KSR - 2025-10-30- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

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I just am a way to pass them on to people who don't usually go. So if you want them, I'd be glad to take them off your hands. Don't let them go unused. Right. Yeah, I had a couple yesterday. I've already found somebody to use them. So, yeah, we'll put them in the right people's hand. All right, a couple important news stories.

Have you heard about the woman who got it? got mailed the wrong thing in Hopkinsville. No, but I kind of like where this is going. No, I didn't see this one. This is a bad story. It's a bad story. Well, I mean, it's funny, but it probably was bad for her. Okay.

Little old lady in Hopkinsville, she orders her medication online. Not you. Ma'am, I didn't call you a little old lady yesterday. That was wrong. I would not say it. Anita says you. I did not say it. He said it.

I said you are a wonderful. woman. In Hopkinsville, she tries to get her medication sent. She got the wrong package. Instead of in the box, instead of the medication, do you know what was in there? A sex toy. I don't know that's why that's where your mind went to. That's not even close to the answer. Drew, that wasn't necessary. That's one if you're going to guess, you better know. It's not just going to be a bad look. You got to know that's right, or it just sounds creepy. Yeah, it says more about you.

It says more about you. Well, you were wrong. Okay. So you can stew in that. What actually was in there was two disembodied hands and fingers. What? Yes. Oh, my.

She got a box. Instead of her medication, she got a box full of body parts. No way. Two hands and four fingers that were not on the hands. Oh, first of all, I didn't know they mailed that stuff to her. Yeah. I didn't know they mailed it. I didn't know they mailed it from the same place that they mailed the medicine.

Seems like those should be different factors. I thought those are different places. So, I mean, I do want you to put yourself in the shoes of the woman in Hopkinsville. She opens her package up and she's like, oh, hopefully this is my blood pressure medication, and there's just a hand and fingers sitting there looking at her. Where were they headed to start with? How can they, well, did somebody order it? Or did it?

Well, I don't think you can order a hand online. So where were they going? I'm on Amazon right now looking for Halloween costumes. I'll punch in hands also. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I mean, my guess is they were going to a facility where you're allowed to deal in hands and fingers, probably a medical facility.

I don't think you can just order online. Please give me a pinky finger. Some weird people out there. I would take that as a. threat. Maybe I've watched too much mafia, sopranos, all that stuff, but I would take that as someone to sending me a message. Now, maybe not for this

nice elderly woman who just needed her medicine. So poor woman in Hopkinsville, I do feel like this has to be lighting up the Hopkinsville streets. My Hopkinsville friends, I need to know details of who this was and if the woman is traumatized. Yeah, I want an update now. Yes.

Next thing. You know, over the years we've talked about the U of L radio guy, The sheriff. The sheriff. Right. So just, you know, when I started in my career, I really enjoyed radio feuds. You know, I really enjoyed them.

Captain Suntan. Think about all the fun we had over the years with Captain Suntan, right? Yeah, that had boiled over to the press box. Yeah, Captain Suntan threatened to punch me at a U of L football game. And I was like, sir, we are grown men. And we are standing in a press box. We are not going to get in a fight. but you know we've talked about over the years it's become harder to do this because the rest of the shows just aren't quite as relevant but you of l sheriff i mean if you were to create in a lab an overly self-important

what are you laughing at i like this an overly like self-important twitter dork you probably would recreate U of L sheriff. I'm not trying to be rude, but all you got to do is look at his account. It's like U of L's, first of all, the name, U of L sheriff. I mean, come on. Like, really? You're the sheriff of U of L? I mean, your name is Mark Blankenbecker.

You have a major road in Louisville that shares your name. Just go with like, you know, the Blankenbaker or something. U of L sheriff, Drew, that's a lot, isn't it? I think Mark would be fine. Just go Mark Blakenbaker, KSL or LSR. Instead, he goes U of L sheriff, whatever. He really doesn't like us. That's fine.

I get messages of people saying he talks best, but, you know, he's on Drew Deener's show. Now, we like Drew Deere. We do, right? Trancy guy. Drew Dealer's a trancy guy. Used to be a U.K. guy. Named his kid after K. Wood Lefford and then became a U.S. person.

Not sure how that happened. But nevertheless, we like Drew Deer. I mean him several times. I will also say, Drew Deer is very talented. Good radio host. I don't get to listen to him, but he's good. But he has the sheriff on the show. Worst decision, Drew Deere's ever.

I don't know. I don't know if the sheriff has incriminating photos. I don't know why he's on there, but he is. Okay. But he likes to take shots. at us. And so he takes shots at me, and he took a shot at me online, and I said something like, I can't remember what the exact words, but I said something like, there were more, there were 50 times more people listening to me at 1 a.m. than have ever listened to one of your shows,

which was both mean, ma'am, I'm sorry, it was mean, but it was also true, you know? So like, it was mean, but it was true. And he said, that's not true. our ratings are burr-b-br-br-br-br-br-br-br-ber so I just said show me okay just just show me show me some

you know particle of truth that that could be even if it's just a survey yeah even if it's like even if your mom just wrote a report for the teacher just show me something that would qualify as evidence because he's lying well he of course didn't have one so i guess then drew deiner because drew's a good radio host he brings

it up to him to kind of pick at him about okay all right now this is sent to me this is the a i transcript of the show okay so deaner says they're they're sort of talking about the rating and then and then sort of acknowledging that maybe what the sheriff said about the rating wasn't true and then deiner makes the point the only thing that matters is did you get a renew new in your advertiser, not the rating, which Drew's not wrong, but so he says that. And then this is the quote from the sheriff. And this is presumably not just about me, this is about you all, the listener. This is about the UK fan base.

He says, yeah, I mean, I guess Matt Jones has a lot of penniless blank gaggers listening to his show and they don't matter at all. That was his phrase. And these are taxpayers in Louisville that he's talking about. These are the people that fund this career. I'm going to also know, I think the sheriff might have a job with the University of Louisville. I'm not certain about that. I know he at one point did.

I think he still does. So I'm just going to say, I don't like Radio Wars. I don't want to punch down. You could call me anything. You can't go after the audience. So I've got to say, I've got to figure out exactly how I'm going to handle this. Because I can't have the sheriff going around crushing. First of all, how obnoxious to talk about penniless brum-ber-ber.

I'm not going to do that to their fans. Their fans don't deserve it. I'm just going to say that the sheriff is the most interminable dork that has ever walked the streets of the state of Kentucky. And all you got to do is go look him up. I mean, in his Twitter profile picture, folks, he has on a scarf. It is getting chilly outside. He has a scarf. I think it's silk.

So, Drew, what are your thoughts on that? I get a little nervous when we do this, because you live in that city. I mean, his radar gun could land on you on the watersend at any moment. There are several ways he could get back at you beyond the radio. So I'll worry about that. He is a sheriff. Parking tickets, you know, there's all kinds of. of things he could pull out of his bag in this scenario.

Yes. He wrote the Louisville man thing back in the United. You may remember. He famously wrote, do you remember the Louisville man? Oh, yeah. Now, he's asked me over the years to stop reading it because I think he's embarrassed about it. And I kind of have. But I'm going to have to pull it back out at some point.

Like, if you're going to keep doing this, Sheriff, I might have to read what is the most, on an internet full of cringe, it's the cringiest thing that's. ever been written. And they proceeded to get like seven more scandals after he wrote it when they were trying to polish everything up over there. I'm in power wash everything. You know, I'm in one of those moves. Somebody will send it to me.

You know, he got it deleted off the internet. Like if you try to find it now, but some one of our people will find it. And I'm going to read it again. Yeah, a lot of new listeners have never. Have you all ever heard the Louisville man? Oh, see? He heard it. Yeah.

So he wrote it. I think this was in between the Italian restaurant scandal, but before the stripper scandal. Again, you have to run. There's a timeline of Louisville sex scandals and figuring out which one is which is not always easy. It was definitely before the coach wore the wire against his own friend of coach. It was definitely before the FBI trial, but I think it was after the Italian restaurant scandal. And the premise of it was that Louisville men are classy. and they don't do things that other people don't.

This was a year or so before they hired prostitutes for the recruits. But maybe we should read that. One from the vault. One from the vault. So if somebody can find it, let me go. They will. They'll send it to you. 859-280-2287.

Who's up next? Sean is up next. Sean. Go ahead, Sean. Matt, listen to that just now. I mean, tell me you didn't get your name in the paper enough growing up without telling me you didn't get your name in the paper enough growing up. if you call yourself the sheriff. I'm with you, Andre.

Transition real quick. You talked while I go about Mark Pope, drawn up a play. And I think one of the things we're going to see, over time, great coaches, three things that make them great. Recruiting, motivating, and their tactical abilities.

The separator is the tactical abilities. Cal had two of those three, Bruce Pearl, two of those three. A lot of motivators and recruiters were great at two of those. The third one alluded to them, and that's why they didn't win one more championships. So I think the separator for us is going to be Mark Pope is a great tactical guy as well. Well, that's an interesting point. Let me take your premise. I appreciate

the call as being correct. If coaching has three major parts, recruiting, motivating, and you know, drawing up plays or essentially in-game coaching, I agree with you that really good coaches sometimes have two of them. I think Cal was maybe the best recruiter of all time. I think Cal was a really, really good motivator. I don't think he was a great tactician, right? I think it's very clear to me that tactician and motivating, I think we've got a great coach in Mark Polk. Yep.

I still think there's a little bit of the recruiting thing that that's at least a little bit of a question to me. I'm still waiting for the get that is the big high school get that's not from Kentucky. I still think it's going to happen. But it hasn't happened yet, Drew. So that's like the one thing I'm waiting to see. Yeah, in recruiting, you know, Cal was selling the NBA and a million-dollar contracts. And even though we love it, Pope's selling Kentucky on the front,

that's just not going to go over with every living room he goes in. So we're still going to see if that works out. I love that he's trying it. But also I want to see, you know, Pope's got a lot of guys at one minutes this year. That's another thing Cal did well as he was able to manage some of that. I think this will be the first time we'll see with Pope how he has to do that. Hope said this is the deepest team he's ever had, and it's the only team he's ever had

where he thinks actually figuring out minutes is going to be an issue. He brought that up yesterday. We saw that. You know, in the scrimmage, the blue team and the white team, they were equal and went to the final seconds. I'm sure they do that every single day, because that's how talented this whole team is. I mean, in some ways he might have been a little fortunate in the first game

because he's had players out, so he hasn't had to worry about it. But when everybody's healthy, Yeah. There are going to be dudes who came here to play that are not going to get to play. And it'll be interesting to see how he handles that, right? Yeah, and I don't get from, you know, we barely know a lot of them. It doesn't seem like there's going to be any personalities that would be problematic,

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I'm sitting here looking at this. Louisville, man. thing. Like, you almost, you would think it's a parody. Like, you can't even, you can't even believe it. People are telling me that Diener's producers, the guy that punched you at the TBT game, is that right? I have no idea who produces Drew Diener's show. But, I mean, that's a fun fact, if it is. That was when I was in Europe. I cannot believe you got punched in again. If he is the producer that show, added to the list of reasons we should be disappointed in the whole law enforcement, he's right there. I mean, case closed.

Just get him. He's in the room with me. He is right there. How is he still running free? Yes. Open and shut case, Mark. Just grab him. Nab him.

I got video. Here we go. This is the start of It's a Louisville man. I'm not going to read the whole thing because it's very long. Ryan, are you ready before? I can't wait. You know, we've all heard it before what it means to be a Louisville man. Ryan, Limit, it's a source of pride.

A source of pride. A Louisville man does the right thing. thing. He's honest. It's good to keep a straight face. He does what he needs to do. He loves his family. He takes pride in his work. He attempts to make himself better, Mario, every day.

A Louisville man displays his integrity, his ethics. He is honorable. He may not be perfect, but he strives to be. And being a Louisville man, Ryan, means when you mess up, you pay up. Pay up. Louisville's fan base is not when at all cost. Of course not.

In fact, we are quite patient as a group. Obviously. Another quality of a Louisville man is we do not live in a microwave society. As an alumnus of Louisville, we don't deserve this. But sometimes bad things happen. People make bad decisions. people we love sometimes disappoint us. But Ryan, we aren't Louisville men without forgiveness

and the ability to evolve and learn. This is my favorite part. We've been here since 1798, and God willing, will be here another 217 years better than ever. Wow. This is our school. I would cry. Well, misty-eyed.

By the way, there's a lot more than that, and he wrote it seriously. That's something. And this was after the... This was after this, the... Rick Petino, 15 seconds? But before the prostitutes. Yeah. So, good memory from the past.

Who's next? Noah is next. Noah, go ahead, Noah. Hey, Matt. So I'm going to be at the game tonight versus Georgetown for a really excited to see these guys hoop again. And I don't know if this is just for me and my own. perspective. But I feel like for this team, I feel really excited because for the first time in a while, even with having so many players who are obviously competing hard to hard for

minutes in every way, it still feels like these guys know one common goal. And that's to reach number nine. And they are going to do whatever it takes to get there. Even aside with the fact we got potential draft picks from his lineup. Like we have people it just feels more of like Well, it is, I think the, I appreciate the call. I think one of the things that was Cal's, he was really good at is he would get all these guys

with individual goals to come here. They would play together. They would be a team. I don't think Cal's players were selfish. I actually think he did really a masterful job at taking guys who were kind of all here for a goal for themselves and creating a team where they were close. With that said, I don't think it's unfair to say this group, and the last year's group was like this, too, is much more focused on being here for the sake, Drew, of being here.

It's not just a stop along the way. It is a destination in and of itself, and I think that that has kind of been cool and valuable to see. Yeah, I said this last season, nothing against those guys, but Kentucky was a step on their ladder. They loved the step, and they loved to be in here for a year, but their goal was a little. higher up. These guys, their goal, and it's a lot of post messaging when he started recruiting them, is like, when are we putting that banner up there? I mean, that number nine is all over the facility now. It's everywhere. I mean, if you go to the facility, the number nine is all over the place. And I think that's, I think honestly, Ryan, that's what fans want the goal to be.

I think that's how he sold Aberdeen, who won a national title last year at Florida. Diabate, who was in the final four last year with Alabama. I think that's how he's. sold it, you know, come and we're going to win a banner, be a part of this, and they want to do it. It's just, it's a, I think both groups were cohesive, but this is a group cohesive around, I think it would be fair to say that in the last regime, it was cohesive, cohesive around the idea of law familiar. It was kind of cohesive around the idea of Cala Perry and this thing we've created over the years, this bond of, I mean, he literally called it law familiar. you. I think now it's cohesive around the idea of Kentucky Big Blue Nation.

Cala Perry, he enunciated it better than himself than I could when he went to Arkansas. He said the train keeps going. The stop has just moved. He sort of sees the entire thing as a progression that started at Memphis, or excuse me, started at UMass, went to Memphis, went to Kentucky, and now to Arkansas. It's all one big thing to him. I mean, I think Pope, I'm sure he loves his players at BYU, but Pope's not talking about what happened at BYU. You know what I mean? Pope doesn't say we and refer what happened in his four years at BYU

or his three years at Utah Valley. I think that's a difference, Drew. Do you know what I mean? Absolutely. You said to start the show, we can say things are different. We're not trying to be critical of one or the other. I mean, I had as much fun with Cal as I'll ever have watching basketball in the beginning. And I was all in on the NBA message.

and it was working, so I'm not just trying to trash that, but it is like somebody flipped a switch. It is completely different over there from how it was. I mean, you remember, Cal would try to convince us that, like, Marcus Camby went here. Derek Rose is coming to practice. Yeah, I mean, he would say, oh, man, it's awesome to see PJ Harvey or whatever. Like, it's like, well, I mean, that's good for you, but that's not us. And I think Mark Pope, again, I'm sure he loves his old guys, but have you heard of any? He doesn't talk about the other guys.

No. It's about here. Right. And I think that is something. And he talks about Tashon Prince or Tyrese Maxi because that Ryan is us. He gets it. He knows this program. I think we feel like we got our program back because he gets it.

It is our fan program. Yes. Yesterday I had a thought. It was LaFamilia. Now we literally had a family day with like kids running around. It was that family. It's like everybody's family. Yeah.

We'll take a break. Come right back here at KS. Barr, Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Tegu Sports Radio. If I'm not in 280, 27, one person writes, Matt, does it make you upset that every time national people talk about Kentucky now, it seems like they're just talking about how much they paid, we paid for our roster? Do you think we're going to deal with that all year? Yes. That's going to be something people say all year when we have success.

Well, they paid the most money. So, blah, blah, blah. That's going to happen. And, you know, I think that's, I think that's, it's important, but it's also a little bit of nonsense. I mean, it's not like we went and bought the best player. A lot of our guys returned. Our recruiting class was not ranked number one. It was, what, fourth or something like that.

And we got good transfers, but we didn't get all transfers we wanted. I mean, probably the guy they wanted more than anybody didn't come here. Donovan did that went to UCLA. So, yes, I mean, there's no doubt that, like, we, we, we. may have spent the most money. But I don't think, you know, part the reason we spent the most money is we got, and we bought a lot, we got a lot of dudes. But like our top level talent, it's not like it's crazy better than everybody else's.

We lost a Yaxil to Michigan, too. They loaded up. Yeah. People don't talk enough about how Michigan had a big transfer year spending a lot of money. I mean, it's not like the Dodgers went and got Mookie Betts and they got Shoaheotani and they basically got like everybody good. We didn't really do that. I mean, our best players returning, Ryan, right?

That's the narrative, though. You're right. The whole season it's going to be, well, they spent $22 million. They should be winning these games. They should be a number one seed. Yeah, I'll fight back against that. I don't think that's completely fair. One person writes, Matt, do you think we're underrated at number nine in the country?

Yes, I do. Definitely. I don't know if we're the best team because I haven't seen everybody. I'd probably put Houston number one just because they got dudes returning and because Kelvin Samson's done this. I mean, I know they haven't won a title, but you could argue they've been the best team in the last five years consistently. So I'd probably put Houston one, but I don't know why we wouldn't be two, right? I mean, why not?

When they were a poll from the athletic committee came out, it said Houston won Kentucky 2. Since Friday, everybody's been updating their polls and moving Kentucky to talk to. I mean, that's crazy. John Rothstein still has us like 13th, and I like John, but come on, man. Like, are you serious? Did you watch that game? I mean, do you think Purdue's the worst team in the country? Like, are they 29th?

I mean, we ran them off the court. That doesn't mean we won't lose. That doesn't mean we won't lose at Louisville in a couple weeks. Like, it could happen. But if you're just asking me, yeah, we're better than the ninth team in the country. Purdue was everybody's pick for number one. We didn't have two of our better players, and we didn't shoot the ball very well, and still beat them by double digits.

And didn't even play our guy. Like, O.A. played 17 minutes. Their guys all played 30. I just, you don't have to listen to me. Just listen to what Matt Painter said, Drew. Matt Painter said all this. He was amazingly gracious. He said it.

That's what's been fun in all this. I mean, Kentucky fans, we overreact and we start fueling each other. And, yeah, we're going 40 and O. But these are people outside of Kentucky and the opposing head coach who are just kind of in disbelief of how good Kentucky look Friday night. All the media publicate, you name a website that covers college basketball, and they've moved Kentucky up in their preseason poll since last Friday. Do you see Meyer Metcalfe, my host on Sunday morning, picks us to win the title? And a boy. He's a smart man.

He picked Kentucky to win the title. He picked Mark Pope to be national coach of the year. And he picked, which if we win the title, he will be. And he picked Otega O'A, I think, second team All-American. Joe Lennardi even used it as an opportunity to change his bracketology. We're two now. You give Joe a chance to make an adjustment and put something else on ESPN, he'll do it.

So that got updated too. Yeah. Who's up? Oh, wait a minute, before we do that. I want to give one shout out. Well, actually two things. One. I want to give a shout out, too.

And I don't know the name of the restaurant. And if someone will send it to me, I'd like to praise this person publicly today or tomorrow. I saw a story about in Benton, Kentucky. Have you seen this story? I haven't seen it. There's a small, locally owned restaurant in Benton, Kentucky. As you know, a big chunk of a lot of America, 12%. And in Kentucky, I think this number is like 19.

of people may lose their SNAP benefits starting this weekend because the government shut down. I'm not, we don't need to debate whose fault that is. It just may happen. And regardless of whose fault it is, that's going to have a strong effect on people's lives, especially people in rural Kentucky. And in Benton, Kentucky, there's a restaurant there who has said that if that happens, starting that day, they will be providing free meals to the community. Wow.

in Benton to people, if you have a snap card, you can come in and they will basically honor it like it's a snap card. This is just a private restaurant. Awesome. How nice is that? And then I saw the restaurant you like. Taco Johns. Taco Johns is doing that at, I don't know if it's all its locations, but it's quite a few of them. Yeah, a group that owns a bunch in Kentucky.

Yeah, so it may not be all of them, so I don't want to put, but like a group that owns a bunch of them is doing the same thing. They're basically providing a meal that if this happens, and I think at Taco Johns, they're like, even if you don't have the SNAP benefits. You just order the, I think they call it the community meal. That's all you have to say. That is, like, that's the best of places. Not everybody could do that.

You know, I understand that. But in these small towns, like, that's going to be wildly beneficial. And I just want to give a big shout out to those places. And if Taco Johns is one, if the place in Benton, if somebody sends me the name, I'm glad to mention it. as well. So many stories we get are just, you know, gloom and doom stories. Then you get one like this makes you restore your faith in humanity a little bit. How awesome is that? Those people in Benton. I think I say one more thing about Benton. Today is Harold's wife today.

Our friend Harold that passed away. It's his wife's. What's her name? I can't remember. Okay. Well, happy birthday to Harold's wife. And thank you for remember that. Who's up next? Tracy is up there. Tracy. Go ahead, Tracy. Hey, guys. I'm kind of glad I had to be on hold a little bit. At least that gave me time to rinse mouth out after that article you read understandable. Yeah, I don't think I could have gone on right after that. I had chunks and everything.

This game tonight against Georgetown. It's been a long time coming, even though it's exhibition. I was 24 whenever they bullied us in the final four. And they just, one thing I hated about that game, not only the loss, but that that's what a lot of people, I believe, probably at least that time, thought about Joby Hall. Yeah, I think that loss did stick to Joby quite a bit. I think for a lot of people that was kind of a, that, the 78 title was the perfect memory, but then people kind of remember that one as sort of towards the end.

Yeah, and that's stung. I mean, they definitely bullied us. They're in my top five of most hated teams behind last. Howseville, Duke, UCLA, then Georgetown, and then the border schools, Tennessee and Indiana. My first four kept us away from, we should already have number nine or ten. And so. I was saying, and I appreciate the call, I was saying yesterday, if you're a little bit older than me, so if you're in your like 50s, Ryan, kind of your age, Georgetown, there are people who still,

they look at that game like probably we look at, maybe Wisconsin's a little harsh, but like the West Virginia game, right? Like if you remember the West Virginia, in 2010, you got the West Virginia. But that's a game that sticks in my craw because we were better than them, and we should have beaten them, and they kind of dominated us, and it's unfortunate. It just annoys me. I think a lot of people that are a little older than me feel that way about that Georgetown. Yeah, because it was in the final four.

You know, it was a big deal. We were back in the final four, had a chance to win it, and just could not hit a bucket. I mean, the one thing you play your whole life for him, he could not hit a bucket. Part of the reason I hate the Celtics now. I hated them before, but part of it is that Joe Missoula is the coach from that 2010 team.

I mean, he killed us in that game. He was the whole problem. I think about that game every time I'm watching the Celtics and his mug is on TV. It takes me back to that place. Yeah, if you ever, if you hear John and DeMarcus talk about it, they're still mad about it, too. They were doing the John Wall dance celebrating. Stupid West Virginia. Hey, your NBA players are back.

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They've put him in the second unit now. He's not starting. And it seems like he made a little more comfortable running with those guys than he was playing with Durant and all them. We always know he can hit the shot. He's just going to have to learn to play better defense because when he goes out there, they go right at him most teams. But I think when he's playing with that second unit, he kind of controls the offense a little more. He just seems more comfortable.

Watching that opening, that was a tough watch in that opening game for him because the whole country was roasting him and it wasn't fun to see. Twitter was ugly that night. I wanted him to be the guy, like the one that's teaming up with Durant, Leighton, Houston. I don't think he'll be that, but he's still going to play a lot. Just got to figure out that defense. Yeah. And we had Lamont with a torn ACL, Butler, yesterday. That's terrible news.

Horrible news after we even talked about him, too. LeBont tore his ACL. It'll be out for the year. He was playing for the, I think, the Hawks G League team. He's had tough luck, man, with injuries. It's been one thing after another, unfortunately. But when he's played in the briefly in the summer league and with little opportunities he's had, he's looked good,

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We'll be right here. Come on out before the game and see us. Get some wonderful food. Thanks to the folks who made it. Where are you guys from right here? You're in West Virginia. Where are you from? Henry County?

All right. I think like you've been here before. Henry County, what about you guys? Shelby County? Scott County, all right. And you've been here. Oldham County. Well, nice to have all of you.

The name of the restaurant, it's in Hardin, Kentucky, which is just outside of Benton, is called the Hot Pig. Oh, sounds like a good restaurant. Shout out to the Hot Pig. If I live there, I would go eat and pay at the Hot Pig, because that would be good, because I know that would, only a restaurant myself. know that would be very hard to do what they're doing. So kudos to them.

In an area like Benton, if I'm driving through it, I see a place called hot pig, that's all I need to know. Going straight there if I'm hungry. I kind of agree with you. That would be a- Keep your chain restaurants. Keep your fast food places. Give me the hot pig. Give me the hot pig all day. Don't cut that.

That's right. One person writes, Matt, how's your opinion going to change about the team if we lose tonight? It's a great question. Would it change anything to you if we lost time? It would not change my mind whatsoever. We saw the team up close and personal yesterday. This team is awesome. Wouldn't change my mind.

Probably wouldn't change mine either. You know, I mean, that'd be a little bummed out, but like long term doesn't change anything. Nope. I'm bracing myself for a little come down tonight. I don't think that'll be a loss. But, you know, we mentioned Aberdeen didn't practice yesterday. I don't think that's anything long term. But, you know, if he may not play.

Yeah, so if you don't have Aberdeen or low, they've got a good back court. they've got two all-conference guards. I don't think Kentucky will lose this game. Are we already on third-string point guard already this year? I mean, we did that last year. It's right here in front of us. But I still expect a fun night. I'm really interested to see if Jasper,

if that was a preview of what's really ahead, how well he played on Friday, or if that was just a special debut. Ryan, as someone who himself has painted his head, what do you think of, the Jalen Brown head paint thing. Have you seen that? I felt his pain.

I mean, when you guys painted my head and we were on the elevator and those women standing behind me are laughing at me because they saw the paint dripping down my head, I felt for him. But you would think Jalen Brown would have the money to not rub off on people's uniforms, not just one night, but two games in a row. You have your one game, you go, okay, can't do this again, right? And I know they're celebrities, they have the whole world, they don't want to be bald, but you need to understand how much worse Sharpie in your head looks than just being bald.

Yep. Like these guys know that there are 100 cameras in the building, and Twitter is just waiting for something to latch onto, and he still dipped his head in black paint and walked out there and played basketball. Yeah, it's a tough look. I mean, and you got to think he just didn't start doing this. Like that wasn't the first game. Well, and it was a big spot that ended up on the jersey, too.

I mean, the inside the NBA guys, Shaq and Charles, they were just killing him last night. I mean, they were absolutely killing him. And, like, Jalen Brown's a big star. He's their main star right now. But I have to think, so here's what I would have to think. You had him, remember Carlos Boozer had that shoe polish on his head many years ago. I have to think there's a lot of people doing it. Like, don't you think there's probably a lot of people doing it, but they just, like, doesn't rub off?

Right. And they get a bad job. I think I'm going to think a lot of people are doing it, and they just got the bad version. Because those are two very high-profile players who both have had this happen to them over the years. There's a clip of Jalen Brown calling LeBron for advice about his hairline a while back on a podcast. Yeah. So maybe LeBron's getting the good one done. The airline thing happens.

Like, you know, I've got it. I understand. get it and you try to figure out what are you going to do i i understand that but like there the answer can never be paint in a while you're sweating playing a basketball game the answer okay i even think like you know you get a okay a transplant ryan i think is why that's worked well for you yep uh you know or but you can't paint it it's not even the act of doing it's the situational awareness or the lack of it you're you're running up and down in the NBA sweating with everyone watching you.

I don't know if that's the moment he should have attempted it. When we think about Rudy Judy, Giuliani, that's my first thought of that stuff just dripping down his face. Yeah, that happened too. I forgot about that. It's a lot of famous paintheads. I mean, there's a very famous sports writer that has a very bad toupee. And every time we see it, it gets much worse because it's crooked. And sometimes it's like hanging down on his cheek.

and like it doesn't, I mean, maybe it doesn't look good. At the same time, I'd rather have that than the paint. Yeah. Well, there's at least plausible deniability with that. I mean, the paint was on a white jersey. Like, I think of how hard I laughed at Ryan at that pizza place when he leaned back on the wall and left a little black stamp. I mean, that's the hardest of laughter my life. And Jalen Brown did it in a game on, I think it was O.G's uniform.

We forced Ryan to do it. Yeah. By the way, that's in contention for the top 20 shows. It has to be. Ryan getting his head painted in College Station, Pennsylvania, while the Department of Homeland Security called for him running the bases at the Little League World Series. Like, that's in the contention. You all were there.

It was six hours later, and I could not stop laughing. I couldn't order at dinner because I was still laughing. Well, I left a little spot in your car, too. My head touched the top of the car. If you were to get in my car right now, on the top, on the felt, there's a little black spot that is really. Ryan's headpaint where he leaned back. Who's next?

Matt is up next. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Yes, I was at the 85 Final Four in Rump Arena. Yes. And we randomly got tickets in the Villanova section. And Dick Vitell sat in the row right behind us. Can you remember for that Villanova Georgetown game, how much did your tickets cost? I'm curious for the Final Four National Championship?

I was a student in the UK and they had a lottery. So many tickets went to students. And it was $80 for both sessions. Well, that's pretty good, isn't it? $80 to get the Final Four and the championship game? Yeah. Yeah. I've been to a World Series and Final Four, I guess the next thing is a Super Bowl.

Yeah, you need to do that. Well, I appreciate the call. You can't park at the Final Four. for $80 now. That's true. Was that the last game at that size of arena, last Final Four I mean? Well, now, wait, didn't we, when we won the title in 96, wasn't that in an arena in New Jersey? The Meadowlands.

In the Meadowlands. But it was, that was the Meadowlands Arena, though. It wasn't the stadium. Yeah. Wasn't that, I think that was just in an arena. Or am I wrong about it? No, it was. Were you there?

I was there. I was out in the parking lot when they went down. were there, then what was it an arena or state? You were there. It wasn't a big stadium. It was like an arena. Okay, so then 8 and 5 wasn't the last arena. It might have been the last on campus or like, you know, arena that's...

Maybe that's what it was. I don't know if I don't really consider it on campus, but it may be the last one of those kind of place. Teams home floor. Team's home floor, yeah. Cornbread hemp. You can go to cornbreadthemp.com. You can get your, you can get your celtters.

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