KSR - 2025-01-17- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

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Kentucky and Alabama play tomorrow at noon, another early start, and another big game. It's just every day, Shannon, different big game, big game. This one, Alabama, coming off a whole loss, surprising to Ole Miss, and now we get them here. I have friends who are like trying to get tickets who are telling me the tickets on the secondary market are insane. But you know what? We're giving away two of them today right here in this place. That's right.

Come on out. You can grab those tickets. And I'm not really worried about the early game. You know, we had that 11 a.m. start for Florida, and they came out and scored a hundred and six points. So I think tomorrow's going to be much of the same. You know, you can tell when people have gotten boozy, Drew. Where's my friend Stephen Horne?

See, here with club. He's gotten very boozy because I said these are amazing tickets. And he came up to me and he was like, listen. be careful when you say they're amazing. He was like, their only center court up like 15 rows. This is not the tickets on the floor. I'm like, I still feel like that's pretty amazing. Center court, 15 rows.

I think people will take it. Yeah, anyone here are going to turn those down if you win? Is that close enough for everybody? I think that's a good ticket. I mean, you're pretty boozy when you're like, oh, my feet aren't on the front row. I don't know if those are good, right? Yeah, these are fantastic tickets.

People live their whole life just hoping to one chance is get these tickets. You get it today. Somebody will have a chance today. Well, it is cold, but the cats have Bama tonight. I've got a big day today. Ryan and I are going to at 2 o'clock be filming a commercial at KS. Bar for UK Federal Credit Union with Kobe Brea, right? Although I think he may have already done his part.

I don't know if he'll be there, but you and I are in a commercial with Kobe Brea. They've asked us to get ready for it. You know, this is, we haven't done a commercial in a while. are you excited today? I actually got up, shaved, I shaved my goatee off for the first time of a month and a half. I want to look my best for the commercial. I didn't even notice you have taken off your ghost.

Because I look so damn handsome. You were just taking it back a little bit. Yeah, I mean, it was gray. A lot of gray. So you're trying to, like, have a baby face for the commercial. Yeah, I think you know, you got to look your best, you know. Have you read the script? Well, I don't have to do a whole lot.

What's what I was going to say? Shannon, they kind of made in the script. Like, Kobe Bray and I are doing this thing where, like, I'm, well, I don't want to spoil it. But it basically includes Ryan, his whole role is to just spit water. Well, I think he can do that. I'm very confident in Ryan to be able to pull that one off. Probably one take. His entire role in the commercial to sell going to UK Federal Credit Union is to have him spit water.

I'm interested in how that ties into the script. We don't have to spoil it, but I'm in a rest. You don't tell the finale of Sopranos until it's over, but are you glad that that's what they decide to use Ryan for? Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. I'm sure that the casting director is like, we got one guy for this job. Call Ryan right away. He'll nail that best water spitter in Lexington right there. So then this evening, I am speaking to the Kentucky Young Farmers Association, Drew.

Last night I sat down to try to figure out, okay, 300 farmers from across the state that are young. what do you say to them and I don't really know because I don't know a lot about farming the other thing I'm trying to figure out is what I wear you know I have that cowboy hat but I'm worried I'll walk in there wearing the cowboy hat and then I would have the I'd be the only person with a cowboy hat possible at which point then I would look like a clown so I feel like I'm going to not take the cowboy hat to the farmer's convention because I don't want to be the only guy in a cowboy hat and then And, you know, I'm going to talk to the farmers about farming things, cows, soybeans, crops, all kinds of good stuff.

I'm confused. You're going to a farming convention, and you're worried you're going to be the only guy on a cowboy hat. Where else would you wear a cowboy hat? That's the place to wear the cowboy hat. See, I kind of think, like when they're at the convention, maybe they don't wear the cowboy hat, right? The John Deere hat, maybe the camo hat. Or maybe they dress up. I mean, this is a convention, and it's a dinner.

Like, they may decide, like, this is when they wear it. So I just, I don't. I'm suddenly over at 35 and a half cowboy hats. That's the over-under. I'm going over. So it's close enough I can walk from my house. Should I carry the cowboy hat? And then decide whether or not to...

Walk in, you know, kind of scope out what's going on, read the room. And then decide. And then decide. Okay. Fair enough. And then later that night is my friend Byron Roberts, there's a tribute concert for him at Manchester Music Hall with lots of musical guests and, you know, the rumors of surprise guests. That, I think, is definitely the first time in Lexington for me to break out the California. boy, yeah. That's why you got to take it with you. Like if you need it at the Farmers Convention,

you've got it, but you definitely want it for that concert tonight. So yeah, just take it with you just in case. But all of this is just a setup for tomorrow, where Kentucky and Alabama will play at noon. In my opinion for the cats, this is the kind of game that if you win, okay, now we can start talking about maybe we could win the SEC, right? I mean, that's actually not something that I have thought was likely, but with broom out still probably for a couple of, weeks. Auburn, our one game against them is in Rupp Arena. We don't have to go there.

So, like, you know, if there was ever a tiebreaker, you'd get to have that one. I think, Drew, you know, if we can win this one, what do we think the spread will be, by the way? Very tight. You think Bama's a favorite? I think that'd be tough to do, but maybe I think it's going to be, like, one point. Maybe U.K. I'm going to say Bama by, like, one or two.

But either way, just because their numbers are a lot better than ours, and I could see that being how they get favored. But do you agree with me if you win this game, you could start going, okay, maybe we are a contender to win the SEC? Yeah, I think so. I mean, you don't want to cheer for injury or be happy about an injury, but broom going down, that's a big hit to them, that it's an opportunity for someone to compete with Auburn.

Right now you're tied with Alabama. I think Alabama, Tennessee and Florida are with Kentucky just behind Auburn. You've already got. Ole Miss is undefeated too. You've already got one on Florida, though. You win this one. I think it's huge. You would have the tiebreaker over Florida.

Now, we still have to go to Alabama. Right. So the other part of this is if you lose to Alabama and you still have to go there, then it becomes hard to figure out, okay, how are we going to pass them? If we still have to go there, we still got two games against Tennessee. But if you want to have a chance to contend for the SEC regular season title, you win tomorrow. I mean, I think if you lose tomorrow, it's not the end of the world, even though it's a home game. but if you win, I think it sets up some real possible.

And I feel good about it, really, because, you know, Alabama plays the way that we want to play, and that's where we kind of excel. Like we said, that Florida game is one of the, you know, up, both teams playing a high efficiency. I think it could be the same thing tomorrow. I don't know if somebody's going to have a Justin Edwards performance like we got last year, but somebody needs to step up and knock down some threes for sure. We scored what? We scored 120 points last year?

Yeah. I mean, it was just an absolute insane performance offensively. Yeah, that's why I'm so excited tomorrow. win or lose, this is going to be a fun basketball game. Alabama's number one in the country at 90 points. Kentucky's right behind them. I think both coaches are going to look at each other and be like, let's put on a show. Let's get up and down.

Let's make this a fun game. Regardless of winning the SEC, because I think Auburn still, without Broom, is going to be tough to beat. This will be huge for Friday in the SEC tournament and seating in the NCAA tournament getting a win over a team like that. Yeah, that's one of the things that I really think about is that Friday is the double-by. The double buy requires top four teams in the conference. This is the kind of game where you'd start to feel good about getting that.

I mean, remember, this team could have an amazing record and still be like a five or six seed in the SEC tournament. Alabama, though, has struggled, Ryan, in the last few weeks. I mean, they're not, even when they've won, it hasn't been exactly. They've not been completely efficient. You know, they went to A&M. Could have easily lost that game. That was, what, they had 55. Howells called or something during that game, then the Old Miss game.

Old Miss led most of the game and beat them and beat them. I think we're catching Alabama when they're not yet really rolling. And maybe that's a good time to do it because I think going into before the season even started, I thought they were the best team in the conference. Auburn is obviously taking that crown. Four of their five starters from a Final Four team. Back, yeah, the Sears kids back. He was one of the best players in the conference.

Grant Nelson, the big dude. The Ole Miss games, one of puzzles me because I kind of watched a little bit of that that was going on. The ERI, Ole Miss was up by 15, 18 points. A lot of the second half ended up being a 10-point win. They kind of dominated that game.

Alabama had 21 turnovers in that game. It was completely uncharacteristic. The key is, I think, for this game, keep Alabama under 80 points. Every time they score 80 points or more, they win. I think, yeah, I mean, I think if you keep them under 80, you're going to probably beat them.

I mean, Mark Sears is their best player. A lot of people had him as a pre-season national player, of the year. And he's been good, but he's not been what I think people thought. Lamont Butler will probably be on him. How do you think that matchup goes? I'm pretty confident with Lamont Butler guarding just about anybody, but Sears led the league last year through four SEC games now. He's averaging like 20, so he's starting to get it back up a little bit from the non-conference. They also took Auburn's Aiden Holloway. He's tough. He was all-freshman last year. Made an awkward transfer going from Auburn, Alabama for them.

So they have a lot of recognizable names and Star Power that have played a lot of good basketball already. When Kentucky played against A&M, Mark Pope said that they looked and basically said we wanted them to shoot threes. And then they made a bunch at the beginning, but then didn't make one in the second half. This is not a team, Ryan, you can let shoot threes. If you let this team shoot threes, they can score 100 on you like that. They're going to have to go out on them and make them beat them at the rim. Now, we've seen some teams have success doing that against Kentucky. Do you think Alabama can't?

You know, that's the key. I think once again, Alabama, a very strong offensive rebounding team. It seems like every time we play an SEC team now, that's their scouting report. Very strong on the offensive glass. Well, this one's not. This one's not. I'm saying you want them to beat you at the – you cannot let them shoot threes. If you let them shoot threes, you're done because they will make them –

you got to make them beat you at the rim. You've got to make Grant Nelson beat you at the rim. Do you think they can do that? Amari played so well last week. you know, he seems to be coming on and on. And by the way, I thought Pope said something really good about Amari, considering this. He said when he was playing at Drexel, you know,

he barely touched somebody, get called from a faculty. He was so much bigger and stronger than everybody. Now he's kind of learning how to play in the SEC where he can be more physical, and I think we're seeing that. I think he played money as his best game of the season last week. Amari, by the way, just, you know, I don't know what to say about this

because I've been critical of his arms down the... Amari is leading the country in rebounding efficiency. And it feels like to me he should still be getting four or five more. He is literally, literally, after the last game, leading the country in rebounding efficiency. And it feels to me, Drew, like he could still be better than that. He is right now on pace to be like one of the best rebounders we've had in 25 years by the numbers. Only Oscar right now is higher offensive efficiency than Amari. I know that's crazy to me as I watch it, but it's true.

Yeah, as much as we love Butler and want Jackson Robinson to be this big star, the guy that's really having the biggest impacts in Mari, if you look at numbers of, like, usage, the offense goes through him more than anybody else on the team. He's leading in rebounding. I think the last two games, he's even taking another step forward and at least get a little more physical. Like Ryan said, I think he's getting comfortable in the lead. I mean, they have a stat where it's like, of the rebounds you should get, how many do you get?

and he's literally number one and the next nine all playing like little leagues like in the small leagues where some big guy can just get every rebound. He's the only one in the power five that's in the top ten. That's crazy to me watching because I still see him sit there

with his hands down but you know what? I mean the numbers are what they are. He's clearly done an amazing job. I think keeping him in the game will be very important tomorrow. Like two quick fouls or something like that and Amari has to go down and we have too much garrison

I think could be an issue. I need a big Amari game tomorrow. Yeah. Bespoke and Spoken Spirits here at Greyline Station. UK Alabama tickets giving away the, which one do you like better? The Whiskey Myers or the Leonard Skinner bourbon? I stayed an hour after the show last time and tried that Whiskey Myers bourbon. That is very, very good.

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Bespoken Spirits in Lexington. You can come see us. We've got a couple of lines 859-2-80-2287. Rick, I have breaking news. The Supreme Court this morning decides 9-0 unanimous. The TikTok is banned in the United States, starting. Saturday.

9-0. Starting tomorrow? Starting, well, the 19th, so I guess that's Sunday. Sunday. Now, it is interesting. So legally, basically, so you know, what the Supreme Court decided is the law that was passed, which said it was banned, the Supreme Court just said they can do that, basically. It doesn't violate the First Amendment.

And it's 9-0. You always hear me say when it's 9-0, there ain't a lot that's 9-0. So that means it's pretty unanimous. I mean, well, it's not pretty unanimous. It's completely unanimous. But last night, Joe Biden said, because technically it's supposed to start Sunday, which would mean his administration would have to enforce it. He said that out of deference to a new president on Monday,

he would wait and let the new president decide whether to enforce it. So that means it'll come down to what Trump wants to do. the next day, and he is suggested he might not enforce it. So we'll see. But I don't know how Congress can pass a law, and then the president just not enforce it. I don't think you could do that. So we'll see what they end up doing.

But at least for now, the law is constitutional, which means another kind of notch against TikTok stand. Or if Trump has any ability to keep it, I mean, what that way is to start? But he was the original person that wanted to ban it. Yeah, but now new presidency, new term, right? So he's just going to change his venue completely? He's going to come in and look like a hero. People will like it, but the whole reason this started was he was the one that wanted to get rid of it.

And now you're right. He might come around and say, I'm the one that saved it. And reverse it. But see, nobody will remember that first part. No, nobody knows probably. But anyway, I actually thought there'd be a couple of the liberals dissent, but 9-0 that says, So TikTok might go away just after we built our account. We have 22,000 followers, and we got it going and now go.

What are your thoughts about the president of TikTok's supposed to be in the front row at the inauguration on Monday? I don't get that. I don't, I mean, I, if I fully buy that TikTok could be a national security issue. I get it. Like, I think, listen, I like it. And part of me is like with you, Shannon, like we already give them everything. At the same time, I understand why it could be, I mean, we essentially give all of our personal details to a country that we're, is hostile to. I get it.

With that said, I don't understand inviting the head of TikTok to the inauguration. Like if it's so bad that we have to get rid of it, why is he at the inauguration? I don't understand that. I don't get that. But I also don't understand why if they were against it, then they might flip it. I think it's just like, it just shows how. nobody really believes anything. It's just like, well, people like it, so I don't want to get rid of it.

My favorite part of this whole thing is we're worried about giving up our information, and there are TikTok users who are going to this other app that has an agreement in a language that's not English, and they have no idea what they're agreeing to. First of all, you want to talk about the American people being dumb. As a protest against TikTok going away, a ton of American young people went to another Chinese app, that explicitly says in the terms, we will give your stuff to the Chinese government

and signed up out of protest. Like, it goes to show, like, people drew, at the end of the day, our dumbness is part of the problem more than anything. Last time I got on TikTok a few days ago, it was people introducing their new spy that they met on the new app. Like, I'm switching this app,

this is my new spy, and they're, like, playing it up like it's a game. I mean, I know everybody thinks it's a joke, and I get it. Like, I don't want it to go. away either because I really do like it, but we'll see. So anyway, that'll be one of the decisions that will be made. The Supreme Court upholds it 90-8-59-2-8-9-2807. One person writes in and goes, Matt, we have to hit threes. What is the magical number of threes we have to make tomorrow to

beat Alabama? What do you know? Oh, that's a good question. I'll go 12. 12? That's a lot. I mean, that's a big number. I was going higher. I'm going to say 13. Okay. So you guys. be in the hundreds tomorrow. I think both sides are going to light it up. Do you think though we have to hit 13 to win? Like if we hit less we can't win? I mean I'll stick with my answer. Okay. I'm going to say 10 and the reason I say that is because Alabama one of the things they do really good defensively is guarding the three. So I think they're the best. Really tough to knock down that many threes against them. I mean we you know you know my dislike of mid-range jumpers but you actually can get as many of those as you want against

Alabama, because they give them to you. And part of the reason we scored 120 last year, we hit a lot of threes, but people don't remember. We actually hit a lot of mid-range jumpers. The cow likes to shoot. And so you're going to get a lot of those, and we have a couple guys that seem pretty good at it. Jackson Robinson seems pretty good at it.

Butler, Oway, they actually seem like pretty good at those things. Jackson Robinson, that's money for him, it seems like, you know, once he gets his feet set, he can hit it. Yeah. So I don't want to see Kobe Brahe'll go another one or five. He's one or five last two games. He's got a nail couple. Yeah, I think you're right.

He's going to get shots. He's got to make him. Who's up first? Ed is up first. Ed, go ahead, Ed. Hey, Matt. I was reading a couple days ago at the price for a ticket to see Arkansas, it's over $1,000.

Yes. As of now, it is over $1,000 to get in for Arkansas. I bet it will go down, but that's what it is right now. Yeah, that's what was my next question. I mean, if they keep having a bad record, do you think the price? I mean, Drew, maybe a little, but I, I mean, it's going to go down just because it always goes down right before the game. But I do think, Drew, the reason people want to go to that Arkansas game has very little to do with whether or not they're good. It has to do with that moment when Cal walks in.

That's why people want to go. I think people might be more excited to go if they continue to suck, honestly, because they'll go in a little comfortable and not having to sweat out a game. I wonder, and this wouldn't be a big hit to tickets, but I wonder if the Arkansas, fans that were going to come are like, nope, I don't want to do that anymore, and they're going to back out. That's a good question. Good point. That wouldn't be a big percentage of the crowd.

Let me ask you a question. If he were to go, I mean, they've got three semi-winnable games. They play at Missouri, then they play Georgia at home, and then they play Oklahoma at home. Now, they could lose all three of those games. But they also could win them. But let's say they lose them all. And they come in here at 0-and-7, and they were to beat us. Oh, what would that happen?

it would be awful for Calipari to have a bad team and come in here on our own floor and beat us the first time they face each other that would be awful he's going to win one game against a good team he's going to they all

even in his worst teams they'd always win one surprise on the road we just can't let it be us amen because he's going to do it once he'll win one of those he always does we just can't let it be here we'll take a break and be right back we're here bespoken spirits this is KSR

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at Bespoken Spirits. If you're in the area, come on out here. You've got a chance to win the Kentucky, Alabama tickets. Also at noon, they're going to give a tour of Bespoken Spirits back here. You can see all their various stuff, Leonard, Skinnered Whiskey, Hell House, and they can also make private labels for folks as well here at Bespoken Spirits. They're giving out stuff here for people. I think they're enjoying it. you know, I didn't, but you don't expect to talk about two government things in the first hour of the show, but there is another decision that came yesterday that will have a major impact on college sports, potentially, major impact. So I could literally bore you to death because I teach a two-hour class every year at Georgetown on this topic, so I'll try to distill two hours into one minute. Title IX, as it applies to college sports, requires schools to give equal opportunity to men and women in sports. That's been interpreted over the years by the Department of Education to mean scholarships.

So they basically said you have to give people equal opportunity. You have to give them equal scholarships. It didn't necessarily mean, though, that you have to give them equal money. Okay, so like, for instance, you can spend more money on your men's team. their travel than on the women's team. That is allowed under Title IX. I think a lot of people don't realize it doesn't mean equal. It means equal opportunity. All right. So now, starting in July, schools are going to be, schools are basically going to be revenue sharing money, $22 million a year sharing with athletes. Most schools had decided to give 75 or 80 percent to the men's football team,

10 to 15 to basketball, five to women's basketball, and then the rest to all the other sports. That was kind of all of the NCAA's agreement as to how the money was going to go. Yesterday, the Department of Education said, hey, Title IX, when it says equal opportunity, that will also include NIL money, revenue shared. Now, a lot of people who don't know the law are out there saying that means they're going to make them split the money. money equally. I don't think that's what that means, but it is going to mean equal opportunity, which is going to mean the school is going to have to, like, the school is going to have to prove that it makes sense to do it the way they do. So, for instance, if you're at Iowa,

where Caitlin Clark made you all that money on the women's basketball team, and you still pay your women's players less than your men's basketball players, you're going to have some explaining him to do, right? How can you justify doing that when the women's team made more? I don't read the decision as saying they will have to give $11 million to the men, $11 million to the women. But they're just saying that the same rules that always apply will now apply to this. Then you throw in the wild card that we're going to have a new president on Monday. And his education department might look at it differently than Biden's and might just say, we don't think that's the case. So it's up in the air, but I will say this, Ryan, a lot of athletic departments had created an entire

system based on something that now another wrench gets thrown into. So, for instance, if you're a football program out there that went and recruited a roster thinking you were going to have 18 million to give them, and now you have 12 million to give them, you might have a problem. You might actually, so it will be interesting. I think the next three or four months, I said this before, but it's now even more true after the decision yesterday. The next three or four months will be the most chaotic three or four months in college sports. On the back end of it, it'll be better than it is right now. But we are going to see chaos for the next few months as schools try to figure out how to set up this new system.

That's crazy, man, because these athletic budgets, they're set up a year or more in advance. And now, just like that, it's wrong. It's all wrong. We've got to re-do it again. So what can schools do? See, I think it puts, I actually think the decision is probably the right decision, and I don't think it has the impact people think. I don't think they're saying men and women have to make the same amount of money.

But because we don't Drew know exactly what it means, it makes it really hard. I was told Mitch Barnhart, and again, this is a scuttle butt, not a scoop. But I was told Mitch Barnhart met with like the 40 biggest donors to UK athletics and basically looked at them and said, we need X amount of money from each of you all to get through this transition. And I don't know if people will do it. And let's just say it was not a small amount of money. I think all these schools are dealing with this right now. Yeah, you talk about it getting chaotic.

I mean, it's been so chaotic. And it's just going to keep getting worse. and we say on this show that, you know, we don't have a lot of sympathy for these coaches and making all this money, but at some point when the rules keep changing, that has to be a little difficult on them. When they're just truly uncertain

of what rule they're going to be playing with in one month, that's got to be hard to fill these rosters because this is a pivotal point in a lot of teams' year of what they're going to have for next season and if the rules are going to keep changing. And not, again, bore you with law. Trump can change what Biden's administration just did, but he, according to the law,

once the president does it, you have to have a really good reason to change it, and it will be hard for him to explain what the reason was when it's only a few weeks later. So that's why I said, Shannon, I have no idea what's going to have. You're going to change probably a lot of scholarships, recruiting opportunities as well. You know, you promise a guy X amount of dollars all of a sudden. Now, you've got to change that. And you're also going to have to raise it.

Now, I will say, the winners in this, even if they don't get equal money, women's basketball players are about to get paid. Like if I was a young women's basketball player and I could go to the WMBA but I could take this new fifth year of eligibility, girls, take it. Because there's going to be money next year that there just wasn't in years past. Who's up next? Kentucky Joe is up next. Oh, good. Kentucky Joe, go ahead.

Hello there. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I first made a comment and I'm hoping I'll be able to do it. a song here today. Oh, that's right. Well, to be fair, I did say I wanted a song. Let's just do the song. Okay, so what is the name of the song you're going to sing? The name is called, Oh, Mama, it's called, Oh, Mama, Oh, Mama, oh, is it called, oh, Mama, he's running on high octane, or maybe. Oh, Mama, he's running on high octane, or maybe,

oh mama oh mama oh mama oh mama he's running on high deck i don't know it it's oh mama okay just one oh mama okay it really called obama okay that's plenty o'mamas go ahead he's right jo go ahead and let's start the song all right mama he's kind of special my body must have feel the ball Mama, he makes shots opposition go crazy. Ooh, opposition. I'm about to fall. Mama, this coach more team has experience. They have players that can score.

They also have players that produce easy bucket. Okay, always the best one. He does it all. Oh, Mama, he is running on high octave. You can't keep a great after you. You only know that's the key help your teammates. All right. Here's the thing, Joe.

We're going to have to work on this one. You're right. Okay, Joe, hang on. Joe, Joe, Joe. Joe. Joe. Joe. Joe.

Joe. Joe. Joe. Joe. Joe. Let him just let it go. Let him finish. It can't be stopped.

All right, Joe, Joe, you're writing a Dostoevsky novel. I need you. All right, so here's the thing. I need you to, like, cut the verses down. You're right. Like, these are sort of meandering sentences. We need an editor for this. I mean, there's something there, but it's a little much, Joe.

Okay? Can we try to cut it down a little bit? Not again, like, not now, but, like, during your spare time. Well, I mean, I'm just curious in what way. Well, just in a way that makes musical sense, you know, when it follows like a musical pattern and, you know, that kind of thing. That was his opus. Yeah, it was a little bit.

There was a little bit of Lord of the Rings to the length of it. But, Joe, I appreciate it. I think it's going to give the team exactly what they need going into the Alabama game. Hey, hey, Matt, I apologize. I apologize. guys. Listen, we're just working on. You still there? Joe? Yeah, I'm still here. It's five. Don't worry about it. We're good, okay?

Okay. All right, there you go. Great song, Joe. Great song. He created that in like the moment. There's no doubt. I think he made it up on the line. A lot of long words, longest words I've ever heard in a question. Opposition. A lot of words. Oh, mama. Serve pro, if you were to have a disaster.

See, it's catchy. Like the relief valve on your water heater falls or it pours gallons of water in your basement or an electrical shortage. You could be called serve pro. Hopefully you don't need it. But 1-800 serve pro. That's s-e-pr-pr-O.com.

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nice, but part of it is a little sad. I mean, for those of you that haven't followed Louisville since we beat them, they're five and one in the ACC, and their five wins include beating like pretty much everybody good in the ACC that's not Duke. They beat North Carolina. They beat Clemson. They beat Pitt. Wake Forest is the only other team with a winning record.

They haven't played yet. I mean, they have a chance to finish with an amazing record, actually. And I'm not, I mean, they're good. I'm not sure they're that good. but I think they're probably going to finish second in the ACC. So, good team. Still can't give anybody to go their games. They had Mike Rutherford, who I like a lot, who does Card Chronicle.

He tweeted out last night, I'm giving away a thousand tickets on the radio. Let me say that again. A thousand tickets on the radio. Apparently, once again, one of their donors bought a thousand tickets, and today they're giving them out all day to people who will go to the game. Now, nice gesture by whoever did it. I think it's cool rather than leaving them empty to give them out, so I'm not like crushing it.

But this is a team that is going to make the NCAA tournament after years of being bad, might be the second best team in the ACC, is playing Virginia, who I don't think they've beaten in Louisville in like a decade. Now, Virginia is still not good, but they haven't beaten them in a long time. I am, and you have to give out a thousand tickets just to fill the arena of one of the best basketball programs in the history of college basketball? Are you shocked?

Actually, at this point, I'm not shocked, but it is crazy that this continues to happen. If I'm Pat Kelsey, I at my next press conference say, do you all not like me? Are you all out there? I'm doing everything I possibly can. Please tell me what I need to do to get you all to come support this team. A thousand tickets on a Saturday at all. home against Virginia when if you win you'll probably be ranked i just right i just ryan i can't believe it well i understand they're lower arena tickets to me he's like no they're not that's what i

thought i heard on the radio this morning no no surely not they're not lower half of them or some of them lower arena see that that's that's crazy to me if i don't know if that's true but if that is true ryan that's crazy it's shocking honestly i mean i give them an a for effort i mean they're they're trying everything they came to try to get fans in there. The fact that they've kind of just, like Drew keeps saying, they're broken. They can't get over what's happened the last couple of years. Kentucky just beat them this year. I don't know if they just can't get over all that.

But they're good. Yeah. I mean, they're pretty good this year. It's crazy. I just, I don't get it. First of all, a thousand tickets to me sounds like a logistical nightmare. I'd rather just take them all and dump them out of a window and say people just take them. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Can you imagine if you call in, get all their email. Oh, my God. Forget about it. When we do eight tickets, and my fingers are like no more, yeah. But their coach came in and did more than Kenny Payne did in two months than Kenny did in two years. 13 wins, and you're still not excited enough to go see your team play. I don't get it.

I don't get it. I mean, I'll just say to Louisville fans, like your team, besides the fact you can't iron your uniforms or wear the same uniform correctly, your team seems likable. The coach seems extremely likable. they're going to make the tournament. The fact that you have to give away a thousand tickets. Like, give them away. That is shocking to me for an ACC game against Virginia. I think the next step, I know this sounds a little ridiculous,

but I think you just got to fill the Yomstitter with Concrete and call it a loss and get them smaller venue. I mean, they're never going to fill that thing again. There was a time that was the number three ranked attendance fan base in the country behind Kentucky and Syracuse. It would be Kentucky, Syracuse, Louisville. And somehow, it's gone to this. Awesome arena, one of the best in the country, great environment for college basketball,

and they've got a good team. It just doesn't add up why they can't get out there for it. Remember one they had, like, those cardboard cutouts during COVID? Yeah. And we maybe put some of those in the Yom Center to fill it up. I like that idea, actually. Who's up next? Jay is up next.

Jay, go ahead, Jay. Hey, man, what's going on? Hey, I got two quick things. So you've been kind of driving me up with this because you're pouring around women. And you keep saying when you're talking about how Pope has overachieved with this team that the greater is whole than some of the parts or something like that. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The sum is SUM. The saying is the sum is greater than the part.

No, it's not. The saying is the whole is greater than the sum of us. That's the same. The whole is greater than if you add up each individual. If you add up each individual part, you would get a number or a group that's not as good as the whole is. Right, but sum and whole are the same word. I didn't make the saying up, sir.

Like, I didn't make the same up. The sane is the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's the saying. I didn't make it up. Okay. Well, here's my, here's what I really wanted to ask. Did you think I meant some?

Let me, hang on just a second, sir. Did you think I thought some was S-O-M-E? Some hole? Did you think I, literally? Did you think I'm so stupid

that I thought the hole was like a hole in the ground and some was just one of the parts? I don't think that, man. I don't think that. Okay. I thought you were just, you know,

hell with. Anyway, the point of that saying is that hope has gotten a lot out of these players. Correct. Could you imagine, can we imagine for two seconds, what if he was the coach of last year's team, what he would have got out of a Justin Edwards or somebody like that with a challenge that they have? Yeah, I don't know. You know, and I appreciate the call, because I don't think he would have ever recruited a Justin

Edwards. Just because Justin, although I mean, shot well against Alabama last year, but that wasn't his strength, guys that take people off the drill. Like, take a DJ Wagner or Justin Edwards. Drew, I don't know that a guy like that is a dude that he would recruit. You know, but now Reed Shepard, Rob Dillingham, and Antonio Reeves, maybe even Aaron Bradshaw, I think he'd recruited all that Z. He'd recruited those dudes.

I don't know if those driving guys that Cal liked. I just don't know if that's the kind of guy that he would recruit. No, and even if he had him, I mean, here we go, we're going to do it again. But he wouldn't have put Justin Edwards as the three hanging around the perimeter. Probably would have played a little smaller ball and gotten Reed and Robin there more, but we don't have to bring that pain up again. I do think Aaron Bradshaw would have played well, under him. Honestly, I think he's kind of a big that would be, obviously he wanted Z,

so clearly he thought he could do something with him. I guarantee you one thing. Pope would have played the right analytics was told him what's the right lineup to play. Those analytics were clear last year. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, I mean, it doesn't matter because it's not going to happen. But Reed, Rob, and Antonio with Pope are breaking, like, all-time records for most three.

I mean, they are. Like, they would have been unbelievable. And they were still really good at wake-out, but they would have been unbelievable. Mario, hand me a bourbon. I was going to say, can we just go back to some hole? Because that conversation made me full drunker than any burbbing. Some old parts. It's better than a few of the parts.

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