2025-10-07- 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. Tuesday, October the seventh. I'm Matt Jones here on a rainy, nasty, nasty day in Lexington, Kentucky. But we are at Chaos Bar and Grill and got a bunch of folks here this morning. Ready, go, I haven't been here in three and a half weeks, but I'm here today and be here tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: On Thursday.

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Speaker 4: You can shout the Clarks Puppy Shop full line eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Ay Vision Auto Glass X Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this stition sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office called Tj'll make them pay, all right. So we got folks here uh from I think Mount sterling E Town, Kingsport, uh in all parts around the state, Kingsports, Tennessee. That's a Kentucky and Tennessee fan. You know what they said to me, Ryan, what they say one.

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Speaker 5: Of them is Kentucky fan. Wheams a Tennessee fan.

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Speaker 4: The Kentucky fan gets so nervous during games, can't watch it, which I've been there, I know what that's like.

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Speaker 6: Familiar.

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Speaker 5: But when they go.

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Speaker 4: To Kentucky Tennessee football games at Newlands Stadium, they take two cars so he can leave. Ryan if Kentucky's losing, which is almost every single time.

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Speaker 6: At the Brave Man sitting there married doing some of the big Orange. Shouldn't have you tuned Tobaco in her mouth?

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Speaker 5: What is it with you in the chewing? I knew he's gonna say that.

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Speaker 4: He has like six things that come out in those situations are rare.

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Speaker 5: You shut up?

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Speaker 4: Do you like the do you like the having to go in separate cars?

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Speaker 5: I do?

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Speaker 7: I love that actually parked next to them here, and they have a license plate that's divided. It's a half Tennessee ago half UK. So I didn't even know we were gonna bring this up, but I know exactly which vehicles there's outside.

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Speaker 4: So half Tennessee, half Kentucky license plate. That's uh, well, that's that's devotion. Love conquers all, doesn't it.

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Speaker 5: It is a terrible day outside, absolutely terrible.

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Speaker 4: But that's all right because I hear you all had great weather while I was gone. Drew, and I did media day yesterday. We'll talk about that in.

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Speaker 5: A minute, Drew. Overall, this team very.

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Speaker 4: Likable guys, maybe the most talkative guys that I can.

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Speaker 5: Remember in a long, long time.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's the nature of the teams just getting a little older. You know, we loved a lot of Cows players, but they were freshmen and weren't ready to have cameras put in their face. You know, we're getting used to one two sentence answers, which is fine, you know, not a huge deal. But now we're getting all these old heads. You ask them a question and it's five minutes for it's time to ask another one. They're very, very fun to talk to.

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Speaker 5: Well, even last year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, those guys were all older and nice, but they just kind of tended to be quiet.

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Speaker 5: This group is a talkative group.

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Speaker 4: With I mean interest ranging from chess to anime to poetry to you gi. You can tell Mark Pope is he recruits a different kind of guy, like I mean literally, I asked all of them, give me something interesting about you outside of basketball, and the answers were anime, spider Man, Yu gi oh, poetry, and chess. That is not what you think of when you think of a basketball team, right, But they were all But that's unique, the.

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Speaker 7: Very mature bunch. They're all probably if curfews eleven, they're all probably home by nine thirty sleep. It's just just a different, different game these days. But it being much older across the board, and this group seems as fun as any we've had a long time.

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Speaker 5: It's good to see you. How are things in your world?

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Speaker 6: Can we talk about you guys yesterday on the show if you want? Well, you guys were funny. It's like you're at the end of a week long road trip. You were slap happy, tired, and it was just that the thought of the two you're sitting in momortal costing with nobody else in there, you guys just well, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean they told us the night before, by the way, we're not gonna be able to get you anybody. And so it was like, well, okay, your media day with no basketball media day, but there's nobody there, so you know, you make the best of it. Drew and you and I had been up talking literally to each other eight hours before.

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Speaker 7: It just took a couple hours nap and just turned the MIC's back on it. Yeah, it helped that Billy was wearing khaki pants, keeping us professional.

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Speaker 4: Billy literally is gonna cost us darn Ruby. He was sitting there walking with his khaki pants. There's no I mean, if Darren Ripby Jr. Doesn't come, it's Billy our sports. Because I looked at him, he had a look of awe in his face at the building, the coaches, and then the moment he saw Billy's khaki pants, he was like, oh oh.

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Speaker 7: He thought he was in North Carolina.

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Speaker 5: This is not what we're supposed to do.

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Speaker 7: It was also fun. I love awkward moments, like the more awkward and uncomfortable. I love to live in that.

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Speaker 5: I'm weird, you like that.

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Speaker 7: So being critical of the athletic department when I know a lot of them listen and we're just on the other side of the wall. That was kind of fun too.

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Speaker 4: It was the tough, I mean stuff because you had to talk about the football situation. Speaking of the football situation, I've spoken about it multiple times, so is rue you have not because you have not been on the broadcast since we lost to Georgia. Where are you on all things UK football right now?

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Speaker 5: Really?

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Speaker 6: From the Georgia game, I saw a big step up and Cutter Bowlly. I mean, I know there's a lot of negative to talk about, but I saw a big step up in him going against one of the best teams in the country, and you seem to like just grow as the game went on. Now, defense is a different story. I thought our defense was gonna be elite this year and they could not get off the field on third down. Just could not get off the field on third.

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Speaker 4: What about overall, though, Like, what about overall with the you know, your guy cut Man had reports that got refuted.

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Speaker 5: What do you think about overall with the program?

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Speaker 6: I kind of agree with you guys said yesterday, if they go three and nine, you have to make a decision four and nine, probably four and eight, But then if you get to five and seven, then it gets a little dicey. And where the program is right now, it's not It's not going forward in two and a half years. I mean, this is not just a one year thing. This has been coming for the last three seasons.

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Speaker 5: One are there.

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Speaker 6: There's what two and fourteen in their last sixteen sec games.

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Speaker 5: It's not good.

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Speaker 6: That's crazy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's haven't had two touchdowns in twelve games.

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Speaker 6: So this is not just a one off. This is the program issue.

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Speaker 4: So yet we we nobody lost their job yesterday, correct, So right now everybody is still employed. I'm assuming. I mean, don't they do football practice in the morning. So if anything.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, by the way, we didn't get touched this stoop's not doing his call in show last night, you know, I mean I was critical of cal.

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Speaker 5: I'm still we repeating, are we repeating that?

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Speaker 7: You gotta do the you gotta read the room. I know it's a bye week, and you've done this in the past. You even had Bush Hampden do it a few weeks ago during that by week. But you got to look around at the situation and know that people don't want to hear it.

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Speaker 5: So this is like repeating.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the Calipari formula is being repeated, detached, loses contact with fans, retreats. I mean, we're basically getting the Caliperi formula again. And we saw how it worked out, and cal Perry had had a lot more success than Stoops. It's just this is a terrible way to do.

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Speaker 6: It, Ryan, It is too early familiar. We saw the Cali Payer's legacy kind of tarnish his last couple years, and now my heart hurts because we're seeing the exact same thing with Stoops right now.

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Speaker 5: It is the exact same thing. And I don't know. I just don't know how it switches.

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Speaker 4: And I think the fact that we had basketball media day afterwards honestly was like, oh, this is how it's supposed to me. Okay, let's go back to football media day. That was the first time we'd seen any of the players, first time I had heard of most of the players. We had a great interview with shiaje Pete. That was good yesterday though.

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Speaker 5: Two things.

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Speaker 4: First of all, what an engaging group this This fan base is gonna fall in love with his basketball team. I mean, they're gonna everybody's gonna like Jalen Lowe such a likable kid. Jaden Quainton's such a likable kid. Muhammed Diabate kind of feels older than he is, but seems smart and mature. Cam Williams is kind of a wild card. I think he's gonna be funny to see. I think he's gonna end up saying something crazy some game, and that's gonna be exciting. Like all, I just thought, man, this this fan base is gonna love this group. And then we find out when it's over that UK is doing something that I can't believe they're doing, and congrats to them.

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Speaker 5: I've been preaching about this stuff for years.

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Speaker 4: Saturday, before Big Blue Madness, they are going to have a fan fest that is free. You do not have to pay, you do not have to donate to nil but down there at Raparina from noon to four thirty the men basketball team Pope, the women's basketball team Kenny Brooks, free autographs, meet the get to meet the players, hopefully meet the coaches, depending on how many people come. Free for the people who can't get into Big Blue Madness. I mean, like I've been saying, stuff like this for years and they're doing it, and then you sit there and think about what football did, Like basketball didn't even need to do that, and they're doing it, and then football we had nothing like that.

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Speaker 7: It's awesome that they're doing that, especially at a time now where every direction you look, somebody's got their hand out as that's exactly right asking for another dollar. For them to have a free event like that, that's just awesome, awesome, awesome for them.

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Speaker 5: To I really am.

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Speaker 4: I am very critical and have been critical of the fan engagement part of UK athletics, and I've talked about how much I didn't think was connected to the average fan. This is they deserve all the price for this. I hope people go. I mean, one of the things is if we're going to say they need to do stuff like this, people need to go when they do it.

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Speaker 5: But I think they will. And you know, this.

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Speaker 4: Is a great ans wherever you are in the state, Like this is a time you don't have to spend a dollar beyond the gas money to get here, and you can actually meet your basketball team and you can potentially meet your coach. I don't know how you can be I don't know how you can mean anything but happy about that?

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Speaker 6: Or on the show you said something about reading the room. Basketball team reads the room? Do they really they get it? That's fan engagement. It's exactly what the football team should have done this year, of all years, with the apathy setting in, they should have done something like this.

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Speaker 5: Why are you sitting on the floor?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: What's he doing over there?

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Speaker 5: Okay? What if we talked to Mario about a high angle?

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Speaker 4: I always say to you shoot from either eye level or high angle. And you're down on the floor. You're literally, first of all, you're sitting on the floor, and you are you trying to give us triple chins?

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Speaker 5: Like? What is your goal?

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Speaker 7: I'm worried about a basic instinct situation here, he's so low. Keep it above the table, Mario.

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Speaker 5: It's the first time I've ever seen you sit on the floor.

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Speaker 4: But yes, so if I'm nine, twenty two eighty seven, have you met one person since the game Saturday that's excited about potentially running it back next year with this coach's death?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 7: No, no, not at all, And.

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Speaker 6: Like I said, it breaks my heart. I mean I love coach duopsy. Dude, we've ever had here? I agree, it's just kind of sad to see the way it's kind of falling apart here right now.

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Speaker 7: Outside of the people that are just ugly and nasty online, I mostly hear that, like I hate that I'm this way because he did so much, but it just has to happen. It's like they're sad saying it, but they're saying it.

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Speaker 5: It's it's like a it's like a breakup.

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, so everybody breaks up in divorces in different ways, right I know people who when they break up, like you have to hide.

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Speaker 5: The furniture because they're throwing it at each other.

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Speaker 4: But oftentimes, at least in my life, the breakups have just been like we have to do this, but it's sad, like like like it's sad, like it's not gonna work, but it's sad.

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Speaker 5: I kind of feel like that's what this is.

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Speaker 4: It's a relationship that I don't think there's any animosity at least in most crowds, but it's sad. And I think unless you win three games outside of Tennessee Tech the rest of the year, it's gonna be one of those It's not you, it's me, but we have to do it right, Yep.

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Speaker 7: I think I said this off the air yesterday, not on the air. But I think the best case scenario, I'm assuming they don't get an sec loss is fire up the victory cigar in Louisville's locker room one last time and win the Governor's cup, and then that's the that's the the send off. You beat Vince, you walk down Morels down we all get to we won't be there. But we also know Stoops a lot.

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Speaker 5: He's not walking, That's true.

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Speaker 4: I mean the thing, the thing, this is where personality comes in, right, So the difference between Cow and Stoops is Cow was gonna go out defiantly right.

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Speaker 5: He wont to be one of those I'm breaking up with you, right. That was kin, don't fire me, you don't get to fire me. I'm breaking up with you.

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Speaker 4: And that's why it worked out so well that Arkansas came because he got to walk away and said, I broke up with you.

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Speaker 5: Stupis is not gonna be like that.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna I don't think he's gonna have any like vengeance. But I do think there's gonna be a sense of Stoops very much takes the view of all right, fine, but I'm getting my money, like like that's gonna be his view.

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Speaker 5: Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we joke, abut I always say it's back to work. But he's just gonna keep showing up at work until there's Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No, I think you're right. He's gonna be like George Costanta. He's just gonna keep coming into the like this is my job, this is and we agreed, you're gonna give me this money. And I think that's its own kind of difficulty.

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Speaker 6: All the pressure about the future of this program is shifted from Mark Stoops, I think now to Mitch Barnhart. What is he gonna do?

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Speaker 5: What will he do?

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Speaker 4: Mitch Barnhart didn't show it, I mean not no appearance yesterday. And there have been media days where he's there. There's been media days where he's not. So I'm not saying that that's but I didn't even see his face in the building yesterday. Usually, at least in me, like he'll just sit and watch the press conference at least to see his coach, Like he'll he'll come in there and just want to see. How Mark didn't seem yesterday, And I don't think you're gonna see him at all. I mean, I Mitch talks to the media, what twice a year, maybe.

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Speaker 5: Once a year.

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Speaker 7: He'll do the football media day. It's usually the one we know is on the schedule, but you.

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Speaker 4: Know, I mean that's I've always thought that was poor form because you know, or he'll do an official one with the JAMI broadcast, but no one's gonna ask a tough question in that scenario.

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Speaker 5: I think Mitch probably ought to talk now. He can't. There's not a lot he can say right now.

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Speaker 4: I get it, but people, you know, there's a lot happening in college sports, and it would be nice to hear what his take is on some of it.

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Speaker 7: Right I can only imagine what his inbox looks like recently from what's been going on over here at the football stadium too. So he knows. We know, we don't think he engages with the fans much, but he knows right now how mad people are he does.

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Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna talk a little basketball media day. I thought there were some interesting things that came up. Mark Pope seems well, we'll talk about Mark Pope. I don't know him well, but I think I could read some of his comments yesterday, and I think he's pretty excited about this group. We'll take a break, be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. My Man Conway twenty.

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Speaker 5: In the house. Hey, Shannon, you know playing.

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Speaker 3: Some Conway on the show.

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Speaker 4: That's true, Well, because it creeps everybody out when we play it. This is one of his ones that's not really creepy. I don't think that's my job. Yeah, yeah, I think that one's pretty normal. It's about like his dad or whatever. Right h eight twenty two eighty seven, we were back at ks Bar since I've been gone. You know, I didn't I didn't have a phone. I came home to all these messages on the text machine, lots of really good messages.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: When we were open, before we took our summer break, we sold like wings to burgers was like three to one, like seventy five percent wings twenty five percent burgers. Now it's fifty to fifty. And the burgers just keep growing, like people will seem to like people. The wings are the same, so like there, but the the burgers are taking over. Steve Grissom no che lind of Farms. Shout out y'all, y'all did it and our new smash burger technique. So try now, I do need to apologize to people. Person here we go, Okay, I think it's very important when you're in charge of something to acknowledge when we when we had a mistake and it's going to be rectified. But there are paper straws right now. Boo boop at kspar they sent us the wrong ones.

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Speaker 5: Listen.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know a lot of people are like, I'm Matt, you dirty liberal. My liberal just stops at straws. I'm I am a maga straw person. So we they made a mistakes, so we have to run through these and then we'll be back to the plastic ones. But I don't want y'all to think like I've gotten I'm hippie liberal, but not on this plastic straws. So we would that was one screw up, just so people know it's not. This will be a temporary thing. Hopefully we'll be through the paper ones by the by big blue madness aday.

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Speaker 7: I saw last Wednesday morning is when I first saw the first paper straw in here and immediately went to Monique and was like, we cannot have this. We have to get all these out of the building before he lands from South Africa. So just now, when I went to get my drink, I casually knocked one of the boxes into the trash can. Just a little put on the spill sheet.

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Speaker 5: Whoops.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully my big blue madness will be through with those. We could get to the back to the plastic ones. Like I said, plastic, I know it's not great, but paper straws are just a non non gop for it.

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Speaker 6: It's almost a blessing in disguise that you didn't have your phone, because if you'd.

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Speaker 5: Have known that, no, I would I wouldn't have enjoyed the drift.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have spent all sixteen hours on the flight going where do we have plastic straws somewhere?

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Speaker 5: All right, let's talk about the team for a second.

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Speaker 4: When Cow was here, I used to kind of be I thought like a cow whisperer ride I could I could hear his comments, and I could tell how good he really thought the team was. There were time, I mean, he would always sa I love this group, but especially in the preseason. You could see when you when he thought he was sitting on a ferrari and when he thought he was sitting on a fixer upper.

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Speaker 5: You know, Camri right, like.

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Speaker 4: He knew and generally speaking, he was right, with a couple of exceptions. I'm not a pope whisperer yet I can't.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I can't read everything he says, but I can tell you this. I was there last year, I'm there this year, and it's clear he thinks his team's a.

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Speaker 5: Lot better than last year. Like you can just tell.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you can tell he thinks I have got a group, and he says it in so many words, but you can also just see it in his actions. Like a couple of people brought up things like are you worried about this? And he was just like, no, no, I'm not worried. I think Ryan he thinks he's got a chance to have a powerhouse squad.

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Speaker 6: Just listening to him yesterday, it's almost like he looked at what was missing from last year's team, the weaknesses of last year's team, and then went and got somebody to fill those voids on this team. Like there was no missing link at all on this year's team.

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Speaker 4: He says, like Drew, last year, we were kind of able to scheme our way defensively to hide some of our problems. And then he was like, and then all of a sudden that went away when we played more. He basically was like, when we got to the SEC, they were too athletic for us. And I think he took the view of I ain't letting that happen again, and I think he thinks he's got a lot of guys who can do play defense.

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Speaker 7: Definitely. You mentioned a camera that was my first car. Cameras are great throughout Law SCHOOLTT, Georgetown and Toyota than uh. To your point about them him being a little more excited, I asked O way directly. I was like, you were on both of Pope's teams at this point, you did, what do you think? And he was like, we're a lot more competitive right now than we were last year. Not his exact words, but he was kind of saying they were a little bit walk on eggshells. There are a lot of guys that were older, they didn't where they were getting into. Pope was new. I don't want to say they were timid, but he's say it wasn't like we were just showing up and going to war every morning. That's kind of what he said, this group's like the moment they got on campus, it was just every single practice they're going out.

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Speaker 4: I think they intentionally intentionally leave up their little shot chart things for the media to see. I mean, some of these dudes shoot an insane percentage, like like like their little shot chart things come on. You know, they had a warm up session where like the team shot like seventy eight percent from three. Now, I know nobody's guarding you, but seventy eight percent when guys are like, you know, some people may be like half doing it, and what that's still pretty good for an entire team run.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's not an accident. They left that up for you guys to see the media. If the percentage have been bad, it had been just it would not have been up there. They put that up there. They want you to see how good of a shooting team they've got this year.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, today the UH today is Pro Day.

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Speaker 4: Now here's an interesting thing about again, difference in the way people do stuff.

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Speaker 5: If you remember when col did Pro Day, there was a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Like like the stuff that happens in a combine, right, like they would do the sprinting and jumping and the three apparently they're doing all that this afternoon. So at five point thirty today on the computer, when pro Day is on the computer, they're gonna have like a real practice, like you were going to be able to watch an actual practice of Kentucky at five thirty. I don't know how many of our fans realize that's happening today at five thirty, but if you get on the computer on the ESPN plus Drew, you can see that. I think that's kind of cool. I wish it was on something that was easier, more easily accessible for people, but you'll be able to watch a live practice. I'm gonna go just because I you know, that was when I discovered how much Mario liked Ansley all the Noor last year.

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Speaker 7: Somebody was sitting there together.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna do that as well.

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Speaker 7: And I hope they have a Goose and Dick Gabriel on this one. In the past, when ESPN would have it, I felt like we just watched a tight shot of Seth Greenberg or whoever's there talking whole time, but really it was like two hours of talking. I hope that they actually show us some stuff this time, and with it being a little more locally produced. I think they will.

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Speaker 5: I think they will too, But there's a couple.

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Speaker 7: Of those that year. It's like you're like trying to look in the background to see what the actual But.

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Speaker 4: You got the sense, like I did, that he is supremely confident, right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And I agree that he got to SEC play last year and was like, oh, my model isn't really equipped for this, and he went and fixed a lot of things.

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Speaker 4: Now. I don't think they're gonna shoot as well, but I think you're gonna see a lot more at it. I mean, you I loved that team last year, but you can just stand next to these dudes and see the difference in athleticism. You can just I mean you can just stand there. You can see like this is a fast, a faster team, a team that can jump high, a team that's quicker. I mean you can just see it just standing.

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Speaker 6: Next to physically more mature and jade quaintans.

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Speaker 4: I think I thought he was like a stick man. No, that is a lottery pick. A lottery pick that U well, we talked about anime and.

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Speaker 7: He's so nice. He's his voice doesn't fit his appearance and he's just so.

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Speaker 4: It's like talking to a little I completely saw his appearance and thought he'd be one. He's the nicest dude in the world. Yeah, I'm a big Jaden Quaintan's guy. All right, we'll take your cause for me.

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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Joe.

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Speaker 4: Walker back Tucky Sports Radio. Here at KS bar and grill. I'm going the phones A five, nine, two eight, twenty two eighty seven. Got a couple open lines. I want to hear what you all think about about stoops, about the basketball program. Let's quickly go through what I made it a point to interview all the new guys, uh that were transfers. Here's what they said. First of all, Jaylen Lowe. I asked all of them, what's something you like outside of basketball? Jayleen Lowe's answer was Spider Man, and he said specifically Andrew Garfield.

00:23:39
Speaker 5: Spider Man.

00:23:39
Speaker 4: He doesn't want Toby Maguire, he wants Andrew Garfield. Do you agree with him on Spider Man?

00:23:47
Speaker 5: Uh?

00:23:47
Speaker 7: Sure, I'm trying to think of what other Spider Man options there are, but I guess Garfield was a good one. That's probably the last I've seen.

00:23:53
Speaker 6: I didn't see the Andrew Garfield Spider Man, but I did see Toby McGuire Spider Man, so I gota vote for him.

00:23:58
Speaker 7: Maybe he'll play like Spider Man a little bit.

00:24:00
Speaker 4: Had an interesting answer Spider Man. Then I went over to Uh to Jadan Quaintan's. He said his interest is We were talked about chess. He named a move for his chess. It was like the Guccio something. And then he said he liked anime, which is the one form of entertainment I do not understand. So I said to him, give me an intro to anime, and he said something called Death Note. I look last night. Death Note is on Netflix. It is thirty seven episodes. That's a lot, but that's only one season. So man, they put out a lot of episodes. I'm going to watch at least the first couple of episodes of Death Note to try to figure out Shannon, are you in with me on the Death Note anime?

00:24:42
Speaker 3: No, but you can watch it and report back to me, and.

00:24:44
Speaker 5: You're gonna watch it with Oh?

00:24:46
Speaker 3: Absolutely not?

00:24:47
Speaker 4: Okay, But I'm gonna try four Jadan quaints. If he can come here and play, I can watch one.

00:24:51
Speaker 5: Episode of Death.

00:24:52
Speaker 7: I'll try a little death note with him. I years ago tried to get into dragonball Z. It didn't didn't stick, but I gave it an effort. Yeah, so you know I'm willing to try again.

00:25:02
Speaker 4: Then I went to Cam Williams. He said he was a big gamer. He and rhyses Potter were arguing over who was the best at two K but they play videos. And I said to Cam Williams, I was like, hey man, you ought to challenge the Big Blue Nation to an NBA two K online battle. And he told me he's going to do that before the season starts. So for those of you that play NBA two K, maybe you watch Cam Williams.

00:25:24
Speaker 5: You can go and go one on one with him.

00:25:26
Speaker 6: A guy we don't talk a whole lot about, but like everybody else talks about him, like the guy. I think he's gonna surprise a lot of people this year.

00:25:31
Speaker 4: Mohammed Diabate is the first player in the history of UK basketball that I have interviewed at a media day to bring up my Angelou. That has never happened I'm sure there were others that were wanted to, but he was the first one. I said, what is something people don't know about you? And he said, I'm a poet. So I suggested he should have the nickname the poet.

00:25:53
Speaker 6: We can you start calling that?

00:25:54
Speaker 4: And he said he's gonna go. I think Pope had told him you need to be mo to vasion. That's a terrible one.

00:26:00
Speaker 7: Already have one motivated on campus. We can't have all that motivation. It's too much motive.

00:26:04
Speaker 4: The poet's a great nigga is And I said, who's your favorite poet? And he said, I gotta go way back. So when he said way back, I'm thinking he's gonna say Walt Whitman or something. He says, my Angelou, My Angelou. Like read at Clinton's inauguration you were talking about feeling old. I'm gonna go way back. I'm gonna go to my Angelou, who I think died like five years ago.

00:26:25
Speaker 6: But that that interview you do with him, it's just it's so refreshing. You know, just so many times you get these kids, they have trouble to be making sentences sometime. And he's very highly intellectual into poetry and.

00:26:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, very smart. We yell all of them.

00:26:37
Speaker 7: Edgar Allen Moe, I like that. Edgar Allan Moe is a great run through some of my head. That's that's good, thank you, Even if no one else calls him that. I think Edgar Allen Moe is a really good nice big brains always took. Do you know who Edgar poet is?

00:26:54
Speaker 5: Mario? There you go.

00:26:55
Speaker 4: See, that's the problem with the name is that the jokes are getting too old. You and I may be the only ones that laugh at it. And then Yellovich from Croatia, Uh says he plays Yu gi oh Shandon. Is it a good sign that our big man from Croatia plays yu gi oh?

00:27:09
Speaker 3: No, that sounds very soft to me.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: But as long as he can score and he can block, you know, I don't really care what he plays.

00:27:15
Speaker 4: In his spirit tear, he also told us why Big Z got sick last year from food You you have the.

00:27:22
Speaker 7: Score, Yeah, and Cal always said big Z's got buzzard luck. Uh struggling with the American food. Remember big Z kept missing games for stomach issues, a lot of them. Yeah, And they would never spill the beans on what Big Z was eating. Well, andre Yelovich.

00:27:35
Speaker 5: Told us yesterday. What did he say?

00:27:36
Speaker 7: He tied, big Z gave him advice. Apparently big Z, when he first got here, ate Papa John's pizza every day for two weeks, and that's what made him sick. So his advice to Yellovich come into Lexington to play for the Cats was don'tat Papa John's for two weeks. Papa John's every day for two Well, they have that one literally right outside the lodge. I mean you could throw a ball and hit it from the lodge. So I guess big Z found his pizza. He loved better ingredients, better pizza, but he ate it every day for two weeks. So that was the buzzard's luck that big Z had.

00:28:09
Speaker 5: That'll do it to you, Ryan, You've got a bary or die.

00:28:12
Speaker 7: That a lot of cheese that's said. That's sad.

00:28:14
Speaker 6: The man has all that access to the proper diet in the lodge. It's gonna walk across the parking ny Papa John's every day for two weeks.

00:28:21
Speaker 7: Also, like that Yellowvinch, you know, asking for advice, he could have told him anything, but his big advice was don' eat pizza for two weeks.

00:28:27
Speaker 5: I did ask.

00:28:27
Speaker 4: I was a little worried about Yellovich when I said, what's your favorite food native Croatia? And he said lasagnya And I said, well, I don't I don't know if that's native.

00:28:38
Speaker 5: Uh drew to Croatia actually, but that's okay.

00:28:41
Speaker 7: We can find him some lasagna around here.

00:28:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, where is where is the best lasagna in last I mean some last night actually in my fridge. Fazoli's is not the best lazagnia.

00:28:51
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, what what is it besides Drew's house?

00:28:53
Speaker 7: Since we can't all go there, you all can go there, I would.

00:28:56
Speaker 6: Say, I've had it. Caseppes is really good, Okay.

00:28:59
Speaker 7: I could see that it's aw X sponsors. The pre show shut them out.

00:29:03
Speaker 6: But I did like a conversation with him about the Yu gi Oh card. You could tell. I mean, he just plays it. He's very serious about it.

00:29:10
Speaker 4: This is so, this is a team of dorks. I just want to be clear, like, this is a team of dorks. I love dorks. You are talking to a dork. But we have Yu gi Oh, anime, poetry, chess, chess.

00:29:26
Speaker 5: This is a team. We're a team of dorks. Could it just be an athletic dorks.

00:29:32
Speaker 7: But could it be that this is just the generation like Duke had the TikToker. Yeah, that was that seemed a little little, you know not.

00:29:41
Speaker 4: Can you imagine Marcus Cousins saying, I play I watch anime.

00:29:47
Speaker 7: His favorite poet was Kodak Black.

00:29:50
Speaker 5: I think the.

00:29:51
Speaker 3: Closest thing we had to this was Willie cally Stein.

00:29:59
Speaker 7: Brandon Knight read Shakespeare. That's true that he would have been a great Pope player. He would have been playing chess in Pope's office.

00:30:05
Speaker 5: That's true.

00:30:06
Speaker 4: Brandon Knight would have been Mark. Pope and Brandon Knight would have really hit it off. That's exactly right. Now, who's up first, Jackie, Jackie, go ahead, Jackie.

00:30:15
Speaker 8: Good morning everybody. I was he see the other night, And I'm not the least bit surprised that these young men are standing out in front of people. Coach books get a little breakout session and they are literally graded on how they interact with each other. Oh really, and if they're not shown yeah, so if they're not shown enthusiasm on the floor, they're not going to get any points. But let's say oh Way has a three pointer and Jason Lowe runs up in high fives and that's worth two points, or if somebody looks at him in points, that's worth one point.

00:30:49
Speaker 5: So they are encouraging.

00:30:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, players get scored based on how much they encourage each other, and if they.

00:30:59
Speaker 8: Are then Coach Books did a great job. And he did this at Baylor evidently, and he said this is something the NBA also looks at. And before the event really got started, Coach Pope had each player and it was mostly a group of women say something that they loved about their mother. Half of us were crying before it was over. I mean, these are he he recruits that certain personality, but then he helps to mold them to be better. And it was the real deal. But they have a guy that watches all the practice tapes in all the games, one guy, and he ranks them on their team support.

00:31:37
Speaker 5: And I want to know that, well, Jackie, thank you very much.

00:31:40
Speaker 4: Apparently we appreciate the call. We grade our players on enthusiasm. I can see it though. I mean, we're gonna like we're going to have a Pope archetype of player. I can just tell. I mean, I'm just talking personality, not even like on the floor we're going to have that.

00:31:59
Speaker 5: I think it's clear.

00:32:00
Speaker 7: Well, he's even said there's so many times we don't even know where he's gone into a recruitment and they've just mutually walked away.

00:32:05
Speaker 4: Well what was the kid, the kid from Georgia? Yeah, last year, what was the point guard? What was his name?

00:32:12
Speaker 5: What was it?

00:32:13
Speaker 7: Salas Dimrie Dimery?

00:32:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he uh he Pope went to his house.

00:32:20
Speaker 7: That's the one where he's like, what are you having for dinner?

00:32:22
Speaker 5: Off?

00:32:22
Speaker 7: Come now or yeah.

00:32:23
Speaker 4: Pope went to his house and then when he left just said, yeah, I don't know if this will be good for us, which you know, I don't know. I'm not saying anything bad happened, but Pope just decided after going to dinner in his house.

00:32:33
Speaker 5: I just don't think we're we are a fit.

00:32:35
Speaker 7: Well, so many kids will say I need fifteen shots, or I need this, or I need this many minutes, and it sounds like Pope's gonna be the type that, you know, if you're not fitting into what he's the message at Kentucky, he'll shake your hand and say, let the next coach come in and talk to you.

00:32:49
Speaker 4: I don't know if people realize by the way. Let me just go over some schedule. Saturday is Big Blue Okay. First, Today is pro Day so you can watch a UK basketball practice.

00:32:59
Speaker 5: Today five thirty.

00:33:01
Speaker 4: Saturday is Big Blue Madness at Rupperina and an all day fan fest.

00:33:06
Speaker 5: The next Saturday is the Blue White Game.

00:33:09
Speaker 4: The next Saturday, Purdue is coming to Rupperena, the number one team in the country, play an exhibition basketball. Ryan is here, folks, Like, I don't know, maybe because I was gone, it didn't process, but I was thinking there yesterday.

00:33:22
Speaker 6: Basketball is here snuck up on me, like even Media Day yesterday, Like where did that come from? Out of nowhere? The fact that they played Purdue and what two and a half weeks is amazing.

00:33:31
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean we're every Saturday, just so you know, every sat Friday or Saturday from now until Christmas there's a basketball here. We go every Friday or Saturday from now until Christmas. Really, I think we have one week off between Christmas and New Year, but really every Friday or Saturday now through hopefully April, there's basketball.

00:33:53
Speaker 7: And I know football enthusiasm isn't that high right now, but Blue White Game is the night before he played Texas over here that's a heck of a double better and then produce the night before Tennessee UH plays at Crugerfield.

00:34:04
Speaker 4: So weekends, Blue White Game, Keenland Parents Weekend, and Texas.

00:34:09
Speaker 5: I hope you have your hotel.

00:34:11
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00:35:04
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00:35:06
Speaker 4: That's next here O KSR. Welcome back Tugi Sports Radio. All right, A couple of things. First, thank you to the young man here who brought me the new there's two different kinds of new Nerd gummy clusters. First of all, Nerd gummy clusters. Stop sending me the TikTok video that says they're made of ants. That's not true. What I keep getting. I keep getting TikTok videos that somebody's like, you know, there's little pieces of bugs in there. Stop sending that to me.

00:35:32
Speaker 5: First of all.

00:35:32
Speaker 4: Even if it is true, then I'll just eat the bugs. I don't want to know about it. They're good bugs, all right, It's fine. But there's two different kinds, one of which is uh, cherry lemonade blitz. I haven't eaten that one yet. But he gave me what's your name again, Declan Declin. He gave me this is juicy gummy clusters.

00:35:49
Speaker 5: All right.

00:35:50
Speaker 4: If you had the gummy clusters, you thought needs more juice. Listen, you know this is the best candy that has ever existed. And I tried to get an endorsement because I mean it, but they have it. But that's okay. It's the best candies.

00:36:05
Speaker 7: You're doing it for free.

00:36:07
Speaker 5: That's a fair point.

00:36:07
Speaker 4: Why do I need to pay? Why they need to pay if I'm just gonna do it for free. It's the best. And now it's got juice in it, which is which is good for you. We all need to jude gross when I say it, but trust me, it's good. And uh so, I'm very excited. I've already eaten a couple of them. They're bigger because they've got all that juice.

00:36:25
Speaker 6: As if the nerd gummy cluster wasn't sweet enough, they added juice to the middle of it.

00:36:32
Speaker 5: I see no problem with it.

00:36:33
Speaker 7: Wow.

00:36:34
Speaker 4: Also on the text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five for somebody writes, mad, I have lazagna is.

00:36:39
Speaker 5: My favorite food.

00:36:41
Speaker 4: I have the definitive ranking of Lazagna's in Lexington.

00:36:45
Speaker 7: I'm very interested in Okay, defenditive ranking.

00:36:48
Speaker 5: Third place. Sutton's on Richmond Road.

00:36:51
Speaker 6: Got about that one.

00:36:52
Speaker 5: That's a good one.

00:36:52
Speaker 7: It's good spot.

00:36:53
Speaker 4: I didn't that's a I didn't know that was a place. It's called Sutton's.

00:36:57
Speaker 6: Right in front of the Kroger shop.

00:36:58
Speaker 7: You tell the chain or is it local family Italian?

00:37:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, I'm gonna have to go there some second as ital X.

00:37:05
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the pre show sponsor. I shouted them out, tray, Yeah okay.

00:37:09
Speaker 5: And then they're our.

00:37:09
Speaker 7: Neighbor at iHeart downtown.

00:37:11
Speaker 4: Oh that really like fancy schmancy please yeah, yeah, I'd like to. I want to go in there. Sometimes they'd say that's a nice little environment. And then number one, uh giuseppees in Alan nichols Field. That's, according to this person, the definitive ring.

00:37:25
Speaker 6: So Shannon's choice if it always didn't make.

00:37:27
Speaker 5: It, it was always did not make it.

00:37:28
Speaker 3: It's a bad list Umber four.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: Audible mention bad List eight five to nine, two twenty two eighty seven. Somebody also remind me Derek Willis played you g oh.

00:37:39
Speaker 7: And Darren Fox loved anime. That's right, he did big. I mean he's Swipe of the Fox I think was his nicknames.

00:37:46
Speaker 4: And yeah, who's up next? Shannon's good to Brent. Brent, go ahead, Brent.

00:37:52
Speaker 7: Hey, So I've got a couple of small things. First, anime is really slow and the episodes don't fall in normal structure, So be careful, man, you're probably gonna get bored.

00:38:01
Speaker 5: Okay, if I get bored, I'll move on.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: I still have Black Rabbit and the Task, So if the death Note can't keep my attention, we'll move on.

00:38:09
Speaker 8: It's a really good show.

00:38:10
Speaker 7: It just it takes his time and anime is weird.

00:38:13
Speaker 5: Man.

00:38:14
Speaker 7: But my second thing, I was randomly thinking about it, and if they had any plans to bring out soups for madness, I'm sure they're canceled by now.

00:38:22
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:38:22
Speaker 4: I don't think they're bringing stoops out for madness. I don't think Ryan, that would be smart. I I you know, I don't There's a lot of things you could do to get the crowd excited. I don't think bringing out stoops for madness is one of the things.

00:38:34
Speaker 6: No, you're trying to get everybody excited on their feet, and that might do the exact opposite to bring him out during mad That's what's kind of sad about the football program here. It is the struggling. It's a bye week and madness hits during the bye week. I mean, the schedule could not be worse for the football program.

00:38:49
Speaker 7: One of the best parts of last year's madness. Remember they turned the court into a football field and stoops came out and they had just beat All Miss, and he was like, oh, this is what madness is like, I've never made it over here, gets that big round of and then they haven't won meaningful game. It really was the last moment because he got a huge ovation and they had just beat Ole Miss. They had that screen on the court that they made a football field that looked awesome.

00:39:11
Speaker 5: I've completely forgotten that.

00:39:13
Speaker 7: And then it just plummeted from there because he was a little cocky, little swaggy, a little bit of a cow jab there in Reparena and it's just all been downhill. What's your second thing?

00:39:23
Speaker 5: He's gone, Oh, he's gone. Okay. Did I appreciate the call on him?

00:39:26
Speaker 3: And I think he appreciated his own call?

00:39:28
Speaker 4: Okay, gotcha hockey? I know we do a lot of hockey on here. The hockey season starts tonight. I don't know if people realize that. It feels like the other one just ended, but the hockey season starts tonight. I'm actually wearing a maple leaf shirt because they didn't get Connor McDavid yesterday, and I feel bad for him. So we do this every year. I don't think we've been right one time yet. Who is going to be in the Stanley Cup Finals?

00:39:52
Speaker 6: Ryan, I did correctly pick the Tampa Bay Lightning one year, so I'm gonna pick him again this.

00:39:56
Speaker 4: Year against two uh Colorado Avalanche. Well, they are in different conferences.

00:40:02
Speaker 6: They just got lucky there.

00:40:03
Speaker 7: It was lucky, total lucky.

00:40:04
Speaker 4: Yes, I was almost certain you were going to pick a team that was not what it was in the same conference.

00:40:10
Speaker 5: That's what I'm going with, Tampa Bay Lightning in the Colorado Avalanche. Yes, what about you?

00:40:14
Speaker 6: Nicknames do not in the ands on a unique feature?

00:40:17
Speaker 5: There? Good?

00:40:20
Speaker 6: There aren't many nicknames that don't end in as.

00:40:22
Speaker 5: Do you know the new the team in Utah? Do you know what they're called? No?

00:40:26
Speaker 7: Yeah, what they had decide on, didn't they?

00:40:28
Speaker 5: They know anybody?

00:40:29
Speaker 3: Anybody the Coyotes or something or No, that was Phoenix.

00:40:32
Speaker 4: They took over them. It's the mammoth, right, the mammoth, the Utah Mammoth.

00:40:37
Speaker 7: Tall Mammoth didn't Yetti win.

00:40:39
Speaker 4: The vote, but they said no Because I love when people have votes and then go we were just I mean, we'll probably do that. In America soon, but like when you have votes and then go who cares?

00:40:52
Speaker 5: All right, what about you? Uh?

00:40:54
Speaker 7: The Florida Panthers have been extremely hot row. I was actually down there when they wanted a few years ago. It was awesome watching the celebration. So I'm gonna say they're back. Well, they're not gonna win, but we're gonna be back in it. And then I'm pretty sure this team is in the West or whatever the other conference is called. Uh my, Nashville Predators are gonna shock the world, aren't they awful?

00:41:15
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:41:16
Speaker 7: Oh horrible. I think they were dead last last year, close to it. That's why we're gonna shock the world.

00:41:21
Speaker 5: That'll be a shock. So they're gonna go from dead last to winning the whole thing.

00:41:25
Speaker 7: It's gonna be an unbelievable rebuild. That our coach, our coach whose name it's just he's such a great coach. He's gonna have it turned around.

00:41:34
Speaker 3: Give me the Bruins, who are probably terrible.

00:41:36
Speaker 4: They are terrible, but they're gonna Boston Bruins are terrible, and the kracking the crack are okay but not great. So you're going Bruins.

00:41:44
Speaker 3: And cracking, how do you know they haven't played a game yet.

00:41:46
Speaker 5: That's true.

00:41:47
Speaker 7: True, everybody's going over.

00:41:48
Speaker 5: We know one of your team.

00:41:49
Speaker 4: Gonna go with the Carolina Hurricanes again. They they're great in the regular season struggle. They can't beat the Panthers. That's the problem. They keep losing to the Panthers. But I'm gonna take the Hurricanes and I'll say they'll play the Uhmington Oilers with Connor McDavid, who's the best player, and he re signed yesterday, took less money to stay in Edmonton.

00:42:07
Speaker 6: Wayne still played for this Dwayne Gretzky.

00:42:09
Speaker 4: Is sixty years old. So no but Edmonton and the Carolina Hurricanes. We had our picks. I think the year we won it, Carolina we beat Edmonton in the finals, so I think we're gonna do it again this year.

00:42:21
Speaker 5: We'll take a break come back. I renumber two Ksorry