2025-10-24- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 4: Welcome to our two Key Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Quarterback on them two here Tucky Sports Radio at Don Franklin, where you can gear up for savings. Right here, go the distance with powertrain protection on certified pre O makes right here only at Don Franklin, confidence standard and your worries are binged. At Don Franklin they now have Donado's Pizza for people here, So you get pizza, you get hopefully entertained, and now you get ready for these games today three point thirty our pregame show. We'll have ks Bar open all day. Come on in as you get ready to go to the game. And then after the game, you're also welcome for a little postgames hopefully celebration.

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Speaker 6: Shannon, after the win, do you think we'll be celebrating.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think we will be.

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Speaker 4: And like I said earlier, if we lose, and no big deal with those that did. Two of our main guys out still celebrate. It's basketball season.

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Speaker 5: All right. Let me ask you a couple of things in other parts of news last night. So you know I'm a big Carolina Hurricanes hockey fan. I stayed up last night. They beat the best team in hockey, the Colorado Avalanche on their home ice.

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Speaker 6: They had like five guys out. They hung on one in a shootout.

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Speaker 5: But that's not what the most exciting thing about the game was for me, but not for you all. I have a question for you. So they played the Colorado Avalanche. They're the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina moved from Hartford where they were the Hartford Whalers. You may remember when you were a kid. Well, I say, I don't know how old everybody is, but if you were my age and you were a kid we grew up, that'd show ESPN Hartford Whaler's right, the Colorado Avalanche. They moved from Quebec. They were the Quebec nord Deaks. So you remember as a kid, we'd see the Quebec Nordeeks and the Colorado Avalanche. But they don't they're not in those cities anymore. They're in Raleigh, and they're in they're in Denver. Last night they played each other, so they decided to do throwbacks. So they wore the Whalers and Nordek's uniforms. It was very cool. It was old school. However, people in Hartford and Quebec were not happy about it. They're like, you take our teams and then you somehow take our uniforms and have a throwback night celebrating your history, but you left us out of it. It Now it's you're wearing Whalers and Nordics, but you're in Carolina and Colorado. Do you think it is fair for these teams to adopt the logos of the cities they left.

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Speaker 2: See, I was totally taking it the other way.

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Speaker 7: I thought it was great to honor the memory of those fans of those teams from years past.

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Speaker 5: I want you feel that way, like you're a Saint Louis Cardinals fan. Let's say that team moves to I don't know, Seattle, Portland, and now all of a sudden, they're like, hey, Saint Louis, here's your honor. We're the Portland Cardinals today. Would that be all right with you?

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Speaker 2: I think I would be really cool about that.

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Speaker 7: I think you see my my, my old like seeing my old team one more time for my childhood out there again playing.

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Speaker 5: All right, what about you? My team does this?

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Speaker 8: The Titans try to wear the Oilers throwbacks and it's a fight. I mean, they have a divisional opponent in Houston who says, oh, no, you left Houston, you can't wear that. But they're saying it's our franchise and our logo. So we try to wear the throwbacks and get a lot of pushback in Nashville. So you yeah, because I'm the team that wants to wear the throwbacks too bad.

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Speaker 5: I mean I wear a Heart for Whaler's shirt sometimes is a Carolina fan. I don't know if that makes me Uh if people of heart were would punch me in the face. But I kind of like it. What about you? Yeah, especially like for Quebec. Yeah, move not only from Quebec, they moved to a different country.

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Speaker 4: They didn't even want to be in the same country as you. Yeah, if you're Quebec and Hartford, stop being a bunch of whiners.

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Speaker 2: That's probably why they left.

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Speaker 4: The fans are terrible in both cities or provinces or whatever Quebec is.

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Speaker 5: You think that's why they left.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they left terrible fans.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if you support it your team, I'm sure they would have stayed there. They left because you got terrible fans. They don't don't even go watch their team play. Then you whint about it because the other team's wearing your jersey.

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Speaker 5: And they're the best two teams in hockey. Now, yeah, they left your city.

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Speaker 4: They stuck when they were back in Hartford. They went to a real study where they could win. And I have a fan base.

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Speaker 5: But I love well done, I love well know and like that wrestling heel thing comes out in you and you just start. You could have delivered that line from the ring people of Quebec.

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Speaker 4: That's right, just not Pratts. Shut your mouth. You got a real team now.

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Speaker 5: They should hear you.

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Speaker 4: I don't care anything about hockey thing. I don't watch hockey in ten years, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Ryan the Besides, there were there were three things I got a lot of comments about yesterday on the Texan Shine. One was our guy Eric Monday. Yes one was people had are still having strong thoughts about my thing about ice, although I will say yesterday went for people being angry to like some people actually saying like interesting things, including I had a couple of people who were ice agents who asked me not only not to say who they were, but to not even share their thoughts because they didn't want to get in trouble. But actually I really could. I actually had a constructive conversation with a couple of ice agents. So salute to those people who wrote who listened to the show put that to side. The other thing that was a big conversation was you and the eating alone again. Oh so, Joe Flacco of course said totally fine to eat alone. As a matter of fact, people eating alone are living a good life. Jamar Chase was then asked, Hey, did you see what Joe said? Have you ever eaten a loan? And Jamar Chase said, I would never eat alone out in public. That's ridiculous. If I was going to do that, I would just stay home. Jamar Chase sort of channeling you. Flacco was then asked about Chase and he goes, well, Jamar's young, wait till he gets old. You are old.

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Speaker 2: I'm old.

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Speaker 5: So do you feel weird that Jamar Chase is the person on your side?

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Speaker 7: No, I mean there's got to be some of us out there. I just don't want to go sit in a restaurant by myself and not have any social interaction at all with anybody.

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Speaker 5: So the question then came, if someone were to see you out eating or doing something by yourself, would you want company?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 5: You would.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So that's an open invitation for anybody that sees Ryan out in public by himself just pull a chair right up next to him.

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Speaker 7: But that won't happen. I won't be eating anywhere by myself ever. I'll go through a drive through before I go sit in a restaurant somewhere.

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Speaker 5: Bro.

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Speaker 6: That brings me to you know. We do challenges sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I did the challenge with Shannon where he walked where he walked fifty miles. One time we threatened to have Drew try to gain twenty five pounds. That's so crazy to think that we almost did that. You were up for it too.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and I was gonna take a bus to Portland, but it was gonna take thirteen days and I couldn't miss.

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Speaker 5: That much work.

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Speaker 6: The game would have been long over.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. How about this, Okay, if I offer you a cash prize for your own goodness, Okay, cash prize for your own goodness. Where for a week, I'll buy your mate, I'll buy your meals, meals. I buy your meals, oh, y'all probably UK Federal Credit Union. I buy aw you meals. I'll bow your food, uh for the for dinners for the week, but and give you a prize at the end. But you have to for seven meals. That really is a hard word for me to say. Uh, eat in public, buy yourself and take a selfie of you eating. Would you do that? I think it would be a good exercise for your own like mental health and well being.

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Speaker 2: Can it be lunch or does it have to be dinner?

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Speaker 6: No, you have to have dinner. You have to sit.

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Speaker 5: And I'll even allow you, like if you want, like if it's seven days, Like if you have a Saturday night that yoga girl wants to go to dinner with you, I'll give you a break and then you can do one day the next week, but seven days, let's say, out of ten, so that you're able to interact with people seven days out of ten dinner buy yourself at restaurants in Lexington to sort of get used to this idea of you being comfortable buy yourself.

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Speaker 2: I'm literally starting to sweat right now just thinking about it.

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Speaker 4: Dude, What I mean, He's gonna buy your mails?

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Speaker 2: Come on, you can't even go can't.

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Speaker 5: I say that word? Why do all of a sudden become you know, earnest males.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna buy your food and all you gotta do is that there Now all you have to do.

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Speaker 5: I will I will buy your dinner for seven out of ten days, and then we'll have a prize.

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Speaker 6: That we chip in at the end.

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Speaker 5: I gotta think about what it is, but we'll have some sort of prize for you at the end.

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Speaker 2: And no, I'm not going wait a minute.

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Speaker 5: See, Unlike some of these other challenges like putting you in jail and having you eat donuts.

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Speaker 6: This is one that I actually think is good for you.

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Speaker 5: I don't think it's like, uh, I don't think this is something that you're shaking your head. You don't think it's good for him. It's real good for him.

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Speaker 7: I think it actually you hush in the car.

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Speaker 5: I think it actually like it'll it'll help you. So so this is a way to try to help you.

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Speaker 7: Are you up for Okay, let's get some ground rules, like I'm eating by myself at kass Bar.

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Speaker 5: You cannot go to kast Bar. I mean, I'd love for you to go to kast Bar, but that becomes everybody will come and sit with that. You cannot go to cat You have to go to seven random restaurants. No fast food, like you can't go to McDonald's and scarf Burger down in ten minutes, like you gotta sit at a restaurant, and I don't care what you do at the restaurant. You can read. Stop you're not gonna read.

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Speaker 2: Let's still get crazy.

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Speaker 5: Still, I'm not gonna read. I mean, you can do what you want, but you do have to be there. And if people come up and talk to you, that's okay.

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Speaker 2: They can't sit with you, but.

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Speaker 5: They can't like sit down like you've got to sit. If people want to come and say hi and make conversation, I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 7: So if I'm at a restaurant and somebody comes up to say, hey, Ryan, kind of you me eat with you?

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Speaker 5: No, you can't eat with you.

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Speaker 2: They can say hi, you can r and no, I want to eat by myself.

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Speaker 5: Get away. Hey, this is a radio contest and I have to eat by myself.

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Speaker 7: I'd say, you know, yoga girl needs to have a little input in this. Can We've been eating dinner together every night for a long time.

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Speaker 6: For yoga girl as well.

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Speaker 2: She can Also, she's gonna miss me. She's not gonna like it at all.

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Speaker 6: You can see her as soon as it's over. Okay, you can go right back home.

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Speaker 2: I'm literally sweating.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I just don't like it. It is the easiest competition ever.

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Speaker 6: I think I know what it is.

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Speaker 8: We've always wondered what's in that brain. I think he's afraid to be alone with his own thoughts. I think that brain will just be spinning and he needs someone there with him.

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Speaker 5: This is literally, in the history of ks R, the easiest thing I've ever asked by far this. You have to eat. You have to eat a meal. I'm offering you a chance to eat a good meal like full meal.

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Speaker 2: Waffle house count.

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Speaker 5: No, you have to. I mean, I think that's your count.

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Speaker 8: If he's got a booth at waffle housefle house.

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Speaker 5: As long as you're there by for an hour an hour. Yes, The key is I don't want you rushing out to get out. The key is I want you to be alone with your thoughts. This is the easiest competition in the world. Literally, sit by yourself for an hour, eat a meal, go home seven times and ten days.

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Speaker 2: When did it start?

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Speaker 5: Well, that's negotiable.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 8: You live by several places considered kind of not sports bars, but they have a TV. Go whin a football game is on, sit down and watch.

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Speaker 5: If you can go somewhere with the television. I'm fine with that. I don't I don't expect you just to sit and stare out into the abyss.

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Speaker 6: I'm fine with it.

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Speaker 2: Why are you not agreed to this? Yell, let's start it tonight.

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Speaker 5: Well you want to do it tonight. It's a fat basketball game tonight. We'll start Monday, all right, Monday, Okay, all right, there we go. All right, we'll see come monday.

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Speaker 6: You got this right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I think you're gonna have fun.

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Speaker 6: This is what my hope is at the end of it.

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Speaker 5: You know this wasn't bad and so that if it ever happens, you don't have to dread it.

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Speaker 7: I need to take my New Yorker magazine and my nerdy book with me, and that's too much.

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Speaker 5: If I ask you to read one New Yorker, this contest will never be finished.

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Speaker 6: Who's up next, Ronnie?

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Speaker 5: Ronnie? Go ahead, Ronnie?

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Speaker 9: What's going on? Matt Long with Kentucky fans from Louisville? And I actually worked at Purdue. So I'm in my office, got my Kentucky blue on ready for the game today, but just asking about for basketball. Excited about Purdue. But I wish that we would have played them instead of Indiana. I really wish before we got the Indiana schedule that we would have played Purdue just to slight them. This the football points Stoops has gotta go. We gotta make a new search there.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 5: On the Indiana point, I appreciate the call. I didn't want to restart that series. I didn't want to restart that series either because I didn't want I wanted to have the Flexi man, we got like six more years or whatever of that series. I love that Cal ended the series that went on for years, wait until he left, and now we have to start it again and he's gone.

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Speaker 6: I'd like to have played little two years things.

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Speaker 5: But you know, one of things Mark Pope Is said he's really advocating going to thirty three or even thirty five games because he said, look, if we do that, then we'll start scheduling home and homes with different teams and we'll get to play in different arenas, which I think would be cool.

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Speaker 8: Drew, I had my first Indiana trash talk this week. I didn't know they were still capable of that, but I was at the Lovely Travel Center in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Uh, someone saw my license play while I was getting gas and they just started track talking trash about the series coming back, and I was like, I need you.

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Speaker 5: All to be a little bit better before.

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Speaker 8: That's what I was like, I need you all to improve before I engage, because we got other things in front of us that I think.

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Speaker 5: It would Yeah, It's like I do think it would be really cool if this year, Ryan, we were able to play Purdue home and home for real or Houston like you could. We could be flexible and see who's good out there, and what's a two year series we could do with a good team.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, before we knew the really result of it, I was okay with doing a home and home with this Purdue with this exhibition game going up there next year, play on their court as an exhibition game.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it would have been cool in to play like like like Houston. Jayn Lowe is from Houston, right, Houston's good. It would have been cool to play a home at home with Houston. Play at Houston this year, jay On low gets to go home and then they come here next year.

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Speaker 6: Like I wish we had the flexibility to do stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've always wanted to have Kentucky at Cameron Indoor Stadium and then Duke play at Roperena.

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Speaker 5: That's gonna happen with the SECA at some point they'll put us together on that SECA c C.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but anything, you know, if it means expanding the regular season to thirty three thirty five games and you get games like that, then I'm all for that.

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Speaker 7: They might well just sign him up be the headliner every single year. I mean that's what people want to see.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, actually, I think it would work if they did.

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Speaker 8: He took a couple of years off probably so they could do new things, but have him been to two or three of him? Alright, Real Bird, it's the biggest draw. That's who people want to see.

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Speaker 5: Yep. Yeah, you definitely, you definitely have to do it. One person writes Matt. Can he just say if the people want to join him, they has to do a radio contest, but then talk to them from the other side.

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Speaker 6: The fact that you feel like you have to.

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Speaker 5: Do these workarounds is what's social range to me? Shannon about it anyway, like it's it's.

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Speaker 4: You just sit there and eating in the world. To me, well, does it have to be in Lexington or can I have Dante come over here and see at the table by me.

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Speaker 7: And I asked you, did it have to be in Lexton? Can I go eat at a place in Georgetown?

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Speaker 5: And I will say to you, I'm okay with you sitting at the bar, but like you can't know who you're sitting next to. So like, if you want to make friends with strangers, I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 6: That's part of going out by yourself.

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Speaker 5: And sometimes you do meet friends with strangers, okay, So I'm okay with that, But I also want you to have a couple where you're in at a.

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Speaker 7: Table by yourself. And I can't go to Wild Eggs when Georgetown.

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Speaker 2: No, you can't.

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Speaker 6: You understand how we're trying to what we're trying to do.

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Speaker 2: But like I'm just like in the evening and all I don't like it.

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Speaker 6: This is not a joke. You've really never done this.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've done it one time in my life.

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Speaker 6: Well, now you're gonna you're gonna get to do it. What best right to Matt? How do we watch the game tonight?

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Speaker 5: Is it on regular TELEVI This game, Drew is on the SEC network, So this game is just if you have the SEC network, you can watch this game the game against Georgetown next Thursday is on the computer, and all the things that the big blue madness in the Blue White game.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you got six days to figure that one out, But tonight you're good. It's just the regular channel. I'd say over there at the SEC network headquarters they saw number one perdue don't get to show them very much, and took advantage of this opportunity.

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Speaker 4: TV ratings are probably gonna be huge on this too, for the SEC Network for an exhibition game.

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Speaker 5: And it's also really the first night that actual basketball is on. I think they're showing I think maybe Arkansas plays after US, so I think there's like four hours of basketball tonight for people in the SEC Network.

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Speaker 7: We mentioned all those games, A lot of them I would like to see. If you can tell you wasn't playing that, I probably would tune in and watch some of those games.

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Speaker 5: Some of them aren't even on television, which crazy, Which is crazy.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's opportunity there for a network.

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Speaker 5: Time programs playing each other and the game is not even on TV.

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Speaker 8: Who's up next, Bob and James down to eight twenty two eighty seven, Bob, go ahead.

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Speaker 10: What do you think about this copycat crime down in Florida. Now Champ Sports and Jensen Beach thieves kept through a concrete roof to get in the steal Niken new ballanced sneaker.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Bob, just because, hang on a second, are you suggesting that the Champ Sports robbery is a copycat of the Louver?

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Speaker 10: Oh what do you think? I mean, how do you go in the and ever gets hundreds of pair of these high dollar ballas shoes.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess James and I Bob to be fair, I don't know, but I'm gonna guess that there have been robberies of places like Champ Sports for decades. I don't think that these guys were like, Hey, they took rare jewels from French queens in the Louver, I need to go take hike dunks from Champs Sports.

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Speaker 10: Well they did it. Anyway, I think we're gonna have a great basketball team this year. We've got debs, We've got I mean, gonna be playing for tonight to see how each other do to get playing time. And uh, it'd be interesting to see how much Malachi Marino gets what that's seven foot length he's got.

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Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate the call, Bob. I agree with that. I do think this team drew. One of the strengths of this team is they have you know, it's like Noah's Ark. They got two of everything. I mean, you pick what you want in a basketball player. They don't even have like they only have one of those guys. They got two. Whereas last year, I really didn't think we had anybody who could just take a guy off the dribble and get his own own shot. You know, Otega could muscle his way through. Sometimes, Jackson could do it. Sometimes Butler could physical, but in general, he didn't really have a guy like that. I think we got multiple guys who can do that. This year. We got multiple guys who can block shots, we got multiple guys who can hit three. We got multiple guys that are good passers. I mean, I just think they have a chance to have so many different options.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, before I had to that point, that was a great Bob call. He acted like we all woke up and turned on the news and they were talking about the champs getting ready. He said that, so, like we all knew that Champs.

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Speaker 4: In Florida got robbed.

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Speaker 8: Also, they say Champs doesn't get the expensive shoes. Those are your mallwalkers. But to your point about the depth, Yeah, and like say one guy doesn't pan out, there's some years you're like, this guy has to be good. If he's not, the whole thing falls apart.

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Speaker 5: I do think loves like that. Now, Yeah, I do think he has to be good. But go ahead.

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Speaker 8: But the biggest thing with the depth, we focus on the games and how you can throw different stuff. These practices are wars, and they've already been wars. Pope has talked about having to stop them from killing each other already in the September practices. So we think about how it's nice to be able to play twelve guys in a game. But it's more, I think, to me, it's more about how they're gonna be ready for games because every day is going to be a battle.

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Speaker 5: When Reese is your thirteenth man, literally like no probable chance of playing and he ain't terrible, that's pretty good. When you're twelfth man is a guy who might you know who has an NBA body in Braden Hawthorne, like they got a there's a lot of players riding on this.

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Speaker 7: Team and after all the injuries you went through last year. Amen, glad we got him. You know how many times you see three point guards go down injury back to back to back. He's got loaded up in every position and I think he knew he had to do that so that never happens again.

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Speaker 4: You think we see some Potter and Hawthorne tonight in the game at all.

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Speaker 6: I'll say this, I do want to see tonight.

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Speaker 5: Because you know Lowell is gonna come back, but he could get hurt during the year like that can happen. I want to see an Aberdeen or Johnson point guard. Is it still good enough to rise the team to a Final four level? My inclination right now is no, but they might after tonight. I might have a different of that.

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Speaker 8: That's kind of a blessing in this injury because if low we're healthy, and if we prefer it, you'd see these guys for minutes here and there. They're gonna get a big opportunity until he comes back to prove themselves.

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Speaker 6: So that really is the test for me.

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Speaker 5: Aberdeen jasper at point guard, then what's the team ceiling? Because everything else we got two of at every position. We'll take a break and be right back. It's ksof TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

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00:23:28
Speaker 2: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Were go back.

00:23:31
Speaker 6: It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:23:33
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00:23:51
Speaker 6: You maybe have lucky socks? Do you have any lucky socks?

00:23:55
Speaker 2: I don't think they've got lucky underwear. But I don't have lucky socks.

00:23:57
Speaker 6: I don't want to know more about that. You also might be like me.

00:24:00
Speaker 5: Sometimes I get nervous during the game, Shannon, I drive around New Circle Road.

00:24:04
Speaker 2: That's right. Sometimes that happens.

00:24:05
Speaker 5: Sometimes I won't do that for this one. But there's also one more rituals you should add. Get a skin check at Kentucky skin Candler Center. Huh, Yeah, I know that's a weird thing to do during a basketball game.

00:24:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, just go check for skin cancer during the game.

00:24:19
Speaker 8: Never a bad time to check.

00:24:20
Speaker 5: That's what they want you to do. Right here, you go to Kentucky Skin Cancercenter dot com or two seven h eighty four two nineteen ninety nine, where you're not just a patient your family at Kentucky Skin Cancer Center. It would be weird for you to go like during every game and be like, we're losing. Yep, will you please check me for skin.

00:24:37
Speaker 2: Firm that I still don't have skin cancer? You know, too safe.

00:24:41
Speaker 6: Everybody has the rituals.

00:24:42
Speaker 5: One person writes on the text machine, Matt, why are you insistent on telling Ryan he's wrong and odd? I actually think you're odd for going and eating by yourself. Ryan should be paying you to interact with people.

00:24:57
Speaker 2: Got a point. That's a good point.

00:24:58
Speaker 6: That's good point, right. Would you like to buy my meals for a week?

00:25:01
Speaker 2: That's a big fat no.

00:25:02
Speaker 6: And then I have to go and eat eat with other people?

00:25:05
Speaker 2: No, big fat no.

00:25:07
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:25:07
Speaker 2: I know it's something you enjoy.

00:25:09
Speaker 5: You enjoy it. It's not that I actively say Drew would like to eat dinner. Forget about him. I'm going by myself When there are people for me to eat with, I do it. But when you are a when you live alone and you're not married and you don't cook. My New Year's resolution didn't go great this year. Here's not over.

00:25:30
Speaker 6: Here's not over.

00:25:32
Speaker 5: Then, like you have to And why should I always eat in my house? Right? Should not be able to go experience the world. And that's kind of how you shouldn't eat your house because you can't cook well.

00:25:43
Speaker 6: But I mean I take it home or get delivery.

00:25:46
Speaker 5: I can go sit in the place. Plus for most restaurants, you know it's there. It's better for them for you to eat in person. Door dash takes a cut and all that, and you know, servers like I think it's just better for the industry if people eat out.

00:25:58
Speaker 7: And you, like, you have to do business while you're eating your meal by yourself. You're on your phone, make the returning calls, returning emails.

00:26:04
Speaker 5: Reading something you might try. No, that's another challenge. One week we could just have him read Yeah, of course.

00:26:12
Speaker 7: Well I had to do a book report that one year. You maybe read a book and do a book.

00:26:15
Speaker 6: Report on remember the plot and you liked it?

00:26:18
Speaker 2: It was actually really good.

00:26:19
Speaker 5: You know.

00:26:20
Speaker 6: The sequel to that just came out. It's called the sequel.

00:26:24
Speaker 2: I was not aware, Matt, you already did this.

00:26:29
Speaker 8: But when I was single, I used to vacation alone, which you have to eat by yourself or do things by yourself, and I actually loved it. I went to New York more times than I could count and would just make a dinner reservation for one and go have a great time.

00:26:41
Speaker 5: I mean I did it for two months, except for a little period where I had some friends come.

00:26:45
Speaker 6: I did it for two months.

00:26:46
Speaker 5: And now when you do that, sometimes you do have times where you're like, okay, I need human contact here, and so you you know, I would do like I would do like these little group tours where it was like a night out at bars. And I'm not even a drinker, but those were people who wanted to be social and it was fun. But like I still, I'm good. Primarily, I'm not expecting you to do that. I just want you to have a meal. I'm not asking you to go to Europe by yourself.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: It's not asking you to go out on Valentine's Day the Skyline Chili by yourself, either.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: So I mean this is easy.

00:27:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, that wasn't the That wasn't the most ideal night.

00:27:20
Speaker 4: Well, you know, but but but.

00:27:22
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to you.

00:27:24
Speaker 6: Here's my own kind of that.

00:27:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, who's up there?

00:27:27
Speaker 6: Justin and Justin, go ahead, Justin.

00:27:32
Speaker 11: I feel like dans are back to almost with basketball for the first time since COVID. Really, is there a chance that the Big Blue Madness camp Out comes back? Because Mark Pope at a Big Blue Madness camp Out would be awesome. And if it's not coming back, what's the reason.

00:27:52
Speaker 5: It's a great question. I think the answer is no, the Big Blue Madness camp Out will not be back.

00:27:58
Speaker 6: There's a lot of reasons.

00:28:00
Speaker 5: I think in one part, it was kind of like it was an awesome event, but it was an event that from a security standpoint, always worried UK. I mean, just think about it. You put thousands of people on campus and you just set them there and like they're sleeping on the street, and then you have students and now there are even more dorms in that area, so there's students everywhere.

00:28:22
Speaker 6: So I think that's that was always an issue.

00:28:24
Speaker 5: Then you throw in the fact that players, you know, I think some players liked it. Some players it was a lot to have people right outside their back door the whole time. And then the other thing is there are a lot more buildings over there now, Like if you think about the last time people camped out, a lot of that space is gone and the campus is just much more crowded. So Drew, I think all of those things mean that won't come back. I think you're gonna see events like what they did the day of Big Blue Madness as kind of replacements for the camp out.

00:28:56
Speaker 8: It really can't come back. I used to do it. I spent the night there. It was a lot of fun. But that area has just changed so much. Back when I did that, there wasn't even the new student center there. It was a field where the band practiced and you'd put tents there, there were basketball courts. All of that has been gone for new buildings. Like even if they wanted to have a camp out, they have nowhere to put people.

00:29:14
Speaker 5: I mean, I will say, and I appreciate the call. I some of my favorite memories since I've done this were at that camp out. I mean, just think about the John Wall DeMarcus Cousins year. Those guys were out there like playing I mean, imagine John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins spending.

00:29:30
Speaker 6: Hours like playing corn hole with fans.

00:29:33
Speaker 5: And then you know, in twenty thirteen, obviously I put video of Netherlands Noel playing one on one with Willow Now when he almost got hurt. That was different, but there was a cool excitement to like players playing one on one with random fans. Willie Cawley Stein would do that a lot in his canter. That was the first time everybody saw an appearance of him. We did our show Rhyme once out there. I have a picture hanging in my house. This one's actually hanging. Larry hung it of me interviewing cal Perry with this swarm of people, maybe more people than have ever listened to our show, Me interviewing cal Perry at camp out with like the whole parking lot filled with people, the pictures behind me. It's one of my favorite pictures. So I hate that that stuff won't come back, but I don't think it's coming back.

00:30:23
Speaker 7: It was a great event. We all love doing it. That picture you talk about all the campers came over from their tents to sit in and watch the show.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: It's just they don't have the space anymore. They just don't have it.

00:30:32
Speaker 5: Just where that interview was gone, It's none of that stuff. You couldn't even stand there now.

00:30:37
Speaker 7: So I've heard a lot of people talk about they wish they'd bring back the ticket lottery for students. You know, you go into a moral cost them stand in line.

00:30:45
Speaker 5: That to me, they could bring that back. I think they should. That was always for college kids. I think that was one of the best events of the anyone my age.

00:30:54
Speaker 8: We still reminisce on going to memorial sitting in the crowd hoping you'd get eruption zone. It was a whole inexperience in itself. That was a lot of fun.

00:31:01
Speaker 6: That is one thing I do wish they would bring back Who's Next?

00:31:04
Speaker 5: Liam? Free bird? Free bird? Go ahead, Hey guys.

00:31:10
Speaker 12: Two things Matt. I tried for the last two weeks to get through, but I did not have a phone signal in Leslie County. So I'm in good with some people up there. And the mayor was telling me how you came up a while back and did like a charity thing and spoke and you talk. They talked very nicely about you. You got a lot of fans up there too. And the second thing is, I'm sure you've got people in the crowd will know this there's an episode of Sandford's Son where Lamont gets taken on a poker game and fred In bites all the fellows out rolloh and everybody, and he's kind of set up extray glasses and takes everything from a fur coats, hat, shoes and all kinds of stuff.

00:31:48
Speaker 5: It's hilarious. Yeah, I mean, if you were like, you know, everybody's focusing. I appreciate on the basketball part and that is understandable, but the poker part, I appreciate. The call is to me like I didn't even know you could cheat the way they cheated. Like, I don't play in private poker games in part because I don't want to lose a lot of money and in part because well I do play in some, but they're small ones. But like there's some in this town where there are I mean, there are poker games in Lexington where tens of thousands of dollars are on the table. You ain't gonna see me at that. But part of why I wouldn't is people can cheat. I mean, this this cheating plan was elaborate. They just reported that the night that Chauncey Phillips was there, thirteen million dollars was won by people against the people. They basically cheated them out of thirteen million dollars. And I don't know how much of that gets put on Chauncey, but just so people know, in the federal system, which this is federal, in the federal system, the amount of money you take determines your sentence in part. So that is a lot of money he is looking at a lot of years now. I don't know if he'll get it. Maybe he testifies against other people, but it ain't.

00:33:03
Speaker 8: Good and with him specifically. He is the current head coach of an NBA team. He's been making at least a million dollars a year since nineteen ninety seven.

00:33:13
Speaker 5: I just don't know. It has to be greed, yep, No, How could you possibly.

00:33:16
Speaker 8: Get tied up when you've been making that kind of money for decades and I currently have a job.

00:33:21
Speaker 5: I mean part of its addiction, I mean part of it is you know, listen, I go through in my head like a lot of thoughts about this stuff. You know, it's no secret that like DraftKings in sports, gambling something I enjoy doing something that I do ads for, but like alcohol, like marijuana, I mean, you pick the thing you like sugar. I mean, you can get addicted to it and people have to be careful. It's interesting. I actually think though, what has happened. I don't think there's more of this now Ryan, cause these things are legal. I think it's getting caught more because now there are more ways to catch it. You can you can flag it. I think this stuff was happening for decades.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: People have always cheated.

00:34:12
Speaker 5: I remember Tim Donahey the ref got banned from the NBA, and it wasn't even legal yet back then, like it was happening.

00:34:18
Speaker 6: I think it's easier to catch.

00:34:20
Speaker 5: But I also think, you know, you look at like, why does Chauncey Billups do this?

00:34:25
Speaker 6: I mean for the money.

00:34:26
Speaker 5: But also there's a part of it that's just Charles Barkley said last night, stupid behavior is stupid behavior, and that that people do that no matter how rich.

00:34:35
Speaker 7: They are, because you gotta believe this is not the first time they had the X ray goggles and they're the special glasses. I mean, one eight hundred gambler. I would just send a John Johnson if you're listening, one eight hundred gambler, give it a call, give a shout.

00:34:46
Speaker 4: Sure, there's a lot of other things going on too that they probably haven't even dug into yet.

00:34:50
Speaker 2: You know, I'm.

00:34:52
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a tip of a tip of the iceberg, I think without question. I mean I don't. I don't know how how it couldn't be twenty two eighty seven. Uh, text machine is seven to seven to two seven four five two five four. We will take a break come back. Final segment at Don Franklin. This is KSR waterbag. It is can tell you sports radio here at Don Franklin. If your parts need replacing, keep rolling with confidence. Don rank Franklin's five year parts warranty on qualifying parts keeps you on the road, not on the sidelines. With Don Franklin, It's time for our DraftKings KSR parlay. We've hit two of these, we've gotten three out of four once we're getting uh. We have decided to not allow Ryan to pick. He's terrible at it. So Drew, you and I have done great. I'll let you pick the second. You could pick two this week, I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna pick my first one. I feel good about my first one. Uh, I'm gonna take Old miss is getting five and a half on the road at Oklahoma.

00:35:50
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:35:51
Speaker 5: I think they win the game, but if you're telling me, I'm gonna get five and a half, and I think Old Miss is the better team. So give me Old Miss plus five point five in Oklahoma.

00:36:00
Speaker 6: I really like that one.

00:36:02
Speaker 5: Shannon, You've been about five hundred this year, but we're still keeping you as part of it. What's your second one?

00:36:07
Speaker 4: Texas on the road at Mississippi State minus seven. Give me Texas and the points scared of that one?

00:36:15
Speaker 5: I love it, but uh, I don't love it. But but they played badly against us, so if you think they're good.

00:36:21
Speaker 2: Maybe they're trying to overcorrect.

00:36:22
Speaker 5: Trying to overcorrect, So I mean there's there's some argument to that. So all right, Texas minus seven, Drew, Uh, you could take two or if you I have another one, I have two. I like, all right, go for it.

00:36:31
Speaker 6: On the Texas one.

00:36:32
Speaker 8: Though I'm starting to wonder should archs try throwing with the other arm after last week when he just couldn't hit guys that ro oping. I worry about that one, but we're staying with the SEC. Both my picks for SEC games. Okay, Arkansas's hosted Auburn. Auburn's a mess. Bobby Petrino has that offense on fire. They're like third in the country in yards per play. This is gonna be a high scoring game. The spread is moving quickly. Arkansas opened as an underdog. Now they're a two point favorite, but I'm still too and a half point favorite. I'm still rolling with Arkansas at home in that offense scoring a lot of points.

00:37:04
Speaker 5: I like that one my.

00:37:05
Speaker 8: Second game, Shannon, he's still not believing in his Vandy, but they have game day in Nashville. I watched Pavia do whatever he wanted against LSU last week. They're hosting Missouri, another two and a half point spread, so I just need the home teams to win by a field goal.

00:37:21
Speaker 2: Vandy in Arkansas?

00:37:23
Speaker 5: All right, so you got so we got Vandy, Arkansas, Texas and old Men. So all SEC games this week and no Ryan Lemon pick. That sounds pretty good. I like by the way Texas A and M is at LSU, and A and M is a two and a half point favorite at LSU. I don't know how you give LSU points at home on a night game in Baton Rouge. I know they haven't looked great. But if I were going to bet another one, I would take that LSU game.

00:37:50
Speaker 6: Who's up next?

00:37:52
Speaker 2: Dale?

00:37:53
Speaker 5: Dale? Go ahead? Dale?

00:37:56
Speaker 13: Hey, guys, if I saw one of you out eating by yourself, else, I would buy you a dessert and the Champs Robbery.

00:38:06
Speaker 2: A cup of tat.

00:38:07
Speaker 6: I would love to have a down dessert, but go ahead.

00:38:12
Speaker 13: Uh the Champs Robbery. Uh, there's a movie out called Roofman. I don't know if you guys are familiar with it. The guy would break into McDonald's through the roof and uh, he's still in prison.

00:38:25
Speaker 5: He got like, what would he steal?

00:38:30
Speaker 13: Well, he would wait and you know, the employees get there before they had opened, and he would herd them into the cooler after he had the manager giving the money out of the safe and all the drawers that they had prepped for that day. So you know he was making a little change doing that.

00:38:48
Speaker 5: And lastly at McDonald's though, but go ahead, yeah.

00:38:53
Speaker 13: And then uh, lastly, uh, I hadn't followed the NBA for years, uh, knowing.

00:38:59
Speaker 12: What I know.

00:39:00
Speaker 13: But do you think which which mafia family owns Draft King or is involved with Draft Kings?

00:39:08
Speaker 5: For you, well, Draft Kings appreciate the call it Draft King is a is a publicly traded company. So I doubt, at least officially, any of the of the mafia people are there are laws about that. I don't.

00:39:20
Speaker 6: It was interesting.

00:39:20
Speaker 5: I didn't know Drew until this NBA scandal that there were so many mafia families still out. I didn't like they it was Cashptail got up and he was like members of the Gambino and the Gencini and the britt.

00:39:32
Speaker 6: And he mentioned all these families.

00:39:33
Speaker 5: I was like, well, if you know all these families exist, why are they still mafia families? Like you know what I mean. I kind of thought the mafia has been dying a little bit.

00:39:42
Speaker 8: And they said, these are four of the biggest crime families in America. Like, okay, I didn't know the mafia still had it a little bit.

00:39:48
Speaker 5: It seems like you got a lead.

00:39:50
Speaker 8: If you know that they got Johnny one I or whatever his name was, that I got caught up in.

00:39:54
Speaker 5: This, I was. I was a little surprised at that amount of knowing about him. Did you see Ryan Pope and is Oh tom Izzo had a completely different reaction to Louisville getting the G League point guard, and I just want to say quickly, this is why I love Pope. All Right. Everybody can have their opinion about whether or not you should be able to get guys in the G League, but they you can't. Louisville gets them. Tom Izzo, who I like, goes on a rant about it, how awful it is, Birb.

00:40:23
Speaker 6: Did you see what Mark Pope said?

00:40:25
Speaker 5: Mark Pope goes, this is such an interesting time to coach college basketball. You now have so many different ways to make a roster. It was almost like one of them was going bring back the good old days, and Mark Pope was like, yeah, a lot of chances to make something happen.

00:40:41
Speaker 7: Pope embraces the current culture of what the sports world is all about, the basketball world is all about is old, old school, you know, just not you gotta adjust because if not, it's gonna pass you by pretty quick. We've seen it happen a lot of times.

00:40:53
Speaker 5: I mean, I give is Oo credit for sticking it out so long, but it did sort of strike me as that's the difference between coaches that will getting this generation and the ones that won't. Let's start with basketball today. Shannon uk and Purdue six o'clock pregame show starts at three point thirty ks bar be there.

00:41:09
Speaker 6: Who is who's gonna win? And who's our Kentucky MVP.

00:41:13
Speaker 4: I'll say Kentucky wins ninety three to ninety in a high scoring game, and Aberdeen is the MVP.

00:41:20
Speaker 8: I like Kentucky tonight with the atmosphere, We'll be treating it like it's a Final four game. Braden Smith is tough, but Colin Chandler is tougher. It is a Colin Chandler MVP game. Enjoy your preseason pick. Braden Smith. Collin Chandler is the new guard in college basketball.

00:41:36
Speaker 2: Eighty two eighty Kentucky Aberdeen.

00:41:39
Speaker 5: He already picked Aberdeen. Cam Williams, Wow, all right, seventy six, seventy five Kentucky. I went last and you gave me oh way, so I will take you. Let's go to Kentucky Tennessee. I don't like to do this, but I'm gonna say Tennessee thirty eight, Kentucky ten.

00:41:58
Speaker 2: I'll go thirty one to seventeen.

00:42:01
Speaker 8: It's a game in the fourth quarter, but Kentucky loses again. Coming up short. I'll say twenty eight, twenty.

00:42:06
Speaker 2: Thirty one, thirteen gives a couple field goals one touchdown.

00:42:09
Speaker 5: Listen, I hope I'm wrong. I hope that. I hope after the game, some UK player takes Mario's graphic, retweets it and goes, y'all didn't believe in us. I would love that. I just have a feeling this is gonna be a bad one. This is about as bad a matchup as we could have, yep, in a game. Thank you folks very much. We will see you today at three thirty for pre game. We'll see you tomorrow at three thirty for pregame. This has been KSR