2025-09-3- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: Welcome back two teck You Sports Radio A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text message text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four back here at the KS bar and grill for wingsday. We have a chance. Here we're gonna make a pretty big announcement for us. Those of you listen to the show know that this was this was on the horizon. But today is the day that the NFL is announcing that Drew Franklin and I are will be doing a podcast for the NFL all year. It has gone live today and the first episode is up. It is called the NFL Cover Zero. So here's what I'm gonna ask everybody doing listening at home and those of you sitting right here, pull out your phones right now, all right, do Uncle Matt a favor. Pull out your phones right now if you don't have it, and go to your podcast and subscribe to NFL Cover zero. We would beat. The NFL has joined us, joined us in doing this, and we're very excited. They base we're looking for two fans who are not experts on the NFL, and Drew and I were like, that sounds like us. We're perfect for that, and they are making us a part of the team. We are extremely excited. I'm not gonna lie I think I can speak for Drew. We're nervous and kind of humbled. The NFL is the biggest sports institution in America, and if you look at the other people that you're doing podcast with them, they're all pretty huge names. And we've been working really hard on this for the last month, me and Drew, but also Billy and Mario in preparing for it, and this is a great opportunity. They came to us because they said, look, you guys have a huge audience in Kentucky. We love the way you do stuff, and we want you to join us. We've been in a ton of conversations figuring out the show. The first episode is up. I hope you listen to it. It's exactly what you recognize. It's just me and Drew being me and Drew. It's the same thing we've done for seventeen years. We're just talking about a different subject. But Drew, I can't think of anybody I'd love to do this more with you. And I started seventeen years ago, me picking you up from the bars and hoping you weren't too drunk to do a podcast in Hubby's basement, and sometimes I wasn't. And now seventeen years later getting to do one together for the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Very exciting. Huge NFL fan every Sunday already, I'm watching every game, so the homework assignment wasn't anything new, but it's been a big undertaking. I've never We've done a lot of things. Obviously, this is a gigantic show. But like technical difficulties we have here, they don't let it slide on this. There's like lighting and like production. I didn't know we could do this.

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Speaker 2: This is you see some of the videos, like we have lighting. They actually don't make me look like I'm a corpse in it most of the time. It's very exciting. We're gonna be doing two episodes a week, so one of them is we will get when the last Sunday Night game is over. We're taping immediately, So we're taping like Sunday nights and like eleven or eleven thirty, Billy and Mario and Drew and I will get down to the studio and we will do an immediate as soon as it's over reaction.

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Speaker 4: Eventually, we hope that'll be live on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: It won't be at first, but that'll so when you get up Monday morning, that'll be there for you, and then we will do one in the middle of the week. They're gonna have us guests to have on. I don't know who those people are gonna be over time, but we're we're looking forward to it. The problem is, as soon as we start, I have to go to South Africa. So part of this is figuring out I gotta find a way to do this show in South Africa, potentially out on Safari. So we've been working trying to figure that out.

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Speaker 4: Ma'am. I see the look in your face. That's the same look I have.

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Speaker 2: We'll see if we're able to get We're gonna see if we're able to get connected between me and you. I don't even think I can watch the games in the South Africa. So I don't know how we're gonna do this, but we're gonna make it work. And you would be listen, I've been fortunate. I've gotten to do some stuff for ESPN. I've gotten to do some really cool stuff. You all listening, you'd be really proud of Drew, Billy and Mario. They've taken this responsibility that the NFL's given him, and it's been cool to watch him work Mario and Billy trying to make the lighting work, figure out how to record it because they gave us this big responsibility but not a ton of resources, to be honest with you, they just said, make this look great and here you go. And there's been a lot of people at iHeart here in Lexington have help, Nathan and Guss and some other folks. So, uh, and then Drew. I mean, I've I've wanted to get Drew a chance to do something like this for a long time. And he he's actually the expert on the show because I know much less about it than he does.

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Speaker 3: So it should be a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun. You mentioned Mario and Billy having to learn new things, Like when we're taping, Mario's got this like control board in front of him and he's changing cameras.

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Speaker 4: He's like, let's go to camera too. Came on, had you even seen that thing before we started this?

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Speaker 2: Nope, it's called a switcher. Mario's had to learn to run a switcher. So we spent a lot of time together in the last two or three weeks to do it. So do me a favor if you haven't yet subscribe NFL cover zero. It's called NFL. They made us put NFL in the front of it so that it can be professional. They did not use the cartoon drawing of me, thank goodness. I might put it out later this afternoon so people can see.

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Speaker 4: What they do.

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Speaker 2: They're still they're redoing the caricature, so right now it's kind of a generic cover. But Ryan, we're both very excited.

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Speaker 1: I'm super proud of you guys. I mean, I'm like the proud papa just kind of watching you guys. Yeah, right, this is a big deal. This is a huge deal to be on this platform for the NFL. So no doubt you guys will kill it. And I'm really excited how this is going to play out for you guys.

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Speaker 4: I mean, ESPN is a great opportunity.

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Speaker 2: I remember the very first time that they asked me to fill in on Marty McGee, and there was a woman that I worked with who was really mean to me. But besides that, you may remember that, yep, who the hell is Matt Jones. But even with ESPN, like it never it was awesome. It is awesome, but it never necessarily feels like I'm on ESPN unless I'm there like I'm just sitting in my living room and doing it. So it doesn't always feel like what it is. This has felt like what it is. When we do these pre show meetings with the NFL. There's like fifteen people on these zoom calls and they all have a look of like seriousness, and Billy's been on him. He knows like you just you sit there and go who this is a big deal.

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Speaker 4: So, like I said, you came out today.

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Speaker 2: I think at some point today the NFL is putting some things out about it on their Instagram and social media. So looking forward to it. But anyway, I also want to thank the audience. We never get this chance without you all. That's the reason. I know, that's why they did it. This audience is so large. I want you to think about how large this audience is. This audience is so large. The NFL like just says, if you can just bring your audience, you'll be good. So that gives you a sense of what it is. So and you may on your KSR feed see the show pop up over the next couple weeks, but do me a favor at least eventually migrate over to the KSR. I still pinch cover zero.

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Speaker 3: I still pinch myself every day with this job, but at least kind of makes sense. I grew up a Kentucky fan, I went to UK. I could see how the stars might aligned, and I got here. But when that NFL logo is behind your head when we start the podcast, I'm thinking, how in the world did we get here? I mean, that's the biggest brand in sports. We didn't play football. Yeah, we have this opportunity. It's even just doing one episode has already been so much fun.

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Speaker 4: So thank you all very much for that. And uh, I hope you enjoy.

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Speaker 2: It's like two hours the first episode, so you got plenty of listening time. And if you listen to it, let me know what you think on the text machine. Uh seven seven two four five two five four switch gears for a sec London cante. Yeah, okay, So they had their pre impeachment meeting yet last night. In it I saw some clips. One of the only clips I saw as a guy during the meeting, one of the people in the city council.

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Speaker 4: Looked at another one goes, you still owe me twenty bucks?

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Speaker 5: Billy.

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is why I like it. He's yelling at him during the city council meeting about potential impeachment, yelling that he owes him twenty bucks Friday.

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Speaker 4: Is the impeachment meeting that happens during this show.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you Country Boys is awesome, But there's a part of me that wants to go and watch the and watch the London meeting. But it is.

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Speaker 4: I did get a primer.

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Speaker 2: Basically, it's a fight between there's like some people on the city council, a couple of which are brothers. They were pardoned I think by Bevin, or one of them was by Bevin for something the mayor is and they don't like each other. Some people side with the mayor, some people side with the brothers. And now it's gotten into all this other stuff too, and it's all over the place, and so there's a lot going on, Ryan, But I know many of you went down the TikTok rabbit hole last night to watch it.

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Speaker 1: I had people send me videos all night last night about the meeting that just happened. Yeah, they're trying to impeach the mayor. But now there's you know, it's people implying a mayor doesn't even live in the city limits he's trying to apply to some of the city council members trying to impeach him. They don't even live in the city limits. Does anyone live in London.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, they don't live in Love Like everybody does something in London. May not even live there, but they all want to be uh to, all want to work in the government. There's the mayor, it seems like has a lot of money.

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Speaker 4: He will like buy people like he'll.

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Speaker 2: Buy things for people at Shoney's or whatever, which people which people like. I don't know if it's Shonies, but like if people talk about how generous he is. But then there's also allegations of nefariousness. Then you have the Brothers people in the parking lot screaming at them. I just I Friday is going to be fireworks. If I could get in, I would go.

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Speaker 3: This feels like an episode of Justified, maybe even a new season of Justified. Some sheriff gonna come in and clean up the town.

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Speaker 2: Except London's supposed to be the classy part of eastern Kentuck. I don't know what gateway to the mountain, gateway to the mountains. They are completely six oh sixteen there. They are not like they're not partially six oh six.

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Speaker 3: Can we get a correspond it's a call in from London while we're at Country Boy.

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Speaker 2: Well, I really if it was any other remote but Country Boy, I would send Mario down there. But we need We're gonna need him there. If I'm nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven, who's up next? Jason is next? Jason?

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Speaker 4: Go ahead?

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Speaker 6: Jason, Hey, Matt, congrats on the NFL podcast, by the way, first of all, but thank you listened to the UH I listened to the postgame show yesterday, and I apologize if this has been brought up before, maybe the offseason or anything, but he was brought up, and I don't remember the context. But the nil donors in other schools, how they may have ten or you know, several big donors. They could afford to lose one or two and get by. But what does Kentucky do and what does our program look like if we only have one or two big donors because they won't be around forever? And is there future allotments of money or what happens?

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Speaker 2: I completely legitimate worry, completely legitimate worry. I I appreciate the call. We have I've said this before. I mean, we have a couple of people that do the biggest heavy lifting when it comes to donors at UK. I don't you know probably one or two of them. You know, probably one or two of them you don't. But we have a couple of people that do the heavy lifting. I think it's fair to say that those people, like I'm not gonna say they decide the future of the program, but they have a huge major importance going forward. What happens after them, you gotta go find more or hope that, you know, future generations of that family want to want to donate.

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Speaker 4: I think Kentucky it's very.

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Speaker 2: Difficult because we don't have This state does not have a ton of folks that have massive economic impact who also care about sports. And you also have to remember the largest economic entity in the state, the largest economic engine is Louisville, which has a lot of Louisville fans and where the corporations. Tom Jurich did a really good job during his years of connecting those corporations to the University of Louisville like ups right, So all of that makes it to where Kentucky to some extent, Ryan has a harder trek than other schools, but a couple of people have made that trek easier and we just have in some ways. Hope that continues.

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Speaker 1: Right when you're winning, it is a little easier if he goes solicit funds. When you're losing, it's a little harder to go after that money when you're not putting up wins.

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Speaker 3: And hopefully, uh, the next bajillionaire that likes Kentucky is in the middle of beginning their wealth right now. And if you're listening, throw something back to the school because we're gonna need a new generation of money to come through.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean think about Alabama. Okay, in Alabama, the city of Birmingham has Auburn fans, it has Alabama fans. Kentucky does too, But the city of Louisville as an entity is more connected to the University of Louisville than it is Kentucky for understandable reasons, and a lot of the corporate things. Yum uh, you know, yum and ups are the two big ones, but I'm sure there's other ones. They're tied more to U of L's program than the UK's right, yes.

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Speaker 1: And that's where they jurch was. That's why he was so successful. You know, he was able to get those big corporations to donate money to Louisville. I think Dwayne Peeb was good when he was here getting that happening here at Kentucky. Did Kentucky have that guy? Now?

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Speaker 2: I don't really know, but I think we'll find out eventually. We got DraftKings. You can go to DraftKings. Bet five dollars, get three hundred dollars in bonus bets leading into the first NFL game. Let me ask you a question. We're gonna pick the NFL tomorrow. How about this Yanick Skinner versus Carlos al Karaz the big, the big tennis rivalry. But before that, all Karaz will play Djokovic tomorrow night. Who you got?

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Speaker 3: I'm going with the youth. I think we're the Alkoraz Center. We're just gonna see it over and over and over for years to come. It's already starting.

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Speaker 2: Djokovic was dancing and talking trash last night. You have one you.

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Speaker 1: Prefer, well, I'm gonna say I saw him kind of looks like you're talking a little smack on the ESPN coverages. While it goes I'm going to Djokovic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go al KaAZ. It's the young It's Alkoraz Center. They're the Federate, the doll of a new generation.

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Speaker 3: You will probably don't remember this, but Center was warming up next to our show. We're here in Lexington, and Dennis Emery, a former tennis coach, was like, that's gonna be the next star. You should watch him. And I kind of like, okay, yeah, that's a guy. Yeah, Bomb's not him bomb self.

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Speaker 4: I forgot about that because we guess, Wow, Dennis.

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Speaker 3: And I knew he's gonna be big, but I didn't know I'd be seeing him at number one in the world just a few years later.

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Speaker 4: Man, I've never made that connection.

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Speaker 1: Want he won the.

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Speaker 3: Challenger, but he was over there just hitting balls and we were yapping about Benny Snell or something, and he had a few people around him, and now he's biggest thing in the sport.

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Speaker 4: I had completely forgotten about that.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Hey, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, ask any things Wednesday, we will take your calls. We're hit, Case, Bar and Grill. It is Wednesday. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio AF. I've nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four ask anything Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and go to the next for their the phones. Who's up next?

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Speaker 1: Keith is up next?

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Speaker 2: Keith?

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Speaker 4: Go ahead?

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Speaker 2: Keith.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Matt, congratulations you and Drew, thank you season ticket older here for thirteen years. And y'all always talking about the environment. And I got three to little quick complaints that I've wanted to complain about. First off, what happened to all roads leads Kentucky this weekend?

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Speaker 2: Roads?

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Speaker 7: No, all roads lead to Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, ron Kentucky. Yeah, that's all right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 7: Number two. Being a veteran and everything from my seats and I see it. I sit on the home side closer to Nicholas Hill Road. I can't see the American flag. And we're talking the military, then the national anthem. You look at the highest point of the flag and you put your hand over your heart and you look things see the flag cause the press boxes, why don't they put it up higher? I wann't they have a bigger flag? Years and years fair point and number three. This one I've never understood. We're trying to keep that team from getting the first down on third down, so we're all up in the stands going ah, doing whatever we're trying to do, and whoever up in the press box. Besides, it's time for a blue white chant. Well, when you do blue, there's a pause, then there's white. You're not being loud, You're giving them a pause to be it. Why do you do a blue white chant when you're trying to hold them to a third down?

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Speaker 2: All fair points. I appreciate the call. I think the all three of those crowd points ryme. Makes sense to me? Why I have a blue white chant? Blue white chance I do think are to me? You do the blue white chant during like a break in the game.

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Speaker 3: Right, not doing the wave. You're getting the crowd going back and forth.

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Speaker 2: The goal on a third down or fourth down is be as loud as you can so that they can't hear themselves. Think not to do a blue white But again, I just don't think the people that make these decisions think about the fans or the environment. There is an art to entertain it, right, there's an art to it. You either can do it or you can't. You either know how to do it or you can't. And I don't know how you can make any determination. But at least when it comes to football thing with the people that do it don't know how.

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Speaker 5: To do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of us are anti Blue White cheer, but the timing of it's got to be better.

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 1: I know exactly what this guy is talking about. It it's a big third down play. They try to break into Blue White to get it loud. Let us get loud, Let us do our thing.

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Speaker 2: The easiest thing to get a crowd loud is for there to be an exciting moment and play a little music and then let them go like that's what you that's the way.

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Speaker 4: That's why the other.

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Speaker 2: Schools do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe these guys don't want to do it. But last Saturday you had Josh Allen, Ray Davis, Dion Walker there. Give him a microphone for a minute now. They brought him out in the corner and they're like, hey, here they are and they wave. I mean, that was cool, they acknowledged them. But third down, stop put a microphone in Josh Allen's face and just have him yell something. I mean, just him being involved would have gotten people going crazy.

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Speaker 2: I tell you a guy who used to get the crowd amped up was a guy named Ryan Lemon who would come out at halftime of the game and he would get the crowd amped up. And you know, yes, he might scream about a ceiling and things, but you know what, he did get the crowd amped up. I can remember I've not done a game since then. That was not pretty much the end of the year, have not done a game.

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Speaker 3: How about Ryan Lemon wrestles the other team's mascot between the third and fourth quarter at midfield.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that would be bad at all. If I'm nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven, who's next?

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Speaker 1: Isaac?

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Speaker 2: Is next?

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Speaker 4: Isaac?

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Isaac.

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Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I started listening late, so I apologize that you've already talked about this. But I was reading about the Danny Hurley article that came out and said he was ready to take a year off after this past year, which number one makes me more confident in our higher markin cope. But I was just curious, have you guys ever heard of a coach that's.

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Speaker 5: Coming off of two back to back championship years, has one, you know, relatively down year, and now he's ready to take a year off. Have you all ever heard of a coach being that like anti competitive? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So Danny Hurley for people don't know, like you said, I appreciate the call. He said in an interview that he almost basically stopped after this year and decided to take some time off, do TV and then come back and coach later. I'm not shocked by that, Drew. I think there uh, I think there could be a few reasons. One it is the case that now with roster stuff, the job you can't just stop. The job kind of goes the whole time. The other thing is when you burn like Danny Hurley and you burn fast, loud and yelling all the time, it probably wears you out after a while. I understand why you would want to do it. Are were you surprised by that statement?

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Speaker 3: Well, in his comments, I think he said the way I was going wasn't healthy, it was unhealthy, and I thought, yeah, all of us watching at home could see that what you were doing was pretty unhealthy. So I guess all that just NonStop energy has weighed on him a little bit. It's weird that he'd say step around when everyone kind of considers he's up the top, even though last year was down a little bit. But not many people coach as hard as he coaches end game at least.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, maybe he needs to burn the fuel just a little less uh strong, But then again, it could be the case Ryan that guys like him, if they don't act like that, they can't be six.

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Speaker 4: You know, some people it is hard when you are to didn't go take a step back, but also not have your performance dip.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think you know, when when you coach that hard for that long, you do kind of maybe the light dims a little bit. I think coach Doups went through that. The last couple. I think coach Cali Perry actually wins.

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Speaker 4: Doubt Cal went through it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very There's only a handful of coaches I can think of that coach like Hurley and haven't wanted time off. Rick Patino, that's the one. Like Rick Patino's been doing this for forty years, exactly the same. I mean, he went to Great for goodness sake because he didn't want to take a year off. But there's just not a lot of people built like that, and maybe Danny Hurley is not, you know, And I'm trying to think of young guys like that. They we're cunning. Those guys are getting few and far between.

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Speaker 3: As time goes on and money into it, you go, well, maybe I'd like to take a year and spend some of this.

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Speaker 1: Money, right, But I enjoy your kids while they're young.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. If he took a year or two off, though, he get a job whenever he wanted soon soon thereafter, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 4: Be right back.

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Speaker 2: It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio eight five, nine two, eight, twenty two eighty seven. Here kas bar and grill wings day, dollar wings all day and night. Folks eating here telling me that you said you like the the smoked wings. They're good. I'm glad burgers have been pretty much universally positive. U. You know, we're bringing in an extra grill for Saturday for the Old Miss game so that we can try to speed up the times a little bit and still cook the burgers. So hopefully that works out well too.

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Speaker 1: I think Saturday's gonna be an awesome environment here and at the stadium.

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Speaker 2: I think Saturday is gonna If you're a UK football fan, yep, you want to be in Lexington Saturday, in part because who knows we could get to win, but in part because things don't go out least you have say, right because after that, who knows. But I think both here at the bar at the stadium from eleven o'clock until that game starts, it's kind of the best of Lexington, what it's gonna be like, etc.

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Speaker 4: We'll be doing our pregame show here starting at eleven thirty.

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Speaker 3: And this is one people already booked, got their tickets. No one is canceling this trip because you only beat you didn't cover against Toledo. I mean, no one's jumping ship. I think the excitement in this game is still what it was, even though you might have a few more questions than you wanted to after that first game.

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Speaker 2: I mean, talk about what Alabama did, because I have a feeling every school's doing this.

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Speaker 4: Eventually.

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Speaker 2: It's greedy and it's kind of terrible, but I also think there's more and more schools are gonna do it. So Alabama and by the way, I talked about the Reds doing trying to do this to me a little bit Alabama went back and looked and said, all right, which of our season ticket holders are selling their season are selling their tickets the most they figured out who they were, they went to them and in some cases they took it from them, but in some cases they just said we're not gonna give you as good a tickets, etc.

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Speaker 4: But this is the big part.

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Speaker 2: The tickets that they took that they didn't sell to anybody else. Alabama is now going on stub Hub and selling them themselves. So they're basically taking the tickets away from the season ticket holder and now selling them on secondary mark or hill it sells. And so now when you, according to this report from the Alabama newspaper, when you go to stub hub. See normally if Kentucky, if there's tickets available, Kentucky is selling them, they sell them on ticket Master like regular tickets. Alabama is actually selling their tickets now on secondary sites with the theory that it will drive the ticket price up and they can get the.

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Speaker 4: Profits.

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Speaker 2: Now this was discovered by an Alabama newspaper. I think their fans are going to be up in arms about it because what it'll do is ultimately raise the price of the tickets because you're now not only buying them from people like us on the secondary market, you're buying them from the university. But I was shocked by it, But I also could see how this will end up happening more often.

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Speaker 1: I can't argue against the business model of it. They're trying to make money for their athletic program and trying to get generate the highest tickets still possible. But I can see why the fans are really ticked off. It would be ticked off for you if theyfty did it Cincinnati, right, I'd be.

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Speaker 2: Mad as a sea as a buyer if I'm going on stub hub and the university, rather than selling me the tickets that face value on their website, is selling it to me for more on a secondary ticket site and not telling me about it.

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Speaker 4: That would make me mad, not just as.

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Speaker 2: The season ticket holder, but as the purchase person purchasing the tickets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when the school says in the spring that game costs eighty five dollars for that section, that should be what it costs if you're buying from the school. They shouldn't be able to have a second channel where they're charging you three hundred for the same ticket. Just because there is another party involved in it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's what stops them from coming out and saying this game is sold out. You assume it sold out, and then they take tickets that they hadn't sold and sell them on step up for twice as much like, can't they do that under this system? They can?

00:27:37
Speaker 4: I just think that's completely bogused by the university.

00:27:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they'll absolutely controlling the market.

00:27:44
Speaker 2: And when the newspaper asked again, one of the things that's happening with this on IL is people are trying to get a right way from public record disclosures by putting stuff in private companies. I gotta tell you, I don't like that. A newspaper goes and says, how much money are you making from doing this? And they go, well, that money goes into a private foundation, so we're not gonna tell you. So like there's no way to even know what they're doing, which I just think like that should not be what a public university does.

00:28:16
Speaker 4: That's sketchy as it can be.

00:28:18
Speaker 3: But everything's supposed to be out in the open for a public university.

00:28:21
Speaker 1: Aren't more university is probably gonna do that.

00:28:23
Speaker 2: I worry they're gonna use these private LLCs as a way not to disclose any uh huh, So that your your your state university that you are your tax dollars are going to. You won't even know what they're doing with the money. I can't believe that's legal. Maybe it won't be when it gets tested in court, but it's clear that's gonna be one of the ways they're gonna try to do it.

00:28:45
Speaker 4: So who's up next? Bill?

00:28:47
Speaker 2: Is next?

00:28:47
Speaker 4: Bill? Go ahead?

00:28:48
Speaker 2: Bill? Yeah?

00:28:50
Speaker 9: Man, has more and more money flows into college football, it's gonna get the underbelly is gonna get pretty ugly, I think. But hey, I've got a question and maybe more of a comment and a grit. But you know u K football, When we get one of those big questionable plays like the one we had on the sideline this weekend that would have gotten us down to the twenty five, we it's like, we take our time to get up to the line of scrimmage and we give the referees an opportunity to review that play.

00:29:22
Speaker 4: That's true.

00:29:22
Speaker 9: We not have some type of hurry up play. I mean, I know Stukes wants to control the ball, but for crying out loud, that's the one play where you.

00:29:32
Speaker 2: Have to hurry, I totally agree on the next one. I thought that, by the way, and I appreciate the call. I thought that when I saw that hester play, the moments you know it's close, they should the coaches should be on there going go, go go, so they don't have time.

00:29:50
Speaker 4: To review it.

00:29:51
Speaker 2: And we just mosied up there, and I think they called for the review with like six seconds on the play clock.

00:29:57
Speaker 4: Had we gotten up there quickly, we probably get it off.

00:30:00
Speaker 3: Lot of people brought that up. It doesn't matter what you run, snap it and throw it in the stands. Go get your thirty yard game before they can review it.

00:30:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not a new problem either. It's been happening for years and years and years. We just don't play any sort of temple offense at all, even when you need to.

00:30:15
Speaker 3: That would be a mulituational. You gotta know, though, like you gotta know that that coach is reaching for the challenge flag, waiting for a booth review. You race up there and snap that ball. You have a hand it off just to get the snap off.

00:30:28
Speaker 2: Sometimes the difference in sports but also in life is like minuscule common sense decisions, right, So in that moment. Think about that moment with that catch. We need to have someone on the sidelines that goes, okay, that might be close. Go go go, go, go go, And they should have a play called go that. The moment they do it, everybody on the team knows we're just gonna go and we're handing it off for a two yard run, right, it would like go go go. I've always thought Stoops's biggest weakness was in game. We've talked about clock management and all that, but part of it is just the kind of common sense look at the moment and go move, move, and I don't we didn't do that that time.

00:31:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, and those situations are right, not just that that's a race. The other team is waiting for somebody in their ear that has seen the replay to say throw the flag, challenge, this is our way, and you're trying to race and snap the ball before they can make that decision.

00:31:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, who's up next? Glenna's up next, Glenna, Go ahead.

00:31:30
Speaker 10: Glenna, Good morning. A couple of times I noticed at the game Saturday and the words to my Oakentucky Home they were not on the ribbon, and the fat song words were not on the ribbon as well.

00:31:49
Speaker 4: Are they normally on there?

00:31:52
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, the words you run? Yeah, when they do, they usually have the words running or they have. Every game I've been to they didn't have either one of those Saturdays. What's more or less? Atmosphere it was awful.

00:32:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. Well, I will say this, if they don't make the atmosphere and the performance better on Saturday, good seats will be available for the next Saturday.

00:32:18
Speaker 4: For the Eastern Michigan game.

00:32:19
Speaker 3: I think you will be able to sit wherever you would.

00:32:22
Speaker 2: Like for that one.

00:32:23
Speaker 1: They got a chance to really make it special Saturday man with old Miss coming in and make it exciting for the fans and make it a great environment. So hopefully they'll take advantage of it.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: I just want and then, I mean, I don't mean to beat a dead horse with this stuff, but I just want the people at the university to really think about the fact that like it is not in twenty twenty five, it is not a given that you get everybody's entertainment dollar. There are so many options that people have. Yeah, and they have great I mean, just think about what. Let's say it's this Saturday, Weather's supposed to be great, right right, Think about all the options someone has of what they could do.

00:33:06
Speaker 4: And then let's say you just want to watch the game. You could watch it at your house.

00:33:11
Speaker 2: You could come to a place like ks Bar and be with fans and we're gonna have a loud environment and we're gonna be able to watch replays.

00:33:20
Speaker 4: You could go, uh to anywhere.

00:33:23
Speaker 3: You can watch it on your boat. Now you can watch it.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: You can watch it on your phone while you're at the park with your kids. You have to give people a reason to fight that traffic right to block out their entire day to get there.

00:33:41
Speaker 4: You've got to make them do it, and you can't just assume they're gonna do it.

00:33:45
Speaker 2: We saw during the last couple of years of col that people stop doing it for basketball, yep. So do you not think they'll stop doing it for football? And I just sometimes wonder do our people think like that, because they need to, you.

00:33:59
Speaker 3: Know, and a football Saturday, especially even if you're just at home, think of last Saturday where you got Texas and Ohio State on the other channel. With YouTube, TV, multiview and all the ways you can track games, you can sit at home and keep up with the entire college football landscape with your game. But if you go to the UK game, you can barely get on Twitter to see who's winning the Texas Ohios date.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: You can't. Yeah, all right, let me give you an update. Some people have asked me, what's gonna happen to Club Blue now that goes to the school, Your Club Blue membership now shifts to the official UK JMI thing, So the Club Blue membership. If you're a member of Club Blue, you're now a member of the new JMI all access thing. But Commonwealth Causes is still doing their bourbon auctions very successful. Yes, and you can go to Commonwealth's Causes. This will be your last chance to get Club Blue bourbon. You remember Club Blue bourbon.

00:34:53
Speaker 7: This is it.

00:34:53
Speaker 2: This is your one chance. You can also get the other wonderful bourbons they have. They're still doing the raffles and all that. But at Liquor Barn, Kroger Justin's House, Suburban cheer on the Cats and style with Club Blue bourbon. This may be your last chance to get it. And Commonwealth Causes is still going to do the ticket giveaways. I'm going to give away Friday at our show at country Boy ticket tickets fifty yard line second row to the Kentucky Olympics game courtesy of Come a Little Nice Good Suits. Those are I've set in those seats. Those are really nice seats. So we will give those away to someone at the at the remote on Friday. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio worker back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio A five nine two twenty two eighty seven. When it comes to your physical health, if you want physical therapists, you can trust Court Physical Therapy provide care to athletes and weekend warriors alike over seventy convenient locations throughout Kentucky. Get your care at Court dot com. That's KRT dot com to request an appointment or get the best in rehab for yourself.

00:36:00
Speaker 4: Just some scheduling.

00:36:01
Speaker 2: Tomorrow we are in Bowling Green at the Mint for opening day of the NFL, So if you're in the Bowling Green area, come see us. Then Friday at country Boy. Tomorrow night is our NFL kickoff. Here at the bar, really crazy drink specials well, and I'm gonna be giving away a couple of prizes. It should be exciting. And then on on Friday as well. We will excuse me Saturday pregame show at eleven thirty. So a lot going on over the next few days. Ryan with his fancy shorts.

00:36:31
Speaker 1: I love the Country Boys show. That's my favorite show of the year. And that's it's a huge crowd. Did you find out find out what?

00:36:37
Speaker 4: Oh?

00:36:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, and well I'll tell you after you get off the air. So no, they don't do any media availability on a Friday. It has to be through an nil appearance.

00:36:48
Speaker 2: All right, won't you work on that.

00:36:50
Speaker 1: We can get a couple that way.

00:36:52
Speaker 3: All right, we'll talk about it, okay. See he did his work. Yeah, I'm looking forward to his other assignment on Friday. Also, it's been a while since I've seen I'm looking forward to you having a speech. I mean the country Boy speech is your most famous one where you crowdsurfed mocking the Mark Stoops picture. I haven't framed. That's right up here. I can see it from here.

00:37:11
Speaker 2: Drew great big story reported by Pablo Tori Kawhi. Leonard got a twenty eight million dollar endorsement for a no work landscaping job that was a way for the owner of the Clippers to pay him and go around the salary cap. The owner of the Clippers created a fake landscaping company to pay Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million in endorsements for something like where he didn't have to do anything. What do you make of that?

00:37:43
Speaker 3: I've always wondered if this has ever happened before, how it's never happened. I remember years ago the Nets had like some Russian bajillionaire owner and they were having salary cap issues, and I thought, why didn't you just pay him on the side figure it out? Sounds like they actually tried it using a landscape company.

00:37:59
Speaker 2: Like I thought that he tried to do a twenty eight million dollar landscaping.

00:38:03
Speaker 4: I love the idea that he's like out there, you know, mowing the grass.

00:38:07
Speaker 2: Or something, and they didn't pay him. I just thought that was But like, they'll get in trouble for that. I mean, that'll be if if if what he said is true, though, they will get in a lot of trouble for that.

00:38:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, just some creative accounting that may come back to haunt you quite a bit.

00:38:22
Speaker 2: I think you're not. May I think you will.

00:38:24
Speaker 1: But so what if Kawhi just goes in most of the guy's yard a couple of times he worked. He worked for his twenty eight minutes.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: So you're saying if he just goes and mows the grass one time, he is just twenty eight million dollars lest he doesn't work.

00:38:37
Speaker 3: What would it cost for Kawhi Leonard to come mow your yard?

00:38:39
Speaker 2: Right now?

00:38:39
Speaker 3: There's got to be a number. Are you saying twenty eight millions too high?

00:38:43
Speaker 2: That's interesting? What if he says he mowed my grass one time?

00:38:46
Speaker 3: It's Kawhi Leonard, he doesn't mow grass, and I got him to.

00:38:49
Speaker 2: Break some leaves, like how much? Yeah, how much you think it would cost have Lebron mow your grass. That's probably gonna be.

00:38:53
Speaker 1: About twenty million dollars.

00:38:55
Speaker 4: So maybe maybe that's a creative argument. I actually like it.

00:38:59
Speaker 2: Who's next?

00:39:00
Speaker 1: Made?

00:39:01
Speaker 4: Steve?

00:39:01
Speaker 2: Is next?

00:39:02
Speaker 4: Steve?

00:39:02
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Steve.

00:39:06
Speaker 11: Yeah, I just want to call it. You know, I went to the kaff Bars is reopened and the cheese logs are great.

00:39:12
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

00:39:15
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, they're awesome. I thought maybe a good name could be the cheese hogs because they're so big. So I just want to offer that recommendation in case you were open to it.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. We were just talking about I'm in the process now of naming the items with Kentucky players. Uh, this woman right here got a club sandwich. We're gonna be calling that the Klubby Smith. So you you got a clubby Smith. With these puns, you're gonna be rolling your eyes. Just wait till you see some of them. They I do. Like, what was what was our one with for Shay Gildes Alexander, Oh, grilled jesus.

00:39:49
Speaker 3: No wait wait, some of the grilled cheese. Grilled Jay, grilled cheesus. Now it's something with Shay.

00:39:57
Speaker 4: Something with grilled cheese and Shay Gildess Alexander.

00:40:00
Speaker 3: My favorite is the Jamel Martini. Now you gotta be a fan of nineties Kentucky basketball, But Jamel Martini and biscuits and Greevy you're my two favorite.

00:40:07
Speaker 2: Biscuits and Greevy are Shay grilled cheese, Alexander.

00:40:12
Speaker 4: That's what's it? Shay grilled cheese, Alexander. Who's who's next?

00:40:16
Speaker 2: Mark is next? Mark? Go ahead?

00:40:18
Speaker 4: Mark, biscuits and Grievy is good?

00:40:24
Speaker 1: Oh that's the best.

00:40:26
Speaker 12: You You really hit it there at Minning Hill about we got other things we could be spending our money in our time on for the take games and tailgateing. I mean, we were out about seven am on Saturday, and I was trying to add it all up about you know, I mean there's a group of us and we probably got about seven thousand in our tailgating.

00:40:49
Speaker 7: Wow.

00:40:50
Speaker 12: And that's probably lower than that's probably lower than say the people out there that you know that had the big trailers and the big setups and all that. And then you go and you spend you know, you got your tickets, you got your parking doesn't count when you high alcohol for your kids are coming over from you know, their their students there and they bring all their buddies and you know, your four cases of beer in for the you know turnity that showed up and and all that. And it's just there's other options, I mean, and a lot of other options, and and that that was put out there on Saturday was just very med yokre and very underwhelming. Now game one, Yeah, got to let it up and get some stuff straight But like you said, if it doesn't straighten up, and doesn't, we are not in this game and we're not competitive Saturday.

00:41:43
Speaker 2: You're exactly right, joker, You're exactly right about that. I appreciate the call, and I hope that, I mean, they will recognize it because it'll happen.

00:41:52
Speaker 4: But you know, I mean, I just think about myself. Let's say I had nothing to do with any of this.

00:41:58
Speaker 2: I think, objectively speaking, if the product on the fields not better and the environment around the field is not better, you will have a better time watching the game at your house or at this bart. It's a lot the tailgate atmosphere is a lot better here before the game than it is there, and that's a shame. It shouldn't be like that in the game atmosphere. They got to make sure it's better. Now. If we beat Old Miss, a lot of this stuff won't matter because it'll be fun, Drew.

00:42:25
Speaker 3: If we beat Old Miss, no matter what, I'll be singing, lim Biscuit. You promise I will personally put the letters.

00:42:33
Speaker 2: If we beat Miss. You're coming on the postgame show and you're singing. You're singing you.

00:42:38
Speaker 3: Wear my Yankees hat on backwards, my red fitted Yankees hat.

00:42:41
Speaker 4: Okay, I may go t i'ay that you sing nookie.

00:42:45
Speaker 2: If we win on the post games, Thank you all.

00:42:49
Speaker 4: Very much for listening. We'll see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio. Tomorrow in Bowling Green,