KSR - 2025-10-24- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

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And now you get ready for these games today. 3.30, our pregame show will have KS. Barr open all day. Come on in as you get ready to go to the game. And then after the game, you're also welcome for a little post-game, hopefully, celebration, Shannon, after the win. Do you think we'll be celebrating? Absolutely. I think we will be. And like I said earlier, if we lose, no big deal.

If we lose, it did matter. Two of our main guys out, still celebrate. It's basketball season. All right, let me ask you a couple things in other parts of the news. Last night, so, you know, I'm a big Carolina Hurricanes hockey fan. I stayed up last night. They beat the best team in hockey, the Colorado Avalanche on their home ice. They had like five guys out.

They hung on one in a shootout. But that's not what the most exciting thing about the game was for me, but not for you all. I have a question for you. So they played the Colorado Avalanche. They're the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina moved from Hartford, where they were the Hartford Whalers. You may remember when you were a kid, well, I say, I don't know how old everybody is, but if you were my age and you were a kid, we grew up, they'd show ESPN, Hartford Whalers, right?

The Colorado Avalanche, they moved from Quebec. They were the Quebec Nordiques. So you remember as a kid, we'd see the Quebec Nordiques and they had Colorado Avalanche, but they're not in those cities anymore. They're in Raleigh, and they're in, they're in, uh, they're in, Denver. Last night they played each other, so they decided to do throwbacks, so they wore the whalers and Nordiques uniforms. It was very cool. It was old school. However, people in Hartford and Quebec were not happy about it. They're like, you take our teams, and then you somehow take

our uniforms and have a throwback night celebrating your history, but you left us out of it. It now is, you're wearing whalers and Nordiques, but you're in Carolina and Colorado. Do you think it is fair for these teams to adopt the logos of the cities they left? See, I was totally taken it the other way. I thought it was great to honor the memory of those fans of those teams from years past. But would you feel that way like you're a St. Louis Cardinals fan? Let's say that team moves to, I don't know, Seattle, Portland. And now all of a sudden they're like, hey,

St. Louis, here's your honor. We're the Portland Cardinals today. Would that be all right with you? I think I would be really cool about that. I think if you see my old, it would be like seeing my old team one more time for my childhood out there again playing. All right. What about you?

My team does this. The Titans try to wear the Oilers throwbacks and it's a fight. I mean, they have a divisional opponent in Houston who says, oh, no, you left Houston. You can't wear that. But they're saying it's our franchise and our logo. So we try to wear the throwbacks and get a lot of pushback in Nashville. So are you good with it? Yeah, because I'm the.

team that wants to wear the throwbacks. Too bad. I mean, I wear a Hartford Whaler's shirt sometimes as a Carolina fan. I don't know if that makes me, if people of Hartwood would punch me in the face, but I kind of like it. What about you? Yeah. Especially like for Quebec. Yeah.

They move not only from Quebec. They moved to a different country. They didn't even want to be in the same country as you. Yeah, if you're Quebec in Harvard, stop being a bunch of whiners. That's probably why they left. Fans are terrible in both cities or provinces or whatever Quebec is. You think that's why they left. Yeah.

You think they left. Terrible fans. If you support your team, I'm sure they would have stayed there. They left because you got terrible fans. They don't even go watch their team play. Then you whine about it because the other team's wearing your jersey. And they're the best two teams in hockey now. Yeah.

They left your city. They stuck when they were back in Hartford. They went to a real city where they can win and have a fan base. Well, I love Well done And like that wrestling heel thing Comes out in you And you just start

You could have delivered that line From the ring Hey, you people of Quebec That's right You snot-nose brats Shut your mouth We've got a real team now They should hire you

I don't care anything about hockey That's the thing I don't watch hockey in 10 years All right, Ryan There were three things I got a lot of comments about yesterday on the text machine. One was our guy, Eric Monday.

Yes. One was people had, are still having strong thoughts about my thing about ICE. Although I will say, yesterday went for people being angry to like some people actually saying like interesting things, including I had a couple of people who were ICE agents who asked me not only not to say who they were, but to not even share their thoughts because they didn't want to get in trouble. But actually really could actually had a constructive conversation with a couple of ICE agents. So salute to those people who wrote, who listened to the show.

Put that aside. The other thing that was a big conversation was you and the eating alone again. So Joe Flackle, of course, said totally fine to eat alone. As a matter of fact, people eat alone are living a good life. Jamar Chase was then asked, hey, did you see what Joe said? Have you ever eaten alone? And Jamar Chase said, I would never eat alone out in public. That's ridiculous.

If I was going to do that, I would just stay home. Jamar Chase sort of channeling you. Flacko was then asked about Chase and he goes, well, Jamar's young, wait until he gets old. You are old. I'm old. So do you feel weird that Jamar Chase is the person on your side? No. I mean, there's got to be some of us out there.

I just don't want to go sit in a restaurant by myself and not have any social interaction at all with anybody. So the question then came if someone were to see you out eating or doing something by yourself, would you want to want company? Yes. You would? Yes. So that's an open invitation for anybody that sees Ryan out in public by himself. Just pull a chair right up next to him. But that won't happen. I won't be eating anywhere by myself ever. I'll go through a drive-thru before I go sit in a restaurant somewhere by myself. So that brings me to, you know, we do challenges sometimes. Yeah. I did the challenge with Shannon where he walked, where he walked 50 miles. One time we threatened to have Drew try to gain 25 pounds. That's so crazy to think that we almost did that. You were up for it, too. Yeah, and I was going to take a bus to

Portland, but it was going to take 13 days, and I couldn't miss that much work. The game would have been long over. How about this? Okay. If I offer you a cash prize for your own goodness, okay, cash prize for your own goodness, where for a week, I'll buy your meals. Males. I'll buy your mails. For all y'all. For all you. The UK Federal Credit Union, I'll buy all your meals. I'll buy all your food for dinners for the week. And give you a prize at the end.

But you have to for seven meals. That really is a hard word for me to say. Eat in public, buy yourself and take a selfie of you eating. Would you do that? I think it would be a good exercise for your own, like, mental health and well-being. Can it be lunch or does it have to be dinner? No, you have to have dinner. You have to sit.

And I'll even allow you, like if it's seven days, like if you have a Saturday night that Yoga Girl wants to go to dinner with you, I'll give you a break and then you can do one day the next week. But seven days, let's say out of 10, so that you're able to interact with people. Seven days out of 10. Dinner by yourself at restaurants in Lexington to sort of get used to this idea of you being comfortable by yourself. I'm literally starting to sweat right now.

thinking about it. Dude, what? I mean, he's going to buy your mails. My mails. Come on, you can't even go. Why can't I say that word? Why do I all of a sudden become, you know, earnest? He's going to buy your food and all you got to do is sit there and eat it.

All you have to do, I will buy your dinner for seven out of ten days and then we'll have a prize that we chip in at the end. I've got to think about what it is, but we'll have some sort of prize for you at the end. Some donuts. No. But wait a minute, but see, unlike some of these other challenges, like putting you in jail and having you eat donuts, this is one that I actually think is good for you. I don't think it's like, I don't think this is something that you're shaking your head. You don't think it's good for him.

It's real good for him. I think it actually. You hush. Go sit in the car. I think it actually like, it'll help you. So this is a way to try to help you. Are you up for it? Okay.

Let's get some ground rules. Like, I'm eating by myself at KS Bar. Of course, you cannot go to KS Bar. I mean, I'd love for you to go to KS Bar. But that becomes everybody will come and sit with that. You have to go to seven random restaurants, no fast food. Like, you can't go to McDonald's and scarf a burger down in 10 minutes. Like, you've got to sit at a restaurant.

And I don't care what you do at the restaurant. You can read. Stop, you're not going to do that. I'm not going to read. Let's don't get crazy. What am I going to read? read. I mean, you can do what you want, but you do have to be there. And if people come up and talk to you, that's okay. But they can't sit with you. But they can't, like, sit down. Like you've got to sit. If people want to come and say hi and make conversation, I'm fine with that.

So if I'm at a restaurant and somebody comes up and says, hey, Ryan, you want me eat with you. No, you can't eat with you. They can say hi. I'm going to host me, rude to. No, I want to eat by myself. Get away. This is a radio contest and I have to eat by myself. I'd say, you know, yoga girl needs to have a little input on this. We've been eating dinner together. every night for a long time. This will be good for Yoga Girl as well. She can also... She's going to miss me. She's not going to like it at all.

You can see her as soon as it's over. Okay? You can go right back home. I'm literally sweating. I don't like it. It's the easiest thing ever, man. I just don't like it. This is the easiest competition ever.

I think I know what it is. We've always wondered what's in that brain. I think he's afraid to be alone with his own thoughts. I think that brain would just be spinning and he needs someone there with him. This is literally in the history of KSR. the easiest thing I've ever asked. By far. You have to eat.

You have to eat a meal. I'm offering you a chance to eat a good meal. Like full meal. What a Waffle House count? No, you have to. I think that should count. If he's at a booth at Waffle House, that's going to eat by yourself.

As long as you're there for an hour. Okay. Oh, an hour. Yes. The key is I don't want you rushing out to get out. The key is I want you to be alone with your thoughts. This is the easiest competition in the world. I agree.

Literally, sit by yourself for an hour, eat a meal, go home seven times in 10 days. When did it start? That's negotiable. Okay. You live by several places, considered not sports bars, but they have a TV. Go when a football game is on, sit down and watch a quarter. You can go somewhere with the television. I'm fine with that.

I don't expect you just to sit and stare out into the abyss. I'm fine with it. Why are you not agreeing to this? Let's start it tonight. Well, you want to do it tonight? It's a basketball game tonight. We'll start Monday. All right, Monday.

Okay. All right, there we go. All right, we'll see how he does. Come Monday. Come Monday. You got this right. Jack Monday. Joy or your free food.

Yeah. I think you're going to have fun. This is what my hope is. At the end of it, you know, this wasn't bad. And so that if it ever happens, you don't have to dread it. Do I need to take my New Yorker magazine and my nerdy book with me? That's too much. If I ask you to read one New Yorker, this contest will never be finished.

Who's up next? Ronnie. Ronnie. Go ahead, Ronnie. What's going on, Matt? What's up? Kentucky fans from Louisville. And I actually worked at Purdue.

I'm in my office, got my Kentucky blue on ready for the game today. But just asking about for basketball, excited about Purdue, but I wish that we would have played them instead of Indiana. I really wish before we got the Indiana schedule that we'd be. would have played Purdue just to flight them. If there's a football point, Stoops has got to go, we've got to make a new search there. Well, on the Indiana point, I appreciate the call. I didn't want to restart that series. I didn't want to restart that series either because I wanted to have the flexibility.

We got like six more years or whatever of that series. I love that Cal ended the series that went on for years, waited until he left, and now we have to start it again, and he's gone. I'd like to have played little two-year things. But, you know, one of the things Mark Popes said, he's really advocating going to 33 or even 35 games, because he said, look, if we do that, then we'll start scheduling home and homes with different teams

and we'll get to play in different arenas, which I think would be cool, Drew. I had my first Indiana Trash Talk this week. I didn't know they were still capable of that, but I was at the lovely travel center in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Someone saw my license plate while I was getting gas, and they just started talking trash about the series coming back and I was like I need you all to be a little bit better before I engaged in this. What is there to

talk trash about? That's what I was like. I was like I need y'all to improve before I engage because we got other things in front of us that take more priority. Yeah, it's like I do think it would be really cool if this year Ryan we were able to play Purdue home and home for real or Houston like we could be flexible and see who's good out there and what's a two-year series we could do with a good team. Well you know before we knew the really result of it I was okay with doing a home and home with this Purdue with this exhibition game going up there next year play on their court as an exhibition game. I mean, it would have been cool, Shannon to play like Houston.

Jaylon Lowe is from Houston, right? Houston's good. It would have been cool to play at home and home with Houston. Play at Houston this year. Jailen Lowe gets to go home and then they come here next year. Like, I wish we had the flexibility to do stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, I've always wanted to have Kentucky at Cameron Indoor Stadium and then Duke play at Rupp Arena.

That's going to happen with the SEC. At some point they'll put us together on that SECAC. Yeah, but anything, you know, if it means. expanding the regular season to 33, 35 games, and you get games like that, then I'm all for that. Now through October 31st, all boxes of beef from Noche Linda Farms are 15% off the regular price if use my code KSR. Noce Linda Farms, we are getting universal praise for our burgers at KS Bar, and a big part of it is we switch to Noce Linda.

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It's a great song. Good pick, Liam. Good pick with Tyler playing at Railbird, June 7th, I think, of next year. So that should be exciting, right? They might as well just sign him up be the headliner every single year. I mean, that's what people want to see. Yeah, actually, I think it would work if they did. He took a couple years off probably so they could do new things,

but having been to two or three of him at Railbird. It's the biggest draw. That's who people want to see. Yep. Yeah, you definitely have to do it. One person writes, Matt, can he? just say if people want to join him, they have to do a radio contest, but then talk to them from the other side. The fact that you feel like you have to do these workarounds is what's so

strange to me, Shannon, about it anyway. Like it's, it's, you just sit there and eat and you're already like, already like, well, does it have to be in Lexington or can I have Dante come come over here and sit at the table by me? Yeah, I ask you, does it have to be in Lexington or can I go eat at a place in Georgetown? And I will say to you, I'm okay with you sitting at the bar but like you can't know who you're sitting next to so like if you want to make friends with strangers i'm okay with that that's part of going out by yourself and sometimes you do meet friends with strangers okay so i'm okay with that but i also want you to have a couple where you're in at a table by myself and i can't go to wild eggs when georgetown okay sit again just like no no you can't

you understand how we're trying to what we're trying to do but like i'm just in the evenings at home i don't like it this is not a joke you've really really done never done this. I don't think I've done it one time in my life. That's unbelievable. Well, now you're going to get to do it. One person writes, Matt, how do we watch the game tonight? Is it on regular television? This game, Drew, is on the SEC network. So this game is just, if you have the SEC network, you can watch this game. The game against Georgetown next Thursday is on the computer and all the things that the big blue madness and the blue white game. Yeah, you've got six days to figure that one out, but tonight you're good with just the regular channel.

I'd say over there at the SEC Network headquarters, they saw number one Purdue. Don't get to show them very much and took advantage of this opportunity. TV ratings are probably going to be huge on this, too. For the SEC Network for an exhibition game. And it's also really the first night that actual basketball is on. I think they're showing, I think maybe Arkansas plays after us. So I think there's like four hours of basketball tonight for people on the SEC network. We mentioned all those games.

A lot of them I would like to see if Kentucky wasn't playing tonight, I probably would tune in and watch some of those games. Some of them aren't even on television. Which is crazy. I mean, there's some big-list opportunity there for a network. Big time programs playing each other, and the game is not even on TV. Who's up next? Bob and Jamestown. 859-2802287. Bob, go ahead.

What do you think about this copycat crime down in Florida now? Champ Sports and Jensen Beach. Thieves cut through a concrete roof to get into steel. Nike and new balance sneakers. Okay, Bob, just because some, hang on just a second. Are you suggesting that the champ sports robbery

is a copycat of the Louvre? What do you think? I mean, I'm not going in there against hundreds of pairs of these high dollar ball shoes. Well, I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess, James and I,

to be, or Bob, to be fair, I don't know. but I'm going to guess that there have been robberies of places like champ sports for decades. I don't think that these guys were like, hey, they took rare jewels from French queens in the Louvre. I need to go take Nike dunks from champs sports. Well, they did it. Anyway, I think we're going to have a great basketball team this year. We've got debts. I mean, these guys are going to be playing for.

for tonight to see how each other do to get playing time. And it'd be interesting to see how much Malachi Marino gets with that seven-foot length he's got. Well, I appreciate to call, Bob. I agree with that. I do think this team, Drew, one of the strengths of this team is they have, you know, it's like Noah's Ark. They got two of everything.

I mean, you pick what you want in a basketball player. They don't even have, like, they don't only have one of those guys. They got two. Whereas last year, I really didn't think we had anybody who could just take a guy off the dribble and get his own shot. You know, Otega could muscles way through. Sometimes Jackson could do it. Sometimes Butler could physical. But in general, we didn't really have a guy like that.

I think we got multiple guys who can do that this year. We got multiple guys who can block shots. We got multiple guys who can hit three. We got multiple guys that are good passers. I mean, I just think they have a chance to have so many different. options. Yeah, before I had to that point, that was a great Bob call. He acted like we all woke up and turned on the news and they were talking about the champs getting right. He said that so like we all knew that champs in Florida got robbed. He didn't say that. Champs doesn't get the

expensive shoes. Those are your mall walkers. But to your point about the depth. Yeah, like say one guy doesn't panic. There's some years, you're like, this guy has to be good. If he's not, the whole thing falls apart. I do think Jalen Lowe's like that now. I do think he has to be good, but go ahead. But the biggest thing with the depth, we focus on the games and how you can throw different stuff. These practices are wars, and they've already been wars. Pope has talked about having to stop them from killing each other already in the September practices. So we think about how it's nice to be able to play 12 guys in a game,

but to me it's more about how they're going to be ready for games because every day is going to be a battle. When Reese Potter is your 13th man, literally like no probable chance of playing, and he ain't terrible, that's pretty good. When you're 12th man is a guy who might, you know, who has an NBA body and Braden Hawthorne. Like, they got a lot, there's a lot of players riding on this team. And after all the injuries we went through last year, amen, glad we got them. You know, how many times you see three point guards go down with injury back to back to back?

He's got loaded up at every position, and I think he knew he had to do that, so that never happens again. You think we see some Potter and Hawthorne tonight in the game at all? Maybe Hawthor and I don't know about Potter. I'll say this. I do want to see tonight because, you know, Lowe is going to come back, but he could get hurt during the year. Like, that can happen. I want to see an Aberdeen or Johnson point guard. Is it still good enough to rise the team to a final four level?

My inclination right now is no, but they might, after tonight, I might have a different view of that. That's kind of a blessing in this injury because if Lowe were healthy, and if we prefer it, you'd see these guys for minutes here and there. They're going to get a big opportunity until he comes back to prove that. themselves. So that really is the test for me. Aberdeen, Jasper at point guard, then what's the team ceiling? Because everything else we got two of at every position. We'll take a break and be right back. This is KSR. 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. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here live at Don Franklin, Nissan. Don Franklin, Nissan.

score big online or in store 28 dealership 6,000 rides top trade values and the service you trust it's don Franklin driven by family October 24th is the first big basketball game and it's back you maybe have lucky socks do you have any lucky socks I don't think so've got lucky underwear but I don't have lucky socks don't want to know more about that you also might be like me sometimes I get nervous during the game Shannon I drive around New Circle Road that's right sometimes that happens sometimes you get in the shower I won't do that for this one but there's also and more rituals you should add, get a skin check at Kentucky Skin Cancer Center. Yeah, I know that's a weird thing to do during a basketball game.

Yeah, just go check for skin cancer during the game. Never a bad time to check. That's what they want you to do. Right here, you go to Kentucky Skin Cancer Center.com or 270842, 1999, where you're not just a patient, your family at Kentucky Skin Cancer Center. It would be weird for you to go during every game and be like, we're losing. Will you please check me for skin cancer? confirm that I still don't have skin cancer.

You know, can never be too safe. Everybody has the rituals. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, why are you insistent on telling Ryan he's wrong and odd? I actually think you're odd for going and eating by yourself. Ryan should be paying you to interact with people. Got a point. That's a good point. Ryan, would you like to buy my meals for a week?

That's a big fat no. And then I have to go and eat with other people. No. No, big fat no. Yeah. I know it's something you enjoy. You enjoy that? It's not that I actively say,

Drew would like to eat dinner. Forget about him. I'm going by myself. When there are people for me to eat with, I do it. But when you live alone and you're not married and you don't cook, my New Year's resolution didn't go great this year. Yours not over. Yours not over.

Then, like, you have to. And why should I always eat? eat in my house, right? Shouldn't I be able to go experience the world? And that's kind of how I look at your house because you can't cook. Well, but I mean, I don't need to always take it home or get delivery. I can go sit in the place. Plus, for most restaurants, you know, it's better for them for you to eat in person. DoorDash takes a cut and all that and, you know, servers. I think it's just better for the industry if people eat out. And you like, you actually do business while you're eating your meal by yourself. You're on your phone, making returning calls, returning emails. Reading. Reading. Something you might

try. No. That's another challenge one week we could just have him read. Well, I had to do a book report that one year. You made me read a book on do a book report on it. What was it on? Do you remember? The plot. And you liked it. It was actually really good. You know the sequel to that just came out. It's called the sequel. I was not aware. Matt, you already did this, but when I was single, I used to vacation alone, which you have to eat by yourself or do things by yourself. And I actually loved it. I went to New York more times than I could count and would just make a dinner reservation for one and go have a great time. I mean, I did it for two months, except for a little period where I had some friends come. I did it for two months. And now when you do that, sometimes you do have times where you're like, okay, I need human contact here. And so you, you know, I would do like these little group tours where it was like a night out at bars and I'm not even a drinker. but those were people who wanted to be social and it was fun.

But, like, I still, I'm good primarily. I'm not expecting you to do that. I just want you to have a meal. I'm not asking you to go to Europe by yourself. He's not asking you to go out on Valentine's Day to skyline chili by yourself either. So, I mean, this is easy. Yeah, that wasn't the most ideal night. Well, you know, it's romantic.

But I'm looking forward to you. It's my own kind of that. Yeah. Who's up next? Justin. Justin. Justin. Justin.

Justin. I feel like things are back to normal with basketball for the first time since COVID, really. Is there a chance that the Big Blue Madness Camp Out comes back? Because Mark Pope at a Big Blue Madness Camp Out would be awesome. And if it's not coming back, what's the reason? It's a great question. I think the answer is no, the Big Blue Madness Camp Out will not be back. There's a lot of reasons.

I think in one part, it was kind of, like it was an awesome event, but it was an event that from a security standpoint, always worried UK, I mean, just think about it. You put thousands of people on campus and you just set them there and like they're sleeping on the street. And then you have students and now there are even more dorms in that area. So there's students everywhere. So I think that's, that was always an issue. Then you throw in the fact that players, you know, I think some players liked it. Some players, it was a lot. to have people right outside their back door the whole time. And then the other thing is, there are a lot more buildings over there now.

Like if you think about the last time people camped out, a lot of that space is gone. And the campus is just much more crowded. So Drew, I think all of those things mean that won't come back. I think you're going to see events like what they did the day of Big Blue Madness as kind of replacements for them. Yeah, the camp out, it really can't come back. I used to do it. I spent the night there in a tent.

It was a lot of fun. but that area has just changed so much. Back when I did that, there wasn't even the new student center there. It was a field where the band practiced, and you'd put tents there. There were basketball courts. All of that has been gone for new buildings. Like, even if they wanted to have a camp out, they had nowhere to put people. I mean, I will say, and I appreciate the call.

Some of my favorite memories since I've done this were at that camp out. I mean, just think about the John Wall-Demarcus cousins year. Those guys were out there like playing. I mean, imagine John Wall and DeMarcus cousins spending hours like playing, hornhole with fans. And then, you know, in 2013, obviously I put video of Nerlans-Nuel playing one-on-one with Willow. Now, when he almost got hurt, that was different. But there was a cool excitement to, like, players playing one-on-one with random fans. Willie Colley Stein would do that a lot. Ennis Cantor, that was the first time everybody saw an appearance of him. We did

our show Ryan once out there. I have a picture hanging in my house. This one's actually hanging. Larry hung it. Of me interviewing Calipari with this swarm of people, maybe more people than have ever listened to our show. Me interviewing Calgary at Camp Out with like the whole parking lot filled with people. The pictures behind me, it's one of my favorite pictures. So I hate that that stuff won't come back, but I don't think it's coming back. It was a great event.

We all love doing it. That picture you're talking about all the campers came over from their tents to sit in and watch the show. It's just they don't have the space anymore. They just don't have it. Just where that interview was is gone. It's gone. None of that. You couldn't even stand there now.

I've heard a lot of people talk about. They wish they'd bring back the ticket lottery for students. You know, when you go into Memorial Coliseum and stand in line. I do wish they bring that back. To me, they could bring that back. I think they should. That was always, for college kids, I think that was one of the best events of the year. Anyone my age, we still reminisce on going to Memorial, sitting in the crowd,

hoping you'd get eruption zone. It was a whole an experience in itself. that was a lot of fun. That is one thing I do wish they would bring back. Who's next, Liam? Freebird. Freebird. Freebird, go ahead.

Hey, guys, two things. Matt, I tried for the last two weeks to get through, but I did not have a phone signal in Leslie County. So I'm in good with some people up there, and the mayor was telling me how you came up a while back and did like a charity thing and spoke. And they talked very nicely about you. You got a lot of fans up there too.

And the second thing is, is I'm sure you've got people in the crowd will know this. There's an episode of Sanford and Son where Lamont gets taken on a poker game, and Fred invites all the fellows out, Rollo and everybody, and he's got a set of x-ray glasses and takes everything from them, fur coats, hats, shoes, and all kinds of stuff. It's hilarious. Yeah, I mean, if you were, like, you know, everybody's focusing.

I appreciate it on the basketball part, and that is understandable. But the poker part, I appreciate the call for you bird. is to me, like, I didn't even know you could cheat the way they cheated. Like, I don't play in private poker games, in part because I don't want to lose a lot of money, and in part because, well, I do play in some, but they're small ones. But, like, there are some in this town where there are, I mean, there are poker games in Lexington where tens of thousands of dollars are on the table. You ain't going to see me at that.

But part of why I wouldn't is people can cheat. I mean, this cheating plan was elaborate. They just reported that the night that Choncy Billups was there, $13 million was won by people against the people. They basically cheated the amount of $13 million. And I don't know how much of that gets put on Choncy, but just so people know, in the federal system, which this is federal, in the federal system, the amount of money you take determines your sentence in part. So that is a lot of money. He is looking at a lot of years.

Now, I don't know if he'll get it. Maybe he testifies against other people, but it ain't good. And with him specifically, he is the current head coach of an NBA team. He's been making at least a million dollars a year since 1997. I just don't know. It has to be greed. Yep, not enough. How could you possibly get tied up when you've been making that kind of money for decades?

And I currently have a job. I mean, part of it's addiction. I mean, part of it is, you know, listen, I go through in my head, like a lot of thoughts about this stuff. You know, it's no secret that like draft kings and sports gambling, something I enjoy doing, something that I do ads for. But like alcohol, like marijuana, I mean, you pick the thing, like sugar. I mean, you can get addicted to it and people have to be careful.

It's interesting. I actually think, though, what has happened, I don't think there. is more of this now, Ryan, because these things are legal, I think it's getting caught more because now there are more ways to catch it. You can flag it. I think this stuff was happening for decades. People have always cheated. I remember Tim Donahey, the ref, got banned from the NBA, and it wasn't even legal yet back then. Like, it was happening. I think it's easier to catch. But I also think, you know, you look at like, why does Chauncey Billups do this? I mean, for the money, but also there's a part of it that's just

Charles Barkley said last night, stupid behavior is stupid behavior. And people do that no matter how rich they are. Because you've got to believe this is not the first time they had the x-ray goggles and there the special glasses. I mean, 1-800 gambler. I would just send a chance if you're listening

1-800 gambler. Give it a call. Give it a show. I'm sure there's a lot of other things going on too that they probably haven't dug into yet. I'm sure they're not the only one. This is going to be a tip of the iceberg, I think, without question. I mean, I don't know how it couldn't be.

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our draft kings, KSR Parley. We've hit two of these. We've gotten three out of four once. We've decided to not allow Ryan to pick. He's terrible at it. So, Drew, you and I've done great. I'll let you pick the second. You can pick two this week.

I'm going to pick my first one. I feel good about my first one. I'm going to take Ole Miss is getting five and a half on the road at Oklahoma. I don't know. I think they win the game, but if you're telling me I'm going to get five and a half, and I think Old Miss is the better team. So give me Old Miss plus 5.5 at Oklahoma. I really like that one. Shannon, you've been about 500 this year, but we're still keeping you as part of it. What's your

second one? Texas on the road at Mississippi State minus seven. Give me Texas and the points. You scared of that one? I don't love it, but I don't love it. But they play badly against us, so if you think they're good, maybe they're trying to. overcorrect. They're trying to over correct. So, I mean, there's some argument to that. So, all right, Texas minus seven. Drew, you can take two or if you, I have another one if you don't like. All right. Go for it. On the Texas one, though, I'm starting to wonder, should Arch try throwing with the other arm? After last week when he just couldn't hit guys that rope and I worry about that one. But we're staying with the SEC. Both my picks are SEC games. Okay. Arkansas is hosted Auburn. Auburn's a mess.

Bobby Petrino has that offense on fire. They're like third in the country in Y'allel. yards per play. This is going to be a high scoring game. The spread is moving quickly. Arkansas opened as an underdog. Now they're a two-point favorite, but I'm still rolling with Arkansas at home and that offense scoring a lot of points. I like that one. My second game, Shannon, he's still not believing in his vandy, but they have game day in Nashville. I watch Pavia do whatever he wanted against LSU last week. They're hosting Missouri, another two and a half point spread. So I just need the home teams to win by a field goal. Vandy and Arkansas.

All right. So we got Vandy, Arkansas, Texas, and Ole Miss. So all SEC games this week and no Ryan Lemon pick. That sounds pretty good. I like, by the way, Texas A&M is at LSU, and A&M is a two and a half point favorite at LSU. I don't know how you give LSU points at home on a night game in Baton Rouge. I know they haven't looked great, but if I were going to bet another one,

I would take that LSU game. Who's up next? Dale. Dale, go ahead, Dale. Hey, guys. If I saw one of you out eating by yourselves, I would buy you a dessert. And the champs robbery,

it's a copycat. That's very nice of you. I would love to have a Dale dessert. But go ahead. The champs robbery, there's a movie out called Roof Man. I don't know if you guys are familiar with it. The guy would break in to McDonald's.

through the roof. And he's still in prison. He got like 45 years. What would he steal? Well, he would wait. And the employees get there before they had opened. And he would herd them into the cooler after he had the manager giving him the money out of the safe and all the drawers that they had prepped for that day.

So, you know, he was making a little change doing that. It feels like there's not that much cash left at McDonald's, though. But go ahead. yeah and then uh lastly uh i haven't followed the NBA for years uh knowing what I know but uh do you think uh which which mafia family owns draft king or is involved with draft kings I don't know how listen for you well draft kings appreciate to call draft king is a uh is a publicly traded company so I doubt at least officially any of the uh of the mafia people are there are laws about that It was interesting.

I didn't know, Drew, until this NBA scandal, that there were so many mafia families still out. I didn't. Like, they, it was, members of the Gambino and the Gansini and the Britain. He mentioned all these families. I was like, well, if you know all these families exist, why are they still mafia families? Like, you know what I mean?

I kind of thought the mafia has been dying a little bit lately, and they said these are four of the biggest crime families in America. I'm like, okay, I didn't know the mafia still had it a little bit. Well, it seems like you got a lead. If you know that they said. Johnny One eye or whatever his name was that got caught up in this. I was a little surprised at that amount of knowing about him. Did you see, Ryan, Pope and Izzo, Tom Izzo had a completely different reaction to Louisville getting the G League point guard.

And I just want to say quickly, this is why I love Pope. All right, everybody can have their opinion about whether or not you should be able to get guys in the G league. But you can. Louisville gets them. Tom Izzo, who I like. goes on a rant about it and how awful it is, berber. Did you see what Mark Pope said?

Mark Pope goes, this is such an interesting time to coach college basketball. You now have so many different ways to make a roster. It was almost like one of them was going, bring back the good old days. And Mark Pope was like, yeah, a lot of chances to make something happen. Pope embraces the current culture of what the sports world is all about, the basketball world is all about,

is old school, you know, just not a use. You've got to adjust because if not it's going to pass you by pretty quick. We've seen it happen a lot of times. I mean, I give his own credit for sticking it out so long, but it did sort of strike me as that's the difference between coaches that will make it in this generation and the ones that won't. Let's start with basketball today, Shannon. UK and Purdue, 6 o'clock.

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All right, 76, 75, Kentucky. I went last and you gave me O-Way, so I will take him. Let's go Kentucky, Tennessee. I don't like to do this, but I'm going to say Tennessee, 38, Kentucky 10. I'll go 31, 17 falls. It's a game in the fourth quarter, but Kentucky loses again coming up short. I'll say 28, 20. 31, 13.

Give us a couple field goals. One touchdown. Listen, I hope I'm wrong. I hope after the game, some UK player takes Mario's graphic, retweets it, and goes, y'all didn't believe in us. I would love that. I just have a feeling this is going to be a bad one. This is about as bad a matchup as we could have in the game.

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