2026-01-16- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes Eda May, the Queen of Southern SaaS January fifteenth through the seventeenth. Then from Hulu and social media, catch Zarna Gark January twenty third and twenty fourth, and from TV The Office and anchor Man. Don't miss David Keckner January thirtieth and thirty first. For tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call A five nine, two, seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Comedy off Bay.

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, January the fifteenth, here at the Wild Eggs. These two ladies right here excited to have us. They're barely clappy. Look combarrassed. They look now, let's try that again and let's get you all some energy ready. Welcome everyone to Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: They're not here for us, they were here for I got it.

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Speaker 4: See. I like that.

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Speaker 2: I like being in places where there are people there who did not come to see us.

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Speaker 4: They just wanted eggs, that's all they wanted.

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Speaker 3: Got dinner in a show, and.

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Speaker 2: They came here to watch egs and they end up getting called out. We are here at Kentucky Sports Radio at Wild Eggs off Tates Creek.

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Speaker 4: On what is the name of this road, Saren Drive, Saren Drive.

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Speaker 2: And it is fueling up for Wild Eggs before the Tennessee game. Three locations they've got you've been to all of them. They've got one right next to our bar, right correct, They've got one uh here, and then one out in Hamburg.

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Speaker 5: Palamar, Hamburg. And this is the new and here off Tates Creek. And this is a this is the biggest one. This is really nice.

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Speaker 4: It is and J and Ryan's Sun works here.

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Speaker 2: So how about that you have a you have some family ownership, well maybe not ownership, but your son works here.

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Speaker 5: He was hustling once as I walked in. I can't wait and introduce myself. Hey, I'm Ryan.

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Speaker 4: You remember me?

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Speaker 5: Like he went back to school and I haven't seen him all week.

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Speaker 4: That's right, a week.

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Speaker 2: It's been a whole seven days, a whole week.

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Speaker 4: Wow. So we are here.

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Speaker 2: You can give shallon the Clark's Puppets chop phone line eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four In this distion sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office. If you call TJL, make them pay. They've got all kinds of great food here. Drew the potato head cast role, the loco hash till you probably bring us some of this later. We always eat up on it. And this is, in my opinion, the best breakfast spot and throughout the state.

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Speaker 6: Completely agree. I love Wild Eggs. I used to live right over here in college. If Wild Eggs had been here back then, I would have been in big trouble. Because this is always a treat. I try to come there at least once a month.

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Speaker 4: So like, yeah, let's talk about this little neighborhood. You lived right over here.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I used to walk over to Grapevine.

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Speaker 4: I lived right over here.

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Speaker 2: I lived at the Grand Reserve, which is just right there. That bar over there is where a person who used to do my job, not Kentucky Sports Radio, but another local sports radio host, had his career end.

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Speaker 4: At a bar right over there. Do you remember that?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I forgot about it.

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Speaker 6: You're pointing toward the Grapevine. Are you talking about the Grapevine?

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Speaker 4: I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, that his career ended about twenty years fifteen years ago, right over there.

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Speaker 3: Let's not in anybody's career today here.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping this is not an area where you have to be very careful. Ryan Lemon, what you say today to uh, to not let that happen to us?

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Speaker 5: Let the great vine then sparked John Michael Montgomery and Troy Gentry and those guys kind of started their Eddie Montgomery all went through the grape vine and get going.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky Tennessee is tomorrow at noon on the road. We will get ready for that game. But I always like to do this you two. Ryan Lemmon last night missed qualifying for the finals of Trivia by one spot. Top five teams made it and Ryan Lemmon's team came in sixth.

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Speaker 4: I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 2: Though we were missed out by fifth. We had a pack with thirty five teams. Ryan Lemmons came in six. I think that deserves a round of applause that Ryan Lemon would come in six plas the holiday in line, Well, I.

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Speaker 5: Did say that holiday and express the night before U.

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Speaker 2: So I always do this, Shannon, where we do a couple of tribute questions. We're ready, uh, and now you two are on the hot spot. Okay, all right, this Kentucky team. One of the things I noticed, we have four players on the team whose first and last name start with the same letter. All right, Colin Chandler, Otega Oway, Malachai Moreno, Jasper Johnson. That's kind of that's odd.

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Speaker 4: But guess what, that has not happened very much.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, it's only happened thirteen times since nineteen ninety in.

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Speaker 4: UK basketball besides this year.

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Speaker 2: So four on this team, but only thirteen on the other thirty five years teams. So the question is, since nineteen ninety, can you give me the top eight scorers in Kentucky basketball whose first and last name started with the same letter Monk Malite, Monk is on't one of them?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Brandon Boston well done?

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Speaker 2: Shitned on to look at you getting Brandy? Yeah, I googled it. Everybody, did you see that? You didn't go? Well done? That's a very hard one.

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Speaker 4: Okay, there's two.

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Speaker 6: See, I had a bunch till you said top eight because Johnny Jews came.

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Speaker 4: To Johnny Jews was Johnny Juwseing's eleven?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I could I could do a few more.

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Speaker 3: That was my contribution. You're on your own now.

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Speaker 4: Johnny was eleven. Uh high scores though, anybody in the crowd one that didn't play last night? What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: What do you think? Isa? Bookie's first name was.

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Speaker 2: Hold On, way off.

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Speaker 3: Let's go back real quick.

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Speaker 2: Since what you're since ninety nine? Rondo ra Seon Rondo Shannon with this sound.

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Speaker 3: I googled that one too.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna guess Ansley Almanor is not on there.

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Speaker 2: I could do people that didn't score. Hansley Almanor was ninth, so you're very close. You're very close, but he ends up not being on the list.

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Speaker 3: Did you say, who'd you say?

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Speaker 2: You should have gotten the highest one? Patrick?

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Speaker 4: I google?

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Speaker 2: Patrick Patterson was first, so you got you've gotten four of them. Maybody want to give one more?

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Speaker 4: Guess before I before I anybody in the crowd want to give it back?

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Speaker 6: That you said nineteen ninety tells me there's one right around there, and I'm got anything around the potentia.

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Speaker 4: Two that are close.

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Speaker 2: Sean Sutton was on the list and then the highest Sith Saul. Yeah, well yeah, let's go we are google. Rick Roby was number Rick Roby, Patrick Patterson's number one in history for this, Rick Roby's number two, Patrick Patterson saw Smith the one not one team last night got thirty five teams and not one team.

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Speaker 4: He was twelve.

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Speaker 2: Roderick Roades. We all just forget poor Roger Rose who played here three years and it was really good for those three years, and.

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Speaker 4: No one ever remembers him. Uh you missed Kevin Knox.

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Speaker 3: Uh, well, it's it's because of k Knox. You know the end sound throwing off. I think starts well, I know it starts with the cave, but it's like saying, K is a knife, right.

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Speaker 4: Darlin's Noel.

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Speaker 2: And then finally one spot, just two points ahead of Ansley almanor.

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Speaker 4: Was Michael Moulder.

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Speaker 3: I would not have thought to say that one.

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Speaker 4: There you go, yah you And how many of those did you get last night?

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Speaker 5: We got six, I guess, Johnny josaying and Darnell Dotson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you also had five minutes to think about it. We're on the spot. We gotta do it.

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Speaker 4: Here's another here's.

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Speaker 2: Another little trivia question. I think you too will do good in this. I took eight states in the United States. You know there are fifty of them. I hope there's not fifty one soon. Actually I don't. I don't particularly care, but i'd rather I don't. I don't need to have a Trump Land is fifty first state. Uh eight states. I'm gonna give you a state, and you're gonna tell me what TV show had the most viewers.

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Speaker 4: That was set in that state. No, it's not so. For example, just to give you an example.

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Speaker 2: If I were to have said Indiana, the answer would be Stranger Things because they said it in India.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna get the premise. I'm gonna give you a couple easy ones.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Pennsylvania, the office is correct? Who said that?

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Speaker 2: Well done? Man?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: New York.

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Speaker 4: Now there's a lot of potential ones here.

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Speaker 2: But what would have the most watched set in New Yorks? Friends is correct? Sein Felt with second? Cosby Show was third. Now it gets a little harder, California. What is the most watched show set in California?

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Speaker 4: This is hard? Second? But what's no one has mentioned first?

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Speaker 2: First?

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Speaker 4: Going once? No one's got it, big bang theory theory.

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Speaker 2: Guy, all right, now this one, this one's a little This one's hard. Florida Florida Golden Girls. This table back here, you should have played the young ladies at Golden Girls.

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Speaker 3: About to say that if you quit stealing my answer?

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Speaker 2: All right, Texas what Dallas is?

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Speaker 4: Right? Man?

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Speaker 2: Yes, let me tell you. Of the thirty five teams, only like two got that right by Walker Texas Ranger was a second. Oh nice, All right, A lot of people should get this. What about Kentucky just justified its correct? Now that only like four teams got this one. I was surprised. Ohio, Ohio w A P is the station you're listening right now to Drew care is actually not a bad gas anybody? What's the radio one or the.

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Speaker 4: That's like third.

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Speaker 2: Not w k R P, Glee.

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Speaker 4: Oh people, that got that correct?

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Speaker 5: You guys got it.

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Speaker 2: And then finally last question, I think this is the hardest one. We did have a couple of teams get it right. Illinois Illinois.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Roseanne Well, Chicago PD.

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Speaker 4: So there you go. So those were the some of the questions last night. That was a great question.

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Speaker 5: Listened a lot of response from your team. You know, nobody's kind of trying to figure it out. That was one of the good ones.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So there, so those were some of the questions, and Shannon, you and Drew Shannon especially you might have done very well.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, it's much easier with Google.

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Speaker 2: It is much easier with Google. Eight five, nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Let's start with the game tomorrow games at noon, early game. Hopefully the people in Knoxville will be asleep and will not show up. It is an early game against the balls. We have won three of the last four there, and in all three of those games, I think we thought we had zero chance of winning. We have won down there with teams that we have no business winning with. We won with that CJ. Frederick Antonio Reeves. When we were we lost I think three straight and then went down there and won. We won last year I think did we win with Reid and Rob We had a big game. The COVID team that couldn't beat anybody won down COVID.

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Speaker 6: I think it's actually five out of six, five out.

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Speaker 4: Of six in Knoxville. When I was a kid, I've said this many times.

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Speaker 2: The only time I ever saw Kentucky play was in Knoxville, because that's where I would go with my grandfather, and we always lost every single time we went.

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Speaker 4: Now it's becoming like a home court. Drew, does it extend tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 6: I'm not ready to commit to his side, but I believe that Kentucky is gonna be at it, even though I have lots of worries about this team like everyone else.

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Speaker 4: Just you just said it.

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Speaker 6: The way they've played in that building the last five out of six. Last year they went down there without Lamont Butler or Andrew carr In one. One year they went down there without severe Wheeler caseon Wallace gets in ful trouble. That was when Frederick has the game. They've just been able to stream wins down there together when people least expected. I mean, they were an eleven point underdog, a thirteen point underdog and won both of those outright. So I think Kentucky will be in the mix.

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Speaker 2: I think the only time we've lost down there recently was the Uh was the second Oscar team? I think besides yeah, the second we have won since COVID, even though we feel it feels very disappointed. Since COVID, we've won down there every time except the second Oscar team.

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Speaker 4: What do you think?

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Speaker 5: I just got to hope that the way they found themselves in the second half against LSU.

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Speaker 4: That carries over.

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Speaker 5: You know, you can't afford to get down on the road, and then some of these SEC tournament games, SEC regular season games and come back and win it. You just got to continue that. Don't get down. It's at noon. Maybe maybe we'll wake up faster than they will. I don't know, how do you feel about it, though, I'm kind of a drum not ready to commit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for a win, so no one's committed.

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Speaker 3: They're a tenor n at home. They almost lost in double overtime a couple of nights ago to Texas.

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Speaker 2: They are tending to know at home. But I think it's a little bit of a misleading stack because they could have lost a couple of games at home against teams that aren't great. I will note that every time we've won down there, a random person has come off the bench or something and played well. Last year, Trent Noah had a big game down there. You may remember this was the game a few years ago that Antonio Reeves broke out. He had not even been playing, and then he went down there and he and C. J. Frederick both had big games. I think Reid played really well down there and at that point haddn't played a ton. That was kind of a game that got him spurred.

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Speaker 6: Everybody was talking about Dalton connect and Reid went down there and got twenties.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we've had a lot of games where guys have kind of stepped to the forefront that haven't been the biggest player up until that point.

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Speaker 4: Is there someone that it could be today on our team tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: Is this I mean Tretton Noah hasn't played at all. Does he go down there, maybe get some minutes and you know I have mine?

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Speaker 6: This is an easy answer, y'all.

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Speaker 4: Buckle up.

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Speaker 6: It's a Yellowvich game. Yellovich, Okay, get ready. We almost saw more Yellovich and Baton rouge he had, but he played like fifteen twenty minutes. It did well in his first starting role. I think he takes another step forward. In Knoxville, they have a lot of size to their big dude, really, Reno Garrison. All the guys will have to throw some bodies at Carney. I mean he's a unit. He's one of the best big guys in the SEC, just size wise.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, they have Carney and then their freshman that had all this height Nate Amen. He played really poorly in the non conference, but has started to look like the star ride that people thought he'd be in the last three or four games. I mean, he had been maybe the biggest disappointment in the country as a freshman, and he really has started to turn it off.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the overtiming aint A and M he scored like their first eight points in the first overtime and second over time. He kind of just took over. You got that Gillespie dude that runs their point. You know, he's gonna be a load to kind of handle. But they're kind of guard heavy, you know, they kind of rely on those three guards out there.

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Speaker 2: The good thing is they don't put up a lot of points in general, and that's something that we don't either, So Assom Shanon, that might be a way for us to uh uh, to be able to wit.

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Speaker 3: I just think this game on the road is critical to get off to a good start, and we've seen the team struggle so much the last well really all season really the.

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Speaker 4: Whole Pope era. Yeah, we have not started well.

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Speaker 2: We've now, to be fair, we've been a good second half team, but we have been we gotta stop.

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Speaker 3: Doing they can't get down. I think in this atmosphere, you know, when the fans get into it, that's a tough road to come back from.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this is the Food City Center. It's no longer Thompson Bowling. We're two and zero in the Food City Center. After they made fun of Kroger Field for years, they went and named Thompson Bowling the Food City city Center, and we're undefeated there.

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Speaker 2: I learned something, by the way, on the trivia I did the eight plate, the eight places that sell the most groceries. Some of them you would guess, Walmart, Kroger, Target, Costco.

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Speaker 4: Eighth is food line.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't even know there were still food lines.

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Speaker 3: I never heard of a food line.

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Speaker 4: You never heard of a food line.

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Speaker 3: Where would I find a food line back in the day, like everywhere, I.

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Speaker 2: Feel like Tennessee had food lines.

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Speaker 5: I think they were all over the South.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a Southern thing for a long time, and then the northern version was like Giant or something like that. But anyway, there are more of those than apparently I realized. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, the text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two, five four. We'll take a break. We're back here at Wild Eggs in Tates Creek. This is Kentucky Sports Radio work.

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Speaker 4: Come back.

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Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Wild Eggs. Okay, she's first of all, this is at my uncle's here. I wanted to say, HOI, he's got to go here for a second. Nice to see you. Former team chaplain of the Jobey Hall, Kentucky Basketball Era.

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Speaker 4: Now what is your name? Ma'am?

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Speaker 2: Sandy's birthday is today? You are thirty six seventy three close.

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Speaker 4: I was very close. What are you gonna do to celebrate your birthday?

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Speaker 2: You were out with your girls galivaning last night and then you came and had the morning after breakfast, and so what are we doing today?

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Speaker 4: This might be it?

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, well you picked early, you enjoyed, so everybody happy birthday, birthday, birthday, Sandy, Happy birthday. All right, So there you go, A five nine to you if you need to go now. I just wanted to make sure to say a five nine two twenty two eighty seven food lines in Kentucky. There's Cynthiana had one, Hopkinsville and Radcliffe, Glasgow and Somerset.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 4: You were asking about food lines.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it seemed like they were like in it just like rural areas in the South. I thought they were more of that in Kentucky, but maybe, like you said, make primarily in Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think the Caroline is a lot of them too, a f I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Okay, Kroger Field announced UK announced new renovations to Kroger Field. Most of the renovations if it felt very much like we're gonna do some renovations to make money, and then we're gonna throw some.

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Speaker 4: Of you all in the worst seats. We're gonna give you a little bit.

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Speaker 2: So they're making more luxury suites, they're putting more stuff in the luxury areas, and then if you sit in the worst parts of the stadium, basically the very top behind the goal, now you have seatbacks.

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Speaker 4: Is that how you read it?

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Speaker 6: You know, they're adding a lot more seatbacks to the upper level.

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Speaker 2: One thing I like they're doing.

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Speaker 6: I need to see it in action is a lot of pro stadiums have like area standing areas.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna kind of like hot top tables, you can be social.

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Speaker 6: I love that when you go to game and your friends are in another part of the area, like hey, meet me in the end zone. UK is adding kind of a form of that. That was of all the things they're adding, I think that's the most that can impact a lot of people that aren't just you know, in the in the luxury areas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when I looked at it, I've kind of been I mean, I still think like we got to find a way to get Wi Fi. Although, to be fair to them, the cell phone service is a lot better in that stadium that it used to be. It used to be when you go in that stadium it was just a dead zone. You couldn't use your phone. It's it's you can for the most part use it. Might might not be able to see send video, but you could for the most part use it. But now, uh, I sort of read all the changes as Ryan, They've got to continue to do stuff to make money, and so it is luxury stuff to try to continue to increase revenue for this new era of paying players, et cetera.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you want people to come to the game, and you know the crowd that have been diminishing over the years, and now you want to make it a better experience.

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Speaker 2: Well, but I mean it's a small for a small set of people. I mean it's it is for for these luxury areas, and I mean the seatbacks at the top.

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Speaker 4: I do think Hell, I think it helped them.

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Speaker 5: That's where I sent a lot of times up there. So now a lot of times I always stay at home in the luxury seats.

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Speaker 2: Right, so let's let's pause right there. You tell me you sit at the top. You want to you want to look at these five people here at Wild Eggs.

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Speaker 4: You want to look at it.

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Speaker 2: You want to look at these people and tell them sit at the top.

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Speaker 4: So size here.

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Speaker 5: He'll tell you how any time we set up up there because he got a player pass and that's where they put the players recruit pass up there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, asking, I feel like I remember a lot of sitting, Like fourth row drew it with the keys.

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Speaker 5: Some games were there, but when the keys had extra didn't have extra tickets, we have to go sit up top.

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Speaker 3: Well, at least you have something to lean on.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're also.

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Speaker 6: Adding to the I don't know who sponsors it now, Keenland whatever that middle area at the fifty they're adding more seats into that where there's a big standing area, So they're going to try to put more.

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Speaker 4: Seats into that.

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Speaker 6: But that I love that that's still on the high end of fans.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about football for just a second. In terms of players, the sort of period to make decisions is ending quickly.

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Speaker 4: Right when is it end? This weekend? Today? Today? Sixteenth?

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Speaker 2: So today is kind of commitment day Kentucky happening today. Over the last two or three days, Kentucky has had three wide receivers here. I think there's an offensive lineman here, there's an edge rusher. A lot of people think this wide receiver from.

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Speaker 6: LSU might Yeah, he's been on campus already, he.

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Speaker 4: May commit today.

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Speaker 2: They had a couple people coming in on the six am flights today into Lexington. But I think you're gonna have a really good idea of what Kentucky's roster is drew at.

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Speaker 4: The end of the day today.

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Speaker 6: Definitely, Stun's done a great job to this point, and even the national conversations around it are kind of blowing my mind how excited people are that are neutral parties. But wide receivers still a concern and you got pass blockers and guys who can throw. But he hadn't added to many that can catch yet. And Washington can be that guy. He was a huge recruit, ghast to LSU, had some injuries.

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Speaker 4: Some other issues.

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Speaker 6: He with Oklahoma first right, originally an Oklahoma commitment. I mean that's I think it was a top two hundred guy that could be your wide receiver one. He was on campus yesterday. Who knows, maybe they convinced him not to leave. I don't know how far that went, but that's the one to watch.

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Speaker 2: Would you say, Shannon, I would argue that the will Stein recruiting era, So like, if you're going through the things a new coach has to do, they have to do well at the press conference check yes, right. I think they have to have their mother make good cakes. Check yes, his mother makes the best.

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Speaker 3: I'm still gotta try him.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I can see why Ryan ate the entire first box. They're really good, They genuinely are really good. Then you need to uh do well in your first recruiting class, I think double check.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean they've basically and they've done it in an old in like what Mark stoops won with there are We've we got the best offensive line of any team in the portal.

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Speaker 3: Three out of the top five.

00:21:32
Speaker 2: Nobody in the portal. Nobody in the country did better on the offensive line than we did. Now, Drew's right, the one issue is wide receiver.

00:21:39
Speaker 4: Hopefully they take care of that today.

00:21:41
Speaker 2: But I think as far as will Stein up until this point, granted we haven't played any games, I think he's done amazing.

00:21:46
Speaker 3: Hey, let's keep in mind he was doing a lot of that while he was also the offensive coordinator for Oregon High playoffs, so that multitasking is off the charge.

00:21:53
Speaker 4: It really is unbelievable.

00:21:55
Speaker 2: Mitch Barnhardt said yesterday, when I envisioned what it would be like if he had to do two Ryan, he said, he's.

00:22:01
Speaker 4: Done it twice as good as I thought he could.

00:22:04
Speaker 3: He's killed it.

00:22:04
Speaker 5: And that's credit to his staff too, the guys that were hearing boots on the ground doing stuff when he was out in Oregon. You'll Sloan's bringing maybe this guy in from LSU. I'm sure he had a relationship with him. The offensive tackle we got from Tennessee. Sloan had a relationship with that guy. So those guys are doing their job too.

00:22:17
Speaker 2: You got to give him a lot of credit. I mean, he's gotten a lot of excitement. Now. Of course they're gonna play probably the hardest schedule in the history of UK football next year, but.

00:22:26
Speaker 3: We've hit a little honeymoon period, kind of like Pulp the first year.

00:22:30
Speaker 4: No, yeah, I agree. I think he gets but I think we're gonna be competitive.

00:22:34
Speaker 2: Do you.

00:22:35
Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely, especially seeing these national guys that I trust and let's do for a long time talking about how they believe in Kentucky.

00:22:41
Speaker 2: When this program's done, well, we've either had star quarterback or great offensive line. We don't know what the quarterback will be, although there's potential, but he does seem to have created a really good offensive line. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio Live, and Wild is welcome back in his Kentucky Sports Live. All right, that's right, my trivia. Now, wait a minute. If you're gonna be good at trivia, you have to clap when we come back. Welcome back Thanky Sworts Radio. There you go, all right, yeah, there you go. That's better. Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four I'm gonna do some breaking news. This is my breaking news. Rick, go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and call it. Southern Utah wide receiver Shane Carr. I'm gonna say he picks Kentucky because he already has Kentucky and his Instagram bio and I just noted it. And if he has Kentucky in his Instagram bio, unless he's pulling the all time fake, I'm gonna say today Ryan, he's picking Kentucky.

00:23:40
Speaker 3: Pretty good.

00:23:41
Speaker 4: Indicator's one of the two receivers here.

00:23:43
Speaker 5: Putting an indicator you already change his bio on his social media platform that he's coming here.

00:23:47
Speaker 6: We've seen guys put on a hat and then faked off and switch putting something in your bio and changing it with it. I'm gonna agree that's probably right and make your correction. Yeah, I was saying, Washington, I don't know why. I guess I know what Nick Washington, Nick Anderson, So let me correct there from LSU not Washington.

00:24:01
Speaker 2: Also former Orlando Magic Shannon that missed for all the free throws out of that one year in the in the championship.

00:24:07
Speaker 6: He can tell Washington tillof season.

00:24:09
Speaker 2: H UK women last night, we watched this game at the bar during trivia. They got up twenty on Florida in the first half. Florida came back led by eight in the second half, but then Kentucky's women come through at the end get the victory and now seventeen.

00:24:25
Speaker 4: And two riding on the season. But it was that was a tough win last night.

00:24:29
Speaker 5: You know, we were playing trivia. You know, they got such a big lead. I kind of lost track of the game. You came by and you said they're behind. LSU had scored I mean, Florida scored thirty five points. I think in the third quarter alone. Just went nuts in the third quarter, took to retake the lead.

00:24:42
Speaker 2: But Kentucky's women get it. The Kentucky women. I watched all of that game while I was kind of letting everybody do the trivia. They do have They have a hard time guarden people, but people have a hard time guarding them. They have such a heighth advantage. They can score and they make threes, so they get beat off the dribble a lot, but they find a way Drew to come.

00:25:03
Speaker 4: Back on the other end and get offense.

00:25:05
Speaker 6: And some of that's yeah, go inside where we have a stack of towers in there. I know last night Key's been injured and Clara Strack had a little foul trouble. But Tony Morgan had another huge game. I know when they signed her, it's big shoes to fill with George Amore going pro, but she's headed.

00:25:19
Speaker 4: It's been great start to the season. Halfway through these If I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, who's up.

00:25:25
Speaker 2: First, Kentucky gas Man up first?

00:25:29
Speaker 4: How are you doing, sir?

00:25:31
Speaker 8: Doing great on this Friday. I've got two things today. First off, I've got a prediction for the game tomorrow. I'm gonna say we have another buzzer beater Otaga. Oh way, list it in for the win.

00:25:45
Speaker 2: You know, he would probably wants to get back missing that free throw, although you do wonder if he'd missed the free throw or made the free throw, we would have still won the game. But I could easily see he's due a buzzer beater. He had a couple last year, so I think he'll have at least one this year sometime.

00:26:02
Speaker 4: Okay.

00:26:03
Speaker 8: The other thing is you have absolutely got to somehow stop this slow start. This cannot continue this slow start. And I believe I have the thing that will definitely fix it off.

00:26:18
Speaker 4: All Right, dude, listen, Mark Pope needs help.

00:26:21
Speaker 2: You tell him what is the way that you're going to fix all of Kentucky's problems at the.

00:26:26
Speaker 4: Start of the game.

00:26:28
Speaker 8: Okay, how long would you start?

00:26:31
Speaker 4: I'm in, all right, I need a suggestion.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: I'm not in. I didn't come here to take a test. You tell me what how Mark Pope is supposed to do? To do it.

00:26:43
Speaker 8: The last fifteen minutes of warmups, five on five, full speed, full contact. I know it sounds kind of unorthodox, but at this point it sounds horrible.

00:26:54
Speaker 4: It sounds like the worst idea I've ever heard.

00:26:57
Speaker 2: Fifteen you would have them play a fifteen minute real basketball game before the game starts.

00:27:04
Speaker 8: Well, just you know, half court obviously, I mean so obviously.

00:27:10
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well I appreciate the call. What do you Ryan, What do you think about that idea?

00:27:15
Speaker 5: You know, Tubby had a team I don't remember what year that had his They were coming out slow starting, and he had him in warm ups like the first time they come out in the court, do like actual practice drills and trying to get them a little more lathered up going into it so it's not lathered up.

00:27:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you make everything so gross?

00:27:35
Speaker 6: I think they were doing that in Louisville.

00:27:36
Speaker 4: Not contented.

00:27:37
Speaker 5: It's not like a shower, but I do remember they they did this for a while to try to keep his team from starting so slow. Shout out five on five half court. But they were trying to do something during pregame.

00:27:47
Speaker 3: Wark we're trying to trick them into thinking the game already started once the game starts.

00:27:50
Speaker 2: I mean, you're thinking about what they do with horses. I don't think that's I don't think that's exactly the same thing, but I think it would be hilarious. Like while teams are getting ready for the national anthem, Kentucky is playing a basketball game. They're like, national guard, I need you to move over.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: We still got to go to ten.

00:28:08
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't hate it.

00:28:09
Speaker 6: Let's try it out. I mean, obviously what we're doing is not working.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: Let's play full speed.

00:28:13
Speaker 6: I want guys hands on their knees at the jump ball to start the game, because they're already sweating and tired. Might even have a few fouls each. Get them out of the way.

00:28:19
Speaker 3: If you want to save us money on DraftKings, bet race the ten on the other team.

00:28:23
Speaker 4: Well, that's been I bet it's been pretty good.

00:28:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, every game year Cal started DJ, that hit so many times and the odds are always good for the.

00:28:32
Speaker 2: We got really good teams. We always won that the first to tear. We used to get off to really really good starts.

00:28:40
Speaker 4: In a lot of those years.

00:28:40
Speaker 2: But you're right, the DJ team did not.

00:28:44
Speaker 4: I do think it's interesting.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: After all year we heard over and over analytics say that we need to play these guys and have eleven dudes play and nobody gets more than twenty two minutes. They've now reverted to playing six guys the whole game. We're now we're back to doing what a lot of people wanted us to do with through the.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: Of the year.

00:29:06
Speaker 6: Analytics are good, and I'm pro analytic, but sometimes your eyeballs just use those and they tell the story. And when you have guys given half effort, that doesn't show up in whatever formula you're putting into your iPad uh And I think after a while Pope just had to look up and see this isn't working. I just got to play the best dudes and ride with them.

00:29:22
Speaker 2: What was the story that Jack said about Diabate's.

00:29:27
Speaker 6: There's some internet scuttle butt that Diaboate was late to like the film session on Monday.

00:29:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's some some talk that maybe Diabaate got bitched because he missed or at least missed part of film study on Monday. I have to say I've been very I've been very disappointed with Diabate, not even so much as play, as just actions. I got sent some quotes yesterday that I hadn't seen, which we're ryan about Diabate at Alabama, Nate Oates throughout that year in Alabama, going if we can just get Diabate to folks, if we can just get diabaatee to keep his mind on the court, Like all these quotes from when Nate oates, this has obviously been a consistent problem with him that I really didn't.

00:30:09
Speaker 5: Know, and obviously we all see it. They just play better when he's not out there. I don't he had what two good games we sped, like twenty points one of these early games this season, but outside of that, he's kind of been a non factor in most of our games.

00:30:22
Speaker 6: He just needs to be a guy that comes off the bench and gets rebounds, play defense, which is exactly what Nate Oates did with him. We paid him a lot to be something bigger, and as we've seen, when he tries to do something with the ball, he just does. That's three he took.

00:30:35
Speaker 2: I mean he shoots the ball shinnon from three, like from his belly button. Yeah, and then he like pushes it up and I just I never think it's going yet.

00:30:43
Speaker 3: And then the thing with the teammates too, it doesn't seem to be just bickering with teammates, coaches too.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:30:48
Speaker 2: With that said, when we hit the game winning shot, nobody ran on the floor faster than him.

00:30:53
Speaker 4: Very true.

00:30:54
Speaker 2: I mean he was. He was out there celebrating and out there with his teammates quicker than anybody else. So I mean there is you know, there is there is that as well. Who's next?

00:31:02
Speaker 3: Donnie?

00:31:03
Speaker 2: Is up next?

00:31:04
Speaker 4: Donnie? Go ahead, Gonni.

00:31:07
Speaker 9: Hey, listen.

00:31:09
Speaker 10: When I'm sitting on the couch in my living room watching Dilbona take a three, I just I pull my hair out, and and I love Pope, don't get me wrong, but go I would I would take him out of the game and I would burn his ears going to the bench.

00:31:28
Speaker 4: But don't do that. That's probably illegal.

00:31:31
Speaker 10: God.

00:31:32
Speaker 9: But anyway, well, anyway, what I would do on the on the slow start, I would take the start and side out and I would burn their ears on the way to the bench. On more comment, Matt and I let you go.

00:31:51
Speaker 10: And it showed its ugly head again the last game.

00:31:55
Speaker 4: I hope these guys.

00:31:56
Speaker 10: Are listening to this. The ball players, my gosh, we we act like we've never seen a pick in basketball. Here's what I would say for them. All the players all.

00:32:09
Speaker 2: Pick well, I mean I don't think I don't think they Yeah, I appreciate the call. I think that Pope probably doesn't want them to switch on every pick because you can get some mismatches. But I thought they were better now unless you just hit a bunch of good shots too. In that second half. I mean the first half they had open looks. Second half they hit some you know, they hit some hit some good shots. The problem was we were so far behind. We're here at Wild Eggs, great food. What's your favorite thing they have here?

00:32:38
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00:32:53
Speaker 2: Hispanic sausage. Yeah, there's an ethnicity to the sausage. It is, you know Hispanics about people.

00:33:00
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00:33:01
Speaker 6: Spicy sausages.

00:33:02
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00:33:04
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00:33:20
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00:34:04
Speaker 4: See this is what's this is what's all of you got. You all have taken the time to.

00:34:08
Speaker 2: Come to a radio show and you're sitting in the front row and you are all looking down on your phone, like, come on down, Pat, I thought news broke some people. Pat, Twitter is even down and you're still on your phone.

00:34:24
Speaker 3: If you were here, you would be reading a magazine. Let's be real.

00:34:26
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. So much more respect hi. One of the most crazy things I can ever remember. Rod Winkler a legend, mostly a heel legend of the KSR era. You may remember in twenty fourteen when we played at Arkansas and someone can try to fight Aaron Harrison after the game, a student named Rod Winkler. He came on the show when it was the next day. He gave the famous he a man like you, A man like I'm a man and then all you got it all wrong. Yeah, you've heard those drops. Shannon was in studio, he would play them. Rod Winkler tried to fight Aaron Harrison in twenty fourteen. Yesterday, part of the college basketball gambling scandal. Twenty people in the FBI investigation that were arrested. One of them was Rod Winkler, age thirty one, who at the age of nineteen, tried to fight Aaron Harrison at a UK basketball game while a student at Arkansas. And now, twelve years later, the scandal that brought in seventeen college basketball players across the country. Ryan includes Rod Winkler. There's that not amazing.

00:35:42
Speaker 5: There's that picture of him squaring up against Aaron Harrison. I thought it was just so crazy at the time. He came on the show the next day.

00:35:49
Speaker 3: This is even crazier.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: He pops up seven years later in this seven scandal.

00:35:54
Speaker 4: What year you thinking?

00:35:55
Speaker 5: I just said seven, there's fourteen, Ryan, let's do some math.

00:35:59
Speaker 3: Twenty six, yes's gonna be double digits. Ye gotta be twelve twelve.

00:36:04
Speaker 4: So it was twelve years ago. I have to say.

00:36:06
Speaker 2: Somebody sent me that and I was like, what are the chances that would be the same guy. Then I saw he was in Little Rock arc. I can't believe it's the same guy.

00:36:14
Speaker 6: Drew I spent I think I pulled an all nighter that time, photoshopping him on different stuff. We had him on the show, and then I closed my Rod Wingler book and didn't think I got ever opened again. I didn't think d Winkler would ever in our lives again. Then we get this big scandal and right there is his name.

00:36:29
Speaker 2: How is it, Shannon, that you can have two different things in your life with no connection. Yeah, that are such big stories that you are in the middle.

00:36:40
Speaker 4: Neither of them good.

00:36:41
Speaker 2: You tried to fight a player and now you might be going to federal prison for trying to fix college basketball game.

00:36:47
Speaker 3: At least we know what he knows how to fight. You have to fight.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: I thought, we know he's a big college basketball fan.

00:36:52
Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, your life is wild, huh? I mean that guy we only know his name for those two reasons.

00:36:57
Speaker 2: So more details of that scandal came out. Seventeen different teams involved. The details of the scandal are insane. I don't know how these people did not think they were gonna get caught.

00:37:11
Speaker 4: There was one instance a guy.

00:37:12
Speaker 2: Placed a five hundred and forty five thousand dollars bet on Kent State Buffalo first half line.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: Nothing suspicious about that at.

00:37:22
Speaker 2: All, first half line.

00:37:25
Speaker 4: How did they think they were gonna get caught?

00:37:27
Speaker 2: One of them was a Southern Miss basketball game, two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars on Southern Miss to cover, placed at a Kentucky casino on there. I mean, there were some wild bets, Drew. You know, I understand that there are people who think there's too like gambling's too much a part of sports.

00:37:50
Speaker 4: I get it. I actually think I can understand that argument.

00:37:53
Speaker 2: I also would say to you, though, however, the reason this stuff gets caught is because it's legal.

00:37:59
Speaker 4: Like That's why I get it's caught.

00:38:00
Speaker 2: Because when you make a five hundred thousand dollars bet on Kent State Buffalo first half, it raises.

00:38:05
Speaker 3: Some people going what a loother that way jump right to five hundred thousand. I would maybe ease into it a little bit, you know, maybe go like a couple one hundred at first. Those not make it too obvious, but that's the thing.

00:38:13
Speaker 6: You know, they're in a group like all right, guys, small bets, yes, space out Ohio, Illinois, and then one guy's in Kentucky like five hundred thousand dollars on kids stood Buffalo.

00:38:23
Speaker 5: First three is the thought process of these guys are gonna have been on these minor mid college games, maybe slided by nobody's gonna.

00:38:29
Speaker 2: Know, you know, I mean, I think the theory is well, first of all, it would be fit. The theory would be it's easier to fix games where people aren't paying attention. Right, So if Kentucky is playing Arkansas, the game's on national TV. If one guy's just dogging it, you can tell, right, But who's watching kent State Buffalo right, nobody?

00:38:51
Speaker 4: Nobody's watching it. It's easier to get access to the players.

00:38:54
Speaker 2: And the federal prosecutor said every player in the report had not gotten in IOLA money, so part of it maybe, look, these guys aren't making any money you got, you're trying to cut him in. I'll also note Rod Winkler is not the only name from Scandal's past. Antonio Blakeney, who Drew mentioned yesterday, Does anybody remember where he his name ended up? He was He was one of the two recruits that Katina Powell tried to get hookers for one of him, real bad. Yes, he was one of the two Katina Powell recruits was Antonio Blakeney, the famous uh blond hair, blue eyes, blah blah blah blah blah. That was for Antonio Blakeney. So these two crazy names from the past drew come back in this college gambling report.

00:39:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's not that many people name what was it twenty and we know two of them a little bit of a connection to not personally, but we remember them from the past. Yeah, Blakeney's got a wild journey. Uh, he's probably gonna be going away for a while. He'll have plenty of time to write a book. I would like to know what all he did throughout basketball. Yeah, there was been playing basketball.

00:40:04
Speaker 2: Even though college basketball has got a lot of the attention. The biggest money parts of the indictment were in Chinese basketball, and they quoted one.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: Of the gamblers in a phone call they had recorded. He said, there are only.

00:40:17
Speaker 2: Three things assured in life, death taxes, and fixed Chinese basketball games.

00:40:26
Speaker 3: In no word, I kind of want to watch some Chinese basketball just to see how blatant it is that they're cheating.

00:40:32
Speaker 2: Death taxes and fixed Chinese I also say a guy and Idaho bet three hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a Chinese basketball game, that in and of itself, you should be arrested for stupidity just for placing that bet.

00:40:44
Speaker 6: I would argue, Yeah, even if you didn't have any intel all, you were just picking one. You shouldn't live amongst us if you're putting three hundred thousand dollars on a Chinese.

00:40:50
Speaker 4: Basketball Who's next?

00:40:52
Speaker 2: Cadence?

00:40:53
Speaker 4: Is next, Cadence? Go ahead, Cadence.

00:40:57
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so I did read that was the craziest thing I think I've ever read in my life. Chinese basketball is definitely like not something I think got that on. But uh, I do want to say that will Stein has done an absolute great job in this portal. I think you'll get Nick Anderson. We have potential to maybe be an eight and four team.

00:41:24
Speaker 4: Not trying to wow over each standard.

00:41:28
Speaker 1: Well I'm doing that.

00:41:29
Speaker 2: First of think, Yeah, if they get Nick Anderson, that's a great that's a great wide receiver gift for them. I still think they're probably a little short by the way I got asked. I appreciate the call about when he first came here. I said that I thought they were gonna bring four to five organ guys. That I think was the original plan. I had one of the people on the staff say, we think we'll get four to five organ guys. It doesn't, at least as if yet, they haven't gotten any. I kind of wonder Ryan if maybe Oregon said, hey, since we're letting you stay here to call this and all this, maybe we don't steal our players.

00:42:00
Speaker 4: Do you think that might I haven't talked to anybody to get the update.

00:42:03
Speaker 5: But I'm with you the feeling ones. I think he's gonna bring several guys with him in that dinamic.

00:42:07
Speaker 4: I do wonder if.

00:42:07
Speaker 2: Maybe there was some conversation during that leg the playoff of look man could be that could be a bad look because they haven't done that. We'll take a break come back. I re number two here at Wild Eggs. You see it is Kentucky Sports Radio