2025-10-17- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 3: It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday. It is October seventeenth. I am Matt Jones here live at forty six Solutions in Lexington, Green on an absolutely beautiful day with a great crowd. Here we got folks, made it all the way from Owensboro to a packed house getting ready for a massive UK sports weekend, the Blue White Game. You've got Kentucky versus Texas. You got Parents Weekend, you got scare Fast. There's all kinds of things going on in the city. Holiday in room I saw just uh there was one. There was one hotel room online holiday and guess how much it was?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 2: Fifty dollars the one that I saw.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Drew and Shannon Ryan, I'm feeling inspired this morning. Why because last night I watched two men over forty years old. Even if one of them seems like the worst person ever, Aaron Rodgers, then nevertheless both of them bawled out two guys over forty Ryan playing We now I'm over forty, why can't I play in the NFL? That was the excitement I got last night watching Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers play football.

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Speaker 4: Last night was a great night for all of us old men who think we can still go out and do it with Flacco and Aaron Rodgers and then Max Sure's you're forty one years old pitching last night.

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Speaker 5: For the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: It was old man.

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Speaker 5: I loved it all.

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Speaker 3: These old fogies out there dominating shit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but you two are well over forty. You're not forty, you're almost fifty.

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Speaker 3: I just turned forty recently, so I still can do it.

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Speaker 5: And like, how young are you forty two?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: See, I not well over forty. I'm barely over more older than me. So all of this works out, Drew. It gives me energy for the weekend. When you see all these old guys bawling, it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 6: Every time they showed Flacco without his helmets and he had that gray and his goatee, I was like, yes, Joe Flacco, go out there and do it for a gray.

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Speaker 2: Go low. He's got low tea, but he can still threat that.

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Speaker 6: He also cover zero. You had Bengals, I had the over. I told you'd be a shootout with these old men. It played right like we told you what. It ended up being a fun game all the way around. Didn't really care who won.

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Speaker 2: I just had fun watching it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was excited had the Bengals pick. They're now kind of back in the mix after looking like they were going to be done. Uh, and Ryan, you know, one of these days maybe there'll be a player over sixty. That'll get you excited.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll wait for that day. But all those people, you know, people were complaining, why did they go get Joe Flacco? Why did you go get Joe Flacco? Well, you saw the old guy can steal hold, float around a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I love holding throw it around a little That's why we've got a Bengals fan in the crowd. That were you heavy last night?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well good? Uh?

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Speaker 3: I did also see Joe Burrow was there? Did you see his haircut?

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Speaker 2: Shannon? Yeah, I mean he.

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Speaker 5: Looked a little disheveled. Just in general.

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Speaker 3: He looked like a junior at LCA. I mean it was it was like down to his nose in the front. You don't see that a lot from a twenty some year old man.

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Speaker 5: He's not dealing with his injury very well. Turf toe has not been good to maybe.

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Speaker 3: So we got uh, we got a big weekend. So I got a question for you, just the folks. I want you to be honest here in the crowd. I just want to do a little snapshot. Two events this weekend, Blue White Game tonight, UK Texas tomorrow, Which are you more excited? Who's more excited for? The UK Texas game. Who's more excited for the Blue White game. That's a bad sign for the UK football program. Seventy five, twenty five for the exhibition where you are playing against each other, and that out draws the football game with a manning playing in our.

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Speaker 2: Backyard, twenty preseason.

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Speaker 4: Number one coming elected for the first time for the first.

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Speaker 3: Time ever, Matthew Sober, Matthew McConaughey gonna stand on the sidelines. That's not a good sign, Ryan, for sort of our our football.

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Speaker 2: I don't know our football excitement.

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Speaker 4: So is it more the apathy that is set in for football or the excitement that's building up for Basketball's.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the former.

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Speaker 3: I think, Drew, it's that people are kind of worried we're gonna get crushed and they just don't want to sort of get their hopes up because normally you would obviously pick football if we're competitive.

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Speaker 2: I voted football.

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Speaker 6: I don't think we're gonna and I'm worried we're not gonna score a touchdown. But I still am excited to go see it because it is Texas and it is another chance to go watch a football game in Lexton.

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Speaker 2: But I'll note it's not just here.

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Speaker 6: Like we were doing a YouTube show yesterday and Tyler was like, you know, it's almost a sellout. I'm like, it's sad that we can't sell out Manning Keenland October seventy degree weather, preseason number one team that should have been sold out in May.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but there are already, like Texas people.

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Speaker 2: You can just see them.

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Speaker 3: Like they've brought their hats sh and they're walking around. You know, that color of Texas shirt is not a color you would wear in public otherwise burnt orange.

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Speaker 5: It's also a little too close to that orange for Tennessee. Not quite, but it's it's still orange.

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Speaker 3: You know they are, They're out and about, and I think you're gonna you're gonna see more of I was at Keenland yesterday and there was a lot of people walking around with Texas gear.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a lot more of that. I think so too.

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Speaker 5: And you know, it's also a bad sign when the conversation has been more about our coaches buy out than the upcome game this weekend, and that's been the entire story this week.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, that has been the entire story, and it's been you know, so we've been I think collectively Ryan fairly negative about the state of the situation. I think Seth Emerson of The Athletic, he's a national writer. He wrote yesterday that the Kentucky football situation looks quote as hope hopeless as any in the power for right now, which was not which was not good to read. I think his point though, is, if you stay on the same path that you're on, do you but now here you go Texas and Tennessee double T's coming here in the next eight days. I know it seems ridiculous, but if you won one of those, it is a different outlook, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: One hundred percent that's a big, huge win. If you able to knock off one of those two teams that when it's either start of both people thought were gonna make the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Well, you couldknock Texas definitively out of the playoff.

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Speaker 2: They lose to us, it would be they're they're done.

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Speaker 3: And you could potentially even knock Tennessee out of the playoff, depending on what happens against their game against Alabama UH tomorrow. So you, I mean, you have a chance to knock two really good teams out of the playoffs. I mean, you know, when you have a chance to get your fourth win, then you sit there and you go, wellvany Auburn loll. I mean it's not crazy, right, I'm trying it cray a little crazy.

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Speaker 6: I think if he beat if you beat Texas tomorrow, I can't believe I'm saying this preseason or one team, but he would still need more of the rest of the year unless you scored like forty points and maybe there is a flip switch on the offense.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he still needs more than one win. Winning. I mean, thirteen to thirteen isn't gonna do much. Yeah, but I disagree with that.

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Speaker 3: If you beat Texas, Shannon, I'm not gonna beat to the point where I'm gonna say how you beat the matter?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: If you beat Texas, I'm gonna give him a ton of credit, and I'm gonna say you go into the Van Dy Auburn Louisville games with a chance to save your job. I mean, I don't I don't think how you win really, Max Well.

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Speaker 5: The problem is, though I haven't seen anything that has given me any hope over the last few weeks. That would say that that's even going to happen. We could talk ourselves into it. We might as well try to be positive about it. And if it did happen, then yeah, there would be some fans that maybe would be back on board a little bit. But you still got to finish the season and with more wins.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you, Ryan, I mean arch Manning. I know he's not played up to the hype, but you can make a strong case that arch Manning is one of the biggest stars to play in college football in a long time, maybe one of the biggest stars to play in college sports in a long time. I was gonna ask you if you're just talking about star power, I'm not talking about talent, but star power. I was trying to think, how many times has an athlete come into Lexington with bigger star power than arch Manning. So this was just what came to my mind. I think Tim Tebow had more star power when he was here. Shaquille O'Neill when he came playing for LSU probably at that moment had more star power. Maybe Cam Newton that year he came because he was on the path and playing so well, but that still early in his year before he had really taken off. But I cannot think of a lot more t Bow definitely. I think Shaq definitely. Maybe you go back to the eighties when David Robinson played at Navy and came here, and that was that was a really big deal. People forget he'd already been on the cover of Sports Illustrated at that point.

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Speaker 2: Can you think of anymore?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't remember the folks here. Did Peyton Manning play?

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Speaker 3: They did, but I think he played here his junior year, so when he was the highest I think we went there that year. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Most of the crazy celebrity superstars has been coaches that have come in, not necessarily these players you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: I mean, and there were guys who were really good, like Lamar, But I don't think Lamar was as big a star at Louisville as he ended up being later in Live Right. Can you think of any off the top of your head?

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Speaker 6: No, because then il's changing so much. Arches on like every commercial. No, Like Dak brought the number one team in here. I'd say he's bigger as Arch as a player, but Arch is just so much more exposure now in the world we're in. I think Lamar and those guys could have been bigger. They just didn't have the opportunities he has now because he's doing national commercials for huge brands.

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Speaker 3: And the big dudes in college basketball over the years, for whatever reason, I just don't think we ever played them here. I mean, obviously we played Cooper Flag last year, but that was on a neutral court, and so that's not quite the same. We didn't play Zion, you know, like Jim or for Dad, we didn't play It's hard for me to think of one.

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Speaker 4: I guess herschel Walker probably played here.

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Speaker 2: A long time ago before my time, but that might be one.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know if bo Jackson had at Auburn ever play here when he was playing.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, do you people everybody's shaking their head. I don't think Bo Jackson played here. So my point is just to say, and if you have one seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, my point is just to say, like, this is a pretty big deal. This game tomorrow. I do think a lot of people are going through, like I actually think Kentucky fans are going to have a big showing there. I think there'll be a lot of Texas fans too, but I think Kentucky fancy. But I've gotten since talking to people they're doing like, this is the last time I'm going this year unless this is entertaining. No, no, I mean I've heard that from friends, like I'm going to this one, but if this one's not entertaining, then I'm probably packing it in for the rest of the year.

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Speaker 6: I'm hearing a lot of I'm going to tailgate then going home to watching my couch. Like we have. We have a group of friends. They probably have been to a game in three years. We have a big tailgate. It's like five parking passes together. Everybody's excited, and then at six forty five, everyone's going home and watching on their couch.

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Speaker 2: They're like, big, you said they've done that though for three straight.

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Speaker 6: No, No, they haven't been to a game in three years. They're excited to go tailgate. No, they haven't tilgated in three years. Like, people are excited to be a part of this, But I think a lot of people might say, all right, it's seven, let's get the house. Like there's big companies that are entertaining clients. Clients probably gonna come have a few free drinks and then get on out of there. So I think the tailgating scene might oddly be really good and then we'll see what it looks like inside.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I still expect there's gonna be a lot of people in there. I mean, I think, and now though it's the Shannon, the UK team has to perform. I mean, you know, we've had a couple of weeks off here the UK we just can't have if we get run. I'll go so far as say, if we get run, Mark's could be run. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how he overcomes that.

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Speaker 5: And with as much orange as there may be in the stands this week, if we get blown out tomorrow, there's gonna be a lot more orange next week. That's a point we're going to take over.

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Speaker 3: If we were to get blown out this week, that Tennessee game next week could be a majority of Tennessee fans, like for real, like, because I think a lot of Kentucky fans would just sell their tickets. Tennessee fans are the easiest fans to sell to because they're so close. Ryan, that could be kind of an embarrassing scene.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we all know there's been a lot of people probably preseason planned the Blue White game tonight, game tomorrow, next week Purdue games game. I think a lot of families and people probably plan for that. That may all get changed if they get blown out tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: Do we have any chance you need to not have his breakout moment? Kentucky cannot score points. They just can't, So you gotta win in the teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually think you have a chance. You can run on them a little.

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Speaker 3: You have a chance. They are not good, they aren't either, but they're like they are not a team, Shannon that you can't score.

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Speaker 5: And two other offense we might not be a score on but you.

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Speaker 2: But but this is a team that we can play with.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, two other offensive livemen are out starting center out for tomorrow. So if you're trying to find some reason that Kentucky maybe would have a chance, if they can maybe score off some turnovers, I think they have a chance. But if we're just playing a straight up game, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: That's gotta be Ai. There's no way that's I remember that.

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Speaker 2: That was a long time ago.

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Speaker 4: That was a UK football pregame show.

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Speaker 3: We used to do it at the stadium. If that would have been so like twelve years ago where you were doing one hand push ups, you want to really reclad.

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Speaker 5: I would love to see this. Can he still do it?

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Speaker 2: Can he still through?

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Speaker 3: I want to see if you could still do this, because twelve years ago you could do one handed push ups.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 5: One he's doing it. Wow, he's got old man's string still he can still do He hasn't lost his fastball.

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Speaker 2: I will say you're not a surprise you were in that video.

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Speaker 3: You get it, but you did it. That's very good. All right, will take a break, be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Word back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine, two, eight oh, twenty two, eighty seven here forty six solutions. They got a business av set up here. That's incredible. You got massive video wall in person and we are live here. Great seeing some of the UK players that have been endorsers over the year, and it's including Oscar and now you're seeing a video of all the basketball players this year. So Peyton Manning did play here his senior year. It was Peyton versus Couch. We lost fifty nine to thirty one.

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Speaker 5: Wow, what a shoot out.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of points. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Some other suggestions of guys that may have been big stars. What about Pete Marrivich.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know they played that game in historical Mortal Cosseum which holds probably what is it hold thirteen thousand, But you think there were one hundred thousand people everybody claims to have been there to watch Pete play that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the game where like you had what was it that he and Issel both scored like a bajillion points.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I think Rupp made the decision we're gonna let Maravich get his and stop everybody else and then marriage Marriviage had like fifty something.

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Speaker 2: That was the idea.

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Speaker 3: Boy, this really is like a video of Ryan's greatest him. Is this you with a pig or something down here?

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Speaker 4: When you have me in a cage trying to catch little pigs?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was people say, people say we're mean to you. Charles Barkley, Tominique Wilkins.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, good one.

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Speaker 2: I think probably this is a really good one.

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Speaker 3: In recent years, maybe one of the biggest was Livy Dunn coming here for gymnastics shin in just a.

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Speaker 2: Couple of years. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean she's a huge star, that one, maybe bigger than arch Manning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So so anyway, that's happening. Obviously this weekend, let's talk about a basketball thing real quick. We're gonna we'll talk more about the Blue White Game, but we Yesterday on the show, I mentioned the Hair Leader report about how UK's roster, according the Hair Leader, twenty two million dollars. Nobody has really pushed back on that. So let's just say, for sake of argument that it's true.

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Speaker 2: I think it.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think if the Hair Leader article was definitively not true, UK would have said it. So let's just assume it's twenty two million dollars. That has led a lot of people nationally, including a lot of traditional Kentucky haters, to come out of the woodwork.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Jeff Goodman said if Mark Pope doesn't make a Final Four with twenty two million dollars, it's a failure. Seth Davis basically said something like, Kentucky, you'll never be able to do this again with this kind of money. If they don't win this year. This is huge. You know, essentially the program will fall apart if they don't win the end the title. Mark Pope actually had an interesting tament. He didn't acknowledge the twenty two million, but he basically said, I'm fine with people knowing we spend the most it's Kentucky, which I actually think is a smart way to go because you're essentially saying to players this is where you make money. But let's just talk about it from a fan perspective. Shannan, does it make any difference to you that it's.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Like, if it was so, we are one of the two or three highest rosters. It's either US, Saint John's or Michigan. Those are probably the three highest paid rosters this year. Does that make it to you where you say we have to do better than if we say paid twelve and we were the fifteenth tighest paid roster.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think you have to do better. But is it final four or bust? I mean no, I mean, if you're looking at our expectation as a fan base, and Mark Pope acknowledges this, we want to win the championship every year, that's always the expectation, regardless of how much money we're spending.

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Speaker 3: But I guess what I'm saying is over the course of the next however many years, Yes, is your expectation of what we should do going to fluctuate based on how much we're spending.

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Speaker 2: Probably?

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Speaker 5: So, I mean, I think you're going to always expect more. You're right, if you lose in the first round or the second round, you're gonna have people going, well, he's got this kind of budget for his players, and he can't get out of the first or second round. That's gonna be a huge criticism.

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Speaker 2: What about you.

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Speaker 4: I feel like we're gonna spend twenty two million. We can't be losing to Oakland in the first round. St Peter, that's the first round.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: We gotta at least make a statement that we're spending this money for the right reasons, and that's to win, make a run of championship, win games.

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Speaker 6: Nothing chased for me because you shouldn't lose in the first round anyway. And the final four a bust thing. I know, we say it. I've seen it all over the internet in the last twenty four hours. But like, if he doesn't make it, when you say bust, nothing's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not final four a bust.

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Speaker 6: If he wins the SEC and loses in the Elite eight to a two seed, is a one seed and doesn't make the final four, that's still good. That's not not a final four. That's why I hate the final four or a bust because what is a bust? I mean, we're not firing him, firing him if he doesn't get to the final four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that completely. I mean, all right, so my view on the money and i' might.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, this may change because this is just now starting chatting, right, so like this may change.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: But my view in my mind is it's not my money.

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Speaker 2: So I don't care.

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Speaker 5: That's always my thoughts here.

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Speaker 3: I don't care. It's not my money.

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Speaker 2: I don't care.

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Speaker 3: It would bother me more if we as a program did not commit to compete with the top guys. Okay, now, if however, we get to a point that our football program is hindered because we're putting all of our money into basketball, well then I need basketball to be good.

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Speaker 5: It's right, you know.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like I guess I would put it like this, like I don't care how much the Reds spend, but to me, the Reds need to spend enough that the product is not miserable, right, and whatever that is is what it is. But then if I find out that we don't re sign Ellie de la Cruz because we're not spending the money, then that's gonna start bothering me, right, And if I'm gonna change the whole roster so I keep Ellie and then I lose everybody else, well then Ellie better be good.

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Speaker 2: And I think part of that Ryan is That's what I'm gonna judge, rather than the total overall number.

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Speaker 4: So I think football is where you know, these diehard football fans are having a hard time understanding if you want us to compete in the SEC against these other schools, they are spending a lot of money. Why can't we get some money more money?

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Speaker 2: They do get money, they just get ten percent left.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, why do we get more money so we can compete?

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Speaker 3: What I would say is what's the better investment for the cause, Because honestly, we're now, like, take this fan base sitting in here. Ultimately the job drew of the athletic director is to please this group of people, right, to make this fan base happy. So what's the better investment? Spending the exact same amount of money on football and basketball as the other schools. We're probably spending the exact same of money will make us at best middle of the pack, or spending twenty percent more on basketball and we have a chance to win a national championship. Isn't the better investment to put that more money in basketball?

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Speaker 2: You gotta protect your best asset first. Exactly.

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Speaker 6: I wish both could be the best, but you have one that already is the best, and you don't want that to slip. Also, think with the money, I think there's a little bit overreacting two ways. One, I think this twenty two million, this is gonna change every year. It might be your football gets more. But this was also before a rev share, and we don't know how it's dispersed. Malcolm Reino could be on a three year deal, we don't know, this could be extended beyond. And they locked him up early with money that they had before all this got into place. So twenty two million seems like a lot. I doubt it's that every year, and it's a couple guys are locked up long term that we don't know about.

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Speaker 3: I would venture to say next year, I could bore you with why it's so much money this year. But next year, Shannon, there's a good chance it'll be half this, yeah, and half this for all the teams in the country. Like this year you were you were blessed by God if you were a college basketball player this year, yep, because two different sources of money came together. Next year, I think it's gonna be about half for everybody. So I think next year you'll hear our rosters like ten or eleven million, and it still might be the most expensive roster in the country.

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Speaker 6: And like a Hawthorn could be getting his money now on a two year exactly right next year he's zero.

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Speaker 3: You know that, I bet is happening where they paid a lot more in the first year because these rules were weird.

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Speaker 6: Sh everybody's freaking out over it when we don't even know what the agreement is with each player.

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Speaker 3: I totally agree. We're gonna take a break. Take your calls. A five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. This is KSRR walk back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at forty six Solutions A F nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven Lexi de based technology company for cybersecurity, video integration, and IT support. They'll set up your home video center if you would like, and home entertainment. Ryan's got one as well. Seven seven two seven seven four five two five to four is the text machine one person mentioning in terms of stars to come here when Houston came with a chem olaje one and Clyde Drexler.

00:23:31
Speaker 4: Completely forgot about that. Some of those games back in the day where Ropperena was just had all these massive stars coming in.

00:23:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, people might remember they used to in January or February on a Sunday, leading into the NFL coverage of the day, Kentucky would play a home game at RUP. Right, they played Navy that one year, they played Houston. I feel like they played Syracuse with Ronnie Pykely once if I remember correctly. But they would play a non conference game.

00:24:00
Speaker 2: You remember that.

00:24:01
Speaker 4: I would be okay if we went back to that. It was just kind of a special thing that the fans looked forward to every year.

00:24:05
Speaker 3: By the way, we might have a Sunday game this year. I don't know if people noticed. The last day of the regular season, we play Florida, and I believe Drew they are leaving open the possibility to play that game on Sunday afternoon. I don't think we've played a Sunday like noon one o'clock after church game in a long time, but we might do it.

00:24:27
Speaker 2: I think I saw the last day of the regular season.

00:24:31
Speaker 6: We did him a few seasons ago, towards the end of the cal Era. He put three or four in there.

00:24:35
Speaker 3: No, he did like non conference, But I'm talking about I don't think we've had because you know what they usually try to do on that final Sunday, Shannon is have like three games to get you ready.

00:24:44
Speaker 2: For March Madness. I just we haven't played one of those in a long time. We might have one.

00:24:49
Speaker 5: I seem to remember during the Tubby Smith era. I think it was Senior Night against Florida. They played on a Sunday. But that's the last one that I can remember. We may have played some along the way, but that one sticks out.

00:24:59
Speaker 3: All right, I want to ask you this before we go the phones. The Annabelle doll. Yeah, I saw this, okay, so I don't We talked about it once. I don't remember the details explained to me. The Annabelle doll. It's a doll that like has bad luck.

00:25:11
Speaker 5: It's cursed. Yes, I believe the owner the previous uh Matt Rife. What what is it? It's it's a doll that was cursed and it was also the curse Spirits.

00:25:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they just picked the doll out and said I hate you.

00:25:27
Speaker 5: I guess the spirits just overtook this doll. Have you seen the movie The Conjuring?

00:25:31
Speaker 2: No?

00:25:31
Speaker 5: Okay, well that's in the conjured. Yes, it's Yes, it's the basis of that movie.

00:25:36
Speaker 2: So there, but it's a real life thing. If anyone they get, nears it moves it, they die like a week later.

00:25:42
Speaker 5: So Matt Rife somehow hasn't died yet though he has the doll. Now he's the owner of the doll.

00:25:45
Speaker 3: So everybody knows it's nonsense, right.

00:25:47
Speaker 5: No, true, without no. I mean people have literally died. This doll has moved.

00:25:53
Speaker 3: I mean people have died all that.

00:25:55
Speaker 5: This doll has been seen walking around in an apartment. The doll walks, Yes, the doll walk he see. I'm just saying it's basically chucky in real life.

00:26:05
Speaker 3: What do you mean?

00:26:06
Speaker 2: So well, here's we have a chance.

00:26:10
Speaker 3: So Annabel doll is Inlexington, huh, and is at the convention Center for Scarefest, which by the way, is adjacent to they it was that it got. They took it across the street from the parking lot to the convention center and there's a priest with it. I don't know what he's.

00:26:28
Speaker 5: Doing, saying it's covered.

00:26:32
Speaker 2: It was covered so people I couldn't see.

00:26:34
Speaker 3: It, and then it will be at Scare Fast. Now I would argue if it's so dangerous, Ryan, why does it get to be at Scarefest? Because like, and would that make people not want to go to scare Fest?

00:26:44
Speaker 2: If it's so.

00:26:44
Speaker 4: Cursed, you're just asking me, I'm not going to make eye contact with it. I want nothing to do with it. If it's so scary, you got to cover it up. That won't make eye contact with it, negative possessed.

00:26:58
Speaker 3: If you had tickets to the game and it was gonna be there, would you not go?

00:27:04
Speaker 4: I would go to the game, but I wouldn't go look at it. I didn't want anywhere around it. Let it look at somebody else, not look. Don't look at me.

00:27:10
Speaker 5: If anybody turns an angle or anything in the Blue White Game tonight, I'm blame an Annabel.

00:27:14
Speaker 2: Why is anab And memorial?

00:27:19
Speaker 5: It's too close to answer your question.

00:27:22
Speaker 2: Would I hold it?

00:27:24
Speaker 7: Of course, let's do it, because because it's it's nothing, okay, it's just that you're just it's just messing with demonic spirits, entering a pain.

00:27:35
Speaker 5: You don't know what you're doing. A lot of.

00:27:38
Speaker 3: That riphones it. He's fine.

00:27:39
Speaker 2: I mean he's unfunny, but that he was funny before.

00:27:42
Speaker 5: His careers got on the dumpster ever since as the Annabel's fault. But yeah, they take her on tour, and you know it's a big money thing for them. They at the pay their I guess fe I.

00:27:50
Speaker 3: Think it's cursed. Why do they go see it?

00:27:53
Speaker 6: I think you can look at it. It's more if you hold it or if you handle it.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you interact with it. Their rules to the spirit. I think that's why the priest was there in this wooden box. A little later. That's not a real priest. I don't know.

00:28:06
Speaker 5: I have to check his credentials. He could be.

00:28:09
Speaker 6: We will say it looks like a Halloween Express priest costume.

00:28:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's a real priest. Well, I'm just saying. I mean, if it's at the convention there, it's not that far from my house. So I didn't know how far the vibes go around.

00:28:21
Speaker 5: The saying if you start hearing some noises around your apartment tonight.

00:28:24
Speaker 2: Now.

00:28:24
Speaker 3: Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler was at Reparina last night. He wore the UK, so first of all, let's go back. He went to UK. He met the men's basketball team, the women's basketball team, and the swimming team. So he went around and saw all the teams. Seemed like a really nice guy, just even from the videos, but also players were posting about it.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: People who know Adam Sandler says like the nicest celebrity of the world. So he goes. Uh.

00:28:51
Speaker 3: The men's basketball team seemed particularly excited to see him, like they like huge fans. He invited them all to the show. The men's basketball team went, there's a picture. Almost all of them went. I think I saw nearly every player. UK gave him a jersey that said Sandler on it and then he wore it Ryan on stage. He wore the UK jersey during his entire show. The Sandler jers loved it.

00:29:16
Speaker 4: That just a little shows a little appreciation for the people that love him. He's giving it back, so I.

00:29:20
Speaker 5: Love let him a jersey on Big Basketball Fan. There was a movie where he had a Kentucky shirt on too.

00:29:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, funny people.

00:29:26
Speaker 3: He's sitting in the doctor's office and he's wearing a Kentucky shirt.

00:29:30
Speaker 6: Well, he loves basketball. I'm hoping we get a video of him getting a little pick up because he's known to do that.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: Anywhere he is.

00:29:35
Speaker 3: He played the game.

00:29:36
Speaker 6: He can oddly play there's stories of him being in big cities and just showing up to courts, no security, him by himself, like can I get in a game?

00:29:44
Speaker 3: Now here's what I was gonna say about sort of bad mojo. He made a joke. Now I didn't hear the joke. Maybe somebody went and can tell me what the joke was. But he made a joke that had something that was like, you know, he was like trying to be self deprecating, and he was like, I hope me being there didn't give them bad luck and lead to somebody tearing their achilles, and fans were like, why'd you say that? Don't wish it into existence. Annabel is right over there, Yeah.

00:30:13
Speaker 2: So are you worried about that at all? Right?

00:30:15
Speaker 3: And the combination of Annabelle and the offhanded Adam Sandler coment.

00:30:21
Speaker 4: Yes, of course I am you with it. Maybe not so much, but the fact that Annabell probably listening over there, like, oh I heard that.

00:30:27
Speaker 3: Adam Sandler though, we just need to just get through this, Drew, so that we because I don't want everybody, don't want people blaming Adam Sandler.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: I don't wor Annabelle, Poor Annabell both both.

00:30:37
Speaker 6: I'm worried about the Annabelle thing. We shouldn't have approved bringing her in for our launch of basketball season.

00:30:43
Speaker 2: I don't know how that got pasted. Clarence. Well, we'll find out who's up first?

00:30:47
Speaker 3: Got Judy of first?

00:30:49
Speaker 2: Judy, Judy, what's up?

00:30:51
Speaker 3: Well?

00:30:52
Speaker 8: Good morning? Well, first of all, I think Annabelle was an a Vincent Price movie. Fit Price, Okay, But anyway, speaking of the twenty two million, I was listening to Lockdown Kentucky and he said Land said that one Division A Division LA basketball coach said Pope didn't win a national championship within the next few years, he was a complete bozo.

00:31:26
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't care what any of those people say.

00:31:28
Speaker 3: I mean right now, here's the way national college basketball media works, and it's always worked like this, but it's even more so true now. National college basketball media needs Kentucky to survive. Like most people don't pay attention to.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: College basketball till February. So if you're trying to get clicks, if you're.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: A national college basketball person, there's only like three schools you can talk about that'll care Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, etc. So because of that, they are incentivized to say outrageous things. It's the same thing that happens in politics. It just happens in college basketball too, So we have to remember, like to say he's not a boat, he'd be a bozo for not going to the final four. That's just a ridiculous comment. My thing is, if youre gonna say something like that, put your name on it.

00:32:14
Speaker 2: That's okay.

00:32:15
Speaker 3: If you're a coach, put your name on it and say he's a bozo. You know, you get one game. I used twenty seventeen as example. We didn't make the Final four, but we're the second best team in the country. We just drew North Carolina. What do you want me to do? You know, what do you want us to do? They were the only team that could beat us, and that's who we drew. So I just I'm Withdrew on the final four. Bus stuff is. I just don't accept it.

00:32:39
Speaker 2: Right.

00:32:40
Speaker 8: Well, I have one more comment, you know, Golden being kind of adamant about Aberdeen leaving. My thinking is that they had to pay so much money to Boogie Plague that they that they couldn't give enough money every.

00:33:01
Speaker 3: Day, or it might just be and I appreciate the call that we give more money, Drew, Like, that's just.

00:33:07
Speaker 2: What it is.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: And at some point, what are you gonna apologize? You know, the Dodgers might not lose a game in the playoffs, but what are they supposed to do try to lose, you know. I mean you can change the system, and that's fine, but once the system exists, it's Kentucky's responsibility to maximize it and do the best they can in it.

00:33:28
Speaker 2: This is the system.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: If we pay more for Denzel Aberdeen. You know what, sorry Todd, that you're at a school that doesn't care as much.

00:33:36
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers and Yankees they don't win the championship every year. They don't know, but you have a better chance to do what I'm saying.

00:33:43
Speaker 6: Like they're fans, I mean they're disappointed, but they get excited about the next season because it's hard to win championships.

00:33:47
Speaker 2: What do we have like one.

00:33:49
Speaker 6: In twenty seven years? I mean, they're not easy. That's probably when someone says you're a boso for not winning one. I mean they're not just right in front of you, go grab They're pretty hard to get. And on the on the money thing, just sure it's money. We all like money. But Kentucky has.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: Had more advantages forever. The advantage is just now financial.

00:34:05
Speaker 6: Just things we've had, We've talked about We've got the best fans, the best dorms.

00:34:09
Speaker 2: That was an advantage before, it just wasn't a dollar. And also, remember, I think this is important.

00:34:15
Speaker 3: Everything that people predicted would happen when Inile started, the exact opposite happened. Literally everybody said, well, this is gonna make it to where there's the halves and the have nots. And I was like, well, it feels like there were halves and have nots before. But what ended up happening is a new set of teams got good, right, Indiana got good. That didn't happen, v Andy got good.

00:34:37
Speaker 2: Yep.

00:34:38
Speaker 3: Like these teams who had never been good won. So we kept hearing there'll be no parody. INIL actually brought us more parody. And I would look at the college basketball rankings right now. Look at teams in the top ten in the last twenty five years until INIL, when was Houston consistently in the top ten? Purdue text is tech by you? I would argue Ryan Nil made college basketball a lot more equitable by where's like North Carolina has taken a dive.

00:35:11
Speaker 2: Kansas hasn't been as good the last couple of years.

00:35:13
Speaker 4: By use a perfect poster child for this, they would have never been around and in the top ten. And not for nil, they go out and now get players, make the program better, and now they're a top ten program.

00:35:24
Speaker 5: Say you look like what was Oakland's in IL when they played Kentucky.

00:35:27
Speaker 3: Think in basketball you could still get beat exactly, you can still get beat.

00:35:30
Speaker 2: Football is harder, but in basketball you can.

00:35:32
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00:35:54
Speaker 2: This is KSR water back of this Kentucky's Arts Radio.

00:36:02
Speaker 3: All right, So I don't wanna I don't want to say this without verification. So if you were at that concert, the Adam Sandler concert last night, write me on the text machine and tell me what he said. Because a couple of people are saying something, I want to make sure it's what he said. So seven seven two seven seven four five two five four I thought it was a joke, but now people are telling me it was something different.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: So send me a text and i'll I just want.

00:36:27
Speaker 3: To make sure before I read what he said that it is actually what he said, right, because I had no reason to do it otherwise.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: Mario was there last night at the concert.

00:36:37
Speaker 3: What did he say?

00:36:40
Speaker 2: So?

00:36:40
Speaker 3: He said he was playing pick up basketball at UK and somebody tore their achilles.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: But you don't know if he was serious.

00:36:50
Speaker 5: I'm gonna guess it was a joke. I think we would have heard about it.

00:36:53
Speaker 3: But he said, thoughts up to him, hope they're doing Okay, that doesn't sound like a joke.

00:36:59
Speaker 2: But is that what he's he did say it? Okay?

00:37:03
Speaker 3: Well, did he sound like he was serious? Sounded like he was serious now, But we don't know if he was playing with the UK players or just students. But that was two days ago. That girl tore her a c l a couple of days ago, so I don't think that would have been her. He was playing with the media team. So there's somebody in the media that tore their Who do we think that would be.

00:37:27
Speaker 6: I don't know this, but if it were a UK player, there's a big when they're practicing run if something happens, like everyone in the room, we're not talking about this kind of thing. If if a if like a main player for the team, I am the hot thing with Sandler would have said that to the crowd, if he would have known the circumstance.

00:37:43
Speaker 3: So wait, so you're saying he was playing with media people, so this could have been like Dave Baker.

00:37:52
Speaker 5: We didn't get invited. If it's media versus.

00:37:54
Speaker 3: Alan Cutler, the cutman cut his achilles is unfiltered.

00:38:01
Speaker 4: Well, I think Allen was at the concert last night too, so scratch him off.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: Wasn't him? Okay?

00:38:07
Speaker 3: But he did say somebody tore their achilles? All right, I'm just gonna first of all, I hope no one tore their achilles, but it sounds like someone may have torn their achilles. Mario, by the way, if you knew this, why didn't you tell us this before you thought he was?

00:38:21
Speaker 2: How's that a joke?

00:38:22
Speaker 3: Sorry to the guy who tore his achilles? Yeah, but Adam Sandler can say something here, Come here just a second, get up here, Shannon, give him your thing real quick. Come on up here, just because we did. We're doing live reporting here.

00:38:36
Speaker 2: All right.

00:38:37
Speaker 3: So you were at the concert. I was, And what did he say?

00:38:40
Speaker 9: He said, Uh, I hope that person's doing well. He's kind of talking, talking in circles. And he was like, uh, somebody like tore their achilles.

00:38:48
Speaker 2: And you thought that you just were cracking up in the crowd. I wasn't cracking up. I wasn't sure if I was here, right.

00:38:55
Speaker 3: He tore his achilles. That's the show, Sandler.

00:39:00
Speaker 2: You crazy. I was not like that.

00:39:06
Speaker 3: So but but he he didn't say it was a basketball player. He just said somebody.

00:39:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, he said. I wouldn't listening. I heard tory achilles, like somebody.

00:39:15
Speaker 2: Just started laughing.

00:39:17
Speaker 8: Oh.

00:39:17
Speaker 5: I wasn't laughing.

00:39:20
Speaker 2: I was just I didn't think he was serious. You know, I'm saying, Larius, Yeah, okay, you can't hear it. Like in the crowd.

00:39:25
Speaker 3: Everybody just got quiet, like because they thought it was so funny. No, I okay, all right, all right, Well, thank you for the update. I agree with you, Drew. I would lean to say no way, it's a player, because that you're right. I've been there when somebody got hurt and everybody sits there and goes, we're not saying this. Everyone agrees and they kind of all agree not to speak about it. So and then there's a picture of almost all the team. They have big smiles on their face. If somebody got hurt. I think I don't think they would have been out partying that night.

00:39:56
Speaker 6: And you know, I think Sandler would be able to read the room if you just lost a star player the day before your scrimmage. He probably knows it's not his place to just announce it to his audience at he could.

00:40:07
Speaker 3: Have been like one of the managers, could have been the media, although I don't know what media that would have been.

00:40:13
Speaker 6: Just the other drama last night though, and Mario could speak on this is I heard if you even looked at the clock on your phone, they were coming to throw you out in there.

00:40:20
Speaker 2: It's no phones now, Mario ar picture though Mario risked it all.

00:40:24
Speaker 3: For it's hard to keep people from having their phones. But apparently they were walking around and like you'd get in an ankle wk.

00:40:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, taking that picture as he was laughing about players in concussion protocol.

00:40:36
Speaker 2: All right, well Mario he Adam Taylor gets up.

00:40:43
Speaker 3: I just want to say he everybody pray for my daddy's in the hospital.

00:40:47
Speaker 6: Mask bossing over that Mario went and none of us did. And he's the one that's the youngest and didn't really know much about Sandler. Yeah, and now he's like, oh, just typical Sandler.

00:40:58
Speaker 2: Now it's just how Adam? What song.

00:41:05
Speaker 3: Got?

00:41:05
Speaker 2: Jerry up? Next? Jerry, go ahead, Jerry hey.

00:41:09
Speaker 10: Man on the biggest players come into Conwell Stadium. Herschel Walker when he came into nineteen eighty that was huge because he was a phenomenon and they were on the way on the way.

00:41:20
Speaker 2: To that Again, Rick Rick got my eir, what who was it?

00:41:24
Speaker 10: I said, When herschel came in here in nineteen.

00:41:26
Speaker 2: Eighty that was huge.

00:41:28
Speaker 10: It was bigger than that because they were on their way to the title. And that was in the Hay George football And when he came in eighty two, that was when he won the Heisman.

00:41:36
Speaker 2: It was big.

00:41:37
Speaker 10: And then the next year, well we said the next year asked about you were asked about bo He came in the next year and that was big because the attack he was four and oh and they crushed us. But anyway, as far as this game goes, I'm hoping that, you know, we get a slug fast seventeen fourteen. But I'm just afray that defense is legit and they're gonna hold us like three points. And the problem Texas has?

00:42:04
Speaker 2: What about the what about the weather?

00:42:06
Speaker 4: It's just supposed to be perfect like today. I think it spposed to be a great day. Tomorrow when it's supposed to rain.

00:42:10
Speaker 2: There's supposed to be a massive storm rain during the check that out.

00:42:13
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be awful tomorrow. I thin it's gonna rain.

00:42:15
Speaker 2: Did you think it was gonna be perfect, sunny during the day, raining at night. I have no clue.

00:42:19
Speaker 3: He just made it up.

00:42:21
Speaker 2: You just made the weather.

00:42:22
Speaker 5: Ye depends on what you look at.

00:42:23
Speaker 2: Just make the weather up. We'll be right back