2026-02-09- 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 AGT finalist and impressionist Greg Morton February twelfth through the fourteenth. And don't miss legendary comedian and podcaster Greg Fifthsimmons February nineteenth through the twenty first four tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called eight, five, nine, two, seven to one joke or visit Comedyoff Broadway dot com.

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Speaker 2: Comedy Off Byway.

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Monday, February the ninth. I'm Matt Jones in Louisville, Kentucky. Ryan and Drew are in Lexington, and it is cold and icy, but we are back home after a week on the road on the West coast. We're back to the best coast, which is the U I guess the coast of the Ohio River.

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Speaker 6: Shannon as, I'm back home, back.

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Speaker 5: Home at long long day, traveling even longer for some of those other guys, but we are back and you give a Sean Clark's pumping Shop phone line eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this dish sponsored by the TJ.

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Speaker 6: Smith Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay.

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Speaker 5: Glad to be back with some time to check the text machine and see all your good comments, Ryan Lemon, it was one of the more Drew and I have probably done. I don't know, if you look over the years and you count KSR trips and college basketball road trips and UK basketball road trips, Drew and I have probably done tennis. We've probably done forty to fifty road trips over the years, and I think this is up there, you know, maybe this one and one of ours to Vegas. I'm not sure, maybe the conventions, but this may be the most fun I've had. It was an awesome week.

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Speaker 7: Well, welcome back you guys. I have enjoyed hearing some stories from Mario and Billy and Drew. I were waiting on you to get to join us. I'm telling you what, man, the shows and the content was fantastic. I mean it really was kind of enjoyable, kind of falling along with all this stuff you guys were posting and listening to. So well done, boys, welcome back, but well done.

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Speaker 5: Let me be and then then we will be fun and we'll talk to UK basketball and the trip. But let me be sentimental for a minute. It was a great culmination of I felt like this year everyone on the show, but especially those three guys, Mario, Billy and Drew, because we had to do this NFL thing, got thrown into it. They all like have really grown over the course of the of the year in their abilities and in all that. And it was a great celebration of it. And Drew, you probably got what you get home at like two am last night.

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Speaker 8: I was still up at three. Yeah, I got it in a little after two, but wow, I had had to wash the California off me a little bit then just couldn't fall straight to sleep. So not a lot of sleep on this side. But I'm still smiling from all the fun we had, well.

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Speaker 5: A lot, a lot, a lot of fun. And thank you to all who consumed everything we did. The NFL has kind of been blown away by how many people are listening to the to the stuff, and you guys, it was nice being with all those people to kind of hear and uh, you know, Ryan, the head of content for the NFL, said to me, you guys, and this would include Ryan and Shannon as well. If you look at everything, he said, I think you guys work harder than anyone in uh broadcasting. He was like, I can't believe all the stuff you all put out. And I thought that was kind of cool to hear from somebody who sees stuff from all over the country.

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Speaker 7: Well, everything works if you work at it, right, you know what the wise people say, So you guys, all.

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Speaker 5: I do now is that you're saying or does that come from other people?

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Speaker 6: Everybody?

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Speaker 5: Everything works if you work at it.

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Speaker 2: I think you can post my name to it and then you'll put it on PEP.

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Speaker 5: You're saying, you claim it, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 2: If nobody else is gonna claim it, I'll claim it.

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Speaker 5: Everything works. If you were about me, I'm you can only claim it if it is yours.

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Speaker 6: Do you think it's yours.

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Speaker 2: For today for today's show?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and get your mind somewhere or did you hear it somewhere or.

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Speaker 5: Did you get did that come from your brain or did it exist somewhere else?

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Speaker 7: It probably was said to me years ago, but I'm going to claim it today.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 8: Hold on, guys that you're not gonna believe.

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Speaker 5: This, okay, So tell me is that does this count as a Ryan Lemon saying or not? Go ahead?

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Speaker 8: I can't even believe what I'm looking at. I googled it exactly as Ryan said it, and the first result is a Facebook link, and it says my latest podcast with Ryan Lemon is now on YouTube.

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Speaker 5: No it doesn't.

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Speaker 8: Yes, so Ryan has said this before Tomorrow's podcast from last year.

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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, so's the.

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Speaker 8: Top Google result is Ryan Lemon saying it tomorrow for everything works if you look at it.

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Speaker 2: We're just billionaires, right.

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Speaker 5: This is officially your slogan, everything works if you work at it.

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Speaker 7: I'll be going talking to you about getting some T shirts made after the show, a couple of billboards.

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Speaker 6: We'll definitely sell out for it quick.

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Speaker 4: Everything works if you work at it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I like it.

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Speaker 3: I've been working at the equipment forever and it still doesn't work at the time, So I don't know if it's true.

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Speaker 5: It's a I think though it's a fair quote. Everything works if you work at it. It's also motivational kind of Ryan, I think you we have found your your secret. You should give a Ted talk called everything works if you work at it, Ryan Limit.

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Speaker 7: And you guys are the testimonial to it. Look what you've done with your cover zero proadcast. You end up praying with Barry Sanders at the super Bowl party.

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Speaker 5: Now, the super Bowl party had like Justin Bieber, Taylor, Swift, you know, mill Me.

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Speaker 8: Alex Earl, who performed.

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Speaker 2: Ludacris performed.

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Speaker 5: Ludacris performed, although he talked too much. He talked too much. He would play like Shannon. He would play like the chorus of his popular songs, Yeah, and then he would yell at me that the crowd wasn't hype enough, and I was like, listen, man, stop yelling at me.

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Speaker 6: Just play.

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Speaker 3: Well that's you know, I got thirty minutes to phill and I got ten minutes of content, so I gotta talk for the other twenty.

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Speaker 5: It's exactly what it was. And in between every song was him just yelling that the crowd needed to get louder, and I was like, we'd get loud if you'd shut up and play a song.

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Speaker 8: It was a podcast. It was a Luncar's live podcast.

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Speaker 7: I would have been so excited if he was going to perform and they would mess it up.

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Speaker 2: He talked the whole time.

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Speaker 8: We around the snippets of the hits.

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Speaker 5: I didn't write so many big hits. He had though, shitting like he's got like he did play the chorus of like fifteen big songs.

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Speaker 4: And what about the verse didn't hurt none of them, none of it.

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Speaker 5: No, just the chorus of all those songs. Anyway, great trip. We'll talk more about it later on, but it was a lot of fun. And thank you all. I mean, we rose on Super Bowl week. KSR was in the top twenty of the National Arts and that's pretty amazing. So thank you guys very much for that. Now part of why I was exciting this Saturday night. Excuse me, Kentucky in what I hear is one of the better ruugh environments in a long time. Beats Tennessee to sweep the season series for the second time in a row. Five straight regular season victories against Tennessee, which is in and of itself awesome. Cats played, you know, had to come from behind again, fell down for fifteen in the first half. Turn it around. Chip away, end up with the lead in late make big plays, including the Colin Chandler three that happens at the end of the game. Ryan, you know you did the postgame show. I spoke on the first segment of the show, and I was really proud of the team. That was a gutsy win, but it was also a win where it wasn't just like they were I think they were fortunate to win at Tennessee the last time. I don't think they were fortunate in this game. They went out and won it. They were behind, they made the comeback, bared down on defense, held Tennessee to shoot twenty percent in the second half, and they got a huge, huge victory for him and an exciting one for the team.

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Speaker 2: Say what you want about this team.

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Speaker 7: They still drive me crazy sometimes, but man, you can't deny they've got a lot of heart and a lot of fight in them, because that's another come from behind win. And then you mentioned the crowd. You know, cas Bar was packed from two thirty on for an eight to thirty game. You know, even Jack and Tom talked about how this is one of the greatest crowds we've had in many, many years that you know, the ninety six team was there, the denim uniforms. It all just culminated to an exciting finish. And then when when all the way through that crazy pass out the channel to hit the bucket man, the place just the blew the roof off of it.

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Speaker 5: Here's one of the ways that I judge it. So I have a lot of like I actually have. You guys are really the only close friends of mine that I think are like insane going at nuts basketball program. Most of my friends are UK fans, but they're fans, like they'll watch most of the games, but it doesn't like drive what they do. It's actually them that I sort of think about when I program this show, because I think there's actually more of them than there are.

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Speaker 6: Diehards.

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Speaker 5: Here's how I knew Drew that game was so big as it was going, and especially after we won. I'm getting the text from those people, right, I'm getting texts from every level of Kentucky fan excited. That's how you know that. Okay, the whole big Blue nation is locked in. And I think maybe it was because the ninety sixteen in the nostalgia, it's Tennessee, it's Saturday night. I just think you couldn't have had a better environment and a better result than they got Saturday.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I looked awesome. As much fun as we were having, I was pretty jealous everyone in Lexington. You only get so many of the was a season, those big games where you're thinking about the whole week leading up to it, not just the day. And in this one, if you're into the denim, you've been thinking about it since they announced on Christmas, looking forward to that, so just the whole this is this is kind of why we fan the big games like that, where it's your whole Saturday. And then for them to finish the job against Tennessee and the way they did it, you know, I'm I don't like going down in the first half. I'm sure most people don't, but to rip their hearts out twice, being down seventeen in Knoxville and fourteen and Lexton, all right, that was pretty fun. Let them think they had it and then ripping it away in the second half. I don't want to keep doing that forever. But against the Balls it made it even sweeter too, to get to come from behind the wagon.

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Speaker 5: Can you imagine losing both those games?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 5: My, Like if you lost both games where you were up that big. I mean I might have listened shaved a little bit to Tony Vasilio. Oh yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Heard you got mentioned from time to time on that show Saturday Night.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, that's Tony Vasilia. That dude is out of control. He's out of control, and his postgame show is just yelling at it like yelling. I had a caller say if he saw me, he was gonna kick me in the shins, which is not very nice. That would hurt. Vasilio also said I was a no talent host who he couldn't believe was on the airwaves. Man, I must be lucky if I'm that no talent and we've been able to have this much success. It was it was awesome. It's awesome to win. It's awesome to beat your rival. It's awesome to continue to.

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Speaker 6: Do it in a way that breaks their heart.

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Speaker 5: And you know, right, Ryan, I don't understand why this team falls behind so much. And I also don't understand how they're able to come back so much. I mean, they've come back against Tennessee twice, right, They've come back against LSU, they came back against Arkansas, they came back lay lost but they came back against Louisville, they came back against Saint John's. What am I forgetting? There's more than that?

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Speaker 8: Indiana North Carolina they went down to both them. They ended up, you know, one of them back.

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Speaker 6: Lost to North Carolina.

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Speaker 5: I feel like there's one more SEC game we came back in too, isn't there?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 5: Regardless, this team just doesn't quit. And I love that Drew. It drives me crazy that, like you, you don't even have to watch the first half because we're gonna be down fourteen, But in the second half, this group they just do it time and time.

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Speaker 8: Again, and it's you can't call it luck now. I was even someone leaning into our right, they're getting a little bit of luck here with the way you win at LSU and doing it the first time at Tennessee. But you when you've won eight out of nine and most of them were close games, we had to make a winning play at the end, and Colin Chandler did most of those winning plays. I mean, you're you're just a team that knows how to win at that point, to do it time and time again in the different ways you've had the Arkansas, the Technicals taking it from you and you take it right back. You have coming back from seventeen down. You've got the daggers that Chandlers hit. I mean, they're doing it so many different ways. They're all ending with victories, however it looks.

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Speaker 5: Let's talk about the plays Colin Chandler keeps making. I mean the pass against LSU, obviously, the steal against Tennessee.

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Speaker 6: Right, he had a big one.

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Speaker 5: What was this big one against Arkansas?

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Speaker 2: He had one had a little turnaround jumper later turn.

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Speaker 5: Around jumper that basically put the game away against Arkansas. That's exactly right. The shot here today. I think he hit a pretty big shot against either Mississippi State or Old.

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Speaker 2: Miss oh Miss oh Miss.

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Speaker 5: So, I mean he has become like mister Clutch and then O Way, dude, always just been an SEC play dominant. He always has little parts of the game where it feels like he's not totally there, but when it's crunch time, he's always there.

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Speaker 6: And Ryan those guys have have have led us here.

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Speaker 7: Always got like what five straight SEC game with twenty points or more? Right now, and you know what we you and I talked about on the post game show. The Chandler shot was big. The pass that alway through to get to Chandler of the shot is to me, he's even bigger.

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Speaker 5: That pass is a great pass. I mean, Chandler's shot deserves all the happiness you can get, but that pass was perfection, and uh, I love it. It's a huge win for the team. We'll talk more about the schedule later and why I think it's such a huge win. But now you get a week off, now you can get healthier, and you go into it with a win, and they are eight and three in the SEC, having won eight to last nine.

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Speaker 6: It's it's crazy.

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Speaker 5: I don't even I don't think they're as good as that, but you know what they won, so they are.

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Speaker 6: And that's exactly why you gotta why you gotta be excited.

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Speaker 5: And what is it? Working hard means everything hard at it. Everything works if you work hard at it. What a beautiful sit Everything works if you work hard at it. And the Cats have done it and on the road and at home against these SEC teams, We'll take a break and be right back. It's KSR. Wow, this is close, but this is not his exact words. This is everything works if you let it in your heart.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is cheap trick. So maybe maybe maybe he took the inspiration from this song.

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Speaker 5: That's all. He's right. So what Ryan did is he took a cheap trick and he made it expensive. He made it to where it's work, it's worth more and it's more on target. There's already a T shirt out that I retweeted. Right, everything works if you work at it.

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Speaker 2: Can you hook me up with a trademark attorney after the show? Maybe today.

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Speaker 5: I could.

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to, but but but I could if I'm nine eighty seven.

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Speaker 5: When person writes Matt, I've been in Rupp Aerna for many years for season tickets going back to the eighties. That colin Chandler pop was one of the loudest I've ever heard it, Rup. It was awesome. What I liked about it, Drew, is when the pass is in the air from O Way to Chandler, Rupp takes a collective deep breath.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so there's.

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Speaker 5: Almost like a moment of silence before everyone explodes.

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Speaker 6: That is very cool.

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Speaker 5: There's like a second second and a half of tension, and then it leads into this like crazy release of energy, which is awesome.

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Speaker 8: That and if you just look around courtside, all the legends that are sitting there watching Colin Chandler where the Denim bang that three to essentially beat Tennessee. In that moment, that added too. We got this little curly blondhaired kid knocking down Daggers in front of the ninety six team looking at him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if you saw Ryan.

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Speaker 5: During the game, occasionally you'd get flashes of the ninety six team and they were all like talking like they were the coach.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: I kind of wonder if because it's their teammate, they feel like they can go we know what he should do, is sure? Because I would look and every time it felt like they were kind of coaching the team from the sidelines.

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Speaker 2: It was kind of you know, it's such a special night.

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Speaker 7: They had the denim, you know, gen blue jean jackets come out, and I don't know if you saw this or not, but Anthony Epps actually teared up when talking about after the game how much it made it to Yeah, so that was awesome.

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Speaker 5: The only by part, Shandon, I was trying to get to that party and I was like, Okay, can we wrap it up here, guys, because I was trying. It was a long Network post game show, and I was like, all right, guys, it's twelve thirty at NU. What do you think of the uniforms? Shandon start with you and then you guys all give your text.

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Speaker 4: Loved them there.

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Speaker 3: I thought they looked better than what I could remember them looking like, you know, thirty years ago.

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Speaker 4: So I really liked the uniforms. Thought they were great.

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Speaker 3: Not crazy about the merch they put out necessarily for the fans, but the uniforms themselves looked great. I felt like Mark Pope Cheetah a little bit on the dentim suit though it's just a blue suit.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Bryan, what do you think?

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Speaker 2: I'm with Shannon. I really liked it.

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Speaker 7: I kind of like how they like kind of stayed with tradition, kind of the look from ninety six. Uh, just enough denim, didn't overdo it, you know.

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 7: And so now I hope you get we wear the blue ones the road jerseys somewhere. Maybe not this weekend at Florida, but somewhere you got to break out those road jerseys.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 8: They did agree job making them look almost identical to the originals. Yeah, and since we wanted them. Just let's wear them the rest of the way. Come on, let's do it.

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Speaker 6: But you wear him the rest of the way.

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Speaker 5: Let's do it.

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Speaker 8: Come on, it's thirty years, it's Pope, and you know that was his team. They obviously work. The fans clearly love them. When they're camping out in the cold to get denim just to wear finish the year with them.

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Speaker 6: How about that that camp out line?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the uh that's pretty amazing. And then the shoes, Drew says, I have a pair of the shoes coming. That makes me excited. I think they I don't know. I think they did a really good job with all of it. I'm with I wish the hoodie was better, Shannon, That's the one thing I agree with you on. But everything else, I thought the uniforms looked great. I think the timing's good, obviously because of the thirtieth anniversary.

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Speaker 6: I just.

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Speaker 5: Everything that celebrates the thread of history that is Kentucky basketball without being lame. There's like a fine line between acknowledging that there is a connection from Bill Spivey, you know, to Denzel Aberdeen. Right, there's a thread and a connection that goes through history and when you can find a way to bring that together and it not be lame and old.

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Speaker 6: I think that's really special. And Ryan, I think this did that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's like you're acknowledging maybe the best team in the history of the school, and you're doing it a way that still connects to people. You know, those college kids are going crazy about the Dinnim. They weren't even alive, like they were. They weren't even alive by years and they're still getting a chance to do it. I love when we get to do those things.

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Speaker 2: I love it too.

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Speaker 7: And you know, we talked about it. When the Denam first came out in ninety six. A large majority of our fan base did not like it, and we're very vocal in fact they did not like it.

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Speaker 5: Is that true because like I don't remember, Oh yeah, I was in high school and I thought it was cool. But Ryan, you were covering the team, there were a lot of people that didn't like it.

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Speaker 7: I have large majority of people were very unhappy that we were wearing denim uniforms.

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Speaker 2: What they say, they get rid of them.

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Speaker 7: They didn't know, they didn't want them at all, but they kept winning in them, you know, and they were. You know, we're undefeated in the denim uniforms still to this day, so why not let embrace it.

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Speaker 8: I went back and read a news story at the time and it said that the postgame show that day, every call was about the uniform and not the game, and all but one of them were complaining, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So was it like Ryan and Old you know, that's not really our colors? Was that what it was?

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Speaker 6: Dirt?

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Speaker 8: A lot of people said it looked like North Carolina at the time, right.

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Speaker 7: True, Yeah, it was too close to the North Carolina blue, not Kentucky blue. We wear blue and white, we don't wear this blue and faded out.

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Speaker 6: But they it was.

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Speaker 5: Funny they didn't listen because they kept it. I mean, they won the national championship in those so I think that's, uh, that's very cool.

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Speaker 7: I do love how the rollout we talked about, you know, Leanne Marks and his daughters were handing out donuts and they had like all these displays set up as you walked in line to get your books, videos and stuff. Like they really did a good job kind of getting the crowd excited about this denim roll out they were doing.

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Speaker 5: No matter what else, anybody says about Pope as a coach whatever. In terms of this part of the job, There'll never be anybody that we have Ryan who understands it better.

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Speaker 6: Right, I mean, I there won't like.

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Speaker 5: That, that whole thing, the sort of secondary part, the non basketball part of being a head coach at Kentucky. They'll never be somebody who gets it. Like I think, like Mark Pope does.

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Speaker 7: Totally agree because he's lived it. You know, he knows what it's like to put that jersey on. And you saw how all his teammates reacted after the game, after the win, and they're you know, high five and even chest bumping. He right on ruppery infore they were transformed back to twenty two year olds again that because it just means something once you wear that jersey.

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Speaker 5: Uh do you a couple other players I want to give a shout out to. I continue to be impressed with how Denzel Aberdeen has improved. Man. I mean, he hit those free throws that kind of put away the game at the end, but he's also making good decisions at the point. They're putting the ball in his hands at the end of the games and telling him to make the call. I think he's great.

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Speaker 6: Uh Diabate's rebound was huge at the end.

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Speaker 5: That was a kid that's a huge play and then being smart enough to get it out of his hands and send it out. Uh to Aberdeen and Chandler that that was big. I thought Moreno had some some really good moments. Yellovich made some big shots earlier in the game. You really had a game where all of these people contributed. And you know there'll be little parts of all their games that will drive you crazy sometimes. But the way they played, the way Chandler played defense in the second half on Amen and then o Way on the final play, it was just a team win.

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Speaker 5: He's not.

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Speaker 5: But yet women like especially middle aged women at the time, loved it. She I mean they loved like I don't know what it was about the seventies that made people like women just want him and like Tom Jones like like they just loved that.

00:24:20
Speaker 4: I guess they didn't have many people to choose run back.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, I don't understand. I can't.

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Speaker 4: Maybe that's just the look that women like back then.

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Speaker 6: Drew lather up about about Conway Twitt.

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Speaker 5: They loved it.

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Speaker 8: And now I don't know how he was able to to to uh get all these women the way he did with these lyrics.

00:24:49
Speaker 5: And the lyrics, I mean, the lyrics are just and then he's just look at him and family guy made it a running joke because he was so well, it's enough Conway Twitty. But anyway, if I'm not y sith God bless him. Good luck to you, my fan. Although I guess he's dead. Yeah, he's dead. He's not getting rest in peace.

00:25:06
Speaker 6: It's not working out for him now.

00:25:08
Speaker 5: Seven seven to two, uh seven seven four five two five four one person rights Matt. The wild Eggs had played during the game, Uh, and my kid recognized it. My wife had not heard it. And when my kids said for lovers, my wife looked at him and said.

00:25:24
Speaker 6: Please stop talking. I can't see. You can't do that to kids.

00:25:29
Speaker 2: I think that's why it works.

00:25:31
Speaker 7: It's it's a you know, resonating with not just adults, but with kids.

00:25:34
Speaker 8: Also.

00:25:35
Speaker 4: Ryan never claimed to be a role model.

00:25:36
Speaker 5: To be fair, that's true. He's like Charles Barkley. He's not a role model.

00:25:39
Speaker 6: He's here for your Billy packer.

00:25:41
Speaker 5: Matt said on a game when Kentucky war Denhams that they look more like Carolina blue. And that's why fans got so upset about it was they felt like Packer had said it on national TV. Oh think is that right, right? That that would make sense?

00:25:57
Speaker 7: I forgot about that moment. I believe that's exactly right. I think Packer said something about it during a broadcast, and just people are unhappy with them to begin with, and I just took it to another level.

00:26:05
Speaker 5: You wait thirty years and things that at the time were criticized now they're retro and cool. Like we've talked about the icicles and even I remember people not liking the icicles. Yes, if they came back, Drew, everyone would want them.

00:26:18
Speaker 8: Right, of course? Can we slap the Apex logo on them? Is Apex still around? That was the brand of the icicles on the denim Again. I was reading about, you know, all the newspaper articles from the time. Someone asked Patino about them in the press conference, and in a typical Patino fashion, he said, that is the worst question I've ever been asked to. Whoever asked about the uniforms. He said, the uniforms don't matter.

00:26:41
Speaker 5: Well, they mattered Saturday, and fansher wanted it when they stood out in the colt Who's up first, Lloyd, Lloyd, go ahead, Lloyd.

00:26:50
Speaker 10: Hey guys, two quick things. First of all, in my opinion, the best win of the year, simply because the offensive and defensive the justice we may at half time. Secondly, we have to leave the country in miss layups. Oh this finish strong jacket.

00:27:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, we we There's no no doubt. We missed more layups than anyone. But we do get layups a lot, and I appreciate the call, Lloyd. I mean, we get a ton of layups, Drew, we miss a ton of layups, but we also get a ton and it feels like they do make them more at the end. But man, we miss layups.

00:27:26
Speaker 8: Yeah, we've had some awful percentages on layups in games. And someone missed a critical when late against Tennessee obviously didn't matter a Garrison or Diabate one of them had. I mean it was a bunny and a kes On Bunny.

00:27:38
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:27:38
Speaker 8: Yeah, it just those get so frustrating. They ended up fourteen for twenty one in the game. I'm looking at the box score, but they've had some that were much worse than that. That's been a problem all year.

00:27:46
Speaker 5: We got out rebounded, but we outscored. I don't This is You'll very rarely see this in a basketball game. We got dominated on the boards, but Ryan, we almost doubled them up on points in the paint. That's a very rare combination, but we actually had that.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't see that.

00:28:04
Speaker 7: And I think Pope's teams have kind of taken on that old Calipari mantra. Just throw it up on the rim, We'll go up and get it and put it back. And a lot of times I think they try to do that. They count on Diabate, Marino or Garrison getting that rebound and putting it back up.

00:28:15
Speaker 5: Well, part of it is Aberdeen and old Way miss a lot when they drive, and then we got some guys around the basket. They'll have the best touch in the world. I mean, I feel like Diabate when he gets it, Shannon, his goal is to break the rim shots, right, He just throws it as hard as he can at the area and hopes it goes in.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: Well, he's not the guy that I'm wanting to take shots really anyway. I mean, if he's closed, you know, obviously that was.

00:28:43
Speaker 6: A huge rebound at the end. That's a huge rebound that he got.

00:28:47
Speaker 7: He was on the left side of the free throw lane and made the rebound on the right side.

00:28:50
Speaker 5: He doesn't get that rebound, we might lose the game. Yep, And that was a huge rebound. Who's next? DG? DG? What's up?

00:28:59
Speaker 11: What's the guys? So May and my buddies have a podcast that we talked all Kentucky, and I just wanted to hear y'all thoughts on this. But just a couple of weeks ago, you know, we're looking at this season. We have major losses against Zaga, Michigan State, everything with the locker room in Louisville, then we started zing two. To me, you know, looking at this team, I think the way that Mark Pope has been able to keep these guys locked in and focus what's going on on the court and in the locker room is just a huge attestament to him. And I'm just curious what y'all thoughts on, Like, if you had to pick one thing on the season, what's been most impressive to you all with everything that transpired going on early on.

00:29:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is that they with all those injuries, have been able drough to generate any offense.

00:29:44
Speaker 6: I appreciate the call.

00:29:46
Speaker 5: I thought this team would be really good defensively even after the injuries, because they still have their best defensive place.

00:29:52
Speaker 6: The guys that got.

00:29:53
Speaker 5: Hurt were at least with Jalen Lowe defensive liabilities. But I thought offensively, this team was not going to be able to score points, and they scored over ninety at Arkis like that would if you had told me that that was gonna happen, I'd have thought you were crazy. So I think the fact that they've been able to do that is absolutely awesome. Excuse me, I guess Oklahoma they scored overnight, but it's absolutely awesome to me.

00:30:21
Speaker 8: Drew, now, whatever Pope said or did to get Aberdeen, specifically to I mean, he is a completely different player in these last few weeks than he was earlier in the season. And same with Chandler, who kind of disappeared in December, seemed to as lost as confidence would even shoot. Whatever he did to get those guys going kind of in a stretch where it wasn't a lot of hope. I mean, after they went oh and two to start the conference. They flip a switch when they could have gone the other way, and the back court of Aberdeen, Chandler and oh Way are completely different players than they were earlier in the season, and they're kind of helped carrying the team to all these wins.

00:30:53
Speaker 6: I think that is the key. I think you hit it right there.

00:30:56
Speaker 5: They he got Ryan Chandler Aberdeen out of the abyss. Chandler had no confidence and Aberdeen was out of control and not playing as a guard that could be helpful. And the fact that he has transformed those two guys into dudes that are now scorers and really positive net players, I think is the thing. Maybe he's done the best. I mean he's flipped the big start playing Moreno and Jelovich and then bench Garrison and Diabaatee and flipped it. But getting those guys to play the way he has has got to me that is the biggest transformation.

00:31:32
Speaker 2: There's no doubt.

00:31:33
Speaker 7: Now they know their roles, they know what the responsibilities are, and like you and I have talked to, Aberdeen went from one of my least favorite players ever to now he's one of my favorite guys. Because of what you guys just said he knows what his role is. I'm the point guard, I'm the facilitator, and he's kind of settled into that role a little bit when not even talking about it.

00:31:47
Speaker 2: Got great minutes from Trenton Nohan, Jasper Johnson.

00:31:50
Speaker 5: Trent Noah and Jasper playing well too. The transformation of Aberdeen is one of the greatest I've ever seen, because he was bad in the first half of the year, so frustrated and now watching him that that transformation has been unbelievable. Who's next.

00:32:06
Speaker 4: Let's go to Donnie.

00:32:07
Speaker 6: Donnie, go ahead, Donnie.

00:32:10
Speaker 12: Okay, Matt, I'm getting ready to make your head swell if you'll give me a chance to get it all out, all right, all right, Uh, even though you graduated from of all places, Duke, and even though you probably don't know the difference between I can't affix a flight, miracle grow and Viagra, even though they all free kind of do the same thing. When it comes to comparing you to Tony Basilio, Uh that uh and by the way, he looks like Uncle Faster.

00:32:48
Speaker 5: Uh.

00:32:48
Speaker 12: Matt, you're the Arthur Fonza, rarely the James Dean of radio, the Michael Buffer. When it comes to the voice.

00:32:57
Speaker 6: That is very, very kind of you. I appreciate ate it. I know.

00:33:03
Speaker 5: I know one of those three things you said, but I know I did the fix a flat and the uh what was the second thing you said?

00:33:13
Speaker 8: Miracle grow.

00:33:16
Speaker 5: And viagra? Yeah, which one? Do you know?

00:33:19
Speaker 6: We don't have to talk about.

00:33:24
Speaker 2: You grow a lot of plants in your apartment, pressure mirror, I.

00:33:27
Speaker 6: Have grown a lot of plants. Miracle grow.

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00:34:06
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00:34:08
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00:34:22
Speaker 3: Fix a flat Yeah, Oh come on, yeah, I thought it was the miracle grow.

00:34:28
Speaker 5: I mean it could be either just get your head out of the.

00:34:31
Speaker 4: Gutther let's be fad on stage there.

00:34:34
Speaker 5: That's true if I'm not two eight twenty two eighty seven, what person writes Matt uh Rick. Patino responded back to the fans back then complaining about the uniforms. He said, how could you be out on a date with Cindy Crawford and complaining about a mole.

00:34:48
Speaker 6: It's a good line.

00:34:49
Speaker 2: It is a pretty good line.

00:34:51
Speaker 5: I don't remember that.

00:34:52
Speaker 2: No, I don't remember that.

00:34:53
Speaker 6: Remember that that's a good line.

00:34:54
Speaker 5: Somebody sent on twitter ut account Kentucky High School Sports History. This is our article from the Daanvil Advocate, where they asked fans in nineteen ninety six what they thought about the uniforms. Bob Anderson said, I like the other uniforms better. They had more of what I consider to be Kentucky blue. But then Wayne Knight said it's not a big issue with me.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: They can wear pink as long as they win.

00:35:18
Speaker 5: I like that one. It feels like some it feels like something Wayne Knight would say there in Danvill, right.

00:35:24
Speaker 7: If it probably would work in Danvill. I did like how Jimmy Dykes used a couple of times and ain't the denim, it's what's in him? Like he just made up that line. That was the very popular thirty years ago.

00:35:33
Speaker 5: That was the big phrase. Even I remember that that was that was the big phrase. If I'm nine two eight oh, twenty two eighty seven, Uh, Shane, have you gotten any into any of the Olympics yet.

00:35:44
Speaker 4: A little bit?

00:35:45
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:35:46
Speaker 3: The ski jumping, I'm just so jealous of all those athletes that can do that because you know, I go skiing like once a year, and I watched these people do all these flips and stuff like I wish I could do that.

00:35:55
Speaker 5: So on the plane last night, I was watching after the Super Bowl, I was watching the scheme all right, and they showed poor Lindsey Vaughn. I mean, I'm sure she's got a good life, but like tears her acl, tries to go, then gets hurt again, breaks her leg apparently, and they had to do surgery. I was watching them, me and Shanda when they were airlifting her out, and she's just laying on that gurney and the helicopter. That's crazy. Can you imagine having a broken leg and sitting there and you're just floating over.

00:36:23
Speaker 6: The mountains the helicopters.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: Absolutely not. I'd say, let me just hear and die, freaking me out.

00:36:31
Speaker 5: But I have to tell you, and the men and women's downhills over so they're not gonna show this again. But Ryan, the downhill. They got these drones now that will hover over the skier and go down with her as she goes, and you get a sense of how fast they're going.

00:36:51
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, I don't know how people do that.

00:36:55
Speaker 5: They get up to sixty five miles an hour, okay, And that drone they had, drone that was right above above her, and literally it made you feel like you were skimed.

00:37:05
Speaker 6: I would lose it. I would freak out.

00:37:08
Speaker 5: I have more respect now because when you watch it regularly, it looks like they're going fast, but like you don't get a perspective with that drone, like from her vision. I cannot believe, Ryan, how fast those skiers go down that hill. It's unbelievable.

00:37:24
Speaker 2: So you make me want to watch it now because you gotta.

00:37:27
Speaker 5: Look it up. Get on peacock and look up because they've got like the old they've got the replays. Go look up the men's and women's downhill and just watch it and watch the camera angle where the drone's going down with her Drew. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen I've I remember they did that at the Tour de Franz and when they were descending them out and I was like, good not I didn't realize how fast they were going. You really don't get a perspective until you ride along with them, and it's it's crazy and.

00:37:57
Speaker 8: It makes me wonder. Obviously they're all pros now but when they started those first few times, like there had to have been some some big some some lessons learned and learning how to do something like that, because I can't imagine your first time, like, well, here we go, it's jelfast.

00:38:11
Speaker 5: I always say that about the ski jump, how do you do your first one? Okay, I get that they could do it now, but Shannon, they had to go down that thing for the first time at some point exactly.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: I mean, did they have like a giant crash pad.

00:38:26
Speaker 5: I mean, they have to see. I would be fascinated about the ski jump, about how you start, because you can't go down the first time, you'll you fall off. The first time has got to be insane. So I love these sports. I do. I don't know, you know, it feels like Finland wins every single thing because I guess they got all that snow, but uh, I love it. And then and then they had some dude in the figure skating. He did a backflip last night. Did you see that he did a backflipating?

00:38:59
Speaker 4: Yes, figure, I didn't that.

00:39:01
Speaker 5: He did a backflip. He was and he's American guy. And maybe they they won.

00:39:06
Speaker 8: Our bob sledding team didn't do so well. Did you see them?

00:39:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, they couldn't get into the bob sled.

00:39:10
Speaker 8: Yeah. Getting into the sled is a big part.

00:39:12
Speaker 5: Of the star four man bob sled. If three of them can't get in, be ended up with just one. And he didn't go very fast and he was like, wait a minute, guys, you leave me out here by myself.

00:39:24
Speaker 4: Have you seen this controversy involving the ski jumpers.

00:39:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I saw it. I saw it. I don't understand the science. We talked a lot about that on the on the trip to San Francisco. We didn't really understand the signs. Yeah, but we thought Miracle Grow would have would have helped the would have held the situation.

00:39:40
Speaker 6: Who's next, Kyle, Kyle, go ahead, Kyle.

00:39:45
Speaker 13: Hey, guys, just wanted to call in and share my viewing experience from the game on Saturday, which at least for me, was really unique, and that I was at Reperino watching the game, but I was sitting in the middle of the the family section for the Tennessee players, So yeah, it was you know, when they went on that huge run at the end of the first half, it was you know, it was bad for everybody. It was absolutely miserable for me because they were high fiving over my head.

00:40:15
Speaker 6: And but when we won.

00:40:17
Speaker 5: When we won, did you did you try to be nice because you were next to the people whose kids were playing or did you yell and scream?

00:40:25
Speaker 13: No? I was absolutely nice. I mean, uh one, uh, you know, I had mamas on all sides of sides of me, so I had to be careful what exactly I was cheering about. But uh, they were really good with it too. I mean when uh Uk started coming back and finally took the lead, I was clapping and screaming, and one of them, you know, playfully hit me on the arm. But uh but yeah, also, uh it gave me a little bit of a perspective because it was growing for them to see them, you know, their kids just lose that game like that. Yeah, but don't forget my excitement.

00:41:00
Speaker 5: Don't let it even though they're Tennessee fans. Remember they're still Tennessee. It's nice of you to be nice. That's what you should do. You shouldn't talk people's mothers, but don't let it make you forget that those are dirty balls on the other side. And then we have to win the game and be nice to their mothers. But also know they still have to take the all. Absolutely, I appreciate the call you. They're still Tennessee. Now, Shannon, why did you let Ryan get on his phone Saturday morning and tweet all.

00:41:28
Speaker 6: That I know it?

00:41:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, he went over the like went over the top of front this time.

00:41:33
Speaker 5: First of all, get off AI. You're not allowed to have it, Drew, He's not allowed to have AI. Some of those were real though, but Drew, he's not allowed to have AI.

00:41:43
Speaker 8: It looks I don't know how to do it.

00:41:46
Speaker 6: How did you find AI?

00:41:48
Speaker 5: No one was supposed to teach you that, Ryan, I.

00:41:50
Speaker 2: To be honest, I have no idea how to do it. Somebody sent me that photos.

00:41:54
Speaker 5: Okay, stop stop taking stuff people send you. They're encouraging the worst parts of you. You're gonna end up on a suspension at some point, and it's gonna be becall because you know Dante sent you a picture.

00:42:08
Speaker 2: You gotta stop undefeated this year doing it though

00:42:12
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter, there's no correlation.