KSR - 2025-02-04- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

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I turned my air conditioner on in February. I turned my house air conditioning on. Did you really? Yeah. You all, you guys are, I don't know, you're not used to 71 degrees. It's not that hot. Isn't that what your house is just normally? Maybe it just feels extra hot.

because it's been 20 degrees for so long. They did say that in like two weeks, it'll be like that mid-February to mid-March is supposed to be awful. Yeah. Like we may get like snow and all that stuff again. There's always a week in February that gets nasty cold. Yeah, I think you're going to get some of that. Drew, Kentucky and Old Miss tonight will get to.

But, you know, we got other things to discuss here first. All right. So two pieces of show news this morning. All right. Ready. All right, piece one. We got yesterday the ratings for Lexington. Yes.

And, you know, we haven't talked about ratings out here in a long while because we come in first every time. So what is there really to talk about? You know, I mean, it's very nice. Super nice. But it starts to become like, what are you going to say? But I do have to bring these up. Okay. Because I want to give you the numbers for KSR this past fall in Lexington.

In Lexington. men 25 to 54 a 26.8 rating that's up 73% from last year 26. 26 I don't remember it ever be. Oh my goodness. So people in context, it would normally be like a three or a four. No, well, not for us. Not for us, but like a normal show. Yeah, I mean, I would say, and this is not to be disrespectful,

but if there were other talk shows on other stations, if they got like a three or four, they'd be pretty happy. Be very happy. And we got a 26. Oh my goodness. The people 18 to 49. Okay, so this is men and women. Okay.

18 to 49. A demographic that sports radio does not touch. Women 18 to 49. Well, Brian, it's just like women to 18 to 49 with you in general. Like they stay away. Stay away. I want nothing to do with that. Uh, up, uh, 16.9, up 149% from the year before. That means over double just what it was the year before, which also was number one.

And then finally, people 12 plus. This season includes children and it includes, uh, 90 plus year olds. Senior citizens, yeah. 14.6. That's up 55% from last. year. These are, I believe, the highest ratings we've ever gotten. I can't remember any that were that close. So you might say, well, why do you think they've risen so much? This is going to be my take. And you tell me if you're right, I think number one, the mood postcal to Pope. Because this is during the football season, which wasn't very good. A little disappointing. Yes,

you're right. But basketball was rolling. I think this included during the Duke game and after the Duke game. But then I also think just the overall positivity of everything post me coming back from my hiatus, right? I probably wasn't quite as grumpy. And then the second thing I would say is having Mario, yes, to put clips out. I mean, I think that's how you explain so many more young people. Like they, you know, they don't always think about turning on their radio past Paul Harvey. A lot of them may forget they had a radio. and then he kind of reminds everybody, hey, whatever. So those are the things I'm going to give credit to.

But I want to thank you guys on the show and also the people listening. Like, that's insane. Those are, I can say definitively, those are the highest sports rating. Any sports show in the United States. I remember hearing a show in Nashville once say they got a 10. And we're celebrating. And they said, this has to be the highest rating in America. Well, this was a 26.

So I just wanted to share that because that is extremely good positive, I mean, more than positive. But I did thought you would like that. It's awesome, man. And thank you for everybody that helped. And I don't even know if you're supposed to say that shit. As a matter of fact, I don't think you are. You're not supposed to, but you know what? It's already out there.

What are you going to do about it? I mean, Elon Musk got something else to do as his president now. I don't think he's going to worry about this. It is pretty excited. Some people like the show. We say things we're not supposed to. We're just talking ratings. And I think, you know, like you said, it is a reflection of the attitude of the fan base.

Like even during football season when things weren't going well, there were still monster great crowds at every game in here at the restaurant before every game. Yeah. People were so excited. And then when basketball started, it just went to a different level. Yes. So, again, thank you to the audience. I've kind of felt that like that there was sort of a second energy and birth around the show.

It kind of reminds me I sort of pick little. times I think the show takes a bounce. And I think we had taken one at COVID, and now I think that happened again. I agree with that. I think it happened this fall. Then the second thing is they put out the ratings for the rankings for what are the best shows, you know, the top sport shows across the country. Yes. And we won our demo the last two years.

It was like mid-market, you know, mid-day. shows. A lot of mids. Right. This year it came out and they had us third. And I, first of all, third is still awesome. But I, you know, the competitor in me, Drew, is like, who do those top two people think they are? First of all, they didn't get those numbers.

And secondly, yeah, I don't like it. I did. I felt a little ungrateful when I saw tweets congratulating. be like 18th. I appreciate our company congratulating us, but Chenin, they never congratulates when we came in first. They tweet out when we came in third. But nevertheless. Are they celebrating our third?

I agree with you. Well, do you celebrate, that's my question. Do you celebrate third? I'll be honest. Do you celebrate a bronze in the Olympics? I'll be honest. The first time I saw it, I didn't retweet it. Second time, I didn't retweet it.

Third time. I was like, whatever. But, you know, I'm not to be ungrateful for being third, but I wanted to be first. We're competitive. We like being on top. But I figured out what our problem is, Shannon. What's up? For this ranking system.

Our names are not cool enough. You got to have a cool name? What do you mean? Well, you have to have a sports radio name. Okay. We do. Well. Kentucky Sports Radio.

I think that's a great name. I would agree with you. Kentucky Sports Radio, it seems to, like literally, it describes what it is. It is Kentucky Sports on the radio. What more could you ask from a name? Perfect. However, in first place, is a show called Ice and Rothman. Oh, yeah.

That's a sexy name, Ice and Rothman. It's a what name? Sexy. You think that's sexy? Who do you think is sexy, or Ice or Rothman? Definitely ICE. If you think that's sexy, wait until you hear number two. Yeah.

Ice. Brian's excited about number one. Wait until he gets to number two. You're going to have to strap him down. Ice and Rothman. Now, where they out of? Columbus, Ohio. First of all, good luck to Mr. Ice and Rothman.

I don't know who those people are. I don't either. But, you know, they sound like a tag team. Like, hit their music. Here comes Ice and Rothman. I think it sounds like DJs you go see in Miami. You know, it does. Hey, girls, where we going tonight?

Ice and Rothman are playing. Like, that's, and I just don't feel like that's a sports thing. Number two, though, hold Ryan back. Buck Rising. Oh, wow. That's super sexy, isn't it, Ryan? Buck Rising. Buck Rising.

It's like a porn star name. See, again, just leave it out there. You don't have to say, this is why we come in third. You can't just, like, why do you have to say? That's what it is. Why can't you just leave it out there? My mom, who loves you. My mom who loves you goes, can Ryan not just leave a joke?

Okay, look, everybody knows what it sounds like. Just leave it right there. You don't have to say the punch line. Yes. Okay. Anyway, Buck Rising, who last year came in second. Second again. Second again.

Where's he from? Nashville. I think he got moved to a different time slot, so we won't ever, he won't be in our thing anymore. That's his real name, too. That's not a state. That's his real name. You think that's ICE's real name? No, I don't think Ice and Rothman.

That's their real name. name. Now, here's my question. Go back to ICE for a second. What grown man has people call him ice? And how does it happen? Like, Shannon, if you came in tomorrow and you said, call me ice, I'd go, Shannon, I already call you the dude. That's what I'm saying. I mean, you call me the dude. There's no way. There's no way I can call you. I didn't want to call you the dude, but it came with you. I demanded it to my contract. I'd be interested in what are the. scenarios where you just start going by ice? Maybe he was the fighter pilot like Top Gun.

They had Ice Man and Top Gun. Maybe that's his former career. Do you think he's a former fighter? Maybe. Okay. Or just a fighter period. You know, if your name's ice and you're a fighter, I'd be scared of you. Is he a former American gladiator?

That's how you could do it. I haven't seen a picture of him. So I'm picturing massive muscles, tan, the blonde perm. Yeah, that's it. Like the blonde tips? No, he's spiked. He does not have blonde tips. Like, I expect at night when he gets off here, he goes and hangs out in nitro and turbo.

He does not have blonde tips, does he? He's got to you with the name like that. Ice and Rothman. All right, I'm looking. Well, I've looked it up. Okay, first of all, just right here. Yeah. This is why they shouldn't be number one.

I googled up ice and Rothman. You want to know the first thing that came up? What's that? The Rothman orthopedic skating rink. That's not going to help you. That should not be the first thing that comes up. I got ice and rotten egg on my search. That's what came up.

Here is ice. It's actually Rothman and Ice. First of all, they should change the name. Ice and Rothman is better than Rothman and ice. There you go. Short syllable first. Does have blonde hair. That's ice right there. Actually, I don't know which one's ice. Neither one looks like gladiators, so I'm let down. So anyway, thank you for, you know, I feel like when you go to the Oscars and you lose and you go, we're honored to be nominated. But congrats to Ice and Rothman and Buck Rising.

and thank you all for the record ratings and unbelievable performances. That is pretty incredible. And I think Shannon hit on something. The reason we went from one to three is my consistency. Well, I actually think the reason we did go is because I was told by the person that runs it is that I was off. Oh, it was during the – This was all of 2024.

But nevertheless, I'm still upset. Well, we're being inconsistent. Yeah. And I just want to say a big congratulations to you, Matt. Ryan and Drew. If you look at the... You're not in the picture, Shamed. You don't even a part of the show.

Yeah, why weren't you in the picture? Here's my favorite part about that picture. Like, it's fine. You guys are obviously the show. But, like, they even cut off my head in the background. Like, I couldn't even put a part of the picture as a cartoon. Yeah, so for people who don't see the picture, there's a picture here at the bar.

And if you come to the bar, there's a cartoon picture of all four of us. Yeah. They do it. I don't know who submitted the picture. Shannon, it was not me, by the way. way. What happened is, if you remember the last couple years, it would only be me. Right. And I said to them, can you put us all in the picture and not just me? Yeah. And they picked one that's the three of us and they take the cartoon and they put the

three of us and they just cut Shannon's head off the top of the cartoon either. Shannon, they did you wrong right there. I would like to at least have my cartoon be in the background of the picture. They couldn't even get your cartoon. Oh my gosh. But there's always next year. There is always next year. 859-280-22. Ad knowledge me. The text machine is 772-7-4-5-254. I'm glad it gave me a chance to once again say, don't say the punchline. Just leave it sitting there.

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For some reason, though, I think Ice and I think those spiked frosted tips. Yeah, I do too. Like, you're thinking of like Mark Maggard, right? Yeah, yeah. There's a name from the past. Yeah. You know, you know, I mean, if you're, looking at like the history of

UK lore on the internet that story cannot be told without Mark Baggard. I mean that dude was the original I don't know it's hard to describe what he was. He was everything though. I mean he was like it's hard to

describe how would you describe Mark Maggard? He invented the lifetime membership. He did he invented the charge a lifetime membership and then close the site down. Wow. That's what happened isn't it? Yeah. I believe that's right.

He started a lifetime and he started a website. It was relatively popular. I don't remember the name of it. He knew an assistant coach around the Gillespie era. And then Shannon, he like charged, I don't know what it was, but he was like joined for a lot for life. And he did. And then like the site just shut down. Unfortunately, he was like, well, I have this life.

But he didn't say how long the life. It was the life of the website. Not your lifetime, Tom, the life of the website. It's a lifetime of this site. It's not you. It's on life support right now. 859-2802287. One person writes, Matt, how can you all have the best ratings if they beat you in the...

Well, this isn't... That's not right. It's just like people's opinion. Yeah. Right, like what they think is. We talked about during the break. I don't know how anybody can know. I've said that for years.

How do you know? Like, who's listening to all this? They can't be listening to every mid-major, mid-a-day sports show across the country to, you know, be able to vote on this. appropriately. Yeah. I don't think they can either. U.K. and O.

Miss. Tonight. And what's the name of that place? The pavilion. The pavilion. It's new. It's relatively new. It's very nice.

It's like operating. It's very nice. They decide to make a small arena and make it nice. Remember years ago Cal went there and there was like a leak and then a squirrel running around and they were like, all right. It used to be the tadpole. Tag Smith Arena. That's right.

Now they open this. Sometimes Morgan Freeman comes. Yes. Yes, it's in the front row. Yes, so this says they played Auburn at home this weekend and lost, but I think it was a close game. I think it ended up in a 10. I watched it all. It was a two-point game late.

They pulled away in the last one minutes. And Auburn pulled away at the end. You know, I don't have a ton of confidence in this game, but then again, I didn't have any confidence in the Tennessee game and we won. So I have no idea. Lamott Butler is out for the game. you know Kentucky's lost three of the last four so we're going to have to so what do you think this is one of the games we say every year the schedule comes out they'll drop a game on a Tuesday night in Oxford you know or a Tuesday night in Starkville this is just one of those games

seems like in the midweek in the conference but on this one though we're four and four I mean you're talking about when we would go 14 and four this is actually like we're four and four we can drop any game this is not a midweek they're good They're better than us. So, I mean, this is not, at least record-wise. Like, this is not a we might slip. We're the underdog in this game. I mean, do you feel like we?

I don't feel great. I do feel a responsibility to Big Blue Nation, though. I'm 0 for 5 picking our last games, so I think I need to go all in on Ole Miss regardless. Yeah. I mean, I had to go through it. I'm 0-4-5. That's all the matter.

So I'm going to try to be wrong again. I do worry about this game, though. They have a couple of guards that are really quick and speedy. They do a lot of pick and roll. One of them just got 27 at Auburn. It's the first time I'd really watch them, and he looked awesome. So they do that isolation thing a lot. So, like, and we, this is something we struggled to guard early in the year.

We've been better, and teams have gone away from it. But early in the year, we really struggled on the high pick and roll to figure out what to do. They're going to do that. That's the only offense they run. I mean, they kind of, they run like an NBA offense in some ways. You know, we don't have Lamont. Butler, who is our best defender like that. We do have Amari, who's been pretty good at guarding that.

How do you think we're going to do against that tonight? I think it's going to be a struggle, man. Yeah, like Drew said, their perimeter players are their best players. So do you feel confident with Jackson, Bray, and Otega out there trying to take care of this? I feel confident with Jackson and Otega. I don't feel confident with Bray at guarding anybody, really. But I think this has got to be a moment for Mark Pope, where he says,

look, we're riding these guys. To me, this is a game, Drew, where you just got to take your horses and say, we're winning or losing with these guys. Like, we can't, no, I can't see 15 minutes of Chandler tonight. That's just not, it's not going to work. We just, we have to, I can't believe I'm saying this. We have to do what Cal did.

We have to play guys 36, 37 minutes if we want to win games like this, in my opinion. Yeah, and Amari especially, I think needs to play more minutes. Stay out of foul trouble. They're not a great defensive rebounding team. I rank 250 there, so maybe Amari can clean up some glass, but he needs to play well, and it's such a lazy way to look at basketball. But for me, going into every game,

is Kobe Bray going to show up and hit three or four threes or not? Because if you just look at it if they're winning and if they're losing, you can almost go to his stat line, and he play well offensively. So to win down there, it's going to have to be one of those games. Robinson's been in threes since SEC started, but they're going to need Kobe to get hot tonight because they're just living and dying by the night. I do want to say about Robinson.

You know, we early in the year, there were a lot of fans hard on Robinson. He's been our most consistent player of SEC play. He has. He has. He scored 16 to 20 pretty much every game in the SEC. You know, maybe we wish he scored 25 sometimes, but he's putting up 16 to 20 every game.

Consistently, and he's basically coming to play every game. He gives you one half. every game where he's rolling, but there's got to be somebody else. I think one of the things that's been difficult is Otega Owe doesn't seem to want to shoot anymore. And without Butler, he has to shoot, and it needs to go in some, but he also has to take them. I feel like he doesn't, I feel like he only wants to go to the basket now. I've been watching Owe's 3s closer than anyone because of Draft Kings, and he does not, I mean, they'll leave him open and doesn't even think about it anymore.

Earlier in the season, those non-conference games he was making them. Now they can sag way off him, and he doesn't even consider it. I think after like five or six games, his percentage was 50%. And then I think he had a bad stretch of games, and now, Rine won't even take him. Yeah, that bad stretch, I think he's lost his confidence in his jumper. You know, now he just looks just to drive only. But you talk about Jackson, I want him to be more selfish. I want him to take more shots.

I want Bray to take more shots. They're going to have to if they're going to have to continue to play without Butler, they're going to need those two guys. Yeah. Well, we've got to get, we've got to get more in terms of time. I just don't think our reserves, I mean, I think probably in each game, one of them, but we just can't put them in a mass of those three guys, have them play together. Drew, and expect, when that happens, we don't stop anybody.

When we do the mass of reserves, we just get scored on every play. Yeah, and the point guard defense was supposed to be one of the, the strengths of the team. Remember Pope said last summer, I don't lose any sleep about guarding SEC guards. And it kind of looked that way when they had Butler. But, I mean, and it would happen to any team. When you lose your two-point guards, you're in trouble. And we're fortunately down to just freshmen that are trying to fill in that role against guards who can take you off the dribble and go straight to the room. With all that said, we can win. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Oh, yeah. I wonder, though, with their strength of perimeter, if this is a game you just may

need Chandler defensively some, no, not a lot, but some, just to slurs somebody down. You're going to play reserves a little bit, but you can't play all of them at once. At the same time. And there might be games that are NOAA games, there might be games that are Chandler games, there might be games that are Perry games, but you can't put them all. Like we just, you know, you just can't. We play Chandler 15 minutes in the second half against Arkansas. Like, it's just not going to work.

No. And not that it's a big deal, but this was a school Perry was considering. So if he gets some extra minutes, that's a little more maybe pressure on him or a reason to play well. With all that said, we can win. I mean, we've lost three or four. Yeah, we can beat any of these. This is a huge game for both teams. Both teams have lost three or four coming in tonight.

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Welcome back. Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. We'll go to the phones right here. One person writes on the text machine, 772-745254. Matt, what do you think we get Butler back? I do now. I think he'll play. I think he'll probably come back if I were to guess.

Let's see. What are our games here? I think he'll come back. We play at, we play tennis. Home, South Carolina, home, I don't think he'll be back for that one. At Texas, I would say at Alabama, February 22nd, that's, I think, probably about when they're targeting him playing.

Now, if things fall apart, then maybe they try to bring him back earlier, but that's kind of what I think. You know, right now the key is they've got to grind some victories out here. I mean, they've got to win Saturday against South Carolina. They're probably looking at it and saying, And tonight at Old Miss, next Tuesday against Tennessee, we've got to find a way to win one of those. I mean, you know, we're adding up losses here. We have six, and we got more coming.

So, you know, we got to make sure we get some wins. I think the Arkansas game put the cow part aside. It's a bad loss because they're terrible. Yeah. You know, and we lost at home. Ken Palm has Kentucky going three and seven, but the seven losses are. all by three points or less. That's how close the analytics

projected. If we were to go three and seven, I mean, that's seven, that's what, seven and eleven in conference? I mean, that's not good. And it's very possible. I mean, the reality is we're probably going to be an underdog

in seven of the next ten games. I don't know if people really process that, that we're probably going to be an underdog in seven of the next ten games. And if you're going to the next couple of weeks, without Butler, we saw the different team not having him did against Arkansas. You have him against Arkansas, maybe he slows down DJ Wagner a little bit. They would need him tonight.

So huge games on the road without your leading point guard. Mark Story said, you don't, Mark Story wrote in the Herald Leader, you don't become the coach at Kentucky until you have your first really bad loss. Do you agree with that? and if so, does that mean Mark Pope is now feeling the coach of Kentucky weight? I can see that a little bit. I feel like he's already got a couple losses. Not necessarily bad, but he should have won, and he felt that a little bit.

Like, they should have beaten Vanderbilt at Vand, even though it was on the road. He did seem very, very confused and lost in his comments after Arkansas, though. That was the first time Pope really didn't seem to have any answers or know what to say after a game. Yeah. Well, big game tonight. Who's up first, Shannon? Let's go to Lloyd. Lloyd.

Lloyd, go ahead, Lloyd. Hey, how's going. Thank you, guys. Real quick, before I get into my event, 20 years ago, I was a freshman in the UK, right when KS saw I was in an event, and I was in a big thing. And y'all were talking about the rating. It's just great to see how far you guys have come in 20 years,

and to think it's been 20 years is wild. It is wild. Congratulations. So the first post went up, I believe, I want to say, say November, maybe, 2005. So we will have the 20th anniversary this fall, which that is really crazy to me, but I appreciate you saying that. 20th anniversary of the website and 15th anniversary of the show are all coming this fall. But go ahead. Wow, yeah, that's amazing. So like I said, a UK alumni, I remember my first he mentioned as a

UK fan was in 96. I was watching action to Mark Polk team win that championship alone in my living room, and that's kind of where it all started. But it's this Calipari loss, I like to say Calipari wins the ego game, right? He wins the games that stroke the ego, but, you know, when it matters, he loses them, at least of late the last five or six years. So that one hurts, but I'm trying not to let it hurt so bad. But we just need.

you remember DeAndre Liggins, man, when he was just a dog on day. And it's like to see this team is so amazing on offense. They are just so good to have this lacking defense is just heartbreaking. Yeah, but I mean, we don't have that, and that's not coming. You know what I mean? I mean, that guy doesn't exist. That guy's not on the roster.

Like, they're going to have to win the way they are. You know, Lloyd? I mean, like, they're going to have to find a way to outscore people. That's why, you know, you don't hear me talk about, like, really improving on defense because it's not going to happen. These dudes are 23 years old. If they're not good yet on defense, it ain't going to happen in the next 10 games. Man, that's just, I don't know, it's crazy.

I played ball and I wasn't great offensively, but I focused on rebounding and playing defense. And it's like, I guess, as a new parent, you kind of see your kid and you want to, it's like if you can't, you see and you know what they need to do, but you're right, they just can't. Yeah, I mean, this is a different group. I appreciate the call, Lloyd. I mean, unlike a lot of teams, Drew, this is a different group in the sense. You know, one thing during the Cal era is you could always tell yourself,

these are freshmen. By March, they'll do this. Now, whether they did it or not is a different point. I mean, we still are waiting on Justin Edwards to, you know, come around. And Chris Livingston, right? But with this group, I mean, they are what they are. Like the, you know, these are like fifth and six year seniors. Like they are what they are.

And so it's up to Pope to just say, this is what it is. How do I make it the best that I can? Because it is what it is. This is the group. Yeah, for a couple guys, it's just how they're built. I mean, they can't learn anymore. They can't develop anymore. Andrew Carr is not going to get lateral quickness overnight.

I mean, when we watched him against Grant Nelson at Alabama, you just, Grant Nelson had a different set of legs than Andrew Carr has. Kobe Brea, his knees are about to fall off. He's giving it all he can, but guys are just going to blow by Kobe Brea. So Pope has to scheme up ways to play better defense. I wish they had done a little zone against Arkansas. What did you think about his answer on that? So he was asked about the zone, and Pope said something like, you know,

they get 0.15 points per possession more against zone than man, which I get. But like, maybe this is the time you try something else because they're scoring on our man as well. Yeah, I think he added, when he was talking about that, I think he admitted, I wish I'd done some different things defensively. Maybe he took some chances defensively. I think they're going to have to. I think they're so weak defensively in certain spots, they're going to have to take some chances. But what's crazy, what, three of these guys coming in were defensive players of the year in their conference, right?

Coming in, I didn't think they would be our team as a whole would be bad. Marie, who's been, I think, pretty good, absent the hands staying on the side. Butler, who's not playing. They were better when Butler was there, obviously. So who's the third one? What are three guys? I mean, you're the one that said there was three. I thought there was three.

Who's up next? Let's go to Matt. Matt, what's up, Matt? Yeah. Am I the only person that thinks Cal's post-game comment actually made it a little bit easier? Everything he said was pretty well true. It was hard to even look at his face immediately afterwards. But once you kind of take it in, I got my left.

like back this is one game, like where you guys are in your first year. Yeah, I mean, he's always been good at that. Like, he's always been good. I mean, remember, he used to say about our now assistant coach Mark Fox after every game, he was one of the best coaches in the country, but he said it after he beat him by 20, right? Like, I mean, he's always been a gracious winner. I think that's one of his better traits. I don't know, I mean, but what does that change?

I mean, look, I still think long term, the truth. trajectory is very positive for this program. But in terms of this year, and in terms of like, you know, this year, I don't really know that it changes anything for me. Does it for you? I think I was more so expecting him to go pull an Auburn stunt and just go bang on his chest and just further infuriate me, but to kind of see him take a breath and phrase it that way and do it with grace. I appreciate the call. I mean, part of that is he wants to come back here one day. And if you burn it to the ground on your way out, that's not going to happen. I mean, he won the game, so it's easy for him to kind of, you know, it's, well, not easy.

But he could have been forgiven if he came out there and said, yeah, y'all booed me and, but that's the equivalent of a winning version of when Rick flipped us off. And I think that would have made it a lot harder. He handled it the right way. I really think, whether you think he's genuine or not, all season, when he's given an opportunity, he's been. been saying the right things. A little part of me thought there might be a little dig here or there. I don't think that I've seen one. But the cow comments, really, them being so bad is what I think helped everyone with Saturday,

the fact what you just said, would anyone really trade places with them? If they came in and we had the same record and you had to go watch Cal go and that's different, but all of us in the back of our minds know we would not trade places, which is what made that easier. It was the only time I've heard Mark Pope, though, flummoxed. Yeah, he was totally out of loss for words on his postgame show. It was the only, that's the only time I've seen him flummoxed. And I made my heart go out to him, too.

Yeah, it made me wonder if he was really shocked by what happened. Maybe they thought, look, this is going to be a game we win. And then when we just, not only lost, I mean, Arkansas led the whole second half and some of the first. He didn't even stick around afterwards. I know it's late. He doesn't have to do that every night, but he did that show and got on out. You could tell he was really bothered by. He shook.

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Well, I have a colonoscopy is Thursday. Oh, boy. Live? Can we go live from there? No, because it's in the afternoon. I can take my afternoon show there then. If you want to take your afternoon show there, you can. I mean, I think it's up to them.

Rapid reaction? Double Q, live from Harts going on. But he's like talking about how miserable it's going to be, and I don't know why you're doing that. You're thinking you can do the show Thursday morning before you're a procedure. The procedure is at 12.30 on Thursday. So you don't think I can do the show from 10 to 12 on Thursday?

You can do it, but we better post up back there by the bathroom. So you're saying like up until the moment it starts, things are happening. There's a lot of stuff happening. This could be really good radio. Really good radio. No, I mean, I'm going to be on here Thursday. So like if it's happening, it's happening. Yeah, there'll be a commercial break.

We have a bathroom in the KSR office. That's what I'll use. I probably won't use the, you know, tilted kilt bathroom back there. I'll probably go ahead and use the one in the, in the, office. But I think it's going to be fight. It'll be out there. Well, that stuff seems to, that's why you can do it 24 hours.

Now, what is it? You can, I have to call them today to get the instructions, but you can only have, what, water and black coffee? Is that right? I think you can have chicken, soup broth, chicken noodle soup broth. I don't think they told me that. I think I had that, and I had maybe jello. Jello.

Yeah, I think you can have jello. You can, where does one even get Jello anymore? Grocer's. Those little jello. By the way, I was at Kroger yesterday. Yeah. It was nice. I haven't been to one of those in a while.

Wow. Well, I'm getting to start in a cook. Well, I mean, there's a lot of stuff. Many aisles. I went to the one there that's next to campus. Okay. I got a rooftop. Yeah, they got a lot of stuff going on in there, right?

You know, it was nice. Asparagus? You got some asparagus? No, I saw it. I didn't get any of those things. So what was in your basket when you checked out? I was just looking around. I mean, I was looking for.

for something specific. But in general, but I just wanted to kind of get a lay of the lamb before I start really, you know, making it my own here soon. That one's got like its own little soup and salad bar, a lunch counter in there. I didn't see a salad bar.

Maybe they've taken it out since COVID. I was looking around for the salad bar. I was going to eat salad for dinner, but I didn't see it. I don't think I've been since COVID, so it probably took it out. Yeah, but it was nice to go in a place like that again.

I'm proud of you. So introduce yourself to a grocery store. Where do you find jello? I love the I just don't see it out a lot anymore Like you don't see people When's the time? Go to Kroger?

When's last time you saw somebody eating jello? Like, for real? Like, when's last time you had Besides, like, when's the last time you had jello? I have a jello brand pudding cups at home. Okay, that's not saying, though. When have you eaten jello? Jello shots?

Probably within the last month. Okay, so besides jellos shots. Actually, yeah, no, I did jello shots in Nashville two weeks ago. Yeah. Did you eat jello, Shannon? No. No. You know, last time I had Jello, it was probably Jello shots like Drew's talking about. Exactly.

So you all are making my point. But anyway, so I have this colonoscopy Thursday, and it can't, I'll just say this. I'm not trying to be, like, we don't have to go into details. It can't be any more unpleasant than my sickness was last week. I mean, that was the most unpleasant I've felt in a long time. It can't be worse than that. Well, I gave you the best advice I can give you. Okay, don't.

Just remember there are people, but go ahead. Yeah. You know, you can't eat for 24 hours, so people think I'm going to eat a lot right before my 24 hour clock starts. Big mistake. Big, big mistake. Don't do that. Did a lot of people think that or did you think that? A lot of people.

Then they realize that. I think it's probably more you thought. Admit it, you thought that. I did the first time. I ate a lot. Shannon, do you have the drop of when Ryan got his colonoscopy on the air? Do you have that drop? Yes, I do.

Here it is. Right. Immediately, when we leave here, we had to go get a Cheeburger. Golly. That was a great show. I mean, we did a show from the colonoscopy office, and you came in, and you looked, you were so high. And I said to the doctor, like, I said to the doctor, like, is he good to go on the air? And he's like, I think so.

And that was what we got. We got this, Shannon. Immediately, when we leave here, we had to go get a cheese. I remember the next day sitting and re-listing to that show, and I have no memory of any of that. I mean, absolutely zero. That's probably been five years. Do you need to do it again? Well, I just did one a couple years ago.

We did a second show there after my second colonoscopy. I did one of 50. That's right. You didn't come on the air, though, on that. Briefly. Briefly. And then I think I even fell asleep during the show. He fell asleep with the headset on.

Yeah. Well, I can't believe you agreed to that. That stuff gives me anxiety. Like, when I gave my wisdom, teeth taken out, got him taken out. people were telling me what I was saying, that still haunts me. I don't like. Yeah, I would, like you, we talked, Billy and I about doing it. And I, I don't want someone putting a microphone next to me.

Because I don't know, you know. I mean, I still have, like, hebi-jee-jee's about my Ambien Day. People are like, you need to make that an annual thing. You know, I know how out of character it is for me to just look at somebody and go, I can beat you in a race. So, like, I don't want to, I don't want to risk. But it's good we're talking about it because, you know, everybody needs to do it. He said 45.

Yeah, it used to be 50. I'm a little past that. But, you know, I just kept putting it off. I'm like, you know what? You just got to do it. I decided at the turn of the year all the things that I like to put off, right? I'm just doing them. Right?

So I went got a physical, which I hadn't had in a long time. Good for you. Clean bill of health. Good for you. So then I went and I'm like getting my dental work. Like, I have lots of dental things that, you know, you can keep putting those off, and I'm getting those done. You know, I'm going to, like, dermatology, like, everything you're supposed to do.

But the part of that is you got a colon yourself, and I decided to do that. Look at you, little Matt growing up right in front of our eyes right here. Congratulations. Welcome to the 40s. Yeah, I mean, welcome to the mid-40s. Now's the time to start doing all that. Said you're doing all the things you should have already been doing, so we're going to get the Sopranos rewatch.

We're going to get through that? No, we're not doing it. I'm still in episode three. Who's up next? 90s country bracket. Adam. Adam, go ahead, Adam. Hey, Matt.

I would think with the way that you eat Chipotle and the skyline, colonoscopy prep would be a brief. See, I wasn't going to say that, but I actually agree with you. I feel like, I feel like this is going to be, I feel like this is just normal week for me in my house. down the medicine. Yeah, you know what? I don't need it.

You're going to go through this on Valentine's now. I went through it last week, I think, but go ahead. If you have, Tom, I had two quick questions. One, you've been on the Mock NCA selection, right? Yes, I have. Okay, so let's say, you know, we go on a good run here at the end. How much stock will they put into, you know, Butler and Car being out? That's a good question.

So I appreciate the call. The way the NCAA does it is, I think, a little different than people think. They do not, here's what they don't do. They don't go, hey, you're hot, hey, you're cold at the end. They don't do that. But what they will say is if your record significantly deviated during a period where someone is hurt, they will take that into consideration. So if we were to lose these games and then Butler comes back and we win five in a row,

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