KSR - 2025-02-10- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Kentucky Basketball's upcoming game vs. Tennessee, possible future Super Bowl Halftime performances, and Trump is getting rid of pennies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Mario documented a lot of the cute pictures. Nice job with the crowd coming out with no notice. I mean, we didn't even know for sure he was coming until like 7 o'clock. And then they changed the time at like 10 o'clock because we were supposed to be 2 to 3.30. Then Mark Pope called a film session for 3 o'clock. Normally he gives him Sundays off. He called him in for a film session, so we had to move it up to 1 o'clock so Otega could get to his film session. But normally Sunday's off.

They said, no, we need a film session because we got Tennessee come. And people still came. Line was out the door before you started at 1 o'clock, so they were excited to come meet him. Yeah, I like it. It looks to be a very young crowd, too. I mean, the kids love coming out and meeting all the players. Like you said, Mario did a great job of capturing it all. But when Otega walked in and that line was out the door, I knew he was in for a fun afternoon.

I was impressed. I mean, big shout out to UK fan base because, you know, one of the things is they wanted to do these signings, but they didn't want to announce it for a Sunday lose and then have people complain. So they were like, we're only doing them after we win. But that means there's like no time to promote it, really. And so to have that crowd with really no time promoting, big salute to everybody for that for making the Otega seem to really enjoy it. And on Super Bowl Sunday, when people have a lot of plans and things to do, too. We didn't mention, by the way, our commercial.

the UK FCU commercial. So you had told me it was going to be between the first and the second quarter. That's what we were told, yeah. So I was excited. I turned the TV, you know, we have it on. And then there we are, and we come on, and you spit directly in my face, which is really nice to have a debut on, if not national television, at least local television, just with Ryan Lemon spitting directly in my face.

You know, they use like cameras that make you look like a movie star. So I'm glad that I got to be movie star good getting spit in my face. But that was neat. I have to say, it was kind of cool to have a commercial on the Super Bowl. I mean, I know it wasn't, it's not quite Sidney-Sweeney and the Harry Met Sally commercial. And I'm not on Bill Belichick's girlfriend's level. But nevertheless, it was still cool. I got to retell this story because you were a trooper that day, man.

I'm telling you, you stepped up and took one for the team. I'm supposed to just spit water on the floor. And then you said, let's do it again. I'll let him spit on me because he had like a red jacket on. Well, I mean, I was like, if I'm going to come out here and do this, let's make it funny. And I was like, you know, if you're going to have a spit take, having it go in your face is funnier than on the ground. So I was like, just, you know, it's not something I say a lot in my private life spit in my face. But I was like, you know what, just.

Especially to run. Definitely not to rhyme. But I was just like, you know what? spit in my face and uh and and and and it worked you said you got one take you're going to do i did i said if you don't get this take it's not happening and then they did it so you know what it is so you got to do it for the bit you're an actor that's you channeled your daniel day louis you've got completely into the role and and sacrifice that everybody's got their thing daniel day lewis had my left foot lincoln i have a saskwatch commercial with kobe braya and uk federal credit you

and everybody has their sort of one that that the sticks out did you get sick after Ryan spit on you though because you know sometimes he has these head colds and sun headaches and all the stuff he has going on get sick but that was like it was like a week later so I don't think I don't think he did he did that too like good performance behind the scenes as soon as it happened all the entire crew's like it went in his mouth yeah it went in his mouth another thing Shannon that I don't like to hear people just say yeah I'm gonna isolate this audio yeah I mean like you don't need to be screaming it went in his mouth everywhere now the screenshot lives forever um So there was that. Now I have one more story I want to tell you that is non-sports, and then we'll get back to Kentucky. I may have laughed harder yesterday, Drew, than I've laughed in a long time. So I went old-school Lexington this weekend to restaurants. Like everybody always likes the hot new thing.

Yeah. Right? I went old school. I went to two of the oldest restaurants in this city. First I went to Paizano's out on Nicholsville Road. Yeah. I hadn't been there in 30 years. And I say this with love and reverence.

They haven't changed the place at all since then. I haven't changed it 30 years. They haven't changed anything. Same rolling chairs. Wow. So food's good. They were a little understaff, which having done this restaurant, I've learned to kind of have sympathy for, right?

But very old school. You know what I mean? Very old school. Very old school. And the crowd, the crowd there looked like it was like casino night on a casino on the Mississippi River. It was like the buffet at 4.30. But you know what?

Food was good. Food's usually good. So I was glad I went. Then yesterday, my parents were in town, and we went to Dudley's. Oh, wow. Oh, okay. You know, Dudley's is, yeah, I love Dudley's. It's a very, like, old-school Lexington thing.

So Larry and I are sitting on one side of the table. Mom is in the booth. This poor server, all right, again, I don't blame her. She was doing the best she can. she's walking and she's walking behind us and she gets about five feet behind us and i hear her like trip and you know how you can hear plates fall oh yeah i hear it fall and then there's like a two second pause and all of a sudden two seconds later i hear and catch up has flown through the air over top of me and landed directly on larry you

He's bald head. Oh, no. He is. Now, you have to understand. All of you that have seen, I love Larry. Larry's 87 years old. But there is now ketchup on his pants.

There is a, like a cupcake, a little blob of ketchup on the top of his bald head, like on the peak of his head. A little dollop. And a little dollop is hanging from his ear like an ear. Okay. Now, he sees it on his pants. There's something about Larry.

It was there something about Larry? That's exactly right. He sees it on his pants, and he's wiping up his pants. But I look at him, and he has ketchup on the top of his head and an earring of ketchup, which I don't think he can feel. He didn't know it. And I fall on the ground laughing. Like, I cannot stop laughing. Poor ketchup head.

He's sitting there with ketchup on his head. and rather than cleaning him off, I just couldn't stop laughing. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. I then come, I clean him off. They're, of course, mortified, right? Like, they're mortified. They feel awful. But I want to thank them because I will have the picture of Larry with his ketchup head.

Like, literally, that is in my brain forever, Ryan. It was one of the, they ended up giving us free desserts, which they didn't have to do. I should have paid them for the ketchup that was on the. the top of his head. It's funny just hearing you tell the story. I can imagine you're sitting there beside. It's probably you didn't take a picture of him before you cleaned him off. I wanted to, but I was like, I feel like that my mom would go, don't you post that.

But I couldn't help it with his little catch up. I would love to see a photo of that. I went to Dudley's week ago too. I guess we're playing all the hits. I had a good time there. No catch a film. It's very good. People should go there.

All right. Tucky and Tennessee tomorrow, how do you feel about it? Before South Carolina, I said four game one. win streak incoming. I'm sticking with it. I doubt Tennessee takes 45, three-pointers this time around, and clanks a fourth of them. That was very helpful in Knoxville, but I still like how Kentucky's getting back to full health, assuming we have Jackson Robinson a little better off. After the game, Saturday, had a big brace on his wrist. I kind of didn't like we put him back in, because then he got hurt like one play later, and he was holding his, I mean, we were up 20 at that point. It felt like we

could have, you know, because I worry about that. That's his shooting hand. Now, he did make a couple three, so I feel like he's not, you know, he's clear, but I do, that's something, you know, as a person with a wrist injury, that can linger, and we need it to not linger. So my view is, man, make sure we, because we can't score the amount we need to score without him putting in bucket, so I hope we get that healthy. I was worried about it.

His first couple shots were short, you know, hit the front of the rim, then he finally got on track and hit a couple. I'm like you, me, when I got about 20, just pull him out, just sit him down. No sense re-injuring it, and then, of course, he did. Now, last time we played Kentucky, we went down there really short-handed. Didn't have Butler or Carr. Probably have our best win of the season to win down there without those two guys. Now you've got them back at full strength, and you've got them at home.

As good as Tennessee's defense was, we still found a way to exploit it last time without Butler and Carr. But do you think, like, the fact we won down there makes it less likely we win here? I mean, during Cal era, there was a couple years where we beat them there and they beat us here. It was like it was odd. We kind of alternated. I think they did that with Florida this year. They beat them at Florida. Florida beat them in Knoxville.

Do you worry about that at all? A little, haven't swept them much with Barnes there, but the recipe is going to be the same. Sag off and dare them to shoot. Hopefully it's as bad as it was the first trip down there. But that's what the game will come down to if Tennessee can take advantage of those threes. It is worth noting that we beat them without Butler and Carr. And we're going to have those guys. And you've got to think we have a better chance.

Carr specifically, I think, you know, can help with the matchup with their big guy, Igor, or whatever his name is because he gave us problems down there. So I think Carr will be an extra, you know, that guy's slow. So it's a guy Carr, I actually think can defend a little bit. Yeah, he had a big game. Amari played well in that game, too, had a big double-double. So hopefully he can run that back. I also just think the crowd will be a big part of it.

Yeah, so what about the crowd? Do you expect? I mean, most of the time. these big games against big teams we tend to play on Saturday. Our Auburn game coming up is on Saturday. This is a Tuesday night. You think the crowd will be ready to rock tomorrow night? I think we've seen it.

They absolutely will bring it tomorrow night. We've gotten lucky none of those 9 o'clock Tuesday night games, which kind of maybe fans stay away from. These 7 o'clock games, man, the crowds have been absolutely fantastic so far. We have had a lot of... I mean, the only 9 o'clock game on the schedule during the week is we play at

Oklahoma at 9 o'clock. But we've gotten very fortunate about how the games B7. Yeah, and really just since the Pope era has started, Rupp has just been a different animal. It's been good for just about every game. This Saturday was awesome. I have no doubt they'll show up even though it's a Tuesday night.

It's Tennessee. They'll want to be in there and pack it and be loud. Now, there's another big game, which is tonight, UK women are at Old Miss. Now, let me set up for you the UK women's thing here for a second. We've only lost one game in the conference. This team is 20 and 2. They're going to probably be ranked in the top 10 this week.

Yeah. For the first time in a long time for UK women. They play at Old Miss tonight. They're favorite. Kentucky should win. Old Miss is good, though, but they can win. If they win, though, Thursday night is going to be one of the biggest, if we win, one of the biggest games we've ever had here in Lexington.

You know, South Carolina already has a loss in conference. LSU has a loss. Texas has a loss. so do we. But we play Texas here, and we still play LSU here. Now we have to go to South Carolina. They're going to play Texas here if we win tonight on Thursday night for first place in the SEC. It'll be the first time two top ten teams have played each other here in like a decade.

You have to go back to when Matthew Mitchell went against Lawson at not Lawson, I'm sorry. Why do I always forget her name? The coach is South Carolina. Oh, Don Stanley. Don Stanley. When they had that game eight or nine years ago that I went to, they played on a Sunday and they were both top ten. This will be the last time I'll have a top ten matchup,

and we will probably have that here Thursday, but we got to win the night to set that up. I think Kentucky's already announced it to sellout. The Texas game's already sold out, I believe. Should be. I'm going. I mean, like, this is going to be one of the more exciting women's games that we've ever had at this school.

I mean it. Now, you've got to win the night to set it up. But there's a chance Thursday night, Drew, you're talking about one of the elite environments and elite games that Kentucky has ever had for their women's program. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I said Pat Summitt, I remember a Tennessee game going to one over there when Matthew Mitchell was the coach and Summit was still the coach. And, I mean, you would have thought Memorial was Rupp Arena, how rowdy it was, and it's

only gotten better. The venue's gotten better with the remodel. I think it's going to be awesome in there. And tonight's game and that game are both now. nationally televised on ESPN 2. So if you can't make it, you can still watch. For people who don't know, that game is on ESPN 2. And the game Thursday night, I believe, is on ESPN 2. I believe it is. I think it's back-to-back ESPN 2. Back-to-back ESPN 2. Still, I mean, it's on national TV.

So tonight, let's all watch. But then Thursday, if we win tonight, we're doing a thing Thursday. Sure. Like, I'm, to me, what Kenny Brooks has done at UK is worthy of celebration. And Thursday night is the chance to do it. You're getting, I mean, I didn't think we'd have a matchup like that here in a long, long time. You get that win, then you can really start dreaming about some special things going on. No, if they get that win, then they'll play LSU the next week, and you're like, wow, we could win the SEC. Yeah.

You know, I mean, that is, if they can win these two games this week. If they win tonight, it ties the best start in school history through 22 games, just to show how well they're playing. Unbelievable. Hey, B, B, BN, if you're exercising more, being healthier, saving more money, those are good in years, resolutions, but you also need to feel good. And court physical therapy has been Kentucky and his leader in physical therapy for more than 30 years. Whether you're a chronic resolution breaker or someone who's serious about making a lifestyle

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You can just replace his name of Larry's head. You know, your knowledge of songs, I hate for the people in the podcast they can't hear it, because it's always so dead on. Yep. And like, I don't know. I do think we're allowed now, Shannon, to put Werewolves of London on there. Oh, we are? I think so.

I think it has to be like 12 seconds or under, but just on the intro. Oh, okay. I think we're allowed to do that. I don't think we can do all the other stuff, but I do think we can do Werewolves of London. So Shannon, the music selections add so much to our show. He does. I hate that I hate that can't hear it. That's one of the things I hate for the podcast people, but it's like, you know, I mean, it's all radio shows on podcast.

It'll get it'll get worked out someday. Like I Heart and the music companies will reach some resolution, I'm sure. But for right now, we're going to have to get some band to just give us all their music. I don't know how we're going to be able to do that. The Texas game is not sold out, by the way. Not sold out. So Thursday night, if you're not sold out. So Thursday night, if you want to go, I mean, this is a top 10 women's matchup.

I'm sure it'll be sold out by game time, but if you want to go, there are tickets now for Thursday night. It's the next two games after that that are sold out the two weekend games. But Thursday night against Texas, there's still a handful of tickets left. They play Thursday and turn around and play Sunday there too. They do. Did someone tell me it's supposed to snow eight inches tomorrow? When did that happen? Three to eight inches, I think they're projecting starting this time.

tomorrow morning. Who said that was okay? We play Tennessee tomorrow. Yeah. I just know I got the snow out of my yard from the last one. What is that? Well, now that might make a difference. I'll tell you this, though,

when it snows like that, the people that go to the game. More into it. More into it. Yeah, they are. I feel like they earned it. I'm going to say this to all of you that are listening. If we get eight inches of snow and you can't come here, send me the tickets and let me give them away so that that arena is loud.

All right? I mean, I'll make sure I'll, because there'll be people here who would walk to that game in Lexington. Don't let your seat go unsold because of the snow. Yeah, not for the Tennessee game. Not for the Tennessee game. If this were some other like, you know, terrible game, that's different. But for Tennessee, we've got to have a crowd in there. Yeah, this is big for SEC tournament seating.

Your place in the conference. Listen, getting a buy. We're going to be hovering most likely around 7, 8, 9, 10 in the SEC. So to get a buy and to not have to be. to play five games in five days, which is what you would have to do, we got to win at least one this week to make that happen. You'd feel comfortable over Tennessee, though. You'd have the same record with the tiebreaker there, and they still have some tough games. This is big for the head-to-head with where you fall in the standards. We got some bad luck because Old Miss was about

to lose to LSU, and then they went and came back. Let's talk about those Saturday games for a minute. Clemson beats Duke. Yes. Dickie V's return. We've played both of them, so it really didn't matter. Cooper Flag falling down again. Cooper flag is now fall. down at the end of three games. Do you, uh, is that just coincidence? Like, why is my man just, does he just trip? Why does he have, why does he have three fall downs at the end of three games? You got to think the fact that's happened three times.

It's something he's doing mentally. Like he's not getting his feet set when he tried to make that jump stop. He just trying to move too fast, do too much. And this was like a banana peel fall. Like this was like, like it, like it, he went, like it was like, like, that one was a wild one. That was a cartoon, Looney Tunes fall. Right in the big moment, but, I mean, the story of that game, I didn't care who won really. It was so good to see Dickie V.

That intro, I was not, yeah. I'll admit, I's got a little wet there a little bit watching Dickie V have his moment. And, you know, his voice is not as strong, but he's still got the energy. Right? Like, he's still got the PTPA, Copa, Copa flags, a real thing, baby. And even though I can't stand Duke. And, like, I don't, I like, it's fitting he does Duke games because that's really his thing. know, he loves the whole Duke thing.

Clemson, though, Shannon, I still love the dude on Clemson. Wait, me, you were at wrestling, so you didn't see it. The dude at Clemson that tore us up that looks like just a regular guy. Sheffter, Sheffler. Shefflin or whatever. Yeah. How is that guy good? He tore Duke up, too.

Yeah, he did. How is this dude that doesn't seem one bit athletic? He had 20 rebounds against us. How does he do it? It had double double against them, too. I remember that guy, though, when we were watching at the bar, the Clemson Cotica. People say he looks like me with Carrot-Tops hair. That's what they say.

But I don't think that's fair. But, like, how does he do it? I don't know. Such a YMCA game. And that was my first time watching Clemson since we lost to them. It was just a flashback to that with him and the guy, but it looks like he's 50. Yeah, Cary, Maryland. It took me back to a dark place.

That Clemson team is so ridiculous. Then you had Calaparian, Arkansas. They were down 20 to Alabama with six minutes left and ended up having a shot at the end to tie it. Big Z just decided to become Novitsky at the end. Big Z ended up with 24, 25 points. I think he hit four or five, three-pointers. Worst mustache I've ever seen. Big Zee?

Someone tell me what is happening with Big Z's mustache. Did you see it? Oh, yeah. I squinted. I had to quit to see it. Yeah, I saw it. He looks like in like a British detective show, how there'll be just one guy with a little, like, Like, that is, Z, that's the worst mustache I've ever seen.

He shot the ball so well, I would keep it. Maybe that's, you know, a good luck charm for him. He looks like he's like trying to change his identity for a party or something, like and be French. He's one of those long, like, cigarettes that are in the cigarette hole. The weirdest moustaches I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, but he was incredible. I mean, they would have gotten destroyed if he hadn't taken off in the second half.

He was the entire offense that game, and it was a little hard to watch. just someone who still loves Big Z. Did you see yesterday when they told Hugh B. Brown goodbye? I missed it. I didn't see that. 91 years old. You know, I watched about the last quarter of that game. And like, it's clear, like, his voice, he's, I can see why he's quitting.

But his mind is still like he's seeing things on the court. And they kept showing highlights of him. And there were a couple things that I thought were cool. One, he was like an old man Pistol Pete. They showed him at like a basketball clinic, and he was in a basketball clinic like on the streets of New York. So he's surrounded, like, by all these young black kids. And he at this time's like 55, and he's throwing it between his head and between his legs and all.

And they're going crazy. Also, you know, he coached the Kentucky Colonels. Yeah. So a lot of the videos are from when he was then, and on his goodbye, he said, my two years with the Kentucky Colonels were the happiest two years of my life. That's awesome. Because, you know, he won a title, I think, with them as well. And so he had the suit and the colonels thing.

So that was kind of neat as well. I liked all the players, went and shook his hand. And there's a part where he says, can we pause for a moment while I have a tear. Like, you know, you can tell it's just getting to him. To me, say that out loud. It was, you know. He spent his whole life and to still even be trying at 91. To me, that's inspirational.

Like, when these old guys like Corso and Vital and Yuby do it, It's easy for people to say, hey, just move on. But there's also something inspiring about a person that wants to keep going. Even if it's not great, they still want to do it. I love that about them. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR.

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We've kind of been just talking. Let's go to there. 7-7-2-7. 7744-5-254. One person writes, Matt, do you still think it's inspiring when senators want to be a senator when they're 90 years old? Less so. I think those guys can step as...

I'm not saying they can't be in the workforce. But, you know, some of these men and women, like Mitch and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Grassley and some of those, you know, we... Y'all can keep going. I just... The announcers thing, I think, is probably... That's a little different to me. You know, I think it was during the Clemson Duke game.

Corey Alexander said he was telling, giving his story about Hubie Brown. He said he would come out like an hour and a half, two hours before every game with the yellow notepad and write down notes for the game who's getting ready to call. I'll tell you, when you get around like real professionals and you see what they do to prepare for the game, like if you ever get a chance, if you're at a basketball game, walk by Tom Leach and look at his note. Yeah. I mean, he's got this big card and it's got so much stuff on it, like so much stuff. And I'm not going to, when it comes to ESPN people, some of them have it and some of them don't.

I'm not going to say which one's which, but some of the ones I think that you see that you're always like, man, that person's always prepared. Go look at the notes. Well, that's what I do for the show. Like you got to, you do the things. Like I have my list of topics. I have my Super Bowl topics. I have the reads that Ryan don't forget to do. Like I've got all the things right here.

They do that for play by play. And they have notes on each player. It's pretty impressive. And they'll go the extra mile and call a school and make sure they're pronouncing it. I can't even say the word pronunciation right. I remember even Freddie would do that for football games, and I thought that was so different. Freddie's notes were unbelievable. Freddie for just our pregame show would have crazy notes.

Front and back of pages. You know, Tom Leach, I heard him tell a story one time. He learned how to get, do his show prep from Kaywood. He said Kaywood was very meticulous in his show prep before he got to do that game. I think Kaywood kept all of his. Did he really? want to say that back when the old UK museum was there,

they had all of Kewood's old prep cards. I don't know what happened when that museum... One of the real shames of Kentucky basketball is when that museum shut down, the stuff just got dispersed. Like, you know, they gave it to donors. Some people just came and

got stuff and, like, the history of UK basketball just kind of got dispersed out into the world. And that's a little bit of a shame to me. If anyone's been to Kansas, at the fog. They have the museum you walk through and you see like every year they have everything in there

and for Kentucky to have so much tradition that's just in garages right now. That's not stuff you can recreate. One person writes, Matt, you talked about Kendrick Lamar saying it wasn't for us. Who do you think the NFL's demographic is? But that's the point. They don't do it for you because you're watching the game anyway.

Right? The goal and the Super Bowl is to get people who don't normally watch the game. They know you're going to watch it because you care about the game. So what they're doing is they're putting a halftime show to get people who wouldn't otherwise watch the game. What do they care? If you're going to be watching the game anyway, then you're going to sit through it.

Their goal is to get, it's the same reason Taylor Swift they show her at the games. It's not because they think Bobby football fan likes Taylor Swift. They want little girls to tune in to the game hoping to see Taylor Swift. And that's the goal. So the halftime show, they not like us because it ain't for us. us, right? Like, it's their, like, he's doing it's for somebody else. That's the point. And millions of people are watching. There's not an artist that everyone's going to like. Like, maybe you wanted Jason Aldeen. Okay, well, everyone's going to go, why is Jason Al Dean out there?

Yeah, that's my point. I saw a lot of people saying that. Why don't we get somebody everybody would like? Tell me who that is. Who is the person that could play the Super Bowl that every different group of people would like? Who? Dolly? Dolly is the only one. I do think But Willie, I love Willie, but Willie's kind of slow now.

If you listen to Willie, like it's not, I don't know if he could handle that state. Dolly could. Dolly could get up there and start doleaning and then bring Beyonce on for a song and take, and those women might do it too. Like come on with her. That could work.

But even though you're going to have kids going, why is Dolly out here? You just can't please every demographic. But she might be the only person is Dolly Parton. And I don't know if they would give it to. I'd be for it. But like people, like, think of a rock band. Like, what rock band is everybody going to want to hear?

I think, I liked Kendrick. My biggest complaint was it should have been Lil Wayne. Now, I know that's not going to please everyone either, but he is Mr. New Orleans. Little Wayne would pass out in three minutes. Like, I mean, I would have been awesome. We should have had the big timbers and juvenile. Yeah, I mean, listen, I would like that.

But my question is, if you think Kendrick is going to make the, why would they like Joe? juvenile and like, you know. I'm not saying that's the answer, but my pick would have been that for the New Orleans, Ties. Yeah, but still that doesn't appeal to everyone. I saw a lot of people say Bruce Springsteen. I love Bruce Springsteen. You can go to Bruce Springsteen concert and you won't see one black person, not one.

So that's not going to work. And young people watch the Super Bowl and don't listen to Bruce Springsteen? Yeah, I mean, when's the last time you were on a college campus? It's all young people listening to Bruce Springsteen? Never. I mean, you know, somebody suggested the killers. And that one song, everybody does know. But you could bring them only for that one song.

Because then who's going to care about their other songs? I think part of that's what made some of the past better. Like, they'd bring guests of all kinds of genres. I wish Kendrick had worked in a few more people, even if it's still in hip-hop. In the past, it seems like there's been seven or eight people joining the show, and it was just mostly him. I've got something that we don't normally do on here. Okay.

I'm going to give a Trump. compliment. Okay. By the way, there are 500 things that I keep my mouth shut about that I would complain. But I'm going to give one compliment. Roll the tape, Shannon. Okay. Marking the tape.

He announced last night, probably because he was bored, that he's getting rid of pennies. Yeah. I've been on this train for a decade. I was anti-penny before it was cool. Yeah, you were. I hate pennies. I've always hated pennies. And then I read one time that they cost like 1.1.1.

cents to make, and they're only worth a cent, which I'm not a math major, but that strikes me as something that in and of itself should have made us get rid of pennies. That would be the only thing I needed to hear. And he says he's going to get rid of pennies. Great decision. Getting rid of pennies should have happened long ago. There's no reason to have them. I'm on the no penny train also. This is a good move by him. I'm okay if he wants to go to Nichols then next year, just to slowly eliminate the coins that we don't need anymore. You want to get rid of Nichols, too. Why?

Why have we got to have a nickel? By the way, my mom just suggested Ray Charles for the halftime. Hasn't he been dead for like 20 years? Yeah, we can't dig him up. That would be a heck of a halftime show. I will say, Mom, if they could get Ray Charles back, I would watch that. Tupac. That would have been cool.

He's been dead for like 20 years. Yeah, he's gone in 2004. Okay, all right, so let's. Maybe John Lennon can join him. Ray Charles Tupac and John Lennon would have crushed it. I would, listen. Hologram. Everyone would tune into that.

Back to the pennies. What is the argument for keeping them? Is there an argument? There can't be an argument for keeping pins. So then we get to round everything up to the nearest nickel. But that's fine. That's what I do anyway. When he says he's going to get rid of pennies, though, I mean, there's billions of pennies out there.

I think what they'll do is they'll just stop making them. They'll give you some option where you can bring your pennies and turn them into nickels and dimes, and then they'll get rid of them. and then at some point, people will stop using them because they won't be taken any. There was a time in American history where they had a half-cent piece. Yeah. And now they're just gone. And that's what will ultimately happen to pennies as well.

Nichols next year. My mom just wrote RIP Ray Charles. Sorry, you had to learn this way, Karen. I'm sorry, Mom. I'm sorry you had to learn that he's gone. I do want to mention one more Super Bowl thing for you switch. Okay. Former UK player Darying Kennard has now won three Super Bowl.

Bowls in a row. Think about this. Daryon Kinnar becomes only the sixth player in NFL history to win three straight super sports. Wow. He is, you want to talk about a trivia question nobody will get. Yeah. There are only six players in NFL history who have won three straight Super Bowls, and Darian Knaar is now one of them because he was on the chiefs the last two years,

and he was on the Eagles this year. And his is the most impressive because he's only been in the league three years. Like, I mean, just every summer does he expect? to win the Super Bowl now? Yeah. And if you're a team wanting to win the Super Bowl, you've got to take a chance and try to go get him. I'd trade for him. By the way, also, I'm for the plastic straws. But people who keep saying he's going to get rid of paper straws, he can't do that. Like we, I do people to, I want y'all to do this for me. I don't care if you are the most deranged

anti-Trump person or the most pro-Trump person. Take a moment in the next few days and read the Constitution. So you at least, understand what the power of each branch of government is. You as president can't just ban paper straws. Like that's not in your powers, right? You can't just shut down the Department of Education. That's not in the president's powers. He can say he's going to do it, but he can't do it.

Congress has to do that. Now, he may do it, but then the Supreme Court's going to reverse him. So just whether you love him or you hate him. Just read up on what the power of the, they are not God. They have limits to what they're allowed to do. I just need to say that. But I am glad he's getting rid of pennies. I do think he can do that, and that's a good decision.

I did wonder, like, do people just storm into privately on business and change their straws? I don't think you can do that. Now, he can say we, he can make regulations that allow the continued use of plastic straws, which is probably what he'll do. But he can't just be like, if you get a paper straw, you're going to prison. That's not what the president does. I got one more I want to ask you, Beth. I don't know you want to talk about it.

No, fine. I'll give you my answer, as honest as I can't. He wants to make Canada the 51st state. Unless we're going to go back to imperial times where we invade people at gunpoint and you can't do that either. And why would Canada want to be the 51st? First of all, Canada's bigger than we are. The idea that they would take all that land and go, you know what, give us the same rights as Rhode Island. Like if Canada did want to join the country, they'd probably demand to be like 10 or 15 states.

They're not going to be one state. That's a hell of a state. And we act like people in Canada just fell off the turnip truck. They have a pretty successful country, right? Yes. You know, if they have more oil and lumber than we. do. So why would they just be like, yeah, we'll be like Delaware. They're not going to do that. We'll be number 51. Yeah, they're not going to do that. All right, tell me about Stockton.

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So Dolly could do it. Dolly could do it. I mean, Dolly could do it. Like, she could do it in a perfect way because she could come out, do like Jolene with Beyonce, do nine to five, bring Taylor for a song, maybe bring out like... Miley Cyrus is her goddaughter.

There you go. And like just have like, and they all would do it cause it's dog. Absolutely. Like, that's the only woman who could get all of those people to kind of play second fiddle. Absolutely. Dolly is the one that could do it. So if I'm the Super Bowl, that is one, Ryan, I could see you trying to make half. And there's the one person that could attract a large audience, young, old, the like.

And the thing about Dolly, what's great about her is it's 2025. And in 2025, the site of Taylor Swift makes some people boo, the site of Kid Rock. makes other people boo and all this. Nobody's booing dolly. Nobody's booing dolly. Nobody's booing dolly. Like, you take the most Christian, religious person deep in the hills of eastern Kentucky, they love Dolly.

You take the gay community in New York City, they love Dolly. You go to black people, they love Dolly. You go to white people, they love Dolly. Like, that's an amazing trait she has. Like, that's really, and it is, I don't know if there's anybody else in the, in America. that has it and that's really that's kind of beautiful so I'd love to see her do it if there is even a remote possibility they should do it soon for too late I agree I agree matter of fact do it next year next year just do it that's the time I think she needs to

bring out Snoop just to really really sure she could do that I don't know if anybody wouldn't do it is there any musician that wouldn't go out there with her no I think anybody would because they all love her like because she's been around for so I mean My grandma loved her. There's a generation people that remember when she was on, what, the Kaz Walker Show or whatever, when she was 13 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Really? And now, you know, she's in her 70s and still does it. I don't mean to turn this into a Dolly show.

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Like, what's it going to be? It's funny. You say that, and the first thing that pops in my head is him in color. or running down the hallway. I don't know if that's going to be a memory forever, how I remember Billy Gillespie. Do you think you can feel like fond of him? Like is there,

are there any sort of positive feelings you can have about him at all? Or is it just going to be negative? It's pretty negative. I'm not like, you know, upset at him and I wouldn't boo if they brought him back. But that was the end of my college career. Like I was at college for the end of Tubby in the Billy years. That was not a great run for someone who grew up wanting to go to UK to watch basketball. So I got a little extra, not anger, but just disappointed in how that all went.

His health and, like, you know, we mentioned it on a show recently. You know, he made the big donation to Dan's Blue and cried a little bit. You know, he's got things that you can cheer for, but the basketball was just so bad and the stories around it. I just find him to be kind of a tragic figure. Like, he was almost given so much that he couldn't handle it. I think there was a good person in there, but his dad, demons made it hard.

Like I do think he genuinely cared about his players. He wanted this to work so much, but his personal demons, I think, overshadowed it. And I always find that a little bit tragic. I think he, like, loved his players so much that he oddly treated them poorly because he wanted them. And that's, I just, you know, Ramelle and Joe had a big impact on how I looked at Billy. because they were like it was almost like they were looking at their kid

when they were talking about him. They were like, I love Billy. He doesn't know what he's doing and he doesn't treat us well, but we know he loves us. And I always kind of found that because Ramelle and Joe would take up for him. Ramele on this show has had great things to say about Billy Gillespie.

And you know, there's a story where he bought a car from some woman, I think maybe was in Danville. He had heard a story. Yeah, he heard a woman had, I want to say had some sort of cancer, and she was selling her car for, let's say, $1,000, and he went and bought it for like $7,000. Right. So that she would, like, you know, and there's a good person in there,

but he also did a lot of not good things. So I just kind of even be kind of a tragic figure. But I tend to be like, I feel sorry for people, so I'm a little bit of a softy. Yeah. My cousin's a Jucco coach, one of the national championship, and Billy was coaching Ranger, with the other team, and they know each other a little bit from the Jucco ranks and speaks highly of them. It's just all the stuff that happened in Lexington is hard to turn off when you're looking back. I also want to say if you get a chance, go on KSR today.

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