2025-02-13- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now Here's Matt Jones Welcome back.

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Speaker 4: I renumber two Kentucky Sports Radio eight.

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Speaker 5: I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven here at the KS Bar and Grill.

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Speaker 4: We are now open for lunch.

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Speaker 5: Tonight Kentucky women play Texas here at Historic Memorial Coliseum. If you are going to the game, come here and join us before. We'll have it on as well. Top ten matchup, first time it's been a top ten UK women's game in Lexington in nine years. Uh, you get it tonight and a big game for Kentucky, big chance to kind of make up for.

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Speaker 4: The loss the other night.

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Speaker 5: National television will be open here before the game and you can come watch the game here.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna try.

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Speaker 5: I have to go to Louisville, but then I'm gonna try to come back and actually go to.

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Speaker 4: The game because I think it should be a great environment.

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Speaker 2: It will be an absolutely fantastic environment. You know, Texas is number three for a reason. They just beat you know, the King of the Hills, South Carolina. I mean that's a really good team. So it's a good chance for Kentucky to stand up say hey, we are for real.

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Speaker 4: How do you think we're gonna do tonight? Oh?

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Speaker 6: We're winning, absolutely win, especially with them having the big win that they just got in Kentucky losing one that they had in the bag for most of the game. It's just it's a situational play for me, Matt, as our boy feels.

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Speaker 4: Situation will play all right.

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Speaker 5: I like that, well, I I I think they're I think I was told this morning there's like fifty tickets literally, so if you want to go, you gotta get on your phone right now. I think there's like fifty tickets for tonight. And if you've never been to the new Historic Memorial Coliseum, it is it's amazing, Like it's we've gone from maybe having the worst women's arena in the SEC to one of the best.

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Speaker 2: I would argue I said this during the Blue White game. You sit there and you look around and you think you're in one of these new NBA arenas. It's kind of got that new, that feel to it, and it's blows my mind where we were just a year ago with that place.

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Speaker 5: One person writes, Matt, what two teams that are good do you think end up in Lexington for the NCAA Tournament. I have tickets to the first round. Auburn and Alabama probably they're the closest. I think you'll definitely get Auburn and you'll you'll probably get them both. He'll probably be both Auburn and Alabama here.

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Speaker 2: I don't some of my friends were hoping Purdue was gonna end up here.

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Speaker 5: I think Purdue gets Cleveland probably. I think Purdue is probably a little closer to Cleveland, although they could end up here. But Auburn and Alabama are ranked higher, so they'll get the first priority. So I would say Tennessee. If I'm guessing Tennessee and Duke get placed in Raleigh, and then Michigan State gets placed in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 4: You just kind of do the math.

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Speaker 5: Iowa State gets placed in Wichitah, Houston gets placed in Wichitah. And that's why I think we end up in Denver. Is there are no good teams out on the West coast and we end.

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Speaker 3: Up Can I tell you that our chances are going to Seattle just went up because according to Tom Leech, you said Kentucky can only play in either Raleigh, Milwaukee, Cleveland or Seattle because Roperena is a Thursday Saturday host site and the host teams don't play on the same day is the host?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Is that right?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: So I didn't think about that. So what are the games? So? So Lexington is Thursday or Friday? Do you know? Uh?

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Speaker 3: He said is Thursday Saturday?

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Speaker 5: So Lexington is Thursday. So that means we can only go to the Friday site. Interesting, So that is Raleigh?

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Speaker 4: What else?

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Speaker 3: Milwaukee, Cleveland or Seattle?

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Speaker 2: Those are four pretty good ones.

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Speaker 5: That sounds like we're going to Seattle lest though we else that is Providence.

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Speaker 4: So I guess that means we gotta hope it's.

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Speaker 5: Milwaukee or Cleveland. I mean, we could have fun in Miwalk. I just don't want to go back to Seattle. Plus like having to fight for us to get plane tickets out there with our with iHeart will be.

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Speaker 4: Man. I didn't. I didn't run.

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Speaker 5: So that means we're playing on Friday. So unlike a couple of these tournaments, we won't be out the first day of the tournament. Yes, well we were out first day in the tournament against Oakland, so still haunts me. Such a big Friday. At least we can't but at least we won't be out the first day of the tournament.

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Speaker 4: That would be good.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know that was a rule that the whole He's right, I forgot that was a rule. So it so now we know it will either be Milwaukee Cleveland. But see it's not gonna be Riley because Duke and Tennessee are gonna end up there. So I would go down to say it's either gonna be Milwaukee Cleveland or Denver Cleveland or same and see the problem or Seattle. The problem is no good. There are no good teams in the West. Now, if we drop to a five seed, then we're along for the ride with ever or whoever the fore seed is. But Shennon's right, we can still only go play in those places.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy, we Lexington hosts. We never get to go because we're always on the road with Kentucky wherever they're playing.

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Speaker 5: I think we're gonna end up all right, So now I'm gonna guess I'm kind of feeling like we're gonna end up in Cleveland. That would be the best for us, right we get I think we could get a big crowd if we were in Cleveland.

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Speaker 6: Could drive as I said, great casino there. It's not the best city of all the options, but when you have Seattle in the conversation, I'll take anything to make that settle.

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Speaker 5: Think if we just went all the way to Seattle and then we can go right back again, that would stink.

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Speaker 6: At least it was a good game out there, had a good turnout.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just far away.

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Speaker 5: Max has already left, so he can't even go see Oh he's got to meet us there for he can't even go see his lady.

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Speaker 4: What person rights mad?

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Speaker 5: If you have to give up one thing between KSR, ESPN, and OVW, which would you give away? Well, OVW I don't do a ton with so I mean that would you know? I mean I don't consider I don't have to give that up because I don't do a ton with it. I mean KSR is gonna be last, because it's like my main you know, at your baby. Yeah, ESPN, I mean I'm gonna keep doing ESPN for like another year or so probably, and then if I don't, they don't give me like a bigger like any a daily gig.

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Speaker 4: I'll probably say that was fun.

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Speaker 5: I enjoy it, but like I'm not gonna I can't keep getting up every Sunday morning like that's my day off and I end up doing three hours on topics I know nothing about. At some point it has to lead to something where I won't keep going.

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Speaker 2: So you're looking to maybe do a daily show in the afternoon or the evening, which you prefer.

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Speaker 5: Well, I couldn't do the morning because I don't get up that early. Obviously, can't do this time.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 5: So it'd have to but I don't want to spend every evening. Ideally would be like twelve to three. The ideally thing for me would be like the moment this is over, go do just knock it all out. Just knock it all out and be done. And that would be them.

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Speaker 6: Go home and sit in silence because you've been talking for you.

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Speaker 4: Who's up next? Shit? Mark? Mark? Go ahead? Mark? Hey man, how's we going?

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Speaker 7: First time? So?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 7: I was gonna ask about Mary Williams and Lamon Butler if we lost one of them at the beginning of the season, which one? Are we winning more games?

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Speaker 4: Boy? That's a great hand.

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Speaker 5: I think we would win more games losing Amari than Butler, although I think Amari is hugely important. But like you could play car at the five, you could go small. I mean, obviously Garrison struggles defensively. But I just think without Butler, we really really struggle, like really struggle to play defense against good teams.

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Speaker 4: I just I just don't think you I don't think we can do it. I like that.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I want to get some love out the Williams because without him the last couple of games, we are not we are not winning.

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Speaker 4: No, Amar's appreciate the call.

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Speaker 5: Amari's like benefit to the team is obvious, and I appreciate, appreciate the call. His plus minus, the best plus minus the entire season over the course of the year is Amari Williams.

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Speaker 2: He's really developed into a really solid five, and in this league, you know, he learned how to play physical, learn how to take contact and finish. He's you know, he hits most of his free throws with with that ugly form. But you're right, when he's when he's out of the lineup, we're okay, what do you think about Butler's out of the lineup, we struggle.

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Speaker 5: I will never figure out his free throw for he takes the ball, he holds it with one hand, then he brings his second hand on and then he shoots it with one hand.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a bizarre and.

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Speaker 5: He looked he looks like when he shoots it, he has the biggest hands on the planet.

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Speaker 4: He looks like he's shooting a tennis.

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Speaker 6: Ball, and it looks like it's barely getting over the rim every time, like it's still kind of on its way up just to get over it. But he has been so good. He's still top five and like defensive rebounding percentage. Pope even complimented him on one of the recent speaking things he does about how he quit trying to make the crazy plays that ever turnovers. Remember early in the year, three times a game ballol end up in the stands. He's really dolled well.

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Speaker 5: He kind of big. I went back and watched the second half against Tennessee. He had a huge an one in that game, Like he took him off the dribble and he missed the free throw, but he had a shot that would have been a no no, no, yes me and got found and it was a.

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Speaker 4: Big play in the game.

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Speaker 6: Speaking to watch the game because I was there up on my mountaintop. I watched the TV replay yesterday. That was so much fun rewatching it. I agree, and that was just I don't watch many of them on TV. But that was just the whole experience, the Mike's I hear you all talking about all the time, the go big Blues coming through. I had so much fun rewatching it.

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Speaker 4: Who's next? Shit John John, go ahead, John.

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Speaker 8: Hey originally from Harlan County, Kentucky. And Coach Noah, which is Trent's daddy was my teacher Okay high school. And I live in Knoxville. So these Tennessee wins, I'm loving it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I get for you from Harlan and live in Knoxville. I'm not sure you could enjoy these Tennessee wins.

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Speaker 4: More.

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Speaker 8: I aggravated everybody I knew. I said, you know one song that hasn't been played at the Final four, And they said, well, I said, Rocket Top.

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Speaker 4: Well somebody had that signed in the crowd.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so yeah, yeah, I've seen that.

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Speaker 8: Yes, that's what made me. That's what made me say so yeah, all right, well, uh.

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Speaker 5: Well I appreciate, appreciate the call. Yes, if you were from Harlan. First of all, if you live in Knoxville, what a terrible existence to begin with.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Knoxville, what a city.

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Speaker 3: At least you got a cool mayor.

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Speaker 5: He's not even the mayor of Knoxville. He's the mayor of the county. He's a mayor, the mayor of Knox County. He's not even the mayor of Knoxville. Yeah, he's like even he wants to live out in halls.

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Speaker 6: You know, I think I'm going to uh Kentucky at Tennessee Baseball this year. I've never done that, so I'm gonna be jumping in the Orange.

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Speaker 5: I bet that's a good crowd, non basketball thing. For a second, do you know Ryan who Pete Davidson is? Yes, So give me, Like, if I were to say, give me two facts about Pete Davidson, what would you say.

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Speaker 2: Start on Shorday Night Live dated Kim Kardashian made a movie about his dad, who died in the nine to eleven.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought you were gonna say, you know, he has all these tattoos.

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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, he's got tattoos.

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Speaker 5: Have you seen. I don't know if you saw. He was on some talk show. He is removing all of his tattoos, all of them. He said, like, he wants to be an actor and he has a hard time getting jobs of like because of all the tattoos. So he is going through the process of getting all of his tattoos, and you need to go find a picture of him when he was like when he was at his tattooist. He is getting all of them taken away. Drew's like acting like he can find it, but he can't.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I was just showing it. I mean, it's amazing he's already done it. Like, how do they even do that?

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Speaker 5: So he said it was the most painful process that you can imagine they because he has to go multiple times for each one. And I wish somebody had a before and after. His whole body was covered in his arms and he is going one arm at a time and his chest and he is getting them all taken.

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Speaker 2: Off because he feels like I got to help him get other acting gigs.

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Speaker 5: Well, if you have all that on you, you're not gonna be able to play like a preacher like they're just gonna be. There's gonna be some jobs you just can't have if you have all those tattoos. And yeah, you see the picture of him there, think about Shannon, how hard that must have been to get all of that those tattoos taken off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have any tattoos, but I've always heard to get it removed it hurts a lot more than getting the tattoo itself. Did you see how much money he spent getting that removed?

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Speaker 4: How much?

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Speaker 3: Two hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Two hundred thousand dollars removed?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well he I mean, he said, it's taken him like basically six months of doing nothing else except getting his tattoos removed.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know they could do it like that. I knew they could take him off, but I thought it would show some scars or something.

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Speaker 5: I mean, and here we're all hiss had like multiple colors, like they're not just like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, look at that so he.

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Speaker 2: Got Oh my god, is that not amazing?

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Speaker 6: I did not know they could do that.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, to get all of those taken off.

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Speaker 4: Look, it's not like his skin doesn't even look burned or anything. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I thought it would show almost like you'd been in a fire or something.

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Speaker 4: Until pit So now, so before.

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Speaker 6: Tino, your next bud, get lied, get a chair, you take it right off.

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Speaker 4: I like that. Who's next? Shit? Jane, Jane, go ahead, Jane, Hi.

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Speaker 9: How are you good? What's up, you can hear me. Okay, Hey, I had a question, and I hope it's not a stupid one. So when you have to declare a player ineligible for the game for the night, can you not make a choice to be a game time decision or the SEC or whatever.

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Speaker 5: The SEC feels like you lied on the pregame report, they can find you now, of course. I mean, I'm sure there's some games and ship that's going on in those injury reports.

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Speaker 4: But because the gambling.

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Speaker 5: Piece of it, the SEC says if they think that you put questionable but you knew he wasn't playing, like, they basically say, you cannot lie. Now, Jane, Do I think teams do it? Probably? Yes, But I think you know, the threat of fine, I think it's a little more serious than it.

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Speaker 4: Used to be.

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Speaker 9: Okay, so it's fine. It's not about stats or anything. Cause I was like, well, what about just saying maybe for Jackson Robinson and then the last minute we really need him for something, Because.

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Speaker 5: If it was if it was proven that like he hadn't practiced, they had never intended him to play. I think it's you know, the risk is probably not worth whatever little gamesmanship it might be.

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Speaker 4: To say maybe.

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Speaker 9: Okay, it's not like a rule.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well.

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Speaker 9: Every time.

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Speaker 5: But I just said to you, if they think you're saying maybe and they and you know it's out, they'll find you.

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Speaker 9: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate call.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you if they were to sit and put everyone maybe every game, at some point, the SEC and the NCAA would be like, stop doing that.

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Speaker 4: And and you know, it feels like what they've put on the thing has been correct this year, right.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've only seen Kentucky and their opponents and everything's been pretty accurate. I don't know that the secason is a doctor to look at every player, but I don't. It's like you're saying, it's not something you want to get caught messing with.

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Speaker 5: The NFL, and the the NFL does it to where you have to declare specifically.

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Speaker 4: And like they will find you. They have fine teams for the for line. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Rich Brooks when he was here, he would even it was had nothing to do with he would still go through the injury before every news conference. Yeah, I am. I did hear the Jackson's wrist. Maybe may keep you out a little longer than we thought.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. One person that just wrote me and asked if I wanted to walk in the Reds opening day parae.

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Speaker 4: That would be fun?

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Speaker 2: Yes you do?

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Speaker 4: That would be yes? Is that?

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Speaker 5: During the show though, it's usually in the morning. Yes, well, maybe we could do it. Do the show from the parade.

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Speaker 6: I've always wanted to go to Opening Day. Wouldn't that be fun to do the show. You can throw us candy as you come.

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Speaker 5: Uh No, but I mean, like we could do the the parae, do the show while walking in the parade.

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Speaker 6: Oh, okay, you're gonna trust this equipment on Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: In downtown since then, don't don't don't kill my vibe.

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Speaker 6: No, I'm saying you do it. We'll watch and you throw us candy and we'll be set up somewhere.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we could do that. Yeah, that would be Uh, that would be a lot of fun. I don't know if anybody in Cincinnati would know who I am.

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Speaker 4: But that's okay. You're one of six people.

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Speaker 5: I would never Shannon argue with Tom Leach. Okay, but some may just sent me the official NFL rule.

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Speaker 4: We can still play on.

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Speaker 5: Thursday, I said, NFL college basketball rule. So the rule is we can't play in Lexington, but we can still play on Thursday. Now, maybe they try to not make you on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Trust more than Tom Leach.

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Speaker 5: The rule like the actual like printed rule, So they far but from me, I don't want to disagree with Tom Leach.

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Speaker 2: I'm just so they may try to have a courtesy do that, but it's not a written rule that they don't do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's probably the thing.

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Speaker 5: Can we talk just a second about Mark Stoops's comments on Sports.

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Speaker 4: Center the other day? We didn't get to get to it.

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Speaker 5: Mark Stoops was on Sports Center said we did not have enough discipline last year on and off the field. It's the first time I've heard him say that off the field. He said it on on the field, but I hadn't heard him say it off the field. He said, we intentionally tried to get guys that will make that happen. He did say, however, last year was a blip. We'll be back to what we were. Do you think last year Ryan was a blip.

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Speaker 2: I love it when he's got that ad. That's what I want to hear my coach say.

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Speaker 4: But do you think it's true.

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Speaker 2: I think they'll definitely reset, hit the reset button and bring the culture the back the way it was when he first got here. I really believe that is going to happen.

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Speaker 4: But do you think it's a blip? The performance last year like, What do you think is more likely?

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Speaker 5: If I say to you next year, what's more likely we have a season where put the record aside, though, where we're competitive every game, and we're out there and it looks like the Stoops teams of the first eight or nine years, or it looks like the team last year and to some extent the year before, although they did play better the year before.

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Speaker 4: What's more likely, I.

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Speaker 2: Would say more likely the Stoops of old.

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Speaker 5: Do you believe that? Yes, I can see your face, you don't look like I think they'll They will be competitive, They'll be terrible.

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Speaker 4: Schedule, that's the that's the whole.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm hesitating what to say, because I don't think the wins are going to be there. But I think there will be a better Stoops like team.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that they know that they've messed up. I don't know about calling it a blip, because it's been a few years. It seems I think we'll see less of the issues. We won't hear as much about stuff. But I just don't know that that will translate to much of a season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: See, I look at that schedule and I say we could be significantly better and finish five and seven. Yes, like we could be significantly better and finish five. And I don't see a world where we can finish nine and three like I think we could be. He might have the best team he's ever had, and we can't finish nine and three. Now, we could finish eight and four, seven and five. But like the year where we went two years before, we finished nine and three, I don't think there's any world we can finish nine at three just because of their schedule.

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Speaker 6: You need Calzada to show up and be Johnny Manzel or have like a Pavio like Joe.

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Speaker 5: We need these other teams to really stink like they would need to all take a huge step back.

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Speaker 4: Ryan from where they've been the last few years.

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Speaker 2: And they've all done their due diligence in recruiting and then transfer portal there they're gonna get better. I think we're on the same page. We think this team could be good. It just may not translate into wins.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we're gonna play four teams that were in the playoff last year.

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Speaker 2: That's tough for anybody.

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Speaker 5: And Lovell was almost in the playoffs and South Carolina could have been in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 2: That's tough for even our best team to have to go to that.

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Speaker 6: Schedule, and several of these teams have. It's some of the best quarterbacks in the country. These are guys that are gonna be in the NFL. You've got arch Manning, you got Lagway down at Florida, you got Tennessee in.

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Speaker 4: The West Florida. I mean, teams have.

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Speaker 6: Some stars on their team on the rushers.

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Speaker 4: So there you go.

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Speaker 5: What's up next, Cynthia, Cynthia, how are you, Cynthia?

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Speaker 10: Hey, I'm good. I'm actually calling from a cruise ship that's sailing around South America and we just sailed around the tip of Argentina through the Jakes Drake's passage around Cape Horn, and I'm confirming that the waters are rough.

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Speaker 4: So maybe I just went through.

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Speaker 5: Cape Horn and Drake's How random is that? You're on the You're on the ship right now.

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Speaker 10: Yep, we're on the ship right now. It left from Valparaiso Tilly on the first of February. It goes all the way till the eighteenth of February and ends in Buenos air Des, Argentina.

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Speaker 4: So how that is?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

00:22:50
Speaker 4: And it was the weast passage.

00:22:54
Speaker 10: I don't know how to I mean twenty plus foot seas and rough like, meaning like the ship is just I don't know, banging. It sounded like banging on the water. It sounds like at times the whole ships is gonna fall apart. I mean, I've never been through anything like it, and it was awful.

00:23:13
Speaker 2: Wow, scared me.

00:23:15
Speaker 5: How random is this that you're listening? I wish I had more time to have you on, but thank you for calling. I'm glad you got through Drake's passage. Appreciate it, sir.

00:23:27
Speaker 4: That's for sir. Francis Street scares me. Wow.

00:23:32
Speaker 3: TJ Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ.

00:23:35
Speaker 10: He'll make them pay.

00:23:36
Speaker 3: Now. More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:41
Speaker 5: Welcome back in his Kentucky Sports Radio. I can't believe the woman called from the That was pretty cool. Although there's some people on the text machine don't believe it.

00:23:49
Speaker 3: Shannon don't really skeptical of it, huh.

00:23:51
Speaker 4: I believe her. She called the phrase, yeah, why would you live?

00:23:54
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:23:54
Speaker 5: Why would you? Why would you call and live about that? What is that accomplished? I think she was on it.

00:23:59
Speaker 4: She used a phrase drake passage.

00:24:00
Speaker 5: I didn't even say that, so she had to come up with that, like unless she looked it up. That wasn't even one of the things I called it. I forgot that it was called drake passage.

00:24:08
Speaker 2: Sounded like she was having a delay on her phone, which makes me think she was on the cruise ship.

00:24:12
Speaker 3: That's another thing. Doesn't it cost like a lot of money to call in from a crew.

00:24:17
Speaker 5: Now because if you're close to the shore, you can just pick it up. The thing on the show, It used to be it costs a zillion dollars.

00:24:23
Speaker 4: To do it, but now it wouldn't.

00:24:25
Speaker 6: And maybe the most chasr call of all time of just the randomness and hard to believe. I believe it, but you don't believe not I do. But the fact that someone was actually south of South America on a boat when we're talking about that, is one of our more ridiculous calls.

00:24:39
Speaker 5: ESPN is talking about. The Jets just announced they're not going to bring back Aaron Rodgers. The story about this is amazing. So apparently the Jets met with Aaron Rodgers a week ago and said, all right, Aaron for us to consider breaking bringing you back, you got to agree to two things. You have to come to every practice.

00:24:55
Speaker 2: Would seem to be a pretty good requirement.

00:24:57
Speaker 5: And you can't be on the Pat McAfee show. That was what they said. Those are their two requirements. You have to come to every practice and you can't be on the Pat McAfee show. And he just said no, and they were like, well, all right, then we're going in a different direction.

00:25:14
Speaker 4: I feel like those are reasonable requirements. I think I feel like.

00:25:16
Speaker 5: The first one isn't even a requirement, like it is the job, come to every practice, And the fact that that was something that was even had to be said tells me he was awful last year. Like if you're not even coming to every practice, then there's that. And then the McAfee show, like, man, it's an hour a week, Like, just don't do it. You're you come off as a freak show on it anyway, just don't do it.

00:25:41
Speaker 4: So if I'm the Jets and he's stunk, it's not like he was good.

00:25:45
Speaker 5: Like if I'm the Jets, Ryan, I think that's a perfectly reasonable request, and I think they should be glad they got rid of it.

00:25:52
Speaker 2: I think you would want your starting quarterback to come to all the practices to work on game prep for that weekend. I think that would probably be a fair request, just come to practice.

00:26:00
Speaker 5: That seems like I feel like that's the least requirement you could make, and I guess it was too much for him.

00:26:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, but this one's hitting home for me because Titans are considered a destination for him next year and I can't.

00:26:12
Speaker 4: I can't.

00:26:13
Speaker 6: I can't do that, even if it's one year. I can't have Aaron Rodgers as my quarterback.

00:26:17
Speaker 4: You're gonna end up in Nashville. He's gonna be your quarter pick.

00:26:19
Speaker 6: He already has a house there.

00:26:20
Speaker 4: Yes, he'll be like Instill McAfee.

00:26:23
Speaker 5: He'll go on like Ben Shapiro every day every week like you're you're getting him.

00:26:27
Speaker 6: I don't want him, give I'd rather have Will Levis back, But it's the Steelers and Titans are teams that might do it well.

00:26:34
Speaker 4: Why would they want him? Know he was bad? Why does anybody want him?

00:26:38
Speaker 6: And he's what forty?

00:26:39
Speaker 5: He's seventy one years old, like he's I mean, it's a wonderful age. My mother is seventy one. But I don't want my mother playing quarterback for the for the Jets.

00:26:49
Speaker 6: Do you want her on the Pat McAfee show.

00:26:52
Speaker 5: My mom would smack Pat McAfee in the pace, like seriously, Like my mom would.

00:26:57
Speaker 4: Not enjoy just she wouldn't lie the whole vibe of it. That's mean, she wouldn't smack pack.

00:27:02
Speaker 6: Well he talks about Max.

00:27:03
Speaker 5: They'd actually probably like her. Yeah, no, she wouldn't like it. She would that's right. Who's up next?

00:27:08
Speaker 3: Let's go to Jim.

00:27:09
Speaker 4: Jim, go ahead, Jim.

00:27:12
Speaker 7: Yeah, Matte, first time Coyler, who are what's up? I want to I want to van a little bit about the football ticket situation.

00:27:21
Speaker 4: Okay, so you weren't talking about football tickets.

00:27:22
Speaker 5: By the way, before you do it, the amount of messages I've gotten about football tickets, I almost want to give access to the text machine to the UK football, to the sports people, because y'all have no idea how people how mad people are about the football tickets.

00:27:36
Speaker 4: I just want to say that, Like, but go ahead, sir, give your opinion.

00:27:39
Speaker 7: Well I'm mad. First off, I want to say, my mother and daddy had tickets in CommonWell Stadium the first year it opened. We have always had tickets. We've never missed a year. My dad passed away in two thousand and five and from the time Commonwealth Studium I opened until till he that a way, he probably didn't miss a handful of games. It's just what he did. When he passed away. Me and my little brother we started going and we've had a motor home pass probably as long as they've had a motor home lot. So my motor home has been at Commonwealth Stadium in two thousand and five every game but one. Wow, and the game we missed. I gave it. I gave the pass away. I went to the RV club and said, I don't get to come next week, here's my pass. Give it to somebody that said, well, you can sell that. I said, I don't want to say it. I want to give it away. And last year, with eight games with our piss and six tickets, our package cost me five hundred and twenty two dollars a week. This year, if I get my package and I'm ninety percent sure I'm not going to it's going to be over seven hundred and fifty dollars a week.

00:28:55
Speaker 4: Wow. Wow. Playoffs every day.

00:28:58
Speaker 5: Go back to your go back to your your dad, how long has what year.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: Did your family start going to games?

00:29:07
Speaker 7: Well, it was before CommonWell Studium opened.

00:29:09
Speaker 4: So like, give me it, like nineteen, what seventy? What do you think? What do you think?

00:29:15
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, I'm almost sixty four years old and he went when I was a little boy.

00:29:19
Speaker 4: So okay, so we're talking at least fifty fifty sixty.

00:29:22
Speaker 5: Years and you're gonna give it up because and just quickly besides, I mean, that's a very expensive number. But if you were to just articulate why you're going to give it up, what is it?

00:29:34
Speaker 7: Well, I'm gonna give it up. I was basically told yesterday, and I thought, if I'm not mistaken, I thought I first talked to the ticket office when I just called to renew them, and they told me how much it was, and I just kind of it kind of floored me because I had I had what I paid last year, and uh, it's like twelve hundred dollars, twelve hundred and some dollars twelve hundred dollars mower with one last game.

00:29:57
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:29:58
Speaker 7: So then I got on with the club and I think I talked to the head person and he basically told me you know because the motor home thing went up a whole lot and he he basically told me, well, we can do that because we can.

00:30:13
Speaker 4: We can.

00:30:13
Speaker 7: You know, they've got a waiting list for motor home passes and he basically said, we can do that because we can. And I said, well, you know, you guys want the fans to be lord, but you're not lord of us. And he'swurd our motor home people are most little fans, and I said, well, I disagree with that because I'm in the motor home lot every weekend and the guy that parked next to me last year was at one game and the rest of the time he sold his pass.

00:30:37
Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate and mcnun.

00:30:40
Speaker 5: I appreciate you articulating the the the your thoughts and the issue, and appreciate your call, sir. What he just said. I'm hearing a version of multiple times every day. And you know, you lose there's a soul of fan bases, and if you lose that and it becomes something else, you know you'll miss it. And with basketball again, there's twenty four thousand seats. You have to sell almost three times that many for football, and you just can't take people for granted, and I don't know that the head of the K fund said we can, but we can do it because we can. But if they did, that's a horrible answer. You know, we can raise it because we can is a horrible answer, especially to a person like that who's been had it family going ryan for sixty years.

00:31:37
Speaker 2: And it seems like the RV and the motor home people are the ones that are really the most upset about it increasing their prices that much. For people that have been coming for years and years and years and years and showing their support for the team.

00:31:50
Speaker 6: We've gotten a ton of messages about people upset, but we've now had two callers, ones that I was put on hold and no one ever picked up on the other end.

00:31:56
Speaker 4: They just left me.

00:31:57
Speaker 6: And now this guy's, you know, bringing up a serious concern someone that's had been a season ticket older for a long time, and you're saying, not too bad, we'll go to the next in line. It sounds like the pr is just as bad as the price increase.

00:32:08
Speaker 5: One more thing, I want to bring up an issue. So the state of Alabama is trying to pass a law right now, and my guess it may pass that would exempt nil earnings.

00:32:20
Speaker 4: By players from taxes.

00:32:23
Speaker 5: Basically, any money wrecked gotten by players for taxes would be exempt from front or excuse me, any money gotten for nil would be exempt from state tax. I have strong thoughts about this, all right. I'm more pro nil money than anybody. I've been saying kids should be paid for fifteen years, and I think they should be paid. But if the state of Kentucky were to do that, I will say, it's a shame.

00:32:52
Speaker 4: All right.

00:32:52
Speaker 5: I want these kids to make money, and I will grant you that a state having a tax on it might make a minor different for a kid trying to decide between like Florida that doesn't have a state tax or whatever. But I don't care. There's a point to this, and I refuse. As much as I want kids to make money, and I do, I refuse to say a system where a person that goes and works construction or in a restaurant or whatever, or a gas station, that they should be taxed and a kid that plays football or basketball should know it's ridiculous. States can decide how to tax people. Everybody's got a different system. Some states have a high at tax, some states don't let the state decide. But the idea of exempting only college athletes is a terrible way to run a society. And I want to win as much as anybody. But you don't go say, hey all of you, Hey, school teachers, nurses, we're taxing you. But hey, basketball player, who's going to be here one year and then go move somewhere else, We're not going to take you. I just don't buy. I just don't believe in that. And if it hurts our team a little bit, well then it hurts our team a little bit, you know what I mean.

00:34:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will Kentucky make a move on this.

00:34:09
Speaker 5: I don't know, we'll see if Alabama and Georgia do it. But if they do, I think it's wrong. I mean, they're gonna do a lot of stuff in Frankfrit I think is wrong. So they may not care, but I'm just saying, like, I just think that would be it's a terrible precedent about what our priorities are.

00:34:25
Speaker 4: Uh in the state.

00:34:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's outrageous. And these kids they need to learn to pay their taxes on there. And yeah, I mean it's the real world now you're getting to check.

00:34:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, not all that.

00:34:35
Speaker 6: Goes to you. I can't even believe they consider this. I know it's Alabama and you want the competitive advantage. At some point you gotta draw a line. You do have to draw a line. At some point you do have to, like, you gotta stand for something. And as much as I want to win in sports, you know, let's let's cut schools so we can give more money to act, I'm just I'm as much as I love sports, I'm not going there.

00:35:00
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00:35:07
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00:35:09
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00:35:10
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00:35:11
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00:35:12
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00:35:17
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Speaker 5: That's it sweet deal, but through tomorrow through Valentine's Day bye to get one free code is sweet deal CORNBREADTHEMP dot Com. We'll take a break. Ryan may or may not be here after that line. This is Kentucky Sports Radio for something I off. Welcome back to Esports Radio. A nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four One person rates. Matt you are a steaking liberal. We shouldn't have a state income tax. It's fine, then, like get the legislature to pass that. I mean, some states can do it, other states can't. I don't think we can do it because we don't have enough tourism. But if they can do it and fund the schools and all that, I'm for it. I listen, you know, I'll just say this for me personally, Matthew Harper Jones, Republican tax policies help.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: Me, all right.

00:36:38
Speaker 5: The question is what's best for everybody else? Like for me, every cut and tax helps me. But the question is for everybody else. I just think whatever system you have, you can't then just say, but these college athletes don't have to do it. It should They should be the same dru as everybody else. That's at least my opinion.

00:36:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, whatever the system is, just make the system. Why does it? Why does someone have to be asked to give their post tax dollars to a college kill a college kid who doesn't have to pay tax.

00:37:05
Speaker 5: Why should the person that, yeah, that goes to UK and works at ks bar, Why should they have to pay taxes?

00:37:13
Speaker 4: But the kid that plays basketball does not. I just don't believe.

00:37:16
Speaker 2: That doesn't seem to be a very fair system.

00:37:18
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:37:20
Speaker 5: The woman on the ship, she wrote me and said I am here, and she resented the person who said they didn't. And then a different person on the text machine found Shannon the ship she is on and the itinerary, and it followed exactly what she said.

00:37:36
Speaker 3: I have a caller that's saying the same thing, so it may be let's put them on.

00:37:39
Speaker 4: Let's put them on. Joe, Joe, WHAT'SI Joe? Are you the one that found the itinerary? I did?

00:37:46
Speaker 2: I did?

00:37:47
Speaker 11: I mean everything's available on line and vessel finder. You can find practically a live picture of that boat.

00:37:53
Speaker 7: It curves as the horn.

00:37:55
Speaker 11: It's you know, called Melibu Peach or something. I don't have all her data right now. So anyone who doesn't believe this woman, they gotta I don't know, find God or something.

00:38:04
Speaker 7: They gotta go to church or.

00:38:08
Speaker 4: All right, well there you go.

00:38:12
Speaker 7: No, it's called one Second, it's called.

00:38:14
Speaker 11: Pacific World, and it's just as she said left Valparaiso. I thought she was drunk. I thought she was called about Indiana.

00:38:21
Speaker 4: I guess Valparaiso, Indiana, Yes.

00:38:26
Speaker 11: And yeah, and then it arrives the eighteenth.

00:38:27
Speaker 7: You guys, have a good day, go.

00:38:29
Speaker 4: Cat, Thank you? How about that went ahead and looked at up.

00:38:31
Speaker 2: I didn't doubt her story, and now I have facts.

00:38:34
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question.

00:38:35
Speaker 5: This is uh becoming an issue because you know, the the Elon he's now in charge of apparently the whole world, and he's in charge of the FAA or he's like in there and he's saying he doesn't think Americans should have access to the private flights to like private planes. You know how we you can look up and see when private planes are flying in and out? Do you think Americans should have access? You don't necessarily know who owns them, but when planes are coming in and out?

00:39:04
Speaker 4: Do you think they should have access to that?

00:39:08
Speaker 2: I can kind of be swayed to say, no, you know, what is it your business where Brad Pitt's flying around?

00:39:16
Speaker 3: It doesn't sound very private to me if everybody can find it? Well, no, the plane is I know, I know it means, but I'm just saying I.

00:39:25
Speaker 5: Think everybody's gonna one day regret. You know, on paper, I can see why people think that. But then what about when something happens. Don't you think people should have access to when there is a crash and being able to know what happens. And don't you think you should have access to how much our airports are being used? And because you know when people land a plane there are taxes, shouldn't you have access to how much people?

00:39:50
Speaker 4: You know?

00:39:52
Speaker 5: I feel like, look, you can go look up right now everybody who owns a car in Kentucky. Why shouldn't you be able to look up everybody that owns a plane. Why do we only exempt rich people and not the everyday citizen. You can go look up everybody that owns a house. Why should a plane be different? Why should we make different rules just because somebody has wealth?

00:40:15
Speaker 4: I'm for it.

00:40:16
Speaker 6: I've even used the plane tracker quite often.

00:40:18
Speaker 4: How do you think we're gonna know when Scott Drew flies here?

00:40:20
Speaker 6: Exactly? I've never said this, but back when I was covered recruiting, I found out Cala Perry's tail number and I learned who he was visiting. Because of flight tracker, I would trace, well, why is he in this random city in Kansas? Oh, that player is twenty minutes away.

00:40:34
Speaker 4: I mean, you're a.

00:40:35
Speaker 5: Realtor, don't you want to have access to the houses and who buys what.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: I can be swayed into having access to who owns them, but I don't know. We have to need to know where they're flying to and front of you.

00:40:45
Speaker 3: We don't have a people's cars. I mean, it's a little bit different about who owns a plane and who where that plane's going.

00:40:51
Speaker 5: True, But you also don't get it, like the government doesn't get attacks based on where you drive whereas and when you drive somewhere. We're not using like you know, people who run airports, like the what do you call it where you'd say you believe you go a yeah, those are public officials, right, and you're using public airports. It's not the same when you drive from your house to my house.

00:41:18
Speaker 2: I get it, you know, I'm just I don't think I need to know.

00:41:24
Speaker 5: The hard thing about you is you just don't really want to ever take a position on anything.

00:41:29
Speaker 2: I'm Switzerland, but you can't.

00:41:31
Speaker 4: You want to run for mayor.

00:41:33
Speaker 2: Well, when I run for mayor, that'll be my position.

00:41:35
Speaker 5: That's when you're gonna decide what your positions are. What if this comes up in your your debate, some of these things are gonna come up.

00:41:42
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I tell them. I've got great people working with me that don't figure I it's the best answers. But you don't have any people I'll have. I'll have all kinds of great people. Then people you're gonna be on my cabinet.

00:41:54
Speaker 4: I need someone who believes something. I believe.

00:41:58
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00:42:34
Speaker 2: We did one at the firehouse here election in not long ago, so now were gonna do one with the police.

00:42:37
Speaker 4: How we get to be with the police tomorrow. So that should be exciting, very excited.

00:42:41
Speaker 6: Never been in a police department ever, I don't know.

00:42:44
Speaker 5: May yeah, you've never been on the good side of a police department. Maybe you've been on the other side a few times. The women tonight play at seven, got right here, bought a ticket.

00:42:53
Speaker 4: Why am I sitting here?

00:42:55
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