2025-02-11- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Now here's that jokes. Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, February the eleventh, On a snowy day here in Lexington, Kentucky. I don't know where you are around the state or around the country, but we have snow here in Lexington, and uh there's snow. I think in Louisville and really all around. I sixty four in a little bit south right. I think the Danville Richmond seemed to get the most, but we got a lot here too. We're at as Bar and Grill. You can come have a snowy lunch if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Uh, that's the Clark's Puppet chop phone line. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. In this edition sponsored by the T J. Smith Office. You called TJ, I'll make them pay. Uh, Kentucky and Tennessee tonight, I got. I said, if you're not gonna use your tickets for the game, just send them to me and I'll give them away. I already have six tickets to give them. That's awesome. So Matt dot Jones at Kentucky sports Radio dot com, if you want to give more away, I'm gonna give a couple on this show in the second hour. Don't call now. If you call now, I'm gonna tell Shane Well, no call to talk to us. But if you want tickets, second hour, second hour sometime, gotcha. But but we also are gonna do like an ask anything Tuesday because I want to hear what people say. So here's what's on tap, right, all right. Number one, we're gonna talk about Kentucky Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Number two we're gonna talk about there's a lot happening here in Lexington today. Actually and then number three, I'm gonna make everybody mad. That's what we're gonna do. Uh and and it'll be fun.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I wonder do you think the weather will prohibit some people from making it to the guys supposed to snow like all day, like not even stopped till the tonight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Probably. I mean it'll be interesting to see, like when we do our pregame show here, that'll give us a notion I think of how crowded the game's gonna be. I just am gonna keep saying to people, if you're not if you can't make the trip, give your tickets away or give them to me, and I will I will find I mean, listen, they'll there'll be somebody who will come and will take them. Uh, those of you writing me saying I'll take them, no, thank you, Like, I know I can find people to take them. The question is who wants to give them? Dru Yeah, I'm I'm a little worried.

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Speaker 5: I had two different parties out of Western Kentucky called me and say, how bad is it. We're kind of on the fence, so you know, if people can tell from the other side, That's what I said. It's a lot of slush right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say for those of you at home trying to figure it out, I think you can come. This is not like the other one. This is the kind of snow. It's the real it's not really cold, so it's it's fluffy like for instance, you know, we probably have three or four inches of snow, but there was no ice on my car. You were able to just you were able to just do so like that means when you drive, and it's supposed to get to like thirty five today, which means it's not gonna freeze the roads. So I actually think if you're listening, leave early. But if you're careful, I think you can you can be fine. Yeah, And if you agree with that, I do. And I think this is the city did a good job pre treating the roads. It looked like last night I saw a lot of Crux out pre treating just to kind of even reinforce the roads won't ice over. So yeah, I think if you I think you'll be fine. I do, especially if you're just like come on the Interstate or on the Bluegrass Parkway or something, I think you're gonna be fine. Now, again, it's not my fault if you're not fine shitning, but I think you should. I think you should be. You should be. Okay, this is not bad driving weather. This is it looks worse than it is.

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Speaker 3: You guys are actually getting a lot more in Lexington than we are in Louisville. So we're only getting up a couple of inches.

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Speaker 2: It looks like over here. Yeah, but but but hopefully hope. You know, we do need a good crowd because we we don't have Jackson Robinson.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think the folks that do make it rub we rocket. I mean, this is you will. I think you know the fact that you got to throw in the elements.

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Speaker 2: We made it.

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Speaker 4: We're here, let's go, let's get crazy. And it's Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: On the other do you remember like the biggest snow games in Lexington? Because to me, when I think of a snow game in Lexington, I think of the SEC tournament. Yeah year, that was it, and uh and Tennessee was one of the games we played. I want to say, Ryan, was that ninety four? Ninety three, ninety four? Before I got here it was nine. I think you could look this up and see if I'm right, Shannon. I think This was the nineteen ninety four SEC tournament was in Lexington, and I think it snowed like dump snow, Yeah, and people could barely get in the arena. But the the ones who got in winnows, right, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I know there's a there's a famous snow story about a game at Southern Illinois or at Illinois where the officials couldn't even get there. They had to get two guys out of the stands and referee the UK basketball going in jeus.

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Speaker 2: It was not too I promise you what year was this? Nineteen twelve? It wasn't that crazy long ago. Wait a minute, like what like? What do give me a guess of what year you think this was someone?

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Speaker 4: I'm totally guessing. I'm gonna guess the seventies and it was Southern Illinois. First of why would we have played at Southern I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You think we played a road game at the Salute?

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Speaker 4: Totally guessing maybe it was Illinois, but I was thinking it was Southern Illinois.

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Speaker 2: I will say I do remember some version of this story, yeah, talking about I do. I've always wondered about it though. Was it hyperbole? Did they really just get two guys in jeans.

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Speaker 4: I think I've read. I think they did because they had to play the game. The team made it because they came to two guys in jeans to get I guess they were.

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Speaker 2: High school referees. I think that's been important. I think that was it.

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Speaker 4: I think there were high school referees.

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Speaker 5: Some fact checking ninety three tournament story and we've only played Southern Illinois once and it was here, so not Southern iis.

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Speaker 2: I think if I can remember, because I know I remember it, some notion of what you're saying Ryan is correct. I think it was like Illinois, and maybe in the fifties could be. I think it was. I think it was longer ago than that.

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Speaker 4: You remember the SEC tournament that was in Saint Louis and it snowed. Everybody in the way home couldn't make it back to Lexington, back to Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't that Gabriel three? Yes, three final four? Yes.

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Speaker 5: I had friends calling me begging me to pull over. I even had a friend said by the room. Because I was driving the middle of night, I stayed in the game and in front of me.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know if I was on highway.

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Speaker 4: You a farm.

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Speaker 5: It was just white as far as I could see, and I was driving about twenty to.

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Speaker 4: Make sure we beat this. Still say at one of these things, he just can do this. We left early and we're ahead of the snow. We never got stuck in it. I fight weather in traffic. That's what I hold off. It's like I'm a superhero. Just all right, weather bam, traffic bam. That's that's what I try to think. A lot of our fans ended up trying to stay in Mount Vernon, Illinois, and the hotels ended up being booked.

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Speaker 2: Full of Yeah.

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Speaker 5: All the way back, I was seeing full hotels and Kentucky fans pulled over.

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Speaker 2: Well, so tonight you get Kentucky and Tennessee. We uh, we don't get Jackson Robinson. He is out Lamont. Butler is probable, which I think means probably will we'll play. So this is I think the first guy game where we've had Butler but no Robinson. How do you think that goes well?

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Speaker 4: Getting Butler back? Actually, you know, I absolutely helped us last week. But man, Jackson Robinson has been that one key component. I mean, he had the good game when they played at Tennessee when he had to play point guard. You know, we went down the shorthand and we played him the first time.

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Speaker 2: It hurts.

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Speaker 4: It hurts not having Jacks ROMs. I think, you know, he's a guy that you can kind of depend on. Is gonna you know, he had the one back game was at Georgia, I think it was back. But ever since then he's played, you know, he's been our best player.

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Speaker 2: I think nineteen eighty three against Illinois.

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Speaker 4: It was eighty three against Illanois, so.

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Speaker 2: That's much more recent than I would have thought. And they had just guys in jeans, and they were they really wearing jeans. The story I remember.

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Speaker 4: I think they pulled two guys out of the stands because they were high school referees. They found them on a referee shirt, but they had to do it in jeans.

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Speaker 3: I already have collars were in jeans, so I don't.

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Speaker 5: Remember this picture of the refs. It doesn't look like jeans unless they're black jeans.

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Speaker 2: Oh now, the one guy though, doesn't look like a real like that. That belly is not the belly of a full time referee. It does say dude of bad weather.

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Speaker 5: Local referees are pulled out of the stands to officiate.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty amazing. The game we.

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Speaker 5: Won by two, Wow, a big game by Jim Master Samboo each with eleven points.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if that happened now and we played like at Tennessee and they're just like, all right, let's get some people here in the crowd. Can you imagine our fans the uproar of every call you think Doug Shalls gets it bad, the random pot bellied Tennessee people that were that would be a whole nother level.

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Speaker 4: Especially if they look up in the crowd they got like a Tennessee volunteer hat on our referee high school games, come on, we want you. Yeah, you're definitely one of the guy we want.

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Speaker 2: Well well, but so tonight presumably the referees will show up, And I actually think it's it's a different game without Jackson Robinson for this, Drew, I think now scoring the scoring points will be the heart. So like, I have a hard time seeing Kentucky get over eighty without Jackson Robinson, which means like we're gonna have to hope they're cold in order to win. Do you agree with that or hope you get one of those six or seven three co let's go and pull my string back here, so I can say Kobe buran and needs to have a big game. I think I say it every day, but really this time, if he picks up the offensive select that they're missing with Robinson, I think they'll be fine because I really liked the idea of Butler coming back and neutralizing Zegra. Ziegler a little has been really good since the last time we played. He did not play well against US, but he has really turned it up in the last few Again.

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Speaker 5: Historically, he's been pretty bad at Kentucky games. I don't know if it's just what he sees on the logo, but that game I went down there a few years ago, he went two for thirteen and I think they're all wide open layups. So I like Butler taking him out, but someone's gonna have to pick up the points for Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Brea was awesome that game down Knoxville. I don't know what he missed a shot. That was the game. He was perfect in the field. I think he just missed a couple of free throws.

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Speaker 2: But Robinson played well that game.

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Speaker 4: Robinson didn't play very.

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Speaker 2: Well in that so you don't have him, But we didn't have Butler, we didn't have cars. So I think, like these other guys, you know, we're losing our in my opinion, best offensive player. So now we've got to find a way to have the other guys step Now. I do think because you won down there, we're playing with a little bit of house money here. I mean, I never want to lose to Tennessee, but you beat them down there. If you beat them again, that's amazing. But it's not like crippling. If you fall today, but then I think it means you're gonna have to win win Saturday in Austin. If you lose tonight, yeah.

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Speaker 5: It'll be if they can do it. Only the second sweep since Rick Barnes has been there. It's been a lot of splitting with them. Also, I know some of the fan base is still pouting over Arkansas and Ole Miss. Just get a top five win. Hopefully everyone could move on from that bad week and realize this is still very good basketball.

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Speaker 2: Yea, and the SEC. When the poll came out yesterday, the SEC has four of the top five teams in the country. How about the Iron Bowl is one two? Yeah, here's an interesting stat Auburn Albama ranked one two they're gonna play Saturday will be the first time the number one and two teams have played each other in the regular season since Calip Perry did it at Memphis against Tennessee really in two thousand and eight, there has not been the number one and two teams play each other. And if I were to tell you that stat, give me the last two number one and two teams play each other, who would say Auburn Alabama and Memphis Tennessee. But that's what it's gonna end up being. I remember that Pearlcla game. That game was awesome back when they had like a million Smiths on Tennessee and it was a Saturday night and they played like in February. I continue to be on the path of we should play big non conference college basketball rivalries in February, Like this weekend should be the weekend that Kentucky plays Kansas and you know, Duke plays Canade Kid or something like to get people back into to college basketball.

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Speaker 4: It's funny you the validate the point. We all remember that Tennessee Memphis game. It was a big deal. They promoted the heck guy.

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Speaker 2: Imagine if you just said, right, like, what if we played Louisville this weekend, It'd be huge. I mean that would be you know, Loul's good. Like that would have been a game we all looked forward to year. I've always been a big promoter because Memphis and Tennessee used to do that. Duke's play in Illinois either this weekend or next weekend, which I think is a smart thing that we should. There should be more of those games Dree in the in the conference season.

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Speaker 5: I'll even add someone else said this on the internet. I'll steal it, but they should do that marathon right after the day after the super Bowl, just to completely flip the switch into basketball mode. And you know we all have that little missing football hangover once the super Bowl ends. Just load up on as many good basketball games as you can still that momentary.

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Speaker 2: I totally agree with that. I saw that. I saw that post too. I thought that was a I think that was a former KSR writer, Biddy Raby Reagan. Yeah, I thought that was a really a really smart one as well. Do you feel at all positive about tonight? I do.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think Tennessee's gonna miss thirty four to three pointers whatever it was like they did last game. I mean, they cant but Tennessee's defense is gonna probably tune it up, try to keep Kentucky from scoring a lot of points. I think it'll be a low scoring game tonight.

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Speaker 5: I actually feel a little too good. I'm a little worried about how good I feel. I just think it's a great matchup as we saw down there. Pope, he's gonna just let them shoot threes. Now, they're probably not gonna take forty five eleven for forty five, but what it was. But I mean, the formula is still gonna be the same. Just dare Tennessee to shoot and hopefully it's not a night for them. They don't. Tennessee doesn't like playing this way. They'd rather be in a rock fight. Do you do you like by hoodie?

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Speaker 4: I do North Alabama? Yeah, I believe that's in Huntsville, aut.

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Speaker 2: I do like once every six weeks or so. What's that? I'll go, I think I need a new hoodie? And uh, I'll go, all right, let's look at the college basketball games tonight. Pick a number like one through fifty, and you would say to me, like twenty six, and then I'd go home er away and whatever team is home or away. No, I just go online and by their hoodie. And that's how you got that hoodie. Yah, you want to play it. Okay, let's do it. Let's play it right now. I'll go to I'll go to the games on Saturday. Okay, okay, so give me just secon. I'm gonna go games on Saturday. You're gonna this is gonna be the next hoodie I purchased. So be very careful. All right, So well here we go. All right, give me a number one through forty.

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Speaker 4: I always pay eleven.

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Speaker 2: All right, three, six, nine, ten, eleven. All right, home or away?

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Speaker 4: We got to go home home.

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Speaker 2: Indiana state, Yeah, Indiana. So my next one will be Indiana State. Because of you, I will get a sycamore.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, we kind of jumped on their bandwagon with cream abdul Jabbar last year.

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Speaker 2: So now we'll get a hoodie. Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, five nine, twenty two eighty seven. Ask anything Tuesday, We'll take a break right back. This kisr.

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Speaker 4: Walcome back.

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Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Some people are giving me other games that were in the snow. We played Ole miss in nineteen ninety four here and apparently it was a massive snowstorm. Any memory of that game. I don't really remember that either.

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Speaker 4: Nope, before I got here too, so I don't remember that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I was, Yeah, I lived in Middlesborough, so I don't know that I remember that. We also at one point in the eighties played Saint Louis in a game where it was the lowest attendance because of snow, and they opened up the crowd just for students. Huh.

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Speaker 4: Don't have any remembory of hearing a story about that game either.

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Speaker 2: People keep sending me their tickets. I think I might have a lot of tickets to give away, so watch on social media today. I'll give some. I'll give some away that way too, and maybe on the pre show as well. See that's cool.

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Speaker 4: That's why I think it'll be a great environment tonight for people. Be excited, you know, winning tickets at the last minute. Get you fired up, you're ready to go.

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Speaker 2: One person writes, So this is ask anything Thursday question, Matt. I've been listening for a few years. Never understood why wear Wolves of London. I get that question every couple of years. Yes, the reason is One day in the first year I did the show, I walked in and my then boss, Bill Gentry said, you need to pick a theme song. I heart has a rule every show has to have a theme song. And I'd gone months, I guess not doing that rule. And I was like, oh, and he was like, just pick a song. But you ha's a pretty hefty decision, Shannon to have to make, like moment it's before the shows.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because usually you don't get to change it. It's kind of that for the rest of the show.

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Speaker 2: So I just the day before, I'd listened to were Wolves of London and it was on my mind and I was like, it's either Gordon Lightfoot sundown or it's were Wolves of London. And I felt like where Wolves of London was more upbeat, and then that became the theme and then it's now been attached to us forever. But it was just a random choice, right for you know, just a minute.

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Speaker 4: And it feels like it's perfect, you know, and you hear that song and now it is so associated with our show. It's like the perfect choice, Like you made the perfect choice on the spur of a moment.

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Speaker 2: When I give speeches, now people just play that when they come up like it's you know, and it's so I'm it has in my it's like part of us now and it was just a random quick choice. You are probably like me.

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Speaker 5: I'll be out somewhere, maybe at a bar, and even like the kid rock version will come on and it'll trigger my brain.

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Speaker 2: I'll be my late. Oh, let's go on to it you sports radio now Halloween like they always play it like on football games and stuff at Halloween, and then it will start to do it.

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Speaker 5: At any point in the fourteenish years, have you been driving around and thought, man, I wish it had been this song, like something's come on. You thought if I could go back in time, I would have made it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. No, I like it. I think it's I think it gets the mood of the show. I like it. And you know, when I used to do the Matt Jones podcast, which spoiler alert might come back for play Lawyers, Guns and Money, Yes, which was good because I always a lawyer. I like money and and well the guns PARTX second, come take it if you want. I've always been like that, So I feel like it's kind of that's kind of part of it eighty seven. Another thing about the game today, Sports Center is on UK's campus today, So Sports Center is here from noon to three on ESPN. If you turn it on, they are live from UK the whole time. Mark Pope is gonna be on Lamont Butler, Georgia Amore, and Mark Stoops are all gonna be on ESPN from noon to three. It is basically a UK campus takeover of Sports Center. Isn't that cool?

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that. Is there any reason why just because of the I.

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Speaker 2: Don't I think just because they're here for the game and sometimes they you know, they do this. I saw them do it with South Carolina women's basketball a couple of weeks ago. I guess they just decided to do it today. But that's that's very cool for UK. Isn't it very cool?

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Speaker 4: You give a chance to Georgia Amore to step up in public, even know they got beat last night, to publicize they're great season.

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Speaker 2: They lost last night. That wasn't good Stoops.

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Speaker 4: In football, you know, trying to get reenergize the program there, get.

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Speaker 2: Him on those of you that online ever watch at night the show Field of sixty eight, which has Jeff Goodman and Rob Dowster and those guys. They're in Lexington, so they will be doing their their show tonight from RUPP Arena, so like they'll be so when they do their like nightly wrap up show, they will be in RUP tonight. They don't have to go out in the cold like I do. No, I don't have to do it the snow. They don't have to do it the snow. They're gonna They're gonna be at RUP. So uh so for whatever reason, like the sports world has decided to descend on Lexington in this snow today.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to Lexton. They all the snow. Now correct me if I'm wrong. So they get to do it in RUP. But yet Drew can't do his show in Rup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't want to. I don't want to think about it. It annoys me.

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Speaker 5: But you know what, the outside has become part of the thing for yours. I've got my Handwarmer's pacts on the Sports Center thing. I'm glad they're doing this, you know, as someone that works from home and keeps TV on the background daytime Sports Center is pretty terrible. I don't even care what campus they want to go to. I'm glad it's Lexington, but it needs some new life. And having Billis here and bringing on even crossing sports with stoops and previewing the basketball game. I think it's a great idea for them to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't got be very cool. Yeah. Billis will be on it too. I think was the other one. Now with him in town, that makes it. Who's up first? Danny ask anything? Danny, go ahead? Danny, Hey, first time caller. Guys, who are Hey, I'm shobbing, Gatty Oh, Mike Casey, Charles Hurt and Terry Davis. Mister Kentucky basketball. Hey, I got a prediction for the game tonight. Eighty two seventy eight Kentucky. Well, I hope you're right. Eighty two seventy eight. I think eighty two is kind of at the top end of amount of points. I think we can score tonight Drew just without having Jackson Robinson. So I'll take eighty two, and if we can hold Tennessee to under eighty, we're good.

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Speaker 5: I've already given my prediction. I won't share it because I want to see if you and I will pick the same score like we always do. But a hint, it is under eighty two. But it's a Kentucky win. I just think it's going to be a low scoring game. Tennessee doesn't like to get in these shootouts. When they won down there in Knoxville was in the seventies, So I don't think it's going to be a high scoring game. But I'm still feeling good about it.

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Speaker 2: I think the key is Ziegler. Yeah, Cooks, you're right. We have played well against Ziegler over the years, but he is playing well in the last few games he's had. He's had kind of a disappointing season, but then in the last few games has really turned it up. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Right after the Kentucky game, I think he missed a couple of games he was hurt. Now he's been back and they played, you knowly just beat Florida and then they beat Oklahoma like by what twenty on the road, So he's playing.

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Speaker 2: Wild Oklahoma on the road. Both Oklahoma and Texas, which are road games to come, have both kind of fallen off right before we go there. So maybe those two games are both winnable in an easier way than we thought they were. Drew maybe a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and with was Ziggler when they played well without him. I even texted my Tennessee friends, like, are you all sure this guy's even good? Because every time he's out I've been bad. Yeah, every time I've seen him against Kentucky, he hasn't been much, but he's turned it on.

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Speaker 2: He had been really bad until the last three games or so, and then he's been much better. We'll take a break A five, nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Don't worry, I'm gonna make people mad. Uh in a little while. Kats In valls Big night in Lexington. Right after this, KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: So I love this song, but I don't know that it's a theme. You know, if you come in every day with this, it just does. I don't know if it's exciting to know because this was the other song I was thinking about, But I feel like this would be more like if I was going to do like a love advice show, you know, I don't know if this would be a good theme for a morning show like.

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Speaker 5: You have to Talk real soft when the end of this one.

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Speaker 2: It's like NDR or something, anybody if I do, if I'm ever like, if I take over for that Delilah, this is what I would use.

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Speaker 4: I think you should do that one day.

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Speaker 2: You think I should do a Delilah show. Delilah listen for somebody who is in their forties and not married. I think I give the best love advice. Why wouldn't I give the best love advice because unlike other people, I'm not prejudiced by being married. Like I can make I can make the decision. I mean, I've been when when yours. When you're single and as old as me, you've kind of been in every kind of relationship, good, bad or indifferent like i've. I've you know, been through the wars.

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Speaker 5: Were waiting for him, the furthest thing up.

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Speaker 2: It's bad job, that's perfect. See there's the theme. Well here, I'll just go ahead and say this. So if I sign the new deal with al Art, which hopefully we'll be done soon, Okay, I'll announce it when it happens. It's already way late, like I'm on like the most I did tell them, if we get to the the NCAA tournament. It's not done. I'm not doing this anymore, but I think we're gonna get there. It includes with it a one hour show that will run all across the state on any topic. Got you, And I've already said I think they think I'm gonna do politics, but I'm not doing politics. Maybe it's love Advice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, one show has to be love Advice from Uncle Matt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because they just get an hour and whatever. Maybe Drew love Advice.

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Speaker 5: What time of day would it run if it's love Advice.

00:25:19
Speaker 2: I can't say what time of day is. But it has a set time. It's already said it, but I don't think they want me to say that yet when it would be. But it would be a set time and it would be available on the network if if stations want to have it. And it's a but, like they said, you can do whatever you want on it. And Billy doesn't know this yet. Billy is the producer home, Billy doesn't even know. I think that that's good. I'm not sure if I was supposed to say this, but anyway that would be happening. Maybe Love Advice is the way to go.

00:25:48
Speaker 5: I tune in for a late night Mets.

00:25:50
Speaker 2: I absolutely would tune in for that. When Burst writs Matt for Ask Anything Tuesday, what has happened to Jamal Mashburn? I never hear about him. Everyone always says he's rich. What does he do? It's a good question. He is rich, but I don't know Ryan. Besides, he owns a car dealership. I don't really know what he does.

00:26:09
Speaker 4: I think he sits in his penthouse office and just dresses to the nines and enjoys raking in the cash every single day.

00:26:17
Speaker 2: I think he is What all did he do to get rich? I know he owns part of the Lexus, or he did at one point. He may not anymore own part of the Lexus. He had car dealerships with Patino? What else did he?

00:26:29
Speaker 5: Big out bad guy, A lot of outbacks?

00:26:31
Speaker 2: Oh, he's an outback guy him Patino and the Lexington guy behind out back guy Chris. Really they have a lot of outback, big out bad guys. I had no I didn't know that. What else does he himself? Because he's always known as an as a former NBA player that really had success financial.

00:26:47
Speaker 4: I bet I'm just guessing he owns probably fifty different businesses. I mean, the guy just has his fingers into everything, and good for him. Congratulations on what he's doing post basketball.

00:26:58
Speaker 5: He didn't, am I crazy? Did he do a Kentucky game? Maybe a little bit of ESPN?

00:27:02
Speaker 2: I thought he would be good at it. I'm surprised he didn't get into that more because he did do it maybe for a year. Yeah, maybe he just why am I doing that? You know? The thing is about ESPN. I've said this a lot. ESPN has two tiers of money. You either make a ton of money or you don't make any money. So like Steven A. Smith a ton of money, Pat McAfee a ton of money. But a lot of those people when you turn on and I'm not gonna say anybody's name, but like when we watch college basketball and you see the studio shows, like those guys don't make any money, Like they just don't. I mean I know who the people I work with, like, they don't. You don't make a lot of money. So Jamal Mashburn may have been like, why am I going to Bristol for fifty thousand dollars when I make that sneezing every day?

00:27:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think that there may be some truth to That's like I can make more money investing my time in my businesses and not it's sitting on a desk talking about University of Illinois basketball.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: Especially with the sun that was you know, do you all know that his son? Does everybody? Jamal Mashburn Junior is second in the country and scoring. No.

00:28:12
Speaker 4: I did not realize.

00:28:13
Speaker 2: Did you know this?

00:28:14
Speaker 4: Who's he played for?

00:28:15
Speaker 2: I don't know. I wanted him out of the Troy. He is Temple, Temple. He is second in the country and scoring. I had no idea.

00:28:24
Speaker 4: I remember him when he was up and coming. There were people hoping that cal Perry would recruit him, and then there was no interest at all. And now look at he's second in the country and scoring.

00:28:32
Speaker 5: He was with a young Patino there for a while, and then he was I was hoping Pope would call him because he had.

00:28:36
Speaker 2: A second in the country and scoring. I feel like we could find some place for him if he wants to play. Who's up next? Let's go to Craig. Craig, go ahead, Craig.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: Yes, I live in Louisville, and I'd like to come up to Kentucky Bay to see the best team in America.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: Ploy I'm not. We do not call and ask for tickets. Right, when we do the contest, we'll do ask for tickets, but we don't call and ask for tickets. Like that's kind of a rule of the show, right. I appreciate into that. Yeah, okay, well well I'll announce that when it comes. But I appreciate the call we got. Yeah, I mean, you know how I feel. I mean there's like there's like people even now who are writing me on Twitter, going, Matt, if you need to give those away, I'd like to. I mean I can handle the giving them away part, Like giving tickets away to a top five team in rub I feel like that's not gonna be difficult.

00:29:37
Speaker 4: Don't be difficult at all.

00:29:39
Speaker 2: Deal is getting the tickets and people keep seeing them. I'm gonna have like twenty tickets to give away. But that's awesome.

00:29:45
Speaker 4: I think it's awesome that when people like or at least want somebody to sit in their seats.

00:29:48
Speaker 2: So it does, but it does does it worry you?

00:29:51
Speaker 5: I mean, it is awesome that they're given them and they will be replaced with people excited to go. But if you've already have that many, it makes me wonder how many people out there are on the fin I think it's gonna.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: Be a lot. But I would say to you, if you're not gonna go, don't let them go unused, because we've got to have a loud environment in there tonight like like this, this is our best chance. I mean, Tennessee is a favorite on our home floor. That doesn't happen very often, and they are a favorite. We've got to be loud.

00:30:20
Speaker 4: There's been times where that rupper inted crowd has helped, and Pope even mentioned it after the games that you guys were awesome. You guys absolutely helped us. I like how he admits, you know, our players can feed off that. So many coaches try to say, well, once they boggles up, they don't pay attention to it. It definitely helps.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: Who's up next?

00:30:35
Speaker 3: Let's go to Richard.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: Richard, Go ahead, Richard. Well, I hope I get in a contest. I appreciate. Look, folks, when we have the contest, I'll tell you about the contest. This is ask anything Thursday or Tuesday tickets? Yeah, ask anything, does not ask me for tickets? Ask anything but tickets Tuesday is the next person gonna be on for ticket Shannon, I don't know. Let's see Keaton, Keaton, go ahead, Keaton, I'm good. Maybe you know he has he's had like three straight games, well really did he was it Tennessee? He shot well. I don't think he's had like three straight games where he's not made a shot. It doesn't He played well, So I think Tennessee was actually the last game he played well. So maybe that gets back to what you know.

00:31:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why we went down there and Car and Butler didn't play so well. Almono had to start and he did. He played well, shot the ball well, well, he had that one game. We had nothing but Zero's last game. At least he's shot a couple of shots. He just didn't make any shots.

00:31:50
Speaker 2: I mean, Car is gonna take a lot of I mean a lot of his minutes as it keeps going, which is good I think, but still I would like, I mean, if Ansley's one of these guys, maybe more so than anyone else on the team. If Ansley's not gonna shoot threes like man, you can't play because he doesn't play defense. He's not a particularly good rebounder like dude, you gotta fire, right, He's one of those guys along with Robinson and Brea that I'm like, if you're open, shoot, and I feel that way about Almonon.

00:32:17
Speaker 5: He and Trent Noah both had huge games in Knoxville and then they're the two that had the trillions that will miss. So I'm hoping that's something with them seeing Tennessee Orange and they both play well tonight.

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00:33:13
Speaker 4: Right, and in the process, Wow, all right, I'm a constitutional scholar.

00:33:18
Speaker 2: You know. You know that's why I'm teaching you. Okay. I know that it will be like a blank slut a tabula rosa coming up right after this. This is Kase all right, welcome back, tell you sports radio. Thanks to everybody who is sending the tickets. They I'm gonna give them away. We'll give a couple away today. I'm gonna do some on social that, I'll do some in the pregame show. We're gonna make sure we use all these tickets uh for tonight's game because I want them to be uh wanted to be ready to go. All right. So I'm gonna go ahead and say to all my friends out there, and I love all you people understand like this and what I love all of you, even those of you that are are mean to me. Sometimes I still love you. This might be a moment though, for the next five or six minutes that if you get easily mad, maybe just turn it off, come back at eleven o'clock. All right, we'll all be friend Just I don't want to hear you complain about it. This is just something I'm going to talk about. If you get mad, like, just take it off, you can come back eleven. We'll all be friends. Okay. So here's the thing. I have been amazed at how little and I say this with love, people know about how the government works. I've really seen this in the last few days. A lot of it are people on the right, but some of my people on the left don't understand it either. So I want to use you, Ryan to just give a This is just basics about government. It's not about any particular policy, gotcha. Okay, So Ryan, how many branches of government are there? Three? Do you know what they are?

00:34:51
Speaker 4: Executive?

00:34:52
Speaker 2: Correct? Judicial? Correctislative? Nice? All right, that's a good start, right. Who is the head of the executive.

00:35:02
Speaker 4: Branch President of the United States?

00:35:03
Speaker 2: Correct? Who is what are the main heads of the legislative branch?

00:35:08
Speaker 4: The Speaker of the House and the head senator?

00:35:11
Speaker 2: Guys close enough, the House in the Senate?

00:35:13
Speaker 3: Right?

00:35:13
Speaker 2: Yeah? And then what about the judicial branch?

00:35:16
Speaker 4: Supreme court.

00:35:17
Speaker 2: You're doing great, okay, So what is the role of the executive in America? What is the role of the president?

00:35:25
Speaker 4: You oversee the military, that's part of it. Yeah, yeah, uh, and you make executive orders.

00:35:34
Speaker 2: Not exactly. The role of the executive is to enforce the laws.

00:35:38
Speaker 4: Enforce the laws.

00:35:39
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what the president does. He enforces the laws. And now there are other things that go in that. But what's the role of the legislative branch?

00:35:47
Speaker 4: They make the law.

00:35:48
Speaker 2: They make the laws, that's exactly right. Then what does the judicial branch do?

00:35:52
Speaker 4: They enforce the laws?

00:35:54
Speaker 2: I already told you that's what the executive does. What does the judicial branch do?

00:35:58
Speaker 4: Decide about the laws?

00:36:00
Speaker 2: Yes, they decide disputes, and then they decide what the laws mean, what the constitution means, what the laws means. So when a laws passed, sometimes it's like, well, did it mean this or did it mean that? The judicial branch decides what it means, interpret it, interpret it. That's even a better word. Good. Okay, So let's talk about what about what presidents do. Okay, President, you hear a lot about executive orders, right, what does that mean?

00:36:31
Speaker 4: Do you know that whatever he says is enforced no matter what.

00:36:36
Speaker 2: So here's what it's supposed to me. The legislature puts out a law. Sometimes they give the executive power to do certain things, and then the president says, this power I'm using in this way, right, So i have the power to do this, and I'm going to use.

00:36:56
Speaker 4: It like that makes sense, makes total sense.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: Okay. Now, oftentimes presidents go too far. They're only allowed to do this, but they go and do this, and then what happens a court comes in and says, you're using your power too much. So I'll give you an example. Joe Biden tried to cancel student loans. The Supreme Court said he didn't have the power to do that. They came in and said you can't do that. Trump over the years did a lot of those, and a lot of those got shut down, which brings me to today. Trump and Elon Musk are doing various things. I can't even keep up with what all is being done. But one of the things they're doing is they say they're looking for fraud in various branches of government. Now you know there's various departments in the executive branch, Department of Treasury, Department Secretary of State. All that Congress creates those departments. And if Congress creates a department, the president can't just do away with it. People don't realize that he can't just shut down departments. That's against the constitution. So the president has given Elon Musk and those people the ability to go in and do things. And some people are suing saying Elon Musk is doing things he cannot do. Now, let me just say, I don't know if they're right or not. I don't know what Elon Musk is doing. I'm not really sure what the law is. But when somebody sues and says Elon Musk can't do this, who decides.

00:38:31
Speaker 4: The judicial branch?

00:38:32
Speaker 2: The judicial branch now here has been my worry all the time with Trump. I think I said this when he was elected. It's not what his policies are. He should get to do his policies. He won the election, right, But when the judicial branch comes in and says, mister Trump, you've done something you don't have the power to do. What has worried me is the job of the president is to enforce the orders of the judicial branch. What if he just says no, I won't do it, then you have a crisis because the separation of powers goes away, because if the president gets to decide which judicial things he will listen to and which he won't, then he's the king. Yeah right, Well, he's claiming he's going to do that, and in American history that's never been done, and that worries me. And so I want people to understand when they hear all about this. This judge stopped this, this did this. It's not about the particular thing. It's about the separation of powers. And I'm worried Ryan, that were getting to a point where everybody just loves Trump so much they're willing to give all the power in the government to him, and that's a dictatorship, that's not a government.

00:39:55
Speaker 4: Does that make sense? It makes total sense? Did you fall I actually followed that, so he things he wants the judicial brand says, no, you go ahead and do it anyway.

00:40:05
Speaker 2: But Scott Jennings, who's from Kentucky, went on CNN and said he should not follow it. Do what he wants. Scott is smarter than that. He's saying that because he wants to be Trump's press secretary. But if Trump were to do that. All I would ask people is, can you imagine if a democratic president was just like, I'm doing whatever I'm gonna want. We can't have that. So that's what worries me. People have always said, oh, why do you dislike Trump so much? I don't dislike him. Well, I don't like him, but he should be able to do what it was in within his power. But you can't get away from the separation of powers. That's bad.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: That's why we have checks and balances in place to kind of prevent.

00:40:45
Speaker 2: But we have to keep those. If we lose those, we become something else, which is not what I think people.

00:40:53
Speaker 4: Want, not what the United States is all about.

00:40:55
Speaker 5: Yes, we made it a long time with our checks and our balances.

00:40:58
Speaker 2: We've been very helpful. There was only one time in history we almost got to this point. The Supreme Court toward told Richard Nixon release the tapes, the Watergate tapes, and he said no, and we were about to get a crisis, and then all the people talked him into resigning and he did. I worry we're headed towards that crisis again, because if the Supreme Court says do this and Trump says I won't, then what he won't he won't, and then we have a king. We don't have a president, we have a king. And that's really not what America is.

00:41:37
Speaker 4: A lot of the people I think would be okay with that. That's what kind of scares me.

00:41:41
Speaker 2: That's what scares me too, not just about him. I think there's a lot of people on the left that are cool with having a king too, as long as they're doing what we But that's not what America is, at least to me. Now, I'll shut up about it. Go back to uh Ryan. By the way, as you move on, I feel like that's an a on that goes on. I didn't think you would get all three branches a guy, I got an a and you even knew the word. What was the words you came up with? Interpret? Sure, no, Dumi came up with that.

00:42:10
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was true.

00:42:11
Speaker 5: Well he can really he can.

00:42:13
Speaker 2: Like you know, the prem will go for it on the way out.

00:42:16
Speaker 4: Uh we the people, in order to form more perfect union, established justice, insure domester tranquility,