2025-02-11- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones quarterback.

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Speaker 4: I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio five ' two five seven one to eighty Uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. You're not gonna believe this, the texts uh on the text machine. Some people didn't like that last second.

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Speaker 5: WHOA, I know it's gonna surprise you.

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Speaker 4: One person writes, Matt, do you care at all that seventy five percent of Kentucky disagrees with you on your opinions? No, because whether or not something is your opinion shouldn't depend on what everyone thinks. Anyone can jump off a cliff. You should believe what you believe regardless. If you believe one thing and you live in California and everybody's Democrat and you still believe it, you should still believe your your Republican things. You shouldn't change your mind just because the majority disagrees with you.

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Speaker 5: Be proud of who you self.

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Speaker 4: To put Ryan limit at one point, all right, they're showing Luca up here on the screen. He made his debut last night. A couple things thoughts about this first vault. Yellow is not a slimming color, So uh, if you're Luca, you gotta say like it's gonna be awesome playing with the Lakers. Wish I had gotten traded to a team with a darker fit. Maybe look much better in the road purple.

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Speaker 5: Than in the in the you can see right there.

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Speaker 4: I remember, you know, I've had periods of my life where I was a little bit bigger. And I remember I had an ex girlfriend, what say to me, don't wear yellow? And I was like why, and she goes, it just doesn't work for you. And I and I noticed that with Luca last night.

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Speaker 6: He should have demanded a trade to the Spurs. To the Spurs would be grown. Black is much better. Always wear black if you don't, if you don't know.

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Speaker 4: Secondly, I just keep thinking about poor Mark Williams. Yeah, okay, so Mark Williams is playing for Charlotte gets traded to the Lakers. He's probably happy. I go from like the worst team to one of the most high profile teams. Then he gets there, I guess he fails the physical right and the Lakers go trades off. All right, Now that's awkward for everybody involved. It is because now he's got to go back to Charlotte. Dalton connect test and whoever went to Charlotte now has to come back to Lakers, and everybody has to act like they still.

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Speaker 5: Love each other.

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Speaker 4: Yes, right, So Charlotte releases a statement yesterday that says, or two days ago, that says, things didn't work out with the trade, but we're so happy to have you back, Mark, welcome back into the fold. Let's let bygones be bygones. Then yesterday Charlotte files a complaint with the League against the Lakers, saying they should have taken him. Make them take him right after welcoming back, they demand the Lakers taking.

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Speaker 5: I don't even know Mark Williams, but poor god Drew right.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they put out a statement like Mark, buddy, good to see you. We've cleaned out your locker for you. You can move back in. We just want to dust it off a bit. But then they're in the background, be like get him out of here.

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Speaker 4: Why to release the statement saying we welcome him back, and in the same instance, go league, please get him.

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Speaker 5: Out of here?

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Speaker 4: Like that to me, I don't know how you how do they come How does he end up back there?

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Speaker 2: How do you do that? And how does he look? He's coaches and the general manager in the eye when they're in the locker room, Like, I don't know, he knows that they're trying to get rid of.

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Speaker 5: Him, not trying.

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Speaker 2: They did, Yeah, they did get rid of him.

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Speaker 5: They did.

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Speaker 6: If I'm Mark Williams, my next game with the Hornets, as soon as I get the ball, I'm turning around and punning it in the crowd and walking out.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what the penalty is for that.

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Speaker 6: But they don't want him, obviously, They've they've doubled and tripled down on not wanting him, and he's still still gonna be stuck there.

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Speaker 4: I feel, you know, I don't know the guy. He's a duchie, so I tend to say boo, but like, I do feel kind of bad for him. And then Dirk Novinsky goes to the Lakers game last night says, I'm a mav life, but I'm here for Luca. So the Mavericks fans last night they're chatting fire Nico. That's the GM. I don't know if you saw Dallas puts on the jumbo tron, the fan cam, you know you're used to in the fan cam, people going yeah, go Dallas, go Dallas, and every person they went to just went fire Nico.

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Speaker 5: So they had to turn the camera off.

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Speaker 6: They threw him out to anyone that mounted, they went on.

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Speaker 5: They mouthed. So this is like just not going well for Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, because Ad plays what half a game and.

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Speaker 5: I feel bad for Ad.

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Speaker 4: People act like he's a chump, like he's and then he gets hurt in the first game, I mean a couple weeks.

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Speaker 6: Well, MAVs fans are mad because they were calling him fragile. So the one thing Davis really needed to do was finish the y to make it one game. I hate it for him, but really the MAVs fans, they're probably they are furious down there.

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Speaker 4: So it stinks. Now completely different gear. Are you getting emails from UK fans about the cost of football tickets?

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Speaker 2: Not yet?

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Speaker 4: Why I am yeah, And let me just say I have you're shaking your head? Are you a football season ticket holder? Okay, so I don't know the details, so let me just say I'm not taking a position because I have not researched. But for some fans, they have raised the price of UK tickets of the k Fund donation. So if you're a fan who has a k Fund donation with your tickets, and I think it's for the lower level fans. Bee, I think your tickets have taken a big jump. As a matter of fact, I'm told they're more expensive this year with one fewer game, because remember we had eight.

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Speaker 5: Home games last year.

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Speaker 4: We only have seven this year, and I'm told the tickets are more expensive with one fewer game. Mussel told that the the parking lot passes have really jumped and the RV lot has gone from like five hundred dollars to like fifteen hundred dollars. And I know why this is happening, which is that twenty two million dollars that's coming to give to the athletes. But on a year that we're coming off that season we just had, it's pretty terrible timing. Ryan, So what do you make of it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of got to read the room. Coming off the most disappointing season of the Mark Stoops era, it looks like it not gonna get any better next year. Record wise. It's maybe the wrong time to want people to spend a lot more money to come watch your team play.

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Speaker 4: I'd be interested to hear from those of you that are season ticket holders and that have gotten that email, like, are is yours going up? Are you gonna do it. Like there's a lot of people online going I'm not gonna renew, but I feel like that happens every year. I'm wondering, true to what extent is it like a real problem because I heard a trickle of it and then it was like a flood yesterday, which makes me think everybody got their letters yesterday because all of a sudden, the text machine was just like blowing up with what's happening with the football ticket?

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Speaker 5: So I don't really know the answer.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they just I'm looking on their websites. A story just went up that says UK announced his new ticket information as someone that buy I don't know how to compare it right here on the fly, but I've also heard a few complaints about it going up, and also people that have tailgated in the same spots for decade, they're now doing the corporate ones where you have to rent the tailgate spot. It just I understand that college sports is all about how much you have in the bank account now, but at some point you your fans can't just be asked for money at every turn or you're gonna lose them. These are your customers and you just keep asking for more and more. I mean they're helping out with then il. But if parking and tickets and teligating everything else is going up to at some point people are gonna have a breaking point.

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Speaker 4: You can't have to understand that. The football fan base here for most of our lives has been a labor of love, true, like for real, It's not like basketball, you give but you get right. For football, for most of our lives, UK fans have given and not gotten much. Now that's changed in the last decade. We've had gotten some great moments. But you gotta remember the football fan is a different Kentucky fan. The football fan is more blue collar, right. The football fan comes from all over the state. The football fan, I see these kids here brings their families to the game. We see I love the basketball crowd in here before games. But the reality is the football crowd is a different crowd.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 4: The football crowd is much more of a blue collar crowd. And I think UK just has to be so careful. You cannot run those people off. That's like the that's the heart of Kentucky. If you're talking to me about the average Kentucky fan, it is the UK football fan and if you get rid of them or price them out, I don't know that you can get them back.

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Speaker 5: Like, you can't lose those people.

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Speaker 4: I know you gotta make money, but you cannot ryan lose those people.

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Speaker 2: There's still a lot of people that haven't forgiven UK when they you know that all their seats that were sitting together at CommonWell Stadium, they split those up and they took away their tailgate area for blacktop. And they do this again a second time. Those people may not come back. You know, you hit them once is bad, You're gonna hit them again. That's tough, man.

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Speaker 5: Let's add they don't win at home. They ever won at home like SEC in a couple of years.

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Speaker 6: We talked about it as it was happening last fall. I couldn't believe the crowds that kept showing up just to beet between the legs and these games. I mean, the whole record has been absolutely garbage lately. Yeah, so, I mean they were gonna take a hit on season tickets just because they quit winning, but now you're asking for more.

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Speaker 5: There are very.

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Speaker 4: Few basketball season ticket holders that are kind of average Joe and James, because it's expensive to buy all of those games.

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Speaker 5: It just is.

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Speaker 4: But those there are football people like that, and I am worried we're gonna run them off. I really am. And I think that would do such a disservice to the people around this state. It really would. And I get the financial part for Kentucky, but you can't lose sight of what the heart of all.

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Speaker 5: This is we've done.

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Speaker 4: We have done so much to push away the average UK fan, from big blue madness camp out to you know, just the parking situation at UK Football, to the k Fund donations. You know, you're asking people to do Club Blue and all this, and I get it, but man, you gotta give them something.

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Speaker 5: You have to because they are the heartbeat of what this is.

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Speaker 2: You're right, be very careful you run those people off. Those are your core people that have come for years and years and years, and once they turned you feel like they turn your back on them, they won't come back.

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Speaker 4: I had a conversation and then we'll go to the phones with someone at UK. It wasn't Mitch Barnhart, but it was someone high up and we were sitting there talking and they got frustrated at me about one of my opinions about cal This was a while back, and they said to me, what makes you think that you know the average fan better than Cal Perry does? And I said, because I interact with him, that's easy, and he doesn't. They yell at me on the text machine, right like I deal with people, And I said, respectfully, forget about cal I said, you all in the athletic department, you deal with one subset of fans. You deal with the donors and the rich people. We deal with everybody else. And I'm not saying that everything we say is right.

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Speaker 5: But we deal with every kind of fan.

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Speaker 4: And I don't think a lot of people that you can do. And I don't think they always think about what their decision is going to mean for the ninety percent of the Big Blue Nation.

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Speaker 2: And you're a that's the football fan that the football fans that you're talking about. That's why you need to do something to take care of those people that have been coming for years and years and years.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 7: Who's up first, yere, Let's go to Freddie Freddy?

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Speaker 5: How are you, Freddy?

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Speaker 8: I'm just fine. How's everybody doing there? Really enjoying the show? I'm gonna go a little bit back in time and I don't expect you to remember this, but October of twenty three, at a remote and bywater farm at the eleven o'clock commercial break, I came up and asked you a question, And a question was who do you think will leave UK first? John, Calipery or Reed Shepherd. You said you would try to work in the question after the break, but you had a lot going on and weren't. But I'm curious, how do you think you would have answered that question back in October of twenty three?

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Speaker 4: Well, I would have said probably Cal, because we hadn't seen Reid be good yet.

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Speaker 5: By the way, it was Cal.

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Speaker 4: Reid did stay here a couple of weeks after Cal left.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I would have said Cal. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think Drew and I had the belief that last year was gonna be cols last year. But we thought that was gonna be the case because we thought we were gonna have a great year and he was gonna kind of ride off into the sunset. We didn't particularly think it would be what happened, but I always kind of thought last year could be cows last year.

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Speaker 2: And nobody thought Reed Shepper's gonna be a one and done man. When he got here, he thought anybody eighth, ninth guy off the bench, So that was definitely not anybody's thought process.

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Speaker 6: I remember exactly where I was sitting last summer when I said, I think this could be Cal's last year, because I was hesitant to even put it out there because the negativity would come with it. But I had in my brain with DJ Wagner on this team, it's the perfect bookend for Cala Perry's career with having his dad. If he can just have one good run, he can walk off into the sunset and wave, and that's genuinely what I thought would happen. Now he did go off in the sunset, it just wasn't with the good run. I kind of all of last season was kind of taking it all in like it was the last riding.

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Speaker 5: Be here eating.

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Speaker 4: I like to reward folks for their thing, So I now have sixteen tickets to give away. Chandon, let's not take any more calls right now, and we'll give them away at the end.

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Speaker 7: Okay, sounds good, sounds good?

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about this because like these people obviously want to go, and some people that are giving up their tickets they can, so it'll just add for a better environment.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people write me about the football tickets. Sounds like to me the way they did it Drew is a lot of the ticket prices are like the same or just a little bit more, but you get one last game, which, if you think about it.

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Speaker 5: Makes it a lot more expensive.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you're getting seven games for the cost of eight, or you know, then your your ticket price has been raised, even if you don't realize they've been.

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Speaker 6: Raised in some ways, you know, face value on there. And just during that short break, all three of us heard from someone different who gave an example of how much there's went up, and at least one I heard from. So they're not renewing because of that.

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Speaker 5: Can we talk about Doug Gottlieb for a second. Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: I haven't talked about him in a while.

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Speaker 5: So Doug Gottlieb Coast coaches Green.

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Speaker 2: Bay College, Wisconsin, green Bay.

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Speaker 4: Wisconsin, Green Bay. Now I'm far be it from me to judge, but he coaches Wisconsin Green Bay, and it looks like you remember when he got the job he said, I'm going to coach and do my afternoon radio.

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Speaker 2: Afternoon radio show every day.

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Speaker 4: So every afternoon he's going to do a radio show. But he was still going to coach, and he said, you all will see when it happens.

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Speaker 5: That it was stupid of you to worry about it.

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Speaker 4: So I checked in with Doug Gottlieb on Saturday because I was just thinking about it. I haven't heard a lot about him. Wonder how his team's doing. You know what his team's record is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm guessing it's got to be a losing Let's.

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Speaker 5: Take a guess.

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Speaker 4: Doug Gottlieb at Wisconsin green Bay coaches a team during the morning and night, does a national afternoon radio show.

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Speaker 5: Uh during the during the afternoon.

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Speaker 4: What what do you think, mister Gottlieb, who's who's always been known as a very humble guy.

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Speaker 5: What what what do you think his record?

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Speaker 2: I'll guess five and seventeen.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what if I told you that you're giving him way too much credit? Wow, Doug Gottlieb's Green Bay team is two and twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 5: They are on an eighteen game losing.

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Speaker 7: Two and twenty three. Now just lost the game.

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Speaker 4: Okay, two and twenty three, nineteen game, losing streak, so they twenty losing streak twenty.

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Speaker 3: I'm seeing it right now on the stage, losing streak twenty game.

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Speaker 5: Losing streak two and twenty three. Now here's the best part.

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Speaker 4: They play on Saturday and you're thinking, you know, coming off your twenty is straight loss. Maybe we need to get in the film room a little bit. What does Doug Gottlieb do takes a plane and he goes to the super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: How much is he getting paid to coach? That's what I want to know. I'm stealing money.

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Speaker 4: I saw that a week ago after they lost. I guess this would have made him two and twenty one. He got up and yelled at the press and said something like, you guys are being critical. When this all turns around, I expect to see you apologize. A bold statement from someone two to twenty three that have lost twenty games in a row.

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Speaker 7: Home.

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Speaker 4: Can you if you were the president at that school, are you gonna keep letting him do this show? I'm not saying it's the show's fault, but like, how can you keep doing a show when you're two and twenty three.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't believe they let him do it to begin with, and now that the results are what they are, I mean, not only is there are they losing, they're mostly by double digits. And then they lost that one game to like Michigan Tech when he called him no name you before the game. It's not just that they're losing. They're not even close to being a good basketball team.

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Speaker 3: Here's a dolary. Here's a salary, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollar. So they're paying one hundred and seven five hundred dollars per win.

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Speaker 4: Wow, they paid one hundred and seven thousand dollars a win.

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Speaker 2: My goodness.

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Speaker 4: Well and Gottley part of the reason he said he stayed on the radio is he was like, I gotta be able to make that salary because he makes more from the radio apparently than he does as the coach.

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Speaker 6: I don't understand, like how he can go on the radio and talk about other coaches and sports, like, dude, look in your own locker room, totally agree with you criticize anyone.

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Speaker 2: So let's look at some.

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Speaker 4: Of these dudes that are very confident about their analysis when they've had to coach Trent Dilfer. Remember how Trent Dilfer would always be like right, right, right. He coaches UAB and they've been like a disaster.

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Speaker 6: He's got videos like fighting assistants on the subline.

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Speaker 4: Yes you got gottli And by the way, Dilfer's still doing media. Remember when Jeff Saturday left ESPN and went to the Colts and then lost like every game fifty to nothing. You know, it does sort of show you that all the people that do this job, they sure talk a lot for people who don't win very much, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, especially Gottlieb. But if his show is in the middle of the day, that's when you're you know, you're on the road or show prep or shoot arounds or getting ready for your game. I just don't see how he can do that during the season. I can see him doing it out of season, but I just don't understand how they're letting him do that during the season.

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Speaker 5: Two and twenty three.

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Speaker 6: I'm wondered, say, okay, honest, team is going to transfer to It's not like they're not going to stay there and go to and twenty three again. And let's say you're a player, you're two and twenty three. You're obviously not having the year you want. I want to go talk to my coach.

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Speaker 5: I'm down.

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Speaker 6: Oh he's on there for the next three hours. And the way, no, I would be out out right there, like what are you doing? I need you in here. Unbelievable to this unbelievable. So good luck to you, Gottli. That's some some performance. Who's next.

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Speaker 7: It's good to Peggy.

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Speaker 5: Peggy. How are you, Peggy?

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Speaker 8: I'm great.

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Speaker 9: How are you guys good?

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Speaker 10: I have a strange question. Okay, I've been watching a lot of basketball from different conferences. Of course I'll watch all the UK games. Yes, when it comes down to the NCAA tournament, how do we adjust to having different referees from different conferences?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you have to do that.

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Speaker 4: I mean remember though that, like when we talk about an SEC referee, almost every referee in the SEC also referees other conferences. So take like Doug Shows. Doug Shows is an SEC referee, but he also referees the Big East. He also referees the ACC and I think he may also referee like the MAC or something. So even though we see them in SEC games, they do other conferences. So I agree with you that the SEC tends to be refed a certain way, But most of these dudes that are refs, they also do other conferences too.

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Speaker 10: Oh okay, because I was just wondering if there was going to be a big difference when it comes to repping.

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Speaker 4: I do think what happens on the tournament if you look historically, and I appreciate the call, they call less fouls in the tournament, like they let them be more physical, so that I think, I don't know if that's gonna it probably won't be good for us, but that tends to be what they do in the tournament.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just gotta adjust, and you get to feel pretty quick how the rest are gonna call it.

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Speaker 4: We had you like, there's still gonna be the referees. You just have to adjust to whatever it is they do. We'll take a break right back, s KSR.

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Speaker 4: Uh Kentucky and Kentucky and Tennessee play tonight seven o'clock on ESPN got Jay millis you still you feel good?

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Speaker 2: I think, like I said, we can't go into the game thinking Tennessee is gonna miss thirty four to three pointers. They're gonna probably hit a lot more than that. But I the way the Tennessee plays defense. I know you guys were talking about the score will predicted later, but I think it's gonna be like in the sixties. I think it's gonna be a low scoring game. It's kind of concerns me a little bit.

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Speaker 4: It could be in the sixties. But the good thing is if it's in the sixties. One thing about playing Tennessee is like they're not great offensively, So even the game in the sixties, like I always worried about that's scoring sixties, but then the other team scores eighty. If we're in the sixties, you know, and they're in the sixties and it's a one possession game, who knows, right.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they're gonna have to get out on chas Lyn are pretty good. He's the one I worry about. Maybe put away on him and just try to take him out of the game. But again I'm worried about getting too confident. But as long as he doesn't go nuclear. I really just like the matchup Tennessee doesn't play well with this style.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Shannon.

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Speaker 4: They put out the Bourbon and Beyond lineup. Yes, and it's got a lot of people in it. Let's go over it real quick. Uh Stergel Simpson. I like yep, fish Man New Fish was like fish Well, I mean it's all you know, you like fish.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's just all like every everybody's like on acid, right.

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Speaker 4: I means, yeah, I mean that's just shock. My guy's got a beard, Leven he likes fish, you know, but fish. Everybody I've ever met that likes fish like, they're always nice. Like every person I've ever met that likes fish is nice. But then they'll tell me like, well, you know that Starbucks takes your DNA and makes coffee with it, And I'm like, what does that mean?

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Speaker 5: Like they always have some crazy theory if you like fish.

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Speaker 2: I've always heard a fish concert though, is a sight to behold. It's for the people watching.

00:25:43
Speaker 4: Well, I'm hopefully we'll see it. Noah Khan, that's that one guy that lumineers. I like the lumineers, Jack White, He's fine. Uh Benson Boone, that's due. That's the dude that was wearing the one piece ye at the thing Alabama shakes Cage the elephant. But then when you go down to like some of the others, I see like the Goo Goo dolls are coming Spin Spin Doctors are part of it. Third Eye, Blind Traveler, the Gin Blossoms.

00:26:13
Speaker 2: A lot of bands from the nineties.

00:26:17
Speaker 4: Okay, I wanted to say this. There are some people who got way too far down the list. Let's start with Ringo Star. How is Ringo Star below? Vance Joy Lake Street Dive. I don't know who those Ringo Star is a beatle, he can't even he's on the fourth row.

00:26:37
Speaker 7: Who's Yo Kylie? I've never even heard of that person before?

00:26:40
Speaker 4: Ringo Stars gotta be like, give some respect. I'm ahead of Rylo Kylie. Who the heck is rylo' Kylie?

00:26:48
Speaker 7: I agree with you.

00:26:49
Speaker 2: You should be on the on the poster. Would like make people want to go. You know, Ringo Stars performing you can do.

00:26:55
Speaker 4: Let me give you some more collective soul, Mary Chapin, carp and He and Blues Traveler are all below. Walks of Hotchie, flat Land, Calvary and Joe Bonamasa do they Who are these people and how do they get to be ahead of the Mary Chapin Carpenter.

00:27:15
Speaker 6: Why is Trombone Shorty on the eighth eighth row? We just we talked about him yesterday, ten.

00:27:20
Speaker 4: Ten thousand maniacs. First of all, didn't know they were still going. But how are they behind some guy named Sammy? Just a guy named Sammy.

00:27:32
Speaker 6: This is my aside from the font being all out of order and some people being too far down the list, this is the best I've seen of a festival runner.

00:27:39
Speaker 5: Sammy, that's Sammy.

00:27:41
Speaker 3: It's not even Kershaw Org or anybody you know.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: Okay, some other surprises. Blind Melon's in it. I thought that guy had been dead for thirty years. He's How was Blond Mellon still play?

00:27:52
Speaker 7: You've seen bands replace singers before.

00:27:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, but their singer was the icon? Right? Oh like that? How are you gonna have Blind Millon and not have that guy?

00:28:02
Speaker 7: That's why they're so fuch.

00:28:04
Speaker 5: That's why they're squirrel Nut squirrel Nut Zippers. I forgot they existed.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: That was a nineties band. That When do we remember when SKA was how score Shannon? When did squirrel Nuts Zippers come back along?

00:28:16
Speaker 3: I only remember that one song from nineteen ninety seven or eight, Marcy plays Round Mark Kohane.

00:28:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, walking in Himpis this guy.

00:28:25
Speaker 4: Is still performing now he's on like the eleventh row. But I challenge you to tell me how many people on this list have had bigger songs than Walking in Memphis.

00:28:34
Speaker 2: So I gets played all the time.

00:28:36
Speaker 5: Shannon Marcy Playground is on the list.

00:28:39
Speaker 7: They just played at the State Fair last year. I got to meet those guys.

00:28:43
Speaker 5: Marcy played Sex still going. Yeah, I smell sex and candy.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: That's still that those people still perform, and they're at the bottom.

00:28:52
Speaker 5: They're like three rows from the last row on there.

00:28:55
Speaker 4: So quite a list. I agree with you drew an amazing list, but I don't know. I don't understand the way it was ordered.

00:29:02
Speaker 6: Really yeah, I mean Ringo is the one that jumped out to me. I almost quit looking at it, and then I got down in him, like why is he all the way down here?

00:29:08
Speaker 5: Did you know?

00:29:09
Speaker 3: Did you notice one of the bands that we were talking about last week when we were talking about the Grammys, krane Ben is on there.

00:29:16
Speaker 4: I did not, Yes, Uh so that they're a line too, BA, don't you like I've seen trampled by turtles.

00:29:23
Speaker 5: I like them.

00:29:23
Speaker 4: I just feel like some of these people didn't get the respect Saint Lucia, you know, they're the ones that do the.

00:29:30
Speaker 5: My heart's in Buddha passed my hidden Tessa Chesting.

00:29:34
Speaker 6: Of all the ones on there, what's your biggest I mean, we were surprised by what's thet ring? Like your biggest surprise that they're I can't believe Blind Melon still performs.

00:29:43
Speaker 4: I thought when Shannon hun died they just broke up. I mean, the whole point of Blind Melon was his voice.

00:29:48
Speaker 5: How can they keep going?

00:29:50
Speaker 6: That's the bumblebee right, Yeah, maybe they'll bring the bumblebee out. I just can't believe thirty years later, Blind Melon is still a thing. I couldn't believe. Mary Chafin Carpenter is a festival person.

00:29:59
Speaker 5: That's the one that's She's great.

00:30:01
Speaker 6: I tried to see at the Opera House. Couldn't even get in.

00:30:03
Speaker 4: I would I'll go just to see you see her? Yeah, who's next?

00:30:06
Speaker 5: Bill? Bill? Go ahead? Bill?

00:30:09
Speaker 9: Hey, Matt, how you doing doing good?

00:30:12
Speaker 11: How you doing Matt?

00:30:13
Speaker 9: sEH?

00:30:13
Speaker 8: I'm here still good?

00:30:14
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:30:16
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay.

00:30:17
Speaker 11: Heading down from Columbus Ohio for this game. I would have my tickets, so I don't eat those, but I would like to know from a standpoint of the interstate. Once I get say, passports Kentucky to Lexington, I know there's other than Williamstown. I don't think there's a whole lot of Uh, there's the areas, so to speak. What's the interstate like that? Do they do a decent job at cleaning knows?

00:30:44
Speaker 5: Yeah, you'll be fine. Interstate's fine.

00:30:46
Speaker 4: City of Lexington's honestly, it's fine, like especially in the daylight. But even now, you're fine. The the snow is fuey. I don't even Yeah, you're you're good.

00:30:56
Speaker 11: All right, sounds good. I can't wait to get there, and I'm gonna try to make the the pregame show at Kaspar.

00:31:04
Speaker 5: Appreciate the call. Yeah, I think everybody's fine, I really do.

00:31:06
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what it's like on the secondary roads out in these rural counties, but in Lexington you're gonna be fine.

00:31:11
Speaker 2: Even in the neighborhood streets this morning, we're okay. Like I said, they're just just slushy.

00:31:15
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, my heel I backed down. Yeah, no, sliding at all, So I think it's fine.

00:31:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, be careful and buckle up, put your phone down, don't speed, You'll be right.

00:31:23
Speaker 5: Yeah. Who's next, Jonathan, Jonathan, go ahead, Jonathan.

00:31:28
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks for taking my call, Matt. I had a question for asking anything Tuesday, like the injury bug.

00:31:36
Speaker 10: Yeah.

00:31:36
Speaker 12: Yeah, it seems like the injury bug has really gotten us these last couple of weeks, and kind of in the past we would kind of hear, you know, hadn't seen him. I don't know, we're talking about the injured players, and like I feel like with Pope, his initial comments kind of seem a little bit more like doom and gloom about the players, and then we tend to see them within a game or two. Do you get the sense that there's any kind of gamesmanship going on? Or am I kind of reading into it too?

00:32:05
Speaker 2: No?

00:32:06
Speaker 4: I And this is just a guess because I don't really know him well, but I kind of think Mark Pope takes the let's just assume the worst possible option and hope for.

00:32:15
Speaker 5: The best, right.

00:32:16
Speaker 4: I think he kind of takes the view of let's assume the guys out as long as he is out, and then let's hope it ends up not like that.

00:32:25
Speaker 5: Do you agree with that?

00:32:26
Speaker 13: I do.

00:32:27
Speaker 2: I really believe last game it was a game time decision for Butler and for Jackson. I think they really didn't know until they went out and went through the warm ups and stuff that these two guys are gonna be able to play.

00:32:36
Speaker 5: He seems much more positive about Butler last night.

00:32:39
Speaker 4: They did like like like maybe they feel like Butler went through it and now they feel pretty good about him for the rest of the year.

00:32:45
Speaker 5: I agree. I'm still I'm still new to Pope speak. I'm learning it.

00:32:48
Speaker 6: I'm thinking back to a few weeks ago. I thought Andrew Carr was on his deathbed the way Pope was talking. Then he played the next game. A part of this is also I just think Pope's very extreme in each direction. Everything's beautiful, everything's incredible, or if someone's out and I hope we see him again kind of thing. Still kind of learning how to read into what he says. But I liked he said something along the lines like as much as I expect Butler tomorrow night, I don't expect Jackson as much. It sounded like he was confident Butler.

00:33:12
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00:33:52
Speaker 2: You were You were a trooper that day. I'll say it again and again and again to let me spit water in your mouth.

00:33:58
Speaker 5: Yeah you're the trooper. Yeah.

00:33:59
Speaker 4: They don't ever happened again. So I hope you enjoyed it all. Right, So here's what we're gonna do. I got tickets to give away. UH, open up the lines eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven call right now.

00:34:11
Speaker 5: Your job is gonna be able to convince Shannon to give you the TI. It's a tough one. So this is the share. So this is Shannon deciding.

00:34:21
Speaker 4: Not soft hearted, Ryan not kind of soft hearted, Drew not I like interesting, Matt, this is cold hearted Shannon. We'll get to decide and I'll go so far. I'll pick two winners. We'll let Shannon pick two winns. Okay, Shannon can pick two of the six to get tickets. Shannon, are you ready?

00:34:38
Speaker 7: I'm ready to go.

00:34:39
Speaker 4: All right, afb' nine two eighty seven. We'll take a break. Take your calls me very back.

00:34:43
Speaker 5: It's ks R. So this is Ringo, I assume.

00:34:48
Speaker 7: The Beatles in general.

00:34:49
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Well, because like they all wrote various songs, right, So did Ringo write any I know, Harrison, Lennon and McCartney.

00:34:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, they let Ringo sing some of the songs, like Fellow Submarine and Ringo.

00:35:02
Speaker 5: Sings you all. Yeah. I didn't realize that. Okay. So is Ringo considered to be like the worst of the group. Yeah?

00:35:08
Speaker 3: Probably, So, like out of the four, he's the fourth singer. Yeah, yeah, because you got Georgia, then you have Paul and.

00:35:17
Speaker 4: But but but he's the one well, I guess McCartney still yeah right, yeah, Carty was at the Super Bowl.

00:35:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paula Comes would have been on the fourth line of the Flyer. I can tell you that even.

00:35:26
Speaker 4: I'm upset for ringotos should never be lower than the second one.

00:35:31
Speaker 6: He's got a fires publicist, I mean, Benson Boone whatever. Man like, come on, my god, now trying to get that outfit for hell.

00:35:38
Speaker 5: All right, so, uh, Shannon, are you ready to pick two out of six? Let's go.

00:35:42
Speaker 4: They each have I want you to get your buzzer out. They each have thirty seconds to make their case.

00:35:47
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, let me find my buzzer.

00:35:49
Speaker 5: But like, let me let me ask them who they are and then start when they're explaining. Okay, all right, here we go. All right, who's up first?

00:35:57
Speaker 7: Robert?

00:35:58
Speaker 5: Robert? Where you live?

00:36:00
Speaker 8: Hey, this is Robert from Louisville.

00:36:02
Speaker 5: Louisville. Give me thirty seconds. Sister, Why shan't did you pick you?

00:36:07
Speaker 13: Okay? Well, because there was a lot of regret last time when I didn't get picked. When they picked the uh the lady who's having a radio's birthday and her mom who's having her eady his birthday, and they took her instead of me, and there was regret about it, because I'm the guy that drove out to Lexington to meet the unforgettables at the since and I'll stand up and cheer and I will be an excellent choice.

00:36:31
Speaker 7: All right.

00:36:32
Speaker 4: All right, So Robert Louisville has already been passed over once. How does he get through? That's what I can't believe. He's gotten through now twice. This is like the hardest thing to get through. My man's already gotten through twice.

00:36:42
Speaker 2: That was the last time you gave away tickets as well, the one that cut him. I remember.

00:36:45
Speaker 5: That's unbelievable to me, Robert, congrats on that. All right? Who's next?

00:36:48
Speaker 7: Wayne?

00:36:49
Speaker 5: Wayne? Where do you live? Wayne?

00:36:52
Speaker 14: I live over Sales, Kentucky. I'm the biggest Wildcat fan it's ever been there. I can remember when I was a kid setting in my grandfather's kitchen listening to the UK basketball on a little.

00:37:07
Speaker 11: White radio, as we said.

00:37:09
Speaker 5: Okay, and you and he should pick you? Why? Just because of that?

00:37:15
Speaker 14: Because of that and because I'm the biggest fan. And I just got a question about Jackson real quick.

00:37:22
Speaker 4: Now you're pod alright, so let's just leave there you are the biggest fan you were listening. Uh and your grandfather's kitchen.

00:37:31
Speaker 7: All right, who's next to Spencer?

00:37:33
Speaker 5: Spencer? Go ahead, Spencer, Hey guys.

00:37:37
Speaker 15: I'm from Stanford. I was saying to follow her back there in the football season. Would have had promise?

00:37:43
Speaker 5: All right, And what's your reason?

00:37:44
Speaker 8: I called? I called back?

00:37:47
Speaker 9: Then?

00:37:48
Speaker 15: I was the one who had a girlfriend who made me go to a wedding. Uh and for me that morning. And let me tell you you all saying skip that wedding has sparked the biggest Kentucky fan out of her above all time. She will call me on the way home, yelling if I'm not home in time for a game. I'd love to take her to a game tonight. When we come to trivia, she gets you a stare down out of love.

00:38:10
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, So this is you skipped the wedding which made your wife a Kentucky fan. I vaguely remember that call. Okay, all right, gotcha, So we'll put that on there. And then his wife stares me down out of love. I'm gonna assume she's checking me.

00:38:24
Speaker 5: Out, right.

00:38:24
Speaker 2: Of course, that's what those tight jeans you wear.

00:38:28
Speaker 5: Where tight Jean's to trivia sometimes in life. But who's up next?

00:38:32
Speaker 7: Three more? Melman, Mike, Mike, Where you live?

00:38:39
Speaker 5: Mike?

00:38:40
Speaker 7: All right, well that decides one. He's down. I'm just gonna hang up on him, all right.

00:38:45
Speaker 5: So who's next? Mike? David? Where do you live? As Aceland? Why they pick you.

00:38:55
Speaker 9: Because my wife and I would love to go because we hate Tennessee.

00:38:59
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, now it's Mike. It's a long drive and it's snowy. Are you worried about that at all?

00:39:07
Speaker 9: Not at all?

00:39:09
Speaker 5: All right? Real quick, tell me how much you hate Tennessee.

00:39:13
Speaker 8: Oh my uh?

00:39:15
Speaker 9: I remember sitting in Memorial Coliseum before it was Historical Memorial Coliseum, and at that time it was a tradition to throw oranges on the court. Uh when when Bullwinkle played?

00:39:29
Speaker 5: Okay, who's Bullwinkle?

00:39:33
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've not heard that now, Rocky and Bullwinkle?

00:39:36
Speaker 5: You mean, hang on, go back to him for a second. Who's Bullwinkle? He was?

00:39:42
Speaker 9: He was I'm pretty sure his name was Bullwinkle. If not, that's what he was called. He was the center for Tennessee. Back about.

00:39:51
Speaker 5: All right, I want you to look at is that Tom Borwinkle. Tom okay, I didn't even know about that? All right, Who's like, finally, Alex, Alex, where do you live? Nicholasville, Nicholasville? Give me the reason.

00:40:08
Speaker 12: So I've already talked to all these guys before.

00:40:10
Speaker 11: They're all team Billy.

00:40:12
Speaker 9: Robert, it was last time when he didn't get I was laughing full time. Book.

00:40:18
Speaker 12: When Shannon makes a decision, that right, stuff, that's just out, did.

00:40:25
Speaker 5: You understand an see?

00:40:26
Speaker 4: That problem is he says he's team Shannon over team Billy, but his phone didn't work very well. So all right, Shannon. We got Robert who played before and came in second. You got Wayne who listened to the game in his grandfather's kitchen. You have Spencer who got his wife to skip a wedding and it made her a UK fan.

00:40:42
Speaker 5: You have David who.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: Threw oranges on the court at some guy named Bullwinkle, and then you have Alex, who says he's team Shannon over Billy.

00:40:49
Speaker 5: You get to pick two of those who you picked, all right?

00:40:51
Speaker 3: First one, I'm going with a Spencer whose girlfriend made him skip the or who he skipped the wedding for right, I'm going with Spencer all right.

00:40:57
Speaker 4: That's pretty good. He skipped the wedding to go to a game, so that show's loyalty.

00:41:02
Speaker 2: And she she doubled down and now become a big She.

00:41:05
Speaker 5: Became a fan.

00:41:05
Speaker 4: She was mad about it, and it became a fan, So the risk paid off. I like that selection, Shannon, And who's the other one?

00:41:12
Speaker 7: There's a few other choices. This guy man.

00:41:15
Speaker 5: Phone, I can't deal with that.

00:41:17
Speaker 3: Like, sucking up always helps, but his phone connection, I'm a little bit concerned about it.

00:41:21
Speaker 7: I don't even know if I can get us in.

00:41:22
Speaker 5: And then you got to get rid of a guy with a bad phone.

00:41:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I wanted to go with him, but you know, uh so I guess I'm gonna have to go to Wayne, who says he's the biggest Kentucky fan. I feel confident that Wayne's gonna be really loud tonight. We need rubb out surprised. I thought that wouldn't be Shannon. Shannon usually doesn't like when people say they're big fans. All right, So Wayne in.

00:41:42
Speaker 4: For sales and Spencer in Stanford. Hang on the phone, Shannon, get their email and I will send them ticks. Okay, be watching on social media on k YE Sports Radio on Twitter and Instagram, and then Matt Jones KSR on the TikTok because I'll give some away from on social media.

00:42:00
Speaker 2: I knew the guy that was sucking up to Shannon, that was gonna get his vote vote. You just couldn't hear him.

00:42:03
Speaker 4: You know where I'm going right now, by the way, where you talk about something I never would have thought happened five years ago. I'm going to meet Jeff Goodman for lunch. WHOA, my goodness, you talk about something I never would have massed times have chain occurred, even like a.

00:42:21
Speaker 6: Couple months ago, A little makeup lunch?

00:42:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's it's.

00:42:26
Speaker 2: Just when's the last It's just lunch. What's the last good conversation you had with him?

00:42:32
Speaker 5: A decade ago? If not more?

00:42:34
Speaker 6: I thought, so, remember when you sent him around the drinks and they sent it back at the peach chap. That's right, that's like a that's a that's a.

00:42:40
Speaker 5: Oh yeah right, I'm going to meet him actually right now.

00:42:43
Speaker 4: Pregame show four point thirty here at ks bar Uh, thank you all very much who came here today. Be careful in the snow, but get ready for this game. Tonight, we got to beat those dirty volunteers. This has been in Kentucky Sports Radio