KSR - 2025-01-21- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

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Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine 772-745254. KS bar is now open for lunch. Come out and see us. I know we hadn't said we were going to be here, but we are. Tomorrow, we will not because you're gone. Drew's gone.

So it's just me and Shannon. Yeah. So Shannon, I figured out what I want to do tomorrow. I'll see if you agree with this. All right, let's hear it. What do you think about we call it interview day? And I just interview eight people one segment apiece. Yeah.

And we get people who we like. I can already tell you don't like that idea. Yeah, I mean, it's not what we do normally. Well, so you, I know. But there's people like Tom Hart, and there's people that we don't get to have on much. Catch up with them? Catch up with them? Or would you just, you, is it like you want to go?

Just me and you. If you want to go, miss me and you, it will go. We can do it either way. I mean, I have full confidence. You and I can do a show. I could hear the disappointment in his voice. No, it's fine. No, no.

I could hear the disappointment in his voice. I don't want him to be disappointed. If you want to do the Tom Leet show, we can do that or we just interview people. We can do that. All right. Me and you, Shannon. But you better be ready. You're going to be ready to go, just me and you?

Yeah. Because we're going to be in a different place. That's the only, it's not that I don't think you can do it. It's just I'm always used to look in at somebody. Right, right. And you and I are not going to be in the same place. If you want to do the interviews, that's fine. No, no, I'm not doing it with you.

I could hear in his voice, Ryan. I could hear the disappointment. So because of that, it's just being me and, it'll just be me and Shannon. I'll be in Lexington at Studio. You'll be in Louisville and we'll do it. We can look at each other. If I'm in studio, we can look at each other? Yeah, we can do this magical thing called Zoom.

All right. Yeah, well, we don't do that here on this show a lot. All right, so it's just me and you, but, Shannon, you're ready, then. You're going to watch the games tonight and be ready? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll watch the games. Yeah, Shannon and Billy, they hook it up and look at each other every day. So, yeah, you can just slide in after Billy leaves.

So they're more technologically advanced than we are. Oh, yeah. Yeah, by far. I mean, don't you do that on ESPN with Myron? I do. But we, for whatever reason, just don't ever do. it here ever never not one time have we ever done it well you know what all right so then it's just us uh tomorrow shannon and i look forward to it because i love saying you you're gone

drew's gone so it'll just be me where's everybody going and you know they all got stuff right shannon excuse me drew is at like some on three conference on three conference in nashville yeah and i don't know what you're doing but i'm sure you're i got to take josiah to his visit to hanover tomorrow oh okay so it's college visit so rye you're going to cry right you're going to cry i If I don't cry tomorrow, I definitely will the day he leaves. I remember when my mom and dad dropped me off at Kentucky Wesleyan the first time, I sat out in the parking lot and cried. And I was a 19-year-old freshman.

I was bawling out there. I love my parents. I didn't cry. I mean, I was like. Say this on your mama's birthday. No, I love my mom, but I knew I'd see her soon. You know what I mean? She cried, didn't she?

Oh, yeah. She chanted the GPA that she needed me to have as she walked out the door for me to keep my scholarship. She and my friend Tall's mom Because we had the same scholarship They chanted the GPA I think we had to keep a 35 And they chanted 35 as they walked out the door 3.5

3.5 That's and then they get in the car They probably boohoo Then they probably They probably cried One person writes Matt I agreed with what you said I was waiting to be mad

But I didn't And so nice job Well good I know they I'm glad you were waiting to be mad But they didn't get mad What are you looking at me like that for? Because our audience is definitely split. What does that mean?

I mean, we got some people that are going to be mad at us for what we say and other people that are going to agree with what we say on that topic. Yeah, but my view is always the same. There's not any topic we talk about that, like, you're not going to do. I mean, people disagree when I say I don't like Burger King and you don't get mad. So why would you get mad if I said I don't like Trump? They always get that. Well, but it shouldn't be that important to you.

When I spoke to the Farmers Association, you think those people agreed with me politically? No. You think the Kentucky Farmers Association? No. But at one point I even said, I think most of you disagree with me, and they clapped.

Yes, we do. Did I get mad at them? You stinking liberal? Yes, we do. And did I get mad at them? No. No, they were completely kind to me. That's what makes this show great.

And when people say, don't talk about it, no. Just get used to occasionally hearing things you disagree with. It's okay. And speaking of things I disagree with, what is with Seth Greenberg? What is his deal? Okay. What is his deal? Why do he and Jay Williams feel like they need to tell us how to think about Cal?

Yeah. Why do they feel the need? Because he's a cow supporter. You had Jay Williams say on Saturday, something to the effect of, yes, Arkansas is struggling, cows behind. Part of it is because B.B.N. complained so much about them, basically. What? That's got nothing to do with why Arkansas is.

Right? And we don't, we're, our name is Bennett and we are not in. That's true. Now, then Seth Greenberg. says something like, you know, Kentucky fans should worry about their team. Shut up! How are you supposed to expect us to not have an opinion about the coach who was here and left us for a team in the conference?

Right. Stop. And Seth, a message. None of us are going to change our behavior based on. you. You're not one of us, right? We should have him on tomorrow and interview him. We should do that. He won't come on. He won't come on. He won't come on. He got to pain.

But like, first of all, Seth two years ago at the UK Kansas game, two years ago, came up to me. And he and I had always had a good relationship, had always been nice to each other. He'd been on the show. He'd hosted this show, right? He came up to me. They were here for game day. And he, I went up to him like ready to do the bro hug thing, Shannon, where you give the hand and then you whatever. Like a little half hug. Yeah. And he came up to me and he was like, why are you talking about cow like this? And I'm like, what do you mean?

And he goes, why are you talking about cow like this? I thought you were on his side. And I was like, I am on his side. We stink. Like we're not, we've not been as good. He's behind on the offense. And he was like, I just can't believe you'd say all this. And he, we had been friends forever.

He just completely dismissed me. And he has texted me in the last year and a half. Pretty nasty stuff. I've seen it. I think you showed that with us. Pretty nasty stuff based on nothing over than the things I've said on the air about Cal, which as people who know have listened is not a big. This is a dude who was my friend.

And you are mad at me because I have a different opinion. Well, here's the thing, Seth. Guess what? I was right. everything I said was correct and yet now you want to tell us you know worry about your team we had to listen to people tell us that Kentucky

basketball was going to go down because Cal was gone well guess what we were right and they were wrong and you don't get to tell us to quit because we were right and you were wrong period yeah don't tell us how to feel don't tell us how to act don't tell us how to react to watch our old coach that took us to a national championship to leave us and go to a rival in the conference.

I'll listen, you know, like Tom Leach could say to me, Matt, I think this or that, and I might disagree with Tom, but you know what, Shannon, I'll listen to Tom. Yeah, because he's one of us. Sure. I'll listen to Jack. Yes. He's one of us. I'll listen to Oscar.

He's one of us. I am not going to listen to Seth Greenberg tell me how to be a Kentucky fan, and our fan base shouldn't listen either. You're not, you can't tell me how to be in BBN. You aren't one of us. You are a Cal fan. You get to be, I mean, you get to decide what Cal is. You're a Cal fan, but you're not a Kentucky fan.

So stop telling us how to act. He's such a Cal apologist. He's losing respectability when you're trying to support the guy when we all can see what's happening over there. You know what's funny? Shannon, he'll critique Cal. and you know what he'll say the exact same stuff I was saying for two years

he said you know I think he's I'm not sure if he's putting if the time is the same like he'll give the same critiques and two years ago when I said it he yelled at me in Rupparina him blaming cow losing at Arkansas and Kentucky fans it's just

it's unbelievable it's a strange take so lame like how is that our fault he also said well look the roster isn't great And it was funny, Jay Billis came on right after him and said, the roster's fine. He was like, it's not a perfect mix, but they got players. Yeah.

Because they do have players. They do have players. We all thought going into the season, they'd be one of the top four teams in the conference. Cal took John L. Davis from a guy that took Florida Atlantic to the final four. Last year, averaged like 25 points a game, and he can't even make a shot. Yeah. That's on Cal, right? 100%.

The system, they're coaching. So Seth, I mean, I got nothing to get Seth personally, but the stuff he says is ridiculous at this point, Ryan. It just is. Like I said, don't tell us how we're supposed to feel. Just because you're a Cal Apologist, don't tell us that we can't be watching. I'll have a watchful eye on what's going on over there when he's got not just Cal, our assistant coaches, our players, our recruits.

Heck, they even took our student manager for crying out loud. You were you mad? They took the student. see Ray Serot sitting behind a bench and I'm like, why is that following you so much? He went to Dunbar, didn't he? I went to Lafayette. So he went to Lafayette. So is that what makes you mad? Like he's a Lexington kid. Yeah. And you

took Ray. See, if I was Ray Serot, I'd be upset, Shannon, because, you know, I grew up at Lafayette. Right. I mean, you said he took him. He didn't hold him hostage. No, I agree. I mean, he could have stayed. Boy, Shannon has no sympathy three. He took him. Like, he threw him in the back of my wife,

Shannon. There's nothing. Like, Shannon, is there, is there anyone on earth that you have sympathy for? Yes, plenty of people. Just not anyone that makes their own decision, right? Yeah, again, this is sports, so I don't, I have. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, it's different.

So Ray Serot, here's the problem, if I was Ray. I went to Lafayette High School. I'm a Lexington kid. I went to UK, and now my diploma is going to say Arkansas on it. That's true. I didn't think about that. That wouldn't be any fun. No.

Like, would you, I mean, if you went three years to the school, Like, I don't think people think about that in a portal. Like, what if you, like, think about the kid that goes to Yale for three years and then transfers to, like, you know, Mississippi State. It's like, dude. Just leave one. Wouldn't you rather just go ahead and get that Yale degree? You think that Mississippi State degree is going to look good on your wall in however many years? Couldn't you just, like, maybe come up three credits short, go back to Yale for, like, one class and graduate that way?

Yeah, you probably could. You probably could. I don't know. I don't know what the rules are. I just tell you this, when I seek people to transfer them for Yale, I'd be like, I ain't leaving until I get that degree. That's right. I'll do the grad year transfer, but I ain't getting out of this school until I get that degree.

That's going to help me the rest of my life get that Yale degree. What did you think of the national championship last night? It ended up being a really good game. Ohio State just kind of ran out. What was, you know, blowing them out early. And Notre Dame made the big push in the second half where it was a one possession game there at the end. Kind of ended up making it. That's why it got so tense in here.

It didn't feel like it was ever close, though. It did. Like there was never a part in the game where I thought that Ohio State wasn't going to win. Did you? No. Even when they cut it to eight, did it cross your mind that they could still get a chance? I mean, yeah, but like I still felt like Ohio State's a lot better. Oh, they were much better.

So, okay, that brings up the argument again. Do you think the fact they won the national championship attributed to they lost to Michigan? Like our 96 team and 2012 team lost? They just won because they were the best. They were the best team. They and Oregon were the best team. They played Oregon in the quarterfinals. They beat them, so they won. Right? That was it.

Yeah. You don't think the losing to Michigan played into it at all their run? No. I mean, football's a little different because the games matter more, regular season. But no. I mean, they were the best team. They were definitely the best team. They probably have twice as many guys as going to get drafted from Notre Dame, right?

So, I mean, that's why they won. Marcus Freeman is going to, like, he's, they're, Notre Dame's back. No doubt. No doubt. Ohio State deserved to win. The delivery goods at DoorDash have opened up the delivery radius for Red State barbecue.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, when I saw Cess tweet, and he said the real BBN can cheer for their team with real all-in caps. I thought that was aimed at you.

What did you think? Yes. That was a tweet without question that was aimed. I know that, him, because that was a cow line. No, I'm serious. That was a cow. When Cal was here, he would tell people the real Kentucky fans are for me. The fake Kentucky fans, I mean, he wouldn't say fake,

but his point was, real Kentucky fans loved Cal. I had influence on the fake thing. That's what it was a belief. So when he said real all in caps, he's talking about me and people who like KSR. That's what he's talking about. I know that's what he's talking about. And he can say he's not.

When he used the word real, that was Cow's language, which means he got that from Cal. That was what Cal used to say. That was what drove me so crazy about Cal being like that, is he would act like I wasn't the fan because I thought maybe he should adapt when I know I'm going to be here when he's gone. Seth saying that means that's what he's talking about. What does Seth expect you to do during that last couple years of the Cal era?

College basketball is the only sport where the announcers will not critical. criticize the coaches. They don't. They don't. Like, turn on the NFL or turn on the NBA or even turn on college football. Like, they will complain about decisions, coaches make, et cetera. These college basketball people won't. No.

Why? Most of them are people who are friends with the coaches. Yeah. Right? So Seth Greenberg, and I love Jimmy Dykes. I like Jay Bill. It's those guys, Dick Vital, who I adore. none of those guys are going to criticize the coaches because they're friends with.

Can't be objective. So we don't get real analysis from them because they will not. And if you don't criticize the coaches, then you're left. The only people that will criticize is the players, which is weird. You'll criticize these kids and you won't criticize the coach. That's strange, isn't it? It is. And you're right.

It's the only sport where I think that happens, where you're so afraid to criticize other coaches in the business. That does not happen, Shannon, in the other sport. But in college basketball, none of these dudes will criticize the coaches, none of them. I think it's strange, too. I agree with you. I mean, I know they're friends, but at some point you have to separate. Okay, we're talking about not him as a person. We're talking about this person as a coach.

And then when you do it, you're the bad guy. Yes. You're the bad guy because you dare say, you know, these people, like, I hear Seth go, well, if the players would just work hard enough, they wouldn't be 0 and 5. That's ludicrous. They got down 18 to 2. Let me tell you something about Arkansas. They don't just lose.

They get killed in these games. You know? I think I saw they've been down 14 in every game they've played. Oh, my goodness. Like I said, they've got two offensive threats, and one of them is a guy that was here that we said a couple times last year. You can't make him your main offensive threat. He means a good player.

he's just not your main offensive threat. So let me explain to you, Shannon, what happened here at this bar last night during the national title. Okay. All right, so we do this thing. There were 56 people that qualified. We do this thing where it's $4,000 from Country Road spirits. We start with 56, and I ask questions, like how many rushing yards will Notre Dame get in the first quarter? How many rushing yards, Ohio State?

And we go from 56 to at halftime, Shannon, we're down to 30. Okay. All right? Then we get down to 15. then we get down to 12, then seven, and then it gets down to four. Yeah. So during the fourth quarter, we're down to four people. One of them is a kid who walked in here,

and the person who was supposed to have his table didn't show up, and he was the next one through the door, so he got to play. I didn't know that it happened. You talk about you just go to watch the game, and next thing you know, you've got a chance to win $4,000. Pretty good night. One of them was an older guy at the bar who was by himself. By himself.

By himself, Shannon, playing solo. One of them was Mason Wolf, former UK football player. Yep. With Max Duffy helping him on the side. And then one of them was a kid who's 21 years old who two years ago, Shannon came in second in this very context. Ah, okay. So $4,000 is on the line. I look at the four of them and I say, okay, if anyone wants $600, you can go home right now and I'll just give you $600.

none of them took it four nose really four I'm like see ya would you have Shannon would you have taken the $600 I guarantee Ryan I thought you would

you would have taken it too you couldn't have so here's the thing if three of them took it and one of them didn't the one that didn't would have gotten the rest of the money so you got to think about that

yeah it's like squeak they would have gotten $2,200 none of them took it so now it's $4,000 one way or the other. And the last, it was 31 to 15, Notre Dame had the ball.

I said, how many yards are they going to go on this drive? On this drive. On this drive, how many yards? They each made a guess. If you remember, Notre Dame scores, so the guy who guessed the most, he guessed 50. Shannon, he won $4,000 last night from Country Roads. Wow.

Not bad. Not bad for a trip to a bar to watch the game. You just go to a bar to watch the game. He won four. So he came in second a few years ago and won some money and then $4,000 this time. So if you think it's kind of a fluke, I think he just kind of made the argument it's not a fluke. You got a little skill for a finish second two years ago and to win it last night. So I think he proved some people wrong.

Now, here's what's cool. We're going to do this again in February. I'm going to pick two nights and we're going to do it for college basketball. Nice. I'm going to look and at 7 o'clock, whatever games are on TV, everybody has to pick the scores of those. games and then we'll eliminate people and then we'll do the same thing for the nine o'clock games and we will give away similar money coming up here in a few weeks so so i would say to you you may have seen on instagram i was like does anybody want to do this and we had people

volunteer because some people canceled because of the ice but i was surprised i thought a ton of people were like it's four thousand dollars and it was also fun it was a national championship gaming watch the game eat here have fun playing the game it was packed and people get into it All. Like I said, the early part of the night, there was a lot of energy, a lot of excitement. But, boy, when it got down to the final seven and then the final four, he got really tense. You would announce the category, like, whatever it was, and then silence. So you would have taken the $600? I'm out at $600.

Shannon, do you take the $600? I would have taken it? That's money. Mario, would you have taken the $600? So all of you would have taken it? Not one of the four people playing took it. I knew Max's team. Max was going to be like, no, we are all in.

I mean, I knew that was going to be happening. I thought the guy at the bar by himself would have. taking it. Yeah. He was there by himself. He wasn't going to have to split the money with anybody. He had a great strategy. He went low every time, and that got him pushed through to the end. Well, anyway, congrats to, I think his name was Carter Brown. Carter Brown. Carter Brown. 21 years old, walked out of here with $4,000 last night during the National Championship. When he got second, did he get nothing that day? No, that year, they agreed to split. That's okay. So he got some amount of money. Okay, $8.59-2-2-8027. Actually, why do I keep giving

you that. We're not going to take all. Still got some other stuff to get to. It's KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. I just posted a cool video. It's from when Mark Post was, or Mark Post, Mark Pope was with the Indiana Pacers. He blocks Kobe Bryant. Saw that. Kind of cool. Eat it, Kobe. Just blocks him. Get that out of here. You know, Larry Byrd loved Mark Pope and kept him on the Pacers probably longer than most GMs would have.

Yeah, I think it's just because he liked Mark Pope so much. I think that, yeah, he loved him. Thought he was a lot of fun. We went up and did a story with Mark one time with Channel 18 when he was with the Pacers. And we were like, you know, you don't play much. You know, what do you do during the games? Some kind of question like that. He's like, well, like tonight, I'm going to go out early.

I'm going to talk a little smack to Michael Jordan during warmups. Yeah. And I can see him doing that. One person writes, Matt, tell your mom happy birthday from me and my wife, Laura, your lucky son to have such a nice mother regards Bob in Jamestown. Nice. See, that's nice of you, Bob,

but I don't like that you did that because my mom is sometimes saying, Shannon, she thinks I'm too mean to Bob and James Town. And now that's just going to make it to where she's going to say that more because he said happy. She's going to like Bob and Jamestown more than you, which she probably already does. year old, though. Now, that's not nice, you know. Like Bob and Jamestown more than me.

Yeah. Come on, Shannon. I mean, I don't think that's true. I don't think she likes Bob and James town more than she likes me. No, no, no, no. Very nice of Bob and James Town. No, I didn't mean that. I mean, she likes Bob better than you like Bob.

Oh, okay. Yeah, no, that's true. There's no doubt that that's true. I mean, I don't hate Bob and James Town. He's fine. Does she like to harass him once in a while? Yeah. Makes for good radio.

But, by the way, for people who think I don't criticize my side in politics, Look at how much I criticize Bob and James. He's on my side. I told you my parents are going to eat in Knoxville. Like I said, I know them. They're going to eat it like 4.30. What is the age that you start contemplating having dinner before 5 o'clock?

Because my parents are at that age. It's got to be in the 70s. I mean, it's once you get 70, you're like, oh, we can eat early. Get the early bird special. What is the early, I always hear the early bird special. What hours are the early bird special? Is it four to, to what?

Six. Four to six, probably. Four to five? Three to five. Oh, wow. Wow. Three o'clock. That's pretty early bird.

Would you remember where did we stop at the world's largest buffet and? Oh, it was full. And we went really early. It was like at three o'clock. It was early. And it was packed. I will say, I have found myself. starting to eat at like 5.45.

Yeah. What's wrong with that, though? I mean, like, you eat when you're hungry, right? I mean, there was a time I would only eat at like 7.30. Yeah. But, you know, they say you need hours where you don't eat for fasting. Yeah, you want to eat before seven. You want to eat as early as you can because then that, so I eat breakfast at like 9.15.

if you eat dinner by 715, you'll have 14 hours of fasting, and that's actually good for your body. I think, I don't know what I'm talking about, but I've heard that. I think that's, you know, the fasting is really popular with people trying to be smart with what they eat and how they eat, but I know you're not supposed to eat, they say, like after 7 o'clock for your body to digest it before you go to sleep.

I can do that? I'm fine not eating, but can I tell you the hardest thing for me to do and this happened last night too. I don't know if you're like this. When I'm at this bar after 9 o'clock, and I pull out of this parking lot, do you know how hard it is for me not to go get an M&M blizzard at Dary Claim? Because it's right there.

Because it's right there. Right in our parking lot. And oftentimes, like when I host trivia, which I have trivia Thursday night. So like you want to call soon and get your reservation. I got trivia Thursday night. But when I pull out, When trivia's over at 9 o'clock and I pull out of this driveway, it is so hard, Shannon, for me not to take a right and go up there and be like, I'll just get a small eminent blizzard.

They can't be that bad for you. Right. Yeah. First of all, I'm more of a Snickers blizzard guy, but to each of their own. But blizzards. I mean, who doesn't like a blizzard? 9 o'clock at night, maybe not the best thing for your diet? Exactly.

But is there anyone listening to this show who doesn't like a blizzard? No. There's one flavor of. blizzard you would like. Whether you like M&M or you like Snickers, Larry likes Heath Blizzards. Yeah, that one's good. The fruit ones.

Mario, do you like blizzards? Yeah, I mean, there's, and it's the, and it's right there. Right there's the problem. If it wasn't right there, and even though I know there are six spots that if you park in during game, there's a little toe. We still want to support our brother.

And the woman that runs it is not very nice. Even though I know that, Shannon, when I pull out, I can't help. I never think about a blizzard, but if it's right there in your face, it's kind of hard to not go there and get it, you know, when it's right there. My Bears hired a new coach. His name is Ben Johnson. You like the hire?

Yes, like it a lot. You know, we got a quarterback that might be really good. Yes. We need to figure it out. He's the best coordinator in the NFL. We've got to give this chance a dude to succeed. quarterback. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But you have a once-in-a-lifetime talent there. You've got to at least give him all the tools to try, so it feels like you've got to do it.

Yeah, you have to hire an offensive guy for this, for your quarterback, for Caleb Williams. You need somebody in the house that's going to work to his strengths. And this guy apparently was the best. He is the best right now, it seems like. Did you watch the NFL playoff games? I watched a lot of them, yeah. What do you think? I love it playing in the snow. You know, it snowed in Philadelphia and snowed in Buffalo. I just love that. I do too. I love watching them in the snow. Myron on the NFL show, he hates the games are in the snow.

It makes him mad because he says it's not real football because the teams don't get to be themselves. But I completely disagree. I mean, both those games Sunday were in the snow. And, Shannon, I thought they were more entertaining because they were in the snow. To me, that is football. Out in the elements. When you're playing inside of a dome that's at 72 degrees, to me, that's fake football. Out in the snow is what I want to see.

I totally agree with. you and it gives incentives for these teams that play in the cold to, you know, to get home field. Yeah. Right? Like Buffalo, if they get home field, they have a real advantage. Yes. Kansas City last year, you may remember they played Miami, and Miami's looked like they didn't want to be anywhere near there. That is an incentive for Kansas City to get home field.

I think about Detroit. Like the only team that lost was Detroit. Had Detroit been playing outside, there was snow. Maybe they might have made a difference. Maybe they would have won. Maybe they beat Washington if they're actually out in the snow instead of in their dome. So I think the snow is very, very cool. Think about the many years ago, the tuck game with Brady.

Yeah. The Raiders. It had to have been easier for the Patriots playing in the snow than it was the Raiders coming from California, right? One of the announcers this weekend made a point that said it's the snow games are easier for the offense because they know what they're going to do. Defense, they don't know what they're going to do. So that's what they lose their footing. They kind of slide a little more. But the offense, it's easier for them in the snow.

Yeah, it makes perfect sense to me. You also during that saw why you can't have Brady doing these games. I don't know if you heard about this, but Brady, you know, he's part owner of the Raiders. Yeah. As part of his rules, there are certain things he can't. talk about. And Detroit's offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson, was choosing between Chicago

and Oakland as to where he was going to go. Brady was not allowed to say his name during the broadcast. Couldn't even say his name. Because he might hire him. So even though this offensive coordinator, who's one of the biggest stories of the game

and Detroit's offense is trying to get going, he couldn't say his name. Wow. And they showed he said everyone else's name. He said, everyone else's name. the defensive coordinator, he said the coach, he said this, but then he had to refer to him as the coach. It's kind of lame, Shannon. Don't you think that, like, he's the announcer? You've got to be able to say the dude's name. Brady's got a lot of restrictions. I mean, not only that, he can't criticize the refs. He can't criticize the officials. How can you do it? He can't criticize the

refs. Yeah. And, like, Troy Aitman, he criticized the refs during the Mahomes, like when he's, when Mahomes got, the guy got the targeting. He went off on the refs about how bad the rest were. Brady's not allowed to do that. It just makes it to where he, he's, he's makes it to where he can't be as good as his job. And it's a shame because I think Brady has gotten a lot better as the season's going on. I think he has gotten better. I didn't know he had that restriction on him in the Detroit game. How are you going to let a guy be an announcer that can't criticize the ref?

That's part of your job. Did you think they were cheating for Mahomes? I don't think they purposely are cheating, but I think he gets a favorable whistle sometimes. I think he's also good like he knows how to draw the calls. Sure. That one that he was about to get hit out of bounds. He stopped. He stopped.

So that he could get pushed and it looked like that they did it out of, yeah. He was drawing it in. I thought the first one was the wrong call, the one where he's in the pocket. The second one, they did hit him in the helmet. They did. So, like, I know people didn't like that, but they did hit him in there. That's the way the rule is, man. Whether that's a good rule or not, that is the rule.

That pass, though, he threw to Kelsey. Like, that's why those two dudes are great. Dude, he's a Hall of Famer. And let me ask you this. How does Kelsey stay open, Shannon? I don't know, man. I would be double teaming him every time. How is he always open?

They don't have anybody else yet. Kelsey is always open. How is that possible? They disguise him so much where he breaks late, he'll block and then he'll break. You know, they do things like that to try to get him open. What do you think about Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark next to each other? Like you talk about a power duo there. Yeah, no doubt.

Are those the two biggest women of 2024? I know you're snarling, but Taylor is certainly one of them. I mean, Caitlin may have been certainly the biggest female sports star in 2024. She was in probably more headlines than any other female athlete total. So, yeah, I think that probably would, I can't think of another one. Yeah, I can't either. All right, from Draft Kings, you go to Draft Kings. Use my promo code KSR, bet five.

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Mandy, coming off a win, Alabama seems to be getting their mojo. I kind of feel like Alabama crushes them. Yeah, Alabama's kind of fine, and it seems like, and I think they're going to be as good as we thought they were going into the season. Mississippi State is at Tennessee. Tennessee has not looked like Tennessee in the last couple weeks. Do they hold serve at home? If it was in Mississippi State, I might take the Bulldogs,

but the fact it's in Knoxville, I got to take Tennessee. Yeah, I think Tennessee, they haven't quite figured it out yet, but they're still good enough, I think, to win this game tonight. I'm going to go Tennessee. It's going to be interesting when Kentucky plays Tennessee. You want to talk about contrast to style. Yep. We can't stop anybody, and they can't score.

They can't score. You know, I mean, it's a... This might be Rick Barnes' best defensive team and his worst offensive team. They only have one guy. I mean, Lanier is like the only dude to consider. score. Yeah, he's good. And then finally, Missouri is at Texas. Missouri is ranked this year. They were just, I want to think about Missouri. They were 0 and 18 last year in the conference,

and they are now ranked. That's a pretty amazing change. People talk about Pope meeting coach of the year. This guy is going to be the competition. I mean, Louisville has that too, but they switched coaches. Missouri did not switch coaches. Yeah, same guy. This is the same guy that was 0.18. Missouri's good. I mean, I know it's on the road, but they beat, you know, they've not just what they're doing in the car, they beat Kansas at one point earlier this year. I'm going to Missouri. Yeah, on the road.

Texas has struggled since going to the, so was Oklahoma, by the way. But I'm going to think, I think that Missouri wins tonight. This is the classic flip. I'm riding big on Texas tonight. Really? People give too much credit to a team that wins at home. Then they go on the road. This is a game, this is my pick of the night.

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Remember my trivia is Thursday night. So get in here and get ready. I'm looking forward to having everybody here. Text machine 772-745254. Seems like everybody agrees with me on blizzards. One person says I have an aunt. hates blizzards, but we also don't know much about her. I can understand.

That would make me skeptical of her if she doesn't like them. Like I said, there's got to be a flavor that everybody can like when it comes to blizzards. By the way, shout out to these people from Fleming'sburg. That's a quiet baby. That's my kind of baby right there. Has it made a peep? Just hanging out, not making a lot of noise, doing their thing. Watching basketball.

So when you say have a good baby, that's what you mean, that kind of baby. Yeah, it's exactly right. When I say have a good baby, that's what I'm talking about. One person writes, Matt, don't you think Travis Kelsey has gotten fat? I hadn't really thought about it, but if he has, he's still good. Even if he's picked up a little weight, it doesn't matter. He's still one of the best to ever play at Tide-in, ever. And I let, I did something I never thought I would do on Friday afternoon.

Yeah, what's up? I let Ryan Lemon spit in my face. Wait, what? He literally spit into my face. and you better have enjoyed it because that will never happen again. Man, if that happened a couple of years ago, we would have called the cops on somebody, right?

During COVID. Oh, that's true. Yeah, you... I got to say this, you were a great sport. We're shooting a Super Bowl commercial for UK Federal Credit Union. And it involved you spitting in that space? Well, my first... It was in the script.

The script was, we just do a spit take, so I spit the first take out on the floor. And then Matt's like, okay, to be funny, you probably should spit on me. He had a big red puffer coat on. Yeah, he's supposed to, I do something that's surprising. I won't spoil it. And he's supposed to spit like, whoa.

Yeah. But Shannon, between me and you, Ryan's not a very good actor, right? So his spit takes, his spit takes were like Nancy Kerrigan hosting Saturday Night Live. They weren't the best. Yeah. And so I was like, to make this funny, you need to spit on me. and so the next time he spit but he spit on my jacket yeah and it still wasn't as and i was like all right if we're going to make this funny you just need to spit in my face

surprised everybody shannon we're all had this look on our face like did matt just say that but it's all for the product shannon right like it's for the art for lack of a better time i thought you would definitely try to change that script i did i mean like the other way i mean the other way you know yeah so i felt like okay so then he spits my face but here's the thing this dude waits till I open my mouth and he spits it in my mouth right in his mouth he spits the water right in my mouth it was a perfect bull's eye right in his mouth so but it was funny yeah no I think it'll look good when it was on tape but that's the only time you'll ever get that so I just want to do Jason Epperson and his crew epic films they could not do it fast enough after you said that because we were afraid you're going to change your mind okay let's go everybody right now do it yeah I mean I I was trying my best. You were a really good... I was trying to make it as good as good as I could.

Kentucky football got another portal lineman. Yeah. They've now gotten like eight portal offensive linemen. So here's why I think that's good. We could have a couple of them be busts and it'll be okay. True. We kind of had no depth the last couple of years. Now they're working on building up some depth back at the big blue wall.

Whatever else you want to say about where the football program is, they've killed the portal this year, Ryan, they have. Now, again, we'll see if it matters. I saw we have seven teams on our schedule next year in the preseason top 25. Seven. So that's hard. But we do, I do think they did an amazing job in the port. They really, obviously, concentrate on offensive linemen and defensive linemen.

And they went out and they've got some guys that look like on paper that they could be really studs here. So I'm excited to see what they do. Yeah. And they all are from random schools. I mean, Washington State, Western, Bowling Green, New Mexico, South Dakota. I mean, it's really, it's a hodgepodge of things. Do you think it works? They've had great success in the transfer portal up until, like, last year.

You know, Will Levis, Ray Davis, some of these guys who are superstars last few years. Jack Wes Jones. Jack Wes Jones all came through the transfer portal. So surely to goodness, last year was an off year. because this on paper, like I said, looks like they've hit another home run. Yeah, I, I mean, it's hard because it's so strange, and I get it, but it's like you give out football news now good,

and everybody just shrugs it off because I think they're burned by how last year wins. Yeah. And it stinks because there's actually good news, but it's almost like people don't even want it. I think burned is the right word. We feel burnt from last year, and we know the next year's schedule, it's going to be hard to even top what we did win loss-wise. Caleb Wilson's deciding Thursday.

Yeah. Where are you feeling? Scuttle butt, scuttle-butt, but I have no scoop, scuttle-butt, but I feel like Kentucky's in a really good position. There's one national guy, though, who went 100% on the record, said North Carolina. Wow. He's right. You think he's wrong? Some of these guys that just, you know, go ahead and put it out there, hoping they're right.

It's 22 of 22 in his pick. Is he really? Yeah, so we'll see. Don Franklin Auto.com. You go to Don Franklin Auto. You get your vehicles, you get your service, you get your personality. They'll give you all of it at Don Franklin Auto.com. 27 locations around the state, new, used, best warranties in the state.

If you're going and shopping for a vehicle in Kentucky, you're not going to Don Franklin Auto.com. I don't know what to tell you. It's Dom Franklin Auto.com. I will say that Kentucky people all still feel like they're getting him. But the North Carolina people feel like they're getting him too. So somebody's going to be surprised. I don't know who it is. Him and Caden Lewis are pretty good buddies.

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