KSR - 2025-03-07- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

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That's 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-745-254 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. Ryan, it is a big weekend, our final home game of the year. that I actually kind of flew by to be honest with you in Mark's first year. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago. We were getting excited about the win against Duke and now tomorrow at Missouri,

the final regular season game before hopefully four weeks of postseason play. That's what I hope we're really, the teams not overlooked. We're so excited about March Madness, I hope they're really not overlooking the game tomorrow because Missouri is really good. I know they kind of stumped their toe here lately, but there was a point I thought they were the best teams in the conference. I hope they're still got to take care of business first. before they go down to Nashville, but I know everybody's so excited about starting March.

I think we're an underdog, is that right? Three-half points. Three-half points. It's released it two days early. That's the first time I've seen it. Three-half points, by the way, which is exactly what you were not predicted. So they should put us in charge of that stuff. This ain't a hobby.

It's not a hobby. Missouri's lost three or four, got blown out a couple of those games. Am I crazy to think this is a game we can win? I mean, they play, if you haven't watched Missouri, they play like us, but more extreme. I think, like if you, meaning they shoot more threes, usually. They play worse defense, usually. They're the only team in the SEC that's going to the tournament with a worse Kim Palm defense rating than us.

So I feel like it's a pretty good matchup for us. It is, yeah. Kentucky's sixth and Ken Palm offense. They're fifth. It's also kind of similar. They don't play well on the road. Their losses are recently on the road. They're like 18 and 1 at homes.

They're a good home team. Yeah, they shoot the three well. They get fouled a lot. That's one thing Kentucky will. We can't. That's the one thing they do better than us is that for a jump shooting team, they get a lot of free throws. Yeah, they got a guy named Grill, Caleb Grill, something grill, KS. Bar and Grill, something like that. He's tough. I mean, he gets about three or four threes a game, so he's a player to watch. They're kind of a tough team to figure out, too. I mean, they look great against Alabama, then they turn around to lose to Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Vandy. So they're just a completely different team at home. All right, so all of you listening at home, speaking to home, they're going to do a tornado drill, apparently like,

right now. It's probably happening right now. Is it, well, Rick, are we in a tornado drill right now? Uh, no. No. All right. Now, we can hear it right here, Rick, so that is, is it not reaching you the drill? Uh, I don't hear any drill at all on my side. Okay, but okay. There it is. There it is. Okay, so there is our. So anything we're saying right now will not be heard.

That's okay. You know what? Nothing we were saying was there was, uh, very important anyway. Well, let's, since we're doing this, let's talk for a second about, uh, um, about this place. This is, they employ, how many people do you employ here, Jim at Cornbread Him? Well, the people that are in charge aren't here now. I guess they left, but. What's you say?

70 people work in this facility, Kentucky Jobs. This was created. Literally, I've told this story a lot, sitting at the skyline right off Bardstown Road. I sat and listened to these guys tell me they were going to create this, and you talk about seeing a vision come to reality. Here it is. It's amazing.

And they make all of this in Kentucky, in Louisville, and it's been, I would say, maybe our most consistent sponsor we've had of this show since the beginning. It's a great story. You know, Jim and Eric just kind of wanted to start this business long before anybody even thought it was going to come to a reality. The World Win right now with T.HC. and Hemp. And they had the vision to know this is where we were headed

and to start it from scratch and build it to this ginormous. What? Giannamus. Giannambus. Have you had some this morning? I've had a couple drinks. Yeah, so that's part of the reason we're here. They have a new thing here, Shannon.

Cornbread Seltzer. THC, yeah. I don't know. I don't know how they have this, but they do. I've sampled it before, not today. Cornbread THC Seltre includes peach iced tea and what is this? Raspberry lime. Shannon, I know this is one of your favorite things.

a drink. I tend to stick on more of the gummy side, but this is like a shin and the dude beverage. Yeah. If we could get things worked out in Frankfurt, maybe soon. Apparently, they're going to, apparently, all you got to do, if you want to follow the saga of how Frankfurt works, just watch how the whole THC CBD beverage thing has gone. It's quite a, it's a messy world. So they're trying to tax it like bourbon instead of beer. Yeah, we don't want to get into all that. We're not going, we don't want to get it on it. I'm just trying to educate you a little bit here. Yeah, I don't think that's what they want to do. But nevertheless, we're here at cornbread hemp.

Hopefully we were on the break there during Shannon's government lesson. But nevertheless, excited to be here. And if you come today, you get free samples. And, Ryan, your place, Wild Eggs, is actually sending food. I just went over to Wild Egg before we started and devoured a bunch of cinnamon rolls. So they definitely came in strong for me today. You pre-eat Wild Eggs before they're bringing food here? Yeah, I did.

So you had wild eggs as a lead into wild eggs. Yeah, absolutely. They brought some cinnamon rolls, and they're now gone. All right, well, good. Well, all right, so let's talk a little bit about what's at stake tomorrow, Drew. So Kentucky is 9 and 8 in conference. First of all, if you win, let's just start with you get a winning record in the SEC. The hardest SEC, probably the hardest conference we've seen so far.

You get a winning record. That's good. Secondly, for the SEC tournament. If you lose, you're an eight seed. you're probably going to open up with either Old Miss or Mississippi State as your first round game and then have to play Auburn, not exactly the easiest road in the world. If you win, you're going to be a five, six, or seven. If you look at the numbers, the most likely scenario would be a six,

which would put you against really anybody in the first game and then maybe Tennessee in the second one. You're playing at night. Everybody will get more time. I think we play Friday night, or Thursday night, we'll have that place. with people having gone down there. Then you get to the NCAA tournament. Kentucky is kind of looking like they're balancing between a three and a four seed.

I'm kind of of the belief if you win this game, you'll get up to a three seed. If you lose it, you probably end up a four seed. I actually think there's a huge difference between a three and a four this year, because I think the ones are better than they usually are, and the twos are weak. So I actually would say a lot is at stake for seating. A lot is it stake just for both for the three. the TEC and NCAA tournament, there aren't too many times I think the last game of the year has got more on the line than it does for Kentucky tomorrow.

Yeah, you're right. And I've been obsessing over the SEC tournament scenarios. I haven't eaten. I haven't seen my family. Haven't slept. That's all my brain thinks about. But for tomorrow's game, I think it's actually more important for the NCAA seating to get up to a three. Now that we've secured a Thursday, of course, I'd love to get a better seed in Nashville and play at night.

But I think winning tomorrow is a lot bigger for the NCAA tournament and get up to that three-s-side. We got hurt by Texas A&M Ryan beat in Auburn. Texas A&M beat in Auburn jump them above us in the NCAA tournament. That was a big win for them to get against the number one. And now they've kind of taken our spot as a three seed. I'm not sure if winning tomorrow would be enough to jump them, but then maybe we can jump Wisconsin or one of those teams. But I want to see us be a three.

I think it's really important for us to avoid. Because if we're at four, they're probably going to put us with Houston. or Duke, who I think are two of the best four teams in the country for a Sweet 16 game, I'd much rather play Wisconsin, Iowa State, or a team like that. Yeah, those teams on the two line, none of them scare me at all. I would much rather play one of those teams that have to play Duke again or Houston. I don't know if I'm so sure if I'm even want to play Florida right now. Florida's playing so great right now.

Oh, I don't want to play Florida either, but I think Florida's going to be a one-seat, Shannon. So I don't think you're going to have to worry about that. Are you looking forward to getting down to Nashville? You always, unlike the rest of us who love it, you always have mixed emotions about Nashville. It's going to be fun. I always enjoy the 10 roof shows down there. I think it's going to be extra crazy this year because I think not only Kentucky fans will be taking over Broadway, but, you know, there's a lot of excitement from other fan bases just because of how good these teams are.

I think that's a great. First of all, I think that's a great point. If you're planning on going, this may be the most people we've seen there in a long time. I mean, first of all, the Kentucky, you know, Martin Pope said yesterday, We want to go win the SEC tournament. How long has it been since we've seen a coach who says they want to win the SEC tournament? I mean, our coach used to say it doesn't really matter either way. Then you throw in that I think outside of Kentucky,

probably the three best fan bases in the SEC for traveling to the SEC tournament are Auburn, Tennessee, and Arkansas. And Auburn and Tennessee are really good. And Arkansas is not great, but they're playing better. So you could end up, I think, with a huge crowd down there. I'll even throw Ole Miss in that group because they're rich close to Nashville and finally have a reason to be excited about basketball. So I think Ole Miss fans will show up to surprise everyone too, a team that's not going to

into it. Alabama's fans have been pretty into it, not that far drive. I mean, honestly, of all the good teams, you know, I guess Florida doesn't really travel, Ryan, but the rest of those teams really do travel. So I think it's going to be, I mean, if you get Kentucky and Auburn at 1 o'clock on Friday, I think that's going to be a massive crowd, to be honest with you. for an afternoon session on a Friday, I think that'll be an extremely difficult ticket. I think they're going to have a lot of good crowds down there in Nashville for sure.

The guy here just told me he bought his tickets last night for $59. I said, man, you can go down there. $59. Triple those. For one session? Who was that? Where is he right now? Or did you just make that up?

There he is. He's over there. $59? Wow. For just one session, though, right? Multiple sessions up top. Yeah, but I mean, you can't get the whole. book for $59.

Okay, all right. I got it. Take that, sell it, make a lot of money down there this week. Yeah, I mean, that would be, yeah, if you could get all of them for 50, I think you'll have something that are big. And if Kentucky were to get to Saturday, let's just think of a war. Let's say we were to play Tennessee and beat them. And you were to get Kentucky versus Florida, Auburn versus Alabama on Saturday.

Shannon, you would say that that would be a huge, huge thing. And I think a lot of people come down. We see this every year. People come to Nashville. Don't even go to the game. They just want to be there just to be a part of the excitement and the atmosphere there. So I think a lot of people will be doing that. So by the way, for our show, we will be doing our show on Thursday.

Okay? So we're going to do one live show every year. We're going to do it on Thursday just in case something were to happen and we were to lose. But we will do it at 10 roof on Thursday. And then if we win on Friday, we'll probably do something private. But we will do it Thursday at 10 roof. And then, Shannon, you play there Thursday night. We are playing Thursday, and depending on where Kentucky lands,

either a seven or an eight seed, we're going to have to change our time that we're playing. We'll change your time for it as well. All right, so we are 100% healthy of the guys, Drew, we're going to have healthy, right? We don't have Jackson Robinson and Kerr-Kreeza, but everybody else is ready to go. How do you see our lineup at this point in the year? Like, what is this team, knowing Jackson-Robson and Kerr-Kriza are not playing again?

Pope confirmed that yesterday about Kerr. What is this team? Well, as I mentioned yesterday, I think, I mean, you went, what Jackson Robinson, but there's at least now we know. You're a no. Next man up, there's no sitting there. Am I going to play today? How many minutes I'm going to get? You're the guy. It's going to be Kobe Bray at a start. He's going to have to make threes like he has two every game. But then also someone off the bench is going to have step up in scoring. That can be a rotation. That can be a collective effort. I think, or I'm hoping Colin Chandler's little breakthrough last week in Rupp Arena could be a big step forward and making up for that because defensively, Kentucky is what they are. But they will miss his scoring. and some other guys you have to step up and carry that load. I see us as a team that's got elite eight level starters and first round of the NCAA level bench. And so I'm with you. You need one or two of the bench guys. We just can't have, right, starters cannot play poorly, right?

Like in big games, they're just not going to be able to play poorly because we're going to need a lot of minutes from the first five guys. Yeah, and you see Andrew Carr, now that he's healthy, you know, he's playing more minutes, playing better, it seems like. But man, if you get that production off the bench, like you got out of Angeley Almanor and Brandon Garrison and then Colin Chandler last game. That was one game. Game four that combined for five points. But if you can get that more often from those three guys,

they can become just that much more dangerous. If we're filling Robinson spot, I mean, Noah will be a big piece there because it's kind of his position. He's been cold a little bit lately. He's going to have to knock down some threes to carry that scoring low, too. 859-2-80-27. We are here at Cornbread Hemp, right off in Schiff Avenue, in Louisville. A lot of free gifts.

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When we are in Louisville, we always get an amazing crowd. Hopefully we can do it more. This one's kind of, you know, you want to get back here. It's back here. But thanks to Corbred Hemp, they found parking for everybody. I have to tell you, when Billy told me we were having a crowd here, I thought, I have no idea where they're going to park these people because I'd been back here and they found a way to do it. So thanks to those guys for doing it. Cornbread hemp is one of the fastest growing hemp companies in America. Flower only extraction produces the highest quality of CBD experience. I see Marcia even went and got her some cornbread barcia.

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Did you see Rick Petino, speaking of people with Marsha likes, Rick Patino was on the Tonight show last night. Was he? I saw that. So I have to say this. You know, put us, whatever your feelings are of Rick Petino, and mine have been very negative over the years. They've been positive recently.

But either way, he brings a level of celebrity to college basketball that I think we had forgotten maybe a little bit after all the scandals. How many coaches are going to end up on the Tonight Show? He might be the only one. I'm not even sure Cal could get on the Tonight Show. And then they sing a song. Like, Jimmy Fallon wrote a song. somebody wrote a song about St. John's basketball, and the St. John's basketball team, Patino and Jimmy Fallon, sing a song, and then Jimmy Fallon puts on Patino's white suit,

and the two of them are sitting there in the white suit. And it made me think, Ryan, leave everything about your thoughts about Patino aside. Them being good is actually good for college basketball. It is. When do you think is the last time the Tonight Show is to? talked about college basketball. I mean, it's pretty amazing. 100%. Yes, the fact that Rick Petino is back and kind of made St. John's relevant is good for all of college basketball. And the song was kind of catchy. I'm not going to lie to you. Rick, I'll tell you what, when we come back from the next break, will you lead in with the song? It's on my Twitter, okay? Will you do that, Rick? Okay. I can do that. But did you hear the song? It was kind of catchy. I just saw a clip of him on there. I didn't

hear the song but you're right about how his celebrity has either gotten back to what it was or gotten even higher in new york but for the kick back there was at the garden for one of their last games and it's just talking about how like rick is keying around there and what he's done with st johnson brought i mean they're selling out the games yeah they just announced that next year every big east game they're going to have in the garden which they've never done they've never had that in the history or like since back in the 80s and 90s because they've been playing half the games on their home court, you know, I mean, I would think in the portal they're probably going to go get players.

I think he's old, so he's not going to coach that long. But however long he coaches there, I actually think they're going to be good. And even though he's old, I mean, he does seem to have a lot of energy. Like he's been rejuvenated a little bit. Yeah, he doesn't look quite like a corpse anymore. Like he's got some color in his face and that kind of stuff. I think he's happy in New York, right? I mean, he's a New York guy.

You can just tell that he's more content there. What was the story? What did his wife live in New York when they were here? Is that the... She doesn't care about it. The biggest Patino hater is sitting right there. Well, he said he didn't even have his honeymoon because he had to go out and recruit. I mean, a lot of people, we all know people who are work-obsessed in their life,

but I want you to find somebody who's more work-obsessed than a dude who loses his job and is like, I got to go to Greece and coaching Greece so that I can keep coaching basketball. I mean, that's kind of how he is. They'll be burying him at some point as a coach. But you know, he had success at Greece. He had success at Iona. You know, he had success here. He's had a success at Kentucky.

It's amazing. Now, what happens, Drew, if we're a three-seed and our two-seat is St. John's, which is not insane. Like, that scenario is very plausible. Can you imagine if it's Newark, Newark, New Jersey, two-seed St. John's, three-seed Kentucky, right outside of New York City. Can you imagine what that would be like? That's a distinct possibility. I would like to avoid it because how good they are defensively, but it would be a fun game.

It would be awesome. The Pope, Patino connection. Heck, Petino might show up wearing a UK quarter zipper for Pope the way he acted all season. But as much as I don't want that matchup, I would like all the stuff around it. See, I would kind of like that matchup. I actually think we would play.

I actually think we would beat them, to be honest with you? Because they can't shoot. Who would you rather play? Would you rather play Alabama or would you rather play St. Johns? You'd rather play St. John's. We can't score with Alabama, but St. John's score 65 points. We can score that. Okay.

All right. When it happens, when selection Saturday happens. Bring on St. Johns. I want him to wear that white suit and then he walks out with a loss. That's what I want to see. What if he beats us, though? We ain't going to beat us. The NCAA selection committee would never put St. John's right with his.

I'm going to go on record right now. This is my prediction. We play our first and second round game. We're going to win tomorrow. Play our first and second round games in Providence. Our two seat is going to be St. John's in Newark, New Jersey, and we're going to end up playing each other. You mark that down.

Did you mark it down? I believe it. That is what's going to happen. We'll take it happen. No, we won't take a break. We'll take all. Who's up next? Got Eaton up next.

Eaton. Go ahead. Eaton. Hey, guys. How's going today. I am en route to Chicago, Illinois. I'm relocating from Bluegrass. making a move for a job up there.

Just wanted to call in and see. I've got one question for you. So I'm just curious. I was thinking about it the day, and I hate to say the catch. There's a team they can't beat, but after the Auburn game, you've got to think it's really hard for them.

They don't match up well with Auburn. Outside of Auburn, who do you guys think we just don't match up well with? You wouldn't want to see in the tournament. That would be very hard for the team to beat. I'll hang up a list. The three teams that I would want to see Kentucky Drew play the least in the tournament are all SEC teams.

I don't want to see him play Auburn, Alabama, or Florida, just because I don't know if we can score enough. I think, you know, Houston's really good, Duke's good. I mean, I wouldn't love to play them, but they can't put up 90 consistently like Florida, Alabama, and Auburn are. And I just, I think without Jackson Robinson, Drew, I just don't think we can score 90, no matter what. And I also don't think we can stop, well, we can.

but against a decent team, and I just don't think we can stop them. So I usually go in the tournament and say, where are the teams I want to avoid? To be honest with you, one, two, and three for me or SEC teams. What about you? Yeah, I definitely agree on Florida and Auburn. With Alabama, I mean, you've lost to them twice. I'd like a shot at them, again, with Butler being able to guard Sears.

That Tuscaloosa game, I want to throw out. But at Rupp, they hit two more threes and they won by five. Just with the similar styles, I think that game would really come down to who's shooting better. Florida and Auburn I definitely would avoid it. Really, I'd welcome Tennessee. I don't think it's a good matchup at all for the balls, as we've seen twice already this season. And I, by the way, think St. John's is very similar to Tennessee, to be honest with you. What three would you want to avoid? Definitely those three. And Florida scares me more than anybody.

Florida's one of those three we mentioned. Yeah, those are the three. There's no doubt about it. Florida, you know, they won at Auburn. They won in Alabama, and they scored 100 on us. Even though he won the game, they scored 100 on us. I think they're maybe the guy of the team that should be bit we look at the other team we should be most scared of you know what's going on here what's happening you okay we do an I'm doing okay I'm doing okay I mean no more samples you stay more samples there's the cinnamon rolls there's the cinnamon rolls I mean those those were only occasionally words that actually were that were that were actual words so

we'll see if we can we'll see we'll get him recharge and we'll take a break 859 280 2287 we're here at Corbred Hiff this is KSR Once was a squad from Jamaica, Queens, the wince by the name of New York's queen, the garden it shook and the fans they wore. Let's go see in John's Red Storm. Soon may the Red Storm come to rock the rim and make a run. One day when the winning is done, we'll cut the nets and go. Draining threes right through the hoop, lay a pump fake alley-oop,

the Johnny's march to victory, the champs of the Big East. I mean, that's kind of, it's kind of catchy. I'm not going to lie. It's good harmony, too. Well, they act like the players and Petino's saying it. I kind of doubt that was what happened. I think there's too much good harmony, but nevertheless, it is Jimmy Fallon's voice. So I thought it was actually kind of catchy.

Is this something that Jimmy Fallon, the Tonight Show just made up, or is this something that's been going on with St. John's all season this song? I would assume they made it up. I don't know. That is a great song for, like, on the spot. You know, they probably recorded it two days before. I have to say, you got, I mean, they had the, device documentary. They had this. He's done exactly what you need to do. One person on text machine

right. We're here at Cornbread Hemp, 772-7745-254. Matt, I would like to know what you think everyone on the show and in your KSR crew's biggest strength is, you don't have to say their biggest weakness. Thank you. Yeah, we'd be here all day on weaknesses. Yeah. No. Okay, so that's a good question because it's good to say nice things. All right. So I'll go from right to left. Well, first, all start out there. Mario's biggest strength is he has brought a lot of new ideas and new things to do, and he really has connected us with a younger audience. If you look at our demos, like, especially online, like we have more 20 to 35-year-old people listening. Like, they've kind of, we've almost been sort of rediscovered by like a newer generation. I just noticed, like, kids in college and right out

of college, just how many more of them know who we are than five years ago, let's say. So he's been a big bolt of energy and fresh air. Billy is organization. He like makes sure the stuff behind the scenes happens. And the good thing about one of the best things about Billy is he will work whenever you need it. If you need him, he's there. And that's a piece of advice I would give to people starting their careers. If an employer thinks he or she can count on you and you'll be there, show up and do what you're supposed to do, that's a massive positive that will stick you around. Billy does that. Ryan is amazing at dealing with people and specifically at dealing with people that I don't want to deal with.

He is really, I mean, when we go do remotes, like nobody is better at dealing with the audience, talking to him, being kind, and of all ages, too. And so that's, in addition to being like a really good radio host, he is the best at dealing with people. Drew is one of the funniest people I know. And Drew kind of gets me on a mental level, probably better than anybody, knows how to respond to me, knows how to deal with me. And I probably still, outside of maybe one or two girlfriends, have spent more nights in the same room with Drew than anyone on earth. And then Shannon is another one with organization, but also like quick wit. knows the song to play has gotten so much bad. I mean, you go to listen to first year or two of KSR and

then get to now, and he has an amazing ability to be a jerk online, on radio, but people still love him. Like, he can be the funny jerk that I think a show needs, and so that is my compliments to all of you. So I will give all of you around and go for you. Can we do you? Yeah, Matt's biggest strength is he knows more than the internet. That's a pretty good strength, man. See, Perfect example of the jerk I'm talking about. Like, I say all nice things, and then he immediately makes fun of me back. Here's what I'll say. You are without a doubt the best radio host I've ever worked with.

I mean, you do such a great job of driving the show, getting in and out, getting collars in, on and off, going through the topics, great topics every single day. That's not easy to do to come up with good topics every single day, but the thing you don't know about Matt, he's got a big heart. I mean, he really does. And some of that stuff you don't see because he's got to be, you know, Mr. Macho, radio host guy. I don't think anyone would call me macho. There's not one person listening to the show. He goes, you know he's a macho guy. Is that Matt Jones the stinking liberal? I don't think anybody says

that. But he's got a big heart. He really does. He cares about people, especially the people that need it the most. Cares about the state, too. Yeah. Thank you very much. So enough of us all be nice to each other. Drew Pug. Did you see, did you see last night, Drew, that Kendrick Perkins and Charles Barkley are now like challenging each other to a fight. I did see this and I have to admit they're both very good at talking trash. He said I'm gonna Kendrick Perkinson if I see. Let me read you. Yeah. So I don't know what what did what I didn't understand is what did Charles Barkley do that made him so bad? It was actually pretty blunt. Charles Barkley said you know that idiot on ESPN and then Shaq's like which idiot and he goes Kendrick Perkins he's a fool and an idiot and then he said I know we're about to work from this

network and they're idiots too. I was watching like I can't believe Charles is saying this television. All right. So then Kendrick Perkins replies Shannon on Twitter. Hey, MBA on T&T might want to tell that senior citizen Charles Barkley that I'll be around. When he see an idiot or fool in person, make sure he keep that same energy. He can come playing with me if he want to, and I'm going to address his ass like the numbers on a house straight from the 409 homeboy, and we bar none and fade all.

Oh, I think I understood some. of what you just read there. I did not. I love a good media battle. I didn't understand all of it. Yeah. I actually wrote down a note, address you like the numbers on a house,

and we bar none and fade all, because I like those lines. Address you like the numbers on a house. First of all, they're both old men, so they both need to slow down. Like, nobody needs to be, like, they don't need to be fighting. Y'all are grown-ups.

No reason to be fighting. But I do, I actually, I'm on Barclay. I think Kendrick Perkins, don't tell anybody this, because we work for the same company, but I think he's kind of terrible on television. So I do like, I will take Barclay, who my opinion is the best person to ever be on television doing sports.

It's like John Madden, you know, Howard Coasell and Charles Barkley. I mean it. I think he's the best. So I'm Team Barclay, but I do like, Ryan, that these two senior citizen men may end up fighting, and you do not put on the internet what I just said about him. Mario, that video, you need to turn that camera off. Delete. He had all this great content.

Look at it. You know what? Since it's just us talking, and I already said that, can I tell you what I screwed up this weekend? Go get that tornado drill back? Yeah. Again, it's just us talking. Turn that camera off, all right?

So the New York Times is doing a story. Have I told this yet on here? You just told us. All right, so New York Times is doing a story that I think comes out Sunday that's about Democrats trying to use sports to relate to the young men that they've lost, right? and for whatever reason they wanted to interview me, I guess, because I'm a Democrat that young men listened to. So they were talking to me, and they were asking me all this stuff,

and then they asked me, Shannon, about Stephen A. Smith. And again, sometimes I forget that, like, you're co-workers. We technically are co-workers, even though I've never met the guy, right? So they said, Stephen A. Smith's talked about running for president. Do you think Democrats want him to be president? And I used a sentence that Shannon I should have remembered I was on the record when I said it. Maybe he should have kept it off the record. I said the only person that wants Stephen A. Smith to be president is Stephen A. Smith.

Amen. You're not wrong. You all know I'm right. I know that's right. You know I'm right. But when I said that, I went, oh. Because I can tell, you know you can tell when a reporter's like, oh. Say that again.

Can you go off the record? And then I went, you know what? Could that be off the record? And she was like, well, it's already on the record. And you guaranteed that's the quote they're going to use from you. So when I get up Sunday morning, I'm going to be like, I hope they didn't use that one when it actually, Shannon, when the article actually comes out. Yeah, again, I mean, I think a lot of people would agree with you.

I know that you work in the same company. He just literally yesterday signed a new $100 million deal with ESPN. Take a lot of zeros out to get to my salary from ESPN. Yeah, he's not going anywhere for a while. but speaking of idiots I might be able to think Barkley because the things he was saying about that network is someone who's about to start

working for them I couldn't believe he was completely calling them out hopefully he will cover mine up who's up next Richard is up next Richard go ahead Richard as a good luck think we got a shot in the box and give us some scoring like to happen in the last few games

listen y'all have a nice weekend go big blue we'll see what happened thank you thank you Richard I think Ryan one of the biggest things that's happened for Kentucky in the last three games is the Andrew Carr from the beginning of the year is back, right? Like he looks fully healthy to me. He looks like his back is not hurting as much. And he looks like the guy that looks so good the first eight or nine games of the year. And I think that's been losing Robinson, but we've kind of picked Andrew Carr back up

after having a few weeks where he really wasn't himself. You can see how much better the offense is with he is on the floor and healthy. You know, Pope talked a lot yesterday in his press conference about pace. You know, he said we played the pace that we wanted to play and we got the shots we wanted to get off and they can continue that in the SEC tournament in March. That's where Andrew Carter steps up and becomes that much more valuable. Earlier in the year, I even, when he first got with the team, I was saying that's my final four MVP. I thought Carr would be the star of this team. That bat clearly got to him. Now, he's not the star of the team, but I do think he's going to be very meaningful for both tournament runs because he was big in the

the Gonzaga win. He was big in the Duke win. All the big wins before he got hurt, he played a major role. He was big in every big win we had. You're exactly right. Florida. I mean, like all of those games, he played really well, and then he was just gone for a long time. The other thing is he's making the three. Like when he gets an open shot, Shannon,

I now feel like it's going to go in, which was not the case for about the three or four weeks before that. It's important that we get, I think, at least a couple of three is a game from Carr, and especially if you have a game like where Oway may be struggling and you're trying to find points somewhere, that's a good place that you can get them from Carr. I think in Pope's system, the four,

whoever the four is gets an open look in the corner a lot. If you think about it, it's all manure and Carr. And those guys tend to, just the way he plays, they tend to be open in the corner a lot. And for a few weeks, it didn't look like Carr wanted to shoot that shot. And now he's not only shooting it, he's actually making it. You can score big with Draft Kings. The UK lines are already up.

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Guys, conference tournaments are going on right now. They've been going on this week, but then we get our first final games this weekend in a few conferences. This is a lot of people say Saturday is one of the more fun days in college basketball all year because you get like two or three automatic bids getting given on Saturday night, including the OBC, which is the first one that will give it. You also have almost everyone plays on Saturday because they don't want to play on Sunday. So it's like the most college basketball games in a day of the year. And if you look at the matchups, you get Alabama, Auburn, you get Duke Carolina.

Normally we have a marquee matchup on the last game. Kind of weird that we got Missouri this year. But then they ended up pretty good, so it works out. But big day Saturday. You're looking forward to sitting and watching it all? I love it, man, because you know one of these smaller conference tournaments, somebody's going to hit a buzzer-beater, or it's going to go into three overtime, somebody's going to win the game right at the final seconds.

That's what makes it special. That's why we love March Madness. And drew our team, Omaha, with our team, with our guys, the outrunners, the guys that beat up the trash cans when they win. They won their first game. They're in the semifinals. If you can find the video online, they and their athletic director did a dropped elbow from the top rope onto a trash can. Wow.

I don't know what's wrong with these guys, but I love them. But they will end up, they play in their semifinals Saturday, too. Kentucky will never be replaced, but is this now your second favorite team in basketball? Listen, they're the favorites to win. their conference. Yes, and if they do, as long as they don't play us, Shannon, I'm rooting for them in the next game. They get that outrunners boost. That's what I'm going to call it. You know, they spin when they go in. You think we can get the entire team to do a spin after every win. All right, let me ask you a question. I said the OVC is the first one. Here's what I didn't realize. Can you name, Ryan, who is in the OVC right now? So there are the

semifinals of the tournament are tonight. I'm going to give you, I will give you, I will give you, you $10. If in one gas, $10. $10. $10. If you can give me, yes, you can get one egg.

$10 if you can name one of the four teams that tonight is playing in the OVC semifinals. $10, $1 team. I can use the $10. Because all the OBC teams I know

don't play in the OVC anymore. Well, no kidding. If the answer was Moorhead, I wouldn't play this game. I'm trying to, I'm trying, because they already lost, by the way. 10 teams, there are four teams. You tell me one that's in the semifinals tonight, and you will get a crisp $10 bid. Let me just pull it out. Oh, you're going to tantalize with me. Okay, I actually don't have it, but I have four dollars. I'll take. Oh, you're six. Well, I have, I have a $4 and a hundred. You're not getting a hundred. So $4 with an I owe you for $6 for one team in the OVC.

I'm going to go with our good friends, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is correct. Take your $4. Give me that $4. How did you know that? Say it. Like I said, all the schools I don't know. We just stayed last night.

Oh, I stayed at a holiday. I knew you were going to do. Seriously, how did you get that? I'm shocked you got that. Well, because, like, you know, E.K.U. and Murray and Bellmolly's teams don't play, but I'm trying to think of who they used to play when the OVC, and I thought S.A.U. Everdeville was in it. I can't believe you got that. I thought that was the easiest $4 I was not going to have to give away. Thank you very much. Just out of curiosity,

because I was going to give you all a chance if he got it wrong. Can either of you get one of the other three? Probably not. I mean, I can name the old OVC. Can anybody out here? I'll say Murray State. Missouri State, not Murray State, Missouri State. But I'm sorry. Can anybody out here? Can anybody out here? Just Give me one. No. Anybody? No. No. Those are all the other, here are the other three. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. I can't even believe you got all four of those. It's not right. They play Tennessee State. And then Little Rock plays Southeast Missouri. One of those four teams will make the NCAA tournament. I can not believe you got that right. I hope it's Edwardsville. I hope it's Edwardsville. I'm betting on them. I'm betting on them right now. Unbelievable. The game's at 10. 30 tonight on ESPNU if you want to watch it who's next

how did he get that right next Brady go ahead Brady yeah thanks for taking a call guys actually going to the game with some of my Mizzou buddies that are alumni and so I'm excited about that but the one point I wanted to make about Kentucky the Mizzou team you guys mentioned it early in the show they got great shooters off the bench Caleb Grill comes off the bench and then Jacob Cruz as well comes off the bench they can both shoot it but I think Kentucky's advantage is Otega O'A. I think Mizzou has no one to stop him, and if he can get going like that Oklahoma game,

he can go on toward the basket and rattle off. It's in a hurry. Yeah, I mean, this Missouri team will give up points. I appreciate the call. They do not guard. They try to beat you by shooting. So, you know, I agree. I think O'A can take their guys off the bounds.

We just have to get out on shooters. And Drew, hope that they have a cold night. And then when they have a cold night, they can get blown out. I mean, we've seen that a few times. Yeah, his name of players, another familiar name. They got a kid from Lexington, Marquez Warwick. He was big in Northern Kentucky.

He transferred there last year. He had a great career at Northern Kentucky. He was good for them last season. Come off the bench now. Should be a fun game. It's a fun game to watch, but we could sure use a victory. We will take a break. Come back.

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