KSR - 2025-03-25- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 25, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK vs. Tennessee, 23 And Me being sold, and more of your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I plan on going to quite a bit of it on Wednesday and Thursday, actually. Well, not Thursday, I'm going to opening day. But I plan on going to a lot of it on Wednesday. You guys, when you're in town for the Sweet 16, please come on by. We had a Dare County here yesterday. Yes, a Dare County came in. Great Crossing coming. Who else?

Henderson County. Henderson County and Great Crossing. So those are going to be the teams I pull for. We had one team canceled. so I'm not going to call them out, but I was going to be for you, and now I'm not. But you guys, when you're in town, come on out and see us over here over the course of the day. There's a lot of years where we've had to travel this week, but being Friday in Indianapolis, I like that we get to stick around and watch a lot of the high school basketball, too.

We're going to pick some of those games here in just a few minutes, but let's talk. One person writes, Matt, I'm hoping you and the crew can explain to my wife why such a large part of BBN hates Tennessee. She doesn't understand why we dislike them so much, and I have a hard time articulating it. Well, I mean, part of it is we're on the border. We share so much of a border with Tennessee, so a lot of us have had to grow up with them and their fans.

When I was a kid, I got Knoxville television stations, so it was all Tennessee. You know, there was a time, the only football game that was on television all year for Kentucky was against Tennessee. Jefferson Pilot would show that last game live. Otherwise, you'd have to watch them all on replay. And then you go back in basketball.

They had a history of big games back in the SEC with Ernie and Bernie and all those guys. Why else do you think we hate Tennessee? I don't know this, but I think they've played Tennessee more than anybody else in basketball. So I think that adds to it. You know, there are border. They're right there. But you're right. It's deeper in the 13th region than anywhere else because you guys have to live in that.

But also in like the Hopkinsville area, there's a lot of Tennessee hate kind of on that part of the state. You're right. Those of us that had to get Knoxville television, I think feel it even more. Yeah, I think Ryan nailed it too, though. Just playing them twice a year in basketball going back to the early 1900s. I mean, they've played almost 300 times. Football you're playing every year. And unfortunately on our side, we were losing it every year.

I just think it makes it an easy team to hate. And by the way, that might go away, the football. I mean, we may end up with a, if they don't go to nine teams, You know, the South Carolina, we may end up not playing Tennessee in football every year, which is kind of amazing to think. I probably would have never thought that's the case, but we may end up being a team we play one every two years. Yeah, it used to be the last game every year,

and Kentucky never won it. It was most of my lifetime. So, yeah, I'd hate to see that game go now that we've won the game, and it's become a good rivalry again. All right, so the portal is now open for college basketball. You're going to hear Kentucky associated with a lot of names. the two names that I think have been the most prominent in the last couple days, the point guard at UNLV, who averaged like 18 or 19 points a game,

and I cannot remember his name at blanked as soon as I got here. Do you know the name? Oh, gosh, no. I'm not like I've seen him play. He didn't something, Thomas. He's apparently the first, when he got in the portal, the first call he had made was a guy from Kentucky, one of our staff members. And then someone that people seem very excited about is this big,

man from San Diego State. He's a freshman. He was all freshman in his conference. He's a big, tall, long guy. You can just kind of see, you could see how Pope would like him. He can shoot. Those are the two guys we've heard the most besides the kid at LMU and then the kid from North Dakota.

And we're going to keep hearing these names. It was interesting to me to hear Mark Pope on his radio show say he's got a guy on staff that basically knows every player in the country, which is an amazing thing if you think about it. Like he has a spreadsheet with every roster in the country. And the moment somebody gets in the portal, if they're on the, we should want these, bam, they contact.

I think that's, can you, I mean, this has got to be a pressure, Phil, few weeks for these guys, for him, right? Like he gets notices every time someone enters the portal. 700 guys entered the portal yesterday. So he was just getting notice after notice after notice after notice. You're trying to get ready for Tennessee, but you've got to have an eye on what's going on in the portal because you know you've got to replenish your roster for next year.

And you got to do it, quick. Yep. And so, like, they're going to have to work on it this week. It's probably terrible timing. The NCAA should change that, but it is what it is. Yeah, they need to change it. Same with football where teams in the playoff get punished because they're busy still

playing and winning. It's the same case with the tournament. But I can't imagine being the guy that has to keep up with all that, especially when 700 or something going one day. It's amazing. Now, I heard Brandon Walker of Barstool make a point that I thought was a great point that I want to give him credit for, but also repeat. You know, there was a lot of talk.

by idiots who don't watch college basketball yesterday saying like Cinderella's over in the NCAA tournament. I think that's a silly argument. But he made, I thought, a really good point, which is part of Cinderella may have just transferred from teams to players. So we think of Cinderella as Florida Gulf Coast goes on a run to the Sweet 16. But some of these players are in and of themselves Cinderella's, that Johnny Broome could go to Moorhead and end up potentially national player of the year. That's a Cinderella story. Mark Sears can be at Ohio and have a shot at back-to-back Final Force. You know, Chas Lanier can come from Northern Florida. Kobe Brea can come from Dayton. Ansley Almanor can come from Fairley Dickinson. And the idea is, it's now no

longer the case that how good you were as a high school senior determines your college career and determines where you can go. Now it can be part of a process and you can watch and players can rise. Why can't we enjoy that and appreciate that as well? I think that's a great point. I mean, whoever wins the national championship is almost certainly going to have a kid who started at some small school and worked his way up to that team. That is in and of itself kind of awesome, isn't it? That's the best thing about the transfer portal. It gives kids that maybe were overlooked in high school. Maybe they were hurt their senior year in high school.

Started out at a mid-major, but yet probably should be at a Division I school all along. Now they have a chance to do that. What's the kid that's out Max Green, right? Yeah. Who plays where? Holy Cross. He was at Holy Cross, but he's from Kentucky. Where did he go to high school?

Cooper. So this is a kid that went to. It's Cooper or Ryle. It's just saying. Louisville and Oldham. Whatever. Let's just say whatever school he went to. Cooper Ryle Oldham.

That kid did not get recruited by top schools. He ends up at Holy Cross, which is one of them smart schools. He goes and plays well, and now he could end up at a lot of places, including the Kentucky Wildcats, his home state school, and it wouldn't have happened for him out of college. Isn't that an underdog? That's what it's about. I mean, that's an underdog worth rooting for.

Absolutely. It's worth rooting for. And that's why it gives these kids a chance. and that even kids that go division two, they'll have a chance now to move up to the mid-major school. Yes, and then Holy Cross can go get a kid that's playing at Cumberland if they want that has a big year. He could end up going to – I mean, that's – that is – for people who want meritocracy, isn't that meritocracy at its absolute best? Yeah, I'd say most of the best players in the Sweet 16 are transfers. I mean, sure, there's your Cooper flags and a couple of the big recruits, but, you know, Walter Clayton was that I own.

Mark Sears, he was at a small school. Derek Queen almost went to Indiana. That's right. But that's a really good point about Cooper Flag. Okay, so now Cooper Flagg, who's been in our lives since he was like 15, he is the traditional success. And he will still succeed in this system. Derek Queen will still succeed in this system.

But now Cooper, a Johnny Broome or a Walter Clayton, who his entire life was told he's not as good as a Cooper Flag, gets a chance to play. maybe in a big environment, and I think that's good. And it doesn't have to be the stars. Troy's best player was at Ranger College. I mentioned how Billy Gillespie recruited him. I mean, sure, he lost to Kentucky, but he was the player of the year in their conference and got to play in the NCAA tournament coming from a Juko in Texas.

So let me ask you this. You think there'll be more coaches do what Rick Patino says he's going to do and not necessarily recruit high school kids? Here's what's going to happen. These colleges, these smaller colleges, are going to get players out of high school better than they've ever gotten before. for. Like if I'm Eastern Kentucky, let's take EKU.

I used to recruit a certain level of player. You'd have to talk to their coaches to know what that is, but maybe that's player 400 through 600 in America or whatever. All of a sudden, they're going to have access now maybe to 200 through 300. They're going to get access to a higher level player. Now you know you might lose it. But you know what? You're going to see some dudes playing at some of these campuses that would have never

shown up there before. Because that's going to have to be their first spot because the older guys are taking the other slots. And there's going to be some guys that didn't get the minutes they wanted at a big school like a Duke. And, you know, sometimes you go to the portal. And it doesn't work out for you. In a smaller school might even be able to pull someone from higher up because they didn't have the options they thought they would. He didn't succeed. But think about like Long Beach State had Devin Askew.

You think Devin Aske would have even considered going to Long Beach State out of high school? But now they get somebody like that. So, you know, there are downs. I think what will be hard, it'll be hard for any mid-major to be good every year. That's going to be really hard. But in an individual year, one of these teams that goes and takes these, like if in Eastern Kentucky goes and takes the best player from Georgetown and from, you know, whatever.

And maybe they can be good that year. And that's exactly what we're going to see happen every single year. It's going to be a lot of roster turnover because of the portal. And like you mentioned the guy here, the junior college, I think, is going to really take a big jump in talent. One of the things, one of those guys is Antonio Reeves. How about a little stat for you? In his last five games,

Antonio Reeds in the NBA has made 17 of 24-3s. Are any of us shocked? He's rolling. You want to know who the league. So last night the Pelicans played the 76ers. You know who was second in scoring for the Pelicans? Antonio Reeves. You want to know who was first.

first in scoring for the 76ers? Justin Edwards. Wow. If you want to vomit about last year, my goodness. I mean, if you want to vomit, don't just eat. We don't even have to talk about reading Rob. And last night, two NBA teams played each other

and two guys that were on our roster that were not the two guys that were top 10 picks. led their teams and scored. Insane. And we lost to Oakland. And people have the audacity to say we wouldn't have wanted to change. We have four guys from that team

that, in theory, could lead a roster in the NBA and scoring in a game. And we lost Oakland. And we lost Oakland. Lost the first round of the SEC tournament. I thought we hit the reset and we're feeling good. I am. I'm just saying to you, when I was,

watching Antonio Rees make his fifth straight three last night. I'm happy for those two guys, though, aren't you? Both of them deserve it. Justin struggled here, I know, but good for him. And Antonio Reeves always was good. I don't understand why he didn't get picked higher. He's an NBA guy, like he can score. Before you mentioned Reeves and Edwards, you mentioned Devin Ask you,

how on earth are he and Cameron Fletcher entering the transfer portal? I went to school with them, I think. That was legit six years ago. He has another year of eligibility. He and Fletcher both were on the same team, and they still have college eligibility. Unbelievable. Who's next? Let's go to Jordan.

Jordan. Go ahead, Jordan. Jordan. Okay. All right. Let's try Jake. Jake, go ahead. So we beat Tennessee. Who's the next victim in the elite eight, Matt?

Well, they play the winner of Houston and Purdue, and I think that'll be a good game. Houston's better. but Purdue will have a big home court advantage, but I'll take Houston. I think we would end up playing Houston. Then after we beat Houston, who's in? Well, I mean, they have brackets, Jake. You can look at them. I mean, I think after that is.

I can't look at them because I can't see, man. I know. I'm sorry. But they would play who's next. Auburn. Is that right? I can't think who they play. I think we're on Auburn side.

Right. In Duke, the one, and Florida the four? I think I'm right. I think we would play in the final four. I think we would play Auburn if we made it. Yes. No, she's on the other side. Duke would play Duke.

I'm sorry, Jake. We would play Duke. And if we played Duke in the final four, and I was on a plane to Amsterdam during the game, I might explode. Oh, boy. Then you'd be sorry you took the trip. Yeah, well, believe me, that's been on my mind. If we were to play Duke in the Final Four,

and I'm sitting there. You'd be viral. I'm sitting there. not able to get Wi-Fi on the flight and having to figure out that would be. You'd be one of the people we see taped to their seat because they couldn't behave on a flight. Yeah, so Jake, it would be. Thanks, Jake. Jake, it would be Tennessee, Houston, then Duke, and then either, let's say, Auburn or Florida.

All right. Thank you, Jack. Thank you. Well, why is our bracket not filled out there? Or is it yellow? I don't know. There's a few empty spots. That's your favorite game.

Why don't you go ahead and fill that in? Yeah. Kentucky's not, hadn't beaten Illinois yet on our KS bar bracket. Fix that. There you go. Well, we'll take a break. I'll fill out some bracket and be right back to this case. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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Every player on the roster started his career at that school. Can you tell me which school it is? I think I know this because I saw the graphic during their broadcast. Is it Purdue? It is Purdue. There are only, listen to this, there are only three of the 16 schools have four guys who started at their program. Purdue is one of them. Who are the other two?

Michigan State. Michigan State is the other one and? Man, I'm just seeing a lot of transfers. Maryland? Duke. Duke. He's got a lot of fresh freshman. Here's what I didn't realize until I looked at this graphic.

I knew Lamont Butler started at San Diego State. I knew Otega at Oklahoma. I knew Kobe Brea at Dayton. I knew Amari Williams Drexel. I don't think I knew that Andrew Carr started his career at Delaware. Two years of Delaware. I didn't know until Drew said that. I don't think I ever knew that.

I thought he was just a Wake Force guy. I don't think I ever knew that either. I honestly don't think of that. I think I'd ever heard that fact until right now. He was a blue hen, started as a blue hen. I think his dad played there. He's got some big family ties to Delaware. But it goes along with your argument about the transfer portal.

Think about that guy. Goes from Delaware to Wake Forest to Kentucky, and never would have happened without the portal. All right, we have some breaking news, Shannon. Running on nah. Just moments ago, Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir signed the law, passed by the legislature, making the driver's permit age in Kentucky now 15.

You'll be able to get a driver's permit at 15, and for one year, you can have a permit at age 15 that goes down a full year from when it was 16, and you couldn't get your license to 17. So now it's 15 to 16. Do you like or dislike the law? Pass overwhelmingly in the state legislature. I can't dislike this enough. A father of three boys, there is no way I'd want them on the road at 15. I mean, Andy's got like a 12 or 13-year-old son. He may regret this move in a couple years.

The legislature passed it. He just had to decide to sign it. Oh, this is bad. I'm telling you this is bad. So here's the argument for it. I tend to side with you. But the argument for it is this allows people, especially out in the western part of the state,

farm to get help, let kids help with the farms and go and get the, I don't know, feed or cows or whatever. We can door dash it. Yeah, door dash a cow. I don't think you can do that. But then it's like, it's mostly like for rural. farm. I think the mindset of why it was passed. Do you

like it or not? I think it's a terrible idea. We have enough bad drivers on the road already. Not to sound like an old man, but I just assume these 15-year-olds will be staring at their phone the whole time while they're on the road. I don't think we need any more drivers right now. I like the age as it is. They can get their own feed. Shannon, that's two votes against it. Are you for it or against it?

I'm completely against it. As Drew just said, we have horrible drivers. Half the people on the road don't deserve their license to begin with. and that's not all young people, it's some old people. It's a mix of age, but I don't want anybody younger than what has to be on the road on the road. Here's what surprises me about it. Okay, because I would lean no as well. Like, I don't know that we need 15-year-olds.

I would cut half of the drivers off the road now, if given the opportunity. But it passed like 87 to 13. Like, it passed overwhelmingly. It was bipartisan. Bashir signed it. Who's for it? Like, there had to be clearly a big push to get it done. It was one of the first bills passed in the legislature.

Who's, I mean, is it just, I mean, there aren't that many farmers. I mean, there's farmers, but they're not a milt zillion of them. Like, who's for this? I don't know either. Listen to you talk about it. I mean, I can see where the rural counties that may want to help pass this, but there's a lot more population, obviously, in Lexington, Louisville, Bowling Green Owensboro that I would never want 15-year-olds driving on the road.

But now you're going to have it. But while they have a permit, though, they'll have their, like you'll be in the car. That scares me too. I don't know if I'd want to ride shotgun with my son driving at 15. But still they'll get their license earlier than they would have moving it up. Yeah, I mean, still, you're going to, as a practical impact, you're going to have un-supervised drivers a year earlier. It was 17, and now it's going to be 16. Shannon was with me at the public market getting lunch today.

We were trying to get a table. And there was a kid who was probably 15 on his phone. I said, is anyone sitting here? And he didn't look up. I said, is anyone sitting here? He was like, do you speak? And then he didn't say anything. And his parents came over and yelled at me and Shannon for sitting down.

I was like, your kid didn't look up from his phone. I'm sorry. I asked him three times. I kind of got a little defensive. So that's still fresh in my brain. And I feel like it's just going to be like that with him driving around. There's really a lot of people that like it. I have yet to talk to a person that is happy about this.

And yet it passed overwhelming. And so you just wonder, well, how did that happen? Who's next? Let's go to Craig. Craig, go ahead, Craig. I tell you who's probably for that is the insurance company. I'm guessing they got a lot of invested in that, even though they're going to make a lot of money. That's probably a good point because they'll be able to charge a lot for that insurance for the 15.

I didn't think about that. See, follow the money. Go ahead. And you got some good points on what makes Tennessee so bad, but the number one thing is the fans. They're the worst fans. the most unrealistic, cocky, arrogant fans in the SEC. I think that's what makes Tennessee's most hated. I actually agree with you on that.

I think Tennessee has, I appreciate the call, of the fan bases we deal with regularly, Tennessee's is the worst. You know, Louisville's, I've been enemy number one in Louisville, used to be really less so now, but I have been. I've been there. I know what they do.

They're jerks, but they still kind of know. their second. I mean, they know it. They may not say it, but they know it. Tennessee fans are arrogant on a level that's a whole other thing, and they're the meanest. Like, they're mean. They're the meanest fan

base on the internet, and really in life. So, yeah, I do think the fans are part of why I really don't like them. And it seems like it's the Tennessee football fan that is just the most disgusting, low-down, dirty, women chewing tobacco people I've ever seen in my life.

Disgusting. There we go. How many pictures have you tweeted so far this week? I've seen at least two. I'm going to go two a day. Okay. So you're just tweeting two pictures a day of women with tobacco? Yep, and they all look like they're right out of these.

Where do you get these pictures? Is this like a fetish of yours? I don't have people sending them to me. You have people sending you pictures of women chewing tobacco? Yes. And they're about to be posted. Should we give everybody your number of where they can send them? No, thank you.

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Here's Matt Jones. Ryan's continuing with these pictures. You're going to get, like, Tennessee Twitter's going to find you sometime this week, and it's not going to be, I'm just telling you, I've been the target there. It's happening at some point. I'm just posting real photos. That's not AI. That's girls dipping.

wearing to Tennessee stuff. I got a question that's kind of throwing me off. The guy right here is just sitting with his back to me. He's just like, you know what? He's just kind of throwing me out. He's like, I don't want to look at you. I'm going to sit right. I'm going this way.

There he is. I mean, it's okay. You're the first person I've ever seen come here during the show and just sit with your back directly to me. That's all right, though. No, no, you see, you talk to your son there. I think I feel like you all. CBS just announced,

highest viewed second round of the NCAA tournament since 1993. Was it really? The highest rated game was Kentucky, Illinois, followed by Duke and Baylor. We're back. We're back. Kentucky, Illinois, the highest rated game. You know, I got the order wrong, but I was certain they were putting Duke at 230 and Kentucky at 5 or Kentucky at 5 and Duke at 2.30. Everybody just has to remember.

the two programs that drive the car in college basketball are Kentucky and Duke from a television perspective. They're always going to do that, and they did it again this weekend. But for all the people who say NIL, Portal, it's ruining basketball, highest rated tournament since 1993, first and second round, does not surprise me at all. You may say we don't just move the needle. We are the needle. You may. I'm not because that's what Cala Perry said, but yes.

But that's just how it is. The portal has been good for college basketball. I don't necessarily think it's good for college football because there's so many players, and I think that makes it hard. But for college basketball, it has made the sport older, which has made a higher quality of play. It has made it to where lots of teams can compete. The portal has been a 100-1-100.

percent positive. In NIL, guys are staying in school. Tate, you mentioned DJ Wagner. DJ Wagner might come back again. Without NIL, he's gone. Sure. Togo away. He might come back.

Without NIL, gone. That's just how it is. And sure, in this first weekend of the tournament, we didn't get the Cinderella's taken down a Goliath like we have won occasionally, but how exciting are these next weekend going to be? I mean, there's a 10 seed in the field and it's Arkansas. that might be one of the most talented teams. Look at these games.

I mean, none of these games are bad. You got Auburn, Michigan. That should be great. Ole Miss Michigan State. Florida, Maryland, Texas Tech, Arkansas, Duke, Arizona. BYU and Alabama, there might not be a scoreboard that can keep up with that one. Houston and Purdue, Kentucky, and Tennessee. That's not one bad game.

That's right. They're all good games. Out of those sweet 16 years. Cinderella's are fun, but the second weekend, they usually, I mean, there's been a few cases go farther, but they usually get smoked in the second round. makes for a bad game during the second weekend. You want upsets in the first round. You want chalk in the sweet 16.

You want games where... You want the better games. You want the games where both teams are good, and we're going to get that this year. Do you, Ryan, have a 23 and me account? I don't even know what that is. Drew, you do have one, right? I got on it.

I got on last night, and it's probably too late, but I deleted every possible thing I could have on there. Even though I've already sent in whatever I sent in. What is it? Did you, do you have a 23 and me? No, I have an ancestry. Okay, so you could like, I guess, 23 and me, what did you send in? It's been a while.

I think maybe a swab of my, I really don't remember. I remember what I had to do. He had to, like, spin in a test tube and send it up. Yeah, there it was. Rub things on yourself to give them pieces of yourself. Wow. Maybe I should have joined. Ryan leaves DNA in other places.

Okay, that's enough. and they ended up and you could send it in and then they would tell you like who you were related to right where you're from it even says like you're likely to sleep until 8 a.m. Or you're likely to have this or do this. But it would tell you like who your great great grandfather was or things like that. I learned the breakdown of what parts of the world I'm from and you know all that. Okay, so you could do that and people did it. 15 million people sent in their DNA to 23 and me. Well, they've declared bankruptcy.

And as part of the bankruptcy petition, the judge, this is what happens when you go through bankruptcy, they take the various parts of your business and they sell them so that you can pay back all the people you owe money to, right? So that's how a bankruptcy works. So one of the things all 23 and me really has is the name, but then they also have 15 million people's DNA, right? And there's value in that. Like when Drew signed up, he gave away his DNA and he probably signed a paper that said they get to keep it. So now 15 million people's DNA is for sale. And there are people worried, like, we don't know who they're going to sell it to.

They're not sure if the courts will limit. I bet the courts limit who can buy it. I don't think they're going to let. But you never know. So they're encouraging people if you had a 23MMe account, go delete all your DNA. and you said you did that. It did. I mean, it's too late.

It's already out there. I hit the revoke, and I don't consent to this, but I just assume it's too late for that to come back. So are you worried that, like, people are going to walk around and they might create little droos? No. No, I mean, I'm not really that worried, but when I saw it, I mean, what did it hurt for me to log in

and hit delete a couple times? I'm not, like, paranoid about it. I can't undo it, but it is not a pleasant thought to know that just a random company, country, whatever, could end up with 15 million people's DNAs, not just their DNA. I mean, your whole ancestry history they have on there, there's a lot of information they find. Shannon, you're a conspiracy theory guy. Are you worried that some company's going to buy up 15 million people's DNA? And, you know, I don't know what they're going to do with it.

You could create a virus out of the DNA. I guess they could. I don't know. I guess if you knew, if you had everybody's DNA, I guess you could pick vulnerabilities for a virus, maybe. If you would be real sinister. That's what Reddit told me. I guess if you could do like a virus, yeah, that's concerning. But I mean, do you really need that many people's DNA? I think you could just do it with one or two. So we'd all be screwed regardless.

It's another perfect example of what I've talked about for years, and you're going to keep hearing me talk about, how easily we are volunteering to give our information out. Like we are consenting to give our information out so easily. And the government has already shown they're not going to protect it. Like they're not. And I don't know, like, before our generation dies, something's going to happen that's going to be because of how we consented to giving all of our personal information away so we could do the Will Smith dance on TikTok or something. And all I really got out of it is like, I get emails about an eighth cousin down the road or that I have like a 40% chance to go bald.

I really didn't get, I didn't really get the information. I don't even know what I was looking for. So they tell you you have a eighth cousin? Oh, I get emails all the time. I should have turned those off a long time. Oh, look, so-and-so in Wisconsin is your 15th cousin separated by something? Do you have any desire to meet those people? Zero.

Actually, don't even want the emails. That's a good question. Do you have desire? Like, if you found out you had a long-loss family member that was right there, would you want to know? Me personally, I wouldn't. But my sons are all three adopted. I can see where they would maybe want to research and find. I was going to add that there's been a big reaction to the news of people saying,

I've actually found my sister because of this. So yes, it seems bad, but people that were actually looking for relatives got value. And I know this hasn't happened, but this is a theoretical question. Let's say you had a brother that your parents just never told you about for whatever reason. And maybe you put it up for adoption or whatever. And now at this stage of your life, would you want? to know that? I absolutely would want to know that.

And you'd want to go meet them. I would definitely want to go meet it. What if you found out, like, some people did from 23 and me that, like, the person they thought was their father wasn't their father? It's got to be devastating sometimes for people. But would you want to know that, or would you rather just want to live your life? Like, I didn't need to know that. I think me, I would not want to know.

I would just, my dad is my dad, and I don't care of my DNA test says he's not. The guy who raised me is my dad. Okay, what about you? Would you want to know? Yeah, I mean, if I found out a brother, heck yeah, I'd want to be boys. We've got years to catch it up. Yeah. Yeah.

What would you do? I don't need to know anything. Like, if life is good, why do you want to add complications to it? I'm not saying I really would want to see it out with this guy. DNA. Okay, so you all share blood, but like. Maybe you didn't grow up. I had him over for video games.

You know this as a dad of adopted kids more than anything. What it means to have a brother It's not really sharing your blood with them It's the life experiences that you had If I meet a person at this age I feel like it's just going to be like awkward Well that's why I think you're the good The best person asked this question because you're an only child

Would you wish you maybe you'd had a brother This may be a way you can find a long lost brother Like do I wish I'd had a brother? I don't know I mean I felt like everything went pretty well as it was I think I am closer to my friend friends because I don't have a sibling. It makes it to where you form those relationship bonds a little stronger.

Anyway, just so you know, everybody's going to have your DNA if you went to 23 of me and there's going to be little droos running around Earth. Who's next? Let's go to Chris. Chris, go ahead, Chris. Hey, Matt, first time, long time. Who are? I'm a fellow Democrat and lifelong UK

fan and I just had a couple comments, one about UK and one about U of L. Well, quickly. of all, I love this team and almost forgot how much fun March Madness could be. I agree. I graduated from UK in 1990, so I was there during the scandal as well as Petino's first season. And with U.S. and Petino bouncing back this season, I've been thinking about how most of the major players, besides Andre McGee, have had some kind of positives since the various scandals.

UFL is back to being a winning program. Patino was having a career renaissance. Katina Powell wrote a book, and Karen Seifer experienced the best 15 seconds of her life. All right, I appreciate to come on. I wonder where it was going. I'm all set up for that joke. You know, it is interesting how,

think about this. Remember the Adidas, the FBI scandal and all that? Yes. Do you remember who all the major players were in that? Virtually all of them have had their careers. Skyrocket. Rick Petino, Sean Miller is the new coach at Texas. Will Wade is the new coach at NC State. All these guys who were part of a scandal that seemed like this major scandal, they're all seeing their careers flourish because basically what was illegal is now legal,

Drew. I mean, something that was just like an FBI investigation five years ago is now legal. Yeah, they were just ahead of everything, getting some practice in and paying players before it became the norm across the board. It is funny. Wade, it was crazy. When is White, it was crazy. When is White, like writing personal checks. Yeah, she was making big ass offers. That was the best part of all of it. Volunteers of America, Midstates is part of Volunteers of America for 125 years. They're America's oldest nonprofit helping hand.

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So that's good. I was a little surprised at that, but I guess that's how they worked it out. TBS, one of the early games. So we will be the early game, which is good, which means the postgame show won't end in the middle of the night. And if we were to beat Tennessee, there's nothing better than if you win the early game

and then you can watch the second game and, like, you don't have a dog in the fight. You can just enjoy the Purdue-Huston game. If we win, I'm pulling for Purdue, even though they'll have a lot of fans. I just think we have a lot better chance of beating Purdue than we do have beaten Houston. who are, Houston's like us, but better.

I mean, like, literally, they're old guys, a little better offensively, better defeat. Like, Houston's just us, Drew, just a better version of us. Yeah, before we even got the bracket out, I didn't want Houston. And then when I did get it, even though Kentucky's in the region, I have Houston winning at all. Get past Tennessee, and then whatever happens in lead aid I'm cool with. Sweet 16 starts tomorrow.

We're going to be there tomorrow morning. We'll actually be on the air during the first game, which is Adair County and Bowling Green. But I have a fact for you. We'll pick all the games tomorrow. But I have a fact for you about the Sweet 16. Okay. I think there was something similar to this in football, but we're doing it again here to here.

Ashland plays Calloway County. Yes. Now, if you look at a map, Ashland is on one far end of the state, and Calloway County is on the other far end of the state. Yes. Like you couldn't get two schools farther apart. But here's the stat. Ashland is 60 miles closer to Canada than it is to Callaway County. I believe it.

Isn't that an amazing? That's crazy, yeah. That's, well, because it's got to be at least, what, five hours to get to Calloway County from Ashland? Oh, it's more than that. More than five hours. It's more than that. I mean, it's at least six. And not leave the state.

But Ashland can get to Canada before they can get to Caliway. They can get to Callaway County. That's crazy. I feel like this is a Ryan Limin's stout of the day. Haven't you shared something similar like this? There was something like that for football. Somebody who put Raceland played like, I don't know, what, Mayfield or something. Maybe that's what it was.

And it was. Yeah. It's crazy that that can happen. I mean, Calloway, Far West. I remember Madisonville played Paintsville maybe in football and it wasn't quite as far. But it felt like such a disadvantage. So if you come here for the Sweet 16, come on out to Bar. We have all kinds of things going on over the.

the course of these three days. And we will have all the games. Yes. We will have all the games on the big screens here on prep spin. So we will have all the Sweet 16 games for you. Who's up next? Bill. Bill, go ahead, Bill. Hey, Matt, this first time caller. Who are? I want to talk about, first of all, with Duke, they've got a class down there that teaches you how to be a jerk. You know, that's why Hurley's such a jerk. He didn't go to Duke, no. He didn't. He didn't. He didn't. He didn't. He, he, didn't go to duke danny hurley bobby hurley went to duke danny hurley went to seaton hall or something like that yeah but he read his notes okay right you're the most consistent

ryan you're the most consistent person i on your show i love you uh you're uh just great i appreciate that because marr mariel says i'm not very consistent oh you're the most consistently entertaining person on the show oh that's very nice uh my dad Yeah. One thing real quick is, you know, you all do these tours and stuff. Be nice if you had a rifle just to win a slot in your office tour, you know, to ride a long weekend do all that stuff. It's great. It's so entertaining when you all do that.

Well, thank you very much. Yeah. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. All right. The last thing I want to say is I listened to the post-game show the other night, and what you ended with that thing about being a Kentucky fan brought tears to my eyes because it was so true. I know it's out there that Mario tweeted it out, but the fans out there know to get to listen to that.

That was fantastic. Brought tears to my eyes, and I'm proud to be a UK fan because of it. Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that's very nice. And I appreciate the call. I do believe that. I think, you know, I think that this whole fan base and this whole Kentucky, this is a great time of year.

This week is a great week because after you've made it past the second round, your chances of like flopping in the tournament have kind of gone away. Unless you're like the 2015 team where like success is nothing but a national championship, usually if you get the second weekend, even if you lose, it happens. So this week is always been one of my favorite weeks because it's just happiness and excitement. You know, this is, when you get to final four week, there's the pressure of, oh, we need to win the national championship or whatever.

But this week is always exciting. And we just haven't had it since 2019. And it's awesome, Drew, to get to feel it once again. Yeah, you've removed any chance of a heartbreaking upset. I mean, we don't want to lose the VALs, but they are the better seed. They're a four and a half point favorite. You know, most people are going to pick them to win. So at this point, you've at least dodged the worst-case scenario other than the fact it is a rival that you have to play.

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