, I was thinking of the wrestling tickets though. Regardless, I'm not gonna reveal too much. But I'm excited to have this honor in this responsibility.

00:27:26
Speaker 5: So go ahead, give it call eight.

00:27:28
Speaker 4: I'm nine to eight. These are good seats. These are lower arena seats. And by the way, you can't you can also get to go to the Michigan State Kansas game as well, So you go ahead and get on the line. We'll we'll we'll do the calls in the next segment. Let's actually talk basketball here for a second. About the game Drew Uh. If you're looking at Duke's advantages, they have size early on this year, they've played pretty good defense. They struggle a little bit scoring in their first game, but you know, I don't have there. It's not a huge, huge deal. Early all talent in the world, very young. A lot of the thing in many ways. Think about how you thought about this game the last five years, and then reverse it because now we are what a lot of these other teams have been against us. What do you think are the matchups you're most excited about. What are you most worried about?

00:28:17
Speaker 3: Well, like everyone, the big matchup and the biggest worry is Cooper Flagg. He's not overhyped. He's the real deal. He can do everything. He'll go get a rebound and next thing you know, he's gone the other way for a dunk. He can pass, he can shoot, he can probably guard one through five. I mean really, what he does might determine the game. And in a great world, he get in foul trouble and he'd sit on the bench a lot. That might be part of the game plan. But he's he's such a good player that's gonna be a hard, hard thing to pull off. Really, it's gonna be a collective effort in guarding him too.

00:28:44
Speaker 4: I mean a Mario Woollis.

00:28:45
Speaker 5: Starts because they're gonna start in the center.

00:28:50
Speaker 4: So I don't think it's gonna be I mean, if you're just looking at position, it should be Andrew Carr. Yeah, but I don't know that they're gonna want to put him on.

00:28:58
Speaker 3: Here, yeah, because they're center. Now you watch howvery pronounce it. I mean, he played in the Olympics. I mean you can't just forget about him and move a Mara Williams and just leave him alone. You got can nipple on the wing.

00:29:08
Speaker 4: It.

00:29:09
Speaker 3: Cars should be the guy, but Carr might also be the biggest liability in that matchup he's getting So what.

00:29:15
Speaker 5: Would you do?

00:29:15
Speaker 4: Would you put Car? I mean, I think they'll play start on Car. Car is gonna get opportunities. Hopefully it's going well. Have concerns there. I mean, it's like I said, it's gonna be a group. Everyone's probably gonna get a shot at it. But there's so many other pieces.

00:29:26
Speaker 3: They have four guys in the first round conversation, three in the lottery, so it's not just flag. But he's the one that can really.

00:29:33
Speaker 4: Do you think if they needed to, they could switch a butler and away give up size.

00:29:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the way he played, I mean he steps out plays on the wing a little bit. But he really is just a freak of nature that they have and that's why you know they're consensus number one projected pick and all of mock drafts people call him a generational player. I mean he is all of that.

00:29:52
Speaker 4: By the way.

00:29:52
Speaker 3: Luckily though it's early in his career, and as we're saying, maybe this is where experience and preparation you can get in the.

00:29:59
Speaker 4: Draft that my the new mock draft came out. Actually, Jackson Robinson was not in it. Kobe Brea was. Kobe Brea picked in the was in the second round of the newest ESPN mocraph.

00:30:10
Speaker 3: The thing is, they have to guard this motion offense, and they're a bunch of freshmen playing defense.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: Ryan, what do you think? I'm with Drew.

00:30:16
Speaker 2: I think, you know, Car's probably the guy they should do it, but he is a liability. I honestly think our best matchup guy is Brandon Garrison, though he's not gonna start, but he may be the guy that may be athletic enough to guard he is.

00:30:29
Speaker 4: But then I don't know who you put on the center, that's the problem. But the center probably won't play the whole game. I think he's but yeah, I mean, I actually if you if they didn't have the center, what's the name again, the common Malia, he didn't have him, I think you would even put a Mari Williams on. Problem is they play that center now on offense, we can take advantage of that. I think our guards. I think our guards are better than their guards. I think I think they definitely have an advantage at the Wii and Dan Low, but I think our guards have an advantage. Ryan. I think you shoot forty threes if you're Kentucky tonight, I mean, I think you win this game.

00:31:10
Speaker 5: You, in my opinion, you take.

00:31:11
Speaker 4: Thirty five to forty threes, hope to hit seven, you know, sixteen to eighteen, sixteen to twenty, and that's the way you try to win and get.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's the way they want to play. You know, they didn't initially have to do that against Wright State. You know, they were getting those open line drives of the basket we saw more against Bucknell than what this team really I think is built towards the offense, how it's built, and I think that's what we'll see tonight.

00:31:32
Speaker 4: Thirty five forty threes could be the normal for every game. Forty five, thirty five four, okay, thirty five to four. I mean they I we've got to score a lot. What's the amount of points you think we have to get to win?

00:31:46
Speaker 6: Well?

00:31:46
Speaker 3: Our friends of DraftKings have it at seventy seven and a half, and I love the over on that, even win or lose. I think Kentucky's gonna score a lot. I think you can get near ninety, even get in the nineties. You're feeling pretty good. That's when Duke starting. I think it's three freshmen, a sophomore in a junior, whereas Kentucky has. You know, I've really got six fifth year seniors and a senior and a junior that'll be playing a lot. I just hope offensively, Kentucky's getting all these good looks and they're making them because I think Duke is gonna be confused defensively too. Kentucky don't have a Cooper flag they worry about, but just the motion in the offense and the constantly moving that's gonna be an issue for Duke.

00:32:19
Speaker 4: In his young career, John Shire has shown to be a good offensive coach, but his teams have struggled defensively. I mean they really have. His teams have struggled defensively. I think, you know, Mike Krzyzewski was one of the great defensive coaches of all time. That hasn't been the case with Shier yet, although they have had in a modern offense. So I think this game could be like ninety two eighty eight kind of thing. I mean, I think it has a chance to be that kind of game. Hey, Everyboddy, our friends at Red State Barbecue are ready to talk Turkey.

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00:33:29
Speaker 5: That's next Oks, welcome back.

00:33:33
Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio A five nine two twenty two eighty seven.

00:33:38
Speaker 5: We got folks here from Louisville.

00:33:40
Speaker 4: We got Lexington, Prestonsburg, Crestwood.

00:33:45
Speaker 5: Am I missing anybody?

00:33:46
Speaker 4: He's where you from? Over there? Creswood, Prestwood. It's right, he's from Crestwood. So we've got uh, I think we got everybody here. And then nice to see you all today. Remember on game days we also have the the DraftKings thing. You'll be able to one hundred percent your bet. You and I are gonna make our picks. We will be the tonight the featured bet on the entire app for Kentucky Duke. So we got to make sure we make a good video here.

00:34:13
Speaker 3: In just a figure, right, I already hammered that money line. I got the six and a half. I love that, Tuky, you're probably gonna bet the Kentucky over I will have. I will be all in on different Kentucky bests tonight.

00:34:23
Speaker 5: I'm big on the Kentucky over.

00:34:25
Speaker 4: I saw an interesting thing real quick before we go to the phones Draft Kings law, Like, there was a story about DraftKings in quarter number four or three or whatever. It was just Over lost the most money in a week that they had ever lost in their history.

00:34:42
Speaker 5: And would you like to know why that occurred?

00:34:44
Speaker 4: Why you may know? Week five of the NFL season, the favorites went fourteen and zho and apparently the average better. Just like they always, the favorite always ends up getting more bets. No matter what the line is, people just tend to bet the favorite. So one of the ways they even it out is the favorite sometimes covers the underdog sometimes covers. The favorites went fourteen and oh and apparently all the Vegas sports books took a beating because of all the favorites.

00:35:16
Speaker 3: I like our partners, but I'm hoping they get a beating on that Kentucky money line tonight. That thirty to thirty OHO to win the sec All the pro Kentucky bets right now, I hope come back.

00:35:25
Speaker 4: I like the over a lot. I think that's gonna be one I'll put on the on the thing. Okay, so we got everybody on here. Shannon, theez are for the tickets to the Champions Classic. We have five or six? Which one? Six? Six?

00:35:37
Speaker 5: All right, let's get started. Who's up first?

00:35:38
Speaker 4: Garrett? Garrett? Where do you live? Frankfort? Frankfort? Now this is quite a drive. Would you just hop in the car immediately? Yes?

00:35:48
Speaker 7: I would drop everything and get in the.

00:35:50
Speaker 4: Car and be on my way meeting.

00:35:51
Speaker 7: All right, So why should for this game?

00:35:54
Speaker 5: Why should yourew give it to you?

00:35:57
Speaker 4: Dury?

00:35:57
Speaker 7: You should give me the tickets because I have this hope and Pope. I have been a long time fan, my entire life. And the moment that I heard Calipari on his postgame show go.

00:36:08
Speaker 8: It gave me PTSD.

00:36:10
Speaker 6: It gave me lots of PTSD.

00:36:12
Speaker 7: And Pope is my therapy and this game is my therapy. And I need to go to this game to forget about John cal Perry, to get over this, to buy and fully to this team. It's time to go.

00:36:22
Speaker 4: We're ready, we're.

00:36:22
Speaker 7: Amped up, right, let's go get this win.

00:36:24
Speaker 8: Gets lay there all.

00:36:25
Speaker 4: Right, So there you go. He does a Caliperry impression, does it and says he has believe in Pope. All right, so that's number one. Number two.

00:36:34
Speaker 5: Who's next, Shannon Austin? Austin, where do you live?

00:36:39
Speaker 6: Evansville, Indiana.

00:36:40
Speaker 4: Now that's gonna be a heck of a drive. You'll have to leave immediately to get from Evansville. You can do it, all right.

00:36:46
Speaker 6: What do you got, yes, sir, I will, So I got four. I got four things for you.

00:36:50
Speaker 5: We don't have four. You gotta get me two.

00:36:53
Speaker 9: Okay.

00:36:54
Speaker 6: Well, I was one of the first callers on your post game show here a couple of days go, and I was talking about how we're gonna play Cooper Flag and I think we're gonna shut him down. And then I've been listening to you guys since I was ten years old, so I'm pretty loyal to you guys. And also I had to I had to give this reason U my last name. There's a road in Lexington named after my last name because Coach Rupp was friends with my great grandpa.

00:37:25
Speaker 5: And what road is that?

00:37:28
Speaker 6: Haggard Haggard Street or Haggard Lane, one of the two.

00:37:31
Speaker 4: All Right, So I gotta let you go. I guess got a little bit of time. So Austin says, you should get it called he called the postgame show when you hosted Drew and a road is named after his grandpa because of eight off Rup. I'd have to at least ask to make sure that's true, but he says that, so it could be true. What's next, Clark, Clark?

00:37:48
Speaker 5: Where do you live?

00:37:49
Speaker 4: Clark?

00:37:51
Speaker 8: I live in Georgetowmpton, touching that Georgetown.

00:37:53
Speaker 5: You can make it then?

00:37:54
Speaker 4: Right?

00:37:56
Speaker 8: Oh hey man, I just got done with class.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: I'm ready to roll all right, So why should they pick you?

00:38:02
Speaker 8: Watch day Vigne. Last time my parents went down to the Dude game. It's a couple of years back, and we family took the l and while they were down there, I actually got so upset I shoved my grandmother out the front door and took off running across the field. My parents didn't had to cancel the rest of their trip and come home because my grandma didn't know what to do with me. So I want to make it up to my dad. I want to take him to this game.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: Do you think Drew should pick you? Because when Duke beat Kentucky last you shoved your grandma.

00:38:31
Speaker 8: Matt, Matt, Matt, This is the redemption story of a redemption story.

00:38:36
Speaker 4: All right, well, I appreciate it. Hang on, Wow, he shoved his grandma when they lost the duke lass time, and this is a chance to redeem it. I don't know exactly how that redeems it. I don't know if you're going to take your grandma. He didn't say. He said he needs to take it up. You need to make it up to grandma. Okay, So all right, listen, I don't know what Dre's gonna pick. It's an interesting choice. Who's next?

00:38:58
Speaker 3: Isaiah?

00:38:59
Speaker 5: Isaiah?

00:38:59
Speaker 4: Where do you live?

00:39:02
Speaker 8: Hey, Matt? I live in Lexington.

00:39:03
Speaker 10: I'm on the road today.

00:39:04
Speaker 8: I'm actually bowling Green working right now.

00:39:06
Speaker 7: And if I got the tickets, my brother lives live live right down the.

00:39:09
Speaker 8: Road here in Nashville, so I would roll down there, pick up my brother, and then we'd roll on.

00:39:15
Speaker 4: All right, So your brother in Nashville, So why should he pick you?

00:39:20
Speaker 9: Well?

00:39:20
Speaker 8: Man, we were diehard UK fans. We've been to several Champions Classics and we've we've never seen him lose. We've never seen him lose a road game that we've been to.

00:39:29
Speaker 4: Okay, never seen him lose. All right, there, you go, appreciate that. Hang on.

00:39:33
Speaker 5: So what was his name?

00:39:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't get his name.

00:39:35
Speaker 4: Isaiah, Isaiah Isaiah his brother on the way. He'll pick him up. They've never seen them lose a road game, so maybe a positive winning streak.

00:39:45
Speaker 5: He's in Bowling Green. We'll pick his brother up in Nashville, right, who's next? Shit, Donnie, Donnie?

00:39:49
Speaker 4: Where do you live, Donnie? That's a good mountain name, Donnie. Where do you live?

00:39:55
Speaker 8: Yes, Yes, I live in Louisville, Louisville.

00:40:00
Speaker 6: All right. I didn't call for tickets.

00:40:04
Speaker 5: I was gonna then, Donnie, I'm sorry that ticket.

00:40:09
Speaker 4: How about that? One of the six people, it's wasted by Donnie who just wanted to talk. Somebody else could have been in the contest, and Donnie took their spot, making my job easier.

00:40:20
Speaker 5: All right, one more, Samuel, Samuel, what we might have room for?

00:40:23
Speaker 4: One more? If Samuel goes quick? A five, nine, eight, twenty two, eighty seven? Samuel, Where are you from?

00:40:28
Speaker 10: Waynsburg, Kentucky?

00:40:30
Speaker 4: Waynesburg? All right, here we go, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Okay, thirteenth region in the house.

00:40:35
Speaker 5: Why should they pick you?

00:40:38
Speaker 10: My dad is dedicated forty years to coaching youth sports, basketball football and baseball, and I would like to give something back to him by being take him down there and have a trip of a lifetime being a big Blue fan. So I just like to give back to him after he's dedicated his youth youth sports.

00:40:54
Speaker 4: All right, hang on there, that's a really good forty years of youth sports for him in Williams. I like it. Picking that guy would have just Won's not the pick. Drew's the picker. Lincoln.

00:41:11
Speaker 5: Go ahead, where do you live?

00:41:12
Speaker 4: Lincoln?

00:41:14
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, I'm in Chattanooga. Go back to the days of the podcast in the basement and of the frat houses. And I was the reason Drew was the gut on Sports Center for the first time. Back in twenty eleven. I sent you guys a tweet from a Chattanooga mock player before the Cats played them where he was talking crap about his coach. Y'all put it on KSR. He got kicked off the team. He was Patrick Patterson's teammate in high school, and y'all got on Sports Center. And then I also made a Matt Jones and Katina Powell fathead to take to the Georgia Tech Louisville game.

00:41:56
Speaker 4: You remember that took Yeah, all right, I remember all this. All right, I appreciate the call. Okay, So I'll tell you what. I'm gonna give you the break to think about it. There's some very good submit there's some very I remember that kid, he took my he took a fat had of me and Katina pal a Louisville Georgia Tech and a Louisville fan hit him. I do remember that. That was in like twenty eleven. Wow, that's quite a memory. All right, there you go.

00:42:21
Speaker 5: We got six contenders.

00:42:22
Speaker 4: Drew, Drew will give it away, and then well Mark Stoops were mading the coach.

00:42:25
Speaker 5: That's next here O K.

00:42:26
Speaker 4: S R.