KSR - 2024-12-30- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

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Lexington. All right. So kind of a home crowd. Ryan, good to see you. Only two more days left to finish whatever you plan to accomplish in 2024. I got some stuff I got to do. You know, I got some bills I got to pay, I think, before tomorrow hits.

But I'm excited about the football games tomorrow night and then Wednesday. I plan on watching all day Wednesday. Not doing anything. Watch those three plays. You're going to watch all the playoffs. games. Yeah, that's good. The flask, too, on paper, looked to be pretty good. What you got, Oregon, Ohio State, and Georgia, Texas, Drew, those look like pretty good ones. Yeah, it's just been fun. Counting this past weekend, today, it's just a great time of the sports season. I've been

doing a lot of couching lately, and that's not going to slow down anytime soon. Well, I feel better this morning than I have the last few days. I've been pretty sick since Thursday, But, you know, here's the thing. I think I read that the best way to fight a cold or a flu is to fight it and to keep going with your life. Is that what they say? You know, I've never heard that. But if that's what you want to go with. Just take it head on.

Go for it. No reason to just sit and let it fight. You got to fight back, Drew. You don't have the flu win. Yeah, Barney Fife said you fight fire with fire. Yeah, I mean, don't give it to me and Ryan, but, you know, it's a minor setback for a major comeback. you know, I mean, giving it to other people, like, you all would take it from me. I'm not going to.

Well, no, so go back. Thursday night is about as bad as I've felt in years, just like sick. And I thought, there is no way I can get up and go to Glasgow tomorrow. But, you know, we had already postponed this Glasgow once because it was the day before Thanksgiving. And I didn't feel like I just couldn't make the phone call and say, I can't be there again. again. Of all places. Of all places. Yes, they've been nice to us, and I had already postponed once. And so I got up Friday morning and drove to Glasgow through what I think was the most

hellacious rainstorm that Kentucky has ever produced Friday morning. And when I got there to Glasgow, but you know how it's like the Jordan flu game. You get your, you get your adrenaline and you go, right? I hope to Somerset, people that were there realize. It wasn't Somerset. It was Glasgow. Glasgow realize how sick you really were. I mean, you kind of, you pounded through those two hours. Then you said you had to pull over to go to sleep on the way home.

Like how sick you were. Why do I tell you anything? I was setting up a story. And that was the finish of the story. Why would you throw that in? I was going through a timeline to tell a story. I just hand leading you to it. Spoiler.

Spoiler. You know what? Why do I even try? Like, why do I even try? Drew, you know what I was doing. I was going through the timeline to then tell the story about Penn. He just completely knocks it off. Well, I do hope the people of Somerset understand how sick you were in Glasgow.

And he said through the point of it says Somerset. Slow start on the Monday. There you go. Who is the sick one this weekend? Thank you very much. Well, thanks to Ryan for spoiling what I was leading towards. Let's pretend he didn't say it. You want to just act like he didn't say it?

You were sick in Glasgow. So you guys listening, Judge, just act like he didn't say. exactly what he said because it was all going to lead to a major moment that now we'll just stop all right so drew i'll tell you so it was raining in glasgow so it was raining in glasgow we get through the show and uh you know i we go eat right and i said and so i decided to drive home and you drive down that that bluegrass parkway right which am i wrong did they when they when they drew that up did they just say we're not going to put anything in between it, like not one stop.

Now, all it is is pictures of people that have been killed in between. There's, there are no, there are no, there's, the bluegrass, the Western Kentucky Parkway stinks, but I don't think I'd ever notice that nothing's on the bluegrass parkway either. It can make that drive feel twice as long because you're not really. Maybe I had never noticed because I'm always having just left Lexington, so I still have energy. You got to really appreciate Bartown.

But it's as empty as the Western Kentucky Parkway is, right? It's pretty empty. Bardstown's your little oasis there. Yeah, so we get there. It hits me. I mean, having sat there and been sick all night, hacking up a lung, and then trying to do that show, it hits me, and I get to that Bardstown exit.

What else is out on that exit? Bardstown something. There's an old hotel? Yeah, well, there's one hotel, and you know, listen, I don't like to talk about brands. But any time, Anytime I see a hotel It says America's value in

I don't necessarily I don't know if America wants to be associated with it Maybe it's a value I don't know But that's all there is at that exit And a gas station And I was so exhausted I said you know what I got to pull off here and go to sleep

And I This is three in the afternoon You know I'm like I don't know about you It's tough to sleep at three in the afternoon I don't know about you but I don't sleep at three in the afternoon, and I'm also usually okay to make the final of a drive.

Just pull over at America Value Inn there in Barstown, and I slept for like an hour, because I felt so bad, and I thought to myself, can you imagine somebody going to this America's Value Inn and pulling over and just seeing me sleeping there on the side of the street? I mean, it was like I didn't even have no, it looked like I didn't even have no money to go inside the America Value in. just would sleep in the parking lot of it,

which is what I did. Two things, for one. This is the first I'm hearing of this. This is crazy that you pulled over and slept to add no idea. It is. Who would have known? Did at any point you consider actually going in? Did the free H.O for you? I have to. Did you think there's a bed and a pillow on the other side of that wall?

What's gone down inside the walls of the America's value in? Because I just want to think, I want you to think about the person that stays there on the edge of the, you're not even all the way in Bardstown, right? You're still 15 or 20 minutes away. So if you've come to Bardstown for the Bourbon, you're going to go ahead and get closer to town, right? Unless you want a good value. And then they're already building it looks like a new hotel. So

like if you wanted to explore the area, you're probably going to wait for that new hotel to come in. Then if you're going to go to Lexington, you're not going to stay. So I feel like the people that pull over there, I feel like I know what's going on, especially at three in the afternoon. So I felt like whatever was happening inside the walls, it was better for me to be outside the walls. What's your technique sleeping in the car? Do you just lay back the driver's seat? So lay the driver's seat all the way back. I have a car that it goes almost all the way back. You just turn on.

Move the stuff behind it. Turn on Willie's Roadhouse for ambiance. Because I left the car running. And I know that's not good for the environment. But you know what? It was cold outside. What are you supposed to do? We can't have you dying in a parking lot of America's value in.

What a whole thing? horrible way to go. That's not how we can find you. You know, what a horrible way they put in the obituary. He was found in the America's value in parking lot, not even in Bardstown, 20 minutes outside of Bardstown. Then people speculate, well, what's Matt doing there at 3 o'clock on a Friday? 45 minutes from home. He was daylight. Why was he there? Yeah. So anyway, came back. Then Saturday, yesterday, we can bring Ryan back in. I did go, well, Saturday, that was yesterday, Sunday. Saturday, I went to the Bengals,

game still kind of sick but i'd paid a lot of money for those tickets so i wasn't going to not use them and uh that was a lot of fun that's the first bingles game i've been to inside the stadium maybe because you know i can't go because of the sunday morning NFL show ever first time i'd been there in at least a decade and it was awesome perfect day too man from late december to have that kind of day and then you had an awesome game you got to watch the game was awesome Went to overtime. Yeah. The Bengals, the Bengals are so stupid.

I don't think I've ever noticed. Like, they're so stupid. They lost that game like three times. I mean, it feels like they just kept winning it and then went ahead and lost it again. Like, they're so stupid. Like, playing for a kick. I think they found this kicker at the America's value in in Bardstown, and he shanks it off the thing. But they finally did win the last time.

Continuing your weekend of values, you got to see the Bengals go three and oh in one game. Because Burrow won that three times. I couldn't believe they even gave them the opportunity at the end. I would have run the clock down and kicked the field goal when Denver went the length of the field the first time. Exactly. But Bengals have had so many moments this year where they should have won the game and coaching mistakes, clock management. They were lucky to win that one, but he almost did it again. I'm not a huge Bengals fan.

I root for them because when the Bengals are good, you know, people will come to the bar and watch it. So that's the only reason I care. But am I right that T. Higgins, like that might be his last game in Cincinnati? Am I correct? There's talks to him going other places. Yeah. Patriots have been mentioned. So, again, what do I know?

But he had three touchdown catches. And I thought, again, I only host the NSBL pregame show on ESPN. I'm not like a fountain of knowledge. But I did think, like, he might be leaving at the end of the year. year. It's like they didn't even, why didn't the crowd do something? Like it's his last, potentially his last game. Is it not known that it's his last game? Are they hoping he'll come back? Well, I mean, you know, I think you hate to lose somebody to free agency and go sign somebody else. I don't know if I'm going to celebrate him. So it hasn't been decided he's leaving.

I think he's going to be a free agent. He's open to sign with anybody. Oh. Well, he was the reason, you know, he won them the game. Heck yeah. But then, okay, so you know, you've been standing the whole time, right? Yeah. Chearing. Let me say this. The sit-stand thing, not a thing in Cincinnati. They stood the whole game. The whole game. Everybody. And I'm going to be honest with you. Can I tell you something just me and you?

There was a couple times I wish people would sit down. I mean, I didn't say sit down or I'm going to call the thing, but I wanted to be like, look, it's the start of the third quarter. This feels like a good time, Drew, just to take some time off and stay. I didn't know what NFL games, they stood through the whole game. You got to remember, Matt. You're in the jungle. Yeah.

You go up there, who day in? Oh, it is a jungle. It's like Noah's Ark. There's one of every kind of looking person you can think of in a Bengals game. Like, that's a weird-looking group of people. I assume being a Saturday where they moved that game where nobody had to work the following day, they were extra lubricated around the stadium also. I had a fun time tailgating.

I mean, I've always said drunkest fan base of Bengals. Get them on a Saturday afternoon. at 4.30 on like a holiday weekend. Oh my goodness. I mean, it was, but it wasn't as fighting as I thought. Like, people weren't fighting. They were just hammered. Probably booing Zach Taylor there at the end.

But you did get to see a great game. But then, sort of like the show, Sue's games over, like crash. Sick again. Well, just, my body just crashed because I probably shouldn't have gone to the game, but I wanted to go. Yeah. We had parked in northern Kentucky. All right, look, I don't.

know what the mileage is from what's the name pay core stadium is that the name of it is now paycore stadium over into covington to the covington chamber of commerce garage somebody could trace what that mileage is but i believe it's 18.3 miles the blue bridge yeah okay do you know the blue bridge from Covington to that has to be the world's longest breed the walk across there and you know you're walking with thousands of people drew i felt like it was the organ trail i did i thought i was going to fall over and they were just going to have to carry me home that was the longest walk of my entire life uh but recovered yesterday i'm ready for the week to start and it doesn't help that it's a brid there's no like i'm just going to pull over in a way out here you know you're on a bridge

And you know, I like to walk fast. Ain't nobody walking fast on that bridge. Everybody's, you know, just, you know, drunk and they're hugging each other. Let's take a picture. And it was, I wasn't in the best mood on that bridge. But overall, you enjoyed the experience? I love going to a bingo. I give the bingles credit.

I've been to a lot of NFL games. Most NFL games are not fun in person like a college game is. I think the bingles are the exception. You know, we went to that Steelers game. Nah. Yeah. We went to the Packers game. It was cool to be there, but eh.

Went to a Bears game. The Bengals Stadium, I know because it was a big game at the end of the year, but the crowd was into it like they would be a college game, and I thought that was cool. I've always enjoyed going to Bengals games because the environment there is really special, especially if they play like a big game or if the Steelers are there or a rival, it gets rocking in there. It was great in there.

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No kidding. I did look at my dad and said, Matt doesn't look good. I bet I didn't look good. and thank you for noticing that and saying it to your dad. I appreciate it. What a sweet thing to say. That was very sweet. I looked at myself. You know, I went to the bathroom there, and they had this, like, broken down mirror,

and I was like, I look like I'm falling apart. So I don't take that offense to that. We could tell you didn't feel good Friday at the remote in Glasgow, but you just pounded it through. Got us through it. Yes. I tried, by the way, for those of you in Glasgow, I wasn't, I hope you understand.

I wasn't trying to not be friendly. I just wasn't trying to touch any of you because I didn't want to get you sick. And so that's if I was, and I kind of ran off a little bit, I didn't want to get everybody, you know, I didn't want to make all of Glasgow. There would be a breakout, and it was my fault. And then on top of that, you went to the value in,

and you don't want to see people after that either. One person writes, my grandparents built that hotel in the 80s. It was originally called the Country Classic Motel, and they ran it for several years. and Conway Twitty would regularly visit the restaurant. How about that? See? See, I knew there was something pulling me to that restaurant.

It was the vibe of Conway Twitty from years past having eaten there. You'd think there would be, you know, Bartown's a big tourist town. You think there'd be some bigger, better hotels out there. If I'd gone two more miles, there was a better exit with a lot more stuff. Well, I didn't know. So UK basketball, it feels like we haven't played Drew since the, I don't know, since like October. I mean, it feels like there's been, I don't know, I think it's when the Christmas and New Year and the middle of the week, it's like two weeks just get completely like nobody's doing anything.

And so I think part of it is we just haven't played during any of this time, but it does feel like it's been forever since we've watched Kentucky. Yeah, I mean, maybe history will show it's happened before, but this 10-day break feels like longer than anything in the past. Yeah. Well, I think for a long time Kentucky and Louisville was between, Christmas and New Year. I mean, it was like that for, I want to say, like 10 years. And then I think they started moving it before Christmas. But there was a, what, am I right? This used to be.

Yeah, yeah, it was much earlier this year. It used to be during this period of time. That, you lose by 20. It makes it a little sour. The game was in New York. So it does feel like a longer drought. I enjoyed having a Saturday off because basketball days can be a grind. I loved watching all that football, but I'm ready to get back over there tomorrow night and see him play again. ESPN did a New Year's gift. I don't know why they did it for New Year's and not Christmas, but they did a New Year's gift to each college basketball team. Or maybe it was a New Year's resolution.

That would make more soon. And the Kentucky New Year's resolution was needs to shoot more threes, basically saying the whole point of Mark Pope's offense is to get good looks for three. And if you take that away, it doesn't really help facilitate what he's trying to do. agree with that as our New Year's resolution? I don't know if I'm going to totally agree because they're having trouble hitting the threes. You shoot more threes that could lead to more misses at this point.

I'm starting to just let myself believe they're not as good at three-point shooting teams as we all thought they were going into the season. Statistically, they're nowhere near what we thought they'd be in percentage and just attempts. I mean, they had their lowest percentage and lowest makes against Ohio State. When I think four threes shooting like 19 percent, something awful. looking ahead, I don't want to get crazy, but since I was off, I did my Brown research over the weekend. They're one of the best in the country and forcing you into twos. They don't even allow you to take many threes.

So that'll be an interesting match up tomorrow night. That's what they do well. Well, I'm going to disagree with Ryan. That has to be our resolution because if we're not a three-point shooting team, we're not good. This is not a team that can be really good and not shoot threes. Now, I know we haven't shot well, but at the same time, we don't shoot twos well. Well, we shoot twos if we get layups well. But if we don't shoot threes, we're not going to be good.

This team is built around the idea of get open three-point looks and take them. And if we're shooting 18 or 23s a game, we're not going to be a team that can score more than 75 or 80. And if we don't score more than 75 or 80, we're not beat. anybody good. So, or at least not beating anybody good consistently. So, Ryan, I'm not, they better shoot more threes. And yes, they need to go in. But, I mean, we've shown they go in.

When they get good looks, they shot, they shot great the first five or six games. And we're seeing opposing teams really put a lot of pressure on us, the perimeter keep pushing us out farther and farther and farther. You know, if we're going to take more threes, the right guys got to take them. I think I would like to see Kobe Brad take more threes for sure. I don't think he takes enough. I want to see everyone on the team that's not Amari Williams shooting more threes. Every one of them.

I'm serious. Like there needs, to my opinion, be less hesitancy. Like, if we get a look, take it. You know, when you're playing against a bad team, yeah, you can afford for one more pass. But I think if anybody gets daylight, Drew, they got to take it. Yeah, the whole offense is built around defenses respecting the three and creating the space. So those easy twos you're talking about, you've got to be making your threes to the defense to stretch out there on you.

Yeah. I keep saying it, and then they shoot probably the next game. They've got to turn it on eventually. They seem to be so much better than what they've been this last month, I guess. For 18% against Ohio State was horrible. But, I mean, they got to keep, they got to keep shooting them. That's what the whole offense is designed around. Yeah.

Who's up first, Rick? Ed is up first. Ed, go ahead, Ed. Hey, Matt. Hey, I was a current transfer portal class. which two players do you think fans should get excited about the most? Well, that's a good question. I appreciate the call.

You're on this stuff better than me, Drew. The football portal class, how many guys have they taken now? 12, 14. No, it's more than 15-ish? 15-ish. Which of the guys, if there's one or two, you were to say, hey, fans, get excited about this one. Who would it be? It's so hard to actually tell, but it seems like they did a pretty good job building

the offensive line as best they could. When you at least look at how the guys were ranked on all the, you know, things written about and other schools they were considering, I think the line to give them credit when everything looks pretty bad overall. I think they did as best they could with the line. Quarterback, you know, black, I mean, they just, I don't know who they're going to throw to now. I don't know if we'll get to it, but losing Gilmore over the weekend was huge.

You didn't go out and get a receiver. Yeah. So I'd say the line was the win. Sam Green, the defensive lineman from U.S. I see. I'm excited about. He was playing great in their last three games of the year. They did everything they could to stop him. I think he's won. And then the linebacker that came from Marshall. That was a guy that was all conference. He was a dude that a lot of schools wanted. He wanted to stay relatively close to Marshall. If you're looking at two defensive defense, you know, people who can make a difference in the game, difference makers, those would be the two.

And then you've got to hope like Drew says the offensive line. is good. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio, 859, 280, 2287. Text Machine 772-7474. We got Ryan and Drew here. A couple open lines. You know, the post-Christmas phone lines, a little slow. I also understand like you're, you know, we haven't had any games, but your voice can still be, still be heard. Let's talk about some former Kentucky guys, what they've done in the last few days. We'll start with Chris Rodriguez. Bring him in last night. Big series for the Washington Commanders scores a touchdown.

He only had 30 carries all year, but they used him on one of their most important drives of the year, Drew, and Chris Rodriguez getting all kinds of love last night. That was awesome. I was watching live. They were at about the 18-yard line, and they just went to him four straight times, and he bullied all the way into the end zone to give him the go-ahead touchdown. Never really carried it again other than those four or five times. I guess the Barstall guys had done some sort of like lock parlay of the year, like a touchdown that like thousands and thousands of people were on, and all the rest had hit,

and all they needed was the Washington running back to score a touchdown, the starter, Brian Robinson. So they were all online going Brian Robinson, Brian Robinson, and then they take Robinson out and put Chris Rodriguez in, and the people losing their mind. I mean, losing their mind that Rodriguez got the touchdown, but he had a great run, too. It was like a run at UK. That's what I was going to say.

Because he, like, he bowled over two people. That's what it looked like. We're used to seeing him running the ball like that. Yeah, just knocking people over. Never got tackled for a loss. It seemed like ever when he was here at Kentucky. That's the kind of guy he is. His first carry on that drive only went for two yards, but I said that to people I was with.

I was like, that's old school Chris Rodriguez, not even knowing he was going to get. We don't know how much we missed that. I mean, we loved Ray Davis. He was great with the speed. and, you know, some of the guys this year were decent, but there was something about Rodriguez. If it was third and one, we were getting the first down. And really, since he's been gone,

that third and one has been an issue for us ever since. And third and one with Chris Rodriguez, where Benny Snell was like, all right, well, that's a first day. You always fell forward. It always fell forward. Then you have the Giants, they stink, but two Kentucky guys played well. They won yesterday against the Colts,

knocked our neighbors to the north out of the playoffs. and Waddell had a big game, and then Drew Phillips, rookie out of Kentucky, gets the game-winning interception. That's what was the big shocker. We saw Drew Phillips, he's on the field a lot, but to get that interception at that moment, big game winner for him. Yeah, he went four years without interception at U.K. He still gets drafted because he played well otherwise.

He didn't have one at U.K. No, and that was his first career interception to seal the game. Wondell, not just the touchdown. He had a huge first-down catch in the fourth quarter when they were driving the field. big game for them, although they needed to lose that. It might cost them. It was good to see those guys go well. That may have cost them Shadur Sanders, Drew Phillips.

That might be a little good footnote for history. And then finally, Tyler Hero last night got in a fight with a guy named Amen. He, I don't know, they said that they were, I watched it. I don't even know what they were mad at each other about. They just seemed to get mad. And the next thing they know they were fighting and they sent them home and the coaches got kicked out. That was an exciting thing. Tyler Hero right in the middle of it

did his postgame interview with sunglasses on. I never knew Tyler Hero was a fighter. I've good to see him. I noticed he didn't throw a punch. I think it's more verbal fighting. You know, NBA has a lot of fights through where everybody just sticks their chest out and chests each other back and forth. Like they're just

like, I don't know. It's like they fight with their pecks. Well, they're counting on their teammates to hold them back because they don't really want to do anything. Yeah. So you're right. They'll slowly go forward waiting to be held back. Basketball dudes don't fight. No. Like if you're ranking non-boxing sports in how much do they fight,

I mean, hockey's clearly number one. Who's next? Football, basketball, or baseball? Because they all kind of don't. Hockey really fights. And the reps let them fight. But the other sports. Baseball toned it down. While back, I mean, they would let the pitcher, you know, when they charged the mound, they'd let them go at it for a little bit. They don't do that as much anymore. What was our dude on the Reds that went and tried to beat up the pie? Pirates dugout. That was one of my greatest, Amir Garrett. Yeah, he was like, I'm going to fight

the entire dugout. And I really liked that. Two more on your topic of former cats. One, Carrington Valentine had a big interception for the backers. But also, did you see PJ in the fight where he shoved big dude from the suns down, knocked him all the way to the ground.

PJ Washington broke up a man. But still no punches, right? No, but it was a good shove. Very good shove. They don't throw punches. the NBA back in the 80s, they used to fight every game. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of people who have this like, oh, the 80s and 90s were better

and they were more physical. Ryan Rusillo showed a clip of a Celtic 76ers game in the 80s, and he was like, yeah, you guys all remember like game seven of the playoffs. But let me show you a little bit of a regular season game in the 80s. And they weren't fighting. They were huge gaps of defense. The defense now is actually a lot better than the defense then. It's just we only remember the playoffs because we didn't have league pass or things like they do now,

to see the regular games. That and the Lambere Pistons did fight a lot. So anytime people bring up that argument, they just show a Bill Lambere highlight. But would you rather watch Bill Lambere play basketball for real? Like he wasn't skilled. You don't want to watch him. That's right. Yeah.

Who's up next? Abby is up next. Abby, go ahead, Abby. Hi, yeah. I just had a point to make about the standing up versus sitting down in Rupp. I feel like it is pretty similar to whether you should lean your seat back or not on an airplane seat. So I wanted to know if y'all thinks that is similar and what your opinions are on whether or not you should lean back or stay straight up. Okay.

It's a good question. I appreciate the call. I think standing up at a game, all right, so if you decide to lean your seat back in an airplane, who is being benefited except you? Nobody. Nobody. It's an inherently selfish behavior.

Now, it doesn't mean it's a selfish behavior you shouldn't do, but it is selfish. There's no collective good in leaning your seat back. Standing up at a game has the collective good of energizing the team and helping it get a re- so not only does it benefit you it benefits the team so i think it's much more defensible to stand up during the game drew than to lean your seat back in an airplane which i'm not i find really rude when people do but i also do it myself so it's a completely hypocritical stance i don't mind the airplane thing i will glance at the person behind me as i'm sitting

and if they're really tall or something i'll try to be considerate but i mean they built But you're tall. Like when people lean their seat back to me, it hits my knees. I can't. It really affects my comfort. You're just a little shorter than me. Does it not affect yours? Yeah, but I mean, I'm like, well, they built the seat to lean back.

This is part of flying. Oh, well. I mean, I take it. I don't get mad at them. But it's like in an economy seat, the difference between me being comfortable or miserable is whether or not the person leans their seat back. Yeah, you just got to be respectful. man, if I leave my seat back and the guy behind me like, hey, man, do you mind?

I would have him push it up a little bit. If it's a big guy like you behind me, I would lift my seat back up. But do you ever look before you do it to see what the person behind you looks like? You kind of get a peek with you slide in your seat and see who's behind you a little bit. If it's a little kid, I'm going back. I don't lean mine back every time, about half the time. But when I do, I really exaggerate my, I'm kind of showing them that I'm about to do it. I'll lean forward and look back and kind of adjust.

How to announce I'm coming back. Almost rubbing in their face. No, a warning. Just like, hey, in case you got a drink back there, something, I'm coming back a little bit. You know, we still, by the way, haven't had the game. We haven't had a game since the whole sit stand. Tomorrow. I know.

That's why I think tomorrow. Do you think people remember? I'll remember. I'm watching Section 15 most of the game. No doubt. I'm kind of hoping it's a blowout. But like, I think if there had been a game, two or three days after that Louisville game, it would have been a big issue.

But it's been, I mean, that Louisville game was the 14th. It's been two and a half weeks. You still think tomorrow there are going to be people doing the whole stand thing? I'm afraid there's going to be people that are going to stand just out of spite because it's become a hot topic for all of us here in UK. So I think the people are going to stand just to be standing. I think I'm glad there was a cooling off period. If there had been a game four days later, that might have led to an actual fight.

What do you think the crowd's going to be like tomorrow? I mean, two o'clock, have we ever had a game like this, two o'clock on New Year's Eve? I mean, I remember us, we've played Louisville on New Year's Eve a couple times, and we've played Louisville on New Year's Eve at noon. I remember that being a game. I don't remember us playing a team like Brown at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday before. Do you think that, what do you think the crowd's going to be like? You know, we had it like right before Christmas,

but I think we've ever had one on New Year's Eve like this. There'd be like someone play like on December. We've played on December 23rd before in a game like this. But I cannot remember ever playing on New Year's Eve because, well, for one thing, are people off work on New Year's Eve? They're not. It's not like. It's a work day for a lot of people.

It's not a work day. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people work. This is the longest drought I can remember between games. between 10-day drought in the middle of the season. But do you think it's a full crowd tomorrow? I'm having a weird memory. Was the tubby game on New Year's Eve when High Point came here?

Maybe I don't remember. To a Tuesday at 2 o'clock, I can't remember ever a Tuesday at 2 o'clock game. So I don't know what it's going to be like. And like I said, there will be people working. This is not even the day before Christmas Eve where people sometimes cut off a little early. This is New Year's Eve. Like people work on New Year's Eve up until like five or six o'clock.

So parking's going to be an issue tomorrow. I would think parking would be a disaster tomorrow. Yep. I would think it's going to be because there's always going to be all those people downtown who work for usual. Yep. Like the market is open. Banks are open.

I just, it's going to be weird. All those people who plays at 2 o'clock. Honestly, if you work down the game might push them to not go into work. Their offices might be like, let's not bother today. I don't know. You know, Don Franklin, we're now a year-end savings, thousands of new and pre-owned vehicles. No matter your situation, Don Franklin has tools in the experience to help get you where you need to be. Over 5,000 vehicles including Chevy Buick, GMC, Hyundai, Nissan, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep,

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One person writes, Matt, I have an issue over Christmas break. My brother-in-law and I got in a fight because I made fun of Tennessee football. He says I crossed the line by making fun of the Vols too much. Do you think you should not make fun of your sibling's spouse's teams during the holidays? I think you should tell him to quit being a snowflake, right? The same people, it's always funny to me how the same people who online will say to me like, Matt, why can't I make this joke about this party or religion or race, gender, like, who'll make the most offensive jokes, and then I'll go like, well, Tennessee still.

and they'll go break you? Why is it not? Like, you're okay making jokes, but that's the thing you draw the line on is the sports team? Like, you think everybody's too soft, except you'll fight about your sports team? So I think that's, I can feel the exact same way. Make fun of your spouse's team.

Or spouse, maybe not your spouse, but your brother-in-law or sister-in-law's team. I don't even know what he said or did, but it's in bounds with me. It's all fair game if we're doing a little rivalry, Yeah, and of all the things to make fun of, sports should break up the family the least. Like, why would you get angry about that? My dad is a Tennessee fan.

My father, he has a flag outside his house, and I've been known to take it and throw it into the street. That's just what you do. You've thrown it into the street. Yeah, as far as I can. So you go to your dad's house, you take the flag and you throw it in the street. Yeah, I posted a video of it one year. Can't have that in our neighborhood. Gotcha.

In Lexington, Kentucky. That's what you do. That's part of being a sports fan. You go back and forth with the other team. Your sister need to marry a tougher guy. That's what I'm going to say. The dude is obviously probably coming to Kentucky for a family Christmas, and you're a Tennessee fan.

You better get ready for it. It's coming. You're playing a road game. Playing a road game. That's exactly right. Two sad things. Two people passed away this weekend of note. One was Jimmy Carter, former president, probably widely considered to be.

one of the best people to ever be president. When he finished his presidency, spent his life, you know, building homes, habitat for humanity. He would travel around the world trying to bring peace to places. He grew up a peanut farmer, which somebody asked me yesterday, do peanuts grow from trees or the ground? And it saddened me that I wasn't sure the answer. I thought it was ground. You're right. But I wouldn't have sworn to it.

It was really a 50-50 guess that I got right. If you're on who wants to be a millionaire, would you have called someone or said ground? Oh, so you're telling me it's zero. Like you got money on the line. Are you confident? Or a lifeline. You got four options, but how confident are you in ground? First of all, who would I feel like I could call?

I would not call Ryan. Although I knew the answer. He seemed pretty confident. Yeah. But I wouldn't have known he would have. the answer. True. You know, I would have guessed ground, but I would have been nervous about it.

I'm not going to lie to you. But, you know, he was president when I was born. And here's a crazy stat. Think about this stat. Do you know the last year a Democrat who had been president died? Now, think about this for a minute. What's the last Democrat president? What year would the last Democrat president have died?

Because there have been a lot of presidents die in recent years, but all of them were Republicans. Can you think of the last year a Democrat president died? Anybody know? I don't think so. Teddy Roosevelt? Teddy Roosevelt was, A, a Republican, and that was like 120 years ago. Do you remember some Democrats since Teddy Roosevelt that were president? Maybe John F. Kennedy.

Yeah, he died in 1963. He was the last one? No. How long did Grover Cleveland, Luke? The answer is Lyndon Johnson. But Lyndon Johnson was in 1973. So there hasn't been a Democrat president die in 51 years. Wow.

That's amazing, isn't it? Because Clinton and Obama are still alive. And so is Biden. So like 51 years since a Democrat has died. That blew my mind. Yeah, that's a crazy stat. I would not even think to guess that far back. And another example of something you see in life sometimes

where one spouse dies and then the other one dies not that long after, right? Like it's amazing how long spouses will just end up living the exact same length of time. You know, die of a broken heart. You lose your spouse. He was also a hundred, but yes. He was, I was 10 years old when he got presidents. He was like one of the first presidents I really remember and all that stuff in the late 7. There's a lot of stuff going on with the Iran hostage crisis and the gas crisis crisis.

There was a lot of things going on during his just short four-year presidency. So rest in peace to Jimmy Carter. And then Greg Gumble, who I don't know about you, but if I think of college basketball, specifically the NCAA tournament, you think of Grant Gumble. He's hosted the selection show for 32 straight years, okay? He was on television. I mean, he is probably more than any other sportscaster, maybe Al Michaels, but he's been on television my entire life.

He started on ESPN. He was on ESPN in 1982. So he was on national television for 42 years, and he looked exactly the same. The whole time he was 78 and he looked 38. legendary career, Greg Gumbull. For all of us, that's how we got our parents in the NCAA tournament, was hearing it from Greg Gumble for the first time.

I never got to meet the guy, but I always heard he was just a great person. Everybody seems to say it was a nice. It's a great person. And just that voice with March Madness. I mean, you're watching a game, and they say, now to Greg Gumble in the studio, and you get your update. No, and he'd go, let's send you out to Greensboro. It's, you know, Syracuse is down to Vermont with 20 seconds left.

We'll never hear that again. To your point about how he looked, though, when I saw the news and it said he was 17, I couldn't believe it. Yeah. Same perm. Yeah. Had the same perm his entire time, never changed it up.

Yeah, it's going to be missed in March Madden. Is he in, like, Jim Nance? Yeah. You know, there's just some voices you're associated with that tournament every year. So rest in peace to Greg Gumble and Jimmy Carter. We'll take a break. We're going to do some basketball and the latest on the UK football roster, which continues to change daily.

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