KSR - 2025-04-14- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Good morning. It's a great day. The gang's almost all back. Good morning, ladies, gentlemen, boys, and girls, grandmas, aunts and uncles. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio.

Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shane, the dude. Mario's here. Billy's running out. Everybody's here but our big toe, Matt, who's got one more week in Amsterdam. But as always, Texport Radio, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office called T.J., what's you do, Shannon? He'll make him pay. He'll make them play. No, no, no, he'll make them pay. Play, he'll make them play. He's not going to put them off the bench, make them play. What? Oh, we've got to pick. Drew's taking pictures in here. It's like, it's a great day. We'll have our whiskey thief call today. The A. Vision Glass text machine is still my cell phone for one more week. And, of course, the Clark's pump-shop phone line will be open all day, 8-5-9, 2-8-8-8-8.

8-02287. Listen, first of all, shout out to Drew Franklin. Let's give Drew Franklin his flowers. Thank you. Thank you. Drew Palooza, a huge success, Drew, huge success. We had a blast. Had a lot of fun. Missed you guys. It was a little more work that I'm usually cut out for, but it was a great week. Thanks to Billy, who's walking out of the studio now. He was a big help all week and all of our guests. Tons of fun. I will say that Ryan and I listened to like one segment while we were down there looking at the beach. and was it when somebody just committed, I forget who it was, one of the many commits. There was a lot of them. Yeah, I know.

It was the person who committed right before the show started. Jane Quaintes. Jane Quentin. All hell broke loose on that one. Yeah, yeah, we caught that. But dude, great job. I mean, you killed it. You absolutely killed it.

You were so good at it. Now it's probably going to happen every year. We'll probably leave you by yourself one week. We don't need us at all. We should just turn around right now and go back to Florida. Yeah, we can hand it over again this week. It was fun. I had a Zoom with some I-Heart folks, you know, up at the top of the company.

For other stuff. It just happened to follow Darren Drew Palooza. And one of them said, who approved all these vacations? I was like, you, I don't know. I didn't approve it. But, you know, we handled it well. And if y'all want to go have your bro trip again, next year we'll run Drew Paloza back. I, Shannon think that needs to be an annual tradition.

Drew Paloza, Master's Week. That's right in his wheelhouse. I mean, there was something happening, too, Drew, every day. Every day you had like breaking news it seemed like. The news was fun and it was helpful, but I had so much I wanted to do and we couldn't get to it because of the news. You can't ignore all the commitments we got

and all the roster of movements. But like on Friday at 11, you know, there's only an hour left in Drew Palooza and Richie Farmer texts me, when are you going to talk about aliens and ghosts? You know, I never really got to it because there's a lot of basketball I couldn't ignore. Well, there's this week.

It could be Drew Paloza 2.0 this week. You already trying to go back on vacation? you just got here. Yes. I must say, you're bringing a lot of energy to the show today. That intro, that was, you look like a guy that's well-rested and excited to be back. You know, you go on vacation and that first day back is usually tough. It's like you kind of dreading going back to work, back to the old grind. I mean, I couldn't wait to get here today. I mean, I'm serious. I was so excited to get back with you guys. I mean, Mario was here. Mario was off too. It was a great, great vacation. We did have to wait to get here today because when I got to the parking garage,

you were blocking traffic in the one lane to get down here. I thought we were going to be late. I didn't know what you were doing up there, but we got here with a few minutes to go, and you're just parking, holding everybody up in the parking garage downstairs. Well, when you don't use your key card for over a week, you kind of lose track of it, and I couldn't find it. I knew it was in my car somewhere, but I could not find it. I noticed.

Finally got in. We made it. We made it. Well, great job, Drew. Seriously, you did a great job. Drew Palooza was a huge success. The one, I guess, holdover, though, people are dying to know if you caught your moan in your backyard.

No, actually, I haven't. I've got my trap set and I even checked it this morning. Still, still nothing. I might have to try new apparatuses. People have sent me some links. I mentioned there's an old woman with a shotgun in eastern Kentucky. I might have to call up. I did get, you know, I don't know if you heard everything I owned broke on the same day.

Air conditioning went out, dishwasher broke, ice machine. Even though I didn't need it, the fireplace wasn't working and moles in my backyard. So I did have some good repairman shout out to Doug from appliance repair, I think is his name. Yeah. So it was a chaotic weekend at my house. but those moles are still running wild out there. What kind of trap are you going with? What's the method you're using right now to catch those moles?

It's just one. You kind of stomp on it underground and it's supposed to grab them. I'm going to switch to – there's these – that makes sound. A lot of people recommended those. I was going to get those worms you suggested. Yeah. But I watched a YouTube video. It's a lot of like dig it up, plant the gummy, come back, dig up the gummy to see if it's gone.

I'm not doing all that. It's maybe the lady with the shotgun is the next step. But right now, just a few traps. I know I bring over my dogs. They'll tear up your yard, but they will get the mole out of there. There's no doubt about it. I don't have any moles in my backyard. The yard's already torn up.

It's already torn up. Well, we're back at it. Like I said, it was breaking news. It seemed like every day you were doing the show. And it was all around the UK basketball roster. So, I mean, that's still, I mean, there's a lot of way I get to today. Spring football, the Masters, Shannon going, having a Shannon night down in in Florida with me, watching the national championship game.

Well, we got to start with the basketball roster. roster. And I guess, so let's just kind of go away. It's kind of been going on. Over the weekend, the big news, I guess, was Brandon Garrison says he's coming back. Yeah. Once they added acquaintance, you kind of wondered what would happen there, even Trilly Donovan, who also had a big week, kind of had hinted before that he might hit the portal. So everybody was on Garrison Portal Watch, but he did the opposite and stayed home. He put out a very cool I'm coming back video. I liked it because the first scene in the video is him fighting the entire Louisville bench by himself. So that's the attitude they needed to bring back for next season.

And hopefully he makes the big jump. We've all seen the potential. Now he'll have a bigger role. And we always went, we wanted the last coach to retain players and watch them make progress here. Hopefully is what Brandon Garrison does as he goes into his second season at Kentucky, third season in college. So I guess nobody is expecting it, but I guess there's still no official word for Otega. if he's going to test the waters or if he's going to enter the draft.

But nobody expects him to leave, do they? No, I mean, there's internet rumors that schools have called and offered money. None of it really confirmed. It's a lot of just fan accounts. I haven't heard of anything about him leaving. I would be very surprised, but he, you know, he would be a top one or two portal target if he did go. So I'm sure he's getting calls. But I think Kentucky will keep him well taken care of here for him to come back.

He'll be one of the stars of all of college basketball, not just Kentucky. So I still expect that. He'll probably test the NBA waters like we saw players do for many years just to go get that feedback, all of that. But I wouldn't sweat that. He's not projected anywhere in the NBA. He'll probably just go through that process for the experience. And he should. Actually, I think he should go through that process, getting ready for next year's draft,

because he's going to come in and be one of the top players in the SEC next year, I would think. Definitely. I would assume Pope and the crew were telling him that and being like, you will be one of the faces of the entire sport. if you come back and lead Kentucky next year. And they're counting on them. So Brandon Garrison, Otega away, more than, we got to think they're both coming back.

I think Otega's coming back. Then you got the three freshmen, Colin Chandler, Trent Noah, Travis Perry. Any word at all that maybe those guys are maybe still talking to other teams or hearing from other teams, and maybe they might not come back. I don't think so. If they were going to do that, you'd think they would have entered earlier. I think so, too. A lot of spots were already taken.

I'd be very surprised. Don't forget they added the big Croatian over the, the weekend too. The Croatian sensation. Kentucky now probably has the best front court heading into the season next year. I'm going to try to say his name. Okay. I heard Shannon try to say it on the pre-show. I want to hear Shannon's attempt first because I don't know either. We'll both try.

Yellivik. Yellivik. That's what I was going to go with. Andrea Yellivik is how I'm saying. Well, I think you guys just calling the Croatian sensation. I mean, that's going to be his nickname the whole time he's here, right? Yeah. Second Croatian in three years with Big Z.

We're tapping into that Croatian pipeline, but he played the last two years in Serbia for the pink team that we played in the Bahamas a few years again. I love that team. In fact, on KSR, we dug up my old notes from the Bahamas seven years ago where that night, that team, the mega BMAX, I think is their name, they were out all night with us on game nights. And I tried to buy one of the pink jerseys off their star player.

And he's like, I can't. We only brought one jersey on this trip. And I got to wear it tomorrow. We have KSR memories with Andrea's former Serbian team. So he comes in as a freshman, right? He's a 21-year-old freshman? I guess how that works. I don't know.

First time in college, so sure, he's a freshman, 21-year-old freshman. So with those three guys returning the Croatian sensation, you got Malachi and Jasper Johnson now. They're the only incoming freshman because of Caden Lewis tapped out last week. He did. There's reports that he'll look at Villanova. With that, I think he thought when he committed, I'm going to be the guy his sophomore year, two years from now.

Kentucky's going to go get a senior portal guard. He'll be that Lamont Butler roll. I'll back him up, learn under Pope, and then sophomore year I'm the guy. But then Pope wiffed on Dent, a senior, and ended up getting a junior in Jalen Lowe, and that kind of changes the whole timeline for everything. So if I were guessing, a Caden Lewis looked around and thought, kind of what I was expected to do here might have changed with Lowe coming. So the big, let's just go like each position, the big guys, Brandon Garrison,

Diabate, Diamante. Diabate. Deabate. Deabate. Big Mo. Big guy from Atlanta. Malachiarino. I mean, you got three trees down there. For the four, you got the, what's Croatian? Is he going to put the Croatian sensation? He's going to play the four? Yeah, he and Diabate will play the four. There's debate over who will start.

No one really knows. I mean, they just committed. But Diabate, when he left Alabama, was looking for a starting role. I would assume that's his job. job right now. I guess that's how he's recruited because that's why he left Alabama. He didn't want to come off the bench. You wanted a bigger role. But Yelovich could push him, so who knows? Either way, you know, Pope doesn't play the guys more than 28, 29 minutes. You rarely see someone playing minutes. So everyone will get a lot of playing time. There's a lot of depth, especially in the front court. So, but there's still a, like the missing link seems to be the shooter.

And Lamar Wilkerson was here this weekend. I saw the pictures they were out at Keenlin, the guy from Sam Houston State. You know, that's a guy that's a guy that. that Matt said two weeks ago we should keep an eye on. Will he be the final missing link to maybe join the team? He's still going to visit Auburn. His plan was to do all his visits. But seeing him in the winter circle yesterday and the smile on his face, I can only imagine the attention he got walking around Keenland with thousands of Kentucky fans everywhere.

He did the Jeff Ruby's, probably got the shoe cake. I'd say that was a good visit. That'd be hard to turn down, knowing Kentucky is telling you, we need a shooter, you're our shooter, you're the guy. And then you have that whole Sunday after being in Bloomington, Indiana on Saturday. Yeah. You know, nothing's really come out of it yet. It just happened.

But I would expect he had a great time yesterday, and that should go a long way, even though he's still going to take a visit. That's the thing. He looks at the roster. That's the missing. They need a shoot. Kentucky needs just a Kobe Brea. He can be that guy. I mean, that spot is waiting there for him to take.

And Keenland, we're so blessed to have Keenland in the recruiting process. Yesterday it was a beautiful day. I didn't leave the couch because golf was on. But seeing the photos of him, we had a bunch on KSR. They got a winner circle That's hard to top I don't care where you're visiting Going to Keenland with blue skies

And thousands of people yelling your name And then you end up holding the winning horse You get a one-on-one photo You and El Magnifico or whatever's name was Auburn, good luck Indiana I don't even know what you do in Bloomington But you got to think Keenland was a big bump In that recruitment

So if that's the last spot Then we finally will have our roster Going the next year If that's it Are you happy with it? You know how do you first see that roster? I am too Even before there was four commitments in a week,

I've kind of been, not kind of, I wrote and on this radio, told everybody to calm down. There was a lot of freaking out like the sky was falling. I think if you add Wilkerson, you look at this roster and say, that's a contender. Like you have final four expectations with that. You miss Lewis as a backup point guard. It kind of stunk to lose him.

But as a true freshman, we really don't know what kind of impact he was going to have it all. We won't know what we lost probably until two years from now. So backup point guard is a little. iffy but you got chandler perry lots of guys that can play it so uh jasper can play a little bit jasper yeah add a shooter and let's go so mario informed us before we started today is the one year anniversary of the mark pope big announcement at rup arena man it's crazy then one year everything that has happened so when he took this team over one year ago he had nobody i mean Travis perry was there in the in the crowd but he had yet to commit to pope he had nobody now on the second year

looks like he may have a team that we all think could maybe make a run next year. That's part of the reason why everybody need to stop freaking out. At this time last year, we didn't have a team at all. Nobody. That turned out all right. I think we're all pretty pleased with how last year went, given circumstances. Now you've got a head start. Pope's got a year under him.

And like I said, I've been looking at the anniversary. I was looking at all the pictures today. Just looking back on that day is still so surreal. I remember parking in this building. You weren't blocking traffic that day like you were today. And, you know, it's about a four or five block walk to get to Rup Arena. and I'm still several lights away on foot, and I can see the line down the street wrapping around Ruperina,

and I'm thinking, what is happening over there? I expected a decent turnout, but to walk in and Pope get the reception he did is still really unbelievable. None of us knowing what was ahead with Pope. We had just talked ourselves into him 48 hours before that, and then that place was filled with people running in, standing room only around the rails, like it's an old school high school state championship game

where people are just sneaking their way in. a crazy day and it's only been a year since. We had a live radio show following his announcement. That's how crazy it was that day, one year ago. All right, well, take our break. Our phone lines will be open. The Clark's Puppet Shop phone number 859-280-2287. The gang's

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I said, you know, how are things in Amsterdam? She said, if we want an update, this is the update we got. She said, good, as far as I know, we texted a couple hours ago, and he said he was fine. So I'm sure they're, you know, I've been, you know, seeing his pictures. He's been posting, do some touristy things, kind of see the country, not just locked in a bomb shelter, breaking down how to solve life's crucial issues like they do in these fellowship things, I believe. They're in a bomb shelter?

Maybe. He has been active on social media. He has been active on social media. It's not like when he went across the pond last summer where he just had his phone off for five weeks. He has been pretty active online. He even sent me a TikTok last night. Oh, he did?

Yeah. The TikTok that he did himself? No, no. Just like, this is a funny TikTok. So he's been communicating throughout his time overseas. So Matt will be back a week from today. We will be at KS Bar tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday. In studio today, and studio Wednesday, we'll be at KS Bar Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,

if you want to come out there and have lunch and hang out with us a little bit. All right. You know, Matt does this sometimes. There's like four other big topics. You guys pick which one you want to talk about next. The Masters, Spring Football, UK Baseball, Tennessee quarterback. Which one of those four you want to talk about next? I'll let Shannon pick, since he's also back and excited to be here today.

All right, Shannon, which one of those four you want to talk about? Well, let's talk Kentucky football. We didn't hit it a whole lot on the pre-show. We're going to save it for later in the week, so let's talk about it now. Well, Drew was there. You were there for the spring football game. Me and a dozen others. I'm going to say, the crowd looked like it was a, they were all at Keenland.

Yeah. Maybe all at Keenland. I wish I was at Keenland. On Saturday. What was your biggest, if any takeaway, did you have? It was very, they called an abbreviated practice and scrimmage. Yeah. It's not really a spring game.

You know, I've had a lot of people ask, like, what were my takeaways and standouts, as you just did? It's really hard to tell when they're playing two-hand touch. But if there was one big takeaway, the running back, Dante Dowdell from Nebraska, he broke some big runs as best as you can in that thud, I guess they call it. It would have been nice to see if they were tackling, if he could have broken some tackles. Like on his first carry from scrimmage, it was, he broke one, it was just him and the safety. And, you know, he got tagged and it was down. but it could have been a 65-yard run there. So it was really hard to form an opinion.

Like even Zach Kalsata had a couple good throws. But in the way they set it up, it just wasn't a lot to be seen. And, you know, there's photos of the crowd. I'm not joking about dozens. It wasn't a great turnout. But it was 10 a.m. It was very cold, very limited in what they did. But you got to see some guys make plays.

Quisenberry, the freshman, had some big catches. David Washington Jr., who was the receiver of freshman last year, He had some big catches. Even like when you get to the third and four string, Stone Saunders, let a game-winning T-D drive to end it. But overall, did it do anything from my optimism or did I really learn anything? Not really.

It was good to see him. The best part was there. They stayed mostly healthy through the spring. A big reason they didn't do a blue-white game is because last year they couldn't, everybody was so hurt. So they were very cautious in keeping everybody healthy. But overall, I mean, it was a fun day. It was fun to get out there and be it at Kroger Field.

I don't regret going. but as far as learning much, it's hard to say. Well, you said something that the guy told me, his big takeaway was the receivers. Because I guess Fred Ferrier didn't dress. He wasn't even out there. Yeah, the DJ Miller didn't dress. Willie Rodriguez didn't dress. But they allowed some other guys to kind of step up.

And he mentioned the Washington kid that you just mentioned also. He said, he had a good spring game. Yeah, if there's a star, he's one of them. Kendrick Law, who will luck and predicted to be the leading receiver. he had a deep catch from Cutter Bowley, if I'm not mistaken. Cutter's first drive did not look very good. It was pretty quick, but then he let him down the field on a second. Honestly, and this won't translate to the fall because this person won't play.

But I wasn't sure if I was watching Bow Allen or Josh Allen because when Bo Allen came in and he came in early with the twos, he rushed for like 40-something yards on one drive, drove him down to the goal line running. So even though we're not going to see that in the fall, it was kind of fun watching Bo Allen show off his wheels in year 19. for the vet. Well, I guess that's going to be the big question,

and it always is when it comes to quarterbacks. Is Calzada the one for sure and Cutter the two for sure, or do you think it's still a competition? They did press conferences, and Macklin, who we saw a little bit of, he had a catch, but again, I can't stress enough. It's really hard to get engaged on any of this. But he said he really liked the way Calzada had been throwing all spring,

and he's excited about Calzada. And we got to see a little bit of that. But, you know, even on Cutter Bowley's big throw to Kendrick Law, if they had been gone full speed, he could have gotten rocked from behind. He threw it at the split second, but the guy kind of let up a little bit. So it's hard to gauge what was going on. But just seeing him out there and having the pads on, I know the fans that were there enjoyed it, even though it was limited.

I thought the running back, Patterson or Wilcox, may be running one and two, but you're telling me this dude from Nebraska may be the best. Yeah, I mean, he's there. They really needed him for short yardage. But like I said, he broke a couple big-time runs, and I think it could have been a really good highlight if you had let him kind of run through the safety see what he could do there

because he broke a few free, even caught a few passes. I think he'll be, he'll likely be the number one. But the other guys are going to play. It'll be by committee. I don't know it'll be like, I could tell you he was spoiled for many years with Benny, Chris Rodriguez, and even Ray Davis. I think this will be more of a group effort.

All right. Shannon, does that satisfy your curiosity for spring football then? No. I'm trying. I'm trying. No, but I mean, you know, he said, the same thing that everybody else who was there said. They're not going to show you a whole lot right now,

but I'm just interested in Zach Calzata, a guy who's a seven-year senior. Do we even call him a senior? Super-duper senior at this point? It's a grown man, 24 years old out there trying to lead the team. I'm just really anxious and excited to see him. I hope that he's the guy, but we'll see what happens. You know, Mario's back when while I'm talking, he's adjusting my shirt,

so it looks good in photos. What was wrong? a bacon neck? What's happening? Sorry, it's wrinkled. I had a week of, you know, wearing whatever I wanted. Mario wouldn't hear showing cameras in our face. Is these photos? Am I good? Do you need me to turn left or right?

Okay. 859-2-2-287 at the Clark's Publishaw phone numbers. Let's get a call on this segment. Shannon, who we got? Doing good. Doing good. How are you doing good? I'm doing good, gentlemen. I hope you're doing well.

We're doing good. I've got a great. I've got a concern that I want to run past you guys. It was a very popular movie that popular, sorry, movie that popularized the phrase, you never, ever leave your wingman. And I'm sorry, but I feel like you guys just completely left Drew, just hung out to dry, poor fella up there on his own, while you guys were out hanging out, you know, doing all kinds of crazy things.

We won't be able to be able to hear about on the actual radio show. Drew, I just want you to know I was actually at a conference last week. I wasn't able to call in, but I podcast. cast everything. You did absolutely phenomenal, man. I did. Next time, if you want to do it again, and we get four recruits and the news coming through the way that we did, I'm off for it. You did a great job. Way to hold down the fort. I hope Shannon, Drew, Matt, I don't know how they can pay

you back, but maybe a bunch of beers or, you know, some draft king's tips or something like that, maybe some, I don't know, figure a couple of meals at KS. Bar or whatever, but you did a great job. Good job, man. Thank you very much for saying my paycheck can almost buy some beers. I think you were saying you were doing good. Yeah, I think that's what he said. Once I got the knife out of my back from you all leaving me, I did all right.

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we get to a couple calls in a minute, but Drew, I have to admit something to you. What's that? Listen, this is just our circle of trust, the three of us here. Okay. While on vacation, Shannon taught me how to play pickleball. That's right. I have entered the pickleball world. Good.

I'm not far behind you. Only one person on this show is anti-pickleball. In fact, country boys opening a pickleball place. I talked about it on Friday near my house. Oh, my. I'm already getting ready. I don't know what I need, but I will be pickleballing soon. Well, Shannon whooped me all over the court.

You aren't bad, though. I will say for somebody's first time playing, you're surprisingly still somewhat athletic. Surprisingly. Yeah, somewhat athletic. I think you got six or seven points on me on one game, which is more than most people get. But I like it.

It is fun. We're going to need a fourth, so we can have a K. Mario, do you want to? a player or do you have to be a videographer of our pickleball? If three of us are interested, you know, Matt is a hard no. Billy, maybe Billy will play. So you like it. I still haven't, I haven't jumped in yet, but my toes are on the edge, ready to jump in.

Well, I will say this, though, my legs were sore for the next three days. Oh, yeah, he cried about a pulled groin for the rest of the week. How you pull it groin playing pickleball? Well, I didn't stretch first, first of all. And then you ran me all over the court, second of all. And I haven't moved laterally in probably 15 years. So all that combined led to some really stiff and sore legs on the trip. Well, you weren't bad, though.

So I think that now we've brought you into this world, and now we can expect to see you on weekends out of the old man pickleball courts. The old man pickleball courts. After your live tweeting of the Final Four, I wondered if you were able to play pickleball. I've been playing with one eye open. Let's talk about that, too. Yeah, you want to talk about the trust tree. I felt like we were in our trust tree, you know, on the beach,

sipping margaritas, watching the national. title game. Little do I know, sneaky little Ryan's over here, live tweeting every word out of my mouth. Dude, you were so funny, though. I had to share it. You were on one. You were everything, somebody saying. Hold on. You're saying Shannon was on one. According to the internet, it looks like you were on one. Oh, no. I was just relaying what Shannon was saying. First of all, Shannon, we need to say, we get to this place, and it's in Florida. And Florida is playing for the national championship and the game wasn't even on the TV. Shannon had to ask the lady, can you put that on the national championship game? It wasn't even on. We're in Florida.

And you know how many people were actually watching that game? The four of us and one lady on the other side of the bar. That was it. Nobody else could, they could not care less. What kind of place was this, Shannon, somewhere I know? Not dusty, surely. No, this was runaway. Runaway island. But, you know, it's full of tourists who probably aren't Floridians who don't care. So we went to Sharkies first Couldn't get a table to watch the game at the bar But not because of the game Because it was karaoke night

That's why Sharky's is cool So we went We went to runaways And our TV was about three seconds ahead Of the lady The one other lady who was watching the game So if something would happen We were like yeah

Woo and she finally said something to us Like look you guys got to calm down You're three seconds ahead of us over here I had one other question about your adventures. You took a picture eating a sandwich and shanning a sandwich, and someone on Twitter noted it looked like you took your photo with a seashell. Was it blurry? Because you were blurry? Had you just pulled your phone out of the ocean? That was another interesting check-in on social media from you. Ryan's actual, like the way it looked through his eyes.

That's what we thought. It was on the beach. Yeah, it was like Ryan Vision. See, I have a special beachside filter on my phone, and I was using the beachside filter. Dude, there is nothing. One of the few, one of the greatest things in life is eating a Dagwood sandwich on the beach. That is one of my favorite things to do. And we did it a couple times, and I'm Shannon shared one with me down there on our bromance. And I had to tell you, you know, you kept going out and we were spending $100 a mill. And I'm going, well, eating a Dagwood sandwich on the beach is your favorite thing in life.

Why aren't you doing it every day? Oh, I did. Here's the tagwood. Here's the beach. Put the two together. And there you go. It's a perfect marriage. I did it every day for lunch.

I'd have a Dagwood sandwich on the beach. Put some potato chips on it. It was perfect. It was awesome. What was your favorite moment of the whole trip that you can say on radio? That you didn't already tweet. Was Josiah grinding on a 27-year-old? That was in Nashville.

I know that was your favorite moment of the Kentucky basketball season. I think my favorite moment was the day that Shannon and Sarah and Jennifer and I all sat on the beach. We sat there for like, Jennifer and I sat there for like five hours. Eating Dagwoods. Eating Dagwoods. It was just perfect. It was a perfect beach day. The water was pretty.

The beach was pretty. It wasn't real crowded. You know, you just, you might find it hard to believe. You just don't get that in Kentucky. Where? I didn't see much beach last week. You could go to a lake, I guess. I brought this up on the pre-show, Drew.

It's crazy to me. Like, Ryan sets out there on the beach, sits on the beach, and doesn't have an umbrella, a tent, or anything. It has the ability to sit in the direct sunlight for about five to six hours and not burn one bit. I'm out there for 30 minutes, and I'm already burning up. I don't know. Like, you must have some, I don't know. You got just pasty white skin. I got a little color to my skin.

I guess that's what it is. I can't figure it out. Well, you and Shannon and Jennifer, all three of you were burning like crazy. And I'm like, I'm fine. I'm just bringing on. I'm more like Shannon. I'm wearing shorts for the first time this year today. I could blind people with these links.

So I need to get on vacation soon. 859-2802-287. That's our Clark's Pubbyshop phone number. So who we got next, Shannon? Spencer. Spencer. Spencer. Hey, guys.

I just had a couple of quick things. First one, man, I don't know if you guys are like me. But every time Pope gets a commitment, I think we're about to win the national championship. I don't know. The last week, the front court kind of worried me. But now I'm back on the national championship train. I'm just pumped every time he gets one. Appreciate Spencer.

I mean, you can't help be excited because these guys he's bringing in, especially if he gets Lamar Wilkerson and you've got the best shooter in the portal, add that to what you've already got. Solid point guard, solid big man. You got the Croatian sensation now at the four. I think you're pretty much set. I'm not going to say they're going to win the national championship, but I expect to be at Lucas Oil Stadium, the worst place in America next year.

I think their Final Four caliber. And all the additions last week are great, but I don't think people are saying enough about what second year Mormon Mamba could do. I expect a big jump from Colin Chandler. We're also not saying much about Cam Williams, who was the first Transportal Edition. I think he's going to have a big year. So the last three or four they added recently, they're all exciting.

But there's a lot of depth across the board, especially once they had one more guard. And Diamante caused us problems when we played him. I don't know. I think he had a so-so season. But when he played against Kentucky, he was a handful. I really like that addition. It was obvious to everyone that Pope needed some defense, some rebound. You need to go out and get a dog, you know, and that's exactly what Diabate is.

He held away to two points in Tuscaloosa. and not just with him, with Quaitans and others, it's clear that Pope knew just as well as anyone watching at home. I have to go out and add some meanness and some guys that can defend, some guys that won't just stare at a loose ball, because as much as I love last team, there are a lot of moments, why aren't you grabbing that rebound? Why can't you get a stop?

He seemed to make that a priority. They sacrificed a little bit of offense, it looks like, but that'll be a top 20 defense with what they have on paper right now. That's what's amazing about Pope now for the second year in a row watch him construct this roster, he gets the right pieces. You know, okay, like, I need to get a defender. Let's go out and get the best defender we can get. I need to get a shooter.

We're going to get the best shooter we can get. I mean, he goes out specifically to fill the roles that will work in his offense. And Quaintens, when he gets healthy and he says he's on a good timeline, that's going to be some elite shot blocking. As much as we love, Amari and Garrison, how many times last year were like, why are their hands at their ways to not challenging this shot? Quaintons will come in and block a lot of shots. I didn't realize he was that big. I kind of forgotten he's a big man. Yeah, that's such a big get.

Assuming his timeline is what he says it is and he's able to go, that's a lottery pick. And it's also cool just a dude that was committed to Cal. It shows that it's also about the program and not the coach. He's committed to two different eras now. It just shows he really wants to be a part of Kentucky. 859-2-287. Who we got next, Shannon?

Shane from Grayson. Oh, Shane from Grayson. Here are you on the pregame show all the time. How are you Shane from Grayson? How's it going, fellas? Good. If I'm not wrong at one time back in history, a comment based on tulip bulbs,

that a tulip bulb was about as much worth as a gold brick at one time, and their whole economy was based on it. And, of course, it filtered and fell down. So that's a little history for you. Second thing is I was reading the Wall Street Journal here recently, and they put out a list of the top-valued college basketball programs in America. And where do you think Kentucky was on the list and who you think that was number one? Kentucky's got to be one or two, right?

Kentucky and Duke's got to be one and two. I'd say Duke won, Kentucky, two. Carolina Chapel Hill one, Duke, two, Indiana three, Ohio State four. Kentucky was ranked nine. revenue was 33,800,000. The enterprise value for Kentucky was worth $223 million. Wow. So if y'all want to look at that list,

that's at the Wall Street Journal, though. Okay. Appreciate it, Shane. All right, thank you, buddy. I mean, that list is trash. I mean, how can you have it? Tell them. Indiana and LSU, a head of Kentucky basketball,

as far as income-based, money, money coming in, the person must have forgot to go to Nashville and see all the income money that that brought into that town for four days at the SEC tournament. Yeah, I saw that list too. I was very surprised where Kentucky was. I didn't even really read into how they determined that, but my big takeaway is you say in the Wall Street Journal is trash.

You don't agree with it. I don't read it. Louisville ahead of Kentucky. Littleville's fifth. Come on. Trash. All right, well take our break. Come back.

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my cell phone this week while Matt is still off. This is from the aviation glass text machine. Next year, Drew deserves tickets to the Masters on Saturday the day after Drew Palooza. If you know anybody that can make that happen, I'm sure Drew would take you up on that. I'll happily take Masters tickets from anyone out there. I will say, having been before, kind of like practice rounds. No, it sounds crazy. A little more access.

You can take cameras. But, you know, when the rounds go, when it's the weekend, I want to be on the couch where I can follow everything. Like yesterday they were showing on 18 crowds going crazy just because the scoreboard would change a number. When you're there, you know, you're kind of not able to fall at all. That being said, I'll absolutely go if anybody wants to take me. But it is the best couch day of the year. I don't really have making a point to watch Sunday at the Masters usually. I did yesterday.

So glad I did. Man, that was, this is why sports is awesome. It was a great finish. It was exciting. It was Rory. choking, then Rory hitting a great shot. I mean, he had like what, four bogeys in his

final round and still won the green jacket. Well, everyone thought it was going to be Bryson versus Rory, and Rory doubles the first hole. And by the second hole, Bryson is leading after Rory had a five-stroke lead the day before. So then it's saying, well, Bryson's going to run away with this, and then he completely disappeared. He wasn't even on the leaderboard

at the turn. And you think Rory's going to run away with it? And he threw in another double, and you have Justin Rose come from the back of the pack. My guy, Oberg, who had bet on, I told everybody, before the day started, don't sleep on Oberg. He was in the mix, and then it comes down

to Rory. Unfortunately, he missed a game winner like he did at the U.S. Open a few years ago. Like about a three-footers all it was, too. I'm not anti-Rory. I didn't really, I didn't really care. I wanted Oberg to win because had money on it, but I like Rory, but I just wanted some excitement. After he

missed that one put to go to the playoff, I felt terrible for him, because his legacy would have been one as a choke artist when he's better than that. So when they did get to the playoff, I was 100% behind Rory because he couldn't go out like that. If Bryson had beaten him head to head, that's one thing. But if he had gone out missing another

short put, that would have been hard to watch. And you can see the emotion it came out of him when he fell to his knees on the green. When he got his green jacket, he's talking about his mom and dad, and he breaks down crying. I mean, it was you could tell the pressure was on him and just that relief that hey, I finally won the Masters. It was

very evident. And Rose, who's probably the next they'll say he can't win the Masters because he's led after the first round five times hadn't won yet. He seemed very gracious even though that had to have been crushing for him. Celebrating Rory even said some nice things about him. I don't know if many people noticed. Someone

tweeted me a video but as Rory's walking back off the green going through the crowd, there's a Kentucky fan just going double barrel L's down for the camera. So I don't know who that person is if you're out there. Thank you. That was a nice addition to Master Sunday. But that was one. Outside of Tiger winning a few years ago, surprisingly,

and some of the ones, Tiger's early ones, there's not a better Masters weekend than the one we just watched. We've got to find out who that guy was. He's on the shoot as Roy comes walking up, giving the double barrel, L's down. Somebody knows who that guy is, obviously. So if you know who he is, please let us know. And if I can recycle my joke from Twitter,

it was kind of sad, knowing that that was the 11th to last Jim Nance performance at Augustus. Bittersweet knowing we'll only hear Jim Nance for 10 more years. Shannon loves listening to Jim Nance. I'm just talking about one. they were doing the ceremony of putting the green jacket on him. Jim Nance was still talking to him as if he were calling like, you know, a putt on 18 at the very end of the match. He's just got that, I don't know, that calmness about him. He's always like, it's like NPR radio, Jim Nance.

He talks like that all the time. I thought maybe that was just his announcing voice. I guess he's always like that. And he's so sappy. I mean, there was drama this year, but he's always just so dramatic with it. There was one line he said there towards the end, Rory's been eating snacks and getting hydrated on this final round. Hopefully he'll digest another championship.

Roy was eating a lot. He was going to help. It seems like every time he was walking a fairaway, he was taking down a granola bar or drinking whatever purple drink he had in that jetty-looking thing. So how did Fleener in Poston, how did they do? They made the cut. You know, they were never really in the mix. but we're proud of the guys for making a little money down there.

I don't know his exact position, but he finished it four over. But they made the cut. Made the cut, made a little money. Nothing wrong with making the cut at the Masters. Very proud of the boys. Well, there's our Masters Recap. I knew you were excited about it. Billy, I'm sure it was really excited about it.

But it is one of the few times that once I started watching it, the excitement sucked me in. I couldn't quit watching it then. Doing all our laundry from the Florida trip, I just laid there and watched the Masters on Sunday. Such a roller coaster. well Rory's got this. No, no, he doesn't have it. No, now he's got it. No, he doesn't. A shot that he hit that hooked around the tree and landed within a few feet of the

cop was amazing. That was one of the craziest shots I've ever seen. And then his next hole he'd put one in the water. It just was back and forth. She shows you what that course can do to you. Made me feel good to hear the see these guys hit one in the water every once in a while. Like, hey, you know, I've been there. Or in the sand trap like every other hole. Billy and I talked about this on Friday, but are you all aware of the story of the guy peeing in the creek? Oh, yeah.

Ray's Creek. It's one of the most famous, maybe the most famous body of water in golf. And an amateur golfer who was in the Masters, he was competing and playing, looked around, had to go. And he just did it right there, right in the creek. Just absolutely disrespect in August. Did they kick him out? No, he got to finish. But didn't escort him out of there. No, he even said in his post-match interview, he'd do it again if that situation popped up. Dude, he can't be allowed back on there.

That's what I said. Get him out of there. There was a guy that shot a 90. He's my new favorite golfer. Shot of 71 the next day, so quite a turnaround. I did pick up a new favorite golfer. Tom Kim. Is it Kim Tom or Tom Kim?

That's Abby's favorite golfer. If you all watch Full Swing on Netflix, really, each golfer kind of has an episode. You get to see their personality. Watch the one on Tom Kim, season two, I think. And it is impossible not to love that guy. Just watching him. I liked him yesterday.

He looks like he's a pudgy little 12-year-old. He looks like. He acts like one, too. There's a clip at last year's Masters where he parked, or two years ago, he parked in Scotty Schaeffler's spot. It's for the defending champion. He has no idea. And Schaffler goes up to him. He's like, Tom, you're in my spot.

And he's just giggling like a little kid. He didn't even realize it. He's falling in the mud before where he's just completely drenched in mud. He's just grinning from ear to ear. It's really hard not to like Tom Kim. All right. We'll get ready to take our break. Our phone lines will be open next down.

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