2025-09-9- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: From Hit Comedy Specials and social Media Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcomes Kelsey Cook September eleventh through the thirteenth and gets Rising Comedy Star and UK grad jowe Ying summers September nineteenth and twentieth and from TV and the Movies. Don't miss Kevin Farley September twenty fifth through the twenty seventh. Four tickets to all comedy Off Broadway shows call E five nine two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com co Off Bway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone, It is Kentucky Sports Radio Here live Tuesday, September ninth in Lebanon, Kentucky at the Cornbread Hemp Farm on a beautiful beautiful day here sixteen hundred Bradfordville, Bradfordville, sixteen fifty Bradfordville Road. You can come out and join us. You're gonna get some sun, but that's all right. We got a a nice group of folks here and you can give us down on the car's puppet shop pull line eight five nine.

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Speaker 3: Two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: Avison Auto Glass text Machine is seven seven two seven four five two five four in this edition sponsor by the TJ. Smith Office. If you call TJ, I'll make them pay. We about once a year come to one of Cornbred Hemp's farms. And now that are out here, sixty acres of hemp production right here.

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Speaker 3: In the state of Kentucky. In beautiful.

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Speaker 4: I would still call this central Kentucky, wouldn't you? Ryan?

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Speaker 3: Here and now outside of Lebanon, it's beautiful.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they're the the hemp fields look like little, small, little Christmas trees when you pull up it.

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Speaker 4: Let's be beautiful when you pull in.

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Speaker 6: Don't you think I put an order of it? Maybe a star on top of one of them.

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Speaker 3: That's right, you can hang this.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I if I bring one of these and cut it down and put at my parents'.

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Speaker 3: House, I don't know that I'll have the same reaction. But nice to be out here today.

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Speaker 4: Drew, Sure is it's beautiful out here tomorrow and I we'd like walk down the rows of the plants. Made a little video just now. Kind of felt like a real farmer there for a minute.

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Speaker 2: So those of you that have been listing know about corn bred hemp. They've been advertising with this forever. Let me give you a couple of facts. They're the fastest growing business in Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Did you know that?

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Speaker 6: I did, Yeah, because I talked about it on the pre show. But until you did tell them, I would not have known that. But it's very impressive of what they've done here.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And they are fighting in DC to keep HIMP products legal.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't try. I try.

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Speaker 4: I try to keep my political opinions to myself.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's one thing I can always say about.

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Speaker 2: You, right, but when it comes to uh, when it comes to him, it shouldn't be a partisan issue.

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Speaker 4: This is like a huge for the state of Kentucky, no.

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Speaker 2: Better place to grow it. And your guy, Drew Franklin, Mitch McConnell has introduced language to the Senate that would make these full spectrum flour only CBD plants illegal in all fifty states. On a personal level, that's a big deal to me because I take it and it really helped change the way I sleep, to change the way I was able to rest. And if Mitch McConnell ruins that on his way out the door, I'm gonna be upset. But luckily the other representatives both Republican and Democrat and the state are for it. But we have to stop Mitch McConnell from ending the cause. He was the one that started it. And now the Bourbon p who are mad and now he's flipped, and hopefully we can get that changed.

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Speaker 4: I have a conversation, Well you knocking that boy? What about Ryan? You were? I was waiting on you to respond. You should have a strong takes.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Mitch McConnell right here with us too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well Mitch, why are you doing that?

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Speaker 6: Ontoyo?

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Speaker 5: Mark, It's good to be here on Kansas Sports Radio. I like the I like the sav that they make.

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Speaker 4: Why are you trying to band it?

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Speaker 5: I only use it when I kick your ass?

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Speaker 3: On your ass?

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Speaker 5: What's going on?

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Speaker 6: McConnell I personation on the showy five nine?

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Speaker 3: So make sure you're a Kentucky representative knows what they need to do.

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Speaker 4: We are out here.

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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful day.

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Speaker 2: Corn corn bred him brings us and there's a lot going on this morning. The UK Athletics, the new UK Athletics LLC, whatever it is you want to call it, is having a meeting as we speak. And one of the things on the agenda is.

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Speaker 3: The creation of a committee to form a plan.

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Speaker 2: But really what it means is they are going to build a new UK basketball practice facility, uh, something that they that has been wanted by some people at UK for a decade, fought against at times by other people. But it's going to be, from what I understand, a basketball practice facility that will be a joint effort with UK Healthcare.

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Speaker 3: So it will be.

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Speaker 2: Half like I don't know, rehab athletic clinic half basketball facility. Now there's been like three NBA teams do this. The Atlanta Hawks have done it. I think the Cleveland Calves. I think the theory is yet it's a practice facility, you also have gyms and stuff that people can use during the summer, and while they're at it, their parents can go to the athletic clinic.

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Speaker 3: It'll kind of be an athletic.

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Speaker 2: Rehab slash orthopedics place, but also the UK practice facility. The goal is to have the nicest college basketball practice facility in America.

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Speaker 3: As I understand it, it.

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Speaker 2: Will be for the men's program, and then the women's program will take all of the current practice facility and be able to share it with volleyball.

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Speaker 3: So what the women.

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Speaker 2: So basically, the women will take over what the men had at UK, and the UK volleyball team will take over what the women had, and then the men's facility will be I've heard on campus, probably where the old UK baseball stadium was.

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Speaker 4: That's likely where it would be.

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Speaker 3: People, I think that's the kind of initial thought.

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Speaker 2: Is over there next to where the old baseball stadium was, close to football campus.

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Speaker 3: This, of course, was.

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Speaker 2: Something that John Calferry preached about for a decade, was never able to get and it's got to like drive him crazy that the moment he leaves they are able to get it done. But we'll talk about that part in a minute. But first of all, I think UK needs it. I think it's gonna be good for the bast program. You know, devil's in the details. I don't know all the details, but just in theory, Ryan, I think it's obviously good for the basketball program.

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Speaker 5: If you came in as basketball is supposed to be the gold standard, I mean, well, this is a step in the right directions right put in a facility like this will be the one of its first of its kind in college basketball for men. Absolutely, I think we all could get supported that the.

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Speaker 2: Practice facility Drew was very good, very nice, but it was not the best in the country. It was still good, but it wasn't the best in the country. I think their goal here is to have the best in the country. Now, you know, Kansas is one that has had a better one. Even Louisville's to some extent, is better. Now you're able to get this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've recently put money into the Craft Center, but it's still had its limitations. That in this UK healthcare component will make the new place even bigger. I assume there'll be a dorm thing. That's what Kentucky. I don't know. I don't think that's right. Well, it's just moving it across campus. I don't know if you can keep the lot because the lodge is already dated as it is. That's one of the bigger complaints. So hopefully they do something with that too.

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Speaker 2: I have not heard doing that. I think it's right now. This is a bat this is a practice facility. I think they're still at least now gonna have the players where they are Logistically, I hope they move them over there. But regardless, it's a good improvement. You want to want Kentucky to have the best of the best. We just went through a portal season where everybody's talking about how Kentucky's doing so well in an IL. Let's have the facilities to match and just try to stay I don't want to say gold standard because that was the old era, but let's stay on top of college basketball. Shannon John cal Perry got I mean when you couldn't help when I when I heard about this last night, you couldn't help but think about cow because.

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Speaker 3: He this was his thing forever. They wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: He he came in at one point and was like, me and my players will pay for it. That was, by the way, a complete lie. It's amazing to me how many people actually bought that that was gonna be. You think these players are gonna pay seventy five million dollars for a practice facility. I think they would have contributed, but the money ultimately was going to have to come from donors and the university. I understand that this will be UK Healthcare a primary driver of it, plus the university and donors, and so now the reality is they have the money now, whereas they didn't have the money before.

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Speaker 6: Shit, I feel like if they really wanted to, they could have probably found the money to put it that they could have there.

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Speaker 2: Now, I think people need to understand there's this assumption out there that there's this money pit and that like any time you want money, it's there.

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Speaker 3: I can tell you in the realities of UK sports.

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Speaker 4: That is not true.

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Speaker 2: And John Caliperi had so frustrated so many of the big donors and so frustrated the university, the board as a whole, that money was not there. Now, I do think it's telling that it is there a year later. Yeah, because of Mark Pope, but it was not there.

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Speaker 4: It was not there regardless.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's got to be driving him crazy. It's the one thing that he was wanting and they couldn't put it together. They couldn't figure it out, couldn't get the plessing from Mitch Peace.

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Speaker 4: It's his fault. Yeah, let me tell it.

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Speaker 3: It was his fault.

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Speaker 4: It was totally his fault.

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Speaker 6: And it's about when you asked for it too. You don't ask for that after you lose to Saint Peters or Oakland. It's all about when you asked for it. I think it has a lot to do with it you remember.

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Speaker 2: His initial real push for it was after we lost to Saint Peter's. Yeah, he sort of almost act like when we lost to Saint Peter's because of that. That was because we didn't have that practice facility then, and there were people like, well, we'll Saint Peter's practice facility there. Boy, there's must be really nice. Mark Pope, though, I think, deserves a lot of credit in this, and I think part of the reason this works now is the NIL piece because UK Healthcare. My guess is UK Healthcare is going to end up with Nile sponsorships with these athletes as part of this. But this will be good for the for the basketball program, and you know, we'll continue the goal of It is clear this university has said we're gonna be good at basketball no matter what it takes.

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Speaker 3: And this is part of that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, make no mistake about it. This is happening because Mark's Pope is now your head coach. This would not have happened if John cal Perry was still here as our head coach. The money was just not gonna be there. But these donors are now back on board believing what Pope's trying to build here. That's why the money is now available to do something like this, How.

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Speaker 3: Much do you think it would eat?

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Speaker 2: Like when he when he when he saw the tweets last night and heard the news, do you think Cal's head exploded.

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Speaker 4: We'll probably get a little remark from him just cuddle, yea.

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Speaker 3: At some point he'll make something like.

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Speaker 4: It's nice to have another well headwind.

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Speaker 6: I think is they I think it would be nice to Kentucky when Arkansas comes to rupt to at least let him have a tour of the new practice facility. You know, let's show him what could have had here.

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Speaker 4: I would ask all the NBA players to donate and kind of take his idea, like having Anthony Davis room in there where that he contributes to that would that would.

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Speaker 3: Be nice if they were able to do it.

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Speaker 2: It is It is interesting to me, you know, you were this practice facility getting done confirms to me and should come firm to the general public. To what extent At the end of that time, he had no juice left, you know, Shannon, to your point, you were like, well, the money could have been there. I mean, it just didn't have the support. I think you're I mean, you're I sort of said you were wrong. You're right in one respect, which was it was theoretically there. He just couldn't get it.

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Speaker 6: If you don't have the people who have that money supporting you, then you don't have it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was theoretically there.

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Speaker 2: He just couldn't get it, and he didn't really have the juice in order to be able to get it anymore. And Mark Pope, it's so funny because he has such a different style. You know, Mark Pope is not a like slick sales guy. There's a different energy about him, right, completely different energy in Ryan, at least for this time. I think that worked. And then he gets the perfect timing with the and ile to get.

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Speaker 5: It there that you've you've talked about how you know the the number one Booster and Cal had a falling out, that money was not there anymore. That number one Booster is now back on board because of Mark Pope. It's because of him and what he's trying to do here.

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Speaker 4: Now I'm excited to see how advanced this thing is because Pope came in. Remember on this show, he was like, this building has a whiteboard with a broken leg. I'm trying to bring in technology and iPads with the way they nerd out this new facility, and you know they were gonna have to invest for someone to you know, build it and do all the studies. But it is gonna be technologically advanced in there.

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Speaker 2: It will be it will be very nice and then but it also remains on campus, which is another good thing I think, I think for everybody. So with basketball being on the horizon, they they've we've talked about starting the workouts. We didn't mention this. Yesterday they remeasured all the players. I thought of you, Shandon when they remeasured all the players. Yeah, because now they say Jade and Quaintan's is two inches taller than last year.

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Speaker 3: I think trit Noah was a half an inaller. Are you gonna are you believing? Are you believing the new heights?

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Speaker 6: No, I'm gonna take my own tape measure over to the campus and start measuring these guys because I don't buy into it. I think this is like the wrestling thing where they inflate heights.

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Speaker 2: I think they had five different players that had grown at least a half inch, since, like, what.

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Speaker 6: Are they feeding those guys over there to make you grow that much?

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Speaker 5: Like a good stretch doctor? They're stretching them out.

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Speaker 3: What is the age where you don't grow anymore?

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Speaker 5: Me, it was like twelve, That is.

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Speaker 6: That checks out? I'd say, I don't know, I'm not a doctor. I'm gonna guess like nineteen twenty maybe somewhere around there.

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Speaker 3: So if that's the case Drew, it's possible.

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Speaker 4: Queen's especially, I can believe because he's still pretty young. He's like twelve years old. But like Ryan, he's still about to stop growing. But I do think there might be a little bit of cooking the books here. If the whole team has grown in just a few months.

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Speaker 6: It's like the Well, this may be a dated reference, but you will get this the Barney five where they're trying to stretch them they I'm hanging, you know, trying to stretch them reference.

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Speaker 3: But you I can see some people out there that.

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Speaker 6: Older crowdedy that's right.

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Speaker 2: The older folks in the audience audience know that if I'm nine two eight, twenty two eighty seven, Well, I think the takeaway from the practice facility probably won't be around for three years. But the takeaway to me is a how different the things are between donors, university and coach and then b how much money. This university has clearly decided sports, specifically the big sports are the key to these athletic departments surviving. And I'm not saying UK is giving up on football. I don't think that's happened. But I think they've said our basketball program has to be good. It has to and we will do whatever it takes to be good. And I think this is the latest thing. Af I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. It is a beautiful day really Lebanon, and this is a beautiful scene actually out here on the farm. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Lebanon at the Cornbread Hemp Facility. Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Cornbread Hemp, the Seltzers, big thing everybody's been doing, including you guys.

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Speaker 4: Love them.

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Speaker 2: They've I think Billy's already taken one back there. They got food here as well. Come on out to tell me the road again, Bradfordville, Bradfordville Road.

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Speaker 4: The truck parked out front to help you.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you can see it out there if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine one person writes, Matt, do you think it would be classy to name the facility the John and Allen cala Perry Practice Facility?

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Speaker 5: Just a little dig there? Is that what you're trying to say?

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Speaker 3: I mean I think it would be classy?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Do I think it's ever gonna happen?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: And would I support it?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 6: You'd have to give them money to use their name on it.

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Speaker 3: So no, I mean just that's a big no.

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Speaker 2: Actually that's my Uh, that's my worst idea of the week, or Drew giving that I would I would not do that.

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Speaker 4: No, But you can throw his image on the wall with Tubby and he should be out there. Yeah, I mean he will exist there, but I don't know if his name needs to be on the bill.

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Speaker 3: You should celebrate him as a coach, yes, just like we do the other coaches.

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Speaker 2: But but no, I would not would not do that, Matt. I genuinely think cal Perry broke you all in KSR. You're still obsessed with him. You need to get over it. He did a ton here again, you're writing about him. I'm just telling you why the thing got got didn't get built before, and why it's getting built now because it's a legitimate.

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Speaker 3: Question of it. Two years ago they said we're not going to do this in the foreseeable future, and now they're.

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Speaker 4: Doing I'll say the callers, right, John Caliperry did break me. Saint Peters in Oakland was awful, absolutely awful. I'm still in recovery. Let's talk about football.

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Speaker 3: Just second.

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Speaker 2: Mark Stoops comes out yesterday, does not say that kws Oida is not the starter, but then also says Cutter will play. I didn't totally understand. You know, there are some whispers out there that people think the kaws out injury could be serious, but they don't know. I didn't really know how to interpret his comments, either on the show at night, or the show or the press conference during the day.

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Speaker 5: What about you, Yeah, if you listened to a coach last night, he he didn't come out and really say that it was gonna start.

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Speaker 3: But then if you really listen to it, he.

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Speaker 5: Kind of did say that Cutter was gonna start.

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Speaker 4: So he's trying.

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Speaker 5: I think they're trying to do some gaming ship. I think Cutters the guy between the line, by the way.

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Speaker 3: I hate the gamesmanship.

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Speaker 2: Like if you if you have to gamesmanship Eastern Kentucky you got bigger or Eastern Michigan you got bigger problems. Just say you want to have a crowd there Saturday, Saint Cutter's gonna start right like, I mean, I don't want do you want people.

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Speaker 6: To come or not?

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's gamesman ship. I think it's delicate with Calzada because you don't want him to check out because you might need him again depending on his injury situation. You don't want to just say, oh, you hurt your shoulder. You're in the end of the bench. Now it's his show, I think you. Even though Stoop sounds like he wants it, and his comments from Saturday stick out more to me than Monday, I think he's just being careful to not just flip the switch to boldly and then lose Calzada for the year.

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Speaker 3: Well cows, I don't know. On Saturday, oh he will.

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Speaker 4: But I think just with his comments, he's being careful just to not throw him aside.

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Speaker 6: The other Yeah, I already got all the confirmation. I'd ate it yesterday from Scoop Lemon when he says that I'll take it to the bank. So Cutter started.

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Speaker 5: Calzada didn't practice yesterday, and like Matt said, kind of the scuttle bud is he's hurt. So I think you got to prepare and think that Cutter's gonna be your guy when you hit the field on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: All right, What did you think of Mark Stoops saying that when you look at the film, we were just one or two little mistakes away from having won the game. He was like, these are one or two little things. We're much better were there. I don't know if it's one or two. I might say it's like four or five. But I would actually say most of those mistakes were self inflicted, and some of them are on the coaching staff.

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Speaker 4: I would think, do you agree with that? That's I we'd say most of them. Yeah, It wasn't a talent issue, was a coaching and operational issue. I mean, you're in the game, but if we just counted all the pre snap frustrations, the burnt timeouts, the penoties, that's where you got beat. Not because Old miss is just so much better of a talented football team.

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Speaker 5: The mistakes that were on the field. Yeah, I think a lot of those maybe are correctable, but the mistakes that were made on the sideline, something we've been talking about for four or five years.

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Speaker 4: It seems like it's hard.

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Speaker 2: For me to I mean, he's he once again did the inexcusable. We got to get better, But I mean, how many years do you have to wait for that?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 6: I was telling Billy, you know, we could go back to a random podcast from ten years ago on a September Monday and be talking about the same thing that we're talking about today, the organizational issues, the clock management issues, the things that just drive as crazy as fans cover receivers.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, does it not sound like to you when he talks about the offense, specifically bush Hampden, he's just amazingly frustrated like that, Like it is, it is hard to think of as and I'd love to see what odds you could get in Vegas for Mark Stoops and bush Hampden will be on the staff.

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Speaker 3: Next year together.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just that's that's hard for me to see as something that is likely just the way he talks about him, Drew, I don't think I've ever heard him talk about a coach the way he talks about He doesn't say anything about him specifically, but just the overall thing.

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Speaker 4: Agree with that. Yes, and when the into the first half was so bad on Saturday, and to their credit, they cleaned up a little the second half. But Stoops has now said two or three times I had a conversation with offensive coaches at halftime. Then we fixed it. Yeah, that conversation was probably very loud and one that if you were a fly on that wall, I think it was more than a conversation. It was probably a figure this the bleep out or we're all out here just looking at it.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he's gonna fix it. He's looking at it. Let him look a little longer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the thing. You gotta give him time to look at you see it.

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Speaker 2: If you don't give him time to look at it, how's he supposed to fix it until he looks at it.

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Speaker 3: That's a great point. Who's up first? Lee?

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Speaker 5: Is up first?

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Speaker 3: Lee? Go ahead?

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Speaker 4: Lee?

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Speaker 7: Hey, le hey man, how you doing doing good?

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 5: Lee?

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Speaker 8: Hey?

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Speaker 7: Listen? I want to call real quick? Is this quick thing on the cast football you've been talking about it. I'm not trying to be naggy if I think four and eight's gonna be the best. I think Stoops is done. I think it's time to start listing in basketball and volleyball.

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Speaker 2: But the reason I told you, man, if you're not trying to be negative, well I hate how are you being negative?

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Speaker 7: That would be positive right there? Four days? I think for what we got going is I want to call you about your trip to South Africa. Man. We we spend about the month of July down in South Africa and went to Johannesburg and then we was on a mission trip and went to uh Blimboo, Swahiti. It's called used to be called Swaliland s Ytini. My wife just said, and we've been down there about seven times. And are you going to uh on to safari at Kruger Park. Yes, yes, Oh it's awesome. It's awesome. We stayed the place there right there called Hippohollow. We had hips.

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Speaker 3: Not sure that's not in Breathat County.

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Speaker 7: Hippo holler ha, no as this, No, it was definitely Scruger Park. And listen, man, it's unbelievable. Try to do a night safari. If you can try to do well, I'll do whatever they take me.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it on my own. I don't feel like I have that level. But whatever they take me to, that's what I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 7: The have a guy. We was there just like I said, the whole month of July. We saw Lines take down the rhino and said we were fifteen feet from him when they was munching on.

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Speaker 4: Social.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: The most intimidating singer is on Hyena, so yeah, the most the most beautiful thing is the white tailed dog.

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Speaker 4: So I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Well, sir, thank you, thank you for I gotta take a break, but thank you for the kind words. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio walking back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here.

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Speaker 3: Live in Levanon. They just brought us.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how often people get to Lebanon, just like in their travels, but if you do, they just brought us.

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Speaker 3: Is this cedar Wood? Is that the name of the place, cedar Wood?

00:23:11
Speaker 2: Country Ham Biscuits, and you know the Ham Days is coming right and then over that think weeks, think it's while I'm in in South Africa, but this was really good. I forget when it comes to country Ham this is the county. I'm just telling you, I'm a country You don't get that everywhere. I'm a country Ham connoisseur. No no offense to cracker barrel, but I'll take cedar wood when it comes to that.

00:23:33
Speaker 6: Of course, this is like the country Ham capital of the world. And you want good country Ham, you gotta come to Lebanon.

00:23:37
Speaker 3: That's right, Corn brad Ham Here.

00:23:39
Speaker 2: They've given over five hundred thousand dollars back to the community and now have this issue going. Think about how many jobs need to be saved. Don't let Mitch McConnell right before he retires screw it up. Now, this is somebody that writes me that Usually Ryan has pretty good information, okay, and so I feel I wouldn't read this if I didn't think it was likely to be the case.

00:24:01
Speaker 3: This is about the new basketball facility.

00:24:03
Speaker 2: It's gonna be off Cooper Drive across from Commonwealth Stadium. It will connect to Nutter Training, it will take play take away one practice field at Nutter where the band practices.

00:24:14
Speaker 3: Poor band. What is the band gonna do?

00:24:16
Speaker 6: Now go to the parking lot.

00:24:18
Speaker 3: I guess it's what they're gonna do. There will not be a new dorm.

00:24:21
Speaker 2: Players will actually end up probably having a play live off campus. That's partially because the lodge is and as nice. That's between me and you. That's kind of already happening right now, but it's while like that for a while. They gotta you know, if we if we're all being friends here, it's kind of already happening. The reason UK Healthcare is part of it is because you have so much money coming in from the UK Health Hospital System. As a nonprofit, they literally have to find ways to spend the money because it can't be given to shareholders.

00:24:53
Speaker 3: So this is one of their capital projects.

00:24:55
Speaker 2: They're gonna do all that makes sense, right Yeah to me, I I can't swear that's true, but that makes sense.

00:25:00
Speaker 5: If it's a half practice facility half rehab facility, you got everything under one roof, you know, and the guys obviously have have rehab needs all the time, so every day.

00:25:09
Speaker 3: Allows them to pay for it.

00:25:10
Speaker 2: You get them to pay for it, and then they use half the building, uh for health care, and then you get a practice facility out.

00:25:15
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody wins, except for the band band the losers. Nobody thinks about the band. If you don't have the band. It's gonna be really quiet. You're gonna have my old Kentucky home names. I mean, let's think about them a little bit about the band. Yeah, they got a practice in the rain? Now, yea, how hard it does to play an electric guitar in the rain?

00:25:31
Speaker 4: Electric guitar? Marching band?

00:25:35
Speaker 6: Are you because the marching band or the band that sets up there because there is nobody there is like a bass.

00:25:41
Speaker 2: Guitar, maybe a bass guitar. I think they mean the marching band. I don't think they mean just like the punk rock bands that are on campus. I don't think they get their own practice.

00:25:49
Speaker 6: I think there is a bass player.

00:25:51
Speaker 2: I swear there's there's a bass player, but the band itself is more of a well. It's tough for seconds, since you're bringing up the band about atmosphere, it is always fascinating to me what resonates with people. We've talked about this, like we'll talk about something random and people will bring it up to me, you know, for years, and we play this game on Saturday, we lose, and you know, there's still a lot of people talking about it. But the atmosphere thing, if you were to look at the text machine seventy five percent of all texts. I'm getting here about atmosphere at Krogerfield, Like that's it is clearly like a nerve that people had that has been poked, maybe because of how bad it was for game one, and now it's all it's literally all people write. One person wrote me and said that they actually wrote down the songs that were played during the O. They took a quarter and just wrote all the songs down, and you know, I was looking at them and I actually left it at home.

00:26:50
Speaker 3: It was on an email, but.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: It was a bunch but one of the ones they said, what has been played both weeks? And this was really bothering people. Shannon, you're a music expert. Okay, there's a.

00:27:00
Speaker 3: Group is it called the Outfield?

00:27:02
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, eighties.

00:27:04
Speaker 3: They have a song called Your Love.

00:27:06
Speaker 6: Which I'll play on Double Q and the afters.

00:27:09
Speaker 5: It's not a stadium song though, but.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: They've played it in the first and second half both games, so they've played it four times.

00:27:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a what how does that song go?

00:27:19
Speaker 6: We'll get Rick to play it.

00:27:20
Speaker 2: Rick, will you put it in the next segmenting Your Love?

00:27:25
Speaker 4: All in the world. I can sing it for you, sing it.

00:27:29
Speaker 5: I used to like the outfield.

00:27:31
Speaker 6: I don't want to lose your love. Love, there you go.

00:27:38
Speaker 3: So is that a stadium song?

00:27:40
Speaker 4: No, no, no, absolutely not, not even a little bit.

00:27:43
Speaker 2: So apparently played twice a game, and this person was ranting about your love, saying, if we in twenty twenty five think to play at a football game not once, but twice every game the outfield your love, that shows me how disconnect that they are.

00:28:00
Speaker 3: Do you agree with that?

00:28:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think that's a good stadium song. I mean it's it's a fine song, but I don't think that gets me pumped up for a football game. If I'm going to go classic rock, it's got to be like some ac DC or Metallica. If we're going to do old stuff, nobody wants to hear eighties music at a football game.

00:28:14
Speaker 4: Counterpoint, we asked them to be situational. They're literally asking for us to not give up on them, and maybe that's it. Maybe they're looking at the crowd leaving being disappointed and they're going off script and trying to play to the crowd.

00:28:27
Speaker 2: So there was someone at UK who I was talking to yesterday and this is somebody that's always been very like, like is asking me my opinion? Not in an argumentative way, is like, literally, what do you think? And this was I just want to be honest what I told the person that UK. I was like, here's what UK needs to do. And I say this with all due respect because I think everybody involved is a good person.

00:28:51
Speaker 3: I said, I said, when was? My argument was?

00:28:54
Speaker 2: When is the last time Mitch Barnhardt has sat down with average fans and listened to their opinions? When And the person didn't have an answer for me, And I said, I'm gonna guess very rarely because why would he how much does he go like just take the people here? When do you think is the last time Mitch bart Hardt has talked to a group of people like.

00:29:16
Speaker 6: This outside of email? Probably never, well I'm not.

00:29:21
Speaker 3: Gonna say never, but it's probably been a long time.

00:29:24
Speaker 2: The nature of that job is you deal with administrators, you deal with big time boosters, you deal I bet outside of ants of a church setting. But again, like church in Lexington is not the same as Lebanon. It's just not I bet you, I bet there's no dealing with them, So how would you even know right, how would they even know? And so they said, well, what would you suggest? And I was like, well, there's so much stuff that it's hard for me to even to even figure out. And so I said, I'll throw it out there to people and say, what are some suggestions beyond this sucks that you would do? Like, like, literally, what's something you would do? We all agree, change the DJ. The number one thing I would do is high shade than the dude. I honestly think it would help. That would be number one. Number two, you gotta do something about the sound system because it's awful.

00:30:17
Speaker 4: Now.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: I was told the sound system actually can be louder and better, but people have told them to turn it down.

00:30:23
Speaker 4: Now, this is a serious question.

00:30:26
Speaker 2: If that sound system could be better and you're turning it down, then that means the only people you're listening to are the old.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: People who give a lot of money who don't want it to be as loud.

00:30:36
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying their opinion shouldn't matter, but like there's a counter opinion, right, And I don't think the other stadiums go.

00:30:43
Speaker 3: You know, Johnny thinks it's too loud. They just blast the music.

00:30:47
Speaker 2: So but I thought it was a fair point to ask me what specifically would you do? So I'm gonna go to the three of you if I said to you, what specific change would you make?

00:30:56
Speaker 3: What would you do?

00:30:57
Speaker 4: Right?

00:30:58
Speaker 5: Well, so let's right now, so much there focus on keeping the big booster people happy, which unfortunately a lot of are older people. You gotta get away from that line of thinking. You got to think about the stadium atmosphere in itself, which so piggyback in fact. What you're saying loud music, stadium music, nothing that it may not, may not make the the booster people happy.

00:31:15
Speaker 4: But okay, but that we we did that one?

00:31:17
Speaker 3: What else? Because because what what are you? You're in charge? What would you do?

00:31:26
Speaker 6: We're no longer playing my old Kentucky home at all at all, Joe.

00:31:31
Speaker 4: We're taking down are still songs?

00:31:33
Speaker 6: Is there any specifically?

00:31:35
Speaker 4: My biggest complaint that I've noticed And in the press box we're in closed, so I don't get the true atmosphere, but I get a decent feel of it. And during a timeout, a commercial in between quarters, it is absolutely dead in there. I even joked last week they're showing fans and they probably went to six straight fans who were head down looking at their phone. I even I wrote on our board, like, oh, I like the new everyone's looking at their phone cam that we debuted. Fans kind of need some instruction or an activity in those moments or they're gonna look at those phones. I don't know. Excuse me, choking if you bring a cheerleader out with that microphone to try to lead something. I don't know if you're firing t shirts, but you need something during the breaks teethed energy going because it completely does. It doesn't even matter what song you're playing. People aren't doing anything. They're sitting on their hands.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: I go to Reds games, Shinnon, there's never a moment at a Reds game where it's silent, for better or worse.

00:32:23
Speaker 4: There's not.

00:32:24
Speaker 2: At every moment, they either play music, they either have a tape thing where they're showing a Reds baseball player, you know, picking who's trivia. There's a game with fans in the crowd. There's a kiss cam, there's a let's honor a veteran, like, there is never a moment where they're not giving you stuff. And that might annoy some people, but it makes it to whear. Even at a baseball game, which is not exactly the most exciting thing in the world. There's always something coming at you. Drew's right, there are long.

00:32:56
Speaker 3: Periods of just silence at the games.

00:32:59
Speaker 2: And if somebody to doubt to me about the blue White Chant, they were like, I want you to think about the blue White chant, whether you like it or not. The premise of the blue White chant is you have a stadium full of people that might have sixty five thousand people.

00:33:12
Speaker 3: That could cheer, and you are instructing half of them to shut up.

00:33:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point, yep.

00:33:18
Speaker 3: I mean think about that.

00:33:19
Speaker 2: You're saying in a big defensive moment, when all sixty five thousand people could create an atmosphere of noise, Hey, half of you all shut up, that's actually a really good too. Great Drew like, why would you do that?

00:33:35
Speaker 4: You should be encouraging, even if it's just like, hey, let's all scream as loud as we possibly can. They bring that uh decibel thing reader that no one truly believes last week they had it fired up. It's at whatever numbers hide it's shaking. But you look around and people are like, it's like you have to bring people are going to bring their own energy for the entire game, especially when the game's not going well. Something has to be keeping them going at all times during commercials and time. It's almost like Krogerfield goes, all right, ten minutes, we're all gonna take a break and come back. Go get smoke, bathroom. You need to make a phone call. We' I'll be back in ten minutes for the game. No, it needs to keep going.

00:34:10
Speaker 6: In basketball games, they have like an in game host. You know, why not have something like okay, so.

00:34:14
Speaker 2: All right, let me get to that. If you want to have an end gram host, I always bring back Ryan. But you, as someone who hosts a radio show, the key of hosting is you gotta have energy even when other people don't like even if other people are looking at you like I'm not happy about this, You've got to go. And you can't just put somebody that works for Jamne seems like a nice person. You gotta have somebody who has person. Now, it's tough in football because they can't see you all the way down there, so.

00:34:42
Speaker 4: It is I'm not gonna no, I'm an knowledge. It's much tougher in football.

00:34:45
Speaker 3: But I agree with you. I think they have to do that.

00:34:47
Speaker 2: So if you have suggestions, I said, I would pass along suggest like that blue white thing where the person just said to me half the crowd's not talking.

00:34:55
Speaker 3: I thought, I, man, that is.

00:34:57
Speaker 4: That is what I thought about that.

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00:35:43
Speaker 3: So this is the song turn it Up, Turn it Up?

00:35:47
Speaker 5: Rick.

00:35:54
Speaker 3: So you think this is a good football song?

00:35:56
Speaker 5: No, absolutely, I love this song, but it is not a stadium.

00:36:00
Speaker 6: There are songs that are great songs, but they're not right in the specific situation that you're playing the man. And I think for football, this isn't it.

00:36:06
Speaker 4: Wait, think about David goose To putting his hand in the dirt right now.

00:36:10
Speaker 3: He's just ready to knock someone's head. I'm not interested in losing his love tonight.

00:36:16
Speaker 5: It's like they're afraid to play those old songs from the seventies that all every stadium in the world plays, and for whatever reason, you can't win.

00:36:23
Speaker 4: In the seventies.

00:36:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's be honest.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: Just second, if you go to other games, folks, eighty to ninety percent is rap. Like I think the handful of non rap songs you should play is like ac DC yep. I think even the seventies like Creetens and Clear White. That's all nice, but like, just I want you to think about the people who are twenty five in the seventies. They're in their seventies. Yeah, okay, I mean we don't want to think about it like this, but it's true. I saw my eighty five Bears and I was what last night they showed him? And I was like, man, not many guys showed up, and then I realized a lot of them are probably dead. Yeah, you know, because they're like eighty five bears.

00:37:07
Speaker 6: Doesn't seem that long to me, but they are eighty five.

00:37:09
Speaker 3: They're in their seventies. Most of the eighty five bears, they're truly eighty five.

00:37:13
Speaker 2: Well, gess so, you know, I mean, I guess it's not surprising a lot of them didn't show up.

00:37:19
Speaker 3: They couldn't show up.

00:37:20
Speaker 4: That and the comment about keeping the music low in kroger Field. When we see these other places, like when sandstorm comes on in South Carolina, do you think anyone's like, you know what, we should probably turn this down just a little bit, or jump around at Wisconsin or all these iconic moments and games with music. People are saying, turn it up as loud as possible and screaming through it.

00:37:40
Speaker 3: No, you're you're you're exactly right. They five nine, two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Who's up next?

00:37:45
Speaker 4: Mark Anthony?

00:37:46
Speaker 3: Is next? Mark Anthony? How are you?

00:37:49
Speaker 6: Hey?

00:37:50
Speaker 8: Matthew, Ryan, Drew Shannon, and hey Rick, Hey, matth You've got three things. First of all, I agree with Drew that this this roster is strictly in their prince to Zach Calgarta. That's that's all. And the blue white thing, I wish the cheerleader leave those cards in the locker room they come out, because listening to it on the TV, it sounds as though the entire stadium has given birth at the same time.

00:38:18
Speaker 3: Wow, it just like your version of it, though, Mark Well, I think that's a good version.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: Sounds a little bit like I appreciate to call my Dan Campbell impression from Cover Zero. I've gotten some comments that like people were be in the drive through or not Dan Campbell, Chris collins Worth.

00:38:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan was.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: Last weeks I was talking about how during the games, Chris collins Worth grunts a lot, and I'm not gonna do it here with everyone watching me, but I did an impersonation during the thing, and some people said like they were ready to drive through or something, and they had the volume up and they hurt me. I mean, I was making sounds that not a lot of people hear me make, and it was just on It was on the radio, and true I got a good laugh out of me.

00:39:00
Speaker 4: I couldn't even talk and we needed a moment to gather myself there, but that's an impersonation.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: That's what he does when Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson play.

00:39:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of, I'll find it.

00:39:10
Speaker 6: Make a drop out of it. Don't worry.

00:39:11
Speaker 5: It's good. It is.

00:39:13
Speaker 2: You could put it to good use. To be honest with you, it is a pretty good drop. Cover three NFL Cover zero, Episode three is out. Check it out. I think of the three them we done, I think is the best one we did. That's good because we were up to one in the morning. Billy was there till two in the morning. Billy was a trip up for the pre show and then up for the pre show, driving all the way to Summer st by the way. We've been last four days, Bowling Green, Georgetown, Somerset, Lebanon.

00:39:36
Speaker 3: This is like the old days of driving all over the state. Who's next? Kyle is up next, Kyle, Go ahead.

00:39:41
Speaker 8: Kyle, hey Man.

00:39:45
Speaker 9: I'm trying to remain positive about the season, but after the first two weeks it's getting more difficult. The one problem of denominator with the offense, it seems every year, is who the head coaches. We've had different offensive coornators. When they lead, they go on to do much better things. Than they've done here. I know he says he doesn't had anything to do with the offense. I find that hard to believe. And I don't think anything is gonna change until he moved on. So let me throw and I know the season is still going on, but it's just hum with me for a second. I know everybody wants John Somerrall. I would love John Somemow. John Somerral is a defensive coach. What if we go a different direction than have an offensive minded coach? And I'm gonna throw a name out there that I haven't heard anybody say. Sonny Dike's at PCU.

00:40:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they considered him the last time. I mean, you remember when they hired Stoops.

00:40:38
Speaker 3: It was a fight.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: There were like four guys that were a finalist, one of which was Sonny Dyke. So I mean Sonny Dike's was definitely someone I think Mitch Barnhardt was comfortable with. He uh, you know, when when Stoops was hired, there was a group, and honestly, I appreciate the call. The other guys all had some success, but Sonny Dikes was.

00:40:57
Speaker 3: One of them.

00:40:58
Speaker 2: I think one of the things people have to understand is Obviously, we have ten games left. Mark Stoops is going to be here till the end of the year, and I think he'll probably be here longer than that. But that's a different conversation. We'll see what happens. But if they were to have a job opening, I can tell you who the next coach at Kentucky will be. It will be one of two people. You can write this down. I'm gonna put an eighty plus percent chance that if if if Mark Stoops were going at the end of the year, the head coach will either be John Summer or Brad White. That's just what it'll be, so like it's fun to talk about other names, but it'll be one of those two people. If Mitch Martinhart's making the decision, which I have no reason to think he would not be, So you know, that's just what it is. Like, that's who That's who Mitch is. That's what that's not. Now, if we finish three and nine our defense collapses, maybe that changes.

00:41:49
Speaker 3: But if you were to just say to me today, Ryan, that's what I would say is the most likely.

00:41:53
Speaker 5: I think you're right. One he's won one A. But there's three defensive coaches we're talking about Stoops White in summer. All all three are kind of defensient coaches because again that's what the caller was asking, and why don't we go why do they go a different direction?

00:42:02
Speaker 2: But this was somebody that was considered last time, and I think it's maybe the second or third choice. So it's not a crazy scenario. We will take a break, come back.

00:42:11
Speaker 3: I remember two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.