2024-12-26- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes Derek Struth December nineteenth through the twenty first. Then catch Lexington Native League Embrol for two hilarious shows on New Year's Eve, and don't miss Brian Bates January third and fourth. Comedy Off Broadway opened and downtown Lexington in nineteen eighty seven, and they're still bringing the best and stand up comedy to the area thirty seven years later. Gol eight five nine two seven one Joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Comedy Off Byway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Tuesday or Thursday, December twenty sixth, the day after Christmas here at Ksbar and Grill in Lexington, Kentucky. It is Boxing Day in Canada, maybe in England too. I don't really know what Boxing Day is, but I know it's a holiday in those places. Maybe Is it like their Fourth of July?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Why not? Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven is the Clark's Puppa Shop Full line Avision Auto glass text machine seven seven two seven four five two five four In this edition sponsored by the t J. Smith Lobs, you call TJ. I'll make them pay. It is me, Ryan and Drew. Here at kspar we got people from Shelby County, Marion County, Estell County. Although the guy right in the front refuses to even look at us. I mean, he's got his back to us this whole time. He's like, I know, did you come here for a different show? It's over there.

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Speaker 4: Uh. And then Illinois as well.

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Speaker 2: So we're all here and after a great Christmas and guys, nice to see you all. Did you enjoy your holiday?

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Speaker 3: It did?

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Speaker 5: I hope we all had a good time with our families. Man, it's makes kind of a special time for all of us for parents to get a little older.

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Speaker 2: So with special you always say that every year our parents are getting older. Like, I feel like you're you're trying to, like, I think, kill them off. You say you say that all the time. It's like a very depressing like, our parents are getting older. We may not get to do this again. Andrew, Well, my thing is we're all getting older. Why is it just a Harris.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting older, everybody's geting, We're all getting old.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's getting older.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I appreciate these times more, I think.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm glad you and we had Did you go to what Madisonville or did they Finley, Ohio?

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Speaker 3: On Monday? Thank you all for letting me have that day off. And then I got back to Lexington Christmas even did Christmas here.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of days off, Billy had said to us a few weeks ago, do you want to work the day after Christmas? And I said, do you want me to work the day after Christmas? And he said, yeah, I think we're gonna do shows. And I was like, okay, I mean that's fine. It's one day, you know, we go to Glasgow the next day. That's fine that way, people in town. Whatever. He didn't do a show today. He took today off and ran the Best Of after telling us that we had to work today. Drew, he just took the day off.

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Speaker 3: It's a knife in our back that we're feeling right now. I will compliment him. It was a good best of I listened to probably thirty minutes of it without really out knowing as the rest though Ryan told me what I got here. I thought he just booked Richie Farmer on the day after Christmas, but that was an old conversation.

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Speaker 2: I just like him going yeah, we need to work the day after Christmas, and then he just doesn't. That's that's a good billy.

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Speaker 3: Move right there. You didn't just have a vacation. He did too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you did name him general manager so he can make those calls now.

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Speaker 2: Well he used to run those by before we do it. And then Shannon is still on his six week vacation. But Mario, nice to see you as well. The so Christmas Ryan, I went to Middlesborough.

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Speaker 5: Yes, how'd that go?

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Speaker 4: It was good?

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Speaker 2: Middlesborough is still there. Drove by the Rock is still rock, Jane Rock still still up. Got to uh, got to Middlesborough. We did two and a half hours of church on Christmas Eve. That's a lot of that's a lot of church. It's a lot of praising. We went, Uh we always do eleven o'clock like the midnight service, which I enjoy. But my mom threw in an extra wrinkle this year. We got to go to the six o'clock Episcopal service, which is an hour and a half long. The Christmas double header. Yeah, so you know, some people got Ravens and Chiefs doubleheader. I got Episcopal and Disciples of Christ double header. I hadn't been to an Episcopal church in a long time. And let me just say I find Episcopals to be very nice people, right Like, they they're always very friendly every I can't think of an episcopal person I know that I don't like. But you don't see a lot of them running around everywhere. Well, they have the we have the service, we go and I excuse me, because I don't know what all these things mean, right, Like, They've got a lot of a lot more formality right to, like you read things and then they read it back to you, and you know, there's there's a lot of communication. There's a lot of marching in and out and people holding up crosses and books and it's just it's a lot going on, right And the Episcopal church in Middlesborough is very small, Like it's very small. I think it's I think it was built like eighteen eighty so it's a nice little small building. And because of that, there's a lot of people in there because it's a small little building, right, So they march in and Catholics, I think, do this too, what do they call it? Where the one of the priests or whatever's taking the thing and just throwing incense in the air. Do you know what that's called? It's but but do you wh why do you do it? Does you don't know? It lifts up to the heavens. Okay, Ryan with the sage. Yeah, so it's it's it's it's basically incense, right, And so they march.

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Speaker 4: In and then they wave the thing, and then.

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Speaker 2: I guess the priest he like gets in front of the choir and he waves it and then he waves it in front like everybody.

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Speaker 4: Everybody's getting a big whiff of the incense.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know if they had it on extra large incense or extra powerful because I felt like I was at the Perfume Ale in JC Penney when it was it got so overpowering and it's a very small building that like I started to choke, and I was watching the kids that were carrying the cross and they're like kind of choking, and so I wanted to.

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Speaker 5: Say the guy like, my man, my man, I think we got.

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Speaker 2: It right, like you don't need to keep waving it. But then he just kept waving. He did. He's kept marking, marching back and forth and waving it. And I was choking in the middle of the service, like you know, how you get stuff in your lungs. And I felt like I had God's incense in my lungs on Christmas and I was like coughing and choking and find and the thing. I mean, it was a beautiful service, but it just it just kept going right. And when I went outside, I took the biggest deep breath. So I want to give a shout out to episcopals for all that incense.

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Speaker 4: They've got to be some of the best smelling people.

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Speaker 3: In the entire country. They get the Colonne kids from Abercrombie in there.

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Speaker 2: Just yes, it is like it does feel like you're walking into an Abercrombie, right, It's like it's like a God's Abercrombie with how much that And the building was so small, and I just feel like the guy that did it is not the normal waiver guy. I think he had too much excitement. Maybe he was like, it's Christmas Eve, we need extra of this, and it was just it was everywhere.

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Speaker 5: It's Christmas Eve. This is my big moment, this is my big moment.

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Speaker 2: Let's make sure everybody gets this sense.

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Speaker 5: Everybody gets to smell. I'm gonna make sure every inch of this building gets covered.

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Speaker 2: And when I got home yesterday and I unpacked my suitcase, I still smelled like that.

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Speaker 3: Start tasting it in your food.

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Speaker 2: I know it's gonna be the it's gonna be the flavoring on my food for the for the rest of the time. But otherwise a good tank. I got my dad his his pajamas logans. Yeah, and uh, I went ahead and got him like a jacket. He was wearing the same nineteen eighty five members only jacket for about forty years, so I decided to get him a new jacket. Yeah. And then my mom I ended up getting a bracelet with her burstone in the center and mine and larryes on each side.

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Speaker 4: So like with it.

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Speaker 5: See, those are the best guests, the thoughtful guests, where there's a little some meaning, I'm proud of you right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that the pajamas were very a lot of meaning behind that, And maybe Larry wearing a new jacket that was the other meaning.

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Speaker 3: But that's a big deal, Larry get a new jacket.

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Speaker 2: I mean that jacket took me to middle school in like in like sixth grade. He literally took in the in the sixty six dodge. That's how I got to middle school, was in that jacket, so it was time for it to be faked. I want you to be prepared.

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Speaker 3: Don't take it personal when the member's only jacket is the one he continues to wear. No, had that long a run.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna walk in here later on at the end of the show, he's gonna walk in here and he's gonna have that jacket on. But I know it's just for show. I know by the time next time I see him, it'll be the member's only jacket again.

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Speaker 5: When you were at logan did you check on your overcoat that's been there.

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Speaker 4: For I did it, and they did not have it. No, they did. I will say.

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Speaker 2: When I was at Logan's, the guy, one of the guys there said to me, he goes, I don't know if this basketball team's got it anymore. Oh, And I said, well, why do you say that? And he goes, we can't make a shot. And I think you have to make shots to win. So I'll ask you now that you've had the Christmas holidays, you were not here after the Ohio State game from do you does that game make you feel it all worse about what's going to becoming the gauntlet of the sec that's to come.

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Speaker 3: I would admit it gave me a slightly a little more concerned. The Clemson game did nothing for me. It's like it didn't even happen. I've already forgotten it existed. That one though, just more of the physicality, more of maybe not being as fast and as quick as we need him at times. And then the shooting. I'll admit my brain thought, you know, I think I had when we played the prediction game them losing five in the SEC. I think I said, my brain was like, it might be a little optimistic, so just a slight dip. I'm not like, I don't think the sky is falling or anything, but I did have some concerns moving forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm concerned about it. I mean, I think it's a legit. I mean I'm not obviously, as I said, I'm not giving up, but I am concerned about it. I'm less concerned that they missshots. I'm concerned that they didn't get good shots. That a lot of that they're you know, they they weren't. Most of their shots were contested and they just struggled on offense. And it also further confirmed to me that like, we're we're gonna have some teams like we're not gonna be able to guard people, and so we're gonna have to outscore them. And and you know, I'm a little worried about about getting shots. I listened to Pope. Pope did his I Guess radio show Monday night before Christmas. I actually listened to it, and he basically said, you know, we got to refigure out how to get guys shots. He was like, our best guys are not getting shots, and guys that needed to be taking shots are taking too many. And I got to figure out how to do it.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 5: Posing teams are smart. They they know who they have to shut down. They're putting their best defenders on those guys, and those guys have been unable to kind of get an open look.

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Speaker 4: So what would you do?

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Speaker 5: I asked you this the other day because for the first time after Ohio State, I let it creep in my mind. Well, maybe we're not that good of a shooting team. I thought we were.

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Speaker 2: Maybe. I don't think it's the shooting although we're not shooting well. I just think we cannot get open looks. Yeah, And that's my that's my and.

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Speaker 5: It's our main guys that are having trouble getting open looks.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know that they were ever guys that can really get their own shot. I mean, Lamont Butler can some. I think Jackson Robinson can some, but then I don't know if the other guys can. And I think that makes it really tough. That means they can't. You know, they went through a period if you were to go back and watch, and I would suggest you not, but they went through a period on six different possessions in a row where they basically went one on one and they didn't score any of the times. And I just we can't do that or we'll be down twenty like we were in that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so much of that offense is built around moving and cutting and making the perfect pass to a guy. And when an offense, I think Western Kentucky was the first team to do it where they just jam them and get physical and throw them off, Kentucky kind of doesn't really know how to respond when they don't have that movement that they're so used.

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Speaker 4: Do you think we will get better at it?

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Speaker 3: I think so, Exaid, I'm slightly more concerned. I'm really worried defensively too. I think we lack enough championship chess to be honest. Outside of Lamont Butler, you don't think the chests are very champions We're giving up too many just straight line guys are just getting blown by outside of Butler, so I'll worry about that too. And then shooting, I mean, it's not.

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Speaker 2: Six straight games they've shot under thirty percent from three, that's I mean, that is a pattern. After a while.

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Speaker 3: They're one hundred and fifteenth in the country now, I mean Kobe when he was two of seven in that game, that's a guy we just thought was automatic. He was shooting seventy percent through five games.

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Speaker 2: We were since after five games, just to give you a sense, we were like number two in the country in threes, and now we're one hundred and fourteenth, which means that in those five or six games since we've been like one of the worst teams in the country at shooting threes.

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Speaker 4: And that we thought that would be our strength.

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Speaker 3: And Saturday it was the worst by far as their lowest percentage and just their lowest amount of makes. I think I had four and I mean this team making four threes game you're not beating many teams now.

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Speaker 2: However, on the trip, two of our players got engaged, Yes they did. Is that an indictment on marriage that the.

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Speaker 5: Two of them, well, you know, going to New York at Christmas time and he's kind of a special time.

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Speaker 4: I know, But like is marriage what ultimately brings you down?

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Speaker 2: As well?

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Speaker 3: I gotta admit I also did the engagement shoot thing in Central Park, so I did exactly what Colin Chandler did and not. You know, I felt like my next week distractions. You're getting all the thank yous and the excitement.

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Speaker 2: Do you.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations?

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Speaker 2: So Andrew Carr did it too. Do you think either fiance was a little bit like guys you could have playned different trips. I did wonder if because they both they both ended up doing it the same way.

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Speaker 3: Does the Instagram post first so he gets all the attention? Oh yeah, Andrew Carr also did it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. That also tells you how old our team is. I mean, we have two guys getting engaged in the middle of the season.

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Speaker 3: We have a very old basketball Brandon Garrison put out like a family Christmas card with his significant.

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Speaker 5: Other child dog.

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Speaker 3: They're all they're all grown up.

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Speaker 2: They're all like, yeah, they're all like booed up as you know, all seem to be in like big loving relationships.

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Speaker 3: So but but I mean, good for them. Let's just need to be Queen Hamilton and the engagements. There could be too many distractions.

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Speaker 2: Oh stop, don't say that, just you know, because you know that's what people say.

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Speaker 4: You don't throw that into Neither of those.

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Speaker 3: That said this before the game. Those seats at the Richard Rogers Theater are very uncomfortable and Amrio Williams three and a half hours in those seats might not have been the best thing on the legs.

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Speaker 2: You are literally becoming a message board poster right before our eyes. Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We'll take a break. If you have any questions, we're making this and ask anything. Thursday, we'll also talk about the best moments of twenty twenty four and UK. There's a lot of stuff that happened in UK sports in the last year. This right after this KSR Waterback it is Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. Couple up with lines, give us a shout. We're gonna go to the phones here in just a minute. Boxing Day is this is a holiday start in England. This is kind of nice. It was always the day after Christmas as a day to donate gifts to those in need, and it was a way to box up and give to those in need, which then became a national holiday. They I know, they're sporting events, like their soccer. They have games that go from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed. And now it might be the equivalent of like their Black Friday, as all the stores in England put major sales on Boxing Day, but people are off work. Uh to Uh. I like that you have your Christmas and then you have a day for people in need.

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Speaker 4: I think that's a good idea.

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Speaker 5: Actually, I love the theory of it. I'd always heard about boxing, They've had no idea what it meants. So now that I know, I think it's kind of a good idea.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you get the gifts you you pretended to like, and then the next day you box. Oh do you think it's a regifting day? Yeah, it's what it sounded like. I mean, you're I mean no.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think it was. I don't think the idea was general. Yeah, I don't think of the idea was you give away the gifts you didn't want.

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Speaker 4: I think it was the idea.

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Speaker 3: But say you had a pair of socks you didn't really want, you.

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Speaker 4: Could then go give them to somebody.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, I don't think that was the exact point, but one person says, Matt, the aroma the Episcopals throw out there is for Frankinsons and murr Uh. My grandmother used to not go to Episcopal Church on Christmas Eve because she said they put too much of it in the air that day and it would make her sick. Me and your grandmother, right, I knew they put extra in. I thought they can't do this every Sunday, they would be too much.

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Speaker 3: They turn it up a little bit for the holiday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand.

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Speaker 2: All right, we got to talk about Daane key uh day Key Picks Nebraska did it on Christmas Eve. I'll just tell you my reaction, and then Ryan, I'll get yours, because you know more about it than I do. I thought weirdy did it on Christmas Eve just because you don't you know, you're not gonna get a ton of a ten. But I was really surprised he went to Nebraska because I kind of thought those receivers didn't really love that coach, and then he followed the coach there, so I was and then he went I thought he was going to play for a championship. He's not gonna win a championship at Nebraska. So what do you think was the ultimate reason he decided to make that his school.

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Speaker 5: I think Nebraska is his fourth and final visit, and I think then when they went out there, they were just blown away by the facilities. Mainly, their facilities are like top of the line. And then they meet this quarterback and he's like a Patrick Mahomes quarterback, like he's a sophomore. He plays like Mahomes, He looks like Patrick Mahomes that they know it's not Patrick Mahomes, right, Patrick Mahomes two point zero. Yeah, And I think they started to he did go six and six, But you look at the schedule next year, it's very favorable. They think they're gonna win like nine or ten games next year. So there are a lot of those factors in and then you look at what like Georgia, they've got like three top top freshman receivers coming in. They went to the transfer Portal brought in some other receivers, so you know, yeah, you had to weigh it. All academics plays into it. You know how many your transfer, your credits are gonna transfer, or you want to graduate next May, so there's.

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Speaker 2: Really Yeah, you don't think Georgia would have gotten those credits.

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Speaker 5: I think like you got for Kentucky, he needed like twenty six credits to graduate, but these other schools you need like forty two. They did because they have to get so many credits in that state, and I didn't realize that.

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Speaker 4: I feel like Georgia would have made that. You can't tell me all those people are graduating.

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Speaker 2: Every time they go win a national championship. I root for the kid, like I still think Nebraska when I said it's corn and sadness, and it seems like they're running out of corn. I think there's a lot of truth to that. You know, it's I guess it's like they're our give back for.

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Speaker 5: Getting wan Dell player to be named.

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Speaker 2: You know what do you?

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Speaker 4: But uh, I was bummed about it.

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Speaker 2: I felt like I just on a personal level, I felt like I could understand it more if he went to Georgia. You know, Nebraska. You're right, their schedule looks like they could win nine. But you may remember, in our faith this preview, I thought they could win nine or ten this year. It was the same schedule they had this year. They just lost all the games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, every year for Nebraska football, and I wish Dane well, but it's the year we think we can do this now. I hope he has a great, great year there and can turn it into a good draft spot. But I was pretty surprised by the news. I thought being a championship contender would would factor in a little more, and I'm sure Dane believes they will be.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 4: I won't.

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Speaker 3: I kind of agree. I was expecting it to be. George, I was pretty surprised by the news, and I just took it as in not having any conversations about the relationship with the coach Shorts. I just took it as they're closer than we realized. Yeah, I mean that must be true. I mean, I'm not gonna say where I heard. Maybe the relationship wasn't the best.

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Speaker 5: I never said that, you always say that. I never once said that.

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding with you. You, but there were that was there were certainly people who who thought that, but clearly it must not be true because he I mean, you wouldn't go if you didn't like the guy, and maybe the new OC who we have history with. By the way, Dana Holgerson is Yeah, the night we went out in West Virginia that I stayed.

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Speaker 3: Pretty late into the evening. He's the o C there Dan, So I could understand meeting Dana Holgerson and getting talked into going there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's.

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Speaker 2: Far away too.

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Speaker 4: Are you gonna make that drive?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We got out of our way like it's you remember, it smells like chicken like, but not good chicken like, chicken like remains.

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Speaker 5: Remember I can't smell though, so I never smelled it while you guys been smells.

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Speaker 2: We get out, but you're gonna have to make that journey. You know how long that drive is.

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Speaker 4: That's a long drive.

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Speaker 5: Their direct flight from Lexington to Atlanta from Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: That's not Lincoln. If it's through Atlanta, that's not direct.

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Speaker 5: Well not direct, but they had that flight. It's a scheduled flight, That's what I'm what I'm looking for.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean it's a schedule flight.

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Speaker 5: They do it all the time from Lexington. You think there's a You think they.

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Speaker 2: Intentionally scheduled a flight from Lexington to Lincoln.

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Speaker 5: Their scheduled flight from Lexington to Atlanta. There are scheduled flights from Atlanta to Lincoln.

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Speaker 2: So well, that's true, I would argue Drew, that's probably true of every city in America. But but but that's by the way, those are expensive flights too to go through to go like that. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I thought we just drove just Nebraska. I thought we had to drive corn Husker gear.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to get something, I believe when I go to the game out there.

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Speaker 2: Well, as far as Kentucky would have been nice to have him, I'm gonna miss him. Uh. Do you think they'll be able to replace him over the course of next year? I mean he he was. He could make plays that no one else could make. He also had cases of drops a lot, and his production was very good, but it wasn't like otherworldly.

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Speaker 3: Do you think we can replace it? No, I don't think so. I mean, Dane wasn't perfect, or he'd be going to the NFL now, But I can think of five or six catches or if it was draft night, they're showing those on his high Oh for sure. He made some plays, especially along the sideline, that not many people in college football make. So I think that being able to go that next level and make the impossible catch is what I think they'll miss.

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Speaker 5: It was a hard decision for him. It really was because he loves this place. He loved playing here. He really did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I listen, I do think it's I do think what stinks for for Mark Stoops and the staff is he is the most probably the most known guy that could have come back, and so his decision to not come back is as much symbolic as it is the actual you know, the actual position. But it is going to be It's gonna be interesting to see how he does. I hope people I'm gonna pull for him. I mean, I can't pull for Nebraska because of how much I hate their fans, But I hope he does well. But I did, I freely meant I thought it was a very odd decision to make. All things considered, We'll take a break. Be right back this Kentucky Sports Radio quarter back Tekey Sports Radio eight five nine, twenty two eighty seven. Uh Matt one person rights on the texta machine. Matt Adolph Rupp liked when his.

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Speaker 4: Players were married.

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Speaker 2: He used to say, uh, it's family school then basketball, or excuse me, I'm sorry I read this wrong. Adolf Rupp did not like when his players were married because he said it should be.

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Speaker 4: Family school in basketball.

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Speaker 2: But if your family is your wife, that puts basketball too far down the list. Wow, is that.

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Speaker 3: True's first I've heard of that philosophy.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I would have thought back in the fifties or whatever, there would have been a lot of players that might have been married, because you know, it feels like people got married younger then. Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have guessed he'd be for it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe have we ever had home, if we ever had two married players on the team at the same time in the modern era? I mean, Derek Willis got engaged when he was here. But I can't think of anyone else.

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Speaker 5: You're talking about basketball? Yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't make of anybody was married.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember that. I wonder if you're married, do you get does your wife get to take the team flight?

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Speaker 3: It's true, I don't know.

00:24:10
Speaker 2: One person writes Matt, didn't you all have a run in with Dana Holgerson at West Virginia. I'm trying to remember what that story was. So Kentucky played West Virginia basketball in twenty sixteen right in the SEC whatever Challenge. Correct, it was at West Virginia. That was a Kevin Knox game. We all went the day before, we did our remote at the at the sleep Outfitters, and then that night we went to a bar in Morgantown. I remember Kentucky was playing West Virginia Saturday night. There was a party at the bar for West Virginia boosters, and Dana Holgerson, who was the football coach, and Bobby Huggins, who was a basketball coach at the time. They were both there and like they were going at it. Dana Holgerson was tending bar and making drinks. Bob Huggins was everywhere. And you may remember then the next day on the pregame show, I was like, we're gonna win. Bob Huggins was out at the bar last night. There's no way he could be focused. Because Bob Huggins stayed out later than I did at the bar, and like four days later I got a letter from his lawyer. Bob Huggins lawyer in the mail demanding a cease and desist to stop saying that Bob Huggins was at the bar the night before the game. So I called up the attorney and I said, hey, because he clearly didn't know I was an attorney, right, he just was thought he was just sending it. So I called him and I said, hey, got this letter. Why are you demanding I not say it? And he said because it's not true? And I said, I saw him, right, I mean, you can't say it's not true. I saw him. And he said, well, you're not allowed to say that, and I said, and that was when I threw in the you know, I am a lawyer. And then he quickly stumbled and he was like, well, we just would rather you not say it. And it was It was a perfect example of how lawyers will send something to somebody to try to scare him and then you can stop it.

00:26:18
Speaker 4: But they Huggins.

00:26:20
Speaker 2: Threatened to sue me just for saying I saw him at the bar the night before the game, which we did.

00:26:26
Speaker 3: It's pretty pretty easy guy to recognize around Morgantown unless they're having a Bob Huggins lookalike contest.

00:26:31
Speaker 2: Oh, it was definitely him.

00:26:32
Speaker 3: It was him.

00:26:33
Speaker 2: It was definitely him.

00:26:34
Speaker 5: And the bar was lit, had a couple hundred people in there. We all saw him. Everybody saw him in there that night.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: But but it made me think that at West Virginia, because Holgerson was the same way, if they almost had like a bubble where those coaches could kind of do whatever they wanted and it was sort of known, you just don't ever talk about it. And I felt like maybe we broke the bubble by saying that we saw him. We didn't say he was out of control. I was just like he was out till one in the morning or whatever. The night before a game, I walked into that bar not having one. Dan Holgerson thought when I left, I'm a fan for life. That guy who knows how to have a good time. Yeah, Huggins was a little more tame than Holgerson. Holgerson he did not have to coach. The next day.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: Holgerson was literally running the bar. Who's up next?

00:27:15
Speaker 2: Kevin is Kevin? Go ahead?

00:27:17
Speaker 4: Kevin? Hello? Yes, can you hear me?

00:27:24
Speaker 6: Yes? Okay. So I was just wondering if you had somebody, like an outside investor or whatever, would you consider franchise in your restaurant and open up a location in Louisville or do you think that would be.

00:27:40
Speaker 2: I don't think a loc at ks bar. I do not think it would work in Louisville because the problem with the place. So for a place like this, the problem is in Louisville. Louisville fans just on principle will not go, and Kentucky fans will go when Kentucky plays, but that's only like forty nights a year, forty five nights a year, and you have to find a way to do the rest of it. There was a Kentucky bar there in Louisville for a long time, and for a couple of years, Yeah, and it did. It had the same problem. They'd be fine during games, but they couldn't get anybody to come otherwise. So that's why I don't That's why we wouldn't do it in Louisville.

00:28:18
Speaker 4: Okay, appreciate it.

00:28:20
Speaker 6: I I win to Megan, if I win to Mega millions tomorrow, I was gonna give you a call.

00:28:24
Speaker 2: Well, you guys, listen, if you want to do it, I'll take your money. I appreciate the call. I just think it'd be a hard thing to If we would ever do it, I'd want to do it in a city like I don't know, pick a city that doesn't have a sports bar and then you make it the sports bar for that town.

00:28:38
Speaker 4: Bowling Green has one now, but a city.

00:28:40
Speaker 3: Like that, it'd be a long uber home for me from Louisville too. I like, I like hanging out at Chaos Bar, but having to go to Louisville for our events and everything, that'd be a little grinding.

00:28:51
Speaker 2: Mark Pope said in his uh in his show the other night, he said that Amari Williams and he almost almost insinuated, like they have a hard time talking to each other. Did you hear his comments there? He almost insinuated. I think somebody was asking about Amar's body language and stuff, and he basically said, I love Amar, Mari's a great kid, but we're still trying to figure out how to communicate with each other and we don't totally know exactly how to do that, which I found sort of an interesting comment and might explain a little bit. Drew why we've seen some games where he doesn't play as much, even though it seems like maybe he should be in at times.

00:29:35
Speaker 3: I thought this kind of all year, But because I only see a Mario William when he's playing basketball, I don't really know his personality, what he's like otherwise. But when things aren't going well, he kind of you can kind of see it on his face. Him more than anyone on the team. He slouches a little bit, effort disappears. He seems together when it's going well. You know, he's the best teammate in the world, having fun, But when just a little bit goes wrong, he looks like they lose him for a little while.

00:29:58
Speaker 2: He turns one bad play into two a lot. He'll have a bad play, he'll slouch his head down, and then that'll lead to another bad play. Sometimes you'll see miss a shot, then get beat on defense, or get beat on defense and then come down.

00:30:11
Speaker 4: He'll try to do too much. So it was interesting.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: That's the first time I've heard Pope sort of almost acknowledged Look, yeah, I just haven't totally been able to connect with him.

00:30:21
Speaker 5: Is it a little concerning knowing this here we're in the middle of the approaching the middle of the season, almost conference play, and he's having an issue like that with your starting center.

00:30:29
Speaker 4: Well, for.

00:30:31
Speaker 2: My view is it probably happens a lot. It's just rarely coaches admit it. I mean, I you know, remember what was it our our national championship team in twenty twelve with five games left in the season, we saw John cal Perry calling him a selfish blank blank, and we still ended up winning the national championship. I would think Drew that stuff happens a lot. It's just Pope maybe acknowledges it more than others. Yeah.

00:30:56
Speaker 3: Sure, we're twelve games into the year, but really, Mario Williams didn't move to Kentucky till June, so him and Pope as a coach player relationship is still kind of new. There's been a lot of games, but I could understand if they're still figuring each other out at this stage. Hopefully they figured out soon, but I mean they're they're going through growing pains like anyone else on that roster.

00:31:14
Speaker 2: Still is it is clear that while he drives me crazy sometimes on offense, this team is significantly worse defensively when he's not it, especially protecting the rim they can't Brandon Garrison is as athletic as he is, and sometimes he can help you offensively he just for a guy that's as good big as he is, he gets beat at the rim a lot, and and and Amari is a much better rim protector than Garrison. You know, Amari's plus minus numbers are some of the best on the team, as weird as that seems.

00:31:46
Speaker 3: Nationally, he's got one of the best rebounding percentages too, So he's he's really doing just about everything you want him to, except when he tries to dribble and when he loses his emotions a little bit. I think he's even been making free.

00:31:58
Speaker 5: Throws those plays where he tries to dribble too much. Outside of those plays, there's very little he does wrong. Great passer, great attacks to you know, the rebound by the board.

00:32:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is a good passer, but his it's just frustrating on offense. I think we have to have him on defense, and then I think he clogs up our offense, and that combination makes it a little difficult. Who's next? Joe is up next?

00:32:22
Speaker 7: Joe, Go ahead, Joe, Thanks a lot, gentlemen, quickly, Uh, every now and then, Matt, I have this problem. It's called the Notre Dame iris in football. Now, making no mistake Matt. If Kentucky's playing Notre Dame, I'm one hundred percent behind the wildcast. But come New Year's Eve, Notre Dames playing Georgia, am I gonna be a bad SEC SEC fan?

00:32:47
Speaker 2: Where you don't have to root for SEC teams. Here's what I realized a long time ago. They don't root for us all right. In the NCAA Final four, Alabama and Georgia teams they're fan don't root for Kentucky to win the national championship. As a matter of fact, they usually root against US. So I don't think we have to feel like we have to root for them in football.

00:33:08
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that?

00:33:09
Speaker 5: I one hundred percent agree with that.

00:33:10
Speaker 2: I think our fans feel like they have to root.

00:33:13
Speaker 5: And football feel that way football, But they don't root for us in basketball like they don't They don't put I mean, how many Kentucky fans.

00:33:19
Speaker 2: You don't see SEC fans pulling for us in basketball? So if you like Notre Dame, I say you root for Notre Dame, it doesn't make you a bad SEC fan.

00:33:30
Speaker 7: Wow, I'm seventy two years old. You finally helped me out. Man. I don't have to go to my parish priest to ask for forgiveness for being a bad person.

00:33:39
Speaker 2: Thankfully, you're not a bad person. I appreciate it. But like, I'm not rooting for Tennessee. I don't care who they play unless I don't know what I do against Louisville, but I'm not. I mean, like this year, if they I'm rooting for them in the NCAA tournament. Any I was sitting here during trivia screaming from Middle Tennessee State against Tennessee. I'm not gonna root for them in any game. No, they are scenarios like that Ohio State game.

00:34:02
Speaker 3: If it had been any SEC team but Tennessee, I probably would have cheered for the conference. But overall, no, I don't just side with the conference. I'm gonna be for Notre Dame. I'll probably have a Notre Dame shirt on. The Georgia kids barking at us when we're down there, you know, I think about them. I want them to lose.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: I don't Georgia fans are low key, some of the rudest, you know, I mean, nobody's ruder than Tennessee fans. But if you've ever been to a game at Georgia, the way they bark, Like, have any of you ever been to a game at Georgia. This sounds like an exaggeration, but they bark at you like, I mean, I'm not making this up. Like let's just take you, sir. Let's say you were with me and you were a Georgia fan. I Drew would walk by and you would get on your knees and you would like act like you're a dog and go.

00:34:49
Speaker 3: At noon on Friday before the game.

00:34:52
Speaker 2: Like with like in Starbucks, you know. I mean, it's a really weird thing they do.

00:34:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm not just gonna hope those it's win a championship because we're in the same conference.

00:35:03
Speaker 5: It does seem odd though. Like you said, though, in football, majority of our fan base will root for Georgia tonight just because this weekend, cause just because they're an SEC school their scenario.

00:35:10
Speaker 3: If they're playing Ohio State, I would root for them, But I'm not just going to root for him to root for them.

00:35:14
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:35:15
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00:35:58
Speaker 4: It's KSR working back.

00:36:01
Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine, two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Jim Larnaga, the coach of Miami, is apparently going to step down today. Wow. I don't know if that means he won't finish the year or will not, but I mean he was in the final four two years.

00:36:17
Speaker 5: Ago, legendary college basketball coach.

00:36:20
Speaker 2: They've been really bad this year though, They've lost something like eight games, and they I think you're I think you're just seeing Drew like the older generation of guys like college basketball is moving to a young set of coaches. I mean the you could argue Calum Patino or the last two old guys left and is ooh, I guess And I'd say all three of those will be gone in the next two or three years and then.

00:36:46
Speaker 4: It's like it's like a new generation of young coaches.

00:36:50
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:36:50
Speaker 3: And I don't know what's going on with him specifically hearing it for the first time, but they have had a horrible year. They just lost to Mount Saint Mary's in overtime. Is like eight out of nine games they've lost.

00:37:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember they almost they should have beaten Arkansas, Arkas Arkansas big and then Arkansas came back and beat him. But he's he's pretty amazing coach if his career is in. He took George Mason to the Final four. People forget that. I mean George Mason to the final four, took Miami to the Final four, probably had a chance to win it that year, wasn't able to do it. But uh, he was a great coach.

00:37:25
Speaker 5: I would say he's got to be one of the most win among active coaches. Has the top five probably most wins, I.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: Would I don't think that's probably true. Yeah.

00:37:34
Speaker 2: Eight, I'm nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. When person writes, Matt, do we know what's gonna happen with Caleb Wilson? That's the top ten recruit looking at Kentucky. I think he announced Drew he was gonna decide in January.

00:37:47
Speaker 3: That's coming up around the corner. Uh, Kentucky's still in a good spot. There's people that will tell you North Carolina's made it a little closer than some Kentucky fans believe it is because for a while we were just waiting on a commitment. I still think they're e leader, but that should finally be coming around the corner soon. With I'm saying he's got a dating month.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: I think you liked Squid Game, didn't you?

00:38:06
Speaker 5: I did like squid Games.

00:38:07
Speaker 2: So Squid Game two comes out today today. Yes, are you gonna you gonna be squid gaming it up?

00:38:13
Speaker 5: I know it's a freaky movie, but I could not stop watching it, So yes, I will pick it up and probably watch it by the weekend.

00:38:20
Speaker 3: The whole thing probably all right. Yeah, I've got it on my list to do tonight. I'm excited to watch it. I loved the first one. Ready for round two.

00:38:27
Speaker 2: Did you watch any of the Netflix games yesterday?

00:38:31
Speaker 3: I did, and it almost made me sad. I used to be the guy who would watch all four or five NBA games. I didn't even think to turn on basketball yesterday. I think the NFL is gonna steal Christmas Day from him. I enjoyed just a new production from Netflix, new new voices. They felt like they hired thirty people to cover those two games, even though they were blowouts. I enjoyed just the experience.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't end up watching either one of them, but I the basketball. That was really a thing for a long time, watching basketball on Christmas Day, and I think that's ended. I think the NFL just took it from him and just said because the NFL's bigger than everything, So it's like sorry, I did like I saw they did. I did see on ESPN two they had a game that they I don't know if you all saw this. They turned the players into like Mickey Mouse characters. Yeah, I have to say, watching Donald Duck break people down?

00:39:26
Speaker 4: What was it about.

00:39:26
Speaker 2: I did enjoy watching Donald Dunk do his things.

00:39:29
Speaker 3: But it was a big day for basketball, even though I'm the fan the NBA is afraid of that just watches NFL. I mean, Tyrese Maxey had a great game. It was a buzzer beater with it we've.

00:39:37
Speaker 2: Been Yama had forty two and twenty in his Christmas debut. Vikers and the Warriors were a good game. But it does feel like Ryan that the NBA owning Christmas Day is over.

00:39:48
Speaker 5: I'm, like Drew said, on the couch with my dad, we watched nothing but football Steelers Chiefs and then watched the Ravens Texas after that. My favorite moment though, is when Andy Reid dressed up a Santa Claus and came in the locker room after the game.

00:40:00
Speaker 2: That was your favorite moment favorment? Yeah, so not Beyonce.

00:40:03
Speaker 5: Actually I didn't see the Beyonce halftime show.

00:40:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, she came out, she sang Dolly parton, She had a uh, she had a truck that I think would probably be the dream truck of Well, you're from Astell County, don't you think somebody would like a pickup truck? That's all denim. That's exactly what she came out at. She came out exactly. She came out in a denim truck, and I was thinking, now, that is a mountain truck right there. Yeah, I've never heard of anybody having a denim truck before.

00:40:34
Speaker 3: We need to get that.

00:40:35
Speaker 5: If we were the dinner uniforms this year, we need to get that truck up here somehow.

00:40:38
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:40:38
Speaker 4: I wonder I must sayay, how much you think they paid her to do that?

00:40:41
Speaker 2: She put on like a super Bowl halftime show. It's probably a lot of a number that my brain can't even You want to know why your prices go up on your Netflix subscription?

00:40:51
Speaker 4: That halftime show was one reason.

00:40:52
Speaker 5: Who's next?

00:40:54
Speaker 2: Go ahead?

00:40:55
Speaker 8: Lee, Hey, I'm Dane going Nebraska. At least we don't have to play again during the Season's true. I trust Eddie Gran and Vince Morrow and to bring in transfer portal guys that can help us. You never know, I mean, we didn't know who our basketball players really were gonna be and that turned out okay. And I know you all keep saying that the schedule is going to be tougher next year. We're playing our tougher opponents at home. And if the if the ideal is to win every game, I would rather play our tougher opponents at home. We got a better shot there. We have no shot to be Tennessee at Tennessee shot.

00:41:32
Speaker 2: I agree with you on the road. I totally agree with you on that if you're good, and I appreciate the call. If you're good, the way the schedule is next year is how you want it. If you're good in football and you play the good teams at home, that's how you want it.

00:41:47
Speaker 4: The problem is there's no gimme games next year, like.

00:41:51
Speaker 2: There are no games where like it should have been this year with Vand even though we didn't win in South Carolina, even though we didn't win, you're you're playing the sort of toss up games on the road. So I think the callers right, Drew. If we're good, that schedule next year is perfect. But if we're not good, it could be terrible.

00:42:10
Speaker 3: Just hard to expect Kentucky football winning at home against any team after the last two years.

00:42:14
Speaker 2: Now you got to beat the good one. Now you gotta beat the good ones. We'll take a break. Come back here at ks Bar at number two Kentucky Sports Radio