2024-12-19- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday, December the nineteenth. I'm Matt Jones, six days before Christmas here at the Chs Bar and Grille where it's much better weather than it was yesterday. I got Ryan Livin, Drew Franklin, Shannon is back in Louisville and we are here. A lot of folks out this morning. Uh probably you know the Christmas time is coming and nice to see everybody. You can give us out with the Clark's Pumping Shop phone line eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. Avis An auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this edition sponsored by t J. Smith Lovas called Tj'll Make Them Pay. Uh, let's talk just a second, Ryan about the schedule over the next couple of weeks, because you know it's a weird schedule you got. We're here today, We're gonna be here tomorrow. Normally there are remotes on Fridays, but this one we're off. So we will be here at Kosbar. Then next week we'll do the show Monday and Tuesday, excuse me, Monday from here. Tuesday and Wednesday or Christmas even Christmas Day, we'll take that off. Then we'll do Thursday and Friday.

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Speaker 4: Then the day were in Glasgow?

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Speaker 2: Are we in Glasgow next Friday?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You didn't tell me that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the Don Franklin Show in Glasgow.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to Glasgow next Friday. I didn't rize that all right, Then you got Saturday Sunday. Then we're there Monday and then Tuesday our KSR show, the thirty first will also be the pregame show because Kentucky, he's brown at two o'clock. That afternoon.

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be exciting morning before Brown and all the things leading up to it. I'm also just learning about Glasgow.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know we were going to Glasgow, so let's post Christmas Glasgow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, rescheduled it? As are you in charge of this?

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Speaker 2: How do you know that?

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Speaker 4: And I just saw the memo that was sent to all of us.

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Speaker 2: Yes, speaking of Scoop limit, you broke Andrew Carr's sister's commitment to UK volleyball. I guess she had to put it out because you screwed that up. Is there anybody else's dream you'd like to end today? She probably had a ceremony plan, had to cancel that and theody was like, oh well, Ryan Lemon put it out. I guess we need to say it.

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Speaker 4: I did mention that her teammate maybe following her.

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Speaker 2: Here here we go. Does that person have a name?

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Speaker 7: I think coach Skinner said it was Evelyn. I'm not for sure about that, but it's Evellin first.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't sound like a that sounds like a grandmother Evelyn. I have to research that, all right, So I do want to make a memo to the coaches at UK. Don't say anything to Ryan that you don't want him to say, like, don't. I mean we learned that Will Wolford yesterday had been contacted by you and se well, Will Wolford did too. I mean they went through Will to get to Eric. Yeah, they to Eric, but Eric Wolford and now we've we've found out the volleyball commitments. And I'm not sure Drew they wanted any of those things.

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Speaker 6: Said, well, I don't think they'll mind Evelyn getting out because in front of me and there's not an Evely.

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Speaker 2: But it does sound like there's more in that brain. Okay, actually pull up producer Roster. Do you think you would recognize the first name if it said since you thought it was Evelyn.

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Speaker 7: I thought the name that popped in my head was Evelyn Hudson. But I don't know if that was anywhere.

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Speaker 6: I gotta give him credit. There is one very close to that. There is an Eva Hudson.

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Speaker 4: I think that's it.

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Speaker 2: I think so you're going, so you're scooping Eva Hudson to u K.

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Speaker 7: She is like a superstar volleyball player, you think, yep, I'm going with Shannon.

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Speaker 2: Do we think Eva Hudson is coming to UK? Is Shannon. Here are we on the air?

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Speaker 4: What's up?

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to answer calls?

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so do you already asking what I was asking? If you think Ryan's right that Eva Hudson is coming.

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Speaker 3: He's one for one in his volleyball scoop, So why would I have any reason to doubt him?

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Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough? All right, So let's talk about a couple of things. First of all, Kentucky got a wide receiver commitment JJ Hester Hester Uh started at Missouri. Was that Oklahoma? Uh? He's six ' four. He's clearly brought in to be the Dane Key replacement.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: As part of that, Ryan Lemon will become his godfather when he gets on campus. Are I don't know much? Well, I mean I'm going to say this about all these guys, I don't know much about him. Should we be excited? That's not a yes.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's respectfully to him in the entire operation adding a wide receiver to Kentucky's offense. I mean, you know, it's not exactly we're gonna throw. We'll we'll figure that out on the road. But him specifically, he's just oklahoma second leading receiver. Yeah, big guy, kind of a throw it up to him. Guy in the end zone mentioned kind of plays a little leg dame, but he's his He averaged like twenty two yards of catch, so he's a deep threat.

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Speaker 8: And again.

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Speaker 2: He has the longest touchdown pass in Oklahoma, like in their home field history.

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Speaker 4: Really Yeah, didn't have.

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Speaker 6: A ton of receptions, but three hundred something yards second on the team. He and Macklin were on the same roster at Missouri, and bush Hampden was also on the staff there, so there's a bush Hampden clearly, there's some familiarity there.

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Speaker 2: But so here's my question for you. This, This is why I bring this up because I'm seeing something that dismays me a little bit, Ryan, and I want to know if you agree with the dismay. Alright, So let's just assume for sake of argument. Well, I'm not gonna say, I mean this is true. Mark Stoops is going to be the coach here next year. Does anybody disagree with it? Statement? Do not know? Anybody disagree? No, all right, And that's happening whether any of our fans like it or not. Correct, correct, all right. So because of that, there is it is my view that there comes a point where I think I said this about cal when it first looked like he was going to come back, I was like, well, if he's gonna come back now, we might as well hope it works, right. I don't like that I see when these transfers commit, because I actually think you can make a strong argument that they've done really well so far in the portal of their commitments, that the you know, you got the linebacker from Marshall, You've gotten a couple of really good offensive linemen. I think another one. Did one commit yesterday as well? They added one yesterday. So they have a guy from Bowling Green, I think, a guy from Arkansas. The kid from New Mexico is like nine hundred pounds, this big guy.

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Speaker 7: I think they're getting a kid from Western Kentucky soon too. He's the center.

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Speaker 2: Look at this guy, I mean, how do you know that? What else do you know? Like? Why don't you just.

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Speaker 4: Like did I just make that up? Or I think there's a center from Western Kentucky?

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Speaker 2: I mean maybe, but are you like you're just saying things? Is that true? You can't just say a position in a school and say they're coming.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna say it's true. A center from Western Kentucky is and what's his name?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So Evelyn from Western Kentucky is coming. Okay, so let's just say, since you've been right on these, let's say we have a center from West I know they're getting four new offensive linemen. By by the way, Dylan Ray, who played some last year, is entering the portal. But my point is when all of these people commit I see the same responses in the comments to the announcement, which is who cares we anyway? Basically, and I wish we would stop that. I mean, I know I'm not going to be able to stop make it. To make that stop, people are gonna say what they say. But at some point I don't really think that's a good welcome to these kids to the university. I mean, the reality is, how many of you ever have any clue what the offensive lineman we got from New Mexico yesterday, whether or not he's good, no idea, nobody does none of us have any idea. No do we have any idea if the offensive lineman from Bowling Green is good? No no idea. The wide receiver from Oklahoma, how many of you could have picked him? Out of a lineup before nobody the defensive lineman from USC Nope, the linebacker from Marshall. Maybe if you live in Ashland you ran into him sometime. But I really don't feel like it's fair to these kids that they come. They're presumably a money and our first reaction is at least away, I wish we look Mark's coming, so we need to have the best team we can. Am I wrong in sort of being too Pollyanna and saying can we not just at least feign excitement for these guys? Or do people just want to be Do they just want to spend every day for the next eight months want complaining?

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think we all knew this was coming when the season ended. We've even said there's nothing he can do between now and next year.

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Speaker 2: But isn't there a time to stop it, at least as it pertains to other players? I mean, if you want to criticize Stoops, he makes nine million dollars, go for it. But is it fair to Wallace Umanda when he commits that his entire comments section is we stink.

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Speaker 6: I agree with you on that, in person by person we should be welcoming you. Certainly shouldn't be replying to their commitment graphics or news stories about them where they're seeing it. They're just kids getting here for the first time. They had nothing to do with the culture and the problems. So if you're on there complaining where they can see it directly to them, that's outrageous. But I get if you're not excited because we added a wide receiver. I don't use wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying anybody needs to be excited, but there's a difference between being excited and just being negative and just being like, we are awful. I mean, it is what it is. At this point. You can sit there and say we should have gotten rid of stoops, and you you have a right to that opinion, but like that's not happening now, So what good does it do to be just like just furious all year?

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Speaker 7: I love this argument, because you're right, we should be celebrating these players that are coming in. But is it we like you know, we're we're we're butt hurt because of this last couple of years. Well that couldn't think of a better word.

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Speaker 2: They were there, there's they're thesauruses, But go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Uh, we're butt hurt from the last two years, and we know the season is gonna be even tougher next the schedule, even though we've got these great players coming in. It's a good discussion to have because we what's your opinion. I think we're gonna have a really good team. I really do. I don't know if it's gonna translate into wins because of the schedule, but I think they're gonna have a really good team.

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Speaker 4: You do, Yeah, really, I do?

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Speaker 7: Why because whether we get this kid who's quo incarnate word, I'm all in on Cockcutter Bowlie.

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Speaker 4: I think he could be a.

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Speaker 2: Stret at all. Concerned about the Louisville game and that it didn't seem well, he got.

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Speaker 7: Hurt, you know, he didn't get to get to play the whole game. I think he's gonna be a star, and I hope that well.

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Speaker 2: I'm not ready to say we're gonna be good. I have no idea, to be honest with you. Somebody put the projected starting lineup on offense last night on KS board and I looked at it and I was like, who are these people? I mean, just think about the projected starting lineup if the season started tomorrow. There would be three names, maybe no two names that you all know in the projected starting lineup, Jamrion, Willcox and Macklin. That's it. You wouldn't know any of the offensive and Willie Rodrigans excuse me, Willie Rodriguez. You wouldn't know any of the offensive linemen. You're not gonna know the quarterback. You're probably not gonna know the backup running back. You're not gonna know any of the receivers. Maybe hardly Gilmore if he stays. But there is, it's gonna be completely new. But I just I don't know. I felt bad. I looked at one of those kids, I think it was Wallace, the kid from New Mexico, and I'm like, this can't be a welcome to Kentucky. The other thing is, I don't know if you saw the video of the Kansas State basketball player, have you seen that? Kansas State has probably been the biggest disappointment in college basketball. They spent a ton of money on nil. They brought these kids in and they stink right now. They've lost like six games already or five games. And one of the kids they brought in that was the biggest is a kid from Illinois Coleman Hawkins. I think we looked at him at one point. He ends up going to Kansas State. He did a postgame interview after their loss the other night and was like this stinks. He goes, I came here, and he was like, all anybody ever writes me is break your leg. You're terrible. Why did you come here? And he goes, I thought these were supposed to be our fans, and I thought, I kind of feel bad about that for that guy.

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Speaker 6: I saw Jerome Tank sit up for him and said, there's been unfair criticism this year because our nil is so big. I didn't see the calm and video, but I guess that's what he was.

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Speaker 2: But part of that is when you start paying people, people are gonna complain like that. And Kansas State, Kansas State paid a lot. They may have paid as much as anybody, and they've been bad. But I just I don't know. Maybe I'm just as softie, but I just feel bad when these new kids commit here and so you're never gonna be able to change the negative people. But I hope we have fans now that the next time you see a guy commit, say something positive. I mean, you know, what I mean, like, Okay, Wallace, Umanda, none of us know you, but go get them. Well, yeah, you know, I mean, what else? What else is it gonna be?

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Speaker 7: You're right, you know these new kids you mentioned, the young guys with Cutter and will Cox and Patterson and Willie Rodriguez. You got mister football mon Tavin Quisenberry coming in from Boyle County, who Vince has already said is like a miniature Wandelle Robinson.

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Speaker 4: You know, he thinks he could be that kind of guy.

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Speaker 7: So you know, there are some reasons, I think, to get excited if we can just get over what has happened in the past.

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Speaker 2: Well, the rint is these dudes transferring in on the portal. That's who's playing next year. I mean, they're not bringing them in here to sit the bitch. They're bringing them in here because they think they can play. So we might as well at least not slam the door on their face as there as they're coming in. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Texamachine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four basketball Kentucky plays Ohio State and Madison Square Garden. I want you to think about what are the best games Kentucky's played in New York over the years. What are your big Madison Square Garden games. We'll take a break very back here at the ksbar. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, I have some verification of Ryan's Western Kentucky scoop, Shannon, you want to hear to go? Uh. This is from a girl, a woman on the text machine, who says, Matt, I was running around with my friends at Santa Con in Cincinnati, and we found some friends in Covington, and there were a group of college girls in Santa outfits who were telling me that they have a friend who's a center at Western who's coming to play at Canada. Oh, Santa Con. Santa Con, Scooper reporting, now scare Santa kN college student report. That's were you there? Is that? Why you?

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Speaker 7: That's where you got your thing? Well, we do know you always want to trust the girl, the girlfriend. She is usually right about these sort of things. Well, this may be the sinner's girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: They say, Shannon at Santa Con. So I don't know. I've been into New York. I've been in New York when Santa Con happens, absolute cluster. It's the worst. It's the worst.

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Speaker 3: It was during the Kentucky Seaton Hall game.

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it was everywhere, and then now they do it. They might have always done it, but they do it in Cincinnati, and it's just it's absolutely, absolutely wild. I watched a lot of college basketball last night, and I got it was really good. Did you see any of it?

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Speaker 4: Well, I saw the highlights. Oklahoma, let's be really good.

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma is stillundefeated, one of only a handful of teams still undefeated.

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Speaker 4: Talk about them in the SEC.

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Speaker 2: They got a kid named Jeremiah Fears who's a freshman, and he will strike fear in our heart. He hit some big shots. They came back and beat Michigan, then Yukon. Danny Hurley, I mean, maybe it's he says it's good for college basketball, that he's the jerk. Maybe it is, but he was out of control last night. Xavier should have beaten Yukon at home. But here's a crazy story. Since two thousand and ten, you're never gonna believe this stat. You know how many conference openers Yukon is one Since twenty ten, first game of their conference season, they've only won five, which is the exact same amount of national championships they won. Well, that's crazy. Is that not crazy?

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Speaker 4: It's crazy?

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Speaker 2: And they won last night. But then the game that intrigued me the most is I turn on the TV in Alabama or excuse me, Arkansas or no Alabama. Alabama is playing at at North Dakota in the North Dakota home gym, and I'm sitting.

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Speaker 4: There going why why?

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Speaker 2: And then I read that when Grant Nelson committed to Alabama, he asked natoates, I'll commit here and play in the transfer portal if you promise me we'll play one game in my home state. Natos says yes, So they schedule a road game at North Dakota. North Dakota's four and eight. They play in a little cracker box gym. Game was last night. First half, Alabam goes down ten. Really North Dakota's four and eight. Alabama goes down ten with just a few minutes to go. It's a two point game. And I was sitting there thinking, if they lose this game, Grant Nelson will have to walk back to Alabama. If they flew all the way to North Dakota played in this tiny gym, surely cost their program money and then they lose. They ended up hanging on to win. Nelson had like twenty three points. I think it's very cool they did that. I kind of would like it if we did that once every couple of years, just played in a tiny gym somewhere. It's a cool atmosphere, but you gotta win that game if you make your team go all the way to North Dakota.

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Speaker 6: I had a few of those games. Remember we played at Portland for Terrence Jones.

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Speaker 2: Yep, but we played in like the NBA gym. I don't think when is the last time, not in like the end we played in the NIT we played at Creighton. When's the last time at Kentucky we've played in a little gym in a regular season game on the r That's a great question. When is that? Because like I'm just thinking over the years, North Carolina has played at College of Charleston a couple of times.

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Speaker 4: And played it, went to Evansville, played the University of Evansville.

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Speaker 2: North Carolina did huh because.

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Speaker 4: Tyler Zeller or Cody Zeller one of the Zelers.

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Speaker 2: So when is the last time Kentucky has ever played a game like that. I have to tell you, I can't remember Kentucky ever playing a game like that. You know, obviously we played at Robert Moore or excuse me, we played, yeah, at Robert Morris, but that was an n I game, and that we didn't we didn't choose that.

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Speaker 6: Even in games that were kind of homecoming games like the Penn game last year, they played in the.

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Speaker 2: They played in the big arena.

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Speaker 6: I can't think of going to just the local, smallest Corey Price.

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Speaker 2: This is for you. When's the last time we played a game like that? Because I don't remember us ever doing it. I'm sure we did at some point, long, long time ago.

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Speaker 6: But what I found interesting about Alabama is they went back to North Dakota for Grant Nelson, but he played at North Dakota State, so they didn't even play his own school.

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Speaker 2: I guess they still got him home, that would be true, but they went to the school.

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Speaker 6: That he didn't go to, and they went to their rival. Yeah, that's kind of and he just wanted to beat them one more time. He's like, you know what, I want.

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Speaker 2: To be all right, So let's talk about another Kentucky History thing, Madison Square Guard play, Madison Square Garden play Saturday against Ohio State. I'm starting to get fomo. I'm staying here because my friends are all doing their Christmas thing where I'm gonna watch the game here at the bar. I've only done that a handful of times for basketball, but I'm gonna do it Saturday. But I do like those games in Madison Square Garden, which got me to think, all right, what are our the best memories in Madison Square Guard. The ones that come to my head. The biggest one John Wall against Yukon right, that was the That was the Dick Ytel going, oh like he just beating people off the dribble. I got punched at that game. That's why you got punched at that game. I remember that was when I were fighting everyone and well that was when I was like, why did I hire this guy? He's getting in fights at games? Tyrese Maxie. That was the game where we did the game Maxie goes off. That night, I get pulled off the radio couse of Mitch McConnell and at two thirty am give my goodbye speech. But it was still a great game.

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Speaker 4: It's Michigan State.

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Speaker 2: That's against Michigan State. That's one of the most memorable nights in my life. Maxie goes off, but sheer beats Bevan for governor. And I was watching the returns from the Madison Square Garden press row celebrate because I didn't like Bevin. Get home find out I'd lost my gig.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's a that's a heck of a knight. That's a heck of a knight.

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Speaker 2: Other ones, we beat Kansas the Anthony Davis year by like a thousand in Madison Square Garden that.

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Speaker 6: Year Davis versus Robinson one verse two there.

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Speaker 2: That was in Madison Square Garden. Think of you have others? We Seaton Hall hit that, we hit a half court shot Kelton Johnson to send it to overtime, then lost in overtime to Seaton Hall. That was in the garden.

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Speaker 6: I think I've been at every Garden game in the last fifteen years, and unfortunately, I think we've lost three out of four.

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Speaker 2: So what are the other ones? You remember? Oh?

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Speaker 4: I remember they beat was it Monmouth?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? They killed and we went to Monmouth because they switched the hockey game during the I was doing the postgame show where they were flipping the arena from basketball to a hockey game.

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Speaker 6: That night early in the Calier, He's winning them all. Killed Kansas there, Uh, the Monmouth game. Beat Michigan State another time, but then we got beat by UCLA and the CBS sports.

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Speaker 2: Ah, that's right.

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Speaker 6: We stayed the next day and went to the Bronx to see recruit and Cow was at the game and he just stared at the floor, didn't watch.

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Speaker 2: The Is there you need like from back in the day. Did they used to play their pre cow very much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they played.

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Speaker 7: We played in the nineties and because I think there was a point where they were undefeated in the garden like eleven and oh, twelve and oh and then they got beat by somebody in the late nineties because color was there. I can't remember what it was, but there was a it was a big deal. The first loss, was it Arizona?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well so anyway, we we have a lot of guard members. We gotta win Saturday. Though Ohio State's not good, we need to beat them. Hopefully we will. We'll take a break, take a calls very back. It's KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Walk come back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Cats in New York this weekend A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. So the best we can find is that in nineteen eighty five Kentucky played at Shamanad and at Hawaii, not in the Maui Invitational, but in an actual game. They played a road game at Shamanad.

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Speaker 4: This is that's that's the arena in Ohio University.

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Speaker 2: So you're telling me it says nineteen ninety seven we played at Ohio in Athens, Ohio.

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Speaker 4: And then in their Commications Center.

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Speaker 2: But that says it holds thirteen thousand. We were in that arena. That arena didn't hurt hold thirteen thousand people.

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Speaker 6: It was a pretty big place, so we got you got assume it was a sellout with Kentucky. So maybe it's captain right at thirteen. All right, that's pretty big bold. So so you're saying at Ohio.

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Speaker 7: At Ohio, I don't remember that game at all. Tubby was a coach in ninety seven, and I don't remember the ninety seven ninety eight season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, had fifteen. I got the box score. Nazi had fifteen. People are saying other ones, but they're all games where we played a team, but we were in the bigger court in the game, Like we played Right State in Dayton, but we played him in the big arena. We didn't play them in their little home.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So so yeah, So what did we get a commitment from a running back? Did that happen?

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Speaker 6: We lost a running back? I don't know if we've added a running back.

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Speaker 2: See if we got a commitment from a running back from Nebraska. We took a big loss to Missouri yesterday. See if we got a commitment from a running back from Nebraska. Don't be nagative and just tell me about the loss.

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Speaker 6: I think, here we go, he's visiting as he committed.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he's visited. What's his name, Doubtell Dowdell. Yeah, all right, we'll look at that. Dante Daldell.

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Speaker 7: Do you think people are down on Hudder or optimistic about Cutter?

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Speaker 2: Because you know, I think people are down on stoops and they're putting it on every single player on the team, which I don't think is fair. I think people people are very down on Stoops. I think Stoops has done himself no favors. From a PR perspective. Stoops should have already been on this show. Now. I know he had to have like ankle surgery or something that's probably been part of it. But I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you. I told him that we were on the funk when I had a long conversation with him on my way to Seattle. So I guess that was what now, two weeks ago? Yeah, when did we go to Seattle? It feels like, matter of fact, it was two weeks two weeks ago today. And I said, man, you got it. You need to come on. You need to let me ask you hard questions and you need to And he hasn't done it yet, and he said he will. I believe him. But like they they they haven't handled PR well. This the UK football and I'm not saying anything today. I didn't say directly to them, so I don't feel like I'm speaking out of turn. I said this to Mark Stoops, I've said this to the UK PR people. I've said this to Evins. They have handled pr poorly since the season. They need to be out giving people confidence, and they're not saying a word. And that's a mistake. It's a mistake. I used to say this during col If you say nothing, silence will be filled by other voices right side. You're never gonna get people to not talk. So the question is do you want to fill it with your voice or do you want to fill it with somebody else's. Let me tell you who's really good at this, Donald Trump. Donald Trump knows that like everyone's gonna want to talk about the president, so he just does all the talking and even if it's rambling, he still gets to be the one to control the message. Joe Biden did the opposite. He didn't say anything, and then the void is filled with other people's voices who are defining you as you sit silently. The other voices tell everybody what to think. The UK football staff has been silent since the Louisville game, except when Vince was on here. And I love Vince, but I told him yesterday that wasn't his finest work in the world or during those ten minutes. They need to be out winning people over. They're not doing that, and so the cutters of the world are paying the price for it because people are mad at the coaches, and thus they're taking it out on the players. And I don't think that's fair, but it's a natural reaction.

00:27:33
Speaker 6: Not only are they not trying to get out in front of anything. I mean, didn't he skip the last radio show?

00:27:39
Speaker 2: Radio show? He hasn't come on here, He hasn't done a year in press conference, he hasn't done that. They were like on the recruiting you know, the signing day thing. He did it for like five minutes, Like, but again, who does that remind you of what happened at the end of the cal era. He skipped all his press conce and says he stopped going on shows, and then he wondered why people got upset. You have to be out front making your message. If you don't define yourself, somebody else Ryan is gonna do it.

00:28:11
Speaker 7: Yeah, cause you've got a little positive momentum right now with these guys you're bringing in the portal.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: You get your quarterback this week. He had two quarterbacks on campus this week.

00:28:19
Speaker 7: If you get one of those two guys, I think it is time to get out in front of it and kind of you know, push that positive momentum forward.

00:28:25
Speaker 2: So, look, is he gonna be able to win all people over? No, he probably won't be able to win most people over. But there's a lot of people here that may be like tired of stoops but would at least like to feel good going into the season. He's gonna have to be the one that does that. Who's up first, Shin, let's go to Doug. Doug, go ahead, Doug.

00:28:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, I'm I'm gonna purpose this by saying that I am a huge mark. Yes, but that right now and michellin torn football is just like it was for the last couple of years with Cal. It's hard for me to get excited about and watch who's coming in because I know next year is probably gonna be worse than it was this year because the SEC is so tough and our schedule is terrible, and I don't it's just hard for me to get excited about what's going on in football.

00:29:22
Speaker 2: I totally get that, appreciate the call. I totally get why people would have a hard time being excited. I have a hard time being excited. Do I look at that schedule and think Kentucky's gonna go eight and four. No, do I want to make another video like the one I did that went viral where I said they might go to the playoff. No, and I ain't gonna do it again. But you know what's the other choice? Just sit here and go gloom, despair and agony on me, deep dark depression is all I can see. I mean, at some point you just you gotta at least go well. I mean, this kid could be good. This is the situation relation Stoops is in.

00:30:01
Speaker 6: Until he wins a game, a home game, people are just not gonna be fired up. But such a letdown. Last year you won the transport portal. Last year, all the story is written about you going to the season where how Kentucky navigated the portal not many loss has added big pieces, and then you don't win at home. I just don't think there's anything he can do until he wins the four.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: I disagree with you on there's nothing he can do. He is he gonna win everybody over, No, But there are things he can do. He can go out. He has to make his case for it. I mean, if you don't believe there's anything he could do, then he should say nothing. But I disagree with that, I think you he can make it better than it is.

00:30:41
Speaker 6: He can make it a little better but getting people fired up.

00:30:44
Speaker 2: But he's gotta try. He's gotta try.

00:30:47
Speaker 4: He has to try.

00:30:48
Speaker 2: If he doesn't try, then he should have just left. He has to try, because if you don't, I mean, just look at what all these other programs are doing. Mike Gundhy stunk it up in Oklahoma State. He's doing stuff to try. The worst is if you do nothing. Because I can tell you this, if he does nothing, Ryan, we know what the reaction will be going into the season.

00:31:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, And like I said, there are a lot of fans who are really down on the program right now for what's happened in the last ye years. If they didn't beat Louisville two seasons to go at the end of the year, we'd have two bad seasons in a roll.

00:31:20
Speaker 4: The per if they.

00:31:20
Speaker 2: Didn't beat Louisville two seasons ago, he wouldn't be the coaching.

00:31:23
Speaker 4: I think there may be some truth to that.

00:31:26
Speaker 2: Because I think if he had gone back to back years without making a bawl yep, that would have been a different situation. Who's up next? Go to Otis, Otis Go ahead otis.

00:31:38
Speaker 5: Morn and gentlemen, happy holidays to you all. Lord wasn't great to help, But I want to say this all the stoop bashing, Yeah last year and go perfect for it. And you know we had higher expectation. Yeah, they killed the transfer of porter and they came up short. But I'm a stup loyal, I'm ryan with Stoup. He gonna get this thing right. Yeah, last year didn't go according to plan. But you know what, sometimes Lord gave you some things that you need to see. And he opened his eyes and told him that he maybe got too high on the horse and lost his way and got away from what made Kentucky Grayton. That was that big boo wall. And you know they went out and got a skilled players. But then don't translate if you're not winning in the trenches. So that front that deepen the line of the front line are the paaramount. So I believe these guys are gonna get it together. I believe last year was a gift of gifting the curse of Soups. It's gonna work. It's gonna work out well for him. He's refocused. He rein a jazz. You got to ride with him. Stay loyal, stay down for the calls. Don't drop y'all head, keep your head up, Thank you.

00:32:29
Speaker 2: Thank you. There you go. That dude talks faster than anyone on the planet.

00:32:34
Speaker 4: He definitely gets a lot in and a short amount.

00:32:37
Speaker 2: He does sort of understand, though, Shannon, that I will stop you at some point, and he doesn't take a breath for a minute.

00:32:43
Speaker 3: In ks R history that you've never cut off.

00:32:46
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't cut him off. How are you gonna cut him off? What are you gonna do? I mean, I feel like if I hit the button and turn him, he just keep talking. It's like trying to jump on a moving treadmill. He's going You can't. There's not gonna be anything you can do. Shandon, and I have a question for you. Okay, have you been following this thing about Travis Hunter and his fiance?

00:33:04
Speaker 3: Have you been following this at allship?

00:33:07
Speaker 2: All right, So Travis Hunter is we won the Heisman and his fiance has made a lot of news. Let's go back after a game a few weeks ago. His fiance was on the field and it looked like that she got mad at him for talking to female fans after the game. Is that right? She said something to him like, don't you be talking to other girls? And he was just in his uniform, like giving people high fives. Then at the Heisman Trophy ceremony when he won, Dion stands up Travis Hunters, somebody else stands up, and she stays seated, and Dion looks at her and goes stand up, And so people didn't like that. And then she did an eight and a half minute video where she addressed her critics that included at some point saying something like we have a great relationship. I go to party with my girls sometimes and I'll go inside and party and he'll wait out on the steps until I'm gone and then wait for me to walk me home, which made him not look the best, like he just sits outside while she goes and parties. You've seen it, Drew. What do you think about Do you think there's too much Travis Hunter's fiance? Do you worry about him at all?

00:34:30
Speaker 6: I don't worry about him, and I did see this video is everywhere.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: Her explanation. Her explanation is eight and a half minutes long.

00:34:37
Speaker 6: I know I just as says a man who's about to turn forty I could not bring myself to give eight minutes of my life.

00:34:42
Speaker 2: I didn't watch it either, but I saw that.

00:34:44
Speaker 6: I've seen a lot of the news, things like he doesn't take photos with female fans.

00:34:49
Speaker 2: She says he's not allowed to take photos with female fans unless she's there.

00:34:54
Speaker 6: You got to understand Travis Hunter is going to be asked for photos anywhere he goes for a long time. That is a guy who's only getting more and more popular. If you can't handle him just leaning in for his selfie as he's walking through a hotel, it's gonna be long.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: He's gonna be a top five pick in the NFL draft, shan, and he's gonna be an NFL player. If you were him, would you be cool with the you can't take pictures with women unless I'm there?

00:35:19
Speaker 3: No, I would have already broken up with her. He can have probably just about any woman he wants, especially when he gets to the NFL. Why is he hanging around with her? But why is he sitting on the front porch like a bomb?

00:35:31
Speaker 4: Why wasn't he in there with a party?

00:35:32
Speaker 2: I know he doesn't even get to go in the party, right, he has to sit outside on the steps while she goes and parties. He just has to sit there. He's not even allowed to go in.

00:35:41
Speaker 7: I'm feeling very old at this point because I didn't know anything about this story. I will not watch that video. That guy better grow better, wake up. It ain't gonna get any better. I just say that it will not get better, It will only get worse.

00:35:57
Speaker 4: He should step away now.

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00:37:33
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00:37:35
Speaker 2: Really, it'd be hard to eat eight thousand dollars worth of food, but you could buy You could probably buy the whole restaurant of meal if you wanted to do that during this By the way, there's a great article on KSR Kentucky Sports Radio dot com. Tyler Thompson did a profile of Jackson Robinson, talked to his mother, talked to Mark Pope, and in the profile ride he says Mark Pope says that Jackson Robinson to be Why You kind of a broken kid because he hadn't had success at his first stop.

00:38:05
Speaker 6: Was that something happened at Arkansas and Markleman he won't even talk about it, but that was not a good year forgot.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: Seems like Musselman might have been a tough dude to get along with. He's not the only kid, but that somehow Musselman and he didn't work out that when he came to be Why You had lost all his confidence and he was like, now this kid you see today is a completely different kid than you saw, and how proud of him he was. It's a really good profile of one of Kentucky's couple best players.

00:38:30
Speaker 7: You can see the confidence growing already this season. You know, ten eleven games. End of the season, you see he's.

00:38:35
Speaker 4: A better player.

00:38:35
Speaker 7: And I think when they put him at the point guard, the light bulb went on or something and we had to kind of fill in out there at Gonzaga, but he seemed to just be more confident with everything he's been doing.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: There's also a great clip which I encourage you to watch. Mark Pope was on the Jim Rome Show. I always like when that happened, so that I can remember that Jim Rome is on the air, because I always forget because I really liked Jim Rome when I was a kid, and I never see him anymore. But he was on the Gym Show and in it he said, and this was really cool. He said, this is what I like about Mark Drew. He embraces our weirdness about our fans. So in the clip, you know on social media. I'll set this up for you, Mario. Here is Mark Pope's clip. Right there. You go. Now that's what we do for social media. In the clip, though, he says that the players at Kentucky kind of get an introduction to BBN through the recruiting process. As soon as their name gets mentioned, they get flooded with Kentucky fans online and that gives them one hit. And then he said for the players last year, when they would fly in here for their visit, they would get off the plane and people would say, hey, Jackson Robinson's on the plane, and the player would say that on the plane, the fans would talk to him and say you're coming to Kentucky, right, and then you would get big blue madness. And he said they slowly understand Kentucky basketball through the course of the recruiting process and they feel what it's like. I thought that was a really cool thing for Mark to say.

00:40:05
Speaker 6: Yeah, he mentioned, it's just an onslaught the moment they're announced is visiting or even on the radar, they're filling it before they even get to the airport to get on the plane. And then of course UK fans are everywhere rocking their gear and can spot any of these guys in a crowd. So we all know it. But it's good to hear a coach embracing it and telling us that the players enjoy it. We're not weirding them out a little bit.

00:40:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gotta be wild. Like say you're Annsley Almanor and you went to fairly Dickinson, where even in the town where you go and at the campus where you are, no one knows who you are, right, And then all of a sudden, overnight you get this offer from Kentucky and this entire state of people know you and your mentions are flooded, and your social media following doubles. That's gotta be a crazy thing for these kids. It's one thing for the kids that are stars out of high school and that slowly get used to it, but for a kid from Fairly Dickinson or Dayton, we're just overnight it changes. That's gotta be insane.

00:41:05
Speaker 7: And Pope was talking about Angley Almanor one time about that exact same thing, and like he understood he was coming here as a backup, but he wanted this to be a part of that.

00:41:14
Speaker 4: Phenomenon of Big Blue Nation.

00:41:16
Speaker 7: He wanted to feel that and be a part of it, even though knowing coming in he was gonna be a backup.

00:41:20
Speaker 6: I think about when Pope was building the roster when he first got here, and you know, I'm guilty of it too. I was writing some of the stories, but we were just stalking. I mean, they're seeing the malons and people are tweeting about it. But the one that stood out was Colin Chandler coming down that escalator at midnight and there's twenty people down there and a greet him.

00:41:38
Speaker 2: That is insane. I mean there were people, Yeah, we were greeting them at the airport at midnight on a Tuesday.

00:41:45
Speaker 6: He had two years off from basketball to go on his mission. And the next thing you know, he's coming down the escalator to posters.

00:41:51
Speaker 2: And my man was on his mission. He was out there knocking on doors going hello, my name is Elder Chandler. Can I please give you teach you about the Church of Latter Day Saints. And then all of a sudden there's people at the airport saying, come to Kentucky. That's got because he had just gotten off his mission, right.

00:42:09
Speaker 6: I think he had gone maybe home for a little while, but it was still had been very new and overwhelming to him and all of them. Really, I mean, we are crazy. It's good to hear that they like it.

00:42:17
Speaker 2: No, I mean we are insane, but it's in a good it's in a good way, all right. So when we come back. I got a couple of things. One about the playoff. There's one school that's not even going to sell out their game. That's crazy and that's going to be an embarrassment, I think for their program. And somebody just logged a prediction for dang Key