2024-12-10- KSR - Hour 1

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

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Speaker 3: Back from Seattle. We are Kentucky Sports Radio here on Tuesday. What is it December tenth, Back in Lexington, Kentucky on a very rainy day. You give Shann the Clarks Puppet Shop full line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven Avis and Auto Glass text Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five to four in this edition sponsored by the TJ. Smith Lo Office. If you call TJ, He'll make them pay. We've got me Ryan and Drew. Shannon's back in Louisville. We are joined for one good post trip show with Max Duffy. Guys. We got on plane yesterday morning. It was it was early in the morning. We woke up and it was dark in Cincinnati. But we are back ready to rock.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what day it is when my alarm went off and I'm like, why is my alarm going off?

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Speaker 3: What is I really I had no idea what day. It was. Not used to your alarms going off.

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Speaker 4: No, no, you know, we got to sleep in a little bit. It it kind of felt like we were sleeping in.

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Speaker 3: We got up earlier every day on this trip because we were on the different coast. I don't think we slept in one day, Drew, I'm not sure what he's talking about. Yeah, I was, I remember sleeping anything.

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Speaker 4: But we wake up at eight o'clock. That's eleven o'clock here. Felt like we were sleeping in.

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Speaker 3: But we did the shows every day, so that means we got up in time to do the same show you're doing now, Yeah, but earlier. Yeah, but out there like we got to sleep in. I feel like I was. I don't understand that logic. But when the show started at eight and at times at seven it fell earlier. But you know what, Drew Lady Cook, He's fine.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad he got well rested from the trip. I need a little bit longer. My back feels like I've been power bombed through a table. But between the ears, I'm excited to be back and looking forward to the week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. That's a long flight from Seattle, but it was good. Uh there was a cat on the plane, Max. I hate that. I don't understand how people just get to bring their cats and they just gets to mew the entire flight. I don't know when we decided that was okay, but I guess we do.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Last time I sort of complained about that, people got mad, so I won't. I will, however, complain about Mario, who takes more space on an airplane than anyone for a guy that little. He just he he had the middle seat yesterday. He decides elbow he's Charles Oakley boxing out for a rebound, sitting on the seat. Elbow's out. But you know what, I still I still like him, and it was fine.

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Speaker 5: I was in the middle seat, in the back row with the seat that doesn't recline between two people, and I don't know if if there is a hill, I think that's it actual hill.

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Speaker 3: I had that to Mario. I took up a lot of space.

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Speaker 7: I slept during the whole thing, and I must have been hilarious to watch because I was doing one of those moments where like you sleep until you chin hitched at the front of your chest, and then you bought back up, and then for the next ten minutes you're asleep and then you hit forward.

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Speaker 3: I must have woken up six hundred times. Well, well, we're all here, and that's good after an excellent trip. Thank all of you. By the way, we're here at Kaspar. You could come see. It's got some folks already here today tomorrow. By the way, not only is it wings day, it's a Kentucky game, so I love to have you then as well. We are here. It was an awesome trip, culminating in the big win by Kentucky against Gonzaga. You know, Ryan, I I was thinking about the game on the flight because I forgot my headphones and you have a lot of time to yourself and that that's the worst. And it was such an awesome game. I mean, the whole We love the trip, but let's just focus for a second on the game. I mean that down sixteen tie for the biggest comeback from a halftime deficit, big plays down the stretch. I went back and watched the television broadcast and so many big plays by Robinson and Carr those were the big ones, but other guys contributing. It was just an awesome victory. It was an awesome game.

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Speaker 4: It was, you know, two powerhouse teams, big shot after big shot. I mean Kentucky would make a big shot, Kazach and go on the other end, they would make a big shot. I mean it was fun to watch. I don't know how Kentucky won that game. I mean I thought they were done early in the game. You don't have your point guard, Lamont Butler, your backup point guard gets hurt. In the second half, you got Jackson Robinson out there running the point. But yet they did. They made the big play they had to do to come back and win that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's easy to forget. Max. I mean, we didn't have Lamon Butler and you. I bring that to you because I want to read you. A text from the text machine. One person writes, Matt, I think it's amazing that an Australian who I didn't think would know the first thing about basketball was breaking down the games. I'm excited to hear what he thinks about the basketball game with more technical knowledge. Why does the RC know these things?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, look, it might be hard to believe, but we've got in Australia electricity, we've got running water, our TV's work, full internet, housing, clothing, just all the all the regular things, just like you guys. I mean, I think in basketball we do have we do have gyms, hoops, the basketballs can be inflated. We've got air back home, so no, we we play a little bit of basketball back home.

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Speaker 3: I mean austraining team is pretty good.

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Speaker 7: It's probably fifteen guys in the NBA, so it was it was good fun being on the basketball.

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Speaker 3: Back to Butler for a second. You know, I don't I would be surprised if he plays tomorrow night too. I do expect to see him for the Louisville game. But to go out there and win without him, I think it's really an amazing testament. I thought at halftime. I remember thinking, well, I tell you, if they don't have him, they're not gonna be too many good teams. But then it just took them a half to prove me wrong.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, anytime you beat a top ten team like that, it's it's a good win. But it was really satisfying in how they did it, coming back from down sixteen at the half, making adjustments, doing out your point guard, and then doing it without your backup point guard. They didn't shoot well from three. Everything was against them, really, and they still managed to win that game. And it just makes you wonder, how good can they be when they're back to healthy, when the threes are going in and they can start a game hot and not go down an.

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Speaker 3: His four games in a row though, where we haven't made threes. I mean we're now at twenty six percent in the last four games for three meanes that worry you at all? I mean it is, I mean, but they still been good those game. But does that worry I guess.

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Speaker 4: You gotta worry just a little because we know Kobe Bray is a better shooter than hitting the side of the backboard and throwing up an airball, and.

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Speaker 3: It's like that, it's all the worst shots.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's when I thought, oh, it's just not Kentucky's night. So I do think they're a much better shooting team than that. But you know, Max hit on this. I think we saw on this trip the emergence of Jackson Robinson. Second half the Clemson game, something click with that guy played great second half, and then he kind of took over there in the second half against Gonzaga.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was great. Just if you go over the guys a little bit, Jackson Robinson and Andrew Carr I think have separated themselves as the two best players on the team. I mean, Oway is still very good, but I think, you know, we've now seen a couple I feel like Oway was not quite ready for that moment against Kazaka. I didn't feel like he wanted to shoot. He missed an open one, but I also just he just didn't feel like he wanted to shoot as much. Whereas Robinson and Car look like they feel completely comfortable, Amari feels comfortable. I still think sometimes maybe he should be a little less comfortable. But he hit a big hook shot that was a big shot in the game that he hit. I think that was in overtime that gave us a six point lead. You know, Brea I think also still looks a little shaky at the end of the game. So I think this team has found its two guys down the stretch. Max. I think it's gonna be Robinson and car that get the big shots, and then Butler when he's not hurt.

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Speaker 7: I was gonna say and that you could probably add Butler to that group when he comes back, because I think he's pretty important.

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Speaker 3: And in the Clemson game.

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Speaker 7: In the Clemson game, he looked like he might have been the only one that could actually take someone off.

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Speaker 3: The dribble, so he did. He looked pretty good to me. Outside of the players.

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Speaker 7: It was just the fact that we might have multiple ways to win a basketball game, which is really important. I mean, if you're not having a good shooting night, you can't just go, well, we can't make threes, or you know, if you can't beat guys off the drib we just say, well, we can't beat guys off dribble. He found a way to come up with something in the second half with the zone, switching up the defenses that stifled them. And it's good to know that you've got a coach on the team that can win multiple ways.

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Speaker 3: And it culminated a great trip. I mean, like we've had we had such a good time seeing everybody. We had such a good time in all of our stops. So every time we do these kind of trips, Drew, I try to like say, okay, what you know, what are the moments that I'll remember the most? Right? Sure? So I was thinking about this this morning, and I'll give you a couple from me. Number one was how many people who showed up in Fort Collins, Colorado to watch that game. I mean, we say we're gonna have a watch party. I thought we'd get eight or ten people. Probably forty to fifty people yew up. The restaurant was not ready, to be fair. We tried to call them in advance and say, hey, there may be some people go there, and they just blew us off. They were like, you could come, but nobody's it'll be fine. And then all of a sudden, fifty people just show up in Fort Collins at this restaurant. They didn't even offer to bar by Mario's meal. Who was the one who's the one that picked the restaurant. But nevertheless, having that kind of crowd to watch, even though we lost the game was pretty amazing. It was awesome.

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Speaker 4: They just kept coming and kept coming and kept coming, and they start sharing their stories. You know, I went to Lafayett High School. You know, I'm from Pikeville, and they need to get to kind of reconnect with some fans out there.

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Speaker 3: I think the second thing on the trip was the emergence max of Mario. It's it's just an amazing character. First of all, never found a human being in my life who literally could have you know how they'll say there are like drugs and things that like you can't have them touch your body because you might die. If alcohol gets in Mario's vicinity, he's hammered, and whether or whether he drinks it or not. If you throw in Vail, Colorado, where we hand him a menu at a Mexican restaurant and he asked why the menus are in Spanish when they're actually in English, and then he has says why are there no tacos? And it was because he had it upside down and asked what the soacats were? Those were Those are true stories, are both true stories. But then my favorite moment and the what I want to share is actually Saturday night, all right, I want you all to think about we have the game awesome victory right, we do the postgame show if you haven't listened to it yet. By the way, one of our most listened to postgame shows ever wasn't really podcast, not not live because it was so late, but on podcasts we got up to the number six episode in America. I can't remember any KSR episode getting that during the NFL season. Ever. When there's a massive bar of Kentucky fans, it's like a club in there. It's music. So when it's over, I mean, you have to remember we had driven from eastern Oregon to Seattle in the morning through an ice storm, gotten there, been there thirty minutes, just went on the air for the pregame show, immediately went to the game, immediately go on the air of the postgame show. Our body's time clock say it's four in the morning, it's actually one in the morning. And as we walk out, I actually leave the bar a few minutes early, you know, Drew, just because I'm a little mentally exhausted, right, and I just I'm standing outside, and I don't know if Mario is like, I don't know if he sees me and he thinks I'm sad or whatever, but he just sides he's gonna cheer me up, and let me just say this was really nice. This is not like anything but nice. But he comes up and he goes and I can I mean, I can tell he's hammered immediately because its been taking lemon drop shots the entire postgame show. And he comes up and he puts his arm around me and he goes, bro, Bro, you're the man. Bro. Don't you be telling don't you let people tell you you're not the man. Of course no one had told me I wasn't the man. Like he actually gets me almost paranoid, like what are people saying? Well, why does he feel like he needs to cheer me up? I'm okay. He was like, you got talent, you got talent, and he goes, I'm here to take us to the next level. Yea, And I was like really and he was like, yeah, I'm taking this to We're going to the.

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Speaker 4: Next level national bro Bro National.

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Speaker 3: He's like, you got national talent, We're going to the next level. I was like, oh, okay. Well, at this point, all the other guys walked out, and you know, he said that, so we're walking to our car. He said that to me. A couple a couple of times. Now I what about the other guys, right, try to take the focus off me? What about them? Oh they're great too. It was Drew Franklin. You funny, You're a funny dude. That's a funny guy. I'm like, oh, that's good. That's good. And then he goes, I go, what about Shannon. He's like, Shannon sassy.

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Speaker 2: He's as one, but you.

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Speaker 3: Need a sassy one? Said what about Ryan living here? He goes, he's a little inconsistent, needs to be more consistent. He needs to be more consistent, and we all bust out laughing. We're like, what do you mean? He was like, he needs to be more consistent. He's goofy, he's great, Just gotta be more consistent. And then Max is aggony bar and Max is like he's like Ryan limits keeping us from going to the next level. And he was like, yeah, he's he's inconsistent. If Ryan would get more consistent, they were headed to the next level. And he probably so then we get he's he talks for twenty straight minutes the entire water. I meant, he did not take a breath for twenty minutes. Just Matt, your talent drew your funny.

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Speaker 5: Don't forget your emotional but good emotion. He also said, Matt, your emotion, but in a good way. He was like, but in a good way.

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Speaker 3: Your emotions come out, that's good, and then Max would go, what about Ryd, Like he's just inconsistent, He's just inconsistent. So he probably said the word inconsistent one hundred and fifty times. So, Ryan, we know you're inconsistent. I hope you've been working on your consistency because we need to hit the next level and your consistency is going to be huge.

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Speaker 4: I think at one point he called me the old head, the old head, the old head on the show.

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Speaker 3: He said, ride's the old head, and then Max would go, but he's inconsistent. I mean, so, I gotta tell you, I don't know that they'll ever be a time that I don't look at you and think inconsistent.

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Speaker 4: That thirty minute walk from the bar to our car will be one of those. It'll go down in KSR Radio history of Mario.

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Speaker 3: Breaking Mario breaking us all down. Yeah, at Max, I loved it.

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Speaker 7: See so at trips like this, like you talk about teams going on the road and galvanizing together and you know, becoming a better team.

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Speaker 3: Well, we just found the emerging leader.

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Speaker 7: Like he was able to give straight feedback. He gave it straight to our face. He told us what we needed to hear.

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Speaker 3: He's kirt creasing.

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Speaker 7: We got to go to next level, and I'm I just could not. And you know, when things get pointed out to you too, you start realizing little things like I hadn't even thought about it that way. But now I just see Ryan's inconsistency. Yeah, pop it up everywhere. I mean, from then on, it was just inconsistent behavior.

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Speaker 3: After his consistent behavior.

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Speaker 4: We've been at dinner, I felt like I wasn't being consistent enough to work on it.

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Speaker 3: So, by the way, as we do this show in the coming days, just see I see if rides get more consistent, consistent, and we'll see how the leadership of Mario h is working. I'm nine eight twenty two seven. We are now still right fifth in the country behind Duke.

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Speaker 8: Was that a mistake? We'll talk about it next our KASR Sworts radio.

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Speaker 3: It's hard for me to set this up just to just just remember this song and this is called blood solution, pollution, pollution blood. Oh, I thought it a solution. We were in a we were at a karaoke bar in Oregon. A guy got up and sang this just like this, and it was one of my favorite moments of all time. Max, you had something.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So for the people listening, you wouldn't have been able to say this, But you know, we just made a point of it. And we go to the break and what happens. Matt has to tell Ryan, you gotta put the mont closer to your now. I mean, the inconsistency is everywhere.

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Speaker 4: I totally agree with that. You gotta get that Micu'd be more consistent. You've got to take us to the next level exactly.

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Speaker 3: The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four or five two five four. Uh So Kentucky's fifth in the country when you consider they lost a game that would normally be positive. However, you can't help but be a little annoyed that Duke is fourth with us being fifth. Duke beat Auburn, however, the number one team in the country this week, and uh, Louisville was actually leading in the second half, but Duke came back and won. Uh we have only one loss, they have two and we beat them. Does it annoy you at all that were I thought fifth was about right for Kentucky, but I didn't like Duke being at.

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Speaker 5: That's really stupid. I mean, if only there were like a head to head matchup that could prove Yeah, sage.

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Speaker 3: But if if you're asking if.

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Speaker 5: I'm annoyed, I've thought that pole has been dumb for several years now that we watch it a little closer when you see guys completely forget to put a vote in some weeks and things like that happen. I mean, it's it's fun to have the ranking, the little number next to your school on the scoreboard when you're watching a game. Other than that, that pole has been meaningless to me for a while. It is stupid though that Duke's ahead of.

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Speaker 7: Them doesn't make any sense honestly, but who cares? So like right, I mean it Friday, Like Drey said, we've got plenty of time to keep looking that way up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you are being very generous. Still annoys me. It's like, if you're gonna, I mean, if you're gonna have a pole, at least make it some. I mean, if we'd had the same record, I get it. They beat Auburn. That's a great win. But they were at home. We played on the road. We've won neutral court games against them and Gonzaga. They have beaten what Auburn and they lost to Kansas, lost to us. Who did they beat? They beat like Arizona, which was a good win on the road. But I still feel like we should be ahead of them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they have they have two losses, right, Kentucky's got one loss.

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Speaker 3: And they but now they have probably played a harder schedule. So but but still, you know that they did two good wins. They got last week of count Louisville being a good win. I don't count Louiville.

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Speaker 4: I like these guys said, these poles, they're just nothing for us to talk about, you know, really anything to the end of the day, you don't even.

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Speaker 3: Think it's worth talking about it. They don doesn't even bother you at all.

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Speaker 4: They're only in made up for us to talk about and for fans to talk about. It really doesn't matter. It doesn't mean anything. Well, in that respect, nothing means anything. I mean, these are I mean, we're all just dust in the wind here. You're like being a philosopher net Why are you wearing a turtleneck?

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Speaker 3: It's a Nike three quarters zip. Okay, well it annoys me. It may not annoy you all, but it annoys me to put Duke ahead of us. I don't mind Tennessee of Auburn. I will stay. There's a couple of teams that are even behind us that it wouldn't bother me if they were ahead. But when you beat a team heads up on a neutral floor, Duke Drew, you should be ahead of them. You just should.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And Duke was ninth or tenth before the week, So I mean they've moved up several places. You could have just left them one spot behind Kentucky since they have the game that they played.

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Speaker 3: All right, So do you think we finished the non conference now with just one loss? I mean we still basically we played cold Gate, Louisville, Brown, and uh in Ohio State. I mean, of those, Ohio State may be the hardest, but they've been bad this year, although they are gonna get Aaron Bradshaw back for the game. I mean, if we finish the non conference twelve and one, is that not like a huge success? Massive success? Absolutely massive Louisville. Louisville's gonna be I don't know why these cap falls get me more consistent. Come on, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Mario.

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Speaker 7: Well, Louisville's much better though, but I think we're gonna be out to handle them. But Louisville is much better, which is gonna make the game a little bit more entertaining than it's being in previously.

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Speaker 3: Louisville is much better, but they cannot shoot. Like, if you score seventy five points, you beat them. They can not shoot. They're actually pretty good defensively, but they are one of the worst shooting teams I've ever I've ever seen. I feel like we match up pretty well against them, although they are physical, so they'll try to beat us up a little bit.

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Speaker 5: I think Kentucky's the better team right now, but I mean anytime it's a rivalry game, you never know. So as excited as I have about the win against Gonzaga, I won't be lying if there's a little bit of nervousness looking ahead of that. Oh, not nervous like they could lose, but just any time you're playing Louisville, and since they just got us some football, you just don't you don't.

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Speaker 3: Want to drive. I'm always nervous for the game. But if just objectively. I mean, they've lost one of their two best players due to injury. They actually played well against Duke, but the moment they started missing shots, they just fell apart. I think Duke went on an eighteen to oh run in that game. I mean, are you are you nervous about it? No?

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Speaker 4: I think this Kentucky team's much better than we even gave them credit for. I thought they'd have three losses going into conference play. They're only gonna have one. They're gonna win the rest of these games. They're a really good basketball team. They showed me something this week, even the lost down in Clempson. They showed me some fighting, some grit, and some toughness.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean the Clemson loss. We said before we left on the trip, the Clemson loss doesn't hurt you. If you beat Gonzaga. You'd almost if you told me we're gonna go one and one, I'd rather get the game against Gonzaga than the game against Clemson.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and we learned a lot about this team against Clemson. I think with a good rug matchup. Good thing about only having well hopefully one loss Lady in the conference play, is that conference play is gonna be a goallet. There's so many good SECA teams, so to get away with only one loss and non conference is massive.

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Speaker 3: Right now, the SEC has five teams in the top ten. They have nine teams in the top twenty five. They have twelve teams projected in the NCAA Tournament. Just to give you a sense of that, if the SEC were to get twelve in, it would be the most teams of conference has ever gotten in in the history of the NCAA Tournament. I saw Chris Patola, you may remember him. He's the Brooklyn they go hard, that guy. I heard him on the Little TikTok. He was doing a little interview. He said he thinks the SEC this year may be the best league in the history of college bass could be. I want you to think about that, the best league in the history of college basketball. So we're gonna pick up a bunch of losses, but we're also gonna have a strength to schedule that's gonna be like unbelievable going into the tournament. We'll take a break. Take your calls, AF I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven.

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00:23:15
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00:23:21
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00:23:24
Speaker 3: Here's Matt Joe. That was a great moment in UK basketball? Was that Jacob topping Shannon? Is that who was going hard? According to Vatola, that was awesome on a duck. I loved it. We have some breaking news.

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Speaker 2: Oh, hang on caught me off guard running on ah.

00:23:41
Speaker 3: The owner of one of the major cock fighting venues in eastern Kentucky. Oh, we'll spend eight months in home detention. Robert Baker of the Whitesburg Chicken Pit has pleaded guilty to commit animal fighting conspiracy to commit animal fighting. He will be required just spent eight months in home detention, play eighty five thousand dollars to the government, and shut down the Whitesburg Chicken Pit, believe to be the largest cockfighting arena in eastern Kentucky. First of all, he should have never named it the Whitesburg Chicken Pit. He I mean, I think that gave police an indication drew of what might be going on. He should have called it like Whitesburg Building. I just don't think when you called a chicken pit, people can be like, what's he mean by that?

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Speaker 5: I had to cover up maybe a skating rink in there and throw him off the trail, the skating rick Yn Okay.

00:24:35
Speaker 3: Man Kentucky. We're just cracking down on all this. We are a couple of years what never happened if Matt Bevan was governor. He was he said if he was governor, he would just let the cock fighting go.

00:24:45
Speaker 5: He was gonna change the state bird to a cock fighter.

00:24:48
Speaker 7: I guess I gotta find something else to do this weekend then. But the really nice thing about that, though, is and we saw this in Seattle, is now those chickens get to go on and pursue other Koreas like being aske.

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Speaker 3: That's right in Seattle, they have a chicken psychic. We didn't end up getting to go, but I wanted to get my fortune red. So there you go, Eastern Kentucky. You never know what's gonna You never know the headline that's gonna come out of Whitesburg. But they are stopping that crime. I want to go to the phones, but we do have to talk for just a minute about Luigi. The whole country is talking about Luigi, the guy who who allegedly shot the insurance person. First of all, on a serious note, it's amazing to me that anyone is still cheering this person on. But it goes to show how weird America is sometimes that let people would be cheering on a person who literally murdered someone in cold blood, shot him in the by, shot him in the back. But he has now been caught the way he was caught though, I mean next to Eric C. Khan and the Hardy's in Honduras. This is up there. He had been. He had hidden for five days from the NYP, the police, the FBI. They catch him in Altuna, Pennsylvania, at a McDonald's because he stopped in to get breakfast and one of the workers at McDonald's spotted him and called the police. Few amazing things to me about this story. Let's start with the person that worked at McDonald's. Would you have recognized him based just on that picture of him pulling down to flirt with the girl in the mask, Like, if you're an al Tuna, Pennsylvania, you can't assume he's gonna be there, Like that's just a town in Pennsylvania. Kind of amazing that they recognized.

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Speaker 5: Him, right, Yeah, he should have done something with those eyebrows before a commander's crib. As someone with some pretty big eyebrows. Those things are monsters, and that did the person even said that's what gave it away.

00:26:46
Speaker 3: Oh did they? I didn't realize that. Yeah, the eyebrows. Do you think you should have gotten that far away?

00:26:52
Speaker 5: And only the two images we had online that were released to spot him at a McDonald's and to be confident enough to call it in.

00:26:58
Speaker 3: That's pretty crazy. That's kind of amazing.

00:27:00
Speaker 2: That person needs to stop working at McDonald's and be a detective.

00:27:02
Speaker 3: Be a detective.

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Speaker 5: Money to your point about the people rooting for the guy, they have flooded that McDonald's with one star with these and saying they're employees are rats and snitches.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, of course they should have tried to catch him. Like I don't get now it's come out. Of course, he was rich himself, so like everybody, especially people people on my side of the aisle, acted like a fool about this stuff, Like they acted like a fool about him, like acting like he was some sort of hero. It made it genuinely made me mad the way people on the left were acting. But now they're switching their tone because it turns out he was like a Joe Rogan guy and he like like right wing stuff. So now they're like so ridiculous, all of them. But anyway, so he gets caught. He had on him Max a paper bag with his gun and a manifesto of why he had killed the guy. Here's a little seat. What are you doing? You've basically now given the police and the prosecutor's premeditated murder like you basically, I mean, he was probably gonna get charged with that anyway, but now they can prove you did it on purpose because they have him writing why he was gonna do it? Unbelievable. He was carrying it around, He had it with him at McDonald's.

00:28:21
Speaker 7: Was he just getting a sausage McMuffin before he turned himself in? Like why did he Why did he not go through the drive through?

00:28:28
Speaker 3: I have the exact same question. So he clearly was not the criminal mastermind that we thought he was, because he got caught in Altoona with all of the stuff on.

00:28:39
Speaker 4: Him, runing when I saw that, I was he gonna mail the manifesto into a newspaper, a TV station or something like why was he carrying around.

00:28:47
Speaker 3: Hand wrote it? I thought I was the last person in America that hand wrote anything. I mean, I'm gonna handwrite my final exam tonight and then try to tight like I didn't know people hand wrote anything anymore.

00:28:58
Speaker 5: Well, did you see his YouTube video that went up. I've not seen his Hours after his arrest, he had a scheduled video that went up and said it says like, if you're watching this, I've been arrested, and it says something about more to come, and it says December eleventh at the end. So people are speculating what kind of plan he might have or what he could possibly be doing.

00:29:15
Speaker 3: I think he's just gonna be an idiot. I think the fact that he got caught at McDonald's makes me think he is not like everybody likes to give these people superhuman powers. I think he's just I think he's just an idiot. I just can't believe. I mean, I understand there are women that think he's hot, and I get like, I remember that was like that with the Menindez brother. Oh yeah, many years ago. Still though he murdered a guy like like like, I don't care what of course healthcare costs too much. But he murdered a guy, right, Like, it's unbelievable to me.

00:29:46
Speaker 4: That guy was still somebody's husband, somebody's dad, somebody's brother.

00:29:49
Speaker 3: You know.

00:29:50
Speaker 4: That's what's the sad part about it. Was kudos, Like we said that the person at McDonald's to recognize somebody like that in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Like if he walked in here, Like, do you think anybody would recognize him here?

00:30:00
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know. Now, the fact he is named Luigi, that is funny, okay, And we of course have a Mario and staff, so I think that that the Luigi part. Did you see that? You know when Luigi wears like a thing on his hat that's green and says l you know, I mean, if you've watched Mario Luigi. Amazon sold one hundred thousand Toboggans Luigi toboggans yesterday. I didn't see that. I did not see that. One hundred thousand Luis. If you want living proof that we as Americans are the most ridiculous people on earth, one hundred thousand Luigi toboggans yesterday.

00:30:41
Speaker 5: I saw Macy's dot Com sold out of the jacket he was wearing the cved. I mean someone found that, LEVI and I mean you can't. That jacket is now completely sold out across the unbelievable.

00:30:51
Speaker 3: Who's up first? Shit, let's go to Adam, Adam, go ahead at it.

00:30:56
Speaker 9: He guys, I wanted to call. I called it after the Duke game, gave y'all a scenario over under twenty four and a half wins. I think everybody took twenty five and six, so I wanted to give yall another scenario. Are the first third of our SEC schedule is a top ten Florida team at home, yes, at Georgia at top twenty five, Mississippi State, yes, top twenty five, a m at home, Top ten Alabama at home and at Bandy. So of those six games over three and a half wins.

00:31:30
Speaker 3: That's a great question, I'm gonna say over. I mean, we do have a very hard SEC schedule. Let's I mean, but I don't know that you can have an easy SEC schedule because I don't think anybody's bad except maybe South Carolina. Like, I don't think there's gonna be The problem is we could probably do that for every little thing. But let me let's go through the first Like he just did the first part of the SEC. We played Florida at home. Florida's rank number nine. We go to Georgia on the road. That may be in theory one of the easy year road games we have, but they're all right this year as well. Then we go to Mississippi State they're ranked, hosts A and M at home they're ranked. Host Alabama they're ranked, Go to Vandy, then go to Tennessee their number one, then Arkansas at home. There might be some stuff with that, go to Old miss So I have to get to February eighth when we host South Carolina to find a game that's at home against an unranked team. And then after that Tennessee at home at Texas, Vandy at home, at Alabama at number thirteen, Oklahoma Auburn number two at home, LSU at home, finish at Missouri. We actually the two of the three or four easiest games at the end. And by the way, Missouri just beat number one Cansas. I mean, this schedule is unbelievable. There's like two games in here that are e maybe Vandy at home and like LSU at home. Everything else. You could lose any of these games. Ryan, like this the SEC is gonna be crazy.

00:33:11
Speaker 4: Talk about the you know, the colle we're talking about. The first six games February is brutal. That month of February is brutal for Kentucky. And like Shannon's gonna tell you that Vandy's nine and one right now. You mentioned Missouri the beat number one Kansas. There's a lot of tough teams in the conference, not just the ranked teams.

00:33:27
Speaker 3: So I don't know, I honestly don't know how you. I don't know how you say that this.

00:33:33
Speaker 5: We could lose a lot, a lot of games drew and then those that run of like the first eight or nine games, the unranked opponent is Arkansas, maybe the biggest game on the schedule. It's a bunch of ranked teams. And then John Caliperry come to Lexington. Yeah, and I think that John Caliperry game is gonna be a little difficult as well. It might be a lot of attention on unbelievable, unbelievable schedule.

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00:34:34
Speaker 2: All right there shit, Yeah, we were having some issues here so that the commercials just started automatically playing.

00:34:40
Speaker 3: All right, we'll tell them to stop. Do you like Creed? Like Creed?

00:34:42
Speaker 8: Yeah?

00:34:43
Speaker 3: I don't mind going to that concert.

00:34:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really much of a fan that they.

00:34:47
Speaker 3: Creed kind of sucks. Think I'm going, Yeah, you're going, can't wait?

00:34:51
Speaker 5: Really, Creed gets so much hate When Hire came out, that was one of the best songs of all time.

00:34:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's what happened.

00:34:56
Speaker 2: Like the TikTok gen Z crowd made Creed cool again.

00:35:00
Speaker 3: You know. Is that right?

00:35:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, it's like it came back thanks to TikTok and gen z Wow.

00:35:07
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.

00:35:08
Speaker 7: It's kind of cool to singing that voice walking around the house sometimes, Like you just sound a lot cooler when you sing like that.

00:35:13
Speaker 3: Do you do that? Do you walk around singing? I'm rude, just sounded cooler, That's true, I did. Actually, I think I think you're right. I think we got one step closer going national He five nine eight twenty two eighty seven. One person rides Matt. I'm not surprised that America has fallen for Luigi. We fall for stupid things all the time. I mean, that's true, but like this is a little different. This is a murder, Like this isn't just somebody who did an amazing dance. This is someone's actually and it turns out like he's from this rich Baltimore family, like this old money you know, I do I do like that. It turns out because I was so annoyed at the people on my side of the I was celebrating him that I'm I'm glad that like now he's everything they don't like because it was stupid for you to celebrate him from the beginning. It was just I didn't like that, and I'm normally a person who will laugh at things, but come on, you don't celebrate people who murder on the streets of New York shooting somebody in the back. It's forty five in the morning.

00:36:23
Speaker 5: We can all agree the healthcare industry needs a lot of correcting, but I don't know that's an extreme measure taking their own hands and.

00:36:30
Speaker 3: Due people, and I think they're just gonna they will just replace that guy with someone else who will do the same things. Like you didn't accomplish anything.

00:36:37
Speaker 4: It's definitely premeditatedn't he Like he had a drove a bike, got into a car, and went on a bus, like he had it all planned out what he was gonna do.

00:36:44
Speaker 3: Well, I think him running and getting on a bike was probably more just being scared, uh, because I mean, I don't think I don't think that would have been the smartest getaway plan was to go get on a bike in Central Park and then going to McDonald's.

00:36:59
Speaker 4: McDonald Yeah, you're not even that far away, dude, But who's up next, Richard?

00:37:06
Speaker 3: What's up? Richard?

00:37:09
Speaker 6: Well, I'm particularly whipped the team I think they're doing a good job. My question is how long would the two guards be out? And uh that that old one three one reminded me of the seventy five team when they had all we had the biggs and the guards that can shoot, which played a similar style ball.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me thank you. Richard Loud like he does not have a problem keeping the mic close to him. He's very consistent, he is, he is very consistently, uh Loud. I think that's that's true. The one three one probably the turning point in the game, right man. I mean like when we went to one three one, starting a straight one three one, then it sort of with more for it would start as a one three one, and then when they made I think Pope said the third pass and switched to man to man. Really confused b Whit or Gonzaga the whole time.

00:38:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was probably maybe seven possessions or something. I thought even before that though, just out we decided going underneath screens and just letting them shoot if you wanted to, just daring him to shoot.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: Which I thought was good.

00:38:18
Speaker 7: Again, it's good to be able to win multiple ways like that's gonna be important, and that's kind of gone away from the last few years where it's just we do what we do and if we're better than them, we're gonna win. Now it's like, all right, if they're on top of us this, we can make these adjustments and play which is gonna be important, because, as he said, glossible is gonna be Really that was very keenal.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: Cow's view always was we play the way we play, make people adjust us. It looks like Pope will adjust to the opponent.

00:38:41
Speaker 4: There won't be an instant where they're gonna make adjustments at halftime, you know, uh they come out and putting that one three ones on on he maybe he knew something from playing Gonzag in the past, and he said in the.

00:38:52
Speaker 3: Post game I asked him about it, Drew, and he said, well, when you're getting your butt kicked, you might as well try something else. Which I like that viewpil Yeah, I love.

00:39:01
Speaker 5: And everyone listening love the second half adjustments. If I can be a little picky next time in one of these big games, let's just come out with a little more fire. Because against Duke and against Gonzaga, for all being honest, five or ten minutes in, I don't think anyone expected to win. Kentucky looked like two different teams yet to start it and finish of each game.

00:39:18
Speaker 3: The number one player in America, aj DABONSA. Yeah, he's he just committed to BYU. I know that we were just in Provo, Utah. You're the number one player in America. I'm sure you got a lot of money, but he could have gotten a lot of money anywhere. Why why go to b WHYU?

00:39:38
Speaker 4: We were on campus, we saw how friendly everybody was, were very, very very friendly.

00:39:42
Speaker 3: It is pretty if fog that day.

00:39:46
Speaker 5: He's from Massachusetts and for his senior year he transferred to a Utah school, So I mean he's seems the Koogs are taking good care of him.

00:39:55
Speaker 3: I will say this about b WHYU? And this is not to make fun. I find collectively Mormon people to be the nicest people on earth. Totally. That's not me being that's not me exaggerated. They are the nice people on earth. I will say, though, there is a sense of if you ever saw that movie Pleasantville. I love that movie that when you walk on BYU's campus, everybody's just smiling, like hey hey everyone, like everybody has a smile. That's like way over the top, but they were also very nice. Literally, have you ever been anywhere where people just come up to you invite and invite you to go to dances. That's what they did there. People just walked up and were like, would you like to go to the eighties Bebop? It's a winter ball on Saturday, and like everyone was so happy. Maybe that's what happened with Aj Debonsa. He showed up on campus and he was like, well, the winter ball is Saturday, I could go.

00:40:57
Speaker 7: He couldn't pay me enough money to have to will ground that campus more than one day. Yeah, I mean there's bodies in their backyards. I know it for sure. Their smile was too weird. And if we learn anything from this trip, what you want in life is some honest feedback. You don't need smiles nasties, you know telling you you doing really good. You need on his feedback so you can grow and get better.

00:41:18
Speaker 3: Isn't that right?

00:41:18
Speaker 4: Ryan, Well, we enjoyed the BYU bookstore, bought a couple of Christmas presents, and.

00:41:24
Speaker 3: Ryan continued his I'll buy my son a Christmas present if it's on the discount rat. Yes, that's where he bought all of his Christmas present. Yes, the entire time. I liked it. Though I enjoyed BYU. I'm just surprised that the number one player in America that that's where they'd want to go. I'll tell you another thing I'm surprised about. I had no idea about the geography of eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. That's a part of like many of you out there, unless you've been there, I didn't realize, like, it's like a forest. Well, it's not like a forest. It is a forest. There's no place in America except maybe like Vermont that has that. I guess I just never thought about the part of that part of the country. Huge forest up and down and windy and like freezing snow caps. I mean, I'd never I guess I'd never been out there. That's a completely different part of the country.

00:42:21
Speaker 4: It is, and we saw first, you know, the flatlands of Nebraska than the mountains in Colorado. Yeah, the hills of eastern Oregon and eastern Washington.

00:42:31
Speaker 3: It's it is the different.

00:42:32
Speaker 2: The Oregon basketball floor is all trees.

00:42:34
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I when I think of Oregon Washington, I think of Seattle, Portland. I think of like the rocks on the ocean. Most of it is trees. Like, go from you know, Portland and Seattle, go east and you're like, man, it's a lot of blank space. It's a lot of trees, and it's a lot of forests, and I guess I just drew never thought about it.

00:42:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you get a little mountain air drove around that. It's just like it's hard. You don't really see forests and mountains like that except that area.

00:43:04
Speaker 3: That area is beautiful, but it's also very different than anywhere else I'd been in the US. We will take a break and come back talk about some football. A lot going on. This is KSR