2026-03-10- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our too of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: So you laughed, shanting that people would want to know about Donna Kelcey. Now it's all just people making jokes and questions about my house thing, and that's why people get into it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to know what's going on at your house. I'm much more interested in that than.

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Speaker 2: One person writes matter, are you going to give out white necklaces at your pool? That's not very nice. It's not very nice. Do we need a lifeguard on hand? From We don't need a lifeguard. Adult swim it's very nice.

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Speaker 1: He's like a waiting pool, so he'll be eating.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's small, it's not it's not huge. You can check your pH.

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Speaker 4: It sounds like a kool.

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Speaker 2: It's an actual pool. One person writes, Matt Ryan's realtor, how would he describe it? I'll let you do that. How would you describe it?

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Speaker 1: It's a very modern two story house that has an open floor plan, beautiful backyard, covered back deck with a pool, two primary rooms on the first floor, which is perfect. From Larry and Karen that climbing stairs, got two bedrooms upstairs and then a big great room upstairs. It's perfect for like a man cave.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to build a studio. Shannon, there you go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah you should. You should showd as much as you do the show from home.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not for this. I'm still gonna come in for the show, but like it's really for for TV, like like ESPN and stuff. They want to film our show or whatever, and I really don't have a place for them to do it.

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Speaker 1: So that room's perfect for that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, Ryan was a good realtor. One person writes, Matt, you are you going to have your neighbors have a shovel for you to use? Have not met my neighbors? Scared to meet him, Drew, don't? I don't know if I want to know them. I know where you live.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't just like set tables on the curb in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah there is an h those are the worst. Yeah, I don't know what that means.

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Speaker 3: Really, but they charge you a lot of money to live there and give very a little back in return.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, do you let me ask you this when you when you move to a new play do you do you knock on the door to meet that? I don't have, like, but I do have some people that are right there are you supposed to go meet them, are they or do they go come meet you?

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Speaker 1: I think like in more rural areas they kind of do that, but in the city nobody does that anymore.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure there's some people knock on the door of your neighbors and say hello.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 5: When I moved in, one of my neighbors knocked on the door with a bottle of bourba and introduced himself, and the other I just kind of met organically. Yeah, but we became pretty close. Okay, So it's still not an answer. Should I knock on their door or not?

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: I think mine. Mine came to me.

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Speaker 2: You think you should.

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Speaker 3: I think you should, because, look, you may need them, they may need you. You know, if you're out of town you need something, it's good to know who your neighbor is. They could go over there and check on your house if you need them to you.

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Speaker 1: Maybe new neighbors move in by me and I've waved at them and I drove vibe. I'm not I didn't go down and oh.

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Speaker 2: Well you need to go meet You're mister friendly. You should go meet them.

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Speaker 6: I will.

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Speaker 1: I will one of these weekends.

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Speaker 2: So that's a no. All right, one person rights, you're gonna let Ryan have his famous pool parties there. No, he does not get he's not bringing the UK offensive line to my house. Yeah, no, it'd be great. No, you keep them over at your house. All right. A couple things here. First of all, if you get some time today, you need to watch the video of I didn't know anything about this till this morning. Has anybody been watching any of the World Baseball Classic. No, we've been keep it up a little, Okay, I really haven't. I watched a little bit of the USA in Mexico last night. But so I didn't realize Chechia what used to be called the Czech Republic, they have a team, but they don't really Baseball is not big there, so I think they're like the worst team in the thing. And they're in the bracket with all those teams in Asia that are really good Drew or you know, Ryan, like like Japan, Korea, Taiwan. Except yes, okay, so the Chechia goes and plays and the opening rounds there are in Japan, so they are playing Japan in Japan, and of course Japan in Japan is massive. Sho Hey, what was the picture for the Dodgers Yama Moto. Is that Histia? Yeah, yeah, so they're all there. Well I didn't know this, but three years ago when they played this the last time Chechia played in Japan again, and there's a picture for Chechia, who is an electrician. Okay, doesn't even play baseball as a profession, just plays like a in like a team in the city for fun. Okay, he's an electrician. And he comes and he's their best pitcher. And in the Tokyo Dome against Japan three years ago, he strikes out show Heyo Tani in front of everybody.

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Speaker 4: Oh my, I'd say that's shocking.

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Speaker 2: It was shocking. Pitched pitched five innings, I got it, pitched five innings with and allowed no runs, no hits. And because Japan is so baseball obsessed, and because Japan ended up winning, this dude became a national story in Japan. Who is this Chechenian electrician who came and struck out all of our players? All right? So I was reading for the last three years he's lived in Chechia and nobody cares because baseball doesn't matter there. But they brought him to Japan. Once and he said he couldn't go anywhere without people stopping him. He's a celebrity in Japan, but not a celebrity at home. That's kind of interesting, isn't it kind oposing player an opposing player, because it's the legend of that's the guy who struck out show hey, who's an electrician. Fast forward to while we were sleeping last night. Three years later, he pitches against Japan again in the Tokyo Dome. He is retiring from baseball. He's in his thirties. He decides, Ryan, I'm not gonna play baseball anymore. This is gonna be his last game against Japan. Tokyo Domes full pitches last night.

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Speaker 7: Strikes out Otani again. Wow, strikes out Otani again. Five innings or four and two thirds innings scoreless. So at the end of the fifth inning, the Chechnian manager comes to the mound to pull him so he can get a standing ovation. And you have to watch his video. He's walking out off the mound in front of eighty thousand Japanese people who give him a standing ovation, like the loudest ovation you've ever heard, and he begins crying and waving at everybody. It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. And then when the game is over, the Japanese win like ten nothing because all the other pitchers stink that. All the Japanese players come to take their picture with him, This Chechenian, Chechian.

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Speaker 2: Electrician who has now pitched against the like the best team in a like the best players in baseball, and in for ten innings, has yet to give up a run and has struck out show Hao Tani twice. Isn't that a great war?

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Speaker 4: Is he retiring again?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 4: Why would you not stick with that? It sounds like he's really good.

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Speaker 2: If he can, he's just gonna keep being an electrician.

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Speaker 1: This is this is a Disney movie.

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Speaker 2: This is all a Disney movie.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely it is.

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Speaker 2: And he said since they've been in Japan, he can't walk down the street, but that when he goes home, no one knows who he is.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I'm watching the video. I got I got chili bump right now watching it.

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Speaker 5: He's also tiny with a huge beard.

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Speaker 2: He's got a huge beard. He looks like he looks like a cartoon character.

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Speaker 1: There's the Japanese guys.

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Speaker 5: Wow, his fastball tops out at eighty.

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Speaker 2: He throws at eighty Shannon and he and he keeps like baffling show hayo time.

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Speaker 3: And that's batting practice, it sounds like. But somehow he can't hit him, can't score on him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a crazy story.

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Speaker 8: Great.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be weird to live in your home and no one know who you are? You have the country around the world where everyone knows.

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Speaker 3: A perfect situation because you could go out and nobody would recognize You would never have to worry about, you know, living that celebrity lifestyle in public because nobody knows you yet.

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Speaker 4: You're famous somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: But if you ever wanted to feel like a star, you just go somewhere, go to Japan and be like, hey, everybody, I'm here. Yep, would you move to Tokyo if you were here? He probably wouldn't have to be an electriciitan.

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Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, probably they hire him to be a coach on their Japanese national team, be a celebrit.

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Speaker 2: So I was watching this video this morning, and when the show is over this afternoon, I'm going to learn more about this to think about. Only he's only pitches there once. He did it three years ago, so there was all this hype he was going to do it again, and you would assume Shannon, he'll get let down.

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Speaker 1: He does it again, packed until the stadium is packed.

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Speaker 2: That's a wild story, great story, and I think it is uh.

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Speaker 3: Electrics to make really good money. He's turning that down to not be a baseball player.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. Well, but I mean he only throws eighty Maybe he I think he doesn't want to play baseball, Drew, because the myth of him might go away.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if he tries to play regularly. If you were watching him and he's just giving up runs.

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Speaker 4: For signed that million dollar contract to let them figure it out.

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Speaker 2: I kind of like the mystery of I just every three years come in and baffle you all. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love the video because he takes a moment to kind of just stop and just soak it all in. It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Wow. Anyway, I think it is a great story. One person rights guys make everybody predict when how many games do we win in the SEC tournament? What's our seed in the NCAA Tournament. I think we win two, we lose Friday. I think we play Florida close I actually think we play them well Friday, but lose. And if we do that and play them well, I think we end up a sixth seed in the NCAA tournament. That's gonna be my my pick.

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Speaker 5: What about you, Drew, I think we lose to Florida, but I think we're gonna be stuck in the seven seed line. So get two games there, then maybe your surprise us and make a run in the big tournament.

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Speaker 2: What about you? Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we get lsu we owe Missouri. I agree with you. Played Florida tight, you know, if we can give him a decent battle. The last two games we played them ended up that six seven sixty seven seed six to seven.

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Speaker 2: And and please stop even six year olds think that's lame. Now you can stop. Okay, sixty seven?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they went goup of games. You're than what twenty one and thirteen?

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Speaker 2: You'd be twenty one and thirteen. And you got to remember all the teams you're competing with, they're going to lose in their conference tournaments too, you know what I mean? So like everybody's going to take a loss, But go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I really agree with you. I was going to say sixty before you even said it. So I'll go along with you and say two wins in a six seed.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you lose to LSU, you might drive you will drop to an eight or nine. So I mean the LSU game I actually think is very very important for for seeding. This person says they're my new neighbor allegedly. Yeah, but how do you know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't even know where you live.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Here's what you did. Ask them what their address. I'm not glad.

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Speaker 4: They may may hang up on them.

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Speaker 2: If I do it, Well, it's worth it's cause I want to see it. We won't say it on the air, but I want to see if they actually are my neighbor, okay, and then we'll we'll take them in the next segment if they are okay. Before you do that, let's go to Adam.

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Speaker 9: Go ahead, Adam, Hey, what's talking about? I'm by no means a U Interior de creator. But I do know how to hang pictures and I'm very good at picking out senting candles.

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Speaker 2: I think I got the candles part now.

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Speaker 9: Man an awesome interview with Coach Stehn yesterday. At the beginning of his tenure. Coach Stoops was like that this fiery was tell his face that you know, he was ready to go, and I think that that just kind of weighed on him as the his tenure went on. And yesterday you could hear it with Coach Stein. So he's got me really excited about the season.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you, Adam, and I appreciate the call. I will say when he was talking Drew, there was you couldn't help but get energetic. And I know people are right Stoops would do that stuff early on, but there was something about looking at me and saying, if you're scared, go to church, which I guess is an ice cube line, which I didn't know, but still saying it, and then kind of going look six seconds of hell. I mean, all that stuff made me go, all right, I love the energy, let's do this.

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Speaker 5: Oh that got a lot of people. I'm sure you heard it all afternoon. I did too, including the neighbor talk. My neighbor Brian walked over yesterday when I was outside to talk about the will Stein interview. It's like, we're all excited, March is here right in front of us, but Will put a lot of attention on football with that excitement he brought to the interview yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Ryan, how could you not That's what the our fan base needs. Someone to sort of inject us with the belief. And it's a new voice. And I think it worked. At least it did on me.

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Speaker 1: It worked on a lot of us. I think we all got excited just that excitement, the energy level. I think, like I said yesterday, we love coachtops. He did great things here, but the program needed that, needed that breath of fresh air.

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Speaker 5: It's an attitude we haven't really heard. I mean, I love stoops, but like he said towards the end, this is heart, you know. Will Stein said the opposite, What do you want me to cry about it? He's like, bring it. He didn't say it's hard. He said he's ready to go tackle the challenge.

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Speaker 2: So that looks like that is.

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Speaker 4: My neighbor, who say is that you're address?

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Speaker 4: Pretty crazy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to see the whole roster.

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Speaker 5: Do they all just have random jobbing?

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Speaker 2: If they do just have random the.

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Speaker 3: General surgeon, I mean, yeah, you're making really good money, I would say doing that. The electrician, I'm sure makes decent money, but not to the level of a surgeon.

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Speaker 2: No one person, says, Matt. When you move in a neighborhood, it's on the neighbor to make the greeting. Ryan is being rude by not introducing himself to his new neighbor.

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Speaker 1: I greet them eventually. I just haven't done it yet.

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Speaker 2: But that at the beginning, that's when it's the most important because they need to feel welcome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're busy, they're moving stuff in.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you're busy.

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Speaker 1: Hurt my feelings though.

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Speaker 2: The guy moved out, so you're gonna hold it against a new guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking at your pool right now. It's a nice pool, all right, but thank you?

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Speaker 2: All right? So this person is.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't want to talk about it. What do you mean I just looked it, looked it up.

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Speaker 2: It's a nice pool, you got Are you being sarcastic? You know?

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Speaker 4: No, I'm being serious. Why would I be sarcastic. That's a nice pool.

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Speaker 2: You can you can come to the pool part.

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Speaker 4: I will do that absolutely, all right.

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Speaker 5: Do you want to chut your jobs real quick? I found a list to you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What do they do?

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Speaker 5: Their center fielder teaches geography? Okay, it doesn't say the position, but one of them works at a firehouse and he has to be there twenty four hours before he gets two consecutive days off to play baseball.

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Speaker 2: Really, that's interesting.

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Speaker 5: Okay, one of them works in sales. All right, those are the three listening to this article. But it looks like we're right that they all just have random jobs around.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. I think that's awesome. I wish i'd known about that. They're apparently done, they're out, but I would have loved to have watched one of their games. And I you know, they played, they played while we were sleeping last night in losing to Japan. All right, so the neighbor is on Shannon, This is my this is my neighbor. Yeah, all right, Hello, what's your name?

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Speaker 6: Troy?

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Speaker 10: First time?

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Speaker 8: Long time?

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Speaker 2: Who are well? Nice to meet you.

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Speaker 10: Nice to meet you as well. Welcome to the neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Well thank you. Now we're not you're not going to say where it is. But am I gonna like everybody?

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Speaker 10: I think so. Most people in the neighborhood are in Florida and the cold months anyway, so it's quiet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so everybody leaves. Sounds like it sounds like my kind of neighborhood. Okay, well good, So what do I need to know?

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Speaker 10: Not much? Just uh, you know, you got some really good neighbors on both sides.

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Speaker 2: How old is everybody? How old is everybody?

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Speaker 10: I'd say, beside us, they're all in their sixties, seventies.

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Speaker 2: Perfect, that's perfect.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, we got some younger boys, so we'll try not to bother you too much.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's okay, I'm sure it'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: I have a question for him. Yes, we heard Troy that there was like a little cart path you can get to the clubhouse from where you guys living.

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Speaker 2: He's already messing upon. But he's already messing up. I told it. You know what, just shut up right see to talk to you. Yeah, that's not what I'm gonna do you. You you seem wonderful, Troy. I appreciate it, and leave with Shannon where you are, and I'll come say hello at some point. Okay, sounds good.

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Speaker 10: Hey, a quick follow up question for you guys to chop up really quick, and before I ask it, just a quick shout out to the Cold Takes group chat. I've got a group chat with some guys and you call.

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Speaker 2: It cold takes.

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Speaker 8: Cold Takes, I.

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Speaker 10: Like all of the opinions of the guys are terrible opinions but yeah, real quick, So who's going to be our next coach after Pope is let go?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have no idea to tell you at the h A meeting.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. Well, that gets to a question I actually had to hear, Drew, and I'd like to see what your thought is. One person writes, Matt, I want Pope to be here forever, so this isn't about his future. But do you think a coach like Todd Golden or Danny Hurley would have worked here with their personalities? I have an answer to that, But what do you think?

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Speaker 5: Drew Hurley seems like another category by himself, even way above Golden, even though Golden, as we saw, has a lot I have a weird take. We're trying the nice thing and it's not working. I think college basketball needs Kentucky to be a bit of a villain.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: No, people didn't like col a lot of Yeah, we love the romanticism with Pope and all that, it's not really working right now. If it doesn't work out, you know, Hurley's a stretch. But I do think we need someone that kind of has a little jerk to him, and we kind of have to be the bad boys, Ryan.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if he's a jerk. I don't care if he's Donald Trump. I don't care if he beats up his little sister. Okay, you don't mean come on, I don't mean that, but I want to.

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Speaker 2: Okay, don't just say it again, don't just say stuff to say it. Do you genuinely think it would work?

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Speaker 1: Yes, because we just want somebody to come in and win. I don't care what kind of person you up. Sometimes you would just come in and win.

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Speaker 2: I think that's easy to say when you're not like that's easy to say in the abstract, But this job is so highlighted. So do I think Danny Hurley, if he was here, the fans would take up for his behavior and support him. Yes, Shannon, I do. Yeah. But I think if Todd Golden had gone through what he had gone through here, it's a much bigger national store, no doubt about it, and I think things like that would be harder. Perfect example is Bruce Pearl. So Bruce Pearl makes strong political statements all the time, strong, and at Auburn people don't really pay attention. But Shannon, if he was at Kentucky, they would, and that would be a different kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: It's a pressure cooker type of job where everybody pays attention.

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Speaker 4: It's exactly happened to be. I feel like battle tested to be able to sit in that chair.

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Speaker 2: Danny hurt has made Yukon to where now he gets that kind of scrutiny at Yukon. But Todd Golden, that whole situation, regardless of what the actual fact, if that had happened here, it's a different level of a national story Drew. It just is. And so I think that part is something that people don't realize. Whatever happens, it happens times fifty when you're at Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina or Kansas.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, and I think Hurley would be a bit much. And anyone that's committed an actual crime that's tough to defend. But the Golden thing he was cleared, I haven't seen anything other than that. I mean, it's not a good look, and it would be bigger here. I mean, you think if it was here there would have been reporters on. I mean, remember that was a student newspaper that investigated it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is here. ESPN's going live.

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Speaker 5: I know, But I'm just I'm feel like I'm defending gold. I mean, I haven't seen any evidence like Florida cleared him. It would have been huge. But I mean Rick Patino is coaching right now. We know his I mean, there are a lot of coaches that have done some weird stuff. So I'm just I'm not gonna expect an angel. I think there's a line.

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Speaker 2: It's important remember that it's a different thing here. Now. Do I think at this point people would accept a lot. Yes, I do, but it would be interested to be a different way it would be characterized if it was in Lexington. We'll take a break break back. It's KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

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Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Turkey Sports Radio. Got some breaking news. Shitning running on my man Hunter Green for the Reds out fourteen to sixteen weeks to start to season, So I'm I'm already giving up.

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Speaker 4: Can I sell your season tickets?

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Speaker 2: He apparently has quote bone chips and loose bodies in his arm.

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Speaker 4: Loose bodies.

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Speaker 2: What's loose bodies?

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Speaker 1: I've never heard that phrase loose.

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Speaker 4: Bodies st loose pieces of bone.

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Speaker 2: I guess, but the word bodies is a little it's just a type it loose Green has bone chips and loose bodies. Never heard that fragments of bone or cartilages. Huh, well great, I just convinced myself one hundred wins. They do have a deep pitching staff. But still, that's a that's that's a big, big las.

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Speaker 5: I just gave Ryan some good Reds news. I just w k y T just said they're cover airing ten Reds games every Monday Night all season.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna air the Reds games, or when they play at home on Monday Night, they'll be on w k y T. So that's good.

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Speaker 1: I used to love Monday night baseball. So if I don't care if it is the red I would I would sit and watch it.

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Speaker 5: And Opening Day I've found you as a casual. I've had trouble finding Reds games forever, so it's nice to know at least some of them I can find.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I hate that about Hunter Green. I like Hunter Green eight five, nine, eight, twenty two, eighty seven. The Girls Sweet sixteen starts tomorrow in Rupp Ana. Who's in it? Do we know?

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Speaker 5: Well, the Henderson Colonels are in it.

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Speaker 2: Who's the favorite? The one team wins every year?

00:25:24
Speaker 6: Right?

00:25:24
Speaker 2: Like doesn't Anderson County or whatever or Sacred Heart.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: Don't say we good Heart. They've had that Johnson girl lost. So there's been done.

00:25:31
Speaker 2: So let's go through here. You got opening game tomorrow at eleven am Henderson County versus Douglas. Then, uh, Callaway County that's way out there versus Assumption. I think Assumptions on Bartstown Road, isn't it?

00:25:48
Speaker 1: I believe it is to you.

00:25:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's close to the Mexican restaurant I always eat at. I think I walked by it on the way. Pikeville plays Notre Dame. Well, that doesn't seem fair.

00:25:57
Speaker 4: No, and went down to a high.

00:26:00
Speaker 2: School Notre Dame as the Pike Wise to play Notre Dame. Wow, Wes Jessman plays Duke.

00:26:08
Speaker 1: Uh, where's Notre Dame Northern Kentucky. It's the female school, Catholic school up in Northern Kentucky.

00:26:16
Speaker 2: Hmm, okay, I didn't even know that. Wes Jessman plays Taylor County, go Campbellsville. Simon Kenton plays Ashland Letcher Central plays who won between Owensboro Catholic and Davis.

00:26:32
Speaker 1: Cam Catholic Owensboro Catholic.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: Look at you? You having the answer quickly. Ball Franklin Simpson plays Bullet East to go Chargers.

00:26:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought they were in it. I wasn't sure though, and.

00:26:43
Speaker 2: Then North Laurel plays George Rogers Clark and.

00:26:46
Speaker 1: They've been good for many years in a row.

00:26:48
Speaker 2: GRC has so wait a minute, no Sacred Heart, No Sacred Heart.

00:26:53
Speaker 3: County all pulling for Bullet East, right collectively, if we're pulling from Eye, I'm calling.

00:26:58
Speaker 2: For Pike Boy. If they have to play a Notre Dame.

00:27:02
Speaker 4: They're gonna lose. Notre Dame's getting nothing at Studs.

00:27:06
Speaker 2: All right, who's the favorite? Do you know? I would assume you know.

00:27:11
Speaker 1: George GRC's gotta be one of the favorites. I don't know who's considered the overall favorite.

00:27:14
Speaker 2: Okay, well, if you're if you are coming to the games, come say hi at ks Barr all weekend, all weekend. Be nice to have you out there. It is should be George Rogers Clark. People tell me is the favorite. So yeah, all right, there you go, let's go to Grant.

00:27:31
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Grant, Hey man, how are you doing this morning?

00:27:35
Speaker 2: Doing good?

00:27:38
Speaker 6: I just got too quick points. The first one is a football one. I just wanna say about Will Sin not really a personality thing, but just on the field stuff. He kind of gives me Todd golden vibe ken in to Kentucky just because he's bringing such young energy to the game and he's so energetic and you can tell he's not scared, and he's smart and he knows what he's doing. And I think he can bring Kentucky football to highs as they ever been to. And I'm really excited about it. And he just what he's done, what Todd Golin's done at Florida, I feel like he can do for Kentucky football.

00:28:13
Speaker 2: I love that he said over and over yesterday, don't be scared. You have to take risk. I agree with that. At this job especially, I don't think. I think you have to take risk. You have to swing for the fences and maybe you strike out. But at Kentucky, I don't think you have a choice. I think you have to. This is not a place to be conservative. I know, you know. Mark Stoop's won quite a bit kind of playing like that, but if you really want to hit another level, you gotta take a swing. And I love that he said a couple times in the interview, you cannot be afraid to fail. When I say that to people all the time, the biggest difference between people who really succeed and those sometimes it don't is don't be afraid to fail. And I loved hearing him say that.

00:29:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then my second thing is, I know we don't have many recruits next year, but if we're going to the portal, have you heard about there's a guy from High Point called Chase Johnston. I believe they're going to make a tournament. And he's made sixty four threes of thinking of one hundred and twenty two he's that is an amazing stats.

00:29:21
Speaker 2: He has made what is it, sixty four out of what.

00:29:26
Speaker 6: I think it's one hundred and thirty two, so it's just under fifty percent.

00:29:28
Speaker 2: So he's made drew sixty four out of one hundred and thirty two threes. But he's not made a two all year oh for four on twos, oh for four on twos. Sixty four from one hundred and thirty two on threes. That is one of the most amazing stats I've ever seen for a player. I saw that yesterday. That's crazy.

00:29:49
Speaker 5: Please put High Point in Arkansas together. I need it so bad. I need it.

00:29:56
Speaker 1: I need the Jack Gulkie.

00:29:58
Speaker 2: Yes it will.

00:29:59
Speaker 5: It will be therapeutic if he can do that to Arkansas for me, because.

00:30:02
Speaker 11: They could beat them right Hot Point. I mean he could gokie them. That is he is Goki. He's the second coming of gold. Make one two ever, even just.

00:30:12
Speaker 1: By luck, you figured to get a layup at some point during a game in the course of a season.

00:30:18
Speaker 5: Shut fo Yeah, how do you play that much basketball and act thirty two threes and only four two's?

00:30:25
Speaker 1: He's probably crazy?

00:30:27
Speaker 4: What's He's probably a little guy and probably can't get eat.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: I don't know what size is he, grant he's sixty three six three, Okay, so he's little, all right.

00:30:36
Speaker 5: He plays about fifteen minutes a game and hasn't accidentally taken a layup more than four times.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: That's amazing. I appreciate the call High Points at school. I think we've talked about on here where you get free ice cream every day, that's.

00:30:48
Speaker 4: Right, every day or every game.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: Every day they have an ice cream truck on campus on campus and you can just get free ice cream and then I think it also it's a it's a place where you learn, like hospitality and once a week. So they have a steakhouse on campus that students work and once a week or maybe it's once a month. I'm not sure, but so often students get a free steak dinner at the steakhouse.

00:31:18
Speaker 4: What a place.

00:31:19
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:31:20
Speaker 5: Also, Cameron Fletcher is his teammate.

00:31:23
Speaker 2: No high point.

00:31:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cameron Fletcher plays a high point Yep.

00:31:26
Speaker 2: It's another reason that Arkansas does he get to play. Yeah, it might even be the league score. Cameron Fletcher who he was on the COVID team and so is Devin. Ask you so two guys from that COVID team are still playing college basketball.

00:31:43
Speaker 5: He had seventeen in the Big South Championship and nineteen rebounds.

00:31:48
Speaker 2: Didn't Cameron Fletcher date like Angel Reese?

00:31:51
Speaker 5: Yes, and left Kentucky midyear. He has a lot going on in his college.

00:31:55
Speaker 1: Left in the middle of a game that one time and he gets off the bench.

00:31:58
Speaker 2: That's right, he did leave in the game, yep. And he gets a steak dinner. Shannon.

00:32:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd just show up for the Steak Dinner. Just give me that n ice cream, I'll be happy.

00:32:08
Speaker 2: I think the restaurant that they do where they have the State Dinner, is good and like just the people that live in that town go to it to eat.

00:32:18
Speaker 4: Especially if it's free.

00:32:19
Speaker 5: There's a restaurant on campus I go to that's all student run. You have to make a reservation here and can hear it Lexington? What's it called the Lemon Tree Cafe And it's all run by student it's like part of their class.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: Where is it.

00:32:33
Speaker 5: I'd get the building wrong. It's not far from Memorial Hall, so it's in a just in a building. Yeah, it's like there. I go for lunch occasionally, but you have to have a reservation and it's all it's like their class.

00:32:44
Speaker 2: Hmm.

00:32:44
Speaker 1: I love that idea.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: It's pretty neat. Check it out the Lemon Tree Cafe.

00:32:48
Speaker 5: Yep, don't take my reservation though, right.

00:32:52
Speaker 2: See. You learn things on this show.

00:32:54
Speaker 1: You get booked like all weekend.

00:32:55
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00:33:25
Speaker 4: Kill great song. Yeah, mister Bright said.

00:33:28
Speaker 2: You play this one?

00:33:29
Speaker 4: We do? Yeah?

00:33:31
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:33:31
Speaker 2: I think. How'd your thing go? At ten Roof? I was gonna go but then we missed you. Show went late.

00:33:36
Speaker 3: It was good, it was packed, but then Kentucky lost, and I think that kind of killed the vibe for the night.

00:33:41
Speaker 4: A lot of people went home.

00:33:42
Speaker 3: But we'll be playing post game on Thursday at ten roof.

00:33:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Thursday show is ten Roof. It'll be nine to eleven Eastern, so eight to ten Central, and then Shannon will play later that day. Hopefully we'll be celebrating to win. What time are you playing Thursday? Again?

00:34:00
Speaker 3: I think right after the game, so like one thirty Central time to five.

00:34:04
Speaker 2: Okay cool, so right after the game so people.

00:34:06
Speaker 4: Can hopefully we'll be celebrating a win.

00:34:09
Speaker 2: Yes, eight twenty two eighty seven one best rights, Matt, I've seen two brackets have us playing n C State in the tournament. Would we beat him? What do you think.

00:34:24
Speaker 5: The would we beat him? I'm not good at that game. You could say any team in college basketball. Same, but you gotta play somebody. I don't know much about NC State. I don't how they've done this year or anything.

00:34:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't either. It's Will Wait. They lost a lot in.

00:34:38
Speaker 5: This in the year.

00:34:39
Speaker 2: It's Will Wade.

00:34:40
Speaker 5: That's all six out of seven.

00:34:42
Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith announces he will not run for president. Wow.

00:34:48
Speaker 4: Anybody think he was actually going to He's no.

00:34:51
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the only person that thought it was Myron Metcalf because he would send me every update about it, and I was like, you know, he's not gonna run.

00:35:00
Speaker 1: Actually thought he might run.

00:35:01
Speaker 2: I think he did, but he's announced that And his reasoning for not wanting to run is I make too much money.

00:35:09
Speaker 1: Well America, thanks him.

00:35:10
Speaker 2: Yeah really, I mean, honestly, if that's why you're not running, then really should you have considered it anyway?

00:35:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just too for the money.

00:35:19
Speaker 3: I make too much money the country. You know, Let's give me a step down in my pay.

00:35:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know. Well, no comment another person rights mad. If we don't win the SEC tournament, who will Florida? Florida is obviously the favorite. I will say I saw on DraftKings you could get Arkansas Drew for plus eight point fifty. It feels high, doesn't.

00:35:45
Speaker 5: It, Especially with a guy like a Cuff.

00:35:48
Speaker 2: You could take You could get Art Alabama for plus six hundred, Arkansas for plus eight fifty. One of those two teams is going to be in the finals. Yes, So why why not Drew when you take both of them and then take your check answers? Yeah, well, a Cuff, I think those are good odds.

00:36:03
Speaker 5: They're they're Carter Knox injury I think might have hurt the ceiling for Arkansas on the postseason because they were already thin.

00:36:10
Speaker 2: But a Coff just.

00:36:13
Speaker 5: I don't know if they officially called it the year.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: But it's one of those ye forever.

00:36:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's been out, he had surgery and if I'm not mistaken, so I think that's gonna be what ultimately holds them back.

00:36:22
Speaker 2: But peck Acuff could go win it all by himself. Yeah, is this so? The phone lines just for people know the phone lines are have broken to where when you call most of the lines hang up.

00:36:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're down to like one line down.

00:36:38
Speaker 4: The one line that wow, and guess who's on it?

00:36:40
Speaker 2: And guess who who is the one person who's been able to.

00:36:43
Speaker 1: Stay on I hope it's Bob and Jamestown.

00:36:48
Speaker 2: Bob and Jamestown.

00:36:49
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, Matt, Assuming that Kansas goes all the way. What Kevin Grievey said when UK played UCLA in seventy five, when John Wooden came out and made his retirement announcement before the game, that the refs went UCLA's way and that take the Kansas. So Bill's uth gonna do that if they go all the way in Indianapolis.

00:37:20
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I was too young to see the seventy five game. It has certainly taken on the lore Ryan that we lost because John wouldn't said he was not going to coach anymore, and the refs cheated US. Now I know that people say the refs cheated US. There are people who think the refs cheated US Saturday, even though we were losing the entire game to Florida. Do you think the refs cheated US in nineteen seventy five, because that is the common narrative about that game.

00:37:52
Speaker 1: I know Kentucky fans like to say that, but there was no way the UCLA players were gonna let John woodn't lose on his last game, the championship game. They just kind of willed their way to a win. So I don't think the referees affected the call, but there'll be some old timers it'll tell you that they did well.

00:38:05
Speaker 2: There are people that get angry at John Wooden drew like he shouldn't have said he was going to retire, that he that he almost it was not fair of him to say that he was going to retire because the players and the refs then changed the way it went. I always think that people have strong opinions about that game.

00:38:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know that they think wood and should have waited, like do us a favor, don't tell him now, But I've always took the interpretation is what Ryan said, that it fueled UCLA more than the refs and they just couldn't lose, knowing it could be Wooden's last game. It's just unfortunate timing for Kentucky that he was able to give them that message where he went out.

00:38:42
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, Bob. If you were to rank games, Kentucky got cheated by the refs the most. I have a distinct number one. I think the game at Texas A and M is number one. The Isac Humphy Isaac Humphrey's game, because it over and then they called that technical which was unnecessary, Like it wasn't even a controversial call. We had gotten the game winning rebound. The game was over and then they called that and we lost. They did not need to call that. So to me, that's number one, and then number two is North Carolina twenty seventeen. But I will grant you it's because of controversial calls. But I think the only guy game that we that I can think of that we got out landishly cheated was Texas A and M. Do you all have one, Well.

00:39:37
Speaker 5: A lot of fans will tell you there's Auburn game just a few weeks. When you put that on the list, I was too mad at them for blowing the lead and Brandon Garrison having cinderblocks for shoes than I was the ref. But I understand the argument because if they don't call it Kentucky probably Wednesday game?

00:39:50
Speaker 1: What about was it the Arkansas goaltending game that they changed the rule after the season.

00:39:56
Speaker 2: You're talking about the LSU gets the put back dunk. Is that what you're talking about?

00:40:03
Speaker 5: LSU had a tip in and reperena that is that the one that changed the rule. Arkansas had to tip in dunk in Fayetteville.

00:40:08
Speaker 1: That also the LSU game on they changed the rule after the season where.

00:40:12
Speaker 5: Because he put his what what I don't remember this was there was a goaltending and I don't think they could review it or something. He tipped it in and it was maybe questionable.

00:40:21
Speaker 2: Well I don't I wouldn't use the phrase cheated. But the twenty fifteen Wisconsin's shot clock violation, yeah, I mean that's frustrating.

00:40:32
Speaker 5: Well, that's one where there's a screenshot where he's holding the ball in the clock says zero. I mean that one's hard to argue. The defensive games wasn't over. There was still like a minute and something left in that game. Yeah, and cal took the air out of the ball.

00:40:45
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I think, I mean, do you all disagree with me on the A and M one? To me, the A and M one is the one that I just look at and go game's over and you just call it technical for no reason.

00:40:56
Speaker 1: You're right though. The some older fans, though, will swear up and down the ninety five title is stolen from Kentucky because of the referees.

00:41:03
Speaker 2: Yeah. See, I can't think of another one where well, I will tell you one that people would have said is if we hadn't hung on and beat Arkansas this year, you know when started just calling all those technicals.

00:41:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, flip the script I definitely could have been.

00:41:20
Speaker 2: I mean it was earlier in the game, but that would have been one that that I think people would have would have thought that. All right, So the game tomorrow, folks is at twelve thirty. Okay, weird time. I think those games used to be at one. They've been moved up to twelve thirty. KSR will start at nine. So the pre show and KSR are merging tomorrow. So a lot of our affiliates out there. If you don't, if your affiliate you listen to doesn't take the pre show, then you'll have to listen online. First of all, Shannon, they should take them.

00:41:52
Speaker 4: Everybody should be taking the pre show.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you should demand your affiliate to take the pre show. But if they do not, it will be online and we will then go up to eleven o'clock stop and then the official pregame show will start. Then everybody feels good about the game against LSU tomorrow.

00:42:12
Speaker 3: If we can't beat the worst team in the SEC, then yeah, see.

00:42:16
Speaker 2: I don't think they are the worst team though, Like I think it was a three way t ty. I think they're the best of those three teams.

00:42:24
Speaker 3: But they're still the bottom of the SEC. And you're Kentucky. Yeah, and it's the SEC Tournament in Nashville when you get all the fans there.

00:42:30
Speaker 1: Right, just win the game.

00:42:31
Speaker 2: By the way, South Carolina UH has just announced they're bringing back Lamont Paris as their coach. By the way, even though they've been six and thirty in conference the.

00:42:41
Speaker 4: Last two years, good for us, we got potential.

00:42:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see you later. It's been Kentucky Sports Radio