2024-09-18- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: From his hilarious What's Your Language stour comedy off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes is moved September twentieth and twenty first. Then catch Stephen Who the Tips from the Er Guy from social media September twenty six through the twenty eighth, and from his High on Life tour. Catch Josh Woolf for two nights only October fourth and fifth. Four tickets to all Shoes called eight five, nine, two seven to one joke or visit comedy Off Broadway, dot com comedy Off Byway.

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

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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 4: This is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, September the eighteenth. I am Matt Jones here on again. An absolutely perfect day. Can't ask for a more perfect day than what you have outside.

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Speaker 3: It is beautiful and you can give it a shout.

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Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing I want people to call a little differently today.

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Speaker 5: All right, well you got all right?

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: First of all, Clark's Puppet Shop phone lines eight five night two eight twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four in this diition sponsored by the TJ. Smithl Off as you call TJ. I'm making pay. I got Judge Yoakum here from Bell County in town. I think it was partially wings Day, but also I think he wanted to come by and say hello.

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Speaker 3: We were talking before the show. Ryan.

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Speaker 4: I watched the two thousand and ten John Wall team play in that tournament in kane Koon where they played it in a ballroom.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember that? Oh, it was literally a ballroom that I watched.

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Speaker 4: I watched that game in his house because in Middlesbrough they didn't get espn U on cable, which is what my parents had. There was no streaming yet he had a satellite. He had Direct TV or whatever his house and I went to his house. The game was like at ten o'clock. I think we played I'm not sure Stanford. Does that sound right correct? I have the answers, Okay, where there were two games we played Stanford, is the other one Virginia?

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Speaker 3: No, it is.

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Speaker 6: Uh is Ohio School, Dayton, Cleveland State, Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: State, Stanford in the finals and both It was like during Thanksgiving break and I was in Middlesbrough and I couldn't see it, and so I went to his house and I watched the games. You remember they played. You could see the chandeliers, yes, from the game. That has to be one of the weirdest games Kentucky ever played. You could literally see the chandeliers.

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Speaker 6: From the sea at the Moon Palace resort.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember. It was so wild it even went to overtime. It did, and I remember the people that went. There was a bar.

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Speaker 4: You could see the bar on the baseline, so while you were watching the game, you could see people lined up for drinks on the bar on the baseline. For those of you that are too young to remember this, it was ridiculous. It was a basketball game and.

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Speaker 3: It was John wall in a ballroom.

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Speaker 7: Like you said, this was at the big tournament they having Kancoon every year. This is the one down the street around the corner.

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Speaker 4: Billy got a you know, all inclusive deal on where you could drink for free, and that's why they played there. And Billy used points to get us like Gilespie used his point.

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Speaker 6: It didn't have a bar you'd have like at a wedding reception.

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Speaker 4: It was it was like the Harper Hall bar. It was people in black and they were just they were handing out you.

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Speaker 7: Know, tell the story you said when the judge was trying to rewind it to see something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he was during the game. You know it was his TV.

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Speaker 4: But you know, Drew, I don't do good at giving other people their remotes at their house. For I think he tried to rewind it and I said, I'm doing the live blog, man, I go, I gotta stay live.

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Speaker 3: He remembers that. So that was It's nice.

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Speaker 4: That was a good a good time when you didn't have the whatever the cable company is in the middles world did not have ESP and.

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Speaker 7: You a weird moment and you in John Caller Perry history to go play at that game.

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Speaker 3: Little I was one of his first games.

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Speaker 5: It was the first month he was on the job.

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Speaker 4: I remember when it was over, he said, I want to think think, I'm sorry my voice it's going in and out. I want to thank the people here. We probably won't play this in this again. He was like, very clear, we won't do anything like this.

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Speaker 6: And the schedule tells me it was on back to back nights, so didn't even get a pool day there at.

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Speaker 4: The It was like a Friday, Saturday or something during during Thanksgiving break.

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Speaker 5: But the game you were at his house. You said it was at ten o'clock.

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Speaker 7: I can remember seeing some video of the of the arena, but I don't remember anything about those games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, well, I remember it was against Stanford, and I also remember it sounds like the the fire alarms going off, which is nice.

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Speaker 3: You know that back door back there, do not open the back door. They do that sometimes Mario will take care of it.

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Speaker 4: A f I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, uh a vision auto glass text machine. Now here's what I want people to do. Okay, what is for people who either call or who write? Well, you got very simple. Your job is to tell us if you you picked the topic. Because I want today to be all positive.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: You know we had last week which was very negative after the South Carolina game, then Monday and Tuesday there's still people should we have gone for it?

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Speaker 3: Should we not? Wasn't an interception? Was it not?

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Speaker 4: And you just ended up with a lot of sort of you know, disagree today. Your job is to keep me all positive. Okay, I'm gonna keep you all positive, right, and people can pick the topic, all right. We can take a break from the normal topics. People can pick the topic. Maybe one of them is, can we turn this fire alarm all positive?

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Speaker 3: See, this is a tough way to get me started positive. When the fire alarm is going off.

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Speaker 7: Right, Mario's on it, and just give him just a minute. We'll have that thing shut off for Mario.

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Speaker 3: Did you get it fixed? You did?

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Speaker 4: It's still on if we get a two thumbs up, but again two thumbs up, but the but the alarm is still on.

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Speaker 3: It's a little distracting. Get done, Mario. Everything there's positive for you all in here right now?

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Speaker 4: There is that's exactly right. And it's wingsday, dollar Wings all day. Come see us at lunch, join us and uh jo joke. All right, So I'm gonna give you a couple of to get this started. Get it started either text machine or calls. I'm gonna give you a couple of topics that people wrote in actually actually last night or in the last.

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Speaker 3: Couple of days. All right.

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Speaker 4: One person said, Matt, I'd like to know of the Power four conference program. So we're talking SEC Big ten, ACC Big twelve. Which team would the four of you least want.

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Speaker 3: To be the fan of?

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Speaker 4: Okay, if you had to pick of the power programs, who would you least want to be a fan of? Now, I would suggest you need to consider football, basketball, and let's even throw in like baseball and women's basketball, because there might be teams like Vandy, for instance, that aren't good at one, but you could win the national championship in baseball. So which would you least want to be a fan of? Ryan, I'll let you go first. What comes to your mind is the team you'd least want to be a fan of.

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Speaker 5: The first two came to my head. The first one was Purdue.

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Speaker 3: You know what, that's funny. That was one of the ones I was considering.

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Speaker 4: Why would you not want to be But besides the fact you don't like, you can't just use I don't like them.

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Speaker 3: Because I was an Indiana fan. What is it?

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Speaker 7: It's I think it's just because they're uh. They did have some success with Zach Edie, but they always seemed to choke. They always seemed to not in basketball, which is probably their best sport.

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Speaker 3: The other sports.

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Speaker 5: Football, baseball, I don't think they can come out to anything.

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Speaker 4: So you think the fact they choke it's it's actually Drew you and I have been there. I believe it is a forty seven to one male to female ratio at that perdue if we called it, Yeah, we called it perdued because the whole time we were on campus, we only.

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Speaker 3: Saw guys everywhere.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that so that that's one of mine.

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Speaker 3: All right, what about you, Drew.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to offend Ryan Lemon here, but Indiana came to mind pretty quickly. I mean, football doesn't really exist. I guess they've had a few good seasons recently, but overall, Indiana doesn't really have football, even though they're playing it basketball. You got your your grandparents and your parents telling you how awesome it is, but you're just not seeing it in front of you. You're going to school and it's not happening.

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Speaker 3: It's like the Sopranos.

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Speaker 4: You're sitting there thinking the Mafia used to be cool, an now we're out here doing this.

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Speaker 6: You're hearing about how awesome it is, but now you're a fan and you're just not seeing it.

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Speaker 3: That's Wilmington. Limington's all right, but it's not pass through. There's a chicken place that's pretty good.

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Speaker 6: Said killgores or something, Yes, kill right experience, but you know, I just not seeing a lot of success in the two major sports.

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Speaker 3: All right, Shanton, what about you?

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Speaker 2: Uh, Indiana is a good one. I would probably go Nebraska. Okay, you'd have to live in Nebraska.

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Speaker 3: That's a huge one.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: They used to.

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Speaker 2: Be good at football, but now they're just not really good at anything.

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Speaker 3: This year though they just opened up. They could go slightly back.

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Speaker 4: Nebraska could go nine to OZHO to start the season. If you look at their schedule.

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Speaker 2: I was still I think I would pick them if if not Nebraska, like my one A would probably be Minnesota because it's.

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Speaker 4: So all right, so mine is in the same ballpark Boston College, because not only are you not good at anything, you're not. I mean, I know they beat Florida State. Florida State's now and three you're not good at football. When's the last time they've been good at basketball? I mean, tell me the last basket? What was the redheaded no, he was? What was the redheaded kid's name? Didn't they have a redhead?

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Speaker 3: Maybe?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, name me the last Boston College basketball player of significance. I can't even think of one, and I could think of one for almost every school, Dana Barrows did.

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Speaker 3: He go there? Didn't Bruce Pearl play there.

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Speaker 4: That's not one I would put. I can't think of one, all right. I don't even know if they have a baseball team, and then I've never heard of their women's basketball team. The other thing is you're in Boston, and everybody cares about everything except Boston College. They care about the Red Sox, they care about the Patriots, care about Celtics, care about.

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Speaker 3: The Bruins, and those teams all win.

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Speaker 4: Those team have all won tons of titles, so no one, no one cares about Boston College.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say Boston College.

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Speaker 5: We got some good ones. That's a pretty good list to get started.

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Speaker 6: I considered Boston College and Rutgers, but I thought, well, I could do other things in the area. Well yeah, if it's just focused on your team, I agree with that one.

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Speaker 4: So we have Indiana, Purdue, UH, Nebraska, and Boston College as ours our first round picks.

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Speaker 5: My second one I thought of earlier at the beginning was in c State.

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Speaker 3: Because they went they just went to the final four.

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Speaker 7: They did, they didn't been the Foo four where they're kind of lost in the shelf. And I would duke in North Carolina. But that was like that's why you liked them, because nobody else liked them so.

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Speaker 4: And they actually for a for a team that did until last year didn't win in a long time. They actually have a large fan base. I mean they basically you go Raleigh East, those people are all in NC State fans and a lot of you know, North Carolina has a lot of like uh rural African Americans, and they love I mean that's in C State eight is their team, so they they actually I don't I think NC State's almost an underrated fan base if not for you including baseball, I have Mississippi State high on the list. Now, Starkville was just named by USA Today the best small town to live in in America.

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Speaker 3: What canceled USA Today? We went to the.

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Speaker 4: Starkville Yeah, when's last time you've seen in USA Today?

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Speaker 3: By the way, like with the color the actual.

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Speaker 6: That time we went to the USA Today conference in Vegas, I might have seen one somewhere.

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Speaker 5: They even leave one outside your hotel door anymore.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you you know you're no on on start.

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Speaker 6: I think they're in the conversation, you know, football, they'll have a one off here every once in a while.

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Speaker 3: Basketball not much. Starkville is Starkville.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but they got they got baseball going in their little park with their athletic.

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Speaker 4: Like the second or third highest attendance in baseball.

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Speaker 3: And their campus right there is nice. I'll give them credit for them. Yeah. Well eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 4: The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. I need you to update me on something, Drew, because I don't understand it.

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Speaker 3: I gotcha. What is happening with these top recruits?

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Speaker 4: A Cayden A Cayden Lewis and Caleb Wilson For people who don't know, two of the top basketball recruits in America, And it seems like on Twitter they're all like saying, we're coming to Kentucky. But I never know what to believe on those kind of things. What's the I got you.

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Speaker 6: I'm actually, for the first time in a long time, I'm a little hip on what the kids are doing on social med I'm glad to hear so. Caleb Wilson was was on campus. Caleb Wilson, where's this is? All kids in next year's class?

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Speaker 3: Right? Yes?

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Speaker 6: Okay, potential editions with Marino and Jasper Johnson. He's like number two or three, Power Forward, five star. I really want this guy. While he was on campus and enjoining Joins time, he got a picture with the golden medal, UH did some photo shoots. Ry visit last weekend. Caayden Lewis isn't wasn't here, but he announced his top four or wherever he was, and Caleb probade.

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Speaker 3: Something like and one of them was Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: Yes, And Caleb Wilson replied something like, come on over, bro, while he was in Lexington, kind of implying, you know, come on over would kind of mean come to where I am.

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Speaker 3: Like come to where I am right now, or just in general. I mean they're both considering UK.

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Speaker 6: Okay, it's one of the only schools, if maybe not the only one they're both going on. No, then Kayden Lewis post a highlight video or no excuse me, Caleb Wilson posts his UH recruiting recap, and Kayden Lewis writes in the comments, I want to play with this guy. And then Jasper Johnson has tweeted about them twice and retweeted a Big Three meme. So there's a lot of public flirtation between these, uh, these five blue chips.

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Speaker 4: Now, if they got all those guys, that'd be the number one or two classes.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Mark Pope could tell everyone to eat it if his first class had four five star prospects.

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Speaker 3: Right. So there you go.

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Speaker 4: That's that's where we're caught up, Like do you think any of this is is real?

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Speaker 3: Like? Does I think it? Well?

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Speaker 6: Even by themselves, not the social media stuff they just did. They're both very high on Kentucky. Lewis is a point guard, kind of said he wants to play with Jasper Johnson. Wilson's kind of considering Arkansas maybe a little bit of a leader, but very high on Kentucky too. So then when you just package it all together and all this tweeting and DM and meman, it's got this pretty exciting memon.

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Speaker 3: All right, I got you. So there you go. That's my report on what is happening with high school kids.

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Speaker 4: One person writes, tell Shannon to hush, Minnesota has won the NCAA Hockey Tournament forty one times.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't know what he's talking.

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Speaker 2: And guess what, nobody cares.

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Speaker 3: Nobody nobody cares.

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Speaker 4: But your If I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven, what is your topic you want done today? We'll take a break. Be right back here at ks part. Jared Dudley. That's a Boston college basketball player. I don't know how I couldn't think of that. Apparently NC State Drew went to the final four in men's, women's and the.

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Speaker 3: College World Series last year. Wow, so probably would have been a good year to be in the Wolf for that was a loser.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so, uh don't necessarily know that if I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. One first rights, Matt. I saw you stop in Indiana on your way to Chicago.

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Speaker 3: And I look to see what snack you would get. See and by now are people looking even in Indiana what snack? Yep? If you didn't get one, I.

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Speaker 4: Thought you said you couldn't go anywhere without a snack. It is hard for me when I stop at a gas station to not get a snack, yep, very very hard. But we you know, we were in the car a long time, and if I just ate snacks the whole time, you're gonna end.

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Speaker 3: Up, h You're gonna end up you know, getting huge.

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Speaker 4: And so I didn't do that, but uh, I do think in Indiana on the way there, I did get oreos.

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Speaker 3: I think you missed out. I think you missed it, sir.

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Speaker 7: I think I might have gotten What is there something about that, that guilty pleasure of eating a snack while you're drinking it's.

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Speaker 4: Just all right, it's not gets, not guilty pleasure, it's naughty or something where you.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you get scolded for it. Or I don't have snacks any of the time. But I'm in the car when our road trips we stop somewhere, I want to get a little I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Have to drink.

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Speaker 4: So I went to get a coke zero yesterday and I went to the thing and they were out, and the only coke zero is that new.

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Speaker 3: Thing they have, the Oreo coke zero. Have you seen that?

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Speaker 4: And that sounds gross to me, doesn't it? You Like, it just seems like two flivvors that it just did. I totally agree with you. It sounds like peanut butter orange juice or something like. I don't understand why you.

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Speaker 3: Would put those two things together, so you try it.

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Speaker 4: Well, there wasn't any other coke zero, and so I got it, and it tastes like Oreos does it? But it's not bad. I don't think it's very sweet. It's almost sweeter than a regular, so I don't think I could want to drink it a lot.

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Speaker 3: But it's not as bad as I thought it would be, So it seems I could be a dessert. It's like an oreo. It's not thick or anything.

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Speaker 6: Well, I know it's not a milkshake, but it's like so sweet that it's it's a.

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Speaker 4: Little sweet, but you it definitely I thought, how can they make a drink that tastes like an oreo?

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Speaker 5: It tastes like an oreo. It makes me want to.

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Speaker 4: Try it, Okay, exactly. It's it is for people like you, yeah, to be able to do eight. If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, who's up first, Steve?

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Speaker 3: Steve? How are you, Steve?

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Speaker 8: I'm doing fun, man, I love the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: I'll talk to you several times in the past, and I don't really think you like me very much.

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Speaker 3: But listen, Stephen, why would I don't know? Of course I like you. Why would I not? He was just talking about how much I literally, I literally of course I like you, But go ahead.

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Speaker 8: Come on anyway.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 8: The way you handled this whole situation with cal Perry, I mean you've handled it perfectly. You articulated the blue name, she was concerned, and you did it without being demental or hateful or anything else. In my opinion, that to me, you had just moved up ten thousand in my estimation, and for that, I want to thank you.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: It's very nice of you.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that everyone shared your opinion, at least if you looked on social media, but I think probably more people shared my opinion than didn't. And I think for the people that were kind of very pro cows Col, I think they didn't. I always thought they underestimated how much of the fan base he had lost, because I think if you were online, it didn't seem it seemed like the fan base was kind of split fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 3: But I always thought run in life, it was not fifty to fifty. That in life, more people were ready for a change than were not.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and we felt that to this show, going out and talking to people people can't talk to us about it was definitely.

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Speaker 4: I mean in the bar, in this bar, all right, there were very few people who didn't come up and say, man, we got it, so so yeah, but anyway, what else you got real quick?

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Speaker 8: Steve, Well just you know when you got to stay asked the question and I was you know, I was jumping up and down and cheering.

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Speaker 3: To thank you.

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Speaker 4: That was a neat day. I'm not gonna lie to you. That was a very very neat day. Thank you appreciate the call that was That was a very neat day because it did come at the culmination of a lot of criticism. Mario had just started and we walked out that I will say, walking from my house to RUP the day of Pope's press conference and seeing the excitement of the fans that were waiting there on the sidewalk, it did feel like, you know, is after two days ago when people didn't even want this guy, it now feels like everybody's in. I still think there could be a documentary drew about the Thursday night from when it was announced until the press conference and the way the massive change in the way the fan base felt during that time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Twitter was ugly that Thursday night. We wake up, we do the show. Opinions start to change a little bit. Mitch Barnhart gave that great interview, but then by Sunday, I'm with you. I walked from the other end of downtown, just couldn't believe my eyes walking towards Reparena and how the lines on both ends of the building were so long they met on one of the sides, just people trying to get inside.

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Speaker 4: I think that a lot of when we walked into that show Friday morning at that at what was the place that in there, the Bourbon, When we walked in there, the fans seem negative, and then when we walked out it was almost like they seemed positive. And if you remember, during that period of time was when the announcement of the five million in anile came, when the when Mitch Barnhart came on the show, when Rick Patino released his video.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned how some people were off limits in the search that were high on a lot of this.

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Speaker 3: That kind of helped. He's some of it, I think everybody.

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Speaker 4: A big change for me was when I found out that basically the president and the board of trustees said, no Eli came out, you coundnot hire Eli coach basketball. And was upset Shannon because I wanted Eli.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people did you know.

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Speaker 4: No Bruce Pearl, no Sean Miller, no Nat Oates, although he had already I think said no Chris Beard and no Chris Beard. They told them those four no. And then once you assume those four no, and that you've gotten to know from Scott Drew and Danny Hurley, then the question is do you want Mark Poper? Do you want Shaka Smart? And then that's a different situation, Ryan, when you're looking at.

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Speaker 3: It like that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that that was such a unique morning where we were all kind of processing everything at the same time. I do think Mitch Barnhardt's interview does help, but we had some really great callers that morning too. That got us a little more optimistic about this hire and going forward.

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Speaker 4: It is interesting to me if Eli and the university board had not said you can't talk to those or you can't hire those guys, I think Bruce Pearl would have been the coach, and then what you know, then what would you know?

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Speaker 3: That would be.

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Speaker 4: It's a whole different history, and I think maybe in the moment the excitement would have been as big. But Mark has been Mark's done this job almost perfectly leading into the games.

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Speaker 7: Would you agree with that yeah, all these questions about his staff and about a roster fulfilled that now recruiting, had the questions.

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Speaker 3: Interacted with the fans.

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Speaker 4: Now the next thing is, you know what, you got to actually go win basketball games, which is going to be a big thing. But when you consider where it was when I got the phone call on Thursday night they were hiring Mark Pope to what it was at Sunday night, it's amazing how quickly that changed. It really is amazing. We will take a break and be right back. Since Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:22:56
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00:23:01
Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

00:23:04
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio eight five, nine, twenty two eighty seven. You get to pick the topic whenever you want, okay, and we're gonna we'll have to go with it. Some from the text machine. One person rights, Matt, sounds like you got out of your bet with Cody about the presidential race. Do you want to bet me instead? No, I'll continue the bet with Cody. I'm glad to continue to bet with Cody, although I will say Cody one of your friends wrote me and said, you don't pay up on bets.

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Speaker 5: Oh, Cody.

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Speaker 4: One of your friends, Cody said, you were in the fantasy league and you never paid the dues last year, and then you didn't win, and so the winner didn't get all their money. So I'm just saying, Cody, I need verification that you're a bet payer upper before I do it. But if you want to the bet with Biden and Trump is void, Biden is not running. That's that's exactly how they would do it. Yeah, Kentucky played Louisville, and Louisville backed out like they did a few years ago.

00:24:05
Speaker 3: We had to play Western. If you remember the Kentucky.

00:24:08
Speaker 6: Louisville bet is voided, or you can look at it like the lightning delay. You didn't get all the way to the end of the bet.

00:24:13
Speaker 4: Yes, so now I like that one too. So now it's it's Harris, I'll bet you again. I'm more I would have lost the other bet. I'm willing to say that, but I'm going to win this bet. So you just have to decide if you want to do it, Cody, and also pay your fantasy football dues. You know what I mean, Cody, you play. If you're in paytans fanacy football, Drew, you got to pay your due.

00:24:34
Speaker 6: I think you need proof of payment from his twenty twenty three fantasy league before you all could even consider moving forward with your bet.

00:24:40
Speaker 4: Yes, Matt, I have a good story for you. My mom recently was watching Fox News and she heard something Harris was doing she didn't like and said, I don't think I could like any Harris supporter as a friend. And I said, Mom, you listened to Matt and those guys every day, And she said, well, they don' don't count him.

00:25:02
Speaker 3: Actually, I think that's a compliment.

00:25:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's his mom's way of being nice, right that like that we're the one, the one she would consider her for.

00:25:11
Speaker 7: Don't see eye to eye politically, But yet we can still have a good relationship and she can still listen to the show and enjoy herself.

00:25:16
Speaker 4: Did you see Reggie Katrel. That's the kid from Harlan with the long hair, the beautiful hair from the Sweet sixteen last year? Remember his fireworks went off and took a couple of his fingers off. Yes, and yesterday he was back and he was dunking a basketball. How cool is that.

00:25:37
Speaker 7: Love love love to hear that story. That kid is back on the court and dunking a basketball. You know that happened when you were gone. We tried to get him on to talk to us, but apparently he is so shy. He didn't want to come on the radio.

00:25:50
Speaker 3: He was very shy about the attention with his hair.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: We wanted to have him on ifter Sweet sixteen and he's you know, you wouldn't think about it with that hair. You think you'd be like ready to talk. But I'm glad he's back playing basketball. You know, that was a great story last year with Harlan going all the way to the state finals before losing, and it was a really sad thing that happened on the fourth Jove. But glad he's back and hopefully gonna play this year.

00:26:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:26:14
Speaker 6: I mean the family put out a statement like the next day when he was still bands up, like, oh God will be back. We're not quitting anything. Two months later, it's pretty cool to see him already unk.

00:26:23
Speaker 3: Cool to see, how do you like? So he lost his was his two.

00:26:27
Speaker 5: I think it's finger and these two.

00:26:31
Speaker 4: So he lost parts of his middle and index fingers in a metal rod and his thumb there, and he's still gonna play.

00:26:38
Speaker 7: It's his non shooting hands. He's left hand, so maybe he can still just play right handed.

00:26:42
Speaker 3: But that'll be that's gonna be cool to watch.

00:26:44
Speaker 5: Everybody in the state's gonna be pulling for that kid.

00:26:46
Speaker 3: I'm pulling for him. You know, we we picked him out from the beginning.

00:26:50
Speaker 4: Yep, he still should be doing n I L shampoo if nothing else.

00:26:54
Speaker 3: Who's up next? Nathan? Go ahead and Nathan hey, I was.

00:26:58
Speaker 9: The one talks football. So we have one of the best front seven in college football who had Carson Beck just rattled almost the entire game. We have no excuse for all offensive line who has the opportunity to go against that front seven every single day in practice should not be good at past blocking. Mean, they should be getting better every single day, and they should. I mean they here, they're going to face better than Dejon Walker.

00:27:23
Speaker 4: The means, well, they're not. They don't to be in practice. They don't usually face the number ones. I mean usually Yeah, the number one offense is going to face the number two defense.

00:27:33
Speaker 9: Usually if our team, if our guys are that bad at plast blocking, maybe they should be going against the ones trying to get better.

00:27:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean maybe those the and I appreciate the call. The rules about practice and stuff have changed a lot. Uh, so you just don't see you know, I don't know how much they get they hit in end season practice than they used to.

00:27:56
Speaker 3: But the point is still valid.

00:27:57
Speaker 4: I mean, you got a great defensive line on the other side of your team, and we would need our offensive line to be better. I think they were better, but they still weren't great when it came to pass blocking.

00:28:08
Speaker 3: And then but what's so weird because they're so good run blocking.

00:28:11
Speaker 4: I mean they are, like you know, they've kind of they kind of dominated a Georgia front that's got multiple guys that are gonna play in the NFL.

00:28:19
Speaker 6: Kind of makes stoops since comments in camp interesting when he said we have to take Dion out of practice so the offensive line can get stuff done. Were they that far behind or should he left Dion in so they could go against him? But you know, he didn't talk about Yeah, he talked about how I had to pull Dion out so the line can get working work done. Maybe they should have left him in or maybe he wrecked him too bad.

00:28:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the.

00:28:39
Speaker 7: Like you said the success they had in run blocking. Man, they rushed for over two hundred yards against Georgia. I'd be curious to see if anybody else even does that. It comes close to that this season. That was amazing. They were able to run against guys that gonna be in the NFL next year, and they got two hundred rushing yards against that squad.

00:28:55
Speaker 4: One person rights Matt last segment. I heard you say oreo coke zero. I just pulled over and got one. It does taste like an oreo. I was not lying. It tastes like an oree. You wonder how does a drink taste like an oreo? Tastes like an oreo. Another person rides Matt, you're not gonna win that bet. I don't know why you say you're gonna win that bet. Trump is gonna win. Stop acting like he's not. You're an idiot. Well, I mean we're gonna have a result reason. There's no reason to get mad about it. Like nothing. You say he's gonna change. They're gonna have it when I win seven o four. See remember another bet I lost in twenties. No, I'm not, I'm not I'm not betting. Remember when I lost. When when my group lost in twenty sixteen, what did I come on here? Inside said he lost or she lost? Wish Trump the best? Then in twenty twenty people came and screamed in my face. And now seven o four, you're gonna.

00:29:47
Speaker 3: Have to do it again, and it's all about every four years.

00:29:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, I'm not gonna do this the whole time. I don't actually know for sure, but I do want to continue the I want you to have to eat dinner at his house or whatever it is, Cody's house. I got to make sure he pays up. I heard that he doesn't pay up. I'm fans when you never see Yes, who's next, Adam, Adam?

00:30:03
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Adam. Hey, First of all, the coke flavored oreos.

00:30:07
Speaker 10: I don't know if you'll have had those.

00:30:08
Speaker 3: Those are also pretty good. There, Hang on, there's coke flavored oreos. Yep, that doesn't sound good, But I don't know what that means. Like what would the coke?

00:30:18
Speaker 10: I had a hard time wrapping my head around it too well.

00:30:22
Speaker 3: Now I gotta try that me too, just to see what that is.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: What is the taste of coke? Is it caramel or like?

00:30:28
Speaker 3: What is that taste supposed to be that? Yeah, that is what is the kind?

00:30:31
Speaker 10: But I think if you cut into it, you'll you'll certainly know that it's okay that tastes like coke?

00:30:36
Speaker 3: Interesting? Why ma, I have to try that just to see? All right? Go ahead?

00:30:39
Speaker 10: Uh So, yeah, I wanted to go back to Boston College basketball if we could.

00:30:43
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll probably exhaust my.

00:30:45
Speaker 10: Knowledge of the program. But you guys may recall a few years ago when they got bounced from the tournament.

00:30:51
Speaker 3: Uh, there was a.

00:30:52
Speaker 10: Senior player was very emotional in his postgame press conference and he was asked what he would remember most or miss the most about his time at Boston College.

00:31:01
Speaker 3: Remember his tears in his eyes. He said going out to eat. Yeah, he said going out. That's right. He didn't say that. Yes, you could probably pull up the club. Yeah, that would be fun. That's fine. That clip he did.

00:31:12
Speaker 4: They asked him what he missed most about Boston College basketball, and he said going out to He was like crush.

00:31:17
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, I was expecting some heartfelt answer to that.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: He just going out to eat. That's gonna be my call today. I like that memory. Thank you, appreciate the call. Going out to each Huh, you know that the lines are open. Lads are open. You guys get to pick the topic.

00:31:33
Speaker 4: Really, lads are open eight five nine, twenty two eighty seven. Yeah, all right, Shandon. I also want to tell you, do you want to hear a joke?

00:31:42
Speaker 5: Well, you're gonna tell a joke?

00:31:43
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:31:43
Speaker 5: Is this your joke?

00:31:44
Speaker 3: Or I was listening.

00:31:45
Speaker 4: I was listening to Colin Jost and Michael Cha. Yes, Michael Cha said that Colin Jos told a joke so bad it almost made him quit Saturday Night Love.

00:31:57
Speaker 3: Oh, and he was so mad at how bad the joke was.

00:32:00
Speaker 4: He was like, I'm going to quit Saturday Night Live if you say that on the air. And Colin Jos then said, now, I'm definitely gonna say it, and he did, and apparently the joke crushed. Everybody laughed, but Michael chases, it's the worst joke in fifty years of Saturday Night Oh my. So I want to read you the joke and see if you because it's the kind of joke that I think you all would hate.

00:32:26
Speaker 3: Okay, Shannon, are you ready.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave the mic open. You can get my natural reaction.

00:32:30
Speaker 3: Okay. So Ohio police arrested a woman for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend for eating all of her salsa.

00:32:41
Speaker 4: Okay, well, how police arrest a woman for allegedly stabbing a man her man for eating all of her sausa. Well, you'd be angry too if your man was jalapeno business.

00:32:56
Speaker 5: Wow.

00:32:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm gonna quit the show.

00:32:59
Speaker 3: Is that that's the worst joke that you've ever heard?

00:33:02
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's not good.

00:33:06
Speaker 3: Mario laughed. Though Mario laugh laughed a little bit. Drew laughed.

00:33:10
Speaker 6: I gave it a natural smile jalapeno. No, I don't smile much in here, so I got a reaction out.

00:33:15
Speaker 3: Of there, all jalapeno business.

00:33:17
Speaker 6: I laughed because it's so bad. Though I don't know, I wouldn't quit. But it's a surety terrible. That had a quittable joke. Maybe not quittable, but it's it's pretty bad.

00:33:27
Speaker 3: All right.

00:33:27
Speaker 4: Well, I have to tell you made me laugh. Club Blue is off to an incredible start this season. Before every home football game, members have been stopping by. Gabe told me he went uh to the one before the South Carolina game. Okay, he said there were five hundred people there Austin. This was Gabe's quote to me. He said, these the players, the basketball players are unbelievably nice. That's awesome that Travis Perry would meet people and let's say I was meeting where are you from, sir?

00:33:57
Speaker 3: Yeah? Bean meat.

00:34:00
Speaker 4: He would meet someone from Mead County talk to him, and then Travis would go introduce them to his other teammates and go, this is so and so from Mead count That's awesome.

00:34:10
Speaker 3: Isn't that cool?

00:34:11
Speaker 5: Speak highly of the type of kid he is. Absolutely so.

00:34:13
Speaker 4: This is at the meet and greets that they're doing before every game for Club Blue. You can be part of it too. At the football game on the seventh, that's the next one. The Club Blue members will excuse me. The South Carolina game, they got a private tailgate. They're gonna have more throughout the thing. They are gonna be discounted tickets for the Blue White game that are coming, which will go on sale soon. It is Club blueile dot com today to support in ale at UK, activate your benefits.

00:34:40
Speaker 3: It is Club Blue in ale. I have to give the Club Blue guys a lot of credit.

00:34:43
Speaker 4: I think they've done a really good job with these players and getting them to and getting this basketball team to engage with the fans and the players doing a good job as well. We'll take a break right back. This is kso.

00:34:58
Speaker 3: Working back.

00:34:59
Speaker 4: Take you sports radio. If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. I was just saying during the first of all, it's Wings Day, dollar Wings all day and night. Come by you could try him. We uh we We won an award last week for for best wings in Lexington, So we appreciate those.

00:35:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, really good.

00:35:15
Speaker 4: We appreciate those folks that there's we we always have one challengers, the two of us.

00:35:20
Speaker 3: We go head to head.

00:35:21
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say who it is because I'm not gonna give him the free publicity. But but there's I agree. I think that because that place has good ones, good ones too. This guy here is from Mead County and we're talking about When I think of Meat County, I think about the fact that was where I confronted my tracker during the Mitch McConnell stuff.

00:35:42
Speaker 3: The guy that would follow me around. Oh yeah, if you right, if you read the.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: Book, and I'm not gonna give the spoiler to the book, but part of the book is me getting to know him, this person that they had hired to follow me around the state. And the first time I confronted him was in Mead County at that pizza place that's in a jailhouse or that's in a former jail. I think it's called jailhouse Pizza, right cause we have done the show at Mead County High School and all of a sudden there's this dude there and I go, that has to be my tracker, cause he's just sitting here at a high school. And then when we go eat lunch, he's there again, and so I go up to him and say, hey, man, like I know what you're doing. It's fine, but like you don't need to be sneaky. It's I know what you're doing. And that started us having conversations that became to us getting along later on, et cetera.

00:36:36
Speaker 7: I can remember you talking to him at the jailhouse pizza place, and I remember it was it wasn't really awkward, you guys, you know, you're just kind of just talking and was.

00:36:43
Speaker 5: It could have been really awkward?

00:36:44
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I just was like, look, I'm gonna be traveling all over this state, so are you We might as well talk.

00:36:51
Speaker 3: To each other.

00:36:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, carpools.

00:36:54
Speaker 4: It's sometimes it's just me and you in these places, so we might as well, you know, in.

00:36:59
Speaker 3: Order to He got in trouble for outing himself too quickly.

00:37:03
Speaker 6: Like he was supposed to lay low and you're you're on in pretty early high school and.

00:37:11
Speaker 4: County and there he is, and you're in Mead County and there he is. There comes a point it's not a coincidence anymore. It's like, clearly you're here to see me.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: I got it, you know.

00:37:22
Speaker 6: I just wondered if there was any blowback in his office, Like, man, you couldn't make it a week.

00:37:25
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:37:26
Speaker 3: By the way, some breaking news Shannon.

00:37:31
Speaker 4: Running on Adrian wo Janowski of ESPN is retiring from the news game to become the general manager of Saint Bonaventure Basketball.

00:37:45
Speaker 7: That's the biggest woach bomb of the of the year right there. Leaving ESPN to be.

00:37:49
Speaker 3: A well I think that's where you went to school. Okay.

00:37:54
Speaker 4: He's probably the biggest basketball reporter there is, so.

00:37:59
Speaker 3: That it is big news.

00:38:00
Speaker 5: It is big news.

00:38:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he reported something, you paid attention to it.

00:38:03
Speaker 5: You know.

00:38:04
Speaker 4: The work at ESPN for the last few years ruined the draft for a few years.

00:38:09
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I'm not his biggest fan in the world.

00:38:14
Speaker 4: He wasn't the nicest to me over the years, especially during the Cal years. Uh. You know, he didn't like Cal and uh even though I would take up for Cal, and that led to some.

00:38:28
Speaker 5: I see some interactions.

00:38:29
Speaker 3: But I wish him the best at Saint Bonabitcher. Who's up next, Luke? Go ahead, Louke.

00:38:37
Speaker 11: Hey, Matt, I'm a student here at Western and uh, actually I got exam like in thirty minutes. But uh, I just think it's great that we're finally like getting to play teams that like are in state. I wish we could see more of it because I don't know, I just think like it brings the state together, like play Murray Morehead State playing more.

00:38:58
Speaker 4: You know, Ryan, I know you agree with good luck on your exam low early in the semester. You got a hard professor there giving you an exam in mid September, But.

00:39:05
Speaker 11: Uh, I got I got two of them this week.

00:39:08
Speaker 4: So oh man, who knew Western with that academic prowess?

00:39:13
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I appreciate the call. You agree with that.

00:39:15
Speaker 4: You've always been big on Kentucky should play the in state schools in basketball.

00:39:19
Speaker 7: I love those games and I think even the opposing fan bases love those games. Have that one chance to come in here on the big stage and see your team on the field. Like ek you see their guys on the field with the UK Murray State's coming in.

00:39:32
Speaker 3: I mean, but you have to agree to come here. You have to come here. You have to come here.

00:39:36
Speaker 5: You have to come here.

00:39:36
Speaker 4: We're not going there. And I know people want us to go there, but we're not going there. No, and we shouldn't go there. It's not charity. Yeah, I mean, we gotta, we gotta. There is some business, right like you were not going there. But if the teams want to come here, yes, then I'm I'm for it because and that was the thing is Murray Forever would would make you come there. And I guess they now backed off that because they're coming here, right Yeah.

00:40:00
Speaker 7: And Western's been big on that want Kentucky to come there. At one year in football they played us here and then we played them in Nashville.

00:40:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's even different because we were able to sell the tickets.

00:40:10
Speaker 3: Yesh Field. We're not gonna play them at fog Diddle or what.

00:40:15
Speaker 4: Is it bo Diddle? It's a long name. Now watching what's the diddle? Who's a Frank?

00:40:22
Speaker 3: I don't remember his first name, but diddle Arena.

00:40:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we're not gonna We're not gonna go there, and that's just the da Yeah, who's up next in the game?

00:40:31
Speaker 3: Lee? Lee? What's up? Lee? Hey? Guys football.

00:40:35
Speaker 12: I know we'd be a dead horse in the on the ground about this, but the going punting at the fifty didn't bother me as much as at the end of the first half. We just got a first down, there's nine seconds to go. I thought, clock the ball, keep your time out.

00:40:52
Speaker 3: He didn't.

00:40:53
Speaker 12: He called time out, and then he had to kick, either kick a field goal or take a chance of getting sacked. Where if he'd clocked the all you got seven seconds left, then you got one time out left. You can throw the end zone and then if you don't score, then you can kick the field goud. That was the one that got me more so than it's the fifty yards.

00:41:11
Speaker 4: Well that was McIlroy's point too. McElroy didn't like that. That didn't like that time out. I appreciate the call. I mean, we've kind of We've kind of talked about that a lot. You know, it's interesting I listened yesterday to Rossillo and Todd McShay and they were talking about how basically Kentucky's defensive scheme against Georgia, they were kind of saying, maybe the best of any team that plays George. And they went not just yesterday, but through history that they just they make Carson Beck and before that Stetson Bennett kind of look uncomfortable in a way that other teams just aren't able to do.

00:41:52
Speaker 6: Drew and that's out about George only being held under twenty points three times. They're all Kentucky. You know, it's coincidence. Are a great game if.

00:41:59
Speaker 3: You do it.

00:41:59
Speaker 6: One spits the last three times they've been to Lexington. So Brad White really dials it up when the Dogs come to town. And just the players were flying around everywhere. It wasn't just what he was calling, they were just we would wrap up. You know, there were very few broken tackles for Kentucky in that game. When a guy would get a guy, he would bring him down and when and that doesn't always happen for Kentucky, and it did during that game, we're gonna open up the doors here at ks Bar Wings Day.

00:42:24
Speaker 3: We'll be right back