KSR - 2024-12-18- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

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So we'll go to the phones. I ask you all what you want to get into. You can ask any question on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line, 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-724, in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lavis, if you call T.J. He'll make them pay. You know, last night I got to read everybody's theories about the conspiracy theorists came into the text machine. They were actually more reasonable than most. I had more people agree with me kind of about how, like, everybody should calm down than I did crazy people. but the crazy people did show up, and it was always nice to hear what they thought was going on.

Man, that story is everywhere. But it's starting to go away. You think it is starting to go away? By this weekend... It'll be gone. It's going to be gone. That's my prediction for you. By this weekend, it's going to be gone because now they've basically,

everybody's basically acknowledged what it is. Like, it's these drones, and they're flying around and going, and like, it's, you know, I think most people, for the most part, seem to agree what it is as of now. I think that's just the world we live in, too. I think an actual alien could land in Nebraska and do something, and two weeks later, we'd move on to whatever's going on. We'd forget or we'd get bored with it. We'd just move on to the next thing.

There were scandals when I was younger that would have ended careers that now are out by the afternoon. That's true. That's very true. Just think about like Monica Lewinsky. Like we talked about that for two and a half years. Yes. And like now people just go, nah, scroll up, see what's next. Yeah, let's next. Oh, Brianna chicken frying her best friend, but they don't like each other anymore.

Oh, man, let's talk about that. So, I mean, I think that's, that's, you're right, Drew. That's just kind of the way things are now. Pretty immune to things and our attention spans are much smaller. They're much smaller. So speaking of topics, so, you know, when I went to Europe this summer, my mom said, can I do anything for you while you're gone? Okay. And I had this room of junk. like literally it was 15 to 20 years worth of junk that had just like I would get something and I didn't didn't know what to do with it I'd just throw it in that room and it had gotten to

the point that it what we're familiar with that room it took on a life of its own it was almost like a monster and it just kept growing and it became overwhelming right like there was so much in there I could make a strong argument that I never moved out of my Louisville house because I didn't know what to do with that room all right so she said she said she was asked me, she was like, what could you do? And I said, you know, if you wanted to clean out that room, that would be the best thing. Like, literally, I would take that over a trust fund. Like, just don't make me deal with that room. True. So to my mom's credit, over the course of most of the summer, she and Larry would come up, they would go through that one. And what I told her

was basically leave anything in there that's in a box that's like packed and leave anything you think I'd want. But if it's just laying around and if it's clothes or books or whatever and it's just out there, if I haven't seen it in the last 15 years, I'm probably good with you letting it go. Get it out of there. You know what? Like if I've gone this long without dealing with it, it's probably good to go. And I was like, don't call me and ask me.

Just throw it away. Give it away. So my mom gave away something like 50 hoodies, right, to people in Middlesboro, like kids in Middlesbril. Yeah. A lot of shoes, a lot of books, et cetera. And she left all these packages of books that were already boxed and things she thought I would want. So the last two nights I've been in Louisville, I was like, I'm going to go through that stuff. First of all, I did not realize how many cities in this state have given us the key to the city.

I'd forgotten. I'm not kidding you. Probably at least 25. We can break into this entire state. I mean, Somerset, London, Hopkinsville, Madisonville, Greenup County. Like, I could just, and it was neat. And last night I read the proclamations like I went through them.

I've got them all. At some point, I'm going to hang them all up somewhere. Slow down. No, no, not me. I'm going to hire somebody to hang them up. don't know how to hang them up. Oh, sorry. I am not going to hang them up because I don't know how. But we'll get them put up somewhere because they're kind of neat. You think that's cool? You can have like a whole janitor ring. You can hang on your belt of

keys around Kentucky. Just go around unlocking all the towns. Just go to every city and just go, all right, well, now I can get in Owensboro and do that. So that was cool. Then there was a lot of stuff from like old, I mean, I found my college law journal where I, where I, I got published. Really? I found like 20 copies of it. Forgot I had those, right? I found when in 2016 I got recruited to run for Congress and I went to D.C.

And went through that session as to how to run for Congress. And I got to look at all the people that came and talked. Like some of them have big jobs. I didn't realize that one of the people that went through that class with me was Tim Walz. Oh, it really? I didn't even know that. He was a congressman, I guess, at the time. And in one of my meetings, it was me and like 10 other people, and he was one of them.

Tells you how memorable he was. Yeah, that's true. I didn't even remember that, right? And then I started opening the boxes of books that were already packed. Ryan, it was a surprise to me to see some books out. And I took some, I'm going to slow. take them to libraries to give them away. Some of them. Very nice. Some of them I'm going to keep. Yeah. But I don't need some of them. Let me give you a few that yesterday.

Okay. I decided to give away. Open one book. I don't know how I have this book, but Drew, this is a book that at this point, I had to get out of my house within seconds because I felt like when I pulled it out, it started to make the place smell. Oh, okay. Clay Travis wrote a book about Tennessee football. Why do I have that book? Why would I have a book from Clay Travis about Tennessee football? It was a season inside Tennessee football. He had to have given it to you as a gift. That had to be a gift. It was not signed.

So, you know, we have a mutual friend. My college friend was his law school friend. So I knew him through there. So it had to have come from that. I went ahead and said that's a good one for the library. Good one. Good choice. How about this?

not one, not two. Six copies of bounce back by John Calipari. Are those all signed to you two? They were all signed, but not to me. Just like John Caliperi's signature. Six of them. So here's what I did yesterday to the city of Louis. I kept one.

I don't want to take how it ended to make it to where I don't keep one. I agree with that. Right. One of these days. It's a good book, too. I don't know if I'll, I probably won't be around long enough to have a grand kid, but someone will have a grandkid, and I'll give them the book and be like, here you go, this was this. But the other five, I don't need six of them. Don't need six of those.

So you know what I started doing? What? Drove around Louisville, just left them places. Did you really? Just left them places. Places that I go quite a bit as like a little Easter. I left the John Caliperi signed bounce back book. I'm not going to say where they are.

And they might not even be there today because I took them last night. But I went to five of my biggest stomping ground in Louisville and just said, you know what? You've been good to me over the years, this place. Here's a John Caliperi signed Bounce Back, which was his like, you know, I don't know what you call it, where you try to explain to people how they should live their lives, right? Self-help book. And a few of those. Bounce back was the best one.

No, it was the worst one. You're thinking the one before that. The one before that was really good. The first one he wrote. Players first. Yeah, players first. This was the second one. The second one was kind of...

Do you have to read them in order? It's not like Lord of the Rings. I think you can skip around. So I don't know if they're still there, but I felt like I was giving back to the community by giving them bounce back. You may have changed somebody's lives at Skyline Chili, by they picked up the book that you left of there.

I didn't say I went to Skyline. When you said, you're a stomping grounds. Okay, but you don't have to say where they are. We could probably guess most of them. I don't want you to guess. I'm just telling you I left them. I left them around. And if you find one, that's his real signature.

Yeah. I was there when he gave them. I kept one, but I felt like there would be other people that would want them more, Drew. Yeah, who wouldn't want to sit down for a nice meal at roosters? Some fuleless wings and a beer, and there's a copy of bounce back in your seal. Cash flow and surprise. Cash flow, probably coming into historic Davis Arena. That's true.

Could be at Historic Davis Arena. Could be at Roosters, could be at Skyline, could be at El Napaul on Bartstown Road. Your favorite, an Indian restaurant? That's not Indian. That's Mexican. But what's the Indian place you like way out there? Dockshin. Could be at Doc Shin out there.

Could be at that Jamaican place that's right over the Caribbean place that we talked about. One place we don't need to look is where you get your oil changed. Now, that was just. just rude. I am proud of you though. You're giving back. You know, you say, I'm so happy your mom gave a lot of your hoodies to some, you know, some kids in Middlesbril. Probably you need them right now. There were also some things in there that I just don't understand how I ended up with. I had not one, but two, two drew copies of Donald Rumsfeld's book. I would guess my mom gave me one, but who gave me the other one? How did I end up with two

copies of Donald Rumsfeld's book. You bought one at the first came out. I kept the one. I kept the one. My mom had written in one of them. I kept that one. The second one I gave to the library. I didn't feel like that one was going to be one someone would find and go, I got to have this.

I put that one in at the library. I had one investing in your 20s and 30s. A little late on that one. Maybe, you know, we're already past that at this point. So I thought, you know what, maybe someone in their 20s or 30s, Drew, maybe they would like that one. So you can move around in that room now. That's the big news here. Oh, you listen.

Were there any small animals or anything in there? I could ballroom dance in that animal at this point. I did, however, keep the Matt Jones fathead and the big Conway Twitty fathead. They're both in that room? They're both in that room, and they both are staying there right next to the key to Green County. The library would have been very confused if you donated those two things. So good luck to the people in Louisville who might find the John Caliperi bouncebacks that are around the city. And God bless your mother.

That was a heck of a task she took on this summer when you were gone. Yeah. So 859-280-2287 is going to be Ask Anything Wednesday. Before we go to break, it looks like Kentucky is going to take a quarterback. It's looking like it's going to be this kid from incarnate word. here's what I want you to do. Shannon, during the break, I want you to find out anything about this school he's

coming from, incarnate word. Okay. All right, I want you to give me just a little rundown, and then Drew, you're going to tell me about him as a quarterback. Because this very well may be our starting quarterback next year, and I'm going to admit, I don't even know his name. Zach, something.

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Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker walks up to me. He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What? Quarterback on office blue with 42. A rep, my mama want you to wave at her. What?

Where's she at? Hey, Miss Pong. Listen to the Clifford Show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. That's a great song pick. I am giving it away. Yep. I'm not saying I'm going to move like tomorrow, but I know that's coming. So it's just time to get you just got to get rid of stuff.

And it's hard. Like you see this and you go, you know, I also found some things that were really cool memorabilia. The Herald leader from when won the title in 96, 98, and 2012. Awesome. That's good because I don't even know if there is a herald leader for the next time we watch. Like hard copy. I mean, I don't, will you even be able to find one, right? The 96 one has Mark Pope on the front of it.

That's very true. Which, so I'll probably bring that to him at some point to get him to sign it. I don't even know how I have that. Did I save that from like high school? I don't know how I ended up having it. Have you signed it? We had hanging up in here. Yeah.

So that was cool to see those. I had an autographed Chris Jericho figure from 2000. to Shannon, which I thought was kind of exciting. Very valuable. I hope I put that one up there with your books. Did you find your Russian Papusca hat? I still have that. I mean, it's not fine.

I know exactly what it is. Yeah, yeah, that's right. One person writes, Matt, since it's asked anything Wednesday, I know there's a lot of open wounds with the Cala Perry stuff, but I'd be interested how much of KSR's success would you and Drew a tribute to Cal Perry? Well, that's a good question. I mean, right? There is no doubt, I think there's like three leaps that we took in our career.

One was when Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas were being recruited. That put me and KSR, the website that was pre-Drew. That kind of put us on the map. We got interviews with them when nobody else did. And nobody even remembers Jay Lucas. but at the time that was a massive deal. Those of you that remember, like, their recruitments, we were like, that'll save Tubby Smith or not,

and they would really only talk to us. The second leap was definitely cow. John Wald, DeMarcus cousins, cow. And that was probably the biggest leap. And then I actually think the third leap was oddly COVID, because COVID made people who didn't care about sports turn us on. our ratings leaped during COVID. So I think those were the three leaps.

The second leap, Cal's a huge part of. I think Wall, Cousins, and Patterson are the other part of it, but he's a huge part of it. So he definitely, I say all the time, when Cal came here, I decided to stop being a lawyer and do this full time. Would I have done that eventually? Yeah, probably, but Cal probably made it happen a year or two before it would have otherwise.

Yeah, for me personally, I joined during the second leap. I've always said that we were a package deal. Cal got here. He signed Wong Cousins, and then I started with all. I started with KSR all in a couple months of each other. So I like to think the four of us got here at the same time. And we started making enough money. We started making enough money during that time that I could pay you and T.J.

Right? Like not a lot, but I could pay you and T because we didn't, I didn't make any money before that. When he came, we were able to make some money so that I could. could have a try to start putting together a staff so yeah for sure and then he i give a lots of credit he he liked us like he he liked us back then and he let us in so there's no doubt he he he played a huge rule remember you did a a tour of the facility you got in the shower i did get in his shower why did i do that what was that for that was weird that was weird that was for coach for you know i worked for a year for coach cow dot com that's right coach cow dot com people forget about coach cow dot com but

But that was one of the first arguments between Calopary and Mitch Barnhart was he created his own media site. Mitch didn't like it. CoachCal.com eventually I think UK bought it from him. I think John, I don't know how much money, but people don't realize UK paid John Calopary some amount of money for CoachCal.com. I don't know what it was, but he got paid from that. Yes, he did. He basically, Cal and I may have some commonality on this. He basically didn't follow the rules.

went against them created his own site and then goes, well, if you want me to stop, buy it from me. And then they did. Yeah, I mean, it had its own full-time employee. I mean, people paid to be members of it. It became a pretty big deal when he got here. I think I'm like a lot of fans. I look forward to the day where John Caliperi sits down with you on this radio show.

You think that'll happen? I absolutely think it'll happen. I mean, Patino happened, and that would have seen much less likely. And that was an awesome moment. When Patino joins you on this show, it's going to happen. John Caliperi will sit down maybe in this spot right here and be on this show with you and I, for one, I'm looking forward to that day. Yeah, I don't know if that'll happen.

I don't know if that'll happen. May I have you retired? To be honest with you, I don't know. Will I be doing it long enough for that? I was about to say, we learned yesterday. We only have five years left. That's true. So I don't think it would happen in the next five years.

Yeah, I don't know. I think it's, I think that, I think Petino's anger with me was much stronger than Cal's was. but Patino, by his very nature, is more forgiving than Cal is. So I don't know. Plus, we got years where he's going to be our rival. He's going to make UK fans mad at some point. Like, he's not doing it yet. But if they get good, you don't think he's going to, yeah.

Or if they were to win here, February 1st. Longest press conference in Calgary history. Yeah. So I think it's good. They'll probably be calling you. Can I come on your show? today after we just beat you. Okay, we'll do that.

All right, so tell me what this kid's name is, the quarterback. Zach Calzada. So it's like you go to an Italian restaurant, you get a Calzada. All right, am I correct? He is going to be entering his seventh year of college football? He will be a seventh year senior. Next November, right around the time Florida is coming to town. He will be turning 25 years of age.

25 years of age. So he's seasoned. So he started at Texas A&M, right? Yes. years at Texas A&M. And he was at Auburn. No. Yeah, he was.

He was at Auburn for first, and then he went to Texas A&A. Texas A&M for two years. Look it up. Okay, wait a minute. Are you saying Drew's wrong? I heard it from the main mouth last night. What's the main mouth? Coach Stoops.

Wait a minute. You're just, wait a minute. What were you doing? I was hanging out with Coach Stoops last night, you know, just hanging out. You were hanging out with Coach Stoops. What were you and he doing? It was the club blue, N-I-L Christmas party. And you just like cozyed up to him? Uh-huh. Yeah. And what'd you say? Well, he had to leave the party early to go meet this Zach guy who was coming into town. Oh, he left the party early. So, well, I mean, this is more important than anything else we're going to say. What was the, what was the, what was the saying? Yeah, I think he started it, Auburn. Heard. Heard, not his throwing shoulder. Went to Texas A&M. Hurt that shoulder again. So that's how he ended up at Incarnate Word, but it's not his throwing shoulder. So. But what else did you all talk about? Well, I mean, he gave me a little nugget.

that kind of directed towards you a little bit. Oh, have you a nugget about me. Well, towards you, he had to say to you. Shannon, we're learning all this on the fly. I mean, yeah, what did he say? You know what? Can we talk about it? I think he'd be comfortable okay with me saying it.

Do you think or do you know? Are you just going to throw this out here? Well, he did say, well, let me tell the story, because then the last line is the best line. I'm a little worried about this. Yeah. He said, I'm going to give you something. I'll give you a little scoop.

The only coach North Carolina called me. about, to talk about was Walford, not Vince, Wolford. He said, then he goes, tell that to your boy. Meaning me? I guess that meant you. First of all, are you sure he wanted you to say that? He didn't say this is... I think he might have wanted you tell him in private. I mean, it's like a party. This is a party. This was not a press conference. Yeah, I think it was, I think he wanted that known.

To buy everybody. Yeah. You think so? I think so. He's also wrong about your boy, Zach Kells. Because, no, it's not. He was at Auburn. It's not true. He was at Auburn, but he went to Texas A&M first. Then he transferred on January 6, 2022 to Auburn.

I had it backwards. I was trying to be kind. Yeah, you had it backwards. My bad. Inconsistency. We believe that you, yeah, exactly, inconsistency. We don't even talk about what he did this morning. Why would we believe you that you saw soups if you're just making up that he went to

Auburn? I got all kind of scoops last night. All kind of little nugget just floating around everywhere. Well, I mean, to just let you talk long enough. they'll come out. I think he wanted that to know me because he wanted to know that Wolford's been like the guy bringing in these offensive linemen. He goes, that's how good of a coach he is, how important he is to the program,

is that North Carolina won't. So you're saying he said to you that Vince didn't get a call from North Carolina. No, he's saying they didn't call Mark. Oh, okay. Gotcha. All right. About him. Yeah, I don't think he would have wanted you to say that.

So. But he was happy with Wolf. So seventh year. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Well, I want to talk about him, and then we'll go to the folks. I do want to throw the 8-59-2-80-2-807.

Ask anything Wednesday. We'll be right back. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-2-8027. One person writes, Matt, how can you not know, Zach? What's his name again? Calzada. Calzada. Aren't you supposed to have a sports radio show?

I am supposed to have it. I actually do have it. And yet I don't know his name because he played incarnate Word. and I don't watch a lot of incarnate word football. And I also don't remember old Texas A&M quarterbacks outside of Johnny Menzel. Well, he went to Texas A&M for two years. The starter got hurt and he had to take over.

His first game as starter, if I'm not mistaken, he beat number one Alabama, made some big drives at the end to win that one, one like the next four, then transferred to Auburn after that season, had shoulder surgery, didn't do anything at Auburn. him just that was a throwaway year then goes to incarnate word where he replaced cam ward i think came war that's where cam ward was i mean again i believe he just stepped in right for him the

following year played two years two years there put up huge numbers player of the year in the conference all that so it was a and m auburned to do nothing two years at incarnate word where they took him the playoffs this year topped in the country yeah they were like seventh in the country Shannon tell me about incarnate word i i don't even know what you What state it is in? It is in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio, Texas. I assume it's like a Bible college, right?

Founded in 1881 by the Sisters of Charity and the Incarnate Word. Oh, that's nice. And it's the largest Catholic university in Texas. Largest Catholic University in Texas. Competing against who? You know, other schools. U.S. News and World Reports says in 2020, it was ranked 272 among national universities. Well, that's nice.

272nd best university. And then they're going to co-host the final four at, let's see, University of Texas and San Antonio. They're hosting the final four this year. Wow. So the Alamo Dome final four host, if we go, is incarnate word. That's right. How about that? That's an interesting fact.

This thing may come full circle. It may. That's right. Our shortstop, the last couple of years at UK, Grant Smith transferred from Incarnate Word. So if you're trying to make the case for this guy, you would say, look. Cam Ward went there, had success. He had a ton of success there. He won at A&M.

If you're skeptical about it, you say, well, he's not even ranked by ESPN and the top 30 quarterbacks in the portal. You know, my view is with these portal quarterbacks, it's hard to know, right? I mean, Devin Leary and Brock Vandergriff were highly ranked in the portal. Didn't really work out for either one of us. There are other guys. The kid that's quarterback at Indiana was like a B-level. quarterback at Ohio comes to Indiana and now they're in the playoff. So I mean, you know, Stoops has got to get this one right. A lot of, it seems like our fans are not excited about the

possibility, but our fans were excited about the last two and they didn't work. So I mean, I don't know. My view is Stoops has got to get this one right. If he and Bush want to place their, I mean, this is their career is on this pick. This kid can't mess up. Between this kid and or Bowley, they've got to be good, one of them. So if that's the one he wants to roll with, then it better work, Ryan. And the Duke kid was just here, too, so it's going to be. Sounds like they don't, they don't think they're going to get the Duke Kid. Duke Kids rank fifth in the ESPN ratings, clearly higher than this one.

But what I've understand is the Duke kid doesn't run, and Bush wants somebody that runs. He doesn't run at all. Not even a little bit. He's a statue back there. And the reports on him is he has a very high price tag. because he went nine and three at Duke and has great numbers. But he did get replaced at Duke. They went and got the Tulane quarterback over him.

So I'm not going to claim to know. I got really excited about Devin Leary. We weren't excited about Will Levis, and he ended up really good. Yeah. Got excited about Devin Leary. It was eh. Got excited about Brock Van degriff. Didn't work.

Who knows? For me with Kalsada, if it's him, you know, I'm not going to sit and watch a lot of incarnate word film. He can rent a car. He's a little unorthodox. He's a little unorthodox as a thrower, kind of a playmaker guy. But the thing to get excited about is how he led them to beat number one Alabama with an elite Alabama defense and that went for A&M. It was three years ago.

Thoughts changed since then. But, I mean, he was able to do it then. Maybe he still got some of that left. Couple of Ask Anything questions on here. One person writes, Matt, ask anything question, do you think you'll ever get married since you're the last one left? Well, Shannon's not married. I'm not married.

You're kind. No, I'm not married. or not. You're basically, very eligible. Yeah, I mean, I could. I'm not against it. I just think I'd be a very hard person to marry. You got to pee when you want to pee.

Be where you want to eat. Yeah, I mean, I just like, but yeah, I mean, I'm not against. It could happen. When I first got to know you, I didn't think it would ever happen. But then I've seen you change as you've gotten older. I can see it happening now. What does that mean? You've matured in your old age.

What was wrong with me before? He hasn't matured that much. I'm not that much different. I probably, I have less of like, I don't get angry as much. But besides that, I'm the same person. I think you've changed. We just talked about your mom coming to clean your room and we're saying he's mature. Okay, first of all, my, I don't think you should put it like that.

My mom came and cleaned my room. That's not what it was. It was a spare room. One person writes, Matt, you are always shooting down. Shannon's conspiracy theories, you did it yesterday with the drones. Is there a conspiracy theory you believe in? Like the JFK assassination or something like that? I mean, I don't consider that a conspiracy theory to say that maybe somebody else was working with Lee Harvey Oswald. I think that's generally accepted, but what that, who it is and all that, I don't know. I tend to go

by Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is usually correct. Whatever is the simplest explanation is usually the right answer. And I think the thing that annoys me the most about modern society is we have a lot of people that are not that smart who think they know everything. And thus they think like they think that whatever happens, ooh, the real people don't know, I know because I got on YouTube. And that annoys me. And so I tend to just say, do people lie to us, of course, but I don't really believe in an elaborate conspiracy. Just think about UK sports for a bit. 90% of what's happened in UK sports, maybe 95% is exactly what you think it is.

Now, there are some things behind the scenes that happen that maybe you didn't know, but it's never as wild as people think it is true. You know what I mean? What about the moon landing? I do believe in the moon landing. We're going to find one you believe in. Okay, I mean, I'm sure you will. Like flat earther

No I don't I'm not We did have a moon landing I'm not a flat earther There are no aliens yet I hate to bring it up again But the Denver airport

Matt I don't believe in the Denver airport The facts are the Mario The Denver airport Stop it Who's up next Let's go to Ed Ed, go ahead Ed

Hey how are you guys doing this morning Good So I'm going to make a statement and combination of Ask Anything Wednesday. All right. I'm going to ask you, I'm going to ask you guys to come up with seven reasons. Seven reasons.

Oh, my goodness. Seven reasons. I'm going to give you the first two. And you're going to like this. Seven reasons that I've got the best nickname for this basketball. We're not doing it. We're not doing it. There are no seven reasons for a nickname.

We don't need a nickname. Yes. Trust me. The nickname is the Remarkables. Reason number one, the remarkable coaching hire by Mitch Barnhart of Mark Pope that everyone questioned, if not hated. Number two, the remarkable job. I got it. I appreciate the call.

I can't do any more remarkable. I know there's a lot of things that are remarkable. I'm not calling these people the Remarkables. It's great name. Where are you laughing? Because this is just going to take a life of its own. It's going to irritate. I don't want a nickname.

You're just talking about the Herald Leader, the hard copy. Imagine Remarkable right there at the top when they win the title. Do not encourage. Marksman. Straight cap. Remarkable marksman. Marksmen are remarkable. But we're going to have Mark Pope for the next however many years.

Like we can't call every team the name of Mark. We can't say Mark all the time because he's going to be the coach the whole time. even more remarkable. Okay. Stop. Who's the heck, Shannon? Dave. Dave.

How are you, Dave? How much work do y'all have left down here? All right. All right, go ahead, Dave. You might want to finish the other phone call and join this one. Oh, sorry. Hey, just a quick, would you rather? Would you rather never get a haircut again in your life

or never be able to shave again in your life? I'll hang up the most. That's a great question. What do you think? I've kind of done both. I'm doing the hair right now, and I've done the beard. I'm going, I never cut the hair again. The beard gets a little.

Yeah, I'd have to shave the beard because I would look. My hair is going a little gray, but you can, like, you can color it and, like, do the blend. And, like, so I think I could do the long hair. But if I don't shave, I'm going to look like David Letterman. Because it comes in white now. And so I'm going to, I would have to shave. This may shock you, but. I know what your answer is.

Mark Stoops and I are a little hair challenged. So I would let my hair grow as long as I possibly could. No doubt about it. That would start to like, if you didn't get a haircut. It goes in like an afro. I get like afro hair. It goes out. But like you have like nine hairs.

And they would start to get, they'd start to get tangled. I could do the comb over. I could comb it back over my bald spot. Oh, I'm thinking I got a new look coming. How about that stray at Mark Stoops after you've already told your private conversation? You're going to get a call from Mark Stoops. You've now taken a stray at his hair. You've shared the conversation.

What kind of party was this? It was the Club Blue NIL Christmas party. I got another little nugget for you. Oh, here we go. This comes from the volleyball circuit. Craig Skinner has got a commitment from Andrew Carr's sister to transfer from Purdue. Do you think she wants that out? It's coming.

Don't tell Ryan anything. I seriously, you can't tell him anything. Loose-lipped lemon. Like, he's just out here flapping his jaws at everything. There may be two from Purdue coming, but Andrew Carson. Why are you just rating Purdue's roster? Yeah. What else do you know?

So now you've got Mark Stoops angry. You're going to have Craig Skinner angry. They're never going to invite you to that party again. Let's see what I can say about Nickman, GM. I'm going to tell you. Red State Barbecue is everywhere. Here's the latest. They have Red State Barbecue

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One person writes, Matt, I don't think it matters what quarterback we get if our offensive line doesn't improve. We're going to have four new guys on the offensive line, all transfers. We already have two of them, the kid from Bowling Green and the kid from Arkansas. I think they think, you may know who it is. There's a big-time dude at one of the tackles. They think they're going to get in the next couple days. Who's that? Oh, Ronald will spill in the next couple of minutes.

Well, I think there's one of those. So there's going to be four new guys. Now, whether or not it works, I don't know, but it's going to be four guys who've all played a lot at their positions. And it can't be worse than it was last year. If you're looking at Murphy from Duke, which is the higher cost of the two and higher ranked. Three million dollars, what they're saying.

But, I mean, he's a true pocket passer, so he will need a very good offensive line. I mean, Calzata is not exactly a true runner either. But, I mean, he will. You think they're bringing in a lot of protection? in Calzada to start or to compete with Cutter? It's really hard to say. They need to make a decision.

I guess it's already been made, but I mean, I don't know what they're telling these guys. Because before the Louisville game, it kind of sounded like Cutter Tom, put them on the billboards. Then he didn't. The Louisville game didn't go well. So I don't know if they've backtracked and they're just going to. I don't know. I mean, it's tough. Like, I feel like they have to get somebody, no offense to Cutter.

But Cutters in his second year hasn't necessarily shown anything. And his backup would be a true freshman. So I feel like you have to. You have to go get somebody. I mean, you have to because you can't go into next year with a true sophomore and a true freshman as your two guys. You have to have somebody. I mean, just the last three seasons.

Levis got hurt his second year. Leary got hurt. Brock got hurt. It's going to happen. Your quarterback's going to get hit. You need somebody as a backup. One person writes, Matt, we definitely didn't land on the moon. I love you and agree with you on most things, but it would have been impossible for us to land on

the moon. Stop. What would be impossible? Why would it be impossible? Jared Lorenzen was a believer that that was all along. I love Jared Lorenzen, but when you asked him why he would just go cause. Because the flag was blowing in the wind. Yeah, and the shadows, the way they were on the pictures.

So you think all of those people, I don't believe it. All of those people for all of that period of history, we're all in on it. What's more likely? I'm going to make people mad. I don't care. It's like people who said the 12. 2020 election was stolen. Okay, if we could do that, why didn't we steal this one too?

Why don't we go ahead and steal this one? That would have been nice. By the way, the dude who, that DeSouza, who like did the movie that got all that started, turned out, I don't know if you saw, didn't get in the news, just admitted he lied about, or just admitted it was all wrong, everything he said. The people in it sued him, and he had to admit it was all wrong, and he had to pay him money. So I'm just saying most of the time the answer is simple. Like the answer is exactly what it says.

But people are like, ooh. What about the moon rock samples? There's wonderful samples. I don't know, I don't know anything about the moon. We landed on the moon. Who's next, Shamed. Indiana Luke. How are you?

Doing good, guys. Good morning. Good morning. Just FYI, I declined a call for my wife so I can stay on hold and talk to you gentlemen this morning. Well, that's very nice. of you. Biggiebacking real quick off of something that was mentioned in the pre-show. Shannon and Mario were talking about traditions and stuff.

Some schools have this. Some schools have that. Well, I mean, this is just my take on it. But, you know, Kentucky basketball, you know, this is the mecca, right? We don't need a tradition. We don't need something tacky. Our tradition is winning and hanging banners. and it's as simple as that.

And then my question for you for asking it. A tradition unlike any other. Sit down. You're blocking their view. But go ahead. Yeah, cheer quietly. My question for asking anything Wednesday is, what are your favorite Christmas movies

and why is it home alone? Yeah, I mean, you know, we get this question every year. I appreciate the call. Favorite Christmas movie for me? It's National Lampoon's Vacation. Elf, I'm too old to watch Home Alone, but I appreciate how good it is. Like, I appreciate that it's really good. But I will at some point on Christmas turn on National Lampoon's vacation because I do always like that.

I turned on Home Alone last night. It's number three on my list. I make sure to watch that elf and Christmas vacation on a rotation. Yeah, and you like what, Bad Santa and Elf? Absolutely. Although Yuga Girl put on White Christmas yesterday, and I fell asleep 15 minutes. Oh, the absolute best. That's my favorite.

That's weird, Shannon. and you like white Christmas. That's like an old person movie. Yeah, so what. It's still a great movie. So you really enjoy that? I love Bing Crosby. Well, that's good.

Can I show you something? Yes, please. I'm doing a little show and tell. Okay. The Cincinnati Reds, I renewed my season tickets. We don't have to talk about how much it costs, but it costs a lot. It costs an obscene amount of money for the tickets that I have. Let's just, I'm not going to go into the amount of figures you can look it up, but it's a lot.

I enjoy going to the games. I'm not complaining. Great seats. Getting to watch Ellie. I love it. Get to go with my friends. But the Reds, they always try to sell you on these tickets with you're going to get all of these extra bonuses. The Reds are the worst with the bonuses.

I mean, they are. Like you get one bobblehead a year. I had to send Billy to go fight people to get me an Ellie bobblehead. But even then you don't have to be a season ticket holder. You just have to go to the game. Right. Right. Really for season ticket holders, we get two things.

We get to go if we want, like, meet the manager, which I have no interest in that. Or you can go hit a ball to try to get a home run to win your seats, but I know I'm not going to be able to do that. So the other thing is you get a Christmas gift package. Oh, nice. That sounds exciting, right? Can I show you this year's Christmas gift package? A lot of good swag. Just came in the mail.

It's a big box. A deck of Cincinnati Reds playing cards. Oh, start strong. What do you think this is worth? $2.50 maybe. Are the players faces on the card? No, that would be good. It's just regular cards.

It just has the Reds logo on the back. Okay. And the other thing, they added something that, by the way, they've done this before. I already had this. Six dice that as one of the sides is a C. That's it. Six dice. They're in a gambling, huh?

Merry Christmas from the Cincinnati Ritz. Wow. They go all out for you guys. Forget signing Juan Soto. We get dice. We'll take a break. Be right back. Let's see this Kentucky Sports Radio.

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