2026-01-30- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcome to the hilarious New York comedian Phil Hanley February fifth through the seventh. Then it's the return of EGT finalist and impressionist Greg Morton February twelfth through the fourteenth. And don't miss legendary comedian and podcaster Greg fifth Simmons February nineteenth through the twenty first four tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called eight five nine two seven one two, or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Comedy off Bay.

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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: Well, welcome everyone.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, January thirtieth, on the eve of a big Kentucky Arkansas basketball game. I'm Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon and Drew Franklin are in studio. You can give Seana Clark's pumping shop pol line. That's say five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Autoglass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.

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Speaker 4: We're in this dishan sponsored by the TJ.

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Speaker 5: Smith Office. If you call TJ he'll make them pay. Ryan, Well, actually, there are two things I want to start with. But one honestly, you two in Lexington in the studio can speak to more than Shannon and I, which is.

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Speaker 4: The growing outrage.

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Speaker 5: I keep getting on the text machine and then really seen on Facebook about snow removal in Lexington. Now, Shannon, you and I we're basically like rowing in the streets in Louisville.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm good.

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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, we could. We could. We could like bathe in the in.

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Speaker 3: The middle of I wouldn't recommend you could, but you.

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Speaker 5: Could because they're that clean, right, and they're that clear. But Lexington, I keep I saw a little bit when I was there, but then I keep hearing just continues to kind of be a disaster and people seem to be getting angry. So Ryan, you know you would like to be mayor one day. Uh it grows more unlikely every time you speak. But now, I mean, I think it's very important that on this because I think you judge mayors. Most people don't even know what mayors do. They end up judging mayors in city council by snow issues. What are your thoughts on the snow removal of twenty twenty six in Lexington.

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Speaker 6: It's a little frustrating just for the neighborhood streets, but really the main thoroughfares are clear, like once you get out of your neighborhood, you're you're good to go.

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Speaker 4: Now do you think that? Do you think this is much ado about nothing?

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Speaker 6: I can see what people are getting frustrated, But man, give them cut them a little slack. I mean they're they're getting there doing the best. That's see snow fills out all the time. They're cutting out little by little. They'll eventually get to But the main.

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Speaker 5: Politicians answer, doesn't it it does kind of Well, that's actually exactly what I'm looking at l e x eighteen. That's exactly the statement from the city yesterday. They said, just give us a little time and be patient.

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Speaker 3: How much time do you need? It's been a week.

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Speaker 4: According to rot it's thick.

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Speaker 6: I mean it's a thick ice. I mean it's like you know, once it settles and gets packed in, it's like six inches of just nothing but ice.

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Speaker 3: So it's you don't have six inches of stop it?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 4: Ice.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't even break my porch up with every tool I had.

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Speaker 4: You're saying that you're saying there's six inches of ice.

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Speaker 5: I mean there's two inches of ice in Oxford and they have the city is shut down.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I think you're saying.

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Speaker 4: Lexington has three times that much.

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Speaker 7: Once it is packed in and settled on top of the snow close to it.

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Speaker 6: I'll send you a picture of me yesterday trying to break it through it in yoga girls.

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Speaker 4: I love these two. Yeah, I don't know that they have six inches of ice? Do you know?

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Speaker 5: I mean I understand what you're saying, which is there were six Like first of all.

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Speaker 4: I SnO.

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Speaker 7: On top of the snow, but we Yeah, I can't. I was outside working trying to break stuff. I don't have the equipment to break up my drivel. It is impossible with what I own now.

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Speaker 4: On a lot of did you get out of your driveway?

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Speaker 7: I kept one lane going as it went, so I have like one little path. But like my porch, I I fell down yesterday. I told the Amazon guy throw it to me, like's nothing you can throw it to you it Seriously, there's like an ice drink. I had hammers, ice picks.

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Speaker 4: Shove.

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Speaker 7: You had multiple hammers cannot break it up.

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Speaker 4: Multiple hammer ship there.

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Speaker 7: It's gonna be there for weeks because I'm in the shade.

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Speaker 4: Where did you get an ice pick? Do you do? You have a lot of ice picks?

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Speaker 7: Well, it's it's not tendally an ice pick. It's like what you would you like? You know when guys are like climbing up on a thing and they're jabbing that little steak in. I have one of those whatever that's called.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, you got one of those? Was that?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 4: Did you go mountain climbing? No?

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Speaker 7: I have tools. I'm forty years old with the garage. I have a lot of tools, and none of them work. I'm telling you, I just sent you a little idiot sent me a picture.

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Speaker 5: Let's look, I didn't want a video, but you sent me a p of Ryan. So Ryan, you you are of the opinion. You understand that it is taking longer, and you're good with it.

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Speaker 6: I think we have to just be a little patient on our neighborhood streets because the main thing is get the thoroughfares open, you know, so amblances can get through VEG emergency vehicles.

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Speaker 4: People.

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Speaker 5: It's the time that you think people could be upset because it shitn and it has been a week.

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Speaker 3: It has been well, yeah, yeah, there are.

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Speaker 7: Certain parts that I think, like I'm on Winchester Road and you know that awkward turn at midway coming downtown. That's weird anyway, Yeah, yeah, that right there, as you're turning, it's two lanes. One lane just turns the mount of snow with no one. There are things like that that have to fix. People are just going to run into that. There are places in Lexlon on main roads where you're just driving and your lane ends in busy traffic.

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Speaker 8: Does thing.

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Speaker 9: I'm watching it right now, Okay, there is right all right, Right, you're picking at it like an eighty year old woman, like look at that ship, just like.

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Speaker 6: It doesn't work. You're just sitting there going I understand that's a solid block of ice, and I've been out there for an hour, and they don't understand how how hard it is.

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Speaker 7: Penetrating it. You are laughing snow.

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Speaker 6: I think it's snow.

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Speaker 3: You think that six inches over?

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Speaker 5: Listen, I grant you that it's eyes. I completely grant that. I'm not laughing at the amount. But that is a lot to get rid of. I will freely grant that Shandon. I'm laughing at how hard or not hard he is picking at it. Like look at the beginning of that video, he's just going he's.

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Speaker 3: Just kind of palling at it like a cat.

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Speaker 6: Would you know, you guys come out and doing it for an hour and we'll see how you're doing.

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Speaker 3: It's not that.

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Speaker 7: Funny over here, Like we can't get out of our neighborhoods.

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Speaker 6: It's hard. Can't get out of our neighborhood.

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Speaker 5: So overall you're saying every day, see overall you're saying you think the clean up is understandable.

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Speaker 7: The big public roads, they have some spots they need to address, but like people saying put salt down, that's not gonna do anything. And like some of these plows, they're just gonna break the front trying to break it up. So I have a little sympathy for how much ice. It definitely should be better, but like on Winchester Road two lanes, I shouldn't be driving thirty and have to lock up my brakes because the road just ended. Stuff like that needs to be fixed.

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Speaker 4: Okay, there's.

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Speaker 3: Some more pictures coming in here.

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Speaker 5: I mean that's a lot. Now, what is that? What am I looking at Ryan? Is that your driveway?

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Speaker 6: That's younger girls driveway in Georgetown and they got more than we did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that would be I will I will greet you. That will be. That would be very hard to get out.

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Speaker 2: I would just say for Ryan, I mean, if you're using that technique, you would have been out there for a month trying to dig out the slow as you were going there. I mean, so that did you even make any progress?

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Speaker 6: You guys, just keep go ahead, keep making fun.

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Speaker 4: Are you mad?

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Speaker 6: Keep going, keep keep talking.

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Speaker 5: I like a ry versus shaving. Fine, you don't get a lot of those. No, you don't get a lot of ride.

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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, I wouldn't hire him to dig me out of my driveway at the pace he's.

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Speaker 6: Going, flowing steady wins the race.

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Speaker 2: Heart attack, It says the most dainty way I've ever seen anybody trying.

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Speaker 5: To I want you to tweet out that video. People can at least see your technique and then they can judge your technique, because I don't think it's fair. I think everyone should should judge Rydan's technique. I'm actually impressed looking at your technique. How much of the driveway. You got done?

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Speaker 4: Thank you? Were you out there five hours?

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Speaker 6: No, it was probably just an hour, and I gave up. I like, man, I am war out. My back was hurting, so I quit.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well just will you put out your technique and then everyone can judge your technique on this year.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I can't wait to all make done on me.

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Speaker 7: The video you all need is I fell yesterday and it's one of those falls. I was in the air looking up my feet like old dude on home alone. Really yeah, And I looked across there was a woman.

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Speaker 5: This wasn't ultimately, this wasn't supposed to be like an indictment of Ryan.

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Speaker 4: It was just supposed to be a question about whether or not you think.

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Speaker 5: So you guys both give passing grades to the to the snow and Force.

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Speaker 7: It's a it's a low passing grade. They definitely could have done better. But I have some sympathy. I'll give them a C minus.

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Speaker 4: All right, what about you, Ryan Glow? Now, yeah, it's a low grade.

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Speaker 7: Well that's because I shouldn't just be on a main road and run into a mountain. At least fix that now, subdivisions and off off streets. I get it, but like new circles shouldn't still be one lane. Let's figure that.

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Speaker 6: Out ex citation the same way I mean it was. It took them three days.

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Speaker 4: And they rides video the next time.

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Speaker 5: Kentucky gets down twenty six in the first half, and then they make like an and one to cut it to twenty three.

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Speaker 4: I want to tweet out Ride's video. Go chipping away at the.

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Speaker 6: You guys keep laughing.

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Speaker 4: You can schipping away lead, all right, but.

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Speaker 7: It's not going anywhere. Y' all can do this.

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Speaker 4: For a month. It's gonna be there today.

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Speaker 5: The other half of it seven is that, Yeah, go look at that video. You all could judge for yourself as a text machine. Kentucky in Arkansas play tomorrow night. Ryan is hosting the uh Ryan Lemon versus John cal Perry Party. I thought Mario did a good job. You look buff there, Ride, You look like you've been working out.

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Speaker 6: Mario didn't do that. That's a live photo. He came over to my house and took it.

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Speaker 4: Well, you and col both look really good. I must say.

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Speaker 5: I thought it would be a good chance because when we led into the last game last year, obviously a lot of it was about cow and where UK fans were.

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Speaker 4: We're now a year away from that.

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Speaker 5: He beat us and rup kind of an embarrassing loss, especially the way it went down, But it's a year from then, So I guess my question is now, I'll start with you, Drew a year after that. Where is the UK fan base on cal today versus where it was last year? And also where are you personally on on on cal Perry now a year and a half after he left.

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Speaker 7: Me and most people in my circle, all my buddies. You know, last year we were into it. You know, we're watching his games, even some of his comments, probably obsessing over a little bit, calling it hate watching. Did that last season? This year, this isn't me, you know, trying to act tough because we're about to play him. I have honestly haven't thought about him that much at all, And until the vander game end, it wasn't even really thinking that Arkansas is this Saturday. So it's not nearly what it was a year ago. Yeah, it's a little bigger than an old miss or something different, but I don't have anything remotely close to the feelings of last year when he came in and ripped our heart?

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Speaker 4: You all you have like Anna? Like?

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Speaker 5: Do you have Anna Moss? I don't know if Anamas's work because I don't think you have that. But do you do you do you root for him to lose?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 5: Like I know last year when we were all sitting in Milwaukee, we all were rooting for Saint John's to beat Arkansas. Are you rooting for him to lose games?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 6: I think last year I was kind of pulling for him because they had a due and Big Z and dj' they had some guys work from.

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Speaker 4: You were rooting for them, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And not against us, But like maybe in that Saint John's game, I.

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Speaker 4: Kind of remember him room for Saint John's in that be game. But go ahead, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: That's what I said. No, I think I would probably pull for the Arkansas guys this year.

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Speaker 4: No way.

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Speaker 6: But I'll tell you what. I am scared to death about this game tomorrow. I mean, I think it could be, it could be ugly, and I'm scares me to death.

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Speaker 5: I think we're gonna lose. I mean, I'm not scared because I think we're gonna lose. Essentially, my feelings about Cal haven't changed a lot. I still I still Shannon.

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Speaker 4: Root for them to lose.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but but I I've never had personal animosity like towards him or at least not, you know, not really, I do want them to lose in the same way that I want Duke to lose, and I want Louisville to lose, and I want, like basically Louisville Duke Tennessee my entire life, at least since I went to at least since Christian Laitner's shot, I've wanted those three teams to lose. Louisville Duke Tennessee, I want them to lose every game, and when they play each other, I just decide which.

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Speaker 4: One I want to lose less.

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Speaker 5: Arkansas, since Cow's been there, is in that group for me, and I mean, I'm just being honest, they've joined that group.

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Speaker 4: Now they're fourth in that group. I still would rather Louisville Tennessee Duke lose than.

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Speaker 5: Arkansas, but I would put them now in that group. And I don't know at some point they'll leave that group. But Shannon, I think, if I'm being honest for me, they are still in that group.

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Speaker 4: For me.

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Speaker 2: Arkansas has always been in that group because I hated them going back to the nineties with that forty minutes of hell no when richardson those teams, and now that Caliperi is there, it gives me even more reason to hate them.

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Speaker 3: But I don't sit there and watch the games like I did last year.

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Speaker 2: But I will also say this, it does feel like a bigger game just because Col's there.

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Speaker 3: It feels like it's it's for them.

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Speaker 4: Do you root for them to lose, drue or don't care?

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Speaker 7: I mean, if I'm sitting down, I'm watching the game and it's the four second half and there's four minutes left and it's tied, yeah, I'm probably leaning that way. But we're talking a fraction of my brain power thinks of Arkansas or what they're doing this season. I do like a Monday column where I recap the SEC. I mean, that's the extent of me keeping up with Arkansas, the same amount that I keep up with Georgia, and that's where I learn most about them. But on a Tuesday night, I don't sit down like, yeah, let's get Arkslas to lose. They're they're kind of out of side and no out of mind this year. Last year, it would have been different though, right.

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Speaker 4: It seems like a lot of people are are taking up for your style.

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Speaker 6: Well, ye, that's how you do it, Okay, just shovel out, get underneath it.

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Speaker 5: You you.

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Speaker 4: People shove on the driveway, Shannon.

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Speaker 3: They're against you, they're against me.

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Speaker 4: We'll both of us were laughing. It rides they're against both of us. Okay.

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Speaker 3: I think it's very dainty of you.

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Speaker 7: You got you break up the top. You can't hear your driveway with your snow shoveler and fiction, Yes, true.

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Speaker 5: You know if he goes much stronger, he will break the driveway.

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Speaker 4: With all that, He's gonna break the drive That's a good point, Drew makes a very good point.

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Speaker 7: Len drive borrow a shovel from a neighbor.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I just think you can payment on this. But then I was powerful, Shannon, right once.

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Speaker 2: I had stooping it like, we didn't have.

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Speaker 4: As much ice as though in Louisville.

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Speaker 5: So to be fair to them, they have a lot more ice than we had in Louisville. Hey, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four matt Uh Shannon, Drew an iceman Ryan, that's next year.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back. Uh, most people on Ryan's side.

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Speaker 6: I must say all people are on my side, not all all the.

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Speaker 4: Person rights, Matt.

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Speaker 5: The pyramids would still be be built being built if Ryan was in charge.

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Speaker 4: Persons.

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Speaker 6: That's I got sixty responses to my treat. Every one of them are pro or what your treat? My tweet?

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Speaker 7: I like the spelling on the tweet that was my favorite was.

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Speaker 6: Very good, a little a little bit of a hurry good thing. I didn't try to say the.

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Speaker 5: So when is it supposed to? When is it supposed to warm up? I screwed that up a lot. When is it supposed to?

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Speaker 6: We're getting more snow on Tuesday and Wednesday?

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Speaker 3: Oh boy?

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Speaker 4: And I was.

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Speaker 7: Explaining this to Shannon during the break, Like the snow on our roofs and gutters are melting, and like going on the driveway and refreezing. It's somehow growing and getting worse.

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Speaker 3: You guys ever gonna come out of your house again, You just gonna be stuck there forever coming tomorrow. Oh is he cut out?

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Speaker 4: He got out that shovel. You saw how he got Yeah, he got it.

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Speaker 5: One person, writes Matt I'd like to see you try to do this. Ryan is doing it the only way it can be done. You would hurt your back, probably.

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Speaker 3: So, but you know you wouldn't be doing it to begin with. You pay somebody else to do it.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, on my street there was a group of this is very There was a group.

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Speaker 5: Of Mexican guys who were knocking on every door asking if people wanted them to shovel and the pay. I was not there, or I would have definitely said yes, but I wasn't there.

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Speaker 4: They were finishing when I got there.

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Speaker 5: But that seems like a good way to make I would think Ryan a good little bit of money, right.

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Speaker 7: I don't have their names, but a group from Pikeville, young guys, they listened to our show. They drove from Pikeville to Lexington and they just happened to knock on my parents' door. I don't know what they used. They did an amazing job and my parents speak about these guys from Pikeville like their angels. So if you are listening, thank you. But to your point, people are just going around and doing what they can. You know, guys that are able to work, and.

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Speaker 5: It's very smart. I mean I bet you guys made me. I bet they made it. It was like three guys, I bet, just on my street they each made, you know, one hundred and fifty two hundred dollars right, and just watching them, watching them go, and they were good.

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Speaker 4: Have you seen what they're doing in New York?

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Speaker 5: Did you see this machine they've got Shannon where they put all the snow in on fire.

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Speaker 4: Have you seen this?

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Speaker 3: They put the snow on fire.

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Speaker 5: So there's this machine they drive around town and it's like a bit it looks like a massive like dump truck and there's a fire inside of it and they're just taking bulldozers and loading up the snow and putting it in the truck and setting it on.

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Speaker 4: Fire and it goes to what. Yeah, that seems kind of brilliant to me? Or am I crazy?

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Speaker 6: They have to have something to.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't tell from looking at it where the water went, but it goes somewhere, Yeah, it goes. But doesn't that seem like a smart No? Well, I mean this is the city's doing it. The city has these and they're sort of deploying them all over town.

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Speaker 4: That's what what I saw brilliant.

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Speaker 7: It called the hot tubs the hot seen the videos. I don't have the videos. Yeah we needed. I don't know how it works where that water goes, but I know exactly what you're talking about.

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Speaker 5: It looks awesome, and like Shannon, it's kind of fun to watch. They take these huge piles of snow, pour them in there and then they're just gone, and then they do another one.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to watch it right now. And that's an interesting take on how to get rid of ice. I mean it works though, right.

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Speaker 4: It seems like it works. You're setting fire to the snow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's before.

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Speaker 5: Had you have you ever? I've never seen that before and I thought it was Uh.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was fascinating. What person writes Matt.

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Speaker 5: If you were to do a poll of the UK fan base, how many people do you think would before if they could snap their fingers cal being the coach Now?

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Speaker 4: Not many. I mean I'm going to take you think, well, what do you think what percentage?

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Speaker 2: I would say there was probably at least twenty five. I think there's a quarter of the fan base that would like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe, I I.

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Speaker 5: Think that's hot, but I think it's probably more than I would think.

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Speaker 4: My thing is and this is Drew's. This has been mine and Drew's contention for the whole time.

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Speaker 5: Drew, if he had stayed here, it wasn't gonna beat work here, right, it wasn't.

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Speaker 7: He had that let's raise a million dollars, and it's burned in my brain. He raised forty eight thousand dollars of the million in three weeks.

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Speaker 5: They were trying to raise a million at the SEC tournament and they raised forty eight thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't gonna work here.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, I will know before everyone like and they're gonna they're gonna probably beat us tomorrow, but before everyone loses their mind. Last year, Kentucky had a better record than Arkansas. They were seated higher in the tournament than Arkansas, and both teams went exactly the same spot in the tournament.

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Speaker 4: They both went to the sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 5: This year, they have a better record than us by I think one game or two games. But people that act like Ryan, there's this massive gap between what he's done and what we what even Pope has done, and Pope has been somewhat disappointing this year. It's not the gap everybody.

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Speaker 4: Thinks it is. I think we had a better year than they had last year.

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Speaker 6: Billy had some stats this morning the pre show. I think, Shannon, we're like their their records are exactly identical.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the records are identical.

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Speaker 5: So I mean for everybody who's like, well, I wish we had him, our records are identical. Now, do I think they have a better chance of succeeding in the tournament this year than we do?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: I do, but we were better than they were last year. They now they beat Kansas Saint John's in the tournament. Credit to them, but they also you know what they did in the sweet sixteen, Shannon, they blew a game they had won at the year.

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Speaker 4: They blew it. We've seen We've seen that, you know.

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Speaker 5: So I I don't know what do you think the percentage of people that would say that Ryan that they would like to snap their fingers and he be the coach here.

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Speaker 6: It's a tough time to ask that question. We're struggling right now and they seem to be playing pretty.

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Speaker 4: Do you think it's twenty five twenty?

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Speaker 6: I think maybe fifteen or twenty somewhere in that ballpark a little bit. I mean it's easy to forget. We're just what a year and a half from losing in the SEC tournament and then Oakland to end.

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Speaker 4: His career here.

00:22:22
Speaker 6: How bad we feel lost to Oakland, folks.

00:22:25
Speaker 5: We lost to Oakland with Reed Shepherd sitting on the bench. We had Antonio Reeves, Reed Shepherd, Rob Dillingham. Oh yeah, Justin Edward's also a good NBA player, and we lost to.

00:22:38
Speaker 6: Oakland, lost their last two games.

00:22:40
Speaker 7: I think it's less than ten percent. I think you are high. Yeah, we remember those, we remember those last four years. Boy, more tournament games last year than Cal did in four years.

00:22:49
Speaker 4: Good point, there you go. That's all you need to say. Right there. We'll take a break and be right back. Take your calls. KSR. That's good. TJ.

00:22:57
Speaker 7: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

00:23:01
Speaker 2: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

00:23:05
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:09
Speaker 5: We always play these songs when Arkansas goes I and when we play Arkansas.

00:23:15
Speaker 4: Arkansas is a state chanton not.

00:23:18
Speaker 2: Fun No, No, we went through there, what through the Ozarks. My favorite part of Arkansas was that little place called who do thunk it was?

00:23:29
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think I've been to Arkansas. Well, here turn up. This is how I feel. That's exactly how I feel. Why would you go back?

00:23:45
Speaker 4: Shannon?

00:23:45
Speaker 3: What is there nothing?

00:23:48
Speaker 5: That Clinton Museum in Little Rock is cool because it's a presidential museum where they actually talk about like his faults too. You know, they don't try to That's I think a cool thing to do it trying to think of it, right, Drew, can you think of anything in Arkansas Fayetteville of all the week? I mean, Fayet feel's nicer than you think. But I still wouldn't want to go. I mean, I don't see anything reason to go.

00:24:11
Speaker 7: We did a night in fat Villa, and I enjoyed it, but we got there at night and went to like two places, and then we're out in the morning, so I saw very little of it. I enjoyed the two places we went, but I can't tell you anything about any anything.

00:24:22
Speaker 4: Outside of that.

00:24:23
Speaker 5: Apparently the city where all the Walmart executives live is nice. It's like north of uh Fayetteville. What's the name of that point, Bentonville? Bentonville. Apparently that's nice, but I've never been there. So I don't know, we've kind.

00:24:37
Speaker 6: We kind of jumped over our trip through those arcs. That's still maybe the scariest.

00:24:43
Speaker 4: Skipped.

00:24:44
Speaker 6: You guys did not skip the You skip the best with the worst part of it. After we left that John downstation, you had zero gas and we still were like halfway to go through the Allegany Mountain there was no gas station. I was convinced we have to walk in the middle of the night, no street lights, completely dark, try to find a gas station in the Ozark Mountains.

00:25:03
Speaker 7: We did vote who we're gonna eat first.

00:25:04
Speaker 6: We did vote who's gonna eat first?

00:25:06
Speaker 7: You didn't we ye.

00:25:08
Speaker 4: We picked you because you were the oldest, so you had the least life.

00:25:11
Speaker 7: That's why you didn't enjoy it as much.

00:25:14
Speaker 6: I don't know how we got down station.

00:25:17
Speaker 5: That was scary because because we that was it was so dark and we had nowhere.

00:25:21
Speaker 6: To go pitch black. So that and you're in no gas.

00:25:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was scary, I'll grant you.

00:25:27
Speaker 5: I did uh an ESPN Final four show in like Earl, Arkansas I think was the name of it, at a tackle bell But so yeah, not a lot of great memories in Arkansas, apparently Shannon. The snow thing is connected that to the they connected to.

00:25:45
Speaker 4: The sewer and they dumped the water into the sewer.

00:25:48
Speaker 3: That makes sense, all like that?

00:25:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, melted feels like we should get one of those in Lexington, right.

00:25:54
Speaker 3: And we did not have it in the budget. What's the problem. At least get some flame throwers and just go out through the streets.

00:26:00
Speaker 4: I'll just tell you. I thought it looked really cool.

00:26:03
Speaker 5: Uh when I saw the video and if it works, apparently they use them drew at ups out at the airport.

00:26:09
Speaker 4: That's what they do to get the ups planes for.

00:26:13
Speaker 7: Well, we need some whatever. We paid for this bead statue out front of the courthouse and that could have bought a lot of hot tubs to fix the snow.

00:26:21
Speaker 4: You don't like the bead statue? Stut.

00:26:23
Speaker 7: Every time I passed it, I rolled my eyes and think we paid money for that?

00:26:26
Speaker 4: What was that? When is that?

00:26:27
Speaker 7: And it has to be it's like fifty thousand dollars a year in upkeep or something crazy. If you like the come clean it to come clean our beads.

00:26:34
Speaker 4: It's nice, nice beads. Who's next.

00:26:36
Speaker 3: Let's go to David.

00:26:37
Speaker 4: David, Go ahead, David.

00:26:40
Speaker 10: Hey, God, Hey, I want your thoughts on something. Last year, you can watch Pope dopense. Man, it looked so good, enjoyable to watch. This year, you know, I mean, of course you gotta know what it looked like. Is it the players? Is that the change in his coach and star? What what you thought?

00:27:04
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I think it's the coaching style has adjusted because the players can't shoot, and Ryan, I would say that has made it a much less enjoyable way to watch. I mean what I have said is when we're not playing well, which unfortunately has been a lot of the time this year, this looks like a Caliperi offense without really good players.

00:27:26
Speaker 4: And I appreciate the call.

00:27:28
Speaker 5: That that's how I felt, Ryan, A lot of sort of iso uh standing around setting a pick and then trying to get to the basket. But we don't have guys who can finish. And Ryan, I think that's made it very hard to watch.

00:27:41
Speaker 6: Without guys that can hit the three out there, our offense is awful and there, like you said, a lot of a lot of dribble dribble, dribble dribbles, standing around, guys trying to go one on one, trying to play a little me ball. If you try to ask ask somebody what kind of offense be trying to run, they couldn't tell you because there is nonexistent.

00:27:59
Speaker 5: I think it's like I've said this before, Drew, I think it changes half to half, possession to possession.

00:28:07
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I agree too. There was a stretch in the second half at Vandy we just everyone on the team I think each took a contested three. It's like they went on to the court and said, we're all gonna take turns taking a bad three. I think they went over four in a row, and I thought, why am I just sitting here watching guys? I could go to the y and just watch guys brick threes Like there was just no offense at all. They were taking turns, just taking bad shots.

00:28:30
Speaker 5: With that said, Ryan, you're gonna be at the bar tomorrow night for this, and we're gonna win against Arkansas.

00:28:36
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, aren't we. It couldn't help us get the victory.

00:28:39
Speaker 6: It could be a fun, fun night to pull that off against Arkansas. At Arkansas against Cal I just don't know what's gonna happen.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: Well, bring you the attitude, that's not the attitude we need. I'll be pumped versus John cal Perry, watch party.

00:28:55
Speaker 6: Have a big bowl of chili before the game start. I'll be feeling good.

00:28:58
Speaker 4: All right. Well that's that's what we Who's next, Taylor? Taylor? Go ahead, Taylor?

00:29:04
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, think for having me. Two things. One about the snow shoveling. I run a mobile coffee trailer and we normally go to schools. Haven't been able to do that. So my daughter wanted to make some money. She's ten. I want to make some money for college. So I said, well, I want to go shovel some driveways. So her and I probably made five hundred dollars shoveling snow just for two days.

00:29:28
Speaker 5: I need to rewind just a second. You have a ten year old daughter.

00:29:33
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, yeah, I've got five kids. Ten year old's my oldest.

00:29:36
Speaker 5: And she's already thinking about paying for college.

00:29:41
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah. She wanted to think of ways that she could earn money so that she could pay for college.

00:29:48
Speaker 4: Well, you have that's a very like, you know, forward thinking daughter.

00:29:52
Speaker 5: I would think most ten year olds would want to think about money for like a doll or for you know, something like it's frivolous. She is actually already thinking about her four O one K.

00:30:05
Speaker 8: Certainly she does not spend money. She asked if we could open a savings account for so that she could. Is she in I've talked her about it. We've talked to her about it.

00:30:17
Speaker 5: How do you've talked to her about the market at ten years old? Oh?

00:30:23
Speaker 8: Absolutely, Yeah. We're trying to explain those things to her so that she understands. You, Wow, we grow up. If we grow up and not know about it, then that's bad, is this day?

00:30:34
Speaker 4: So that's very impressive. I didn't know.

00:30:40
Speaker 5: I am.

00:30:42
Speaker 4: You have to have the only child I've.

00:30:44
Speaker 5: Ever heard of that's ten years old shoveling snow to pay for college while also learning about the market. So I mean, I'm gonna go ahead and say, I expect your daughter to be a huge success.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: And that's very good of you to teach her those things.

00:31:00
Speaker 8: I appreciate it.

00:31:01
Speaker 5: Uh.

00:31:01
Speaker 8: Second thing was we did go to Arkansas last summer.

00:31:05
Speaker 4: Uh.

00:31:05
Speaker 8: Did Arkansas have a place called Crater of Diamond State Park. It's the largest diamond quarry that's opened to the public. I think it's like top five diamond quarries in the in the world. Pretty cool place you just go and dig for diamonds.

00:31:21
Speaker 5: They just let you dig for diamonds, like you can just go absolutely and you can keep them.

00:31:26
Speaker 8: Oh absolutely, If you find something, you can keep it anything you find so uh yeah, it's it's pretty cool. You should look it up.

00:31:36
Speaker 4: Especially did you find any we.

00:31:38
Speaker 8: We unfortunately did not. Uh. There's normally about one a day is the average of what they people find. It's one diamond a day. A lot of them are small, but there's been some. The Uncle Sam diamond, which is the largest diamond found in the US, was found there and it was I don't know huge. I mean, I can't remember how many cares.

00:31:58
Speaker 4: Ryan.

00:31:59
Speaker 5: I appreciate the call with his digging technique, Shannon with me to to.

00:32:05
Speaker 4: Un and find me a dome.

00:32:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think you want him doing your digging.

00:32:10
Speaker 5: Uh. People are saying hot springs Arkansas. Uh, through with the springs.

00:32:17
Speaker 4: Is nice.

00:32:19
Speaker 7: We got pretty close to that on our travels. I think I remember either reading we got that or we saw signs about it. But I'm familiar with that.

00:32:26
Speaker 5: I think I've heard when I'm when when when my grandfather was alive many years ago, he had like arthritis pretty bad, and he would go like once a year Ryan to hot springs, Arkansas and uh and get in the springs, I guess, and it gave him relief.

00:32:41
Speaker 4: He really liked it.

00:32:42
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's some hot springs in like French Lick, Indiana, West Baden, Indiana that became famous for people would come and bathe in those hot springs try to relieve some pain from arthritis or aches and pains.

00:32:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe that is something and then we can go digging.

00:32:56
Speaker 5: It's hard for me to believe there's just a place, Shannon, where you just get to go dig diamonds and take them.

00:33:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would think they would have that reserve for you would think they're yeah exact.

00:33:06
Speaker 5: Corporations would have just said, all right, I'm with ours everything here.

00:33:09
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:33:10
Speaker 2: I guess there's a chance that you could dig up a huge diamond that could be worth you know, ten grand or more.

00:33:16
Speaker 6: Uncle Sam diamond he was talking about was found there.

00:33:19
Speaker 4: When was that found?

00:33:20
Speaker 7: I don't know recently. I'm looking it up now. It's worth several million dollars a million just digging and you found it found what year? I think it's oh, never mind nineteen twenty four it was put I saw it was put into the Smithsonian fairly recently.

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00:34:08
Speaker 4: Welcome back.

00:34:09
Speaker 5: It's Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, Matt, I love Drew, but he's crazy. The bead statue is one of the nicer things Lexington's put in.

00:34:21
Speaker 4: What doesn't he like about it? I thought he would appreciate art.

00:34:25
Speaker 7: That's not a real text. There's not one person in there. Yes sees that.

00:34:28
Speaker 4: It's six six two oh two. Oh.

00:34:31
Speaker 6: So they don't live in they don't. They don't have to drive by it every day.

00:34:34
Speaker 5: That is not I mean they could live there. They could live there and not and not have an eight five nine number. I live there and don't have an eight five nine number there.

00:34:42
Speaker 7: There's not one person in this city that likes that. It's supposed to commerrate Kentucky. The artist isn't from Kentucky. Nothing about it as Kentucky. It's just a bunch of silver things. I can't even say on radio hanging in front of our court house.

00:34:53
Speaker 3: Exactly what whose idea was it to put it there? I don't know, but we got robbed one personally, he's like, well.

00:34:58
Speaker 4: I can tell you six two likes it.

00:35:01
Speaker 7: That's the sculptor. Nice to meet you. I wish you hadn't done it here, take.

00:35:05
Speaker 6: Your balls somewhere else.

00:35:07
Speaker 4: Okay, slow down.

00:35:10
Speaker 5: One person writes, Matt, what do you make of Pope's comments about recruiting yesterday? You know?

00:35:19
Speaker 4: I mean, so did you see the comments? Ryan?

00:35:24
Speaker 5: He basically said something to the effect of they asked him why he didn't have any commitments and if there was a problem with the fact that we're not playing well, if that hurts in recruiting, And he basically said, I like how he flipped it around. He basically was like, well, sometimes not having any recruits and playing badly makes people want to come more, which I guess is a good spind Do you buy it?

00:35:52
Speaker 6: I don't buy it. I don't know if a recruit's gonna be sitting there buying it. Looking how they play and dysfunction on their offenses, what makes you want them come in?

00:36:00
Speaker 5: I think his point is they might come in and think, okay, well then I'm gonna get to play.

00:36:05
Speaker 6: Well, more power to you. But so far, I think the recruiting class has zero and zero nobody in that recruiting class.

00:36:12
Speaker 4: What do you think of his argument?

00:36:15
Speaker 7: I don't get to hear these live because they do them when we're on the air. So I was prepared to this.

00:36:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was yesterday.

00:36:22
Speaker 7: I'm positive because I had multiple texts about his recruiting answer, and I even wrote on our board I'm probably five minutes into the YouTube video and all right, I'm already not enjoying this, and several people wrote back, just wait for the recruiting answer.

00:36:34
Speaker 4: Oh wow.

00:36:35
Speaker 7: So I think it got a lot of people noticed, and I even made a point to fast forward and find it because so many people were talking about it, and I wish I hadn't. I mean, this is what I talk about. Everything is not perfect, like when things are bad, him saying, well, recruits like bad. That's not true, and we're not gonna believe that. You can say I need to do better on the recruiting show.

00:36:52
Speaker 4: Recruits.

00:36:53
Speaker 5: Recruits are looking for teams that stak that's what you're looking for.

00:36:57
Speaker 7: They are talented players out there. They're like eighth the SEC.

00:37:01
Speaker 2: Well, that answer reminds me of like why every now and then Vanderbilt would get a good basketball player come there because I knew they could play and be the guy on the team. And now that sounds like what Kentucky basketball is becoming.

00:37:14
Speaker 7: Point because he doesn't play guys a lot of minutes. So the theory of a guy black I can go save them and take all the shots. He doesn't give anyone that opportunity.

00:37:23
Speaker 6: And I merely thought of Jack and Jacob's article they wrote a month ago, how he's can't bad as a closer, can't manage the money. All that combined is just not good answers.

00:37:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I didn't like the answer. I'm not sure what he means. But you know, I'm kind of surprised. We're now two years away from a coach that I kind of didn't want to listen to do press conferences anymore. And I'm kind of there again, even though it's a very different person, like his style is very different. But I just don't know that you get anything because I don't. I think he intense. I thought he would be one of the best coaches we've ever had at explaining, et cetera. And I think he is when we're doing well, but when we're not, it sort of becomes a word salad obtuse, and I don't I just find myself not particularly enjoyed it.

00:38:17
Speaker 4: All right, who's next?

00:38:18
Speaker 3: All right? This is Scotty, who you announced was about to become a father.

00:38:21
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so on Wednesday we announced that Scotti was having a child.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: And this is that Scotty? Am I correct?

00:38:31
Speaker 11: Yes it is Matt, Yes it is.

00:38:33
Speaker 4: Well.

00:38:33
Speaker 5: First of all, congratulations, thank got so much. So Scotty, tell me what it was like to hear that? And did you know that I was talking about you?

00:38:47
Speaker 11: Well, my wife, she's a social media influencer, and every once in a while she just kind of wants me to be in some of her content, and randomly she was like, Hey, you've been helping me out a lot around the house and doing all this stuff, so I want you to listen to KSR. She acts like she hates it, but I know that she loves it. But uh, yeah, she just randomly put it on. And then I heard you say my name, and I was like, what I mean, you got the video?

00:39:14
Speaker 4: So it's I did see the video.

00:39:18
Speaker 5: You look surprised and it looked like it took you a minute to process that it was you.

00:39:25
Speaker 4: It.

00:39:25
Speaker 11: It definitely did. It definitely did. But once you said you're about to become a father, I was like, oh wow, this is this is wild. She the first announcement that we had when our when our little boy was uh, when he took hold and she became pregnant. She bought one of those banners that you see flying down the beach off the trailing of the airplane, and it said gott you were about to become parents. So yeah, she she hit another home run with this one.

00:39:56
Speaker 5: So congratulations. You got to be excited. Did you hear from anyone to ask you? Because I had someone write me who said they had like five.

00:40:05
Speaker 4: This was a different Scottie.

00:40:06
Speaker 5: They had like five friends, right, go dude, is it you? And they weren't even listening to this show and it threw them off. Did you have anybody wonder if it was you?

00:40:16
Speaker 11: Well, despite your all's ratings, which also congratulations, I live in Cresview, Florida. I'm from Kentucky originally, but the Air Force brought me down here. Retired out of the Air Force and now I'm just chilling in dustin Florida, Crestview, Florida area. So yeah, Unfortunately, no one has talked to me about hearing that segment, but I did wanted to call in and say thank you so much. I'm honored to be your first and only.

00:40:44
Speaker 5: Now it's gonna be only. I'm not doing it like it's because it's unique. I did it because it was unique, and I thought it was. It was very cool and congratulations. And I assume you're going to name the kid Mario Franklin whatever your last name is, right.

00:41:05
Speaker 4: Maybe.

00:41:08
Speaker 11: Naming his girl Scottie. I might be able to swing of Franklin.

00:41:12
Speaker 5: All right, appreciate, appreciate the call, Thank you very much. Yeah, first ever ks R Baby announcement happened this week.

00:41:24
Speaker 6: As crazy as the story that is. I love hearing it. I love hearing the other Scottis who were like scared to death when they heard you say.

00:41:30
Speaker 5: I got a couple of texts from Scotti's, one of them said. One of them said, Shannon, I didn't think I had done a deed that could get that uh result quite some time. Well, he said, though my heart still skipped a beat even though I didn't think it was possible that I.

00:41:50
Speaker 4: Could have done it.

00:41:51
Speaker 9: I thought it was a really funny answer to me.

00:41:57
Speaker 4: He was like, doing, all right, carry the two. You get the dude, So there you go. All right, So Kentucky dark sas what time we play tomorrow, six thirty six.

00:42:07
Speaker 5: It is a weird time, so we will. We're gonna take a break. We will come back our number two here on a Friday. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.