KSR - 2025-01-29- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

Matt, Drew, and Shannon talk UK's upcoming game with Arkansas, the crowd reaction to Calipari's return to Rupp, and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, so 859-2-8-0-22-87, feel free to talk about callback of the Tennessee game. I'm glad to talk about the Tennessee game for the rest of the year because I love beating Tennessee. But we do need to talk about, you know, the next three days through Saturday are going to be all. I do think a lot of the national spotlight from the college basketball world is going to be specifically on Kentucky fans. There are going to be two angles to this game Saturday. what does Cala Perry feel emotionally and then secondly us? And like, what are we? Like, how do we sort of receive Cal back?

And I have, you know, some thoughts on this that I just want to share. And then Drew, you and Shannon, like to hear what you think as well. I'm going to give you the short version of mine. Cal's going to walk in here on Saturday night. And the whole college basketball world is going to wait to see what our reaction is, whatever that reaction is. and there's going to be a lot made about what the reaction is. I have already done, I spent yesterday, I think I did four interviews with national outlets about what I thought the reaction would be and about the deterioration of the relationship between UK fans and Cal.

I've got another two scheduled on my way to the airport today. This is clearly going to be a big thing. And part of the reason I'm even doing them is I want to sort of express, I want to take up for, Kentucky fans on this because, you know, the natural reaction from a lot of people is going to be able to, is going to be say, hey, this dude coached you for 15 years. Why is whatever the reaction that comes, the reaction? And, you know, Cal did a, did an interview, I guess, yesterday or two days ago where he said, you know, he'd used his line about how he's got bazooka holes in him, so he doesn't even feel anything anymore. But I, you know, I don't believe

that. I know him. If he gets booed in here, it's going to bother him. But, you know, that's how it is, right? Like, that's, I get it. He's a human being. Like, it would stink if you, if you coached here and then had that reaction. Here's what I want to say to Kentucky fans. This is just my take on. If I was at that game Saturday, and I may be, but if I, if I do, I'm not going to, I'm not going to boo him, but I'm not going to cheer him. I don't think you cheer. him. If people want to, that's fine. I'm not going to cheer him just because he did leave. And the last few years were a strain on the fan base. But I'll be honest, we're also a strain on me personally. So I'm not going to give him a round of applause if the last time he was in Lexington,

he tried to get me fired. I can't stand up, Shannon, and give a round of applause when I know that one of the last few phone calls that was made was trying to get me to lose a job. Neither would anybody else up there in that situation. But I'm also not going to boo him. Because I've had a lot of my personal life, my personal success, he deserves a part in. I can't ignore that. I can't ignore that my switch from being a lawyer to doing this full time coincided with him getting here and the excitement he brought. And that especially in the early years, you know, he would give us some insight and stuff that was helpful.

So I can't ignore that either. You know, just because a relationship ends does not mean there were not positive moments in that relationship. So I can't ignore that. So I wouldn't do anything. But what I want to say to Kentucky fans is whatever you decide to do Saturday, whether it is cheer, boo, or be in silence. You've earned the right to do whatever you do. Okay?

If you decide to get up and applaud him because of his time here, you've earned the right to do that. My guess is all of you listening, he's giving you very happy moments. if you decide like me to stand up and do nothing, you've earned the right to do that for whatever your own personal reason would be. But if you decide to boo, you've earned the right to do that too.

We've booed a lot of coaches over the years. Matter of fact, we boo most road coaches. Any road coach with notoriety for the other team gets booed. Bruce Pearl gets booed. Nate Oates gets booed. If Shoshchevsky had come in here, he'd get booed, Rick Petino got booed, Chris Matt got booed. I mean, you name the coach, Billy Donovan.

Billy Donovan coached here when he came back with Florida, what happened? He got booed. That's the way it is. He coaches Arkansas. Arkansas is our rival. So if you want to stand up and boo, you've earned a right to do that too. So there's going to be this collective, you know, I know some of our media is getting up and saying, please don't boo.

be classy. People in this fan base are smart. People in this fan base know more about basketball than any other group of college fans in the country. You have a right to whatever reaction you have. And you do not let people who aren't part of this group tell you what your reaction should be. Whatever your reaction is is completely valid. For me personally, my reaction is going to be solid. violence.

But whether you're cheering, whether you're booing, you have a right to express your emotions because he's a road coach. Now, if in 10 years he's retired and he comes in here to watch a game, all of us, me included, should applaud. I do believe that, absent him doing something crazy between now and then, which I don't think he will. But as an Arkansas coach, when he walks in here after having left us with all the the basketball Benny talk and all that's happened over the last few years, whatever reaction

you give, you have earned. And I'm not going to listen to Seth Greenberg or Jay Billis. I don't know that he would say this. Or whoever that gets on television or rights to say we shouldn't, they're wrong. They don't get a vote. Our vote is internal. I've heard Jack Given say he will cheer. You've heard me say I'll do nothing.

I've heard at least one prominent person say they'll boo. All reactions are valid. That's my take. Drew, what's your take? I agree with you in that people should do whatever they wanted to do. And I think it's going to be a little bit of everything. I think it's going to be pretty divided. We'll hear the booze.

And I think the people that want to cheer will try to drown that out, which will make the booers be louder. I think we'll just have a little conflict with fans. And I think part of that is, I think there's just divide on what people think booing is, starting with that. Some people, like you're saying, and I agree with, he is coming into Rupp Arena to ruin our day. I think that alone is worth booing, whatever your name is. If you're on the other team wearing the other logo, I think you should be booed, whether you're at Bucknell, whatever.

They're coming in to ruin your day. If you want to boo them, boom, boom, it's sports. That's what we do. We hope they still go to their cars and go eat dinner with their families at night. But you're in Rupp Arena. You should get booed if you're wearing the other color. So that alone, I think some fans should do it, allowed to do it, whatever. I'm not going to boo. Do whatever you think.

But then also someone on KS. Board made a great point. Their name was actually John Calamari. He listed all the reasons he loves Cal, great reasons, and we all agree with them. And he said he's traveling all the way here just to boo Cal because he needs it just for reconciliation. Like, I'm going to boo, and then I'm closing the book on being mad at Cal. We're all moving on. We'll have the game. All of them.

but I need to boo to let him know how upsetting the last few years were because he didn't have a moment to really feel from the fans that were that upset. I think he's drowned that out a little bit. So I think some people are booing just to start the game, just to get it out. They're going to hope we beat Arkansas. And from that point forward, bygones, big bygones, whatever, do what you got to do at Arkansas. Down the road, we'll bring you back and we'll have a big moment where we hug and talk about Duran Lamb and Aaron Harrison and all that.

But Saturday morning, it's Arkansas versus Kentucky. If people want to boo, what's wrong with that? They're not saying John Cala... Actually, one thing that really upsets me is the people saying, he did so much for this state. All right, no one is booing his character. Shannon made this point on the pre-show. No one thinks John Caliperia is a bad guy.

No one is ungrateful for what he did for Western Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky. He did so much good for Kentucky. The booing is not symbolic of John Caliperi a human. It is John Calipari who didn't, you know, live up to the standard the last few years, and then left in the middle of the night to go to an in-conference team who is coming to your arena on your schedule. If you want to boo that scenario, I don't see anything wrong with that.

Totally agree with that. And that's a key point, Shannon, I didn't hear you make it, but it's correct. We're not booing him as a person if he gets booed. As a person, Cal's a good guy. I say that in every interview. I said it all interviews I did yesterday, and I'll say it in all of him today. He's a good guy. But he also went on television on Tuesday and said, I will be here.

He made Mitch sit next to him. He made Mitch look like an idiot, which is not Mitch's fault, by saying, I support this guy, and then two days later, he talked to Arkansas. You're allowed to boo that if you want, right? And I think if people are booing. You're allowed to do that if you want to do it. And if people are booing, that's what they are booing. I don't wish any ill will on John Calipari's personal life.

I don't even know Calipari personally. But, yeah, he's done a lot of great things for the state, but that's not why we're, it's sports hate. It's not real hate for John Caliari. Perry. There's a big difference between sports hate and personal hate. It's booing at a game. It happens everywhere. When Shannon the dude walks out in wrestling and gets booed, the people in the crowd don't hate Shannon the person. He's playing a character in an event. Now, Cal is not like that, but he kind of is. He's wearing a red jacket. He is going to be he called the Hawks.

And he did a lot for this state. But you know what? This state did a lot for him, too. It was a mutually beneficial relationship. And we decided that relationship was not beneficial anymore. But so did he. And he left. And like, it's okay if people booed. Now, with that said, if you want to clap because the memories are so strong,

I think that's fine too. Drew's hit it. There's going to be loud clapping and there's going to be loud blue booing. And you can't be loud, silent, Drew, which is about what I would be. I'd be like, I'm so silent. But like that, you can't do that. And I think they're just going to out loud each other because everyone has already had this debate for weeks now. And everyone in that arena is going to try to be louder for whatever side they think is the right side.

All right. So we've said low arena, I wouldn't boo because I'll say this. It's tough for me because my inclination would be to boo. But I just can't because if I look in the mirror, I'm a lawyer if it's not for Cal, so I can't completely just dismiss the guy. Drew says he's not going to boo. Shannon, you don't have a personal connection to him like Drew and I do. So yours is almost the most neutral of the group.

Let's say you were at the game. What would you do? I probably wouldn't do either, but if I were going to do one of the other, I would be booing them. I just would. He chose this. Remember that. He chose to leave Kentucky. he chose to go to Arkansas.

That's why I don't feel bad for him. That's why I would boom. Yeah. All right. So there you go. That's our take. I'm sure we will hear your take over the next few days. 859-280-2287.

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When it comes to Cal, be proud of who you self. That's right, Drew. That's exactly what I'm saying. And that is a Ryan Limitism. Whatever your opinion is, you should be proud to have it. Exactly. Speaking of Whiskey Thief for their Friday in Louisville, looking forward to it. Yeah, so we are at Whiskey Thief Friday in Louisville.

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I remember that road, Nanny Goat Strut. So 859-2802287. Who's up next? Let's go to Joe. Joe. Go ahead, Joe. What about the guy that go to next to the guy, Shannon, who held? because he wanted to ask the Brad or whatever. Go ahead, Joe.

Hey, Matt. Big thing here is I think you laid the foundation for how everybody should go into the game. Really appreciate that. But from bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you. Because the national media has been coming down on Big Blue Nation all year long and how we should feel about Cal and this game. And you stuck up for us. So thank you from bottom of my heart.

everybody can do exactly what they want to do, and they have the right to do so. But thank you for giving us a voice. Well, they don't get a vote. I am so tired of the national media telling me how we should feel. You don't get to do that, right? Like, you don't get to say how the people who live and breathe this feel. Those folks sit somewhere else.

It's not a part of their life. They'll opine on Kentucky today. Then they'll opine on Yukon. tomorrow, Duke the next day. It's just a like thing for them to say. But we live here. We dealt with it. We know it better than they do.

And that's why the person that sits in Rupp Arena knows the John Cala Perry Kentucky experience better than any of the national people do. That's why Seth Greenberg, it's obnoxious for him to say what real UK fans should do. Every listener to this show knows more about Kentucky basketball than Seth. Greenberg. So he doesn't get to decide everyone in our fan base gets to decide on their own. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Matt. Go big blue, and I hope we blow them out of the water. Appreciate the call. All right, let's go to Brad, because he's held for a while for his point. So go ahead, Brad. Yes, Matt, thank you. I want to tell you why I would boo Caliperi. It's that he followed up three bad years with two good teams.

and for his own personal reasons, he refused to play the winning combination of players on either one of those teams. And they were good teams. They could have won games in Nashville. They could have won games in the NCAA tournament. But he refused for his personal reasons to play the correct combination of players. And then he follows that up with the audacity to go to Arkansas and come back and try and extort. more money from us. And that is just, I mean,

tell with him. Well, that's strong in the last sentence. I think everything else. I'm sorry. I mean, tell with him as a coach. Okay. All right. That's a good change.

I don't, but as far as everything else, I appreciate the call. I don't disagree with that, Drew, right? Like, I don't disagree with the fact that the last two years those teams should have been good and they weren't. I don't disagree with the fact that he played players because he had made promises to him. him and then we ended up not playing the best guys and i also don't disagree with in the end he still

was trying to get more money from us and was still trying to change the media landscape for himself drew that's just all those things are true well that brings me to my my question does Mitch barthard boo him he went in his office and lied on television knowing he had a foot out the door he won't boo him but i i he's not going to boo him because that's not how Mitch is but i guarantee you i mean Mitch will go up to cow if the moment comes he will shake his hand. But there was not a human being in the state of Kentucky with a bigger smile the day Cal left than Mitch. That is just true.

I mean, I didn't see it, so it's not like I visualized it. But metaphorically, I know that's true. He, for 15 years, their relationship had been negative. And it wasn't all Mitch Cowell's fault. Sometimes I think it was Mitch's fault. But in the end, I think a lot of it at the end was Cowell's fault. and nobody was happier. I mean, the moment Chan and Cal got that,

or Mitch got that phone call that Cal had talked to Arkansas, I bet he went in his, I bet he nearly said heck at his Bible study. He was so happy. Had to be a big weight off of him, though. I mean, it had to be because he went, we fought, I can get rid of this. Yep.

And I will say this. If I'm Mitch, the thing I couldn't get over is you made me go on TV. and take up for you when I wanted to get rid of you and then you went and did that and stabbed me in back. That'd be hard to get over, Drew. It would, wouldn't it? Yeah, I mean, I was partially joking about Mitch literally booing,

but if anyone has the right to do it, Mitch is high in that conversation with that awkward interview where they both talked about, oh, the marriage is great, don't listen outside them. Look at us, and then Cal is in Fayetteville the next week. Two days later, he's talking to Arkansas. So two days later. Do you think UK will do any kind of little short video?

They can't control the fans. Do you think there will be any welcome back quick highlight package? I don't think they should. I wouldn't surprise me if they do. But, you know, I don't know. I think, again, there's a day all of this should happen. I just don't think it's Saturday. As I said, I ended an interview with, I think, awful announcing,

who I think is doing a story, Shannon of me versus Seth Greenberg. about this. I ended it by saying, John Calipari deserves his flowers one day in Lexington. It just doesn't have to be Saturday. Yeah, there will be plenty of other opportunities in the future. There's plenty of other times for that. It doesn't have to be Saturday. Who's next? Corey. Corey, go ahead, Corey. It blows my mind that this is even a conversation. It is an adversarial coach coming into Rupp Arena. He didn't just leave us. He cheated on us. he went and took Tyson's chicken money. Now I can't buy eggs.

And he went to a subpar program. And now he wants sympathy. The man is in the middle of his Hollywood Hogan run. He's a hill. We can have our day. We will cheer him. It is not Saturday. He can eat it.

And if Seth Greenberg could quit hot-toeing him, he could eat. But it's mouthful. Thanks, Matt. Wow. Boy, this is like a fitness. These next two days will be like a fine bomb thing, right? You just open up the phones. Like, we don't even have to talk.

You may have given out the whiskey thief call the day too soon. Maybe. Oh, good. I mean, there is a sense, though, of it is an adversarial. Let me also say this about flipping the script. Let's say we were one in six, and they had beaten the teams we'd beat. Do you think these national media people lecturing us about how we're acting now wouldn't be lecturing, lecturing us the other way, Drew, saying, see, you let him go, you stupid fans.

You know they would. You know they would. Game day on Saturday, I wouldn't see it because I haven't watched that show in five years, but it would all be about look what you let walk out the door. He's going to come back tonight and show you how wrong you were. You should have stuck with your Hall of Famer, but blah, blah, the fans did this, when, way, look at them now. Now you're going to have to eat your words.

But no, it's the opposite. We were right. We were right. At the end of the day, we were right. The stuff people were saying here those last couple years, we got lectured every game about how we were wrong, and the fans' expectations are too high. We were right, you were wrong.

You guys were just taken up for your own. We were correct. And if it had been the opposite, you know we'd be getting lectured by them either way. That's why I don't want to hear it. We'll take a break and be right back. I saw it. 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. All right. I want to get your guys' opinion before I tweet this. I was going to tweet out because I just want a survey of the fan base, Shannon. Okay. If you're at the game Saturday and Cal Perry was introduced, would you A, cheer, B, boo, C, stay silent? You think we should put that poll out there and see what it says?

Yeah, let's see. Why not? What do you think? Oh, definitely. Let's get these numbers. All right, so what do we think the numbers will be before I hit the post button? Now, remember, I mean, there are some people that follow me that are not a Kentucky fan, but I'm not sure what they would be inclined to vote anyway, right? They might want to make a, who knows what they. So let's just, what do you think it'll say?

Like, when we get ready to take the next break in 10 minutes, what do you think it's going to say? I think it's going to be pretty close all three ways. I'll give cheering like 40%. 38%. I'm going to say booing is 60. Oh, wow. And then I'll say 20 and 20, I guess,

what the other two is silent. It's interesting. I think stay silent will be the biggest. Really? Okay. Maybe it's just because that's what each of us would do, except I don't think Drew would cheer. But all right, there we go. I'm posting it.

Let's see what the result ends up being. I have no idea what it's going to be. I really don't. Because I don't know what the reaction is going to be Saturday. really don't. I think booing tends to just by nature be louder than cheering. But I don't really know. Because cheering, I mean, it's not going to be woo-hoo. It's going to be just clapping. There's definitely going to be a movement by some of the more, what would I call them,

sort of dignified members of our fan base, media especially, to encourage us not to boo. I'm going to guess the official line of UK will be not to boo. Mitch or maybe even Pope will say something like that. I'm going to, I mean, Jack has already done it. Tom may do that. And I get it. I don't know that that will have an effect, Drew, one way or the other, right? It's not.

We've heard people saying they're going to boo to their throat bleeds. You're not changing minds. I'm sure, though, there will be sort of the official line would be, hey, guys, don't do this. But I don't really know it'll matter. But we'll see. Who's up next, Shadden? Marty.

Marty, go ahead, Marty. First of all I'll say that, you know, we're in good hands when it comes to Mark Pope. I believe he's the biggest UK fan there is, and he's a coach of our basketball team. When he comes to booing, I want to encourage people not to boo. The reason is I'm on the boo train. Inside, I'll be booing as loud as you can boo. But outside, you've got to play the game. It's like playing chess.

You know, Arkansas season, you could say, is a wash. So he's going to be coming here with all his mojo, all his fire to beat us. We're his Super Bowl. So that's why I think you want to get to him, and get to him mentally. Give him the biggest state innovation you can. Yeah, I don't think that would work the way you think. I mean, look, if you could get every single person to be dead silent, that probably would be the biggest hard thing to process.

But there's no way you're going to get 22,000 people not to speak. So, you know, I get what you're saying, but I don't know that that would work. I appreciate the call. All right now, just a 750 votes in. Stay silent 38, boo 34, cheer 28. Ooh. I thought a lot of people would smash cheer just that weren't involved and didn't know how bad it got. Be like, well, why would you not cheer in the hall?

I mean, that is a split. That's, again, well, I'll do it at the end. but that's like the fan base is completely divided as to what to do. Which means you're going to get all kinds of things. But that means if that's true, if that is what it's like in Rupp, then the booze will be the loudest. Because the 38% boo, right now it's 40, 35, 25. The 35% booing are going to be, it's not like Shannon, they're going to boo softly.

Right. Yeah, they're going to be probably the most passionate out of the group. The booers are the most passionate. They're not doing their Liam Cohen voice. They're not going do Vaugh. Like they're not going to do that. Boo. Yeah.

Duval. I want to add one thing that that has proved like booing's not the end of the world. The Patriots booed Tom Brady when he came back with the bucks. This happens. Is that true? Is that what happened?

He did more for the Patriots than anyone could possibly do, but he showed up wearing the other uniform. They booed. They love Tom Brady. That's sports. And if we're Rupertina, we are supposed to have a home court advantage. We don't have one because of officiating. So the crowd has to do the work.

Why don't we, boo everyone. Is this not a hard concept? They're on the other team. Can I give one caveat to the boo everyone? All right. Again, people can do what they want. I actually don't think we should boo those players. Adu, Z, and Wagner.

Do you agree with that or no, Drew? I agree, but when I say boo everyone, I mean literally anyone in other uniform. When they announce the other players, every student in the student section goes, sucks after every player. Okay, it's just me. Again, I would not boo Adu Z in Wage.

I don't think they did anything wrong. And I wouldn't either, but I'm saying if people do, okay, this is sport. They do it for every starting five that's announced. I'm not saying I would do either. I love Adieu. I still cheer for a do. But if it happens, okay, it's Rupp Arena.

We're trying to create an environment and win a basketball. Would you boo the player, Shannon? They left. They left at the University of Kentucky to go play for Calipari University. That's what he called it, right? He said the campus is just moving. It's Cal U. So that's who we're playing for.

I still feel bad for those guys. Honestly, when I watch an Arkansas game, like when Big Z hit that three at the buzzer the first half a while ago, I was cheering. Even though I wanted Arkansas to lose, I still root for those guys. But I'm saying if people do boo, okay, they're on the other team.

Grow up. It's sports. People get booed. We're trying to create a hostile environment to win a basketball game. 2,700 votes in, stay silent, 39, boo 35,

cheer 26. So we only have a fourth of our fan base cheering. So that's what, I don't know, 5,000 people maybe? Now, I would generally say, though, Twitter is like a little more negative

than Rupp. But then again, last year, Cal had more support on Twitter than he did in Rupp, you know? I mean, the loudest track,

The loudest Cal supporters were the Twitter people. Like if you went on Facebook, you wouldn't think Cal had any fans. But then if you went on Twitter, he had a very loud section of fans. So I don't know. I don't know what it's going to be like. When I mentioned the highlight package. There's a fan page, Shannon, on Twitter or excuse me on Facebook. I'm not sure the name of it.

But it is clearly run by a guy who's a Cala Perry fan. Because they block any criticism of Cal and they let people just blast Pope. And it's called like Pope's Cats or something. And you're like, what? Pope's Cats, but it's a pro-Calaparian. But it almost looks like a pro-Calvary moderated. No, I think the fans on there are all our fans,

but it's just weird. This fan base with Cal, it's going to be weird. But again, after Saturday, it'll be different. But you've got to have that one moment, you know, and we'll see what it looks. Got to run it out. Syndicate done. Syndicate done.

How are you? So, can you hear me? Yes. So my thing is, if you think you're going to boo, ask yourself, what would Pope do? And then that should answer the question for you. I love Mark Pope. Let me say, hang on, syndicate, and then I'll let you finish. I love Mark Pope.

Mark Pope's a great dude, but I and Mark Pope are not the same guy. Right? Like, Mark Pope is a wonderful person, but he's not like, he's not Jesus Christ. I don't have to model my life's work after Mark Pope. So while I love Mark Pope, and I think he's a wonderful person and in some ways can be much nicer than me, this is, what I used to wear a bracelet that said, what would Jesus do? I did until it fell off. I'm not going to do a what would Mark Pope do. He is a human being, and we can react to things different. So, I'll tell you this is what I'm going to do, right? Are you guys listening?

Yes. I am roasting a 150-pound hog. I just ordered it. I got to pick it up tomorrow. I'm going to roast that 150-pound hog is what I'm going to do. Barbecue style. Head on, feet off. All right, there you go.

Wow. Took a violent turn. Now, is that a lot? How much, like, how much do hogs weigh? Is 150 pounds a lot? That sounds about right. I don't know. Sounds about right.

Do you know? I've never roasted a pig before ever. I could look at a lot. You better be putting on that Tom T. Hall who's going to feed them hogs. We need all of our hog songs. And we need the town. And what I want you to play the next segment is they have a song called Arkansas Gambler by Town Mountain. The chorus is like, ain't going back to Arkansas.

I'm playing that all weekend. Okay. I still got the razor bags in my freezer if you all get nuggets in my freezer if you get hungry. They've been sitting there since last May. It's about time. Games at night. They're almost right. We could roast those up at the bar after the.

the game's over if we want. Let's see. Fully grown hogs away between three and 700 pounds. So 150, it's a baby. He's got like a little baby paw. You got a little little baby hog. A little sweet Mountain Angel hog. Okay.

Ryan's not here to do stock to mortgage. So I'll tell you what we're going to do. Shannon has the script. Drew, I want you to do as much of a stock to mortgage ad as you could do. Shannon, you throw in what he misses. Okay. All right, Drew. Tell me about stock to mortgage.

All right. Quickly, this is on brand. because for the pregame show yesterday, Ryan started and then goes, you're going to host, like, as the show is on. So I can be Ryan again. I can do a whole, anything Ryan does. Stockton Mortgage, it's a great time to buy. Markets hot right now. We got lots of locations across Kentucky. We like the MLS, number three something. 8-2009. There you go. Stockton Mortgage.com. Check it out. They're your one-stop shop for mortgages. I'm Ryan Lemon, and it's a great time to buy. Thank you. It's pretty good. Stockton.com. What else, Shannon?

Yeah, they're big on modular manufactured homeownership. It's achievable. You can do that. You can get it all in one mortgage with Stockton Mortgage. Go to Stockton.com. NMLS 8259 Equal Housing Lender, NMLS Consumer Access.org. So he made you host even though you weren't ready. Like he told you at the beginning, you were hosting? Yeah, on the air. Billy knows. Ryan let us in and then threw it to me. And I was like, all right, what is this show called? So we had a good pregame show, but short notice for me. And, you know, I was ready. Maybe a little more game planning before we were live would have worked out.

All right. Let me get the final results here after 15 minutes before the trolls all ended up taking over. Final results, 38% silent, 34-boo 27 cheer. So it's pretty split. But the 38% silent, your vote won't register because you'll be. be silent. It's going to be the other people who make the noise. We'll take a break and be right back. It's this KSR.

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Ain't going back to Arkansas. I'd be all right, Shannon, if we never went back to Arkansas. Yeah. The only time I went there, we went through the Ozarks and we, what was that place? Who to thunk it? Who to thunk it? Yeah. Fayetteville's all right. And I've heard there are other nice places, but I personally, it was worth

going to Little Rock. The Clinton Museum is cool. I still can't believe in the Clinton Museum. They put all the Monik Lewinsky stuff, Shannon. Like, they put it all there. Like, if it was my museum, I'd be like, can we leave that stuff out? My life's coming in. You know, do we have to...

We're trying to forget that happened. Do we have to put this in here? Like, she's going to be here this minute. But it's all in there. And so it's always kind of interesting. Right now, looks like it's going to be stay silent, slightly, then booed and cheer. So it's going to be loud, I think, when he gets introduced. We got a lot of people on, so we might as well give him a chance.

Before we do it real quick, Draft Kings, let's go to Draft Kings, download this app. Use promo code KSR, bet five. You can get $200 in free, bonus bets from Draft Kings. Let's make our picks here. Auburn is at LSU. Drew, any chance LSU wins or is Auburn Roe? Auburn's going to roll. We really need Auburn to quit playing basketball so we can have a shot at this. They're pretty good. Texas is at Old Miss. Any chance Texas goes on the road? Ole Miss only a six point favorite, which I find kind of odd. Only six at home. No, Ole Miss is one of that. All right. Then the big one, Alabama at Mississippi State. Mississippi State's the favorite. guys by one and a half points. What do you think about that? I saw that this morning. This is the spread

that threw me off. Yeah, I would take Alabama, I think, on this, even on the road. I think Alabama's much better team. I think I would take Alabama too. Mississippi State's, but like Mississippi State can't outscore Alabama, can they drew? I mean, Hubbard's tough, but Alabama has a lot of scores and they have Hubbard. I don't think so. I think I would like Alabama. It feels like they're finding themselves a little bit. I like Alabama. I'm really surprised by it's for him all right who's next all right let's go to adam go ahead adam uh hey guys other i guess it was yesterday's show uh you talked about it being a realistic that kutucky goals 9 and 9 in the cc so with the win last night

that puts us at 4 and 3 and that meant that means we finish out the season 5 and 6 the rest of the way in conference so is that still realistic yeah it's still realistic but now i would if I were making my in-season predictions, now I'm looking at like 10 and 8 because I didn't expect us to win that game, right? So, you know, I appreciate to- So where do those wins come from? I think if I were to pick the most likely wins, I appreciate to call. Saturday against Arkansas, then South Carolina than LSU,

that would get us to 7. I think we, who else do we play at home? Vandy. Vandy, I think we went to Mandy at home. That's eight. then I think we steal one of at Texas and at Oklahoma. I think we get at least one of those. That gets us to nine.

And then between Auburn, Tennessee, Bama at home, we end up winning one of those, Tim, maybe even get to 11, Drew. That's kind of where I am right now. Yeah, I like to check Ken Palm after games, and he's, you know, it always updates. He has Kentucky winning at Texas and Oklahoma by one point now and only losing four more games, and I believe that makes them to foreseed in the tournament with all those projections.

but, I mean, that looked completely different before yesterday. Show us how quickly it can change. Yeah, I mean, now that the path is a lot greater. The path is a lot better. I mean, you know, you play at Ole Miss Tuesday night. Let's say you beat Arkansas and then you play at Ole Miss Tuesday night. If you steal that game, now I think we're right back there trying to fight for a double-bye. I mean, that's how big that game was last night.

So, you know, beat Arkansas, get to five and three. If you could find a way to win at Ole Miss and go six and three, all right, now we're cooking with grease, right? and it's going to, I'm going to continue to say cooking with grease, Shannon, because people want to say cooking with, fire. Fire, but it's grease. Yeah. That's what we say. That's the right. I don't like when people.

Be cooking with a grease fire. How about baking grease this week? That's what I'm cooking with. Who's up next? Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark. Yeah. Hey, guys.

A couple of things. I think all these national audiences, you know, I just don't think they have a right in this message. So I'm not going to fall at all. I'm going to be silent. And let me say this. when I started dating and was looking for a wife, I had one rule. She couldn't be a Louisville fan. The second thing I did is when my mom passed away, I looked at the Kentucky schedule,

and I didn't plan the funeral around the date when they played. So who cares what national folks say or do, right? So John Caliperi, if you look at him, he's very transactional, which is fine. He got paid millions of dollars. So at the end of the day, whatever you want to do as a fan, do it. And it's all good. For me, silent. All right, I agree with that.

Wow. Set the date for the mother's funeral, Drew, around the games. Now, that one goes on the list of, like, amazing Kentucky fan stories. That's on the list. Oh, yeah, that's a diehard Kentucky fan. I bet some of our listeners are thinking, yeah, I did that too. Or have another example of how crazy we are. To be fair, they play on Saturday.

Just have the funeral on Sunday, Shannon. It's another 24 hours, huh? Yeah, and it's the day to Lord anyway. They're not going anywhere. Adeline. Can you hear me talking? Adeline, go ahead. Adeline, go ahead.

What's up, Adeline? I'm so glad we beat Tennessee because I can't stand that orange big T. Yeah, it's terrible, isn't it? It's an ugly orange. Like, you would never wear that color, would you? No. No, it's ugly.

It's like the puke inside of a pumpkin orange. Like, it's just terrible. Well, Adeline, are we going to beat Arkansas on Saturday? Yes. All right, that's all I needed to hear. I hope we beat the dirty, stinking hog. Thank you very much, Al. She's booing.

But there we go. That's a booer right there. All right, Adeline. you very much. How about that video, Drew, that was a great video of Kobe Bray and the little Tennessee kid last night. Wasn't it? That was kind of sweet, wasn't it? It was. As much that I liked that, though, I liked whoever put Ziegler's face on the little kid with a Photoshop and Brea taking the picture. I like that even better. But no, that was a fun moment. We keep getting these moments after every game. There's a story on KSR. Now Pope just took somebody's

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