2024-11-06- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: All right, Welcome in this Wednesday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, November the sixth. We just heard the sirens in downtown Lexington because they do it the first.

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Speaker 4: Wednesday of every month.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Leman, Drew Franklin, Matt Jones will be here shortly. You know, we all have lived on the west side of Lexington and we've all been stuck by that train on ford Row. Forbes will get you got Matt this morning. That train on ford Row guid in this morning, so he'll be here just a little bit. Of course, every episode of a Texsports Rail sponsor by the t J. Smith Off.

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Speaker 4: It's called TJ. What's you do, Shannon? He'll make them pay. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: You give us a call and the Clark's pumpingsh out phone line eight five nine two eight zero two two eight seven the Avision Glass text machine seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four, and we'll have our whiskey thief call the day later today. So so while we're waiting on Matt to get here, to break down what happened yesterday in the world. Uh, I got a call that said Frederick Douglass had to send an ambulance to the polling place because somebody knocked himself out running into a poll.

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Speaker 5: Well, you're gonna call me out already. I had an adventure at the polling place. I don't know why they put that column there, but uh, when I was voting yesterday, I'm focused.

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Speaker 6: Ryan.

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Speaker 7: You know, we got all these amendments. There's three of them. That's a lot of amendments. Mimics keep straight.

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Speaker 6: That's after I had to get through all the people. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I uh, I turned and walked straight into a pole and hit my face.

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Speaker 6: It was very loud. My wife was on the other end of the gym. She heard it. It startled the people around me. It shook the.

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Speaker 3: Booths, shook the whole building. I think I was pretty embarrassed. Did you have to wait very long?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 5: Actually I got very lucky. I saw some pictures of long lines and I went at lunch. I was like, it is what it is. I'm just gonna go. Not many people there, but uh, there is I did. I did make my presence known at the polls.

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Speaker 3: Yest Way ladies, you know, welcome to Matt Jones.

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Speaker 6: Sorry about that. Let me just say before we get started. I don't like trains. Don't like them. They get they stopped that what is what you say?

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Speaker 7: That depot is called over Forbes Forbes that that the train just goes it like goes one direction, that goes back the other and then back.

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Speaker 6: I was sitting there for fifteen minutes. What are they doing over there?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know this, but at that the Corman train depot over there, I think they can leave load up, then they have to back out and go down another area to load up some more something else. So that's why it goes back and forth.

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Speaker 6: I don't like that.

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Speaker 7: Yes, it took forever during that time. So let me get situated here, can we we're gonna Can we take an early break, Shannon? Then we will all twenty sec.

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Speaker 6: All right, twenty seconds?

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Speaker 7: Then we won't do that, all right, So we're first of all, welcome everybody here.

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Speaker 6: Did you do the Clark's pumpings up thing?

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Speaker 7: I tried to go over Clark's pumping up phone lines eight five nine to twenty two eighty seven, A vision Auto glass text machine seven seven two four five two five four In this distion sponsored by the t J. Smith Love is called Tj'll Make Them Pay. Uh, it's good to see you guys.

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Speaker 4: Well, come in.

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Speaker 6: I had to drive from Louisville today, but I got here.

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Speaker 3: We talked about we've all been living on the west side of Lexton and that train track has got us all at some.

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Speaker 6: Point it has.

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Speaker 7: But uh, I guess the big news today we have a new president or we will and it's the same as the old president, Donald Trump wins yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Can I go through my day with you? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Anxious to hear how you?

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Speaker 6: So I was in Louisville.

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Speaker 7: And went, uh, it was like you know, I watched the Champions League.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 7: Then I went in eight, and then it was time. I decided, I'm not gonna sit and watch election results. I'm gonna go to the movie.

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Speaker 6: A movie.

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Speaker 7: And not only that, am I not gonna go to the movies. I'm gonna go to two movies, one at seven and one at nine forty A. Right, So I went at seven and I went and saw Saturday Night.

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Speaker 4: How was it?

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Speaker 3: Eh, it's all.

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Speaker 6: Right, it's a lot, but I like it.

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Speaker 7: Watch it if it's on Amazon or something, Okay, I don't think you need to watch it, uh, nor it's okay. But then I decided I had like an hour between the two movies. I walked back to my house, got on my phone, and within this is now like eight forty within two or three.

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Speaker 6: Minutes, it was clear to me who had won. You could just tell when you when you looked.

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Speaker 7: There were a couple of things I wanted to see, and you could just tell, especially in the Virginia things, because like, she wasn't doing as well and the suburbs as Biden did. She wasn't doing as well in the African American areas as Biden did.

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Speaker 6: And I was like she's losing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So I went back to the movies for Conclave, and I was like, well, Donald Trump's gonna be president. But you know how you then get to a point where you're just like, okay, I mean that's the way it's gonna be.

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Speaker 6: So I'm gonna enjoy this movie.

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Speaker 7: First of all, Conclave excellent, really excellent. I really liked it. Not everybody will love it because you know, well you just won't all of it, but but very good. You know the dude from Schindler's List, Ray Fines, Do you remember that guy?

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Speaker 6: He's He's great in it.

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Speaker 7: Okay, but the guy sitting a few seats from me started snoring in the middle of the movie. Kind of remind me of you, because you know, now you get those like you get those big lounge.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and people fall asleep.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 7: So I had to figure out how do I get this guy to stop snoring? And honestly, I want to thank the guy for snoring. Took my mind completely off the election. I went completely from Donald Trump's gonna be president again to what can I do to get this dude to stop snoring?

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Speaker 6: I started by.

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Speaker 7: Coughing loudly, like really loud, thinking if I coughed really maybe that would wake him up.

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Speaker 3: Did it work?

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Speaker 6: Did not? I considered throwing popcorn at it. I knew that was coming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have done that, just.

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Speaker 6: Little kernels of popcorn.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So finally I just walked like I was going to the restroom, walked by him, and accidentally bumped into his recline.

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Speaker 6: Is that fair or fat? Oh?

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Speaker 4: It's fair, definitely fair.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I just sort of barely touched it. That woke him up, loudly snoring. He didn't fall asleep again the rest of the movie, and I was able to enjoy the rest.

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Speaker 3: Of the move I'm sure the other people in the theater were thankful you did that. They probably were getting annoyed.

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Speaker 2: I like that you're now using subtlety instead of just yelling out in the theater.

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Speaker 6: My man, my man, I guessn't.

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Speaker 7: Gonna scream at him. Hey, dude, wake up. I was gonna you know, I was trying to be subtle. So then I finished. You know, the movie's probably done eleven forty.

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Speaker 6: Five or something. It's very late at night at that point.

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Speaker 7: It's very clear who is won, and I have text messages from a lot of people you know, asking my opinion and actually went to bed and was you know, able to to sleep. But congrats to uh Don Trump, and congrats to all of you that listen that I know hoped he would win and that are are very very happy. You know, I said yesterday, I hoped who ever won, it was by a substantial amount. And that's what happened. Yeah, I mean, it's he won basically all the swing states. I kind of hoped one of them would do that. I mean, I hoped my person would do it, but but he did. And I think that is good for the country that we don't fight about it for the next two months.

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Speaker 6: But uh, you know, four more years of Donald Trump. Are you excited? Said? Look at you should have seen his face when I asked him that. You had to look like, why did you ask me this?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you did a great job doing your own monologue. I'm gonna, like, you know, maybe tiptoe around it a little bit.

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Speaker 6: Are you glad that there won't be a big, long fight for it.

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Speaker 3: I am. That is probably the best thing that could have happened. Yes, And now we just got to hope that we don't stay divided and we were, We don't we're all on the same team, you know, so let's just try to fight together.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I tried to follow it last night. It's too many counties. I just feel like they're teaching me about too many counties or too many states. Too many counties.

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Speaker 6: Oh, they get county by county.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah both. I went back and forth between CNN and Fox. Way too many county talk. I fell asleep and woke up to the news. I mean, like everyone else, I just I'm hoping we can all come together. I hope for the best. Like Ryan said, we're doing too much fighting between ourselves. We're one team. We've now made the decision. Let's move forward and just yeah, well, I hope it goes as best as it can.

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Speaker 7: I said this on Twitter, and this will be all I say about the election analysis part of it, but it's worth saying. The thing I like about this show, and the thing I've liked about this show for fourteen years, is that, like there are people even in this part today. I'm sure who disagree with me on stuff, but we listen and I feel like everybody really respects each other. I hope we get back to that in politics. Being a Democrat, I tend to like complain about my side a little more because I don't think the Democratic Party knows how to talk to the people in places like Kentucky. I just don't think they know how to talk. They see Kentucky with disdain and it comes through, and I think that hurts them. I don't think it's also a secret that Trump will call people names and do all of that as well. I hope we're able to get past that. Probably won't for a while, but I hope we do. But I am glad that at least I will tell you for me, I'm taking a break.

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Speaker 6: From following any of it for a little.

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Speaker 7: While because I just, you know, when I was in Europe, I really enjoyed not having people be contentious, and I think, at least personally, I'm going to try to.

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Speaker 6: Get back to that for a while.

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Speaker 7: I'm sure I won't be great at it, but like it's not worth it, And like last night, not following it, didn't get involved in any of the arguments, and I felt good about it.

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Speaker 3: Well, I found out who our president was by Shannon the Dude and Billy Ouschports on the pre show this morning. That's where you got your news.

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Speaker 6: Shannon, the dude is your Tom broke up.

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Speaker 4: I didn't watch any of it last night.

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Speaker 6: You didn't watch any of it, and you got up this morning and you didn't.

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Speaker 3: Check, took a shower. I turned on the You just.

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Speaker 6: This is what I love about you. You weren't even curious who won this morning.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I turned on the radio.

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Speaker 3: I thought I hear it on the news report, but I got in a shower and I missed it. But then so show got up.

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Speaker 6: But you are amazing to me.

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Speaker 7: You gotta I can understand not watching it, but you got up and didn't even.

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Speaker 6: Want to know.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to know, but you wanted to hear from Shannon. I wanted to hear from Shannon.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I hope I did a good job for you, broke it down the electoral votes.

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Speaker 3: I do have another question to ask you about this free.

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Speaker 6: Jes Shannon, he's your news.

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Speaker 4: Is jd Vance now the most famous person to be on this show?

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Speaker 6: No, I don't think he is.

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Speaker 7: Who is Who's well? Are we talking worldwide or in America? In America, it will be him worldwide. It's probably still Roger Feeder.

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Speaker 4: Uh huh.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, But I mean he may be here worldwide two at some point here relatively soon.

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Speaker 3: Probably the guy who has actually been on as a guest, you know, Fredericker just said, hey, what's up, big Blue Nation or whatever he said?

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Speaker 7: Now I consider that being a guest. By the way, in Kentucky, just a couple of things. The amendment to failed lost every county?

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Speaker 3: Did it lose?

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Speaker 4: Every count All one hundred.

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Speaker 7: And twenty counties voted no. That I can't remember the last time that's happened for anything, all one hundred and twenty county.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 7: It was sixty five to thirty five. And then Ryan's one endorsement.

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Speaker 4: Yeah she was.

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Speaker 7: She did win, probably on the back on the heels of your support.

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Speaker 3: I think she's the first African American woman to be on the Kentucky Supreme Court. And you and if I endorsed.

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Speaker 6: Her, you took her over the top, took her over the top.

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Speaker 3: So anyway, now, what about the Lexington Parks, Yeah, we're good.

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Speaker 6: I was for the parks. Big what happened?

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Speaker 7: I didn't we got a yes, good parks are gonna get well. I didn't understand what that was what happened? Think they're making more money for to take care of the parks. So they're pro park.

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Speaker 6: Yes, we are a pro park.

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Speaker 7: I did not get an update Shannon on who won our Soil and Water commission.

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Speaker 6: Not any of the four that I picked one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have strong feelings about it?

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Speaker 3: Your soil and your water?

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Speaker 7: The four women, because I was like, I feel like they're going to care more about the soil and water.

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Speaker 2: Females care more about the soil than that.

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Speaker 6: I think women like water. I don't know if they do, but I feel like they do.

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Speaker 5: I thought we had two options, and I'm thinking, well, why not give her soil in her water problem solved focus instead of putting too much on.

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Speaker 6: Their Just divide it.

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Speaker 7: You get the soil, it will vote maybe who gets soil waters?

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Speaker 5: Two of them? Two things, attack and let's work together. Yeah, that's that's how we should be. That's true Franklin's view of how you do America.

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Speaker 3: But on our electington ballot it said select four. But there were just two names and then they had right, So what do they do for the other two? People got to write in somebody.

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Speaker 4: I guess.

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Speaker 7: I think we talked about this before. When there's only two four, when you have to elect four and there's only two spots. I think whoever gets written in has to do the job. You're like, I think you if you pick Ryan, he is forced to be a Soil and Water commissioner, whether he wants to be or not. You get a knock on your door that night and they tell you you have to quit your Sorry, you're not a radio host anymore. Soil Water, Tell your kids, goodbye you Water. I'm killing you right now, very pro water. H Well, now there's also the guy that I bet. Oh yeah, remember I'll bet a guy. Uh and and and what's on the menu? Well, no, no, I said he would cook for me. I said I would buy him. Okay, yeah, I'm not cooking, but I said I would buy him a steak dinner. And you know, I hope you like Western Sitzeland because that's what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 6: But but I pay up my bet. Yeah, do you what do I have to go? I think that was part of the deal.

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Speaker 3: Compan here may.

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Speaker 7: We don't do steak anymore, so we can't do I would have missed, I said steak dinner, so I will do that.

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Speaker 3: Waffle house has got steak staking eggs, just give.

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Speaker 6: Him brisket me. I don't think I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 7: I'm not gonna give him waffles. I have to give him an actual steak, right, I don't think.

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Speaker 6: Enough. I'm I will pay up. I did the best.

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Speaker 7: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, the text machine is seven seven two seven.

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Speaker 6: Four five two five four. Uh.

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Speaker 7: I don't want hopefully like I want you all to call, but not about the election. I think that wouldn't be a fun show. We're gonna talk about Kentucky and other stuff.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 6: We will take a break and be right back. We're here at ks Bar on.

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Speaker 7: A rainy wingsday here on Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 6: Welcome back, I do this is? What is this? Josh Turner? Yep, A long black train. Yes? Did he have any other songs besides this one?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that I will and come on baby, pulled them change down and turn the lights down low or something like that.

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Speaker 6: Wow, that was a good version of come on Baby, turn the lights down. Yeah. I got some folks from Whitesburg, Letcher County. They had a race.

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Speaker 7: They were that state Senate race where everybody had to write in the votes because well, the guy died it was sad. Johnny ray Turner, he died he was a state senator like three or four weeks before the election, so they didn't have time to put the names on the ballot.

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Speaker 6: So it was all right in wow, and uh, I don't know. I didn't see who won.

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Speaker 4: I want to take days and days to figure it out, won't.

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Speaker 7: It No, I mean it still works the same way. You just have a You just put a name on there and you write it, but you had to declare yourself as a writing candidate or the vote doesn't Cassie.

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Speaker 6: So I don't know. There were like eleven candidates. I'm not sure who won.

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Speaker 7: If I'm nine two eight to zero twenty two eighty seven, I wanna let's.

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Speaker 6: Switch gears for a little UK basketball, right all right?

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Speaker 7: So Mark Pope said after the game, we talked a lot about the fact that they won, and he was excited and and all that, but he also said something interesting. He said, during the off season he went to a college basket ball referee clinic. He said he wanted to go to the clinic to not only meet the referees of the SEC, but also to know how it is they do their job. He said, he thought if he went, he would understand why they call this foul or that foul, and it would make him better prepare his team. And when I read that, I thought, you know, that's kind of brilliant. Yep, right, like that's kind of brilliant. Rather than sit there and say the refs stink, the refs suck, how about you actually try to understand how and why they make the calls they make. I loved it because I felt like it's such an an analytical, intelligent approach Ryan and I really enjoyed that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's super smart to do that. Coming into a new conference for the first time, he's trying to get learn everything he possibly can about all the teams and now including the official soul.

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Speaker 7: Do you think that would be more successful than just than screaming at them?

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Speaker 6: It will.

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Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to it. Such a nerd thing to do, it isn't. I mean, most people in that profession think, Oh, I'm just gonna take off my jacket and throw it, or I'm gonna call him out in the press conference and get fined, or I'm just.

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Speaker 6: Gonna yell about it.

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Speaker 5: He as a very intelligent person, wants to go learn what they're thinking, so we can better understand why they're making those calls. And I assume him doing that will lead to maybe Kentucky gets well, it's favorable things as well.

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Speaker 7: It's a really smart thing to do, like like rather than say, I mean this honestly has parallels about last night, Rather than say you're dumb, you disagree with me, why don't you say why do you think the way you did right? Same thing with the referee, whether than Jurdan just get angry at the calls, how about you figure out why they're.

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Speaker 6: Calling it this way or that way.

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Speaker 7: And I genuinely believe if Mark Pope gets along with these referees, you got a better chance of getting a call or two in a game than if you're screaming, screaming at.

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Speaker 3: The whole time. I've always thought that. So is this something a lot of coaches do or maybe even the conference?

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure. I mean, they may be a lot of them that do it.

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Speaker 7: I had never heard of a coach doing that, but but but he clearly did.

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Speaker 5: He said he goes there for two days, he watches them, watch film and talk about why they make calls or what should be called.

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Speaker 6: Oh is that right?

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Speaker 5: Watches them was horribly boring, But I mean, I think it's gonna benefit him in the long run.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And you know, I've noticed during these games like he doesn't he doesn't yell at the at the officials. He told his players, I don't want you to think about a call the entire game.

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Speaker 6: He was like, you.

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Speaker 7: Can't control it, he said, don't even think about it. And I will say last year especially, I felt like our team wind about calls way too much. I don't know that we've always done that, but it felt like last year to me, we had a lot of times where it was like just complaining about call.

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Speaker 6: I love Rob Dellingham, but he was one of the worst about it.

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Speaker 7: It does feel like that that Probably, I bet referees don't want to be showed up by coaches, but I bet they, really, Drew don't want to be shown up by players.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I can remember some of that recently, even just some of I missed a shot, I'm gonna slouch and you look up, your man's gone the other way for a layup. There was a lot of that. Hopefully, Pope. You know, he preaches a lot of discipline as you said, ignore it, move on. Hope we don't see as much of that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so an interesting another example of how I feel like they are coaching this team intelligently well.

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Speaker 5: In the press conference, I think it was the first question he talked about a frontal cortex or I'm like, what are you.

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Speaker 7: Even talking about. We're not a bunch of web MD bennies. He talked about frontal cortex. Googling what he's talking about. What did he say about frontal cortex?

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Speaker 5: He told him to use more of their frontal cortex and less of their Olympic system. So then I have to google Olympic system. And there's just what was he mean?

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Speaker 4: What did he mean?

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Speaker 6: I don't know. I still don't know.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying it's he's very intelligent, and when we're getting answers in these things.

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Speaker 2: There it's, you know, like he's talking about like your decision making part of your brain than the other side, you emotional side of the brain, and how those things all tie together in a basketball game.

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Speaker 6: And he wants us to use our what part of the brain I think, not your Olympics system, and which one does.

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Speaker 3: Which the Olympic is the emotional part of your brain. So he's trying to get you to use more of your frontal part to make the decisions and not to make them depending on your emotion.

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Speaker 6: This is all one man.

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Speaker 3: Did you know that?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I used to be a brain surgeon back in the day.

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Speaker 6: So well that's interesting. So he wants you to use the thinking, not the emotional. It makes sense.

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Speaker 4: It does make sense.

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Speaker 7: You know, Pope almost went to medical school, so he's got to be one of the few coaches that would know that.

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Speaker 3: But how many coaches bring that up the first comment in a press conference.

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Speaker 6: I don't think there's a lot. I haven't heard Bruce Pearl say that. Who's a person? Elijah Elijah? How are you Elijah Elijah? Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hey, hey, I was good at calling. Just listening you guys. The talk about the learning, how the referees, you know, officiate the game. I show horses for a living, and if you know how a judge is judging your horse and looking at your horse, yeah and whatnot, you're definitely way better prepared and you'll be way more successful. So good on Mark Pope. He's a smart coach. I'd also like to say, I know you talked about it a little yesterday, but Big Blue Nation needs to settle down on the Kentucky kids. Like we watched thirty five minutes.

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Speaker 7: I got a lot of feedback about that comment yesterday.

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Speaker 6: So you did you agree with the calling?

00:21:40
Speaker 9: I agree with you one hundred percent. We watched thirty five minutes of experienced, good college basketball players play and whether they want to admit it or not, when them kids walked on the floor, they look like high schoolers and that's okay, thirty fine, they're eighteen years old. So and I think with n Il, those kids are already Kentucky legends. It'll they'll get the money, they'll stick around, and they'll be Kentucky legends when they're done.

00:22:06
Speaker 6: Totally agree with that. I appreciate the call.

00:22:08
Speaker 7: There were a lot of people that reached out to me on that call yesterday about Noah and Perry and like whether they should play more, and there were people on either side. To be honest with you, but I this is nothing against Noah and Perry because I do think both of them can not only.

00:22:25
Speaker 6: Play here, they can be good.

00:22:28
Speaker 7: That is a grown men versus young guys comparison. When you look at these older guys on our team versus them.

00:22:35
Speaker 6: Do you agree?

00:22:36
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, the way they played, experience their bodies. I had no problem with the guys coming in late. I just thought maybe it could have gone just a couple of minutes of So why just because it was forty point blowout.

00:22:46
Speaker 7: But what about what Pope says about the margin matters and the analytics matter for tournament seed.

00:22:53
Speaker 4: He's smarter than I am, so he knows what he's doing.

00:22:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was using his frontal cortex substitution. Exactly.

00:22:59
Speaker 7: Your emotion Chitel Lobes would say, put in the Kentucky kid. Yeah, your frontal cortex says we need a good seed when we get to the tournament.

00:23:06
Speaker 6: We'll be right back. TJ.

00:23:07
Speaker 7: Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ.

00:23:10
Speaker 6: He'll make them pay.

00:23:11
Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:16
Speaker 6: Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio.

00:23:18
Speaker 7: I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven four five two five four one person rights mad. I do not believe you that you weren't on your phone. You care about this stuff as much as anybody I know. I don't believe you didn't take your phone to the movie theater. I didn't didn't take the movie theater, didn't even look at it. I looked at it a lot in the afternoon, and then I was like, what if this is not accomplishing anything, why am I doing this? So I watched the Champions League soccer uh. In between the two movies, I watched the Canes win. They've won seven in a row. Just for the record. They're hot. They're hot. I'm my my hockey fever, I'm my Caney act.

00:23:55
Speaker 3: This is is rolling you to try to go to a go to a game.

00:23:58
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, I'm gonna go to a couple of this year. I'd like to.

00:24:01
Speaker 7: They're in Columbus. They're in Columbus at the same time we play Texas. So if I go to that game, I don't know how am I going to watch the football game in order to be I guess I could watch it at the arena.

00:24:13
Speaker 6: And then do the postgame show.

00:24:14
Speaker 5: But if only we were about to drive all over America, surely they're somewhere.

00:24:18
Speaker 6: I loved.

00:24:18
Speaker 7: If they were anywhere on the trip, we would go. But they they're playing up in the northeast and I thought about even taking us that way to try to catch a game, but I don't feel like we could get there quite on top.

00:24:29
Speaker 5: I just mentioned this to Ryan during the break, but I had to politely decline an invitation to Elf the Musical on all our behalf because it's while we're on our way to Seattle. But they were listening and reached out, and well, that's nice. They probably like the uh like the publicity doesn't work out.

00:24:44
Speaker 7: There if I'm nine to eight twenty two eighty seven, one person, rights Matt. The thing I like about our team is the experience and how hard they play. I think if you played Noah and Perry, you'd get a lot of the problems we've had recently with Col's team.

00:25:00
Speaker 6: I think that's right. I mean, again, it's nothing against those kids.

00:25:03
Speaker 7: This is how it used to be. Like it used to be, the freshmen didn't come in and play a lot.

00:25:09
Speaker 4: We're used to.

00:25:09
Speaker 7: We've gotten our minds completely changed by how the team has been recently.

00:25:14
Speaker 6: But it used to be that you didn't expect the.

00:25:16
Speaker 7: Dude to come in from Lime County be bulked up and ready to play. I would just ask you look at their bodies, like just physically look at the bodies of the top guys and didn't look at Noah and Perry.

00:25:30
Speaker 6: It's just a different world.

00:25:31
Speaker 3: You know, Like we said yesterday, at least I'm glad they kept playing. You know, when those guys put in, they didn't you know, pull the ball out and just run the clock down by wall. They were still running their offense, making cuts. They got a couple shots off, you know, that's that's more than they're gonna get in a lot of games.

00:25:44
Speaker 7: But that story I told about, I mean Annsley Almanor when he started college, Trent Noah was in eighth grade. I mean, like, there you go, Matt, think about the kids going to college and the other kids in eighth grade. You're not gonna expect them to get to play with each other.

00:25:58
Speaker 5: It's crazy how xtations for them flip too. I mean until Pope, Trent Noah wasn't even gonna be on this team, didn't even have much of a conversation to be a Kentucky commit when Cow was here and we all knew Travis Perry wasn't gonna play much. So just because Pope's here in the systems change. I don't think we should be expecting too much out of them more than what they're right, what they're gonna.

00:26:17
Speaker 6: Be doing one person rights. Matt. Let me ask you a question. I bet you haven't been asked.

00:26:22
Speaker 7: With Trump winning, what changes might happen in sports?

00:26:26
Speaker 6: It's actually a really good question.

00:26:30
Speaker 7: Here's the biggest The biggest change is I will make you a bet you write this down. Okay, the live tour, PGA thing, they'll end up back together, probably pretty soon because the biggest hindrance of it was the Department of Justice. And I bet they'll in a Trump administration, they'll just let them merge because so that to me, will be the biggest thing. That's a that's a big thing. But I bet you, I bet you that happens. Whether that's good or not is in your own personal bloe. Like I think basically the Saudis are going to own the golf tour and we're gonna be playing. The PGA Tour will be a Saudi Golf Tour. But I do think that'll happen. And then I think in college sports, I think there's two big changes. One is going to be the Nile Bill is going to look different. I had assumed you would get a Republican Senate and a Democratic House. It's looking like you might get all Republicans in all three, at which point they will pass a bill that will be much more pro the colleges rather than the players, and then you have to see if the Supreme Court will uphold it. But I think now there was going to be a settlement either way, but I think now it'll swing more in favor of the colleges.

00:27:47
Speaker 6: That's just my guess. And then the other one is Title nine.

00:27:50
Speaker 7: I mean there's a part of the Trump administration that wants Title nine, maybe not to go away, but to be changed. So you know, if you're an advocate for women's sports, that might change. I think those are the ones that stick out to me the most. A lot of sports.

00:28:03
Speaker 6: It won't really have any effect either way. On the Live even gave Bryce in a shout out last night.

00:28:08
Speaker 7: He did, and I saw Rory McElroy this morning said the exact same thing I just said. And they they're all friends with him because they play golf with him, so they know. I think you're gonna have one golf tour again. But I also think it's probably gonna be like a Saudi golf tour just in America. And whether that's good or not, I guess he's your own personal opinion, but I do think that's very likely.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: It's interesting, you know, to follows what was gonna happen.

00:28:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's probably good for golf to put him back together. But I think you'll see that. Who's up next, Charles, Charles? How are you? Charles? Doing well?

00:28:43
Speaker 8: Doing well? So I'm just trying to think about the differences between the you know, two coaches and one coach I see, you know, he takes the names of the referee, so he can you know, yell at them in the game, and like the next coach, you know, he's probably gonna know them personally, you know, probably give him like a bag of cookies or something before the game, and you know, bring them about their family.

00:29:04
Speaker 7: I could totally see Pope's wife making the referees cookies, can't you, or Pope doing like the ted Lasco biscuit drop off due locker room like Welcome to Lexington. The more the more I watch ted Lasso, Mark Pope is ted Lasso, Yeah, Mark, Mark Pope is a smarter ted Lasso. Ted Lasso is kind of like not he's kind of like a little dumb but awesome. Mark Pope is that but smart? He's ted Lasso. You're right, he's gonna bring him biscuits. He is going to bring the referees biscuits.

00:29:36
Speaker 8: Yeah. So then here's my next thing. So you know how some people think, you know, because something happened, like they you know, stood in the shower, they could affect a game or whatever.

00:29:46
Speaker 6: Yes, by some people you mean me, Yeah, yeah.

00:29:52
Speaker 9: Pretty much.

00:29:53
Speaker 8: Well I have this thing now where you know, I want everything to be like it was back in ninety six, just thinking, you know, you know, take that just a little bit, you know, farther, Are there any things that you guys are kind of like, Okay, let's bring this back.

00:30:07
Speaker 9: We got to bring this.

00:30:08
Speaker 7: That's a great question from what from UK basketball? Since the nineties are back with UK basketball. I appreciate the call if you could bring something back from UK basketball of the past and bring it to this era. Besides the tongue, which I think is what a lot of people would say. His daughter was wearing a shirt that had the tongue on it the other day, yeah, on Monday. Besides the tongue, is there anything from UK basketball past you would like to see brought back.

00:30:38
Speaker 3: I only discussed this earlier. I mentioned the denim uniforms. I think it's cool if they'd bring that at least just one game. One game then uniforms. Somehow find a way to have the camp out again. I know they can't have it where they.

00:30:48
Speaker 7: That's not gonna happen though this year. I mean like something they could do this year that would be like something from the past that was fun that they could do.

00:30:56
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I loved from his playing days a Kentucky was that starting line up music.

00:31:00
Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know what they used. So they did use the Bulls music. Okay, I like that. That's good. What else I wish that the uh I kind of think it would be fun.

00:31:15
Speaker 7: This is the school can't do this as much as it would be the fans and the students. If they would do the three chant, you know what I mean every back when Patino was here, every time they would shoot a three while it was in the air, but it would go three yeah.

00:31:28
Speaker 6: And then if they I think that would be kind of cool to do because we're gonna take a lot of.

00:31:31
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Patty who comes to our shows, does the the threes in the corner when they put up the sign. I think they've been doing that for a while, but I hope they But they don't do the chant no, but I hope they'll put a little more emphasis on those three counters now too, that that's a big part of the offense.

00:31:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm trying to think what else would be good. I mean the traditions. One we shouldn't bring back was the claw thing. No, that failed.

00:31:52
Speaker 6: That was really terrible. Don't bring that one back.

00:31:55
Speaker 3: I like the new tradition of doing a victory lap after the game to meet the fans around.

00:32:00
Speaker 6: I like that. What about the silver uniforms, I'm okay with that.

00:32:04
Speaker 4: Maybe one game?

00:32:05
Speaker 6: Oh you would want the silver uniforms back?

00:32:07
Speaker 3: Why not just one game? You know, interesting a road game, maybe the road game against Ohio State or a Clypson or somebody. I don't have no problem with that.

00:32:16
Speaker 6: I thought this was. What about the icicles? Oh the apex? Bring back the apex?

00:32:20
Speaker 4: You gotta do you thought this for a long time.

00:32:22
Speaker 5: Kentucky has been terrible at alternate throwback jerseys.

00:32:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, Louisville, I hate Louisville.

00:32:27
Speaker 5: But if I will give them one compliment, they're so good at that logos. Kentucky finally did one last year or two with the ninety two, but they should be doing a jersey all the time.

00:32:38
Speaker 6: The icicles would be cool.

00:32:39
Speaker 7: Yes, it would be the having the eye sicle, doing a game of icicle, doing a game of denim the silver.

00:32:47
Speaker 6: I'd like it, but I don't know that people would love that. But I would love to see those coming back.

00:32:52
Speaker 4: Get ready.

00:32:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want them to like hang another jersey in the rect like at least one a year. You know, we'll be kind of straight away from that one year.

00:33:00
Speaker 6: That's too many. You don't want we don't need one a year?

00:33:04
Speaker 3: Why not? Well, but I mean.

00:33:06
Speaker 7: Because it's supposed to be special, and if you give one a year, we're gonna end up giving one. I mean over time, you'll end up giving one to a player from every season.

00:33:13
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a lot of laundry.

00:33:14
Speaker 6: That's gonna be a lot of stuff up there over time.

00:33:17
Speaker 5: On that note, I love the Judge, but we need another banner next to the Judgs gunner.

00:33:22
Speaker 6: I've even had announcers for ESPN pull me aside and be like, what's up with the one Judd banner up there?

00:33:27
Speaker 7: It is weird that we only have the d What else would you put up there besides the Judge.

00:33:32
Speaker 6: Nothing wrong with the Judge banner.

00:33:33
Speaker 5: It's just it's been the only one up there for so long and need some company.

00:33:37
Speaker 6: That's interesting.

00:33:38
Speaker 7: I was at Madison Square Garden and they have a Billy Joel banner and the other banner is Fish, and I was thinking of all the people that have been at Madison Square Garden. I give Billy Joel, he's from New York, But how did you decide to put fish up there? I just think that's odd a lot. But what what? Why are the Judds up there? Because it's not that's not even Ashley. That's why.

00:34:03
Speaker 5: Then it has its own spot on the wall, like it's completely by itself.

00:34:07
Speaker 3: They did it on their farewell farewell tour, right, But why just because they're Kentucky people.

00:34:13
Speaker 7: But there's a lot of Kentucky people. We have more like Loretta Lynn. I mean, there's a ton of Kentucky. Why are the judge and not me?

00:34:22
Speaker 6: What?

00:34:23
Speaker 4: Why not me?

00:34:24
Speaker 3: Okay, just slow, I have one more thing.

00:34:27
Speaker 4: I'm gonna.

00:34:28
Speaker 6: I like that.

00:34:29
Speaker 3: I want them to do more retire jerseys, and I want them to do the why at every game that traditionally marks out Travis Ford, even during the Exhibs game there's a former player there. Do the why at the UH cheer every game.

00:34:41
Speaker 7: They should, well they ought to planet to where if you're gonna do the why every game, bring somebody in, Like, don't just look around and say who's here? Plant you know, bring them up like it would be And you don't just have to have played for Kentucky right, bring out Tyler children right, like bring out random Kentucky. And I think before I would really suggest to UK in the next year do something for Oscar Combs, like let him be the why. That would mean so much to that guy and he deserves it, and like things like that. I use that as a way to really kind of get the fan base, you know. Locked in Court Physical Therapy KRT dot com. If you need have physical therapy needs you want to feel better, go to court dot com. They will help you and if you have insurance, it'll work on it on nearly all of them over seventy locations. You could have an extreme discount if you've used your deductible up this year. Go to court, physical therapy experience, the best in rehab for the holidays, It's Kort dot Com. We're gonna take a break and be right back in his Wings day here at Ksbar Dollar Wings all day, best wings in the city, best wings in the world where there's one really good one in Bulgaria. But we're next, We'll be right back to Sctucky Sports Radio. All right, so this is the one musical banner, Reperena. Apparently Fish sold out Madison Square Garden for.

00:36:03
Speaker 6: Thirteen straight shows.

00:36:05
Speaker 3: What Why Hunt?

00:36:08
Speaker 6: But okay, so that's like, that's good. But so Taylor Swift shows.

00:36:15
Speaker 7: It sold seventy thousand seats three nights in a row. That's what, two hundred and fifteen thousand.

00:36:22
Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll put her name up in the rafter or something.

00:36:24
Speaker 7: I mean, you just gonna put her name in the rafters of every arena because she's done that everywhere she's been. Like, does she just get to have be in a banner everywhere?

00:36:33
Speaker 4: Reperena can hang at Taylor Swift?

00:36:34
Speaker 7: I mean no, Now, listen, if Fish sold thirteen straight shows out at roup, I think it should put the banner up.

00:36:42
Speaker 6: I don't know. I just feel like that's a weird, weird one to.

00:36:44
Speaker 5: Do, it isn't It just looks funny being one, Like I might put one for the Kentucky was the Kentucky Rising concert?

00:36:52
Speaker 6: Yeah that was cool. Maybe commemorate that night.

00:36:54
Speaker 7: But I will say I will to what you said, put a banner up every year for basketball. I don't know if I want every year, but we do need more. I mean, we have not had one since Jamal Mashburn right, a lot of players. I mean, I want you to think that Tony Delk is the last guy to have his jersey retired. Now's twenty years ago is when he played. I mean, who's net who would be next?

00:37:18
Speaker 4: I think Prince has got to be.

00:37:19
Speaker 7: I think Tashawn has got to be who you do next. I think you do Tayshan, But then if you do Taishan, you're gonna have to do Bogus. Yes, I don't think you can do Tayshawn and not Bogans. But then that gets us to what are you gonna do about the cow guys? I mean, the cow guys are tough because you could either do I mean the problem with the cow guys, is there are two that to me stick.

00:37:42
Speaker 6: At, which is Davis and Wall. But Oscar was National Player of the Year.

00:37:50
Speaker 7: But it feels weird that you would have Oscar but not have, you know, pick your star.

00:37:57
Speaker 3: Over the years, all right, Carl one pick?

00:38:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, although Carl was not even the best player on that team, so I think you can understandably leave him off. But let's say you were gonna rank putting the jerseys up into rafters. Anthony Davis goes first from the Calgary right, is Wall second?

00:38:16
Speaker 4: I think?

00:38:16
Speaker 7: So yep, okay, So if Anthony Davis is first, and I'm not by the way, this is not who I think was the best player, just who you putting in the rafters considering the standards of what.

00:38:27
Speaker 6: They use for the rafters.

00:38:29
Speaker 7: Anthony Davis is won, Wall second, Is Oscar third? I mean, I don't think anybody would think Oscar was the third best player. But besides, but Oscar was the only one that won National Player of the Year.

00:38:41
Speaker 6: That you have a National Player of the Year, I think they gotta go up.

00:38:43
Speaker 4: I agree that alone puts you in the conversation.

00:38:47
Speaker 7: So you're putting Oscar up ahead of Brandon Knight, Randall Fox.

00:38:52
Speaker 5: That's where it's so hard. I mean, Malik Munk has like the third best season for scoring ever.

00:38:58
Speaker 6: He does the only one's list, No, but he has one of the best years ever in the history of the program.

00:39:03
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you another one.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: Willie Collie Stein, National Defensive Player of the Year, SEC.

00:39:07
Speaker 6: First Team all.

00:39:10
Speaker 3: You wouldn't ever think Willy, but you look at his accolades. He deserves it.

00:39:13
Speaker 7: And I mean, even though they didn't necessarily do it here Shaye Alexander and Devin Booker. One of these days people are gonna go, how are they not up there? Jamal Murray put up tons of points here. I just think, I think, UK when they get to that era, it's gonna be really hard.

00:39:32
Speaker 6: Anthony Davis is going up? Is that? Do you agree with that?

00:39:35
Speaker 3: He has to?

00:39:36
Speaker 6: John wall has to? Is he going up?

00:39:38
Speaker 8: He has?

00:39:38
Speaker 6: All right? So now third is Oscar going up?

00:39:41
Speaker 3: I got one.

00:39:42
Speaker 6: We're skipping.

00:39:43
Speaker 5: Ulis was SEC Player of the Year and defensive play But you.

00:39:46
Speaker 7: Can't put ulss up and not put the national player Oscar.

00:39:50
Speaker 6: I'm just adding Ulis to the conversation.

00:39:52
Speaker 4: So Oscar, I think he's third in line. Right now.

00:39:55
Speaker 7: But does Oscar feel like the third best player in the cal Era?

00:39:58
Speaker 6: No, but I think he's gonna have to.

00:40:00
Speaker 3: Be up there are the rules, and I.

00:40:02
Speaker 7: Think you have to put Willie up there before you put YOUU list, because you're right about what ulis is. But then you Willie was first team.

00:40:10
Speaker 5: In the player of the Year conversation, Yeah, third or fourth, And if you just look at awards, that's difficult. Like Emanual Quickly was Player of the Year. He didn't have that many SEC Player of the years the Yeah, they Quickly should be up there, but he was.

00:40:24
Speaker 6: And if you look.

00:40:24
Speaker 7: At points scored in the season, Antonio Reeves, Yeah, Antonio Reeves has the third most points of the cal Era in.

00:40:32
Speaker 5: The season He's got last year was top ten single seasons all time too.

00:40:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean exactly what I think the best seasons are.

00:40:41
Speaker 7: Monk has the best cow When it's like third or four, it's like Monk Murray Reeves, I think are the top three.

00:40:48
Speaker 3: He didn't play for COB. I think Jody Meeks is probably in the conversation.

00:40:51
Speaker 7: By the way, I think Reeves would have been first if they had gone farther in the turn.

00:40:54
Speaker 6: Probably just end up playing more games, would you say?

00:40:56
Speaker 3: I think Jody Meeks he didn't play for cow, but he's got to be in the conversation.

00:41:00
Speaker 7: So if all the guys not up there, can I give you my rankings of top five? Yes, Anthony Davis should be the next one up. There's no way you can have that and not have Anthony Davis up there. You know my second one is gonna be Mike Pratt.

00:41:15
Speaker 4: It's a good call.

00:41:16
Speaker 7: Mike Pratt needs to be up there. Should have been up there with the pass, should have been up there before he passed away. Mike, Mike Pratt should be up there. He's second for me. Then I think third is John Wall. Then after John Wall, I think the next group has to be like Tayshawn and Bogan huh, because of their But then it starts to in my opinion, get really yeah.

00:41:37
Speaker 3: I always thought, you know, you mentioned Mike Pratt. I wish they would have retired Melvin Turpin before he passed away. There's a couple guys, you know, they didn't get to see that. So but I think we've got a pretty good list of guys that are next in line.

00:41:47
Speaker 4: But had they changed the rule.

00:41:50
Speaker 7: Where they changed the rule, but all those guys should be eligible now you have to have been in the Hall of Fame for five years.

00:41:55
Speaker 4: Okay, not for it.

00:41:56
Speaker 5: They just added Pratt like a year ago. We said, donk, they did add Pratt, they did add prep Yeah, okay, I thought I had a memory of that. I just googled it up. He's up there and there's okay. Yeah.

00:42:07
Speaker 6: So we've only had two people retired since two thousand and two.

00:42:11
Speaker 3: Yes, that's why I want to bring it back. We've got dog people.

00:42:15
Speaker 7: We have only we've only done two people since two thousand and two. See, that's ridiculous that that that that should there should be more of those. We'll take a break, come back. I remember two.

00:42:25
Speaker 6: It's KOs Horner.