2025-02-07- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Number two Here Kentucky Sports Radio A fun nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five for One person writes, Matt, Uh, think about.

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Speaker 2: It like this.

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Speaker 3: If you were to have a daughter today, that would be like them dating someone seventy one when they're twenty five. That's true. That would be as if I had a daughter today and then in twenty five years they did that, that would be the age thing, which is kind of a crazy thing to think about. So this could actually if well, I don't stand on having a daughter or anyone right now, but this is actually theoretically something that could happen to me if I were to have a kid.

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Speaker 4: What should brings home Andy Reid in twenty years?

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Speaker 2: Andy real?

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Speaker 3: I think Andy Reid would be a fun son in law. I'm not gonna lie. It'd be weird if you be older than me.

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Speaker 5: It would be like her dating someone who is forty six right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's I mean that you don't to think about like that because that's obviously a different thing. But I'm just saying like it would be. It's just it's weird, but you know what, Look, but if they're happy, whatever, what's the difference is? What hat If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, and the text Machine. One person writes, Matt, I can tell it hurts your head not to talk anything about the president.

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Speaker 2: You know, me, know you?

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Speaker 3: Uh, what do you think is the best and worst thing he's done so far?

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Speaker 2: That's a good question.

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Speaker 3: Best thing is he did say today he was gonna bring back plastic straws, and I do like plastic straws. I've bet paper straws to me are the worst. I don't really know how he's gonna do that exactly, since I think people can sell whatever straws they want, but I am for plastic straw It's like when you When I go to New York, almost every straw is paper, and I do hate paper. They've seems like they've made them a little bit better, but they still stick.

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Speaker 5: We go to New York, we go to California, we go to every coffee shop and we take all the paper straws out and replace them with plastic. I mean, outside of California, you just steal them and they put well on Ryan Stills forks. He gets away with it. Outside of California and New York, I mean, are there any other places that have paper straws. I feel like those are the two violators.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, I don't I haven't that, but I'm I do hate paper straws.

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Speaker 2: So I saw that from him, so that I'll give that an a plus.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: As far as the things I don't like, uh, I really don't like that he's made Elon Musk a part of my life. Like, I don't like that guy, and he's wake He's in the news way too much. So those would be the two things that stick out to I would like to find a way to put all Elon Musk news away from my life because I find him really annoying.

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Speaker 6: It does feel like people forgot that we have several movies about a billionaire and his robots taking over the world, and then we're just gonna walk right into it.

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Speaker 2: You know, a completely different point.

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Speaker 3: I heard a guy again who knows if this person knows something, but he said that he thinks in twenty years now, I want you to think about this stat. Eighty percent of the jobs in America will go away and be automated, and that like and at that point, if eighty basically the only people whose jobs will be left will be like in the service economy, like like like waiters and that kind already have robot servers. But I mean, you know, if that's true, which I guess is plausible, how do you have an economy if no one has a job, Like that's that's really scary if you think about it, Like does that mean we just everybody just gets paid just to live and no one works, And like I.

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Speaker 5: Don't everybody has to make the same salary.

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Speaker 3: I mean, but I mean what else if no one if there are no jobs, like, people have to have money somehow, So I guess what the government just gives that And and the person's point was like, we're going to fundamentally change what it means to be a human being over the next twenty years, Like and that's kind of crazy. And all I want to do is watch Kentucky beat South Carolina tomorrow. Ryan and I saw that and it just got in my brain and I was like, WHOA, that's kind of crazy to think about, but it's but I can see how that could happen.

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Speaker 1: Actually, you know, you got man, my brain just going I'm thinking, we have.

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Speaker 7: The only what the what are the only job is gonna be people that build the robots. No robots will build the robots. Okay, so now don't say what else people are gonna do. I don't know the button start the robots.

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Speaker 5: Only fans. We'll start my only fans.

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Speaker 2: The only thing left is gonna be only fan.

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Speaker 5: Nobody wants to look at a robot.

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Speaker 6: So you actually, in twenty years we'll have several people married to robots in our city, counties and robots.

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Speaker 2: It's not it's not a pleasant thing.

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Speaker 3: Mike Woodson announces, or at least it's reported, Mike Woodson will resign at the end of the year. Uh to keep that from being a mess. Indiana is likely to miss the tournament. Mike Woodson, who Indiana fans said, get ready, he's bringing us back like they've been saying for twenty five years. Looks like that's gonna be a failure now as well. Indiana basketball just done, like just done forever? Or is there ever a way they come back? I mean, they thought this was the dude. They Indiana fans were talking more trash about this guy than even Arkansas fans were with cal They thought this was the dude.

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Speaker 4: Now they got one more option. They have to hire Chris Beard.

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Speaker 6: He would absolutely say yes, he's obsessed with Bob Knight.

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Speaker 4: He worked for Bob Knight.

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Speaker 6: I think if anyone can say to them, I'm not saying he can, but that's like they're list.

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Speaker 3: That seems like a slam dunk for this because he's already Chris Beard. I mean, I feel like you can't even mention Chris Beard walks into a room and just starts talking about Bobby Knight, like like he he loves Bobby Knight.

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Speaker 6: You're when they be Kentucky, he said conference, he said that was a Bob Knight.

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Speaker 3: He said that was about like he's all just Bobby Knight. Bobby Knight, Bobby, You're obviously an Indiana guy grew up there. Isn't that what they have to do? He's I feel like he would win there. I mean he's winning an old miss, so I feel like he would win there.

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Speaker 7: They thought they were getting like what we got with Mark Pope. You know, Mike Woodson, former player, hero, been a coach in the NBA for a year. He's gonna come back and rejuvenate the Indiana fan base. It just didn't happen. And when you got your student body in the end zone chanting fire Woodson and you know, organizing boycotts.

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Speaker 2: I mean they're doing it every game, the students chant.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I don't know why they thought that was gonna work, Shannon I said the moment they hired him. Name me a time there's ever been an NBA coach who's never coached in college that has come and it has worked.

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Speaker 2: It has never worked ever.

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Speaker 3: Because dealing with dudes in the NBA is not the same as dealing with dudes in college.

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Speaker 2: There at different stages of their life.

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Speaker 3: You have to approach people who make fifty million dollars a different way than you approach a kid who used to make nothing and now makes a little bit of money. It wasn't gonna work.

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Speaker 2: Now. We'll see if Indiana can get the next one, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, if they don't get Chris Beard, I'm just wondering, like, who else could they get. I don't know that Indiana is that much of a desire.

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Speaker 2: Bring back Tom Crean.

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Speaker 3: Tom Crean's been the best coach they've Hadson's Bobby Knight. I mean to be honest with.

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Speaker 5: You, twenty five years ago, maybe it was more desirable, but right now I don't know that.

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Speaker 2: Think about this for a second.

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Speaker 3: What since nineteen ninety seven, Indiana has not had a year where they were in the top twenty five all year except once. For thirty seasons, Indiana has had a year where they were in the top twenty five the whole year one time. And you know what happened that year? They lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Like they to us, Ryan Drew sa and like to our age people, they're a power. But you take somebody under thirty Ryan and act like Indiana's a power in basketball, they'll just laugh at you, like they've never even been to people that age. Perdue is an infinitely better program than Indiana.

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Speaker 7: When we first started doing this radio show, you always had your teams you put in your top five or top seven of best college basketball programs.

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Speaker 8: Of all time.

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Speaker 1: You always had Indiana in that list. Now look we are fifteen years later. Indiana is nowhere close to being on that list.

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Speaker 6: There are people walking this earth old enough to date Bill Belichick that don't remember when Indiana was.

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Speaker 2: Also. I gotta say, first of all, that's not like that's totally true. Yeah, I mean that that's totally true.

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Speaker 4: Jeff Goodman said they should call Rick Patino m.

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Speaker 3: If you wanted to make sure if you're but you're if you're at Saint John's, like he's in New York.

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Speaker 2: He's a New York guy like he would not only to take it.

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Speaker 4: It is funny the thought of him having to play mock Pope next year.

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Speaker 3: I mean, let's be real, he is selling out the garden again like at Saint John's.

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Speaker 2: You know, in New York, newspapers.

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Speaker 3: Are about to die everywhere, but in New York those the daily news in the post are still a thing. And for those of you that have been to New York, they have a front page that's the news, and then the back page is sports. And the thing in New York is always what's on the cover of the back page, and it's almost always Nick's Giants, Jets picket. Saint John says, been on the cover of the back page like five times this year, and I bet you it hasn't been on the cover of the back page five times.

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Speaker 2: In thirty years. And so he's got got it to where people care about us.

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Speaker 5: If somebody said you can live in New York City or Bloomington, Indiana.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna pick, are gonna pick, You're gonna pick New York especial if you're wreck Who's up next?

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Speaker 5: Bill?

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Speaker 2: Is up next? Bill? Go ahead? Bill.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Okay, you're forty seven years old. Your husband is ninety and he dies, Uh, your kids, your wife say everybody's got plenty of money, and now you're forty seven and you're not gonna have any trouble meeting somebody for the rest of your life. How is that not a good deal?

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Speaker 3: I mean, but you're talking about it like it's a business transaction.

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Speaker 2: Don't you think that like love or something like that should enter into the equation.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not just like punching in at an atm It is romantic emotion.

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Speaker 9: Shits well, I mean it seems to me like the god.

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Speaker 3: That well maybe, I mean, if they look again, if they're happy, far be it from us.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's just quite a visual.

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Speaker 3: Like if you haven't seen the picture from the Red Carpet last night, you need to see it. It is quite a visual. It's like it's like ann like one of those pictures you go, whoa was.

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Speaker 5: The modern day Hugh Hefner.

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Speaker 2: I thought, But he's still coaching to though.

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Speaker 3: College, still coaching college football. That's kind of odd.

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Speaker 9: You know, if he was already eighty, that is even better.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, I appreciate the call. He wants him. He wants him to be even older.

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Speaker 5: He relates to all to young people.

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Speaker 2: Good to recruiting. Who's up next? Brady is the Brady? Go ahead, Brady.

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Speaker 10: Hey, guys, Kentucky fans from Saint Louis, Missouri area. I heard John Fantas say the other night. He mentioned that the Kentucky team they have too much experience, and he's said, maybe that's the reason why they kind of peaked early in the season. You know, while we were going through the Calipari experiment, I kind of thought the opposite, where you know, maybe we were raw early in the season and never got going for March. I kind of thought with the experience, we'd have a better chance late.

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Speaker 3: Ye I don't understand that. I don't totally understand that argument. When you say we're we peaked, I mean we've we've fully played twenty twenty one games.

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Speaker 2: Or whatever, like I mean, it's not like these guys have gotten tired.

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Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what that means I can see how with the experience, you'd be better early than a lot of the other teams are.

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Speaker 2: But it shouldn't make us worse. I think it's more right.

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Speaker 11: No, just to be clear, No just started interrupt. Just to be clear, John Fanta said it. I was kind of playing the advocate that I don't know if this Kentucky team peaked early in the year. They were playing good ball, obviously, but I still thought the experience is going to carry over and help us in March, not be a you know, a detriment to the team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate the call, I think Ryan, you know, I don't like to make excuse us for injuries because everybody has injuries, but sometimes injuries affect your team differently than other injuries. Right, So, when we lost Neurlins Noel, there was absolutely nothing we could do on that team to replace Neurlins Noel, Like, it did not matter what we did.

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Speaker 2: It was not the same basketball team.

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Speaker 3: There have been other times you lose a guy and it would be Ryan nice to have them, but you still can win with them, like when.

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Speaker 2: We lost Alex Poythris.

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Speaker 3: Right, the question is is Lamont Butler Neurlins Noel or is he Alex Poyths And I thought it was probably more Alex Poyths, but I kind of think maybe it's more Nerlins Noel.

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Speaker 2: That Lamont Butler is just so crucial to this team. Not having him is a big detriment.

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Speaker 1: You know that they can get by with not having him on the offensive end, but we're seeing how valuable he is on the defensive end. I think in the last couple of games they have him, things may be a little different and they you know, he's the leader. We heard this summer. There's no doubt this is Lamont Butler's team.

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Speaker 7: He is the leader. You take him away, you take he's back up away. I think that's one reason why they've struggled.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think let me ask you this true when he comes back.

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Speaker 2: Let's assume he comes back. Is it all good? Are we back to?

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Speaker 3: Are we back to the team that can beat anybody on any given game and wins most of the games They should?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but Laman being out didn't make Kobe bres start missing all his threes. I mean, Kobe will have to get back in rhythm again too, But yes, they'll be much better. Their record would be different if he played, and Lamont by himself might not be Nerlin's. But when both of your point guards who were former starters, I mean, Pope signed two starters for one spot and you lose both of them by January, there's not a team in the country that can handle losing two point guards.

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Speaker 3: And also remember we haven't for three or four weeks had the full Andrew Carr, although he looked more like himself in the last game, haven't totally had him either. But it's not a total excuse. I mean, to be fair, Arkansas lost their best player and may he got better, so you know it happens. Eight nine to twenty two eighty seven. We will take a break and be right back here at Kentucky Branded.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, so Max you I I sort of spoiled the surprise last night, But you are.

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Speaker 3: Moving back to Australia this weekend. Why the change back to the below under Land?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, a few people found out via your tweet before I got to give him a cult so.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I had to tell people you're gonna be here, yeah, no doubt. You know.

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Speaker 12: I think there comes a time where you have a realization and you're like, I need to make a move. And when you walk back into your house yesterday and your roommate says, do you want to see a picture of my colon? I think it's the point where it's like, I think I've had enough of this and it's time to go back. But no, but no, Yeah, obviously I'm as sad as I'm leaving. I'm excited to get back home and see family and friends a lot more and hang out with them.

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Speaker 2: So it will give people a sense. You came to Kentucky win.

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Speaker 8: Twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: How many times? So that was seven years? How many times have you been home since twenty eighteen?

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Speaker 8: Two times?

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Speaker 12: I've seen my parents and my sisters and my brother four times I reckon in seven years, but maybe at the most of week, so not I mean obviously facetimes and you know, calls and all that, but yeah, not a whole lot of sustaining.

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Speaker 3: And I assume you have friends that you maybe haven't seen since.

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Speaker 12: Right, got a couple, Yeah, but no, absolutely, yeah, I I mean there's been so many guys, and you know, you try to get back and see everyone, but in seven days you're trying to prioritize your family too. So so many guys are like, hey, man, didn't get to see you. When you go back. I'm like, yeah, I'll be back soon, and it's like, yeah, actually, don't get back soon like you're going for There was four years really where I didn't see my parents and wow.

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Speaker 3: So you said to me the other night, you said, like, it's tough because you left a life to come here that you miss, but you're also gonna miss a life here.

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Speaker 2: You have a lot of great friends here.

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Speaker 3: I've met most of them, and then obviously the football staff, and you have this life of football. That's you said to me, like, fifty percent of me is excited and fifty percent.

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Speaker 2: Of me is not. Is that right? Yeah? Definitely.

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Speaker 12: I mean it's it's a bittersweet obviously, Like you know, when I kind of left Australia, I was like, well, I'll be back at some stage, so you know, it was sad and all that, but I was like, I'm going for three years.

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Speaker 8: And who even knows if I'll get a game for this.

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Speaker 12: Kentucky team, and I might be back after a year when they caught me or something like that. I didn't know how it works. So to be here for seven years is kind of surprise. It honestly feels like I left yesterday. So definitely made a lot of lifelong friends and had some great experiences and were really really great seven years.

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Speaker 2: So it's been awesome.

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Speaker 3: You and I were talking last night about the way the Kentucky fan base has embraced you.

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Speaker 2: You know, you grew up in Perth, Australia. Talk about that like you were talking last night. Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I mean, I don't want to sound like Lebron James kid from Akron and all that, but I mean, honestly, a kid from Perth, like, who would ever think you'd come? I mean I didn't even know what Kentucky was before I got here, And you know when they told me I was going to University of Kentucky. I was like, KFC, awesome, Like this would be great chicken every single day and I'll probably put on two hundred pounds, but no, like to come here. And Lexington's such a great town to me, Like UK is the biggest thing in town. And all the fans are just unbelievably fanatical and that's so awesome, like for them to embrace you, and you know, little things like walking out.

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Speaker 8: On game day, like through the through the huddle and seeing all the fans there. That was That was probably some of the best liments in my life.

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Speaker 2: And what about your time on this show.

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Speaker 3: I mean we've talked a lot about you have people who write you from all over I said to you last night, there are people who listened to this show who have never left the United States and who like hear you talk and they don't know anyone from a place like Australia.

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Speaker 2: Like that has to be cool to be able to have that connection with.

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Speaker 4: People, No doubt.

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Speaker 12: I think I annoyed some people with my basketball texts every now and then, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: No, it's it's been great and to you.

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Speaker 12: Know, try to you know, be able to give that different perspective, I guess, And like I said, I mean, it don't really matter about me. It's just been awesome that you guys have embraced me. You gave me a chance on the show. Obviously, me and Miles did out little podcast which was pretty fun for a couple of years, and I'd ended up doing what we drew on.

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Speaker 8: The guys, So that was really fun.

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Speaker 12: The road trips were awesome and just for me to get an experience like this, like I'm gonna go home and no one's gonna have a clue what I did. Like even with college football, it's tell not last night, Like my sister goes, so, what's the team exactly cold, and I'm like.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we've got a lot of work, yeah, because college football is not a thing over there, right right.

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Speaker 12: Right, So I mean I tell the story all the time. But when I said I was coming over to park, my mom thought I was coming over to gamble because Australia it's called punting.

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Speaker 2: Just stuff like that.

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Speaker 8: But no, it's been it's been really really awesome.

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Speaker 3: You so you you know you you want you come over here. You win the award for the Nation's best punter. You have a trophy? Are you carrying that.

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Speaker 8: Through through I'm leaving it in Nashville at the moment, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean that trophy is like unbelievable. It's insanely tall. You know, you look back at those moments you.

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Speaker 3: We've traveled all across the country together with this show, et cetera. When you got on a plane to come to America, would you have ever imagined it would have been like this?

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Speaker 12: Absolutely not Like I really didn't know what to expect, as I've said many times, like I didn't know what Kentucky was.

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Speaker 8: I barely knew what the sec was.

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Speaker 12: So for me, you know, coming over here, all I wanted to do was hopefully get a game, like I just hopefully wanted to kick and for it to supposse.

00:21:01
Speaker 8: That'spanils.

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Speaker 2: So for people who don't know, you know, a few years ago Max was in between places.

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Speaker 3: He needed somewhere to stay, and I had in my Lexington house an extra room and he came and stayed for a couple of years. Then you went to Murray and then you came back and stayed a little over a year recently, and I said this to you, not only have you become a great friend to me and to the show. You've been wonderful for Big Blue Nation. But just on a personal level, I said this. You know, I barely knew you when you moved in, and then immediately I had some health issues and some health issues that were very difficult for me and made it to where oftentimes to be quite frank with you, And I've talked a little bit about this on this show. I had anxiety a lot just about day to day living and here it was this dude in my house, real even new and you could not have been kind to me somebody you didn't know. You helped me through evenings where I was really struggling. You know, you saw me in some difficult situations, and I can't thank you enough. You've become a great friend to me. You've become a great friend of these guys. As I said to you last night, I'm not gonna get emotional, but I'm gonna miss you. I mean, because it's not like you're moving to the Knoxville I don't know when. I don't know if I moved to Oxfville. Yeah, I would hate you if you moved to OXFORDE. I don't know when we're gonna see you again because you're moving to Australia for good. But I just want to thank you for what you did obviously when you played football, for what you did on KSR, but really personally for me for being an amazing friend. And I you know, it's tough. You don't have a lot of friends that just go to the other side of the earth. So Max, thank you very much and I wish you nothing but success the rest of your life.

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Speaker 8: I appreciate it, and same goes back to you, obviously. Thanks.

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Speaker 2: He promised he wasn't gonna cry. He was about to.

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Speaker 12: We had a few days last night, but uh no, no, it's same thing, like I appreciate it, and for you guys, and obviously especially mattke giving me a good opture me.

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Speaker 3: So pack stuffy everybody, and good luck my friend, Thank you all, Thank you all very much.

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Speaker 2: Well you will take a break and be right back.

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00:24:15
Speaker 4: You know.

00:24:16
Speaker 3: It's I don't think I've ever had a situation where someone was a good friend and they just left and you're like.

00:24:21
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll ever see it personally.

00:24:22
Speaker 3: I mean like Australia is far away, so yeah, that's tough.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: And as I said, you know.

00:24:29
Speaker 3: He's a kind of sarcastic Australian. They have a word for him that I won't use on the air, but you hear that side of him. But he is extremely kind and I've watched him do stuff for people in this state that is really unbelievable and just for me personally. I had a really difficult time three or four years ago, and when I was in Louisville. You know, when I was in Louisville, my friend Hubby, when I was having difficult nights, would sit on the phone with me and talk. And when I was here, he would sit there with me watch cheaters and family feud, absolutely terrible shows, and it would find a way to kind of get me back to a good place. And you know it's gonna be it's gonna it's tough losing a friend you've spent a lot of time with over the last few years.

00:25:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, we took a group photo. Don't zoom into my eyes on that they got a little watery. But I wasn't nearly as close to Max as you. But through the road trips and like you said, doing shows, hang out with LExEN a great friend. I'm gonna miss our trips to Pieza Ranch. I'm gonna miss the joy on his face when he'd see a Christmas tree. But you know, with zoom and everything, now hopefully we'll be a Lincoln.

00:25:31
Speaker 2: And I could probably say this now that he's leaving.

00:25:33
Speaker 3: But two years ago, the last year of our big Blue Wall Ryan he.

00:25:39
Speaker 2: Max was really close with those guys. Yea.

00:25:42
Speaker 3: So I would come home sometimes, like if i'd been in Louisville, I would come to Lexington and I would see our entire UK offensive line sitting in the living room of my house and they would be sometimes they would be drinking wine and we would call them the UK Wine. But that group that included like it was that Luke Fortner group, right, that group was often at my house. Usually I let them have their space because they but it was I really grew to like those guys a lot, so Miles Max, but then that group of offensive linemen that year, so they were all just excellent dudes. And it has been tough watching the offensive line stink because I knew the group before and how good they were and how nice they were, and now they're all gone.

00:26:26
Speaker 7: You know, we all know how important Max is to us. To this, showed BBN his teammates. I didn't realize he's like the godfather of Australian kickers and punters.

00:26:35
Speaker 1: We were on trip to Seattle. He got a call every day.

00:26:38
Speaker 3: Dude, this is a true story. So we're driving to Seattle and it's transfer portal season. My man was the only person on the phone more than me was him.

00:26:46
Speaker 2: It was him.

00:26:47
Speaker 3: Every Australian punter in the country was calling Max asking where they ought to go. And then he'd get off the phone and he'd call a coach and be like, you gotta.

00:26:55
Speaker 2: Take this guy.

00:26:56
Speaker 3: And he was literally like the Scott Boris of Australian punters and somebody'd go so they're offering me this and Max would be like, you can get more next, and he would just do all this the whole time. It was absolutely unbelievable to watch. I love Mark Stoops, but he doesn't listen to him about punters. Max is trying to hand him a punter for the last two or three years and he won't take him. And I'm like Mark, he's given everybody else in the country, you know, Like I think two of the three finals for the Ray guy, Max helped put him at the school they were at and somehow we don't.

00:27:25
Speaker 2: Take him even though he played here.

00:27:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought Max was running like the Punters hot line. He really was unbelieva.

00:27:32
Speaker 6: My favorite was when he told that one my first few piece of advice, don't ever say that to your coach again. We won't eat what the player said to his own coach. But he said, do not talk to your coach.

00:27:41
Speaker 3: So they use a word in Australia that people we don't use in America. It rhymes with the action you do in baseball where you just touch it and then run to first base or what Max does. Yes, so you can't use that word. But in Australia it's just a word you just use. And he called his coach that and Max was like, you can't do that. They don't react. Satan's not going to react like that like like other people.

00:28:09
Speaker 4: He is like the dad of the college punters.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: He is Who's up next? Knox is up next? Knocks, go ahead, knocks.

00:28:17
Speaker 11: Hey Mann, I got a quick question for you.

00:28:21
Speaker 9: I was sure too much about Tyler, her younger brother Austin. But you know if he's gonna be playing at all or on his kind of future for a college basketball.

00:28:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no idea he plays.

00:28:34
Speaker 6: He's asked he's on South Carolina's roster. He doesn't really play, but there is a young hero on that team.

00:28:38
Speaker 2: Is it really?

00:28:39
Speaker 4: He used to run around Lexington.

00:28:40
Speaker 6: As soon as I saw his team photo, I was like, that ten year old is in college.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: Now, but I remember him from the bahamasp he about a minute ago.

00:28:48
Speaker 2: Kids in college.

00:28:49
Speaker 3: He looks just like Tyler too. Unfortunately, probably won't see things like that keep happening. That just make me feel so old. Tyler Herroll's brother is in college.

00:28:57
Speaker 6: Felt that way about Dakari's brother when he was at Arkansas Hill.

00:29:00
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call Who's next?

00:29:02
Speaker 1: Johnny is up next?

00:29:03
Speaker 2: Johnny? Go ahead? Johnny?

00:29:07
Speaker 13: Is Maxx moving back because all the alpacks are closing down?

00:29:11
Speaker 3: I think you No, I think, uh yeah, it's it's more, it's it's ice, I think is running him off.

00:29:19
Speaker 11: And then also, what's younger?

00:29:22
Speaker 9: Or who's younger?

00:29:23
Speaker 11: Bellowchick girlfriend or MAT's Facebook age close?

00:29:28
Speaker 2: You know what? Hang up on this guy? Hey fine?

00:29:30
Speaker 3: Nine to eighth, twenty two eighty seven. Are you excited about the Super Bowl Sunday?

00:29:35
Speaker 5: No? No, I'm excited about like the party, you know, the the environment, I guess of the Super Bowl. But not that that's in New Orleans.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: That's a great it's a great environment.

00:29:45
Speaker 5: I'm at my party.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: I don't care your party that you don't invite us. Yeah, yeappy, yeah yeah.

00:29:51
Speaker 5: But other than that, No, I can't get excited about Chiefs and Eagles. Are you excited about it?

00:29:55
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:29:56
Speaker 3: I mean like we're watching greatness. Come on, I mean, these are these are I believe, the two best teams, and then they get to play each other. I think it's gonna be I mean, say, Kwan Barkley's got a chance to win his first Super Bowl, Kelsey and and and Mahomes got a chance to make history.

00:30:11
Speaker 2: I feel like, I mean, I feel like it's exciting.

00:30:13
Speaker 6: You know, I can't wait. I love this, true, I don't care, but the teams in it. Every year, I love the Super Bowls. Unfortunately our last football game we get to watch. But I mentioned this yesterday. I'll have a spreadsheet with fifty bets on it that are all ridiculous. Keeps me entertaining. The commercials, I love it. I'll make a whole day Ryan.

00:30:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, I enjoyed it just because the event. You know, the commercials, the partying, the food, the beer, everything.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: Are the commercials still a thing, Like, I don't feel.

00:30:36
Speaker 4: Like they heard about it early.

00:30:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess to get you know, maximum run out of it.

00:30:41
Speaker 3: And I know Kendrick Lamar is doing the halftime, so like, I guess that'll be good.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: You get New Orleans. I'm sure they'll have New Orleans flavor.

00:30:49
Speaker 4: It should have been, Lil Wayne.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: New Orleans is.

00:30:51
Speaker 3: The best for a big event in the country like New Orleans. New New Orleans is such a great city and so unique. So I'm looking forward to who do you think wins? This would be our Draft Kings pick of the day. Go to Draft Kings promo code KSR, who went, I can't pick.

00:31:06
Speaker 5: The Eagles, so I'm gonna go with the Chiefs.

00:31:08
Speaker 7: Chiefs Eagles are gonna win. Man, They're mad from getting beat two years ago. It's old hat for Chiefs Eagles win.

00:31:14
Speaker 2: He said, that's so confident. Eagles are gonna win.

00:31:16
Speaker 13: Man.

00:31:16
Speaker 6: All right, I haven't fully committed, but my logic is probably gonna be the same.

00:31:19
Speaker 4: As last year.

00:31:20
Speaker 6: If I bet on the Chiefs and they lose, I can sleep at night. If I bet against them and I lose that bet, then I'm just an idiot. For betting against the Chiefs, So I will probably side with Greatness, even though I think the Eagles have a very good chance Sakuan can go off.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm taking the Chiefs.

00:31:35
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I feel like that we're gonna look back one day and go this two year period right here where the Chiefs were not as good as they used to be, before Kelsey retires and before they bring in some other stud We're gonna look back and go, how did the NFL let them win those two Like they weren't their teams weren't even that good, and then they still won. To me, you can't bet against Michael Joe, or you can't bet against Tiger Woods, you can't bet against Tom Brady, and I don't think you can bet against Patrick Mahons.

00:32:06
Speaker 2: I think he wins again. Who's up next? Mark is up next? Mark? Go ahead?

00:32:10
Speaker 14: Mark Man as an eighties and ninety I can't believe you didn't.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: Set the joke up.

00:32:18
Speaker 14: What did Belichick, Sir France say, Dude, here's your Warren chance Fance, you don't let me do help.

00:32:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:32:26
Speaker 3: I didn't say that joke on purpose because it wouldn't have been good. But I but uh, yeah, I appreciate the call. Plus I hate that song, so that wasn't gonna happen. Eight fund nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Let's do one more. Who's next next?

00:32:38
Speaker 2: Greg?

00:32:38
Speaker 14: Go ahead, Greg, Hey, guys, when you get off, I'm anyway. I got this theory about the our team. All of our players come from lesser conferences.

00:32:52
Speaker 9: Yes, and I just.

00:32:55
Speaker 14: Wonder if that has some effect that I'm playing in.

00:32:57
Speaker 3: The SEC, and yes, I do on Kentucky without question. Well, I think I think that's less it because these guys. I don't think these guys hide from the moment. But I think what we have, and I appreciate the call, is we have ryan mid major to hide made they don't we have. We just are athletes are not as good. I've said that all year. I said that when we were winning and people were like, match, you're crazy.

00:33:28
Speaker 2: They're great athletes.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: They're all gonna get drafted or a bunch of them get These dudes are not great. We've Kentucky fans, we've seen great players, right like, we know what great players look like, we know what great athletes look like.

00:33:42
Speaker 2: That's not these guys. But these guys have.

00:33:45
Speaker 3: To win with execution, and Ryan, when you are winning with execution, you better not lose your effort, You better not lose your focus. You can't do any of that stuff because you're not good enough to overcome that. And I think the last few games we've seen that go and that's been surprising to me.

00:34:01
Speaker 7: You're right, man, These other teams more athletic than we are, and they have is taking our focus away.

00:34:06
Speaker 2: And our energy.

00:34:07
Speaker 1: And this team is done than on the athletes.

00:34:10
Speaker 7: But they when they play together as a team, like you said, when they execute, they can beat anybody in the country.

00:34:15
Speaker 1: It's just they haven't been I guess focus is the right word. It seems like the last couple of weeks.

00:34:19
Speaker 3: I talked about this last week, but I went back and looked at the h at that video that has one win from every game since Cal got here. Okay, or has one play from every win since Cal got here. And it's an hour and twenty minutes. It's on YouTube if you're bored tonight watching some great memories. But it starts with the Anthony Davis year and it goes through last year.

00:34:42
Speaker 2: And when you watch that, dude.

00:34:44
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis was a freak, but it wasn't just him. John Wall was a freak. Terrence Jones was a freak, Julius Randall was a freak. Dearon Fox was a freak. Jamal Murray was a freak. All these dudes we're just used to seeing freaks of nature, and then in the last five years those freaks didn't come as much and Cow wasn't as good.

00:35:05
Speaker 2: None of these dudes are freaks in nature, not one of them.

00:35:08
Speaker 3: They're all good basketball players, but that means Drew they have to perform and execute, and if they don't, they can end up getting run like you did in the first half against Old Miss.

00:35:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, to your point on Tuesday E clip when viral of Malik Monk going into end he did something like not many people in the world can do on that Old Miss team. But part of that also goes to Pope's gotta set them up because it's philosophy. These guys are in his system yea. And right now where they're getting out and jamming these guys, they don't have an answer. You're not gonna hit your back door cuts when these guys are in their face and throwing arm bars like they were against All miss, So even though their effort can be a lot better, it's also on him to set them up in better positions because they don't have anyone that can just go out and do it without.

00:35:46
Speaker 3: That, And we forget about the athletes that we had that were crazy, that weren't even necessarily great basketball players, like Archie Goodwin was a freak.

00:35:55
Speaker 2: Willie, although he's a great player, was a freak.

00:35:57
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a guy that was an athletic freak that you don't think about. Marcus Lee could jump and dunk on people like.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: We just don't have guys like that, Shannon.

00:36:07
Speaker 3: They're just not and so they have to execute or they will get run off the court.

00:36:13
Speaker 5: A roster full of good to great mid major talent is a good way to put it, I think. And you can beat top tier talent, but you gotta have you be firing on all cylinders to do that. We see it every year in the tournament. Mid major teams upset. Yeah, a great team.

00:36:26
Speaker 2: Hamadu Diallo insane.

00:36:28
Speaker 4: Freak, I want to dunk contest.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: I mean, these dudes, these dudents.

00:36:31
Speaker 3: Are are crazy and we just don't have that, and so it's just it's different We just have to get used to it. Valentine's Day's coming up. You're probably looking for gifts for someone. How about Kentucky grown hemp from cornbread hemp. Cornbread heimp makes natural bliss easy to achieve. Soothe you or sweetie with cornbreadhamp dot com. And remember, we will give you a free jar of seven hundred and fifty milligram gummies with a purchase of seventy five dollars or more. It is cornbreadhimp dot com corn bread hemp. This is the good life, Billy. What are you saying to me? We can't take a break right now? Why can't Why because your.

00:37:09
Speaker 2: Computer computer's broken? You hear that in a lot of roads, a lot of radio shows. I'm glad you switched all right. Well, thank you. I appreciate you telling me that we know what.

00:37:16
Speaker 3: We'll go back to phones A five eighty seven, No breaks here a CaSR.

00:37:21
Speaker 2: Who's next?

00:37:22
Speaker 1: Got Pete up?

00:37:23
Speaker 2: Next, Pete? Go ahead, Pete?

00:37:26
Speaker 5: Hold on?

00:37:26
Speaker 2: Good morning.

00:37:27
Speaker 13: Then I just wanted to say form fair world, Max Juffy so the kensick spurt and yeah, when he talked to me about football, well grid Or and I appreciate it because I can understand what he was saying.

00:37:47
Speaker 15: You know, so what you're you've called him before, right, you're from Australia now in New Zealand, New Zealand very close, Yeah, next door, next door.

00:38:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:38:02
Speaker 13: And the other thing was the other person that taught me a lot about what I know about grid iron, mister Megan when when he spoke when I first heard him, he was another person I could understand really good. I just shout out for both.

00:38:21
Speaker 3: And yes, Freddy Magnan's a wonderful, wonderful man. Do you do you do we not speak about football or grid iron as you say, in a way that you you understand?

00:38:33
Speaker 13: Well, you the commentator. Commentators seem to use for jargon instead of talking about the ball or where it's going or.

00:38:46
Speaker 9: With it.

00:38:46
Speaker 13: You know what I mean?

00:38:47
Speaker 2: I got you.

00:38:50
Speaker 13: And just a little confusing.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: I understand. Well, come buy some come by some time. I'd love to meet you, sir.

00:38:59
Speaker 13: Yeah. Out, And can I say one more thing? Yes, yeah, tell Max if you see him again. He owes me a beer for care and more excellent fight.

00:39:13
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, I remember that he did call your accent fake. Thank you very much.

00:39:17
Speaker 3: Give everybody Ryan quickly, I appreciate the call because I get asked all the time an update about Freddy and how Freddy's doing.

00:39:23
Speaker 1: You know, I honestly I haven't talked to him in a couple of weeks, but Drew and I met him for lunch. Was like, well, right after before Christmas.

00:39:29
Speaker 6: I talked to him yesterday. He was trying to get by here today, so I've been watching the door hoping he walks in. I don't know if he's gonna make it, but he texted me last night where's the remote? So maybe maybe we'll have a sighting soon. But he's doing well.

00:39:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, really really start ourselves, yes and listen. Even though he's not able to communicate with fans. Uh, we pass on all the messages you give us. Everybody, please keep Freddy in your prayers. That's I'm not sure anybody bleeds and Blue more than Freddy Mager. Let me switch gears for just a second. Arkansas beat Texas the other night. They play Alabama Saturday night at home.

00:40:10
Speaker 2: They're not gonna get good on.

00:40:13
Speaker 3: Like they beat Texas, like they were up twenty plus on the road at Texas.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: That's two straight road wins.

00:40:19
Speaker 3: Like, are they gonna be good, am, I gonna have to throw those nuggets in my face.

00:40:23
Speaker 2: Here at some point.

00:40:24
Speaker 4: I bet on Texas. That's why they won that game.

00:40:26
Speaker 6: I do think they've found something that Davis and Flynn just weren't working together. Because the moment Flann went out, Davis has found his rhythm and as planned like he was last year in college basketball. But I I don't know, man, they only got five guys. I mean, up until Lexington they couldn't shoot at all. If they did just flip a switch and magically you get good in a week, that's impressive.

00:40:46
Speaker 4: But I'm still a little skeptical.

00:40:47
Speaker 3: Let me also know they are now under the bracketology Ryan, they are now listed as the first team out of the tournament. If they get in the tournament and everybody else hold serve, we could get fourteen.

00:41:01
Speaker 2: Teams in the NCAA.

00:41:03
Speaker 3: Turn, which is absolutely ridiculous, but they could. But either way, you know, they've got some wins on the schedule that they can get, so they still have a.

00:41:14
Speaker 2: Chance to make the turn.

00:41:15
Speaker 7: You look at the SEC standings, Arkansas is one game behind Kentucky.

00:41:19
Speaker 3: I don't want to think of it. I don't want to think of it. And they hold the time breakers. Please don't we need to win Saturday. Have them lose. Let's get a gap in there. We can't do it all right. We can't take a break right now, so we need to We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio live at Kentucky Brandy, what I back?

00:41:38
Speaker 2: It is Tucky Sports Radio.

00:41:42
Speaker 3: Heyf I'm nine two aight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven four five two five four. I've just got a second here. Tomorrow we open at nine am for breakfast at Kspar Tucky Brand, and thank you all very much.

00:41:55
Speaker 2: Let's do quickly. Who you do w We're gonna beat South Carolina tomorrow.

00:41:58
Speaker 5: Yes, eighty three sixty seven. Give me Kobe Brea, he's gonna have a big game tomorrow.

00:42:02
Speaker 1: Eighty five seventy five.

00:42:03
Speaker 4: Otega, I'll go eighty six seventy four. Uh, Andrew carry.

00:42:09
Speaker 3: I think it's like a two point game at halftime, so that we all freak out and then it's like eighty five seventy when it's over. But I think in the first half we're gonna have a collective like coming in a little bit Kentucky Branded. Thank you all very much for coming out. Always a great crowd here. We appreciate it. Go to Kentucky brand dot com. Pregame show tomorrow is at nine to thirty AM. Get up and join us to borrow opens at nine. Let's go beat those game cocks and get back on the winning track. This has been in Kentucky Sports Radio.