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

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk transfer portal news, bees, and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I do want to hear, you know, there's been a lot of stuff happen in the last few days from the end of the season to the portal, to the situation with the women's basketball team. so I'm going to go to your questions, and you can ask anything you want. Now's the day, 859-280-2287. Guys, tonight at like 11 o'clock, I fly overseas across the Atlantic Ocean and hoping my back will stay intact during that, I guess what, six-hour flight, but nice to be with you one more time before we go. Are you excited about your big trip?

Have you ever been to Amsterdam before? I have. Yes, I've been. to Amsterdam a couple of that. That was where I met. You remember Tyler Childers where I heard him play for the first time. I haven't been to the rest of Holland. We're spending like five days in the Hague, which the people in Netherlands called Durhog.

I haven't been there, but I've been to Amsterdam, so looking forward to it. You're going to check out the tulips, and I think they're a big cyclist over there. You're going to do all the local things. This is tulip season. Do you know about, Ryan, do you know about the tulips over there? You know, that's their thing. Is they're big on tulips in April is when the tulips are in full bloom. So I get to see all of the tulips.

I think if you ask me to say anything I know about Holland, it would be tulips and windmills. That would probably be it. Well, this is tulips season. When I tell people that, especially women, they get very excited. They go, whole tulips. That's going to be great. Shannon, I'm a little skeptical about being excited about the tulips. But people say it's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen

that there will be tulips as far as the eye can see, Shannon. And I'm looking forward to, I guess I will see the best of what tulips can bring to the planet. Well, I can't wait. I expect you to send some pictures in the group chat. Hopefully we'll get them through Ryan's droid. You think I'm going to sit, you really would like me to send pictures of two. Sure. If that's what this whole place is known for, why would I not want to see a picture of what they're known for?

Yeah, I guess. So when you're sitting at home one night, and you see me send pictures, you want to see pictures of tulips. That and the Red Light District, if you don't mind. I think the second one is what you would prefer to see. But we're going to the, you know, it's in the Hague there, Drew, is the international criminal court. Like when people commit war crimes and, like, leaders across the world do something awful, they come there and that's where their trials are. is at the Hague in in, uh, in Netherlands. And so that's where I'm going to be for like a week.

Sounds exciting. I hope we get pictures of the Hague, too. Yeah. There's a courthouse. Just send us all the pictures. Yeah, I don't know what. Maybe the Anne Frank House. Isn't that there somewhere?

Now we're at my little group, we're going to the Anne Frank house. Are you really? At our it's our itinerary. Yes, we're going to the end Frank house. Uh, we're going to the, it's like the human, it's human rights and all of that stuff. I've been reading my little book here, Ryan, just last night read Spinoza. Have you read a lot of Spinoza in your life?

That's next on my must-to-do read list, I think. Is it? Hertha Mueller, you've probably, you're probably, she's probably one of your favorites. Oh, yeah, I love Hertha. Diet, Emon, I've been reading all these people. So it's, you know, very different than reading Jacob Polichick's portal reports, but they're, you know, still, still worthy. And speaking to the portal,

Shannon, I don't know what to do about Scoop. You know I love Scoop. Yeah. I love when Scoop gives Scoop. And I get excited when Scoop gives Scoop. As a matter of fact, when we do, you have a little song you play. I do. Yeah, I do.

Scoop, Scoop. And every time I hear that, it makes me so happy because Shannon, it's like, oh, something good's happened. Well, yesterday, at the end of the show, he dropped like three scoop bombs. He said, we visited the guy from UAB in Chicago, which, by the way, Ryan, that one was true. That was right. Are you excited about that? That one was true. One for one.

Then you said that you felt good about us getting the kid from Robert Morris. I talked yesterday to some people. I wouldn't say, like, I don't think it's going to happen this week, like you said. But I do think that they do look good with that kid if they decide they want him. But then you also said that we were going to get Magoon. what's his last name? Swath. Squath.

Gwath. Gwath. You said that was going to happen any day now, as Ronnie Millsap would say. And then last night, he picked San Diego State, which was a huge strikeout for scoop. What do you have to say for yourself, Ryan? Yeah, you know, I think my information was really good. He committed to Kentucky. And just the kid changed his mind.

I mean, he wanted to stay home and play at San Diego State. So I, you know, in this NIL transfer portal world, that's just going to happen sometimes. But he did commit to Kentucky and the staff felt really good that he was coming. So you're saying he did commit to Kentucky. He did. Now, is there a part of this that makes you want to say maybe the way you handle scoop in the portal era, maybe you need to like be a little careful and say, well, things could change? Absolutely.

Yes. That's why when I sit the first treat out is, used a googly eyes. I didn't say anything. But then on here on the radio show, I went ahead and said it. I shouldn't, I should have just stayed with the googly eyes. Oh, so you, so, no, wait a man, is he saying Googly eyes is not the same? Like, that's not as big of a risk. That's what it sounds like. Yeah. I still really know the full context of these

googly eyes. He's making the googly eyes seem pretty innocent, even though it has 250,000 views now. I mean, I would argue there's, I would argue there's a decent chance as many, if not more people see the googly eyes than hear the radio. So why are you so liberal with your googly eyes? With my googly eyes. I, uh, you know, I fully believe my information was right. Like I said, he committed. Staff thought that he's committed.

And I think the staff's disappointed that he changed his mind. And I think that's just stuff that's going to happen in this era we're in. Well, Shannon, can I tell you the mental hurdle I had to jump yesterday? Yeah. All right. So, so, uh, you know, UK has. a couple of people that sort of deal with the NIL side of things. So I think it's important for people to understand how the UK process of getting players works.

So Mark Pope, I actually think rhyme was correct. I mean, I like to give him a hard time, but I actually think he was correct. The coaches talk to the players, and the coaches kind of do the, do we want this kid, and what does the kid want? We'll talk about basketball, et cetera. then if there's a fit, Drew, then I think it moves to the, okay, let's do the negotiation side. Does that make sense? So those are two different steps.

There's the basketball step, and then there's the NIL step. And when it comes to the NIL step, that's a conversation that often doesn't even include the basketball player. It includes the agent, and then the people that UK sort of have doing that are kind of outside. the program, to be honest with you. So, at least for now. So what was interesting is, Ryan, I think would it be fair to say that your source is kind of on the basketball side? Is that fair to say?

Fair to say, yes. Yeah, my sources tend to be because I'm kind of of the belief that in the portal era, we're back to the old days where the sources now are almost need to be more on the outside because they're the ones handling the brass tax, Shannon, if that makes sense, right? They're the ones kind of handling the money side. And yesterday afternoon, I was walking through Central Park, and I was talking to a couple folks,

and they were basically telling me that Scoop was a little premature, that he had some premature scrupulation, Shannon, for lack of a better time. Always embarrassing when that happens. Some premature scrupulation. scuplation. Maybe when he said that on the radio, that when it came to the financial aspect, that that wasn't finished yet. So then I'm left with a quandary, Shannon.

Do I try to counter my own scoop guy? You know, you don't want to do that. No, you got to go. No. His track record's been good. We go with sco. And he's, and like you think, maybe on that other side, they'll eventually work it out. So I kind of let it be.

And then later in the night, we find out it doesn't work. I think what ended up happening is San Diego State got to enough close to Kentucky that he decided to stay. I don't think they've got as far as Kentucky, but close enough that he decided it was worth it, and he ends up staying. But the financial side of this is actually kind of quite interesting because Kentucky is trying to get four or five players. I think financially Kentucky's got plenty of money. But I think Kentucky, and this is true, of Kansas, Duke, Yukon, all of these teams, they're trying to get a number of people, and they don't want to throw all their money at one or two kids. And what's happening is some of these other schools, LSU, South Carolina, San Diego State.

Drew, I think they're kind of throwing their whole bag at one or two kids, and it is making it to where some of these powers are having to hold out a little bit longer because the bigger amounts of money are going to these other kids. Now, I don't think that's what happened with this kid, with Magoon, but I do think that's what happened maybe with some of these guys. To defend scoop a little bit more, this stuff, as we've seen with other players too, this year and last, it can change with one phone call. They can not be considering a school at all. And that school can have a chain reaction. That school can lose the guy they were going after and just out of the blue call someone up

and drop a bag and then suddenly it turns on a dime. And that seemed to be what happened here because, you know, it's fun to laugh at Scoop, but when Trilly Donovan, who doesn't miss, and on three, everyone on the internet had Magoon to UK yesterday. I'll note two days after Scoop, but he's not the only one that missed this one,

and it just seems to be the case that the kid had a change of heart. That phone call came in, and they had found the money to flip his decision. And it could have been true, you know, that 1155 yesterday morning, what Ryan was saying was true. Oh, I think it was. I think it was. But I think it's important to remember that

there are two phases now. there's the basketball phase and there's the money phase. And I think probably we need to all be careful that we make sure both are aligned. You know, the Donovan Dent kid. I think he sort of told the basketball people, I want to play there. And then on the money side, UCLA came up with a larger offer. I think it's also, the last thing I would say is, with the exception of Louisville, who has gotten a couple of players.

Most of the powers, Ryan, have not gotten anyone yet. Because I think they are very hesitant. When Duke and Kansas and Kentucky and Yukon and all these schools sign somebody, you are setting the financial precedent for your team. You're setting the precedent of what you're going to have to give everybody else. You also, Ryan, I don't think you can give Otega away less than you give some of these other kids. Right? these new kids.

So I do think UK has to be careful, and I think that's what you're seeing right now. So that's a long way of saying, I think our fans are going to have to get used to. This is a different process. And I'll also note one other thing. Last year, if you remember, we lost Drew the Mahaney kid to Yukon, but ended up with Kobe Brea. And we lost the Roach kid to Baylor, but we ended up with Lamont Butler. and sometimes you may find out that there's a better kid for you down the road. I looked at the recruiting rankings from last year, and I looked at the top 15 players in the portal,

according to On 3, and where they win. And guess what? Of the top 15 players in the portal, guess how many of them ended up playing in the elite 8? One. One. That's it? One. Clifford, the kid that went to Alabama.

Clifford. Oh, you, Marry. Yeah. Only two went to the Sweet 16. Wow. John L. Davis at Arkansas and Clifford. So my point is, just because you get these dudes, they may not be a fit for what you're doing. And I think that's important to watch as you go through this.

But Scoop, do you feel bad about it, or are you still confident that you were right when you said it? I was confident I was right when I said it, but I do feel bad. bad and I'm afraid to open my phone and see how bad I'm getting roasted. So I'll just let that just sit on my desk for a while. Don't worry about them. They didn't have the scoop. They didn't know any more than you did. Don't worry about those people.

I wrote 800 words commending scoop ready to hit publish. Oh, no. I just had to hit delete. That was an hour and a half of my day. You should apologize to Drew. Yeah, actually, you should apologize to Drew. You made Drew work for nothing. It was a victory lap for you.

Do you still, do you have anything you want to add about the today scoop? or are you out of the scoop beat for a little while? Well, I thought I was going to come in here and get to tell you about the Indiana guy that they were on, but then somebody broke that last night. So that's the only other nugget I got. Were you hesitant to put it out last night? Yeah, the kid from Indiana that they're recruiting. You didn't want to put it out last night where you were?

I was going to say it for the show today. Okay, got you. Well, no eye boss for him. I still believe in Scoop. Thank you. It was a swing and a miss on that one, I guess. Yeah. Sometimes it happens.

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Well, he had one with like, was it little Jimmy Dickens or who was it that he did? What the cowgirls do is a fun song. Okay, that is true. That is a fun song. It feels like most of his songs, though, were like breakup songs or dying songs. Well, that's what hits the hardest, you know. I guess so. I do like Vince Gill, though.

Biggest fan of Belmont College. goes to all of their games. Big supporter. In Nashville, that's right. It's Ask Anything Wednesday. A couple questions. One person writes, Matt, if Reed hadn't gone to the NBA, do you think he would have come back to Kentucky or followed Cal to Arkansas?

Drew, what do you think of that one? Oh, wow. Never even thought about that. I don't think he would have followed Cal. I think we would have found all the money we need to keep Reed. But, you know, as you say, maybe I'm not positive. He threw on the shirt, still lice cow, roots full. them. I want to say Kentucky, but who knows, maybe Cal could have found the chicken money to pull

them away. I think it would have been Kentucky, Ryan. I think that's part of why I was so surprised by the Arkansas shirt. I think it would have been Kentucky. What do you think? Yeah, he had Kentucky posters up in his bedroom. Both these parents played for Kentucky. He's worn Kentucky gear his entire life. It'd be tough to have him put on the- Dad play with Pope. Dad play with Pope. Yeah. I think the Pope thing, it would make Pope look bad right out of the gates. And I don't think Jeff will let that happen. Yeah, I just don't think so. One person writes, Matt, I've seen the tulips.

You're going to be really impressed. They create pictures and mosaics with the flowers. My wife still talks about them. There you go, Shatman. Pictures and mosaics. Are you a flower guy? I know you're a candle guy. No, not at all.

Not at all. Not at all. I don't know that I ever notice flowers ever. But apparently, I mean, these are everywhere. Like they literally take out, there are tulip markets where you can go. buy and trade tulips. I don't have any to trade right now. You say you're not a flower guy, but yesterday you successfully identified the two parts

of a flower, the pistol and the statement. So I think maybe you are a flower guy. You just don't want us to know about it. I enjoy the reproduction aspect. Okay. That's out of it. One person writes, Matt, sounded a little like you were covering for Pope. Can you acknowledge that there are guys in this class Pope wanted that he's missed?

Well, yes, I mean, I think there are two guys that they were ready to take, both of whom told Pope on the basketball side that they were coming. And both of whom, when it got to the financial side, decided not to. One of them is Donovan Dent that went to UCLA and then the Magoon kid. The Magoon kid ended up staying at his own school. So I don't think there's any way you can blame. I mean, if he hadn't even entered the portal, we would have never said that kid's name. So really, I think the one person that they lost to another school,

Drew is Donovan Dent. And he's great, but he's from the West Coast. UCLA decided to offer him, and he did it. Like, we're going to lose some in the portal era, but I think that's the only one I would say is like, quote unquote, a loss. Because Magoon stayed at the school he was at. So I think he's the one, in my opinion. Yeah, and even though Dent didn't play at UCLA,

that part of that is staying home too being from the area. And if the two bags match and you want to still be a West Coast kid, I can see how Pope could lose that one. I really wanted Magoon. I think they'll be fine. But I had talked myself into Magoon. So of the two, even though Dent's higher ranked, I was ready for to have him. You're okay with a 190, 190 pound big guy?

Well, if we're going to put 18 pounds on Trent Noah and the way he's beautifully built, we could have put some weight on Magoon. Yeah, well, we would have been eating a lot. It's still plenty of options. Here's the thing. I'm going to judge this class when it's over. There are still dudes not even in the portal yet. You got guys from overseas.

I think there are a plethora of options. It's like going to a buffet in Vegas. Is some of the food better than the others? Probably, but there's plenty of food. So just let me judge your plate when it's over. And then I'll tell you if you did a good job or not. And I think we're probably at least a couple months before knowing how to do that. Who's up first, Shin?

Derek. Derek. ahead Derek. Hey Matt, bringing it back to yesterday talking about the honey. Honey is actually the only food in the world that does not expire. So you can stock up on as much as you want and keep as long as you want. Is that true? Is the only food in the world that doesn't expire? Like nothing else? Correct. Yeah. I mean, they found honey from ancient times and it's been perfectly good to eat. So I could eat a jar. If I found a jar of honey that was 90 years old, you're telling me, I could just dig in and it would be fine.

If it's properly stored, yes. What does that mean properly stored? Just like, you know, in a jar and not exposed to the elements, you know, outside for 90 years. All right, Shannon, if I had a jar of 90-year-old honey, would you take a big bite of it? Sure. Yeah, I'll try it. All right. I'm going to take your word for it.

I don't believe it's the only thing, though. And he just hung up. I don't believe that that's the only thing that doesn't expire. Well, I have no way of knowing. First of all, I have no way of knowing if that guy's even right. Have you heard that, Ryan, Drew, and it doesn't expire? I have never heard that. The one thing about honey I always heard, though, if you're an allergy suffer,

if you eat honey from the area you live, it helps limit your allergies. Local honey, that's right. Yeah, local honey. What now? Say that again. If you eat honey from where you live? Yeah, like in your area locally, it'll limit your allergies. So if you eat Lexington.

Huntington, honey. Yes. Yeah. Maybe even Richmond, honey. Yeah. I don't know how far the radius is, but maybe the surrounding counties as well. Are you all, like, has everyone heard this except me? I buy local honey for that reason.

Yep. And it always blew my mind. There's a musical group. There's a musical group called the local honeys. They're from Eastern Kentucky. I think they play with Tyler, Childers, a lot. Is he, are they named the local honeys because of what you're saying? you think? Maybe. You ever seen them have allergy problems?

Probably not. Have they ever sneezed on stage? No. There we go. I don't think I've ever seen any of them sneeze. I've seen three or four times. I don't think I've ever seen him sneeze. Wow. I've learned a lot about honey. All right. Who's next? All right. Let's go to Reese. Reese got about 45 seconds. Go ahead. All right. Well, I'm not nervous about the portal. I trust Pope at the end of the day, but I do have an unpopular opinion. I don't think I would be super upset. if O-Way decided to transfer to LSU or something because of money. And my reasoning is because of what we saw with Oscar a year-two. The offense is better when it's just natural. And we saw O-Way start to force something. And that, like, if we-

I disagree with that a lot. And I'll explain why when we come back. Because I actually disagree with you. But I appreciate the call. We'll take a break. Be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. I've learned a lot about honey today. I'm not going to lie to you. Somebody is telling me honeycomb cereal, Shannon, lasts forever. I believe that. Yeah. That and also McDonald's French fries.

You could eat fries. Oh, they don't last forever. Yeah. I mean, they get soggy and like... I'm just saying you could eat them. I don't think they would ever like... What about Twinkies? Somebody says Twinkies never expire. But that's because they're not real food. Billy has a box of Twinkies. Billy has a box of Twinkie.

in this studio that's been here for a year. Eat one. Eat it. Eat it. I'm not. No. No. Twingies are gross.

I couldn't get it. One person writes, Matt, don't you think we need to be quiet about who we are looking to bring in so other schools are not aware? So this is a new market, but I have wondered about this. And look, there's never going to be a time at Kentucky where it's quiet because, as I've said about other things, I used to say this about Cal, when information is wanted, if people don't fill it in, a vacuum will be created and somebody else will fill it in. I think one of the reasons we've had a rise in conspiracy theories over the last five or ten years is people want information when they don't get a vacuum fills and you end up with false information.

Similarly, in recruiting, even if all the Kentucky recruiting gurus or insiders were to get together and say, we're not going to say anything, we're not going to report the news, then they'll just be people on Twitter that'll do it and they'll make it up and people will believe it because there's a hunger for the information. And when there's a hunger, when there's a demand, the supply is going to be created. So I do think, Drew, it's a challenge for UK coaches. We just have more people talking about it. One of the things that I was trying to say last night, but it's hard to say on social media,

is other schools are missing on guys too. it's just you don't follow their reporters to find out right like we you follow us so it seems like oh we're missing all these guys but Louisville's already signed two dudes but they've missed on five right like that's just how it is you just don't follow all their reporters I mean Duke's already missed on kids Kansas is already missed on kids like that's the way it goes it's just you're following the Kentucky people so it feels stronger to you and even if Kentucky reporters didn't report it then some doodle show up and be called cat recruits in your ear and then people will believe them because Drew people just want information. We already have too many at cat recruits in your ear on the

internet anyway. But even if all Kentucky people kept things quiet, the national recruiters, they have a job to do and they don't care which school's getting who. They're going to report. I just, I'll use Joe Tipton because he's from on three. I mean, he's going to report everything that he can that's happening, whether it's helping Kentucky or hurt Kentucky, because he's got a job. to stay on top of all the movements. So we could try our best to keep things quiet, but there's guys out there that don't care how it ends. They're just reporting and doing their job.

I mean, again, I'll use On 3 because that's Kentucky Sports Radio. Kentucky Sports Radio is the biggest site on 3 by substantial amount. We have more posts than anyone else. We have more readers than anyone else. We are now to the point that we are getting even more subscribers, even though some of these sites have released for 20 years. I think we have like the third or fourth most subscribers. So, like, it's going to happen.

Like, people want the information, so there's no way to keep it quiet. I have some numbers on that. This morning, the number one page on the entire On3 network is Kentucky SportsRadio.com, and number two is the Magoon update, and those two have three times more than the third page on any On Three. It's just what it is. It's just what it is. Like, we just care more, and so it's going to be what it is. All right.

So, Ryan, I wanted to see what you thought about. This is a non-sports thing for just saying. Corey Booker. Do you remember Cory Booker? He was on this show once. He was on the mayor of Newark. When we played in the NCAA tournament, he came on. Remember Shannon he sang?

Do you remember that? He sang that song about Kentucky. Yep. What was the song again? It was like, what was the song, Corey Booker saying? It was like an old like country bluegrassy song. Yes, it was. Like, take the K, take the in, and the N2C and the K.

Wasn't it something like that? That spells Kentucky. And that smells Kentucky. Paradise. Yes, Kentucky. That's exactly right. Yeah. He's saying that on here.

We need to play that next break. I haven't heard that a long time. Anyway, now he's a senator. And yesterday, Ryan, he broke the record for the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate. Oh. He spoke for 25 hours straight. Oh. Now, the reason he did it is he was doing a filibuster.

It's like he was trying to get attention on something and he was doing a filibuster. and he was doing a filibuster, but he broke the record. 25 hours straight on the Senate floor. He did not stop to eat. He did not stop to use the bathroom. He said he stopped eating last Friday, and he stopped drinking last Sunday in preparation. And he spoke for 25 straight hours.

His staff apparently provided him with 1,200 pages of notes, but they did not write the speech. he ad-lived it for 25 hours. I turned it on for like five minutes, just in the middle, and he was talking, and it seemed coherent. So here's my question for you all. Do you think there's anything in the world that you could talk about for 25 straight hours? Ryan.

No way. I'm so ADHD. I have a hard time talking for two minutes. let alone 25 minutes, 25 hours. Do you think you could do one hour? You think you could stand up for one hour and just talk? I don't think I could. I mean, we all have been asked to do like speaking engagements,

and usually after about 15, 20 minutes, I'm done. Got any questions? I immediately open up to Florida questions. I can't go any longer. Drew, do you think you could talk about anything for 25 hours? No, not at all. not even 2.5 hours. I would get bored with myself.

I would get bored before my listeners would and I would want it to be over with. Shannon? You talked a lot on the radio. You did? I was impressed because when I saw it was going on, he's live on TikTok and live at several places. I just wanted to see if he was rambling or,

I mean, it was pretty coherent, like a real speech, even 15 hours in. I was impressed he was able to do it. That's what I said. I turned it on like hour 17. And he was giving a real speech. Like he wasn't just like, so then my buddy Joe said it.

And then I was like, who. And then he was like giving a speech. Shannon, do you think you could do it? I don't think I could stay awake for 25 hours, let alone talk for that long. You know, I mean, take away all you guys on this show and just say I had to fill the next 20 minutes by myself with nobody else to talk to. It's not as easy as what you may think. So a guy that can do that for 25 hours, that takes some talent to do that. Does he want to do KSR next week?

How about not using the bathroom? He had to have a... Yeah, depends on or something. Oh, you think he was peeing his pants? On national... Wait, man, he was on TV the whole time. There's no way he was, like, peeing down his lap. He's wearing a black suit.

Can't see it. You wear the pants, nobody'll ever know. Undergarments. I noticed the black suit right away, and I thought he's wearing that in case he has to pee. Really interesting. I didn't think about that. Do you think you could stand on national TV? and just pee while you're standing there talking to the world?

Even if you, like, you think you could do that? Stare right into the camera's soul while you're peeing down your leg. No, I don't think I could do it. I think I would tense up. I could pee my pants on national TV before I could talk for 25 hours. Exactly. Yes. I can pee in front of anybody, but I can't talk for 25 hours.

Kentucky is still not on the air. We can make that happen. I, I, you think that's what we do a segment on, hey, Kentucky with that? That would be, I don't know if that would be, they would allow us to do that. Well, I have to say, put politics aside, just standing up there and talking for 25 straight hours coherently. Shannon, I have to say, I think that's impressive. That's extremely impressive. I mean, 25 straight hours is unbelievable.

And so now he has the new record for that. It's crazy. Who's up next? Derek. Derek. Derek, go ahead, Derek. Hey, Matt. First time, a long time.

Who are? What's up? Hey, not much. I got two quick questions for you. I want to get your thoughts on, and I'll hang up to listen. First, you'd previously mention some targets that we may be focusing on that haven't ended the portal yet. One was the guy that was in the Sweet 16. Another was a guy that was in that Crown tournament that's going on.

Have either those guys or both those guys got in the portal yet that you know of? And if not or so, what's your confidence level on that? Yeah, I can't say whether they're in the portal or not. I actually don't know who's still in the Crown, because I haven't been following it. I saw Vegas took the game, Shannon, right, excuse me, Drew, took the games off of draft kings

because every one of them went over in the first round because no one's like preparing defense for it or whatever. So you can't even bet on them. So I don't know who's still in the crown or not. The player that I think Kentucky is definitely interested in, their team has been defeated from the NCAA tournament. But as to, but I just can't say whether or not. not there in the portal. But as far as the crown, I honestly don't know who's in and who's still

out. So I couldn't answer that question. Cam Williams did not play in the crown with Tulane. We already have a guy from the crown. He stepped away and didn't play. Yeah, that wasn't the only one I was talking about. I think I'm the only person in the world that's been watching the crown. I'm their one fan. You liked it, right? Like you've been watching it. Well, it was on Monday at 3 o'clock. What else you can do Monday at 3 o'clock? You mean I get more March madness. So before it was pulled, I got to bet a little bit on Butler, Hall, didn't know anything about the teams, but it's just extra basketball before the season goes away. I have some bee facts, Shannon.

You have some one? Hall bee facts. Like about bees. Oh. All honey producing bees are female. Did you know that? No males produce honey. Only females.

Okay. They live for 40 days. A honey bee visits a million flowers in its lifetime. Wow. Hmm. That seems impossible. It's a busy bee. How could that be true?

Forty days? Did you say that was a busy bee? Yes. 40 days, how many flowers is that a day? That's a lot of flowers. One honey bee produces one 16th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime, but a hive can give you 30 pounds of honey. Wow.

All these facts. 25,000 flowers a day. That can't be right, right? That would be like almost, that'd be over a thousand flowers an hour. I'm going to throw the challenge flag on that one. I don't believe they can get it. If they only live for 40 days, I don't believe that. I do believe in court physical therapy, however.

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conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course and what we can do about it. Listen to Inner Cosmos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See, I remember when we did this, Ryan, I didn't know this song.

Which is crazy to me. He came on here and sang this, and he was like, oh, this is a Kentucky song, and I didn't know it. I was actually kind of embarrassed. Is it Merle Travis? Is that right? That is a version. I think that's the earliest version of it. This is Ricky Nelson, and then Glenn Campbell also did a version of it.

Interesting. Yeah, I didn't even know this was a song. So it was actually kind of embarrassing that he out Kentucky me over this. I remember him singing it. And I remember that when he was on. And I thought, man, this is an impressive dude. I wish he'd run for president. and I still think

He did if he kept going I think he would eventually have maybe have been our president Is that your political analysis? Yeah Okay Yeah I think he didn't run

It didn't work People are angry Shannon That I brought that up By the way If you wrote me The story was that he talked For 25 hours If you're mad

Because he's a Democrat You need to go outside And breathe fresh air Because that's an interesting story Shannon Anyone talking for 25 hours is straight I don't care interesting. I don't know if he was Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. Exactly. But these people,

there's like eight of you that wrote me, man, you need to say you liber. Like, seriously, you people got to get outside and talk to other humans away from the internet, because that's an interesting story. Plus, he stood, Drew, for 25 straight hours. That in itself, is pretty impression. Shannon, did you, when you did your walk, did you sit down at all at all during? I don't remember ever doing that. I think I stood the whole time. I may have sat down on the, occur like a couple of days. I only took maybe four breaks the entire time, so it wasn't much sitting at all. And that was 36 hours. No, you did 24 hours. Right. Yeah. But I mean, staying awake. That was

like the longest I'd ever stayed awake. You stayed awake for 306 hours. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah. I just think standing for 24 hours, Drew would be hard. Right? That's got to be hard, I would think. Oh, absolutely. Same spot with cameras on you and you're just yapping. I think that's crazy. And anyone that took that as too political should probably go outside for 25 straight hours. Yeah, or just talk to another human. Or pee your pants, whichever. Yeah, that would be fine too. Sure, did you pee your pants on your walk?

Where did you? Well, we tried to go into a Waffle House. They wouldn't let us in. So did you just like go behind a tree? I used their dumpster. You used the Waffle House dumpster? You got to go. You got to go. What you want me to do about it?

I didn't know if you used the Waffle House dumpster. They kicked this out. of that Waffle House. They go, no. That's pretty bad when you're when the Waffle, you're not classy enough for the Waffle House. That's pretty bad.

859-280-2-807. You got stuff playing for Drew a Paloosa next week, Drew? I got a few things. I'm going to reach out some people. I'm trying to find the sweet spot of when to ask guests because if I ask too early, they might be a no or forget.

And if I wait too late, you know, might get a no. So I'm going to wait a few more days before I start filling some interviews. I got a bunch of topics I'm excited to talk about. Well, I'm excited for Drew a Palooza, and I would just say to all of our listeners, support my man, Drew. This is his first week doing it by himself, Ryan.

I'm excited for him, and everybody get involved in Drew a Paloosa. Come see him when he's at the bar. I think it'll be a fun time. Yeah, he'll kill it. There's no doubt about it. It'll be a good week, and he's got Billy, I think he's going to help him some,

and he'll have some good guests. So it'll be, I mean, we talk about the national championship. Did you just finish? You got a lot to talk about it. I do a whole week on the national. Jamieship. Sounds like a great week. Maybe some ghosts, maybe some conspiracy theories. I think people would like those

even better than the title. Who's up next? Dave. Dave, go ahead, Dave. Hey, two quick things. The first is I'm really excited about Malachi Marino and the performance that he's had in the McDonald's All-American stuff. I'm excited to see him wear blue.

The second is with the Big Z entering the portal, don't you think that he would be perfect for Mark Pope's system. I know Cal's misuse of him is bordered on criminal. No, I don't because he can't play defense. I mean, the same problem that had him,

the same problem he had with Cal is going to be the problem he has. He can't play defense and he can't protect the rim at all. So it makes it to where, yes, he can shoot threes. I think there's part of what Pope's system he would do really well in, which is that big man at the top of the key. But he can't, he can't dribble, really, and he can't play defense. So I just don't, you know, can he make threes?

Yes. But I just don't, I think there are big men out there who can shoot better than him. I mean, this was a dude who was projected as a lottery pick that's now not even projected as being picked. So I think there are better options. If he comes here, I'll cheer for him, but I do think there are better options. Appreciate the call. Does anybody disagree with me on that? No, you're right.

I think he definitely fits into the offensive scheme of what Pope wants that big guy to do. because not he's a good shooter, he's a good passer. But at the defensive end, he's definitely, we had some bad defensive guys. He's a pretty good pass. He's a pretty good passer. But he's not a good ball handler. And defensively, I mean, again, Arkansas got good when they started playing him last. Yeah, that's true.

So, you know, it kind of is what it is. Who's next? Jack. Jack. What's up, Jack? Jack. Okay, let's try Joe. Joe, go ahead, Joe. 859-28027.

Joe. Yeah, I'm here. Thank you, Matt. Quickly, the Indiana, Kentucky is going to resume their basketball series next year in Lexington. And, Matt, I'm all for that. I mean, I'm 73 years old, and I've seen many of Kentucky, Indiana, you know, great basketball games. But I have reservations about going back to Bloomington and playing this game. I'm all for going back and playing the entire series up in Indianapolis at that big dome every year.

30,000 seats for Kentucky, 30,000 from Indiana. I'm not really a big fan of one seat Kentucky go back and play in Bloomington. Am I a bad person? No, you're not a bad person. I mean, I'm actually, you know, I've talked about that game a lot, and I appreciate the call. I understand why Cal didn't want to go back. It was a nasty, harsh environment, but it was also probably the best environment for a regular season college basketball game I've ever been in.

I mean, it was wild. It was exciting. And, you know, if they're going to play each other. I think it's good. I don't know how, Drew, they worked out the agreement where we get two games in Rup and they only get one game in Bloomington and then one in Indianapolis. But we won't be going there for four years, but I'm okay with going there once every four years.

Are you? Yeah, but the problem with the indie game is it's in Lucas Oil, and I hate that place, and it should be torn down. So we have to go there in the second year of the series. Yeah, that's the second year. But, I mean, look, objectively speaking, the wildest college basketball atmosphere I've ever been was that Kentucky Indiana game on the road. It was insane that year with the Wadford shot.

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