2025-07-24- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes one of the rising stars of Kill Tony Casey Rocket July tenth through the twelfth. Then catch Lexington first timer Marcus D. Wiley June seventeenth through the nineteenth and as scene on ag T. Don't miss the amazing psychic comedian Peter Antonio July twenty fifth and twenty sixth four. Tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called eight five nine two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Comedy Off Byway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, July the twenty fourth. I'm Matt Jones here on another sunny day in Lexington, Kentucky. You can give it a shallot Clark's Puppy Shop full line. That's eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Had good calls yesterday. You guys want to ask more questions, you can. I had a lot of positive feedback about our two where we were just.

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Speaker 3: Kind of going down memory lane. Reminiscy a Vision.

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Speaker 2: Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four In this sedition spots about the TJ. Smith Office. You call TJ. He will make them pay. Guys. I did seven hours of radio yesterday and I did two hours of the Matt Jones Podcast and then three hours of ESPN, and by the end of it, I was out of things to say. Really, Like even the last thirty minutes of ESPN last night, I was like, Okay, yeah, Michaeh. Parsons, you know, because literally the Cowboys have been the lead story all all three nights we were on and more Jerry Jones, and it's like, I mean, I'm just gonna I hate the Cowboys now. And I used to kind of the Bears were my team, but the Cowboys were kind of like a number two or three. Now I just I can't stand them because every single time something happens, it's Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: Cowboys, Cowboys. You just gonna have to keep learning more about him. It's not going away shows want to talk about I caught your I'd say it's probably eight to eight thirty ish. I was picking up some food leaving leaving an event and caught you all. It seems like you were laughing a lot at that at that moment.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's a good thing about about working with Myron, as I do laugh a lot because they, you know ESPN, like it's just like whatever, do your thing, when when they when they hand it to us, they do kind of do whatever, and so it ends up being fun. But but I will say, you can only laugh, Like when you get an hour seven of laughing, you're like, okay, I'm good. So I got home, I'm on my I'm watching a show that I am embarrassed that I'm watching.

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Speaker 3: What is it?

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Speaker 2: But I do kind of like which one are you? Are you doing? Love Island?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: No, okay, I wish it was Where were some of the few people that's on Earth that aren't watching This is more embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: Than watching Love Island. I'm kind of into Gilded Age on HBO, which is about like eighteen eighties social scene in New York. It's not even it's not even particularly good. But for some reason, I don't know why, I played one episode and now I'm like, I gotta see are they gonna let missus Russell entered the social society of old New York, I mean, miss Astor. It feels like she's going to at some point, and I'm gotta be the only male watching the show in the United States. I don't think another male is watching it, but you know, I've scrolled past it several times. But now I might not that. I maybe we could launch a Gilded Age podcast. It'll just be me and you, okay, I mean I think if we if we were to do a guilded Age TV club, it would be me and you and like sixty five year old women. Those are gonna be the only people watching it. But I have to tell you, right, it's a good like go to sleep, fall asleep watching Guilded Age show.

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Speaker 3: That's your guilty pleasure right now.

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Speaker 2: You do guilty though, because it's not like it like with Love Island at least that's like trashy. This is just old people are all wearing those dresses where their butts go out New York. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean that's kind of what I One of the things I like about it is they talk about how the neighborhoods are. Did you know that the Statue of liberty. Here's an interesting fact that I learned don Gilded Age and I looked it up and it's true. Okay, the statue of liberty. You know what statue of liberty ismorrio? Right? Like it hangs there, uh or put New York. It's there in the ocean and it's the woman and she's holding up the torch. You may not have known this. Initially, France only sent us the torch. Okay, and they said, hey, we want to send you this present. We're gonna send you the torch. And then they go, you got to raise some money. We ain't paying for everything, like, we're all pay for some of it. This is the torch. Just gotta raise some money. And it's set in a park in New York for six years because they couldn't raise any money because everybody was like, we don't need that statue. So they thought it was just gonna be the torch. And then in the eighteen eighties all these robber barons came and like started making a lot of money, got some money into it, and then France got the rest and we ended up with Status Delivery. But for a long time it looked like we were only gonna have the torch because Shannon, no one wanted the rest of Lady Liberty.

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Speaker 5: It would be weird if we just had a torch there right now instead of the statue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so think about that, Like we take the Statue of Liberty, for granted. But for a long time, France was like, you get the torch. Now, y'all go have to do some stuff for yourself to see the torch, and then nobody you're and then we were like no. And then finally we gave a little money in fraans. It's like, all right, we'll give you some more. But for a while it was only the torch.

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Speaker 3: Well I thought, I thought that it's not my history books, but it seems like I thought France gave it to us as a gift.

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Speaker 2: It's that's not totally true. They started as a gift. But it was like one of these we're gonna help you help yourselves here, you know, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: You teach a man to fish, had put the piece of the rest of it.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, you got an arm, Shannon. They were like, you can contribute a face and then we'll give you the body exactly. But for a long time we only had the torch because we were like, well, we're just we're not we're not into it yet.

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Speaker 4: Well one spoiler alert, I just told you I'm gonna start watching the Guild to days. Now I know how this happens. But now I never knew that. See, you didn't have the was it like to the elbow, I don't know, the hand, just the torch.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize how this is not what I thought we were gonna be talking about today. There's this whole thing about do you know about the coming out party? Like now we say the phrase coming out yea as like to mean like say you're gay, right, But it used to be that phrase was meant women were coming out on the market to meet me.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: And so a big thing in the show is when do they let these There's a woman that she's like twenty two and she's like, I'm ready to come out and your mother's like not yet, and like they're arguing about that. See this is good entertainment, Ryan, and you're and I'm also learning.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So coming out it's like today's times, like the limo pulling up on The Bachelor, that's them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if we have I don't know. I don't know if we have an equivalent now because I think like women now start dating like when they're in middle school. But there there's a time that they were like you can't be liplocking with men until and then you have a ball to introduce the woman to society, to society. Yeah, it is kind of like a product. It feels a little cattlely. But but you know, I don't know that women were getting full rights in the Gilded day. Well I'm now can't wait to get home and the Gilded rage. Now you can see why it's a good come down from being on the ESPN radio. You go from Micah Parsons to the Gilded Age.

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Speaker 3: I've been pressed. You got a voice to be honest for seven hours.

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Speaker 2: Two more hours and then tomorrow where is our where's our remote? Tomorrow to nichol Nicholasville. What's the name of the place.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh, Yeah, I'm getting right there to it. It is at Kentucky Customs and Uplifting, Kentucky Customs fitting over this, upfitting.

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Speaker 2: Uplifting the third time he's done that, Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: I've got it written in my calendar.

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Speaker 2: Uplifting tomorrow, Kentucky Customs and Upfitting, upfitting. What do they upfit?

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Speaker 3: Because like bedliners in the back of a pickup truck.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, so I don't have that.

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Speaker 3: They want you to try to smash a watermelon with a sledgehammer in the back of their me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Gallagher, if you want to smash some free.

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Speaker 3: I'll do it. They want you to do it.

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Speaker 2: That'll be fun. Yeah, I guess yeah, right, that's in a Nicholsville what's the address?

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, let me get right out on the nineteen Howard Street Street.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna also give away tomorrow in Nicholasville because I'm feeling generous. Uh, some UK basketball tickets to that opening game against predict.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's that's gonna end up being a hot ticket to get hot ticket.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one of those hot tickets. You'll get pieces of the watermelon that we smash and you have a chance to win the tickets at Howard Way Howard Street in Nicholsville. And I gotta fi we gotta fiure out to tell me where to eat Nicholasville. I've never eaten nicholas vill except Brandon Crossing, but I know they've got to have better stuff.

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Speaker 3: Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute. I think the new Long John Silver's just opened out there.

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Speaker 4: I said, looked like there were three million people there on opening day.

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, So there's a new.

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Speaker 3: Long Johnt Yes, and it's just opened, yes.

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Speaker 2: And people and they're like going to bunkers for it. Could be one of the best relaunches we've ever seen. Is the last time I've eaten Long John Silvers? I mean, well, you gotta go back a decade.

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Speaker 3: It's been over twenty years.

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Speaker 2: Is there one in Lexington?

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's one electionon anymore.

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Speaker 2: And is there one in Louisville? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just open on Barstown Road in Fern So it's new too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah the road and what just on Barstown Road in Fern Creek in creeks.

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Speaker 2: Out there next to roosters and all that. Okay that are yeah, oh well all right, well long why is Long John's coming back? I mean I'm for it, but like, is there been a yearning for it?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I've been yearning for it. We may be able to get in, I mean apparently the crowds have been insane. We may not be able to get into the Long John Silver Sit you're.

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Speaker 2: Telling me you can't get into Long Johns. I saw a picture. It was insane. How many cars for there is. People are just amazing, Like you just take something away from them.

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Speaker 3: The Long Johnson over Fish what.

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Speaker 2: Else do we need to come back? If long John coming back, but it is not coming back here maybe one day, but not Minnesota. Are there what other I'm trying to think of. I don't feel like they're gonna be out the door show and they still.

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Speaker 3: Have every exit from here to like Corbyn and it just went away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good to know about the long shins and the and the Gilded Age. Neither topics were things that I thought I would start about. What I thought I was going to start about. It's something that we haven't really talked about the last two days, which was Mark Pope had had a press conference the other day. I'm starting to just rely on you, Drew, especially now, you know, until we get into the season. Drew updates me on the things I need to hear from press conferences. So Mark Pope, the only thing I really saw coming out of the press press conferences, he said we he thought our defense was terrible and that we were gonna have to get the scrimmage familiar, familiar, he said. He said we couldn't guard anybody and he was disappointed. What else besides talked.

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Speaker 4: A lot about that, but you know, we've kind of tbt's over Unfortunately, I wouldn't form any strong opinions about the team defense in the first half against the lot familiar I'd say the other big update was, uh, even though we didn't get anything real concrete, he still seems pretty good about Yellovich. I guess he just got done.

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Speaker 2: So it sounded like he thought he's gonna be elevant.

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Speaker 4: They have his transcripts now. Whatever he needed to do on that end. With school, I guess he just completed. Now it's a matter of getting over here. I guess I never thought about about it. But to participate in summer workout, you have to be in summer school, and I guess he just wasn't quite ready to have the workload to even be a particular.

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Speaker 2: You can start at any moment. You can start school in November. You could just start school whenever.

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Speaker 5: It's like a miracle, all the Sime's eligible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in the middle of October. We apparently school doesn't start till Thanksgi.

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Speaker 4: All right, so so then and then he's you know, he goes player by player and there were specials and spectaculars.

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Speaker 2: And people are all the players special this year so far?

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Speaker 4: Everyone, I think we're about in a thousand all of them, and they're all extraordinary. Okay, but if you uh there he did say good things about Cam Williams and uh even though he's new and still getting used to his level, he says he's taking coaching well. You know, see, he'll get frustrated a little bit at times, but he's like when you's seeing him in that Marino. There's been a lot of buzz about him looking good too.

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Speaker 2: Now, am I correct? We have a cam Williams, Yes, but we're also recruiting there there's another cam.

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Speaker 4: We could have double cam Williams down the road cam Williams on the team. I think I'll have to double check. I think the other cam is a C cam Williams. And then we have a K cam Williams. Okay, but yes, there is a high school cam Williams. That's Holly ranked it and we're going after him, right, yeah, twenty twenty six class.

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Speaker 5: All right, so we recruit an entire team of the same name Williams.

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Speaker 3: Yes, nothing at cams.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'd say, if you have a cam Williams, you get enough, I'll tell you a stat that blew my mind. Guess who the starting point guard is for Villanova? This year. No, no, you know, yeah, I don't say Shannon. Guess who the starting point guard for Villanova. I'm not saying name that's gonna blow your mind. I have no idea who Devon. Ask you what can he still be? Have eligibility and ask you is projected to be the starting pay I'm dead serious.

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Speaker 3: He's still playing college basketball.

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Speaker 2: He is projected to be. Devin asked, you played during the Truman administration and he is supposed to be the starting point guard for Villanos.

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Speaker 3: You get a different school every year too. It s like, what is at school?

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Speaker 2: Did he played here during the COVID year? Didn't he? Yeah? Texas a year after, not the one that ended short, but the following year. I mean, that is amazing to me that he is, That he is still in college.

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Speaker 3: Basketball, amazing me that he's a Division one point guard.

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Speaker 4: His teammate, Cam Fletcher is also still bouncing around. Cam Fletcher, he's nearby. Is he had Xavier or he was a Xavier? He's been hard to keep up with too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so he's been a Kentucky, Texas, California, Long Beach State, and now Villanova fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable And this is what his sixth year and he's rejected as we started eligible.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I really don't know. He's been It's been a different team every season.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Anyway, eight five nine, twenty two, eighty seven, that was your Gilded age. Long John Silver's Devin ask you. First segment text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. People are suggesting Nicholas Field places to eat. Do you know, uh, Copper River grill.

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Speaker 3: That's good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeahs good.

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Speaker 3: It's good.

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Speaker 2: What makes it so good?

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like a cracker barrel type Field got through country cooking in there.

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Speaker 2: You say, that's so excited because I like it. It's kind of like a cracker barrel type.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And you know you get like chicken with gray white gravy on it, stuff like that. I love that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Okay, isn't Nicholasville where the cane says the is it ducks or what is it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, geese still got that cane? Yeah we shouldn't. Someone did, but we can. We can go on that Geese. We'll take a break. Be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio quarterback Turkey Sports Radio. Apparently it was an hour weight through the drive through at Long John Silver last night, Nicholas Fill you gotta want it? What is? Wow?

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Speaker 3: Everybody wants those one of those little crunchy things all.

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Speaker 2: The crack Oh those are the best, are good? Law John Silvers has to be horrible for you though, right, it's got to be like the fattiest thing on fried. Yeah. I mean it's it's gotta be. I don't know, but it can't be good for you. I wouldn't think. So I got myself just a second. I had a physical yesterday and I had to get all the blood work and all that and did all that. They said, uh, they've only this place I go has only had records for me the last ten years. Said, I'm the healthiest I've been in. Good for you, man, it's like eighteen pounds less than I weighed January twenty four. So I just gotta you know.

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Speaker 3: That's great for someone who's pushing sixty. Congratulation, So you need to slow down.

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Speaker 2: So, yes, I may have readers now, but you know what, you're in good connection case. He was like, he was like, he also said he goes now with all with your cholesterol and everything. He was like, you're you're doing amazing. He goes, you have a one point seven percent chance of a heart attack in the next ten years. Then he paused and he smiled, and I was like, is that good or bad? Always like it's great. He was like, that's a very low number for your age. But I still felt like, Shannon, one point seven, you're saying there's a chance that's like one in fifty. Yeah, but then that means Ryan, you must be really high. But he was like, that's great, and I go all right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The best thing you do is you do all that walking. Man, if we just did what you do walking, we'd all be a lot healthier.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's hot now though you know today's going to be smoking hot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's very hot. One person writes Matt, I bet, I bet you don't know this. In Lexington they still do coming out balls. They're called debutants balls, and there's one in Lexington almost every weekend.

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Speaker 3: What this is complete balls?

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Speaker 2: They still they have debutantes here. No, you don't, that's for like high school kill. I mean, I just want to see I'm not going as a kind of interest. I just want to see what this events like. So where are their debutante I don't know who's doing it. Do you know anybody that's debutanted?

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Speaker 3: I've been in this town for thirty years. Is the first I'm hearing about it. There's debutant bowls every week, balls balls every week in Lexington.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you can get ordered the bowl? Uh, Shannon, did have you spent? Knew they did that?

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Speaker 5: I've never heard of it. Nope, didn't know a thing about it. Do they do that in Gibell then if they do it in Lexington?

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Speaker 3: Or is this just a lection?

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Speaker 2: There's a thing they have. I had a couple of friends who did it. That's like it's like a high I can't remember what it's called. What's the thing like? Women they get into it when they're like in high school or college and they like, it's like a high society thing. It's called something. It's called like somebody will know, but it's it's I felt like a cult when it was described me. And it's like, I think for rich women to do, okay, somebody will know. I don't want to I can't. I want to say it's like civil society, but that's what I'm in. It's like anyway, were becoming a rich woman, you're watching gild Age and.

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Speaker 3: You want a gown.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting to sip tea. Let's go to Jake. Go ahead, Jake. Hey.

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Speaker 6: The other day I was listening you guys mentioned or you were talking about the teams that had a chance to win the title, the basketball teams that had a chance to win the title, and you didn't mention one team that I feel always gets overlooked. I just wanted to know if you thought that COVID team could have won the title.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't. I mean, I think that COVID team was very good, but I also think people are overlooking like it's one of those I think we were coming on at the right time, but we didn't win the SEC that year. I don't think did we. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think they did.

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Speaker 4: They maybe times first as Quickly was player of the year and Richards was.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta remember that's the tournament. What Dayton was going to be the number one overall seed. With Obi topping, we probably would have been in a two or three seed. So I mean, would we have had a shot, Yes, would I say, I mean, I appreciate the call. I look back at I say, if you're one of the four best teams going in the tournament, you really have a chance to win. And I go back through my lifetime and say, we were one of the four best teams definitively in ninety three, Oh yeah, with Mashburn and those guys. Ninety five, Yeah, we lost to Carolina, but I think by the end of the year we're as good as anybody. Ninety six we won, ninety seven. I actually don't think we were one of the four best teams in ninety eight, but we won it. It really weren't you know.

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Speaker 3: Three Yeah for sure?

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Speaker 2: Oh four?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right with number one overall seed.

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Speaker 2: Five Yeah, when Sparks bounced the ball bounces on the.

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Speaker 3: Rim, Michigan State.

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Speaker 2: Then I think you have to skip forward to ten, twelve, fifteen, seventy yeah, and then eleven and fourteen we made a run to where we had a shot. But I don't know if we were one of the four best.

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Speaker 3: Those years, No, I think that's very fair.

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Speaker 2: Then I think we could have been one of the four best teams that first Oscar year if Kal had played the right people. And obviously we lost to Saint Peter's, So it's hard to make that argument. Does anybody agree or disagree with any of those No.

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Speaker 4: I was just gonna add the COVID year. I looked it up that they were eighth in the country when the season ended, and they did win the SEC. But as we talked about yesterday, that's right when the Hagens thing happened. Yeah, and we didn't know he was going to be playing with the SEC tournament. If you had Hagen's on the team at his best, all good. I think they were contender, but we had just had the Hagens thing the week before the last.

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Speaker 2: Year, Will we put Kentucky on that list? I've now given like nine times, ten times in my lifetime that I think they've been one of the four best teams. Do you think it? I don't think last year we were one of the four best. I think we are one of the ten or twelve best, but I don't think we were one of the four best. Do you think at the end of this year we could be one of the four.

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Speaker 3: Best At this moment right now, I don't think I'm ready to say that, but I think they could be by the end of the year. I mean, I think they're definitely top ten, top eight, maybe even are they top four. I don't know if I'm there yet.

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Speaker 2: I think to get to where it's top four for me, for Kentucky. If you're gonna say this is a national championship contender, J Billis always says you got to have three dudes, right, Okay, you gotta have three dudes, and then you gotta have supporting pieces. I think we've got the supporting piece. I think Otaga Away is one.

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Speaker 3: Of those dudes.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I think Jalen Lowe is one of those dudes. If he reaches his potential. Now, if he doesn't, I think that's to me, the season comes down to how good that kid is. Yeah, let's just assume he reaches it. Now, you got to tell me who's the third dude. There's a lot of contenders. Yeah, this is it a contender? You know, Colin Chandler could be a contender. Aberdeen. Doabyte get brayd and Garrett? I mean, you can think of a lot of contenders, But I gotta get somebody that I know is three. I feel good we have two. So my question is to get from where I think we're a top ten team to a top four or five. Who is that third guy, and somebody will have to do it, Andrew, I don't know who that is, but somebody.

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Speaker 4: Will have to For me, they need two guys to be good, and one of them can be your third. And it's if Quaintans hits his potential and comes back healthy and if Low pans out at point guard, I think they're gonna be very good.

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Speaker 2: I I think.

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Speaker 4: They're still good if those guys are not spectacular, but if they really pan out, they're gonna be nasty.

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Speaker 2: I agree. It's hard for me to put Quaintance though as one of the three when he's not even playing right now. But if he's won, he's got the talent. We just have to have a third dude, and we'll find out who that's gonna be. We'll take a break A five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. A couple of the lines KSRK. Welcome back to sports Radio. A little slow on the phone today. If I'm nine to eight oh twenty two eighty seven. They were blowing up yesterday. I mean, you can ask anything questions. I would love to. I was in a mood to, you know, since I've talked so much the last three days. I was like, Hey, I'm gonna talk to callers and you but you got a call or else I'll just have to keep blagging blabbing. Junior League, That's what I was trying to think of. Yeah, and then there's something called Catillion. Never heard that, I think, But junior league is what I was thinking.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: And I think they do like festivals yeah, or pageants. Okay? Am I wrong about that? This is not something I'm wanting. They're not really high and so I mean I am now because of guilted age, like I'm kind of in high society now, but but but generally speaking, I'm not. If I'm nine to eight oh twenty two eighty seven, I want to play something before I go to the phones. Mark Stoops was on uh, ESPN Sunday Morning or not excuse me not Sunday Morning, ESPN's morning show, unsportsmanlike, right, okay, And I guess they had him on there a day or so ago and they asked him. You may have seen the SMU coach, the SMU coach who was like said, you know, why does everybody act like the SEC so good? Only six teams have ever won the title since nineteen sixty four. From the SEC. I'm smu, I'm in the ACC. We're just as good. He was like, so, I mean bring it on or something is what he said, and Mark Stoops was asked about it. I gotta say, Shannon, this is the Mark Stoops. I like, this is the Mark Stoop Stoops. I like, that's a little saucy, a little coming at you. This was Mark Stoops answer when this when that was played to him on ESPN.

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Speaker 7: If he wants to take a crack at it, come come on, strap it on and come come try, because I could promise it's not ec So I can tell you, you know, I think anybody with any common sense can look at college football and look at our conference and uh and know what it's all about. I mean, there's nobody interested in going back. Everybody's pushing the investment from the schools, the recruiting, the coaching, you name it. I mean, do we really have to defend ourselves at this point? It's just ridiculous to to try to compare them top the bottom to the SEC. That's just a ridiculous.

00:25:21
Speaker 8: Quote.

00:25:22
Speaker 2: Look at that. I kind of love that. If he wants to come to play play the beginning of it again. What's his line? Because I love it.

00:25:30
Speaker 7: If plate wants to take a crack at it, come come on, strap it on, and to take a crack at.

00:25:36
Speaker 2: It, come strap it on. Shit it now that that's a mark. That's a motivated Mark Stoops right there, Come strap it on if you want to crack.

00:25:45
Speaker 5: At that sounded very motivated and great, was in the sec too, very grateful.

00:25:50
Speaker 2: What I loved it. I mean that is I don't know if we can back up that talk, but I love that's the Mark Stoops. I love sort of being a little sweats.

00:25:59
Speaker 4: It's kind of uncarre characteristic of him to comment on another coach like that. Usually that's something he'd say, you know, I'm focused on my team, my locker room, not worried about what other people are doing. But he jumped right in on that one. I like hearing that a lot of time when he's saying he don't want to make headlines, he's putting some good stuff out there.

00:26:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he said it on national radio. I mean he didn't just say it here. He says that on ESPN, which means the SMU coach is going to hear that.

00:26:22
Speaker 3: That's the Mark Stoops I heard down at the SEC media days. That got me a little fired up and anxious but for the season to start, because he has a chip on his shoulder and I love it. That's when he's at his best right there, when he feels like he's being disrespected, Like he sat in front of that one year and said, we just getting started, bro. I want to hear that kind of stuff from Stoops.

00:26:40
Speaker 2: I like and I kind of wish we played SMU because I'd like him to go strap trap it on, take a crack at it, and strap it on.

00:26:50
Speaker 7: He wants to take a crack at it, Come come on, strap it on.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: That's a great drop right there, it is. We could use that a lot, right if he wants to take a crack at it, comes strapping on. Although there's a lot going on, talk about the helmet, interesting language, but nevertheless strap yeah, you just talking about Achim strap Uh get a mark. I like that when I when when the ESPN producer sent me there, It made me happy, all right, Steve, go ahead, Steve.

00:27:18
Speaker 8: Hey, you know, I wonder why people like me here conservative, why they are afraid to look at both sides of an issue. It's almost afraid, you know, to be wrong.

00:27:34
Speaker 2: What are we referring to? Are we talking sports? Here? Are we? What are we talking about?

00:27:38
Speaker 9: Oh?

00:27:39
Speaker 8: No, No, I was talking on in general. I should approve, okay, cognitive dissonance and confirmation by us. You know, I'm talking about behavioral and why people refuse to attack their own beliefs, which I do all the time.

00:27:55
Speaker 2: Steve, with a little behavioral psychology here on Thursday morning, Drew. Yeah, I didn't know where to know that, but I want to hear more of it. Yes, what were the words? He is there? Cognitive disonance and what's dissonance? And what was the other one?

00:28:07
Speaker 10: Cognitive and coosimation bias. We look at things that happened more so, you know a few woods.

00:28:22
Speaker 2: I listened, Steve. I agree with you, and I have to say, Steve, when you started that call, I didn't know where we were going. I appreciate the call. I'm not even sure what the topic was. I just like he called in. He's got his thesaurus and he's ready to go.

00:28:39
Speaker 3: I I can assure you, in my fifty eight years of living, I have never used those words one time in my life.

00:28:45
Speaker 4: I looked over you that that hamster was running the wheel in your mind pretty fast.

00:28:49
Speaker 2: Do you know what cognitive dissonance mean? No?

00:28:53
Speaker 3: Cognitive is your are your thoughts. But I have no idea what dissonance means.

00:28:57
Speaker 2: Okay, dissonance, no idea. So it's like it's like what makes it? I don't know. When you hold sort of conflicting beliefs and then you try to kind of just so you don't know how to handle that, it's cognitive Like I have one belief and I also have the others. So there's a cognitive dissonance in how you deal with that.

00:29:16
Speaker 3: I would just call that brain fog for me.

00:29:19
Speaker 2: It's another scientific term. Yeah, they go they you know what confirmation biases?

00:29:25
Speaker 3: Confirmation is you're proving of something, So bias is one thing you it's something.

00:29:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a confirmation bias would be like, I believe X, so I'm only gonna go read things that confirm what I believe. If there's something out there that doesn't confirm what I believe, I will ignore it and only deal with the things I believe. That's kind of I think a big problem with society now. You only want to read the things that you agree with.

00:29:53
Speaker 3: So what was Steve saying I don't know.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: But I do know. I know that those are what those were me, okay, And I like that, Steve Sadam Chin And I'm not sure what that had to do with me watching guilded Age, but nevertheless I did enjoy.

00:30:08
Speaker 5: Like I just stepped into psychology one on one class.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, Eric, Go ahead, Eric, Matt, I'm gonna use your platform for more than sharing sports.

00:30:17
Speaker 9: I'm going to use it to try to get out to touch a customer I've got out there. We're talking Long John Silvers today. I've been trying to reach their chief technology officer probably a year now, trying to provide some value to the restaurant their IT stack, and I'm just hoping he's going to be listening. And uh ten, if you're out there, check your LinkedIn. I'm here to make you deal.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: And Matt, I appreciate it. Call what is going on here? When I did say I want to calls, I'm not trying to like set up the technology for Long John Silvers. It was more just like I was wanting to have conversations with people, not trying to get you a job via LinkedIn to do Long John Silver's technology, Kenneth, he.

00:31:03
Speaker 5: Should check us LinkedIn though he should, there's no excuse for that, Kenneth.

00:31:07
Speaker 2: I Now, by the way, I told you, I got linked in. I've started adding all these people like I had people. I had people all the time, and I'm like, oh, I remember you, let's connect. And now I'm connected with all of these people. But now I don't know anything to do with it. Like I have it, I'm now connected. But now what can you poke? Do you? Like a children going to school on there? Like I don't think get a business end and you're supposed to poke. Okay, I don't think there's any I don't think there's any poking. You know, people will post I just got a raise at the UH Hamilton Insurance Company, and it feels a little braggy to me, Shannon, you know, like, look at me. I just got a promotion. So I don't feel comfortable posting that. So I just I really am not doing anything with it. I made a profile like twelve years ago.

00:32:00
Speaker 4: In fact, I think it says I still work for a tennis channel as my employer because it's around that era. You know, we were we were Tennessee. But I got on there one time, Mario's on there. It well, it was like I had a friend or whatever. It's like, is Kathy good at PowerPoint? I'm like, I don't know. I get yeah.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: So it's like you endorsed Cathy, Billy's on there and Mario's on there, but you're not Shannon. You're on there, but you haven't done anything.

00:32:26
Speaker 3: I don't even know my law again, yeah, I have one there after you mentioned it the other day, I got like all these requests wanted to what do you call link up or whatever it's called.

00:32:35
Speaker 2: That was a different site. We're really bad at having. That was your Twitter d ms. And by the way, those are not real people. Just really yeah, I know you think they don't think I'm the track? Do you think they find you sexy? That cam is not actually live, but don't click. That is not live, and she she doesn't want to exchange contact information.

00:32:58
Speaker 3: But she thinks I'm funny and I don't someone to hang out with.

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00:33:57
Speaker 4: The phone's blowing up with Gilded Age watchers in the company. Now I feel like I'm the the odd one.

00:34:03
Speaker 2: In the Bunch X Machine, one person writes, mad, I'm thirty seven year old male like you. I'm embarrassed. I like it, but it is kind of good and it's hard to know who the good people are in the bad ones. Yeah, there's no there's no great people. There's also one person on it who's a terrible actress, and I think that makes it good. You have all these like famous people in it. You have apparently a lot of people from Broadway who've won Tony's and then there's this one woman. I'm not trying to I'm not gonna say which one, Meryl Streep's daughter, that's really not a good actress, and she's gotten cast in one of the main roles, and it's she gets better, but the first couple episodes, I'm like, did they get her from a high school theaterism? She gets better, but like it's clear she's on there because she's a famous person's part of MARYL. Streeps daughter, and and like it's like, what was that. I'm not I'm not gonna say who's there, But she's just not as good as the other people in the cast.

00:34:59
Speaker 4: And but she gets mad Okay, she gets met. Yeah, I was looking at it looks like big names. Saw like Meryl Streep's daughters in there. Oh okay, I just you know that's cool. It's a big good for them. I want to give you just a couple a piece of good news. Antonio Reeves signs a new NBA deal, signs with the with the Charlotte Hornets, uh, and it gets a two way contract. They cut somebody to keep him, so he'll probably good chance he'll make the roster and uh, Antonio will get a chance to get some run.

00:35:31
Speaker 3: Dude, We've said it from the beginning. He does the one thing that they want you to do in the NBA and has to be a knockdown shooter. He can do that, and the chances he's gotten, he's kind of taken advantage of it.

00:35:39
Speaker 2: He went, he played in the Summer League. He was the most efficient player on their team, and yet only made five threes. So if I told you he would have had a great summer league, it only made five threes. He went twenty nine of twenty nine from the free throw line, which think about that means how many fouls he drew going the basket.

00:35:57
Speaker 3: That's a lot like that didn't when he was at Kentucky.

00:36:01
Speaker 4: I'm pretty confident no one even within the NBA watched more Summer League than me, and I watched just about every second Antonio Reeves had the ball, and he was one of the standouts on his team and really the whole summer. I figured he'd get another deal. He played for New Orleans in summer and then Charlotte came in and swooped him up. I thought he might stay in New Orleans, but there was no doubt he was gett an opportunity with how he played.

00:36:20
Speaker 2: I think he was like second team All Summer League too. Yeah, he was great, which you know, good for him. Man, who knew they did all Summer League teams shitting But Kyle Philipowski, the Duke guys, Conk Nipple was the MVP, Kyle Philipowski and then Connor or Cooper Flagg. They had like three of the top six players. Kobe Brant played really well to do it this Summer League. A lot of our other guys didn't get a lot of run, but those that he played really well.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: Jacob Toppins another one. When I was watching him, I'm like, man, this guy's hit another gear. I wish we had some of this at Kentucky.

00:36:51
Speaker 2: Worried about Rob Dillingham. I mean, they gave him the ball a lot, and he didn't have a great He did not shoot it well.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: He if he didn't lead the summer assists, he was close, but the shot I think he shot twenty something percent from the field.

00:37:04
Speaker 2: I'm worried. I'm a little worried about him because there was another dude picked in his class at Terrence Shannon who played really well, and I'm kind of one. You know. They said one of those guys is gonna be in their rotation if he gets passed by a second round pick in his own draft.

00:37:18
Speaker 4: Nothing was going in for him. He was so fun to watch though, the way he can just get where he wants. He's so tiny out there. The basketball looks like it's too big for his hands. But he was just such a great facilitator. I know he had a lot of assists, but he had some flashy passes where the guys didn't finish.

00:37:32
Speaker 2: The Houston. By the way, he said that Reed Shepard will be in the rotation next year, So like Reid's getting his fun. By the way, I bought Rob, dialing him shoes he did. I love his logo just I just feel like, you know, I owe it to it. Sure, just get THEE. If I'm gonna have all these shoes, I gotta have the UK guy's shoes.

00:37:51
Speaker 3: The one game I saw Reid playing, he dominated. He had like twenty three, twenty five points or something.

00:37:56
Speaker 2: Reid has a shoe too, right, Why are you doing that? Is does he have a shoe or not? It's not a what's the difference? It has his name on it though? Right? Well, then what's the difference between a signature shoe and a different shoe with your name on it? Brownie's going to see Yeah, that's what MA say. He only buy Brownie shoes. Eric, go ahead, Eric.

00:38:17
Speaker 11: Hey man, first time caller. Who I'm from down here in Southern Indiana, Rockford area, and I was worn our name though. There's a lot of Kentucky fans down here. If y'all ever consider doing a remote around here, well, we do one every.

00:38:32
Speaker 3: Year in Owensboro right across the river.

00:38:34
Speaker 2: And what you said in southern India next to Owensboro. Okay, Like so you're talking about like close to Evansville. Yes, yeah, no, we have, We've done one before. But it's been a long time, so uh, I'll see what we can do. I think they out of You're right, there are a ton of fans. Be nice to cross the river and get over there. All right. I appreciate the call.

00:38:56
Speaker 4: We did Henderson a couple of times many years ago for a while.

00:39:00
Speaker 2: We're touring the South this year, so we're gonna go so where I'm I'm looking at Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama that those states leading up to the game in Atlanta, because we've really not done those states. So Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, we're gonna come in December and people can figure out where they where they'd like us to go. But I think that'll be fun.

00:39:22
Speaker 3: I think it'll be a good deal trip for us. Do something different, go down the South.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: And you're gonna be happy. It's not as much driving, Amen.

00:39:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, and packing, it's not snow boots and big jackets.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick, go ahead. Nick.

00:39:36
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, I know there's been a lot of talks about we aren't even the NAA tournament box FAM seventy five games, and obviously they would just be doing that for financial gains. Instead of that, what about making the final four in the championship, that's two out of three.

00:39:53
Speaker 2: I had to change it. I love it. I think having I appreciate the call. I think having especially the championship game B two out of three or the final four, I think would be great. I don't think you can do that in the early rounds. I think people want that ability for the one and done upset. But I do think a best two out of three if you had had you know, Houston and Florida last year or Kentucky and Wisconsin in twenty fifteen, if you went two out of three and you could have a multiple game thing, ay, you'd probably get the best team as the winner, but b you would also get some excitement as people wanted to watch those games.

00:40:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, the best team being the winner. If my team were to lose, I think I could swallow it easier if we lost twice, but well, they were just a better team. It would get away from the heartbreak if losing to a team you didn't think.

00:40:37
Speaker 2: It would be a combination of doing the Okay, it's one and done to get the final four. You can still get knocked out, but then when you get to the final four, the best team of those four is gonna win. Like last year, that would have been a great final four to have best two out of three. If you had had Auburn play Houston two out of three, Duke play Florida best two out of three or whatever, that would have been an awesome thing.

00:40:58
Speaker 3: You know, college baseball doesn't when they get to the final two team they played two out of three, And I love it. I love the factor playing three games, you gotta win two out of three. Maybe you haven't one off night, you still come back and win the next night. I love the idea.

00:41:07
Speaker 2: I think it would be I mean, I don't know. I say they'll never do it, but I think it would make financial sense to do. Would It would be very highly rated and if you when you get a matchup that gets people going people, I mean that was it again. I was out of the country, but Duke loss to Florida. Right, If you had had that Duke Florida be two out of three, those games would have been massively Yes, with Cooper and the way Duke loss choking at the end. Yeah, them getting a second the next game would have been.

00:41:39
Speaker 3: Ratings would probably be even higher.

00:41:41
Speaker 2: Yeah. To me, that would be a no brainer. Just thinking history, trying to think, I mean, Kentucky Wisconsin two out of three. What if Kentucky beats Wisconsin and you could have had Kentucky Duke two out of three for the title. You're telling me those would not been all time ratings.

00:41:55
Speaker 3: Yep, it would have been.

00:41:56
Speaker 2: Or Duke Carolina the year they played each other two out of three Carolina.

00:42:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, almost every year the matchup something. You know, it would be absolutely awesome.

00:42:04
Speaker 2: So I'm with you. I think that would be a great thing to do. We'll take a break A five, nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven, come back our two ks R