KSR - 2024-02-19- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 19, 2024

Billy Rutledge and Shannon The Dude host the show and take Kentucky's big win at Auburn over the weekend and give you presidential facts for Presidents' Day.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or visit Comedy OffBroadway.com. Comedy Off Broadway. This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome everyone to Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, February 19th, it is President's Day in a company holiday for many. Some want to sleep in. Some are taking the day off.

Not us, the two hardest working men in radio. It's Billy Rutledge and Shannon the dude. It's a KSR pre-show takeover day on Kentucky Sports Radio, and you can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppetshop phone line. That's 859-280-2287. You can text us on the A-Vision Auto Glass text machine. It's going to be the KSR pre-show text line, 502-414-1724. And this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office.

You call T.J., he'll make them pay. It's really hour, too, here for myself and Shannon the dude. Good morning again. Shannon. What's going on, man? Did I hear it right? You just called yourself one of the hardest working men in radio? I did.

I absolutely did. Are you going to challenge me on that or what? Yeah, I am going to challenge you. I mean, today you're actually working three hours. Normally you get the pre-show, you get your one hour in, and then boom, you're out the rest of the day unless there's a game that day. Today you've got to work two extra hours and on a holiday, for that matter. And first of all, let me get this out of the way, too.

Since it's President's Day, I feel like I have to play this drop. Hello, Mr. President. This is DeMarcus Cousin. There you go. DeMarcus cousin. taking in for President's Day. Yes. But yeah, so Matt Ryan, Drew, taking the day off, you and I, here for the next two hours.

A little hostility for me to start the show. I do have to work the John Caliperi Collin show later today, Shannon. So miss me with that. Dude, that ought to be must listen to radio. And he's coming into the studio today, I believe, since it's a holiday. He's not going to be up Malone, so, you know, shake the guy's hand and say a great win this weekend. but Shannon, it's good to be alongside you again, ready for another two hours. I do want to ask you something before we start.

How do you feel about eight guys in a hot tub at one time? Well, I don't know if I've ever been in that situation before. I have a hot tub. I usually like to mix up the ratio a little bit better than eight guys to zero women. So you never invite the boys over and just have eight dudes in a hot tub sometime? I mean, no, no, no, not ever eight. It feels like it's a lot of sausage for a hot tub. So no.

Okay. I mean, look, if you want to do it, you do you. It's not my cup of tea necessarily. Maybe a couple of guys. I feel like eight is too many. It also depends on what size of hot tub are we talking about. True. Very true.

If we're packing eight dudes into a four-person hot tub and people are sitting on laps, that's even more awkward, all right? But if it's like one of these large 15-person hot tubs and you got eight, people in there and everybody's got elbow room and space. It's all right. I know Matt Jones, by the way, would tell you that hot tubs are the most absolutely disgusting thing to begin with, but, you know, it's to me, no different than swimming in a pool, right? Listen, I'm going to Gatlinburg with the fiancé.

First thing we're looking for is if it's got a hot tub or not. It's just, it's kind of our thing. We like the hot tub. Yeah. But I want to shout out Edward. He was the first caller on the KSR post game show after the Auburn game on Saturday. It's calling from a hot tub with seven other guys in it, Shannon. I mean, the dudes were just partying in Gatlinburg,

eight guys in the hot tub, celebrating the Kentucky Auburn win. It was a great way to kick off a celebratory postgame show on Saturday night. So I just wanted to know if it passed the Shannon the dude vibe check before we went any further. I wouldn't be my first option. No, you know, if it were up to me, if I was hanging out with seven other guys, I probably would not get into the hot tub. Maybe take turns, maybe not everybody at the same time.

Was it a bachelor party or what's going on here? because I think that also is important to know why we have eight dudes hanging out. I mean, not that there's anything wrong with bro time, right? But why are eight guys hanging out in Gatlinburg to begin with? Because I feel like when you go to Gatlinburg, that's the thing you do with your significant other, your spouse, right? Your family. I don't really think that, you know, if I'm going to call up seven of my buddies, we're not going to Gatlinberg. That's not our first option.

So why were they there? Was it a bachelor party? I don't remember. Honestly, I wish I gave you the answer. It was kind of a crazy night after that Auburn win, and it's just the first guy had eight dudes in the hot tub, and they were celebrating. The last call of the night was his brother to confirm that, yes,

that was happening that there were eight guys in a hot tub. So we had two calls from the Gatlinburg Hot Tub and the same show. I don't think the second guy, his brother was at the hot tub. I think he was just aware that his brother had all the boys over. You know what I mean? Okay. Well, it sounds like it was a rowdy post game show. And rightfully so, man.

I mean, what a great win that was. Yeah, and let's get into it. 859-280-2287. If you'd like to give us a call today and react to the cat's big victory versus Auburn, 70 to 59, the cats go into the jungle, a place where Auburn had not lost for 16 straight games. And Kentucky holds the Tigers to their lowest home field goal percentage in eight years. 31% Kentucky basketball team that we've been critical about their defense as of late. And Shannon, they've played two great defense.

games back to back. Old Miss, they allowed 63 points. They only allow 59 to Auburn in a game where I don't think many people expect Kentucky to have a chance, let alone never trail the entire game. It could be the statement win that Kentucky needed this season. What were some of your thoughts? Oh yeah, that was definitely a statement win. And I'll go ahead and say it. Go back and play the audio on Friday. I picked Kentucky to lose. I didn't think that they would win. I didn't give them much of a chance. But that was the most impressive win of the entire. year. You know, we talked about when they lost three in a row. You're in February, you're trending the wrong direction to be losing three games at home for the first time in Rupp Arena history. But then you come back and win a game that a lot of people didn't give you a lot of chance to win. And as I've said, though, I mean, isn't this sort of what Kentucky basketball has been the last few years? You look back at, you know, Kentucky last year going on the road and winning at Tennessee and then the Arkansas game. So just when you think John Caliperi's team is down and out, they have proven several years back-to-back, back-to-back years in this case,

that they can win the games that you don't expect them to win. And now that flips everything upside down. I mean, this is a big win for NCAA tournament implications for the SEC tournament. Now, all of a sudden a game that, a team that looked like they weren't going to be able to play their way into Friday of the SEC tournament. Now, that's very much on the table. So it was a big win in a lot of different ways for the game that. this Kentucky program. Yeah, you mentioned those road games that the cats have won in the past. They had a big win versus Tennessee last year, I believe. 37 points from Reeves versus Arkansas.

He does it again to a degree, only scoring 22 points in this game. But I mean, he led Kentucky in points and just was a dog in a game where Kentucky only scored 70. Only 22. I mean, yeah. He's a shoe in for 20 every game. And it's so quiet, too. I mean, you'll look up and he's already got 17. points. He's carrying this team not having to shoot three pointers. This team only was four of 13 from three in this game, so they did it in a number of different ways. Shout out to Uganda On Yenzo, who played 36 minutes

in this game. We've talked a lot about tightening that rotation and the seven footers making them worse on defense. Aaron Bratcha only played three minutes. I think Big Z may have played 30 seconds, Shannon. I mean, the guy was in for maybe a play, and then Cal called him back out. But Uganda, man, 11 rebounds, seven points, a couple of blocks. to his name, that guy has really grown up in front of our eyes. It's been very impressive.

I mean, if you want to talk about like the surprise player of the year, to me there's probably, I mean, two answers going into the season. I think Reed Shepard has been way better than a lot of people. Above expectations for sure. Way, yeah. And then Uganda has been incredible. I mean, especially defensively, what he gives you, he offers something that nobody else on the team can do, right?

a rim protector, a guy that can block a lot of shots for you when you need them. I mean, he's been impressed. So if I told you, Billy, you had to pick one or the other. Who's been the most surprising? Is it on Yenzo or is it Reed Shepard? I think it's going to be Reed because honestly, Reed might be a top 10 draft pick in the NBA. And I think many people wanted him to stay for more than one year at Kentucky. And I mean, some of the things that he is doing is just incredible.

even though his on-ball defense can be wanting you, earning you for wanting more. I feel like this guy does so many things right that it has been surprising. But, you know, they just kind of flipped the script in this game, Shannon. They got off to a great start. You know, these kids that have been camping for three days for this game. I love it. I love that aspect. Couldn't even get into the game because Kentucky played so well.

I love that their fans were so chasty. They were talking so much trash about Kentucky. They slept on the ground for three days. to watch their team score 59 points in a game that they thought they were just going to run over Kentucky. But yeah, you're right. I mean, Kentucky came in and right away got out to a lead, didn't allow Auburn to get into the game, didn't allow their fan base to get into the game really at all. They tried, bless their heart, but it didn't happen for them.

And Kentucky just dominated the entire game from the very beginning. And that's what you have to do when you go on the road like that, right? In a hostile environment, you have to jump up to a big lead early, make a statement. and then don't let the crowd become a factor. And they really didn't for most of the game. You're now 18 and 7 on the year. You've got six games remaining, including games at home versus Arkansas, at home versus Vanderbilt for senior night.

And you mentioned it, Shannon. I mean, this kind of takes a few things out of the equation. It looks like this really guarantees a Kentucky a birth into the NCAA tournament. There's a chance that the double buy opens back up for you. Maybe you don't have to play on Thursday of the SEC tournament. That's a log jam right now, like all the way from one to six. But yeah, I mean, it's very much in play. I mean, you go back just what, a week ago, it looked like, well, here we go.

We're going to be playing on Thursday. And maybe they still do. But now you, to some degree, at least, control your destiny as to whether or not you play on Thursday or Friday. And while we're mentioning guys, let's mention a Deut Thierro. My God, that guy is becoming not only maybe Kentucky's best on-ball defender, but may have had one of the best dunks I've seen in my. time working with the UK Sports Network and doing these games for the radio, Shannon.

He got up on that dunk. Yeah. And it started with a pretty crafty steel from Reed Shepard poking it out from behind. So, I mean, these guys were doing it all. And in a Deut Thierro, who's, you know, he's got a lot to prove and he's been still fighting through that back injury, man. You ever had a bad back injury, Shannon? I mean, that is debilitating.

Yeah. And this guy's going out there doing something like that. No, I can't claim to have a back injury like anything that he's dealing with right now. But going back to like that I do dunk, though. I mean, when somebody dunks on you like that, that just takes all the air out of the arena, right? I mean, you want to talk about momentum changing and just sucking the air out of the building. I feel like that dunk right there just kind of everybody's like, oh, you know, everybody kind of just duck their head down after that one. Yeah, if you're an Auburn fan after that dunk, you're talking about most unenjoyable experiences of your lifetime.

We were talking about that in the first hour a little bit. With Rick. Yeah. Which we're going to, I'm sure again, right? Yeah, we might get back into Ricky P's comments. John Calip Harry had a hell of a post game show. I've got some from that. Swaggy Cal is back.

And I think you're going to, if you have not heard this yet, you're going to love what John had to say after the game. We also had an eventful weekend when it came to Kentucky players in the NBA. The All-Star game was this weekend, Shannon. But I'll be honest, I kind of checked out. I don't know if that's my cup of time. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I tried to watch it. I watched it. I mean, like, the scores are ridiculous, right? What was the final? 211 to 186 was the scoring. Is that a slap in the face to basketball when you're scoring 211 points?

I mean, we kind of expect that, right? We know that's going to be high scoring, but are we just going to try to break a record every single year? I guess there's going to be a point to now where we get up to like 300 points to, it's going to be 300 to 20, the final. score. It feels like that's what it is with the NBA All-Star game. Just play with a Nerf ball. I mean, it's kind of unbelievable. I mean, Damien Lillard, I think, won the MVP. I think he shot 60 times. Jeez. See, I watched the first quarter

then I'm like, this is ridiculous. I think didn't they have like 100 points at halftime? Yes, they did. And I was like, I'm not watching any more of this. And I turned on Indiana Jones on the Dial of Destiny. That's what I did at half time. I still have not seen that movie. I realized it came out like eight months ago.

Was that the last one? The last Indiana Jones? Because I've heard that's not bad. Well, I fell asleep. But what I saw if it's not, I fell asleep. I'm the worst. I can't get through movies. I fall asleep every time I try to start a movie.

But that's got to be the last Indiana Jones, right? I mean, there's only so much believability I can have in an 83-year-old man running around kicking people's butts, right? Yeah, and I think Harrison Ford's done with it, too. The last Indiana Jones movie I watched was the Crystal Skull one about the aliens and I went to the theater with my dad and he had never been more disappointed at I think in a movie in his life just as somebody that had grown up watching Indiana Jones and then you get that alien storyline with it all what was the best one have you seen them all

have you seen all the Indiana Jones yeah yeah I think Raiders of the Lost Ark is that is that your go is that your pick you know that's one that was the that was the first one yeah the one where they all the souls escape out at the end of the tune yeah I'm more of a temple of doom guy temple of doom yeah I think that was the best one is that the Boulder coming at you or was that a yeah yeah I think it was it's been a long time since I've seen that but yeah doll of destiny as far as I can tell you it's a decent movie I've watched the first 45 minutes of it fell asleep funny you watch the movie I watched Oppenheimer it's now on peacock able to stream now and it was like I was running a marathon I mean I went 26 and 0.2 miles

watching that movie Shane I had to stop three or four times just because I was in school it was like back I was in a college class so you got to be mentally prepared to watch something like that. Indiana Jones, maybe a little different. Isn't that movie like four hours long or something? Three hours, I believe it is. See, that's way too much. There should be a rule. Like, every movie is an hour and a half or less. Because I don't know if it's just me being an old man, but I cannot stay awake for any longer than that. Two hours, three hours, forget about it, man. And I've always been like that, too. Even when I was younger, I can remember going to movies in college. And if it was a long movie,

I mean, it's so dark and seats comfortable, kind of kick back a little bit. I'd be falling asleep in a movie. I'm like, why did I just pay 20 bucks to come watch a movie to fall asleep to? So I love this because, you know, most people have short attention spans and they can't sit there for three hours. Shannon's the opposite. He falls asleep. He actually, it's not like he's not paying attention. He just falls asleep because he's getting so long. We now at my house have like a gauge. And the gauge is, am I intrigued enough by the movie to not fall asleep?

and so if I actually make it through an entire movie without falling asleep, it gets two thumbs up for me, right? It gets like a higher rating because I keep track of all the movies that I've watched on IMDB. You can rate them. So if I can get through the entire movie in the first setting without falling asleep, that at least gets an 8 out of 10. Well, it'll be when movies start instituting replay reviews in the middle of it and making us waste another 10 minutes of our time.

That's when I'm going to check out. But hey, glad you're alongside with this here for this President's Day of Kentucky Sports Radio. We got a fun show planned out for you. We'll continue to recap the sports weekend. We're going to have Reggie Hansen on a little later in the show at 11 a.m. Talk a little Kentucky basketball about this year's team and maybe his time at Kentucky since I'm so well uninformed about Reggie Hansen's career. And, you know, just sit back, relax, maybe sleep in a little bit and enjoy the President's Day edition. Don't sleep in.

You got to listen to us. If you're sleeping, you're not listening. Don't fall asleep like me during the Indiana Jones movie. You've got to wake up. We need some callers. Okay. You're right. Don't fall asleep on us.

Give us call. 859-2802-287. That's our Clark's Pump and Shop phone line. Let's have some fun. It's Shannon the dude and Billy Rutledge. We'll be right back. Man, it feels like I'm in the movie right now. It's Billy Rutledge and Shannon the dude.

It's a Monday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Another one was the Holy Grail. Right, dude, that was another good Indiana Jones movie. Wasn't called the Holy Grail, was it? I don't know if it was called that. That was the whole thing, though. You've got to go find the Holy Grail. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've seen some of those movies.

So you had the Crystal Skull, Doll of Destiny, Readers of the Last Ark, Temple of Doom, and the Last Crusade, right? I think I nailed all five of them there. Well, it's your time frame, so I'm glad that you got it right. You know, I was just thinking, you and I, we've hosted KSR once before, right? Once, and we did a bracket, and it was TV show theme songs. You had some terrible take. I forget what it was. I think I chose the Flintstones over the Andy Griffith show, and this fan base reacted like he thought it might.

And it was our caller that had to settle the debate, and he chose the Flintstones as well. So I'm not, it's not all on me. What a terrible take. Hey, you know, today is President's Day, Billy. I thought that I would get for you since it's President's Day. some interesting facts about some of our former presidents. Oh. If you wouldn't mind me laying a couple on you.

Yeah, let's do it. All right. Our fourth president, James Madison, was the shortest president ever. Do you know how tall he was? I'm going to guess like 5'2? The short king stand up? He was little, but he's a little bit bigger than that. Okay.

He was 5'4 foot 4 and weighed barely over 100 pounds. Barely over 100. Now, in the day and age of TV, there's no way. that voters would vote for somebody who's 5 foot 4 and 100 pounds, right? Because so much of what we vote for, I mean, just you have to admit it is visualization, right? Like, you can't vote in somebody 5 foot 4 and 100 pounds, right? Some guy is supposed to look strong, right? We've voted in some questionable characters recently.

You know, one president's asleep, another one's got an orange hair, so I mean, maybe. Five, four, did you say? Five, four, a hundred pounds. The weight thing's getting to me a little bit more than the 5-4 thing. You can't help the 5-4. You can help the 100 pounds. I don't know if he's just walking it off every day or what. But little dude.

I'll save the other ones for later. We'll sprinkle those in as we go through it. Okay. I like that. I like that a little... Shannon the dude doing a little show prep. Nice change of pace here. Let's take our first call, though.

This is a show for you, 859-2-8-7. What's our phone's lines looking right now, Shannon? Let's go to Samuel. What's up, Samuel? Hey, Samuel. morning, gentlemen. I almost said afternoon since I've been on hold since the last show. But anyway, I love you all. You all are Renaissance men. In the last show, we had advice for the love, Lauren, and advice about how many men are allowed in the hot tub. This hour, we get movie reviews and

presidential trivia. Do you know, they interviewed Mrs. Lincoln right after her husband met an unfortunate end at Ford's Theater. And the first question to marry Todd was, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like to play? You cut out. That's probably for a good reason. That's okay. No.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like to play? Did they really ask her that? No. Okay, that's a horrible joke. Okay. Thank you, Samuel. We appreciate the call on your attempt at comedy this morning. Not even about the Auburn game.

No. But we did see Mr. Lincoln when we were at the state capital on Friday, Shannon. I thought that was very cool honor for OBW to be its own day. That was a lot of fun. It really was. It was a really bizarre scene to see wrestlers in their gear walking into the rotunda. And then what do you call like the area? Is that the chamber?

What do you call that? What are you talking about? The holding chamber? Where we were sitting? Like up the gallery, I think is what you call it. The gallery. But it was awesome. And then you had Senator Yates.

A senator, imagine this, actually asking cash flow to chop him. I mean, that's a guy chasing some votes, I think, Shannon. I mean, honestly, I think it's a pretty good idea if you want to relate to the people. But he did kind of lean out of it. Oh, he absolutely leaned out of it. He only got about half the force from that chop. I think if he had, you know, just stayed there and not moved, he may have been taking a day off the day himself. Well, I guess he's already off.

He probably would have been taking the rest of Friday off. if he had actually gotten the full force of that chop. But yeah, it was a lot of fun, a great honor. And, you know, I'm glad that we got to experience that. Yeah, we learned about the guy taking out a tumor. Yeah. He got the tumor. You know, he got a statue of the tumor next to him as well.

I didn't think, he probably didn't think that was what he was going to be known for in his life. But, you know, they must be just giving days to anybody. STD day after his walk. OVW gets a day. Well, I earned it. First of all. Where's my day for working three hours today, Shannon? I think that's what we should do that.

At least you showed up, though, on President's Day. That's more than some people can say, right? So at least you got that. But you know what? That means, though. What? Comp days, baby. That's right. That's why we're doing this.

You and I will be getting an extra day off in June or July or August, a day of our choosing when it's a lot nicer weather than a random February. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. 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.

You know who this is, right? I know why you're playing this. Yeah, I do. You and I were having a conversation a couple of days ago on the air. And I was reading off to you, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees, Cole and the Gang B and 1. Right. And which you came back with, oh, yeah.

Rapper's delight, right? And I either didn't hear you or just wasn't. wasn't paying attention because I completely glossed over that. Rapper's Delight, Billy, was not cool in the gang. No, no, I mixed my gangs up. Sugar Hill. Sugar Hill. Yeah.

Gang, right? Okay. Not getting that mixed up again. But I did do Rappers Delight at a talent show many years ago, but that is not the same, same gang that we're honoring in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So how did that up. Do you have any of that left in you from the talent show? Do you remember how you did it?

Do I really want to do this on the biggest radio show in the state? I mean, why not, right? I mean, it's a talent show. A friend's house to eat, and the food just ain't no good. I mean, the macaroni soggy, the peas on mush, and the chicken tastes like wood. Come on. All right. Here we go.

I'll let you use your imagination for the rest of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're having a good time. Didn't know I'd be rapping a little bit. Do you have another President's Day fact before I get to this audio? Because I kind of enjoyed the first one. Actually, I do. I do here.

This is from our 38th president, Gerald Ford. Okay. Did you know, Billy, that Gerald Ford was a star football player at the University of Michigan and actually turned down offers from both the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers? This guy could have been an NFL player, but decided to pursue a career in politics instead. Wow. Higher calling. I guess you didn't make the money that you did today when you go into the NFL, right?

Or professional football? It's almost just like, hey, let's go get a concussion and wear these leather helmets back in the day. But turn down the lines and the Packers for a career in politics. So now you'll never look at Gerald Ford ever the same again, right? I'm sure you have strong thoughts on Gerald Ford. I don't, you know, a little before my time. But, you know, we're celebrating all the presidents today. It used to just be George Washington's birthday.

This is what this holiday was. And then we wanted to give a, you know, we wanted to give federal workers a three-day waken. So they kind of moved it to the Monday. I don't know, the third Monday in February. So that's where we're at today. Somebody that had a great weekend was John Caliperi, proven a lot of the doubters wrong. And Swaggy Cal returned in his post-game press conference.

You know, somebody just sent us some audio of Bruce Pearl who was screaming at his players before the game. He was a little rattled in this one of the show. You know what I mean? He was like, all right, guys, we're going to go out there. We're going to fight. I don't know if we're going to win the SEC regular season championship, but we're going to try.

That's what it felt like he was doing. Like it was really, I mean, he was fired up. I'll give him that, right? I mean, if only every coach was that fired up. I'm sure a lot of fan bases would be happy, but I'm not sure his message was all that great. He was a little juiced up for this game. And, you know, ended up being a big victory for the cats,

a game in which they never trailed. And John Calipari acted like it in his post-game press conference. I cut up some of the audio for this because if you missed it, I mean, it's just this is, why you're a fan of John Caliperi at Kentucky. I mean, this is before anybody has even asked a question in the press conference. We're hoping to see something different.

We have some people here that are there for a reason. We're going to make this out to be... Please just leave my players, let them be young and learn, and keep attacking me. I may be the worst in the country. Just attack me and leave these kids along.

Okay? Thank you. Before our press conference has even started, Shand. he's even sat down in his chair, he comes out from behind the curtain, cutting a wrestling-type promo on the media, which, by the way, the Auburn media probably didn't know what in the world he was even talking about or referring to. Of course, Kentucky media knew what he was talking about. But the Auburn media, I'm sure, was like, what is with this guy? Jaw on the floor from some of the media members, I'm sure.

Cal went on to remind people that he did play zone in this game a little bit. held a top 10 team to 30% and 18? I don't know. I guess we could do better. Do you see, I went zone one possession just to do it? I said, how about we go zone one time? Let's just try it. We got nine stops in a row, Coach.

I said, stop, let's just try it. You guys want to try it? Yeah, go zone. And the reason it works, we don't know what we're doing. So how the hell can you prepare for something that we don't even know where we're going to go? He's got a point. How the hell are you going to defend? against something that, or how in the hell are you going to play offense against somebody

that they don't even know what they're doing when they come out in defense. He's also on this big kick now where he's saying, I'm the worst. Go ahead and say it. Nobody's saying you're the worst. They've been critical of you. Attack me, not the players. Yeah, but I don't think anybody ever was really attacking the players, not anybody that I've heard. I think we've been critical of guys, especially five-star athletes that I think we expected

more from. But everybody's doing their part. And, you know, a good barometer of where this team is. Aaron Bratchall played three minutes in the game last night. He's still smiling. You know what I mean? He's still supporting his guys. I mean, that could have easily been the opposite with a guy that should have been, you know,

your best recruit out of this stacked class. And, you know, if he's not going to get a ton of playing time, I still have confidence that he is still going to be there to support his guys. John Calipari also asking the question that I think that we're all asking is, how are they so much better on the road than they are at home? Now we go on the road again. We're pretty good. For some reason, we're better on the road than we are at home.

I don't have the answer, but we are. And it's probably maybe at home we're expected to win every game because we've won 90-some percent of our home games. So we're expected, and the crowds have been off the charts. So now you go on the road and you've got no chance of winning and now they play looser, maybe? I don't know. But we seem to be better on the road.

than we are at home. Shannon, you may have some insight into this. Do you kind of relish it when you're feeling the booze when you're handing out toothbrushes at OVW? Is it kind of make things a little easier when you don't have expectations like maybe they do at home? Of course, I love booze. That's like the best sound, right, when you walk out there for an OVW show,

which, oh, by the way, coming up this Friday, we're going to be in Lexington at Manchester Music Hall, get your tickets while you can. Oh, going back. OV Wrestling.com. But yeah, I mean, I think there probably is a little something to that, you know, because the expectation is you do not lose at home. You go on the road, you're the underdog. Nobody's expecting you to win.

And I think maybe there is a lot of truth to that. You could go out there and play a lot looser. And I think we've seen that for the most part with this team on the road this year. Yep. Kentucky's next game is at LSU. It's another 9 p.m. start. But then this weekend, Saturday, February 24th, it's Kentucky versus Alabama in a game that I think we've been saying all year

that these two teams could both score 100. points in this one. I think it's going to be like the NBA All-Star game, 211 to 186. Probably the final for that one. I think you're right. And to that point, our final clip, this one may be the longest of the four that we've played. John Caliperi had a little swag to talk about the All-Star weekend, too, and the

performance of Antonio Rees. I mean, come on, five rebounds. And he's a knock-down shooter and make free throws. He's made himself a pro is what he's made him. He's going to have an opportunity Did he like the six guys, one, seven that I'm going to go watch tomorrow? I am flying to Indianapolis, hopefully get together with the families, and then go enjoy seven guys in the All-Star game.

You don't care about basketball. Why did he go up there? Are you crazy? Do you understand it's a record? Julius is getting his shoulder work on, so he's not going to be there. but the most ever from one school in an All-Star game was four. That's by us. But it was four.

So we got seven without Jamal, without Deeran Fox. So all of a sudden you're talking about let's get half the guys in that game. Maybe one day they'll get half the guys in the day. It's just when he goes into the voices, Shannon, is when you know that he's definitely feels. It's clearly a guy that does not listen to the clutter. I'll give him that. He does not.

I mean, at least he's told about all the clutter. That was sarcasm. I get it. I get it. I was trying to. I love it, though. Look, I love it. Kentucky wins.

Cal is swaggy. Do it, Cal. I love it. I'm not mad about it at all. It is hilarious. And while we're playing audio, let's hear Tom Leach's call it a do Thierro dunk. It's worth it.

Come on, Fisierreau. Down the left side, it's knocked away and stolen by Auburn. And then Shepard steals it from behind. hind in the other end of the court. Tows it ahead to Reeves. Reeves floats it up. Damn, Dan, with one hand by Fierro and he got foul. My, oh my.

Wow. I was already saying turnover going the other way. I don't know how in the world he got up that high. That's a favorite moment of the game by far for me. Doothiero. Another guy we've just seen progress and progress, he's still growing. According to some of these doctors. Yeah.

I mean, he plays so aggressively, too. He's sort of really turned it on the last couple of games, but a guy that goes out there, and I think leads by example with the way that he plays, fighting for rebounds and going after loose balls. So, yeah, he's really turned it up, and apparently so has the rest of the team. Well, 70 to 59.

It's a big win for the cats. And now I think you've got to be optimistic looking at the rest of the season. Let's take a call before we take our next break, dude. Who got anybody on the line? All right, yes, we do. Let's go to Nick. Hey, Nick.

Nick. Hey, guys. How are y'all doing this morning? All right, man. Good. Hey, a couple of things real quick. First of all, that Bruce Pearl pre-game.

Uh-oh. I don't know what you call it. But there's a little meme of the head exploding. That's exactly what his head looked like getting ready to do. I was ready for his head to just explode at any moment.

And me and my wife were just sitting there to laugh and his, you know, it's good to be, you know, get on your team, get him hyped up. But that was overly ridiculous. I was always talking about the SEC championship and this and that. You don't throw all that into your players. All you're doing is putting pressure on them now. That's all you're doing. Yeah, yeah.

I wonder what Bruce Paul's blood pressure was at that moment, too. Oh, I tell you, it was off the charts. Had to be. Off the charts, but absolutely. But I'll tell you what, the arrow. on that dunk that was that was that was that was that was that was that would that just killed uh over his whole moment because if you see the players after he dumped

the players turn around just put their heads down and just started looking at the ground shaking their head yeah yep so so I think that was a turning point in that game where they just knew at that point that they had their hands full Nick we appreciate it anyway it was great game Thanks, guys. Thanks for the call. Thank you, Nick. Yeah, talk about Bruce Pearl's head turning into a tomato at that pregame speech.

I mean, here's a little of it. I don't know if we're going to win it. Championship goes through Auburn. It was like a really passionate but not confident speech from your head coach. It's like a little old James Madison came up and talked to the team before the game started with Bruce Pearl. But 859-280-2-87. It is a KSR pre-show takeover of... There is a joke!

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You know, like on a 25-mile-an-hour or 35-mile-an-hour speed limit road, just to see what it would do. Just didn't even touch my hands on the wheel the entire way there and it just nudged it right back in. Of course, nobody else was on the road. So I made sure I did it safe. but it's wild. That's the future. 30 years from now, it'll just be lane assisting us all the way to where we need to be.

You know, on the pre-show this morning, I think the stat was 25% of 16-year-olds today have their driver's license. That's correct. And people were making a good point on the text line, which today is 502-414-1724. Is that in Kentucky you can only get your permit at 16,

and then you've got to go six months, and then you can only get your restricted license. And so really, it's only until you're about 17 where you can get your driver's license. license. So things have all changed over the years, I guess. Yeah, but that's just Kentucky, I'm assuming, right? Yes. Well, yeah, but it's different by state. Yeah, yeah. So this was like just nationwide, not just in Kentucky.

But I still thought that was crazy. Only 25% of 16-year-olds have their license. Not driving like they used to, dude. They'll just get a Tesla one of these days and just lane assist all the way where they need to go. Let's take a couple calls. A reminder, Reggie Hansen is going to be joining us at 11 a.m. to talk about the current cats and his time as a Wildcat, who we got first? All right, Steph. What's up, Steph? Hey, Steph. Hey, guys.

Good morning. Good morning. I didn't get to watch the game much because I was in the process of moving. But I did see, I peaked in on some of it. It looks pretty good. I guess the defense is really stepping up. Defense is stepping up, Steph. It was a, can't believe you missed that game.

Yeah, you're going to go back and watch it. Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah. Also, my basketball season is over. We lost our tournament yesterday on Saturday. We're sorry to hear that, Steph. We know we've been following along for a while. We won our first game 30 to 18, and then we lost our second game by like 10 points, I think.

the other team was really well they were pushing all the time and they were taking the ball out of our hands Oh they were bullying you know okay yeah Kind of like Tennessee It's like you're playing the Tennessee of your league All right step We're sorry that you didn't win and you're out of the tournament

But you should go back and watch it because you missed the game of the year for Kentucky So thanks for your call Yep All right there you go step And you know Shannon I'd still probably want to watch that 30 to 18 game more than I would the 211 to 186 all-star game. Yeah, at least there were some defense there, presumably, more bad shooting, I don't know. Hell, I thought Jacob Topping got robbed a little bit, dude.

I don't know if you saw the dunk contest. Yeah, he got rid. I mean, between the legs, 360? Yeah, he got robbed. I think he made it look so effortless that the judges just didn't give him the praise that he deserved. Matt McClung gets the slam dunk contest win, and Jacob Topping does not, but he did represent Kentucky. very well. And then also Jalen Brown wearing Terrence Clark's high school jersey and Terrence Clark

kind of coming on that LED floor that they got. That was a very cool moment. There's no doubt. One person said, we don't have to worry about that LAD floor coming to Kentucky. We can't even get the new floor in at Rump Arena. I thought that was going to be like a temporary replacement. And now it's, well, temporary is turned into what, two months? Well, it was the new floor was broken. I mean, that's why the cats lost that game. Honestly, it's... You didn't see well. I did pretty well on it. I guess they're used to playing on broken floors. They're used to the broken floors.

They don't have the same budget we have. That's exactly right. Broken floor. So maybe a while until we see the LED floors. Just a, what, what, 30 seconds left before we've got to go to break, dude, so not enough time for a call? No. We'll take some calls coming up next. So hang on

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