2025-02-13- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Matt Jones, February thirteenth, on a Thursday, here at the KS Bar and Grill where we will open it eleven o'clock, uh for for lunch. We got some folks here this morning watching you give Seana Clarks puppy shop fold line.

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Speaker 4: By this point, you know what it is.

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Speaker 3: A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, a vision Auto glass text machine seven seven two seven seventy four five two five four And this is sponsored by the TJ.

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Speaker 4: Smith loveice you called TJ. I'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Remember we're still looking all day and night for you to text Drew nicknames for Travis Perry okay, and pictures of your belly button if you want so. Then we got that going on. And yeah, tomorrow is Valentine's Day? Do you guys have big plans for your for your various ladies were different ones for each one.

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Speaker 5: I may or may not have already made it in Valentine delivery this morning before the show this morning.

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Speaker 4: What wasn't Well?

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Speaker 5: She she doesn't teach on Fridays Valentine tomorrow, So I took her some roses dropped off at her school this morning.

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Speaker 4: I thought she was a yoga teacher.

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Speaker 5: Well, she teaches yoga and art for preschool students. Got a school.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I've always assumed she taught yoga for adults. She teaches preschool yoga. Preschool kids can do yoga, they do two through five.

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Speaker 4: Do they need to be that flexible at that age?

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Speaker 5: Well, now, flex but just you know, the movement just kind of keeps them in behavioral, keeps them calm.

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Speaker 4: She teaches preschool yoga.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if she.

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Speaker 2: Ever needs a substitute, teacher. I'm sure Matt would be great for that.

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Speaker 4: I would be terrible at it.

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Speaker 3: I I do yoga, but not not the not well that was so what was she happy when she.

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Speaker 5: Got a rosy She was, Yeah, I got some good text. And then we're going to Rodney tomorrow and night for dinner Friday.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Rodney, last of the big spenders. Because I'm sure you have a gift card and it'll be free. So, uh, all right, well that's nice.

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Speaker 6: What about you during I'm pretty prepared already, got I got a gift ready. You got a dinner reservation for tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 6: No, do a little Jeff Rubies. Uh, probably need to find a card at some point, but I'm pretty set looking forward to It's nice that it's on a Friday.

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Speaker 3: About you see, I think I may go to Texas to go to the game, So I may be.

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Speaker 4: I may tomorrow. Yeah, it's back Alas there Saturday. Huh they play there Saturday night. Did you know that that's where the University of Texas is.

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Speaker 6: So I'm back to going back to Austin for Valentine's I don't think you got to stop that.

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Speaker 4: I haven't been there in like a year, you're gonna have to stop all.

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Speaker 5: Your rekindled an old flame.

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Speaker 4: There is no that can where Kentucky played.

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Speaker 3: They play Saturday night in Austin's the first time is the first time they've played Texas there in my life. They played that regional there one time, the one where Patrick sparks the ball bounced around the rim.

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Speaker 5: That was I was down there.

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Speaker 3: I was there, but I don't I can't think of in my lifetime than.

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Speaker 5: Playing at Texas basketball. No, no football course was just down there, but for basketball. I don't know of any other games.

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Speaker 6: I played them twice ever, once we just fairly recently, and.

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Speaker 4: Them in Maui.

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Speaker 3: I think we were supposed to play them in Austin the COVID year and it got canceled. I think that was I think that was our big twelve game that year was at Texas, and I believe it got canceled due to COVID.

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Speaker 4: Makes sense.

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Speaker 5: They probably had a home and home they came here, they.

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Speaker 3: Just canceled the one that was that was there. Well, hopefully we win, that'll make it a lot more fun. But yeah, otherwise, you know, it's it's one of those it's it's a Friday night. So I think for people, you know, it's like the restaurants, probably all the nice restaurants that we're gonna be hard to get into, right.

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Speaker 5: It's well, you gotta get on early, like after or after New Year's Eve boom. You gotta get on those Valentine's Day reservations.

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Speaker 4: So who thinks about that.

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Speaker 6: I'm a big reservation Yeah, I already have New Ye's 've reservations for next year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah that's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 6: Well, I got tired of not having them, so I just get up in front of it.

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Speaker 3: See, I'm the day of and if it's not there, then it wasn't meant to be.

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Speaker 5: Like that can be tough locally. After Thanksgiving, you better get on the New Year's reservations right then, as soon as they What do you all like.

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Speaker 4: Going out so much to like restaurants? I mean, I guess what are you cooking? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess I'm just saying you all like having like a vent restaurants.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we would make the day special or the moment special for your significant other.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well let me tell you the other thing I'm doing. So I did two things last night that I think are very important. By the way we're gonna make this and ask Anything Thursday, just because again we're kind of in between games and we didn't get to take a lot of questions last time because of a lot of stuff going on. So we're making it Ask Anything Thursday, a fun nine eight twenty two eighty seven. You could ask whatever you want, old UK questions, KSR questions or uh, you know, some good news potentially coming, like starting to hear some good vibes about this Nate a Mint guy that was here Tuesday, So we could talk about any of those.

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Speaker 4: But before we do two things.

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Speaker 3: One, last night I watched the best college basketball game I've seen a long time, and and I wouldn't have cared. It was Texas Tech and Arizona State. Really double overtime madness. Yeah, absolute madness. I'm sure none of you all watched it because you all have families and things to do. But like last twelve seconds of the game, tie game. Guy gets a steal, runs, looks like he has a wide open layup. Dude comes out of nowhere blocks it. Everybody falls down. You know, there's there's there's screaming. A murder was took place, like it was they go into double overtime.

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Speaker 4: The crowd in Lubbock is crazy. One of the best games I've seen.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure if anybody was watching it but me because it was on the CBS Sports Network, but that was exciting.

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Speaker 5: I wish I would have seen it. I watched Patino lowse, then I watched Caliperri win back to back. I didn't even know this game was going on.

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Speaker 3: And then the second thing is I'm getting way too in to like ship culture.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm serious. So I'm reading this book, The Wager.

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Speaker 3: It's about this shipwreck, you know, in the seventeen hundreds, and it's a it's a great.

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Speaker 4: Book and it's a true story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, people like nonfiction, like you got to read this book. It's called The Wager. Came out last year, got a lot of awards, Like I'm not the first person to discover. But it's about this ship and they we told we talked about all the phrases that came from I found another one, the phrase under the weather.

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Speaker 4: Yes, when people would.

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Speaker 3: Get typhus that's a thing, right, t like typhoid typhoid fevers. Yeah, they would get sick and the weather would hurt them. So they'd go under the boat so that they could be under the weather to.

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Speaker 4: Try to recover.

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Speaker 5: That's where that came from. That's where that came from.

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Speaker 3: But okay, so they were trying to sail from England down so Panama Canal is not there yet, right, Yeah, so they're trying to go under South America to get to the like Asia.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: But apparently, and see I didn't know this. The area under South America that's Cape Horn, I believe is the name of it is the most deadly seas in the world.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to know why? Tell me why? See, maybe you won't care about this as much as I do, but I care.

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Speaker 3: If you think about the globe, there's land that blocks water everywhere, right, right, But if you think about the southernmost part of the globe, it's the only part of the globe where there's no land to break the ocean and slow it down. So the ocean picks up speed because there's no land, like Europe's not there, etc. So apparently you get down close to Antarctica, the water's then the way South America goes and Antarctica comes up, it creates like a narrow path like think of like when you're on a river or how it kind of so then it like narrows in which makes it go even faster. And then for reasons I don't understand, like the most harsh weather in the world is down there anyway because of winds. So all these things happened to where when you try to go under South America, it's the deadliest water even today. Like ships are very scared to go there close. Ships have to do it a certain way, they can only go some seasons and stuff like that. So I'm reading about all this and the guy is such a good writer. I feel like I'm on the ship right, like climbing up the mast or whatever to do the sails, and then like disease breaks out and then there's like they fight each other, and I just it's a great book, and I realized I would have been terrible at it, like everything. Did you ever see Master and Commander that movie with Russell Crow.

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Speaker 4: That's kind of what this is. I'm now basically a shipman.

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Speaker 6: Is that why people use the Now America Canal so much? Cut through where they don't have to go down?

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Speaker 3: No, that's why the Panama Canal was built, was to get ships from one side or the other without making them go all the way under South America because A it's farther, but B it's dangerous. I mean they say, over the years, hundreds of ships crashed in the down there. It's Cape Horn, they call it. It's like got some nickname like the River of Death or something like that.

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Speaker 5: Now, I mean, I feel like I'm invested. Do they make it through the troubled waters?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: I mean, if it was a safe, easy journey, I think the book would not have been written. Like if it was just a normal like they just say, and I think they would have gone, that's not a very good book if they were just saying, and then we sailed and then we got there.

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Speaker 4: So I'm going to assume there was danger. I haven't finished them.

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Speaker 6: I know why you like it because when we went out on a boat, you took a book with you and read on the boat. So it's like combining your two worlds.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Apparently sixty minutes went down there and rode the water last year like Anderson Cooper, and I haven't seen it yet.

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Speaker 4: I'm awake. The book's finished and showed how crazy.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if i'd wanted to and do that.

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Speaker 4: How about Anderson Cooper like he's probably he didn't need to be doing that.

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Speaker 5: You know, he's a he's a pioneer.

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Speaker 4: So do I give it? Does this give you any incentive to want to read it?

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Speaker 5: A little bit?

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Speaker 4: Okay? True?

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Speaker 6: Do you have any And of course, well, I just bought tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow it gets here today.

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Speaker 4: That's fiction, though, I know.

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Speaker 6: But I mean, I've already taken one book recommendation this week. I just I can't get too behind. So your point, my my sister actually got stuck at the bottom tip of South America because the weather. They had a plane down there and the wind was so bad it shattered the windshield and they were down there for a long time. She wasn't on the water, but to your winds, one of the bad weather, she was down there for a while.

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Speaker 3: If you read this book, you would think it's like they Herman Melville. You know, do you know who Herman Melville? He wrote Moby Dick. He called it Hell on Earth. That, yes, so.

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Speaker 6: They call it the Wager because they're kind of gambling.

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Speaker 3: That was the name of the ship. Okay, well, name of the ship was the Wager. I think that's where they where they got it. So anyway, if you hear me like start going iron mate, it's because I'm I'm I'm become a shipman. Eight nine, twenty two eighty seven Kentucky Basketball. We're still sort of happy.

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Speaker 4: About the win Mark Pope.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about this yesterday and we I did that segment where we talked about why the fans had embraced Mark Pope so much now that we have our team, and you go look back when Pope got here and how he built that roster in a month. What would you grade the way he built the roster that we have considering the time he had, et cetera.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you got to give the guy an A. Maybe not an a plus, but I would give him a definitely a solid A for pulling that pieces together, like he brought him him to fit his system and the guys that were available he went and found it, which appears to be like maybe the perfect guy to fit his system how he wants to play.

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Speaker 6: What about you, Drew, Yeah, it's hard to not give him an a. You gotta think he didn't have many relationships established and he played against some of these guys and knew them. But you know, normally in recruiting you spent a year or two trying to build this up. He had he got the Kentucky job, just started calling him up and what he had like five and five days in a.

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Speaker 4: Stretch, and he got him really quick. He grew it together real quick. Who was the first? Now, in hindsight, I'm trying to remember who were the first people to commit?

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Speaker 6: Well, I thought it was really cool Travis Perry when he called him out at his press conference. That set the tone early about bringing Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Who was Amari the first one?

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Speaker 6: And the mont Butler was pretty quick behind him, showing the importance.

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Speaker 5: For who's the one? He flew to the Nashville Airport and drove him.

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Speaker 4: He was at your car and new car.

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Speaker 3: And let's think about just looking back, who he didn't get. He didn't get chas Lanier. It'd be nice to have him for for depth, But I don't think like I mean, if I told you it was probably gonna be Chaslanir or Jackson Robinson, they'd been pretty close when you said I have to take Robinson. Yeah, and then he didn't get great Osibor, but great Osibor I don't.

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Speaker 4: I've watched him a couple of time.

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Speaker 5: Time.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how great.

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Speaker 3: I think Amari probably has been as good, if not better than great than great Osibor.

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Speaker 6: So there's one I watched last night. Ryan, you watched the Villanova Saint John's game that Wuga Poplar was high on Kentucky's list. They went kind of down to the wire.

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Speaker 4: He ended up at Villanova.

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Speaker 6: He had a great game last.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Uh, they tried to get the kid two kids that went to Yukon, Liam McNeely out of high school. You know, I was a high school player and he's he's really good, but potentially the kid from Saint Mary's that we wanted so much.

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Speaker 4: Mahiney. I watched Yukon play a couple of nights. He doesn't play. He doesn't even get in.

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Speaker 5: So like we were, we were all.

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Speaker 3: In on him, and he doesn't even get in the game. So it's interesting, how like in the moment of these recruitments on transfers, you get so into wanting a guy and I remember people tell me that's the one we have to get, and he doesn't even play.

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Speaker 4: For you.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've said this, we may look back in history. That mark Pope's best recruiting c lass. Maybe this first one he just did, was able to do it the way he was able to do it got him a top ten team that maybe the most important critic class.

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Speaker 4: Momt Butler was huge.

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Speaker 3: You know, Kobe Braya picked us over Duke and Yukon. I mean, he could have gone anywhere and he ends up picking here. Oh take away. I remember when he committed, like no one said anything. We didn't know anything about the guy. And he's been our he's our leading score.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I liked a lot of stuff was Pope. He had played against them. Brandon Garrison's career high before playing Tennessee the other night was against Pope and BYU. He had been recruiting Kerk Cries a year after year. Lamont Butler he saw all the time. So a lot of it was he got his butt led by some of these guys and went.

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Speaker 3: This year because he'll probably go get four or five guys in the portal this year. How he decides to get to be interesting. Do we just go get the guys we played?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 3: Can we go get that guy from Clemson? I feel like that dude, That dude just killed us.

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Speaker 6: Josh Hubbard Misssippi State, come on over.

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Speaker 3: Oh dude, I love Josh Hubbard. I mean he's been he's destroyed us every time. If I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, is ask anything Thursday?

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Speaker 4: You got?

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Speaker 3: You got a commodore, Matt Jones. That's the leader of the entire group on the Captain Ryan Lemon and Navy midshipman Uh, Drew Franklin. We'll take a break and be right back. It's KISR.

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Speaker 4: This is Gordon Lightfoot right.

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Speaker 2: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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Speaker 3: Wreck of the EDMUNDS Fitzgerald. Yeah, this is his only song I know besides Sunday. This is a true story also, and is it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: You uh, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's a true story.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, how about that. That's good to know.

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Speaker 3: By the way, you made a good point during the break to me YouTube TV. I don't know how many of you have YouTube TV.

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Speaker 4: I have it. You have it? Oh, I love it, and you have I had right. Yes. Uh.

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Speaker 3: The CBS is off the air starting tomorrow. They're like in contract negotiations, so you know, I'm okay with that now whatever. But if by March. They don't have it. That's the end to me.

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Speaker 5: Oh my, gotta work something out before then.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, gotta get it worked out. Because that game last night was on the CBS Sports netw you. I don't care YouTube TV.

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Speaker 4: Get it fixed.

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Speaker 6: I don't watch much cable TV at all, but CBS is my channel. It's a y mt, isn't that CBS. I watched that.

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Speaker 4: Movie WS on CBS. Mors.

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Speaker 6: How about going to hear the trumpets?

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Speaker 3: You're the only reason I know Jane poll is still alive? Is is you alright? Some ask anything questions? Already every time I say we're gonna do this, this one guy asked the exact same question. So we'll just go for it. Can you ask Ryan what happened with Mickey Debasis at Kentucky?

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Speaker 4: Now? Remember, be careful.

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Speaker 5: I we've all heard stories.

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Speaker 4: I want you to say it in a way that will not get a suit.

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Speaker 3: Let's just say you personally, I absolve all responsibil I don't even know the story.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll just say there's allegedly ill to be careful.

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Speaker 4: I don't That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Allegedly she may have done some things that were not in accordance with what the UK women's head coach should be doing.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's very vague. Yeah, I'll put it like this.

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Speaker 3: I used to live over at Grand Reserve off Tates Creek and man War. Yeah, there was a Ramsey's in that shopping site that was for many years. When Kentucky women won a big game, the party was at rams I don't know why they went there, but they did and it was quite a scene. It's a different time in the UK women's basketball era, I'll just say, just a different time. Different, different time, Okay, and I think the old I don't think Mickey Demos did anything like bad, but maybe some stuff happened in those situations that led to dismissals, and then there may be friendships, you know. But that's all I'm gonna say. Yeah, I feel like that's enough. It is one of those legends that people always wonder about, and it's it's like with a Billy Gillespie, like you don't know what's real and what's not, and that's what makes it hard.

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Speaker 4: You know her, but she won here. I mean she was a good coach here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she turned our program around and got them while they were competitive. But you know, she went and said she was tired of coaching, you want to step away from coaching.

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Speaker 4: What does she do now?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think she's probably still in coaching. She went right back to coaching, like a year later she said she wanted to step away and tired of coaching.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean she did a great job here and I actually never heard that she was anything but a good like a good person.

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Speaker 5: I think she's really well liked by everybody.

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Speaker 4: UK.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one person writes, Matt, is this the expression where around the horn comes from?

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Speaker 4: Correct? It is? That's how you go around the horn. You're going around cape horn. See.

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Speaker 3: I don't think we realized how much stuff we say comes from these things.

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Speaker 6: You've already given us like seven or eight just from your whole vocabulary.

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Speaker 4: And that's just from this one book Trent Noah.

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Speaker 3: Jacob Polachek at KSR plus did a story that Trent Noah's Harlan County High School has not moved anything from his locker.

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Speaker 4: It is still the way he left it.

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Speaker 3: And if you go on KSR plus you can see the picture he has two He has two shoes which look to be mismatched to one shoe from two different payirs.

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Speaker 4: He's got like his jersey, some T shirts.

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Speaker 3: It's like messy and Harlan High School County has decided to leave it the way he left it as a tribute to what he did for the program. I think that's actually amazingly cool and the picture to me is iconic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really cool.

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Speaker 6: It's got some shoes, little ankle brace, some wadded up shirts. I love that they did it, but I'm wondering if they're hitting that with some fabriz every so often, because I wonder how that will smell over. Yeah, I mean, it looks like you just got to work out in took off his wet T shirt and threw it down. But it's the Gesture's awesome, very neat. Hope it's there forever.

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Speaker 3: Great story from Jacob and and by the way, this gives me a good chance to say it's on KSR plus, So every time we put one of those stories, people will go, oh, Matt, how's it.

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Speaker 4: Like. First of all, I don't run that anymore. It's not my decision but to take up for them.

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Speaker 3: The economics of the internet have changed substantially in the last three years. Like when I ran the Internet, run. But when I ran Kentucky Sports Radio, you could put up free stories and Google Ads paid a lot, and you could keep a website going free. Completely has changed thanks to AI and different things. Those Google ads don't pay what they once did, which is why you're seeing these major news sources all go to subscription. So I've been committed to keeping and pushing on three to keep most of KSR free and it still is. But if you're wondering why those articles exist, you know, don't blame me. Blame the economy, because that's why you see free sits all going away. Because you think about how many blogs existed fifteen years ago. You can't make the money anymore, which is why but we still keep ninety plus percent of.

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Speaker 4: Our stuff free. But that's why that article's up there.

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Speaker 5: I want to go back to the trench locker. I love this. I love this story so much, and you can probably understand what I'm about to say. You know, a lot of these kids that grow up in Harlem, Man, it's a tough life. You know, they don't have a lot of revenue in a way to kind of pull themselves out of this life. And there's a guy right there they walk the hallway with, they sit in a classroom with that has done it. It means a lot to not just that community, but those kids that go to that school and see his locker every day.

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Speaker 3: I genuinely believe that there is no county in the in certainly in Kentucky. Maybe in the United States, but I don't know the whole United States, but there is no county in Kentucky that has changed more than Harlan County in.

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Speaker 4: The last fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Fifty years ago, Harlan County was an economic monster due to coal Lanch where Freddy's comes from.

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Speaker 4: Harlan, Cumberland.

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Speaker 3: There there was a time like in nineteen twenty where as many people lived in Harlan as they did in Lexington, and then the town has the county has had.

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Speaker 4: To go through so many struggles.

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Speaker 3: No place in America has seen the loss of coal heard it more than Harlan. And to have that kid come from there, I just think it is so not It's just such a great story for this state because if you've never been to Harlan, we go there with the Polk Salad Festival.

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Speaker 4: It's wonderful people.

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Speaker 3: But have had a very difficult time you know that scene in Netflix in the Wrestler Show is during that and they tell that story for that kid to come from that county and have success. I just can't think of anything more Kentucky basketball than that. I really can't. And that's what I love. We'll take a break. Take your questions right for this KSR.

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Speaker 4: TJ.

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Speaker 1: Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

00:23:09
Speaker 2: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:13
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio A five nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

00:23:17
Speaker 4: Couple of things.

00:23:17
Speaker 3: UK baseball season starts tomorrow, gets David Lipscomb. David Lipscomb, Yeah you, Uh, Kentucky's picked fifteenth out of sixteen teams in the UH. In the SEC, they did what no respect with the two seed New World Series last year picked fifteenth out of sixteenth.

00:23:32
Speaker 5: Think it's about what they were predicted last year. Look what happened they had.

00:23:35
Speaker 3: We'll say this though, I maybe saw uh Nick Minjion back in uh October November. I think I saw him at Chipotle said, hey, man had an awesome time following you missed.

00:23:48
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I was in Europe during the World Series. Hey, you missed it. Looking forward to We're gonna go back again this year, right, he goes a little bit of a rebuilding. Yeah, so it was so I think maybe gonna be drough a little bit of a rebuilding.

00:24:02
Speaker 6: That's all right, maybe though surprises again. I had to unfortunately completely overhaul the roster. But I'm looking forward to it. Their their opening day over here is Tuesday. I'll be at that one. Who they played Tuesday?

00:24:12
Speaker 4: Warhead? Okay? Good?

00:24:14
Speaker 6: Might be might be going with little Freddy Magret.

00:24:16
Speaker 3: They've only got Freddy bought season take Yeah, big baseball guy.

00:24:20
Speaker 5: They've only got two guys back too regularly.

00:24:22
Speaker 3: I mean, they basically loaded up for a huge run last year, and I think they're kind of like in year one of two, trying to.

00:24:28
Speaker 4: Do that again. So we'll see what happens.

00:24:30
Speaker 3: I also wanted to read you can I give you Alabama's basketball schedule for the rest of the year to give you a sense of the SEC. Here's Alabama's schedule for the rest of the year. Auburn ranked one, at Missouri ranked twenty one, Kentucky fifteen, Mississippi State twenty two, at Tennessee five, Florida three at Auburn one. My goodness, they play seven straight games to finish the season, all of which are against house.

00:24:55
Speaker 5: That's amazing. I didn't realize that Alabama team we all think is one of the best teams of the country. That's a hell of a goatlet for any team to go.

00:25:02
Speaker 3: Through seven ranked teams in seven games, that's got to be. If that's not a record, I'd like to know what is.

00:25:07
Speaker 6: I mean, they could go four and three and be proud of that.

00:25:09
Speaker 4: They could be really good and go four and three in those games. All right, who's up first?

00:25:14
Speaker 2: We'll start with at them, Adam, go ahead at them.

00:25:18
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, got a scenario for you on Ask anything. So the scenario is each of you has a million dollars with the stipulation you have to bet at the day. Okay, Kentucky is fully healthy minus Crisa, where does the season end in the NCAA Tournament.

00:25:34
Speaker 4: Million dollar bet.

00:25:36
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a fully healthy Kentucky team minus Crisa.

00:25:39
Speaker 4: Where do we say they go? I appreciate the call.

00:25:41
Speaker 3: If I had to do that, and let's say I had to get the round of the NCAA tournament, right, not what I hope happens, but what actually would happen with a million dollars on the line. I'd have to see the odds, but I would say Sweet sixteen if I if that was if that was the bet, I was gonna make Sweet sixteen.

00:26:04
Speaker 4: With a fully healthy roster, that's where I would go. What about you?

00:26:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm saying I don't know if they win the Sweet sixteen, but to get to that.

00:26:12
Speaker 4: Game, well, that's what I mean. That's where we would love.

00:26:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's that's the smart money. That's where I would go.

00:26:17
Speaker 3: Also, I think if you tell me either Robinson or Butler is banged up and I'm going in like a little not one hundred percent, then I might go round two. But I think if you tell me they're all healthy minus Crisa, I'm gonna go Sweet sixteen.

00:26:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to be different, just for the conversation. But that's what I was thinking too. Right now, they're a three seed. You'd run into a good team in the Sweet sixteen. You know, the Kentucky fan of me, he's like, hey, yeah, let's win that one. But if I have a million on the line, that's a different conversation, so I'm gonna say sweet sixteen.

00:26:48
Speaker 3: Also, I also think it's gonna be interesting with the SEC Tournament. I was looking at the standings. I think there's a very good chance that unless something crazy happens, we're either gonna be the seven, the eight, if things didn't go well, the nine, or the ten. We're gonna end up having to play Auburn or Alabama in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament. Could be either one of them, depending on how their games against each other go. So that Friday at the SEC Tournament, which by the way, the game will either be at one or seven, that's gonna be a game for Kentucky. I mean, it's gonna be all of our crowd. I mean that's like a national championship level game. In the quarter finals of the SEC Tournament, you either will see probably Auburn or Alabama against maybe Kentucky.

00:27:30
Speaker 5: Going into the season my head, in my head, I want to see him get to the weekend of the SEC Tournament. Now we see how tough the SEC is, I kind of gotta tweak that a little bit.

00:27:38
Speaker 3: I think if we beat in Arkansas, we could get up to like a six or a five, at which point then we could avoid those teams until the semifinals.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: If you just look at the standings, I think that's gonna be hard to do unless we go on a huge run here at the end.

00:27:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was talking with a friend last night. We just gotta change our brains about the SEC tournament. We were so spoiled.

00:27:56
Speaker 4: We had that.

00:27:56
Speaker 6: Noon game on Friday for many years, but now Wednesday could have like three tournament teams in it. It's just a different beast.

00:28:03
Speaker 3: It's a very different beast. Yes, you guys already gone. You just got here. Well, you can't talk to me. I'm on the air. How could you talk to me if I was on the air. It's all right, good to see.

00:28:15
Speaker 6: You call in right now.

00:28:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, How did they think they were going to talk to me if I was on the air.

00:28:20
Speaker 6: What did that one dude do that just walked in and went in that corner over there, Then let's just go over there.

00:28:24
Speaker 4: And just pee.

00:28:25
Speaker 3: And I don't know what he did, just walked in the farthest corner of the restaurant and then turned right back around unless.

00:28:30
Speaker 6: Really no reason to go over there. What's going on?

00:28:33
Speaker 4: How did he think we were all going to talk. He knows we're on the air. Anyone who would want to come see me here would know we were on.

00:28:38
Speaker 6: The air because we have Frio here to play security.

00:28:41
Speaker 4: All Right, who's up next, Tyler? Tyler? Go ahead, Tyler?

00:28:45
Speaker 5: Hey, what's going on?

00:28:46
Speaker 7: Matt?

00:28:47
Speaker 8: First time? Long time?

00:28:48
Speaker 4: Who what's up?

00:28:51
Speaker 2: I was actually going to touch on that Texas Tech Arizona State game.

00:28:55
Speaker 5: I actually stayed up last night as well and finished that.

00:28:58
Speaker 8: I was kind of curious. Do you think maybe that pope would be interested in that topic?

00:29:03
Speaker 7: Kid?

00:29:04
Speaker 8: I mean, we should be.

00:29:06
Speaker 3: JT Topping is great. I think they looked at him last year. I don't know how far.

00:29:11
Speaker 6: Is that is that Jacob's No, I don't think there's a connection.

00:29:14
Speaker 3: I don't think j he had forty last night, and he's a junior. I think so he's got like another year. That would be my And again I don't watch all the teams, but my can we go steal him? Would be JT Toping. Now, the thing is Texas Tech has some alum that's spending a ton of money on football and basketball, so they're able to kind of punch above their weight getting players.

00:29:34
Speaker 4: But I watch that kid. I appreciate the call.

00:29:36
Speaker 3: He's my random team star in forty last night JT Top.

00:29:41
Speaker 5: Knowing what we know, the roster probably don't look like what do they need to get?

00:29:45
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's a great question. Let's look at the roster next year. Let's assume we get Away and Garrison back. I hope we get Kerr back.

00:29:53
Speaker 4: We'll see.

00:29:55
Speaker 3: But let's assume Oway and Garrison come back. Let's assume we have Noah Perry back, CA probably Chandler. Okay, then we got the note the four freshmen, so now we're nine. I think you gotta go get three or four guys. One things you have to do is I think you have to get a point guard. We're gonna have Jasper Johnson, but you need another option. Would you agree with that?

00:30:14
Speaker 6: Yes?

00:30:14
Speaker 3: Can just trust the freshman not to go get a big yes of some sort? And then I think this is the thing this team needs the most next year, a big time wing score.

00:30:24
Speaker 4: We got to go get a Jackson Robinson. I think those are the.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: Three things if I'm Pope, assuming the roster that we're talking about Walby here. Now some of these guys could leave, you never know. But assuming the roster we have now, I think you need a point guard, a big time wing scorer, and a big man of some sort.

00:30:43
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:30:43
Speaker 6: I mentioned this to day You're out, but Danny Wolf at Michigan, this center, he's perfect for Pope. I'm a little worried though the new draft boards have him up he's first round.

00:30:52
Speaker 4: Now.

00:30:52
Speaker 6: I don't know that he'll be available, but he was high on my wish list earlier in the season because he just looks like a guy that would fit right in with the Pope system. He's seven foot, can hit threes, can pass. He's high at my wish Now.

00:31:04
Speaker 3: If Kurt Crisa comes back, Kirk Crisa might be that point guard right because Jasper Johnson's gonna play point guard and I just think you need another option there to give you some grace in case his learning curve is a little bit.

00:31:16
Speaker 6: With Pope's a little bit of a lack of defense. I hope they find more of a Butler type that can guard on the perimeter.

00:31:22
Speaker 3: Oh way back is huge if yes, but you need a shooter right like you need the Kobe Bray. You need to go find somebody that's like that. And the reality is I mean he's gonna have to look at like Colin Chandler and say, do I think this guy can become a player?

00:31:36
Speaker 4: Right?

00:31:37
Speaker 3: He does, I believe believe that. But he needs to next year because they're actually gonna need him.

00:31:41
Speaker 5: I think I think Travis and Trantle fill in the role players again, but I.

00:31:45
Speaker 3: Think you a little step up. I mean maybe Trent Noah Is is Kobe Bray. I mean that maybe that's who it ends up being.

00:31:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they're counting on a big jump from him. Also, I just wonder, you know, we've heard former Kentucky players talk about how jealous they are a pope system. I wonder with all these other kids in college that have eligibilia left, if they're looking at KENTUCKI You're like, Wow, that looks like a lot of fun, and maybe it will be what destination with a lot of people want to go to.

00:32:09
Speaker 4: I've said this year, I thought we needed one star.

00:32:13
Speaker 3: I still look at next year and be like, we need one college star. Hopefully Jasper Malachi. You know, Kayen Lewis become, but we need one college star.

00:32:23
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that? Yeah? A transfer Chaslyn, New York, Kipe Jackson, Robbinson.

00:32:29
Speaker 5: Somebody that can go get us twenty on a night when we need to.

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00:33:06
Speaker 6: Welcome back.

00:33:07
Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live text machine seven seven to two seven seven four five two five four one person Rights, Matt, can you tell me what the schedule will be like at the SEC tournament for KSR Well, depending on what.

00:33:19
Speaker 4: The schedule is for for UK.

00:33:21
Speaker 3: It looks almost certain that UK will play on Thursday, I will make a game time decision on whether or not I think we're definitely gonna win if we If I don't think we're definitely gonna win, if I think it's closed, then we'll do our big show on Thursday and then just do a regular show Friday. If I think we're gonna win, then we'll wait and do it Friday. Also, if the game's at one o'clock, we won't even have a full show because we'll get cut off for the official pregame, so we'll only have like an hour and a half. So we kind of have to wait and see what the schedule is. But chances are we'll probably do our big show on Thursday, uh, and then on Friday do a.

00:34:01
Speaker 4: Smaller show somewhere else.

00:34:02
Speaker 3: That's just my initial thinking because I don't want to wait do our big show Friday. We lose Thursday, and then everybody's like, well, why did we come here to stand and look at you if we're already out of the tournament.

00:34:11
Speaker 5: So I guess I gotta ask this, what if they end up playing on Wednesday?

00:34:18
Speaker 3: I mean we could end up playing on Wednesday. Yeah, I mean, we're definitely gonna play on Thursday. Like, I mean, unless something crazy happens, Kentucky fans got to know this. We're playing Thursday, and let you know, we'd have to come in fourth, and we're not gonna pass Auburn and Alabama, and we're probably not gonna pass Florida. So really our only chance is to get to fourth. So we're probably playing Thursday, and then you know, there's a chance we could play Friday if we drop their Wednesday.

00:34:46
Speaker 4: If we drop to ninth, we're playing Wednesday, and that's noon on Wednday. Yeah, I mean, if we're in ninth place in the end. Right now, we're in eighth.

00:34:53
Speaker 3: If we finished ninth, we're playing one o'clock on Wednesday, which is crazy. They've never even been a one o'clock game on Wednesday, and we might be in the first.

00:35:02
Speaker 6: So I guess we'd have to go Tuesday night.

00:35:04
Speaker 3: We're also if people are out there, we would like to find a place on the way to do a show. Assuming we don't play Wednesday, we'll do it Wednesday. So if you'd like to hostess and just like some random place down there along the interstate, we do it Wednesday on the way to.

00:35:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, we did what five broke sisters that one day off the interstate, we did one in Franklin.

00:35:32
Speaker 6: Well, sure it was the football stadium, the football stadium, that's right.

00:35:35
Speaker 4: Yes, one person, right, Matt.

00:35:36
Speaker 3: I've only been listening for a year, so this may be a stupid question, That's what I ask anything.

00:35:41
Speaker 4: Sure there are question who is Larry that you refer to?

00:35:46
Speaker 3: I could see how you might say, so Larry is my stepdad, but I you know, I consider him my dad and he's the most wonderful person I know, and you all all know him as well.

00:35:58
Speaker 4: But I do refer to him as Larry.

00:36:00
Speaker 6: Like some people might not realize that he's.

00:36:03
Speaker 4: Eighty seven years old.

00:36:04
Speaker 3: He goes on a stand up base and no more content happy person on the planet.

00:36:12
Speaker 5: What a great great man. We should all aspire to be more like Larry Blondelle.

00:36:16
Speaker 3: Arry Blondell, think about this. Don't think he's ever had a drink of alcohol, never smoked a cigarette. I've never heard he music cuss word in my entire life.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: He's a saint. I think about that for him. How many people you think that applies to? Not many?

00:36:32
Speaker 6: N this morning.

00:36:35
Speaker 3: He did it on the drive here, So I don't think that also good friends with Worldwide West. Yes, world find West and here big buddy. So one person rides Matt. I was looking at the NCAA tournament sites. I would like to hear each of you say what your thought would be if Kentucky.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: Got a sign to these towns.

00:36:54
Speaker 3: So Lexington has a side they do and we can't play there, So that gives us seven possibilities. Now, because we're not one of the top seeds, we could go to any of these. We literally could go to any of these. So give me a quick thought on each of these towns. Let's start with you, Shannon, Raleigh, North Carolina.

00:37:11
Speaker 2: I think we've been there before, have we not.

00:37:13
Speaker 4: We went to Greensboro. We were in Greensboro.

00:37:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, Raleigh's okay, I'll be all right with that.

00:37:18
Speaker 3: It's unlikely to me we get to Raleigh because I think Duke will be there, so I'd say Raleigh would be a surprise. But I lived in Raleigh. I would like that, what about you.

00:37:27
Speaker 5: Rally's kind of a cool little town now, especially with the hockey team, the Durham Bulls right next door, so it's kind of a cool little.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: Caroline Hurricanes play at home the night before the turn.

00:37:37
Speaker 4: So I actually would love to do that. But go ahead.

00:37:39
Speaker 6: I was gonna be a no. You just talked me into that. I want to see some live hockey, So go Raleigh.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: Milwaukee, Shannon, No, we have been there. Nothing in Milwaukee interest me, so.

00:37:48
Speaker 4: I actually really enjoyed more. I don't want to go be a little cold. But what do you think about Milwaukee?

00:37:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, the weather in March scares me a little bit up tript in Milwaukee.

00:37:56
Speaker 6: Milwaukee might be number one on my list. I made my first Milwaukee trip a year or two ago and was surprised by how much fun I had.

00:38:03
Speaker 3: I've always had fun in Milwaukee every time, beer and cheese was it until Like Denver, Shannon, We've been there many times.

00:38:09
Speaker 4: You always have quite a run when we go there.

00:38:11
Speaker 2: I have a lot of fun in Denver. Let's run it back. I think that might be my top choice out of these.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: I love Denver. The problem is we have to drive there and it's a long drive. But that's okay. I would I love Denver. Denver is cool town.

00:38:23
Speaker 5: When need to go back to the witch House and you know we broke the curts.

00:38:27
Speaker 6: I would happily go to Denver. I don't care about the drive. I love Denver, got a brother in law there. Always had a good time in Denver.

00:38:33
Speaker 3: Closest one Cleveland. Would you like to spend four days in Cleveland?

00:38:36
Speaker 2: Shin, I've never been to Cleveland. That would be another top choice of mine.

00:38:41
Speaker 4: Cleveland stinks.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: The only thing that would be good about Cleveland is that it's close. But otherwise it's stinks. You go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and then it's just like I'd go visit, But we weren't there when we went in twenty fifteen. We end up going to the Final four after we won in Cleveland.

00:38:55
Speaker 5: That's the famous story where you're doing your post game show.

00:38:57
Speaker 4: And actually just danced on the table.

00:38:59
Speaker 5: We knocked the table over and all of our equipment and drinks.

00:39:02
Speaker 6: That casino there is good to me, got it every every night we were there, I was winning. Let's go back to Cleveland.

00:39:08
Speaker 4: Wichita, Kansas hit.

00:39:12
Speaker 2: The worst. If we go to Wichita. You guys go, I'm staying home.

00:39:15
Speaker 4: No, you're going.

00:39:16
Speaker 6: We have to.

00:39:17
Speaker 4: It's part of the contract. Wichita.

00:39:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, the bottom of the eighth. This is number eight on my book for sure.

00:39:23
Speaker 6: No even though they told us it's the best Sunday in America or whatever. What would they say we're the best town on Sundays? That whatever is no thank you on Kansas. I love things like Wichita, like it's random. We'd have to make our fun. We'd find a way to do it. I'm pro Wichita. Seattle, that's the one we don't.

00:39:39
Speaker 5: Want to know, that's all gonna that's the one.

00:39:41
Speaker 2: Not driving back out there again? Aren't we picking up the wet sage from the air.

00:39:45
Speaker 4: We we won't drive.

00:39:47
Speaker 3: They not have to talk I hard into flying us out there, and it's not a short flight and we've just been there, so I kind of hope we don't get Seattle, you know.

00:39:54
Speaker 6: Dead last for me, no thank you.

00:39:55
Speaker 5: That's probably why we're going to end up there, because we were just there.

00:39:58
Speaker 3: And then finally evidence Rhode Island.

00:40:01
Speaker 5: I've never been, never been.

00:40:03
Speaker 2: I don't have strong thoughts one way or another about Providence. Never been there before.

00:40:07
Speaker 6: We'd have fun. I like the others a lot more. But it's high above Seattle.

00:40:11
Speaker 3: I think it would be like one of our trips like Des Moines, where we don't know anything about the city and we end up just kind of having fun because what else is there to do there?

00:40:19
Speaker 4: We don't know anything about this place, Hopkins.

00:40:21
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like that would be oddly a lot of fun, just like we had in Des Moines that one year. So I kind of drove looking at it. I was looking at the breakdown. The one I think is most likely is Denver. If you're just looking at where we are, I think Denver is probably the one that's most likely.

00:40:38
Speaker 4: Who's up next to Bruce? Bruce? Go ahead, Bruce.

00:40:43
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I appreciate you taking my call. I am originally from Lesington, but spent twenty years in the Army and have settled in LA. That's not los Age, that's Lower Alabama. And man, I greatly appreciate the show. It keeps me up with the cats. Got a couple of things going to just mention. I love Mountain Mamba for Trent, but I don't call him Trent, call him Trench with a H because man, he is not afraid to get in there and go for the rebounds.

00:41:10
Speaker 4: That's true.

00:41:11
Speaker 8: I love that.

00:41:12
Speaker 4: So I like that he does get in the trenches and and and fight. Uh. I saw Kentucky.

00:41:19
Speaker 3: Brandon has a Mountain Mamba T shirt coming out this weekend. That was what they needed to do, and they made it happen.

00:41:26
Speaker 6: Everybody jumping on board the Kentucky basketball official accounts been calling him that Tom Leech. It's it's his name, no changing it now.

00:41:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's his name. I hope he I hope he enjoys it, because that's what it's gonna be the entire year.

00:41:37
Speaker 6: I still have your sweet Mountain Angel Baby T shirt though, that I'm gonna get to you.

00:41:40
Speaker 3: Not calling a grown man sweet Mountain Angel. Not going to do it. It's not it's not acceptable.

00:41:46
Speaker 6: It's in my car. I'll get it during the brig.

00:41:48
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you know, people that are his mother's age, they can call him sweet Mountain Angel baby, and really they have to be women and if then they can do it.

00:41:57
Speaker 5: But men, uh nor Mountain Mamba. That's got that manly tone to it. He's the Mountain Mamba.

00:42:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.

00:42:04
Speaker 3: Eight five nine, twenty two eighty seven. We are here at ks Bar. One person writes, Matt, you guys would have a blast in Providence. There's a good craft bruise brewery scene. Okay, there we go. What's not gonna do for me anyway. Who Craft, I'm with you, Shannon, craft Beer is the.

00:42:23
Speaker 6: Most looking at craft beer here in Kentucky.

00:42:25
Speaker 4: Country Boy's good.

00:42:26
Speaker 3: After that, it's like it all tastes like, well, I don't want to tell you what I think it tastes like.

00:42:30
Speaker 4: We'll take a break.