2025-12-19- 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, Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, December the nineteenth. I am Matt Jones here on a graduation day in Lexington, Kentucky, where University of Kentucky students who graduate in December are graduating. The first sessions going on right now. They are piled down downtown and we are at the studio. Gives the Clark Swumping Shop phone line eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. A Atto glass Tex machine is seven seven to two seven four five two five four. In this distion sponsored by the TJ Smith Lofus. You call TJ, He'll make them pay. It is Don Franklin Hyundai Summrset Virtual Takeover. Yes, we are not in Somerset because we thought we'd be on the road, but we are here and that means on the fourth quarter and you need options. Twenty nine stores and over six thousand vehicles across the Bluegrass. It's Don Franklin Auto. They're ready when you are, guys. Big weekend coming up. Kentucky plays Saint John's on Saturday. But more importantly, we're headed to the NCAA Championship game.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for that. Volleyball were last.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 5: What a victory.

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Speaker 4: So really like volleyball might be the most tent sport World Series Baseball and volleyball. I I did a rare pacing around my house.

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Speaker 5: You paced, I paced.

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Speaker 4: I had to have a meeting at ten thirty via phone, so I went to the bar and watched the first two sets, right into the third set, and I went home, had the meeting virtually, and then watched the end of the fourth and the start of the fifth, or all the fifth. That's just I don't know how person's supposed to have their heart work after watching that I can't imagine like being a family memory. It's so tense and everybody's spiking and they're digging and they're setting, and I am an expert by the end and I'm like, set better, you know. And then Eva Hudson gets the great play at the end the delay car drew. It was so exciting to get the win. And now they play Texas A and M for a title. And it felt like there were some rallies in there that lasted like five minutes. Yeah, I mean, it was just back and forth, back and forth. Both sides were makeing an unbelievable place.

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Speaker 6: And you know, maybe it's common to just get your digs and get your hand down there and get off the floor, and it amazes me how they're able to do that.

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Speaker 5: That's the most impressive thing to me.

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Speaker 4: The two things that I just fascinate me about volleyball ay every team has like not every team, but some teams have like one or two girls who can just hit the beep out of it. Like they come in there and they're like, oh my goodness, like a cannon. And the taller they are.

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Speaker 5: It's like whoa.

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Speaker 4: And then the second thing is how do they dig those How do they even see it? You know, like I mean, it's I am amazed by watching that. It's it's actually so impressive.

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Speaker 3: They were two really, really good teams last night, and for the first couple of games was content had the best player on the floor. That caught her booth.

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Speaker 5: She was killing.

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Speaker 4: I tried to get her suspended. Oh you did call the NA right, uh And I said, NCAA. She should not be allowed to keep going because she was too good those first two cents, Well, first of all, we were terrible.

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Speaker 5: The first set.

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Speaker 3: First that we were awful.

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Speaker 4: You know, we had this huge packed house at the bar, all these people, and we can't do anything right at the beginning, right, that's womped they did, they look they look nervous, but then started the second set played better. Wisconsin got up twenty to eighteen in the second sept and I told Drew you have to leave.

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Speaker 5: We kicked him out.

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Speaker 6: We got to get out.

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Speaker 5: And it worked six.

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Speaker 4: How about that the moment we kicked Drew out, we went from twenty eighteen to twenty four to twenty magic when the second sat and then go from there. So kicking Drew out made the it worked. Packed house at ks bar. Nice saw someome harmonica guy played his song saw your video click now.

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Speaker 5: A couple things.

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Speaker 4: I can't say a lot because I had to go for this meeting, so maybe everybody had meetings. But we did have some people I think give up halfway through the third who well, some people left.

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Speaker 3: Happened to the third?

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Speaker 4: Or was it when we lost the third? Maybe it was when we lost the third. I think people were like, oh no, But then probably two thirds of the people stayed. And for the ones that stayed, Mario shows it online like it was excellent, and it was, and it's it's cool to get that victory. And now you play a Texas A and M team that you've a what are you be eaten?

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Speaker 5: This year? To win the whole thing?

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Speaker 6: And I'm feeling good because, as I said, they looked kind of tense in that match pretty early last night, but then something clicked there at the end and when he got to the fifth set and they showed our huddle and h Kentucky's team was like laughing and goofing off. You could tell there was like a weight off their shoulders and I feel like they got their nervous the nerves out of the way and they'll be ready to go on Sunday. I'm feeling good about it. I feel like we're definitely good.

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Speaker 4: They already had their scare and they survived it. Now, first of all, Eva Hudson best athlete, Channing?

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Speaker 5: Channing? Are you going to answer the phone? The past? I can't forget?

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Speaker 6: Okay, here's the deal.

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Speaker 3: I can't get logged in to see the.

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Speaker 5: Calls, so you can't see when it's right.

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Speaker 2: So you're seeing callers that I can't even get that screen to open on my computer right now does and they're trying to help us get You can't answer the phone. I can't answer anything, all right when.

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Speaker 4: I see you folks trying to call. Hopefully it'll work in a minute. But what happened? What's different about today than.

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Speaker 2: Log in and normally you just open it up and it's there. Today it's going we need to pass and I'm going I don't have a pass.

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Speaker 4: You all don't know any pass. Gusta, well, I just saw him. Is he not giving it to you? Okay? Well, anyway, Eva Hudson, she's awesome. Is she the best? I mean, she's my favorite athlete. I wouldn't want to fight her.

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Speaker 3: She came to the UK because she was teammates with Lindsay Carr Perdue.

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Speaker 4: So let's go back Andrew Carr comes here to play bass? Yes, are we winning the national championship in part because Andrew Carr can't here.

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Speaker 5: To play bass? Because he comes here to play basketball?

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Speaker 4: And then his sister Lizzie decides to come play volleyball. I don't know, I'm sure it had something to do with it may not have been solely to do it. And then Eva Hudson's like, well, if Lizzie's coming, I'm coming to, baby, coming.

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Speaker 5: To and they're like two of our three best players.

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Speaker 3: We know Andrew Carr a lot of gratitude for set and sending those two girls our way because they were awesome.

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Speaker 5: We could use him on the basketball team too.

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Speaker 4: He can make a shot, you know, if we don't have Mark Pope, we don't have Andrew Carr and Mark Pope that lose Oakland.

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Speaker 6: So in some ways, losing to Oakland is gonna lead to our volleyball nationals?

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Speaker 5: Are it is?

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Speaker 6: Six degrees of UK volleyball, degrees of Jack gold. Hudson is so like, she's incredible and she's the only senior on this team. If they can finish the job with her and retain everybody, they're gonna she probably.

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Speaker 4: Has another year, right, Yeah, that's yeah. I mean COVID like that went on for a while. May I think it's still happening, so we know what to juco. We have the Pavia rule measles.

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Speaker 5: There's like things going on.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 3: Another year, one of my friends was out there said the stadium was filled with people rooting against Kentucky because there are a lot of Nebraska fans there. They bought Final four tickets thinking they were gonna be there.

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Speaker 4: Why would they root against us? What beef do we have with Nebraska? Is this a Dane Key beef?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what it is. But he said they were like all rooting against Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Nebraska fans all came assuming to be Nebraska.

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Speaker 3: Right But oh no, my friend, no, no, no.

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Speaker 5: No, that is uh, that's not what's happening.

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Speaker 3: We're going to all SEC final now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So, by the way, Kentucky's the only SEC team to ever win a title and now one of them will get. The SEC has really not been This is the big volleyball has been Packed twelve back when that existed and Big ten that that have been the SEC. We were the first SEC team to ever win it. Wow, so uh you know the SEC continuing. It's now domination of every sport.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was exciting to watch it last night. The good group of girls they get keep falling behind these big matches, but you can't give up on them, because man, they've got some heart coming back, battle back.

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Speaker 4: They are eight and one after losing the first set up, which is amazing. It's a pretty amazing statistic.

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Speaker 6: How do you think about on Sunday, I go pregame and leave after the first we.

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Speaker 5: Got to talk about watching is at three thirty.

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Speaker 4: First of all, if you're not there Sunday to watch at the bar, then I don't know what's wrong with you. Because that was late at night last night and people were still rolling and like we did even get normally there like kids they have school, so like it was mostly oh, it was mostly like college kids and older folks. But this Sunday it'll be a heck of an atmosphere. Now you I have to fly to New Orleans during the game. Oh, I'm gonna have to try to get on the WI fi and follow it. My flight is during the game, so you two are gonna have to hold it down. I'll definitely be You're gonna hold it down. Yeah, But the moment it goes badly, we got to send him home. I think you have to start the max because you just have to be there. This man a little bit, but you have to start watching some of it because there'll be a moment the crowd collectively will send you out.

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 6: Twitter last night blew up.

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Speaker 4: When we lost the first set people, it was like nineteen eighteen and I said, if Wisconsin scores this point, get out of here. And they scored it, and he followed the orders. Yes, he walked out six straight points for kids.

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Speaker 3: Amazing. It's exciting.

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Speaker 4: You have to be in there until there's a moment that you have to leak. If they go up one, oh I'm out for sure. But even like you know, maybe even before I'll let I'll let the crowd.

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Speaker 6: One point one point to lead. We can't play games. I mean, if we lose one point, I gotta go. This is the National champions One. People will actually get mad at me. There are some people that think this is really That's why I'm not messing around Sunday. It's partially your fault my basketball record. And there's even worse.

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Speaker 4: Uh. A couple of observations. Having watched both the games, three of the four coaches males who are bald in the final four.

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Speaker 3: Can we say something about Wisconsin head coach?

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Speaker 4: Every time he says, can I whisper it? Tomorrio a male he's talking about to Mario, and Mario can decide whether or not we can say it. Okay, all right, this is on you.

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Speaker 5: All right, it's on you.

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Speaker 3: He looked like a James Bond villain.

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Speaker 6: Like all the things you could have said, that would be the least worry something to me, I would have thought it would much worse.

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Speaker 3: Okay, a little scary. He kind of scared me, all right.

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Speaker 5: I didn't.

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Speaker 4: I didn't get that vibe from watching him. I got the vibe that the woman in the first two cents, I didn't want her on the team, Carter Booth, Carter Booth.

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Speaker 6: Sounds like a basketball player from Maryland, And I was like, I don't I want Carter Booth got That's what I was worried. They had all the attitude and the energy, especially.

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Speaker 4: We're kind of lucky to win the second set. I still don't think we were playing that great. I don't really think we started playing well until the fourth bort set and then you know, but we squeezed out that second one, and then I did think in the fourth and fifth we were kind of rolling after that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we had our scare. We survived it. Let's just go sweep A and M on Sunday and get this second title.

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Speaker 3: What was the score when we played A and M this season?

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Speaker 5: I don't remember. I don't know which the four.

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Speaker 3: I learned something new last night. I hear him talk about I didn't know what a pancake was in volleyball.

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Speaker 5: So that's when you get your hand in between the floor and the ball, right right.

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Speaker 3: I'd never heard that before.

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Speaker 5: I I think I said this. Did I say something? I didn't realize you.

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Speaker 6: Could reach over the net long you don't touch it, right, I don't think. I don't think I like that rule and everybody stay in their space.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I it feels like to me that if you can reach over the net, that's way an incentive to have like an eight foot tall person on the team and.

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Speaker 6: Dunk it down.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I just didn't know.

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Speaker 4: I assumed you had to be straight above the net. I did not realize you could reach over the net. I also thought the one girl, she hurt our girl on purpose. She her foot went on our side.

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Speaker 3: I did see that.

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Speaker 5: I thought that should have been two shots in the ball, but.

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Speaker 3: They didn't count it because they said it has to be her whole foot.

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Speaker 5: What does that mean? It has to be her whole her whole foot.

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Speaker 4: You can land on a toe, and if the point is keeping from turn your ankle, why does it matter if it's your whole foot.

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Speaker 3: You step on an out of bounds line.

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Speaker 4: In basketball, it feels like there's a lot of encroaching in other people's property. You can reach over the net, you can kick your heels, but oh but God forbid you touch the net.

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Speaker 6: I'm with you, you can't.

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Speaker 4: You shouldn't be crossing that line. Us say this pre replay. They had to have gotten every call wrong. You know, when they spike it that hard, if it went off the girl's fingers, could you say that before replay? I would have just been yelling at the refs, non stuff. There's no way they can know, Like when I'm watching in real time, if it goes long. I never have any idea who won the point until I see where the guy you know what I mean, because I don't know if it hit their fingers or not. When it hits the ground, you can tell, but when it goes off their fingers or doesn't long, How do people know whether or not you.

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Speaker 6: Had been kicked out of every match arguing call?

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Speaker 4: I can't imagine that sport pre replay because you had to people had to have gotten it wrong all the time.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and is there a my favorite thing they were doing last night? Is there a name for the move where you act like you're gonna like it and then you just give it the old little dude?

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Speaker 5: I like the dude.

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Speaker 6: We were calling it the sneak attack. I don't know what it is, but it worked.

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Speaker 5: It worked three or four times. Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 6: I think it might have been I can't remember who did. Maybe it's O'Brien. She did a no look, no little I love it, like I'm over here. I felt like there was more of that in that match than in the others I've watched. There was a lot more pews.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think it's I think it's a side and I think that's we had some good we had what a key one in the fifth said, I was surprised she tried to pew right there, and then she did eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four? Is your phone working now, Channing?

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Speaker 5: Can you see it? No, it's not all right. Well Tristan is on the phone. Who answered that? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe Kevin is calling. Well, well, we'll see. We might have calls someone someone is answering this phone.

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Speaker 3: Who is in the other studio. All right, we'll see if we can.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for your help. We'll take a break and be right back. KSR. Welcome back, take you sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Is it really called a dump?

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Speaker 6: According uh to a couple of messages we received from ball knowers.

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Speaker 5: I mean, come on, that's a horrible name. Key had seven dumps.

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Speaker 3: Right now your line on the broadcast, I.

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Speaker 5: Was gonna have.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna because you know, she also knows will Stein, so I was gonna see if we could get her on today.

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Speaker 5: But I don't have her number, so I don't know how to get she's listening.

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Speaker 4: Free feel free to call in fellow Louivillion expert sports Person of the Year in Louisville with me year. Oh yeah, it was me her and American Pharaoh Weald. Do you all have a group yet? I hope you all that went into.

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Speaker 6: It was it was the three of us here.

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Speaker 5: What a group? What a group?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 6: I went to the party. The other two didn't come. I was like, I want to be the American Pharaoh.

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Speaker 3: Didn't make it American.

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Speaker 4: I don't think anybody took it there ef. I'm nine to two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. People are riding in. Some folks watched one of their first volleyball games last night. One person rides Matt. I remember your caller saying this. I still don't understand the rotations. Can any of your listeners explain, I don't either. I don't understand when people go in and out. When I was in school, you had to rotate out and you had to wait your turn, and then you rotate it back in. Now it seems like it's just willy nilly. And my argument would be, it feels like they sub a lot. If you can just do whatever, why don't you pick your leave your best girls in? I guess so they don't get tired, But I don't know. I don't understand the subbing at all. I don't understand the survey. I don't understand who get win. Its who's turn to serve? Like, if it's your turn to serve, why don't they just take that person out? If they're that one girl's tripped over the floor for West comm did what happens? The floor just jumped up and got her. I didn't understand. But I don't so I don't understand that.

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Speaker 6: Really, I'm not that far into my knowledge. I just now learned about dumps. I'm trying everyone I've enjoyed, I really enjoyed, but I just don't know.

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Speaker 4: The sport was so when they won the national championship last time, I watched like the last three matches, but we were at the bar and I was kind of just having fun. I didn't pay deep, deep attention to it. I have watched more volleyball this year than my entire life combined. I really enjoy it. I think it's a really good sport. It has now moved for me on my Kentucky sports experience to at least fourth, and it's challenging for third. I mean, it's it's women's basketball, and it are competing now. Although I do like our women's basketball team a lot, but I love how fast paced it is. I love how happy everyone is. I love that they seem like they're fun young women on.

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Speaker 3: There and they're really really good, and they're good, and.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot you can feel the athleticism because these girls jump so high in the air.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I love it. I am a fan.

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Speaker 4: I'd like I wish I could go to Kansas City. Honestly, I think it would be fun to be there. You think our fan bates.

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Speaker 3: Maybe one little reason they're getting so excited about it because the apathy from football and basketball.

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Speaker 4: It's because we're good. I mean, at the end of the day, we want to be good. Right, right, So like everybody got on the College World Series runs, right, we want to be good. We're Kentucky, we is the best, Like we want to be good, and I think the fact that we're good. And then these girls and Craig have done a great job of engaging with the fan base. Everything we've complained about UK athletics with marketing, they're doing it right, you know what I mean, Like they're doing it right, and it's good lessons for these other sports and what they're doing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been so fun to watch the excitement. Heck, be a part of the excitement. I've been becoming more and more of a fan with each match. Went to more of this year than I've ever been to before. And you know, Craig's such a great guy too, and it's been here so for so long. It's just so easy to root for this team.

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Speaker 5: Apparently.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Eva's already signed a pro contract, so she can't come back to get a ring.

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Speaker 5: We do we do, uh need to get a ring.

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Speaker 6: I don't know how they hit it so hard when I was in Like we'd play at church, you know, I'd get a little bruise right there, and I need to take breaks.

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Speaker 4: When I played Transylvania B League volleyball, you were not allowed to like, oh, like do this. Yeah we can't show it, but you were not allowed to like take the two of your hands and like woo. But it seems like they do that there blocking over the top of the No, not the blocking, but like imagine instead of spiking on the third one, they just go and like.

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Speaker 6: There was a moment last night I think that someone from Wisconsin held the ball and did like a finger roll.

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Speaker 5: I was like, I don't think you could do this. Weren't allowed to do that. They used to.

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Speaker 4: Russ Rigby told me I couldn't do that in Transylvania Intermural. So those were your career Go oh god, I could have been a contender.

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Speaker 6: I'm with you, though. There it seems like they held on to I don't know how you describe it, but they held onto the ball.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what that. I don't know what that's called. Eight five. By the way, my mom, this is how you know a sporting bent is hit. My mom stayed up.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Remember my parents eat dinner at four point thirty, so a nine o'clock start is late for this. Larry was in bed, but my mom was sending me volleyball emojis into the nine nice. Let me show you our text. This is her last night. You need to see all Look at these. Look at the emojis. Volleyball celebratory party thing, volleyball, volleyball celebratory party for the last minute.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's exciting, it's fun. And you they started making this comeback, you couldn't quit watching. You had to watch it throughout.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to Tristan. Go ahead, Tristan, whenever you're ready. Tristan. All right, I don't think that time has come. Kevin, go ahead, Kevin. You can hang up on Tristan now, so that there we go. Kevin, go ahead, Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Yes, all right, this isn't gonna work. It doesn't sound like so they can't hear me. It doesn't seem like it.

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Speaker 6: Well, the one good thing is that we're still having the technological issues.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're consistent.

00:21:22
Speaker 5: We're consistently folks will try to get it to work and hang.

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Speaker 3: On to that day. The calls went to the Leland Conway Show. During our show, we got their call lines got messed up.

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Speaker 5: People were like, my Barack Obama work for Rock.

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Speaker 4: I was like, all right, Kentucky, Saint John's that happens on Saturday twelve thirty. Excited about the game. You and I were talking about this last night. You think we're gonna win. Let me answer the.

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Speaker 6: Part about being excited first. Okay, very excited, ten out of ten excited. I was downstairs before the show and getting coffee and talking about it people in the line.

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Speaker 4: I'm fired up. I do have some concerns. I'm a little worried. I'll admit they're worried. By the way I was on the podcast with him, They're worried. They don't think they don't.

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Speaker 6: Their defense has been awesome. Like the last three or four games, they can't shoot and don't have point guard, and they've shot a little better of the last couple of games. They've kind of hit another level here recently. I worry about us getting in the half court in a physical game with them, even though they played with some pace. I just worry about their defense and their toughness. And I worry that Mark Pope has some kind of complex with Patino where there's an intimidation factor there too. But what if Jaden Quaintans comes out first of all, is he playing yes or no without having any actual knowledge.

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Speaker 3: I think he's playing like he's getting a couple of minutes. Yep.

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Speaker 4: I've heard that UK kind of wanted him to start against Bellermann and Jaden Quaints has been like, I want to play in this game, and that maybe that's one act night put him out there.

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Speaker 5: So let's get him out there. Yep.

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Speaker 4: I feel I don't know what I feel, but I think we can win. I don't think this is like not a possibility. We'll take a break right back. TJ Smith personal injury attorney. Call TJ.

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Speaker 6: He'll make them pay.

00:23:06
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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back.

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Speaker 4: All right, folks on the phone, We're gonna have to reset the computer at the end of the hour so you can hang up and call back to start south a second hour. I'd love to get you on, but apparently that's what's happening. So we're gonna have to reset the computer if we turn it. If we reset it right now, then we lose the podcast. So we're gonna have to do it at the end of the hour. So those of you call him sorry, I'll have to get to you after that. You can buy with back up.

00:23:35
Speaker 6: Every qualifying part back by a five year warranty at Don Franklin Quality Installed peace of Mind included mile after mile.

00:23:41
Speaker 4: I just got my thing, Ryan. Two point thirty on Monday is my meeting with the Western Kentucky head coaches along with the TV broadcast. I get to meet my guy, Ian Fitzsimmons. What up, coach? Uh, I'm looking forward to it. And then I'm meeting Southern Miss that night.

00:23:57
Speaker 3: Do you have like some questions likened?

00:23:59
Speaker 4: Now? Oh?

00:24:00
Speaker 3: Get some info? Ready to go?

00:24:01
Speaker 5: Ask him? What's there to ask him?

00:24:03
Speaker 4: The only thing I have to say, Shannon, I found out that the Southern Miss punters thirty and a freshman.

00:24:08
Speaker 3: Wow, that's incredible.

00:24:10
Speaker 5: Punter is thirty years old and a freshman?

00:24:13
Speaker 2: Does it?

00:24:13
Speaker 5: Going a long way with that factoid?

00:24:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, that gets you through at least the first quarter. What what if there's no punts?

00:24:20
Speaker 4: Though?

00:24:20
Speaker 2: That would be at all You're just talking about a's not even on the field.

00:24:26
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, I got a big fact coming first and ten and you just started talking about the punner.

00:24:31
Speaker 3: That's just the fourth to twenty. We're going for it?

00:24:34
Speaker 5: What are you doing?

00:24:35
Speaker 6: I have a fact.

00:24:37
Speaker 4: He's the oldest player in college football and he's a freshman. It's got four more years, four more years. Don't don't give away all your info now, sneak Pete. Yeah, he's Australia, thirty years old. Uh, Max should be your first caller. The one person, says Matt. You can substitute it in one person a peer a game, but the libero can come in and out whenever.

00:25:09
Speaker 5: There you go.

00:25:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I don't understanding that. Like the Kentucky subs in that Brezewis girl to serve, like they just bring her in for a serf. So she kind of like we got help.

00:25:21
Speaker 5: They they serve. They would serve it out quite a bit, which I was thankful for.

00:25:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, they made some some costly mistakes and Kentucky took advantage. Like looking at the stats, you would just think Wisconsin one.

00:25:32
Speaker 4: Well they would say things like Kentucky was zero point four oh nine in the fifth set, and I.

00:25:37
Speaker 6: Was like, wow, yeah you're volleyball my numbers.

00:25:42
Speaker 5: Wow good, that's what we need.

00:25:43
Speaker 6: Do you keep your own stats like older people doing baseball with your own book? Are you sitting there writing down. I don't know what you're supposed to supposed to do exertise.

00:25:51
Speaker 4: Every time they get ready to spike, I hold my breath right because it feels like, you know, it feels like that's the tense moment because and then once if we dig it, then I'm like, all right, we got this, and then I go and then.

00:26:06
Speaker 5: If they dig it, I'm mad at them. That's the thing.

00:26:09
Speaker 4: Is it just you're back and forth and you roller coaster. It really is a roller coaster. Okay, there are some rumors that we're gonna wear denim Saturday?

00:26:16
Speaker 5: Yes, do you like?

00:26:18
Speaker 4: I mean, we've talked about we want them to wear denim for a game, but considering that we lost four games, like.

00:26:24
Speaker 5: Is this the game to do it?

00:26:26
Speaker 4: Or would you say, why don't we hang on and for another moment because it's such a big moment. Do you think it gets lost at twelve thirty and it laying on a Saturday.

00:26:34
Speaker 3: I would prefer them do it at Rupparina for sure, me too, you know, But the fact that it is Patino on the other sideline and he's the one that brought out the denim uniform to start with, I can see him maybe doing it, but I hope they kind of hold off and do it at a big event at rub Yeah.

00:26:48
Speaker 6: I know there's the Patino connection. Now, it doesn't really feel like the time. I'd be pretty surprised if they broke them out this show. Oh you don't think they're going to? I mean I could be wrong, but no, I don't think they would.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: I think they would have for sure if we were rolling. But I kind of wonder if you do this again, It's twelve thirty on a Saturday. How are we not the second game in this.

00:27:12
Speaker 6: It's a great question.

00:27:13
Speaker 4: I mean, objectively, North Carolina, Ohio State. I mean, that's not as big a game as Kentucky Saint John's with Patino, is it? I'm really I don't think we've ever played in the first game in this thing. I think we've played in the second game like every single year, and yet I don't understand why we're playing in the first game.

00:27:36
Speaker 5: To me, isn't that arena gonna be empty after this game? I mean, what percentage of the arena.

00:27:41
Speaker 6: Is gonna be Kentucky fans eighty? It could be the case they just want people in there for the second game. I know in the past when we've been second, like when we played North Carolina in Atlanta, was that Col's last year. We're at the bar with North Carolina fans laughing at the broadcast of the first game because there's not a seat.

00:27:59
Speaker 4: Well so maybe they're trying to flip it and you say, well, you say it's not in anymore, right, so, Ohio State's gonna have nobody there. North Carolina will have some people. I mean Kentucky and North Carolina, yink. Saint John's has people very few, very few, So I got Drew. Maybe right, maybe they're just like we need someone in the arena for the beginning.

00:28:22
Speaker 6: It was bad in Atlanta three years ago. We were like laughing with Carolina.

00:28:26
Speaker 5: Fah, Kentucky and Carolina played.

00:28:28
Speaker 4: It was the same way in Vegas though, when you see like it, when it's Kentucky Carolina, that's gonna be the whole crowd.

00:28:35
Speaker 5: So I don't know.

00:28:36
Speaker 6: I'm just surprised this game is at twelve thirty. I mean, we got football, and maybe they're just trying to get the early tom slot on TV.

00:28:42
Speaker 4: Well, CBS is showing basketball all night, so they're showing like it's like us then North Carolina, then Houston, Arkansas, then Duke Texas Tech in primetime like they're.

00:28:55
Speaker 5: They're showing college basketball from noon on all day.

00:29:00
Speaker 3: You think they probably put the Kentucky game first. Hope people tune in and don't tune away.

00:29:03
Speaker 4: Well, I know in the NCAA tournament they try to put the biggest games at noon and eight. So I have people there at the end, So maybe that's what it is. I don't know, but I'm a little disappointed at so early. I wish we did have some time to build. Do you think we'll have a good crowd there.

00:29:19
Speaker 5: I think so.

00:29:20
Speaker 6: I've seen a few people on Facebook and stuff start to put tickets up for so you know, I hope that's not a sign of what the fan base fills because it hadn't been a great start to the year. But Atlanta is always a fun trip. It's easy for a lot of the fans to make. Of course, the Rick reunion, I think it'll be a good crowd. But for everyone at home, you know, have you seen who the crew is? We got we got Bruce Bruce Pearl's calling the game. Yeah, that's right, with Bill with the Bill Raftery and then Nestler. So it's a three pack with Bruce.

00:29:46
Speaker 4: Bruce Pearl, and I mean that's a good We've we've been very fortunate on our announcers. And just like just like Charles Barkley, Bruce Pearl loves Kentucky. I mean he and he speaks about it as someone who loves Kentucky.

00:29:59
Speaker 3: A lot of people didn't. They thought that Dick Vital and Charles Bucky didn't talking enough about the game. I don't care.

00:30:04
Speaker 4: These guys will talk about the game. They will, I mean, Rafferty and Pearl will talk about the game, all right. So for Speedley don't know about Saint John's. They struggled this year against good teams. They're one and three against good teams. Auburn beat them by a lot. Alabama played them in what was a great game. I watched it. They lost to Iowa State by one. They've struggled with their point guard, they struggled with their shooting.

00:30:26
Speaker 5: Now it was right.

00:30:27
Speaker 4: They've played a little better than the last couple of games, but the competition wasn't that great.

00:30:31
Speaker 5: I think in many ways this is a big game for them.

00:30:34
Speaker 4: I was on the podcast with the Saint John's guys, and they were like, we have to get a win because the Big East doesn't give us many opportunities to get big wins. They kind of he was saying, this is one of the biggest games of the year for Saint John's. Do you feel it's like that for us?

00:30:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kentucky can't keep taking losses in the non conference. I mean, beating in Indiana was great, but they have to build up this resume if they want to actually make a tournament run. You can't just keep losing these meaningful games and expect to have a seed that'll give you any kind of path in March. So you need to win this and that'll help stack and wins building momentum. I really feel like they've turned a corner at least in just having fun and having some chemistry out there the last couple of games. We need to keep that moving on into SEC play.

00:31:13
Speaker 4: Did you see the video of the journey video thing they do, you know that's the behind the scenes of UK games. Yeah, they haven't put any out this year because we haven't beaten anybody good. I mean, I'm serious. This is like the first big one that I've seen. Well, they put one out for Indiana. It's actually very good and it will give you some encouragement if you think this team hates each other. Jalen Lowe is on the Bitch and what I think is the best part of the video, and it's at a time out and he has this look.

00:31:43
Speaker 5: It's like a look you see in a Hallmark movie when a woman is looking at a man she's falling for.

00:31:53
Speaker 4: Who's low looking at but his teammates, Oh, he's falling for them in that moment, and he goes, I.

00:31:59
Speaker 6: Love you all, I really love you.

00:32:03
Speaker 5: And it was like, it's kind of beautiful. Yeah, did you see it?

00:32:08
Speaker 4: I like it's it's like one of those Hallmark movies where someone like comes from the big city and they come back to the small town and they fall in love with their high school crush and they're sitting there and it's Christmas time and she looks at him and she's like, he's the one I've been trying to with these finance bros. But my love was always here. That's the look Jayalen Lowe is giving to the team.

00:32:33
Speaker 5: Have you all not seen this?

00:32:34
Speaker 6: I watched the journey. I don't remember that exact part.

00:32:36
Speaker 5: Am I wrong Mario. It's on Twitter. He's just looking at me and he's like, I love you guys. I love you guys.

00:32:48
Speaker 6: It's beautiful.

00:32:49
Speaker 5: It's very, very beautiful. Is that I'm talking to people that are looking at me like I'm from the movie. I'm glad you're here. Mario Up.

00:32:56
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, I'm gonna do this weed, I'm gonna do this, and we're going to take a break. And you all need to have seen this so I don't feel like I'm such an idiot about this. It was a very Mario was It not a touching moment. It was touching a little bit where Pope almost cusses in that video.

00:33:13
Speaker 6: It was a touching moment.

00:33:14
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00:33:52
Speaker 3: He looks at you the way jaylen Lowe looks at the team and says, I you're.

00:33:55
Speaker 5: Saying, but he understands. We can't even answer the phone. And that is not stopping.

00:34:01
Speaker 3: From You can't stop Bob and Jamestown.

00:34:03
Speaker 2: You can only hope to contain them.

00:34:05
Speaker 4: We'll take a break and be right back. Mario's found the clip. This is KASR you got me. Although this is the Bob Seeger.

00:34:11
Speaker 5: Version, I thought that's the version you liked. I do. I like the one with the choir the most, you know what I'm.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: Talking about, like the more traditional version of it.

00:34:22
Speaker 4: There's one with a choir. I like this one, don't get me wrong. And this is the last show. Well I'll be I'll be on Monday. But so we can we can try to find that one for that one too. But yes, this is my favorite Christmas Carol. It's this and do they know it's Christmas? Which is not really Christmas?

00:34:40
Speaker 2: You like the band Aid song. Oh yeah, dude, that's the worst Christmas song ever made.

00:34:46
Speaker 5: You're the worst Christmas.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: I like, this song is horrible.

00:34:49
Speaker 5: What are you talking about? Made fun of that line?

00:34:55
Speaker 4: That line I think is stupid where he goes to thank God it's them instead of you. But just in general, I kind of like it. This is my favorite little drummer boy to me is like what Christmas is about. Like, well, I mean I do this every year. I don't have to give my read on it again.

00:35:11
Speaker 5: But I do like it.

00:35:13
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00:35:35
Speaker 5: But Liam keaty what let's see. This is why I can't get anything to work.

00:35:43
Speaker 6: But he says, I love you all bro right, It's very sweet. I can see why we can put our concerns to bed. If we were talking about loving each other during the game, then you also have this, which is Mark Pope in the locker room during the Indiana game.

00:35:56
Speaker 5: He nearly curses, are allowing no frustration this game. You're not giving to us.

00:36:04
Speaker 4: You gotta go.

00:36:11
Speaker 5: No frustration this game. You're not giving to us.

00:36:14
Speaker 4: You gotta go. He wanted to cuts, and then it's like, oh, yeah, I have a camera on, I can't cut. We almost got Dark Pope. Therefore we did almost get Dark Pope.

00:36:27
Speaker 5: You got, we got, we can, we can we can bleep that. You know, he did not want it to happen.

00:36:35
Speaker 4: Saturday, by the way, is an amazing sports day's CBS. Like I said, four straight college basketball games and involving Kentucky, Uh, Carolina, Houston and Cal and then Duke like, you can't ask for a better roster of teams right then? Uh, the NFL has two games big one for you, big Ayars Packers game Saturday night that's basically my for the division yep, yep, and then the College Football.

00:37:05
Speaker 3: Playoff three games on Saturday game.

00:37:08
Speaker 4: I mean, so like Saturday is maybe the best just sit and watch sports all day Game Day drew of like all time, right.

00:37:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, and selfishly, I'm kind of excited that Kentucky's up first. Yeah, we're kind of get that out of the way and relax with our win. The rest of the I watching football or whatever.

00:37:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, So our pregame show will start at ten ten. You could come watch the game at the bar. We opened at eleven, but the game starts at twelve thirty, but the pregame show will be at ten. My postgame show will be excuse me be after that.

00:37:39
Speaker 3: I'm really excited about it. And then I realize I've got to do to Frederick Douglas girls basketball game Saturday night. I have to do what PA two Frederick Douglas girls basketball games.

00:37:49
Speaker 5: You are p a a Frederick Douglas girls JV basketball game?

00:37:55
Speaker 3: No, it's a varsity double hitter. I forgot it's varsity. Put some respect on it. Yeah, just here.

00:38:02
Speaker 6: Why are you doing this?

00:38:03
Speaker 3: They called naskal. Yeah, I'm not can Why can't you?

00:38:07
Speaker 5: I means Saturday night?

00:38:08
Speaker 3: And like, and who's which is the football game that Oregon Packers Saturday night?

00:38:13
Speaker 7: Who's the college game that's like Oregon James Madison, that's the Lake game.

00:38:17
Speaker 6: That's the game because it's going up against the NFL, so they put the worst.

00:38:22
Speaker 5: Why why are you doing that?

00:38:23
Speaker 7: You know they needed somebody to do the p A. Yeah, I thought, well, you're not even calling the game, you're literally like checking in yes Smith, uh huh yeah, yeah, why are you doing that? He coach called me, what are you doing?

00:38:40
Speaker 5: Who's their normal pa guy?

00:38:41
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:38:42
Speaker 6: Maybe he took off to watch I'm not doing this Playfall today. Can I use just this platform to complain about something just for a second. Absolutely, And that's why we have it.

00:38:58
Speaker 5: You have the floor.

00:38:59
Speaker 4: So I've decided that in twenty twenty six, I wanted to span my food horizons.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:39:04
Speaker 4: I tend to eat at like the same six eight places right ks Bar like it's potle A, the.

00:39:14
Speaker 5: Salad bar at Whole Foods.

00:39:17
Speaker 4: So I've been read right, where are the places in Lexington that you know are not fancy but that people say have good food? So I kept hearing people say you need to go eat at Tuck Tuck.

00:39:28
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, t Uk t Uk snack shop. I think it's called Tuk Tuk's next shop.

00:39:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's called Tuck Tucks. It's right next to Jason's Deli out on Nicholsville Row. Okay, all right, so I decided last night before the volleyball game, go eat at Tuck Tuck.

00:39:46
Speaker 5: Look on my phone. Tuck Tuck opens at five o'clock. Perfect.

00:39:52
Speaker 4: I'll be there when it opens. I'll pull my parents and walk in and when they open the doors, get there. It's a nice little shop, open up Tuck Tuck. It's just two people staring at me. One guy's on his computer and a very nice woman just looking at me. And she goes, can I help you? And now feel Shannon, like thrown off guard?

00:40:13
Speaker 3: What's happening here?

00:40:14
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like this is a restaurant. You know why I'm here?

00:40:16
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:40:17
Speaker 4: And she goes I was like, can I eat? And she was like, are you picking up an order? And I said no, and she goes, this is we only do pick up, so they don't even you can't even sit down. I said, oh, well, can I order something from now? And she goes, no, you have to have your orders in a week in advance.

00:40:38
Speaker 3: No, you're gonna put your order in for next week, a.

00:40:41
Speaker 5: Week in advance. No, no, Shannon.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: They put their orders online at like noon on Sunday and buy an hour later.

00:40:51
Speaker 5: All the week is full. Is that man that's popular in.

00:40:56
Speaker 4: The world thinks what they want to eat a week in advance and orders it online.

00:41:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pretty sure they closed like last month because I follow them on Instagram. And maybe she's just serving special orders that they keep doing it. They definitely closed in November, so restaurants open last night. That's what I'm saying. Maybe she gets special orders and it's still fulfilling them while she has I don't know. I'm just I knew how this story was going to.

00:41:20
Speaker 4: End because they're normal that you call in your food a week in advance, like next Saturday.

00:41:26
Speaker 6: I'm gonna want whatever. That's the new system they have. They they closed their doors in November.

00:41:33
Speaker 3: I don't know yet what I want for lunch today.

00:41:35
Speaker 5: How in the world would people know a week from now?

00:41:40
Speaker 4: I have no idea like Rid's. I don't know what I want for lunch in an hour. I have fathom ordering your food for next Thursday.

00:41:47
Speaker 2: No, but I guess if you don't want it that day, you just put it in the fridge and heat it up when you are ready for it.

00:41:52
Speaker 6: That's what you would have to do.

00:41:53
Speaker 4: So you're telling me this restaurant doesn't even I did. I just pulled up their post. I was there last night.

00:41:59
Speaker 6: There's there nown Smith, then why what are.

00:42:01
Speaker 3: They That's why they were giving you that look when you walked in, like what are you doing here?

00:42:04
Speaker 4: If there was food sitting everywhere that people were picking up to just help yourself fulfilling this place is even more mysterious to me. It's closed, but it's open, but you have to order a month in advance. It's like a secret society. Now, this is why Chipotle it's open. They don't make you call