KSR - 2024-05-09- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 9, 2024

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I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill with we've got folks here from Pockville, folks here from Cincinnati. all kinds of good people, and we are ready to go. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Pubbit Shop. Phone line, 30-second shot clock today, Shannon. All right. 859-280-2287. I had Tall's wife told me,

Shannon giving people the buzzer might be her favorite part of the show. I don't want to hear any whining when I do it to people now. Which on one hand is really nice. Like, this is one of my lifelong friends. On the other hand, I do this show all the time, prepare every night. And one of my best friends looks at me and says, I like when Shannon hits the buzzer.

The A-vision auto-glass text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-2-5-4. And this dish is sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lovus, if you call T.J. will make them pay. I'm just kidding with you, Tiffany. It is a, thank you very much. It is a beautiful day here in Lexington. I fly out this evening to go to Dallas for my mom's graduation. So looking forward to that. I got home last night and was going to pack.

And then I realized I couldn't find, I left my suit. What do you call those things? Garment bags. Yeah. I left that in Louisville, so I'm having to borrow one of my friends' garment bags to fly because, you know, I got to wear suits the whole time I'm there, you know, because it's fancy. Well, yeah, didn't your mom kind of give you the dress code for the different events? I'm 45.

My mom told me exactly what I have to wear. She said, you have to wear this, and then you have to wear this, and you have to be happy. And I said, I would do all that. And then last night, you know, they go to bed. Right. They go to bed at like 4.30. Yeah. So she said, we're staying and the concierge at the hotel told us right down the street on Friday and Saturday nights, they have tacos and music. And she was like, when we go to sleep, you can go get tacos and music. And I was like, well, thank you, Mom. On Friday and Saturday night in Dallas, I'll go get tacos.

I thought she was going to stay. And we want to go with you to tacos and music. No, they're going to bed. Yeah, I don't know. Mom's had, I don't know if Larry's had taco. Well, I guess they do eat at one of the seven Mexican restaurants. in Middlesboro. So, yes. But I'm looking forward to that. And you guys will be tomorrow doing this hosting the show. You're going to have Mario on a little, am I right? Yeah, our number one story idea we had for tomorrow.

You're already taking it from us today. We're going to get Trent Noah. We're going to tell Mario's stories. Well, we have Trent Noah. He's coming on at 11 o'clock. We'll talk more about him in just a second. But before we do that, what is your story about Mario? Well, this is what we were going to say for tomorrow.

I guess we'll tell it today. day. All that show prep we did yesterday. I know, Drew and I was so excited. Hang on. You don't prepare shows a day in advance. You do the current news. And so, like, if this happened yesterday, then you have to do it today.

It was my first road trip with Mario. I think he went with you two somewhere. Mario had never, I think this is very cool, had never been to a golf course. That's right. Never been to a golf course ever. And the first one he goes to is the PGA championship the day, Tigers there. So, I mean, like every, when he got, goes to Tate's Creek International.

He's going to be let down a little bit, I think, when he goes there. But anyway, go ahead. So afterwards, Drew and Mario and I are all getting ready to leave. We're hungry. Thoughts to get something to eat? Drew and I was like, let the new guy pick where he wants to go eat. Well, that's nice. New guy pick.

Where do you want to go, and I'm going to buy. I'm going to buy his lunch. Oh, now there's a rarity. When's the last time you've bought? It's been a while. So there are three fast food restaurants at this intersection, right? Wendy's, Subway, and Dairy Queen. Okay.

Okay. Mario pick whichever one you want. Because if it was up to you, it would be Subway. I love me some Subway. And let me just guess. If it's up to me, I'd probably do Wendy's. If it was up to you or you do Wendy's? Well, I had to pee, and the Wendy's was at the truck stop, so I voted Wendy's.

But only for bathroom purposes. So where'd you go? Of course, he makes Dairy Queen. Which, Dairy Queen actually underrated burgers. They're pretty good. I don't think you eat. First of all, nobody does dessert. like, I mean, the blizzards

The blizzards are amazing. Yeah. But I don't think you go eat actual food at Dairy Queen. Jannon, do you disagree? Breakfast is good, but yeah, for lunch or dinner, no. Yeah. But go ahead. Well, we should have got a warning of things to come when we walked in

in and everybody just standing around looking at the counter, and there's nobody behind the counter. Nobody. And there's like, what, four or five people just standing there. And an older man even told us something like, get ready, boys. Like, buckle up. knew what was coming. We walked in.

We got warned. All right. So after about, I don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes, we finally got a chance to order that we just now ordered. And the gentleman behind the counter, he must be having one hell of a bad day. Because, like, I asked for a cherry diet Coke, which you can only get those at Dairy Queen. They make them, put the cherry syrup in your Diet Coke.

Oh, it's phenomenal. Okay. And he's like, what? I said, the Cherry Diet Coke, we don't do that. I'm like, you don't make a cherry Diet Coke here. Dairy Queen, everybody makes a cherry diet Coke, Dairy Queen. He handed me the Coke to do it yourself. Oh, he said do it yourself.

Well, I mean, it is when you say you don't do it. Presumably he knows better than you what they do there. Well, I'm saying the man was not having a good day. Did you go behind the counter? I want to add between these comments, there was this weird standoff where neither was budging. Margoe's, like, they're staring at each other. So you were arguing with the man about whether or not he has a cherry diet Coke. Yes.

And you were convinced he has it, and he was saying, no, I don't. I think I said, yeah, you have cherry syrup back there. You just put it in the Diet Coke. So now you're telling him how to do his job. Yes. Okay. All right, that usually goes well. It did not go well.

Keep mind he was already behind a little bit on the rest of his job. So we finally, after several minutes, we all three got our order in, but then it took another 10, 15 minutes to get our, just to get our food. So we're 45 minutes in. We're finally sitting down to eat. We all just want to congratulate Mario on picking maybe the worst restaurant. in the history of Kentucky. I also want to add,

and he wasn't yelling. I would have just said these things under my breath a little more, but he was like, Ryan was asking other customers, just a little nods. Like, well, when he gets a chance, he'll do it. I know the guy can hear him. Maybe just a little. I think the guy could hear him.

It was kind of quiet. I don't understand. Let me ask you a question. I feel like since we opened this place, I have been much more patient in restaurant settings than I used to be because now I know what happens. Like, I know that sometimes, you know, if a cook calls in, like, it can just be tough back there, you know? I understand that, like, we've had hosts show up an hour late and then people come, and it's just like it just is what it is.

Do you, like, you know that stuff now, too. You've been here. Do you not feel that sympathy? I felt some sympathy for him until he's trying to argue with me about my cherry diet Coke. Did you get a cherry diet Coke? No. So maybe he didn't have a cherry diet. They have cherry syrup at Dairy Queen.

It's possible this one doesn't, right? It's possible. Matt, maybe you and I would be the only one to get this reference, but I feel like Ryan was about to go Jim Cornett at Dairy Queen. Oh, yeah. You know, there's a famous, the wrestling manager, Jim Cornett, famously, is it in Haydn? Or is it Leslie County? I'm not sure exactly where.

There's a video. He goes off on a Dairy Queen person. On a drive-thru. In a drive-thru. What? Yeah, he goes through the window. It's not a bit. It's real.

No, it's real. This is years ago. This is like the late 80s early 90s. I want to see it now. But I'm surprised that you would look at a man and say, I know you have cherry syrup. Well, he looked me straight in my eye and said, we don't do that here. Do it yourself. Okay, game on right there, pal.

What do you mean game on? I'll defend Ryan a little bit. It was a pretty poor experience. Okay, but when you say game on, what were you going to do? I'm not going to be friendly anymore. My friendly Ryan just walked out the Dairy Queen, went next door to Wendy's. But you understand, like, I mean, he probably does. I mean, he doesn't get paid enough to deal with your mouth.

Well. Oh, yeah. He kind of shoved the Coke cup at me. Oh, he shoved it at. Yeah. Why are you looking at me like, you know Ryan better. Are these two about to fight? Here's the only reason I say this.

Okay, again, I would have probably done something similar years ago, and I'm not saying it's beyond me to do it now, right? But oftentimes what happens is if somebody calls in or if somebody's late, the people that get punished are the ones that show up. up. Yeah. Right. Like that's what happens sometimes. So like if we're here and we're short staff, what I hate is the servers that are here are the ones who get punished for the other people not coming because people like you get mad at them when they actually at least showed up for their job. And I would give our servers credit in that situation. They're very pleasant. They're very nice servers. They're good to work with. So you just didn't like this guy. Didn't like this guy at all. All right. So but I'm 100% blame Mario because he picked that dairy queen. And this is the guy you call the nicest guy on KSR, this Ryan Lemon guy. That's, you know, it's a really good point. I had this conversation last night

with somebody about Ryan. You are both the nicest and the meanest person on this show. There's no doubt about it. You're both, which is kind of an amazing thing, but you are. Although Mario's nicer than you. I've not heard Mario say a crossword to anybody.

Another element of this is I, before I could order, he disappeared for another 10 minutes, so I had to stand there waiting. Oh, that's true. So I tried to kill him with kindness method when he came back, guess who got their food right away? See? I was done eating why Mr. Cherry Coke over here.

Give you a little piece of advice. I'm ready. Hubby told me once this is the thing, only thing he's ever learned from me. If you want something, and I'm not just saying in a restaurant setting in life, okay, whether it's with a boss, anyway, there are only two ways to get what you want in this world. Be really nice or be really annoying. There's no other combination What you have to do when you meet a person is say

What's going to work with this person? Is this a nice person or is this annoying person? Most people are in the middle and that's why they never get anything You chose the wrong way with this guy. Drew was nice, you were annoying And he was not having it And that's exactly what in a way I felt like I was Mario's father And I need to show Mario that hey, you don't let people push you around

Especially in a Dairy Queen. You stand up for what you want. He's like the United Nations in terms of his kids. You could be his kid. It's true. He really could. He has like the entire map. So you could do it.

It was a wild experience there. There was another couple eating with their hands because they couldn't find a fork. There were people getting up and going to other places. Ryan just took it a little farther on his end of the counter. Well, either way, I'm glad you didn't get your cherry diet Coke. Kentucky did get a kid from Harlem. Yeah. Trent Noah from the 606.

ends up coming to Kentucky. A day after we're getting released from his National Letter of Intent from South Carolina, he signs with Kentucky. Would you like to know a little bit of behind the scenes here? I would love to know this. Here's what's interesting. When Pope came and when Pat Kelsey came to Louisville, I think Trent Noah believed that both of those places

became a lot more attractive as options. I don't know, well, I know, Cali Perry didn't recruit him, and Kenny Payne didn't recruit him. So now they both have new coaches, and I think maybe they were like, we'd like to try one. However, they could not have contact with either staff. And to both staff's credit, I don't think either staff contacted them because they knew he was still under his letter of intent. So they almost had to take a leap of faith. I think there were probably people who said, I know they will be. But you know, if you're that kid, you have an SEC commitment, it's a leap of faith.

And I think Kentucky was always going to be option one. But I think he would have gone considered Louisville if Kentucky didn't want him. But the kid had to take a leap of faith. He did. I think once he got released, Kentucky probably called within four seconds. And then it worked itself out. But, you know, I'm not going to act like he didn't know they would probably be interested, but I'm told neither staff talked to him until, and then they both did.

But you know, Drew, that would be a little bit nerve wracking. You get released and go, please call, please call, please call. And it works out for the kid. Yeah, I was kind of staying on top of this in real time, just having some connections to him. And they kind of said, you know, he would like Kentucky basically what you're saying right now, but we would need to know that Pope really wants him. But at the same time, Pope isn't allowed to say that he really really. And I'm told that I'm told that UK was not going to say it.

Yeah. Now, I think there were people around that were probably trying to make sure, because the three school, he wanted to go to one closer. And Tennessee, I think maybe had expressed interest in him after he committed to South Carolina. So I think they had to take a leap of faith. One of these teams will do it. I think in the end, they all did it.

And it worked out for him. I'm really happy. After not having a 606 player, or excuse me, a 13th region player since Richie, we get two in back-to-back years. Here's what I'd say about this kid. He's going to come on here at 11 o'clock. You know, over the years, it's hard to always judge kids who play only Kentucky competition to if they can play in Kentucky.

With Reed, you knew it from AAU. Yeah. Right? With Travis Perry, he shoots so well that you'd have to say, whatever. Here's my thing that makes me. think Trent can do it. First of all, he shoots very well. But he's also Drew built. He's built like a guy who can play. This is not a six-foot kid who lights it up in the 14th region and doesn't play anybody else. This is a kid that's built, and I think that's why I'm very

confident. Yeah, he's got great statistics, especially shooting his percentages, free throws all. He can score at all three levels, but he's got that six-six size. I think I used the word bulk yesterday, but it's a lot of muscle. It's not someone you're going to say, well, once we get him in the gym and put some pounds on and then we'll see, at least from size standpoint, he'll be able to play right away. Athletically, I haven't watched him enough to know how he'll hold up like that against SEC talent, but he's a guy that I expect to contribute just because he's already got the frame. He scored, what, 38, 39 against Evangel, which is probably the most athletic team in the state,

and he was five, I mean, he was able to score on them, so I do think I'm, I think that's positive. What he did against Campbell County in the, they were a big, yeah, and my friends are already talking about from Campbell County. They're bragging on the win. What are we going to do next round? And then our group techs quickly turned to, oh, my goodness, Trent Noah is killing us. And, I mean, he basically brought them back in that one to carry him on him in the tournament. Six-sixth, he can play the point.

He's a great shooter, and he can back you down low and scraw on you, man. I mean, he's very versatile because he's got – he's built like – He's not there yet, but he's built like Chuck Hayes. Don't like Chuck Hayes. That kind of, except Chuck Hayes couldn't shoot. and he can shoot and Troy Trent can shoot 859-28027

we're going to use the shot clock we'll talk more about all the stuff going on there's actually a lot of other basketball stuff that's next here on KSR welcome back Tech Sports Radio so one may say someone the text machine

most people seem to be on the Dairy Queen side maybe just because of the way you told the story yeah maybe they weren't there text machine is 772 77525254 one person writes Matt, they don't do Diet Cherry Coke at Dairy Queen anymore. I know that because I go to the one and I used to order it and now they don't do it. Well, it's funny, smart.

I like Texter. I go to one and I get it all the time. Which one? This one right across the street. Maybe they do you a favor since we share a parking lot with them. Maybe they do, but Texer needs maybe shut his yapper. One person says, you're right normally about Dairy Queen and food, but biscuits and gravy at Dairy Coon. That's what I was saying.

The breakfast is really good. You can get country ham there, which you really can't get it. You can get country ham there? Well, you can't at some locations because I went to one and they're like, we don't have it. I do like that. We did a show at a Dairy Queen in Fleming'sburg. Flemingsburg where they had like, they made their own food. Yes, their own breakfast.

The local chef made his own like off-menu food. They do like meatloaf and like. It was great. It was great. It was the guy he used to be the state rep from there, Sims. John Sims, I think is his name. He owned the Dairy Queen, and they'd cook up, like, their own homemade menu. Yes.

I think he sold it now, so he doesn't do it anymore. But, yeah, that was a – remember, we did a remote there. It was great. And then he makes these homemade breakfast sandwiches that were just incredible. Yeah, 859-280-2287. So Trent Noah is – comes to Kentucky. They now have 11 – or 10 players, right? 10 players.

Still three scholarships open. I think they'll definitely use one, probably two more. I don't know if they'll use the third, but maybe somebody comes up. But I think you now have 10, so now you can at least practice if you want to. Good practice. So that's the good news yesterday. I think a lot of people are happy. Like, my view is this kid's ranked 103rd in the country.

If you got a kid ranked, I'll just say top 100 because he's 103. And he's from Kentucky, you find a way to put him on the roster. That's one of the things. You know, Cal could have always done that. You know what I mean? Now, the kid might not have worked, but I think people just want that kid on the roster. Now, maybe, you know, who knows how it'll end up working. But, you know, think about how much we love Derek Willis and Dominic Cox.

Right? Like, those were guys. And by the end, they were both contributors. Oh, yes. So I drew, I like adding this kid. And obviously, I like it because it's from the mountains. Yeah, and it's just so much better of a system fit moving forward with what they'll have. You know, if you're asking them to go out and create, I don't know if they're ready for that.

But if you're getting them for a wide open three-pointer, I love both Travis Perry and Trent and Noah being able to make that shot as a freshman and getting some good minutes, even though it's going to be quite a lot of guys competing for minutes. All right, so then Tyler Ulyss is going to Arkansas. That news actually came out, again, text machine. A guy wrote me and said, I don't know if anybody's listening to the Cal podcast anymore.

Clearly that answer was probably no. But there was a new episode that came out, and he said he was taking Tyler Ullis. So then we put it out on KSR. It seemed like when I was online, it felt like a lot of people were very negative about that. I'm going to zag. I'm going to go counter to that.

I'm happy for Tyler, and I'm glad Cal's doing it. I mean, if you want that kid, if you care about that kid beyond just like, what's he do for Kentucky, you want him to have a chance to be a coach. Cal's probably the person most likely to give him that chance. That kids, some of it's self-inflicted, but a lot of it's just bad luck. He's in a bad car wreck. He got hurt right when things were starting to go good. with the sons.

And so his career got derailed. And so, you know, I'm not sure there's anybody that was tougher at Kentucky. I think he did a really good job here. I think the guards all connected to him at a staff that I think was probably too old. He was kind of the young guy that sort of reached out. So I'm happy for Tyler. It's going to be hard seeing him coach for another team. But you know what?

Wayne Turner coached at Louisville, right? Does Padgett coach at Louisville with Rick? I believe so. I think he did, like, if you root for these guys, you got to root for him to have an opportunity, and now he has an opportunity. And I think, you know, I'm like everybody else, he's one of my favorite players, and it kind of stung. I think you wanted him to find a way to stay here. But you can't, if the guy wants to get into coaching, Cal's giving him a chance to, you know,

to get his foot, step his foot into that ring and try to make a coaching career for himself. And also, if you're him, you know, I mean, we all love Mark Pope. I bet Tower Eulis didn't even know who he was. Right, right? Tyra Eus probably never heard of him. So if the guy that was your college coach and whose staff you've been on before says, come work for me, and it's that or a person you've probably never met, I can understand why he would do that, Drew.

Yeah, this doesn't change my opinion of Tyler Eulis at all. It'd be a little weird seeing him on that bench, but that won't be for very long. And the guy's got to start a coaching career. I don't think he was going to just be on Kentucky's bench his entire life. He had to go somewhere, so his move, his best move, probably was to follow Cal. Did he even have an opportunity here? I don't even know.

Maybe it might have been his only option. I kind of think, I don't know if he did or not. I don't want to speculate. So let's say his only option was to follow Cal, what do you want him to do? Well, I can't do that. It's Arkansas. Just go sell cars. No, I mean, the guy's trying to be a coach.

He's got to do what he's got to do to start his career off. So, I mean, it'll be weird seeing him. I hope he's not there too long, but he's still going to bleed blue and it doesn't change my opinion of him. I think one of Cal's best strengths is loyalty to people. I mean, it can also be a detriment sometimes if he's loyal too long, but it's a strength most of the time. And his loyalty to that kid who's done, I mean,

there ain't too many guys who probably came to Kentucky and accomplished more with what they have than Tyler Ulyth. You know what I mean? If you just look at the player he became, so I hope he does well there. I'm not going to be rooting for Arkansas, but I will root for Tyler Ullis, and I hope it's the start for him of a really good coaching career. It feels like one of our good friends in school.

Their dad just got hired by Walmart. They're getting transferred to Fayetteville. We're going to miss him. We wish you were sticking around here, but he's got to go follow his family. It's like a breakup. If the woman you're breaking up with, you really liked one of her friends. Like you really liked one of her friends, and you're like, I might miss you even more than I missed her. But you understand.

She's got to be loyal to her friends. Yes. And I feel like that's kind of in some ways what this is. All right, we'll take a break. Get the buzzer out and get ready. 859-28027. On the text machine, one person writes, I have a new name for Ryan Lemon.

It's Karen Lemon, and I'm calling that when I see. My mom's not going to like that. No, it's my mom's name. I take that as a compliment based on your mom's name. She really hates that's happened to her name. She brings it up all the time. She's upset about it. She does not like that Karen has become the name.

I understand because she is the sweet. latest lady ever. She is. All right. 859-280-2287. Who's up first? Let's go to Richard. Richard, 30 seconds. Go for it. Did you say Richard, Richard, Richard, did you say Trump? Richard. Did you say Trump? I said, I am tickled to death that Pope has got all these kids. That's not what you said. That's not what you said. That's not what you said. That's not what you said. Richard, you said Trump got the players, not Pope.

Well, I miss it. Do you have Trump on your brain? Do you just sit and watch Fox News all night, Richard? Be honest. No, no, no, no. I'm too old for that. Extend. Extend.

I'm so fascinated with Pope. With the players he's got, with the offense that he's sitting, wonderful watching these Kentucky kids, rain three is down on those Arkansas. Okay, I got you. Third time. I got you. Well, it will be, listen, I appreciate the call.

It will be fun. Everything's great as long as we win. You know, I think Kentucky fans would love to have Kentucky kids. Dot, dot, dot, if we win. Okay. If we don't win, then that's different. But yes, the office, it's going to be fun. Listen, everybody in this state's going to be pulling for that guy, Ryan.

I mean, not just Noah, but Pope everybody. Yep. but they still got to win. That's why I said that first game, Kentucky has to win. I mean, it was that way with, they don't have to beat. They have to be Arkansas at Ruff. That game's at Rupp. They've got to win it.

But when you say they have to, if they don't, what's going to happen? Just like our fan base will just. They'll flip. Yeah. They'll be fine. They'll be fine. I mean, now, if we lose to Arkansas and we already have 10 losses, that'll be different. Yeah.

But if we have four losses or five losses or even six loss and we lose to Arkansas, it'll be all right now look we're going to want to win but i don't think that's fair to mark pope to put on him you got to beat cow in his first year when he has a team of the number two recruiting class in the country and four guys he's coached before and you've got to completely that's just not a fair standard drew to hold for that guy yeah it's it's funny to watch just the mindset of the fans and some of it's people changing on the fly we wondered you know year one it's going to be a dip now some people are like we better have a final four and you got it's like it's like Like it's one or the other.

You're going to give the guy a little room. Now, I want to beat Arkansas, too. Don't get me wrong. You got to give him room to breathe. Now, I mean, I'll judge, like, do I think they have the pieces if they get one more guy. They should not, like, then I expect them to make the tournament. Okay? Oh, yeah.

I do, but, like, you know, this, you do have to give the dude some grace for he doesn't have one guy on his team. Maybe he will with Jackson Robinson. But not one guy on his team that he coached last year. Or has been at Kentucky. Or has exactly right. So you've got to, Ryan, don't you have to give him a break, Karen? Yeah, you still got to beat Arkansas at Ruperita, period. That's not fair.

I honestly don't think it's fair to him. Cal could have a top 15 team next year. You know. Oaken wasn't top 15, and they beat us. I understand. You're missing my point. But go ahead. Who's next?

David. David. David. Go ahead, David. 30 seconds. Hey guys, I'm running down for Murray State's graduation. I'm on my way there now. It'll be nice to be back in God's favorite state. But Matt, you were talking the other day about following Tiger around and it made me want to ask you guys, what is your most impressive act like you belong there story? That's all I got. You know, it's really odd you would ask that question because someone a couple days ago asked me and I was going to bring it up as a topic, what is the, like, most surreal moment you've had since you've done this,

like surreal positive moment? And this is kind of similar. I think in terms of nervousness my most was when Roger Federer was sitting five feet from me and I was trying to ask him to come on the radio show. But the most surreal moment of my career was sitting there next to Katie Couric. Oh, yeah. Waiting for the Bill Maher show to start. And I'll always remember the moment that they do the intro because they tape it live and it came up and it just went, Bong, HBO's.

And I'm like, I'm sitting next to Katie Couric. Bill Maher is right out there. And I'm about to go on that stage on the season premiere on their first show after January 6th and talk about this. I remember thinking, whoa. So that was the moment for me. Do you have a moment like that? Nothing like that.

That was a surreal moment, I think, just for us who knew you, like, oh, my God, that's Matt sitting there with Katie Couric. And she was so nice. And she goes, she looks at me. I've always thought this was sweet. Because how much television has she done? A million times. A zillion hours. She looks at me, and I think she can tell I'm nervous.

But you know what she said to me? She goes, I'm a little nervous. And I think she did that To kind of calm you down To be like, well, if I'm nervous, it's okay for you to be You know what I mean? Actually, I remember thinking that's really nice of her to say But for you, what was the most like, act like you've been there,

surreal kind of moment? Oh, we kind of talked about it yesterday with that Just when I got to interview Tiger Valhalla. Did you know at that moment? I mean, he had just kind of become Tiger. Yeah. And I told the story before. I was at the back of this list of this horde of people waiting to talk to him

and he walks up to the horde of people and just stops right in front of me and then looks at me like let's go he only like 20 probably it had been 20 years ago but you like felt like you knew he was going to be he was still tiger he was still tiger yeah okay what about you do uh jzy's locker room where uh we're still done didn't act like they've been there before yeah i screwed that one up for queen b was there eating her vegan lasagna yeah we were the only white people there i got to meet tai even asked him about his mites. I was acting like I'd been there before. I don't think I've ever seen you happier than that.

Like we were standing backstage and then when Jay Z walked by, that's one of my old time screw-ups was taking his picture. Yeah. You know, that was a bit because we got kick because World Wide West walked out, looked right at me and Drew and goes, y'all got to leave. We were in. I'm high-fiving people I've heard sing on songs.

We're talking about where we're going next and then TMZ over here. With the sound on, just reckless behavior with the sound on. I told you going in, no pictures? No. No, they didn't. No, they did. They did say that. But I mean, there's an assumption that, and I didn't, I wasn't trying to like

TMZem. He just had on a Kentucky blue suit. And he was right next to us. I mean, he was like me to Mario right here. He's right there. And he has on a Kentucky blue suit. And I'm like, this is cool. I want to take a picture of him in the suit, right?

But he looks me right in the eye and I do it. And as soon as he did, I knew, I knew we were done. You're in trouble. the noise, I think we were safe, but he did like a turn. It was like the camera noise. He looked, yeah, this was like a phone that's doing click. You know, and like, he looked at me. And World Wide West had already told us before when this is over, we'll go out to the club.

And I was thinking, I'm not dressed for this club. But 10 minutes later, we're walking. It was raining on the strip. That never happens. Just us walking in the rain, wondering what could be. It was also Drew's birthday. You know, I got him the tickets for his birthday. we had set with what's that dude that's LeBron's childhood friend that's his agent.

We were with Leon Rose. We were with a couple others. And some women of that weren't there for us. They weren't there for us. They weren't. Believe me, they were not there for us. And you know, right on the front row. What did you say to him when you guys walked out?

Did you say anything to him? I think I just looked at him. No, Drew is speechless. It's unbelievable. Because that was like his favorite guy. Actually, at first they tried to be like, yeah, get this guy out here. Come on. Get him out.

He's taking pictures. He can't be doing it. See what it made me leave? by myself. Oh, if they'd be like, are you with him? I would have never seen that person in my life, where are we going? They also, I remember they were bringing Jay-Z vegan lasagna. That's what he was eating. It was vegan lasagna. Who's up? Shannon, what was yours, by the way? I feel like I've got several, but if we're talking just related to the show, I would say the day that we were in the press room of the White House, you talk about acting like you belong there. Like, I felt like a fish out of water

in there that day. It was so awkward. Yeah, and you all did the show from that. That's one of the best shows of all time. I wasn't even on it. I remember I had to fly home. He did his Mitch McConnell in that press room. And you know, Ryan, the volume was louder than it needed to be. And that might be the most uncomfortable I've been in any situation my entire life. I can feel everyone looking at us. People you see on TV just staring at Ryan doing as Mitch McConnell. You know, I was going through some old pictures,

and I found the picture from the Republican convention where the woman from the New York Times was interviewing people to see what they, Republicans, what they thought about Trump. and then they interviewed you, and like she couldn't believe how little you knew about politics. She was like, who'd you vote for in the primary? And you're like, well, how did you get here? I don't know. And she was absolutely fascinated by you.

Like, who are you and why are you here? They had that little box where people could say, what are they looking for to the Republican convention? I put, I have no idea what's going on here. I'm just here to see Rascal Flats. And then they used it on the today. show that more next morning. I forgot you said I'm here to see Rascal. And they used it. That's right. Bluegrass Home Center is now open in London, Kentucky. You can visit bluegrasshomecenter.com today to find your dream home. A family-owned business with two, three, four, and five-bedroom

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too low of a standard. When Cal got here, he didn't have anything coming in and they went 35 and 3. We need to expect him to get at least 15 SEC wins and make the NCAA tournament as a four-seater better. Well, first of all, the first part of your sentence is wrong.

Cow didn't have anything. Let's remember two really good players came back. Darius Miller and Patrick Patterson. Those dudes were pretty good. Then he had already gotten commitments from DeMarcus Cousins, was close to getting one from John Wall at Memphis, and was recruiting Eric Blentzo at Memphis, right? So this idea that he didn't have anything.

The biggest problem for Pope is the school he coached at does not recruit the kind of player that comes to Kentucky. That's the biggest problem for him is almost any other coach that goes somewhere new, they bring like three dudes with them that they recruited to the other school. He didn't recruit anybody at BYU that would have played at Kentucky. And Ryan, I think that that's a huge thing that he needed to overcome. that makes it different than most other coaches. It would be like hiring a dude from the NBA that has no commitment to all, you know?

That's what I think, you know, Alvin Brooks becomes a very valuable member. But nobody that Alvin Brooks had came either. But I think like he's in on some dudes maybe for next year. Yes, yes. But I just think that's what makes it hard in the immediate year. Yeah. Is he didn't even get the three guys you get to bring in. And Cal at least had not just Patrick Patterson and Darius Miller,

Ramone Harris, Perry Stevenson. He was able to fill up. DeAndre Liggan. He had five guys to play at least seven or eight minutes. So think about that. He had Liggins, Patterson, and Miller join this group he already brought in. That's a good start. Now, what Cal did is still very impressive.

It is. But also, when we're saying it, looking in hindsight, we didn't set that expectation for Cal. It's awesome that he did it. But if he had lost a few more games, we wouldn't have been like, oh, my goodness, this guy's terrible. So the bar wasn't that high when Cal got here. He just happened to have a great start. I forgot about Liggins. He was a carryover as well, but you're right.

All right, who's next, Shannon? Let's go to Ed and Cribs? Well, he brought Hood. Crebbs was here. Yes, go ahead. Aiden. Aiden, go ahead. Hey.

Yeah, is there any update with the basketball staff's last coaching spot and the meet and greet? Is that exclusively the NIL group or is that for anybody? You have to be subscribed to Club Blue NIL to go to the event. But to be honest with you, I mean, if you were going to buy a ticket for it, why not just subscribe? Because it would actually, if there was a ticket, it would probably cost more. than subscribing would. So I would say just subscribe. As far as the coaches, I have not heard.

I appreciate the call. I think there's been some speculation that maybe it's somebody involved on one of these NBA staffs and they're waiting for them to finish their playoff run. But I don't know if that's true or not. But I kind of think it might be because there's really no other reason you would wait at this point. I saw that a lot last night about Ulysses. Why didn't Ulyss feel that last spot? Well, maybe because Pope wanted somebody.

I mean, you know, there's, he's got, I do think when you hire somebody, you got to let them, I mean, I think there was a huge push to get Kenny Payne here, but I'm not sure that was what Pope wanted. I think that was, and so in hindsight, it might have been good that didn't work out because you should let the dude pick the state. People should have a chance to succeed or fail their way. Yeah. Right. I'm sorry, go ahead. I was just saying, like we were saying with Ulys, I mean, I feel like a lot of people are operating like he had an option to,

stay at Kentucky and he chose Arkansas. That might have been Ulyss's only option to further his coaching career to go to Fadeville. Yeah. Who's next? Marty. Marty. Go ahead and Marty. Hey Matt, first time, long time. Who are? Two questions for you. First of all, I'm loving the way this roster is filling out so far, but two questions, both of them have to do

with Jackson and Robinson. I've heard you say over the past few weeks that we need the dude or a dude. And what are the chances that one of the current recruits that we have will be the dude kind of similar of what rob and reed were last season the other question about jackson uh what are the chance i don't think the dudes we have now can be the dude next year i mean Colin chandler maybe there's an outside chance but dude hasn't played basketball in two years so i can't i can't say that for sure uh Noah and perry i think can be great players

here i wouldn't expect it to happen immediately But then again, I didn't expect it to happen with Reed immediately. So, but I also think it's worth remembering as good as Reed was, and he was very good. And as good as Dillingham was, he was very good. Antonio Reeves was our best player, right? He was our best player last year. And so I think Jackson Robinson, I don't know if he'll be Antonio Reeves, Ryan, but he can be the guy that is your consistent best player.

Yeah, the guy that's going to get you if you need 18 points a game or something like, it's that guy. Right now, I think we've got a bunch of guys that can get you. 10, 11, 12. Maybe 5 or 6 guys you can get your 10, 11, 12 points a game, which is very valuable, but yeah, still you need that other guy. And Tony Reeves only didn't score in double

digits one game all year. Like, that's amazing. Yep. A dude like that's hard to find. Drew. Yeah, and I don't know which one of the guys Pope's already added, but I'm expected somebody to make an even bigger jump

than what they've already done in their career, whether it be Brea, Andrew Carr, one of these guys, everyone's going to get better and better each year. one of these guys that's already put up good numbers at another school, I think it's going to surprise us with how good they are in Lexington. If you were to guess, let's just say the roster stayed what it is right now, and you had to put money on the leading score next year.

Who would you take? Brea. Probably Brea. But I've already sent out a few texts to friends calling my shot on Andrew Carr, SEC tournament MVP, and potential Final Four most outstanding player. I say that with no base thing. He's to make a big jump. But one of these guys, I think, is really going to turn out to be...

I think one of these guards. Butler, Brea, Oway is about to make a huge jump. I'm not sure which one it'll be. I think Brea is probably the safest pick. But I think one of them will make a huge jump and be really good next year. Who's next? Joseph. Joseph, you got 30 seconds.

Hey, Matt, I know a lot of been going on with basketball, but what do you think about Brock Vandergriff? How good is he, and is he a husband candidate? I think he has been Hasman candidates a little strong but I think he can be really good. I mean, I've never seen him play in a real game, obviously, but the coaches love him,

and I think he's got a chance to be really good, Ryan. You know more than I do. You talk to receivers. Had a great spring. I think the receivers love him. Now you add Gavin Wimpsett to that quarterback room. That's a great quarterback room they've got right now. Yeah.

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