KSR - 2025-12-19- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk the latest news, Kentucky vs. St. John's, and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'll take your calls here in just a minute. It's virtual takeover. Don Franklin Hyundai, Somerset, celebrating tough trucks to sleek SUVs. Your perfect fit is waiting at Don Franklin Hyundai. We are celebrating the UK volleyball team making the championship. We've got Kentucky St. John's coming up. A couple things here that are none about those two before we go to phones. Did you see the story about how they caught the guy? Well, he's dead now. But how they found out who the guy was that did the shooting at Brown? a homeless man they were in some like

canister or something like a train like what was it a big like a train canister what do you call it like a rail car I'm thinking are you thinking about like a hobo yeah no no but they they found him in like he was in like some he was yeah

did you find out how they figured out who he was no okay then you're not that wasn't my story my story was the homeless man that that caught him so a homeless man was walking down the street and saw the guy who did it. He thought he recognized him from the picture they put out. So he decided on his own to go sleuthing.

Wow. Yeah. So he basically, this is like a movie. He basically like followed the guy. Then the guy saw him following him and was like, thought it might be suspect. so he tries to walk around the block. The homeless man kind of follows him around the block,

looks in the car, sees a couple bags that may have been the duffel bags of the, with the gun. He then goes, recognizes the clothing. He's basically, the guy who kills him, starts chasing the homeless man. The homeless man runs, gets to the police,

describes his clothing, takes his license plate, which allows the police to find out who he is, The guy knows that he's, like, been caught, and that's why he ends up, I think, killing himself. But it all happened because a homeless guy named John. Wow. Now, here's the part that's interesting. The homeless guy apparently then goes to the library, Shannon, gets on Reddit and tells the story.

That's wild, man. It really is. Yeah. And so, like, he's going to get the, he's going to get the reward. Do we know what the reward is? $50,000. Take care of him. Wow.

Could you imagine being homeless in the year? But he was walking down the street and he sees a guy. And he goes, that looks like the guy. The guy had not left Providence. He was still in Providence. And he goes, that looks like the guy. He ends up chasing him around. And then goes to police.

And apparently his whole description told them exactly where he was, who he was. And then they were able to get him. Then the police issued it today saying it was cause of this guy. That guy. And this guy would be interested in what his life story is. he apparently went to Brown. So he was like wanting to find the guy because he went to Brown but ended up homeless. So he went to a night.

So who knows what happened in his life? Obviously things didn't. Something happened. But crazy story. It is. Just as cool it is the homeless guy found him. I was able to pull that off. It also seems kind of dumb that the dude was just lingering.

So that's two things. One, why did you stick around Providence? Secondly, Shannon, it's kind of weird to me. The FBI, the police. all these people are looking for him and like a homeless guy walking down, and he's in Providence. Yeah.

And a homeless guy walking down the street is the one that finds it. Don't you find? Yeah. Maybe he should be the one who's on like the police force. Give him a job. That's very true. You want to be a sheriff? Detective.

Looks like he was the most successful one of all of them. Yeah. And he kept the guns in his car that had his license plate on it. I think I got it wrong. sorry, he went on Reddit first, and then the people on Reddit were like, go to the police. And he goes, you think I should go to the police? And they're like, yes. And then he goes to the police.

So the people on Reddit talked him into going to the police. So when it first happened, he just goes to the library, gets on Reddit and says, I think I saw the guy. And everybody's like, dude, go to the police. Yeah, no kidding. And then it ends up happening. That's a crazy story. I'm glad he's getting taken care of. well, hopefully, you know, I think that, I just was like, that is one of the stranger things I've seen.

Think how, like, important he felt. Like, when he locks on the guy and he's following him and getting all the clues and the license plate number. You can't see him walking into a police station. They're not going to take him serious if he's a homeless man. And he had been on Reddit. That made it official. That made it official. All right.

Did you see what Vince Mero did yesterday? Oh, no. Vince Mero. Listen, I love Vince Mero. If I were on the U.S. coaching staff, I'd be like, all right, Vince. I do what the people at the White House should do with the president. Take his phone.

I thought that sometimes when he was here, even though I enjoyed it. Donald Trump and Vince Merrill have one thing in common. They need to get off their phones and like, you know. So apparently we pursued Louisville's cornerback coach. Steve Ellis. Okay. Jody Dimling wrote, now again, her Jody, I love Jody, but Jody's kind of PR for U of L, which is fine, but you just have to listen.

what he says through that lens. He wrote, Jody wrote, according to sources, Kentucky heavily pursued Louisville cornerback coach Steve Ellis for the same role in Lexington. Ellis has opted to stay in Louisville. That may very well be true. Probably is.

Vince Merrill retweets it and writes, don't mess with the big dog. He knows we own the state. All right. Now remember, Vince calls himself the big dog. Yes, he does. So is he suggesting that he kept the cornerback coach?

Or is he calling Steve Ellis the big dog? He's calling himself the big dog. He's calling himself. So he's saying don't mess with me? Is Vince arguing he is the reason that Steve Ellis stayed, Shannon? It sounds like it to me. Yeah, don't mess with the big dog. Don't mess with me.

We own the state. Yeah, he's calling himself. Don't mess with me. Yeah. I like Vince, but now we have to officially. start messing with me. He says we own the state. Then one commenter responds

you don't even think you own the state. You eat in Lexington every night. I didn't see that reply. That's kind of a funny reply. That's really funny reply. I love Vince, but he does eat in Lexington every night. He's just here a couple days ago. He's here all the time. Do you know how

many text machine reports I get of Vince is at this restaurant? I've had a few myself. Also, we own the state is what he'd always say here. So who owns the state? Or does his big dog just own the state? I think he's suggesting he owns the state. So wherever he goes, ownership of the state follows.

Okay. Matter of fact, I think if he was on here, he would say that. Don't you? I completely agree that he would. And as much as I don't think he should be doing it, I love when the big dog is tweeting and kind of tiptoeing on that line there of crossing it as a coach. I do too.

I still can't believe you tweeted it Nick Rouse during the Governor's Cup weeks ago. During the game, from the sideline. Don't mess with the big dog. We own the state. Even by him saying that, like Pete Nocta's coming on this staff? There are another coach that's leaving Louisville to join Stein staff?

Well, I don't think there's anyone else that was on the staff, but people who played at Louisville. Okay. I have breaking news if we need it. Breaking news, Shannon. Running a nah, nah. Go for it. We have a point spread already on tomorrow's game.

Usually we have to wait until after the show's on Friday. But Kentucky is a two and a half point underdog against St. John's tomorrow on draftings. I felt like you were being a little liberal with the breaking news. It's big news. We never get a spread. I thought something to happen. You're just giving you a spread. You don't get excited about the points spread? I don't know that I would call it breaking news. I am interested in it.

It just went up. We can report it first. It's not. It hasn't been out there anymore yet. That sounds about right. I was going to say St. John's about three. So two and a half makes perfect. Well, if it goes up a half point, let me know. so I can hit the breaking news button again. I will. Anytime I see line movement, I'm going to make sure we're breaking.

I'm just excited. We usually have to wait until Friday night. You're right about that. Noah, go ahead, Noah. Hey, Matt, this is Wings A, Noah. I want to know, if Kentucky wins this volleyball championship, if they win the national championship, is there any possible way we can start doing pregame and postgame shows for these women?

It's a lot of pregame. I do a lot of pregame, and we do a lot already. So, no, but I would like to do. I mean, you could make a strong argument. We should do one for the finals. But I just, I don't have the ability to just snap my finger and get on all the network. So I, you know, it's not a bad idea. It's not a bad idea.

I appreciate the call. I would love to. Last night felt like one of those nights that I should immediately go on the air and do a postgame show. Yeah, because it is exciting. We all wanted to talk about it at 1130 at night. But they play a lot of games. I think they play like 36. And on Sundays.

Yeah, we are. So, but, hey. Sunday is going to be exciting. 3.30, national television. Got to get this dub. Debbie, what's up, Debbie? I'm doing. I'm good.

How are you? All right, thanks. Hey, I was going to say, my husband and I were line judges for UK volleyball up to when Craig Skinner started. We've been in it for several years. We were the only ones. There were a rotation of us. But I'll tell you what, those touches,

are so hard at the net that it was they they really did have to start getting cameras. Yes, I can understand. It used to be, well, it used to be like in the early 80s, I did it when I was doing at UK in bachelor's degree time. And they, they started to every, every ball at the net, they then started saying, well, no, there's a toss, there's a toss, you know, and it's up to us. Debbie, you just have to tell them to stop arguing. Like, that's the, you just got to say, listen, I'm Debbie.

You don't argue with me. But I do think it would probably have been a lot of, a lot of a noise. Now, were you always allowed to reach over the net like that? You can reach over the net if the other team has already hit it, or if you're going up for a block at the thing, Yes. Okay. Yeah, I didn't realize that.

But you have to be on your side, but as the block with their fingers, then they can go over because the other person has hit it. But they cannot put their hands over the net if the other team has not had a chance to hit it yet. Gotcha. Well, Debbie, thank you very much for your rules. Appreciate it. Rules breakdown. You know who is a college basketball referee?

You mean college volleyball? College volleyball? Is it a former coworker? years? Big Easy. Yeah. Big Easy is a... Does like Big Ten games and stuff, doesn't he? Big Easy, I think did an NCAA tournament game in Lexington.

Oh, he did. Not ours, but one of the other. Like, what was it? When we played, whoever played opposite us, I think Big Easy did that. How long until they asked Ryan? And he just says yes, because he'll do any odd jobs at sporting events. Ryan is probably doing a volleyball game at 2 o'clock somewhere. Those folks that sit on the corner just raise their flag if it goes out.

I want to be that guy. Why are you doing this again? Are they paying you? No. Didn't you do phone? So you're doing it for free? So on your Saturday night, Douglas High School?

Do you know anyone in the game? I know the coach. He's got me with the coaches and get over the spotter, get over the stats. See, I don't even know who's playing. What do you don't know who's playing? Douglas was playing somebody, but there's a second game. There's two games. It's like a showcase.

I did two games at GRC for Coach Q a couple weeks ago. He did the Saturday doubleheader just last week. He asked, need somebody to do it. And what do you do? I do the PA. So you're like checking in is. Yeah. Do you do like a big three.

Oh, yeah. Do one of your calls. Matt Jones, three points. That's mine. That's not. Come on, Ryan. Because you. You got to do something different.

You can't get a good. How's that different? Nobody does it that way. Does it what way? Three points. Nobody does it that way. Matt Jones. Three points.

I get it. I get the premise. Okay. All right. Well, listen, man, how you want to spend your time is up to you. I'm going to go to the Kentucky. What is the thing at Fairdale? The King of the Bluegrass?

Yeah. That's this weekend. I'm going to go Saturday night and watch Darren Feldhaus's kid play. See, the game I did at GRC, I've already seen him play. He was playing that game. I don't care what you're doing. He's a monster. But they have a really good field again.

Problem of going to Fairdale is it's so far away. I got to leave now to get there Saturday. King of Bluegrass used to be. I'm going to eat at that pizza place, Bonnie and Clydes. It's the only time I get to do it is when I go out there. So I'm going to go out there for either tonight or tomorrow night. I'm going to one of those games. And I hope you enjoy what you're doing.

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Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. Takey Sports Radio. 859-28027. So I got a couple of facts off about the homeless story.

It makes it even more amazing. You want two facts that are different? What's that? Well, first of all, I knew this. He also shot the guy that he found also shot the professor at MIT. So this guy, I don't know, maybe he was like anti-act. I don't know. Who knows what was his reasoning.

But the homeless man, initially had been squatting in the basement of the building where the shooting was in. Wow, that's another plot twist. Another plot twist. Secondly, he actually did not know that this man was the suspect for the murder. He just thought he looked suspicious. So he didn't see a picture that thought he looked like that guy. And then later saw the picture and said that looks like the guy that I thought was suspicious.

but his original indication was the guy just kind of looks a little shady. So he gets on Reddit, sees the picture. So apparently he, like everyone in Providence, is like, we got to find this guy. Homeless guy sees this guy and he doesn't know. He's like, that guy looks suspicious, goes and looks, goes and gets on Reddit, sees the picture and go,

I think I saw this guy. So not only is the shooter still around Providence, he's walking around looking suspicious near the building where the shooting occurs. He's trying to hide in plain sight. You know? And yet, Shannon, they didn't catch him. This guy did.

That's even more impressive. Like, the guy just pretty much stayed at the scene of the crime and they still get in the bottom. It's interesting. Everybody's like a nationwide manhunt. He's like, he's like, a big paycheck coming his way. He deserves it. Well, he deserves it.

Well done. Before we go the phones, one sad piece of news, Greg Biffle and his entire family died in a plane crash. When I was in my prime NASCAR fandom, Greg Biffle was a driver. Yeah, sure. So like in that period, late 90s, early 2000s, Biffle was a guy. But what I think is much more, he won like 40 or 50 races in his career. But put that to the side. What is more impressive about Greg Biffle is what he did afterwards, which is, I'm, I don't know if you had ever seen during the flooding in North Carolina that was part of hurricane.

Was it Hulene? Is that the one that was just a couple of years ago? In the mountains that flooded and Asheville and all that stuff. He literally spent days flying his own helicopter to give materials to people. He would fly town by town and drop materials into these places that were cut off from society. Dies in a plane crash with his family. Yeah, his entire family. North Carolina. Awful stories. He's a hero.

He had already been in one plane crash, apparently. Really? Yeah, and survived it, but not this one. Yeah, I remember all the stories about him helping out through the flooding and then to go out the same way he was helping people and just the photo of his family and the young kids. It's so a beautiful, like such a beautiful family.

It's just, it's really sad. Tristan, go ahead, Tristan. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning. So a couple of things. First, this is for Drew. this is pre-parenting advice. My recommendation to all new parents is that you sleep as much as possible because as soon as your baby arrives,

you're not going to feel rested or refreshed for two years. And so take the next couple of months to sleep as much as possible right now. All right. Perfect timing, too, because it's basketball season, so it's a good time for you to sleep. Yeah, it just does right off. Thank you. That's correct.

And the other thing I've got for you this morning is that this is your evergreen reminded that the fan base is not a monolith. We don't all love Rick Bettina. know we don't all have positive memories of him. And so I humbly request that you qualify your affirmations by indicating that only a subset of the base loves him or otherwise accepts him back into the fold. There's no we, there's no us. I can't do that.

Do you realize how boring a show would be if I qualified everything by going now? This is not everyone. This is just like you have to make generalizations. Well, I mean, Drew already said the Rick reunion that made me want to throw up. Yeah, I understand. And I appreciate the call. There are a lot of people that, there are some people that don't. I still think if you did a Rick Petino approval rating with the fan base today,

you would get a majority of people who would give him a positive, whereas four years ago a majority of people would have given him a negative. Yeah, and I'm actually on the caller's side, but I called it a Petino reunion because it's literally a reunion with Pope and Petino. You said something interesting last night that I think you should repeat. Yeah, I've said it a few times. I feel like Pope's got some complex with Patino, where he almost feels like Rick's still superior to him.

I need him to stick out his chest. Like you're the coach of Kentucky now. Let's have some confidence. I've felt that way since he's been on the job. There's a lot of like, golly, I'm the coach of Kentucky. And, you know, have a couple months of that. But let's start getting cocky and I'm the coach of Kentucky. I feel like he's still surrendering to Rick. I didn't even like when Rick came back for Pope's First Madness.

Like, sure, bring it back sometime. But like this is your moment. Why are you already making it about him? I feel like we need to get a little away from that. So you want him to sort of stick his chest out and be like, I am the Kentucky coach. Yes. And that's not just this.

Rick situation. I've thought that the whole time. I feel like he's, he can be a little timid, and he's almost shocked that he has the job. And I get, for a month, you had that. But now, come on, let's get tough and stick your chest out. You agree with that? I think there's a little truth to it, to be honest, because the way he's acted around when Petino's been around, they have so much love and admiration for Patino and almost cower to him. Do you worry that there'll be any of that Saturday, that it might affect the game being kind of like, golly gee, there's Rick on the other side? See, I do. I kind of lean that way. You know, I'm afraid he's almost afraid to beat

Petino, especially with no one I'm beating bad and embarrassing him. Well, that's a problem if he's afraid to beat Patino. We can't have that. The good thing is he's not playing in the game. He's only coaching, but... I do wonder, I don't... I'm probably a little less worried about it than you two are,

but I do wonder if it's a one-point game and we call time out to drop a play. Is he going to get in his head and be like, what will Rick do? That's the part where I would be maybe a little concerned. I'm worried about the intimidation factor a little bit. Peggy, go ahead, Peggy. Hey, good morning, guys.

I am a question. They are supposed to announce the top volleyball player of the year. It's happening right now, I think. I think it's happening right now because we were going to have Craig Skinner on, and I think he's at that or about to go to that. So I think you're right. Okay. I just was wondering when they were doing it.

I think it's now. I just got a message because I texted Craig to come on. on and I got a miss it said, we have the All-American banquet that we are at, so we can't join right now. So I guess it may be going on as we speak. Okay. So we don't know when we'll find out if either won't. I don't know. I would assume any time unless it's a very long banquet.

But as of right this moment, I do not. Okay. Fingers crossed it. Eva wins it. Yes. Appreciate the call. Also tomorrow, by the way, you've got the volleyball game and then Kentucky. Don't we also have a women's basketball game maybe going on?

It's tonight. Oh, tonight. Yeah, there's a women's game tonight. What time is that game? Not sure. Who do they play? Not sure. Okay.

So you're very definitive on the time. They definitely play tonight. But you don't know. Right. State at 630. Tonight and Memorial. Yep. Yeah.

Historic Memorial costing. All right. 630 tonight, the women. 859-280, 2287. We'll take a break. We're right back. KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney.

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Let's slow down. The answer is almost certainly no. A.59-2-8027. The tax machine is 772-724-5254. One person writes, Matt, are you upset that your Chicago Bears may move to Indiana? They ain't going to do that. Where are they going? Northwest, is that Gary, Indiana? They're not going to Gary, Indiana.

They're not going to Gary. They're not doing that. They're not going to get. What's the other town that starts with? than H that's even worse than Gary. It's between Gary and Chicago. Hebron? No, it's like Hanover.

What is it? What's somebody looking up? What's the... I usually find all my fun and Gary. It's right between Gary and it's where like everything is on fire and there's smoke billowing out of everything. Is it? Hammond.

Hammond. That's it. Hammond. So like they're not going there. They're just fighting with the government trying to get money. I'm of the belief. It's been my belief for it, especially the NFL. I can make a different argument for basketball and hockey,

because basketball and hockey can put arenas where they can get concerts. But the NFL should not be using public money for stadiums. Like I said, basketball and hockey, I can accept it a little bit because you can put something in your downtown that gets a ton of people. And they can have concerts. And it can revitalize your downtown. So I'm okay with public money for basketball arenas sometimes. football stadiums, they don't do anything there except the NFL.

It's like nine times a year. Right. Right. The NFL makes so much money. Pay for it yourself. You got it. The NFL, you know what some bears are worth. 43 billion dollars.

That's a lot. So they're trying to make Chicago pay for it. If Chicago ends up paying for it, I'm not going to be outraged. it's not my tax money, but like the bears need to, I love the bears. They need slow down. Like, they're good. So now they're like, oh, we're moving to Gary India. You ain't moving to Gary Indiana. Isn't that like the murder capital?

It used to be. Now it's like, apparently like slowly trying to revitalize. We've been there. Remember, it's kind of sad. There's nothing there. It's sad. But it's not dangerous as much now, or at least it doesn't feel dangerous. It's just empty, which it's just sad. But regardless,

they are not moving the bears to Gary Indian. I just don't. I do not believe that. I don't believe that whatsoever. They're trying to like, you know, pulls them. The Jackson's, they have Gary Indiana. Aren't all the Jackson's from there? You can't take that from them. The Chicago Bears have to be in Chicago. Have to be. What's wrong? What's wrong with their location right now?

Why do they want to move from the location there right now? I don't really understand why they want to move. Soldier Field is in the middle of Chicago. Like, we've been, like, it's nice. I mean, it's not like exquisite, but it's fine. It's right there on the water. It fits them. Like, Riggley's old. You can update it a little bit. They want to move it up to Arlington Heights, which is like where all the rich people live.

They could just do what Green Bay did with Lambo. They didn't move Lambo. They didn't change locations. They just renovated it. You go up to Arlington Heights. I mean, but apparently Arlington Heights won't give them the tax money or Chicago. I just think these stadiums, again, I feel differently about arenas because the city can use that for stuff. But football stadiums, just pay for it yourself.

It's a football stadium. It's a big circle. A very big circle. A dome so they can have like a Super Bowl and NBA. Well, they'd be talking about a dome. But to me, these teams that play in the cold weather, dude, you should not have a dome. That's your home thought advantage. That's why you have that.

It's being outside. Like the Chicago Green Bay game, it should be in the snow. When you put a dome on it, it makes me want to puke. Bill's fans, like, revolted when they tried to say they were getting a dome and they ended up not doing it because they know that's their advantage. That's the part of it. Like Minnesota and Detroit have messed out. on that for years by having the domes. Okay, you don't get the Super Bowl. Who cares?

Who cares? I don't like it. And if they moved to Gary, yeah, that's fine. It's closer for me, but they ain't moving to Gary. The Gary Bears. I like it. They're not. One person writes, Matt, what do you think about, pardon my take?

And the Barstow podcast going to Netflix. I'm sure they got a lot of money. I salute them. I think good for you guys. Those dudes are my buddies. Maybe that means when they host this show, it'll be on Netflix. That'll be very cool.

With that said, I think they'll make a lot of money, so it probably makes sense to do it. I think that's an, like, that'll be hard for their audience. Like, I know for me, I'm not watching podcasts on Netflix. You know, I mean,

I'm just probably not. It's not that I'm against it. I just probably'll never think, if I go on Netflix, I'll have so many other choices. Am I going to watch a podcast? You're telling me I can watch, like,

movies or I can watch people sitting and talking to each other. I think I'm going to watch the movies. You know what I mean, Shannon? Yeah, I'm not watching a podcast on Netflix. I mean, I'm maybe on YouTube, but I'm not going to do it on Netflix. Exactly. To me, podcasts, so like, I'm sure they're getting a lot of money. And so good for them.

Those guys deserve all their success. They've changed podcast in sports. But I just don't know. I think they'll lose some audience because I just don't know that people are going to sit and watch podcasts on Netflix. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they will. Yeah.

What is Netflix doing? They now have the NFL. They're going to add a, looks like a podcast network. I mean, they have wrestling. Are they just trying to be like everything at this point? No, they want to be cable. Yeah, they're just turning into spectrum. They're really adding.

The home run derby next year is going to be on Netflix. Did you see that? I mean, they're having random stuff. Now, with that said, if Netflix wants to take, we'll go. Yeah, we were just talking about how we'd love to be on there, Netflix. I've always said podcasts are perfect for Netflix. I was just thinking how I would love to sit down on Netflix. and watch a podcast.

But I just don't know. Like, if I'm getting on Netflix, I'm not sure podcast is going to be the thing I'm going to choose to watch. Are you? You only go to Netflix to watch movies and stuff right now. But I think what they're trying to do is to make it to where you go to Netflix for everything. It's just you sit down and go straight to Netflix. You're like, all right, I'm at my television, I'm just watching Netflix.

And maybe that'll work. I don't know. It's working right now for them, it seems like. But are you going to watch podcasts on Netflix? I'm not. That's what I'm saying. But maybe it'll work. don't know. Kevin, go ahead, Kevin. Yeah, I just want to make a general comment about women's

volleyball and kind of compared to other sports, including men's volleyball. For some reason, there's something about the sport that's so exciting. The women look way more athletic than women basketball players, and it's the perfect pace. Like, compared to men's volleyball, I think that's too fast. But I'm also wondering, like, why? I would disagree with you on the athleticism. There are a lot of really good athletes in women's basketball. I mean, it's, it's a different, the jumping is, it feels bigger in, in volleyball, but that's because their thing to do is jump. But I mean, there are some, there's some women that play basketball that are fast and can jump. I mean, you know, Brittany Griner could dunk. So like, you're not going to convince me she's not

a good athlete. Well, I just think they look faster. They look more athletic. Now, the is seven and a half feet. They're not faster than the basketball players. They're not, exactly. They're not faster than the basketball. They just look more athletic. Yeah,

well, the net being seven and a half feet helps. I mean, listen, I love it. I just don't think you should, like, demean women's basketball

by saying, like, if the, if the rim was seven and a half feet tall, those women would look like they're dunking too. I will say this, though,

the women in basketball look like they're running in the lasses versus the women in volleyball just look more agile. But the women are not, and volleyball are not running. Well, that's true. They just, I don't know, I don't know what it is.

I just know it's better. It's more, it's more entertaining, and it's even more entertaining than men's. Appreciate it to call. I actually think women's volleyball is a lot more entertaining than men's, because the men, they're almost, I don't say they're too good, but almost too athletic.

Like, no, like rallies that you get in women's volleyball, you don't get men. If you've ever watched the men's, it's just like hit it 100 miles an hour and hide. one set, one spike, point. Women's volleyball, you get these rallies that you just don't get in the others. And those rallies last night were so fun.

They were awesome, were they? But did you see the clip of Craig Skinner playing when he was, I don't know if he was coaching, but they showed an old clip of Skinner getting up and spiking it, full head of hair? I mean, you never see men's volleyball, except at the Olympics. And when they have the Olympics,

try to watch one of those matches. You can't. You can't. Serve set spike point. Serve set spike point. If you miss a spike, it's like you're the worst player of all. time. I mean, they just...

And they don't cheer as much for themselves. Or they don't dance on the on the bench or all the other fun energy things that come with women's volleyball. Yeah. And don't get me wrong. Like, you certainly are allowed to like women's volleyball more. I am finding it as entertaining,

if not more. I don't think it's fair to those basketball players to say they're not. They're asked to do a different thing. You know? And I think, like, Eva Hudson could be a really good women's basketball player. There's probably some girls playing women's basketball. It could be really good volleyball.

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I mean, there's no way. They're not going to carry Indiana. Can't do that. Can't leave Soldier Field. That's it. You can't leave Soldier Field. Here's the thing. People are telling me about all the things you can do with domes. First of all, yes, can you have a concert? Sure, but how many concerts are at football stadiums every year? A handful. You get a good arena.

You can have events. Like Madison Square Garden in New York has an event every single night. Literally every single night. In Chicago, you could put a basketball arena up, and if it was in downtown, you could have an event if you wanted every single. Sure. Football stadium, how many outdoor concerts are going to have? two, three a year. Yeah, not many.

Not many, okay? A dome. I know domes are like, you can host a Super Bowl, you can host Final Four, you can host WrestleMania. But here's the thing. If I were to tell you

what NFL stadiums do you want to visit, which one's going to be a dome? Where do you want to visit? You want to visit Soldier Field. You want to visit Lambeau Field. You want to visit Buffalo. Maybe you want to visit Kansas City,

Pittsburgh. all outdoor all outdoor give me the dome to the extent there's a dome you'd want to visit it might be Dallas but even that has like a roof but that's more just because it's like a technological marvel and it's huge but it still probably wouldn't even be in the top 10 yeah you want to go like outside you know football's all about man at least to me like to any of you watch a game in Minnesota, Detroit, New Orleans, Houston, and think, man, that looks like a great. That looks fun. No.

I'd rather get in a hot tub in Jacksonville than being a dome. Yeah. Who wants to be in a dome? The Final Four, I know they have it there. It stinks. Yeah. When it's in domes. Too big.

The Final fours have lost a lot of the environment because of the, in that dome, you just gets lost in there. When Kentucky played Tennessee last year, you know, they used half of it. Uh-huh. Still too big. Still be it too big. I hated that. They're like, we're putting it in here, but we're only going to use half.

I'm like, at that point, why are we even using this big place for if you're just going to curtain most of it off? Yeah, it's still, it's still to me too big. All right, college football playoff will do our draft king's parley. By the way, it's a Don Franklin Hyundai in Somerset takeover. Hope you all will visit Don Franklin. Four college football playoff games. We're going to make our parlay based on these four. Once tonight, I was wondering if we needed to just do the three on Saturday, since we don't normally do Friday.

I guess we do. Bamma, Oklahoma's tonight. Three against the spread will still be a long party. So we'll do three then. So is there any Saturday game tomorrow? Okay, I'll also throw in another game tomorrow. Okay, each of you gets to pick one game. Drew, I'll start with you.

Miami, Texas A&M. What's a spread? Texas A&M is a three-point favorite. Who you like? I will roll with the SEC and A&M and Jay Bateman. Okay. I'm going to do well no

Tulane Ole Miss what's the spread 17 and a half 17 and a half what do you want I'm still going to take Ole Miss Me too even without Lane Even without Lane So we got Old Miss we got Texas A&M Shannon I'll let you do

James Madison and Oregon Oregon's a 20 and a half point favorite I think I'm still taking Oregon I think Oregon to roll You know what I don't want to screw that up because I really like that one All the favorites to cover A&M, Old Miss, and Oregon, all cover.

I like that. We'll just make that to parlay. It's still almost plus 600. Yeah, I love it. That's it. We're going to win. Let's go. Start of the year with the win.

I feel good about it. The only one I'm at all worried about is if Miami beats A&M, because I think Old Miss and Oregon will both cover that. Sean, go ahead, Sean. Yeah, I got two things real quick. If you guys ever, there's a website called the NIL store, and obviously Kentucky's not on it. But there are multiple JMI schools,

and it makes me think that our issues aren't necessarily JMI policies, but J.MI carrying out Mitch Barnhart policies. We have a different contract, though, we have a different contract with JMI than every other school, though. And again, whether or not it's better or worse long term will be determined

over the next couple years, but our contract is different. So when people say other J. of my schools. They have a different, we are the only school that has a contract that is both the media and the NIL are both with the same company. I don't think there's another one, and I don't, and so that makes it different. Okay.

Well, I would suggest everyone check out NIL store, because it is an example of how we're getting hurt as fans because they have cool stuff on there. And I'll leave you with this. Mitch Barnhart has made Kentucky Athletics the equivalent of a restaurant with good food and poor service. And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how good your food is if your service thing. You guys have a Merry Christmas and a great afternoon.

Appreciate it. So, yeah, I mean, I understand that views. I can't do Bob and James Town. Go ahead. Come on. Just put him on a shock. Bob and James Town, you have 25 seconds. Go.

Mark Pope intimidated by him, Kno. I watched that broadcast of him last night on TV, and he was talking about, like he was in a Striving Streetball, talking about his team needed to be explosive and violent. I thought, what's going on? Yeah. Charlie, go ahead, Charlie. Yeah, Matt.

Last night in the volleyball game and the pre-show, somebody said the girl for the other team fell when she served the ball and we didn't get a point, but we did. It took them a long time to put it on the screen. Yeah, we got it. No, we got it. I was just saying, I don't. know what happened, like how she fell.

It was like a floor monster grabbed her. But yeah, we did get a point for that. As far as the rotation goes, they all just amoeba themselves in a corner, but they maintain a proper rotation. And when the balls serve, they go to wherever they want to go. Yes, you mean the six that are on the court?

Right. Yeah. No, I appreciate the call. I meant the rotation of like people coming in and off the bench. I still don't understand that. And I don't know what the line is for. You know what I mean? Which line?

Line the middle of the court. Because I know there are times you can't only jump from behind it, but then sometimes they jump in front of it. So I don't know when you can jump in front behind it. I don't know. You're our volleyball expert. You're supposed to educate us. No, I don't know. The pews.

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Kentucky St. Johns, are we going to win? Pick. No. Are we winning? When our wins and loss before the season start, I said this was a loss. I'll stay confident. We get the dub. There we go.

We need somebody. Shannon, what do you think? better not ask me if you want to end on a positive note. Let's move to Kentucky A&M volleyball. Kentucky A&M volleyball. I'll let you go. Yes, Kentucky wins their second national title. Let's go.

Apparently Kentucky beat him 3-1, but they lost the first set again and they won three straight. So Kentucky wins. Kentucky's winning it. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Kentucky's winning it. And I'm really disappointed. I won't get to be at the bar because I'm going to be on a plane to New Orleans. So those of you that go, be loud for me.

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Shirt off if we win the title. How about pants off? No, no. See? Has to do that. See you tomorrow for the pregame show. Ten. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy.

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