KSR - 2025-12-15- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

Matt, Drew, and Shannon talk the latest news, UK Volleyball in the Final 4, and Fernando Mendoza winning the Heisman Trophy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Why is it just throwing your mood off? I just throws my... Like, I look, I don't even want to read it. What Trump posted about Rob Reiner getting killed. No, about him. It's like the most hateful thing. The dude got murdered. Yeah.

Like, I expect random people on the internet to be hateful. But you're the president. Like, you're the president of the. United States. I didn't see what he said, but yeah. If you can't say something nice, how many times you heard me say? If you can't say something nice when somebody dies, then don't say anything at all, right? Yeah.

And if you're the president, like, I'm not even going to read it. I just, I don't care if that makes people mad. If you read that and you think that's an okay thing to write when somebody gets murdered, like you're just, that's disgusting. All right, I'll shut up. I didn't mean to get off on that. Anyway. We're doing trivia Wednesday night.

Nice. KS. Barr. Glad you got that out. Trump trivia, right? We're not doing Trump trivia. Can I ask you a question? When you all go to your parents' house, what do they have the thermostat on?

I never look, but I feel like it's always hot. Thank you. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it is. 78 degrees. 78? It was, I was suffocating. what do you have yours on

some 70 71 mine's on 68 yeah I walked I mean I was just I can't really say anything

like it's my first of all it's their house you know I want them to be comfortable but like what is the age that parents just turn the thermostat

up because there is an age there is an age I remember the same thing with my grandparents's house I think it's like retirement. They just decide we're cranking it up as high as we can. You're sitting home all day.

Yeah. Yeah. And it's just like, here we go. Yep. Turn it off. If my house is ever 78, it's on fire. Like, I'm calling somebody when he gets to 72. It was time to go to bed.

It was like, just take everything. Like, I just covers, who needs them? Right. Like, it's just. Now, do you say anything? The good thing is you just, you just deal with it. Well, I mean, I give my mom a hard time about it. Yeah.

But I'm not, you know, I mean, Larry, he's sick and I need, and I want him to be comfortable. But I'm just like, and I'm like, mom, do you think this is a little bit hot? And she's like, no, this is what we leave it at. And I'm like, well, today. The colder it gets outside, the higher they turn it up is if that's going to change, Shannon, what it is outside. Right. Right. And, and, and, but today it's so cold.

I mean, you can just take a lap around the house and then come back in. I think you'd be okay. It was like eight degrees this morning when I woke up. I know. That's when you go in a bedroom, close the door, and open the window. Just let the cold air in. And they're both like they're both undercovers. Heat of blankets.

Their sweaters. Electric blankets. It's like, my goodness. So anyway, 859-280-2287. The volleyball team wins. Go into the file four. We did it. Great victory.

Domination. ran through Cal Poly last week and then ran through Creighton. Game was, like, match was never close. And then we got some good new Texas gets beat. And then Nebraska loses their first home game in three and a half years. And I just want to say the fourth and fifth set of that match was some of the most entertaining sports. If you did not see it, the fourth set, which Nebraska won, was amazing. Like, you know how they go to 25, but you have to win by two?

It was like 37, 37. They just kept going back and forth and back and forth. And then again, I thought, well, once Nebraska won, they'll win the fifth set, but they didn't. So the two teams had the best chance of beating us. Nebraska and Texas drew both out of the final four. We are the high-seated team at the final four. Yeah, as exciting as winning on Saturday was, the results of the other matches was just as exciting on Sunday. Knocked out the two seeds ahead of Kentucky. Now they're the top seed.

They're the favorite. Just got to finish the job. I don't love just seeing Wisconsin in the Final Four that triggers memories, but maybe this is redemption for other sports. I don't think Sam Decker's playing. We play Wisconsin and then Pitt, who we also, we lost to earlier this year, right? So the Pitt is on the other side. That's one of the two teams that beat us.

They play A&M who we've beaten earlier this year. Getting Texas out of there was huge too. If I already played them twice. You know, they have that saying about playing a team three times. Although is that true? Everybody always says that, but is it true? I don't think they'd say it if it wasn't true. Well, that's true.

Well, they say tie goes the runner, and that wasn't true. But we love our spot, though. Love it. I wonder how many people will get out there to Kansas City. I hope it's a lot, because there's been a lot of energy around here for it. By Nebraska being out, you know, Kansas City was basically going to be a home game for them. And now they're out. So I would assume, I wouldn't think A&M or PIP bring a ton.

Wisconsin may bring a bunch of people. But, like, we have a chance to, like, I don't think the crowd. will be as big a factor. So, you know. Yeah, because we saw Nebraska in Nashville at the beginning of the year what that crowd did. Yeah, so that was huge in getting them out of there. I wonder what Craig Skinner will do next.

He's already gone up in a private jet to promote the region. Where else can you go? Outer space. You think he flies? I think he has one more trick. He's got to do something. You shouldn't have to do that to get people excited to buy tickets to see you in the final four.

So, you know, there's the kind of a whole point of. But the game's not at home. here might be different. So the game is at 9 o'clock on Thursday against Wisconsin. We're going to have a watch party at the bar. I think it'll be really fun. You just need to plan on like staying up late, drinking some coffee. We're going to go at it. Drew's going to come. If we start losing, you're going to leave. I will leave. Okay, because you've left twice and we've come back and won. They were down 02 in the SEC championship and I said, watch this. And then walked out the door and immediately went one three straight. So we will do it.

Hopefully the guy that plays the fight song with his harmonica over the microphone, hopefully, he'll be there. This is a request. If you're out there, if you're out there, harmonica guy, come on and play the harmonica. It should be a lot of fun. We know, you know, we need one of those fun environments because we need to have won. We've had a lot of great basketball environments this year and then lost, but we won Saturday. The SEC run was fun. and the first couple weekends of the NCAA has been good. Just got to finish the job. So this is a big, so Thursday night,

and then the finals would be on Sunday if we win. Do you feel like we're going to take it? I'm getting nervous, but it's the good nervous, excited nervous. It's like right here in front of us. Like I said, we haven't tasted success in basketball in a while or football. It's been fun giving attention to volleyball because they certainly deserve it. I agree.

So big time win. Congrats. I hope to have someone involved with volleyball on with us tomorrow. Trying to see if we can get a couple of the players in here. And I do like, I do think volleyball is the only sport where you can get away with during timeouts, the players do choreographed dances. Can you imagine if in basketball, because it was like, it was the third set.

And the third set, like it's like 14, 12. Can you imagine if you had a timeout in basketball? basketball with like six minutes to go in the game and they're doing a review. Just break into song and dance. Yes. And Chandler and Noah and Jasper Johnson are doing like the boot scooting boogie. We might think they actually get along with each other if they did that. That's true.

But can you imagine that happening? And they do it with the other team's cheerleaders. Crageous cheerleaders were dancing with our reserves. Everyone just breaks it. I mean, is the NCAA tournament elite athletes. Not that serious. They are doing a dance routine. I'm amazed that everyone

does that. I think it's cool. No, on step, it's choreograph. It's not like a spontaneous thing. Clearly, they all worked on it. Yeah, they're spending their practice time doing their dance. We've got a big game, but there's also a dance coming up at half time. Again, like, okay, let's take the playoff. Oklahoma, Alabama, Friday night.

10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter and all the Oklahoma players just start dancing during a timeout. Doing the electric slide with the other team's band. Right and stepped together. It's funny how the culture of these sports can be so different. Football, Will Stein hired four assistants. I'm not going to claim to know any of who these guys are.

One of them came from Ohio State. One of them came from Texas, San Antonio. One of them came from UCLA. The common theme of all these guys, though, is we are a young staff. Like there is almost, we're hiring dudes who were assistants to the assistant regional manager, we're making them full-time assistance, and they're going to be young and presumably hungry. Do you like that strategy?

I do. It fits the head coach what he wants to do. He's got connections to a lot of them, some from like when he coached at Texas San Antonio. There's going to be a lot of Texas influence. A lot of guys have had stops in Texas, including we added a new cup. Cutter. Two cutters. Our offensive line coach is a cutter.

How many cutters? Who would have thought you could have? Do you know, did you know one cutter before Bowley? No, not one. And now we have two cutters. Yeah. It's unbelievable. We got a guy, the safeties coach, they just called J.C.Y, Josh Christian Young,

but he's already got a nickname. J.C.Y. I like that. We have Tony Washington Jr. Mm-hmm. He's got a West Coast guy, head stops at Oregon, played somewhere out West also. There's some player I was. watching a game the other night, Shannon. The player's name is, let's just say, Shannon the dude

junior. No, the player's name is Shannon the dude senior and his dad is Shannon the dude Jr. I don't think that's how that works. But that's what they did. That would imply the son gave birth to the dad. But the announcer said it's unique and then he just moved on. He said, that's not even how it worked. I agree with you. I agree with you. It's not how it works. And it is unique. So he was a junior before he was over a senior. The player was a senior and his dad was a junior. COVID team is out of control.

Yeah, I need an explanation. He didn't give an explanation. The announcer was like, it is unique. And then they just were like, it's like you would say he's wearing socks. Was the dad? Maybe he had been a junior for so long. He didn't want to give it up, but I don't know how he gives his, makes his son senior, though. So he wanted to name his son after his dad, but didn't want to call him the third.

Like, I've been junior-something years. That's interesting. So we just keep going back and forth junior and senior. So that the fourth in line will be junior again. Interesting. Have you, do you know anyone in life? Because you'll see thirds. I even know a fourth.

Does anyone know a fifth or a sixth? King Louis? Yeah, besides the Kings. There are a lot of those like Henry the 8th, but like, have you ever met anyone in your regular life who was a fifth? No, no. We have a third on this, in this KSR family with Billy. He's a third.

Billy's a third? Yeah. I know. Neil Gordon Barry the fourth. I know him. He's Middlesboro. And Stetson Bennett. He was a fourth.

But I don't think I know a fifth. No fifths. Do you think the fifth, they just go, all right, back to senior? up for this already. Yeah. Well, anyway, 859-280-2-807. Adam, go ahead, Adam. Hey, what's up, guys? Football and a basketball, what are the odds that Jeff Brom is at Michigan next year? Well, he already said no to Penn State. Is that being reported as a possibility?

I haven't seen it. I mean, he's like top three right now. Okay. Well, I mean, I appreciate the call. Let's say you were the coach at Kentucky, okay, and you were offered the Michigan job, but you are a Kentucky alum. Would you look at it? I think you have to consider it. You grew up in Lexington, like he grew up in Louisville. When you're at Louisville, you're even in a worse off spot because you're not in the SEC.

This is a chance to get in a big conference. And actually, I know Louisville likes to think their playoff team and continue. every year, but they're not. You could actually get in that conversation if you went to Michigan for a national championship. So you might do it. Would you do it, Shannon? Yeah, I think you would. Even if you went there. Yeah, I think at least have the conversation.

Yeah. It'd be crazy not to. I think you have to consider it. And Michigan's a better job than Penn State. It is. It just is. In a unique spot where they're desperate too right now, not many names out there. Is pain, stiffness, or a numbing sensation preventing you from enjoying watching your favorite

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the figure. He almost got me there singing. You're like a little George Michael? Yeah. I kind of like George Michael. And George Michael's kind of embarrassing, but I kind of like this song. I definitely like Faith.

Yeah. I definitely like Wake Me Up before you go-go. Was that him or was that Wham? Well, that was him, though. Right. His group. He was in Wham. I mean, that's him.

He's the lead singer. He's wearing shorts that no man should go out in public in that video. Like, if you go watch that video, Yeah, I'd rather not. They need more. You know how you go to like a somewhere and they go, do you want five inch, seven inch or nine inch shorts? I've learned that like seven's the soft spot or the right spot. You can do five but like be ready for thigh.

George O like ordered one and a half. They had a lot of thought of show. He did. One person writes, Matt, there are many people on the left who say worse things than Trump, when people die, you don't condemn them. Am I just supposed to like condemn every person on earth? Yeah, there are awful people who say awful things all the time and they're awful. But they're not the president.

The president is different. You know, you say, like when Charlie Kurt died, I was like, that's awful. It's tragic. Period. End of stop. It doesn't matter about anything else. It's awful. This man was murdered by.

his kid how can you not like how do you say something hateful like that's you've got hate in your heart like get it like you got to get rid of that that's not the way to live life even if you are the president you must have hate in your heart if you're sitting there saying those things when people die i don't know how your first reaction isn't gosh it's terrible right or am i crazy no no you're completely right i just i didn't read the way i saw it just looked pretty unhidden there's a lot of capital like he's just wasn't into it's right i know he's just wasn't into a lot of Even if you love him, I think we can all agree. Like, he's kind of losing it.

Like, you don't write stuff like that. Sorry. Maybe I'm losing. Sand, did you see that on the camera? Did you see that on the camera? I knocked the microphone. 15 feet. That was not the way to make my point while I'm knocking the microphone down.

A lot of people were writing me about force, but very few fifths. Will Fuller is a wide receiver on Texas. He's apparently a fifth. Okay. But I don't see any force. Or excuse me, I see force. I don't see very many fifths. You got Billy R. Sports the third.

I hope so. That would be good. Quate Green was the fourth. Did you know that? That's right. Lona Seber was a fourth. Did not remember Lona Seber being a fourth. Billy has the opportunity to make a fourth.

and then he could force his son to make a fifth. There's a lot of pressure. Do it for the show. I don't care about your family legacy. Do it for the show. I don't care about your legacy. You do it for the show. Speaking of legacy, what did you think of John Cena?

Thought it was terrible. Thought it was a horrible way to go out. I mean, the guy literally built his entire career off of one catchphrase. Never give up. And he gave up. But that's the great way. Like, you never give up. But I'm going to go ahead and give up in the final match.

What does that teach kids? It teaches them, you know what? Old age comes for everybody. Sometimes it's okay to give up. Something you're all going to have to give up at some point. Goddinson never give up, just gave up. Who booked that crap? Triple H.

On Matt Myron, I was talking about it. And I said a couple of phrases, Shannon, that you and I know. Yeah. And Myron was like, maybe we need to change these phrases because he didn't know. I was like, you know, in wrestling, they always say, always go out on your back. Yeah, if you didn't know what that meant. He was like, why do you say that? With your legs up.

He was like, don't say, always go out on your back. And then I go, but the reason you do that, Shannon, is as you're going out, you want to give somebody a rub. And he was like, a rub. Pass the torch will be better. Yeah. On their back. Why? Don't talk about John Sina giving somebody a rub. And it occurred to me, you know what?

Maybe we could update the phrases. Yep. Does not say that you give people shenra. I don't think we, I never realize that both those phrases are a little odd. Yeah, when you explain it to somebody who doesn't understand the industry, it's a little weird, especially when you combine those two things. You find those two phrases. On their own, maybe you're okay.

Together it doesn't work. So he did point out that maybe that wasn't the language. use. Damon, go ahead, Damon. Hello. How are you all? Good. What's up? Good. I just had a theory about the shooting problem. You know, when they're in a Joe Craft Center, they're just looking at bare walls behind them. And then when they get an arena, they have depth in the crowd to look at. I'm going to hang up and just listen to what you all have to say.

It's always been my worry, and I appreciate the call. I don't know if there's any science to this, but I've always believed that it was the Joe Craft Center, if you've ever been in. the wall is directly behind the basket. And I've always wondered if that affects our shooting when we shoot against that every day and then we go into an arena where it's open. You know, when I think about like Duke, Duke practices every day in Cameron. Now, Pope is practicing more in Rupp Arena. But I would have to think practicing in that enclosed arena every day that when you go into a regular arena, it's got different.

Don't you think? Yeah, I mean, NBA teams all practice. in little facilities. I guess they're step ahead. Maybe we just paint a crowd in the in the craft center. I don't think it's the little faces all over. It's like the depth perception. I mean you're going to get creative and do some of that fancy

painting where it looks that way. Oh, you're saying paint it like where it looks like there's depth. Okay, that's interesting. But I thought that forever when they wouldn't practice there. So I mean, the NBA teams do play in these little. For years though, I thought it was a problem and I couldn't believe that they wouldn't practice there. I mean, we've all said a hundred times,

why don't they practice it. I think they've scheduled to where they practice so many times a year in Rupp now. I don't know how many times it is, but so many times. Something's not translating, though. Whatever it is. I don't think it's the building, but Pope's got to figure out why they're shooting so well there and cannot bring it into games. David, go ahead, David.

I've got a little bit American trivia for you guys. Okay. Do you remember the Bluegrass Conspiracy? I mean, yeah, it was a little before my time, but I know I read that book many years ago. many years ago. But Andrew Thornt, Andrew Thornton was the guy that parachuted out of the plane, died in the driveway in Tennessee, cocaine bear, that whole story. But here's a notorious American thing.

When the feds and everybody were investigating him, he faked an assassination attempt. He was going out the back door at Merrickin. You guys can Google this. And he had somebody come up and shoot him in the chest. He was wearing a bulletproof vest. Didn't that part. You got so much happening at the Merrick Inn.

I just wanted some chicken. You know? I go three or four times a year. I've never had a bad meal there. I appreciate the call. I remember always liking it. I just kind of, you know, there were certain when I was growing up old places to eat, Morrison's cafeteria.

What is now the Lexington Green. You go out there, food would be good. But it was an older crowd. but I think Merrick Inn is now going to have a second life. Maybe it didn't need a second life. But Charles and the chicken has taken it up. We'll take a break. Great back.

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Saliva. I don't know. Have we ever played saliva on here before? I'm sure. Yeah. on this show at some point. So I'm going to run a few through some of the smaller stories the weekend. Diego Pavia. Yeah. Embarrassed. I'm not, but he should be the way he acted. I mean, his mom should have taught him better than that, you would think. He wrote on Instagram, F the voters. Then he went to a club and wrote F, Indiana. He came out yesterday. It was like,

sorry about that. I don't know what I was thinking. But I'm fine with sorries, but like you knew what were doing, dude, you did it twice. You didn't just in the moment do it. Then you did it again. I mean, just from a practical standpoint, do you want to have an NFL career? I mean, you're probably not going to have one anyway, but like, no one's going to like take a mid-level prospect and then go give you a chance if you're going to be a jerk. I saw his apology and I didn't read it. I just saw it and thought an agent called him and said, what are you doing? We are trying to get you drafted in a few months. Let's behave. Shannon, I mean, he's

kind of been a likable figure. I don't know, man. I think like the heel turns coming. He's going, he's Gunther now. Yeah, a little too much. Made an ass out of himself. Should have just let it go. And you're right. I mean, when you do stuff like that, NFL GM, scouts, they're all looking

at that. They see that. And it's not going to be good if you even had a choice to get to the NFL. He's going to end up being like a footnote. And he could have been like America's Cinderella story. And the guy that One is a Cinderella story, right? So they're both Cinderella stories. You know, his parents immigrated here from Cuba and he, like, talked to his mom.

Like, that's, that's, you both are awesome stories. Why do you have to be the jerk? And he's obviously trying to be Mansell and even his buddies with him. And he hasn't, no, but it's like, don't you see what that got him? Like, that's not the past you want to be on. But I don't even think Mansell did something like that. Like, he didn't do F everybody else. He didn't try to take the person.

Like, he didn't bring other people down that I know of. Maybe I'm forgetting. But I remember he would build himself up, but I don't remember him trying to bring other people down. I just mean being that guy. We saw how that worked in an NFL locker room when he got there. I would be trying to do something a little different because you don't want that comparison in the NFL when you're trying to get a spot on a team. And the fact that you had the quarterback from Indiana and the quarterback from Vanderbilt, even in that high-man conversation is incredible.

She should have been happy for him. It's one of the most amazing stories. What did we think of Trump's coin flip? I didn't even see it. Didn't flip. It's like a little underhanded. It kind of looked like he had seen a coin for the first time. He just like threw it up in the air.

Did it have his face on it? I don't know. I don't remember that. He'll flipping a coin with another president's face on it. Yeah, probably not. Army Navy game was good again. We got to go to that at some point. I think it'd be awesome to go to.

And we can do the coin flip. and flip it. Yeah. It was kind of like lifted it and just lobbed it up in the air. Yeah, it is. I'm watching it now. Like he's throwing a feather. Like a feather.

That's exactly. He's throwing it like a feather. One person writes, which of you would be more likely to do what the guy in Australia did bringing the shooter down? You want to talk about a dude with some Cajonais. Have you seen that video, Shannon? Did he just like run at the guy?

I don't think I've seen it. He took the gun from him. Look at him. Huge gun. I mean, dude has a massive gun. The guy runs up to him and takes it from him. And then he was with his son and his son shot the guy.

He's alive, though, that took the gun. But look at that video in real time, that's one of the more, I can't think of a person doing, excuse me, a ballsyer thing.

I'd like to think I could do that in that moment, but I don't think I don't know. I mean, let's be honest, you're going to stay hidden behind the car, right? I mean, I am probably. We'd all love to be the hero in that moment, but actually doing it. And he goes and takes it from him. You got to have, I got nothing to lose mentality at that point. Like, it's all or nothing here. You got to think, well, I'm going to die anyway. You're the hero or you're dead. Yeah, I'll see it here. Pretty amazing. I least he came up from behind.

Still, though, wouldn't, I mean, the more likely thing is you would stay hidden behind the car. Yeah. And just hope that. things work out. Right. Yeah. But he went and I'm sure he saved people's lives by doing that. That's a big gun. My God. It's like a bazooka. Yeah. So I had like a just normal dude at like a fruit shop or something. Yeah. And then there's I know I keep saying this. But I feel like I said this when when Luigi guy shot the guy in New York. The shooter at Brown. I mean, these kids, it's so sad. Studying for. for like an economics exam comes in to die nine are like seriously wounded they still haven't

caught them they they brought in the wrong guy for questioning they've now released them and said he didn't do it but how on a college campus do they not i mean don't they have cameras everywhere on a college campus wouldn't you think yeah yeah they should most of them do You know, and Craig Greenberg's son goes there, Shannon. Did you know that? I actually saw that on the news this morning. I didn't know that until this morning. His son goes there.

His son worked for OVW. You've met him a number of times. He worked for us that one summer. Yeah. He goes to Brown and I talked to Craig Saturday night. When I talked to Craig, his son was hunkered down across the street because they hadn't let him move yet. You know, Craig already had barricaded the door.

I mean, I know exactly. He's had these. Can you imagine? how terrifying it would be. Well, even today to be there, because they still haven't caught the guy. Anywhere around there, really? They canceled finals, apparently, and they may be about to send everybody home. But can you imagine, like, being, they were barricaded for like eight hours because they said,

we still don't know where this guy is, and they still don't know where he is. In this day and age, it seems like they could catch you anywhere. I cannot believe that they can't. I mean, it's not like it was a murder in a closed house. in a school building, there are multiple videos of the guy walking places. And Shannon, they can't can't. That's amazing to me. Yeah. I mean, like you said, there's cameras everywhere. Traffic cameras, cameras, cameras all over campuses. You would think they would be able to see where he went. There's a guy carrying a gun. It shouldn't be hard to find. And they ended up going to the wrong guy.

They basically detained a guy for 24 hours and it wasn't the right guy. Didn't they initially do that the Charlie Kirk thing as well? They got that old man. Remember they were hauling him off. They got the old man. Yeah. I mean, I understand like you have to detain a lot of of people because you want to, I get it. But apparently, I mean, they questioned this guy for 24 hours and then they released him this morning and said it's not the guy. I mean, I know there are bigger issues than just his feelings, but it's got to be weird for him too.

Oh, yeah. You know, in other countries, it's illegal to say who they've detained until they charged. Did you know that? To protect him a little bit in case it is. In case a situation like this happens. I don't know if they released this guy's name or not. But anyway. Stuff happens too often.

It would be terrifying. If you're Craig, Shannon, and your son, imagine your kids off at college. Right. That happens, and they still haven't found the person. You'd probably tell him, come home. I would say so. And especially, you know, in his situation, he's already been shot at once already. Yeah.

Craig, I'm talking about. I know. Yeah. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hey, guys. How are you all today? Doing good. All right.

So this is Mike from Knoxville. I told you guys a couple weeks ago that I had. put up my UK Christmas tree for the first time of five years. Well, I'll tell you this. The other day I walked in the house this past what's been a couple weeks ago. My wife had hung a Tennessee ornament on my UK tree. This past week, yeah, this past week, I took the ornament off my tree and put it on her tree, right? We beat Indiana this week, okay?

So I'm just saying Times are changing. Things are going to be better. I get it. Jayden Quaiton. Jayden Quaitons is coming in. Nine to 13 minutes. And he's going to change the face of our defense.

Yes. So I think we got Go Big Blue. All right. Appreciate the call. I like it. I've been to Knoxville a couple times here because with my dad, because that's where he's getting his treatment.

And there's so much orange. It's so gross. I mean, you know, people are nice, but that color. Like the Alabama guy said, it's that throw-up orange inside a pumpkin. It's like in a pumpkin. It's its own thing. You don't see it anywhere else. And everything's called like orange car wash.

You know. I'm not washing my car there. I'd rather be dirty. Yeah, exactly. Who wants her car to be orange? Let's go to David. Go ahead, David. Hey, Matt, how you doing?

Good. What's up? Hey, I just wanted to clear up something that you all been talking about for several months as far as Ryan Lemon getting blasted for predicting Lamar Wilkerson to Kentucky. Yes. It was not Lamar Wilkerson that he got blasted for. It was a big man from San Diego State that pulled his name out of the portal at the last minute and returned to San Diego State.

Wasn't it both of them? I think it was both of them. It was a whiff season for our boy Ryan there for a couple weeks. when I was in Amsterdam. You're thinking of Magoon Gua. It was Magoon Guaith. And I think he... Magoon Guas, yeah.

Yeah, but I think he did it with both of them. I think he was... I think he had whiffed on Magoon, which made him double down on Lomar. Okay, I guess I missed Lamar, then, because everybody in the planet, including Lamar Wilkerson himself, had himself going to Kentucky. Of course. I mean, everybody. But we're just giving him a hard time.

But I think what happened, and I appreciate the call, again, I was... I've just from what people have said. He whipped on Magoon and like he was getting a hard time and he was like, but I'm getting this one and then everybody's going to see. And then it didn't. I remember the show that morning. He started the show and he's like, Drew, should we just go and report it?

And I specifically went, I went back and made sure I said this. I went, we are reporting anything. You are reporting it because I have not heard anything. And he's like, well, I'm going to say it later today. Lamar Wilkeson would be a cat. And I said, Ryan Lemon is saying later today. So it was all him, and he was feeling it. It's the beginning of the show that day.

He hasn't scoop since then. Well, he was Casey at the bat that day. He was. I mean, he was whiffing. Well, Yaxel that went to Michigan, he was pretty sure on that one, too. Yeah. I think he's fired on the portal. It changes too much.

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So it'll be 11. in games, I think. You're confirmed at 1230 for St. John's. 1230. All right, 859, 280, 2287. One person writes, Matt, how did they spell dipsie do wrong on the signs? Did you see that, Shannon? Dipsy do? All the signs said, instead of Dipsy do, they said dispy do. Oh, yeah, how do they screw that up? Well, I feel like ESPN had to have made those signs, right? They were too professional. Nobody's like bringing a sign that says dispy do. No, no. But I'm with you, though. How did no one catch that it said Dispy?

I don't know. How did everyone, like, how did it say Dispy? I mean, a lot of people caught it when it was on TV because Twitter blew up with it. And I even heard somebody called the postgame show about it. But like, how do you mess that up? Your ESPN. Like, how do you mess it up? One job.

And nobody. And there was no editor, you know, that looked at a proofreader. But then sometimes I will go, okay, how does that happen? And then I go, well, Billy was supposed to do the stats. Yeah. So, you know. You can see how it happened. You can see how it.

I mean, I love the people at ESPN, but like, I can see how things happen. Hopefully that's not your spotter for the New Orleans Bowl. Practicing tonight during Monday night football. Just if you want to know what I'm doing tonight, Shannon, close your eyes at about 9 o'clock. I'm going to be sitting cross-legged on my bed calling the Monday night football game. Well, you call me and let me hear your call? No, I don't need anybody hearing it right now. I need to, like, give you like.

I have to go, I have to get my reps tonight. with Noah. There is going to be, someone suggested to me that I need to do at least one game with people watching so they can go, that didn't make sense. But we ain't there yet. I need to give you notes on it. Like Drew and I can give you notes. So I'm going to do Monday Night Football Tonight and then bowl games start like on next Friday. So I'm going to do, I don't know which one it is, but I'm going to do one. But maybe we'll do a Twitter. What is it the X? Twitter space. Space, yeah. Twitter space of me calling a bowl game. Or we could all go to KS Bar when. but we blindfold ourselves and we just listen to you call and whatever game is on and we have to just see it.

Oh, are you visualizing? The Boca Raton Bowl. Yeah, we'll be all friends, having drinks, eating wings, but we're relying on you to paint the picture. It's interesting. What are the games coming up here? What are the bowls here? We've got Tuesday night, the salute to veterans bowl.

Troy and Jacksonville State. You know a lot about Troy. The thing is, Shannon, I might owe it to the veterans to call the game. You should. Veterans would love it. I mean, I don't know if anybody else would, but the veterans would. They would. Mark, go ahead, Mark.

Hey, is this, is it me? Yeah, it is you. If you're Mark. Hey, yeah, yeah, there's so many Marks that calling me anymore. Hey, yeah, I just wanted to bring up, like, over the years, I've called in a few times to your show, and I've made the comment about the UK's practice arena, where it's white. And I just want to say that I've been talking about that for years,

how I think that debt perception could be throwing those guys off. if they don't get to practice and rub a lot. And so it'd be cool if they could simulate something. Mario said that when the NBA went to the bubble, the guys all shot better because the bubble was so like it looked like their practice facilities. So there may be something to that. Yeah, make it black or even paint people like they're up in the stands,

make it look 3D sort of. So they, you know, if you're an analytics guy, and I appreciate to call it. If you're into all that stuff, you might say, hey, this is something where we can have an advantage because, like, Kansas practices in their basketball arena, Duke practices in their basketball arena. I don't think North Carolina does. I'm trying to think Yukon practices in their arena. You know, we don't get to practice in ours, and I think a lot of teams probably do, honestly.

I don't know if that's the answer, but it could be part of the problem because we keep hearing about these unbelievable shooting stats, but for whatever reason it's not getting from the Joe Craft Center to a game that matters. You would think that our coach being a former player would know that. I wonder where they practiced at. I'd be interested to see Matt. Go ahead, Matt. Hey, good morning, guys. I got one thing for you.

Tennessee orange is the worst color ever. Drew, when you feed your baby puread carrots, you're going to see Tennessee orange coming out the other end. Oh, God. Thank you. Thank you for that. It's gross. Yeah, there you go. Glad. Thank you for that, sir. Draft Kings. Bet five, get $200.

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Dolphins and Steelers. Tua and Aaron Rogers. Who you got? I think it's, I think, what the Steelers is like a three and a half. I'll say dolphins in the upset. Underdogs have been good for me lately. Okay, Shannon. Give me the Steelers and the three.

I'm going to take the Steelers. I think old man Aaron will get the win. Dolphins has been playing better with Mr. Shortpants. Playing hard for him. They've been playing well trying to keep his job. I think he was like one and six and now they're six and seven. We tried to fire him on cover zero for like four straight weeks or in the season. Now they're winning games.

Why's Billy walking in here? Just a stern face. What's happening? Are we in trouble? Somebody in trouble? Why are you looking so angry? There's 30 seconds left to show. Why are you walking in here?

I mean, you can stay if you want, but you came in like, okay, serious things are happening. I got scared. You don't have to go, leave. Come back. Now I'm more concerned. Did he have RBS? Something's happening. Something's on the horizon.

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