KSR - 2024-02-06- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK basketball, Toby Keith, and rat-running.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-774-5254. Great text today. People are actually making really good points and being funny. I've enjoyed reading them. Even if I can't read them all in the air, I still really, really enjoy it.

One person writes, Matt, I think Florida's Joker Phillips is now in charge of our men's basketball photos. I remember Drew, they used to put out some really weird ones when he was in recruiting coordinator at Florida. So maybe that is the case. That's kind of what this feels like. Florida was still Florida then, and they would just put up the worst graphics for their recruiting, like a Division III or high school team would do it and make you wonder,

you're Florida. Why do you not have a better department handling this? One person writes, Matt, I'm a chemist. And I can tell you that neither Ryan nor Shannon are exactly right. There's a shock, Drew. But Shannon is more right than Ryan. You probably wouldn't get sick. But after 30 years, the chips would turn very, very hard.

And you might break your teeth trying to eat it. Yeah, exactly what I said. So in other words, I was right. I'm a chemist. Yeah, I ain't eating anything. There's a reason they put expiration dates on stuff. I ain't eating anything that old. Can you imagine how hard, like, how could a potato chip get so hard it would break your teeth?

That would be, that would be really hard. The expiration date, though, it's just a suggestion. It doesn't mean you have to go by that, right? I think there's some things, though, I'd go by. Like milk. I would not. They're like chips. I think you're fine.

I don't, I mean, again, well, I mean, this guy says you're more right than Ryan. So maybe you're right. Right, exactly. Let's go over a couple things. first of all, this is important. Kentucky gets a football commitment yesterday from Quentin Simmons, a wide receiver, four-star wide receiver from Ohio. Here's why I think it's important, Ryan. He committed without even knowing who our offensive coordinator is. Yep. That's a Vince Merrow recruit that Vince got without even knowing the system or knowing the

offensive coordinator. That is a great example of Kentucky football, stoop's and Vince, recruiting on the brand and not just the who's there at the moment. And that's when a program really has taken a step up in recruiting where it almost doesn't matter who's there. As long as the head coach is there and probably the head recruiter, you kind of get the guy. And I thought that was a really good sign when we still don't even know who the OC is. I thought it was a great sign. A four-star kid has to be confident that, you know, who their quarterback is going to be,

what kind of system they're going to run and the coaches that are going to be there. I thought it was a big sign, a big, you know, well done for Vince to get this guy at this time when we're kind of in limbo right now. And who would have ever thought, Drew, that like this place would be a place that gets great receivers? I mean, remember, we couldn't buy a receiver prior to Wendell

and now it feels like we always have the talent. Yeah, I mean, that was a shocking commitment yesterday for the offensive side of the ball. I thought with Cohen leaving, we might hear of a deal. commitment before a commitment. So to go out and get, I believe he's the 12th best player in Ohio, a state that's loaded with talent to get him when he doesn't even know who's going to be calling his plays. That's awesome. Now, I assume they might have told him, hey, we're kind of eyeing in on this guy. The Simmons probably has a better idea than the

common fan who's showing up, but to still make that commitment when there hadn't been a hire made, that's impressive. I'd like to see what his photo shoot was like, Shane. Hopefully not as bad as the other. By the way, those were right to me saying you're making too much of a deal out of the photo shoot. I'm sorry. It's ridiculous. They don't have teenagers then. They don't understand how big of a deal that is.

What did Josiah say about it? Did you get a reaction? I'd be interested in his opinion. We didn't talk about it. You need to talk to him about it because I'd like to see what he said. Yeah, does he think that's cool? Because if he thinks that's cool, then maybe we're missing something. I guarantee I know exactly what he'll do.

He'll laugh and say that's weak. I know it. All right. So why don't you, were you seen before the pregame show at 6? Yes. Okay. You ask him before the pregame show. pregame show at 6, you tell us what he says.

Okay. All right. Okay. Is that fair? Second. Shannon, you ever heard of the phrase rat running? No. Drew, have you ever heard of rat running?

I don't think I have, no. Okay, so here's the herald leader, just as a side note, the herald leader fascinates me. Because the heral leader, when we started, was KSR's biggest critic. They, their editors, they're sports reporters, but really everybody, not even so much their sports reporters. More of the editors and the people that sort of manage the place. Used to criticize us all the time because we were ruining journalism, right?

Like we always would get crushed and they were kind of the lead of it. And they basically were like, you all write about stupid stuff, not news. So it's been fascinating for me, Drew, to go to the Herald Leader website recently and see the things that are on the site. Right? Oh, yeah, they're very rarely in Kentucky, for one. First of all, they're rarely in Kentucky. Now, they do do some good stuff.

Don't get me wrong. I go there every day and I find top topics for the show. But like, nowadays they do a lot of, you know, can you wear a seat belt in Madison County? Click here and learn more. Right. Like, it's not really news. It's clickbait, you know? With that said, it's entertaining sometimes.

So here's what rat running is. and I want the three of you to be honest, do you do this? Rat running is avoiding a stoplight by cutting through a parking lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think I did that like a couple of days ago. So where did you do it? Because I have one place I do it all the time. Well, in Mount Washington, there is a little cutoff that you can go through a parking lot of like an auto shop.

Okay. And I can go straight through that parking lot and cut off the light and save a couple of minutes. Okay. And you and I, so here's where I do mine. Bardstown, Shannon and Grinstad, that speedway. Yeah, yeah, I know exactly where you're talking about. So that's speedway. Now, they now have a barrier up sometimes that keeps you from doing it. But when they don't, that can cut off two to three minutes if you do it. Yeah. Do you all, Ryan, do you or Drew do it anywhere? I don't do it a lot, but I have done it. Yeah, I definitely have done it. Drew, have you done it. No, I don't think I'm a rat runner. I can't, I mean, maybe if I were in a super hurry to get somewhere, but no, I can't remember the last time I rat ran. I'm not an impatient person.

If I got to sit at the light, I'll just sit at the light. I'm the most impatient person, Shannon. No, come on. Come on. So now I know you're not supposed, like it's not a friendly thing to do. I'm sure if you own that business, people don't like it. But at the same time, I always kind of thought, Chinat was like a naughty thing to do.

Not a thing. I didn't think it was that bad. I've been doing it. I guess my entire driving career. Well, so the Harold leader had a story. Is it illegal in Kentucky to rat run? Okay. So here's the question without me giving you the answer. Would you guess it's against a Kentucky traffic law to rat run? Cut through a parking lot, a private parking lot to avoid a light. Would you guess it's illegal, like worth a ticket or not? Drew. I'm going to guess yes, but I'm not feeling real strongly either way. Ryan, what would you guess? I feel strongly it is yes. Sounds like he's been pulled over. What would you guess? I do not think it's illegal to do. Well, the answer is it is not illegal in Kentucky to rat right.

Wow. Wow. So Kentucky is one of only a handful of states in the country where you can rat run, where you are, it is legal to cut. through a parking lot to avoid a lot. Now, I say this, Janet, and now I think people will probably do it more, even though it's probably not a great thing to do. But I would have assumed like Ryan and Drew, it was illegal. And the herald leader, to their credit, gave me a piece of news.

I didn't know, Ryan, that it is not illegal. First of all, I'd never even heard the phrase rat run. Me neither. It is not illegal to rat run. Do you know the most dangerous rat running spot in, Lexington because I've almost died there several times. Where's that? KS. Bar.

People cut across our parking lot driving like idiots. I'm not trying to sound like the old get out of our parking lot guy here, but people love to cut that corner right there. To be honest with you, I had not thought about that. People do it all the time. You know, if you think about it, especially on like a game day or something, that might be the best place to rat run in the entire city. Yeah.

Because that lie. People would just slow down when they do it when I walk in my car. Virginia like can be awful sometimes. I just thought of one that I used to do every single day when we worked at the old building. Every day, I would run the same route. Do you know, I guess, the Indian restaurant that you like is Doction? Doction, yes. Okay, do you know, like, that's right there at Barchtown Road and South Waterson Trail?

You would right around that one? You know that Cox of Smokers Outlet? Yes. I would come from Waterson Trail, cut right in front of the Indian restaurant, and go around the Circle K through that parking lot to hit Barchtown Road. Every single day. That's a really good. That's a good rat run because that's a long lie too. No, you sit there for five minutes.

Every day I would do that. Wow. So when does the bill get written up to try to make it illegal now? Maybe today because we've talked about it. That's a great point, Drew, about KS Bar, because you're right. That is a huge rat run place. And in the morning, where we're going in for the show and people are going to work, they fly through there.

There's even those speed bumps. There are speed bumps. Well, they've got diagonal around them. Yeah, that's exactly right. They go around them to the back next to that new apartment complex. Well, there you go. So there is your piece of info, not illegal, even if it frustrates you. All right, let's go to Larry.

Larry, you got 30 seconds. Go. Yeah, I just wanted to talk about the fans. Any fans that think you bring in a group of freshmen that have never been asked to do anything in their whole life but scored, don't play defense. They haven't been taught how to rebound, have assist. Give them to a coaching staff for 90 days. and think they're going to be up to par where guys have been in Division 1 for four and five years. It's unrealistic and it's unfair to the freshmen.

That's all I got to say. Okay. So what is the conclusion there, though? Because let's say I agree with you, Larry. That's Cal's system. So, Ryan, he has to either adjust or not recruit those people, right? Like, if that... He's not changing that.

That's not going to change. And it's worth it. It's worked before, right? Like, it's worked before. The idea that you can't win with freshmen, Drew, that has been disproven. And we have two fifth-year seniors on the team this year. Yeah, heading into this season, though, there were people that said, can this group of freshmen handle the SEC with 26-year-olds and guys still on their seventh season?

I think we are seeing a little bit of that. I don't know if, you know, one and done just won't ever work because guys are transferring and joining forces. as super seniors at places. But we are seeing a little bit of just sheer their bodies against some of these guys. We saw it last Saturday. It was just not a fair matchup. But Tower could also went out. Also, one of our fifth year seniors had zero points.

Now, again, he may be dealing with an injury himself, some people are saying. But I don't know. I don't know that I totally buy that excuse. Steve, 30 seconds. Yeah, we talk about Calipari being a great leader, great recruiter, great of kids in the NBA, great ambassador for Kentucky basketball. But all the signs of a big picture vision person, I can relate because I'm very similar, but I suck at details.

What do we complain about? Inbound plays, last couple minutes of the game, different type of defenses, offensive plays. It just hasn't been the same since Robic left. There's a lot of truth to that. I think the details. details matter and details are often the difference between success and failure and i do agree with you that details has as a cow weakness and i do think i'm not saying you know whether whether the robic

parting was good bad whatever i do think the details he was a detail guy details were his thing he thought about every little intricacy and guys like cow and i would say this includes a lot of I think I'm like this a little bit. You need somebody there to help with the details. And I think Robic filled that for Cal, and I do think he's missed it since he's been gone. If you want an idea for Valentine's Day, how about making a special dinner for the one you love?

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at nochaylinda farms.com? We'll take a break and be right back. To talk to Matt Jones and the crew, call the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line at 859-28027 or 1-80606. You can also text Matt on the A-Vision Glass text machine at 772-754. What a great song. So settles this being a victory tune.

I think it's funny. This is part of what makes Willie great. Willie was friends with Toby, right? They did this song. I love this song. He was also, but Willie's kind of left wing, friends with Toby a right winger, right? Isn't that what America should be? Yep.

I've seen people who, now that Toby Keith died today, like writing bad things about him because he was a MAGA guy. That's the worst. That's the worst. I say this all the time. if you can't be nice when someone dies, don't say anything. I don't think that's too much to ask right. If you can't be nice, when somebody dies, everybody deserves 24 hours of respect, in my opinion.

Those people, to me, need to take a hard look in the mirror. If you care so much about politics that when a person passes away, you feel the need to bring, like, talk down about the person. Because unless this is like, unless you're talking about somebody who's like murdered. people, then in my opinion, like, you need perspective. And if you can't say something nice, and Shannon, there's probably a couple people when they die that I couldn't say something nice about.

Yeah. Then just say say silent. Yeah. Don't say it worth it. It's amazing people can bring politics into. Especially on a country singer. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. Like, he's a country singer. Like, come on. And he was, he was extremely nice. I've met the dude. I met the dude at the Breeders Cup twice. at a UK football game. He's a knight.

I just, Drew, I'll never understand that. When people pass, they deserve respect. Absolutely. Even if you don't like them. And you might already, you might already know this one to put it on something positive about Toby Keith, but this morning I read the story of him taking over

for Merle Haggard at Merle Haggard's last concert because he couldn't get through it. And Toby said, I know all your songs don't need a teleprompter. And then Merle in the middle of the show said, I'm bringing out a special guest. And I guess there was talking about, about how that show would have bombed if Toby Keith hadn't stepped up there for him and all the fans loved it and it was like a big

special moment to Merle Haggard so I read that this morning and thought that was a really cool story that's being retold this morning. People are now Shannon riding all the places where they rap run. Yep. I'm not saying you should do it. You shouldn't. All right. Just to be clear.

There's breaking news, Shannon. Uh-oh. Running a nah! The Kentucky State Cabinet for Health and Family Services. says if you were in the Cincinnati airport between January 27th and January 29th, you may have been exposed to measles. And you should be on the lookout. Measles?

Wow. Didn't see that one coming. That sounds bad. Now, what does that mean? I mean, I know what measles are. Wouldn't you know if you had measles by now? But didn't we all get shots when we were little for measles? Or is that mumps?

What, okay, what is that, what are the differences between measles and mumps? What's a measle? I think it's like a rash, is it not? Measles like a rash and like mump is makes your jaws swell or something, I think. So mump is jaw? Like, well, that makes your, I think that's one of the things that happened is your jaws swell like a chipmunk. Do you know this? Do you think so or do you know so?

I think. I definitely don't know. Drew, what's a mump? I'm not in the position to talk about measles versus mumps. I will say if we're going to have some measles going around, I don't love hearing that it's starting at an airport. Yeah, because that goes a lot of places. I'd like to be a little more isolated.

Didn't we all get immunized for measles or am I wrong about that? When you're kids, you get shots for stuff. Like you get shots for TB. Do they still do it though? I don't know. Did Matt Bevin stop that? that? I don't know.

Depends on the kids are anti-vaxers, I guess. Do you? I feel like we don't, I feel like we don't have a lot of measles answers. Maybe there's someone. Wait, wait, I have the answer. Okay. First of all, we talked about this on the show.

Remember, we had to guess what the MMR and the vaccine was at the state fair last year. Oh, that's right. It was measles, mumps and rabies. Riptheria. Rebella. So there you go. A little call back to a past show. Aha.

But do we. But we still don't. But we still don't know what measles are. No, but they still give the vaccine for it according to the CDC. So I don't know. Do we have it? Do you have it? I don't have any rashes. I mean, I don't mean right now. I mean, do you have the vaccine? I don't know.

We all got it. Is it a lifetime vaccine, though? I don't know. I feel like we're very uneducated about this, especially if there's one breaking out at the Cincinnati airport. Let's see. I have a flashbacks to when we were like 0%. concerned about COVID on February 15th, 2020. That's a show that I don't want to ever run on repeat where I was like,

let's just go to the Cynthia Walmart, right? Remember that? Oh, yeah, that's right. I think we were trying to get Ryan to kiss people in Nashville and shake hands. What were we doing? It says people who receive the MMR vaccination are usually considered protected for life. Life against me.

I feel like I got it. Lifetime deal. Hope so. Terry, 30 seconds. Go. Assuming Mitchell can go tonight. Here's the lineup. Dillingham, Shepard, Reves, Thierro, Mitchell, let's roll with that. As far as one and done player in this team,

there's only one guy on this team that's one in done already. And that's Dillingham. And tonight, everybody, when you get your beverage of choice, drink it out of a red solo cup. See you. All right, there you go. I don't mind that lineup. That's kind of the lineup we did for a long time.

I do think the offense changed a little bit. when we tried to integrate the seven footers. It still sometimes connects. But I'd like to see us Ryan sometimes go back to that lineup. We did the first seven or eight games of the year. Why not? Run with it. Go with Mitchell's the five and go small.

Because against Tennessee, those three guys, what were they, two of six from the field? And they got four points out of those three guys. I mean, why not go back to it, the one that worked? Dillingham is NBA ready. but Wagner's going to go, we know this. Bradshaw's going to go, we know this. I would suspect Z goes either way.

You know, Shepard, if he's projected the lottery, we'll go. If for some reason he's not, maybe he doesn't. But Drew, I mean, we've learned over the years. Whether they should go is irrelevant to whether they will go, right? Yeah, I don't think you named Edwards. I would expect him to go to, even though maybe the production doesn't match what you think of a guy leaving after one year. but that's just the culture of Kentucky basketball these days. Measles, mumps, and rubella.

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This is the first time I've heard the phrase Shannon Honeydew. It was honey do this and honey. I'd never heard that before. Right here. I never heard that before until this song. Had you ever heard that? No. No.

But that's a thing. You don't strike me as anybody that would ever have a honey-do list from anyone. No, that's why I'm my age and still. I'm not the best at those tasks. Although I'm probably more open to it now than I was. I wasn't always the best. I know it's going to surprise you, Ryan, but I wasn't always the best at like, you know, taking orders. Come on now.

Stop beating yourself up like that. I'm just, you know, just the facts. 859-280-2287. It was 14 years ago today, Drew, that I wrote this on Facebook, 14 years ago today. Drew Franklin is here taking a shot for every point. Ramon Harris scores versus LSU. He now has five points. keep pulling for the razor.

he finished with five points. But that was at Drew, that was very soon after you started at KSR and that was at the Dragon in Frankfurt, I believe. Am I right about that? The Dragon Pub, RIP, Gatewood Galbraith. He was there with us. Gateway Galbraith was on our podcast.

There wasn't even a radio show. Wow. Just lugging that equipment around to random places. Do you remember that woman that was his lieutenant governor? Yes. What was her name? I knocked a Yeager bomb onto her. I still have anxiety about that.

What even my fault? It was like the cords of the headphones knocked it over onto it. I think she may have died recently. Well, so Gatewood died not that long ago. Rest in peace. But what was her name? Was it like peppy or something? I was so mortified that I spilled a drink on her.

I have anxiety right now. Drew was pouring drinks on a potential lieutenant governor, Shand. That's what he, that's what a night. The podcast equipment did it. I was just happened to be the one that moved the podcast podcast equipment to knock it over. But that was a fun day. That was a fun day.

That was a fun day. About one point of game decided to get hot the day I wanted to have. Drew said I'll take a shot every time Ramon Harris scores. And I think he scored like five of the first nine point, right? And we thought, uh-oh. Oh, it'll be a long night for good. Here we go. And then I don't know if he scored again the rest of the time.

But still a fun day in the early. That's what Kentucky basketball was fun. That was the John Wall year. Let me ask you, was it a lady named Dia Riley? That was it. That was it. Definitely. Drew poured a shot on her. I mean, just reached over and just poured it right on her. That might be a slight exaggeration.

But she was covered in it. The end result was the same, no matter how we got there. Yes. Shannon, do you like bacon? Yeah, I love bacon. At the University of Virginia, you know that thing we have where if you miss two free throws in the second half, the other team you get Chick-fil-A? Right.

At the University of Virginia, if you miss two free throws in the second half, the student section all gets free bacon. Like a pound of bacon or just like a bacon strip. I don't know. I don't think there's somebody just handing out cooked bacon. I assume it's like take it home to go. That would be awesome. So last night they're playing Miami.

They're up 22 with like 30 seconds to go. And a guy gets up there to shoot. And if he misses, the kids all get bacon. And so the kids are going crazy. there are bacon signs in the crowd. And he misses, and it was probably the loudest ovation of the game as all the kids got bacon. Proving once again, Ryan, that people love anything free,

even if it's just bacon. That does seem to be an odd in-game promotion, but I actually was watching this, and you're right, they have bacon fatheads in the student section where they were holding up that everybody was screaming like crazy. for the bacon. And if it was successful, they would. So do you like the promotion better if it's Chick-fil-A, Drew, or if it's bacon?

Oh, definitely bacon for several reasons. Available seven days. Also, inflation has really hit the bacon industry. Hard to get bacon without really getting into the wallet. So I'm actually considering sneaking into this dude section just next time I need bacon. Wow. Who knew? So bacon.

Who doesn't like bacon? Oh, no. What is the best bacon? I love the OBC Kitchen bacon. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah. With the peanut butter dip. That's the best bacon.

So good. Very, very good. Let's go to Jim. 30 seconds. Go Jim. Yeah, the first of the season, the big hype, you know. And I guess my biggest disappointment at all has been Bradshaw. I mean, I know he started late and all that, but man, he's not had a breakout game.

The one shot in Florida is great, awesome, but he's light in the paint. He's not a good jump shooter. I just don't see it. I want him to come on, but, I mean, Dillingham put on all that muscle in an off season, but I just haven't seen it anymore. Ryan, he's right, though. I mean, I admit I expected a lot more from Bradshaw than we ended up getting. I hate to say that, but I think that's true.

I think that's fair that he has underachieved this season, what we thought coming in. I know he got started late with the injury, but by now you'd think he'd kind of figured it out. I mean, he's been a non-factor in a lot of games. I mean, besides the shot against Florida, I'm not sure you could really say

any moment that's been defining for him. Now, Florida and then the next game, Missouri, that's not even really a great team. He had two good games. Kind of thought he was finding something there in SEC play, but in the game since hasn't really had much. I think he played well against Mississippi State, but a lot of

2.1 rebound game since. And he's kind of been passed by Ugo, hasn't he? Oh, definitely. Ugo's earned the right. Ugo's earned those minutes because he's played better than him. Yeah. Dave, go ahead, Dave, 30 seconds. Give me one Kentucky player from the past.

Ideally, I was thinking outside of Calgary, but you can do Calpair, it doesn't matter. That could affect your optimism for the rest of the year, and we would definitely win a championship. Oh, I like that. I'll hang up and listen to you. call. All right. So let's think. What does this team need? Okay? I think they need defense more than anything else. I think they need a defensive stopper that also wouldn't kill the offense. So I'm

going to say Michael Kiddquist or D'Andre Liggins. Yeah. What about you, Ryan? That's immediately I thought of Liggins. Liggins is the guy that would, you put him on somebody on the perimeter. He is going to lock them down. Drew? I can't argue either one of those. So I'll just be different and say Willie for versatility, little rebound. A good answer. Finishing lobs. Yeah. A little bit of everything. What about you, Shannon? Ashton Higgins. Good defensive player. Yeah.

Yeah. I think he would hurt the offense, though, because he couldn't shoot. Who cares? We just need defense. We got plenty of offense. Yeah. Well, I mean, look, a perimeter defender is what this team, I think, needs more than anything else. If you were to say anything else, they need a perimeter defender to lock people down. I think if you had a lockdown guy, you could put Reeves on your second best guy and then kind of hide the other one. I think you'd have a much better chance of success. Matt, 30 seconds. Can you hear me? You've used five to ten seconds getting off your Bluetooth or putting on your Bluetooth.

I just was going to say, do you think it's on the coach or the player on the in-bounds place? Because I learned that in middle school to stay under the rim. It's not hard to do. Coach. Player first time after that, it's on the coach. after that it's on the coach. Yeah, that's what I thought. And I think we're going to have a breakout season in the tournament.

I think we're just in a funk right now. Hope you're right. But do you agree with that, Ryan? I mean, on an individual play, I'll put it on the player. If it happens eight times, it's on the coach. And you know, like we said, Rick Barnes is probably in that timeout huddle laughing, knowing that this play is going to work because Kentucky can't cover it. But I thought it was really interesting after the game what Dillingham said.

He said, man, we practice on it. We've been going over and over in it. and if we're still not doing it, it's effort. Like he was deflecting off the coach onto his own teammates. Well, he can't. But, I mean, it's been him a couple times. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm not, you know, it's been Reed a couple times.

It's been him a couple times. It's been Mitchell a couple times. It's been read. So it's been, I mean, it's been those, like, if it's a bunch of guys at some point, it's, Drew, if it's a bunch of guys at some point it's on the coach, isn't it? Like, it has to be. Yeah, this wasn't. one night where it kept happening. This has been

weeks where you've had plenty of practices to fix it and they haven't even tried to zone in-bounds where you just throw a big guy under the rim and say no one is getting a lay-up or a dunk. When Connect's got the one in the last game, I mean, he might as well been in the lay-up line when he ran into dunk that ball.

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or 1-800-606-4-263. and send us the Kentucky brandit tweet of the day by tweeting Matt at KY Sports Radio. So this song is kind of awful. I've never heard it. We've played it on here before. It's Toby Keith and Sting singing about divorce. And like it says he looks up at the stars and he realizes that he, his kid, so here's what he does, Shannon in this star. He finds a star for him, meaning like her, his wife's news.

man. He finds a star for me, meaning himself, a star for his wife and a star for his kids. And then he goes, there's something about these stars. We're all connected. And it's like, were you smoking Toby when you wrote this? Like, what are you talking about? It's so weird. And it's also weird to have Toby Keith singing with sting, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like it. See, that's him right there. I like the song. I like it, Shannon. It's just odd. It's an odd thing. It's my Whiskey Thief song of the day. We're at Whiskey Thief Friday.

Ryan, tell people how to get there. It's right there on the court and the edge of Franklin County and Shelby County. And when we always had this argument, are we really in Franklin County? We really in Shelby County. Just off the interstate. This is 283 Crab Orchard Road. 283 Crabb Orchard Road. It's Friday Whiskey Thief.

It's their Gonzaga pre-show. I'm telling you, if you're like, hey, I'd like to go to a remote. that's fun and see them, this is a great one. They give out samples, right, of whiskey thief. They show the thing where you can like inject the bourbon into your eye or something like that. It's called a whiskey thief. I don't think you're supposed to put it in your eye. That would burn.

But you can. It's the only place you can, it's called a thief, pull it straight out of the barrel and drink your own, drink it right out of the barrel. Don't put it in your eye. The point is you can, you can, you can, it's a whiskey thief. You can get it directly out of the bourbon, Ryan. And so it's like a very, it tends to be a very celebratory remote and we have it on Friday. It's a lot of fun. You pull that whiskey feed, get it out of the barrel, put it in your own bottle,

and then you can take it home and be a, and I'm not a bourbon guy, but it's good. It's really good. You can bottle your own there. Yes, 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, I know you love the show, or wait a minute, excuse me, Matt, I know you've been talking about rat running. Why do you think they call it rat running? You think it's because like you're like a rat, you're like... In a maze, yeah.

That's probably right. Yeah. I think that's a good one. Another person writes, Matt, I know you love shoes. You were talking about seeing the concert at Jeff Rubies. Have you ever gotten the shoe cake at Jeff Rubies? Well, that was the cake. Look at that cake.

That was the look at that cake. It was a shoe cake. It was the UK. They had a UK cake and a shoe cake. And they brought the UK cake to us. They brought the shoe cake to like another table. And I was going, look at that cake. And then, of course, everybody mocks me for that.

As they should. It's not as they should. If we saw the cake, maybe we'd be saying that. Well, I was in charge of editing, Shannon. I was just looking at the cake. And it's time for our Draft King segment to get ready for the UK game, our Draft Kings preview. Shannon, they like me to say about Draft Kings that you can bet five bucks to get $200 instantly from Draft Kings.

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It was 8.5. This morning. Already up to 10 and a half. What do you think? Would you take us? I'm taking Vandy in the cover. I like Kentucky will win, but I'm taking Vandy to cover. What about you, Drew? Kentucky should cover that. I'm staying away.

I hammered the over 151, and it's one of those. I don't know why it's so low. Maybe you or a listener, someone can explain it, but I couldn't believe that total. So I'm all over that. Why could you explain it, Tim? Because Dandy scores about maybe 60 points a game. So Kentucky would have to score at least just 90, which they have. Which they do.

But they've also had a lot of games where they haven't on the road scored that many points. Here's my bet. If you're going to do a bet tonight, which I probably won't. If Kentucky wins, I don't. think it goes over. I mean, I think they'll win either way. But if Kentucky covers the 10 and a half, I think it goes over, Drew. You know what I mean? Because we'll have to score a lot to win that 10 and a half. Vandy will probably score because it's our defense. I would do a parlay of the Kentucky win and the over if I was going to bet it, but I probably won't because with Kentucky right now,

I don't trust it. Marty, 30 seconds. Go. Hey, first off, I want to apologize to the crew for doubting your all sports knowledge when it comes to coaches and NCAA basketball, as I was one of the folks got hung up on last week. But I was calling in, secondly, to say that, you know, I'm a lifelong Dallas Cowboy fan. And when the Cowboys lost the playoffs, you know, earlier this year, the feeling I got was just an awful feeling. And when Kentucky lost to Florida, I got that same feeling. It was instantly there that it hit me that Kentucky basketball is the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys of college. Yeah, we've won since the Cowboys have won, so I disagree with that.

Cowboys haven't won since the 90s, so I'm sorry. I appreciate the call, but like, don't try to put us in with the Cowboys. Y'all got your own problems. Tristan, 30 seconds. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning. I'm a metal guy, but shout out to Phoebe Keith. So I call you every two years on this.

Today is All Mason's Day here in Kentucky, so shout out to the 30,000 or so Mason's across the Commonwealth. Yes. Today is a day of recognition and celebration for our fraternity, and we're going to be recognized by the office of the governor and both houses of the legislature formally later today. So go cats. Well, go cats and go masons.

You know, speaking of the legislature, well, I can't announce it yet. But Shannon, Friday the 16th, you'd be ready to go to Frankfurt. Oh, okay. I'm going. But you're, yeah, of course, you're a big time. Luke, Luke, 30 seconds.

What do you got? Yeah, I just want to make sure I got this right. On the post game show the other night, you said that Cal's teams do not practice situational basketball because they's not what I said. To be clear, that's what I said. That's not what I said. But go ahead and finish your point. I don't want to take it.

Well, I was just going to say, if we don't practice situational basketball, that would be like Mark Stoops coming on here saying we don't run two-minute drills. That would be we call them an idiot because, you know, if it might not happen. Yeah, you might not end up in a two-minute drill. What happens when you do? Same thing at the end of the end of the end of the end of the time. Yeah. So what I said was when I used to go to practice, I'd go twice.

a year. They spend the vast majority of time, the vast majority of time just running their offense and their defense. They don't spend, and I think the coaches would admit this, as much time on situational stuff as the vast majority of coaches. Back then, now, I don't know what they do now. But I don't think it's fair. I'm not saying they don't do it at all. But, Drew, you've been there. They don't spend as much time going, okay, what's our last second play, all that? They do a little bit of that, but they don't do. it like I think a lot of other coaches do. I don't know what they've done this year, but seeing the last minutes of games,

I would vote that they spend a little more time on it moving forward. Just because there's been a lot of failures in different areas, even who's in the game. I think everyone could be a little better in late game situations as March gets closer. Cam, last one, 30 seconds. Fellas, what's going on? This shot clock is hilarious. I don't know what the deal is with people why they can't. be impartial to what you say, Matt.

I don't agree with everything you say, especially politically. I consider myself an independent. A few years ago when we started this downward slope, I was like, man, I don't think Matt's aggressive enough on Cal. Now I feel like, you know, what you say is matching the play. And then those people who were kind of with you then. Indeed, he liked the shot clock. I mean, the shot clock comes for everybody, Cam.

Is it hilarious now, Cam? Pre-game show. Is it 6 o'clock tonight? Come watch the game at KS Bar. We're going to need to add some energy, I think, this evening. 6 o'clock. We'll see you then. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

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