KSR - 2025-01-29- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

Matt, Drew, and Shannon talk UK's win over Tennessee and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Comedy of Broadway. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, January of the 29th. I'm Matt Jones here on my last day in a beautiful day in New York. We got Drew is in Lexington. Shannon is in Louisville, and we are ready to go. Our Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 859-280-2287. Shannon tells me there's already people on the phone, but you can get on.

It's going to be a fun next three days. Hey, Vision, Autoglass Text Machine. is 772-745-254 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law, but she called T.J. will make them pay. First of all, you know, there's obviously a big thing happening Saturday, but we got to take a lot of time today,

if not most of the time, to talk about what happened last night. Kentucky wins in Knoxville, 78 to 73, in a game that makes the third straight year that Kentucky has gone into Knoxville as a double-digitial. underdog, double-digit underdog and one on the road. Drew, I don't know, you know, I don't know the records against the spread in every college basketball game ever. But I bet you that one team has not beaten another team three straight years on the road as

a double-digit underdog. Drew, I bet that's never happened in the history of college basketball. It's just a guess, but I bet it hadn't happened. I can't imagine a time that could happen. Even twice seems very unlikely. do it three straight years as an 11.5 point dog, 10 and a half point dog, 10 and a half point dog. That, I'm going to agree with you. I don't think that could ever happen. I think at this point, yeah, I feel like at this point, Kentucky just keep making us the underdog. Why not? It's fun to do that.

I would be shocked if that's ever happened. And they get the victory. It is now five out of the last six in Knoxville. We've gone ahead and we got Shannon a timeshare on Rocky Top now. As a matter of fact, I think we own the majority of it after a win. that I think is as impressive a coaching job as we'll see. Mark Pope goes in without his point guard, Lamont Butler. Starting power forward, Andrew Carr plays one minute, basically, and then can't go. And he essentially plays five guys and then brings in four people on and off the bench, really only two of them that play significant minutes and then finds a way to get a victory. I said on the post-game show last night, Drew, I think, you know,

no offense to Brandon Garrison and Travis Perry, who played, but their contributions were a little more minimal. But seven dudes, like, each gave a big contribution, and the five starters were unbelievable. I mean, all five guys, you don't win without any of them playing well. All five in double digits. I mean, that was almost the epitome of a team win where five guys went in, said, look, it's us. And basically, each of them did what they had to do to get the victory. It's crazy. Not just any five guys.

These are five guys from Oklahoma, Dayton, BYU, guys that a lot of people outside of Kentucky were saying aren't talented enough. Kentucky's going to fall. Those five went in with a bench of two kids that were in the Sweet 16 last year and beat a very good Tennessee team in an environment where VALS fans thought all day they were winning.

They went in celebrating before tip-off because they thought that game was over. And to have the performance they did with Kentucky, just jump on them right away. That was amazing. It's one of my favorite games in a long time. Yeah, well, let's just, let's just focus on that for a second. Think about the people that went on the floor last night. Starting lineup from Oklahoma, Dayton,

BYU, Fairley Dickinson, and Drexel. And the bench, Oklahoma State, a guy that was on a Mormon mission, and two kids from the Kentucky Suite 16 high school. that's who won the game last night. That's who went and beat a Tennessee team that was pre-season number two or three,

the number one defensive team in the country going in. By the way, they were number two coming out because we scored 78 points on them. And you go and win there. That's just an absolutely amazing job. And they had a bunch of different times during the game that they could have given it up. You know, they were up eight in the first half. Shannon, they come back. Terrible last three minutes the first half.

We're losing by three at halftime. Once again, start the second half. Great. Go from down three to up six in the first segment of the second half. And then the lead kind of would go up to eight or nine, come back to three. Go up to eight or nine, come back to three. But Shannon, they would always make the plays they had to make. And then after a terrible sequence where they get three offensive rebounds,

they get four shots at it. They finally make a three. We're only up one and it looks like we're going to collapse. They go and hit a free throw or hit two free throws, play great defense on the next play and get the win on the road. Yeah, I mean, that is, without a doubt in my mind, the most impressive win of the entire season. I know they played without crease and without Butler in the Gonzaga game,

but that wasn't for the entire 40 minutes. And to be able to go on the road in a tough environment like that and do that against Tennessee, I mean, come on. man. How does that not get you excited about the rest of the season moving forward, even if you don't have Butler? They do need them going forward, but it shows you they can win if they don't have them for the next couple of games. And on Brandon Garrison's expletive-laden post-game post-game locker room video, Lamont Butler says he'll be back soon, so that makes me feel better. But, you know, we're probably going to have some games where we don't have him. And, you know, they play Jackson Robinson at the point guard. They played Amari Williams.

him some at the point guard, which made Drew my heart kind of flutter a little bit, like, what are we doing? But he did an awesome job doing it. Amari had 15 rebounds. Jackson Robinson, 17 points. Kobe Bray, 18 points and a diversity of game that we haven't seen going to the basket some. He had set, you know, Drew, we've talked about he had 10 free throws on the year. He had seven free throws last night.

He had as many, almost as many free throws last night, Drew, as he shot the entire season leading into the game. I think he was listening to KSR if we called him out on that day of the game. But I think you know, you want Butler back. I want him back immediately. Same with Carr. But I almost think the offense just had their backs against the wall. It's like, well, there's not much of a bench.

We got to do something. And maybe they found confidence in that. I think, you know, Robinson, I don't want him to be the point guard, but he's now done it in the second half against Gonzaga. Did well last night. You don't want to do it forever. But it seems like this group, when they get pretty limited, they play well together offensively.

And we even beat the banked in three curse, Drew. We thought that would do us in, but we even beat the Banked N3 curse. They hit a Banked N3 and we still won. All right. So let's talk about that because right before the Banked N3, you couldn't convince me Tennessee was going to win that game. I mean, pretty early in the second half, I was feeling great. I was already talking my talk with friends.

But then when that Banked N3 happened, I considered turning off the TV and going to bed. I genuinely thought the Banked N3 has that much of a curse that that was the final moment. So maybe earlier in the game, Brea had won race. and kind of bank in. Maybe that canceled it out. But to have it a sixth time now, I thought that was the end. I don't know how that's possible that you could bank it six threes and games. But we won this one.

And that's ultimately the most important thing. I will tell you, Shannon. So I was at the Carolina Hurricanes were playing here in New York, right? So I went to the game and the plan was to watch it on my phone. And I was going to have, I was going to watch it. But, you know, I thought, to be honest with you, I thought we were going to lose. I was like, I'm going to keep track of it, but whatever. Well, of course, obviously, when we're winning, you know what happens to me, right?

Oh, yeah. I'm literally in the middle of Madison Square Garden, like pacing. Did you find the showers in the locker room? I nearly went in and knocked Sebastian Aho out of there and said, look, I got to be in the shower. I'm standing in the aisle at the end of the game, like pacing back and forth. The Canes destroyed the Rangers, so I got a double dip of wins. But I was freaking out. And I'm sitting there, and you know how it is when you're like in an arena.

The service would go in and out, especially on streaming video. And at one point, the three that Kobe Brea hit right after they had banked in the three, Drew, it froze with the ball in the air, right? So, oh, no. Kobe Brea shoots a three, and I don't know whether or not it's got in. And I remember thinking sitting there, if that ball goes in, I think we're winning. If it doesn't, I think we might lose. lose, and then when I finally, when it 30 seconds later restarted, it had gone in.

And I actually think that the two most important plays of the game, I said this last night. I think we're Trent Noah on the loose ball, being a Kentucky player to finally go get a loose ball, put in the basket, because they were on a run that stopped it. And then I think Kobe Bray is three right after the banked in three. You know, when that three went banked in, all Kentucky fans probably thought, well, there we go. We're going to lose. and then on the next play, he hits the three. For me, it froze in the air for a minute.

But I thought actually those were the two biggest buckets of the game. Yeah, the immediate response to the bank was awesome. It was so good to see Brayah get going, not missing a shot. But honestly, my favorite play of the game was Trent Noah pulling up from the E, a shot he should not have taken and drilling it. I mean, you got to think about that's right. I heard you say on the show, love the Mountain Mamba nickname. But you got that kid, not even this time last year,

didn't have a thought of plan for Kentucky. He was going to South Carolina, didn't have an offer. To pull up from the E on Tennessee's court, what, two hours from your high school? Are you kidding me? To drill that shot? I mean, this kid is not afraid at all. And I love the effort on the loose balls, too. I kind of downplayed no one needing to play more because I thought it was a Kentucky thing.

But the effort he's shown and the willingness to just shoot with confidence, I think he does need more minutes. But do you like the name Shannon Mountain Mamba? That was some guy on KS board. Sorry, I don't know which one it is. I would give you credit. I think it's a perfect name. I think it hits a perfect combination. I think people will like it.

Are you Shannon pro Mountain Mamba? I am. I think most people seem to be. I was telling Billy during the pre-show, maybe too many syllables, Mountain Mamba. It's almost a little too long. But the song, right?

I mean, you get the song and my... I'm going to Mount Mamba. I'm sorry. Here's a thing. If you're Trent Noah, though, why not shoot that shot? You're playing with house money. What's going to happen if you miss it?

You're going to get benched? I mean, you've been on the bench the entire season. So why not shoot your shot? I'm glad he took that one. Well, I love his time. We've got nickname drama. What is it? What is?

I like Mountain Mamba. But a woman at the games from Harlan, Kara, she's been workshopping a nickname all season. And I told her, it's a rough draft, but she's been calling him sweet Mountain Angel Baby all season. I'm not doing that. I told her that needs a little work.

I think Mountain Mamba is the one. I think we put Sweet Mountain Angel baby to the side, and Mountain Mamba is it. What's the woman's name? What did you say her name was? Kara. Kara. She texted me last night.

Sweet Mountain Angel baby. You're a wonderful woman, Kara. I'm sure I'm not calling another man sweet Mountain Angel baby. Come on. I'm sorry. I'm not. I'm going to call him Mountain Mamba. He looks 12 years old.

He does. There's never been a player who looked younger than Trent Noah. But I did this last night, but I just want to go through quickly the players because I think they all deserve a shout-out. Maybe Drew Amari Williams' best game is a cat? Beautiful. 24 minutes. 24 minutes.

15 rebats. I think what, 10 points, 12 points, something like that, played excellent, had to bring the ball up for a little bit. I mean, that's got to be Amari's best game he's had, right? Yeah, two quick fouls got him early in the half. And then at halftime, he played 10 minutes and he still had seven rebounds and two assists. I mean, in limited minutes, he still found a way to really help out on the boards. And they don't, you know, we're focusing on the threes and guys stepping up,

but they don't win that game without Amari getting rebounds. Overall, they still sucked at rebounding, but Amari was big in helping out. I thought Jackson Robinson was great. Obviously, he had the 17 points hit the four threes, thought he played pretty good defense out on the perimeter. You know, he had to play points some. He set up, if you go look at Bray's threes and Almanor's threes and even Noah's three.

A lot of times the play was set up by Robinson to get those guys' looks. I thought he had an excellent, excellent game. Almanor hits the four threes. My man struggles at rebounding in defense, but if you make four threes, then you can play through that, and he ended up doing it. Kobe Braya, you know, his 7-3 game at Florida against Florida is obviously a bigger scoring game. But in terms of his overall impact on the game, this was his best game, in my opinion.

Scoring 18 points, but only three of them on threes. He got to the line. We talked about, I think he got a dunk at one point. O-way, I thought, played well. Little nerve-wracking sometimes when he handles the ball, but he hit the four big free throws at the end that were important. And then we mentioned Noah, but let me throw Colin Chandler. there. Yeah, stat line is nothing. He didn't score, but he played 15 minutes. It was 15 minutes true that unlike some of his other minutes where it stuck out that he's out there and you're like,

oh, no, I actually thought he did pretty well. And surprisingly, I thought he played pretty good defense, which is why I think he played 15 minutes last night. That's right. I actually owe the Chandler's calling anyone listening an apology. Even last night, I yelled at my TV a few times. why is he in the game? And he shut me up just about every time. He had a great stop in the first half. They could have called a walk or a three seconds. The guy did both with Chandler definitive.

He meant it not scoring, but it's nothing that shows up in the box score there. But Chandler played great defense, had a big deflection in the second half. He had that open three I wanted him to make so bad. That didn't go in. But otherwise, he played well. And when a lot of people, myself included, were wondering if he could play in that game. Well, great night to beat Tennessee like that. The Go Big Blue chant.

at the end. Like, what, if you're a Kentucky fan, especially if you're a Kentucky fan from the Mountain. I mean, for those of us in the 13th region, there's not going to be too many wins we like more than that. Winning at Knoxville, that was the game I always got to go to. I never got to go to games at Ruff. But my grandfather would take me, my mom then later would take me at Knoxville to the Kentucky game.

We usually lost. But I always loved going there to win at Knoxville and to have a kid from the 13th region make big plays. that's got to be one of the best 13th region Kentucky wins of all time. And then, again, Mark Pope, man. I mean, that is a coaching win. Those players all played well. They deserve all the accolades.

But to draw up a game plan, Tennessee had only allowed more than 70 points once, and it was 71, and we scored 78. That's the game right there. And to set up a defensive game plan where you make 10, Tennessee take 45-3s, which is not what they want to do. They took 45-3s. Dude, you can't ask for a better result. 859-280-2287.

We're going to take your calls. First hour, I'm going to want it to be mostly Tennessee. We will switch in the second hour and talk about what's coming Saturday because there's actually news on all that and the debate about, well, what should we do? I have strong thoughts about it, but let's talk Kentucky, Tennessee first. We'll take a break and be right back. this case. Sweet Mountain Angel baby, say it. Come on, Matt. Say it. No. Come on. No.

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And those are you trying to say something else? No, that's the one. I give some positive marks to the Harlan Hammer. I like that. The Harlan Hammer I do like, but I'm still going to go with Mount Mamba. I think it's the best one. One person writes, Matt, is there any chance you think Jackson Robinson should be our starting point guard? No, but here's what I like about having Jackson Robinson as a point guard, Drew,

is that he is not scared to shoot and initiate offense. And Butler, I have felt like in the last few games, and it may be a product of his injury, has been very hesitant to shoot, especially from the outside, which makes him force it to the basket too much. O.A. doesn't seem confident in his shot. And when you're a team that's going to shoot a lot of threes, you can't have your two guards not shooting.

The good thing about having Robinson is he'll shoot, then you get O.A. and then you get Braya at the three, and all of a sudden you got guys out on the perimeter who their first look is to shoot threes. And with Butler not shooting and O'A not looking confident, we haven't had that. So I do think Robinson maybe should slide into that backup role now. Yeah, I think we'll see more of it. Also, just think he, as a player, turned the quarter since that Georgia game. He looks like a completely different person.

I agree. I agree. He almost, or may have been a little broken after that game. Pope even talked about how they got to build him back up. And then he turns around and what do you have, like 27 at Mississippi State the next game. He's had 22 since then. He's had 17 since then. I think he has just found his spot now that SEC plays rolling.

And I think we're going to get more good Robinson games moving forward. If you go back and look at when we were rolling, making threes, Butler and Oway, both would just pull as soon as they were open. And neither guy has looked like he felt like he could do that, which. I think has led to some of our offensive slogs at points. With Robinson, I think you're back to everybody feeling like they can be free, and I think that there is some advantage to that, but you do miss Butler's defense. You do.

I mean, we were fortunate that the guards for Tennessee went four for 21 from three, but that won't happen every single game. 859-280, 2287. Who's up first? Brent. Brent, go ahead, Brent. Hey, man, what's going on? What's up?

Man, I was just, there's a way that Jack Givens talks to those players after the game that kind of goes unnoticed, but I think it goes a long way. When Robinson started that game out yesterday, it took me back to the talk that Goose had with him after the Vandy game, and when I saw him come out like that, I felt real good. But second thing is anybody knows me knows I love bacon. And frying this bacon this week is going to mean something different to me. And I'll hang up to miss it. Appreciate it.

Let me say something about the postgame radio. So, you know, Shannon, for a long time, the game ends. We have like an hour to hour and 15 minutes. And then my post game comes on. And I used to kind of dread that hour to hour and 15 minutes. I'm going to be honest with you. I didn't think the show was the most exciting thing in the world. and then Cal was Cal in those interviews.

I think that hour and 15 minutes now is, for the most part, really good. Because he's right. Jack Givens, they've given Jack more time to talk, which I think he does a great job with. Then when he interviews the players, it's like Drew an uncle or a grandfather talking to the kids. Like, I love it. Like, I love the way he talks to the players. He pumps them up. Like, I just think he does such a great job with those interviews.

And then Pope is so good to listen to. It's better at home than on the road because he's always kind of in a hurry on the road. But, like, you get a real breakdown of the game. And I actually, you know, for people who watch at home, you know, over the years, I haven't had the greatest relationship in the last few years with JMI. But I would say actually turn that show on when the game's over while you're waiting for us to come on. Because I actually think it really is the way Jack and Tom and Pope, the way they're doing it this year,

I think makes it a really fun experience leading into our car show after. Yeah, and Pope has been detailed about basketball anytime we hear from him. It's really awesome to know, like, oh, this is precisely what they're working on for the next game because this team does X and we need to do Y. So I love hearing Pope any moment we get, but you're especially correct on the Jack Givens thing. Like last night he had Kobe Brea, and he said something like, I don't even know if I should say this to you, but I just want to say, I'm very proud of you. And Kobe was like, that means so much.

And that's really sweet. You know what I mean? Like that's a really sweet. It's really sweet. The way he talks to the guys, especially on this team. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe he's connected more with these guys. But the way he talks to these guys, I just think is really, really the sweet is the best word I can use.

And I really look forward to it. I commend those guys for, you know, this is not, we've talked over it. This is not the most talented team in the world. but it seems like a family of guys that are really going you know what if we collectively pull each other up we can hit a higher mark and i just there's something really kind of nice and sweet about it who's next cody cody go ahead cody hey matt and the gang thanks for having me on yeah we just got like a minute i don't know but you guys yeah i'll be quick i're gonna have to restock my bourbon cabinet after the game last night both from celebration and just stress my goodness just the rebounding

last two minutes. My goodness. So I wonder, you know the fan earlier this season that gave Kobe Braya their baby to, like, carry around the court? I wonder if they're looking back on that thing. You know, I was, that was maybe not a good move. He can't hold on to a lot. That was a tough drop he had at the end.

And, you know, that's, if it was in his hands and it fell out of bounds, but they fought through that. But I thought to myself, and I appreciate to call, there was a play Amari had at Vandy, where he was right under the goal. He dropped it. I thought it was a key play. We ended up losing. When Kobe dropped that one, I wondered if it was the same thing,

but they held on and got the win. We're going to take a break and be right back. Cats, huge win over the balls. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Great win in Knoxville last night. Five of the last six. I mean, there's probably not been many times in UK history. We've won five the last six.

Like I said, I bet there's no time in college basketball. A double-digit road dog has won three straight games and three straight years against the team. I bet that's never happened. I mean, not many teams play each other twice anymore in the modern day. And I just bet that hasn't happened because, first of all, you'd have to be good to win, but then you also have to have been, like, thought of to not win to be a double-digit underdog.

So I just, I don't think that's happened very much. I'm telling you yesterday, Shannon, you should have seen me there at the garden. I mean, I went there to watch the canes. I'm standing there in the middle of the aisle. I tried to buy seats on the end of the rows, but I was right in the middle, so I was in front of everybody. So I had to walk over them to then pace in the aisle. And the Keynes were winning by a lot at the end, so it didn't matter. But everybody had to be looking at me, like, this game, this game is 4-0, Carolina.

Why are you pacing? Yeah, this guy looks like he wants to be anywhere but here right now, not even paying attention to the game. He must have a bet on it. What's he doing? And I'm sitting there on my phone trying to, like, You know. Probably the only person in Madison Square Garden watching the Kentucky game. No, I had to be the only person that cared.

But I did care and got a double dip on those victories. We didn't get the KSR Parley, what, because OA didn't hit a three, Drew? I think we hit everything else, didn't we? Yeah, I really wanted Kobe Brea props, but they weren't on there. The OA3, I think it's been a long time since he had one. Yeah, I worry. He seems nervous to shoot. Now, granted, he takes it to the basket and he drew foul last yesterday,

but he doesn't seem like he wants to shoot. Jackson Robinson had two in the first three minutes. I'm going, he's going to hit that over three. That was easy. And then I think we hit it all except the Oway three. Oway and double digits every game. Still very impressive for him, though. Every game. He's had double digits in every single game. I think it's even like more than 12 every game. It's not even just. That's really amazing. You got to give that kid a lot of credit. I tweeted out. So there's a new show, Shannon, on Hulu called Paradise. I have not seen it. Don't know if it's good. Don't know. anything about it. But James Marsden plays the president. Now, you remember who James Marsden is, right? Yeah, James Marsden is an insanely handsome dude. He's everybody listening, even if you don't know the name. If you look up his face, you've seen him in something. He was in like Sonic the Hedgehog.

He was in the show with Christina Applegate on Netflix. What else he's been in? Anchorman, too. Anchorman, too. Yes, he's been in everything. X-Men? The notebook? No, but that's how a lot of people. Yeah, a lot of people know him. All right, so James Marsden, I've met James Marsden a number of times. He's like best friends with Josh Hopkins, the Kentucky fan. They both live in Austin, Texas. They're buddies.

When I used to go to Austin, I'd see Josh, he'd be there. Nicest guy in the world. He was also in the show you and I like Drew so much, jury duty, right? Oh, yeah. The Amazon show. Anyway, plays the president in this show. They have a scene. where the president is a Kentucky fan,

which, by the way, well, let's play the scene. This is a scene from the new show on, I think it's Hulu. Is it Hulu or Amazon? It says Hulu. This is the new show from Hulu. This is James Marsden, who is a UK fan on the show talking. I've been Christian Leighton. Oh, I don't do this to me.

Christian Leitner, Duke. He made the most famous college basketball shot of all time against us in the term. single-handedly killed me and every other Kentucky Wildcat fan. Yeah, I thought I'd been late-ner. He says he thought he had been Leitnered, and he says he killed at me and every other Kentucky Wildcat fan. So, I mean, crazy to not only say he's a Kentucky fan,

to bring up the Leightner shot, say it broke his heart. So I knew, Drew, Josh Hopkins had to have a role with this. I knew he did. There's no way that. that it would be that specific. He'd be a Kentucky fan, and I texted Josh, and Josh didn't say what, but he had some role in getting that in there.

But it's kind of cool that this character is playing a Kentucky fan on this show that's out right now, isn't it? It is, and that definitely has Josh Hopkins all over it, whether it's Marston trolling him as a good buddy or, you know, Josh threw it out there. You know, Marsden's been on this show talking about Kentucky, too. He's called in before to talk about UK. Do you remember that?

Yeah, when I was gone, that's right. That's the first I've heard of that show. I'll watch it, though. I like his stuff, and now you've got the Kentucky angle. Why not? Check it out. So very cool, Kentucky. I mean, I wish it wasn't Lightner,

but if he brings up Richie Farmer in season two, Shane, and then we're really going to know that he's... We'll know who's writing the script for that show. That's exactly right. Hopkins must get a writing credit on it. Who's up next? Kara. Kara, go ahead, Kara.

Hey, guys. I'm Drew Fred. I'm the one that came up with Sweet Mountain Angel Baby, and I just wanted to thank you. Thank you. I'm going to make some shirts. And I just, but you understand, I can't.

You understand, Karen. I can't call him Sweet Mountain Angel baby. You understand that. I think the baby part is probably, yeah. Okay, would it be better if it was Sweet Mountain Angel man? No, I don't think I can say sweet. I don't think I can say Angel. I just can't call another man a sweet angel baby.

I can say Mountain, but I think the rest of it's probably not. Okay. Well, he's just a great guy. His family's awesome. He was beamed down on a little cloud from God himself. And all of us, Mountain Fox, we just love it. Wow. We just love it.

Did you say it was beamed down from God himself? Yeah, on a cloud. Yeah. Wow. I didn't realize that. He sure was. And on the shirts, he'll be on a cloud. Are you from Harlan?

I'm actually from Clay County, but I've done some work with him on some things and his family, and I just adore them. They're great people. We adopt everyone in the 13th region. Sometimes we're not sure about Laurel County, but everywhere else is part of our thing. So, all right. Well, I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

And for you, one sweet Mountain Angel, baby. That's all you get. From now, I did some Mountain Mountain. Thank you. We actually have another birthday shout out to give. Did you see Twitter the 100-year-old birthday? Boo? No, I did not.

She just turned 100, and she stayed up for the whole game last night. There's a picture of her with her balloons. So Boo in Northern Kentucky, turning 100 today, I think, is worth a second birthday shout on the show. You're my girl, boo. Thank you very much. You're tagged in it, too, but there's a cool picture of her. Another person wrote me and said, Shannon, their 11-year-old daughter

had to go to the hospital for some emergency and was about to go into the emergency room like into a little patient thing and was like, and tried to get the doctors to wait so she could watch in the lobby the last minute of the game. The doctors were like, no, you need to come now.

And the 11-year-old was like, I want to see it. Apparently she's okay. So they told me I can tell the story because apparently she's okay. But she was like, I don't even want an emergency room game. Show you how much different why our fan base is so special compared to every other fan base.

That's exactly right. Who's next? Ryan. Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey, Matt, you got to turn on the Tony Basileo show from last night, eight minutes in. The first call. So what is that guy? I heard the call.

I wanted to play it on the air, but there's some cuss words, and it's like impossible to hear. The man just, this is Tony Basilio. That's the Tennessee Postgame show. It seemed like he was just losing his mind on the air, the caller, right? He screamed for like three minutes. And when he gets done, it's quiet for a second, and Tony goes, going to be a long night. I will give Tony credit. He lets that stuff go more than I can, and sometimes he gets gold out of it.

So it did seem like that last night. And second thing, could you give a birthday shout out? No, I just get to stop right. I appreciate you all. Annabelle got the one of the day. Annabelle and Boo, that's it. 859-280-2287. Let's talk about Commonwealth.

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Two tickets, now, between now and Thursday at 6 p.m. So here's what you got to do. You need to go to ClubBlue NIL.com and click on giveaways. right now. I don't care. Stop what you're doing because we're going to ruin the Arkansas team on Thursday. Go to ClubBlueNIL.com, enter to win two lower level tickets for the game of the year. Saturday night, Kentucky and Arkansas, ClubBlueNIL.com. All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back. 859-280-2287. More on the big win in Knoxville. It's KSR. Last night, a blown call changed the game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows. Without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game.

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Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. By the way, that Paradise Show, two things. One, James Marsden's Secret Service. service name, Drew, is Wildcat. How about that? Oh, this is all intentional.

Gotta be. Got to be. Secret service name is Wildcat. What, by the way, I, what are, what, what, what, what's Trump secret service name, Shannon? Do we know? I don't know. Do we know Biden's? Sleepy.

No. That would be a good one. I'd like it if he was sleepy. That'd be a good one. What was, Obama's had, how do I not know any of these people? Because, like, we know that's. thing, but do we know what they are? I feel like at some point I heard what Obama's was. I feel like if we know like the current president's secret name, I don't, I feel like that

would be a security breach. Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay. I found a list of past presidents. All right, so read me the ones there are. Oh man, these are awesome. Uh, let's see. Biden had a couple. Start with the most, yeah, start with the most recent people. Okay. This is just on Wikipedia. So I'm just reading off it says Secret Service code names presidents. I'm going to trust it. Joe Biden was Celtic. Donald Trump was mogul. Donald Trump Jr. was Mountaineer. Why does Donald Trump Jr. get one?

Well, Jill and Hunter. They're on there, too. I wasn't going to read all the families. I mean, there's like several families. I mean, there's like several families. Hunter was captain. Jill was Capri. Jared Kushner is the mechanic. Obama was Renegade.

Oh, that's right. Because his book's name is renegade. That's right. Okay, I knew that. What was the judge? George Bush was Tumblr. I like Tumblr. Sorry, which ones did you just ask?

George W. Bush was Tumblr? Yep. Who was Clinton? I got the whole list. Just throw me a president. Keep going? Yeah, what's Clinton? Clinton was Eagle.

Eagle. Hillary was Evergreen. Okay. Well, that's good. Good stuff. I don't, I knew renegade. I don't know that I've ever even heard the other one. Trying to find like the worst one on here.

Like there's got to be some really stupid ones. I don't like, who was Tumblr? I think that's a bad one. Who had Tumblr? That was W, right? Yeah, that was George W. Woodrow Wilson's wife had Grandma as the name. Grandma.

That was her. Edith Wilson's secret name was Grandma. Dude, you don't want to be Grandma as your as your Tumblr as your Secret Service name. What would you pick your Nixon's? Hmm. I don't know. Eyebrows. Drew, you're going to have to reset.

Get somebody to reset you. You're like three or four seconds behind us. Oh, boy. This is a lot of buttons in front of me. All right. Get Billy because I, Shannon, why does this keep happening? Because we're in three different cities. I know, but like, I'm on a piece of machinery from the 20s, and you and I are connected, and they are in a state-of-the-art studio in three seconds behind us.

So more importantly, what would yours be? Feathers? No, it would not be feathers, you jerk. I'm not going to go by feathers. Mine would be dude. That's obvious. Dude, you definitely should be dude. Yeah.

That's a good one because I want mine to sound tough. Law Dog. All right. Law Dog, all right? Law Dog. That's what Billy Gillespie used to call you, right? Yeah, he used to call me Law Dog. So for Billy Gillespie can name my Secret Service name.

I'll go with Lawdog. Who's next? Brad. Brad. Go ahead, Brad. Yes. I was hoping I'd be on in the second hour because I wanted to talk about booing Calipari. All right, well, why don't you hang on then?

Why don't you hang on, Brad, because I don't want to get to that yet. Can I come back to you in the second hour then? Yeah, sure. I've been hanging out for. Hang on, Brad. I'll come back. I'll come back to you. Who's next shit?

Sarah. Sarah, go ahead, Sarah. Well, boys and law dog, how fun is it to silence that ridiculous song? Like, the boys did so good last night. It was really fun to watch. I love it. I love that they still play it at the end, even when they lose. Because Tom Leach made, like, some kind of sarcastic joke about it.

you doing right now? Yeah. Yeah, it was great. It's so ridiculous, so ridiculous. You'd think that that would finally shut them up. But I just think everybody could learn something from the way that Mark Pope talks about, not only his players, but just, you know, everybody. Like, it's so uplifting just to even watch him talk about his players, the way he did last night, even the way he does, like, when we lose. And so I think, I don't know, I just think that maybe we're not realizing just how special he is as a coach. And I think he's actually going to make a big difference in the sport and the coaching occupation going forward. I just think we're really lucky.

He has relentless positivity, right? He's like he, somebody compared him earlier in the year to Ted Lassow. And I think there's a lot of truth. Like, he has relentless positivity. I heard a guy, Sarah, on the field of 68. You know, they do a show every night after the games. Sometimes I turn it on. Sometimes I don't.

But when Kentucky wins, I'll watch it. And there was a guy on there who I don't even know who he wants. was honestly because they never said his name here's a little tidbit you all should put the names of the people up there on there because like some of these people I know but he had this guy and he said something I thought was really good he said you know Kentucky fans love of mark pope is actually about more than basketball and the guy said I think let's say in five or six years it doesn't work out with pope he doesn't win enough whatever he was like I think Kentucky fans will still love mark pope no matter what even if things don't work out just because of what kind of person

he is. Now if they work out, like he'll be a hero unlike anyone we've had. And I kind of agree with that, Sarah. I don't see a messy ending ever with Mark Pope because I think like if it didn't work out, we'd all be sad, but we'd still really like him for the reason that you're talking about. It's so interesting that you brought that up because I actually had that thought as I was watching the interviews last night. And I'm like, gosh, he could suck next year and we would all still love him just because of the person that he is. And it's like, you know, You know, at first, nobody knew what to do. We don't know if he's going to win.

We don't know how it's going to go. But, like, he's not turning back into a pumpkin. This is who he is, you know. I agree. It's really great to watch it. And maybe people will learn from that, you know. He'll have to win. I mean, he'll have to win.

I appreciate the call. Drew, I think Drew's back. He'll have to win. But I think, like, the way he is as a person has made him get a grace. Certainly with me, and I think it'll be with most people, that, like, is pretty astounding in this job, if you think about it. Yeah, and when he first got hired before I had any clue if it would work, I was even skeptical. I said if it does work, but if it does work, it will be better than it could be with anyone else if it does work.

With his history at UK, we already have a little bit of an idea what a guy was. We didn't really know until he got here, but there was no name on the list that could reach a level that Mark Pope could reach, just because he already had that built in with the connection with the fan base and how he is as a person. and now that he's got what six was it six or seven quad one wins he has more than hurley scott drew all those guys combined that we were all shopping for last year he has more than hurley scott drew and cow combined think about that chip more quad one wins than hurley scott drew and cowell combined i i like he could be the guy that is sitting in joe b hall's seat in 30 years no doubt no doubt like that like he can be that guy if if he wait even if he doesn't

win. I think people are going to like, but if he wins, there'll be a specialness that he can hit that I'm not sure any of these coaches could hit. Who's next? Joe. Joe, what's up, Joe? Quickly, Matt. Thank you, Cass Daniels for not going to South Carolina. And thank you, Trent Noah, for not going to South Carolina. I just couldn't imagine either one of those young men in a Carolina uniform. And secondly, the big basket that Trent had the two-pointed. basket, Matt, that might have been bigger than that three-point shot that he hit because at the time we was really, it was really going bad for us. The crowd was into it. They were rolling.

I think next to the Bray of three, which I think was the biggest shot, I think it was the second biggest shot of the game. And lastly, Matt, they almost banked in a three-point shot in the first half from the corner. I don't know. I forget who it was. But, Matt, you don't see it from the corner very often banked in, but they almost had one. So that's his gentleman. Y'all have a great day. Thank you.

Yeah. They, that day. The Patriots. We got to have. Appreciate the call. We got to have the worst luck on earth. But we overcame it and got the victory. All right.

When we come back, we can do more on Kentucky, Tennessee, but we got to start talking about what's happening this week. I have some strong feelings about the stories and everything coming out with the cow and whether they boo, all that. We'll deal with that at the top of the hour. It's KSR. Another podcast from some. Some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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