KSR - 2025-01-23- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

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here katea sports radio at k s bar and grill look at that guy just lounging back i like it 859 280 287 tax machine 772 774 775252524 uh one person writes, Matt, I'll watch that clip during the break. That's the most awkward thing I've ever seen. It's pretty awkward. I told you during the break, I don't know if I want to see it. If it's that cringeworthy, man, that's personal stuff, family stuff. I don't want to.

I guess somebody writes me that Billy Corrigan did have a relationship with his dad, but Byrne did not. Well, that would just make it even more awkward. That adds the animosity. You know, that would add to the... Yeah. And Burr's like a fiery dude. I mean, he's the type... You've seen him.

It's part of a bit, but he'll yell at anybody. I'm surprised that didn't get a little more. heated shows how he was not actually heard he was he was not happy shame on howie mandel though for doing that kind of ambushing him like that yeah a couple things here first of all happy 50th birthday she's saying no deal no deal they need to fist bump i saw they did that they have a deal no deal island i watched it yesterday how could you even do that it's terrible probably i watch about anything i'll recommend about anything do not give your life to deal or no deal island that's really strange uh don franklin by the

way so first of all happy 50th birthday to jason low uh i i day that you know since they brought them here i do a 50th birthday shout out so happy birthday to you in illinois uh we are at don franklin on richmond road tomorrow what's the address it's the hunday hunday hunday hunday don franklin hunday tomorrow on richmond row 3440 richmond road 3440 richmond road and i'll be giving away some u k tickets tomorrow at the show as well so So not for the Arkansas game for a future game, but 3440 Richmond Road. So we will see you tomorrow. Also, Philip, a little moment to think about one of the true Kentucky high school sports legends. Philip Haywood, he was the coach at Belfrey.

He was in a car accident on Saturday and Saturday, and he passed away yesterday. He had coached at Belfrey for 41 years, created an absolute football powerhouse deep in the mountains. As I used to say, if you want to go to Belfrey, go to Pipeville, take a left, and then just keep going. And it's going to be a while, and then you'll get there, and then you would get to this stadium on a hill, which was this really cool site. 41 years, multiple state championships passed away, and I know that community will be devastated. So God bless his family, prayers to all of them, and Philip Haywood. Simply put, he was the Adolf Rup of Kentucky High School football. All-time winning his coach, like almost 500 wins, eight state titles,

and all the lives that he touched out there in that Belfrey community. I mean, he was a titan. He was a leader. He was a father-figured to a lot of guys. And then there's a huge loss for that community. He invited us up when we were there during COVID, when we were going to the high schools. and he was a really great, nice man, but just kind of when you get the stereotypical view

of what a high school football coach is to a local community, Mr. Haywood was like that, and just really, really sad to hear the news. Yeah, I mean, Ryan's a tight, and we throw a legend around way too much, but he is an absolute legend in this state and all the accolades you've been naming off, plus several many more and stories around that community

will never hear. Just such a huge impact. Yeah, so our prayers to all of those folks. Tonight, by the way, if you're in the area, get your team together. My trivia, I'm spending a lot of the day, kind of writing the questions. I already have some good ones, but our January trivia is ready to go, so bring your team out here. If you haven't yet, you might start at about 1 o'clock, call and make a reservation,

so you can get your slot, but doing some trivia tonight. You said you can't go because you have a hot date. Well, I have a birthday dinner, a pre-planned birthday dinner tonight with a young man that used to live with me, live with me for about a year. So you're not taking your girlfriend? I'm taking Josiah. Okay. All right, well, I was just making sure. Just as boys dinner tonight.

Oh, it's a boys' night. Okay, well, good. Well, but I will see everybody here this evening, hopefully, KS. Bar, but after 1 o'clock, call and make a reservation if you need it. We mentioned yesterday at one point in the show, Liam Cohen. decided not to take the Jacksonville Jaguar's job. He's going to stay as the offensive coordinator for Tampa Bay. When I heard that, Drew, that says to me,

he must have some kind of agreement with Tampa Bay that after the coach that's there that Albury tires, he'll be the coach. Otherwise, you wouldn't do that. Yeah, it looked like he was heading to Jacksonville. You get that news. There's got to be some promise that just hasn't gone public yet. I know the AFC South is really bad at football. Maybe you want to run away from that,

but it sounds like he's about to get a promotion. I really, Shannon, did something stupid yesterday. when it comes to this. And it's not my fault, but it's kind of my fault. So Tony Kahn is one of the owners of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, his dad owns it, and he's the son. And then he also owns AEW wrestling.

So, you know, I said this yesterday, but it was much more embarrassing than I'm letting on. I saw this thing yesterday morning that said, you know, Liam Cohen will be the next coach. of Jacksonville. So I'm like, oh, here's a chance for me to kind of say hey to Tony. You know, obviously try to keep a good relationship with AEW because of OVW, right? Like they got all the money in the world and we'd like to pay our bills. And so like it would be nice to continue to have a relationship with it. So I sent him a text and go, hey, man, you got a great one in Liam Cohen.

It's going to be awesome. And I send it not thinking anything about it. And then it comes out that Jacksonville wanted him, and Cohen turned him down. Ouch. Now, think about when you sent him, you got a great one, and then they, like, didn't get him. There goes our OVW deal. Yeah, so now do I say, do you just leave that out there, Shannon, or do you write back and go, oops? Or you didn't want him, you didn't want him anyway.

He stinks. You should type back, just kidding. I don't think you can say just kidding. What do you say, Drew, when you just completely blew it like that? I would, urgency would play here, but you said you got a great one. I would then follow up and put almost with a little asterisk. Like, I typed that. I meant to work the word almost in there.

I feel like that's kind of throw it in his face. I don't know what to do. You've got a great one in Josh Hans Allen, is what I meant to say. We've talked And I've talked about Josh Allen before Yeah you're just in a bad spot I think I think I just messed up I jumped the gun and thought he was going to get him

And now I look stupid You could you know play to still play the good guy Say Liam's loss And send that to him It's not his loss Oh do you think that works Maybe Shannon what do you think Putting in Liam's loss

Yeah Yeah like he needed you Way more than you needed him Yeah He need Maybe that's what works but I will say it was kind of a little embarrassing. No response from him yet.

No response yet. Who's up next? I wouldn't respond to that either. Joe. Joe, go ahead, Joe. Hey, Matt, apropos that the KSR Club is there. I have KSR through the year's question and comment.

The question first, is that work? Listening to that yesterday, I had a, I had a crazy case of deja vu. And I'm honestly asking. asking, did two, three, four, five years ago you have a sort of contentious interview with Jay Will where he repeatedly called you MJ or did I dream that? Has that happened before? On KSR? Even normal conversations with Jay, I did a podcast with Jay during COVID. And even normal

conversations, he and I get a little contentious just because that's who I am and that's who he is. As far as the MJ thing, yeah, he's called me MJ forever. And I don't really know why, because no one else calls me that. That was driving me nuts. I really wasn't sure if I was dreaming that or not. I might have an answer on that, actually. I'll look this up. When Ryan said he didn't want to talk about Rashad Karuth, it triggered a memory.

I searched. I wrote a story in 2015 that says Jay Williams was a guest on KSR where he talks about Kentucky A&M and Rashad Karoo. Ruth. Did I say what it said? No, it's just a lengthy thing. But at 2015, Jay was on the show. All these memories are coming together. So like when we do this as long as we have, things get lost. I have some vague memory that maybe Jay Williams has like something really negative about Rashad Karuth, but I don't remember any specifics or what it would have been. So, you know, I'm not sure. But go ahead. What was your second thing? The comment I have is last week you were talking about the Spurs going to that lower tier club in the FAA.

And Ryan asked, I feel like we've talked about this before. This sounds familiar. And you mentioned the emergency goalies in hockey. And I just wanted to remind you one of my favorite conversations five, ten years ago, was when Arsenal went to play some small tier that had a backup goalie that was 350 pounds, 45 years old called the roly-poly goalie. Yes, that's true. Do you remember that?

That's a good, well, I didn't remember the teams, but I do remember the roly-poly-goe. I don't know if he was 350 pounds, but he was a larger guy, yeah. Yeah, and then there was drama after that that never really made American news because he ate one of those English pies on the bench during the game. Yes, he did. Some of the betting sites had a prop up, and he got, suspended and fined because he was working with his buddies to say, I'm going to eat a pie. Yeah, he did it, Jared Lorenzen there. Well, I appreciate the call. Yes.

That, you know, we always laugh about Jared Lorenzen's story about looking up the Gatorade color and calling it in. But in today's world, that would have probably gotten him in trouble because you wouldn't have been allowed to do that. Yeah, there's no doubt he would have gotten in trouble, you know, notify his friends. Hey, it's blue, Gatorade, bet blue. He told that one on the KSR football podcast. It was a little, little, after the fact, but it's still a funny admission. Speaking of football on SEC radio yesterday, one of the announcers, I think Aaron Murray says he thinks Kentucky will be the most improved team in the SEC next year,

significantly better than they are this year. Do you believe that's true, Drew? I will say they will be significantly better than this year because this year is that bad. I still don't have a lot of optimism that that will lead to enough wins to make everyone happy. but if we're being fair to Stoops and honestly Eric Wolford they had a good off season I mean Wolford did a good job getting that line together

we won't know what it really is until they're on the field in September but to this point if you got to pat them back a little bit that doesn't change my hope for the year but they did well in the portal I think they'll be better but like Drew said it may not translate into wins just because the way the schedule's laid out next year

but I do think they'll be a better football team yes I think they're going to be a lot better now whether or not you could be a lot better and win five games. I mean, just to give an example. Think about how hard our schedule was this year. We played five ranked teams. Next year we play seven.

It's going to be this way almost every year. I mean, now we, you know, so we thought your schedule was insanely hard, and now you get two more ranked teams next year. You don't want to make excuses for the football program right now because a lot of the stuff is on them and how they've handled it. But if you line up every SE team schedule and put them in front, front of you next season. No matter who you are, just being objective, you would go, holy cow,

Kentucky got hosed on this schedule next year. It's not like any other schedule in the conference. Yeah, it's the hardest one. Now, part of it is because we're not the best, so like we're seen as the early one. Did you see the hockey fight last night? They just literally just showed it. I just saw it for the first time. Did you like it? First of all, if you didn't see, these two teams are playing each other. I think it's like Toronto and Columbus, the game is like one minute in to it. So these dudes clearly came on the ice going, I want to fight that guy. Yep. Because you can't in a minute get to the point that you're ready to fight. And not only they fight, they just pound on each other.

Because in the NHL, they'll let them fight until they fall down, right? So, Shannon, it looked like to me they had a mutual agreement they would hold each other up. Yeah. Just so they could pummel each of them. I'm watching it right now. The guy's helmet flies off. Each of them is holding the other one by the left hand, and the right hand is just pummeling them. and somehow they don't fall down and they spin around in a little dance and just beat each other up for like

a ton of minutes in a row. It gets to a point where it's just bang, bang, they're just trading one after another. It's pretty fun to watch. I've always been amazed how they're able to do that to hold onto your opponent's jersey to keep you from falling down and fight on skates all at the same time.

This Reeves guy that was in it. I don't watch hockey, but anytime I see a fight, he seems to do it. Does he just get out there and he's the enforcer? I don't know. When you get in a fight a minute in, that means I wanted to fight. And they ain't waiting around.

I don't know if they have a personal thing. If they went on Howie Mandel's podcast or something, like, I don't know what it was, but it was clear they wanted to get into it. If you're looking to remodel your kitchen, bath, basement, or even your whole home, but like me, you don't even know how to use a screwdriver. Call the pros at estate renovations, a family-owned full-service renovation team that comes through a 10-year guarantee and they can make the project complete for you. They give you a fixed quote, no surprise cost,

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We'll see what you're able to do. I don't know. I want to see it play out first, but it's nice having them here. If this is true, you're the favorite. You know, North Laurel with Reed Shepard, and that group had that great run. now in the same county, South Laurel stepping up being the Kings of the 13th region. That's right. When I was in school, you had what?

Corbyn, Clay County, Harlan, and now Laurel County, you know, they've taken all the, you know, they've taken the favorites role in that region. Well, I'm going to believe him. I don't see North Laurel or any other high school in this bar. I listen to KSR right now. Well, last year, Harlan County went to the championship. What am I talking about? Yeah, Trent Noah took up.

Trent Noah and all of them, right? And our boy with the long hair. Oh, he's back. He's playing. Even after he had a firework accident and I think lost at least maybe one finger and he's back playing. You got to give that kid a lot of credit. Playing in the All-A right now. He's Pineville.

Well, he's playing. He's in the 2-A. I'm sorry. He's in the 2-A. Harlan County's in the 2-A. Remember we just did the predictions for the day? What did he say? A Cottrell doesn't, you know, when he was missing a finger, we don't stay out long or I'll be back, not taking much time off?

He said what? A cotrell? That's his last name. I guess. A regicopter. They did an interview. He was missing a finger. They're like,

oh, he'll be back. We're not missing much time with a little finger. Whatever it was. It's true. We don't miss a lot of time with a little finger. Ichero, I don't know when the last time I thought about each of row was, but he was up for the Hall of Fame.

And Ichiro was not unanimous for the Hall of Fame. He was one vote. One person didn't give him their vote, which has become a tradition over the years. Like one person didn't vote. for like, you know, Derek Jeter and all these people. There's always one person who refuses to vote for them because they don't want them everyone to be unanimous, right?

So I guess Hank Aaron many years ago didn't get in unanimously, and there's been this idea that since then, well, if Hank Aaron didn't get in unanimously, then no one can ever get in unanimously. Now, Mario Rivera actually is the only person who has gotten in unanimously in the last 25 years. Do you think it's ridiculous, Ryan, that these stupid Hall of Fame people take themselves so seriously that they can't make anyone unanimous.

You know, I'm a baseball guy, and I'm a baseball fan through and through, but the self-righteousness of some of these sportswriters that vote for this is so ridiculous. You're not going to vote for the Hall of Fame. He's one of the greatest players we've had in our lifetime. It's ridiculous that they do this. And they know that it's not like they don't think he should be in. They just don't think anyone should be unanimous, which is stupid. you're on the panel to vote for who you think should be in the Hall of Fame.

You don't get together, conspire for how many votes. Here's your piece of paper. Write down, are they in the Hall of Fame or not? And if you don't think Each Roach should be in the Hall of Fame, you shouldn't have a vote. That should have been unanimous. I didn't know about Jeter not being unanimous. I get what you're saying, but you're not there to control. But they did do it for Mariano Rivera.

So it's like, clearly somebody thought, I'm going to be the guy that doesn't do it for each row. And, of course, it's anonymous, so you can't ever hear who it was. But now that person's going to die off, and at 20 years the voters will be back to unanimous. And history will show we had all these greats that didn't get a vote. Yeah. And all the people that, you know, orchestrated that. Shannon, you're a baseball guy. Yeah, I think the guy should have to say he's the one that didn't vote for him.

Why don't they let the fans vote anyway? I think the fans should have just as much to say as some guy in the media. Like, why is what? I disagree. You don't want to let the fans vote. I mean, the fans will end up making like just some dude, like somebody will go viral on the internet and they'll make Jake Paul in the Hall of Fame. Like, you can't let the fans vote.

A hall of YouTubers, maybe, but I mean, I don't think that just some random guys in the media should get to decide who's in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, but it can't be the fans. Like, what was it? They wanted to name a ship or something in Britain, and they were like, which of these famous people should we name it after? And they ended up naming it, the general public voted Boaty-Mboat face or whatever. Great name. That sounds like a name you would come up with. You can't leave it.

you can't leave it to the fans. Like fans, they just want to make it a joke, right? They don't want to be too much favorite. But Shannon, why do they have to remain anonymous? Why don't we, when the AP 25 poll, we know how they vote. Why do they have to be anonymous for the Hall of Fame? Yeah, shouldn't remain anonymous. Who's next?

Adam. Adam. Adam, go ahead, Adam. Hey, guys. I hope you'll let me rant for a little bit. I'm so sick of the national media acting like, you know, Kentucky fans are just out of their minds for companions. comparing Pope and Cala Perry.

It's human nature to compare what was and what is. And Calgary was one of the most polarizing coaches at the greatest program in college basketball for over a decade. I don't know what you would expect. How many times do you hear Nick Saban's name brought up during an Alabama football game this past year? They don't talk about that. Yeah, I mean, the idea that we're going to not talk about Cal is just absolutely ludicrous.

It's just absolutely ludicrous that people expect us. Focus on your team. That is the most because everyone knows if it was the opposite. Do you think Seth Greenberg, if we were 0 and 5 in conference, wouldn't have said, you know, you think the fans regret running off Calgary? Now, of course he would. Of course he would. The focus on your team is the dumbest narrative of all.

you know, it's human, and I appreciate the call. Like the car says, it's human nature, Drew, to say what you could have had versus what you have. Definitely. There's examples all over. The Sabin's a good one. I was listening to Tom Leach this morning, and they brought up. Oklahoma still talks about Lincoln Rowley, and that's been four years, and no one's telling them to shut up. It's very natural when you have a big coach that was well-liked and had success.

They move. You're going to keep tabs on them to compare. Did I make the right decision? Are we in a good spot? Are they in a better spot? That's human nature. And I think it's insane to ask people. not to do that. It's a good point

I hadn't thought of. What if Coach K had gone to NC State? You don't think Jay Will would have been talking about that? Keeping an eye on that? Of course they would have. And he also went in conference. He's on the schedule. He went in conference. Like he didn't just go to some random

school. He went to a team we play. He is going to be walking into this arena in nine days. Wow. Sneaking up on us. In nine days he's going to walk in there. Can't lose that game. Is he getting booed? Yes. Yep.

So I actually thought as we got closer, it would be more likely he wouldn't get booed, but I feel like he's getting booed. Yeah. I was leaning not getting booed before the season started. I thought there'd be a few, but I thought Roperino would be pretty respectful. As the season's gone on, he's getting booed. It's happening. Yeah, he's getting booed.

Now, if he had been 0 and 7, would that have been a little sympathy? We just can't. Let me say this. You're going to hear this a lot for me next week. We cannot lose that. We cannot lose that game. On the one hand, they're not good. Like, you've got to win those games at home, but also, we cannot lose that game.

We can't score 60 points. We cannot lose that game. First is 61. Just, no, can't. We'll be right back. 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. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 8-9-2-80-2-2-8. We've got folks here from all over Eastern Kentucky, and then, of course, got our South Laurel. People, I guess, they're Eastern Kentucky, too. Kind of barely hanging on Eastern Kentucky, but I still would call it Eastern Kentucky.

It's kind of, what we said it before, kind of the gateway to the mountains is London. What is the best restaurant in London? What? Local honey? Local honey? I don't think I've ever eaten there. Is Weaver's hot dog still open?

Local honey. That's it. Yeah. I'm going to have to try. that. What's the place that you go and sing karaoke at once every couple years? We had a wild night there at that place that one night. What's it called? I don't know what it's called. It's like a Thursday night. It's like the townhouse grill or something like that? Old Town Grill, yeah. Old Town Grill.

He got really intoxicated and sang karaoke there one night. It was really, really funny and ridiculous. We got to talk about something that I think is not pleasant, which is that Louisville might be good at basketball. I mean, they beat SMU on the road by like 30 the other night. You look at their schedule. They don't play another good team the rest of the year, not one. They don't play one team that's even decent the rest of the year. I mean, it is not an exaggeration to say they could win every game left on their schedule. Now, they might drop one or two, but they have five losses and they may not lose again, which is wild. have a shot at finishing the ACC like 15 and 1 or 17 and 1 in the ACC because the

ACC is so terrible. They've already played Duke, so they already have their loss in that one. I mean, are they good? Like, are they like legit really good? They've won like nine in a row. They're good. They're definitely good. No arguing that.

To call them really good, it's just part of this is the ACC so bad. So it's hard to get a good read. But they've won every game since losing Kentucky, whatever the streak is at now. and the analytics predict them to win out, as you're saying, a lot of those very comfortably. So I think they're going to end up with a good year, which now that we have that win on our resume, sure, go win all your games.

But what do you think? If they go like 17 and 1 in the ACC, like are they like a final four contender? I mean, is that team we played in Rupp? Is that a final four contender? I think we all have to admit they are good. I don't know if they're a final four team, because after we saw them, they can be exposed quite a bit,

but they've got that hip burn. I think he's a really good point guard that could probably put him on his shoulders and make a big run. I mean, here's the thing. When we get to our tournament resume, we've talked about our resume as, oh, we beat Duke, we beat Gonzaga, we beat Florida, we beat A&M, we beat Mississippi State. It might be the case that at the end of the year,

Louisville is right there at the top of the teams we beat. I mean, there's a decent chance that they're going to finish the year. year in like the top 10 because they don't really play anybody. So they could be a three seed, maybe even a two seed in the tournament if they don't lose anymore? Yeah, they're going to have a great record. And a lot of their wins, not to, I'm discreding them a little bit, but they've got some big logo win.

They've beat Virginia twice, but people don't know. Virginia is like 150th. Well, and part of their problem is they're down. They beat Indiana, but Indiana stinks. Their big logo wins. Yes, they beat. You're right. They beat Virginia twice, but they're terrible.

They beat West Virginia. They're terrible. They beat them. But they beat North Carolina. You know, they beat Pitt. I don't know if they played Wake Forest. That may be the only decent team they haven't played yet. But I think that's who they played next or next week.

Yeah. So, like, they, I mean, they're going to go on a heck of a win streak. And, you know. Yeah, they're good. The resume is going to look good. It's just when you get to tournament time, having not, with that conference being so bad, I wonder how good they really are. Okay.

So would you like them to have a great record so that it gives us more of a, you know, that would make that win a much bigger win? The scenario you just put through, that's going to end up being one of our better wins. I think it does help our resume enough that you want them to kind of continue to play well. Yeah. Because the thing is I can't hate Pat Kelsey. I want to, but you see that video of him hanging out the car? He's driving down the road, and these dudes seem, and they're like, Pat Kelsey was up.

And he, like, rolls down the window and he's like, go cars. and like, like, puts his tongue out, and he kind of seems like a fun guy. I don't know if I like that, but the Louisville coach is fun. We had two Italian guys who wanted to murder each other for over a decade, and now we're all very confused because Louisville fans are like, that Pope guy is pretty nice, and we're like, that Kelsey guy looks like he's having a good time. I know. It kind of stinks that everybody likes each other, but I guess that's how it is.

Who's next? Emma. Emma. Emma, go ahead, Emma. I'm Emma. My cheer coach is there with Stap Laurel. Your cheer coach is here. What is your cheer coach's name?

Rihanna Sosmore. Rianna is sitting over here. She has a ladies of KSR shirt on, and she's your cheer coach, Emma. Yes. I wanted to tell you that she's a UNC fan. Oh, no. She can't hear you right now. She just said that she thought we needed to know you were a North Carolina fan.

Call it and tell it on her choosing. Wow, Emma, how do you tell on your cheerleading coach on the air? Aren't you worried she's going to make you run laps? No, it's okay. It's okay? All right. Well, Emma, thank you very much. Go ahead.

She is a huge fan of Matt Jones. Well, there we go. She says you're also a huge. huge fan of Matt Jones, which is very nice. Well, thank you very much, Emma, and Rihanna will let, and you're going to, are you going to stay up, Brianna, to watch Caleb Wilson pick North Carolina tonight?

Catch it tomorrow. See, I also didn't think about, appreciate to call, Emma, that Kenny Smith is on that show, a North Carolina grad, so that also may make some sense why he's going on there to do it. Hadn't thought about that angle, that does kind of add to it a little bit.

I hope I'll Emma use a fake name. They might be some. They might be up tonight at one I am, but it might be some laps. Yes. All right. So, Draft Kings, you use draft Kings promo code KSR, bet $5, get $200 on draft kings. I've been on a cold streak. So my NFL picks are good, but my college basketball, I don't even know.

Why do I bet on college basketball? I'm terrible at it. It's a sport I know the most, and it's a sport I do the worst on, which there's got to be a lesson in that. I'm getting killed. Arkansas minus one was good for me. Other than that, I'm losing everything. It's really unbelievable the way. That's a sport I should know, and I just don't do very well on it.

But anyway, promo code KSR, bet five, get $200. Download the Draft King's app, get yourself ready for the tournament. Not a lot of great things to pick tonight, so I'll just go random here. Wichita State is at Memphis. Who you got? Why not? Let's go Memphis since I have no idea. Oh, yeah, Memphis.

Take the Tigers in that one. Maryland plays Illinois, and you're probably like, I don't care about Maryland. I don't care about Illinois. There's two dudes who are going to go in the lottery in this game. Can you name either one of them? Nope. No idea. Do you know, can you?

Yeah, I could get Illinois. It's not Big Z's brother, although he's really good. It's like, his name is like, Z. Jacker. Red Rush. Bush. Yes. He's really, really good.

And then Maryland has a guy that when I watch them play, I don't know how he's a lottery pick. He's not in shape. He doesn't hustle. He, like, his name is Derek Quinn. And I have no idea why he's a projected lottery pick. When I watch him, I don't get it. You know what I mean? He just looks like he's just kind of out there,

and then he's always projected in the lottery. I've looked at a mock draft recently, and I guess I haven't been paying close enough attention because there are a few people projecting the lottery. I'm like, I haven't even had eyeballs on this person. He's included. But anyway, they're playing tonight. Who you got?

Let's go Illinois. I'll go Maryland. I'm going to go Illinois. They are at home, and they've been, And they've been pretty good here. Finally, Lakers, Celtics. They end up playing twice a year. This is one of the nights.

This is the game from your childhood, Ryan. Who do you have? I kind of grew up a semi-Seltics fan, so I'm always going to pick the Celtics over the Lakers. Look at you. Look how mad Mario got. Celtics. Larry Bird, baby.

Mario, is Brony your favorite player? No, seriously. Do you have a poster of Brony in your house? It's okay if you do. Are you at Brony and Bryce? like the boys there. He loves the Lakers so much. Here you got.

I'm just looking at it. Mario, I know what I have to pick. Now, I got to pick the Lakers. But I'm wondering would he pick if he were the Lakers' GM, would he want Brony or Anzley Almanor on the team right now? Because he loves both.

He loves both. Which would you rather have? Would you have Brotty or would you have Anzley Almanor? See? Anzley Almanor. See? He loves him some Ansley Almanor.

I'm going to take I'll take the Lakers to pull off the upset tonight at home against Boston. I did see where Jared Vanderbilt got activated for the game tonight. He hadn't played all year, I don't think. Well, you know, Dalton Connect's been good. Yes.

The dude from Tennessee. So 859-280-2287, I got to learn to wear a hat like Cam Newton. The fact that he goes on television like that is amazing to me. We'll take a break of a very back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying,

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Welcome back. Final segment here at Kentucky Sports Radio. Shannon, you're playing Smashing Pumpkins. Do you like the Smashing Pumpkins? Was that one of your many bands that you liked in that era? They were like top ten. They weren't one of my favorites. But I like Billy Corrigan. Yes. I've had a lot of conversations with him over the years about wrestling. You know, interesting dude. Very, very passionate about pro wrestling, by the way. really yes and i told you this i think what it happened when he called me the first time uh his phone it just pops up smashing pumpkins yeah like it's so like your corporate phone or something you know it's

so crazy when you answer the phone and it just says smashing pumpkins on your phone i think that's really odd were you a big fan when they were no i mean i liked i liked it fine like like he had this song and then you had what chanin the world is a vampire yeah a butterfly wing yeah i know that one Tonight, tonight, today. Today, yeah. So, yeah, he was good. Seems like he takes himself very seriously when it comes to music.

I found him more pleasant to talk to about wrestling just because he was like a lot chiller about it. Well, I'll definitely be watching the full version of the Bill and Bill incident that we were talking about earlier as soon as the show wins. Okay, yes. All right, so I do this every year. I enjoy it with rhyme because he knows nothing about this subject.

The Oscar nominations came out today. Nice. I'm going to give you the names. Okay. You tell me what you know about these movies, and you can't say nothing. Okay. You have to say something. All right.

First, this is nominated for Best Picture. Wicked. It is a spinoff of The Wizard of Oz, and Ariana Grande is the good witch, and I don't know the name the lady who plays the bad witch. Okay. But it got nominated. Have you seen it? No.

Okay. Anora, do you know what that's about? I have no idea what that's about. So if I have to guess, it's something about space. It's not about space. It's about a... Cover your ears, kids. I think a high-end prostitute who meets a man,

and then it takes her into kind of a crazy, crazy life. Oh, I didn't see that coming. Yes. Did not see that one coming. It's supposed to be very good. It's probably going to win. Oh, is it? It's probably going to win.

All right. Next. Oops. My phone. Okay. The Brutalist. I don't know anything about it, So I say it must be a bang, bang, bang, shoot him up type of movie.

Gangsters. Wrong. Adrian Brody plays a guy who, something about architecture. It's three and a half hours long. Oh, that's a long time. What do you think? You're going to watch it? Not a chance.

Okay. A complete unknown. I saw that one. That's the Bob Dylan movie. Oh, you saw it? Yeah. And it got nominated? It got nominated.

Timothy Chabrolet. Chabberle. Chamele. Shamelay. Yes. He should win best actor. because he was phenomenal as Bob Dylan. Was that a good movie?

I really enjoyed that movie. Okay, so you've seen one. I saw one. Normally you've never seen any of it. Never even heard of him. Okay, Conclave. I saw that one. What?

My goodness. I saw two movies all year long. What did you think of Conclay? Conclave was great and it ended horribly. Remember I told you after I saw it? You didn't like the ending. I hated the ending. But you liked everything out.

I did enjoy watching the movie, though. All right. Dune Part 2. I have no idea what that is. that's got to be a, that's got to be a psycho thriller type movie. I've not seen it, but it's like sci-fi kind of stuff. Yes. Amelia Perez.

No idea. She sounds like she's like, I'm going to say a Hispanic warrior that leads people to victory. Not exactly. I'll let everybody look that one up. Oh. Really? Not exactly a warrior that, you know. Okay.

You all could look that one up. I'm still here. I don't know anything about that one. So that's got to be one that pulls at your heartstrings. Kind of a sad, sappy type of movie. I actually don't know what this one is. It's got to be about a really old person, right? I'm still here.

Shannon, look up what I'm still over here. Like, come on. Don't forget about me. Look that one up, Shannon. I actually don't know what that one's about. Will you see what I'm? A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence. during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.

Oh, okay. So there you go. So, like, there's a dictatorship. Her family gets hurt, but she's still here. I won't be watching that one. Okay. It could be good. Could be good.

Nickel boys. I don't know about that. That sounds like something maybe I might want to watch. That sounds like something. Why? Tell me why in your mind you hear the term nickel boys and you think I want to see that? Because it's a comedy. I hear that and I think that's going to be a funny show to watch a comedy.

It's not a comedy. It's hard to describe. I read the book a long time ago by Colson Whitehead. I think you would like it. What's it about? Well, we'll just can't get into it. You want to hear what the IMB said? Yeah, what's IMDB said?

It chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of Reformed School together in Florida. Oh, well, that's a better description. That's a good description. Okay. That's a good description. So you would want to see that? It doesn't sound like it's a comedy.

It's not a comedy. I think we can say that. And then finally, the substance. I don't know anything about this one. This has got to be a... All right, what if I told you it starred, Demi Moore? She's making a resurgence. You know, she's on Landman.

But she's making a resurgence in part because of this movie. Okay. I'm going to say then it's... She's got to be a powerful woman that is overcoming the odds and surviving and thriving. Surviving and thriving, like doing what? You know, maybe she's had a tough go of it. Maybe she's, you know, struggling financially, but she finds herself and... But what would the...

He's not far off, though, really. But what would the substance be part of it? Well, she's, uh, she's found the go-go. She's got her mojo back. That's the substance is the mojo. He's kind of on the right... Well, sort of. It's a horror movie.

It's a horror movie about how Hollywood women have to, like, do all this. stuff to themselves to try to stay beautiful. And, like, she has this, like, thing. It's like a horror movie. It's like thing growing in her or something. It's like a black, what is it saying? It says a fading celebrity takes a black market drug, a cell replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

Yes, there you go. So Ryan wasn't far off, really. Well, a little bit. She's good in Landman. So you've seen two of the ten? I am just stunned. I've seen two of the ten that have been not. And how many of the rest of them would you like to see?

Probably zero, especially not that three and a half hour movie. I ain't watching that one. There you go. Who's up next, Shannon? Clint. Clint, go ahead, Clint. Hey, guys, yeah, going back to the Hall of Fame thing real quick and talking about, like, the one guy that's, you know, not voting.

I don't know if it's the same guy every time, but there has to definitely be one dude that just hates the Seattle Mariners, right? Because King Griffey Jr. definitely should have been the first unanimous first job. So there's definitely that. And I think like each row, if I'm not mistaken, on his eighth game in the major leagues, he hit 300 and then never dropped below it for the rest of his career. Oh, that's an amazing stat. Yeah, that's pretty amazing staff.

I appreciate. Go ahead. One other thing finally, I don't know if you mentioned it or not, but I'm pretty sure Billy Corgan's maternal grandparents are from Hopkinsville. Hey, people keep writing me that. I appreciate the call. Billy Corgan's grandparents from Hopkins. Who knew?

Mother's parents. Yeah, I think that's what he said. I'll be dang. I'll be dang. So there you go. I'll be dang indeed. That's a nice family. The Kentucky Chamber's working on important issues

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Thank you very much. They all got a mouth full of suit. They're all eating. That's okay. I'm hosting trivia tonight. If anybody has a suggestion for a question, Drew, let me know because I've got to make them good for our January game. I'm sure they'll be wonderful. You always have a little unique way of presenting them.

Yes. Don Franklin tomorrow. And then Kentucky Vandy. I'm ready to get the, Drew, I'm ready to get the team back on the court, aren't you? I mean, the week break is kind of a little fun, not as much work. but I miss watching to play basketball. I already want to get back out there. That's the thing about this team.

We only have 14 more games. Like, this team is so much fun to watch, Ryan. I'm not looking forward to the season ending because of how much I enjoy watching it. I think we're all the same boat. We want to see him on the court all the time, but maybe Lamont Butler used this week to kind of heal up a little bit. The dude's been banged up like he's been playing football in the SEC.

Carl, they needed a big break. Yeah. Actually, 13 more games. So we've got to make sure we take advantage of all of them. Appreciate everybody listening. We will see you tomorrow at Don Franklin. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy,

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