KSR - 2024-09-11- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk about the Presidential debate, UK Football, and remembering 9/11.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So we haven't done one of these in a few weeks. Any question you want to ask. You can ask about football if you want, or you can just ask about whatever, whatever it is you want to do. Ask anything Wednesday. 859-280-2287. You know, most people probably went into work today.

Drew, they said, hey, did you watch the debate? Are you getting ready for the Kentucky Georgia game? We walk in here to the bar. And Shannon, Drew, I wish you could have seen Ryan. They're cleaning the windows right now, these nice fellas. And Ryan is as mesmerized as anything I've ever seen in my life. Like, he is just staring at it. Like, you know how if you were to see, I don't know, a giraffe and how excited you would be?

That's how Ryan is right now. Wouldn't you be a, like if a giraffe walk through here, you'd be pretty exciting. It would be pretty perplexed. Yeah. Yeah, true. But these guys, it's kind of, they do a great job. It's like an art. there's no ever a seam, a crease, nothing.

We all wash our car windshields, and there's always a little seam, you know. But, I mean, they're pro. Like, this is what they do. So, that's why I was watching him. It's like an art. They're like they doing it. But, I mean, you have been entranced by it for 15 minutes. Like, I was trying to talk to him, Shannon, and he just was like, he would not.

Be quiet, man. I'm watching them. Yeah, he likes to watch the windows. Yeah. I know, but you were like a child. Is this, maybe this was the career you. wanted to do. Here's my future right here.

I mean, you're just, you are mesmerized. Yeah. See, like he goes to watch him. He goes to the left. He goes, goes to the right. Yeah. It goes down. I think what you're doing is you're making sure he gets, you know, they're even,

doesn't miss a spot. But like you are looking at, well, I mean, I'm, it's nice. I just, I've never seen you more care about anything. To be fair, I am mesmerized by, like, the window cleaners on, like, the sides of hotels and, like, skyscrangers. Like, that is crazy. different. Yeah, I understand.

You're maybe not as fascinating. Yeah. My college roommate moved to Denver. He does that on the side of the tallest. Oh, my gosh. How could you do that? I don't know how people do that. But, I mean, you know, they say.

Watch it. Watch you here. See, look. Will you stop? I don't. I get it. I've seen it. Like, no streaks anywhere.

Not a streak on any of these windows anywhere, professionals right here. I understand that. Okay. Well, 859-28 home 2287. You said you did not watch the debate. I did not. I've heard a lot about it.

Heard reports this morning. But you didn't watch it. Just out of curiosity, what did you watch instead? I didn't watch any TV last night. What did you do at 9 o'clock? Did you just go to someone's house and watch them clean the windows and stare? I was putting together a shelf thing for Yobi girls that put in her closet. Oh, you were doing like manual labor, yes.

Okay. And did have that go? Perfect. I did put together two of them. They're like perfect. Well, good. What about you? Did you watch it?

I caught a little bit of it. I eventually switched over to Chimp Crazy on HBO. It's a little more interested in that. I understand. Great, great series. But I saw 20 to 30 minutes. Okay. Yeah, I'm re-watching White Lotus season two.

Yeah. I was getting back into that. I didn't watch it. I got updates. I did spend a lot of time watching the post reaction, like from people. Because I like, I feel like that's, you know, like I said, nobody's going to change her mind. So I feel like it's interesting to hear what these people say.

Shannon, did you watch? Probably about 95% of it. At one point I had to get up and use the restroom. I missed that part. Okay, well, that's all right. You can miss that part. Did you do a scorecard? I did.

I don't know that it's my best work because it wasn't a great debate, really, but I'll make it as entertaining for you as I can. We'll do it later on in the show. We'll do it later on the show. I would give it a little tease. My mom specifically last night called me and said, will Shannon be doing a score card? and I said yes.

So I didn't see it. So I can't really comment on the specifics. It looks like the consensus tends to be that Harris won. I tweeted something. It seems like a lot of the people on Trump's side are saying that they cheated. Generally speaking, when you say the refs cheated, you lost the game. And people would write me and go, you got sued by ref. And I was like, yeah, it was after a game we lost.

I didn't get sued by a rap. No one sued me after the 2012 national championship because you know what, we won. So that's the, but to be fair, I didn't see it. The same person, there's one person in my life that I feel like is kind of neutral, Ryan, and they're the one that wrote me after the Biden Trump election and said, Biden is not alive and you need to get him out. And then last night, he said Harris won by a lot. So that's basically, I'm using, they were pretty consistent on both of those.

I just know going into last night, Harris's camp saying this is one and only debate, Trump wanted more. Now this morning I've already heard, Trump's saying, eh, maybe no more debates, and Harris is wanting more. That tells me I think I know how it went last night. Yeah. So there you go. We'll wait for Shannon's scorecard to see. Both sides declaring victory, though, I will say. I didn't know that there was a controversy about people eating dogs and cats until.

last night. And so then I got to read reading on that. And that seems really stupid. What? What happened? He was putting together a shelf. You got to catch it up. Well, I just, I saw a clip of Trump saying someone eats dogs. And I was like, all right, well, what in the world is that about? And I guess there was a story. And it ended up being false, but they're still repeating. I don't, I don't know a detail. Something about in Ohio. Immigrants in Ohio, according to a story, immigrants. Yeah. So I guess they said that immigrants, yeah. Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats. It turns out it was actually an American who ate a cat. It was Al. We don't condone that.

It was Al. It was exactly right. Although Alp was an immigrant. He was a, well, we never heard. I don't know if when we watched it, they talked about his legal status, did they? Alf on the show. Yeah, I don't think he has a citizen. I don't know if we know either way.

So that's, that was going on. And we'll get Shannon's scorecard later. and then I listened to a couple of podcasts yesterday, Ryan Rusillo. Do you know who that is? Yes. He used to be on the ESPN. He's on the ringer. I listened to some of his podcasts, and he said the South Carolina defensive line against the U.K. offensive line was, he said, you will never in college football see an offensive line get more dominated in college football than what South Carolina did to Kentucky.

Do you agree with that statement? Well, it sure felt like it watching the game. I mean, Kentucky could not do anything offensively, ended up having to go to put it two tight ends and just try to run the football. He said it was, but you didn't answer my question. He said it was the most dominating performance by defensive line that he's ever seen. Drew, do you agree with that? Surely there's been worse, but it's hard to argue against it.

Can you remember a worse one for us? No, what makes it so bad is this kid's going to be special, but that was a true freshman and an 18-year-old going against some guys that have been here several years, and he was whoever they tried to match up, didn't stand a chance. The fact that it's even a conversation is not a great sign. The fact that he could say that, and you wouldn't just go, excuse me, sir. There was one other one that was worse. I mean, yeah, even it being said out loud is awful.

Yeah, he said, I don't know how bad Kentucky's offensive line is, but I've never seen a team get dominated like that. I mean, the five rating lives in my brain that Cox got, and I love him. He's one of my favorites. He's much better than that, but five as a grade five. At one clip, but we had three guys trying to guard that one freshman dude, and he still got through. Yeah, I don't know that you'll see. And that's what makes it hard, I think, for fans to feel good is how is it going to get better?

right how i mean how's that going to get better well eric wolfford said we have to start winning our one-on-ones well okay thank you eric i got it i mean that's fair enough you also have to get you know to win an election you have to get more votes than the other guy i get it but that's not that doesn't that doesn't answer the question eric you know well i'm just i'm just relaying what what came out of yesterday's practice is they're focused on winning one-on-once i did like hearing that Eli Cox and the veterans were very upset, came in, didn't even have to be yelled at. But who were they upset at? I mean, they were the ones that didn't.

I'm aware, but you would think people that played that much football. I mean, it shouldn't have happened, but a bounce back would be ahead. Unfortunately, number one, Georgia is the next opponent. Yeah, I mean, that's, I don't know. I saw a few minutes. They replayed part of it yesterday on, like, ESPNU, and I, and I saw a few. minutes of it. And I'm now more confident in my opinion that I don't think we can say anything about Brock Vannecryff. I genuinely don't think he had a chance. I mean, 80% of the plays,

it was blown up before he could even. Oh, yeah. I mean, like, he had no chance. So I'm not saying he's good, but I really don't think I can say rhyme one thing about him one way or the other. Same thing with most of the receipt. Like, I know that there were, there's a clip. I have retweeted to Van Hiles talking about Barry on Brown, and I'm not saying that's not like saying he wasn't trying, and I'm not saying that's not legitimate. But I've decided I put 80% of this on how awful our offensive line was. I think it all starts right there exactly what you said,

because how many times do you see Brock dropping back and having to throw off his back foot because he's about to get smeared? And it also then affects you even when it's not as bad because he would start running backwards early. It's almost like he was expecting to have to do it, even at times, Drew, that I don't know that he did. Yeah, I mean, they talk about quarterback seeing ghosts. Late in that game, you know, he was scrambling from defenders that weren't there on that particular play, just because he was so used to being swarmed right away.

Receivers couldn't even run their full route before he's getting mobbed. That's why a lot of people wish Hamden had gone to something a little quicker, and it was funny hearing Kentucky fans say they want screens after years of saying stock the screens. We are pretty good. But you need to do something a little quicker when he had no time. We are pretty good about wanting whatever it is is the exact opposite of what we're doing. You know, we ran the ball for years, and then it was like, all right, we're going to have to throw. And then when we throw, people are like, well, we're going to have to run.

And then we throw to tight ends. You know, we used to throw screens all the time. We stop. Now, why don't we throw screens? I mean, we do, if we're fair, sort of want the exact opposite of what we're doing at any given moment. We love the wildcat. No, we hate the wildcat. Why aren't we running the wildcat?

Never run the wildcat. You know, we're a flaky bunch. But it's also proof that, like, ultimately what we want to do is win. I mean, for all the talk about style of play, winning cures everything. Sure. I mean, yet last year, the basketball team could not have played more fun. And then when we lost, people are like, well, you just never get the ball inside. That's, at least for me, that's an all-time favorite roster in basketball.

Like, that was fun, and then it just did. Oh, I think that was. You could, I certainly would say I've never had a back court. I liked more than last years. In terms of just being, you know, enjoying a team, I don't think I'll ever have a back court I liked as much as Reed, Rob, and Antonio. And we still lost Oakland, and that's the way it goes. You got to win.

You got to win. And, you know, late in the game, they finally made the change. Like I said, when they put the two tight ends and we ran it 11 times in a row and moved the football. Wimson came in. He was running the football. So, like, they finally found an answer to move it a little bit, but it was way too late by then. way too late. I feel like I've asked this two or three.

Where did Hugo go? Kansas State. Because they said, they said y'all don't have dudes, and then they came and took one of the guys that are on that team. Interesting. That's a dude. That'll be a guy in like 10 years.

We go, oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Hugo, he played here. You know what I mean? When you said his name, I had to stop and think about who you were talking about. In the Cal era, who's the guy that is most. Oh, yeah.

He played here. I always say it will for eternity be Isaiah Jackson, a man that is in the NBA playing regular NBA. First round pick. First round pick. We always call that the BJ Boston team, and Isaiah Jackson was the highest pick on that team. You're exactly right.

He is completely forgotten for a guy that was a first round pick. I know people that have gone to Pacers games and been like, man, that guy sounds familiar. The second quarter is like, oh, yeah, he played Kentucky. Oh, that's right. I don't know. I really like him. I remember that year wanting him to play more.

I think that was one of my first big. Yeah, I will. How he was used. I tend to forget, like, I know you don't because of your connection. But it's very easy to forget that Michael Moller was on the team and played a lot, right? Like, it's very easy to forget. Oh, yeah, that guy played here. And then went, play.

Played the NBA. He played more here. Yeah. He had the curse of if he missed one shot, Cal would not look at him for two weeks. That's exactly right. 859-2-80-22-87. Text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-2. It is Ask Anything Wednesday. We will take your calls. Later, we'll get Shannon's scorecard. And we're going to check in with basketball. We haven't talked about them in about a week and a half. Some updates on that as well. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Listen to Superhuman on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. They are clean windows, though. I'm not going to lie to you. Professionals. Yes. They are professionals.

No streaks. Yeah, I'm very impressed. Yeah. I'd give them a shout out, but they already left. They're in and out. It didn't take very long. You're right. They did not take very long.

They got this whole thing done quickly in and out. One person writes, Matt, you're a stinking liberal. That was it. I got one of those that I'm going to turn you guys off, stinking liberal radio. Listen, I'm most, can I say something with love? Yes. My text machine and Twitter is filled with you. folks, not you folks, the vast majority of you are wonderful, but with a handful of folks who get

on me about this and that, and I hear the phrase snowflakes all the time about my side. And guess what? My side has a lot of snowflakes. We have a lot of people who get offended by things that are too quick. But here's what one thing is. Those of you who say, I'm going to turn you off, you are a snowflake. Like you can't hear one thing you disagree with without going, I'm turning this off. Isn't that, Shannon, what a snowflake is? Yeah, I think that's the definition of it. That's the very definition is that like you can't hear something you disagree. I didn't even watch the debate. I'm just saying in general, when you write me and say the real loser of the debate or the ABC moderators, when you are complaining about the reps, you lost. Okay, you lost. Now, was it fair? I don't

know. I didn't watch it. But by its very nature, when you complain about the moderators or the officials, you lost. It's okay. We lose some, right? That's right. You lose some. But when you always, every time you lose, say it's, you know, I have callers the postgame show. Every game. Every game. It was the official's fault. Well, here's the problem when you do it every game. The game where it is the official's fault, nobody believes you.

That's right. Right. Nobody believes you because you said it all the time. Plast to him a little bit. When it's always somebody else's fault, then even if it is somebody else's fault, people aren't going to believe you at some point. And that's my only thing. I didn't even watch it. Maybe there were written.

Maybe the moderators were biased. I don't know. But every time he loses, he complains that somebody's out to get him. Or somebody cheated. Or somebody cheated. And that, like, come on. At some point, sometimes you lose. I don't know how to grade a moderator, but that guy, David, great on 2020.

I didn't, by the way. Great on 2020. I didn't know who either of those two people are. What's his name? David something. Doesn't he do like the evening news? I don't even know. I don't know.

I don't know. So who does the major networks evening news? I think we talked about this. I don't. Lester Holt still doing? Yes, NBC. Okay, who does? ABC.

So that guy does ABC, David. David. M. I thought he was just 20-20. What's his name? M-O-I-R, I think, Muir. M-O-I-R. M-U-I-R.

Yeah. Okay. Is that M-U-R? He's usually telling me about murder. And then who does CBS? Nora O'Donnell? Yep. She comes on after Sunday morning.

There's a guy with gray hair, Bob. Sagget. Stevenson. Rust in peace, Bob, Are you talking about Bob Schneider? I think he's been dead for 25 years. I can see his face when I'm sure of his name, the guy that does it for CBS. There's a guy named Bob?

I think he's Bob. Okay. Walter Croncade, I think does it. I watch my local. I get my Amber Philpot. Get my Lexington out of the way. Who does the Lexington ones now? You got, so because Nancy Cox is gone.

Yeah. So who does CBS? Is it Sam Dick and Barbara Bailey? Amber's on there. Amber Philpot. Amber Philpot. Who does L. So who does L.E.X?

Larry Smith. Who's Larry Smith? He used to be on CNN. He's a legend. He's a legend. Oh, is that the African-American guy? Yeah, I do know. He did sports at CNN.

Yeah, big career. I'm not for sure who they put in Nancy Spot. Okay. Mary Jo Perino? No, no. And then who's on ABC? You could say any names that I wouldn't know for sure. Well, I know Doug Hydey's wife do the morning show and the noon show.

We've learned about them. You've told us about them a lot. Who does the nightly news? Jeff Piccaro does sports. Okay. Love Jeff. So we're, we're, we're plugged in to the local news. You go to Reddit.

All right. Who's up first, Shannon? Ask anything Wednesday. We'll start with Trevor. Trevor, go ahead, Trevor. How are you guys doing this morning? Doing good. What's going on?

What is your all's favorite depression meal? You know, you just feel sad. And you just eat something that makes you feel good. Is it? For me, yeah. Yeah. For me, I'll let you do. Go ahead.

Sorry. It started last year after Missouri loss. Something about a beef and cheddar from Arbe's. This makes me a little happy. I don't know what it is. That's right. All right. I can see that.

I appreciate the call. I appreciate the call. That's beef and cheddar. Mine skyline. I think when you're depressed, you want something. heavy that'll make you like fall into bed and go to sleep skyline does that for me do you have one uh shannon probably just a frozen pizza it's good sometimes when you're not feeling too happy it makes me happy because you don't have to leave your house right you can just throw it in there okay fair enough

i go the sweet route chocolate chip cookies whatever brownie whatever i've got laying around i'm going for that because you want something that makes you happy make you feel good i usually uh order from somewhere and order way too much probably pizza i'll i'll get like two pizzas, breadsticks, and just make myself sick. Yeah. Even more depressed. No, it's true. It's weird because you don't feel good.

Yeah. And so you just decide, I'll tell you what will make me happy. I'll get fatter. That'll be the thing. Fat and happy. Fat and happy. That's exactly right. 859-280-2287.

What's next? Noah. Noah. Go ahead. Hey, Matt. First time, long time. Who are? What's up?

Well, I work in sports analytics and I have just two quick questions. one football, one basketball. Okay. When you say you work in sports analytics, what does that mean? I worked for a company that was in the sports analytics space, and I'm actually about to start a job with the NBA. Oh, well, that's very cool. Okay, got you.

All right, go ahead. For football, what is the Stoombs staff use any sort of analytics? I mean, from just like the arid offense to, like, our punting stats. to the defense on third downs. Like, it just seems that just like analytics alone can solve a lot of this stuff. I think they do. First of all, I know that Mark Stoops has embraced analytics and said, I want all these numbers.

So I don't think they're like Cal who just ignored them. Now, the question, though, when they have the numbers, do they then use them to make the decisions, which ultimately is probably the most important step? I don't know the answer to that. I think that they have people who do in the staff, but I don't know if the whole staff does. Mark Pope, on the other hand, that's going to be the most analytics-driven staff we've ever had, and maybe the most analytics-driven staff in the country.

Yeah, and now going to be my next question is if Cal is a one and we say Nate Oates is the 10, where would you rate Mark's going to staff? I'm putting nine. Nate Oates is probably a little more. Mark's probably a nine because there's still some patino in. him that makes them do some things, but you're going to see they're going to be telling you numbers, and it's going to be completely different than what we've been used to in the math standpoint. We'll be right back.

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. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. 859-28022. A couple names of random people that you forget played here. Sasha Callaya Jones is a really good one. That's who I was getting ready to add to our conversation. Easy to forget. He was here that he was here.

But he was here two years, wasn't he? Another guy I was going to admit was E.J. Montgomery. I don't forget. That one, he played, I mean, he started that last year. I still had the big game against Florida. That was it. Cam Fletcher. Cam Fletcher is one that's easy to forget.

And he dates or did date Angel Reese. Yeah. He also just went home during the season. like people do. Yeah, he just, remember he just left? It was like, I'll be back in a few weeks. Yeah. All right.

How are they playing again? Don't forget about us. You know, we'll be here when you get back. Just whenever you want to. He left the bench during the middle of a game, right? And then after that game, did. He pulled the Shadur Sanders. Peace out.

Joe. Yeah, that's exactly right. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, what do you think about the Fayette County School Board, deleting their Twitter account and saying they won't post there anymore. I think that's a mistake. I mean, Twitter stinks,

but, you know, your job is to get information out. You know, like, I'm not, I wish I wasn't, I don't want to be on there, but for this job, you need to be on there. And I feel like if you're the school board or school district, when you need to get information out, you need to do it in all places you can. So you should post it on all the social media sites,

send it to the news sites. So I think that's probably a mistake, Drew. Did they give a reason? Are they getting a lot of Bitcoin DMs like I am? Because I get it. I get it. The Bitcoin DMs are just like, you know. Among other DMs.

Oh, yeah. Well. I didn't know if they gave it like political or why they? Do you all have on your Twitter where you get like you see message requests, which is people you don't know Shannon writing you right? Yep. And it's always like, how are you doing today, buddy? And it's just a picture of someone.

And like there's like thousands of those. I visited your website. I like your website. Yes. Can I help you promote your, you know, it's all spam for KSR and stuff. I don't even reply to them, but that's my answer to my head. No. Yeah, I mean, no, you cannot.

But yes, I mean, I guess that's what it was. But if I were the school district, I would still say, ultimately your job is to get information out. So you need to use all the platforms that exist. You know, as a parent, there have been a couple times where I've gone to their Twitter account to try to get information. I remember it was like there were buses that were running lake because there was a bad wreck, I think, on the interstate. Some buses got stuck on the interstate. There was also a time, though, where a student brought a weapon to Frederick Douglas High School.

And I remember getting on their Twitter account, you know. Fahia County Schools, they text info too, right? Don't they send a text and everybody gets it? It's an automatic, get an email and a text, especially like weather delays and things like that, and welcome back to school. See, that's such a change from when we were kids, and we just had to turn on WMIK radio and hope the guy would tell us we were out of school, Shannon. Like now they get text directly to their phone.

I remember watching on TV, it would scroll the counties in alphabetical order, and you would wait for your county to come up. Yeah, now it's much, much better. But, yeah, I think the answer to that is they probably should stay on. It'd be alphabetical, and I would turn it on to catch the county after mine. It's like, I've got to sit through all. It's just to hope that Hopkins is on there. But what the joy you got when you saw your county on there?

859-2-80-227. Still haven't found a guy in London. No. There was a story that the people of Livingston, which is the town, I guess. We keep saying it's London, but I think he was actually closer to Livingston. All the business in town, like everything shut down. Yeah. Like everybody is staying in their house, locked down.

That's like how long can they, they can't do that forever, right? Like at some point they're going to have to continue on with life, right? Yeah, but I kind of get it. If I were in the area with a guy that's just shooting randomly, you know, I'm not going to be out doing my nightly walk. So how long? How long would you go, Shannon, before you would say, okay, I feel comfortable enough, like going and just live in my regular life?

I would say maybe a couple of weeks. I don't like that. So two weeks. You would close everything down for two weeks. I mean, you've got to be cautious, right? Because what if you don't, and this guy just starts opening fire again on people? Then they're going to say, well, why didn't you have it closed? I would rather do it out of an abundance of caution.

Well, yeah, you don't want to make the mistake. I don't know. But, like, chance are pretty high. He's not in Livingston anymore. Chants are pretty high, yeah. But you don't know. But, I mean, should everyone everywhere? I mean, he could be anywhere.

So, like, how, like, should everyone in eastern Kentucky and everyone in central Kentucky just close everything down? I mean, like, he could literally be anywhere. Well, I'm not going out and mowing my lawn in the next couple of weeks if I'm in that area. You know, like, I'm not going to go out and be doing yard work. So. Okay. I don't know, though.

I mean, I'm not, if people are scared, I don't want to tell them, like, you know, don't be. But it's just an interesting question of, I, chances are he's not there, but you just don't know. Yeah, we have no idea where he is. But chances are high he's not staying in the town where this occurred. But at the same time, I mean, if you're there and you're nervous, I mean, but I just don't know how long you can do. It's been five days. I don't know how long you can live your life like that. I think there's a magic number or anything like that.

Yeah. Well, but it's a practical. They're going to have to make a decision at some point. How long are you going to have your schools closed? That's what I was going to say. The schools, I guess because there was a word, I guess he's got connection to with a couple different schools. So they're keeping those, you know, like he had kids in one school, step kids in another

or something like that. So they're trying to keep those school systems closed. I can see that, you know, for fear that maybe he would come around. How long are you going to do that? How long are you going to do it? I don't know. I mean, you can't. It's sort of, I mean, it's a.

similar question on a much smaller scale of what everybody dealt with in COVID. Like how long are you going to live like that? At some point, you have to kind of nod. I don't know. The good thing is they can do virtual learning because of COVID, right? They have the ability to do that. Yeah, but that's just, I mean, I think one thing we've learned for COVID is that stuff doesn't work. It was awful.

I mean, the one thing that everyone should know is for, whether closing the schools for as long as we did was a good or bad decision, the virtual learning stuff doesn't work. It just doesn't. I mean, am I right? That's pretty much universally agreed upon now. Yes, it was a disaster. For people who have kids, nobody thought that worked well. No, they're on their laptop for like an hour, maybe a day.

I mean, it's hard enough. I teach it. It's hard enough to keep people's attention when you're standing right in front of them. Sometimes I just want to dance to get everybody's attention again. Like, I can't imagine having to do that with 30 people on a screen and some of them be seven years old. Like, Drew, I just can't see that working. And then we fumbled work from home pretty bad with everyone bragging about how little they worked. By the way, you want to find an issue I lean right on.

Work from home. The work from home thing, stop. You're never going to convince me people work nearly as hard from home. Of course not. Like, when I see Elon Musk, most of the time I'm like, dude, shut up. But on that, I agree with him. Like the work from home, it's not the same. I mean, I hope people get to do it if you want.

But I think all of us, if we look in the mirror, we do not work as hard from home as we would if we were there. Well, remember all the TikToks of people that would just brag, like, I checked my email, and then I went outside and met my friends and went to brunch, and then I came back and checked email. Everyone completely fumbled having that opportunity. Yeah, so I don't buy that at all. Who's next?

It's a lot, TikTok. Jim. Jim. Go ahead, Jim. Good. What's going on? Well, two questions. I'm of UK alum and first on caller. Who are?

And I live up in northern Kentucky, but I have two questions for you all. Do you think, because it seems like, I mean, I've been a season ticket holder since I graduated in 92, so I'm showing my age. I'm old enough to know when Ryan Lemon worked at W.L.E.X. 18. Okay, so what's your question? Oh, sorry, sorry. Do you think that Stoots has been prepared in important games and prepares his players? and also do you also think that he hamstrings and handcuffs his offensive coordinators and I'll hang up well I mean I think the players most of the time and have have been prepared I think I do think the

coordinators I think I think the teams are prepared now you know do they execute and does I don't know Drew I don't know what you think my problem with stoops has never been like pregame prep okay That was a problem I had with Cal at the end. I didn't feel like the players had game plans, necessarily knew what was going on. I did think Cal sometimes was good at adjusting in the game. I actually think Stoops is the opposite. I think they are very prepared going into the game.

I think his weakness is pivoting in the game. That's always been my feeling. What about yours? Yeah, I agree with that a little bit, but people saying, like, does he get them ready for big games? I mean, think about every time we've played Louisville. There's not a bigger game on the schedule. and Kentucky is fired up for those.

That's why they've won so many. They seem to care about it a lot more than the other side. And, you know, he's got other big wins, Florida, LSU. So I think he gets them ready. I think it's more so we see that talent gap when you're playing the Georgia's and the other big teams. But none of that is an excuse for whatever happened last Saturday. Do you think he has them prepared for games? I think they're prepared.

My problem was they just didn't show up, didn't compete. It's like they didn't were not, they just didn't bring it. And we talked yesterday. Well, if they didn't bring it, that might be preparation. Maybe that is part of it. But we've kind of gone into this this week. There's always like one game where they just kind of lay an egg. And I don't know what that reason is.

But it's usually not the second game of the year. And it's usually not South Carolina, although it has been a little bit in the last two years. Your first SEC game, I mean, how are you not fired up for that? I think they do. I mean, there's two different kinds of preparation. There's the mental, what's our game player? I think UK does a pretty good job of getting these guys to know the game. plan and be set.

Sure. Then there's the, are you mentally ready to play? I generally think Stoops has been pretty good at that, too. I don't think that was good Saturday. Now, why? I don't really know either. But I've always thought Stoops' weakness as a coach has been in-game adjustments, always. Even the years we were good.

I've always thought that was his weakness. They, you know, think about the coming out of half and how the other, I mean, even this game, it was 10 to say it's still a game coming out of half, and then we just get run off the field in the second half. Yeah, some in-game stuff, like, actually we scored against Southern Miss, but I think about before the first half, or before halftime of pretty much every game. That's been awful these years. They did score against Southern Miss.

No, that's why I can actually remember one. Bush Hamden punched in the end zone. But before that, the end of the second quarter has been brutal for a long time. Brutal. Last three or four minutes of the second quarter, I seem to give up a touchdown to whatever the years. Yeah, our numbers have been awful. How many times did we hear Freddie say that?

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That's right. Make sure you haven't forgotten. We have not. The, what, 23rd anniversary of 9-11 today. Somebody asked on the text machine, 772-7452524. Matt, what would you rank the big? biggest events that have happened in your lifetime as far as how you remember them. Well, historically, that's a different conversation.

But the where was I when it happened moment, 9-11's clearly number one. For me, the Challenger exploding is probably number two. Oh, yes. I have a very distinct memory of sitting and watching the Challenger explosion. But 9-11 is clearly number one. you know, the thing I always remember about as I was in law school, and I went to the library after I saw it, and there was a girl crying at a table,

and I started talking to her, and she had a brother that worked in the building. And she didn't know what the, the brother ended up living, but at the moment she didn't know. Yeah. And she was crying, watching the coverage,

trying to figure out if her brother was a lot. That's, I will always remember that. I'm trying to think, what else? The SEC tournament, when everything just started shutting down. The SEC tournament.

Are you talking about the... For COVID. For COVID. We're at a game and everything just started shutting down in it. The day, that morning, we're in the conference room when Shannon steals the hand sanitizer from the SEC office. She's trying to help. Yes. No, that morning when Tom Hart comes in and the governor and everything's slow.

Yeah, and the night before when Rudy Gobert touches and Trump closes the border and Tom Hanks, there was a moment of his world falling apart over those periods of time. Yeah, what else sticks out? Those are the top three, but then, like, for me, like, I know the Oklahoma City bombing that day. See, I don't remember that as well. But was that very powerful for you? OJ Simpson. OJ. Simpson's a big one.

OJ. The O.J. Simpson car chase. And the verdict. And the verdict. Yeah, unless you, that's one. If you live through, you certainly remember. Yeah, I remember where I was for both of those. That's a good one.

I was young, and I can remember them cutting into, like, fourth grade. We're watching it on TV. Oh, yeah. The OJ's, you know, OJ's a big one. I mean, it doesn't matter like the rest of these, but it certainly captured America. It's probably fourth on our list because it did. Everybody, you were glued to the TV. They had watch parties to watch that verdict when it was announced.

For me, I would actually think I might even put it, like, 9-11 is number one. Yeah. For me, probably challenge is number two because I was a kid. Yeah, number two. And then I kind of wonder if OJ is number three even more than, because it was just such a, like the whole kind of, tree. He followed that. Verdict and then Bronco,

I think Bronco chase up. The Bronco to me was bigger because you couldn't believe O.J. Simpson was in a Bronco and you didn't know what was going to happen, right? On the list is just when Trump got shot at just recently. I mean, everyone was tuned into the coverage

trying to figure out everything going on there. Yeah, see, I wasn't around the television during that. So I don't, I didn't really, I didn't really know. I remember when Reagan got shot. But when it first happened, I mean, everybody was glued into whatever they could tune into. Reagan, John Lennon, both of those were big deals. Yeah, John Lynn, they broke into Monday Night Football.

Yes, they did. Who's up next, Shannon? Justin. Justin, go ahead, Justin. Hey, what's up, guys? When you guys were talking about when an offensive line got dominated by defensive line, I were reminded of the Iowa City football game, that was just like this South Carolina game, but didn't have the attention.

Yeah, I don't, I didn't see that as quite the same, because we were, we didn't have a quarterback that game. I mean, we were, we, it was pitiful offense, but I don't know that it was just on the offensive line. That was just, we just didn't have an offense. Remember we were. Destin Wade was the quarterback. I mean, yeah, you talk about one in a few years.

Who played starting quarterback for Kentucky in the Music City Bowl against Iowa? In 20 years, see if people can remember it was Destin Way. With starting running back, Juton McLean. Yeah, I just, I think that was a bigger thing for me as to why that happened. But go ahead. And I have a question. We used to live in Tennessee right on the Kentucky border by Hopkinsville, but we moved out here to Missouri, and we're big Kentucky fans all our lives.

And the only colleges around here is Arkansas, Oklahoma now, and Missouri. And we went to the Missouri-Kentucky game a couple years back. That was pretty hostile, but I was wondering what game we should go to or if we should travel to rough. For this season, what game would you go to? Oklahoma or at Missouri. that's well we don't play missouri this year are you talking about basketball yeah basketball i'd say oklahoma just because like we've never you've never been like we've never played there i appreciate the call

i think it'll be exciting to play in the new arena i think it'll be exciting to you know i don't know if they're going to be good or not but i think they'll be there for that game because it's kentucky so ryan if you're talking about oklahoma missouri we'll play missouri we'll play them both probably all the time but oklahoma would be the one i would go to that's it that's the answer yeah first time there It'll be crazy. It'll be a crazy atmosphere for Kentucky to go to Oklahoma for the first time. So I think, yeah, if you're picking between those two, that's the one you want to go to. The case from at Missouri is it's a Saturday.

I think Oklahoma's midweek, and it's the last game of the regular season. We're ending the year in Columbia, Missouri, which feels random. But we also will need to have had a good year for people. Like, if we haven't had a great year, their crowd might not care. Whereas I believe Oklahoma's pretty early in our schedule, I think. It's in February. I don't know exactly where. I like, for me personally, I like going to new places.

But so I think Oklahoma of those two would be the one that I would pick. Who's next? Jordan. Jordan, go ahead, Jordan. Hey, guys, got an ask anything. Okay. So if you woke up tomorrow morning and you were blind, what is the most complex task you could do without being able to see?

So like no preparation, you got to traverse your own house and everything. I feel pretty confident I could probably make a sandwich, but that's probably where I draw the line. You know, I appreciate the call. I think I've told this before, but when I was on the D.C. circuit, there was a judge named Judge Tadle, who was blind, and he would get on the metro in Maryland

and come to the courthouse in D.C. By himself on the subway. That's amazing. And he did it every day, and he was a federal. judge and I used to just be amazed by it, but he remembered the amount of steps. He knew exactly where he was going. And I remember thinking, man, you must be able to pick up some amazing, like if that's

sure. And he did it every single day. It's amazing. That is amazing. I don't think I could do one tenth of a hundredth percent of that. We'll take a break. Talk some basketball. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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