2025-05-28- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 2: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, May the twenty eighth. I'm Matt Jones here on Wingsday in Lexington, Kentucky. Little over cast, cloudy day, but we are here at Chaos Bar and Grill.

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Speaker 5: Love to have you join us.

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Speaker 5: I just found out yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Forty six teams over two courses be the most we've ever had.

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Speaker 5: We've never had more than like thirty four.

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Speaker 4: Forty six teams, So they're gonna be like almost two hundred people out there at the golf course.

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Speaker 5: It did occur to me.

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Speaker 4: Ryan Lemon Camp putt on both courses, So we may have to make Mario or somebody a punter because we don't. We're we're not gonna have that like so might Ryan will only be able to pick one.

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Speaker 6: So I heard you're on the Big Blue course and I'm on the Wildcat Course. While I'll remind everyone, I am the defending champion and I have three fourths of my squad backs.

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Speaker 5: So these two.

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Speaker 6: Hundred people will be competing for second.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's he it's twenty two on one course, twenty four on the other, and there are uh there. I'm told that on both courses there's.

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Speaker 6: A lot of alcohol, like a lot I saw some in the office yesterday. They're collecting it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot, like a lot.

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Speaker 4: We ended up having a lot of alcohol companies, sponsor holes and just so.

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Speaker 5: Everybody pays yourself.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've been been in the clubhouse as those things end. Just you know, they say slow and steady wins the race. I think you just need to keep that in mind.

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Speaker 6: Well, I will be ubering to the show on Friday. I always play it safe because I will be partaking. But I've already arranged to have a day out there.

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Speaker 4: All right, So uh, today for me, I think there are two big stories and I want to get to both of them. But before we do that, two quick things. First of all, do you know what I'm doing tonight? This is one of those things where you know, people get on me for various stuff, but they don't necessarily see some of these things like I'm doing tonight.

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Speaker 5: Do you know what I'm doing tonight?

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Speaker 7: I hear it involves McCreary County.

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Speaker 4: I'm driving to either pone not or Stern's. I don't know which one to know yet. It's on the map for the McCreary County Girls Middle and High School basketball banquet.

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Speaker 5: And yeah it is.

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Speaker 4: But you know what, when it's eastern Kentucky, they'll they pull it my strings. So I'm driving down there. Uh they asked me to come. It's a pasta dinner. Oh nice, that's why you're going.

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Speaker 5: It's a pasta dinner.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: McCreary County is known for its.

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Speaker 4: Pasta I didn't realize it is They say, you go to Bologna in Italy or or Stern's and I'm I'm going down there and I'm looking forward to it. But I'm getting my car and going to McCreary County and then turn around and coming right back. So uh, so there you go.

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Speaker 7: I can give you a couple of my jokes if you want to use those tonight.

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Speaker 5: You mean, like speaking joke.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the John Caliperry Room of Full Time out joke, that's always a killer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't need your jokes.

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Speaker 4: I'm more of a I'm more of an improv comic when it comes to you know, I'm just gonna tell these people follow your dreams right now.

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Speaker 7: It was is McCreary County did was that used to do the show in the library? Was that McCurry County.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, we yes, actually we did the We did the show where the horse walked by, Yes, County Library.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's also where the.

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Speaker 4: Jesus Gym is where every weight is named for a biblical figure.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I haven't heard of that one.

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Speaker 5: You haven't heard of that one.

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Speaker 4: It'd be like Corinthians, you know, barbells like, no, I'm not kidding. We played with the Ramel Bradley Joe Crawford basketball Tour. We played at the Jesus Gym in McCreary County. That was the game where Matt Heisenbuddle couldn't come. And so my friend the Turkey Hunter just played and said he was Matt Heisenbuddle, and no one noticed.

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Speaker 7: Gave autographs after the game.

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Speaker 4: They literally signed Matt Heisenbuddle autographs Shannon, and no one knew what Matt Heusenbuddle looked like, and so he signed them all all the whole time. And the thing is that may sound I'm bad, but everybody got to thought thought they got to meet Matt high.

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Speaker 7: That's true.

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Speaker 4: So why wouldn't Why wouldn't you.

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Speaker 7: You're breaking kids' hearts right now hearing this for the first time. Wait a minute. That was not good.

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Speaker 4: But I think that's that was two thousand and nine, so eight, so I think those people are probably all adults.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever sign any Dave Fleming autographs?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 5: You know, you know, I just her things. I haven't seen there, folks, So anyway, I'm doing I'm doing that tonight.

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Speaker 7: Good luck tonight.

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Speaker 4: Also, I told a story on the podcast yesterday, which I'll talk more about that podcast later, but I want to retell it on the air here because I meant to complain about this on the air and I didn't get a chance. And I told this on the podcast with Drew yesterday, and I want to see, Shannon, if you and Ryan think.

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Speaker 5: This is as outrageous as I. Okay, all right, in Louisville.

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Speaker 4: You know I live in the Highlands, yes, and you know next to me is the Mid City Mall. People in Louisville know what the Mid City Mall is. The rest of the state might not. The Mid City Mall is like a mall, but I used that term Shannon very loosely. Right, It's more like a strip mall. But it is inside. Everything's inside. There are a couple of really nice things. There's a grocery store, and there's a there's a cool like movie theater. But it's shandon you would agree, broken down, kind of dilapidated. Sure, it was built in the seventies. Probably needs to be replaced.

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Speaker 2: You can tell it was built in the seventies by looking at.

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Speaker 4: It's a seventies building in and it's time picture right now, it's time to kind of move. It's because you've been to my house many times. So you know what this building is.

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Speaker 7: I don't know which one it is.

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Speaker 5: It's the one mall next to me. You know how there's all houses and then there's a mall.

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Speaker 2: It's the mall next to Skyline.

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Speaker 4: Next to Skyline, the back door bar that I've taken you to before, that's in midst Okay.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much for you all right, So anyway, he's a concussion from.

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Speaker 4: There used to be a bar there.

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Speaker 5: It closed.

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Speaker 4: Okay, long story short, they're time about replacing it and put and and the big question is what do you put. And there's a developer that's come up with the idea, let's put a six story building up retail on the first floor housing the other six five. Now, I don't have a strong view about this. My view though, is people always complained about the cost of housing. If you want more housing, you know what you gotta do. You gotta build housing. Like you can't complain about the cost of housing and not build more housing. It'll be weird to have a six story building in the Highlands. But Channing, you know what, progress, right, We got to move forward this world as long as not pickleball. I'm good.

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Speaker 2: That was going to be my suggestion.

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Speaker 4: No has to listen to that stupid Would you move?

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Speaker 5: Yes, I would do.

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Speaker 4: If they put pickleball there, I'm out. I've lived there for seventeen years. I'm out. So anyway, they had a town hall meeting, all right, I didn't even know about it. Now you can make a strong argument there's not one person in that neighborhood whose house will be more affected by this than me. Would you agree, Chanting, would you agree you know where it is?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like whose house is going to be more affected than mine? I'm right there on it.

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Speaker 4: Yep. No one even told me there was a meeting, Like literally didn't even get nos. But you know what's fine, I wouldn't have gone anyway.

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Speaker 6: You just want to be invited I're moved.

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Speaker 5: It's like a party. I don't want to go. Just invite me. But I didn't know.

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Speaker 4: But what I did see was a news story about the about the meeting, and they had a news story. They showed the people complaining a lot of people in our neighborhood don't want it. They're like, it'll be an I sore, it'll bring too many people here. It'll be you know, you know how people are. They just they get upset. But here's the part of the story that bothered me. They were like one concerned citizen. It's worried that with a six story building, people will be able to look down into their yard. And they show this woman standing there complaining in front of the yard, and then I realized, it's my house. Really, she's standing in my really pointing to what people could see. But it's my house. She doesn't live. I don't know, but I know where she doesn't live my house. I think I know where she lives, and she's down the block and it won't affect her. But yet, Shannon, she stole my standing to act like this was her house.

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Speaker 2: Your voice, she knew.

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Speaker 4: She's in my yard, acting like it's her house. So she's using for her agenda. She's using my house. And I talked about it yesterday on the podcast, and I'm getting more angry thinking about it, because what if I'm for it, Shannon.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if I am or not, But what if I'm for it and she's acting.

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Speaker 7: Like it's my house. Well, I think we've solved the mystery. She was in charge of inviting you to the meeting. She didn't invite you because her bolt to speak for me. I think she does. That's was her plan.

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Speaker 5: She drew.

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Speaker 4: You wondered if maybe she was living in my yard, and I just now think maybe you didn't.

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Speaker 7: Know she was good the whole time.

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Speaker 2: Maybe in that car. Is that car still back there?

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Speaker 4: She was in the back seat in the car. When's the last time you checked? Fourteen years ago? That car has not been opened in fourteen Do you worry.

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Speaker 6: A little bit about people being able to you know, peeping toms in the Highlands, they're everywhere spying on you in your backyard?

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Speaker 5: What am I doing?

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Speaker 2: Your whitey tities?

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Speaker 6: You mow with your shirt off?

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Speaker 4: Don't you walk around with a banana ham? But you know what I don't if I have to stop that for progress for the community.

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Speaker 6: Do you have blondes curtains?

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Speaker 4: I don't have blondes. I didn't for a few years, but I do now. But don't you feel like that's kind of rude to stand in my yard and complain about something where you don't even live there.

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Speaker 7: I think she was your voice. She thought maybe she could do it better.

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Speaker 6: I see it for your yard.

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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of genius.

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Speaker 4: In her car. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: See, Now you can't lay back there in sunbathe in your backyard because you get people.

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Speaker 7: Takeo and want them to be there.

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Speaker 6: I think they knocked on your door for an interview you weren't home, and she sees the opportunity. Love people love being on the local news complaining about things. I mean, you just spot two people do love to be.

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Speaker 5: On the local news.

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Speaker 4: Well, so I don't know who this woman is. I think I know where she lives, and she might get a sternly stay out of my yard.

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Speaker 6: Let's go do the radio show in her yard.

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Speaker 2: Media to her, you're now and get off my lawn phase.

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Speaker 5: It's not about get off my lawn phase.

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Speaker 7: It's just when do you think they'll have a decision made?

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Speaker 5: I think they're having another town hall in like a week.

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Speaker 7: Are you going to that one?

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Speaker 4: Of course not.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to anything.

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Speaker 4: It's let them do what they like. I don't care as long as it's not pickleball. Now if I hear it's pickleball, I'll go to that meet step in uh to complain?

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Speaker 5: Now, oh, take it away?

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Speaker 4: You know it's the decision has to be done by midnight, and most other people have made their decision.

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Speaker 5: There's only like a couple people left to make their decision.

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Speaker 4: Are you at all worried?

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Speaker 5: Drew Minutes?

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Speaker 4: We're now fourteen hours away and we don't know. I mean, am I gonna be coming back from a Curry County hitting refresh?

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Speaker 5: Like what's happening?

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Speaker 6: I've been zero percent worried, and I'm even less than zero percent worried now that Darryl Bird's down in Dustin and Pope told him last night. Oway has a workout today, so I wouldn't blame him at all to get one more workout in and then announce like I said this all along, he should go to the final minute if there's something he could do in the process, because if he comes back, campus is just empty. What's he gonna do. He might as well just take these free trips.

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Speaker 4: So you take the news of the other workout as a positive.

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Speaker 5: See, I would have taken it at least a little bit.

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Speaker 4: I just had it.

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Speaker 6: I mean the mock draft. Don't know everything, but I've not seen anything that indicates he's gonna get picked where he wants to get picked. Maybe behind the scenes he's hearing that, but I haven't seen a peep of that. So I just see it as why not get another job interview? Eventually he's gonna want to get hired by one of these organizations. If they're gonna fly you out today, sure, what else you gonna do? Come sitting in an empty lection where the team's not even here. I would take it to the final minute. If he has the opportunity.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, if that's the case, he's got to work out with somebody, maybe just getting good with this team for next year. So I can see one to do that, and then after.

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Speaker 4: You still have it, you still have no worry.

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Speaker 7: I really don't. I didn't know about this workout. I thought he would do it yesterday when everybody else is doing Ax Condon and all these sec guys, A lot of them were pulling out only two.

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Speaker 4: People laughter, what the kid from r J Lewis from Saint John's in O way?

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Speaker 5: And I think r J. Lewis actually has a decision to make.

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Speaker 6: So, I mean, let's say he knows he's coming back, but the Lakers call be like want we want to fly you out here on Wednesday? Absolutely you should go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Him unless they think he might stay in.

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Speaker 6: I mean, they're all just going through this. They know next year he'll be a candidate. I mean they're all doing they're all hosting visits up until the last one.

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Speaker 7: All right, I'm gonna you know, I sound like you're getting a little worried.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, I just I contacted my person that is my person on these sort of issues, and I said, do we know what time this is going to be?

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Speaker 5: Thinking I was going to get something like, oh.

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Speaker 4: It's later today, don't worry about it, or maybe it'll be doing and the answer was just like I don't know, not sure, And that makes me just.

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Speaker 5: A little worried, Like do people you know?

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Speaker 6: I think he would have to really hate school to to just take that gamble of the NBA knowing what's right on the table, just come picked.

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Speaker 5: A lot of money.

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Speaker 4: That's a lot of That's the thing for me.

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Speaker 6: If you're in his shoes, it seems to be a pretty easy issues.

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Speaker 5: A lot of money.

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Speaker 4: So that's That's the one thing I would say is at the end of the day, in most decisions in life, you say, follow the money.

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of money for him to come back.

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Speaker 7: So if it stayed, that's almost like half of what he would get here, wouldn't it be.

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Speaker 4: But you might get that Chris Livingston thing where he had the four year deal and.

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Speaker 5: It locked it up. I don't know. Maybe, don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 4: I still think he's coming back, but I'm I'm surprised we're sitting here waiting until the last hour.

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Speaker 6: I'm probably putting too much dock in the mog drafts. But if he were like projected fringe second round, like at the top of the second round, then I'd be a little more worried. But I just haven't seen anything suggesting that he's gonna be picked where he because he wants to be a first round pick.

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Speaker 5: Mark Stoops made a decision yesterday.

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Speaker 6: That a decision.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. We'll talk about it right after this. It's KSR. Welcome back, Teke you Sports Radio text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Are you folks worried about oh way? It doesn't seem like a lot of people are. But are you confident he's gonna be back? These guys are? I guess I'm the only one just a little bit like he is the last day. Uh, but you know, maybe he'll do it during the show. By the time you're listening to some podcasts, maybe it's already had true.

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Speaker 7: No, I go back to Pope that he would not talk to you to his roster was finalized. He did, so I feel like him going on a lot of actually break.

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Speaker 4: The news at twelve oh five. That's kind of a thing that does happen a lot.

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Speaker 6: So the thing though, with his workout today, if I said the Lakers, I have no clue where he is, but if he is on the West Coast, it might end up being late, just because that you know he's gonna go through the work.

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Speaker 4: When we were all hitting refreshed for Hamadu Diallo.

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Speaker 6: Out to the night, that wasn't a workout. Didn't he just forget he.

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Speaker 5: Forgot to send in his papers.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think Jackson Robinson worked out on the last day last year too.

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Speaker 4: All right, So Mark Stoops and UK give a one give a year extension. So a lot of assistant coach are generally on a one year contract. Coordinators tend to be on a two year. Will Wolfrid had one year left on his contract. They've now extended it to two years left on his contract, and they gave him one hundred thousand dollars raise the offensive line coach. This is after a year where the offensive line was absolutely horrendous and our quarterback by the end of the year could barely walk and quit football because he got beat up so much. You know, we all had misgivings about Will Wolford being hired. Eric, Yeah, and him too, both of them. I didn't I didn't see. I was hoping we got Will. You're saying, okay, so Eric Wolford. I wasn't pleased with this news. What about you all?

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Speaker 6: I didn't see anyone that was pleased even when use when Lucky put it out, he had a little scoop. When I saw it, I was like, oh, this is not going to be received well, I mean I really think he did a good job loading up for this next year and the line will be better. But give him the raise a year from now if that pans out. How do you give him a raise when, as you said, he got a quarterback retired and one of his linemen were buying hotdogs during a game on a team that didn't win. Like, how do you get a raise after that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean we've had two of the craziest quarterback stories of all time.

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Speaker 5: We had a quarterback missed the Tennessee game to take the l SAT, which that'll never be topped.

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Speaker 4: Skipping your final game to take the l SAT when you would have been the starting quarterback is an all timer. But also just being like I don't like football anymore because it hurts too much year it's because of our offense. Like those are two amazing stories. And to give that guy an extension and a raise, Ryan, I mean, he had a year left. They didn't have to do it. I don't get it.

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Speaker 7: That there's no doubt that Wolford is stoops right or die. I mean he is going ain't gonna hang on that and go up and fight down on that hill. For him, you had him on the show, and he talked about it. You really defended him as a coach, as a recruiter, but the results when he was here the first time and now even the second time don't seem to back up the praise.

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Speaker 4: Are two worst offensive lines of the Stoops era? Objectively are the two years he's been in charge.

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Speaker 7: That's that's fair, That's just a fight.

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Speaker 4: You could make an argument that the two years he was in charge we had worse offensive lines than when we stunk in Stoops's first and second years.

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Speaker 5: How do you give that a raise?

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Speaker 4: And the he's his boy, you know, to me, that's like starting to seem like the last year or two of Cow.

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Speaker 5: You know, Bruiser's my friend, right, Chen and.

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Speaker 4: I get along, try to hire my son Brad. I mean, what's the difference he now has. I'm not seeing these guys aren't good coaches. But objectively, he now has his brother on staff. He's had his brother on staff, and he's got like two of his best friends. I mean, there comes a point where you know, I'm not against you having your friends, but we can't have your friends and go four and eight.

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Speaker 6: I'm almost more confused, like how did this get approved? What did he take to Mitch Barnhardt's desk to get this signed? Mitch, I'm arready short on money with revenue sharing, Stoops has a big buy out they might get to Howard. Is anyone getting a raise on that staff?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: You know when this was done? Did Luckett say, did this happen earlier season?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been a few months.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So like he might argue, well, he would have gone somewhere else, but I mean part of me would go so.

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Speaker 6: Right then, that staff is very well taken care of. Someone put it on Chaos board of where they rank and each position coach in the country getting paid. There's a lot of top ten assistant coaches over there. I don't know how you put more money into it after the last season.

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Speaker 5: I just don't listen.

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Speaker 4: I can be talked into the offensive line wasn't as good last year for X and live reasons, but he'll be better this year.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if I believe it, but I could be talked into it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how you give a man a raise who produced the worst offensive line we've had in a decade plus. I don't know how you give him a raise. I don't know how you give him an extension, let him play out this year. Most college assistant coaches, especially, I mean most of them are on a year deal, say let's let's let's talk about it at the end of the year. I don't get this. This is one of those. No, this is a like after the year with Oscar and all, where we lost to Kansas State and we all agree that we need a shot in the arm, and the story was the staff's.

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Speaker 5: Gonna be the same.

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Speaker 4: This is like, I just I think it's almost like it's completely tone deaf to the fan base.

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Speaker 7: I'm asking this because I don't know the answer. Is he killing it in the recruiting battles?

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Speaker 4: See what we have? I think he did fine, But you know, I mean, we got pretty much every kid that played in New Mexico. And will that work? Maybe?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we won't know it till the fall. It does look like on paper they got a good offensive line class, but you don't reward him for it until you know.

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Speaker 7: Our center is gonna be a guy from Western Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Jaggers, and they might be good, But shouldn't we wait and see if they're good before we give him a raise in another year.

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Speaker 7: Yes, absolutely, unless you think he was in that high demand with other schools.

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Speaker 4: It's just set considering the money we spend on the offensive line. To say he got good players, it's sort of like Chris Rock saying, you know, when people say I take care of my kids, you're supposed to get good players. The question is are you gonna Are they gonna be better? Because we heard they had good players last year? Yeah, and then they didn't.

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Speaker 6: I need to see the PowerPoint presentation. Stoops took to Mitch how he even sold this and how Mitch wasn't it a quick No.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying, look, it's one hundred thousand dollars, it's not my money whatever, but it does look to me to be like a tone deafness. That is usually the signal of things kind of falling apart, and that's what worries me about it.

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00:23:54
Speaker 6: I keep saying that Eric Wills's evil twin.

00:23:56
Speaker 4: Eric Wilford is the seventh highest paid offensive line coach in America. That can't be true. What's your name, man, Wes Wes. That's got to be a lot right, he's not the seventh highs paid off.

00:24:13
Speaker 2: They were ranked one hundred and fifteenth.

00:24:15
Speaker 4: We're paying him set where the same. He's the seventh highest paid offensive line.

00:24:19
Speaker 6: Come that math doesn't math. It's also not forget Alabama didn't like him because the line wasn't good in the year that they came up short.

00:24:26
Speaker 4: So what's he been good at? I mean, I'm being dead seriously to ask you.

00:24:29
Speaker 7: Is he killing it in the recruiting ranks? Something we don't know about it?

00:24:31
Speaker 4: What good does that do if you come and don't play.

00:24:33
Speaker 2: Well, he's a good friend, I think that's the answer.

00:24:35
Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's nice. It's nice to have good friends.

00:24:38
Speaker 6: But so Stoops was really defensive of him, as you all remember, said he's never gotten more calls for any assistant coach ever than he gets for both.

00:24:45
Speaker 4: You know, I mean, just because everybody likes your girlfriend doesn't mean that you should be with him.

00:24:49
Speaker 5: I mean that maybe it's even you.

00:24:51
Speaker 7: Know that Drew said it. Stoops was definitely some you know, almost overprotecting him when you were talking to him about him.

00:25:00
Speaker 5: I remember, can mean the opposite.

00:25:03
Speaker 6: Remember he said in this maybe he deserves credit for not one hundred thousand dollars, but credit he said when I get there every morning, he's the first assistant coach in.

00:25:11
Speaker 5: That's nice. I know, I'm not.

00:25:13
Speaker 6: Saying that warrants a raise.

00:25:14
Speaker 4: I'm just saying opensive.

00:25:16
Speaker 5: I mean he might bring the coffee, that's nice.

00:25:18
Speaker 3: I'm the first person in on this show to I yeah, one hundred thousand dollars raised.

00:25:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the first person in. It reminds me of when you ask somebody about a person and you're like, tell me about Dan, and when the first thing somebody says is well, he's really nice, I'm immediately skeptical that Dan is gonna be helpful. No. I mean, like as a body of mine once used to say, nice, nice, everybody's nice, Like I need to know something else about them.

00:25:48
Speaker 5: Being first in.

00:25:50
Speaker 6: There's also giving him an extension when he has already proven he will leave you in a hard beat. Why he's in your rental car on a recruiting visit, he will leave you, Bod.

00:25:58
Speaker 4: Vandergriff quit foot ball. He got hurt so much he quit football.

00:26:05
Speaker 5: Who's up, first, ship, Let's go to Zach. Zach.

00:26:08
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Zach, what's up?

00:26:11
Speaker 9: Matt? So I was having a debate with a friend the other day, and I thought maybe you could solve it. We were talking about how we thought it was awesome that Rick Patino came back for Big Blue Madness last year and that, like, and I said that, I think one day we'll forgive Billy Gillespie until we get a warm welcome at Ropperina. And they said, no way that ever happened.

00:26:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, let's I agree.

00:26:36
Speaker 9: With Rick is worse than Billy.

00:26:39
Speaker 4: Wow, But Rick had success here, so like, there were good parts of that relationship. Here's what I think will happen with But I don't know Billy. Yeah, Billy never had any success. I mean, there was never any moment to feel right about. Where's with Rick? We won a national championship and had some of our most fun years of all time. That's a good question, though I appreciate the call. Let's if Billy Gillespie wanted to come back to Kentucky. Let's see when did he start coaching two thousand and seven. So let's say that in twenty twenty seven, his twentieth anniversion, you're the ad and you get a phone call, Hey, Billy's people would like to just come.

00:27:26
Speaker 6: What's your answer, I say, are you sure? And if he said on it, you'd bring him back and there'd probably be a few booze. I don't think it'd be a route allowed applause. It'd be more like a all right kind of like when they just bring out other than to bring the science club out. But if he wanted to come back I don't think you just deny him that that moment.

00:27:49
Speaker 5: Okay, what do you.

00:27:50
Speaker 4: Think, right?

00:27:51
Speaker 7: I think you're inviting him back because not what he did here. But I think you know he's had his health issues. I mean, he mean, I don't know if he's ever gonna get back into coaching. I think as time passes, you know, you see the good guy for the person, and I think his health issues, I think.

00:28:07
Speaker 4: I mean his off the his off the court was not exactly the most stellar thing in the world during his two years.

00:28:13
Speaker 5: It's not like, I mean, you.

00:28:15
Speaker 7: Have a twenty years that has passed. Yeah, and he was SEC Coach of the Year his first year.

00:28:21
Speaker 4: So is that what you do, Shannon, you just hive like twenty years ago. Yeah, Billy Gillespie was SEC coach of the year.

00:28:29
Speaker 3: Everyone saying, you know, he's become more of a sympathetic figure.

00:28:33
Speaker 2: Because I don't disagree with you, but but I think you bring him back. But I don't think you bring him on the court.

00:28:38
Speaker 4: You know, just.

00:28:40
Speaker 3: Run the scene out, yeah, you know, and you can say, oh, there's Billy Gillespie aware.

00:28:43
Speaker 5: Because here's the thing.

00:28:45
Speaker 4: Everyone who's ever coached here has either gotten their moment to soak up the fans or will John cal Perry will get that one day. Yes, do we want to have the only guy? Because even Eddie Sutton got it, he did, and Eddie Sutton put us on prom I mean, Eddie Sutton, the program got even lower than it did with Billy. Everyone's gotten it. Do we want to just have this one guy who's the only person we've never embraced back here before it.

00:29:17
Speaker 6: I'm not saying call him up and you know, put it on the calendar, like we got to make this happen. But if he were interested in coming back, yes, let him have the experience. I even say introduce him. Maybe not as to why, Like I said, I don't think.

00:29:29
Speaker 4: I don't think it's Billy over there.

00:29:31
Speaker 2: In section one fourteen, Rosie.

00:29:33
Speaker 4: He comes out randomly when the cheerleaders do the U and then does the U and then skirts off the court.

00:29:39
Speaker 6: But I mean, I don't think we should just like ban him from ever coming back. He's still coaching, by the way, right.

00:29:45
Speaker 7: He is still coaching.

00:29:46
Speaker 4: Okay, So how about that? Would you have an interest? Well, who's he coaching Charlton? Oh, he's still okay? Would you be interested in scheduling the game with him? D one?

00:29:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't go out of my way. I'm not calling him, but if he calls in, Really, wouldn't.

00:30:00
Speaker 5: That be the easiest way to do it.

00:30:02
Speaker 4: Wouldn't the easiest way to do it be to play Tarleton and when they go and the coach of Tarleton, Billy Gillespie, and then that's it.

00:30:08
Speaker 7: It's perfect. I think it's the best way to do it.

00:30:10
Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be the best way to do it? Yep?

00:30:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, Play a highlight video would be about the length of a TikTok, But.

00:30:16
Speaker 5: The highlight gonna be.

00:30:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is Perry Stevenson's Done's a really good question. What's the Billy Gillespie highlight video? Okay, you're gonna have him. What was his entrance at the first Big Blue Man?

00:30:29
Speaker 6: Oh, that's what they do. They dropped the curtain before the Tarleton dropped the curtain like an abracadabra.

00:30:34
Speaker 4: Okay, so he'd dropped the curtain there he is. What else was a highlight?

00:30:40
Speaker 7: Well, had a good year that first year when Billy was SEC Coach of the Year. It's got me some male stuff. They have that game.

00:30:45
Speaker 4: Where the guy flipped flipped off Nick clayth and he missed the free throw.

00:30:50
Speaker 6: So you could do Jo Jody Meeks highlights, but Billy would say, don't put him in there. It's not about him. That's true.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, this is how we bring him back. All right. You celebrate Jody Meek's twenty year anniversary of him breaking the scoring record, and then.

00:31:08
Speaker 7: Billy's that Billy who hated.

00:31:10
Speaker 4: It, who hated him? And I think Jody hated Billy. But put that to the side.

00:31:15
Speaker 6: What about there was always the rumor that there were T shirts made and Billy hit him the Jody Meeks I think they might have been witnessed or something that could play off the lebron There were some kind of Jody Meeks T shirt that Billy allegedly didn't let uh see the light of day. Maybe we dragged those out of the attic, pass those around.

00:31:29
Speaker 4: Don't know. I just feel like we don't want to be the school that because you're right, he is a sad figure. Now he had what a liver transplant?

00:31:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, and or kidney something.

00:31:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, something like that. But anyway, it's a good question. Do I think it'll ever happen?

00:31:47
Speaker 5: I could see Mark Pope doing it?

00:31:48
Speaker 7: Yeah I can't.

00:31:49
Speaker 5: I could see Mark Pope doing it.

00:31:50
Speaker 6: I have an idea and they would never do this. But if I were in charge of marketing, I would set this up. You have Billy run out of the tunnel, and fifty yards behind him, Cutler runs. He's chasing him through the arena and just run out another tunnel.

00:32:06
Speaker 5: Just you just hit what they need to do.

00:32:07
Speaker 4: Who's next, Landing, Go ahead.

00:32:10
Speaker 5: Land.

00:32:13
Speaker 8: What's going on?

00:32:13
Speaker 7: Guy?

00:32:16
Speaker 8: What's going on?

00:32:17
Speaker 9: Yeah?

00:32:17
Speaker 8: I'm calling regard to Cameron calling in about me missing work yesterday.

00:32:22
Speaker 4: Oh wait a minute, you're landing? Who missed work for the wooly Worm?

00:32:26
Speaker 5: Right?

00:32:26
Speaker 4: Is that?

00:32:26
Speaker 7: Is that?

00:32:27
Speaker 4: Who?

00:32:27
Speaker 5: Am I?

00:32:28
Speaker 4: Correct?

00:32:29
Speaker 8: Yeah? I got a couple of things to say about that, because he's in the next room listening.

00:32:35
Speaker 9: Go for it, Okay, So I was sick.

00:32:39
Speaker 4: There wasn't no wooly worm woman.

00:32:43
Speaker 8: And second off, Cameron is not my boss. His brother is the boss. I don't know where like who he thinks he is, but he is not my boss.

00:32:51
Speaker 5: Wow.

00:32:53
Speaker 9: Let me let me tell you something else about Cameron too.

00:32:55
Speaker 8: He would have had that wire pulled last week if he doesn't take twenty meant, smoke breaks every hour.

00:33:04
Speaker 4: So you think Cameron smokes too much and the wire would already been pulled.

00:33:09
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, he does. He go through a pack of eight.

00:33:11
Speaker 5: It's too many.

00:33:13
Speaker 4: So you dispute the allegation that you missed work to see a woman in Babyville.

00:33:19
Speaker 8: Yeah, that did not happen. Actually, actually, my girlfriend she lives in Richmond, and she probably interesting.

00:33:27
Speaker 4: Wait, man, that was probably interesting for her to hear that you had a woman in Babyville if she lives in Richmond.

00:33:33
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, yeah, I told her that I sent her the clip, and she said she told me to tell you specifically that she does not like being called a.

00:33:39
Speaker 9: Wooly worm woman.

00:33:41
Speaker 5: Well, I apologize to her.

00:33:42
Speaker 4: You're the one that skipped work though to be in Babyvielle, But thank you very much. I'm glad to hear things have worked out, and I appreciate the call. I did somebody reminding me the name of the woman I went to school with who said uh uh wooly worm, and that made me happy because I had forgotten her, forgotten her name.

00:33:58
Speaker 5: I won't say it here in case he's probably made with kids now.

00:34:01
Speaker 7: So that's inner office turmoil going here in this office. These guys right beside each other, calling, calling each other out on the radio show Here you Go, see hr.

00:34:08
Speaker 5: What do they mean?

00:34:09
Speaker 4: What does he mean when he says he should have been pulling wire? What is he talking?

00:34:14
Speaker 6: Yesterday? The caller that called him out and said, we have a wire to pull and he's not here.

00:34:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, but what does that mean?

00:34:19
Speaker 4: Pull wire?

00:34:20
Speaker 7: You know, it could be the cable for cable TV, it could be a telephone.

00:34:25
Speaker 6: Cable comes to fix our internet back there.

00:34:28
Speaker 5: I mean, it feels like one person could do that. Why smoking? Why they need him to pull? Like Shannon? Do you know?

00:34:33
Speaker 4: I mean everybody's acting like that. Do you know what it means to pull wire?

00:34:36
Speaker 2: No idea? I was kind of wondering the same thing.

00:34:38
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, I know we're in a state where everybody acts to act like they know everything about men stuff I don't acknowledge. I don't know what it means to pull wire, but it sounds like you don't either.

00:34:51
Speaker 7: You've seen those guys on the side of the road. They got a big, huge spool, big as your car of wire. It's got to go up on the poles. And is that what it means by pulling? Are putting up?

00:35:00
Speaker 4: Wise?

00:35:01
Speaker 7: Maybe that's what he's talking about that I think pull means to pull out.

00:35:04
Speaker 6: And they went off the spindle to to install it wherever they are, maybe a big building.

00:35:08
Speaker 5: Maybe you know that's.

00:35:09
Speaker 7: True, or you just I'm trying to talk about what kind of pulling wire they're doing where it might take more than one guy. So you're guessing yes, oh yeah.

00:35:16
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so somebody can answer that for me on the text machine.

00:35:20
Speaker 5: Seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We will take a break, uh and be right back.

00:35:25
Speaker 4: It's Wings Day here at Kspar Dollar Wings All Day is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Pulling wire seems like a lot of people knew this. That's not us. Uh. You pull it like through the wall and through pipes and uh, you're you're basically setting up the wire for the electrician then to kind of connect, so you're you're that's the pulling.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: So now I learned that.

00:35:51
Speaker 6: I said installing big buildings, That's kind of what I meant.

00:35:54
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm I'm pulling wire. Go way back, do you? Uh?

00:35:58
Speaker 4: Eight nine two eight oh twenty eighty seven. Bruce Pearl reports that he might consider running for Senate. Tommy Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach, is apparently going to run for governor give up his Senate seat, which would mean that Bruce Pearl could then run for Senate.

00:36:18
Speaker 5: I don't know.

00:36:18
Speaker 4: What the Auburn coach to us to politics pipeline is, but I would say I am all for Bruce Pearl running for Senate. Not because I agree with Bruce Pearl. He's a right wing guy. He's probably a lot more right wing than me, although I've met him over the years and I do like him quite a bit. But I would be very happy for him to no longer be the Auburn coach so that they will start to stink again.

00:36:46
Speaker 6: Drew, I just when I saw it, I just thought, what a country. I mean, I mean, I believe like qualifications.

00:36:54
Speaker 4: I mean literally, they could have a scenario where their governor and one of their two senators were Auburn coaches.

00:37:01
Speaker 6: Wild Maybe who else is there? He Freeze could maybe he's a.

00:37:04
Speaker 5: Man, he should be the other one. That would be great.

00:37:07
Speaker 6: It's and I like Bruce Bruce fan actually, but it's just hard to imagine him in politics. I know he tweets about it all the time.

00:37:13
Speaker 5: I can see it.

00:37:14
Speaker 6: I just mean the visual of him. I picture Bruce with his shirt ripped off in the Tennessee student section and sweating through his suit in the NBA tournament.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: Leave ausside his views. I can totally see him being a senator just because of the kind of person he is. I could see him being a good communicator. I can see him like connecting with the public. You've known him a long time, Ryan, I can see it.

00:37:40
Speaker 7: Very passionate and he you know, he comes across on social media. He's very passionate about a lot of political issues, passionate about basketball.

00:37:46
Speaker 4: Way to say it, I think, yeah, nobody ever said tells him to stick to sports, but yes, he he very much has some.

00:37:52
Speaker 6: Strong OPI there's got to coach out there. That tweets more than political.

00:37:56
Speaker 5: He I don't even know another.

00:37:58
Speaker 4: I mean what it's like him and maybe Steve Kerr and Greg Popovich. I think those are the coaches that probably do it the most, but he does it a lot.

00:38:07
Speaker 7: A lot. There's a basketball season got over this year.

00:38:11
Speaker 4: In Kentucky, Like, do you think if Mark Pope or Mark Stoops were to were to to do politics, do you think that people would be whatever side they were on?

00:38:25
Speaker 5: Do you think people would be okay with.

00:38:26
Speaker 6: That at Kentucky basketball, I feel like they could ignore it because everyone's just so obsessed with the basketball, but there'd be a lot of people who couldn't forgive if they were tweeting about the opposite side.

00:38:40
Speaker 5: So I don't think they could do I don't think our fan base.

00:38:45
Speaker 4: I think he can do it at Alabama because the state is so republican that he's Republican, and it's like even the Democrats are like, well, that's.

00:38:55
Speaker 5: Just gonna be what it is.

00:38:57
Speaker 4: I think in Kentucky, I just think that, you know, I just don't think it would work. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but I can't. I mean, remember when the players now, there's still people that yeah, so I just don't see it being I don't see it working.

00:39:16
Speaker 7: If if you have your basketball coach is winning and you kind of look the other way, But when your football coach is struggling, I don't know if stoops could do it.

00:39:23
Speaker 5: I mean, you forget that.

00:39:24
Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety six, while Rick Patino was was coach of Kentucky, he introduced Bill Clinton to a a presidential rally here in Lexington. That couldn't happen, now, would you, like, like you Mark Pope could not introduce Donald Trump or you know, Kamala Harris at like it just that just that couldn't happen now, right, But it happened it.

00:39:47
Speaker 7: Did you know? There was a time I think even coach Cali Perry was close to like the they would.

00:39:53
Speaker 5: Say it was friends with people.

00:39:55
Speaker 4: I think you can do that, but like full on like the I mean, go read Bruce Pearl's Twitter.

00:40:02
Speaker 5: He'll say any I mean, he'll say a lot of stuff.

00:40:04
Speaker 7: He does.

00:40:05
Speaker 4: So, but wouldn't you agree to be nice for him to run Shannon so he's not coaching Auburn.

00:40:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd rather have him in politics than be coaching against us.

00:40:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, because he's a great he's a great coach.

00:40:15
Speaker 4: That's also maybe part of the reason, I mean, Bruce Pearl could have been the coach here. Been interesting to see if he had done all that stuff.

00:40:22
Speaker 6: Here, he'd still be firing those tweets off.

00:40:24
Speaker 5: Oh.

00:40:25
Speaker 4: I think he want that. He will say what he's gonna what he's gonna say, and to some extent I respect that, even if I disagree with it. Who's up next, Jerry, Jerry, go ahead, Jerry eight five nine, twenty two eighty seven.

00:40:39
Speaker 8: Actually I was at that rick You rally and he got ripped for doing that on stage. Well no, no, but at the time people ripped him for doing people ripped him for doing that.

00:40:51
Speaker 4: Well I was a kid. I guess he didn't really pay attention. Yeah, but go ahead.

00:40:54
Speaker 8: But Bayley, well this Wolford thing, I mean, jeez, man, I thought we were I thought we were going to change the culture, bring back the old culture. You know, you're accountable for what you did and all this stuff, And now students, does this Okay? That makes you think all that stuff is is a smoke screen. That was a smoke scring to get people off his back. He's gonna do it his way, and I tell you what, Matt, Matt, I didn't need my tickets this year, and they called me twice trying to get me to do it, because I know it's a lot of tickets to be able to fall Jr.

00:41:25
Speaker 4: You're you're as big a football fan as we have that calls this show.

00:41:31
Speaker 5: You didn't renew your tickets?

00:41:33
Speaker 8: No, no, because I was.

00:41:35
Speaker 4: I was. I was that put out.

00:41:37
Speaker 8: I was that put out with it. And I know there's.

00:41:40
Speaker 4: A okay, go ahead real quick.

00:41:41
Speaker 8: And they and they and they and they called me twice try to hit me reading my tickets and that and that. More the more I see of it, stuff like this, I'm glad I didn't do it. And I'm telling you, if you want to see an offensive line that bad the eighty two team, you can watch them on YouTube.

00:41:56
Speaker 4: It was that Appreciate you, But I will say the UK because I know you guys, listen, there has been in the fifteen years I've done this show, probably no person who's called this show to talk about football more than him. If that dude is not renewing his season tickets, you got a problem.

00:42:20
Speaker 5: You just do.

00:42:21
Speaker 4: I mean, there's nobody who when we stunk called more about football than him. That is a bad, bad sign. We'll take a break come back. I remember two KSR