2026-03-06- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: It is our number two Kentucky Sports Radio. Here live at Paul miller Ford. Proud to be a trusted ally of the University of Kentucky seven decades in the state of Kentucky and Lexington. Paul miller Ford. Great remote. This is how your host a remote. Right here, you have free food, you have t shirts, you bring in players, and then you also bring in the most famous bakery in the state of Kentucky. Cissy Cakes is here. Will Stein's mother, Debbie and your sister Blakey. Is that right, Yes, Debbie and Blakie. You all. Debbie, you appeared on this show. I guess it was what two months ago, just randomly, Jay and Lyndon went down there to taste the cakes, handed you the phone and I'm gonna let you go from there. From that moment, what has happened for you and for cissy Cakes?

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Speaker 3: That was quite a day.

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Speaker 2: Okay, go for it.

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Speaker 4: So our business is our Sissy Cakes. We've been in business for four years and we've been on a nice upward trajectory. But that day, after that day, it just went like us the Space Shuttle, I mean, it was unbelievable. So thank you all very very much, and thank you Matt he gets cakes for Cakes for life come through everybody.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, yes, and I appreciate you. You've given us credit in the interviews, which was very very nice. Now you were kind like kind of along for all this. Did you know that when Will got hired that like the business was going to completely change?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm the aunt, she said, people come in. Are you the mother?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm the ant mother.

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Speaker 5: And I mean we were excited as a family, but I didn't dream that our business would so.

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Speaker 2: Your internet like people just started ordering over the internet, Like what are we talking? I heard it just absolutely explode.

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Speaker 5: Treds of orders came in as you guys were talking about us on the radio. There were news cameras in our little kitchen. I mean it's a little kitchen. This is not a big factory. It's a little kitchen. And my son works with us, and it kept order, order order.

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Speaker 3: We were like, hold on a minute, I had to go shut it down.

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Speaker 2: And you had to shut it down because you couldn't take anymore for weeks.

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Speaker 6: For weeks, yes, wow.

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Speaker 2: So you so you there was only so many cakes you could.

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Speaker 4: Produce, right, right, it's me and my sister Blakey and my oldest son Matthew.

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Speaker 2: So it's all the three of us.

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Speaker 4: Well, I know we we yes, we need to we need to go on Shark Tank. Apparently, I don't know. I do we need a business manager or something, an investor. I'm not really, I'm not trying.

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Speaker 2: To get.

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Speaker 3: No, I promise, I'm not. I like, we do.

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Speaker 4: Like the fact that it's it's the two of us.

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Speaker 2: We can do that.

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Speaker 3: That's what we like.

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Speaker 4: So I'm not I'm just saying that a lot of people say that to us and then we're like, okay, well we the two of us.

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Speaker 3: It's the two of us.

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Speaker 2: So your orange juice one is the one that I have just now. Can people order online? Now?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're caught up. You're caught up, but the orange juice one and now you have this blueberry one here today. So now, on a mother standpoint, what's it like to have your your son back home with his with Oh you got those grandkids around, right?

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Speaker 4: I feel like Leanne Morgan. I know a lot of you know Liam, when she says they're my babies, they're my babies. I mean, I just adore those babies.

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Speaker 7: So I'm.

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Speaker 4: Does she yes, she makes me laugh so hard.

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Speaker 2: So so it's it's great having them. And now you know you're you're a listener to this show. You're okay. So this is what worries me, Like you know, in this job, sometimes I have to be critical.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Matt, hold on now, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean I have to be critical sometime of the coaches. You all love me. Now, but if I have to say, why didn't Will do this against Florida? Are you all going to get mad at me? Well?

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Speaker 5: No, there's probably a very good reason why Will didn't or didn't do something.

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Speaker 2: It's right. Oh see, so you're you're gonna understand. But but what if I don't know that reason and then I'm critical? You're wondering, are you gonna get mad at me? Debbie?

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Speaker 3: I will not. It's part of it. So I'm just going to put on my blinders.

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Speaker 2: Now, do you promise me you say that? Because that because they like my mom, would get mad.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that for a second. Well, Mama Bear is gonna come at you with claws out.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna wake up and there's gonna be somebody throwing cakes at me. Outside my house.

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Speaker 4: No, well, I mean, you know, he had. It's just part of the business. It's part of it. So things are not always going to be rosy. We know that, heeps saying, right, he goes mom, right now, I'm I'm undefeated.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, it's a perfect time. This is good, this is this is a perfect time. Well, we've really enjoyed watching your as you too are so sweet and the food is really good. And so give me a prediction though, before you get out of here, of what in Will's first year, How good do we think we're going to be You've got the inside scoop.

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Speaker 4: Well, not really, but I know that they will put a really great product on the field. I know they will work their tail off. I know they will have Will have a great scheme. So yeah, I kind of got to look at the scan.

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Speaker 3: They will be prepared, and I do love.

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Speaker 4: The number one goal is being connected and I think that's going to be a big part of it this year. Is they're going to really fight for each other and fight for their brothers, and.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll take it.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to quote my nephew in an interview and people kept saying, oh, you got to play this team. You gotta play that, Timmy. He's like, well, they got to play us too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. So I love that. I love his confidence. I was listening to that and I was like, you go, baby, all right?

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Speaker 2: Well is it Sissy k dot com? Yes, all right. I It has been great to get to know you during this time. And thank you for coming out here. Everybody, big round of applause to Debby and boy Man.

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Speaker 3: We thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: We really appreciate your your support and the Cole crew and all of you fans, and we love for you to come to our store. We we love to visit and talk and get Oh, by.

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Speaker 2: The way, one more thing before you go. I hear Kentucky Joe comes in a lot and scenes is that true?

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Speaker 6: It is true?

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Speaker 3: That is true twice it is true.

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Speaker 2: Is that fun?

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Speaker 3: For like for But it's great. We dance and we sing and for forty five minutes.

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Speaker 2: Visit if you need us to call security. Thank you all, Mary, thank you, thank you, thank you. Heyf I'm nine two a oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four? Who's up next? Jimmy is up there? Jimmy go ahead, Jimmy.

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Speaker 7: Hope everybody's doing well, so it's like a fun time down There come cool questions for it. I want to first give a shout out to Billy for getting the podcast up first. Nobody talks about this, but as a Central time zone guy, this is my lunchtime entertainment most days, and I just want to say thank you for getting that up so quickly to us in the Central.

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Speaker 2: Time Shannon is the one that does it for everything, So why don't you think me O?

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Speaker 7: Thank you, Shannon? Can I please stand correct it? Thank you, Shannon? Well done.

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Speaker 8: I do have a technical question I want to ask. I'd noticed that we don't have commercials on the postgame podcast, in the pregame podcast or the pregame is not podcast, and I'd like to know why we.

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Speaker 2: Don't post the pregame show on podcasts because we want people Well, first of all, it's we consider it kind of dead when the game is over because the game has already happened. And maybe most importantly, we don't want you to see how bad our predictions were and have them recorded in time. But also it's an incentive to get people to listen. I mean everything else we do you can get podcasts? So kind of part of my I guess compromise with the station is that we wouldn't do that. This was for years ago, that we wouldn't put the pregame up. Maybe we will at some point, but I don't like when we say something and it doesn't happen and people go nan nany booboo.

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Speaker 7: So that seems like a fair answer. One other question or one other point for you. We talked a lot, it seems like last week about the Mark Pope find that he got. I want to put something in context. If he makes about five million. I did the math. If somebody makes one hundred thousand dollars, that'd be like getting the equivalenty of fine of five hundred bucks. It'd be like getting a healthy speeding ticket. So I don't know if it's that painful for Mark to take the pot.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not painful.

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Speaker 7: Go ahead and get his point out.

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Speaker 2: It's not painful. I mean, I appreciate the call. I don't think anybody I don't think you want to have a twenty five thousand dollars fine. But Ryan, ultimately he probably liked getting that off his chest about us being cheated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not an accident. That was a strategic move I think on his art and well, I'm not here to pushing around. I'm Mark Pope, dammit.

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Speaker 6: That's what he said.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said. I'm Mark Pope, dammit.

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Speaker 6: Slapped the whiteboard.

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Speaker 2: That would be a good teacher. Guess just the.

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Speaker 6: SEC saying yeah, we can't find you because he said they can't find me. I think that was just they're making a statement saying yeah.

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Speaker 2: That might have been one guy he fined. Was him saying they can't find me, and then me the SEC going oh, yes we can.

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Speaker 9: And he didn't say they he's the mother efforts. I mean that probably added to a little bit as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, I wanted to ask you all we a little what would you do situation? Okay, all right? The girl Scouts, you know, girl Scouts set up cookies. Uh, they set up cookie stands to sell cookies, usually a lot of times outside of businesses. Right, right, So in this town, I believe it was in New Jersey, the some some capitalist girl Scouts. They started putting their Girl Scout cookie stands in various places, and one without knowing what the store was. These girl Scouts apparently walked up to a store that they saw was getting a lot of traffic and asked if they could set up outside of it, and apparently had their biggest sales day of the year. So they've now gone back a second time, and then there were complaints they set out they set up outside of a weed store, which if you think about it, it's kind of brilliant because the kind of person that goes to a weed store probably knows they're gonna want candy and cookies later on in the not So, there's been some complaints with the National Girl Scouts Association. These people, the girls parents are like, it's fine, everybody's nice to them, and they're making they're selling a lot of cookies. And the National Girl Scouts Association is going to decide Monday whether or not they are allowed to set up outside of weed stores and other controversial establishments. Thought, if you were in charge of the Girl.

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Speaker 6: Scout they should absolutely be allowed to do that. That's no different to me than setting up outside of a liquor store. I mean, it's all legal.

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Speaker 2: Would you'd be okay with him setting up upside of the lair ian?

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Speaker 6: It's about a gun store as long as they're not drinking laws, are not shooting people, then yes, so.

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Speaker 2: You're find with the guns absolutely. What about a hustler, A hustler like a like one of those stores like the Godfather or but like one of those places where you can buy that kind of thing.

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Speaker 6: I mean, as long as they're not going inside.

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Speaker 2: So Shannon's good with you caught that up.

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Speaker 6: Anywhere he comes out of my house if you want to, I'll buy all the cookies, all right, what about you?

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 9: I think it's very smart on their part. Actually, these these people a gone places. I would like to invest in them as people because they clearly have good ideas that work. And this is much better than my Girl Scout experience. When Lexi was shut down, we had a Girl Scout delivery to our house. I didn't really want them getting out in the snow as it was, but they did it anyway, and I had to push them out of my neighborhood just to get my cookies. So outside of a weed store is much better than you know, asking them to come to my house in the middle of a snow store.

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Speaker 2: What about you are the.

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Speaker 1: Girl Scouts selling weed cookies in front of the weed store medicine. Are they selling alcohol related cookies in front of the alcohol store?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, and I don't think they're selling guns where I get where you're going.

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Speaker 1: They sell their own cookies, and if the store is okay with them being out front.

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Speaker 2: Then by golly, they should be able to be a sell them out front. Wow. I expected that to be a much more controversial at all. Well on there think, but I mean, I'm fine with it, but I expected some pushback from people. But I guess, I guess.

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Speaker 9: We know who's going to the weed stores.

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Speaker 2: You know that has been you a major change in the last few years. The amount of my friends and people. I know that if you had asked me fifteen years ago, if they would be asking me about weed gummies versus what it is now. It is amazing how that has changed in a very short period of time.

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Speaker 9: In the new generation, they don't even care about alcohol. It's the California sober I don't know if you.

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Speaker 2: All watched has anybody watched the JFK Carolyn Bassett Show JFK Junior. First of all, I'm embarrassed, man, but I kind of love it. It's complete trash, but I kind of like it is a little trash. But you know, the thing that strikes me the most when I watch it the smoke. How much people because it's set in the nineties, how much people are smoking. And you see in a short period of time how much things have changed because everyone in that show smokes, but you watch other shows, you never see anybody smoke. And in that show, everybody's smoking. That is just such a and that's kind of how the nineties were. But it's amazing how much that's changed now.

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Speaker 6: All those people are popping gummies, yeah, because that's not no common.

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Speaker 2: Because that woman that plays Karen Bassett is beautiful. But then I see her smoking and I'm like, ugh, why would Jay? But then that's how they all work. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we will take a Barry can be right back here, Paul miller Ford, this is Kentucky Sports Radio quarterback. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. If you know the phone, we have a special guest on the phone. But before I do it, you know two things have been at war against Waimo's right. Yes, did you see what happened in Austin, Texas with the WEEIMO. Anybody see the story blocked an ambulance and they couldn't get it out of the way. The ambulance was stuck because it didn't know how to get out, and they couldn't get it out, and the ambulance was delayed. I don't know what happened to the person in it, but blocked in and in Austin, and now even Austin regulators are like, well, what do we do about it?

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Speaker 6: Imagine that you're on your potential deathbed and a waimo is the reason.

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Speaker 2: That's how I'm gonna go. You may die one of these days and my ambulance will be blocked by weymo just because I don't trust those sakes. Second, you know, I'm at war with Ai, not a fan. Ye. There's a study that came out this morning that's getting a lot of attention that says if you use chat GPT for your writing and for your work things, they studied, you lose fifty five percent brain Your brain works fifty five percent less, which over time they think can do things like cause dementia, et cetera. So, and just within a couple hours doesn't take a long time. Within a couple hours, your brain like goes into this mindless mode where you're not using it. So just something to watch. I don't like either of those things. That I got some good evidence today.

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Speaker 1: Which is very scary because all of our college kids today, they write their papers, do their research stuff, they all use AI.

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Speaker 2: Every single one of them. We professors even know it. Within twenty years, they'll be a study and look, I'm as I use this more than anybody, but there'll be a study that shows that these phones screw up our brain. Like there's I am a it will You were one of these days when I'm in an old folks home. You remember I said that people will look at this like we look at cigarettes with the we can't believe we gave these to kids at such a young age. You wait and see, yup, it's to happen.

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Speaker 9: I agree, But you will be saying that to the humanoid taking care of that, stopping it. It's already here.

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Speaker 2: I understand, but I'm just saying I think that's not wrong.

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Speaker 9: Just send the way Mo ambulance for me, but the WAMO is gonna block it. Then I want the automatic ambulance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who's up? Who's up next? Fake lou Holtz is up next? Oh, fake Lou Holtz. After the passing of Lou Holtz, I did I thought you had died and here you are. Appreciate you calling.

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Speaker 10: Dodge Udge.

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Speaker 7: Uh, this is lous.

00:17:36
Speaker 10: Rumors of my demise have been great, but let's suck them after life.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk some after life.

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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I've got a pretty sweet gig up here.

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Speaker 10: That good.

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Speaker 7: I'm staying busy. I'm playing golf. All the gatorade is green and gold. And there is one bad.

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Speaker 10: Things to heaven Mad Judd thing about him?

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Speaker 2: What's a bad thing about heaven? Lou Holtz?

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Speaker 10: I can hear Ryan snoring from over here. Ryan got that he's got that Old Testament at me.

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Speaker 2: You know why old? I haven't heard of Old Testament atnea. But if if anybody has it, it's him.

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Speaker 10: It's because he speaks and tongues when.

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Speaker 7: He sep.

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Speaker 2: Mario was telling me some details yesterday. Not only do you talk in your sleep, you apparently say bizarre things. Yeah, I don't know what I think are saying. That's true when you're awake and when you're asleep he's just even more true. Well, Lou, I, you know you were such a regular caller on this show for years, So when I heard that you had passed, I'm really glad you try decided to give us one last hello.

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Speaker 10: Well you five O two five, the one ted Andy, I've been right.

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Speaker 2: Home for ten years. On the other look at you remembering the old, the old, the old phone number. Well, Lou, thank you very much and rest in peace, my friend.

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Speaker 10: I'm gonna leave you with a serious note. If you want to be happy for now, eat a steak. If you want to be happy for a day, play some gold.

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Speaker 7: If you want to be happy, fair away, go all cruise. But if you want to be happy for a lifetime, you put your face in Quaker oaks.

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Speaker 10: Hashtag fiber. This has been Lou hop reporting live signing up.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate ain't to call Lou Holtz go one of our oldest fake callers.

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Speaker 6: Sound like this sounds like to have great service in heaven.

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Speaker 2: You know he he passed away and people were telling stories. Scott Van Pelt told the story Drew, I like, did you see that that one? So what's the the whole on in Augusta? Is it twelve that they you shoot it over water? Is that the hole over water in Augusta? Yeah? Yes, they said. Lou Holtz was a member of Augusta and he never wanted to hit it in the water, so he would lay up on the on twelve and then pitch it up and down so that he would get a par against people like that.

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Speaker 9: You like it if you know you're not gonna get it there, Why take shots and lose strokes?

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Speaker 2: You would just lay up a little pitching wedge get I think somebody in the Masters should do that right now. That would be something. You know, we used to have some great fake calls.

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Speaker 1: I just try to think of my head, Fake Barney, fake David Beckham, fake Larry Orton, fake Lou Holtz.

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Speaker 2: What happened to all those guys. It's hard to get it, hard to get out, It's hard to get on now. I think that's probably a big part of it. Kentucky went and recruited dink Pate. Mark Pope went and saw g leaguer dink Pate play and he was asked about it yesterday and he said, and I love this. This is a great Mark Pope quote. He said, I'm to the point. Now, if the NCAA says a guy can play, I'm gonna go try to get it. Remember he had expressed skepticism about doing this before. Looks like, Uh. I don't know if it means Drew that they're desperate or if he's just more open to it, but deep Pate kills it in the G League, and I think if he comes here, he could be our best player next year.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, the tones completely changed with Mark on that. I assume it's desperation since they don't have a player committed yet and you don't know your portal options.

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Speaker 2: But I meant I like it.

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Speaker 9: I mean he as you just said, he'll go anywhere if there's a guy that can come help him out where I believe. At first, I think he's a little hesitant, as many people are around college basketball. But at the end day, you gotta get players.

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Speaker 6: Probably some desperation. I also wonder if Mitch, being on his way out the door, Mitch, maybe he had some influence over overdoing that as well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I will tell you this, and I'm not I'm not gonna go with this big crowd and everybody in a good mood. I'm not gonna go into it. I the conversation we had in the second hour yesterday about things not smelling right and all that, I feel even more about it now. I've gotten a lot more messages since the in from people. I don't know if they think this is like Watergate or something, but sending me messages, and I, I don't know. There's a lot we're gonna look into when it's over. But I think there's a lot more to this than I thought. And I I'll even go so far as to say, after having read a lot of this stuff, I don't know. I'm just gonna I feel like it's just us. You couldn't say it. I don't know. I feel like a lot of stuff has been put maybe on Mitch that maybe should have gone other places. And you know, that's a conversation for the off season.

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Speaker 6: Something doesn't add up that salary.

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Speaker 2: Something doesn't add up that is definitely gonna add up. If I'm nine eight twenty two eighty seven, who's next? Mad? Is up next? Mad? I got thirty seconds?

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Speaker 11: Go ahead, Hey guys, I'm out in my garden burfoot and getting ready to do a little daily meditation and beautiful time in Kentucky and I I just wanted to say you a couple of things real quick, Drew, I wasn't able to call in on your birth.

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Speaker 12: Do you know the meaning of your name?

00:23:09
Speaker 9: Trustworthy?

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Speaker 7: It's actually it's Greek origin.

00:23:18
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Speaker 2: Happy birthday. Also for people, the OVW show where you were supposed to shan and fight Cash Daniels got postponed due to some permit issues. It will be rescheduled, So you got out of having to fight Cash daniel tonight.

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Speaker 6: You say permit issues. I'm gonna tell you what really happened. Cash heard that I was going to be there. He called in a favor because he was so afraid of having to step into the ring with me. When he realized that was going to be a reality, He's like, can we just cancel this thing or at least postpone it?

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Speaker 2: So Cash was scared. That is exactly what interesting. I would not have thought that that was if he walked in right now.

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Speaker 6: Would you say that, Oh absolutely, I'd say it right to his face.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, the state of Mississippi just had going to effect a law that makes it to where Nile income is not taxed. The three point five percent state tax pay that everyone has to pay in Mississippi. Now players who are getting nil money will not have to pay it. Their argument as to why is there a couple of states in the SEC, I think specifically Florida where if you go where there is no state income tax, and the Mississippi legislator said, in order for us to compete with players, we're going to have to no tax. I'm gonna get my quick thought. I think that's bs. Even though I love college sports, if your state decides that teachers or you know, service workers or whoever has to be taxed, I don't know how you can justify athletes not being taxed. If everybody else that works has to be taxed, how are they not going to be taxed? If you want to just get rid of an income tax, I'm against that too, but at least it's consistent. But like taking the athletes separately, you know, come on, now, that seems ridiculous. What about you? What do you think?

00:26:23
Speaker 1: I think all of us hard working Americans is gonna agree with you. But if Florida did it, Mississippi did it, Alabama will do it in three two.

00:26:30
Speaker 2: Well shoot, well that gets the question of do you think Kentucky should do it? I mean, we're competing against these same states. Do you do you if Kentucky legislature put forth a bill that said no tax for athletes because of nil trying to compete, what would you say?

00:26:47
Speaker 6: I don't think anybody should do it, But now that it's already happening, you know that every state is most likely going to join in because that's a huge recruiting advantage. If I'm a recruiter, I can go and not get taxed on my NIL. Why wouldn't you go there?

00:26:59
Speaker 2: I would?

00:27:00
Speaker 6: Would you?

00:27:01
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean it's it depends. I'm saying, is it's it's something. But I don't know. Yeah, I'm against it. Just as much as I love sports, I do not how know how a legislature can say a school teacher or a nurse or you know whatever, a person that works for a living should not be should be taxed, But this person that plays basketball, who's gonna leave the state as soon as it as it's as they go, should not be. I just even though I want to win, Drew, that's that's a step too far for me, way too far.

00:27:35
Speaker 9: And if they have this bill, they should walk into an emergency room and sign in front of versus on their one hundredth in a row shift or whatever they're doing, or as you said, teachers name a profession. I think it's crazy you would give athletes a benefit. I mean, they're already making a lot of money and they're in the beginning of their career. They you have plenty of life ahead of them, where you have people on their last dollar chipping in on taxes.

00:27:56
Speaker 2: I completely got The other case, though, is what Shaman said, which it could hurt you in recruiting. So let me just do a poll. This is a this is a Kentucky fan poll, so it probably would lean more for this bill than the average person. How many of you would be for a bill that does not tax athletes in IL? Raise your head, one guy, one person? How many people would be against it? That's right. But one thing is you're probably the one that's in the legislature.

00:28:25
Speaker 9: You just kind of look, I'll tell you what taxes and athletes a lot of them need to learn how taxes work. There's a lot of stories going around since an IL of April comes around and they're like, what do you mean I owe that? And they're like, I don't have that, and remembering a lot of.

00:28:40
Speaker 2: Places, so this is something I think you are exactly right. So remember, these athletes are not W two employees, like, they don't get tax withheld. So if they're getting one hundred thousand dollars, they get a check for one hundred thousand dollars. And unless you have somebody to tell you, hey, man, keep thirty seven thousand of that for something else. Ryan, you might come at the end of it and uo.

00:29:09
Speaker 1: You know, we're all agreeing in what you were saying right now. But let us lose a recruit to Florida, another recruit Mississippi State because they went to those schools for that reason. Then we take a vote. I think our vote would change. What would your vote be.

00:29:21
Speaker 2: I'd say it's coming. I think every state's going. What would your vote be. My vote would be against it. I just think it's coming.

00:29:27
Speaker 1: College athletics is a driving force or a lot of these states, especially these schools.

00:29:30
Speaker 2: It's happening.

00:29:31
Speaker 1: So you just say the no tax train, The no tax train is coming, baby, The.

00:29:36
Speaker 2: No tax train is coming. All right, we've got like a minute left WSFC. You can switch over for the last fifteen minutes, which will include our pick. Actually, let's sit before everybody goes real quickly. Do you think we win tomorrow?

00:29:50
Speaker 1: I think they believe it or not. I think they're gonna win it. It's coming down to a buzzer beater.

00:29:54
Speaker 2: You think we're gonna win tomorrow?

00:29:55
Speaker 9: Money line bet for me? I wrote my prediction last night for the website Cats eighty six eighty five.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:30:01
Speaker 6: I hate to say it with the guys that are just here, but no, they lose tomorrow. Florida wins unfortunately.

00:30:06
Speaker 2: Did you hear that?

00:30:07
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, Honeylon, Miss Brino's pooing you.

00:30:09
Speaker 6: I hate to say it.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, where is she? She's up against the wall of it. Oo shit.

00:30:13
Speaker 6: Sorry, mom, Look, I'll be pulling for you.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: Don't have to boom me. They can boom bat. We win ninety eighty nine on a Malachi Moreno, yeah, another one. He's already done it once. He's getting another one. Tip in at the buzzer. We'll take a break and come back for the last fifteen minutes. The women start at noon. This is Kentucky, Sports Radio. Be right back, Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Paul Paul miller Ford. It has been a great show here. They do service, they have cars right here on New Circle Road, and I have to say, probably one of the top five put together remotes we've ever had. So thank you all very much with all that you guys did, and everybody here Miss Kentucky, Malachi Jasper, Sissy Cakes, Barbecue. It's uh, it's it's been. It's been wonderful.

00:31:08
Speaker 12: Man.

00:31:09
Speaker 2: Oil changes.

00:31:09
Speaker 1: They changed our oil during the show. They just brought our keys.

00:31:12
Speaker 2: Do you want to do that? You know what I said, don't need it a big oil guy.

00:31:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta go another twenty I.

00:31:17
Speaker 2: Wasn't It wasn't my time. It wasn't my time yet.

00:31:19
Speaker 6: I got over twenty five thousand dollars before you.

00:31:22
Speaker 9: It wasn't my time either. But if we're gonna do it for free, you have had it. I like my oil has been doing good things for me. You got another seventy thousand before you one.

00:31:31
Speaker 2: Uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. By the way, Alabama has also already done it. I'm not surprised guess what George is coming up next? The line is out for Florida Kentucky seven and a half.

00:31:43
Speaker 9: So we were close, sitting quite right, we were close. I need them to unlock that money line though. I don't want the points. I want to win a couple of.

00:31:49
Speaker 2: Quick things here. Before we finished with some phone calls. Let me tell you how frustrated it. So the Reds had their only minor league game this year that was on ESPN was yesterday, and it was against the Dodgers, and so I was like, you know what, I don't have anything to do this afternoon. We had just driven back from Middlesborough. I'm gonna watch the Reds and Dodgers. A great game. We won, fourteen to thirteen. Elie Day La Cruz hit a home run. It was awesome. But do you remember the player that I got so frustrated at that I hated last year? Anybody remember Santoa Santiago Espinal. Did not like Espinal. He played all the time. He stunk. Last year. Espinal hit one home run all season, all right, one home run. At times we butt bad at him, like fifth and he hit one home run all season yesterday. He now plays for the Dodgers. Oh, he hit two yesterday. He hit two. He hit twice as many home runs yesterday as he did all last season. He played like one hundred games last season. When he hit the second one, I turned the TV off. It's spring training. Who even cares I turned the TV off? I was so mad I the first week of March that you already have. We're three weeks from a game counting Ryan, and I'm already upset.

00:33:03
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's running the bases too, like that's for you, Matt Jones, MJ in your face, eat it.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: It felt like it. It felt like he did that on purpose.

00:33:11
Speaker 9: Otani bet him to have over one home run. So Tonni was thrilled too.

00:33:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, Tonni's the World Baseball Classic he hit. That's going on right now too. So also today, Donald Trump is having the College Sports Future round Table at the White House. The list of people attending are all the power commissioners, Ted Cruz, various people in sports. Clay Travis got the invite, which can tell you that it's very serious. But no athletes were were invited, so and the athletes that were invited are not coming, so like Tim Tebow, Tiger Bryce and d Chambeau. They all are not coming, so I don't expect anything to happen out of it, but it will be interesting when they come out of it to see what is said, because, like we've talked about, they have got to pass some legislation here soon. It'll be at least interesting to see what comes out of it. Even though I don't expect any sort of resolution.

00:34:10
Speaker 1: I'm surprised they don't have any athletes at all. You think they'd want some representations. It's in some capacity, at least one from each of the Power of Four conferences or something involved in that.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: I'm not at least Klay Travis is there. Though you're a Tennessee fan, you probably well, you probably liked that he's there. But if Klay Travis is there, it's gonna be.

00:34:27
Speaker 9: Good Tennessee fan wearing blue by the way, Proud of my dad for.

00:34:32
Speaker 2: He's not showing on.

00:34:33
Speaker 9: Oh he's got orange underwear, and thanks for showing us.

00:34:35
Speaker 1: To everyone wanted to see security security.

00:34:38
Speaker 2: You know what though? That is? That is that tells you how much you love your son that you're not wearing or yeah to the show, Who's up next? Adam is up next? Adam, go ahead, Adam.

00:34:50
Speaker 12: Alright, what's going on?

00:34:51
Speaker 10: Ago?

00:34:52
Speaker 2: What's up?

00:34:54
Speaker 12: I'm almost certain that AI is going to be the death of humanity. Correct point, do me a favor one of you all except Ryan because he doesn't have an iPhone at serie who was the first college basketball coach to win four national championships? And I'll hang up and listen.

00:35:14
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't come here to take homework.

00:35:18
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's not very good at just googling things like like I had one time it asks like UK's best championship winners and had like John Wall in the seventy eight team. He's like, yeah, you got a little ways to go before you figure out that.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: Well. I liked when it said what did the latest polls say in the Kentucky GOP Senate primary? And it had me listed as being in third And I'm not only not in the primary, I'm not a Republican, but nevertheless it had me third. So that's when I was a little Shannon skeptical of what the results.

00:35:45
Speaker 6: Really got burned by AI during a pre show contest we were doing. It was Adam Sandler booby quotes, and it had I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. As an Adam Sandler quote, well, that's forced going exactly.

00:35:57
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's my point. That's why you lots are too busy working on their weapons. They don't care about our googling. They go Google if we're gonna murder you in like ten years just to your googling.

00:36:06
Speaker 2: Uh. The SEC tournament starts Wednesday. We need to win to not be playing on Wednesday. What do you consider success? I saw Rob Dosterer say if Kentucky can get to the SEC Tournament and when and get to Friday, they probably still will be like a six or a sixth seed, which would still I think be really good for Kentucky. Man.

00:36:30
Speaker 1: Drew and I have been out in the same horn for four years. Get us at least to the weekend of the SEC tournament. Get us the Saturday. Man, we are No, I don't see a chance in France.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: Now, by the way, if we lose, if we lose to Florida, that almost guarantees Drew that we're very likely to play Florida again. Uh in the SEC tournament if we if we win, we might have to play them in the quarterfinals. Yeah.

00:36:53
Speaker 9: And if you're playing on Wednesday at that point, you just have to win so many games a row by the time you get to Friday and Saturday. I mean, I worry if it's not I mean it will be Florida, But I mean you could lose to anyone at that point, just because that's such a big ask.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: So hopefully they.

00:37:06
Speaker 9: Get to win tomorrow, can skip a Wednesday game and then see if you can get into the weekend at SEC. Because I'm with Ryan, I can't call not being a part of the weekend a success.

00:37:15
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about how they win tomorrow. Last game at Florida, Ryan, we got beat, not even really because of they're bigs. The guards got hot, hit all those threes early, got a big separation that we just never really were able to come back from. If you look at these games where we take losses, we get down big in the first half, how do we keep that from happening.

00:37:37
Speaker 1: You're right, they're big. Their front court didn't really hurt us as much.

00:37:41
Speaker 2: They played well in the second half, but we were already behind. Viot and malcow I got in foul trouble. He was playing great early on. It was the backcourt guys that hurt us. Yeah.

00:37:48
Speaker 1: Yah, Xavion Xavier Lee. He had like his breakout game against US and that one.

00:37:52
Speaker 2: Dude, and he's been good since then. He has been good. That was his breakout game and he's kind of taken off since then.

00:37:58
Speaker 1: You know, Boogie flann is gonna do his thing. I'm that good of a shooter. It's those two guys, Lee and Khrushchev or whatever his name is. The other guy that the former leader of Russia, Mickel Grubashoff.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: And also not not not the.

00:38:12
Speaker 6: Safety counting a horn earlier. I'm trying to figure that one out.

00:38:16
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:38:16
Speaker 6: I think Kentucky wins though, by limiting second chance points for Florida because Florida's been out rebounding just about every team they've played. And if Colin Chandler can get hot early like it did against Vanderbilt, then I think.

00:38:27
Speaker 2: We have to shoot the ball well from three. I mean, there's gonna be nothing we can do that stops him from scoring eighty. So they're gonna score eighty. They might score ninety, but they're definitely gonna score eighty. So we have to score eighty. And we've talked about this drew. For us to get to eighty, that means those guards have to have over sixty combined like the Aberdeen, Oway and Chandler. They're gonna have to get to sixty because if they get to sixty, then maybe some other guys can get us to eighty five ninety. But those dudes, probably all three of them, Drew are gonna need to have really good games for us to have a chance.

00:39:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, and if I'm not mistaken, they're around the mid eighties in Gainesville on the exact score ninety two something. But I mentioned this beginning of the show. If not for this start to that game, I think from like late the first half through the end it was even. I know the second half was even. So you gotta avoid that start. I know they were going under screens and letting Lee shoot. I mean he just had open target practice. You got to change that game plan having already let him get hot and your boy, Amy klobachar two. You can't let those guys beat you. If the if the three four front court players that they have are awesome beat you, you shake hands, go home. But you can't let the other dudes beat you again.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: I think what you have to say is all right, they have Xavian Lee and Boogie Flame Lee's played well, but most of the year they've been the weakness. In my opinion. Oway and Aberdeen have to outplay them. They have to outplay them. You do that, get Chandler and hit a few threes, and then our have our bigs play to uh, you know, a standstill. Maybe you can get a victory in this crowd. How many of you are going to the game? Nice? The crowd is gonna be huge to me, right, If the crowd is into it and you get that rock and environment like we had when we played them last year, I think that can have a huge Ya.

00:40:07
Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened last year. That was the best crowd of the season last year, and they both team scored over one hundred points. You know, we scored eighty four against A and M. We gave up in the nineties. They just got to play better defense than that they did against A and M.

00:40:19
Speaker 9: Kentucky's this is not a fatigue excuse, but Kentucky's bad home games have been Tuesday nights the Saturdays. They've been getting great crowds. You had that Vandy game last week Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, and I think four o'clock. That's that sweet spot where you'll have a good, energetic crowd too, So I expect them a repparena to help carry him.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: Women's team, they play South Carolina starting in five minutes. Played them really close in memorial maybe could have won. What do you think?

00:40:43
Speaker 6: They just give me a close game? But South Carolina is one of the best teams in the country. I think South Carolina probably ends up winning.

00:40:49
Speaker 9: Probably South Carolina, but I'm gonna get in a Kentucky money line parlay with South beating South Carolina and Florida before this tips off. Oh, you had a shot to tie it at home. You know you can hang with them. Just get over the hope today and finish the job.

00:41:02
Speaker 1: I would like to pick UK women, but like Shanna said, South Carolina is just super good and they're on. I'm think they're about to make another big run.

00:41:09
Speaker 2: Why are these guys so pessimistic? How about a one to two weekend where we win them both? What do we think? Yeah, what I just said a perfect world. That's right, Drew, and be a positive one. I think listen, you watched that game where we got crushed by them early on, was down low again, fell down behind early and then came came back. Kentucky's played well. Now there may be a fatigue issue, Drew, because they've already played two games.

00:41:35
Speaker 9: They had to watch Claria Strak yesterday while they're sitting in the hotel. They still haven't slept nightmares all night. They're terrified what Claire Strak's gonna do now that Kenny Brooks is unlocked. That also, we're a fifteen and a half point underdog eight to one to win.

00:41:47
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