2026-05-07- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Well, welcome everyone.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Thursday, May the seventh time.

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Speaker 4: Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: We are here live in the studio in Lexington, Kentucky. Got Ryan Lemon and Drew Franklin fellas uh well. First of all, the Clark's publish OPhone lines eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four In this disition sponsored by the two Smith Lovas called TJ.

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Speaker 4: He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 5: Ryan, you did KSR bowling last night came back, said it was packed, and you are wearing the ugliest T shirt I've ever seen.

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Speaker 4: Good to see you.

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Speaker 6: Ripping the Berea Pirates today. We talked about it's a beautiful shirt.

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Speaker 5: It's a terrible shirt, but that's okay. Uh, did you enjoy the bowling?

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Speaker 6: Bullying? Was so much fun? I mean it was packed last night. I think they added maybe some more teams showed up and it was full. It was packed. The Betty Boops of course were there, but it was it was so much fun last night.

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Speaker 4: It's the only team named you and I both know it's the only one we mentioned.

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Speaker 6: But our fare Change was our partner and they've won the league the last two years.

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Speaker 4: Did you talk trash to them?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: No, they're really good. They were talking trash to us.

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Speaker 5: But I mean it's a handicapped league, so if they won two years in a row, that suggests cheating, because in a handicap league like It's, you shouldn't win two years in a row.

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Speaker 6: They they're they're really good.

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Speaker 4: So sounds fishy to me.

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Speaker 6: It's like they fair change.

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Speaker 2: Don't fair change like the automated score keeping, you don't write down your score any.

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Speaker 5: No I'm saying, like, if you're setting your handicap, then the way the league works, presumably, right, is that you it's if you do better than your handicap. Yeah, so if they've done better than everyone else set their handicap two years in a row, is that not a little suspect some sandbagging.

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Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not gonna say what you're saying, but you'll be possibly saying the right thing you're trying to say.

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Speaker 4: What does that mean? What did any of those words mean?

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Speaker 6: He's been it and I ain't in it. I'm staying out of this conversation.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well, there you go, Drew, you you'll you'll play later in the week.

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Speaker 4: Everything You're good. I like, I've always That's one of my favorite charts. It's a UK what is it? Row back?

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Speaker 7: You gotta rock my UK gear? Yeah, I'm doing great. Last night was one of the knights where I didn't sleep though, rough, rough baby nights enough.

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Speaker 4: What does the baby dude? Is it like start quoting poetry or something.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't sleep on my own already knew I was in trouble as well as nights you like TV's off and it's two am. I'm just looking at the ceiling, so I knew I was in trubble. And right as I started to drift off round three, Baby needed to.

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Speaker 4: Get what do you do?

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Speaker 5: Like when the bay like, when the baby cries, what are you going to do? Stop crying?

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Speaker 4: Baby?

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Speaker 5: That's kind of that's kind of how I talk, But like you do when the baby starts crying, just why don't just why why not just let it cry? I mean I would, but it's next to the bed. I mean I just again, it's a real question. I'm not like, why do people parents? Do parents think they can fix it?

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Speaker 7: Well, my strategies usually let her cry out a little bit if it goes on too long, especially wh I'm trying to sleep, something's up, usually a wet diaper or hungry You got to get up check check the breeches.

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Speaker 5: So you go and like check to make sure there's not a wet diaper. Yeah, make sure it's got like all it's nutrients, breathing and all that, and then just leave alone. Yeah, And then I went back to bed. At this point, it's like the RESPONSI but what is Drew supposed to do?

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Speaker 2: Drew can't give it Milby that I know it comfort the baby, like pick it up.

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Speaker 5: Actual thing you think, like putting your arms around it will make it stop crying. It is a she we've been we've been trying torn she.

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Speaker 4: I will say, I need to start calling I'm sorry, I mean, I mean I want to get.

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Speaker 7: A little sentimental here. But baby, there are times only dad's arms or when baby will so you can see a difference.

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Speaker 5: And there are.

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Speaker 7: Times where I know where when I'm holding her and I'm the only one that can get to stop crying, It's like, well, the next two hours of my life are just sitting here.

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Speaker 5: Are you saying? There are times you can get her to cry or stop crying that Abby can, Yes.

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Speaker 7: Yes, but then of course Abby can do uh due to our anatomy, things that I can't do.

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Speaker 5: Like baby, when it comes to holding it, you're better at it. No, No, it varies.

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Speaker 7: But there are times where she's like, all right, you got to lock in because you know you got the remember that seeing Lil Wayne.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 7: I've added some young Jeezy resents the moments where baby needs dad's arms, which is that's my favorite part.

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Speaker 5: Are there moments where you can tell this is a a dad arm, not a mom arm.

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Speaker 7: She'll be he squealing in mom's arms, and she'll be You'll try and then just immediate silence asleep, And at that point you.

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Speaker 5: Just have to sit down.

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Speaker 4: And there's a good lessons for me to learn. I may never never have to worry.

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Speaker 2: If you saw Ryan cry and you would just sit there and let them cry, you go up you probably.

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Speaker 4: I would let I would wrestlers, which is go have a good day and then.

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Speaker 5: Go hand have the golf exactly. But it is doing well even though I didn't sleepy. I'll tell it. You said, all right, okay, hello to you. I still need to come visit it her.

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Speaker 3: She what point does she become a she? Or it become a she to you?

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Speaker 5: Six seven personality?

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Speaker 4: Like you know, start to I'm sorry.

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Speaker 5: I've not been around a lot of babies, like most of my kids when they are most of my friends when they had kids, I wasn't around.

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Speaker 4: I lived elsewhere and now.

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Speaker 5: You know, so yours is the first baby I've had to like and deal with and in a while so so, but I want to because this is Avery Rose. Yeah, all right, you'll see her against him. I'm looking forward to it. Okay, Ryan, sir, I got a message from a friend today that I thought was actually really really good, all right, and it was. It has addressed the two issues that have been on my mind this week, or at least, you know, Number one, what can Pope etcetera do to sort of turn things around? And then number two some of the things we've talked about about, like how KSR slash.

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Speaker 4: Me gets blamed for everything. Right, So Pope did this video yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Yes he did.

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Speaker 5: By the way, I thought it was a slam dunk. I really did. A lot of people were mocking him for asking to put up the questions. I didn't mind it as much as everybody else did, but a lot of people were mocking it and saying it was a terrible idea. If you remember your stay on the show. I was like, hold out, let's see what they do. And I actually thought the first thing they've done was great. And I want to go over to some of the stuff he said in the video, because not only did I think it was great that he addressed and answered the questions, I actually thought some of the stuff he said was substantively interesting.

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Speaker 4: Right, But this is what the person said.

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Speaker 5: The person said, Matt, I think part of The issue that UK and the fans deal with is the disappearance of traditional media.

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Speaker 4: Think about it.

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Speaker 5: For most UK fans of our age or younger UK fans, between the local newspaper, the local TV stations, the Herald, the Courier, Sports Illustrated, sporting news and Cats Balls, we felt like we got UK information all the time. UK was that these entities were putting out publications that parsed out quotes and stats, game recaps, game previews, analysis. If you wanted UK information, you could get it whenever you wanted. Now almost all of those outlets have disappeared or they are significantly less important. Thus we actually get less information unless we seek it on Twitter, etc. The one exception is while the Herald, the Courier, the TV stations, the Cats Pauls, Sporting News, sports illustration are all significantly less important than they should be. You all, to most fans feel like you're everywhere. You're on the radio, you have the website, you all have the biggest social media followings, and so you all become where the information is and when things aren't like they like it, they get mad at you. UK has to realize that with significantly fewer outlets, for information. They have to produce more information, and they also have to work with the very few people left. If they don't, you get avoid where it is just social media accounts blabbering, and at that point you can't control the message and it's easier for fans to get upset.

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Speaker 4: I think that's really good.

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Speaker 6: That's really good.

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Speaker 4: Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 5: I completely agree because that's true. So think about all those outlets used to be. If it was in the Herald of the Courier, Ryan, everyone in the city and everyone in the state talked about it.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: If John Clay or Jerry Tipton or Rick Bosich one of them wrote an article, it was on everyone's everyone.

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Speaker 4: Talked, everybody saw it the local TV stations.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'll say this, Drew, you would agree there was a time where everyone in the city knew who Alan Cutler, Rob Bromley, Ryan Lemon, who they were. That's why everybody got so excited hearing Rob just say one sentence. We grew up and he was on our TV screens every night. Local news just doesn't have that impact anymore. I don't even know who the sports anchors are on most of these stations, but there was a time I knew every single person on television. There was a time when I first started where literally Alan Cutler and Ryan Lemon would get stopped everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Now no one stops you. It's not true.

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Speaker 5: I'm just kidding, but you know what I mean. Yeah, the cat's pause. There was a time you get that delivered to you couldn't wait to get it, couldn't wait to it. You could read it. You could go into the barber shop and there was always one there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, doctor's office.

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Speaker 5: Well now it's gone. Now all those things are basically gone. On the web, when I started, there were thirty websites and slowly they've withered down and to some extent where the last one left and you know, through some of our success, but then the corporate people buying it, they've kind of bought up the competition. Right on social media, if you fought, what are the biggest Shannon social media UK accounts?

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Speaker 3: Well, probably as Ports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Me probably, then Drew Kyle Tucker has a big one, Tyler Jack Nick, It's all. It's probably all car So I can kind of see how people would get sick of you.

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Speaker 6: But where else you're gonna get the info exactly?

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Speaker 4: Where are you gonna get it?

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Speaker 5: So in that mode, it becomes more important for in my opinion, for UK to both work with these entities that are left, but also to produce its own content. But it has to be content that is what people actually want. It can't just be so how was your day, Mark? Well, that was actually a good start yesterday, right, because that's a situation where he answered questions, but he actually, I thought, answered real questions.

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Speaker 6: He did.

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Speaker 4: I gained a lot.

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Speaker 5: Of respect for the whole process when the question popped up that said, fourteen of your twenty recruits have come on campus and none of them committed.

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Speaker 6: Why took it on?

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Speaker 5: And he took that of just putting that question on the screen, I would argue, you take some cajones. Yeah, he's not running from it.

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Speaker 7: Even if you didn't like his answer, heged that that was out there, and.

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Speaker 5: I mean, how many coaches would put up there without whining and complaining. That's what I liked Shinnon. He acknowledged the question, but he didn't whine or like Dabbo Sweeny, go y'all can get somebody else in here.

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Speaker 3: Like he answered, he's taking the right attitude about it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when he took this to you, if things don't go right, I want you to blasphem me, and that's what he did.

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Speaker 5: Go on, but he went and said, first, I'd like to get all twenty here a good quote. Secondly, he literally said, we kind of saw special talent and held out for him and didn't get.

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Speaker 6: Him generational talenty.

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Speaker 5: He basically acknowledged, maybe we made a mistake, but here's what we did. And you know what, I give him credit for that. He could have said some bs. He could have said something that was a complete lie. Instead he said, look, we thought this was generational talent. We thought we could get him. We waited. He didn't then say, and that might have been a mistake, but clearly that's we didn't get the guys. It might be a mistake, Drew. I just love that he did that because there are very, very very few coaches who would take the question, and there's even fewer who would actually answer it.

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Speaker 7: Honestly, there are many coaches in any of the major sports that would even like when pr throws that out, that idea, they're like, heck, no, I'm not engaging like that with fans. But Pope jump right and did it. I know it's not the most thorough answers on some of them, but you can't expect him to sit down and call Tyrann Stokes by name and.

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Speaker 5: Detail the race in the back, and so he shouldn't.

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Speaker 7: I mean, there's only so much he can say to begin with, and I thought he handled it well. And honestly, whatever you think about each individual answer, just him putting his face out there again when it's been so quiet and kind of some downtimes this offseason. I think just him speaking to the fans whatever's coming out of his mouth was a good idea.

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Speaker 5: If he had put some softball thing that was like what's your favorite breakfast food? Like people would have said, but he did that question. He acknowledged the countries in the cities he visited recently, yes, which of course immediately makes everybody.

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Speaker 4: Go, well's in that's it?

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Speaker 6: Uh huh, right, who you look?

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Speaker 4: But you know what, that's information like people.

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Speaker 5: He gets allows people last night everybody speculating where did he go?

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Speaker 4: Who did he go see?

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Speaker 7: That was good because right now everybody's all about wasting a trip to Israel and he can't say who he saw, but he's letting people know the other countries. Yeah, and nobody knew that, and everybody's just focused on the one Santos.

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Speaker 4: So I will say I thought it was great.

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Speaker 5: And then he you know, he had a couple of goofy ones, But that's okay because he answered, if I were them, I'd take a few days and I'd put another video out every day for a few days.

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Speaker 4: You don't have this forever.

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Speaker 5: Because I actually think it got something that's very rare on the internet. It got universal praise. National media was like, good job. Other fans were like, well that's kind of cool, and Kentucky fans like that's the first good bit of publicity we've gotten. It's the end of the season. So for all the people that mocked him the night before for doing it, they took a risk and it paid off in my opinion, And you know what, I want to coach that takes a risk and pays off. Ultimately, he's got to win. If he doesn't win, none of this will matter anyway. But I want to coach you will take a risk. He got mocked at the moment they did it, but they made it work. So I liked it. I thought it was an a and I I told somebody. I called somebody at UK and I said, this is I thought you guys crushed this. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I thought it was really good, and I thought he did a really good job at answering those questions. I didn't want it to end. I thought it was so good. I didn't want it to enry too. I wish he'd been longer.

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Speaker 5: Think if they're smart now though, I'd put another one out today or tomorrow and keep it up for a little while. You don't have to do it forever. And he said keep them coming. So it sounds like they're planning on doing respect eighty seven. If you agree, give us a shout, we will can break and be right back KOSR. I mean, this feels like Hoodie is giving you a strategy here for parenting. It's one of my favorite songs too, exactly letter. So maybe you play that and that'll be what hear.

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Speaker 7: The cross her there you go, look at us. We had a breakthrough there.

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Speaker 4: Her Yeah, not not it.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes these aren't ordinary cries.

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Speaker 4: Let them go, I think, Oh, I believe me. People. I sit next to him in restaurants, I hear I hear it.

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Speaker 7: That next to your bed at three in the morning can can be a little agravation.

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Speaker 6: So at a restaurant, you say they should let her cry.

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Speaker 5: No, I say take her outside where there aren't people sitting.

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Speaker 4: That's the sequel. Shit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we're waiting for that one.

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Speaker 4: For that one hasn't come out Yeteah.

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, the text machine is seven seven two four five two five for one person rights, Matt. I enjoyed the segment where you were making that guy hit on Drew Sina as much as anything you all done lately. Have you gotten any feedback from him? Was he embarrassed? I have not, but people did seem to like it. I've gotten a lot of messages about that too. I didn't know people would like that bit so much. I think there's a part of it that like that's you know, we've had so much kind of serious like, oh what's going on? Then we get to have fun for a minute. And his pickup was terrible.

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Speaker 4: Oh it was awful. It was awful. But he was so confident.

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Speaker 3: Is no fluozy. I'm strong with the game.

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Speaker 5: I have standards.

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Speaker 4: You have standards.

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Speaker 5: You're just come up to me drooling trying to buy a drink drunk. One person writes, how about how many people thought it was AI yesterday?

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Speaker 4: You did?

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Speaker 7: You? I mean, but I mean as soon as it started, I'm like, what are they using to make this look?

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Speaker 8: So?

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Speaker 5: It did look quite crazy good? How much is that cameras? It's how they like blur. I don't know the terminology, but like the backgrounds blurred behind them a lot. I guess that's how they focused. You should you should learn that Mario blur everything around us so that we look because he looked I mean, he looked like like as clear as you could be, and it did kind of look AI ish.

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Speaker 6: But it wasn't A That's the production value they deal there. You could they got better equipment, but.

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Speaker 5: You thought it might be AI.

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Speaker 7: Well, I didn't think it was actually AI, but three seconds in, I'm like, man, this looks like I did wonder if his original video Shannon was AI where he was asking people for comments.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this can't be true. He's really asking for no Yeah.

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Speaker 5: One verson says Matt. I thought the questions were way too softball.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know what you were expecting, Jan Ryan.

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Speaker 5: I didn't think there were softball when you I mean, I guess a couple of them were. But when you put up there someone saying you had fourteen of twenty people visiting, they didn't come.

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Speaker 4: Yes, And he didn't deny that.

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Speaker 6: No, he didn't.

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Speaker 3: And to me, that's not the recruits were using Kentucky as for leverage.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 3: Question that was interesting too.

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Speaker 5: He threw that off right at the back. I'd like to have heard him say, though, we still have to overcome that.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you know, but he didn't duck it, you know, I like, I appreciate he did take on a couple of hard questions like right off the back, because I think it's what we wanted to hear as a fan. He said a lot of things, a lot of damage control that I needed to hear.

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Speaker 5: So he said he had gone to Israel Lubjana, that's in Slovenia.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know where that was.

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Speaker 5: And I've been there. That's where I went. I went there during my European trip. It was the only time I went into Eastern Europe. That was the one I placed. I remember, I told you I went to a coffee shop that all they played was nineties rap.

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Speaker 6: Yes, oh yeah, yeah, that was there. That was there.

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Speaker 5: He said, we went to Milan. What was the other place? It was like some small town in Italy. I think, yeah, I got I'm not going to get it.

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Speaker 4: But he wasn't gone that long, so he must have.

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Speaker 5: He must have hit a bunch of bunch of places he was at the day because he went there like last Monday or Tuesday. He went the day after Stokes is that would have been Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: I know. And he was back. His daughter ran in a marathon on Saturday, so he wasn't on that long. Yeah. Well, it also tells me though they're still trying to get.

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Speaker 6: Players, actively trying to land players if they.

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Speaker 4: If they're trying to do it, yeah, so hey.

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Speaker 7: He also said Malachai was the centerpiece. I mean, we all kind of figure that, but he talked about it. Malachi could be the best big man in America. That's a little bit of pressure, it is. And now Malachi is kind of the news, having just worked out from the Knicks yesterday, so there's a little damage control there too, with some fans worrying about his projection.

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Speaker 5: He seemed to suggest that he felt like that he would be He didn't didn't say that explicitly. It's weird.

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Speaker 7: We encourage our players to go test the waters, but the moment they start testing the waters, were like, wait a minute, they're leaving. No, like this is part of it, Like that's what they should do water, You're gonna drove. Yeah, they should go do these workouts.

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Speaker 4: No, you're right.

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine two EIGHTHO twenty two eighty seven. The before we get the phones, the Sean Miller said, or excuse me, remember Sean Miller said there would be twenty teams to pay twenty to twenty five million dollars. Yesterday on three Sports said there are four teams that have already paid twenty million dollars and that they expected it to be fifteen or more when the season started. The four they said had done it were Louisville, Florida, Duke, and Texas or the four that had already paid twenty million. They had a list of teams that had paid fifteen to twenty and we weren't on that list yet.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I think we've got a boatload of money just sitting there and a wheelbarrow waiting to give it to somebody. They had set aside for Stokes. They still got to guess still had to spend it somehow or not or just pocketed for next year.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to, And I kind of wonder. I mean, you don't just pay somebody because you got it. You don't just waste it. You don't just want to waste it. Like, hey, what do you think about the fact Louisville, Florida, Duke Texas. There's a world in which we would play all those teams? Yeah, because I mean we might get Duke in the ACC Classic so at Cameron. So there's a world in which all four teams that we paid there have paid twenty million dollars drew that we would play them all.

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Speaker 7: But last year they played us and we had spent twenty million and we lost those games. So we're flipping it. We're trading them spots.

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Speaker 5: What was our record against those teams last year were three Texas, we beat, Louisville, we lost, We didn't play Duke, so we were one in one and four against those teams last year.

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Speaker 6: Guess you just gotta go out and beat him.

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Speaker 7: Now this year, I'm really surprised Louisville was in their group. I mean, Duke doesn't shock me. Texas doesn't shock me. Florida unshocked me, but I didn't think Louisville had the fund.

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Speaker 4: I think has taken a view.

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Speaker 5: I talked to somebody close to the program that said, we got to decide if Pat Kelsey's the guy, and their view is let's give him everything you need, let's see what happens. And I think that to me that makes some sense. Right, doesn't mean they'd fire him if it didn't work, but you want to know.

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Speaker 6: Right now, he's got to perform.

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Speaker 5: So now you got the rosters, so they'll they'll have a way to uh decide. All right, we'll take your calls a FF nine two eighty sevens KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 5: All right, we have some breaking news that makes me sick. Go ahead, hit it running a Kentucky high school athletic association. It's making pickleball a state championship.

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Speaker 3: Not on board with that?

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Speaker 4: What a pathetic decision. Even no young people played pickleball.

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Speaker 6: I thought that was what tis what.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna play checkers next? They do they have a chess club, but they don't make it a state champion This is a high school athletic association is making it a state championship.

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Speaker 3: It's athletic.

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Speaker 5: What it's tennis. No, it's pickleball, it'sentially tennis.

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Speaker 4: Don't move.

00:23:56
Speaker 1: Poopoo.

00:23:58
Speaker 5: They do esports state championship and they sports though I don't know that. I think that's great, but whatever, it's a very You have to be very good at what you're doing. Pickleball is different.

00:24:14
Speaker 6: String Shannon Ramy all over the court when I played it.

00:24:16
Speaker 5: But you're bad, like good players, don't move a lot. If you're in high school, you just go play tennis, play tennis. They're in high school. Look, if you're old, I get it, you can't move. You still want to play a racket sport. I'm fine with it. But if you're in high school, go play tennis. Well that hurts the tennis maybe yeah.

00:24:33
Speaker 3: If you're too slow to play tennis, you got pickleball.

00:24:35
Speaker 5: Well, then go play esports.

00:24:39
Speaker 7: Isn't it just going to be the tennis players are also playing pickleball, it's gonna be the same.

00:24:43
Speaker 5: Well, they are different skills, I do I will say I think they're different skills, but still nevertheless.

00:24:48
Speaker 6: Maybe they do one of the fall in the spring.

00:24:49
Speaker 4: So are you scared of the hand of virus?

00:24:52
Speaker 6: Yes? Are you kidding me? After what we just went through a couple of years.

00:24:54
Speaker 5: Ago, forty three mortality rate.

00:24:59
Speaker 3: That's not good.

00:25:00
Speaker 5: Keep that boat out in the water. Don't let those times. Don't know all the details. I just kind of started seeing this yesterday. So there's a boat, yes, and everybody's got the hand of virus cruise.

00:25:09
Speaker 6: Ship that like it's they quarantined the whole boat.

00:25:12
Speaker 4: How many people are on that boat?

00:25:13
Speaker 3: I don't know what is a hand of What is that?

00:25:16
Speaker 4: I hate?

00:25:16
Speaker 10: It's a new virus, that is I heard that word of my life. I hand to have people died yet I thought three maybeah, there's been to death because the town. Does that mean only like seven people have it?

00:25:30
Speaker 6: I thought that.

00:25:32
Speaker 7: I don't think like everybody on the boat has it. But they have some confirmed cases and they're making everybody.

00:25:36
Speaker 5: You know, so if you were on that boat, you'd be terrified. I would hate everyone around because they're not letting you off the boat. Is it all Americans? I don't think so.

00:25:47
Speaker 7: But the problem is that no country will let them dock like no one is accepting them.

00:25:53
Speaker 5: Oh, they're just so they're just out there floating.

00:25:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, they don't want to bring the virus on show.

00:25:58
Speaker 5: So that I did see as this morning though, that twenty three people that were on the boat when the virus was there got let off somewhere.

00:26:06
Speaker 4: So they're they're worried that if if it.

00:26:08
Speaker 6: Gets out, my goodness.

00:26:11
Speaker 4: So okay.

00:26:11
Speaker 5: So here's what I don't understand about the hairt like it just got created on the boat.

00:26:15
Speaker 4: Has it Does it exist elsewhere?

00:26:17
Speaker 7: I think it exists elsewhere, but it just hasn't been out. I don't want to misspeak. I've only seen the boat stuff. But there's also I think there was maybe a flight somewhere.

00:26:28
Speaker 5: Okay, because mine it feels like we're running back, so you come back forty years. These things happen all the time, and I was always dismissive of them, And if you remember, I kind of famously was dismissive of COVID. Not dismissive, but I was like, we'll go to the Walmart and sit there.

00:26:47
Speaker 3: Hey, are you scared? We used to do it every day?

00:26:49
Speaker 4: Are you scared? We used to be like ryd. Are you scared now? Are you scared now?

00:26:53
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, I do remember where. So my ex girlfriend worked at CBS News right, and she in February had produced an hour long special this is way before it was like about what COVID was and why we should be worried. And I remember her calling me because it went on at like six am and saying get up and watch it because I did this. So I got up and watched it, and that was when I was like, oh, maybe this is a real thing. But still I was like, eh, we always hear this, and of course that changed the world. So is it that we should be worried or are we spooked by what happened last time?

00:27:32
Speaker 6: I think we better be worried that we better take major precautions.

00:27:36
Speaker 3: Already they're being quarantined at sea. Than what do we have to worry about?

00:27:39
Speaker 5: Just keep them moving Tuse, twenty three people got off the boat and basically they have to let those people off the boat. Well, at some point you can't just leave them out there forever. Some point you're going to have to let him go. Yes, Like I mean, boats can't float forever. They got to have supplies and write, even.

00:27:54
Speaker 6: The infected people, you got to let them off the boat at some point.

00:27:57
Speaker 5: Just drop some supplies off bat you just want to like drop food on him by the ear. So they're supposed to stay out there forever. Imagine you're right, they got karaoke. I mean they got a pool. I think there's a water slide.

00:28:07
Speaker 3: Like let's just say one of us. We're on the crew.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: You can't go back to your job, you can't do anything. You're stuck there, like what you can know?

00:28:14
Speaker 5: So is this a is this like a cruise ship like their partying cruise ship.

00:28:18
Speaker 4: Who's on this ship?

00:28:19
Speaker 3: Six people?

00:28:20
Speaker 7: I mean, I assume at your typical cruise ship with your way we did fun.

00:28:24
Speaker 3: Why do people go on cruise on one and this is not helping?

00:28:27
Speaker 5: It feels like everyone jumps off or dies or it's gets viruses.

00:28:33
Speaker 4: Why do why do people go on those.

00:28:36
Speaker 5: See the ocean?

00:28:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, well this can't help the industry.

00:28:40
Speaker 7: I saw a tweet last night that has me a little scared, not even scared. It's just like how this happened. But there was a tweet in twenty twenty one. It's still up. A guy said coronavirus because it already happened in twenty one, said we'll end in twenty twenty three, hantavirus coming twenty twenty six.

00:28:56
Speaker 5: He tweeted that twenty.

00:28:58
Speaker 4: Ten he probably well, I don't know what I'm talking about.

00:29:01
Speaker 5: What is so?

00:29:01
Speaker 4: What's the hand a part?

00:29:03
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:29:03
Speaker 5: I understand COVID was like something. There was a reason for the dure hand to is to why I.

00:29:10
Speaker 4: Just asked you?

00:29:11
Speaker 5: So you are scared? You were scared of COVID too? Yes, I think we should be on guard.

00:29:16
Speaker 4: What are we supposed to do? We even be on guard?

00:29:19
Speaker 6: Wear masks?

00:29:20
Speaker 4: An am I supposed to just sit there with my fists up?

00:29:24
Speaker 5: Tire king too?

00:29:24
Speaker 2: You get fever, fatigue and severe muscle aches.

00:29:29
Speaker 5: But this is supposedly even more deadly, specially if you get.

00:29:33
Speaker 3: It, especially in your thighs hips and pack.

00:29:37
Speaker 4: Watch if your thighs start hurt.

00:29:40
Speaker 6: I thought my thought I was hurting. Little sprin.

00:29:43
Speaker 3: G get out of your hand.

00:29:45
Speaker 4: To have you washed your hands? Andy? Go for it? Andy?

00:29:52
Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on?

00:29:53
Speaker 6: Guys?

00:29:53
Speaker 5: Hey? Andy?

00:29:54
Speaker 4: How you feeling? Brother?

00:29:57
Speaker 8: Hey, I'm doing alright. Uh been home for about a week. The surgery went pretty well.

00:30:01
Speaker 5: Uh.

00:30:02
Speaker 8: The doctor seemed pretty optimistic. I go back on the nineteenth for the pathology report to figure out, you know what what from there if anything, So good luck.

00:30:14
Speaker 4: I'm glad.

00:30:15
Speaker 8: I feel pretty recovered.

00:30:16
Speaker 4: Well good.

00:30:17
Speaker 5: I'm glad to hear it went well and what we're we're thinking about you what what what you got?

00:30:21
Speaker 8: And I do appreciate every everyone's thoughts and prayers and cards and things that percent specifically what he's of ks R. I'll let's say that. And uh, my basketball question here is you know we're talking about this may be the break, well, the make or break here for Mark Pope. But you know you you had said before that that money was specifically for Tyring Stokes. If it's really the make or break here for Mark Pope, it just seems to me that you would take that money and put it toward at least trying to learn.

00:31:01
Speaker 5: I don't know that it's completely his choice. I don't know that it's completely his choice. It'd be nice to hear from you.

00:31:08
Speaker 4: I appreciate that all.

00:31:10
Speaker 5: I don't think it's completely I think like some of that money is we'll give it if it's a particular person for our ad stuff. So Mark Pope has a has a pot of money that I think they could use for whoever Mark Pope wants and he's picked. But I'd always been told there's this kind of second pot of money that was for Stokes because there were particular people who were willing to give the money for Stokes because of things that they thought he could do endorsement wise, et cetera. That maybe they would give to somebody else. But they're not just going to give and say give it to anybody, So I think they'd have to go and say this person that, So it would need to be somebody that people felt like was worth that money.

00:31:50
Speaker 6: Are there one of the guys that hasn't withdrawn his name from the NBA draft yet that maybe would fit.

00:31:55
Speaker 4: I don't know.

00:31:55
Speaker 5: I'd always been told of Stokes, But what I'm saying to you is I don't know if they would do for somebody else, but they were doing it for Stokes because they felt like Stokes himself was worth it for their whatever it was. Adam, go ahead, Adam.

00:32:12
Speaker 9: Hey, what's up?

00:32:12
Speaker 4: Guys? What's up? I want to get these words out here. Go ahead.

00:32:22
Speaker 9: I loved your monologue to open the show. I used to love to when you know, you're just waiting on the Catspaws magazine to hit your mailbox, Like you took me back to all my feelings. And after a UK game, it's like go get a hair leader or a courier journal and you would buy it and then see like there would be a box that said last night's game and it's too late to have an article at you.

00:32:47
Speaker 5: Oh no, yeah, But I do think it makes it to where there's this starvation. It's twofold one. There's a starvation for information, and oddly, even though we have a million different ways to get it, we actually have less information you can rely on. That's the paradox of the Internet. There's more stuff out there, but actually oddly less stuff you can rely on. And because of that, in terms of what people quote unquote think you can rely on, like we're the last one standing in some ways that it's its full capacity, that what it was then when we used to be the smallest. And so I can understand why people A are starved and B are also like gosh, can we get Matt and Drew and Ryan out? But because like that's sort I get it, But that's unfortunately just kind of how it is Adam.

00:33:45
Speaker 9: Yeah, as far as the virus, I'm I'm not scared of that. But what terrifies me and I have panic attacks about like flying on planes, or the thought of being stuck on a tarmac on an airplane, or the thought of being stuck on a cruise ship and you can't get off like that is terrifying to me.

00:34:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate the call. Are there people stuck on an airplane?

00:34:09
Speaker 7: No, I don't think. I think you're just making an example of like when that does have.

00:34:11
Speaker 5: Can you imagine if you were on the airplane and they realized somebody on it had it and you just had.

00:34:18
Speaker 6: Off.

00:34:18
Speaker 5: I'm kicking getting out of there.

00:34:21
Speaker 2: There's like a bunch of emergency ex's that they got through it with me.

00:34:24
Speaker 3: At the beginning of it, you know.

00:34:25
Speaker 4: They you what do you? What do you do? But like what if they're like, no, you can't.

00:34:29
Speaker 2: Well I'm gonna get arrested, and then you know you're going to get it too. I'm getting myself a rustled.

00:34:34
Speaker 5: There is a movie, right, yes, No, I'm serious. Hantavirus is contained on the boat. One guy gets off, he gets on the plane. Everyone they realize he has it and he's on the plane and it's and then all of a sudden they're like, no, one get off this plane. If you're on the plane, then you're probably gonna get it because.

00:34:56
Speaker 6: He's right there on that confined But you also can't.

00:34:59
Speaker 4: Let him out or you'll get all over the world. Now that's a movie. That is a movie.

00:35:03
Speaker 5: What what happens in the plane chaos? Everybody's fighting over the Bischoff cookies and they're trying to get and they're trying to guess who has it, who's the guy is the one? Who's the one that has it to the little oxygen mask. This is a great movie. How do I who can Who can I call? By the way, I just copyrighted this movie.

00:35:23
Speaker 3: It's already called quarantine too, is it really? I think so?

00:35:28
Speaker 5: Well, we're doing Quarantine three. No, I have a better part of it.

00:35:33
Speaker 3: That's it's called quarantine Terminal.

00:35:36
Speaker 5: That's in the terminal plane.

00:35:37
Speaker 2: I'm taken over by a mysterious virus when the plane lands that is placed under quarantine.

00:35:44
Speaker 7: One thing about planes. I'm gonna do it, but I'm will make it better. Out with the planes and the virus. We are hosting the World Cup in a month and a half with the.

00:35:53
Speaker 5: World Remember with COVID, they said that the centerpiece of the initial spread was a Soca game.

00:36:01
Speaker 4: Have you ever read about this?

00:36:02
Speaker 5: No, there was a Champions League soccer game between an Italian team at Atlanta and someone else, and it was played in a third city. So I think there were two teams playing, maybe in Milan or maybe somewhere else, and no, Atlanta's in Milan. They had gone somewhere else for the game. And they think that was maybe a super spreading event, those eighty thousand people, because not only did they go to the game, they then went and dispersed to their countries. It's a good point with the World Cup, all these people are gonna be coming. Wow.

00:36:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm even gonna go buy some mass today.

00:36:40
Speaker 4: The plane would have been a good idea. We'll be very back.

00:36:44
Speaker 5: Welcome back, take E Sports Radio. I've forgotten what it was like, Shannon, to have my mentions filled with virus experts.

00:36:53
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, they're out there.

00:36:54
Speaker 4: It's been a while since.

00:36:55
Speaker 5: It's been a while since since we had since I had everybody became a UNI or whatever you call it, virus experts, viralogists, yeah, whatever, it is.

00:37:06
Speaker 4: If you go on Facebook, everybody's one.

00:37:08
Speaker 5: What's a high school with a lot of them? Now I do have some. First of all, me too. A lot of them didn't finish high school and yet they still are experts. Cornbredheimp dot com. If you want to treat your mother to the relaxation she deserves, how about infuse seltzers or gummies from Cornbreadhimp take the edge off and make mom feel great. Okay, go to cornbreadhimp dot com. Use the code flowers flowers. That's a deal for your mom. Flowers at cornbreadhint dot com promo code flowers feel the good life for your mom. Or if you want to buy it for yourself and put in flowers to get the discount, I'm not gonna hold it against you. Go to cornbreadhimp dot com promo code flowers. So just a couple of facts here. Pantavirus has spread through rats, primarily Gene Hackman's wife.

00:37:53
Speaker 4: Died of it.

00:37:53
Speaker 5: All that, but uh, but this one is unique because it's not through wraps, it's rats.

00:38:01
Speaker 4: It's human to human, which is the first time that's been the case. Most of the passengers are from Holland, it's a luxury cruise ship, so you pay for luxury, you get a virus. Wow, sixteen Americans are on the ship, so there's some there's some actual facts. One person writes, Matt, how about you do your your movie about the plane quarantine too, but a Hallmark movie exactly. So the the woman falls in love with the man, but she has the hand of virus, he has the hand of I.

00:38:33
Speaker 3: They kiss. That's how they spread it, right.

00:38:35
Speaker 5: So can love overcome Hanta? And they both get it and die in old them cap Wow, that's dark. I think people die in Hallmark movies pulling the end to.

00:38:49
Speaker 2: The end that come in like that'd be a good plot twist.

00:38:52
Speaker 4: That'd be a good plot twist.

00:38:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good point through the big scene where they they kissed for the first time, knowing that he has.

00:38:57
Speaker 4: The audience knows you exactly.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: I love you so much, I'm willing to take the virus.

00:39:06
Speaker 5: I'll get the hand of virus and we'll move to Oldham County where we'll at the train tracks in Lagrange. Okay, yeah, let's get in production. Shannon, you're in the biz.

00:39:18
Speaker 6: Suck this up.

00:39:20
Speaker 3: Get speaking role.

00:39:23
Speaker 4: You're the virus.

00:39:23
Speaker 5: Joe, go ahead, Joe, Yeah, thank you, Uh, gentlemen.

00:39:28
Speaker 11: Quickly on the coach Brooks and his staff, that's a tremendously addition to the girl from Slovenia and Matt Blastim. I talked to you. I asked you if if you thought the Ladies program had money to get players like that, and you say you thought, maybe not a Tie five player, but but maybe somebody after that. So congratulations to your assessment on that. And quickly on the on the men is Jadon Quays's is a possibility to be in the lottery pick is coach Brokes these days gonna be at the table or not. I have no idea, but if.

00:40:04
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet, I'm sorry, I bet I bet he would.

00:40:07
Speaker 4: I bet he would be there. He should.

00:40:09
Speaker 11: Well, then I would have his wife for Copa's daughters long wedding, and that would help his persona. I think a whole lot. And and we need, we need all the advantages we could get right now in just recruiting. I don't have no answers under no.

00:40:23
Speaker 4: I think that's a really good point and I appreciate it.

00:40:25
Speaker 9: Call.

00:40:25
Speaker 4: It's nice to hear from you. Joe.

00:40:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he should if Quaintons gets it, I appreciate its call.

00:40:30
Speaker 4: He came here, you should go.

00:40:31
Speaker 5: You know the girl that the woman that Kenny Brooks got was from lub Jana, Slovenia. Oh well maybe Pope. Do you think Pope got him for got her for Brooks or and then like it was about that time she signed, maybe Brooks was on the plane. The timeline checks out.

00:40:47
Speaker 4: The timeline.

00:40:47
Speaker 5: I mean, what are the chances Kenny Brooks would sign a girl from Slovenia Louvjana right at the time Pope is Lynn Loujan. There's got to be it. He maybe delivered the papers, but he had to do something. Pope's about to go to Tel Aviv.

00:41:04
Speaker 7: Kenny Brooks is like, hey, can you detour and drop off this packet of papers I need to get signed and bring it back to me.

00:41:09
Speaker 5: I mean we're do but like it's two coincidental, isn't it.

00:41:14
Speaker 6: I can see Pope making a visit just to talk to the to the girl about maybe coming to Kentucky.

00:41:18
Speaker 5: I mean, Shane, what do you think Lubjhana. I mean, it's it's not even that big.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: It makes sense.

00:41:23
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I've been there, it's big, it's their capital, so but.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: Still maybe they're working in tandems. You're gonna take that trip.

00:41:28
Speaker 3: Over there, he was on the trip and nobody news then both coaches and make of them.

00:41:32
Speaker 4: That would make some sense. Townsend, go ahead, Townsend.

00:41:37
Speaker 12: Hey, good morning guys, Matt. I wanted to say that your observation and questions to Drew about what to do with the baby in the middle of the night had me absolutely cracking up. And it's funny because those are questions that first time parents always ask himself in the middle of the night. A question for you that I saw on the internet recently, if you could have an athletic superpower for twenty four hours, what would it be so you can hit like Barry Bond, you can run like the same bolt, you can throw like Brady? What would it be for you?

00:42:07
Speaker 8: Guys?

00:42:07
Speaker 4: That's a great question.

00:42:08
Speaker 5: Let me think about that during the break the athletic superpower and I would want to have appreciate the call for twenty four hours, I'll think about it. I like that question.

00:42:16
Speaker 4: Also, we've got to talk about the dude that's being naked in Cherokee.

00:42:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got that picture and the Louisville Police Departments account.

00:42:26
Speaker 4: We got to do that.