KSR - 2025-01-08- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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Jackson missed the three. Terrible, you know, Butler gave up a layup. Amari took a bad hook. This is the start of the game. I can't watch it. I'll get frustrated. 859-280-2287. We were talking about the floor. What did you think of the floor last night for Georgia? Well, we hit it. Us old guys don't like it as much, but there's a 10-year-old sitting here, and he likes it. So the 10-year-old liked it. I thought it looked, you said it looked like mop water. I don't mind the dog and everything else. I just thought it's an interesting color choice. It's kind of gray, not gray. I would have done a different color overall.

They could save it with that. You know, Shannon, I kind of wonder if, like, last night may have been a night where it sort of, you know, became clear to me that maybe these things are not marketed for me anymore. Like, you just have to go. Because I think that floor was really hideously ugly. And then I turned on the golf league last night. Did you all watch any of it? I don't watch as soon as I get home. A little bit of it.

Yeah. I mean, I thought it was terrible. Like, so, I mean, first of all, the. arena's cool okay so this is the golf league with Tiger and Rory knows the arena is cool like it seems like a place I'd love to go you hit into the screen and then it tells you where you are on a real green and you really put it and really hit it out of the bunker like it looked awesome but watching on TV I was like how are people watching this first of all I didn't know what was going on like they were they were points and all this I had no idea what was happening

But secondly, it's just, it's dudes hitting a ball into a screen. And I just found it, like within 10 minutes, I was bored to death. And then I looked online and like there were some like famous people saying it was good. But part of me wonders, are they being paid to say it's good? You know, I mean, they're kind of like some of the bars still people. I sort of wonder like, oh, they're doing it for Tiger. Yeah. They did a whole two weeks doing that.

They're definitely. They're definitely. So that's fine. I mean, look, if you're supposed to promote it, I get it. But I just didn't. It's going to be a bust. Here's the thing. It's going to be a bus.

It is. It's going to be a bus, Janet. I mean, it might be interesting for like a night. Yeah. But like, here's the problem with sports when we try to manufacture it. At the end of the day, the reason sports are interesting is there's something at stake. Right? There's something at stake, whether it's a tournament win or whether it's a game.

there's something that like there are stakes when you're just playing and the new york red bulls are playing the los angeles boobers like it's not there it's not a i mean who cares right shannon like who cares who wins do you have the boobers hoodie first of all i i would get it yes yeah you know i didn't realize they were going to have like an indoor putting green i thought it was all going to be on a screen somehow but it's still i don't think it's going to last that long it felt like it was uh like golf's version of the XFL. Like at one point he got threw down a flag in front of his putt. Yeah, I didn't know what that meant.

But who, but like, on some level, I do think this is the problem with the live tour to me. All these guys are being paid to be there. And the tournaments have no history. So why should I care who wins? It doesn't matter. Whereas

like, for the Masters, it matters because there's history and there's all that. That's why I wanted if they had like, if it was going to make a bracket format, like, you know, they seated it and he individually play somebody. I can see. But do you care? You don't even know who's on whose team.

I've no idea. Right? Like with the Ryder Cup, the team thing works because it's the USA versus Europe, right? Like it's like that's why it's important. When made up teams play each other, why should I care? That's going to be their biggest problem. With sports, sometimes generational, you're born into a fandom. I tried to like to live.

I've watched it for a couple of years now. still don't even know who the fireballs are, why I'm supposed to like the fireballs. Yeah. Like, I just don't think the team thing is going to work in golf. And I'm one of the few people. I didn't get to watch last night. I'm actually excited to go on and watch it, but I also realize this, it ain't going to work. I'm very skeptical of just guys hitting a ball in an arena.

Do you want to watch Steph Curry just shoot threes in an arena every Tuesday night open in some gimmick game? No. You don't. I mean, you want the sport as it is. For sports to matter, there have to be stakes, at least to me. Now, I will say this. There are people who get on YouTube and just watch random dudes hit golf shots. You say, so maybe the younger generation doesn't need stakes.

They just want, and that's fine. Like, it doesn't have to be for me. But I was watching the basketball game, and I was like, this arena is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. And then I turn on the golf afterwards, and I'm like, maybe just stuff's just not for me anymore, Drew. Like, maybe it's just for a different generation. I just hope that when it fails, they leave it open for all of us

to go pay a little bit. Now, I would love to. It does look like a lot of fun. It does look cool to go for sure. Maybe you're on to something because now kids watch other kids play video games. It's like, why don't you just play it yourself? All day. You know, it's like they like watching other people do that.

But I don't understand that either. I mean, again, like, you can play a video game. Why am I watching him play a video game? You can go do it. And it's not, you don't even have to be good. Like, it's not like, I can't go play in the NFL. Like, I can't go recreate that. But if I'm watching someone play Madden, I can do the exact same thing they're doing.

Not as well, but... Dude, like I said, I got a 17-year-old. They watch this stuff all the time. And, you know, they have the commentary that goes along with the game. Like, where they're playing the game, you see them, and they're commenting while they're playing the game against somebody. And it just, I don't know, they watch it all the time. People like it.

All right. So, Jimmy Carter, of course, died. So tomorrow is the National Day of Morning. and I believe according to my account they have now had eight funerals for Jimmy Carter because every time I turn on the TV there's another funeral on but tomorrow is the official right okay and he is lying in state right now do you know what that means he's in his coffin well he is in his coffin yeah but he's not Dracula yeah he's not driving around he's he's in his cat but he is like people can go and walk

walk by. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's what it means to lie in state. It's like you can go and pay your specs. Right. I've done that before. I did that for Ronald Reagan.

I went and like stood in line and then walked and just stood there for a minute. But it is interesting. Like I did it because my judge said to me, if you all want to go do this, you can have the afternoon off. And so we were like, yes, we'll do that. And then when I got to the front, they paused it. and I got to see Mikhail Gorbachev. He came and paid his respects.

They stopped the line while I was there. That was kind of neat. That was kind of cool. But do you find it strange at all that people have off work tomorrow for the death of a president from 40 years ago? I got to be honest, yeah, I would say so. And don't like government officers have to keep their flags at Hasstaff for like 30 days or something after a president dies.

There's so many things. I mean, that to me. is that I understand more but like the post office is closed tomorrow yeah the banks are closed the stock markets closed all federal government is closed

I didn't realize I'm a little surprised about that you know if it was the current president I understand that but like from a president from 40 years ago it's isn't that a little strange do you think I was surprised actually the way I found out about

this was this morning I was just looking on stuff and it was like remember stock market's closed tomorrow I thought why on the world of the stock market be closed on January 9th I couldn't think of anything then right around and saw it but no I had no idea that everything just completely shut down when we lose the president do you think that's weird at all I mean I guess we do it for all the presidents right who was the last but we do well we haven't had a president we haven't had a president die in a long time right I mean I guess Bush not that long ago Bush okay then before that who was it was it was it was it was it was it Was it Reagan?

Reagan, probably. Reagan. So in Reagan, I mean, I was in Washington. So this was 2004 was when Reagan died. Well, if that's what we did for the other presidents, then we got to do it for Carter. No, no, no. I'm not saying Jimmy Carter doesn't deserve it. I'm just saying just the idea that we closed the government for a president from a long time ago is odd.

I kind of like it. It's a show of respect. You know, he was our president. So I don't have a problem with it. All right. I'm surprised. I'm not against. Don't get me wrong.

I'm not against it. I just. I'm just surprised we do it. Where is he lying in state at? Is it in Georgia somewhere? I think he's at the Capitol. At the Capitol? I think it's like when I saw Reagan, I think he was in the Capitol Rotunda, maybe.

And they gave you this little thing that said, like when you walked up, it had like his name and it had the presidential seal. I still have it somewhere. It was a cool little memento. I stood in line for like five hours. Oh, my. Just you saying I stood in line. Oh, it was, but I mean, again, when your boss says you can have the day off if you do this, he also was like, you got to show me that you did it.

So the three of us went, and it was nice. I mean, there was something nice about it. And seeing the Gorbachev thing was really cool. But it's just, I didn't realize that the world all, like we got, had a holiday for it. I guess that's just that protocol. And all the living presidents will be there. We have presidents day. Did we do it for Nixon?

Because, you know, he resigned. I don't know. Did they do it for Nixon? I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember either. Anyway, who's next? Let's go to Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark.

Hey, good morning, Matt. I'm the first-time caller. Who are? And I live in Georgia and got to go to the game last night. And it seemed like to me there wasn't as many fans from UK there. And I presume that was because of all the snow and the ice that you all had a fun way. Yeah, it may have been. I'm not sure.

I mean, part of it may also been we've already, you know, had a game down there this year. And there have been a number of travel opportunities. But yeah, I don't really know what the answer would be. Yeah. I enjoyed being there. It was kind of hard to watch Kentucky play the way they did. did, but I want to make a comment about their stadium. I didn't like the floor at all.

It seems dark. This is what this is me. It's me. We're on the same page. Yeah, but go ahead. Yeah, and then the other thing, that arena is half the size of rough. Yeah. And we've lived here three years.

We're from Mount Sterling. And when I went in there, we called the day before, or when I and got tickets that were great. They were real good tickets. And then when we went in, it was like everybody, or so many people walked to the aisles, the whole game and didn't watch the game like they do it rough. Yeah.

Well, I mean, you know, they... Okay, go ahead. The other thing is I found out they let the students in free. Yeah. And the UK game is the only. only game they fill that arena. Yeah. Well, that's all the true. I appreciate the call. That's true of a lot of these schools. You know, a lot of the schools make it to where the UK game, for some of them, pays for the year, right?

I mean, and I think it's smart for these schools to have smaller arenas. They're not going to fill up a size of rup or, I mean, that game last night wasn't even sold out, right? They still had some empty seats. So I think it's very smart for them to have those smaller arena. Yeah, it got loud in there because it was smaller. I think they're. crowd was into it. You know, they showed the crowd a lot of times and they seem to be into the end of the game a little bit. Shows, even with the change of air, Kentucky, it's the show. I mean, every road trip we're going to see, it's going to be the best crowd every single night. This year, exception, maybe Auburn coming in, but you're getting every team's best effort when you're Kentucky.

That's why Georgia, they won't have a crowd like that all year. And that's why it's also hard. I mean, it's harder for us in the SEC. We will get, we get, we're going to get harder environments than anybody. You know, Auburn May this year. because they're good. Tennessee may this year, but year in and year out, whether we're good or not, we're going to get the hardest environments, and that's just part of what you get when you sign up in Kentucky. You've lost two road games both times they storm the court this year. Yeah, and it'll probably continue to happen if they do. Still the show.

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Text machine 772-7525-254. One person writes, Matt, I am worried that we're worried that we're not. we might go 500 in the SEC. Are you worried about that? It's plausible. I don't think we will. I think we'll be better than that. But we're going to have to, if we play like we did last night, we'll go 500.

If we play like we did against Florida, then I think we're looking at like 12 and 6. So we'll see which one we do. But it is plausible. It is very plausible that that could happen. If you want to have a 12 and 6. or 11 and, you know, five record in the SEC, you've got to win those games last night. You've got to steal one on the road at places like Georgia. They didn't get it.

Now they're going to try to steal one at Mississippi State. Because remember, the next two games are A&M and Alabama at home, not gimmies. Not gimmies. Not gimmies at all, either one of them. I like looking at Ken Palm. I brought it up many times where he predict scores and records moving forward. I think he has them losing at Mississippi State and then winning both those. home games by one point after that.

So it's just showing you how tight the analytics think all these games are going to be. All these games are going to be like that. And we will probably steal. We will steal a road game that we don't think we're going to win. Like it wouldn't shot me if we stole a Tennessee or in Alabama. But then we might, we'll probably lose one of these home games that we don't think. You know, I mean. As frustrating as last night was because everything seemed to go wrong, they will have a night where they can't miss.

And the other team won't be able to do anything about it. I think you're exactly right. It's Wings Day here at KS. bar dollar wings all day and night one person writes matt what do you think about trump changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america stop it yeah matt what do you think stop like i can't you know you can't you can't people can't prod me with that shannon for four years right i'm more interested in him changing his hairstyle the change his hair has changed yeah well so let me on the first of all the gulf of the whole by green land

invade Canada, all that stupid. On the Gulf of Mexico thing, the rest of the world is still going to call it the Gulf of Mexico. So whatever we do is irrelevant. But it did lead me to think of something. Who gets to decide what all those things are called? Like who actually gets to, like, let's say you just wanted to change the name of the Pacific Ocean

to the Rhine Lemon Ocean. Who gets to decide? Yeah, there's not an ocean. headquarters. You have a president and a vice president where they decide the name to the ocean. So like with countries, your country gets to decide your name. So like a lot of times, like you'll see countries in Africa or Asia, they change the name of their country. And you can do that. But the ocean, nobody owns the ocean. And nobody owns the Gulf of Mexico. So who gets to decide? Well, soon Elon Musk, but to this point, was it just the original

explorers named it? And everyone just went with it? They were like, well, that's what they called it. But like, I don't know. Let's just say, because they probably will. Trump will just say, all right, now it's the goal from America. Who gets to decide? We don't have an ocean committee, do we? Yeah, I mean, I'm being honest with you. I don't know the answer to that question.

I don't know who gets to decide what anything is named. I think he does. He's the president. Yeah, but he's not the president of the world, so he doesn't get to decide for the world. So we got to vote on it or what? I don't know. When you say vote on it, who's even vote? All the world leaders.

Are you cool with me changing it to the Gulf of America? But I don't know. They're going to say no. So I don't really know what. Honestly, it's really stupid. But then when I heard it, I was like, I don't know how you, I don't know who decides that. Half of this show loves the Gulf of Mexico. And you go all the time.

I was why I'd be in favor changing to the Gulf of America. Why? We found them. Well, we felt. See, you're an example of why these things take off. like, yeah, this change you to the Gulf America. Woo! Like, for what purpose?

I don't know. I'm in America when I get in it. I'm in America when I get in it. You're in America when you get in it. But the people in Mexico, when they get in it, they're in Mexico. Maybe we can cut it in half. There you go. You can't cut water in half.

You can't water. You can't water. Well, don't the law. See, this is, if you want a perfect example of why these idiotic things, happen all you got to do is look at Ryan limit yeah I'm in America when I get in it so why not call it the Gulf of America but when you're in the Atlantic Ocean you're in America too well Atlantic Ocean's okay it's it's why it's neutral it doesn't refer to it's not going to be neutral if you change it from Mexico to America well it's

it's ours we swim in it all the time it's all they swim in it too uh I like I like the idea I'd be in here you're an idiot I love you but you are an I do. I love you, but you are an idiot. I like the logic of, well, I'm in the Gulf, and when I put on my trunks and got my margarita, I was in America. Don't you go to the Gulf of Mexico in Mexico? Don't you go to Cancun? Yeah, I'll call it the Gulf of Mexico and I'm there. Oh, okay, so you're calling it the Gulf of Mexico then.

But when you're in Florida, it's a Gulf of America. Absolutely. Geo-Taggy name. Wherever you are. All right. Why don't we call the Gulf of Florida? Borders almost all the food. Why not?

Why don't we? Why don't we call it the Gulf of Biloxy? I'm for that, too. Senior Frogs Golf, there we go. Who's next? Kentucky Surveyor. Kentucky Surveyor, how are you?

You're ridiculous. Go ahead. Hey, Matt, doing good. How you guys doing? Doing good. What's up? Not much on first time, or a long time listener,

first time caller. Who up? Got a couple points in a couple points in a question for, if you don't mind. So, a lifelong UK fan, huge Pope fan, all in on Pope. But I'm worried, man,

like long-term. I think we're fine with folk, but I don't know. Like we don't reciprocate physicality. We don't box out. And part of that may be the players. I also feel like that could be coached out of them, don't you think? I mean, these guys been playing a long time. I think, you know, I think sometimes you just are what you are, right?

Like, you are what you are. Now, I mean, can we coach them to draw more fouls driving the basket? Yeah, I guess. But you kind of are what you are. and there's something like we're not athletic and Drew I don't think there's going to be much we can do about that right you're just going to have to scheme around it because we're not athletic we just saw the play where Butler had a wide open dunk and he almost missed it because he couldn't he didn't get high enough in the air like we kind of are what we are you know yeah that was my thing I'm not trying to make excuses or lower the standard of Kentucky but I feel like in May this is kind of what we all thought was going to happen now assuming you get Caleb Wilson and something recruits there with very good. The athleticism and some problems we're mentioning in these games so far, that will be answered as Pope goes on and builds rosters the way he wants. But yes, I think this current team, this is what it is. I think the biggest roster missed to this point was we thought

Jackson Robinson was a dude. You even maybe passed up on some other guys considering Kentucky when you're going through all the portal stuff. And he just hasn't gone to that next level. He needs to be a dude. He needs to be at another gear because the roster was built around that. He needs to be a dude. You're exactly right that's the one thing that that I think can happen that needs to happen I don't think your athleticism is getting any better appreciate the call I'm not even sure if your physicality is going to get better but Jackson Robinson needs to be a dude he's been it before so we'll take a break be right back KSR all right so we had a guy here looking up you said it was the international hydro international hydro-hographic organization is who does

Besides the name. Name of International Waters. In the name of international waters. Are you surprised that they haven't been a movement to not name it the Indian Ocean? No, because there's a country over there called India. Yeah. That's different. Okay.

So, like, people in India are not offended by being called Indians because they are Indians. People. Call it the Guardian Ocean. Yeah, I mean, like, that's an absolute. actual country is India. Indians here, Native Americans, it's because we named them Indians because we thought we were in India, but we weren't. Does that make sense? Yeah. But in India, they actually are called it. So like the Indian Ocean is because of India. It's not that the word Indian is somehow in and of itself offensive. It's that we were calling people who were not

Indian Indians. Yeah. But in India, they actually are Indian. Okay. So we're not canceling the Indian Ocean. So the Indian Ocean is okay because it's in, it's outside of India. I think it was a good question. Everything related to Indians here, they want to change it. Because they're not Indians. Yeah. But over there they are.

They love their ocean. They say good things about their ocean. You do make a good point. I'm going to give you one credit. Like water kind of all runs into each other. Yeah. So it is interesting to see when you, like, when does the Gulf of Mexico, become the Atlantic Ocean, when does the Caribbean Sea,

because all the water ultimately runs into each other. See, I had this issue, I had to go to my neighbor like, hey, this is weird, you keep mowing into my yard, and I'm trying to grow mine a little longer. When they have territory issues, the oceans, where is there a fine line? How do they settle? I could be wrong about this.

But when I was on the D.C. circuit, we would have to deal occasionally with disputes in international waters. And I don't know what the amount of, is I want to say it's like three miles maybe. I think every country, quote unquote, owns the water so many miles from its border. Say it's a mile, two miles through. I don't know what it is. And then after that, it's international waters and nobody owns it.

Right? It's like there are books about this. It's lawlessness because it's out in the international waters. But you own or at least control the amount of water. right around your board. A mile or two. I don't know what the amount is, but there's some amount out the border

that you control. I'm not sure what it is. Is that those buoys are out there for when we're out swimming? I don't know. I don't know how they did, but there is, so. So I guess, yeah,

they patrol a mile within. It's like the Coast Guard. Yeah. They enforce so much out from your border. Yeah. But I don't know what that amount is. This is very informative show. It is.

Yeah, I mean, we don't really know anything, but that's okay. Reed Shepard had 49 points last night in his G-League debut. 49 points. That's pretty good. The boy is going to be all right. The G-League isn't as negative as it used to be. It used to be when you were sent to the G-League.

It's like, well, you're just one-stop from being overseas. There are a lot of examples of guys who have been high draft picks that have taken a step down, played well, and gone right back. I'm hoping that's the case for Reed. Night 1 went very well on that path of just getting some rhythm going. Get him some minutes? Keep him sharp. Could be the shortest trip to the G League.

I'm sure he'll be called back up today probably after a 45. I think he said after the game he would be that the Rockets have told him he's coming back Sunday. Who's going to play? I think they play like three games yesterday and like two more. I think maybe they had a bunch of games this week, so that's why they sent him and he would be back on with the Rockets on Sunday. He's kind of unique. Normally when you're the third pick, you're going to a crappy team and they're like,

hey, we need you. The Rockets are much better than even they probably. expected going to this year and he's just not getting the minutes to get these opportunities with that team did you see the dunk lebron got at 40 years old haven't seen it yet you need to see it Mario tweeted it out i mean he's not as good as he was even a few years ago but lebron is 40 years old and he is built like a tank yeah and he is 40 years old it's kind of unbelievable that he is even as good as he is at 40. He's a freak, man.

And I read this article this morning as I was preparing for the show about all the things that he does for his body. He gets a 30-minute massage every day. First of all, I would love that. 30 minutes every day. He takes these, like, German pills that, like, rejuvenate your muscles and your fibers and all that. this he only eats he eats like a huge amount of lean protein no fat every day he does all of these

things and that's why he looks like that yeah but could you do all of those things not no way i could not see a chocolate chip cookie and i'm going for it doesn't he sleep like 10 hours a day too or something that's a crazy amount is that right i don't know he sleeps he he spends like an hour every other day and like a hydrogenic chamber thing. Wow. Where like light rays come. It's just, it's crazy the stuff he does, and that's probably why he looks like he does at 40 years old.

I feel like I'd be very good at the massage part. The rest of that. Check it out. Step one, I'm out on that. That dunk last night, though, to be 40. Human beings aren't supposed to do that. No, he's 40. I'm 39.

I don't know that I'll ever recover from shoveling my driveway yesterday. I'm serious. I think I am permanently injured from shoveling my driveway. I crawl to the couch and watch LeBron changing hands midair and windmill dunking on people. I said this on ESPN and this is true and everybody that's 40 knows this. There's something about when you turn 40, like you just wake up and things just hurt. Like you didn't even know you had an injury and it just hurts. Like I got up a few days ago and my left elbow just hurt. And I was like, why is this happening? me. Why'd you do? I didn't do anything. It just hurt. And then you go to bed. Next day it doesn't

hurt. Three days later, hurting again. That's what happens for 40 for us. Shannon, are you felt that when you've gotten older? Only when I like the day after a wrestling match. Yeah, but other than that, I don't. Now, I get random pains. You know that, Ryan. You do too. Getting out of bed and it takes you 45 minutes to kind of creak and crack and get all stretched out. You can stand straight up again. But not LeBron. Not LeBron. LeBron looks like that. We're not getting enough massages is what it is. Amen. Why don't you get that for us?

You know what? More massages. That's really what it will take. Who's up next? Garrett. Garrett. Go ahead, Garrett. Matt? Yes.

Hey. First time caller. Who on the listener? Who on? Geographic name changes? Yes. I lived in Melbourne Beach when Kennedy was shot. And there was a big movement to change Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy.

Okay. The Florida residents said absolutely not. So that's what it became Kennedy Space Center. Gotcha. And it's still Cape Canaveral. Yeah. So like local towns get to decide their name. I think they do.

Yeah, they do. Like Tampa Bay. Yeah, like Middlesboro could change its name to, you know, Dick Tamersboro or something if it wanted to. I'd vote for that. I would vote for it. They should. and then the state on state property decides.

And then Cape Canaveral was probably interesting because that's probably local property, sir, that the federal government leases. So that's probably why that was a little controversial. And Cape Canaveral was named by the Spanish. Okay. 500 years ago. Yeah.

Well, that makes sense. Well, I appreciate the call. We're going to have a lot of this coming, by the way. I'm going to make you a prediction. What other thing I wanted to say? Of course, yeah. I'll tell you about the first. first UK basketball game I ever attended.

Okay. We lived in Orlando, and my dad said, let's go for a ride. So we were going up 4-41 North. Didn't say a word to me about anything. We got the Gainesville. And he says, we'll go to a basketball game. In 1963, I saw my first UK basketball game, and I watched Cotton Nash play. That's awesome.

People love Cotton Ash. What was it? He was great. He was great. JT he loved that was his favorite player T. I appreciate the call, sir. Yeah, he loved he loved Jake. Well, we talked about old time.

Did you see Mark Pope went to visit Vernon Hatton? Vernon's not doing too well and Mark went to visit him. I did not. Did he do that? That's very nice. Pope, you know, and to be fair, we've had a lot. Cal did that too. Like those guys, appreciating that history and honoring those old guys, I think that's awesome.

Yeah, but we're focused on a lot. I think Pope's doing more bringing guys to practice. the Y's become a bigger thing, but Cal did a good job of reaching out to past generations also. That's nice, though, Vernon Hatton. Where was Vernon Hatton from? Lafayette. Did he play? Is that where he played? Yeah, he's from here. He played Lafayette.

Huh. I have Vernon Hatton's autograph on a free Ennis T-shirt. Nice little, uh, really? Yeah. I got all of the, his team to sign a free in his T-shirt. You got Vernon Hatton to sign the free in-est T-shirt? They had a reunion at Malones. Was that 1958?

Uh-huh. They had a reunion, and I was there. server and I just happened to have a free NIST t-shirt in the car and I told them and they were obviously understanding Venice's story in that moment and I went out and got it and I have all those guys sound of that's kind of cool wow I will tell you something that's going to happen this is going to start happening soon there's going to be a lot of movement to name things after Trump and Obama and there's going to be a lot of fights about that I'm going to make you that prediction yeah I can see that coming I think that's coming I think there's going

I think there's going to be a lot because, you know, we name things, we don't think about it a lot. I think when those two, there's going to be a lot of movement to name things after those two, I think, Ryan, you'll see a lot of fights about that. So maybe instead of Gulf America, we call the Golf of Donald. Golf of Donald. Go away. Donald likes to play golf. Donald like to play golf.

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It made me number one for you, to be honest. Is it number one for you? Yeah, I love this song. Really? Yeah. All right, what about you? It's in the conversation. Top two.

Like Lady May. You've been playing that one a lot lately. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, man, it's tough. Most of mine are going to be from those early albums. You know, I'm going to probably say, just my favorite is probably follow you to Virgie, but like,

but you take that whole purgatory album, this song, uh, tattoos, uh, born again, like all those, they're great.

The only thing I don't, you know, you, when you go to concerts now, you only get to hear a handful of those, right? And he plays the most famous ones, but like Charleston girl is a song I like a lot.

He doesn't play that as much, you know, but nevertheless, uh, yeah, good stuff, good call, uh,

859, uh, uh, 80 2287. One person writes, Matt, I'm a Trump supporter and a conservative Republican. The only thing that's ever made me mad you've ever said, however, was last night when you said only people over 60 have vanilla wafers in their house. I'm 42, and I have vanilla wafers in my house all the time. You need to take that back. What do you think? You got to take it back? Well, I mean, it might not be true for him. I was just saying, like, I like vanilla wafers,

like them a lot. But I've never seen them in the high. house of someone that's not over 60 unless they were cooking a dish that needed them like banana pudding but like my grandpa candy corn same way you ever been in a young person's house with candy corn no but old people have candy corn and it's good worth there's originals i've got them but you're over 40 you said 60 earlier now you're changing the goal you buy worthers you buy you buy worthers original my mom brought them for me and i was still there you go your mom bought them for you and she's older than 60. But they're in the house.

They're just certain food like that, Drew, that, like, you know, you kind of graduate into it as you get older. I didn't hear you mention this, but I'm siding with you. That is an older food, vanilla wafers. I can't think of a time. I've been with the boys. It's like, pass me that box of wafers. Just having a cold beer and some wafers.

No, that's an elderly thing. I think that's an elderly thing. It's okay, though. They're good. I like them. We all, we all like them. We just don't have them in our pantry to nibble on it. at any point. One person writes, Matt, I know you're a Reds fan. Are you excited that they got Gavin

Lux? Well, I'm going to admit, I'd never heard. I'd heard of him like once. Couldn't have picked him out of the lineup, but they traded a guy I had never heard of for him. So I consider that a win. It's a big win. If I've heard of the guy and the guy they traded, I haven't heard of, victory. And now you can call it Hal McCoy and say, how. Tell me about him. Like, what are we getting? Oh, how's my, how's my guy now? He's another second baseman, though. I mean, we have. You need a few more infilters. The Reds have like seven second basement on the roster. Because McLean was missed last year with her, but he's still there.

I like him a lot. They traded India, so they did get rid of him. I liked him too. He was a good player. But I do think that made the Reds a little bit better, so that's good. You always have a guy that it's just a thorn in your side. You don't feel like that he has any potential there? There's one player, it seems, every season, where you bring him up on the show.

Yeah, I'm kind of down on Christian. I'm pretty dad on Christian and Carcyone Strand. I've never seen him get a hit ever. So he's the one I'm kind of down. So you feel better about Lux? He couldn't fall into this game. No, no, he's going to be good. He played for the Dodgers last year.

They won the World Series. Who's next? Glow Girl. Glow Girl. Hello. How are you? Oh, hi, Matt. I just have a simple question.

I watch all the games. In fact, I go to all the home games. And I listen to your show all the time. But can you explain what you mean when you say our guys aren't athletic? I don't understand that. They're D-1 players. I can, but let me, before I do that, why, if you don't mind me asking, why do you call yourself Glow Girl Girl?

Oh, because my name's Gloria. Oh, okay. I didn't know if you were like a went to raves and stuff. I used to be a camp nurse with my kids growing up, and they all called Glow Girl Five. Okay. The reason I say they're not athletic. I mean, clearly they're athletic enough to play D1 sports, but the reason I say they're not athletes is they are not elite athletes.

I mean, we've had elite athletes on this team over the years. We've seen what they look like, and that's not what this group is. Now, that's okay. Oakland beat us last year. They had no elite athletes, and they beat us. But I don't think any of these guys are like elite athletes, which is why, you know, they struggle sometimes finishing at the rim. Do you agree with me?

Yeah, I think it shows a lot defensively when they just don't have like a lateral quickness to stay in front of their man to. Butler, even though he can be a little limited, he's good at that. But sometimes defensively just see a guy blow right past them and they just don't have a quick step like the other side. I mean, you can still be a really good basketball player not being an elite athlete. Like maybe the best basketball player in the NBA is Yokic, and I'm not sure if he's an elite athlete. He's just unbelievably skilled. Our guys are skilled, but they're not elite athletes. And I think

that we just have to remember that because it shows up sometime. And that's what's scary about the SEC. Every team is athletic. We may have one of the bottom athletic teams in the whole conference. We do. Yeah. And we're used to always having like the best athletes. This is just the exact opposite. This is a skilled and probably one of the better coached. I agree. This is like a, high mid-major team in terms of athleticism. Now, in terms of skill, I think they're better than that. But in terms of athleticism, this is not a group of elite athletes. No, but there's a lot of teams with elite athletes that aren't good skill.

Beat because they didn't game plan. They're not prepared. They're not skilled. There's just so many different. We've watched five years of those teams. There's so many different ways to be good at basketball. You're exactly right. We've just switched from athletic to a different brand.

Yeah, I appreciate the call. Think about DJ Wagner, Justin Edwards, and Aaron Bradshaw. All elite athletes, not very skilled. We have the exact opposite now. We have non-elite athletes that are very skilled. Think about Willie Collie Stein, just a freak of an athlete. He developed skills over time. And he was a wide receiver in high school.

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Do you feel like we can bounce back and beat Mississippi State Saturday? I'm worried about that game. I was worried about it even before they lost last night because these road games in the SEC are going to be really tough. So to answer your question, I'd say no. I think it's going to be a loss. Well, on that bummer, thank you all very much for listening.

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