KSR - 2024-02-06- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK vs. Vandy, player photoshoots, and Toby Keith.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I think Ryan and Drew are in the Lexington studio. Is that right? Yeah, weird scene going on here this morning. We'll tell you about it. Why can't you tell me about it now? Well, you still got, I didn't want to step on your monologue. Okay, well, let's do that. First of all, Clark's Pubb & Shop phone line.

859-280-2287. I will, I'll be letting people on. Shannon, we're going to do a shot clock 30 seconds, okay? All right. 859-2-8027. A-Vision Autoblasked text machine is 772-7-4-25-4. And this edition is sponsored by a T.J's middle office. Call, T.

TJ I'll make them pay. So what's happening in Lexington? We don't know, but there are like 25, usually there's nobody here. I mean, nobody. There's like 25 people out there and you walk in and they're all just kind of staring at it. They're like, they're quiet. They're like, hey, Drew, what's up? Nothing. It's like quiet. You think there's something wrong? We're scared. Are we about to get, are we about to get canceled, Shannon? Did they bring in everybody to send us all home? I don't know. I feel like they could just call you and tell you not to come in. No, that's true. They wouldn't let you come in. Yeah. If you get fired, they don't let you come in. Yeah. Although you remember Shannon that one day, you and I've talked about this when I first started and they fired all those people and they did it by intercom over the intercom. Do you remember that? Yeah. We had just started or I had just started. You had been here for a little while. For a decade. Yeah. I had just started and there was a day and back then the Louisville building had a lot of people in. It's a big.

It was a big building. Back then there was probably a hundred people that worked in there. And they came in one day and you started hearing word, there's going to be people let go today. And the way they did it is they would announce them, Shannon, you know, Shannon the dude. Would you please come to the front? Come on the dude. You're the next person to get fired. And it was like every time you heard a name, they were fired. That's not, that can't be the best way to do it.

I have to tell you. I have never like run HR, but I would think calling people's name over the intercom where you can hear it everywhere is not the way to do it. And I remember I was sitting there with Venetti, Lockland, and Drew Deiner. And every name that would come, we'd go, oh, no. You know? Yeah. So that is not the way to do it. Today, though, I think having all 25 people, Drew, stare at you, I think that's the way to do it.

It was interesting. I was actually excited to go to the studio today. I went downstairs, spent $13 at everyone's favorite coffee shop. It felt like a real employee in society. And I walked in. I thought it was like an eye-heart intervention. Everyone was just looking at me. I didn't know what to do.

We're all thrown off here. I think everything's fine. Well, if we're fired, Shannon, I blame you. A 59-2802287. We'll do a 30-second shot clock. So go ahead and get in here. Shannon will answer your phone. you know, there's a, we will talk a lot of UK sports today,

but I will admit I was very saddened to wake up this morning and see that Toby Keith had passed away. Toby Keith, one of my favorite country singers of all time. I mean, in the 90s, you know, Toby Keith had just one great song after another. I sat there today and I looked at the ones I liked. and Shannon you were, do you like Toby Keith, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, I like Toby Keith. So here I'm just going to give you his songs from the 90s.

Okay. Should have been a cowboy. Great song. He ain't worth missing. A little less talking, a lot more action. Wish I didn't know now. Who's that man? He had a lot of divorce song, Shave.

He loved her sing about divorce. You ain't much fun. Does that blue moon ever shine on you? We were in love. I'm so happy I can't. Stop crying. That's that really weird song he sang was Sting. You remember where he said, I don't know if I know that one. Well, I'll tell you what, replace the sixth one we had on our list and play that one later. You know, get you some. How do you like me now? And then in the

2000s, he had the famous one about the war. And then I thought he kind of started doing like Red Solo Cup and Shannon and stuff like that. I didn't like that. But his 90s hits, what I used to call Mullet Toby. I can't think of it. very many people, Shaden, that had more songs that I liked than him. Yeah. I mean, for his time, he was on top of the country music world and a guy that, I mean, he turned out so many hits. Even the Red Solo Cups song, Love It or Hate it.

It was still a big hit. Well, I hated it. Yeah. No, no, no. He had a lot of those. He had a lot of the, like, what was the one? I ain't as good as I once was. Yeah, as I once was.

I play that all the time on this show. Yes. He also, Ryan, was a big friend and and fan of the Stoops brothers came to a number of Kentucky games over the year, stood on our sidelines probably at least five or six times for home games in Lexington. Yeah, I was thinking when I heard he'd passed, he's one of the most famous people to ever stand on the sidelines of a UK football game, I feel like.

Yeah, he came to a lot of games. I mean, he came to, you know, I can't remember which ones, but I've seen him at a number of games over the years. He was big into horse racing. Drew and I, Drew, you and I saw him at the Breeders Cup in 2015 and 2022, both the Justify and American, well, Pharaoh, or was it just, it wasn't just. Who won in 2022? That day got pretty blurry as it went on for me, but I do remember Toby Keith.

Yes. Had a great time with him. There was, Drew, if you remember, he sat at the table next to us. It was like me, you, tall, hubby, turkey hunter, and Max. and he sat at the table next to us. He had been six. So you could tell he didn't, he looked different. But he ordered, if you remember, six hot dogs.

So like there was all this really nice food ride in the Breeders' Cup place. He didn't want that. He ordered six Keenland hot dogs for himself. That was going to be his meal. Yep. And he ate like three of them, gave two of them away, and then he put one in the trash. but like Shannon's still with the box. You know what I mean?

So it like hadn't been eaten, but it was still in the box. And Hubby kept looking at his hot dogs and thought they looked good. And when he put it in the trash, Hubby went over to the trash, Drew, remember, picked it out of the trash and ate the hot dog. When I saw the news of Toby Keith this morning, the first thing I thought of was Toby Keith trash dogs in that day at Keenland a year and a half ago. And so he started calling them Toby Keith trash dogs.

and we actually ride and served them at KS Bar for a little while. It was basically... Yeah, I had a promotion and went and I had them. It was good. They were really good. And you wouldn't think, Shannon, you would want to eat hot dogs out of a trash can. Depends on how hungry you are. But here's the thing. Remember we had the debate.

Like, if they're just sitting in the box, you know they've touched no other trash. Can you eat them? If it's got a lid on it, I think it's open. Didn't have a lid. Oh, oh. Open lid. but just placed in the trash seconds before does not come into contact with any other trash.

Okay to eat? If I watch Toby Keith go over and sit it there and then I go over 10 seconds later, I think it's okay. It's okay. What about you, Ryan? Is it okay? That's the scenario. Yep. Nobody else has been around that trash can since Toby dumped it off.

I'm getting it and I'm eating it. It was kind of sitting on the trash like the star on top of a Christmas tree too. It was fine. It even had a little bit of a glow. It wasn't. So anyway, hubby ate it and the Toby Keith trash dog. Did they run out of hot dogs?

I mean, why couldn't hubby just go get another one? Well, you had to go buy, like they were from the concessions day. You see what I'm saying? He had had them brought from the concessions. Free hot dog. Exactly. Then that night, he was at Jeff Rubies and he got up and he, again, he was sick. You could tell he had lost a lot of weight.

He had stomach cancer. And he got up and sang, and he sang Ryan for like an hour. And he sang all the hits. And it was so cool. Like it, I mean, to see like this dude from your youth sitting there singing it in Lexington, in a restaurant you're in, I just, I loved it. And he was, he's, he, to me, along with like Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson, like he is 90s country to me. And I was very, very sad this morning to see it past. Yeah, 90s country.

And he just seemed like that guy everybody could relate to. You think you think yourself, oh, he told you Keith and I could be friends. And I think he embraced Lexington. I think everybody in Lexington loved it when he would come around. And I think that's why he liked coming here. Yeah, Vince Mero tweeted this morning that when they beat Missouri in like 2022, he was in town for Breeders Cup or whatever. And he waited at the airport, Drew, so that he could shake the hands of the team as they flew back from Missouri that day.

That's pretty awesome. I know he's been on Game Day. and pick the cats. I don't remember the game, but I saw the screenshot this morning where he was the only one pick in UK. Obviously, the Stoops connection. The story of Jeff Rubies, I remember having, I was kind of outside, had my back kind of the stage. And it's such a recognizable voice. It was like everyone stopped their conversations immediately. They were like, oh, my, Toby Keith is a hard story. It wasn't like you knew he was going to play. No, they didn't announce it. He just started singing it. And then we were treated to a private Toby Keith concert out of nowhere. I will remember that forever. Yeah, it was awesome. And then Shannon, he had. is, we'll put a boot in their ass phase, right? Like during the Iraq War, he did that whole thing.

And that song is terrible, but also kind of awesome. It's very patriotic. I like it. Yeah, it's terrible, though. But at the same time, I like it. If it comes on, you know, if I'm in the right mood, I'll say, well, yeah. You're ready to put a boot in somebody's ass when you hear that. That's right.

Yeah. My daddy served. He says, my daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye. That was the start of the song. And then from then on, he was just kicking ass the rest of the way, Toby Keith. Don't forget, I love this bar. You haven't named that one yet. That's another classic.

That is. You're exactly right. And once the story was, that was always about Austin City here in Lexington or something? It was rumored. Yeah, it was a word. I love this bar and grill. I think he had a chain of those. He did.

Yeah, people I think always said their bar was the I love this bar. It's like every school thought that Animal House was based on a fraternity at their school. I remember people at center, especially Ryan, we're like, oh, it's based on this fraternity at center. I was like, no, it's not. There's no way it's based on a fraternity at center. But so anyway, I'm very sad to see that. We're going to play his music through the day. This is going to be one of those days that you're a lot better listening live than on podcast because they're not going to be able to hear it, Shannon. But I'm not, you know, when people die, we play their music. and we can't just not do it.

Can't change what we do. We can't change what we do. So on the podcast, it's going to sound like you're going to hear us talking about songs you can't hear. They'll just get a lot less of it. Yeah. But less of the podcast. It'll be a little shorter. But you still can play it.

Right. You just can't play when we only do the song. But you can play me talking as we talk over the song. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, anyway, tonight's UK and Vandy. So rest in peace, Toby Keith.

A huge fan. I'm a huge fan. I'm a huge fan. see that news. UK Vandy tonight. Normally the crowd is a ton of Kentucky fans. Vandy really stinks.

Kentucky on a little bit of a down note in the last week. Ryan, what do you expect it to look like in Nashville tonight? I still think there'll be a lot of blue for all the folks in Western Kentucky that bought these tickets months ago when the season was announced. I think, you know, this is their one chance. They get to see

the cats on their side of the state. And So I still think they'll still go and still be a lot of blue because of that. That's your side of the state. Do you, you know, do you, Drew, expect a big Kentucky turnout? I think so. You know, there are people, it's changed a little bit recently, but there are people in West Kentucky that would have Vandy season tickets just to go to this game. Like, you just know you're going to the Vandy game every year

because that's so much closer to the Rupp Arena. Now I don't know the mood all of those people are in right now, but I still expect just because you only get so many chances to see the cats in person. I expect they'll still. I've heard there is a little bit of some logistics. Maybe they're not opening the doors as early as usual with something going on around there. I don't know. But it might be a mess if you are going to get it sounds like.

What's happening now? They're not opening the door. Well, Nashville's just currently under construction. I think it's more something to do with it. Have you seen Nashville lately? Yes, all of it. I think it's already reached the Kentucky border by now. But if you are going to half quarter, playing ahead.

football. Yeah, that would be nice. Well, maybe somebody can let us know what's going on. 859-280-2287. 30-second shot clock. A little Toby Keith tribute to that day. We'll talk more about UK Vandy and a lot of other stuff, including Shannon, the worst picture shoot I've ever seen taken. How embarrassing. Since when Olin Mills came to my grade school in 1991, this is Kentucky Sports Radio. To talk to Matt Jones and the crew, call the Clark's Post. Pump and shop phone line at 859-280-2-287 or 1-800-606-4263 and send us the Kentucky brandit tweet of the day by tweeting Matt at KY Sports Radio. Such a great song, Shannon.

I mean, this is his biggest one, right? Yeah, yeah. This is the one that got him going. This is the one that got it. I think it was, you know, it made him a star, but I think even today is still his biggest song, don't you think? Yeah, I would say so. just like Gene and Roy. We just played this song not that long ago.

I remember you talking about the story. Yeah, I told the story about Larry and saying I wouldn't know who that was. I love this song. And this is, when it comes on, everybody sings it. Like everybody, I mean, Ryan, everyone south of New York City would know the chorus to this song, right? Yeah, and I think that's what made him so popular. These songs were songs you could sing to all of them. That's right.

Yeah. Except his divorce songs. They weren't as singable. He has a lot of divorce songs. If you look at his album. But I love this one. Toby Keith. Dave Portnoy

just tweeted about that same night at Jeff Rubies. He said that he sat and talked with him for hours. I don't know if I believe that. Hours? I mean, he wasn't there that long. He's on stage for most of it. He's on stage for a lot of it. But I did see.

I remember seeing them talking for a while there in that little bar area. 859-280-2287. All right. I'm going to read this. Somehow we missed this yesterday. I mean, I saw it, but we forgot to talk about it. Matt, what do you think about Aaron Bradshaw Saturday when he kissed the Tennessee player? So I saw that.

Somehow that didn't get as much of attention as when I saw it, I thought it would. Was it intentional or unintentional? I don't know. I thought it was unintentional. It may have been unintentional. Yeah. But it, I mean, it does look like a kiss. Let's be fair, right?

Yeah, yeah. And it does look like one of those you could see being like a guy gets so mad. He just is like, well, I don't know. Do you get so mad you kiss somebody? No, not on the lips. What do you think, Drew? You saw the video. This is during the fire, the confrontation.

What do you think? You know, at Rupp, I probably watched the replay of them shoving 20 times while Doug Shalas was watching it down there for an hour and a half. And then some people the next day asked me about the kiss and I had no idea what they were talking about. And then when I watched the slowdown version, looks kind of like he packs him on the lips. I'm not going to lie. I didn't want that to be the case. I'm looking at it right now. I mean, it does look like it.

I mean, it does look like it. Let's be real. If I may defend what might have been his thought process there, if it was intentional, I had a friend one time that was about to get whooped, and he just started pouring drinks on his own head and kind of to make himself look crazy, and it worked. Maybe Bradshaw was going for the, I'm crazy move. And I'm just going to lay this on you and throw you off real quick before we do this. I don't know if that's the...

There's a good gif here that I need to repost. Are you... Yeah. It is. look, it is odd. And it is, I don't think, you said you didn't see it in the game. Ryan, I didn't see it until the next day. Like, did you see it Saturday night, Ryan?

I did not. I didn't see that part of the video until the next day. I'm like, Drew, you know, I was there, didn't see it. And then it was during the show yesterday, one of the commercial breaks were you kind of talking to us. Hey, did you see Bradshaw kiss that guy? Like, what are you talking about? I had no idea. I hadn't seen it at all until you said that.

it was quite an interesting fight you know I mean at first it felt like it was a fight where Bradshaw pushed the guy in the back then Doug Schauss just gets you know acts like he's Goldberg there like doing a what was carries him off he carries him off and then later we found out the fight Shannon was sealed with a kiss that's right I can't stop watching this like this well you've always those videos have always done something for you Over the years. Let's go to Dan. Who's up for? Dan, 30 seconds. Go. Hey, Matt. Hey, I'm the most positive car you probably have out there. But I'm down on this team right now. I don't understand. We're paying these assistant coaches, this big money like this. You seem like one of them would step up and be the defensive coach here. Is DJ the pill that's going to fix this year? That's all I got to say. Well, first of all I don't blame the assistant coaches. The head coach ultimately gets the credit. and the head coach.

So when the office looked good earlier this year and everybody was like, well, it was John Welch. I said, listen, Cal hired him. You got to give him credit. Then I think, Ryan, when there are mistakes, you don't just go, well, what assistant's not doing his job? It's the head guy. And Ryan, you know, so I'm putting it on him.

Is DJ Wagner, Ryan, the miracle salve? And I appreciate the call, Dave. Well, I think there's no doubt we all agree. They desperately need him. I don't know if he's the miracle sad, but they desperately, desperately need him. him if nothing else just to bring a little more toughness out there on the floor. So I'm hoping he plays tonight. I haven't heard anything if you guys have, but they desperately need him the rest of the

season. Yeah, I am not going to say what we've heard about him playing or not because I don't want people yelling at me, Drew, but I will just tell you I'm going into it just assuming he doesn't play probably for games going forward just because, you know, but I do expect him to play at some point this year. I don't know if I expect him to play tonight, but it would be a great. surprise if he did. The reality is we're 0 and 3 though without him so we clearly need him. Hard to argue against the number there at 0 and 3. I don't expect him tonight just because

Tennessee was just a few days ago. If you can't give it a go against the biggest rival a game of that importance, I don't see just a miracle turnaround to go play Vandy where hopefully you're not needed too much. But I do think with how many minutes guys are having to play and if somebody's off, it will really hurt them. They should be talented enough to win this game without DJ, not any of the other ones. I think Vandy's that bad. But we'll see what happens because it has been an issue. If nothing else, just the minutes guys are having to play. Let's go to Seth. What's up, Seth? 30 seconds.

Well, since 2015, we've not been to a final four. And early in the 2016 season, we had dancing guy drop a girl and we've not been to a final four since. So is that, you think that's what the mojo's changed? I was never his biggest fan. But maybe we need the mony, moony and him grind and on the pole so we can go back to a final four. I'm not sure there's been a weirder. Okay, so I appreciate the call. Drew, you were there that night.

I think you and I were sitting next to each other. I was. When he dropped that girl, that was one of the loudest gasp I think I've ever heard in my life. Like everybody goes, because everyone's watching him, right? You remember when that would happen. Oh, he was on the big screen?

I remember like shit and they go mony moaning, moan and he would like get the dancing and all that. And I remember when he dropped her, there being a, because he just picked a random kid up, which you can't do. And then dropped him. Do you think that could have been the moment, Drew, things turned around? I'm still going to blame the Wisconsin game. I think that broke us. But the moment you're talking about is in the conversation, I think. And it was a double gasp.

there was a gasp of oh i don't think that's a child with him i think he just picked up a random child and then he was kind of going up and down the steps which everyone that's been to ruperina knows those steps are dangerous just to walk up if you're a completely healthy person that's straight down and then he tries to dance with her and that's when we got the second gasp when he let her go a few seconds later it was at that point monie mooney was already needed to go and that was the that one made it very clear we're done yeah right do you think they should bring it back Anything going to help, bring it back. Bring back Darren.

Let him dance. We'll take a break. I know where to find him. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

It's a great song, Shannon. He ain't worth missing for podcast listeners. No, he ain't worth missing. We should be kissing. That's what Aaron Bradshaw said. Well, they do that. He ain't worth missing. That's right.

Oh, this is a great song. You know, Shannon, when people die, you just play their songs for like a few days. I did that with Joe Diffy and I'm going to do that with Toby Keith. You forget how many good songs they have. You forget. You forget, like, you know a couple, but then you forget the sort of catalog. And back then it felt like country singers put out a lot of albums, you know. Maybe they still do.

I don't know. I don't know a lot of the modern ones. But it was a great song. So 8.9-280-2287. Justin says the game where he dropped the little girls, the one and only UK basketball game I've ever been to, maybe I'm the bad luck. I think that's probably true, Drew, don't you? You know, at this point, I'm willing to blame anyone that will take the blame. What about the dude who is going to go to Vandy tonight? You think he should go, Ryan? He says he's been to two games. We've lost them both. And now he's going to this one tonight.

Under the current situation of our Kentucky basketball program, I beg that guy to stay away tonight. Do not go. We need every little mojo that we can count on tonight. They can't lose this one. It does feel like if we lost tonight, Ryan, that, you know, that could, I mean. That's catastrophe. That's catastrophe.

I don't think we will. No. But it does feel like, Ryan, if you lost this one tonight. You lose to a bad Vandy team and it'll be your third loss in a row. this state will shut down tomorrow. Yes. Do you all remember Thanksgiving? Vanderbilt has won three games since Thanksgiving.

One person writes, Matt about the kiss. You guys need to understand what trash talk is like now. It's a form of belittling the opponent. It's a form of intimidation young guys used. Like, oh, you're little, you're cute. I'm more masculine than you because I own you. It's a thing.

You all wouldn't get it. Oh, we wouldn't get it. Shannon, do you believe that explanation? No. And next time I'm in an OVW ring, I'm not kissing anybody. I'm not kissing my opponent. I'm going to, sometime, Shannon, I'm going to intimidate you and just walk up and just kiss you. And then you'll know.

And I'll call HR. They're on the other side of this door. I'll get him. Yeah. All right, Drew, let's talk for a second about the picture shoot. What a picture, dude. Okay, so this is, if you haven't seen it, this is on social media on Twitter and Instagram. The recruits name is Malik Thomas, five star.

Okay, one of the best players in the country visits Kentucky. You know, by now you've seen that teams do these photo shoots where they dress them guys up in uniform and they, you know, Ryan, they try to make them look as cool as they can. uniform. Oh yeah. Yeah. Everybody does this now. Even Frederick Douglas High School does it now. So if you look at Kentucky's, if you haven't seen these, you got to see him. I can't describe it. Because you're going to think I'm making this up. But I'm not. Their picture shoot includes him shoveling with a plastic shovel that's about a foot too short for his height. Like one you'd take to the beach. Yes. Sand. No, for your child.

Yeah, yeah. Right, you would take it to the beach. He is wearing the neon vest you would wear if you worked on the street. Construction worker. Like a construction worker. He's wearing a Burger King crown. That's a crown from Burger King and a little blue cowboy hat that the last time I saw someone wear was like at the glamour shots in Fayette Mall. The one with the cowboy hat is my favorite because they got that cheap plastic chair he's got his foot up on.

And they got a chair from a middle school. Where did that chair come from? That's from the 80s cafeteria at your school. That chair is made of plastic. Don't forget about the heart-shaped blue shaded glasses too that he's got on while he's flexing. Oh my. Okay. Give me the best possible explanation.

This guy's got a really great personality. It doesn't take it too seriously. He's the class clown. Making a joke out of it. But it can't be serious. Do you think there's, you, what? I mean, I don't. Look, okay, if the kid wanted to do it, whatever.

But I still wonder, Drew, I mean, it makes us look like the cheapest school on earth, doesn't it? That Burger King Crown. It looks like the photo booth you would have at a concert or something you could go to. No, it looks like when you go to a wedding and they have all this cheap stuff and then you get, you know. Oh, is that the same thing? Okay, got you. Drew, help me understand. You're cooler than I am.

What is this? I was in disbelief yesterday. So when I saw the picture, I first saw the picture with the shovel and it was already getting made fun of. And I'm thinking, I got to spend this. So I texted a friend that is a normal size shovel. Malik Thomas is just huge. And I thought that was going to be our one. Then came the blue glasses and the cowboy hat and the king's crown.

I don't even like even if Malik Thomas said, hey, I want to do this. Why does UK even have that anywhere near the basketball program? Here's why I don't think it's. I thought they were at a pediatrician's office with all those toys there. Did they sponsor the photo shoot? Here's why I don't think it's a joke, Shannon, because he actually takes some serious ones. Yeah. Like he's got one, then he's just flexing normally.

He's got one where he's wearing kind of a cool UK jacket. When I saw the one with the vest, I promise you, I thought someone had Photoshopped it. No, I did. I thought somebody did the shovel and they're like, let's make a joke and put a vest on it. Okay, so we gave you the best case scenario. What's the worst case scenario? This guy is just the weakest player ever? No, no, no.

That we, as a school, were like, we got a great photo shoot idea to make you want to come here. Building the future Now I had someone who has some experience in this say Hey Matt I'm never really one to make comments on this stuff But what you just showed with the photo shoot Is part of a bigger conversation UK needs to have I work elsewhere in this area

And UK is as behind as anyone on these types of things I'll say Duke has three people that do basketball specific creative content. Kentucky has none and has it for months and wants to keep it separate from the rest of the school. The rest of the school is pretty good

at this stuff. UK basketball keeps it on its own and they do an awful job and this photo shoot is just another example. If you're on the creative team, this cannot be the best you can come up with. A Burger King crown and a kid shovel. Unless they forgot the kid was coming

and they ran out at the last minute and followed the Reflect the best off a guy from the water department outside. We need a bigger party city budget if they went out and did that. I hope that, like Shannon said, he's got a great personality. But if there's a scenario where he's excited to see Kentucky and he's the number seven player in the country and we're like, we love to have you, we're going to work, hold this shovel. And he had to sit there looking at them like you want me to hold this stupid shovel.

I hope that's not the case. I hope it's not either. I'm going to hope you're right that it was his decision. But I'm going to tell you, I don't think that's true. that there is no human being Shannon that would put that Burger King hat on and take a picture. No. The Elton John,

heart-shaped glasses. Sorry, John, John, heart-shaped glasses. Stop. I mean, just stop. Yeah. Let's go to. Kentucky fans are showing they have that actual shovel where they bought it

at the Dollar Tree on like a beach vacation, the same exact shovel. Let's go to Linda. What do you got, Linda, 30 seconds? Well, I called last week for the granny thing and didn't get in it. But I wanted to tell you guys that. Toby Keith has a really cool song. He recorded with the I'll Never Smoke Weed with Willie again.

Yeah, yeah. We've played that before on here. Yes. It's really cool. Are you big here? And you guys are cool too. Thank you, Linda. I appreciate it.

I don't know. I guess I just processed it was Linda that's saying the I'll never smoke weed with Willie again. But I got you. Alvin, you got your hand on that. Yeah, appreciate it. Alvin, you got your hand. All right, go, Alvin. Hey, guys.

How you going? Real quick, I wanted to find out if the gold standard that we talk about at UK basketball and us being a Super Bowl to teams, when I go back and do a chronology of first year coaches we lost to, going back to Darren Horn when he was in South Carolina, I think we lost to the Missouri coach when he took over, may have lost to the Stackhouse, and we lost to the South Carolina coach. So when you look at that, does that... Sorry, Alvin. The clock hits for everybody.

No, I mean, we haven't been the gold standard. I gave you all the numbers this weekend. We've not been the gold standard nationally. We haven't been close. But we haven't even been the gold standard in the SEC. We have been the fourth best program in the last six years in the SEC, or even arguably the fifth, but certainly the fourth. Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee have all been better than us,

collectively in the last four years. You heard Drew's stat that we are, or Stephen Peek's stat, that we are 11th in the SEC tournament in the last four years. There's no argument we've been the goal standard. None. There's just not. And, you know, we got to fix that. When you're a waterfall in nature, there's no cause for concern.

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and just reset. Sometimes I have to do that in my house. 1-800 ServePro. S-E-R-V-P-R-O.com. I need to do that in my car, Shannon. There's so much stuff in my car that I need to just hand it to somebody and go just, just like, fix this. Start with the jar pickles.

But there's like. Take that out of there. I found a bag of chips that I remember when I got them four and a half years ago. Four and a half years ago. Oh, my. Did you take a bite of one? No, they were unopened. Oh.

I don't know how long chips. How long can you keep chips? As long as you want. How long can you a bag of Doritos? Like if you found a bag of Doritos and it said these are 30 years old, do you think you could eat them? No. I'd try it. No, I wouldn't.

But what if, I mean, they're like air sealed or whatever. It's just going to be really stale. It's not going to kill you. How do you know? First of all, how do you know? Because it's not. Both of you are acting like your experts. You think if I took a little bite of a Dorito that's been 30 years in a bag, it's going to kill me. My standard is not whether or not I will die.

The standard is like, will it make you sick? No. Mess your stomach up. Yeah. Drew, they're both speaking so confidently about this. I mean, they seem very convinced. Did you know that? We had two science experts on this show.

You should know that by now. Well, I mean, is there any chance one of them if eaten? 10 potato chip. There is. It's one sitting with you. During the pandemic, there was like some chips that were in there for three or four years. And I've got the bag of chips. I ate it. Didn't kill me. All right. So, I mean, it's three or four years.

Extrapulate that by another 25. Maybe somebody who actually knows will let me know on the text machine. 772-74524. We'll take a break. Very back's KSI. To talk to Matt Jones and the crew, call the Clark's Puppant Shop phone line at 859-280-27, or 1-800-606-4263 and send us the Kentucky brand at Tweet of the Day by tweeting Matt at KY Sports Radio.

See, this is another great song because, Shannon, it's true. Haven't you heard things before in your life? And you were like, I wish I could just go on like I didn't know that. Yep. All the time. That happens a lot. You just go, I'm never going to be able to look at this the same. But if I'd just not known, it would have been better.

Good song. It is a good song. RIP, Toby Keith. Also, RIP, UK basketball photo shoots. I just put the picture of us on that trip to Sedona, Ryan, where you dressed as a Western prostitute. One of our, one of our. Do you remember, I mean, the look on your face in this picture.

Like I, I were all laughing so hard. I mean, I give you credit for doing it. But like, that. is one of the most ridiculous pictures of all time. Like you look so ridiculous. I just tweeted it out. Somebody made it and photoshop the recruit in the cowboy hat. But that's kind of what it looks like, Drew.

It looked like they just went to like an old-timey Western place and then put a kindergarten plastic chair down. So let's spend this. Maybe it's good that this got out so we can hit reset on our props. Let's go get a real shovel if we're going to show. shovel. Let's get a real king's crown if that's what we want. I think it's also very clear that the person who ices the cookie cakes also does the photo props. Let's have a chat with them. Here's the actual problem. Okay. And I think the guy that talked to, this is the truth.

UK basketball has isolated itself from the rest of the UK athletics community. And it's really done that the whole Caliperia era, but it was kind of at the forefront. And for whatever reason, and I could give you my guesses as to why. It's not anymore. Put that to the side. They run their own ship. UK athletics has almost no ability to interact on everything with them. And I think that leads to where if they don't have the right people,

they don't have people to help them. So like I think UK football does really cool stuff with this, Ryan. I think they're pretty good at this stuff. But the basketball people are in their own world. and I think you can end up where they get detached. I think when Cal was first here, we were at the forefront of almost everything. And I don't think we are anymore.

Maybe this is different. Like maybe there's something about it we don't get and that's fine. I have a hard time believing that, but maybe. But it's a bigger problem, Ryan, than just this. Like there is a UK basketball operates on an island and that island is a little bit detached, I think, from culture. I think there was a group of, people that were running that social media for a while that I think were really good,

and then they graduated, and now I don't know who's doing it, but it can't be this. And why aren't they in front of a green screen with some cool background? They got this guy standing in front of just a white wall. I mean, it's just the whole thing just screams cheap, poor. This isn't the first photo shoot they've ever done, though, right? And the others aren't like this. Yeah, they've been bad. What Drew was talking about, they gave Sompto Cyril a cake that looks like they

got it Kroger three minutes before it happened. Was he wearing the little crown? He was not wearing the crown, though. He did not have a Burger King crown. That's what makes me think maybe it's the players I did to do it. I hope you're right. Let's go to Madison. Go ahead, Madison.

30 seconds. Yeah, I got two things. One, who do you think replaces Cohen on the offensive coordinator? If I knew Madison, I'd already told you. All right. And then two, are you, you, you're talking about the seating purposes, but are you, are you surprised we didn't drop down in the seating? Because I looked on the bracketology. Was that surprise?

If we're only a five, that surprises me. But, you know, Tennessee's good. So that might be part of it. However, what worries me, Drew, is less the five or six right now. It's just, I just don't think, I think there's a ceiling as to how high we can. go take last night drew two teams we played Miami and Kansas both lost yesterday Kansas is on the road to Kansas state Miami lost by 20 plus points to Virginia scored 38 points the lowest points they've scored in like 25 years in a game so you know I think the other teams we played

aren't helping us either no the resume is not good at all even though sometimes we're watching the basketball and think we're watching a really good team there are two and four in quad one games. They have a quad two loss, a quad three loss. And then, if I'm not mistaken, tonight's a quad three. Do if you win it. You may not make you turn them off in the Lexington studio. I don't know what it is about Lexington. Yeah, the studio should be five. It's the studio. Yeah. Let's see. Lexington guys, see if you can fix that during the break. You're coming in and out during the thing. One person writes, Matt, DJ Wagner has been out in all three of our losses. Don't you think when he comes back, this will be fine and you're complaining

for no reason? Well, I hope so, but, you know, we're good enough to beat these teams without DJ Wagner. We just are. We should be beating these teams regardless of DJ Wagner. When you just say, well, we got DJ Wagner, it's fine. I think that's a cop out. We should be beating them with or without DJ Wagg. Let's go to David quickly before the break. David, 30 seconds. Hey, Matt. Yes, go. Hey, Matt. I just want to say,

well, I'm not giving up on this team yet, but I am still having some, I'm still feeling a little bit scared. You know what I mean? I'm still going to watch them, but I'm still scared. Well, I am too, and David, nice to hear from you.

I think, you know, this week, I don't know how much we'll learn this week because Vandy isn't good. I don't think Gonzaga, who's coming here this weekend is all that good. You do get Ole Miss at home next week, and then you go to Auburn, and that'll be another like, let's see where we are.

Let's see where we are when we go down there. We haven't won there a lot, even when we've had really good teams. So I don't know what's going to happen with this one. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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