KSR - 2025-01-31- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

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and we have it here once again. getting ready. Whiskey thieves, their tasting room here. Open last October allows you to taste their bourbon, which of course you can then get straight out of the barrel in their thieving system. Guys, nice to see all of you all. Sorry, I missed yesterday. Yeah, how are you feeling? I feel a lot better. I can't remember the last time I felt worse than I did last night or two nights ago. I went, you know, just a little advice to people, you know, when you're looking for cuisine, right? You go to New York City, Drew, lots of stuff available. They got Michelin stars there. They do. I don't know

the chicken cheese steak and the Newark Airport is the way to go. Right before that flight. Right before the flight and then there was a lot of turbulence it was windy. Mixes it all up in your stomach. Turbulance on the flight or in the stomach? Well, you know actually I felt completely good getting my car and I'd had

in my mind. You know what I haven't eaten in a while? Skyline. Oh no, not before a flight. No, no. This is after a flight. So I get to the skyline And this is a true story. As I'm pulling in the skyline, I feel my stomach just like rumble a little bit. And I thought, I'm already here, right?

Then I eat. And when that, the combination when I got home of that chicken, something had to be wrong with it. And then the other stuff saying, all, well, we're not going to have fun with this chicken anymore. It was a tough night. But thank you all very much for filling in. You know with what's happening this week. If I could have been there, I would have. You fought fire with fire putting the skyline in.

into an upset stomach. But we had fun yesterday. We missed you, but you're glad you're back on your feet. Yeah, well, I wouldn't have missed today at all because this is the, you know, this is the day before what I think is, let's go, Ryan, historically. I mean, how many home game moments are more anticipated than this? I'm just kind of like thinking back during my years covering UK. I think when North Carolina came in here and they were number one and we were number two with

Anthony Davis and it was that that game in December. I think that had a, there was a sense of excitement there. I also think two years before when we had played North Carolina and you kind of had the first big home game with John Wall and kind of the beginning of the Calipari era. I think that was a home game that was very people look forward to. Then, of course, when Rick came back for the first time, many years before that, those are three that just stick out to me of you were count. down for months for those games.

All three of those games being non-conference games, all three of those games early in the year. Now you get this one, I mean, in February, against a team that's not good. I mean, they're not good this year. And yet, Ryan, is it the most anticipated game that you can remember in Rupp? I felt like Petino's first return to Rupp against Tubby was number one. This one's getting up there. And even Patino versus Cal the first time, there was so much excitement leading up to that

game when they were going to meet for the first time of Rup Arena. I know some of the older timers like me may say the Shack game, you know, going into that game with Shack and those guys coming into Rupp Arena. Yeah, that was tougher, though, because it wasn't on television. So, like, people, it was almost like a mythological game in some ways. You're right about that. But this one, you know, it's odd because they're all, the first time Patino came in, his Louisville team wasn't very good either.

So I guess it's kind of akin to that. This is not about what's going to happen on the court. tomorrow, Drew, it's just about, well, it's really, I guess, at first, about the moment when he comes out. I mean, we've had days and days of people talking about that. You know, I've given my position. I gave it the other day, and then I've seen a lot online. Rick Petino released a video saying, hey, everybody gives him a round of applause. This is how I know cow's slipping.

That's the kind of stuff Cal would have done one day, like back in the past about things. Rick was not an everybody give applause guy until recently in life. I'm getting the position, or just my thought is, I think it's going to be a little more positive than I thought it was going to be a week ago. Like I just get the sense online that there are the sort of forces of clapping or getting louder. I still think there's going to be booing. But I don't think it's going to – I was expecting the chorus of booze tomorrow. I don't know that I expect that anymore. to just using the online experience. I mean, go to the poll I put out. It finished with silent

number one, cheer number two, boo number three, although all the numbers were close. WKYT put a poll out, and you've got to think that's going to hit the older demographic. Probably a lot of people who go to the games, honestly. It's about two-thirds cheer, right? So which makes me just think it's probably going to end up with a better atmosphere for Cal than I would have thought a week ago. Now we had a poll on KSR the website and it was it was just cheer boo not a stay silent option and it was 49.5 to

50.5. I mean, can you get more split than that? Wow, that really is amazing. There are too many people traveling here and bragging about how they're going to boo till their throat bleeds for the booed to not be heard. They're going to be loud but I still think it's going to be more of an even split. I watched that Rick video. I did not

have any memory of Rick getting booed that bad. I wasn't there. I mean, I would have paid attention but yeah. He snuck in. He snuck in, Didn't he? Yeah, he came through as if he was coming through. So I was at the game. I remember watching. I wanted to see Rick come through,

and then all of a sudden he was just there because he came through the other side. And so there wasn't that moment. I'll also be interested when they do the announcing. Again, by the way, just so you all know, those of us watching it on television, if you don't go, you're not going to see any of this, probably. Because the Duke Carolina game is going to be going on.

So they're not going to switch. I mean, we might not even see the start of the game, but we certainly will not see the intro because they will probably still be finishing the Duke Carolina game. So we might not see this. The people like Drew that are at the game will probably be the ones that will have to put out where they do. But I'd be interested to see Ryan when they announce the things.

Will they linger on Cal to give people a chance to have a reaction? Or they go, Coach of Arkansas, John Cal Perry. And now you're Kentucky. I just go so quick that nobody can take them. time yeah there's more eyes on Patrick Widmer and the PA guy at Rup Arena tomorrow night than ever before because what he's going to do he's had to say that guy's name an exciting different way for 15 years now he's the opposing coach on the other sideline you think he puts any flare on it at all I mean he

used to go John Caliperie yeah okay you can't do that now if you do that now you're putting the heat on the PA announcer you just you have to go John Cala Perry John Cala Perry and I hope he lets it breathe like maybe we should wait about 30 seconds then introduce Kentucky. Yeah, that would be you're right, it is kind of on him a little bit. It'll be interesting to see if they let it breathe or just if they

tell the DJ, the moment his name is called hit the music for the intro. Yeah. They play that video. There's a video in between. What if they hit it like immediately? Immediately. Then it sounds like you're booing the video. Yeah. That would be interesting. I mean, like little things like the paws

there might determine how louding. These are things UK should consider. I don't know if they are. I would have like a why in mind that has, you know, some more meaning than usual. Normally, I just grab whoever's there and famous hadn't done in a while. I would really consider who's going. What if they made Ellen the Y? She's not coming.

Kyle said she's not coming. She's not coming. But it would have been good. I actually think she would have gotten around the before. Oh, absolutely. If she was the Y, I actually think that would, that would have, well, she probably can't do that with Brad on the other side. But like, that would actually kind of have been a neat moment, don't you think?

I think it would have been a neat contrast to, you know, not wanting them to succeed, Yet we love them in a way. Although if we were down 15 when they did it, I don't know if she would get around. What about Tyler Ulyss? He's there. March him out. Let him do the Y. Well, here's what's interesting.

I've seen a lot of people say, I hope we don't boo the players. I do not think we're going to boo the players. I do not think the fans are going to boo Adieu. You know, Adieu and Z were both loved. I don't know I would say Wagner was loved, but I don't feel like, hey, people hated DJ Wagner. You're like, I don't know that I think the players, I know Ulus would get. year. Yes. I feel like those players would too. You know, Brad, who knows, but I don't think even he would get booed. I think John would be the only one. Well, I said that at the beginning of year. I never thought we'd boo the players, but I heard in New York that they just gave it to Aaron Bradshaw the entire game. And I'm thinking if you're that mean to Aaron Bradshaw, that's not at home, I know, but I just didn't think they'd boo him either. And they did. I think Aaron Bradshaw epitomized something about Cal's players that we didn't like, which was there was drama getting him on the course.

whether he was going to play, even though he did. You know, it didn't feel like he quite met his potential of what we hurt. You know, I mean, it's not his fault, but I think in some ways, Shannon, some of the stuff that were people were kind of tired of at the end of the era, he kind of embodied a little bit of that. He was been on the clutch thing. Yeah, I would agree with that. But as far as the Arkansas players go, I have never cheered an Arkansas Razorback player,

and I'm not going to start tomorrow. So if I were there, I would boo them all. You've been consistent for moment one. You've been like boo, boom, boom. And those guys, I don't feel bad for them. Again, I said this a couple of days ago. They left. They wanted to play for Cal University, not for the University of Kentucky.

Yeah. So, you know what? They chose to go. We can boo them. I've probably watched more Arkansas. Kentucky's the only team I've watched more than Arkansas this year. Me too. I find myself watching a lot of Arkansas game.

And I find myself, I don't know why I'm pulling for those three guys when they're on the court. A dude, DJ, and Big Z. I've watched them a lot, and they're bad. and which gets to the actual game, which has got lost during this. We have to win this game. I mean, we have to. Have to. For two reasons.

One, of all, we cannot lose to Caliperi after all that's happened. After, I mean, after, you know, the offseason of trash talking, and then we're good and they're bad, and we can't lose. The second thing is they're next to last in the SEC. In an SEC where it is hard to find wins, when you play the team that's in next to last place, in the league at home. You've got to win that game. We have South Carolina. We probably play the three worst teams in the SEC.

We probably get them all at home, which is kind of bad luck. You'd rather play them on the road because you win. But nevertheless, South Carolina, LSU and Georgia, the three worst teams. We get them at Arkansas. Three worst teams. We get them all at home. We have to win all those games. There's still all to come, all three of them.

That starts tomorrow. So leave Cal out of it. It's a game you got to win, Drew, just because it's a very winnable home game. Yeah, I mean, if this is not Cal, this is a team. a huge game because this could be an actual hit to your resume. Yes. This would be the first one. Yeah. Yeah, Kentucky's got a good net ranking. The third and quad one wins. They're in great standing for the tournament.

And this wouldn't hurt you too bad, but it would bring you down a peg if you were to lose to a team like Arkansas at home. And the path to a winning record in the SEC, at least one by in the SEC tournament, maybe even a double buy. Like that Tennessee win kind of got you back on that path. You need to make sure you win this one to keep it going. So I'm going to ask you a question. is there any worry in your mind at all that this is when cow is usually best? Yes, this is, you were going to read my next segment.

When Cal was Cal even in the last five years. So like everybody, everybody would agree. There's a cow from 2010 to COVID that was like great. Whether he was the best or second best or third best, it was great. then there was the 2020 to 2020-5 cow that was a notch below that maybe too much as below that that cow won a game like this every year that cow went on the road and beat a team in a big game that you didn't think they had a chance at when they and they won his last win at kentucky was at tennessee i mean think about that arkansas game when ntonio rees was went for 37 or 40 down

there and we won multiple Tennessee games like that. Now, the question is, is this cow even one notch below that? And they don't win anything. You know, I don't know the answer. So far he hasn't. So far, I haven't won anything. So, but if he's the cow of even the last five years, Drew, they win one of these a year. I hope it's not tomorrow. And they tend to do it when they're down some players. They went to Arkansas. Jacob Toppen was the point guard. That Tennessee game, I talked about, He was. I talked about it all week before Tuesday. Like, I was there two years ago.

They were 11.5 point favorite. They didn't have a point guard. They didn't have a shooting guard and still won that game. They're an 11.5 point favorite tomorrow without their point guard. It's, I've seen John Caliperi do it before. Are we in 11.5.5. Yeah. That's why that lives.

It's already out. Uh-huh. That's why it lives in the back of my head a little bit, and that I've seen John Calipari do this more than once. So, yeah, I find a little nervousness because I don't want to lose to Cali. But also, he gets one of these every year. And for some reason, I feel like, like. I think they already played Tennessee, but Alabama, Auburn, us. He's going to give one of us

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are getting excited about this game. One person writes, Matt, we got in an argument in our neighborhood group chat. It was 8-8-boo-chir. expect it to be everybody says silence will win out i think the booers and the cheers are going to go at each other we have a very small sample size here but i know a few people here are actually going to the game who's going to the game okay so let's let's see keep your hands up if you're going to all right put your hand down if you're going to cheer so does that mean the rest of you are

all right how maybe you're going to boo nobody no boo not one oh we got a we had one of these a half Okay, so maybe it seems like the cheers have a little more force behind them. The booers may be a little more reticent. Does that mean if they start getting yelled out, Shannon, that they'll be in. So I just want to say, for the people online, and I keep getting this, that go, oh, it's all the Matt Jones people, they're going to boo. We don't have one person here in this audience who says they do. If he gets a round of applause and that's what fans want to do, that's totally fine. kind of also, though, agree with what he said yesterday.

He goes, I've never heard an opposing coach get cheered in Rupp Arena. Yeah, we boo Bruce Pearl for crying out loud, you know. So maybe John Pelfrey got cheered when he was at Arkansas. Maybe. Maybe he did. I doubt it. I don't know. Tubby, maybe, when he came with a high point. It was a little sympathy game, I think.

I mean, he was still in opposing. This year, Pat Kelsey got some booze when he was introduced as the Louisville coach. Well, of course. I mean, we had no reason to cheer him. I'm just saying we do boo opposing coaches backing up what Pope was saying. We're sitting here asking who you cheer. Why would we cheer Pat Kelsey? Well, that's going to be, let me just say this.

If people do boo and we get criticism, forget those people. They don't understand it. They don't get this place. I don't care what they say. There have been some great articles written about the Pope part of this equation. CJ Moore of the Athletic was at KS Bar last Saturday for the Alabama game and talked to fans. His article came out today. And I thought it really encapsulated Drew the relationship we have with Pope, just basically saying our fan base,

Pope gets all of it. Pope understands us. And Pope in some ways does the exact things opposite that we were kind of tired of with Cal and that's a big part of why everybody loves him. I thought it was a great article. And with so many national people coming this weekend, I hope there's a lot more of those to come. And if they do boo, if Kentucky wins that game, I hope they continue to write the stories about how Mark Pope keeps winning

and not making BB in a villain for booing before the game started. Yeah, but I don't care if they make us a villain. Like, you know, somebody could only make you feel bad if you let them, right? So you can't, you can call us a villain all you want. We were here, you weren't. And why don't you go get those Arkansas media and fans and put them under a lie detector and ask them if they're really happy with what they ended up?

up with. Yeah, I think they're probably ready to boot Calipari at this point. You think their fans feel like they won that, that tradeoff? No, no way. Look what they're getting right now. Yeah, who really thought that they were going to be at the bottom of the SEC when they hired John Calipari? They were all taunting us. We've got your coach. And now look where they're at. That's going to help them a little, though, I think. I think some people that would have booed before the year thinking these are two teams competing for the same tournament seed, you know, similar in the standings. I think. Totally agree. Some People will look at and be like, man, they suck. I'm just going to cheer for it.

If your goal in life was one thing to have Cala Perry not get booed and rub, this season played out exactly like you would have wanted to play it. We needed to be good. We needed to win big games. We needed for Pope to have been awesome. And we needed them to have stunk. And those things, this is the best scenario for Cal not getting booed that you could have is exactly how it's played out. One person writes, Matt, Cal I've always. thought has his team play tight during big games it's what cost us many times do you

think his team comes out and plays tight tomorrow actually no because I've always thought Cal was at his best when they had nothing to lose so that the best example for me was the 2014 run think about it when we were the 8th C we played that first game against Kansas State and we kind of were tight that whole game we won but then it gets Wichita State Louisville Michigan Wisconsin we were big underdogs and all those games. They came out and played, you know, free as a bird and ended up winning all of them. Then we get the championship game and we play Yukon, who now were favored over. We played all these teams that we were big underdogs, and we played loose and free.

And then we go playing a championship game. And because we are all of a sudden favored, we looked like we were so scared. We couldn't do anything. We got down early. And Ryan, we didn't win. I thought that tournament in a lot of ways, sometimes Cal's better when he doesn't have expectations. I think you hit it. I think, yeah, when they are the heavily favored Oakland, St. Peters, you mentioned the Connecticut game, that's when they seem to be tight. Not when they're underdogs. That's kind of when they play their best. I want to add one other thing. I don't know if this will factor into the game tomorrow, but we've never played another team that has had players who have played more games at Rupp Arena in the past.

And that familiarity with playing there in Rupp may help them. Yeah, maybe a little bit. Be interesting what it is like for those guys as well. I have a theory about those guys. Okay. I think Big Z does not care about anything in the world. Like the booze, I think he'll giggle. But he's not going to get booed.

I just think that all this stuff that will impact Calipari, maybe a dude, probably DJ. I think Big Z is going to be out there grinning, interacting with the crowd. Remember how he was like a little kid last year? I think we'll get that. I think of all of them, I think Big Z is going to play really well because he's going to be happy to be back. He'll be loose and free. Big Z's going to watch. Who would boo Big Zee?

No, I just mean in general, the whole situation. I don't think he's going to feel any pressure at all. I think he's laid back. Like, oh, I get to go back to Kentucky. Last year, he was like a 15-year-old when we would talk to him. I think he's going to run out there and not even feel anything. Just on a match-up scale, we're going to take your calls, 859-280-2287. On a match-up scale, we do some things really well that is their weakness.

You all remember, Cal gave up threes like it was his job. I mean, he was really bad at guarding the three-point line, and obviously we shoot really well from out there. With that said, they do some. things that really we struggle with. We cannot guard downhill drives. And like, Adieu could score 25 points tomorrow. I don't know who we have that's going to guard a do. And then even off the bounce, if Wagner was going to have a good game, our guards are kind of the guards that could give him a good game because we don't guard slashing dribbles.

Against Tennessee, we let them shoot threes because we knew we couldn't keep him off the dribble. I think Arkansas is going to get a lot of chances to shoot threes tomorrow. I could see them having 35 opportunities because we're going to give them those shots. But I do worry about guarding Adieu. Who's guarding Adieu? Oh, you're right. I mean, even if cars healthy, who's guarding Adieu? We don't have anybody who can guard a do.

With that said, he can't guard the three point line. We're going to get a lot of shots. So if we make them, we'll win. But I do worry about that and do match up. All right, we'll take your calls. 859-2-8027. This is KSR. Sporting back.

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Yeah, I hate it. So obviously the crash is tragic. First, you know, we had talked about a year ago about how there hadn't been a commercial airliner go down in the United States in like 20 years. And then happens on Sunday, awful. You know, every time you get these stories, I'm sure this would be true about any flight, right? Like, there are human beings on there that each have their own stories. and they're tragic. You know, there was the guy who went to the airport.

He'd gotten text from his wife that they were about to land and like, that was awful. Then you got 14 people with some association with the United States figure skating. And then the guy who's like kind of the dean of United States figure skating, Dick Button dies last night. So you have all of this stuff happen. I'll tell you, though, you know, I was flying that night, too, from Newark to Cincinnati. Maddie. You and I've had this conversation before when we got on a flight one time. I was like, you know, I sit there.

One of the ways I calm myself down is I sit there and think, man, boy, think about how many flights have gone on since the last time these. And then I'll look at a board, right? And you'll see all the flights, especially the place like Newark Airport, where it's huge. All these flights go in here and you go, well, you know, this is what I would always think to myself. Well, I mean, even if one was going to go down, what are the chances? It would be this.

And then that happens that same night. So this one, like, hit me harder than I think it would otherwise. I completely get it. Just because even, I know, I mean, I'm blessed beyond belief. I wasn't obviously on it. But it's something about just flying at the same time. You couldn't help, but when I heard it, just be like, you know, I think it'll actually be harder for me the next time.

And at that moment, though, I mean, you've got to get on the plane. You're not going to cancel the flight. I mean, it's what you think about it. do but like it's it's I think that almost every time I go to an airport but especially a big airport I always hear you know you got a better chance of getting in a car crash which is true but I would rather get in a car crash on the ground than a crash in the air you know what I mean I like my chances because I didn't feel well I was sort of off my phone have they figured out why it happened what what the it's Black Hawk right yeah I think it was flying too high it was flying higher

than what it was supposed to and because of that that created too high yeah higher than what it's supposed to be like 200 and below and it was yeah right and apparently the pilots were looking at a different plane they're not the one they hit but they were like monitoring a different one or something and then the other aspect was they were short an air traffic control person it was one person that was working he was doing two people's jobs it feels like a job though you can't yeah you can't i also think if you're that air traffic controller i mean think you that you yeah they you'd be with you your whole it's like you know anyway awful situation prayers to all those people who's up first up first is

Devin. Devin. Go ahead, Devin. Hey, guys. I got a statement and a question for you all. The first thing is, look, the only reason why

you don't boost somebody is if their team stinks after they've left your team. Like, when Kenny Payne was at Louisville, usually you would boo someone boo someone that's at Louisville. But you know what? Oh, brother, this guy stinks!

But you know what? This guy, CalPare. he left after having the four worst years that he's not the basketball history and then he had the audacity to call us Cal U. So he belittal our program even more after that. He took players that we wanted to have. Now, I wish we still have. And you know what?

Who did you? Okay, I go. Thank you. Appreciate Rick. I'm not sure what that call was. It's been interesting to me, Drew, to hear how many people say what he said, right there that didn't seem to get a lot of play, but there are certain segments of our fan base, at least a handful of people here and there who didn't like his statement when he left,

it's to the recruit, something like it's the same thing, we're just moving cities. Like the insinuation being, it was never really about Kentucky, it's just this is a roadshow, and this is where I'm taking my show next. I haven't heard it a lot, but there are some people that call her amongst all the oddities, he said, is bringing that point up too. Yeah, that one didn't bother me as much because it wasn't Cal saying in front of a camera. He's in some kids living room. He's got to get him to Arkansas. Of course he's going to recruit against Kentucky like that.

I've mocked it plenty, but it has affected a lot of Kentucky fans because that line alone, even though we heard it secondary and he wasn't saying it publicly, it suggests it was me, me, me, me in Lexington. and I just moved, which is what a lot of people already had concerns with anyway. But that saying I moved headquarters to a different location, I get it. But I think he's been in front of the camera, press conferences. He's been very gracious and grateful. He doesn't do a lot of press conferences. He doesn't get a lot of chance to screw it up. But when he left for there, I thought we'd get little bitty jabs every once in a while.

I don't think we've got the public jab from them. We've heard stuff from recruits, but he's got to do that. I don't think he's done a lot of it. Let me ask you this. All right. let's say boo or cheer let's say whatever the reaction is it's in the middle of the game and he does one of his going after the refs like going at him and you know how sometimes the play will stop and you see the coach going at him then he gets the heck booed out of him right that's what it happens if it

doesn't happen as much when he's introduced if when he goes off crazy on an official on a call that we think is it was made correctly yeah that's when he gets the big boo remember a couple weeks ago I said he's getting ejected, and I'm sticking by that. If he gets the opportunity, if they're winning or something, but if they're down, that would be fair. If he gets ejected, he'll get cheered. If I could get that prop bet, I would do it. That's true.

Oh, that would be if he got walked off the corner of your head. Oh, of course. You're not going to boo him then. Go cats. And then he leaves Arkansas and we never see him again. Yeah, it just walks off. So what about what he said yesterday, he's got bazooka holes, and if he boos it won't bother him. He used to say that here, too.

Do you really think it won't bother? Of course not. Like, okay. This is the longer conversation than Cal. Almost inevitably, when someone tells you that stuff people say doesn't bother them, they are lying, right? They are lying. It's inevitably the people that it bothers the most. Like, you know, like, first on myself, when people criticize me, I get criticized as much as anyone in the, it does bother me.

I can sit here and go, it doesn't bother me. Of course it bothers me. You're a human being. Like our president, he gets criticized a tonne, and he acts like it doesn't. Of course it bothers him. That's why he holds these, it's why he remembers everything right. It's because it bothers him. Cal's the same way.

Cal, I can tell you, Cal knew what everybody said. He could do it to the word. He had people come bring him when people would say bad things. He hated it. And when you crossed him, I can say this because I didn't cross him for a long time, and I would, I'd hear him do it to other people. When you cross him, you're out, and he would, what was the line he always used to use?

You come after my house, I burned down your village or something like that. He lived that. So it's so ridiculous to hear him go, I got bazookah holes in me, nothing bothers me. He couldn't tell you articles that were written in the basketball times 23 years ago. paper doesn't even exist. He can tell you what was written against him because of how much it eats at him, Drew. So when I see him say all that, I'm just rolling my eyes. I'm like, dude, I don't know anyone in sports who has been more sensitive to criticism than he has. Yeah, we heard plenty of examples of when he was here of paying attention to the clutter when he said

he wasn't. I do think, I mean, it's going to hurt him a little. But I mean, these guys are high-level athletes and coaches. They've been booed. That's how I, if you can't handle being booed, How did you get it to where you are now? Because I think a lot of the things... I just don't think booing's that bad. I said it yesterday. I don't think booing's bad at all the basketball game. Well, it's not.

But you got to, like, you got to go into his mindset. He is at his best when he has an enemy. He's always been like that. He's always been like that when he has an enemy. It used to be, when he first got here, his enemy was Jim Calhoun. His enemy was Pat 40. It was Jeff Goodman, right? Then for a while it was Rick Petino.

and then it was Bruce Pearl and he needed an enemy he needs a person that he can go after what happened to him in the last two or three years is we weren't good enough to where national people cared so he tit his enemies inward

I was one of them but the fans that he thought didn't give him it was like his desire for an enemy is always there what's weirded to watch him now is it seems like he's so beat down he doesn't have an enemy and that's part of the reason they're one and seven in the SEC is he can't find that

thing to go, ah. Nobody sees him as a threat anymore. If you remember the anonymous quotes from SEC coaches. They're laughing at him. They're laughing at him, right? And so it's like you've stared the bully in the face and now, you know, but when he says it doesn't bother him, that's just silly. It would bother me. I'm not criticizing for it, but it bothers him, Ryan. Of course Well, think about, he kept bringing up to you something you said in 2008 about him. He remembers that and brings that, brought that up to you a lot. He, there were, I don't think he was listening, but someone in his office would take clips of our show out of context, send them to him, and then it would get quoted back to me two

and a half years later. And they would go, did you say this? And this was back before Mario was filming stuff. And I'd be like, I don't know, maybe. But that's it sticks in his mind. Somebody on his staff told me, now this is when it was going good, but they would print out KSR and sit on his desk.

Like he wouldn't even get on his computer and go to Kentucky's Portraito.com. The blogs would be printed on sheets and when you get to the office, they would be sitting there. Like a president getting a briefing. I mean, here's what they're saying about your stuff. I didn't get the clicks.

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Well, thank you very much. Interesting call the day of the UK Arkansas game. Appreciate. Appreciate the call. Maybe he was confusing him with that Darrell Cope guy. Derek Cope. Derek Cope. Have we?

He said if you talk to Dale, like I'm often talking about my buddy Dale Jr. I think he called the wrong show. Yeah. He's trying to call Marty Smith. He was not. I love Gary, but no, I also haven't talked to Jeff Gordon. I called him a bunch. He hasn't returned my call.

Who's next? Tyler is up next. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Hey, Matt, I'm glad you're feeling better. Thank you. My heart goes out to those people involved in the crash. But, in a way, my first thing is, if you think about it, you brought up the analogy of the couple and the dating thing with Caliper. We don't really have a reason to be bitter

When a girl and a guy are dating And she breaks up with them And get somebody better Later on when they meet She's not bitter And she's not being like boo You know she doesn't all happen You know what I mean

They're 7 or 1 in 7 And we're 7 in 1 with Quad 1 wins You know Yeah Well we're not 7 in 1 And I agree with what Petino said Like, you know, it's not really just about showing class. It's about showing, it's about showing, like, you know what I'm saying?

No. Oh, humility. We could be in their spot. We could be their ass. Yeah, I get it. Listen, no offense to Rick. I love Rick. I mean, I don't want to say I love it.

I like Rick. Rick did the show. I appreciate it. Just a little word to Rick. Like, you ain't grandpa now. Okay, we gave you a round of applause. I love you. Like, thank you.

I want you to come back. But you are not, like, you're not the spokesman, okay? You're still the coach at St. John's. Like, you just did. Yeah, tread lightly. It wasn't that long ago we were booing him. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Watch your mouth.

We'll start booing you again. You're not careful. So, yeah, I mean, it's fine. He did the video. That's fine. That's, I saw that video more, Ryan, as part of the Cal, Patino, hate each other, one-up each other. You know, if you may famously remember Cal willing to look like the bigger guy he had Rick on his podcast

and told us not to boo him when he was going through all his stuff. And now this is a chance to go, oh, now you kind of need me, Cal, so I'm going to be like, yeah, hey. Like, I mean, there's a little dance with those two. They don't like each other, and there's a little dance there. So, but Pino's comments to me, whatever, he can say whatever he wants. They don't want that. So what? I'm glad we need to talk about this Petino comment a little bit, because when he was

year, you had to take the opposite of everything he said. We called it Patino E's. So when he says stand up and clap, is he really deep down thinking, you need to sit down and boo? And another thing, like you said. No, I think he's, you know, when Rick came in here post-Katina Powell and all that, and Cal was very much like, don't boo, Rick, don't boo-brick, don't boo-brick, don't make Karen's eye for jokes, don't blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

There was a little bit of like coming at that from on high, and now Rick's doing it back, right? but they don't they hate each other i mean they hate each other and also listen rick your video did help hope a lot but that doesn't mean we need a video from you about everything else in the future like you're not you're not grandpa you're not joe b hall he did say i gave you some real good advice one time before listen to me this time if i'm a st john's fan i'm like can you all can you stop giving it like we're in the tournament like we're good we may can you please stop giving advice to the other team looks like he speaks more to our fan base than he does the st john's I mean, St. Johns, they're playing Madison Square Garden games sold out.

They're rocking. They're going at it. There's a party. They've got to be like, how about, we're good this year. Will you focus? 100% of my reaction to the Petino video was, don't you have a team? They played Providence on Saturday. Yeah.

I know he's got the Kentucky connection. I get it. But if I were St. John's fan, it's like, over here, we need your attention right here. I think they play Yukon in a couple weeks in Madison Square Garden. And I saw tickets are going for like $600 a piece. It's like, hey, Rick, y'all could be a top four seed. You could meet Kentucky late in the tournament. I will throw out a scenario.

St. John's plays at noon on Saturday. They have airplanes that could get him there. Well, you want to get at Calipari? Nine o'clock, noon. He could have dinner. He could have a whole reunion. All right, so let's talk about the Y real quick. What would be the perfect Y?

John Tyson. Make the Tyson chicken people the Y? That would be funny. What would be the perfect why that they could actually do? Because, like, Patino would be a funny why, but I don't think they would do that. What would be the why that you think would best sort of epitomize? How about Mitch Barnhart? Mitch Barnhart?

Yeah. Have Mitch Barnhart go out and do the why. That would be interesting. That's a good guy. He hates him, too. What if they, what, like the 96 team or something? Yeah. Who else does he hate?

I think there's one. Cal didn't get a lot. I don't want to say hated, but I don't think. Cal and Derek Anderson got along. How about Matt Jones? Oh, that would be a good one. You and Mitch go out arm and arm. Do a double Y.

You do the right part of the Y. He does the left arm. Yeah. I have a good one, though. A serious one. If Willie is there, Willie's wife played at Arkansas, Willie has made it clear he loves cow, but it's wearing blue. It's the cow era connection.

So would you get a cow player? Really? I doubt many would do it. Not many are around. Willie's the one that's around who has made it clear. He still loves Kentucky and Cal. He's got the Arkansas connection to his own household. I think Willie would be a good pick. Be interesting. You've got to be careful what you pick because you won't somebody who has any allegiance. Like they'd have to be all Kentucky. It's Willie's not a bad one. All right. We're going to take a break. Come back. Hour number two here in Louisville at Whiskey Thief. This is KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smygel and Friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel

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