KSR - 2025-02-11- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

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I think the Danville Richmond seemed to get the most, but we got a lot here, too. We're at the KS Bar and Grill. You can come have a snowy lunch. 859-280-2287. That's the Clark's puppet shop phone line. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-745254 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, you call TGL Make-M Pay. Kentucky and Tennessee tonight I said if you're not going to use your tickets for the game

just send them to me and I'll give them away I already have six tickets to give away That's awesome So Matt.jones at Kentucky SportsRadio.com If you want to give more away I'm going to give a couple on this show in the second hour Don't call now if you call now I'm going to tell Shane well no call to talk to us

But if you want tickets Second hour Second hour sometime But we also are going to do like an ask anything Tuesday Because I want to hear what people say. So here's what's on tap, Ryan. All right. Number one, we're going to talk about Kentucky, Tennessee.

Yes. Number two, we're going to talk about there's a lot happening here in Lexington today, actually. And then number three, I'm going to make everybody mad. That's what we're going to do, and it'll be fun. Well, you know, I wonder, do you think the weather will prohibit some people from making it to the... It's supposed to snow like all day, like not even stop until tonight. Yeah, probably. I mean, it would be interesting to see.

Like when we do our pregame show here, that'll give us a notion, I think, of how crowded the game's going to be. I just am going to keep saying to people, if you're not, if you can't make the trip, give your tickets away or give them to me and I will find, I mean, listen, they'll be somebody who will come and will take them. Those of you are writing me saying, I'll take them. No, thank you. Like, I know I can find people to take them. The question is who wants to give them, Drew? Yeah, and I'm a little worried.

I had two different parties out of Western Kentucky called me and say, how bad is it were kind of on the fence? I think you can come. That's what I said. It's a lot of slush right now. Yeah, I would say for those of you at home trying to figure it out, I think you can come. This is not like the other one. This is the kind of snow.

It's not really cold, so it's fluffy. Like, for instance, you know, we probably have three or four inches of snow, but there was no ice on my car. You were able to just, you were able to just do. So, like, that means when you drive, and it's supposed to get to, like, 35 today, which means it's not going to freeze the roads. So I actually think if you're listening, leave early, but if you're careful, I think you can be fine. Yeah, and you agree with that?

I do, and I think the city did a good job pre-treating the roads. It looked like last night I saw a lot of crux out pre-treating just to kind of even reinforce the roads won't ice over. So, yeah, I think if you, I think you'll be fine, I do, especially if you're just, like, coming on the interstate or on the blue. grass parkway or something i i think you're going to be fine now again it's not my fault if you're not fine shannon but i think you should i think you should be you should be okay this is not bad driving weather this is it looks worse than it is you guys are actually getting a lot more in lexington than we are in louis so we're only getting like a couple of inches it looks like over here

yeah so but but but hopefully you know we do need a good crowd because we um we don't have jackson Robinson. Yeah. I think the folks that do make it, will be rocking. I mean, you will. I think, you know, the fact that you kind of throw in the elements, we made it, we're here, let's go, let's get crazy, and it's Tennessee on the other side. Do you remember, like, the biggest snow games in Lexington? Because to me, when I think of a snow game in Lexington, I think of the SEC tournament. Yeah, that was here. That was it.

And Tennessee was one of the games. We played, I want to say, rhyme was that 94, 94? It was 93 and 94. It was before I got here. I think you could look this up and see if I'm right, Shannon. I think this was the 1994 SEC tournament was in Lexington. And I think it snowed like dump snow. Yeah. And people could barely get in the arena, but the ones who got in went nuts, right?

That's right. I know there's a famous snow story about a game at Southern Illinois or at Illinois where their officials couldn't even get there. They had to get two guys out of the stands and refereed the UK basketball game in jeans. Come on, it was not too. I promise you. What year was this, 1912? It wasn't that crazy long ago.

Wait a minute. Give me a guess of what year you think this was because someone will let us know. I'm totally guessing. I'm going to guess the 70s and it was Southern Illinois. First of all, why would we have played at Southern Illinois? I don't know. You think we played a road game at the Salukes? I'm totally guessing.

Maybe it was Illinois, but I was thinking it was Southern Illinois. I will say, I do remember some version of this story you're talking about. I've always wondered about it, though. Was it hyperbole? Did they really just get two guys and jeans? I think I've read, I think they did because they had to play the game. The team made it. How did they decide what two guys and jeans to get?

I guess they were high school referees. I think that was it. I think that was it. I think they were high school referees. Some fact checking. 93 tournament. You're a good memory. And we've only played Southern Illinois once, and it was here.

So not Southern Illinois. I think if I can remember, because I remember it's some notion of what you're saying, Ryan, is correct. I think it was like Illinois and maybe in the 50s. Could be. I think it was longer ago than that. You remember the SEC tournament that was in St. Louis, and it snowed everybody in the way home couldn't make it back to Lexington back to Kentucky. That wasn't that long ago. That was

the wing and Gabriel three. Yes. Three final four. Yes. I had friends calling me, begging me to pull over. I even had a friend say, by the room, because I was driving the middle of night. I stayed at the end of the game. And in front of me, I didn't know if I was on highway and a farm. It was just white as far as I could see, and I was

driving about 20. Then we leave early to make sure we beat the snow. I was going to say, Matt, one of these things he just can do this. We left early and we're ahead of the snow. We never got stuck in it. I fight weather and traffic. That's what I hold off.

It's like I'm a superhero. Just, all right, weather, bam, traffic, bam. That's what I try to do. I think a lot of our fans ended up trying to stay in Mount Vernon, Illinois, and the hotels ended up being booked. Full. Yeah. All the way back, I was seeing full hotels and Kentucky fans pulled over.

Well, so tonight you get Kentucky in Tennessee. We don't get Jackson Robinson. He is out. Lamont Butler is probable, which I think means. probably will play. So this is, I think, the first game where we've had Butler, but no Robinson. How do you think that goes? Well, getting Butler back actually, you know, absolutely helped us last week.

But, man, Jackson Robinson has been that one key component. I mean, he had the good game when they played at Tennessee when he had to play point guard. You know, we went down there's shorthand and we played him the first time. It hurts. It hurts not having Jackson Robinson. I think, you know, he's a guy that you can kind of depend on is going to, you know, he had the one bad game was it Georgia I think it was a bad game but ever since then he's

played you know he's been our best player I think 1983 against Illinois it was 83 against Illinois so that's much more recent than I would have thought and they had just guys in jeans and they so were they really wearing jeans the story I remember I think they pulled two guys out of the stands because they were high school referees they found them a referee shirt but they had to do it in jeans I already have collars that were saying they were in jeans so people I'll remember the same thing. I looked at a picture of the refs. It doesn't look like jeans unless they're black jeans.

Oh, now the one guy, though, doesn't look like a real refurb. Like that belly is not the belly of a full-time referee. It does say due to bad weather, local referees are pulled out of the stands to officiate. That's pretty amazing. Did we win the game? We won by two. Wow. Big game by Jim Master Sam Bowie, each with 11 points.

Can you imagine if that happened now? Wow. And we played at Tennessee, and they're just like, all right, let's get some people here in the crowd. Can you imagine our fans, the uproar of every call? You think Doug Shouse gets it bad? The random pot-bellied Tennessee people that would be a whole other level. Especially if they look up in the crowd, they got like a Tennessee volunteer hat on. Our referee high school games, come on, we want you.

Yeah, you're definitely one of the guy we want. Well, so tonight, presumably the referees will. will show up. And I actually think it's a different game without Jackson Robinson for this, Drew. I think now scoring points will be the hard. So, like, I have a hard time seeing Kentucky get over 80 without Jackson Robinson, which means, like, we're going to have to hope they're cold in order to win. Do you agree with that?

Or hope you get one of those six or seven, three Kobe Bray at nights. Let's go ahead and pull my string back here so I can say Kobe Bray. He'd have a big game. I think I say it every day. But really this time, if he picks up the offensive slack that they're missing with Robinson, I think they'll be fine because I really like the idea of Butler coming back and neutralizing Ziegler a little bit. Ziegler's been really good since the last time we played. He did not play well against us, but he has really turned it up in the last few games.

Historically, he's been pretty bad. He has. I don't know if it's just what he sees on the logo, but that game I went down there a few years ago. He went two for 13, and I think they're all wide open layups. So I like Butler taking him out, but someone's going to have to pick up the points for Kentucky. Braya was awesome. That game down in Knoxville. I don't know.

He missed a shot. That was the game he was perfect from the field, I think, and just missed a couple free throws. But Robinson played well that game, too. Robinson did play very well. So you don't have him. But we didn't have Butler. We didn't have car. So I think, like, these other guys, you know, we're losing our, in my opinion, best offensive player.

So now we've got to find a way to have the other guy step up. Now, I do think because you won down there, we're playing with a little bit. the house money here. I mean, I never want to lose to Tennessee. But you beat them down there. If you beat them again, that's amazing. But it's not like crippling if you fall today. But then I think it means you're going to have to win Saturday in Austin if you lose tonight. Yeah, if they can do it, only the second sweep since Rick Barnes has been there. It's been a lot of splitting with them. Also, I know some of the fan base is still pouting over Arkansas and Ole Miss. Just get a top five win. Hopefully everyone could move on from that bad week and realize this is still

a very good basketball team. And the SEC, when the poll came out yesterday, the SEC has four of the top five teams in the country. How about the Iron Bowl is one two? Yeah. Here's an interesting stat. Auburn, Alabama ranked one, two. They're going to play Saturday. We'll be the first time the number one and two teams have played each other in the regular season since Cala Perry did it at Memphis against Tennessee. Really? In 2008. There has not been the number one and two teams play each other. And if I were to tell you that stat, give me the last two number one and two teams play each other. Who would say Auburn, Alabama, and Memphis, Tennessee? But that's what it'll end up being. I remember that Pearl Cala game, though. That game was awesome. Back

when they had like a million Smiths on Tennessee. And it was a Saturday night and they played like in February. I continue to be on the path of we should play big non-conference college basketball rivalries in February. Like this weekend should be the weekend that Kentucky plays Kansas and, you know, Duke plays Connecticut or something like to get people back into college basketball. It's funny. You validate the point. We all remember that Tennessee Memphis game because it was a big deal.

They promoted the heck out of it. Imagine if you just did, like what if we played Louisville this weekend? It'd be huge. I mean, that would be, you know, Louisville's good. Like that would have been a game we all looked forward to all year. I've always been a big promoter because Memphis and Tennessee used to do that. Duke's playing Illinois

either this weekend or next weekend, which I think is a smart thing. There should be more of those games, Drew, in the conference season. I'll even add, as someone else said this on the Internet, I'll steal it, but they should do that marathon right the day after the Super Bowl just to completely flip the switch into basketball mode. And we all have that little missing football hangover once the Super Bowl ends. Just load up on as many good basketball games as you can,

still that momentum. I totally agree with that. I saw that post, too. I thought that was a former KSR writer, Bobby Reagan. Yeah, I thought that was a really smart one as well. Do you feel at all positive about tonight? I do. I mean, I don't think Tennessee is going to miss 34, three-pointers, whatever it was, like they did last game.

I mean, but Tennessee's defense is going to probably tune it up, try to keep Kentucky from scoring a lot of points. I think it'll be a low-scoring game tonight. I actually feel a little too good. I'm a little worried about how good I feel. I just think it's a great matchup, as we saw down there. Pope, he's going to just let them shoot threes. Now, they're probably not going to take 45, 11 for 45 of what it was. But, I mean, the formula is still going to be the same.

Just dare Tennessee to shoot, and hopefully it's not a good night for them. Not hot. Tennessee doesn't like playing this way. They'd rather be in a rock fight. Do you like my hoodie? I do. North Alabama. Yeah.

I believe that's in Huntsville, Alabama. You know what I do? Like once every six weeks or so? What's that? I'll go. I think I need a new hoodie. And I'll go, all right, let's look at the college basketball game. tonight pick a number like one through 50 and you would say to me like 26 then I'd go home or away

and whatever team is home or away no I just go online and buy their hoodie and that's how you got that hoodie yeah you want to play it okay let's do it let's play it right now I'll go to I'll go to the games on Saturday okay okay so give me just a second I'm gonna go the games on Saturday you're good this is going to be the next hoodie I purchased so be very careful all right so well here we go all right give me a number one through 40 I always pick 11. All right. Three, six, nine, ten, eleven.

All right, home or away? We got to go home. Home. Indiana State. Yeah, the Sycamore. I was always going to be Indiana. So my next one will be Indiana State because of you. I'll get a Sycamore hood.

I go to say we kind of jumped on their bandwagon with Cream Abdul-Jabbar last year. So now we'll get a hoodie. Thank you very much. Yeah. 859-280-2287. Ask anything Tuesday. We'll take a break. Be right back.

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Okay. We played Ole Miss in 1994 here, and apparently it was a massive snowstorm. Any memory of that game? I don't really remember that one. I don't either. Nope, before I got here, too, so I don't remember that. Yeah, I was, yeah, I lived in Middlesbrough, so I don't know that I remember that. We also, at one point in the 80s, played St. Louis in a game where it was the lowest attendance, because of snow, and they opened up the crowd just for students. Don't want to have any memory of hearing a story about that game either.

People keep sending me their tickets. I think I might have a lot of tickets to the giveaway. So watch on social media today. I'll give some away that way, too, and maybe on the pre-show as well. See, that's cool. That's why I think it'll be a great environment tonight for people be excited, you know, winning tickets at the last minute, get you fired up, get ready to go? One person writes, so this is Ask Anything Thursday question.

Matt, I've been listening for a few years, never understood why werewolves of London. I get that question every couple years. Yes. The reason is one day in the first year I did the show, I walked in and my then boss, Bill Gentry, said, you need to pick a theme song. A heart has a rule. Every show has to have a theme song. And I'd gone months, I guess, not doing that rule. And I was like, oh.

And he was like, just pick a song. But, you know, that's a pretty hefty decision, Shannon, to have to make, like, moments before the show stuff. Yeah, because usually you don't get to change it. It's kind of that for the rest of the shows. And so I just, the day before, I'd listened to Werewolves of London and it was on my mind and I was like, it's either Gordon Lightfoot Sundown, or it's Werewolves of London. And I felt like Werewolves of London was more upbeat. And then that became the theme. And then it's now been attached to us forever. But it was just a random choice, Ryan, for just a minute. And it feels like it's perfect. You know, you hear that song, and now it is so associated with our show.

It's like the perfect choice. Like you made the perfect choice on the spur of a moment. When I give speeches now, people just play that when they come up like it's, you know. And it's so it has in my, it's like part of us now. And it was just a random, quick choice. You are probably like me. I'll be out somewhere maybe at a bar. And even like the kid rock version will come on and it'll trigger my brain. And I'll be like, am I late? Are we about to go on? Welcome, everyone. This Kentucky Sports Radio. Yeah, Halloween. Like, they always play it, like, on football games and stuff at Halloween,

and then it will start to do it. At any point in the 14-ish years, have you been driving around and thought, man, I wish it had been this song. Like, something's come on, you thought, if I could go back in time, I would have made it. Yeah, it's a good question. No, I like it. I think it gets the mood of the show. I like it.

And, you know, when I used to do the Matt Jones podcast, which, spoiler alert, might come back in a form, play lawyer's guns and money. Yes. Which was good because I was a lawyer. I like money. And, well, the guns part. Come and take it. If you want it, come and get it.

I've always been like that. So I feel like that's kind of part of it. 859-28027. Another thing about the game today. Sports Center is on UK's campus today. So SportsCenter is here from noon to three on ESPN. If you turn it on, they are live from UK the whole time. Mark Pope is going to be on.

Lamont Butler, Georgia Amor, and Mark Stoops are all going to be on ESPN from noon to three. It is basically a UK campus takeover of SportsCenter. Isn't that cool? I didn't know that. Is there any reason why? Just because of the – I don't – I think just because they're here for the game. and sometimes they do this. I saw them do it with South Carolina

women's basketball a couple weeks ago. I guess they just decided to do it today. But that's very cool for UK, isn't it? Very cool. You get a chance to Georgia Amor to step up and publicize even though they got beat last night to publicize their great season. Yeah, they lost last night.

That wasn't good. Stoops and football, you know, trying to re-energize the program there, get him on. And then those of you that online ever watch at night the show Field of 68, which has Jeff Goodman and Rob Doster, And those guys, they're in Lexington.

So they will be doing their show tonight from Rupp Arena. So when they do their nightly wrap-up show, they will be in Rupp tonight. They don't have to go out in the cold like I do? No, I don't have to do it in the snow. They don't have to do it in the snow. They're going to be at Rupp. So for whatever reason, like, the sports world has decided to descend on Lexington in this snow today. Welcome to Lexington with all the snow.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong. So they get to do it in Rupp, but yet Drew can't do his show in Rupp. I don't want to think about it. It annoys me. But you know what? The outside has become part of the thing for your show. I've got my hand warmers packed. On the sports center thing, I'm glad they're doing this.

You know, as someone that works from home and keeps TV on the background, daytime sports center is pretty terrible. I don't even care what campus they want to go to. I'm glad it's Lexington, but it needs some new life and having Billis here and bringing on even crossing sports with stoops and previewing the basketball game. I think it's a great idea for them to. Yeah, it should be very cool. Billis will be on it too, I think, was the other one. Yeah, with him in town. Who's up first, Shannon?

I'll ask anything. Danny, go ahead, Danny. Hey, first time caller, guys. Who are? Hey, I'm from Shelby County, home of Mike Casey, Charles Hurt and Terry Davis, Mr. Kentucky basketball. Hey, I got a prediction for the game tonight. 82.78, Kentucky. Well, I hope you're right.

8278. I think 82 is kind of at the top end of amount of points. I think we can score tonight, Drew, just without having Jackson Robinson. So I'll take 82, and if we can hold Tennessee to under 80, we're good. I've already given my prediction. I won't share it because I want to see if you and I will pick the same score like we always do. But a hint, it is under 82, but it's a Kentucky win. I just think it's going to be a low-scoring game.

Tennessee doesn't like to get in these shootouts. When they won down there in Knoxville, it was in the 70s. So I don't think it's going to be a high-scoring game, but I'm still feeling good about it. the key is Ziegler because you're right we have played well against Ziegler over the years but he is playing well in the last few games he's had he's had kind of a disappointing season but then in the last few games has really turned it up yeah right after the Kentucky game I think he missed a couple games he was hurt now he's been back and they played you know he just beat Florida then they beat Oklahoma like by what 20 on the road so he's playing with Oklahoma on the road both Oklahoma and Texas which are road

games to come have both kind of fallen off right before we go there so maybe those those two games are both winnable in an easier way than we thought they were, Drew, maybe a couple weeks ago. Yeah, and with Ziegler, when they played well without him, I even texted my Tennessee friends, like, are you all sure this guy's even good? Because every time he's out, he's been bad. Every time I've seen him against Kentucky, he hasn't been much, but he's turned it on since. He had been really bad until the last three games or so, and then he's been much better.

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Here's Matt Jones. So I love this song, but I don't know that it's a theme. You know, if you come in every day with this, it just does, I don't know if it's exciting enough. Because this was the other song I was thinking about, but I feel like this would be more like if I was going to do, a love advice show you know i don't know if this would be a good theme for a for a morning show i like you have to talk real soft when they're into this one it's like npr or something

look at everybody kentucky's portrait you if i'm ever like if i'm ever like if i take over for that delilah this is what i would use i think you should do that one day you think i should do a delilah show do a delilah show listen for somebody who is in their 40s and not married i think i give the best love of it why are you laughing at that why wouldn't I give the best love advice because unlike other people I'm not prejudiced by being married

I can make I can make the decision I mean I've been when you're as when you're single and as old as me you've kind of been in every kind of relationship good bad or indifferent like I've you know been through the wars

so we're waiting for him we fire this thing up it's magic Oh, that's perfect. See, there's the theme. Well, here, I'll just go ahead and say this. So if I sign the new deal with IHeart, which hopefully will be done soon, okay, I'll announce it when it happens. It's already way late.

Like, I'm on, like, the most – I did tell them. If we get to the NBA tournament, it's not done. I'm not doing this anymore. But I think we're going to get there. it includes with it a one-hour show that will run all across the state on any topic I choose. And I've already said, I think they think I'm going to do politics, but I'm not doing politics. Maybe it's love advice. One show has to be love advice from Uncle Matt.

Yeah. Because they just say you get an hour on whatever. Maybe Drew Love Advice. What time a day would it run if it's Love Advice? I can't say what time of day. it is, but it has a set time. It's already said it, but I don't think they want me to say that yet when it would be. But it would be a set time and it would be

available on the network if stations want to have it and it's a, but like they said, you can do whatever you want on it. And Billy doesn't know this yet. Billy is the producer. Oh. Billy doesn't even know, I think, that that's good.

I'm not sure if I was supposed to say any of this, but anyway that would be happening. Maybe love advice is the way to go. I tune in for a late night, Matt. I absolutely. would tune in for that. One person writes, Matt, for Ask Anything Tuesday. What has happened to Jamal Mashburn? I never hear about him.

Everyone always says he's rich. What does he do? It's a good question. He is rich, but I don't know, Ryan, besides he owns a car dealership, I don't really know what he does. I think he sits in his penthouse office and just dresses to the nines and enjoys raking in the cash every single day. I think he is coming.

So what all did he do to get rich? I know he owns part of the Lexis, or he did at one point. He may not anymore own part of the Lexus. He had car dealerships with Patino. What else did he do? Big outback guy. A lot of outback guy. Oh, he's an outback guy.

Him Patino and the Lexington guy behind Outback guy. Chris. Really? They have a lot of outbacks. Big outback guys. I didn't know that. A lot of Blooming onions. What else does he do?

Because he's always known as a former NBA player that really had success financial. I bet. I'm just guessing he owns probably. 50 different businesses. I mean, the guy just has his fingers into everything. And good for him. Congratulations on what he's doing post-basketball. He didn't.

Am I crazy? Did he do a Kentucky game? Maybe a little bit of ESPN? I thought he would be good at it. I'm surprised he didn't get into that more because he did do it maybe for a year. Yeah. Maybe he just thought, why am I doing this? But you know, the thing is about ESPN, I've said this a lot.

ESPN has two tiers of money. you either make a ton of money or you don't make any money. So like Stephen A. Smith, a ton of money. Pat McAfee, a ton of money. But a lot of those people, when you turn on, and I'm not going to say anybody's name, but like when we watch college basketball and you see the studio shows, like those guys don't make any money. Like they just don't.

I mean, I know the people I work with. Like they don't, you don't make a lot of money. So Jamal Mashper may have been like, why am I going to Bristol? for $50,000 when I make that sneezing every day. Yeah. You know? I think that there may be some truth to that. He's like, I can make more money investing my time in my businesses and not wasting it sitting on a desk talking about University of Illinois basketball.

Yeah. Especially with a son that was, you know, that time playing basketball. Do you all know that his son? Does everybody, Jamal Mashburn Jr. is second in the country and scoring? No, I did not realize that. Did you know this? No. Who's he played for?

I don't know. I wanted him out of the picture. So bad. Troy? Temple. Temple. He is second in the country in scoring. I had no idea.

I remember when he was up and coming, there were people hoping that Cal Perry would recruit him, and there was no interest at all. Now look at he's second in the country and scoring. He was with Young Petino there for a while. He was. I was hoping Pope would call him because he had a big year last year. Second the country and scoring.

I feel like we could find someplace for him if he wants to play. Who's up next? Let's go to Craig. Craig. Craig. Go ahead, Craig. Yes, I live in Louisville, and I'd like to come up to Kentucky Day to see the best team in America play. We do not call and ask for tickets, right?

When we do the contest, we'll do contest for tickets, but we don't call and ask for tickets. Like, that's kind of a rule of the show, right? So the contest, how do I get into that? Okay, well, I'll announce that when it comes, but I appreciate the call. Okay, all right. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how I feel. I mean, there's like people even now who are writing me on Twitter going, Matt, if you need to give those away, I'd like to, I mean, I can handle the giving them away part. Like giving tickets away to a top five team in rub.

Feel like that's not going to be difficult. Don't be difficult at all. The deal is getting the tickets, and people keep sending them. I'm going to have like 20 tickets to give away. That's awesome. I think it's awesome that the people like or at least want somebody to sit in their seats. No, it does. but does it worry you?

It is awesome that they're giving them, and they will be replaced with people excited to go, but if you've already have that many, it makes me wonder how many people out there are on the fence. I think it's going to be a lot, but I would say to you, if you're not going to go, don't let them go unused,

because we've got to have a loud environment in there tonight. Like this is our best chance. Tennessee is a favorite on our home floor. That doesn't happen very often, and they are a favorite. We've got to be last. There's been times where that Ruppery in a crowd has helped, and Pope even mentioned it after the game,

said you guys were awesome. You guys absolutely helped us. I like how he admits, you know, our players can feed off that. So many coaches try to say, well, once the ball goes up, they don't pay attention to it. It definitely helps when you have a good crowd. Who's up next? Let's go to Richard.

Richard, go ahead, Richard. Well, I hope that I'd get in on the contest. Okay, I appreciate the call. I look, folks. When we have the contest, I'll tell you about the contest. This is Ask Anything Thursday. Asked anything for tickets. Ask anything does not ask me for tickets.

Ask anything but tickets Tuesday. Is the next person going to be on for ticket, Shannon? I don't know. Let's see. Keaton. Keaton, go ahead, Keaton. Hey, Matt. How are you doing on the back?

I'm good. Maybe. Good God. Do you get that? You think Ansela Alamador is going to be the one show up tonight. You know, he's had like three straight games. Well, really, was it Tennessee? He shot well?

I don't think he's had like three straight games where he's not made a shot. He played well in Tennessee. So I think Tennessee was actually the last game he played well, so maybe that gets back to what, you know. Yeah, that's when we went down there and Carr and Butler didn't play. So Alamano had to start, and he did. He played well, shot the ball well. He had that one game we had nothing but zeros.

Last game, at least he shot a couple shots. shots. He just didn't make any shots last game. I mean, a lot of his minutes as it keeps going, which is good, I think. But still, I would like, I mean, if Anzley's one of these guys, maybe more so than anyone else on the team. If Anzley's not going to shoot threes, like, man, you can't play. Because he doesn't play defense. He's not a particularly good rebounder. Like, dude, you got to fire it, right? He's one of those guys, along with Robinson and Brea. I'm like, if you're open, shoot. And I feel that way about Almanor? He and Trent Noah both had huge games

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I'll do some in the pregame show. We're going to make sure we use all these tickets for a time. tonight's game because I want them to be, uh, wanting to be ready to go. All right. So I'm going to go ahead and say to all my friends out there and I love all you people. Understand like this.

I love all of you, uh, even those of you that are, are mean to me sometimes. I still love you. This might be a moment though for the next five or six minutes that if you get easily mad, maybe just turn it off, come back at 11 o'clock. All right.

We'll all be free. Just, just, I don't want to hear you complain about it. This is just something I'm going to talk about. If you get mad, like just take it off you can come back 11 we'll all be friends okay so here's the here's the thing i have been amazed at how little and i say this with love people know about how the government works i've really seen this in the last few days a lot of it are people on the right but some of my people on the left don't understand it either so i want to use you ryan to just give a this is just

basics about government. It's not about any particular policy. Gotcha. Okay. So, Ryan, how many branches of government are there? Three. Do you know what they are? Executive? Correct. Judicial? Correct.

Legislative? Nice. All right. Nice job. That's a good stuff. All right. Who is the head of the executive branch? President of the United States. Correct. Who is, what are the main heads of the legislative branch? The Speaker of the House and the head senator guy. Close enough, the house and the Senate, right?

And then what about the judicial branch? Supreme Court. You're doing great. Okay. So what is the role of the executive in America? What is the role of the president? You oversee the military. That's part of it, yes.

And you make executive orders. Not exactly. The role of the executive is to enforce the laws. Enforced the laws. Okay. That's what the president does. He enforces the laws. Now, there are other things that go in that.

What's the role of the legislative branch? They make the law. They make the laws. That's exactly right. Then what does the judicial branch do? They enforce the laws. I already told you that's what the executive does. What does the judicial branch do?

Decide about the laws. Yes, they decide disputes. And then they decide what the laws mean, what the Constitution. Constitution means what the laws means. So when a law is passed, sometimes it's like, well, did it mean this or did it mean that? The judicial branch decides what it means. They interpret it.

Interpret it. That's even a better word. Good. Okay. So let's talk about what presidents do. Okay. You hear a lot about executive orders. Right.

What does that mean? Do you know? That whatever he says is enforced no matter what. So here's what it's supposed to me. The legislature puts out a law. Sometimes they give the executive power to do certain things. And then the president says, this power I'm using in this way, right? So I have the power to do this, and I'm going to use it like that.

Makes sense? Makes total sense. Okay. Now, oftentimes presidents go too far. They're only allowed to do this, but they go and do this. And then what happens? A court comes in and says, you're using your power too much.

So I'll give you an example. Joe Biden tried to cancel student loans. The Supreme Court said he didn't have the power to do that. They came in and said, you can't do that. Trump, over the years, did a lot of those, and a lot of those got shot down. Which brings me to today. Trump and Elon Musk are doing various things.

I can't even keep up with what all is being done. But one of the things they're doing is they say they're looking for fraud in various branches of government. Now, you know, there's various departments in the executive branch, Department of Treasury, Secretary of State, all that. Congress creates those departments. And if Congress creates a department, the president can't just do away with it. People don't realize that. He can't just shut down departments. That's against the Constitution.

So the president has given Elon Musk and those people the ability to go in and do things. And some people are suing saying Elon Musk is doing things he cannot do. Now let me just say, I don't know if they're right or not. I don't know what Elon Musk is doing. I'm not really sure what the law is. But when somebody sues and says Elon Musk can't do this, who decides? The judicial branch. The judicial branch.

Now here has been my worry all the time with Trump. I think I said this when he was elected. It's not what his policies are. He should get to do his policies. He won the election, right? But when the judicial branch comes in and says, Mr. Trump, you've done something you don't have the power to do. What has worried me is the job of the president is to enforce the orders of the judicial branch.

what if he just says no I won't do it then you have a crisis because the separation of powers goes away because if the president gets to decide which judicial things he will listen to and which he won't then he's the king yeah right well he's claiming he's going to do that and in American history that's never been done and that worries me and so I want people to understand when they hear all about this, this judge stopped this, this did this. It's not about the particular thing. It's about the separation of powers. And I'm worried, Ryan, they were getting to a point where everybody just loves Trump so much.

They're willing to give all the power in the government to him, and that's a dictatorship. That's not a government. Does that make sense? It makes total sense. Did you follow? I actually followed that. So things he wants, the judicial branch says no, he's going to go ahead and do it anyway. But Scott Jennings, who's from Kentucky, went on CNN and said he should not follow it, do what he wants.

Scott is smarter than that. He's saying that because he wants to be Trump's press secretary. But if Trump were to do that, all I would ask people is, can you imagine if a Democratic president was just like, I'm doing whatever I'm going to want? We can't have that. So that's what worries me. have always said, oh, why do you dislike Trump so much? I don't dislike him. Well, I don't like him.

But he should be able to do whatever he what it was within his power. But you can't get away from the separation of powers. That's bad. That's why we have checks and balances in place to kind of prevent that. But we have to keep those. If we lose those, we become something else.

Which is not what I think people want. Not what the United States is all about. Yes. We've made it a long time with our checks and our balances. It's been very helpful. There was only one time in history, we almost got to this point. The Supreme Court told Richard Nixon, release the tapes, the Watergate tapes, and he said no. And we were about to get a crisis. And then all the people talked him into resigning. And he did. I worry we're headed towards that crisis again. Because if the Supreme Court says do this and Trump says I won't,

then what? He won't. He won't. And then we have a king. we don't have a president, we have a king, and that's really not what America is. A lot of the people I think would be okay with that. That's what kind of scares me. That's what scares me, too. Not just about him. I think there's a lot of people on the left that are cool with having a king too, as long as they're doing what, like we, but that's not what America is, at least to me.

Now, I'll shut up about it. Good little lesson. Let's go back to Ryan, by the way, as you move on. I feel like that's a A on the, I didn't think you would get all three branches of government. I got an A. And you even knew the word, what was the words you came up with? Interpret?

Sure. No, Drew came up with that. Oh, yeah. That was Drew. Well, he can recite the preamble, too. You know, the preamble, go for it on the way out. We the people in order to form our perfect union, establish justice, and sure, domestic tranquility. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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