2026-02-17- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back. I have re number two Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm twenty two eighty seven. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, you're on the best home whistle is not Kansas on Monday night. It's Clay County on Friday night. You never get a call in that build.

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Speaker 1: A fair, fair argument.

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Speaker 3: I think see that Clay County on Friday night probably is a good one one versus another. One writes, Matt, you missed a good rhyanism. He said people are human sometimes. What about the rest.

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Speaker 1: Of the time you're an alien?

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Speaker 3: That's true, du That is a ryeism. People are human sometimes.

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Speaker 4: People are human sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, beautiful.

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Speaker 3: People are human sometimes sometimes. Apparently the guy that said that, Tyron Stokes, Uh, might be leaning back to Kentucky. He denies. He said that. He said that was not what the article said. So there you go. That's over. It was a time.

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Speaker 1: I think Kentucky was leading that thing for him. I think he really wanted to come without question.

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Speaker 3: I think that was true. And then I mean him kind of flipping is what led to the whole conversation about recruiting in Jami and Pope and all that. So, and that'll come back up whenever he makes his decision, and we'll see who that is. All right. A couple of stats. This comes from Worldwide Todd Harris. These are these are interesting stats. Kataki last year led the SEC and stolen bases with one hundred and thirty three for the year. They had twenty three in their first three games. If they were to keep on this patient and they would steal four hundred and thirty seven base goodness, which would be three hundred more stolen bases than what they did last year when they led the league.

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Speaker 2: Let's go, I think we should run well saying that for a long time, drum for years. I've even seen the picture online. Somebody here put a picture of Ryan beating a drum. Say in still more basis.

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Speaker 3: Drough to the game you mentioned twenty sixteen. That's the uh Uless Murray team we lost at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas shot forty seven free throws. They had thirty one free throws in the last nine and a half minutes of the second half. Plus overtime forty or excuse me, thirty one. We were called for thirty three fouls Kansas would call for twenty. Kansas won even though they only made four shots in the last fifteen minutes of the game.

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Speaker 4: Yep, Todd sim me that too. I actually was at that game with Todd, and I knew there had been something, but in the moment I couldn't place that. But yeah, I remember it well.

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Speaker 3: Now. It was just.

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Speaker 4: Foul after foul after foul giving Kansas points late in that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, so now we got to talk about this. As soon as I saw this, I knew Shannon would be like eager, and I want to give him his chance. So you know, I think I said to you once, if you wanted to convince me that aliens exist, there would be like three or four people I would believe it would basically be presidents not named Donald Trump, right, if one of the Bushes or Obama maybe in his prime, Joe Biden. I guess Reagan's dead, so I couldn't. Well, older Bush is dead too, right, So we so we're down to, like, I mean, who are the living presidents right now? Bush, Obama, Biden, Trump, Clinton, Clinton, and Clinton. So I would I would do because I feel like they would know and if they ever said it, I would at least give it credibility. So Obama's on a podcast and this is what he said. A couple of questions.

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Speaker 2: Here are aliens real?

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Speaker 5: Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen them, and and they're not being kept in uh fifty one, there's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hit it from the president of the United States.

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Speaker 2: What was the first ques answered when you became president?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so here's my thing. Shannon's not right there.

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Speaker 6: He wants to know where the aliens are.

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Speaker 3: Here's my thing. When he starts that sentence with their how does my man not follow up? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: He moved on to the next topic.

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Speaker 3: He's like, how's she moved to the next topic? I mean, like, if you're at all a reporter, when my man starts the sentence with their real but I haven't seen him, aren't you going to ask what do you mean by their reel? Right? Aren't you gonna ask that? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And how are you gonna say they're real and not not explain true?

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Speaker 3: He doesn't follow up?

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Speaker 4: What an opportunity follow up. You have a president not denying aliens and you're like, oh cool, which favorite restaurant in Washington, d C. He just completely moved on, not like, well, why do you think they're real?

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Speaker 3: That might be the worst interview I've ever heard. You have the former president say yes, they're real, and you don't follow up now the next day, So for twenty four hours, I'm like, I'm gonna have to go on the radio Tuesday and say aliens are real.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, apologize to me, Andrew.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna have. I felt like I was gonna have to apologize to Shandon. But then at the All Star Game he's there. They asked him and he said, what I mean is I believe it sounded like what I've said on this show. There's likely somewhere in the expanse life, but nothing has ever come here, and we know of nothing that's come here, which has always kind of been my position. What are you laughing?

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Speaker 2: Sounds like somebody backtracking to me? He said, yes, they wasn't supposed to say that.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yes, the real But why would he say yes to begin with?

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Speaker 6: Because I think yes, Second, do you think he's.

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Speaker 3: Telling the truth? Because he's agreeing with you.

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Speaker 2: He's going, yeah, yeah, they're real. I mean I've never seen them, but yeah, they're real. He's trying to cover his tracks. It sounds like to me.

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Speaker 3: See but that that's the thing you're gonna believe whatever. Okay, yeah, but I'm right, and that's the product's different.

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Speaker 6: We don't know who's right.

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Speaker 3: Well. His second position is the one I've always had, which is, you know, there's this massive galaxies and universes. I'm sure somewhere there is lie.

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Speaker 6: Yes, they're real.

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Speaker 3: Terrible answer, terrible answer by Obama, but a gregeous rhyme you're a reporter at heart. A gregeous lack of a follow up by whoever did that an interview right.

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Speaker 1: After Baracks said that everything else goes down the toilet, that you focus on that you just said, what what did you just say? There's aliens? What do you mean there's aliens? That's where you got to go for.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand how you don't follow up, Drew. I'm still mad at that guy who did the interview.

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Speaker 4: Who was it they had to get Obama to do an It came for a school project.

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Speaker 3: He is infuriating that you have a former president there, Shannon, and he says there are aliens, and you're just like, so, man, what else is doing with them?

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Speaker 6: He goes on to like, what's the first question you want to answer? And he doubled back with where are the aliens?

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Speaker 3: Follow up?

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Speaker 2: Another opportunity for you to stick on the alien subject and not move from that.

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Speaker 1: He had his questions on a piece of paper, and he was following the questions in order write down his paper.

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Speaker 3: How did that guy get an interview? Can you whatever show he's on needs to end?

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Speaker 6: Cancel it?

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Speaker 3: Cancel it? Yeah, yeah, that's the worst interview that has ever existed.

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Speaker 6: But I was mad about it.

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Speaker 1: He said, you got to press him then, like what are you talking about? There's aliens? Give us someone what are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: Obama probably even thought, oh, here we go, and then was ready and they was like, oh, he doesn't want to talk about that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Have you thought of as a definitive? He said, yes, there's aliens.

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Speaker 3: Shut up.

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Speaker 6: He clearly did not mean oh he didnt.

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Speaker 3: When I will say this though, that is if for your side, that's one of the strongest pieces of evidence I've seen. But I will but unfortunately you should be madder at that journalist than anybody because you had a chance to have a lot of checks on your side.

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Speaker 2: Well'll do another podcast. What I mean, if they do that guy's podcast to.

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Speaker 3: Get into their podcast, why didn't come on interrupted? That's what I want to know, all right. Robert Duval died Ryan. Yes, Robert Duval one of the best actors of all time. I mean, his career is amazing. And what's interesting about his career is he really didn't get big until he was like in his forties. You know, a lot of actors get started very young. The Godfather, I believe, was one of his first big roles, and then you know, just think about all the things he's been in over the years. When I put my post up about him, I was amazed at how many movies that like are secondary to me, that people loved, including a couple I had not even heard of. But he was everybody knows him for The Godfather, that's kind of the thing. But he was also in Apocalypse Now, The Lonesome.

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Speaker 1: Dove You're Very Good, and Lonesome Days.

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Speaker 3: Of thunder Right, where he's the crew chief. For me, his best movie and I think one of the best underrated movies of all time is the movie The Apostle, which I think is the only movie I have ever seen in my life that gets evangelical, like Southern Christians like Christianity, right, Okay, I think it is amazing. And his performance is a guy who's like kind of torn between good and bad and has both in him, I think is unbelievable. And it's you know, people treat evangelical Southern Christians with such disdain in terms of how they're portrayed. They always portrayed the negative. That's a movie that I don't know, maybe because he was part of it, because he wrote it and directed it. He did such a good job and I highly recommend it. It's one of my It's one of I think the best movies that I've ever seen, and his performance is one of the best. He was nominated for an Oscar for it. But he's in all these things. I mean, do you all have other ones besides the ones I just mentioned.

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Speaker 1: He's in the Natural, He's like he steals the whole film. In the Natural, he's like the reporter following Robert Redford around.

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Speaker 3: He steals the film as a reporter. That sounds somebody who prefers journalism. He thinks the reporters. I felt like The Natural's favorite famous scene was when he knocked the lights.

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Speaker 1: Out right, Yeah, that was the famous scene. But as far as the acting goes, Duval is the best one in there.

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Speaker 3: Okay, anything else do you guys remember?

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Speaker 6: I think that I'm just going through.

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Speaker 4: Pops now comes to mind for me. But he was also a smaller role. But I love the movie Thank You for Smoking. I don't even know if many people like to Thank You for Smoking. But he's in that got a big old mustache.

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Speaker 6: He's a sling blade.

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Speaker 3: Who is he in?

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Speaker 6: Sla Carl's Dad? I'm just going through his Wikipedia.

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Speaker 3: Is that right? He's in sling Blade?

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Speaker 6: I remember that Days of Thunder? Did we mentioned that one?

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Speaker 3: Right? A lot of people mentioned a movie that I've never heard of, Like like seven people mentioned Second Hand Lions? Does anybody know that?

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Speaker 4: I'm familiar with it, but I haven't seen it.

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Speaker 3: I was surprised how many people put that down.

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Speaker 6: He's in four Christmases?

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Speaker 3: Yeah fo Christmases?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you never seen that with Vince Vaughan.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it, No I have.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have thought apparently. Is he in Kicking and Screaming with Will Ferrell?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Heart with uh Jeff Bridges.

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Speaker 3: Now, crazy Heart is another great movie that's about like a down and out country singer. What and he won an Oscar for playing like a down and out country singer. I think it's called like tender mercies? Is that on the list? I think he? I think that's the only Oscar he ever won was for. I think it's called tender mercies? Is that on the list?

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Speaker 2: There's a lot on those lists gone in sixty seconds?

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Speaker 3: He's got in sixty second?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, what career?

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Speaker 3: Well, anyway, what a career? Ninety five years old?

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Speaker 1: Ninety five?

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Speaker 3: Rest in peace? You know they say things come in threes, Jesse and Duval. What's gonna be the third? You know you got like they say it's like in seventy two hours, so it would be today.

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Speaker 6: Wasn't there another one that? Wasn't there already a third?

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Speaker 3: Or no?

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Speaker 2: So there's another actor that died, well, Jesse Jacks another actor that died?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't remember. Maybe, all right, who's up next?

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Speaker 6: All right, let's go to Nick?

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Speaker 3: Nick? Go ahead, and Nick, Oh.

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Speaker 7: Guys, you haven't seen secondhand Lions.

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Speaker 3: That is no, what is it? I've honestly never seen it. What is it? Because people keep saying it's great.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's got Josh Lucas.

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Speaker 8: I think it's who's the kid? What's his name?

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Speaker 1: Then?

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Speaker 7: Michael, Yeah, Michael Kaye.

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Speaker 3: It's it's great.

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Speaker 7: So it's just a film about a kid who goes to live on a farm with uh the main guy, these two old guys Michael Caine and and a ball and they're just too cross.

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Speaker 8: The old war.

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Speaker 3: Are good.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'll it's good because it's good.

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Speaker 3: It's good.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's at two thousand and three. I'm thirty two. I watched it as a kid, really quick to the aliens. Man, I'm I'm a little worried the Aliens have kidnapped all their recruits because I'm a little bit So I'm just gonna say one thing. I don't know any about the recruiting. I know we got some europe guys in the pipe. Maybe we have got to keep Jasper Johnson. I don't know where we're at with this. That kid has such a high upside. He's a Lexington kid, Like BBN wants this kid here, and I just I don't know what's going on if he's gonna stick around next year, but we got to make that a priority because I think he could be huge for us next year in year two if he puts the muscle on and keeps playing like he's playing off f I gotta figure out the defense. But let's keep that kid.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. I actually would like to have that conversation because I think Ryan need this needs to be We give Ryan a hard time, but Ryan sometimes has pulpit stances drew where he feels passionate, and I think if I think Ryan's pretty passionate about Jasper Johnson, am I right about that? Ryan?

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Speaker 4: You're trying. I'm trying to look in his eyes and see if.

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Speaker 3: There's anything passionate about Jasper Johnson. I want to make that a pulpit stance like you did stolen bases that really shames the face of UK baseball.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we're ready for it now, but it's a conversation we definitely need to have, because that caller is exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Read whatever you want, sir, right, I need the.

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Speaker 3: Passion from you because I know you feel strongly about this.

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Speaker 1: I do feel strongly about this, afraid I'm not supposed to.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's even better when he feels like he's so passionate, he says uth. Well, well, well, actually, we'll see you think about it during the break. Okay, you need a couple of minutes to warm your brain up. Clark's Pumping Shop is your place for every day stops and making them matter. They make gas easier and cheaper with the Clark's Reward App. Download The app earned points every time you shop. Whether you want to get coffee on a cold day, maybe a great breakfast, drive through convenience, grab a breakfast, sandwich, pizza, snacks, ice, whatever. It's Clark's Pumping Shop, Family, home and locally proud to support Kentucky's communities, local schools, and the Blue and White. When you shop at Clark's, you're supporting people who care about the Bluegrass. It's Clark's Pumping Shop. Return, Refresh, Refuel. At Clark's Pumping Shop. We'll take a break and let Ryan have his pedestal next Walter back. It is the Well. It's Ksorr. I keep wanting to say it it's a postgame show, because if people keep writing about the postgame show Boo Radley, he also played Boo Radley And To Kill a mocking Bird? Did you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You o? The girls sent me about three text in a row. You guys have not mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. That's a great film, So I don't know how I forgot that. Okay. One person writes, Matt, I'm having Clark's Pumping Shop chicken right now. If you don't know they have the best chicken around, that's.

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Speaker 1: Good breakfast sandwiches.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. By the way, tonight, the pregame show starts at six thirty live at KS Bar. Come on out, get your see the show and enjoy the wings, the burgers and just overall we've had great experiences and vibes at the bar for these games lately, uh, in the pre games and if you can just feel we can feel the energy right about how the team's doing by the bar, both during the games and pregames. And and I think it'll be great tonight as well. Pregame show starts at six thirty for the nine o'clock t Darius Miller.

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Speaker 1: Darius Miller's joined us tonight.

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Speaker 3: Darius, Oh, He's joining us tonight. So if you ever wanted to meet Darius Miller, this is a good day. He will be co hosting the pregame show tonight, so that should be great. Okay, you said. The guy asked about Jasper Johnson made a couple of threes against Florida. You, I think are very passionate on the topic about whether or not Jasper. About Jasper's future at Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: I think I say to say, things have not gone the way the Johnson family thought it would for Jasper this year, and I think there's been some frustration. But I'll give Jasper credit. He's not shown one sense of frustration. When he gets his number called, he goes out there, bussy's ass He's diving on the floor. His assist per minuted played is off the chart. Hit it, like you said, hit a couple of big shots. But you know it took a last second hell Mary, last time from a booster to get him to come here last year. There's gonna be teams coming after that kid. That kid, I agree with the caller said could be a superstar in the making, and Kentucky should do everything they can to keep him.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to expand on the it took a last second thing from a booster, I mean, mint it very early to Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, other teams were still Recruitinghm and uh, I won't. I don't think I need to go into it, but I think it just that's the good best way to put it.

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Speaker 3: To the last second. Hell, Mary from a.

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Speaker 6: Booster, I think you need to go way more into it.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, I hear Mario laughing in the background. Well, scream I played that one more time. Get because that gets his blood up.

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Speaker 6: Yeah it does. Here we goooo.

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Speaker 3: Go. I you've been you've been hasted with scoop since you got burned by Lamar Wilkinson. But it's been almost a full year.

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Speaker 1: Well there, there's there's no scoop at this moment. I kind of said, would you know just kind of the facts that I know it and there's just things you know that don't need to go on the airwaves right now. I think so we'll just put in our back pocket.

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Speaker 6: Why are you under the table right now?

00:19:47
Speaker 1: Get out from underneath there, man, I'll tell you what. It's gonna get. A nasty weather system moving in on Thursday. Did you see that Ryan Hall, y'all's guardy calling it on Thursday?

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Speaker 3: Just go on. You know, this may be like with Obama and the alien. I tried to follow up. Yeah, he's scared. I think he lets something slip and now he doesn't want to All right, whatever you want? So do you do you think he do you think the UK will do what is necessary to get him back? You definitely want him back, right.

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Speaker 1: I think Kentucky wants Heim back, but they've not shown they'll go all out to get anybody. It seems like, you know, they don't want to feel like they have to get outbid somebody to get a player. They want a player to be because they want to be here. Well, that's not the world we live in anymore. I feel like, yeah, well we do.

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Speaker 3: We have outbid for some people, but you know, the guys on Field of sixty eight, their thing was they've been too high for some people and too low for others. They don't understand the market. And we still haven't hired a GM and you know, I mean, this is the time, like March April and mayus whin your GM would go to work. So if they don't hire him by now, you gotta think, I mean, it doesn't do any good to hire him, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's enough out there that we already know. We know we overpaid for Aberdeen. I mean, it's been all but been satisfact from all parties involved, and even though.

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Speaker 3: He's played better recently, it's just a fact.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's a fact that we overpaid what his market value was. I'm not saying a dislike the guy or whatever, but that happened. And we also paid a lot of money for a guy who's gonna leave here having played like twenty four total minutes. So it's not a big secret that the money management in the Roster building wasn't the best. On Jasper Johnson. I'm kind of conflicting. I love Jasper. I don't know Dennis well bene tim to see him say hi, a nice guy, but I would completely understand. I mean, he was probably not gonna come here until an offer came in to help out. And I don't know what Mark Pope told the family, but I can promise you it was better than one sec game in double figures or whatever he has here. That's a kid that was pretty highly ranked. Thought he'd have the ball more than he would so whatever Pope told them, I don't need to talk to Dennis to know that it it's not lining up because we have not seen half of what we thought we'd get out of Jasper. And it's not just him not stepping up. I think the opportunities haven't even been there as much they should to. He could be better, but whatever Pope told him, he I don't think he lived up to his end either.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't think you can go promising people playing time. I think you got to play the guys.

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Speaker 4: But if you promised him that to get him here and then didn't do it, I would not be shocked if he went somewhere else because he failed him.

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Speaker 3: If he did that, I would say Pope shouldn't be doing I mean, I don't know if he did it or not, but like, you can't be That's when you know Cal is great about that. You don't promise people playing them. Although Cal says he didn't promise people playing time, there's no reason why we would have played some of those guys. The Reid Robbier unless no.

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Speaker 1: Doubt, I think that the Rise of Aberdeen has kind of hurt Jasper minutes. Also, you know not.

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Speaker 3: Good. You listen, we this is Kentucky. It's not for funsies. You gotta play the best dudes, and if guys end up sitting the bench, then that's the way it goes. And that's I'm very firm in that belief. But at the same time, you got to make sure you have dudes. Although there was a coach that said you gotta have dudes, and now he doesn't have dudes because you're fired.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't have a job to have dudes.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't have a job, he doesn't have dudes. He didn't have anything. He's about to have a lawsuit. So that's a different conversation, all right, five nine, two eight, Oh, James Vanderbeek also died chanting, So maybe that's the third ye.

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Speaker 6: Trying to think the third ye.

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Speaker 3: Right, all right, we'll take a break. Right back, it's KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

00:23:36
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Speaker 6: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: So, Shannon, this is Robert Duval. This is that crazy Heart movie you mentioned right, This is a great movie.

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Speaker 6: Him singing it.

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Speaker 3: This is Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell, okay, and like they're good. I think this is legit legitimately a good song. Funny how Fallen feels like flying for a little while, which is first of all a great lyric Shanon, don't you agree? Funny how Fallen feels like flying for a little while. But Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell can sing like they're The premise of the movie is Jeff Bridges is an old country singer who kind of mentors Colin Farrell, and then he gets bigger than Jeff Bridges.

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Speaker 6: Right, yeah, then Jeff Bridges is opening for him.

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Speaker 3: And then Jeff Bridges is opening for him, and their relationship is part of the movie. But like the fact that Colin Ferrell, an Irish dude, plays a country singer and is good yea, And Robert Duvall is like the is he Jeff Bridges manager? Is that who he plays?

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Speaker 6: I think?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 3: A great movie, Ryan, if you haven't seen it, I think it's I think Jeff Bridges won an Oscar for this too.

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Speaker 1: By the way sounds awesome. I'm not heard of it.

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Speaker 6: You never heard of this? No, huh?

00:24:53
Speaker 3: I mean that the whole soundtrack is really good. They mix in real country singers, but Jeff Bridges sings a lot of the song.

00:24:59
Speaker 6: It's just funny.

00:25:00
Speaker 2: You know, some people like they're their singing voice doesn't sound like they're speaking voice. But Jeff Bridges, you can tell that's Jeff Bridges singing of house.

00:25:08
Speaker 3: It sounds like, yeah, I'm gonna.

00:25:15
Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound like it?

00:25:17
Speaker 3: Does? It sounds like that could ouse Colin Farrell. Now he sounds different when he's singing. But I'm gonna listen to that soundtrack today. I'd forgotten how much I like that. One person rights mad. It sounds like you want to give the counterview to Ryan on Jasper Johnson. What is that? Well, I don't want to be first of all, I don't want to be counter to any kid, especially a Kentucky kid, especially Kentucky kid. It seems like a really nice kid, and that I really like his family. But I'm a big believer, and I've been this believer for a long time, and I maybe paused my opinion on this a little bit because I do love having kids from Kentucky. I love the fact that Malachi and Jasper and Trent Noah contribute and are all from Kentucky. That really makes me really happy. I liked having Travis on the team so and Darius Miller's gonna host a pregame show. I love that he was from Kentucky. I love all that. With that said, I have a stance that has been my stance, and you've heard it a million times, and my stance has always been, you do not play kids or recruit kids just cause they're from Kentucky. If it's a tie game, the tie goes to Kentucky. But you don't just pick people from Kentucky couser from Kentucky, including former players as coaches. I think Mark has done a good job. I hope he does a great job, but you know, you have to make sure you get the right guy, and in the Kentucky parts of Bonus, Jasper has played, in my opinion, the amount of minutes he should play. He is, he can shoot, and I love how he can shoot. He had two big shots at Florida. He also Ryan was minus eighteen in the game at Florida. All right plus minus was minus eighteen. It was the worst. It was the worst on the team. He cannot guard. He cannot guard. He's it's not even so much on his man. He loses his man, Like if you watch plays. A Pope kind of hinted at this after the game. I mean he didn't call him out, but I think he was talking about him. If you watch plays, he just loses his man and it leads to breakdowns. And Garrison is the same way. They're the two worst offenders for it, and you know it is what it is. So he has a huge offensive upside and I'd be great having him come back. But I do not believe Ryan he's playing too little. I think he's playing the right amount because he scores, but he gives up just as much as he scores, if not more.

00:27:48
Speaker 1: I really thought his minutes would probably go up when jamaln Low went out. I thought they're going to split that that those minutes at a point guard. But Aberdeen has played so well. You know, when you know when Jasper comes in, he you know he's not afraid to get that shot up.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: I like that about it, and with that, I'm I have no problem with him shooting those threes for the most part, but you gotta guard the other side, you know.

00:28:10
Speaker 1: So if we're talking next year, there's no doubt they're going to bring in another elite point guard, especially if low Lee's They're gonna go out and bring somebody in. So do you want to keep think?

00:28:19
Speaker 3: Well, I think in a perfect world, if you asked what they wanted to have happened when they recruited these guys, they wanted Jalen low to be here two years, and they wanted to have a system where maybe Jalen and Jasper could work together and they'd have two guys who could both shoot and play with them. I don't know if that's gonna work. So you know, if they bring in another point guard, I would understand why Drew he might decide to go somewhere else. It's not a knock on the kid. I think he can be great, but if he doesn't improve defensively, I don't think you can play him in these SEC games.

00:28:50
Speaker 4: Well one, I hope they bring in a different point guard. I will actually be upset if we don't go shopping for a point guard. Maybe a strikeout and you end up with Lowan Johnson will worry about that, But I don't think you can go in the next you're with a guy coming off a shoulder injury and a freshman that barely plays as your back court. But with Jasper, I would love to have him back, but I if teams want to get in a bidding war, I don't think you can overpay him because he's from Kentucky. You pay him to be a backup guard that you hope takes a big jump. But if you if Alabama gets back in the picture and they're throwing him a big bag, I think you need to be ready to say we can't match that. If it gets into a bidding war. I'd love to have him, but he needs to come at the price that he is not just because he's a local kid.

00:29:29
Speaker 3: At various points this year, I've been frustrated with the the way we've managed the lineup last five or six games. In my opinion, Ryan, we're playing the right guys the right amount of minutes.

00:29:39
Speaker 1: They figured it out finally, didn't they.

00:29:41
Speaker 3: I think they kind of are. And you know you had, like like last game, Garrison played maybe more, but that's because Malik I was.

00:29:46
Speaker 1: In foul trouble happened to Yeah, out of necessity.

00:29:49
Speaker 3: So I mean, I think I think they're kind of playing like you. You have to have Oway, Aberdeen and Chandler out there thirty plus minutes a game, all three of them. We have to. We don't really have a choice whether whether that's good or not. I don't think there's a choice. Those are the only dudes that keep it consistently flowing. Who's next, Roscoe, Roscoe, go ahead, Roscoe?

00:30:13
Speaker 9: Good, Good afternoon. Fellas enjoyed the topic today. I had a couple additions to uh, Robert Davall movies that you hadn't mentioned. I don't think one you played, the country singer called Tender Mercies, okay, And the other one I don't know if he did this or not. It was like a b film I found on HBO, A great Santini.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: Heard of it, never seen it, but heard of it. Yeah. I see.

00:30:47
Speaker 9: He's a washed up air airplane fighter from Vietnam and he's trying to settle back down, and know want him to retire, and he just, uh, he's not not having it that way. It's kind of a bully. It's a great movie. One other thing I thought, the third official I thought the third official in the Florida game was Owen short.

00:31:12
Speaker 3: Uh, it may be right, you may be right. I think I thought there was a dude named Jones. But either way, there's a guy. There's a guy who I recognize his face, and uh, he drives me crazy when he's on our games, and he was on that, he was on that one.

00:31:28
Speaker 9: We're heading down lets Than right now. We're gonna we got tickets for the game to night against Arkansas. You're thought, so, who's gonna win?

00:31:37
Speaker 3: Uh exhue me.

00:31:37
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Georgia.

00:31:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, George, we're gonna win. I mean, I appreciate the call. I think we're gonna win tonight. Well we'll do the predictions here in a minute. Also, Shannon, we're talking, we talk about the movie The Apostle. He sings Robert Duvall on that movie as well.

00:31:54
Speaker 6: Oh does he okay?

00:31:55
Speaker 3: All right? He sings these like gospel songs on that movie and it's really good. I don't know if those if that's online, but if it is, I think he sings. I think he sings a song with like Patty Loveless and it's like old no Emmy Lou Harris. I love to tell the story, which is a hymn. If you find that, then you have to you know, there are not many shows that will play bad Bunny one day and I love to tell the story the next day. Yeah, but that's I love that hym and he sings I think with it, he sings with Emmy Lou Harris. If you can find that for the next break, that would be good. Who's next, Steve, Steve, go ahead.

00:32:31
Speaker 8: Steve, Hey, guys, what all you guys doing today?

00:32:38
Speaker 3: Doing good?

00:32:39
Speaker 9: Hey?

00:32:39
Speaker 8: Going back to going back to what you were saying about Jasper Johnson and Garden. That took me back to the late sixties and there was a kid in eastern Kentucky that was averaging about fifty points a game and pressure was on Rep to sign this day. And Rep's comment was, if he scores fifty, but the guy he's gard him scores seventy, we haven't gained anything.

00:33:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that can happen. And I think Jasper can play defense. I just don't think he does right now, maybe because I don't know, and I don't know Ayn well enough to know. I just if you, if you were to go back and watch the Florida game and watch he just loses his man a lot. And when Garrison, Garrison gets picked on even more than Jasper, but Jasper does too. When they come in the game, the other teams pick on them. You can watch it happen every time they get in.

00:33:38
Speaker 8: Yeah, and as far as roster next year, I think we've got to build around Marino and Jasper and we gotta have a We gotta have a solid point guard, I mean physically solid. I don't think Low's gonna fit that deal.

00:33:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, I appreciate the call. I'm not going to fight to keep Lowe, although I think I would. I like Low a lot. I think you also have to be careful. I mean, Lamont Butler was as physically solid as anybody we've ever had play point guard. And guess what, Ryan he got hurt the same injury Jailn Logan, Right, you know, it's a freak injury. What point guard we had that had a bigger bill than Lamont Butler and he got the same injury, Jailn loaded.

00:34:23
Speaker 1: Well, they're not are you still there? You're thinking Anthony Epps maybe, well.

00:34:29
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, he But I'm just saying to you, like those that injury is a freak injury. That low got. Now he may not be the right point guard. We'll see, But I don't think it's cause of that injury. True. I mean that injury was just a freak incident. You know.

00:34:44
Speaker 4: I agree it's a freak incident. I just and I said this last week. When you go to the portal, I take emotions out and I want the best player at every position, or at least I try. You're clearly not gonna go five for five. You gotta retain guys. But I put emotions and you were here last year's side. If there's due, dudes that were, you know, first team All Conference, they're wanting to be on the move, I say, Jill LL love you. I'm calling him and we'll figure it out.

00:35:08
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00:37:42
Speaker 4: Now, I remember that video of him dancing in the locker room. It was real smooth, It like went everywhere in March madness. He was kind of a hot name. He just came from Baylor. Then he beats Cal calls kl out for the dudes, and he has done nothing since They've actually had good rosters. They've gone out and gotten some of the best Portal have one of the best players in the country this year, and he still can't seem to find wins.

00:38:04
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:38:05
Speaker 4: I'm actually a little surprised he fell as quickly as he did from that high of twenty twenty three. But I'm not surprised they let him go. I don't think they'll win that lawsuit. But their their record has been bad with pretty good rosters in the last couple of seasons.

00:38:17
Speaker 3: It's been terrible. I think Hugo was on the team Ryan right, didn't he.

00:38:22
Speaker 4: That's what's so funny. He called Kentucky out for not having dudes, and then he literally went out and got Ugo, who wasn't even one of alleged dudes.

00:38:28
Speaker 3: That you're yeah, huge fall, but do you think okay? So I assume his contract says that he can be fired for cause. Usually they don't define what that means very well. Usually it's like I think in some some of the really good coaches do and they're basically like, it's only if I do NCAA violations, et cetera. Do you think coming out his statement where he was like, our players don't deserve to wear the uniform, do you think that is at worth a four cause firing.

00:39:00
Speaker 1: You know, he probably shouldn't have said that, but I don't see how you can justify that. Being the last place in the conference they were looking for an excuse to fire the guy. I just don't think this justifies the fire for cause when all he stated was he didn't like his effort and then't like his roster didn't like, then then them deserve to put on the uniform.

00:39:18
Speaker 4: I f like coaches say that all the time when their team's not pretty well, right, they don't deserve to wear the letters on their chest. That's not that uncommon. That's for cause than.

00:39:25
Speaker 3: Anything's for cause.

00:39:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, coaches say.

00:39:30
Speaker 3: Coaches say stuff all the time that look, I mean, you only eighteen million dollars, that's on you. I'm a big believer you do not give coaches huge raises and extensions based on one tournament run. Okay, one if it's a great season or two season, But if you go on one run and then you're asking because sometimes you can get lucky in the tournament. Ryan, sometimes you can like get a good bounce and a couple things like you can't do that, and that's what they did.

00:40:00
Speaker 1: He like Drew said, he was a hot young name. Kansas State' seem to have it going on. But they're awful right now. And you know he's the guy that put that roster together. He can't blame the players much.

00:40:10
Speaker 3: And they were awful last year too.

00:40:11
Speaker 2: If you can fire him for calls, did you see what Gottlieb said on his postgame press collars?

00:40:18
Speaker 3: Gottleeb was out of control. I can't we can't even play what he did on the show. It was unbelievable. All right, A couple of things. First of all, trivia is Thursday night at KS Bar seven o'clock. Get your team ready, come on out. We're gonna be doing it. Be a lot of fun. Trivia KS Bar tonight pregame show starts at six point thirty. Darius Miller will be our guest. You can come to the bar and meet him see Darius, take pictures and when you could tune in on the radio at six thirty. Let's make some predictions, Ryan, what do you think happens.

00:40:47
Speaker 1: I think eight and a half a lot of points, but I think Kentucky will win. And I'm going to say Kentucky they win, but don't cover. I'll say seventy seven seventy No, I'm hang on, I forgot George scores a lot of points. Let me go eighty one seventy five.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: All right, Shannon, I'll go Kentucky wins eighty five seventy eight.

00:41:05
Speaker 3: All right, Drew with their best player back.

00:41:08
Speaker 4: I think Georgia actually plays well, keeps it close, but Kentucky wins. I'll say eighty four seventy nine.

00:41:18
Speaker 3: I think we will fall down early, fifteen, by fifteen, but maybe by eight or nine. I think halftime it's probably close, maybe even they lead by a couple will win, but it's gonna be a lot closer than we want it to be. I'm gonna say, like eighty two seventy eight. I think this will be. I think this will be a more difficult game than we hope it is.

00:41:44
Speaker 1: But none of us has Kentucky covering. Nobody picked Kentucky cover.

00:41:49
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I don't know what it is. This team plays better and gets good teams for some reason, and Georgia Georgia can put up points and getting their leading scoreback. You know, I think it's gonna be uh. I think it'll be tough, but I do think we win. I think the crowd is big. We need that nine o'clock up crowd to not be sleepy. They need to be loud because I think that's gonna matter. We will see you at six point thirty. Thanks for listening. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.