2025-01-31- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 5: How about Walt picking this day to what a perfect time to have it? Remote?

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Speaker 3: I was a perfect day, although I like yesterday about noon, I was like, I'm gonna have to tell him I can't come, and I will be because I've had to miss one of years before and I didn't want to. But but we got here this morning. We're ready to go.

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Speaker 6: Great crowd here too. We always get a good crowd, but they're extra hot today, excited for the show.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, let's talk about what tomorrow is gonna be.

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Speaker 3: Like, I mean, first of all, we you know, the game's not till nine o'clock, but I got a feeling the city's gonna be kind of buzzing all day. You know, people are asking me about watching the game. All right, So here's the deal. I would say, if you want to come. Here's what I asked that you don't do. Please don't show up at my bar at one o'clock.

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Speaker 4: And stay of the game. I'm not gonna kick you out, but like.

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Speaker 3: Don't do that to the people there, because you know they make their money off tips. Come for the pregame, and then everybody clears out and goes to the game.

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Speaker 4: And that's when you come to watch the game.

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Speaker 3: So like everybody will buy the games at nine, everybody be out of there by seven thirty forty five. Then show up and go to the go to the game. I do think it's gonna be wild in there tomorrow. I think it's gonna be wild in downtown Lexington and the game being at nine o'clock and Ruperena Ryan, it's gonna be drunk first, like it's gonna be It's gonna be drunk.

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Speaker 5: I highly highly advise if you're going to the game, go early because traffic and parking is gonna be a zoo and you want to be there early to see the introduction.

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Speaker 7: That's part of the environment tomorrow, the entertainment that you know, drunk people love to boot people. So I'm just saying if we're talking about boo.

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Speaker 4: If you're talking about booing, the drunk er, the more booie.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they did cal so wrong with none. As soon as the schedule came out last October, it was like, oh no, I mean he has to sit there all day and wait, probably at the little hiatt next door. Maybe we'll get around a little bit, but he has to wait for that, and then the crowd is just gonna be, as you're saying, so drunk. It's gonna be worse.

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Speaker 4: If it had been new, it.

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Speaker 6: Would been a good crowd, but it wouldn't have been as bad. He could have gotten right to it, gotten home. That's the worst case scenario for him.

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Speaker 3: Well, vers the rights, Matt, Are you gonna be embarrassed if they actually get applause yesterday and the crowd loves cow?

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Speaker 4: No, I mean I won't be embarrassed. I think that.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I think booing would not be disrespect. That's what you do to opposing coaches. And if he were to get cheered, that'd be an amazing amount of respect. I would argue it's more respect than probably the fan base even feels for you. They're almost doing it because they're nice people contra to what a lot of folks believe.

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Speaker 4: I think our fan base is pretty nice. But no, I mean I'm not. I wouldn't be upset about it.

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Speaker 3: I'd be a little surprised if it's overwhelming cheers, but it could be. I do think it's gonna be more positive than I thought it was gonna be a week ago.

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Speaker 4: Like a week ago, I thought booz are gonna win out.

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Speaker 3: Now just seems like the there's a bit of mood amongst some people of let's be classy and let's you know, all the things you hate.

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Speaker 7: I don't see any like any of the donors like the big money.

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Speaker 4: Oh I do, people costs a lot of money.

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Speaker 7: They're giving their money to Pope instead of him.

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Speaker 3: So no, I mean I think Donor the donor class, though, was a class he lost before he lost the average fan.

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Speaker 4: Donor class has been out on him for years.

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Speaker 7: Well, then if they're gonna boom, then everybody will.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, we'll find out.

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Speaker 3: Myer metcalf Uh put out the five most important moments of the cow Kentucky era.

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's see what you think.

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Speaker 3: Number one the first year, basically arguing Kyle Perry made Kentucky cool again with John Wall, all the celebrities that come through, DeMarcus jay Z, Samuel L. Jackson, Shaq, Shaquille, O'Neal, Lebron all of ten games, Drake, that was number one.

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Speaker 4: I think that's probably right. Yeah, I mean, I think the twenty ten team was just huge for changing the program.

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Speaker 6: And he did that without a transfer portal. I mean, it's press of what Pope did. But cal did that when you just had to get high school kids, and I still fixed Kentucky basketball.

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Speaker 3: He had second twenty twelve and twenty fifteen, basically calling that era the era of Kentucky dominance, which I would agree. Two of those four years we had two of the best college teams. Ever, one of them didn't win, but those are two of the best modern college basketball teams. Third, evolving landscape cost Kentucky its grip on elite talent. Basically says Duke starts going after elite players as well, Cayle doesn't get all the one and done's, and then his recruiting slips some years, not even getting any top ten players.

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Speaker 4: You agree with that, yeah, I do.

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Speaker 6: I mean I remember going to the Peach Jam with you early in the cal Era and kids were like Kansas Duke or Kentucky. But then as time went on, they start going out and man, they start going everywhere. It's like more people just got involved on going for the five stars and so surrendering in them.

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Speaker 3: Number four interesting enough, he says, cal loses a connection with the fan base.

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Speaker 4: I actually agree with that. It's interesting for a national guy to say.

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Speaker 3: And then number five a loss to Oakland and other and fans basically giving up on his style.

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Speaker 4: Would you agree with those five as the five most impla.

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Speaker 7: I liked that. Yeah, I mean there was definitely a disconnect. I think that happened sometime around COVID you know that that nine and sixteen season and then uh yeah, I mean losing to Oakland and Saint Peter's. I think that those were the two last you know, Nils in the coffin for Caliperi here.

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Speaker 6: He didn't mention the record draft picks.

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Speaker 4: Was that not the best? I don't think I had the best day ever. Yeah, I don't think that was one of them.

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Speaker 3: There'll be a few moments, Ryan of when I'm done doing this, then I'll think about what the environment was like in that particular moment and a handful of mind coincide with these eras if you just say, what were the moments felt the strongest? Again, unless you were there the pregame of that twenty ten and twenty twelve Carolina games, there was just a feeling of big time basketball is back in Kentucky and that's great. Obviously, the feeling on the floor when we won the title. You know what it was like when we lost in twenty fifteen to Wisconsin.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know that there's gonna be many things. Drew. I remember more than standing on that.

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Speaker 3: Court as they walked what lost to Oakland and me saying to you right for it was over, let's go over here and watch this because this might be it. And the way fans were screaming at Caw, I mean just these random people in Pittsburgh just screaming at him and him looking dazed, and it was just you were like, is this.

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Speaker 4: How it's gonna end? And then it did?

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Speaker 6: Is it worse because a week before all a lesser version. Yeah, a fewer people, but that was shocking. You're like, wow, they're booing cow in Nashville in an arena that's ninety five percent. Blue wasn't everybody. He was right at the tunnel. But then it was much worse in Oakland. I remember fans pointing us for like a minute left. We're standing there watching and they're like, he's gotta go, he's gotta go. And then the moment he came to that tunnel, they were just giving it to him.

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Speaker 3: The you know, the hour between when that game ended, or maybe hour and a half in the postgame show. This is not an exaggeration in the arena. And then as I walked trying to figure out where I was gonna do the postgame show, every single Kentucky fan I saw said, you gotta call for him to get fired.

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Speaker 4: He's gotta go, he's gotta go.

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Speaker 3: Text messages from friends of mine's like, now's the time, now's the time, you gotta say it.

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Speaker 4: Get him out, get him out. It was like.

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Speaker 3: It took a week and a half more shitting, but it was over at that moment.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it would have been tough for you to do that, though, with the NCAA tournament coming up the next week.

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Speaker 4: No, no, he's not, I'm talking about it was it's per at that at that moment though.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think everybody was in that same boat. If we gotta get rid of.

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Speaker 4: Him, Who's next? Zach is up next? Zach? Go ahead, Zach?

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Speaker 8: Hey, guys, what's going on? First time coming up with Potcander?

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Speaker 4: Who?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 4: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 8: I'm actually currently working on the tire Mountains, which you don't know. Cross is in the Harley Coown. Got out the Sweet Mountain Mamba.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Mountain Maba. I like it, not sweet Sweet Mountain Angel.

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Speaker 4: Baby. We're gonna go with Mountain Mama.

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Speaker 8: Come on, I've got a few. What's your thoughts on the videos that the du put out friends the team? Uh, number two now one and the falls? I think it comes out before the team. Uh, that we can boo him when he annaw says the artisas head coach.

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Speaker 4: And number three?

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Speaker 8: Uh, poke, bring out two three tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: Bring out what?

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Pope doesn't seem to want to play a ton of zone either. He plays a little bit. What uh? What what did A do say?

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Speaker 4: I have got you?

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Speaker 6: I didn't hear much of that call. Was that muffled for you all? It was?

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Speaker 4: What did A do say? He said? Dude? Did do a press conference? Is today. What did he say?

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Speaker 5: One thing he said, Well, he loved his time in Kentucky and he has nothing but great things to remember it about in Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: I wish it do it stayed here? We could use it.

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Speaker 6: SEC basketball.

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Speaker 4: That's like, that's a dude we don't have. We could we could use a dude like that.

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Speaker 6: He went to SEC basketball media days last summer, first appearance in Arkansas. Gear uh ksr we down there interviewed him. It is like sad, like you could tell he's like, how did I end up in this? Like it's honestly hard to watch him talking about Kentucky in the change he did all did not explain it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, are we wearing Denham tomorrow? If we heard like this has all gotten law? Are we doing? What are we doing?

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Speaker 6: I heard we got the firecrackers? It's a big game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I don't know about did them though.

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Speaker 5: They've been hush hush about it, so I don't know.

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Speaker 3: They feel like maybe if I feel like we might see some maybe tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I just just we'll see who's next. Garrett is up next? Garrett, go ahead, Garrett.

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, I just want to say that obvious game tomorrow and I'll be booing. I cannot forget now for what he did last year's team. And I think it's annoying that anybody wants to hear the man when he's announced. They aren't going to say and former coach of Kentucky John Caliperry. They're gonna say Lazorbacks coach John cali Perry. Saturday is not the day to cheer, and I will boot as loud as I can.

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Speaker 10: If anyone cheers now, then I accept.

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Speaker 9: Him to cheer Pope and as teams so loud that I hear drums first, Thanks guys and Joe Cash.

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Speaker 4: There you go. There's a strong voice. Now listen, all y'all.

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Speaker 3: Clapping, hang on, just say every single one of you, not one of you said you would boo, and then you all clap when that guy says he's.

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Speaker 7: Gonna boot, will nobody going to the game.

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Speaker 3: That's just interesting to me, Like it just shows the power of a good a good speech, and a good leader.

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Speaker 4: Right, Like everybody was like, hey, I don't think we should moo.

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Speaker 3: Then one guy goes, let's boo boo, and everybody's like, yeah, boo.

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Speaker 5: I think He did bring up a good point in fact, though, when they announced our guys, though, you should blow the roof off, you know, make it just deafening loud in there. When they announced Mark.

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Speaker 3: Pope, well no, that's post. Yeah, Pope's gonna get like a Steve Austin. Ye, like it's gonna be It's gonna be like glass shattering pop when Pope.

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Speaker 7: And it's a lot different saying what you would do here versus in the moment when it actually happens, you know what I mean, Like in.

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Speaker 3: That moment, you know, mom ment town, don't you don't know what you're gonna do? You like a lot of that, By the way, I think that happens to people like you just kind of get caught up and next thing, you know, wait, I'm booing a child. You're like, yeah, Ryan the children's game telling the seven year old to shut their mouth.

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Speaker 4: Like you, you never really know what's gonna happen. Who's next? Sherry is next? Cherry? Go ahead, Cherry?

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Speaker 11: Hey, I'm just wonder are they gonna show like on the net?

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Speaker 12: Show is the boo and all that?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so well normally they missed the start of games, but they did build an extra thirty minutes between the Duke Carolina game and the Kentucky game. So Duke Carolina actually starts at six point thirty and our game starts at nine. And maybe, who knows, maybe they built that in to be able to show the announcements, or maybe just because they didn't want them to go long. But you know, and I appreciate to called this is like historically, this is the weekend where college basketball sort of announces to the world we're back, right, Like this is the every week Yeah, I mean this, but this is the first Saturday and Sunday with no football, right right, So they basically say, all right, we're back, and then there's no it's not a surprise that if you go look at the schedule that's on ESPN tomorrow, it's like North Carolina at noon, Kansas at full or Jimmy uh, like Auburn at noon or whatever, Kansas at for Duke Carolina at six point thirty, and then Kentucky at nine.

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Speaker 4: Like that's why they do it.

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Speaker 3: And with Carolina's stinking, everybody's gonna be watching to see.

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Speaker 4: What happens with Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: And plus we're gonna get a huge leading. This is gonna be a huge audience for the game because you got we're we're after Duke Carolina.

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Speaker 4: Normally Duke Carolina is the whole thing. We're after it. So we're gonna get that leading.

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Speaker 7: It's gonna be one and I don't care what Seth Greenberg says. He says that Kentucky and Arkansas fans are gonna be the only ones paying attention to this. I think if you're a college basketball fan, you're watching this game.

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Speaker 3: I think what Seth Greenberg is ensured is that no one's going to be paying attention to him.

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Speaker 6: Imagine working for you once you get that popped there, I'm just saying, well, I.

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Speaker 4: Want to add that.

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Speaker 6: Green Imagine working for ESPN and saying the game doesn't matter. I would call him in the office be like, dude, this is on our networks. You're supposed to promote them. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, game doesn't matter. I'm Seth green like, that's why he shouldn't be on game. Think about the people who go to football game day. Corso loves the sport, Herbstreet loves it. McAfee for all his gubernish, he loves it. But they all love it and they're into it. And then you get Seth Greenberg, god right, just yelling like he just have the game is supposed to be fun. You get a cranky old man from the Muppets yelling at people.

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Speaker 3: They're always one of the ones people enjoy coming to this show the most because they're all drinking, so they gotta like it. Af I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Uh one person writes Matt game tomorrow. How loud do you think it gets Is it one of our loudest crowns?

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Speaker 4: No doubt about question.

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Speaker 3: This will be This will be as good a pre game atmosphere, you know, as we've had, and who knows how long the actual game depends on how the game goes and all that, but as far as a pregame atmosphere, Ryan, this will be one of the best we've ever got, be the.

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Speaker 5: Best since Patino came back. I mean, and people that were there that day, they know it was just it was an unbelievable you know. You hear that phrase, you hear the electricity in the air. You could feel it. You could feel it. Man, if people were just anticipating Patino walking out, It'll be the same way tomorrow, I think it.

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Speaker 6: Tuckie fans are gonna have so much, so much anxiety and nerves that they are gonna be living on every play. So we're gonna get reactions to everything throughout the We're.

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Speaker 4: Gonna be very puckered up, I think. For Yeah, I hopefully not too much. Yeah, well I could use some of that.

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Speaker 3: But but they're definitely gonna be.

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Speaker 4: I like this choice for the for the why John Robick, Yeah, I'll probably be there.

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Speaker 6: He was at the last game.

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Speaker 5: You want to get it, Cal, Yeah, that's a good question.

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Speaker 4: Do you think Rob will come?

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Speaker 6: He's actually been in a lot of games because he scouts, but still at this one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of those people in Like, there's a lot of people just on.

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Speaker 3: A personal level that I would just would like to see. I mean, I'd like to just personally see their interaction. Yeah, you know, i'd like to I'd like to see Mitch and Cal like what's I mean, what's their interaction gonna be?

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Speaker 4: And they'll shake hands because they're both pros.

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Speaker 3: But you talk about two people be shaking hands that are seething mad at each other.

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Speaker 5: I ask you this one time. I don't remem if I ask you on the air privately. Do you think Cal really had any idea how much the fan base had turned on him before he left?

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Speaker 4: No? I know That's why I've said this over and over.

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Speaker 3: That video, which which is gonna be what my You know, you get images in your mind of these moments.

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Speaker 4: My image of him leaving was him walking his.

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Speaker 3: Dog outside, trying to rally the fan base around him.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he walked for people who don't remember.

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Speaker 3: They announced he's going to Arkansas, and then there's like twenty four hours of silence. He is actively trying to renegotiate with Kentucky. Kentucky is like, we're not negotiating. And he went out and he walked that dog up and down Richmond.

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Speaker 4: Road in a stroller.

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Speaker 3: He walked it up and down because he wanted the visual of him. There just happened to be a camera. There just happened to be a camera on Richmond Road following him up and down the road because he wanted there to be a oh, he might stay, come on, Mitch, keep him here. And when that didn't happen, I think it shocked him. There's no doubt he was shocked. He in his mind thought, Matt Jones and those goobers at KSR have this little loud group of people that are against me, but everyone else is for me. And he didn't realize that he lost the average as I say it all the time, he lost the average fan before he lost me. I was not the pied piper. I was the kaboo saying it's past. And I think that was what he never realized.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and that the stroller situation k yt had that camera out there for a while, he knew exactly he walked towards the camera. Normally in that situation you would have.

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Speaker 4: Gone out back.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he saw that opportunity. Well, I can't keep quit thinking about when he gets there tomorrow. He designed the locker room that is just a celebration of twenty twelve. But he's going in the room that has four chairs, nothing on the walls. It's not big, there's barely lockers.

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Speaker 3: Well one of the things it's gonna be, you know, bigger picture culture about the program. And again, like we didn't complain about this when it happened because we like to win.

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Speaker 4: But like, let's take the practice facility used to be.

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Speaker 3: When you went in the practice facility, most of you've probably never been down there where they actually practice. You go downstairs, there's this built like this wall of players, but there's no player on the wall that didn't play for Cow.

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Speaker 4: None, They're all it's all Cow people.

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Speaker 3: And they used to say, well, it's because it's all our guys in the pros. But like Tayshaun Prince wouldn't be on there, and Keith Bogan's wouldn't be on Niks wouldn't be on there, and Rondo wouldn't be on there.

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Speaker 4: It was all players that play for COL.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess if that hasn't been changed, it will be changed, and it will be players from all the air. You'll still probably have more recent ones because that helps in recruiting, sure, but it's not.

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Speaker 4: But there was a time that if.

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Speaker 3: You didn't play for COL, there was no obvious proof that you went to the school at the practice facility.

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Speaker 4: I think that part is going to be is a huge change.

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Speaker 6: Well, it didn't take twenty four hours to put to rip those cards off the wall of all the NBA players. Now the murals that are on the walls, that's harder to do. But in the practice where it's just you know, got the literally looks like a card, those came down immediately.

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Speaker 3: It used to just be the practice thing had a little thing for the National Championship banners and then just the NBA cards of all the people.

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Speaker 4: That played in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't even them in Kentucky jerseys, it was them on their NBA jersey. And you know that that culture has shifted and it'll be weird for him to be in the visitors locker room, which you've ever been in Rapparena with the home team's locker room is plush, the visitors team locker room is and he's gonna for the first time be in the.

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Speaker 6: Locker room and the home is his locker They haven't changed that yet. It is just twenty twelve everywhere that is his design. I'm sure that'll get changed on down the road, but it is a celebration of that team and he doesn't get to go in there anymore. Who's name card doesn't work?

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Speaker 4: Super Dave is next super Dave.

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Speaker 13: Hello, Hey guys, I was wondering if y'all could do a shout out to my grandson Noah, who's three today and he.

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Speaker 14: Knows how to do l's down. His dad's already talking how to do that.

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Speaker 4: Hello Noah.

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Speaker 14: Okay. The thing I want to bring up is do you think there's gonna be controversy about when when Butler comes back the way Robinson has kind of embraced the row of the point guard. I mean, he seems to, doesn't let it Botherer and Butler counts. No, I don't know, he just I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know, because I mean, we also have to remember, we won some games this year because of Butler too. I think what will happen is and I appreciate the call. I think we see less Travis Perry attempt minutes, and basically, I think if if Robinson plays another game or two like he's played, Robinson at this point's the backup point guard definitely.

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Speaker 6: And hey, Lamon, Butler's been awesome. He's injured right now. They need him back. I hope he's back tomorrow for defense because that'll be important. But Robinson looks comfortable, but you don't want to take him off the wing and give him more worse. I'm and now in the backup role. I like it, but you still want him to beat jacksone Butler.

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Speaker 3: It'd be nice to have Butler tomorrow because if I if I have Butler on Wagner, I know he's not gonna go off on me. There's a part of me that worries that Wagner will be able to take whoever we have in. But definitely need Butler.

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Speaker 5: You definitely need Butler. But you can make an argument they're better offensively with Jackson, Otegan, Kobe Bray out.

00:23:20
Speaker 4: There, probably almor Yeah, offensively, you're probably right. We'll take a break right back, KSR.

00:23:31
Speaker 3: What a Matt Turkey Sports Radio eight fun nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Text Machine seven seven to two, seven to seven, four five two five four.

00:23:39
Speaker 4: Shout out to.

00:23:39
Speaker 3: UK women's team who won last night against Alabama.

00:23:43
Speaker 4: You get him around and plus seven one, seven to one.

00:23:48
Speaker 3: In conference play, they play five of their next seven games I think are against ranked teams. Basically, they their schedule was loaded up. They had all the easy teams first. So they've got LSU, Sound, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and maybe Texas all still to come. And like three of those games are at home, so the meat of the schedule is coming. But they beat their first ranked team last night of the SEC. They beat Alabama pretty handily at home. I watched a little bit of that game, and so now we get to see I mean, clearly Kentucky's good, but like we'll know in the next few weeks how good because they're playing the elite of the SEC over the next three weeks.

00:24:27
Speaker 6: I almost went I was gonna buy a single ticket and just sit by myself, and I just couldn't get over it there in time. But I ended up watching the whole game at home. I'm so into that team. They're so fun. Alabama went up early, Kentucky was looking pretty bad. That a twelve ozho run flipped the script and Kentucky ran away with it. But they're just a fun team to watch. Georgia Amore didn't shoot it well last night, but man, that's she's We've got Ron Howard, but she's right up there with her.

00:24:49
Speaker 3: I wish I wish she was playing here more than a year. She's a lot, She is a lot of fun to watch. And and this team, man, they're they're gonna beat They're good, and they're gonna be really Kenny Brooks is like you just watch the way he coaches. He doesn't amake t job. One person rides Matt. What happens for real?

00:25:07
Speaker 7: If we lose, well, it stinks we move on to the next game.

00:25:11
Speaker 4: No, I mean it's stinks.

00:25:13
Speaker 3: It stinks like we'll have to listen to I mean, I can go ahead and tell you if we lose, don't expect to see me online for at least forty eight hours.

00:25:21
Speaker 7: Is Ryan enough to do the post game show?

00:25:22
Speaker 4: I'll do the postgame show, But I'm just I'm not. I'm not getting into my hog mentions. Uh, if they if they were to lose.

00:25:29
Speaker 3: You know, big picture, if we lost it, it would it would be an awful loss because they're bad, But like the Tennessee win would keep it from being what I was worried could be, like a back breaking loss because you got that win against Tennessee. But you know, now Kentucky's in a situation again, let's just do the math.

00:25:49
Speaker 4: We're four and three.

00:25:51
Speaker 3: Just win at home against the three worst teams in the SEC, Arkansas, LSU in South Carolina. Now you got seven wins, right, then you have Tennessee, Alabama, Auburn, and who's our other home game with Vandy. Let's assume we win the Vandy game. Now you're at eight conference wins, three games against the best teams, and then you're on the road at Old Miss, at Alabama, at Texas, at Oklahoma.

00:26:19
Speaker 4: Win one or.

00:26:20
Speaker 3: Two of those and you're looking at a really good record. So this is really more about just holden, serve this game.

00:26:25
Speaker 6: They're in a great spot, and really I don't I'm not that worried about a lost, not that it could happen, but it's very obvious we've already won the breakup. I mean sure, I mean, if they win, congratulations, you still suck, like honestly, I mean, Mark Pope just tied the record for most top twenty five wins in a regular season, and he still has four more games left where he could shatter that record. If Arkansas wins that twenty four hours online, we'll have to eat a lot of crow. I won't get to eat the nuggets. I'm excited to cook. That won't be fun. But on Monday, Kentucky is still so much farther ahead of Arkansas with excitement that oh well, congratulations, it sucked for us on some day, but yeah, we're gonna go continue to be excited about our season.

00:27:03
Speaker 3: I saw a line that, uh, Kentucky's SEC schedule from here out is the easiest of any team left in the ACC or SEC, which basically means we were four and three with the hardest uh schedule of any of the teams that we've played so far.

00:27:18
Speaker 4: Now we still have.

00:27:19
Speaker 3: I mean, our draw made it to where we play two of the best team best teams in the SEC twice. We get Alabama and Tennessee, So you know it is what it is, But nevertheless, I'm.

00:27:31
Speaker 4: Kind of Withdrew. It would stink to lose, but we're still in pre.

00:27:34
Speaker 6: We just never really saw this scenario till SEC play started. No one thought they would be this down.

00:27:39
Speaker 7: Would you still take nine to nine though, like you did last week before the Tennessee game?

00:27:45
Speaker 4: But I'm glad I didn't take it. I think we're gonna I genuinely think we're gonna finish ten and eight. I just have that. I think we're gonna lose.

00:27:54
Speaker 3: I think we'll lose at Tennessee or excuse me, we already we won in Tennsee. I think we're gonna lose at Alabama. I think we're gonna lose at least one of those home games against Tennessee, Alabama and Auburn and then at Old Miss. I think we I think we lose Tuesday night at Old Miss.

00:28:10
Speaker 5: Don't they still have to go to Missouri?

00:28:12
Speaker 3: Right in between Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri. I think we get one of those. I think I think these road games, I don't know why it is we win the hardest ones and lose the other ones.

00:28:20
Speaker 4: I just think these road games are all hard.

00:28:22
Speaker 6: I really, I know Auburn's on the schedule Tennessee. But I look at the games you just named, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Old Miss. That can decide everything because all of those the spread is gonna be like a point or two. They're on the road, they're all beatable teams. If you can split those, if you can win three out of four, that'll be anom.

00:28:37
Speaker 4: I take a split right now. He gave me a split those four.

00:28:40
Speaker 3: I take a split right now because I think with a split your top four seed in the NCAA tournament. If you split Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas and Old Miss on road, win two, you're a top four seed in the tournament, and then the quad one wins to those those You're right, those are the games left for the rest of these here.

00:29:00
Speaker 4: Who's next? Dan? Is up next?

00:29:02
Speaker 3: Dan?

00:29:02
Speaker 4: Go ahead? Dan?

00:29:06
Speaker 15: Hey, Matt, I would argue, if you're drunk, you're not more booie, you're more boozy.

00:29:17
Speaker 4: I know it's awesome, man, Yeah, it was worse than you think.

00:29:25
Speaker 5: I didn't hear what he said.

00:29:27
Speaker 7: He wasn't worth hearing, all right, I appreciate.

00:29:31
Speaker 4: You get you get one miserable joke, and then we move on. Who's next? Luke is up next, Luke, go ahead, Luke.

00:29:39
Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, guys just wanted to say, with this whole cow boo, cheers, do nothing. Then I am bowing this man. The hell with John cal Perry. This guy walks to Oakland and Saint Peters and did we forget that this guy got out coached by Teddy and Olie in a national title game. I mean, come on, this guy had more tindalent than anybody in the history of college basketball for ten years and got a whole one title out of it. What it's good. The most overrated coach in the history of college basketball is John call Perry, and unfortunately he was ours. So screw John Caller Perry. I can't stand him. He was arrogant, all does All.

00:30:23
Speaker 4: Right, I appreciate I appreciate the call. There's a little much. That's there's one side of the argument.

00:30:29
Speaker 5: There's some people on that side.

00:30:31
Speaker 3: But again, all these people, not one person said they would boo, and I saw some people shaking their head yes on that. It's all It's all about, all about how it's articulate. By the way, Kentucky did get four All Stars in the NBA All Star Game last night.

00:30:44
Speaker 4: Anthony, that's great, Anthony Davis.

00:30:47
Speaker 3: You probably would have guessed Carl Towns has made it, shake Gilgess, Alexander has made it. But then, for the very first time, Tyler Hero was named an All Star last night. There's video of him, Pacy. He looked like me, uh Shannon watching a UK basketball game. He was like he had this literally except for his shorts were way longer than I would wear. Yeah, but he had his uh he had his hoodie on over his head and he was just walking back and forth like this when they were gonna announce, and then when they hit it, he just started doing and I was like, man, that's me during the games, and in theory is that should matter much less to me.

00:31:24
Speaker 7: I'm happy for him though, Yeah, first time and well deserved this year.

00:31:27
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:31:28
Speaker 3: I do like that he cared like they always started to act like they don't care, but he could tell.

00:31:32
Speaker 6: Very much care.

00:31:33
Speaker 4: I got to show how a little. I know the NBA.

00:31:34
Speaker 6: I didn't realize that he was having that special of a season. I knew he was doing well, but I didn't know it was an All Star type year that was huge for him. Did anyone think when he committed here his thirtieth prospect or whatever. You'd seen the NBA All Star one day.

00:31:46
Speaker 4: He and shake yil Jess Alexander.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: Think about it, those dudes weren't even McDonald's all Americans and he came.

00:31:51
Speaker 4: And you know when.

00:31:52
Speaker 3: People make the argument Cow never developed players, those are two guys that make a pretty good argument that he did.

00:31:57
Speaker 4: Uh, he could do that with the right dudes. Who's next? Peggy is next? Peggy?

00:32:02
Speaker 12: Go ahead, Peggy, Hey guys, good morning, good morning. He said that Ellen's not coming to the game, and I have it on good authority that she is in Electington, saying in her best friends.

00:32:20
Speaker 4: Peggy. Wait, man, Peggy has it on good authority.

00:32:24
Speaker 6: She's supposed to be sick.

00:32:25
Speaker 4: Wow Peggy, Peggy yep?

00:32:33
Speaker 12: Okay, Well anyway, Uh on Instagram this morning, Uh, coach said Coach Pope said that they are wearing but that the coaching game is wearing special shoes tonight.

00:32:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's for the coaches versus cancers. The cancer shoes they're usually designed by kids.

00:32:57
Speaker 12: Yes they are, and then they're going to oxy.

00:33:01
Speaker 4: That's very cool. Yeah. I looked at popes. They were neat.

00:33:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something that started to appreciate the call. Well, Nike puts out these shoes, these door and bockers that they take kids with terminal illness, and they designed them, and I have a couple pairs of them. And now that's extending to the world of coaches as a whole. And so some kid in Kentucky, I think each designed the shoes the coaches will wear. I think that's a really neat thing.

00:33:22
Speaker 14: Yeah.

00:33:23
Speaker 6: I mean yearsually they've done coaches verse cancer forever and they'd wear sneakers, but just recently started letting the kids actually hand paint the shoes. And I think that's so cool. Imagine just being a little kid. You're painting there in your room and you look up on TV and Mark Pope's wearing it on the sideline. That's got to be awesome for all of them.

00:33:36
Speaker 4: It is awesome.

00:33:37
Speaker 3: And you know, I think in the article on The Athletic today about Pope, it talked about it seems like every day he's doing another something absurdly Yes, right, like who I mean, it seems in terms of good deeds, he couldn't seemingly do more.

00:33:53
Speaker 4: Tell me about stock toor.

00:33:53
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00:33:57
Speaker 4: We should that's what we say.

00:33:58
Speaker 6: Okay, that's probably what they pick.

00:34:00
Speaker 7: I'm not ready, right, you're stalling. Basically, you can't get his phone to turn on. Open that droid won't even come on. Heck with it, you got it Stockton Morga. Oh now it's on.

00:34:10
Speaker 4: Goodness.

00:34:11
Speaker 3: I mean, you know what time of show I'm going to do that. I always have you do it in the eleven thirty hour. Wondering if after fifteen years you might remember.

00:34:19
Speaker 5: Phone come on, comes on like you want to get ready?

00:34:22
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00:34:25
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00:34:40
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00:34:42
Speaker 7: So that their money is worth today. I got a lot of well stalling.

00:34:47
Speaker 5: I got a really good read deal.

00:34:49
Speaker 4: Save it from that.

00:34:49
Speaker 6: They probably wanted you to read that.

00:34:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, save it for the future, for Mondays, take a break, very back, It's KSR. Waterback.

00:34:57
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00:35:08
Speaker 4: Here in Louisville right in New lou.

00:35:10
Speaker 3: Off Nanny goat Strut Road eight five' nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Thank you, folks for a great crowd here today in Louisville. By the way, they say, Shannon, it just came out that the the like you said, the helicopter was flying in the wrong place and the one uh person in the whatever was doing two jobs.

00:35:32
Speaker 7: That's the crazy thing to me is that, you know, for a job that important, you got one person trying to do two people's jobs.

00:35:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, one person was supposed to do planes and one helicopter and they were left to have to do both.

00:35:42
Speaker 16: Yeah.

00:35:43
Speaker 7: That's that's not good at all. That's got a I mean, you know, people's wives lost because of that.

00:35:48
Speaker 4: I can't do that, two twenty two eighty seven.

00:35:52
Speaker 3: A couple other things real quick, uh, Maxwell Harriston named the MVP of Senior Bowl Defensive Players practice so far down in the Senior Bowl out now they're saying may have played his way into a first round pick.

00:36:05
Speaker 5: You know that we kind of got cheated, he got hurt, didn't play it this much this season. But obviously they knew going into the season he was gonna be a high draft pick. And now he's improved his stock even more with what he's been doing down there.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: And Dean Walker's kind of like got himself into shape. What happens with Drew if after that terrible football season, we have two players going to first round.

00:36:24
Speaker 6: I mean, Doomus Johnson might not be first round, but he'll be up there high too. It's gonna stink, especially with the secondary thing, because it's looking like Harrison's gonna have a good spot in the NFL. We're gonna be looking at Carrington, Valentine, Andrew Phillips, Max Harrison always starting roles in the NFL in the years they played here. That defense mightn't forget to be Mike he was. He was a part of some good teams. I mean, we're gonna see NFL players that we didn't get as much out of as we wanted here in Lexton, even though Harrison had a great year two years ago.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: And can I quickly say, will you say I was right on the drones? Uh?

00:36:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, well what was the latest that came out on it? That it wasn't dro it was it was.

00:36:59
Speaker 4: Just it was they were all approved and it was not sure.

00:37:02
Speaker 7: I mean I didn't take a strong stance on.

00:37:04
Speaker 4: That pro like we're being invaded by I.

00:37:06
Speaker 7: Don't think that might have been more dru than me on this.

00:37:09
Speaker 6: I was worried what they were looking for.

00:37:11
Speaker 7: Yeah, well sure it was drunk.

00:37:13
Speaker 4: Okay, I just did I told you not to worry about it. You were worried about who's up next?

00:37:18
Speaker 7: Till next time when it's actually Aliens.

00:37:20
Speaker 4: Josh is up there, Josh, go ahead, Josh.

00:37:25
Speaker 16: All right, guys, got two quick things. First off, I think everyone misunderstood cal. It wasn't that he knows that Ellen isn't gonna come. It's just he hasn't seen her. And then the other thing is he was always famous for at least one time every season he would get ejected from a game. If we think that's this game, who.

00:37:44
Speaker 6: Does been said it for a month? Well, I want odds on it. I'll bet on it right now. I mean, he can't just go out and get ejected. But if they're getting beat bad, I would not be shocked if he goes looking for it.

00:37:55
Speaker 3: Yeah they Well, you know, I heard the guys on Field of sixty eight last night said we're gonna tell how much Arkansas's players, like, how about how hard they play this game?

00:38:04
Speaker 4: Like do they want him to be embarrassed or not?

00:38:07
Speaker 3: Which I thought was kind of an interesting point, like, if you really have a lot of pride in your coach, you know how much this one will mean for him, so you would probably give like that extra ounce of effort.

00:38:18
Speaker 4: Who's next?

00:38:19
Speaker 5: Tammy?

00:38:19
Speaker 4: Is next? Tammy? Go ahead, Tammy. By the way, this is also Jackson Robins Hang.

00:38:26
Speaker 3: Hang on, Tammy, I'm sorry, it's also a Jackson Robinson return game. Jackson Robinson played at Art, did not like it was so apparently he his Arkansas time was brutally terrible.

00:38:44
Speaker 4: So and you know, for everybody else, this is a cow game.

00:38:47
Speaker 3: In Jackson Robinson's mind, this is a different game, so he may have that exact same incentive, just in a different way.

00:38:53
Speaker 11: Go ahead, Tammy, Okay, I just want to say, if you guys are on the air, I am listen day I love me some Mad Jones show. But here's my point, so you're welcome. Nobody has mentioned this. This is a rhetorical question. I'll go fast. Why would any big Blue fan wanna boo cal Perry? I have another plan.

00:39:21
Speaker 4: We want to on a second. Who said that? Over there? Somebody was agreed?

00:39:25
Speaker 16: Was he you?

00:39:25
Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead, Tammy, say what's your plan?

00:39:28
Speaker 11: Okay? My plan is they announced Cali Perry as the head coach for Arkansas. Everybody stands up, gives him a standing ovation and one, two three, thank you for leaving.

00:39:48
Speaker 16: Here we are because.

00:39:53
Speaker 4: You know, Tammy, I it's interesting you get it.

00:39:57
Speaker 3: Uh oh, you're saying make it and ironic thank you, like thank you for leaving.

00:40:04
Speaker 4: Is that what you mean?

00:40:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, Irony's tough even on phone calls, and I think it's gonna be really hard to do in front of twenty four thousand people.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: But I, Tammy, I understand what you're saying. We are better off. But well, let me just say this.

00:40:18
Speaker 3: Would you give him a round of applause just because you think he did well here?

00:40:24
Speaker 11: Not tomorrow?

00:40:25
Speaker 4: Okay? All right? So so are you going to the game, Tammy?

00:40:32
Speaker 3: No, okay, I understand well, Tammy, thank you for listening to the show. And uh, I appreciate your idea. I like your sort of sarcastic cynicism coming there.

00:40:42
Speaker 11: Okay. Or we could say thank you and go into we love Pope, we love thank.

00:40:49
Speaker 4: You, appreciate the girl, Tammy, love it. There we go.

00:40:53
Speaker 3: So you have, We've had the spectrum, we've had boo as loud as you want, We've had cheer and say thank you. Let's talk about the actual game. Uh, Shannon corpredthimp dot com. We're all gonna need it after the game tomorrow night. Gonna have to come down. Corn red HEMP use promo COKSR for thirty percent off full spectrum flour only HEMP CBD gummies help you rest, relax, feel better without the come down of a high. Go to cornbreadhimp dot com promo COKSR thirty percent off. Let me know what you think. We have to pick tomorrow, so we'll wait. So Shannon, you get the one prediction. What's the score gonna be tomorrow for Kentucky and Arca.

00:41:31
Speaker 7: I think Kentucky cover, they win. I think they cover, and I think I'm gonna say eighty six seventy one Kentucky by fifteen. I'm gonna say Jackson Robinson has another big game tomorrow.

00:41:42
Speaker 4: Fifteen would be quite a victory.

00:41:43
Speaker 7: Right, I mean, you know, you look at what Arkansas has done a lot of their games. They're down fifteen, sixteen points.

00:41:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I think this is gonna be an awesome day to be in Lexington Tomorrow. Our pregame show starts at six thirty at kspar. Come on out and see us. I think that place is gonna be fun all day. I think Lexington's gonna be fun. Here's what I'd say. Whatever you decide to do, whether you boo, whether you cheer, or whatever, also enjoy that these are kind of the good old days back again in terms of the feeling that you have about this team. Tomorrow is a good turn your page moment. We've all talked a lot about Cal since he left. Honestly, especially if we win tomorrow, that page can completely turn. Because I do think we are much better off now than we were one year ago, and for that I'm excited. I think we win tomorrow, and I think tomorrow night will be a lot of Fun, Be Loud and Rupperina. Thank you folks very much here at Whiskey Thief. We appreciate it coming. Thank you guys for filling in for me yesterday. We will see you at six point thirty tomorrow. On all of their stations, this has been Kentucky Sports Radio.