2025-06-05- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday, June the fifth. I Matt Jones here in the Lexington, Kentucky Studio with Ryan Lemon, where you know we'll be here a lot this summer.

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Speaker 5: I believe we will.

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Speaker 4: We we haven't been here much for a long time, but we will be this summer. And you can give Ushowan the Clarks Puppetshop phone line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass Tex machine is seven seven two sims four five two five four In this distion sponsor by the TJ. Smith Offuss called TJ. He'll make them pay. Shannon is in Louisville, Guys. Now that I'm back, I can admit something to you. Okay, this, I flew like yesterday out of Newark.

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Speaker 5: Oh you did.

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Speaker 6: Yes.

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Speaker 5: You didn't want us to know that beforehand?

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Speaker 6: Well I didn't want.

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Speaker 4: I really didn't want everybody freaking out, specifically my mother. Yes, I didn't want her worrying Shannon about going to Newark. But I flew out of Newark. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you best airport experience.

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Speaker 5: I've ever had because nobody was there.

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Speaker 6: There's nobody's there. Wow. First one, flights, flights are a lot cheaper.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can see.

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Speaker 6: Flights are like about half the other ones.

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Speaker 4: Second, you know they've limited the amount of flights in and out to half of what they were. So you know the problem was it was overcrowded and the air traffic control was too crowded. But they until September have cut the flights in half to try to get get their arms around it.

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Speaker 6: Good for them. So you know what that means is the airport is basically empty.

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Speaker 4: Yes, so no lines all right, think about this, no traffic no line to get your ticket or to you know, check in, no lines through security, no lines at the restaurant, plenty of space to like stretch out. Then they've redone the terminal and it's crazy modern and nice. And now Shannon, after everybody's like, oh, I wouldn't go there, I'm gonna say, best airport in America.

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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you if I go to an airport and there's nobody there, that's cause for concern.

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Speaker 6: Well, I say nobody. I mean, it's just not very many people. First of all, here's a little was you like a little Matt pro travel tip. Let's go The best time to fly is.

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Speaker 4: In the afternoon twelve to four to three or four, because that is the time the airports have their fewest flights just in general. So if you go to the Cincinnati airport from twelve to four, very You do not want to go to the airport early in the morning, yes, or from four on until about nine, because that's when the most flights are. But if you start at like lunch to like three or four in the afternoon, there are not many flights.

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Speaker 6: So, first of.

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Speaker 4: All, in general, that's the time to fly but then secondly, in Newark, nobody's there, so I mean your bags come quick, you know, because there's nobody there.

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Speaker 6: It's great.

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Speaker 5: Did you have any anxiety at all?

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Speaker 4: Nine, Because I mean once I heard they had cut the flights in half and the problem was they had too much traffic. Now, now, if when they get back to September, I could see being nervous, uh huh. But for the summer, that's where you want to go.

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Speaker 5: It's imagine half the people you know, you're You've admitted you're kind of a nervous flyer anyway. Yes, so you had to put a lot of trust in what they were doing there.

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Speaker 4: But again, like there is a sheer numbers thing, which is how many flights there are every single single day. So having told you that experience, would you now fly into I would.

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Speaker 5: I would probably would have done it beforehand.

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Speaker 6: Shannon, would you play, especially if it was.

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Speaker 5: Half Yeah, no doubt. I'm definitely on board with that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think paying a little more is worth saving my life.

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Speaker 4: But I would argue if there's half as many flights now, it might be safer than the other one.

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Speaker 2: It's true, half as many flights in a quarter of the employees working air travel.

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Speaker 6: It was they they used to have two that would do this one job. Now they have one. So they just cut the flights in half. So now it's I'm I'm like, I think it's great now.

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Speaker 5: So all the near miss and everything they think it was just.

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Speaker 4: From it wasn't. They didn't have near misses there. They had the problem of they like went off the screen.

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Speaker 6: That's right.

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Speaker 4: The near misses were in in DC. But they they had like okay, yeah, they went off the screen. They lost communication. They lost a couple of minutes. Now though they're communicating so much. They're like doing podcasts up there, are they? Yeah, Shandy, I don't think, you know, like they're just talking.

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Speaker 3: So anyway over communicating now, yeah, they're over communicating.

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Speaker 6: So that ended up working really well then because I had such free time, because I didn't have to wait in any lines, I was thinking about kind of the summer. Yeah, the things we're gonna do this summer, and so I decided, you know, I'm in on the We're gonna take the show once a week somewhere different.

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Speaker 4: I like that, Okay, once a week we're gonna go somewhere different, and I have a lot of different ideas. I mentioned people's houses that might be one at some point. But we'll also occasionally we'll pick a town randomly.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Remember we've done that before, Yes, for things like when I gave away the trip to the Champions Classic and we just picked the town. I think everybody went to a bakery in Owensboro or all right, so we'll do that. Now we need to settle ourselves in here because Drew's gone next week and by the last two days trusting you to run the equipment.

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Speaker 5: Hey, we're on. We got to going today, we.

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Speaker 6: Did, so next week, I'm just gonna say it has to be in Lexington, Okay, all right, So I want to pick a random place in Lexington for us to do our show, and I'm going to ask you how you would like to pick it. Should we have people volunteer, should we have people call in and make their case. How would you want to pick where we would do a random show next week?

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Speaker 5: I love it when you ask people to call in and try to persuade us with them, because you Lili ends up frustrating you and end up being really good radio.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So here's what I'm going to do later on the show, not right now, but we will call and you can try to convince this we can. We'll do it. It could be at someone's house.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I don't like I don't mind doing it in a place of business, but you can't do it a place of business.

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Speaker 4: Like no one can come to this show, right all right? Except that like no one can come. This is just us and we'll pick the winner and then we will we will go there.

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Speaker 6: How's that?

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Speaker 5: I like it. I like the way we're starting election into cand I of get our get our feet wet.

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Speaker 4: Get our feet wet, and then we'll open it up up to other places in the state. So and Ryan, next week, it'll just be me and you. Drew's still gone and Shannon's in Louisville, so it's just gonna be me and you. So just be me and you showing and Mario showing up at somebody's house.

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Speaker 5: I wee knocking on the door. Can we do the show in your kitchen, ma'am?

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Speaker 4: So you're good with it, I'm good with it. We'll do that a little bit later in the show, okay, And then that starts the past, the start of us. While we're doing the ks bar getting ready for for August. We will we will put our spread our wings and fly across the state.

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Speaker 5: Is today the only day people can kind of convince us for.

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Speaker 6: For next week?

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Speaker 5: Got you?

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Speaker 4: Well, we'll have one day every week. Okay, we pick where we're going next week. How's that?

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Speaker 5: I'm very good with it?

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Speaker 4: All right, good, it's nice to see you. Why are you wearing a Florida Panthers show.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm just just trying to rub it in with you a little bit with the canes, you know, since they beat your canes and I thought they won last night.

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Speaker 4: Shannon, I wish you could see the shirt because it says Florida Panthers. But what would you think the mascot for a Florida Panthers shirt would be panther? You would think, I don't know, I mean, I'm not trying to.

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Speaker 6: Reinvent the wheel. You'd think it'd be a panther. Right, So your shirt has a rat with a hockey stick.

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Speaker 7: Huh?

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Speaker 4: What does that have to do with the Panthers. That's a rat with whiskers in a hockey stick.

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Speaker 5: Maybe somebody knows, because I have no clue.

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Speaker 4: Why would the Florida Panthers have as their mascot a rat. A rat's the most disgusting thing in the world.

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Speaker 3: I need to see the picture. Are we sure it's not just a.

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Speaker 6: Mario Mario to you, No, that's.

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Speaker 5: At a rat. Definitely a rat. There's a little panther over here, but the rat is predominantly.

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Speaker 6: So you have no idea why a rat?

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Speaker 5: Now I'm wearing it just a Pokachu cu. I know you're coming back today.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for that. He just wanted to upset me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then then then you told me they lost last night. I thought they.

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Speaker 6: Were lost to Edmonton.

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Speaker 4: You know, no team from Canada has won the Stanley Cup in over thirty years. That does surprise me, wouldn't you kind of like, I mean, they care about it more than we absolutely wouldn't you kind of like for them to be able to win and Edmonton, Florida won it last year they did. Let Canada get one, they don't you know we're trying to take them over right now.

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Speaker 6: Can they at least get a Stanley Cup before they do that?

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Speaker 5: They're gonna be one of our fifty the number fifty state, number fifty one.

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Speaker 6: It was like you were trying to figure out how many states there were. They would have been.

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Speaker 4: They would have been fifty if they were to come, which they will not, they would be fifty one.

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Speaker 5: But you're for Florida just because they beat your kings.

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Speaker 6: All right, Yeah, that's a really good We'll come back, thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: The UK basketball team is back in well, a lot of them came to Lexington yesterday. Jayleen Lowe got here, Jayden Quaintan's Diabatee apparently yellowch is like on his way. Good he just I guess that means the international v side. Maybe he got it before that because they just shut those down. Maybe he got it before, but either way, the team is here. There were a lot of videos of them introducing the guys. Jalen Lowe said, I'm here to get number nine. That's what he said in his only statement yesterday. I'm here to get number nine. Are you excited to now kind of move in this new class of basketball people.

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Speaker 5: I'm absolutely excited. I'm ready for the seasons to start today. I think they've got a great roster. It's good to hear to say about Yellovich because Mark Pope told you in the interview. He said we still got to work some things out to get him over here. And I mean, I.

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Speaker 4: Said, I mean, I don't I don't know if he's on his way to Newark, but I do know that he his team. He he is in the process supposedly of having left his team. I guess it's not fair to say he's on the way over here because I actually don't know that. But he has left MEGABT or whatever and supposedly to head in this direction. I actually don't know for sure whether or not he's like on a plane, So that's that's a fair point.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure, Yeah, because I was worried that he has some you know, restrictions and maybe not be here till it will.

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Speaker 4: Be are student visas right now, like student visas are temporarily shut down.

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Speaker 5: So is it possible he could not make it over the now?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't expect that to continue, presume unless they just want to have the administration just wants to have no foreign students, which I can't imagine they would do that. Then it's like a teen I don't know. Short answer is I don't know, but let's just assume he ends up here. Yeah, are you?

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Speaker 6: I'm kind of with you. I wish I almost wish this would get going.

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Speaker 4: Rob Dowster and Field the sixty eight said yesterday that Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: Could be preseason number one.

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Speaker 4: Now that's hard for me to believe since I haven't seen a preseason ranking that even has this in.

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Speaker 6: The top five except his, but maybe even with his, they'd have this there.

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Speaker 5: I saw where one guy said, you know, you take Florida, one of the best teams in the country, we took one of their best starters. You take Alabama, another one of the teams in the best in the SEC, we took one of their starters. We've got Kentucky, one of the best teams. We retained one of our starters. I mean, when you look at what they reloaded, you can't be helping to be excited about it.

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Speaker 4: You took a former All acc player as your point guard. Yes, right, So those are guys who have proven success, absolutely right, Like you don't have to hope that they will be successful. You have Jasper Johnson, who I guess I'm higher on than everybody because I can take except Mario because I continue to get like mocked online for saying he could. He's gonna start I will be shocked if he's not starting at least in February. Maybe he doesn't start right off the bat, but you don't bring a guy like that doesn't come here to you know, DeMarcus said, I didn't come here to.

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Speaker 6: Play no school.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he came here to sit, no binch. I mean, I feel like he's gonna he's gonna be out there.

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Speaker 5: Because he's a baller man. He's a score. He can fill it up no matter what who the opponent is. The guy can score. That's gonna get you a spot on the floor somewhere.

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Speaker 4: When he can do what he can do, you would think so. Absolutely, so I am extremely excited.

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Speaker 6: I'm excited, like like like last year, I was excited, but we still didn't know what it was gonna be, like with Mark Pope on the floor. Yeah, and we also really didn't know how good the team would be or not. It kind of got revped up last year when we beat Duke.

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Speaker 4: True, you know, because even in the early games you couldn't really you didn't know. And these guys, a lot of them, I mean, we didn't know what.

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Speaker 6: The kid from Drexel was going to do.

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Speaker 4: And all this and then we beat Duke and we're like, okay, okay, I'm going to be like that from moment one this year, do you are you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Because I think we kind of know these guys we played against.

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Speaker 6: Okay, well that's true.

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Speaker 5: Yes, we played against Theobonta, we played against Aberdeen. You we kind of know them a little bit. Last year. You're right, these guys came in. I had never heard of some of these guys before the well got.

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Speaker 4: I mean, let's be how many of these guys had you how many of the guys on our team?

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Speaker 6: Now? Had you heard of last year?

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Speaker 5: I mean Aberdeen?

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Speaker 6: You had heard of Aberdeen dbate, but you hadn't heard of Jam Williams.

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Speaker 5: No, that's true.

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Speaker 6: We had heard of Jayden Quainton's.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I had not heard of Cam william Had you heard of Jalen Lowe?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 5: I didn't really follow them last year.

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Speaker 4: I had just because I watched him play a couple times. But I never heard of Cam w Williams.

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Speaker 6: No. Obviously, never heard of Yellowvich No, not at all. Never heard of this what is it?

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Speaker 4: Brayden and Haythorn or Braiden Hawthorne that's coming. Yeah, but it is true. We will have more knowledge than we did before.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and guys we know that are really good, you know, Garrison, Yes, Otega. You know we got these guys we're kind of a little more familiar with because last year you could tell me Ansley Aminor is coming, like, who in the world is that?

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Speaker 4: Well, I didn't know who he was until that impressive pro day when I was.

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Speaker 5: Well, you predicted he was going to be one of the best three point shooters in the history of Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 4: I've never I mean I freely acknowledged, I never have seen a UK player that.

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Speaker 6: When I watched him, I was like, that, dude is on the team more than Ansley. And then you know, it shows you can't you can't. You can't judge a book by its cover. Yeah. Right. He ended up being a very important piece for us.

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Speaker 5: Is the year winner and the way Pope plays, he needs a guy like just just go stand in the corner and hit some threes for US, partner, and he needs a guy like that.

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Speaker 4: It feels like back the day when Arkansas had Dwight Stewart. Oh, that would have been a guy Mark Pope could have made work. Yep, if he had the right, no doubt. If he had the right.

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Speaker 5: Do you think who think the Ansley aminor this year? Then the guy that can just gonna stand out.

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Speaker 4: There, and well, I mean, I don't think there's anybody exactly like him, but Cam Williams is gonna be in that role, except he's gonna.

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Speaker 6: Be crazy athletic. Uh huh.

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Speaker 4: Right, So Kim Williams is gonna play that role, but be I think a lot better at it, which which is interesting, which is a good We'll do this at some point. You go position by position, We're gonna be a lot better next year. If you go position by position, Is this guy better than the guy that played it last year?

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Speaker 6: Matter of fact, we may do that later, but I do think that exists.

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Speaker 4: If I'm nine two aight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. A little bit later, we'll try to pick where are we going for the show on Sunday. We got some folks on. We're back at Lexington. This is KSR. Welcome back, Take you Sports Radio.

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Speaker 6: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person writes, Matt, why don't we just have people send you their addresses and then you just surprise them by showing up at their house. Bad idea for a First of all, maybe they're not even.

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Speaker 5: Home, maybe they're in the shower.

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Speaker 4: Secondly, maybe they send us an address it's not where they live, and we knock on a stranger's house, Shen, and then that person really didn't want us there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what a cruel thing to do. I'm sure somebody would do that to us.

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Speaker 4: Though, yes, somebody would definitely do it as a prank or something.

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Speaker 5: In the address of a Louisville fan.

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Speaker 6: That would not be good.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So why does Florida Panthers have a rat? Twenty years ago before a big game, apparently one of the players killed a rat during the pregame speech, then won the game and told the story. Panthers fans have adopted it, and for big games when they win, they throw plastic rats on the ice. They have two mascots, a panther and a rat named Victor.

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Speaker 5: Of all, the rat has a name.

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Speaker 6: The rat's name is vic Victor, Victor the Rat.

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Speaker 5: I'll let you wear this shirt if you'd like to you next home.

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Speaker 4: I have nothing against them. They've just beaten it. They just beat us badly. I like Edmonton. I like to root for people who really want it. And the people in Miami. Do you think they really care? Like they're in Miami.

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Speaker 5: People in Edmonton.

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Speaker 6: It's their lives, Edmonton, it's their whole life.

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Speaker 4: So it would be like Kentucky basketball if we played usc and the national title game in basketball, they don't care.

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Speaker 6: They're in LA. They got other stuff to do. For us. It's everything everything. So Edmonton they care. Miami, they're just gonna go bo, was gonna hang out with Pitt Bull. So like, let's root for the root for the people that care.

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Speaker 5: I can't believe you said no team from Canada has won the Cup in thirty years.

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Speaker 4: Or over thirty years. That's since the early nineties or something since they've won. I think it was Edmonton with Wayne Gretsky back back in the day.

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Speaker 6: It was the last time.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of surprising.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven, let's go to Jacks. What's up, Jacks? Hey, I got it doing good? All right.

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Speaker 8: I've just had a question for y'all.

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Speaker 1: If y'all.

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Speaker 2: Still the perfect roster for Mark.

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Speaker 9: Coope but only using cal Perry players.

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Speaker 6: What would it mean, see Jacks. That's a great question.

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Speaker 4: That's gonna be my Draft Kings question of the day. All right, so the perfect Mark Pope roster with only Cali Perry players, Right, I appreciate the call. So let's start at the two most important positions for Pope himself has said his two most important positions are point guard and the big who can do stuff right, whether it be a four or a five.

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Speaker 6: Who do you like at point guard?

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Speaker 4: So you're gonna want somebody who can distribute but also make shots and beat guys off the dribble. This is just my feeling. I feel like he'd love Tyler Ewlis. Yes, I feel like Tyler Ewis would be his kind of dude. What do you think he's a dog on defense?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: The other guy I thought of who was Darren Fox.

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Speaker 6: I think Fox is really good.

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Speaker 4: I think Fox gets a lot for himself, which is where I think Eulss. I think he likes that point guard to distribute. Eulis could hit the shot. I really like I think Tyler Ewis would be shaying anybody better than Tyler Ewis.

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Speaker 2: At thats one that actually came to mind just because of you know, his mentality, the way that he played physically.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think I'm gonna say Tyler Ewis, and he's a really good defender, all right, So at the four or five, the guy that can get to the top of the key, can hit his shot, but also can look at the defense and and and respond.

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Speaker 6: Set picks who you.

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Speaker 5: Like, knowing what we know now, Carl Anthony Towns will probably my first picky.

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Speaker 6: But Carl's Yes, Carl would be good.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the skills of Carl, but a little tougher and a little more fit. I'm gonna take DeMarcus. Yeah, I think Demark because you know, DeMarcus could shoot threes. Didn't do it here, yeah, but he'd do it something in the pros.

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Speaker 5: True, both those guys did.

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Speaker 6: And I feel like Demark. I feel like, just like Cal loved his thing, I think I think Pope would love his thing too.

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Speaker 5: Would a guy like Willie cauley Stein be able to play will.

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Speaker 6: Because he doesn't shoot three? I agree, you know, so he does.

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Speaker 4: So I think I'm just gonna go to Marcus, all right, now on the wings. I feel like two guys that stick out to me that I think would just excel would be Read and Jamal Murray.

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Speaker 5: Jamal Murray, definitely Read.

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Speaker 4: And Jamal Murray. I just feel like the way they shoot, the way they come off. If you had a three man backcourt of Uless Murray who played together, yes, and then Reid or Antonio Reeves at that other position, I really like it.

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Speaker 5: What about you, It's hard to not pick one of those guys, Reeves or Murray. I know who you're gonna pick out of those three guys.

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Speaker 6: So who you gonna take? We if you get two guards, I'm gonna take. Actually no offense to read. I'm gonna take Reeves and Murray.

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Speaker 5: Who are you gonna I probably would take Reid and Murray? Just got I think read it.

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Speaker 4: And you agree with me about Murray. You think, like Ulss Murray is a perfect pope backcourt now.

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Speaker 5: That we think about it, it is absolutely a blueprint of what he wants done.

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Speaker 6: So let's say let's just use your lineup.

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Speaker 4: Let's say I have Uless, I've got Shepherd, I've got Murray, I've got DeMarcus to kind of protect him. I think I need an athlete, yes, at that an athlete at that four spot.

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Speaker 6: Who's the athlete at the four that you like? I have one in mind? But who do you like?

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Speaker 5: Julius Randall?

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Speaker 4: I didn't think of him. I like that one, but I think he and DeMarcus maybe do some similar study.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, Bam, BAM's a good one.

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Speaker 4: Ye, although actually Bam could be the guy at the five instead of DeMarcus.

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Speaker 5: He can kind of they could rotate those two guys there. This is the spot where if Willie could shoot, it's that's Willie's spot can't.

00:21:58
Speaker 4: And I think it would be I think you'd have a hard time playing him in Pope's office. So the other thing is, now, that's also the Annsley almanor standing in the corner and shoot threes guy.

00:22:08
Speaker 6: So who's that? That's not Bam? Who is that? God? Is that Winion Gabriel?

00:22:14
Speaker 5: Well he ended up being pretty good, pretty good doing that Winian Gabriel.

00:22:19
Speaker 4: You'd won off the bench with Poe in pope system, you would want him kind of coming off the bench in that role.

00:22:28
Speaker 5: He's perfect for that role right there.

00:22:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's interesting.

00:22:32
Speaker 5: We forgot about Malik Monk too.

00:22:33
Speaker 4: Well and quickly think about quickly's year there, how good he could have been? To you, another guy who's a pretty good passer at the top of the key, maybe not a three point shooter.

00:22:43
Speaker 6: Was Nick Richards at the end?

00:22:44
Speaker 5: He was?

00:22:45
Speaker 6: He was He was pretty good at that at the end. Yeah, I think pretty much everybody that Cal had would have worked, except like an Eric Bledsoe or so that might not have been the best for him. That's interesting question. Good question. We'll take a break. Me right back to KISO. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

00:23:05
Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

00:23:08
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:10
Speaker 4: It's still crazy to hear this guy, Billy Corgan after he called me that one time, Shan that just came up smashing Pumpkins.

00:23:19
Speaker 6: That was hilarious to me. That was his.

00:23:20
Speaker 3: Phone, Like the band has a hot line and.

00:23:22
Speaker 6: I saved it. It is still in my phone, Smash Smashing pumpkins.

00:23:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna call him up.

00:23:27
Speaker 6: And just a few times we we've tried to work stuff out to do. He's he uh, you know, he owns what is it TNA or NOI n w A n w W he owns nw A and he's We talked about doing the whole thing, just didn't didn't work out all right, So other people suggesting stuff I like.

00:23:44
Speaker 4: I mean, here's some good suggestions at the four. Patrick Patterson, yes, definitely could shoot. Absolutely, there's shreds the floor.

00:23:52
Speaker 5: Trey Lyles a guy that would have probably thrived in Mark Pope's system. Derek Willis another guy that probably would have thrived, but.

00:24:00
Speaker 4: Like Derek Willis, missed his time. Derrick Willis with Mark Pope would have been would have been really good.

00:24:07
Speaker 5: Could have elevated him to another level.

00:24:08
Speaker 4: I give Derek Willis a lot of credit because Cal could not stand not Derek Willis the person, but the way he played when he got here, thought he was soft.

00:24:19
Speaker 6: I don't think Cal ever thought he would make it. And Derek stayed, yes, and stayed, and then by the end was a heck of a play. Yes he was.

00:24:29
Speaker 3: Why would you somebody though that you think is soft?

00:24:31
Speaker 6: Because he felt like again, Cal had a thing against Kentucky guys. He just did not want the guys from Kentucky.

00:24:37
Speaker 5: Didn't think they could play.

00:24:38
Speaker 6: He didn't think they could put It's the truth. I mean, you go back there, every kid from Kentucky, he took reluctantly. He and he recruited Derek early. But then I just think he thought Derek was soft.

00:24:53
Speaker 4: But then Derek worked to the point that Derek not only started, he had some big games towards end of his career.

00:25:00
Speaker 5: Oh, he was one of our crucial, most crucial players there.

00:25:03
Speaker 4: That I mean when he was playing on that team with Fox Monk and Bam he started year. It was Fox Monk, Bam Briscoe and him that was the starting lineup.

00:25:14
Speaker 5: Probably a few people would have been able to remember that that he started.

00:25:17
Speaker 6: That lineup could have won the national chance, should have won it. That is a national championship lineup, Fox Monk and they ran into the only team that was as good as they were, that North Carolina team. And I still contend this is where I used to disagree with Cal about the regular season. He'd always be like, oh wait till March.

00:25:36
Speaker 4: We were cost a Final four by the fact that that team took so long to get going, because by the tournament we were the second best team, but we got put in North Carolina's.

00:25:46
Speaker 6: Brack any other bracket, any other bracket. I think we're in the final.

00:25:51
Speaker 4: Full agree, but because we didn't take the regular season as seriously. But Fox monk Bam, Derek Willis Briscoe, that's a national championship.

00:25:59
Speaker 6: You can win an national championship with that line.

00:26:01
Speaker 5: Derek's still playing overseas too, he is. I think he's still playing.

00:26:04
Speaker 6: He's still playing.

00:26:06
Speaker 4: You know, every time I see him, he's in a different country with his mustache and his child and his wife banging threes. Yes, that's exactly right. There's a zebra on the loose in Tennessee. Heard about that. Yeah, so somebody had a zebra. Zebra in Murphy's Borough, just just somebody like on their farm. I don't know, Shannon to wear it, just at their house, right, they just had a zebra.

00:26:30
Speaker 3: I guess.

00:26:30
Speaker 7: So.

00:26:30
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:26:31
Speaker 6: I didn't realize.

00:26:32
Speaker 4: Until Tiger King that there were just like people out there who had these things and they and let me just say, I don't think they should. I don't think you should be able to have a zebra in Murphy's Borough. It can't be good for the zebra, can't it.

00:26:45
Speaker 5: You would think not probably lonely because there's not all the zebra's around.

00:26:48
Speaker 6: The you're worry about the loneliness.

00:26:50
Speaker 3: Yes, it's it's just a striped horse. What's the difference.

00:26:53
Speaker 6: I mean there's well, I mean it's probably used to a different temperature. Yeah, they're not a I mean actually, Ryan's right, there's not other zebra is to hang out with.

00:27:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't cut up with your female zebra.

00:27:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, well then you have the problem of it gets loose. Have you seen these pictures of like.

00:27:08
Speaker 5: Zebra just walking through people's yards the missing they know, so they've seen the missing zebra.

00:27:13
Speaker 4: There's pictures of it, like next to the interstate, there's pictures of it, Shennon in like suburbs, like just like like there's like Master Sensation. Imagine if you just saw zebra walking down Master Sensation.

00:27:28
Speaker 5: That really tickles me because I just assumed it was on the loose, nobody could see it. I'm like, how can you not see a zebra walk?

00:27:33
Speaker 6: It's everywhere. There are pictures of it, Like people there are pictures of it, and then it escapes and they're trying the corner.

00:27:41
Speaker 4: They can't, they can't get to it, and it just hangs out. It can jump whatever. And it's so fast that it runs past people.

00:27:50
Speaker 3: You're a cowboy, why don't you go out there and wrangle it in?

00:27:53
Speaker 6: I don't. I don't think I can. And you know, now you get the animal rights groups, they're like, don't shoot it.

00:27:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought thought they probably might have tried to tranquilize it just to catch it.

00:28:02
Speaker 6: But it's everywhere.

00:28:03
Speaker 5: Oh, that that's it.

00:28:05
Speaker 6: That's it.

00:28:05
Speaker 4: There are videos of it literally like walking up and knocking on people's door and asking asking them how they're doing.

00:28:11
Speaker 5: Mario showing a video of those zebra running down the side of the road.

00:28:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's on the highway. But look for the video. This is on TikTok.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: Look at the video of the zebra like walking in a neighborhood, like with the milk mat.

00:28:21
Speaker 5: And they guess they're puzzles.

00:28:22
Speaker 6: They aren't milt men anymore. But there.

00:28:24
Speaker 5: But I don't know how to get it back in New Ketch.

00:28:28
Speaker 4: They can't find it for one thing. Wow, So I'm rooting for the zebra. First of all, let it get out of Tennessee, Shannon, Every every animal needs to get out of Tennessee for a little.

00:28:36
Speaker 3: Wi Yeah, nobody wants to be in Tennessee.

00:28:37
Speaker 5: What if it comes to Kentucky, Well, gladly that far away, come on up here.

00:28:41
Speaker 3: To fish and Wildlife Company will get out there and get it.

00:28:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Murphy's Borough, if it were to come north, what's the first town it would enter? You figure that out? Why I take this call. See if I were to come north to Zebra from Murphy's.

00:28:55
Speaker 5: Borough, Murvie Broo, gotta go through Nashville.

00:28:57
Speaker 4: Well, it's not gonna go down the interstate. It can just go straight like it's it doesn't have to follow the rules of the road. Let's go to Jordan. What's up, Jordan?

00:29:08
Speaker 8: Jordan, Hey, Matt, we're just the I'm a season ticket holder, so like to be optimistic about football. But listening to eleven personnel talking about the high school recruiting right now, we have two commits, one who's not even ranked. Yeah, so just that know, you know, a big picture that kind of seems like a forecast of the future.

00:29:31
Speaker 6: It's hard to say the kind of Temples Well, it's hard to say for me about high school recruiting now because I don't know to what extent in football, I mean, it matters less than it used to how much does it matter. I don't really know, to be honest with you. And if you have a limited budget, how much of it are you going to use on high school guys who probably aren't gonna play for a couple of years. So I want so, I don't know the answer to that.

00:29:58
Speaker 4: I mean, I have noticed that normally at this point we have, like like Vince Merrill and Mark Stoops's strategy used to be get a ton of really good guys to commit early and then hope you hold on to right. Yeah, that's clearly not what they're doing this year because they haven't gotten a bunch of guys to commit early.

00:30:17
Speaker 6: So to your point, yeah, I don't know.

00:30:20
Speaker 8: In the state of Kentucky, the top ten kids, we have one, Indiana has one, and Louisville has six, and Western has one. So it's not looking great.

00:30:30
Speaker 4: Louisville has six of the top ten Kentucky high school players.

00:30:34
Speaker 6: I didn't know that. Yes, yeah, that's not good.

00:30:36
Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate the call that that that's not good.

00:30:43
Speaker 5: You're right, though, Vince and those guys have been have been really good about identifying guys at an early age and getting it on them early and then kind of be able to keep them and by the time their.

00:30:51
Speaker 6: Seniors all right again.

00:30:55
Speaker 4: You know me, I don't want to be I don't want to be nigtive, but I will say this. I thought, after we started down this path a few weeks ago, I thought that at some point someone at UK would reach out to me and sort of say, hey, Matt, it's not as bad, yes, and here are the reasons why, like, give me the case for things are good and I've gotten no case.

00:31:25
Speaker 5: So you're saying you're still waiting on that text message to come in.

00:31:28
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I admit I would have thought, yeah, I mean, have you have you gotten the case of here's some things to think about positively?

00:31:37
Speaker 5: Well, just the one I shared this week about the offensive line that's been it it should be better, it will be better with Jack.

00:31:43
Speaker 4: I would have thought there would have been people saying to me, now, Matt, here's this, this and this and none of it.

00:31:55
Speaker 5: The silence is almost scaring me that there's nothing coming forward.

00:31:58
Speaker 4: Well, clearly the silence is a strategy, because at this point the silence is, as they would say, deafening.

00:32:05
Speaker 6: Yeah, but.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: I tend to be I don't know, I'm starting to be like, there comes a point where things happen and you go will maybe they're outsmarting me. No, let me give you an example criticizing my own side. There came a point in the election in twenty twenty four where Biden was doing so poorly that I started to think.

00:32:37
Speaker 6: There must be something I don't realize right, like they're gonna do something like there's gotta be a master strategy. And then he went up in the debate and he just bombed and it became clear they.

00:32:50
Speaker 4: Have no strategy. Yeah, and then all the rest was history. I kept thinking, there's got to be something I'm not seeing Ryan, maybe they're they're trying to hook and hold them. And then it just became clear they just nobody had the guts to say he needs to drop out. So I wonder if I keep waiting for there's some kind of master UK football strategy I'm not seen, and maybe it just doesn't exist.

00:33:20
Speaker 5: I can see the way your fear is legitimate, and I lean on guys know a lot more football than I do, and they're all just as concerned about the most of them. They like most of us.

00:33:31
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00:34:28
Speaker 3: There you go saying I'm not gonna lie again. It is a good song.

00:34:34
Speaker 4: It is a great song, very pretty like it's like the Simon and Garfunk call at their best together because they the way they play their voices off each other, it's very nice.

00:34:44
Speaker 3: Apparently they hate each other, right.

00:34:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, I hate that they hate each other. Yeah, what are like other? Fat like they do.

00:34:51
Speaker 4: That's a lot of yabbering. It would hate suck to be a duo that didn't like each other.

00:34:57
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, especially if you're Garfunkle a game. Yeah, he carried on and carried on.

00:35:03
Speaker 6: What are some other famous groups that hated each other?

00:35:06
Speaker 5: Holland Oates do not. They sue each other now, they don't like each other. They've sued each other like, well, neither Hall.

00:35:12
Speaker 6: Nor Oats is good without the other one?

00:35:14
Speaker 5: True?

00:35:15
Speaker 3: You got you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean right now.

00:35:18
Speaker 2: You got Journey, who's touring and their keyboard just is suing like I think their guitar player or maybe Vice. And they're still on stage every night playing and there's an active lawsuit going on between them.

00:35:31
Speaker 6: You know, did Van Halen hate each other?

00:35:36
Speaker 5: David Lee Roth?

00:35:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar I think kind of guns and Roses.

00:35:40
Speaker 6: They hate each other.

00:35:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, when they're back together again, but they you know, broke up for years.

00:35:45
Speaker 5: Somebody just got on a fight on the stage, like the singer and the guitar player just got on a fight not long ago, who is probably.

00:35:52
Speaker 10: Probably puddle of mud. I think that happens every show. Yeah, well, Simon and Garfunckel. To me, you're like, maybe the most famous don't like each other duo. That's a shame though, because they were. You know, these are great songs. This socks.

00:36:08
Speaker 5: This song just kind of mels you immediately.

00:36:10
Speaker 4: Yes, it does a nine to two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, one person writes, Matt in Africa, a lot of people don't know this.

00:36:17
Speaker 6: Zebra is not said the way we say here. They don't say zebra.

00:36:21
Speaker 4: They say zebra like Debra, Huh did you know that?

00:36:26
Speaker 5: You didn't know that. Maybe that's why he's not responding.

00:36:29
Speaker 6: He's they should scream.

00:36:31
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think you would scream, hey, zebra, come over here.

00:36:35
Speaker 6: But that would be like yelling at you, hey human.

00:36:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't.

00:36:39
Speaker 6: Think that's you would. We probably would respond better to a name or something like that.

00:36:44
Speaker 5: So obviously his compound he was living in is in the Murphy's Borough area. He's like, dude, I'm out of here, peace out. Yeah, I'm on the run.

00:36:50
Speaker 4: I would be uh, I would be the same way A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The High School and Baseball Softball Championships begin today in Lexington.

00:37:00
Speaker 6: Literally saw a group.

00:37:01
Speaker 4: Of three softball girls walking down to Harrisburg Road this morning in their uniforms really, which I thought was really strange. They were in their uniforms like pants and all walking down the street, which seemed to me to be odd. I don't know which high school team or the Panthers, but that's who. That's who they were.

00:37:20
Speaker 5: I guess they got a game this morning. They had to go to McDonald's to get something to eat, something to drink before the game.

00:37:24
Speaker 6: I guess. So you usually know who's good for softball, No idea, no idea. What about baseball?

00:37:31
Speaker 5: Baseball sat X is really good again this year. Okay, yeah, they're probably the I think one of the fair I think I don't really know who else.

00:37:38
Speaker 4: That's your Kentucky State High School and Baseball Softball preview.

00:37:45
Speaker 6: By Ryan Lemon The llot East.

00:37:48
Speaker 3: I believe, so believe. So I don't have the bracket in front of them.

00:37:53
Speaker 6: Let's look at the bracket. You pull up the bracket while I talked to Nico. Go ahead, and Nico, Hey, what's up?

00:38:00
Speaker 7: What's going on North Carolina? I got a question. It's a sort of similar to one I asked before. But if you could add a quality from any cow player that he ever had to one player like they're shooting another passing to one player from last year, to just try to win a national championships, who would it be?

00:38:18
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:38:19
Speaker 4: Get I mean, for me, it's all gonna be about what Jalen Low does. So give me like the consistency of the Tyler Ulis or I can give.

00:38:28
Speaker 6: It to Okay, Sorry, no, no, okay, I got you. I appreciate the call.

00:38:37
Speaker 4: Well, if you're gonna give me something from last year, then I would like for it to be like give Kobe bray As three point shooting to one of the guys on the team. Yes, right, like make Aberdeen or Jasper Johnson, make them a not make them shoot as well as Kobe Brea and I think we're we're good.

00:38:57
Speaker 5: That's definitely what this team is missing.

00:38:58
Speaker 4: You take one a guy and I know that if I get him off a pick down, he's gonna knock it down. The other answer would be give me Amari Williams true at the five and I know what I have there, but I still feel like they can get that from Garrison, Yeovich.

00:39:15
Speaker 6: Et cetera.

00:39:17
Speaker 5: Just for the record, neither Saint X norble at Easter even in the sweet text team.

00:39:23
Speaker 6: Okay, read me quickly. The matchups. I'll tell you who's gonna win.

00:39:27
Speaker 5: Boyd County versus Boyle County. Give me Boyd, Harrison County and Mike Whittaker. The winning is coaching the history of Kentucky based still coaches. Versus Wolf County.

00:39:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love Wolf County. That's eastern Kentucky. But Harrison County wins.

00:39:39
Speaker 6: Go ahead.

00:39:40
Speaker 5: Taylor County versus Eleventh Region Champ sayre out.

00:39:45
Speaker 4: You got the preppee, you got the like all the the Lexington money versus Taylor County, where I have some extended family. My grandma lived there. I learned to play golf at the Campbellsville Public Course, and they have the mister gaddies.

00:39:59
Speaker 6: I'm taking Taylor County.

00:40:01
Speaker 5: Sarah's got some really good pitchers, two really good.

00:40:02
Speaker 6: Pitchers, okay, but they're not pitching them today. Go ahead.

00:40:05
Speaker 5: Trinity versus Mead County, and Trinity's kind of the favorite.

00:40:08
Speaker 6: We'll take Trinity, Go ahead.

00:40:10
Speaker 5: Johnson, Central versus Spencer County.

00:40:13
Speaker 4: Those teams are either of them usually good. Those got they got some arms in the mountains.

00:40:18
Speaker 5: Give me, Johnson said, Oka like your philosophy. McCracken County versus Lyon County taking McCracken p r P versus Corbyn, and Corbyn's got mister baseball, kad Elam.

00:40:27
Speaker 6: Kate Elam can throw the screwball. Give me Corbyn.

00:40:31
Speaker 5: And the last game is South Warren versus Highlands.

00:40:35
Speaker 6: Uh, South Warton.

00:40:37
Speaker 5: There we go.

00:40:38
Speaker 6: So, so you're saying Trinity is the.

00:40:39
Speaker 5: Favorite, Trinity's favorite.

00:40:41
Speaker 3: Yes, And that was softball or baseball?

00:40:43
Speaker 5: That was baseball.

00:40:44
Speaker 4: I was about saying if that was softball, I was picking based on baseball, which would have made it not necessarily the best.

00:40:50
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:40:50
Speaker 2: When I said boldese was I was talking about softball, not baseball.

00:40:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, softball, that makes sense. All right, are they in there?

00:40:57
Speaker 5: They even in the field.

00:40:58
Speaker 6: Let's go, let's go what us go ahead? Dustin?

00:41:01
Speaker 9: Hey, guys, can you hear me?

00:41:03
Speaker 6: Go ahead?

00:41:05
Speaker 1: Ny?

00:41:05
Speaker 9: So a couple of things. So with the zebra moving north, it would actually probably run into Scottsville and then us up to if it continues up to two thirty one, two thirty one actually turns into thirty one, and it could actually make its pass up to Dixie Highway. Now that is a long way to go.

00:41:25
Speaker 4: Oh man, if he got to if he got the Dixie Highway, no one would even notice it.

00:41:29
Speaker 6: They would.

00:41:30
Speaker 4: Man, if he got the Dixie Highway, if people just blend in, it would just be at the Golden Craal Pete would go and get in line with everybody else and it would be fine. I would say, Scottsville, appreciate the call. You know, that's where Dollar General was created. Dollar General was created in Scottsville. If I was the zebra, I'd go in a different direction. I'd be worried in Scottsville. I wouldn't make it towards the Allen County border.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: He can go west a little bit and go up through Franklin, then Franklin to Bowling Green.

00:41:57
Speaker 6: Yeah again, you want him on the interstate.

00:41:59
Speaker 4: I think for his life he needs to stay away from the Interstate in the fast moving trucks. All right, when we come back, we're gonna play the game of KSR comes to your house and we'll take.

00:42:10
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