KSR - 2025-01-10- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Live from Bespoken Spirits -- Bourbon tasting, more snow on the way, how Kentucky can beat Mississippi State, Mark Pope's comments, medical marijuana, CFP reaction, and moreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and we are happy to be here. And so I said to people who came, and for those of you listening at home, you've still got time to do this. Because it's snowing, Ryan, you know, I wanted to do something extra. Like Santa Claus. So we are here this week. And by the way, we're here next week, too. Yes.

In this exact same place. We have a remote in this exact same place. So listen to the giveaways. At the end of next week's show, they're going to take everybody that signed up today and next week, put them in a hat, I'm going to draw it out, floor level tickets for UK Alabama. That's pretty good. That's good at. Wait a minute, that deserves more than that. I mean, it's like UK Alabama, and when you see where these seats are, you know where these seats are.

Like you'll never, let me tell you something. Y'all will have never set in better seats than these will. And heck, for that game, top row would be. be a good gift and you're telling me you get to you get that so then so that's number one but listen to what they're going to do today for the people right here i'm going to draw a name out at the end of this you're going to get to go at that table out there with the merchandise and pick whatever you want there's like jackets there that are like 200 bucks but nevertheless that's a lot but they're also just going to throw in 500 dollars cash whoa 500 cash so one of you all

is going to win 500 cash and for those of you listening at home you know it's a nice crowd here but you could come and still win $500 cash Drew is one of the better I mean we gave away one time a trip to the Bahamas to see Kentucky but outside of that that's one of the better prizes we've ever given away and I notice when you encourage more people to come everyone here's like no no no don't tell anyone else I know you all Christmas is not over $500 cash and then and then the you know merchandise that's pretty good shannon for coming out on the snowy day absolutely Kentucky Alabama great seats for that although you should be standing not sitting down in your seats. We want you to stand.

No, you'll stand, but, well, you may have to look behind you at all the people and tell them to stop. But this is the bourbon launch party is Friday, January 17th. That'll be after our show of it is free, but registration is at clubblue nil.com. You've had this bourbon. You know, Drew and I are one of the ones that picked it. It was all you. He thinks he's the reason this bourbon exists. So you think of all these people, they decided you.

And here's why they would have picked it. it. Can I, can I take this? Yes. Okay, so we got, they brought the card of when Ryan did the tasting, and you were supposed to write what it tasted like. His notes. Yeah, I know. Those notes.

So I'm going to skip to, I'm going to skip to, I'm just reading it to you, Shannon, because these two were here, all right? So you picked an economy, a premium, and a super premium. Got it. Let's get to the premium. There were three choices, one, two, and three. Would you like to know what he wrote about flavor profile three? I would love to hear it.

This is the worst one. It tastes like terriaki. Terriaki bourbon. There was a little terriarchy in it? Jared, was there not terriarchy in it? Yeah. Well, they didn't pick that. Yeah, that wasn't the winner.

That's not good as that. Now, on the super premium, let me read you, this is the bourbon officiantado. Yeah. Number one, good all around tastes like fruit. Okay. Not which fruit. Yeah. Just fruit.

All the fruits mixed in. Just all the fruits mixed in. But then, Mr. Pallett, Heater. Number two, good aroma again, tastes like chocolate, peanuts, and biscuits.

Biscuits? There was one that definitely tasted like biscuits. You think it tasted like biscuits? What bourbon has ever tasted like biscuits? I don't know. I think... The super premium one. Number four, super premium. Also not picked, by the way, Shannon. So anyway, the one that is selected, you could taste today.

I mean, they're all good, but the premium one, we've had people right on our message board how good that one is. They've been buying that bottle and talking about how it really stands out. Does anybody mention biscuits when they talk about it? You know, when they were bragging on how good it was, biscuits didn't come up, but that's the thing with bourbon. Everybody gets their own taste. Chocolate's a very popular bourbon taste. Ron knows what he's doing. This doesn't like terriaki bourbon.

No, definitely not tariocchi. So, all right, so it is still snowy and icy here. in Lexington, but there's more snow coming. You said what time? One, two o'clock? Around one, I think, here, yeah, after our show. And what's the final forecast from Chris Bailey, Bill Meck, and all those guys? It looks like Lexington's kind of right in the middle, like Northern Kentucky's like three to six and Southern Kentucky's four to eight, and Lexington is like right in the middle of that. So we're going to get a lot of snow. Probably. All right. Yeah. Well, we've had a bunch, Drew, and now luckily Kentucky's on the road, so I guess it doesn't really matter whether we're at home or not,

but now more snow coming. Yeah, I mean, the team hasn't left yet. I hope they're getting on that soon. They went to Georgia a little earlier than I think they would, but, I mean, that's the one issue with the weather here is getting the team down there. Otherwise, I'm ready to hunker down for another weekend. Looking forward to another challenging game.

This is, I think, going to look just like Georgia. This is going to be a big test for Kentucky, and, you know, we're used to going into some of these SEC games sticking our chest out. I don't think that's going to happen many times this time. Right, so there's two different ways to look at the Mississippi State game. We could start with history. Kentucky has beaten Mississippi State 18 straight times in the regular season.

When I saw that stat today, or last night, I was shocked. I mean, it feels like to me Mississippi State has been a difficult game, but we have beaten them 18 straight times in the regular season. Cala Perry never lost to Mississippi State in the regular season. We lost once in the tournament, but we never lost in the SEC. in the SEC. Do you remember the game last year's end? I believe was it Reed Shepard had like a... Reed Shepard.

We were playing down there. We led the whole game. Then we let them come back right at the end. I think with like 15 seconds left, they hit a shot to go ahead after we had led the whole game and then Reed Shepard came and hit a shot at the buzzer which won the game.

So we almost gave it away, but then won. But 18 straight game. So on the one hand, that's a good side. On the other hand, One of the riders for CBS, he does a power ranking where he says, how good are these teams today? Not their overall resume, but today. And this morning, he had Mississippi State as the number three team in the country.

Wow. Today in the power ranking. So not sure how to look at this. It worries me a little bit. The last couple of games, they've been really good at defending the three-point shot, which is Kentucky's strong suit. So I'm a little concerned about that. And then physicality, again, we've got to see better physicality than what we saw against Georgia.

Josh Hubbard, who feels like to me has been there forever, but he's only a sophomore. That's how well he played against us last year. He's one of their big stars. What else do I need to know about Mississippi State? Well, first I want to say something about Josh Hubbard. Do you remember last year he tweeted the picture of Reed Shepard and it said, like, respect the heck out of this guy or something? We all kind of like Josh Hubbard. I think some of us even wanted Kentucky to maybe call him in the offseason.

if he wanted to get out of Mississippi. So even though he's on the other team, the way he talked about Reed last year, I really liked that guy, but he's good. He lit him up last year. He's averaging 18 this year. He's by far their leading score. And now with the transfer portal,

we keep seeing other SEC villains pop up at new schools. They have Riley Cougall, how you pronounce it, that was at Florida for a couple years. 24 against Kentucky and 15 against Kentucky. So like we had a Vandy guy for Georgia in that game. Now we got an old Florida player from Mississippi State. I think they didn't get an old Georgia player. Yeah, it's just, that's going to happen all the time.

time now with the portal. So two familiar names that have played well against UK. So, you know, Hubbard is very good, played really well against us. This game is at 8.30 on a Saturday night. They are expecting a full house. It'll be raucous. Now, we went, we've gone down there over the years, had some really big victories. The Call Me victory from DeMarcus Cousins. That was at Mississippi State, obviously the Reed Shepard game last year. Many years ago, Eric Daniels put back at the buzzer, if you remember, was against, was against, was against, was against them. We've had a lot of success, especially in kind of last, second, last minute things. What do you think about tomorrow? That's going to be tough, man. Like we've already said,

they play a lot like Georgia does, and then they're a really good basketball team. You guys mentioned Hubbard. I remember him last year. He had like 30, I think, against Kentucky last year. But I watched him play Vandy the other night, and they had a guy named Melendez. He was like the big star against Vandy. They had 19. They got a lot of weapons, man. It's going be really, really hard. It is, but this, again, feels like the Clemson-Gonzaga thing in reverse, right? You play the easier team first, maybe don't look as good, and then we go, well, there's no way we can win Saturday. But, you know, CBS, I mean, that CBS writer has Kentucky, has Mississippi State is the second best team in the conference, thinks the only team better is Auburn. I mean,

is there any way that's true? I mean, some of the early analytics are projecting them to finish ahead of Kentucky in the league. I mean, they're very tough. I worry just the situation like Georgia. We've only had two Clemson and Georgia where it's a true road test, very physical, a little different than Ohio State and Gonzaga. If we see them play a third way in a game like that,

is this just going to be every SEC road game? No, it is. Georgia was one of the least. I think it is. Georgia was one that you wanted to get because you knew this one was coming up. I mean to spoil the pregame show tomorrow, but I probably will pick a loss just because, I mean, I bet when the line comes out,

don't you think Mississippi State's probably a three to five-point favorite? I don't say three or four. Yeah, I mean, I think they probably are a favorite with this. But, right, if you can, if you could win it, then you could, I feel like, get the one back that you lost, maybe even gain one on the conference. I don't know how many times Mississippi State's going to lose at home all year. Yeah, we said last before the Georgia game, these two games this week, You don't want to go 0 until you want to get at least one of them.

Well, you didn't get the one at Georgia. So now you really got to buckle down trying to get this. Because it's going to be really hard to win on the road all season long in the SEC. All right. So I need to announce something, Shannon. And I feel back. There's a lot of Kentucky fans here. And don't get me wrong.

Still 100% Mark Pope, still he knows more. He has more basketball knowledge in his pinky toe than I do. But he said the first thing that I didn't like yesterday. Okay. What did he say? It was the first thing I've heard him say that I didn't like him. he was talking about they were talking about the fact that we don't we haven't gotten to the line very much right like we haven't gotten a line and he said something to the effect of that's true

but going to the line you pay a price for going to the line insinuating i think that the physical contact can wear on you if you're a team that go that goes to the line i didn't love that because i do think not every game but i do think when you play it team like Georgia and the referees like to see themselves on camera and they're blowing the whistle every three or four seconds, you do have to adjust to that and make them call the foul so you go to the line as much. It was a first time he said something where I go. And when I see him next, I'm going to ask him his thought about it because I'd like to know he didn't really expand on it. I'd like to know where his mind is on that because I've never heard a coach say we, he didn't

say we don't want to go the line, but it was essentially like, you know, when you get fouled, it can hurt. Yeah. So it sounds like it kind of shot. Well, I don't know. He didn't say it like that. I just think his insinuation was there's a physical toll to getting hit. Right.

Right. Which I get. But that's going to be life in the conference every single game in the SEC. All these teams play so physical, you've got to just learn to play that way. Otherwise, you're going to fall behind. What do you think about that? Yeah, I heard that too. I kind of thought, you know, obviously this guy knows more than me.

That's a new tactic I've never really thought about. He also said something. Might have been when he was talking. and someone asked they press, he just said, I'm really managing fatigue right now. And I know they're thin with injuries, so that's common. But, you know, all teams are managing fatigue at this stage in the season. I think I would agree with him on the fatigue. You know, our bench right now.

Yeah, no, they're thin. I mean, it's not, it's not for me our bench. It's not even, I mean, we are thin. But also, I just think there's a huge drop-off. I think there's a major drop-off between our starters and when you go to Almanor, Perry. sometimes Garrison, although he played well against Georgia. Yeah, you can get some good minutes from Bray and Garrison off the bench, but outside of that, there has definitely been the drop-off.

So you're going to need those legs. You're going to need some of those guys maybe to pump it up and perform a little better because fatigue could be a factor as the season goes on. Can I give you the one thing that I didn't love that he said? Are we all just like expressing our grief? I got one more. He was talking about Jackson Robinson, and he said he's not going to bench him. He's an elite player.

He doesn't want to bench him. To me, it felt a little like John Caliper, I can. can't steal his heart. But I'm kind of with him, though. Drew and I, you talked about this the other day. I think you've got to be careful benching people. He knows his psyche. And there are some people if you bench him.

Just like Justin Edwards. You might lose them. Well, I have one more. This wasn't a criticism. I'd actually just never heard this explain. Maybe I'm an idiot. And all of you all knew this. But someone called in and said,

Amari plays defense with his hands down. And I actually had noticed that. And I thought, oh, that's a good question. And Pope kind of responded that when your hands are up, you're not as laterally quick, and guys can get around you. And maybe that's true. I just never heard someone make the case for not having your hands up on defense. I've never heard that either. He may be right. I've always, they always say hands up. Maybe so. I don't know. 859-280-2287. We are here at Bespoken Spirits in Grey Line Station. We're giving

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We're here live at Bespoke and Spoken Spirits. So there's two kinds of bourbon here. You're a bourbon guy, Drew. White label bourbon is Kentucky high rye barrel-aged whiskey with notes of cherry vanilla, white truffle, mocha and spice. Ooh, mocha. That's a good one. Rye, that's a good, put in your old fashion.

No biscuits. No biscuits. The blue label is a small batch Kentucky bourbon with X tequila, so it used to be tequila. X tequila oak, cherry wood, and then cherry cola, savory caramel and marshmallow. Wow, that sounds very interesting. I'd like to try that one. I'm not really a drinker, but there's something. But when it says marshmallow, I wonder what marshmallow caramel and cherry cola bourbon tastes.

I bet they could help you find a little sample. They probably could while I was here. Go to Club Blue NIL to learn more. We were just talking about, first of all, people are telling me it's already started snowing in Louis. Great. Oh, my. That's where I got to get to at about 1 o'clock. You'll be fine.

Don't worry about it. Yeah, you don't have to do it. We'd be remiss if we didn't mention again the fire situation. It looks like things are a little bit better but still difficult. You know, yesterday I started hearing from, so one of the guys I clerked with on the D.C. Circuit who he lost his home yesterday. I saw on Instagram and I reached out to him. The woman that is in charge of my fellowship that I go to in Aspen, her home is like surrounded right now,

but it's still there. You know, it's crazy. And then you read, like, all of these people that you've heard. JJ Redick lost his house. It turns out you read all of these people. And it's easy to focus on the celebrities and the big mansions, etc. But I don't know if you've seen the video of some of these people just like regular, because you know, regular parts of these towns too where people lost homes and how sad it is.

It's just absolutely heartbreaking to watch. And just the devastating, like, imagining an entire. community burned down is just crazy to think of. Heart just goes out to those people and I'm seeing videos of people just jumping on trains just to get out of there. And you're leaving everything behind knowing that when you come back, you don't know what it's going to be there. Yeah. The damage is up like billions, like 17 billion dollars. I don't even know how they couldn't even know.

Like it's got to be so it's just got to it's got to be. It's got to be absolutely crazy. So again, our prayers go out to all those folks. Now, one more non-sports thing here before we go the phones. 859-280-2287 couple open lines. Here's something, Drew, that surprised me, and I bet it's going to surprise you. So starting January 1st, you could apply to get one of the medical marijuana cards. Right?

You go online and you can get medical marijuana. There's like six conditions you can have. I was looked at it. I think I'm the only one that has the condition of you all. What are you looking at me? You don't know what I have. Well, I mean, I don't think you have chronic heart disease, do you? Well, I can go get a note for it.

Okay. I don't think that's, I don't think that's, I don't think what it's for. But I looked at it, and here was my thought. My thought is the moment this happens, everyone in Kentucky that they're all going to want to try. All right. So now we're 10 days in. Take a guess how many people have applied online for the card. So again, to apply online for the cards, you have to have something from a doctor that says you have it. You have to apply online. It goes to like a 30-day process, and then you can get it.

I don't think you can buy it to like June. But you can apply for the card now. Just take a guess. How many people in 10 days do you think have applied for the card? What's the population of Kentucky? No, no, it's like 4 million? I think it's like 4 million. 200,000.

$200,000. All right, how many do you think? I'm just going to go like 500. 500 people? Yeah. I'm going to say 5,000. 5,000? Well, before ye laugh at Ryan. Wait. Only 400 people.

No way. You're away to. No way. Only 400 people have applied. I am shocked. Now, part of it is you can't get it until June. People tend to wait until the last minute and all that. But 400 people.

Here's another thing I learned that I didn't know. So they don't want it to be like vape stores. Yeah. where they're like everywhere. You know, they're trying to control it, which I get that. So they had a lottery to determine who gets to sell it. And in almost every county in the state, only one person can sell it. In Lexington, and I could be wrong about this, please feel free to correct me.

I don't want to give false info. But I think in Lexington and Louisville, only two people. Am I right about that? Only two people could win the lottery. So, like, if you win the lottery, you get all of Lexington. You and one other person, that's a lot of people. They did the lottery, and like, I think, like, a doctor in Etown won, and somebody else, and they will essentially get a monopoly over the whole city of Lexington.

I mean, I get it, but isn't that kind of crazy? And they just drew it, like, out of a hat, and they drew these two people's names. Does that last for like a year? I don't know. I don't know how long it was. Yeah. That's still, yeah, it's crazy. But both of those things surprise me.

The fact that only two people get to sell it and then only 400 people, Ryan, since you got it right and everybody else was mocking you, only 400 people actually apply. It is crazy. Like you said, there's like vape stores on every block, it seems like. They're going to limit it to just two places in this entire town. Because they don't want vape stores on every block. Those people are sitting on a gold mine, I think, coming in. So I had some, Fred.

You had to pay a lot to be in the lottery. That was kind of the, are you willing to take this risk? Because you don't get the money back if you entered. I had some friends actually do it in other parts of the state that didn't win, and that money's just gone. It's just gone. Okay, well, that makes sense. Well, anyway, I'm sure that, like, by the time you get to June and you could do it,

that number will go up. But I'm like you, Shannon, I would have thought it would have been tens of thousands of people would have applied. And when I saw it was just 400, I was very surprised. I completely overestimated the amount of stoners in Kentucky. I thought, you know, 200,000 feels like I would never. I think it's more so they already have their supply. They'll get to it eventually.

Well, we'll see. It'll be interesting to see what it's like when it ultimately happens. Who's up next? Ed. Ed. Go ahead, Ed. 859-28027. Hey, Matt. Good morning.

Good morning. I think it's very important that it's a fast start and best food during the game. Totally agree with you. sections in these games, specifically Ohio State and Georgia, where we got behind by getting down 10 or 11, and this team just had a hard time in both of those games on the road coming back. Yes, and I think if we do set the tone, we'll win by double digits. I don't know about that. I will say this, we've gotten down double digits in way too many games.

Yes, we have. Duke, Gonzaga, Ohio State, Florida, Mississippi, I mean, or excuse me, Georgia. We've gotten down, but you can't keep doing that. You can't get getting down double digits against all these teams. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at Bespoken Spirits, as we talked about. Come on out. You can enter a drawing for Alabama tickets, which we give away next Friday, $500 in cash. It's all right out there. You can learn more if you're listening at home, clubbluenil.com. You can join. Helps.

help us with UK athletics and the NIL. I can't speak. And also more about the new club blue bourbon. One person writes, Matt, as I understand it with the medical marijuana bill, if you get the bill, you can't, if you get the cards, you can't own a gun. Do you think that's against the Second Amendment? It is not against the Second Amendment. Now, it may be a bad law.

The Second Amendment says you have a right to a gun, but they also can say, like, for instance, if you have a crime or a felon, you can't have a gun. There are restrictions you can make. I think that's a bad law. I don't think smoking weed means you can't have a gun. But is it legal to have that law? Probably. Is it a good law?

For me, probably not, but it probably is not against the second of a bill. You could argue owning alcohol and having a gun is just as bad if not worse. You could. You could. But there are, you know, you can't. can't have a gun in your car if you're drinking and that's i mean you don't just your your right to a gun is not absolute in all cases no matter what so that's probably why uh why they did it i think that's a bad law though but that's it that is the law do you wonder if in our state

that's why some people have not applied might be i didn't know that was part of it uh until that person wrote it and i'm assuming i mean the tech guy on the text machine wouldn't lie so i'm assuming that's correct they have an 85-9 area code yeah i mean it's why would he text the lie to the text machine. So assuming that person is correct, maybe that is part of it. I don't know. I believe him. I believe him. I've seen a lot of people saying that too, so he's not the only one. Yeah, so maybe that's the case. Did you watch the playoff game last night? I did. You know, what a game. I mean, a great game. After a lot of the playoff games have kind of been holl hum, hard to watch outside of what, Texas, Arizona State, last night delivered, man. What a great game. Penn State's quarterback to me, Drew, looks like he's like

13 years old. And so when they threw him, show him through that interception, I was like, I feel like that there's a child on the sideline crying right now after he, after he threw that. But it was a terrible pass. I really don't like James Franklin, though. Like, I don't know what it is. I know he, I thought you were watching them all night last night. I almost texted you. You just see him tonight?

Now, the other guy was handsome. I think how shiny that bald head is. But I just, I just, I don't. Every time I saw him, I thought, people are going to get people wrote me all night going, oh, how hot is James Franklin? I guess it's because it's time at Vandy when he ran up the score. but I also just don't think he's likable. He's now one in 15 in his career against top five teams, one in 15 at Penn State.

So I enjoyed watching him lose. I enjoyed watching him lose. Wives a big Notre Dame fans. We had a little bit of a party. I'll admit early in the game, I thought Notre Dame was going to get killed. Penn State was running all over them. So credit to Freeman, who you also think is handsome at halftime,

whatever he did to turn that around. He's handsome. I mean, he's third. How'd you like to be him? 39 years old coaching Notre Dame. you know, just killing it. Seems like a nice guy, too, Ryan. Like when he talks, you know, I mean, they asked him at the end.

I'm not, I'm not. I mean, man crushed Friday. Quite the bromance growing here. I'm just saying, at the end of the game, they asked him. This was, they asked him, because he was the first black coach to ever make a championship game, and he's also part Asian. So they asked him, like, what did that mean? And he said something.

He was like, it's an honor. But then he immediately said it's not about me. it's about the team. This is, and I know that's a little thing, but like in that moment, that is an honor, and he immediately deflects it, and I just kind of think he seems nice. I saw that moment. You know, that was a powerful question to ask on that stage with the whole world watching, and he handled it.

I thought he handled it perfect. Great, man, with very humble. So, I mean, it's not a man crush. I just, I can't believe. First of all, I can't believe I'm cheering for Notre Dame. I grew up hating Notre Dame. Like, who did, how could you like Notre Dame? Their fans are obnoxious.

They're on TV all the time. And now I find myself, it's like they're the plucky underdogs and I'm rooting for. I kind of am too. And I know that you love that coach. I was going to ask you need a cigarette in a cold shower. I'm talking about this guy. It was very telling about him when Brian Kelly left and then he steps in the locker room. And I don't know.

You remember that clip, but the team goes crazy when he was taking over for Brian Kelly. It kind of said a lot about Kelly on his way out and Freeman stepping in. And Kelly left to go win a champion or play for championships at LSU. That's another little fun story on all this. Well, James Franklin, you know, the narrative has always been. Can't win the big game. Looks like that's still the case. Now, of course, there's a game tonight.

You got Ohio State and Texas in the Cotton Bowl. You would think because it's in the Cotton Bowl ton of Texas fans. But Ohio State travels a lot. I think there's a good chance. Whoever wins this game is a national champion. So who's going to win the game? I agree with you. I think national champions from this game.

And I think it's Ohio State. since the playoffs have started, I think they've looked like the best team by far. Spreads like six. It's a pretty big spread. I think Texas will cover and keep it a game, but I think Ohio State will advance. I'm going to take Ohio State as well. What about you? Same.

I thought, you know, Michigan may have stolen Ohio State's heart when they beat them on their home field to end of the season. But, boy, in the playoffs, they have completely gone the other way. They're playing better than they've played all season right now, so I go Ohio State. It has felt like it's Ohio State and everybody else. Give me Ohio State tonight and to win the title. One thing about last night, too. I love Greg McElroy.

I think he's a really good announcer, but he had one of those moments where you go, oh, no, because he goes, he said, you know what, Penn State needs to let their quarterback cook right now. Let him throw. He's going to do great. And then the next throw interception, like immediately. You go, oh, Greg, maybe they should have run the ball.

Who's up next? Matt. Matt. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Yes, I was at the KS. Bowler yesterday at 1230. and we ordered food, take out food, take home to eat, and somebody in the bar paid for our meal. And I just wanted to call them whoever was, I wanted to say things.

Well, that's very, very nice of whoever did that. You were just there and nobody told you who did it? No, they just, the waitress wouldn't tell us. Just said somebody at the bar paid. That's very nice. Well, listen, that's nice of you to thank them, and whoever did that. That's very cool. Appreciate the call.

Don't expect that every time you come to PS-B. Yeah, sometimes we make it back. That doesn't always happen. Yeah, there's not always a guardian angel there, but maybe sometimes, Ryan, there will be. You know, we say it over and over again. The best fans in the world are UK fans. We always reach out to each other, help each other, pick each other up when we need it, and that guy probably did a small favorite that is really appreciative by the person he did.

Yeah, I'm glad he said that too. probably about once a month, maybe once every two months. I'll be eating out somewhere, and someone will do that, and they'll say it's from a fan of the show, and it is always nice, and I always feel bad. I want to go thank them, but they'll, like, do it, and I won't even know who it is, and it's always, it's always appreciated. Yeah, they don't want to, don't want you to know about it,

because then it kind of. That's actually the nice is. Yeah, because then you don't have to talk to them. I'm just kidding. I would be glad to talk to anyone, to anyone that did. There is something to not one credit, though. No, there is. When you do something that's just to be nice, that's even nice.

We've talked about that. We talked about Pope going to see Vernon Haddon and Cal Perry did that. These coaches do stuff like that all the time that nobody knows about. I think that's important. The coaches, the players, just because you didn't hear about them doing it, doesn't mean they did it. It didn't do it. And I will say that this was true about Cal. This was true about this is true about Stoops.

This was true about Pope. I mean, it's been true about Billy. Honestly, it's been true about all our. coaches. They do a lot of stuff that people never find out about. And I think it's one of the things that has been good about the people that have coached here. Who's next? Justin. Justin. Justin. Justin. Yes, one thing I've noticed about the three losses we've had that I don't recall anybody talking about is we have had scoring droughts. We went on like a five or six minute scoring drought against Georgia. And during Florida, instead of having that type of drought, we went on a 16-0 run,

which helped us to get the win. What does Pope need to do to stop these scoring droughts from happening? Because it's killing us in our loss. It's a great question. Why do you think we happen, Brew? I mean, Florida was really the only game this year that we have not had an extended scoring drought. It's usually early in the game.

I mean, to their credit, they go on runs. That's how they beat Duke and Gonzaga. But it's almost like they score in bunches and go cold, disappear for four and five minutes. All right, we'll fire off 10 quickly. They've been doing that a lot of games. I even think about you can go back to Brown. You don't even have to pick one of the, you know, comparable opponents. I mean, they were tied with Brown five, six minutes in the game.

Wasn't feeling right. And the next thing, you know, they're on a 12-0 run kicking into gear. They had a long scoring drought against Louisville. They had a game when Louisville kind of pulled back into the game. I mean, they've had that a lot. We scored, what, 93 that game and still had a pretty big scoring drought. I mean, it's, it is odd how it happens, right? Yeah, you guys are right, man.

It's happened a lot more than just one time. It's been kind of something happened throughout the season. So it does it goes back to there's not a lot of depth on that bench. You know, once you've already played, Garrison and Bray, there's nobody else to kind of bring them in. I think there's also, and this has been something you've heard me say a lot, it's in the scoring drought when you need a dude to just go get you a basket. Like you need a dude, and we just don't have a dude,

and we don't have a guy that you can give the ball. I mean, the first half against Georgia, let's remember, even before the scoring drought, a lot of our points were just Lamont Butler taking his guy out the dribble and score. Like, if it wasn't for Lamont Butler, we might have been down 20 at halftime. against Georgia. And because you don't have one guy sometimes it's just about finding the right rotation, the right mix, and who has the hot hand that night.

Yeah. We've had stretches where one guy's kept them in the game. I mean, Andrew Carr had about all the points in the first half at Rupp Arena a few weeks ago. I mentioned this yesterday. We keep getting individual runs from specific players in each game, too. Clark's Pummet Shop has a new Clark's Rewards

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I want to give everybody like, you're going to be stuck in your house this weekend. There's so much bad news in the world. Let me give you two things to watch. They're very short. that it brings positivity. So my mom likes to watch funerals. She's big on that. She like, apparently when she was a kid,

they would hire her to play the piano at like strangers' funerals. They'd give her like $5 and they would say, you bring Karen to your funeral, she'll play, she'll sing, and she'll cry for $5. So my mom has taught me, I get sentimental for funerals. So I didn't watch the whole funeral, but I watched part of the funeral of Jimmy Carter.

First of all, I always think it's interesting when the former presidents get together just to watch him interact. Right? Like, I always think that's interesting. So George W. Bush, did you see when he walked in? He just punched Obama in the stomach. For some reason, George Bush seems like a fun dude. He just walks in and just punches him right in the stomach. It's like you would do with your buddy.

It's like you would do with your buddy. Then Donald Trump, like some people talked to him. Some people didn't. He looked kind of angry the whole time. But that was kind of interesting to watch those interactions. But the reason to watch it's not that. There were two eulogies. and they weren't the famous people.

Okay, so it wasn't, it was Jimmy Carter's grandson talked about him, and if you're from Appalachia or you're from rural Kentucky, I want you to watch Jimmy Carter's grandson. He describes his grandfather's house, and it is everyone in here, it's what your grandparents' house is like. Like he literally, when he described it, I was like, that's my grandparents' house right there. It was very sweet.

But the thing that stole the show, in like 2005 Gerald Ford was about to die and he called Jimmy Carter and he said I want you to do a eulogy at my funeral and Jimmy Carter said I will but only if you'll do a eulogy

at mine and of course Gerald Ford was about to die and it was like a way to laugh but Gerald Ford said okay I'll write it now so he wrote a eulogy 20 years ago for Jimmy Carter and his son got up and read it yesterday and I would just say to you you know like if you listen to that eulogy it's how it should be it's him talking about remember

jimmy carter beat gerald ford knocked him out of the race right like made him no longer president and the eulogy was so sweet it made me cry and i'm not i'm not and i don't even know those men right but it i thought this is how america should be just like this and i highly encourage it's like six or seven minutes long. It's his son reading something written 20 years ago. And Ryan, I thought it was absolutely beautiful. What a great, powerful story you just shared with us. And so yeah, I think I'm definitely want to go back and watch it. Two men, different sides of the political realm, but yet close enough to know they want to speak at each other's funeral. That just melts my heart. I mean, just the idea that 20 years ago that his son said he got out a yellow notebook. And wrote it

down. And by hand, wow. Wrote what he wanted red at this man's funeral, 20 years. years later. Shannon, I just thought it was amazing. That is pretty cool, pretty cool stories. You gonna go ahead write mine for me now? You want me to start now? Yeah, let's start today that way when I die. The problem is I don't know if I want you reading it mine because I don't know well you could get drew a ride. I don't know exactly what you would say. I won't free to back back in my dude. Shannon would do she's going to show the butt picture of your bruised butt. That's exactly. First of all, that's exactly what you would do which is why I can't have you doing the eulogy. Who's up next? Tracy. Tracy. Tracy. Go

ahead Tracy. Good morning, guys. Hope everybody staying safe. Good morning to you. Commenting on what you just said about the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter thing, that's the American most of us want to remember. I agree. And I wish, like, I hate that we all, well, I don't want to get on a speech, but I hate

that everybody decides they have to hate the other side, and that's what it should be like right there. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't going to go into that until you mentioned. mentioned it, but that's what we wish. Anyway, going back to the free throw thing and Pope's comments, maybe I didn't hear it the way you heard it. I just went back during one of the last breaks and listened to the press conference,

and here's what I got from. It's two things that he said. The main thing, I believe, is that he said it would change the way they run their offense if they focused on drawing foul and they don't want to take away from their flow. That's the one thing I heard. and the other was he didn't really think you needed to rely on putting it into the official's hands if that's your goal to draw foul. Well, on the first one, he would know more about that than me.

So I will defer to that. I'm more talking about when they're already going up for a layup, why don't you jump into the guy instead of jumping away from the guy? I'm not saying play to get fouled. I'm just saying if you're going to be in a contested shot anyway, you might as well try to get fouled. The second one, you know, when you say don't put it in the hands of the officials, I get that, but like the decision drew to call a foul or not is in the hands of the official. So you might as well try to get the call.

I mean, look, it's not going to work every game. There are games where they don't call fouls. But in that game, they were calling a lot of fouls. I didn't hear him say anything. What I thought you were saying was that we didn't want to risk in the, payment it would cost in the physicality and getting hurt. Well, he said there was a, I was just interpreting his word. He said there's a physical toll. And maybe he didn't mean get hurt. I'm not, he didn't really explain it. So I don't know. But when he said physical toll,

that's what I meant. But that might not be what he meant. What do you think about the thing about not putting the official's hands, Drew? Appreciate the call, sir. Kind of with that, it's, I kind of liked his backhanded comments just about the officiating. We got to learn the whistle. Yeah. So let's talk about that. We didn't mention that yesterday. He said in his press conference two days, he called the SEC office, Drew, and he wanted to, quote, learn the whistle, which I thought was the nicest way of saying the officiating stunk that I can imagine. Yeah, he's like, I'm just not really picking up what they're putting down, just want to get in their brain, kind of see what they're seeing. I went back, I wrote a post, I don't know if it's up yet,

go to KSR anyway, just read what's there. But about last year at Baylor, they kind of had a moment at the end of the game Jackson Robbins had a deflection they called a foul whatever Pope was very upset and he did the same thing he's like I just got to figure out what these officials are seeing so we can play based on what they see he said it's not the written rules it's the rules that they're seeing so I wonder if Mark Pope if that's his equivalent rind of bless your heart of referees I need to learn your whistle yeah he kept saying I'm going to do a deep dive in the officiating kind of learn the whistle and see what what they're seeing that I don't see how quickly like would have cal gotten thrown out of that

He would have got thrown out. But that Mark Pope, that's the nicest way of saying, you know, you all kind of, you stink. And I just got to understand why you stink so badly so I can get better. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two here at Grey Line Station. It's KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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