KSR - 2026-01-09- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

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the gummies. We lost. We feel sad. Gummy makes you feel better. A couple of those seltures I'll forget about it. I don't care what happens for us the season. I just talked to a couple guys back there from Charlotte. Nice to see you are going to the game tomorrow night. There you go. Well, good. The game is at 8.30 tomorrow night against Mississippi State.

A Mississippi State team that was predicted to be one of the worst in the league and is now 2-0 in conference. And so we'll find out later on today what the spread will be. Ryan, you were saying that you spent yesterday doing an interview. Is that correct? Yeah, the guy who's doing the profile. you in Kentucky Monthly called me yesterday and can I share what a lot of the questions he asked me about you I mean it's your story he was asking me a lot of questions about your childhood home

and specifically your childhood bedroom how did he expect you knew what my childhood bedroom looked like well he said I tried to keep you out of it he said if you've seen it I said well like one time 10 years ago the first time we were there we walked around well what's it like in his childhood bed yeah this guy's really big on he said I like to paint the scene of of things so he's asking me like a lot of questions about like what does your house look like. I try not to tell him about like the New Yorker magazines on the floor and stuff. The pictures that weren't hung up.

Yeah, so I try not to bring that stuff up. Diet Coke McDonald's cups all over the floor. Yeah, I've thrown a lot of those away at this point. Well, I hope you said nice things. I did, and he was, you know, he wanted to know, I told him, I said, you know, he didn't have any Farrah Fawcett posters or anything like that, but he had a lot of books. There was a lot of books.

First of all, I'm not as old as you. Fair Fawcett was like, Fair Fawcett is not my job. I guess that's true. Plus, Farah Fawcett was married to someone from Middlesbrough, and I think that would be rude. That's true, yeah. If I were to put another man's woman up on your wall. I should not put another Middlesboro man's woman up on the thing. That's a good point.

Didn't think about that, but I said he had a lot of books in there, and it looked exactly like you'd step back in time. Like, out of this quaint house you walk in. It just feels homie and very comforting. I mean, hang on just a second. You know, my mom's listening. You said step back in time. My mom has a very modern-looking house.

It's very nice. What are you talking about? Your mom's house is not modern-looking. It's a stately older home. I tried to give him a chance. Did you hear that? I tried to give him a chance. Sometimes you just can't help this guy.

You can't get out of his own way. But it's a beautiful state. Okay, okay. There you go. That's a good start. It's a very nice home. And I said as soon as you walk in, you feel very homey and comfortable. It's like it's an older home, but if the people who walk in these older homes,

it has a different feel to it. Your mom's house is perfect for that, but it's not a modern design home. I do find it strange that this guy thinks that Matt's, like, childhood, you know, bedroom is going to be the same as it was when he was a kid. Like, you know. I'm going to let you deal with my mother after that conversation. Well, I'd say this. He did ask me a lot of questions about your relationship with your mother.

And I said, Braddner said Matt's success is based on because he watched his mother. being the first positive in the state of Kentucky, and her succeed as a female in a male-dominated world, that motivated Matt as he became a professional. That's right. Well, that, I think, is a good analysis. Your analysis on our house, I think, is not quite as good. 859-280-2287.

The text machine is 772-7-7-4-2524. Kentucky, the Kentucky fan base, I've been trying to figure out, okay, because we've had this situation happen before during the COVID year and even, you know, there have been moments in various years. Shannon, I don't want this show to just become like a gloom despair and agony. I mean, I don't think that that's what fans enjoy. And so the question is, when you're not doing well, how do you keep things positive?

And in some respects, it's even harder in basketball than football. Because in football, there's only one game a week, right? So you can just talk about the game. and then you can just talk about other stuff, and then the day before Saturday you can go, well, there's another game this week. In basketball, the games just keep coming, right? And so it's hard to, it's hard to not.

And I, you know, we talked about Saturday at halftime will be the halfway point of the season. The exact halfway point of the season will be at halftime. So we might have a lot of this left. And so I'm trying to think, well, what is it we do to keep the show entertaining, entertaining, fun, lighthearted while also acknowledging that the team is struggling. And then Oscar Combs, okay, who, you know, he started this whole fan media thing that I started,

that I then followed and have done for 20 years. I was like, okay, well, Oscar Combs probably has wisdom in this area, right? Because Oscar Combs has gone, remember he had to do his stuff when they were on probation. Right, right? So I go to his Twitter account, and on his Twitter account, Oscar Combs writes, this may be the worst time in the history to be a University of Kentucky fan. He said, if you're looking at basketball and football, I can't think of a worst time to be a UK fan. Now, far be it from me to disagree with Oscar, I don't totally understand that opinion.

We had the death penalty, basically. Our games were not on TV for an entire year. We had a losing record, and the football team stunk during that period of time. So it would strike me that that was a worse time. But nevertheless, the mere fact that he brings it up suggests it's at least a conversation. I am not nearly as pessimistic as that. I'm actually, oddly, very optimistic about the football team. We have the 11th ranked portal class right now.

We have the 11th rate portal class having taken a lot less commitments than schools ranked ahead of us and below us. So, for instance, Louisville, who fans have been freaking out because Vince has signed like eight former Kentucky players. Yeah. They've signed seven more players than us, and there's ranking still behind us. Okay. So, I mean, our per player ranking significantly higher.

And to be 11th, considering we were like the 65th best team in the country last year, I think is pretty good. So I have no reason to be really down about football. I'm actually excited about the new staff. basketball, this is bad, but we did go to the Sweet 16 last year, and the season is not over. What am I missing, Shannon? Or do you just think maybe, because, by the way, under Oscar's Post, where a lot of people agree with it, okay? What am I missing?

Because I don't feel like that. Well, on the basketball side, I just feel like there is nothing that we've seen that would make you think that this season is going to turn around. You still got 11 quad one teams that you're going to be playing. So there's a lot of chances for you to build your resume. We have 11 more. You still have a lot more games that you can win to build your turn in the resume. Yes. So on the basketball side, yeah, I think there is still time to change things around.

But the problem is I'm not seeing anything that would indicate that that's going to happen. So I think that's why there's so much negativity on the basketball. Evan and I can't pronounce his name. It's like Miawa or Mia. I can't. I know you're talking about it. talking about. He has a social media. He's got a stat site. I actually think he does a really, really good job. He basically does analytics about the team, et cetera. He ranked all the college

basketball players. Like, how good is anybody in the country? Kentucky did not have one guy in the top 75 players in the country, not one. And that feels correct, right? I mean, Jalen Lowe had not played enough games and O.A. didn't make it. He was kind of like 90th or something. Do you that feels right to me, but I still am not giving up yet. Where are you on it? Well, I said yesterday I kind of feel like my spirit is broken. And I think maybe Oscar, you know,

the probation time may be in a worse time, but it doesn't feel like that. It feels worse now because... Why does it feel worse? I think because, you know, the football team, we've won, what, two SEC home games in three years. But our staffs, that's a new staff. Like if Mark Stubbs was back, I could understand that opinion.

But this is a completely new staff. And I would note our new coach is playing tonight for a chance to go to the championship game. And if he wins tonight, they have a really good chance to be a national champ. I mean, we have a really good chance to have a national championship offensive coordinator coming in here and running our team next year. A guy who has shown, he will swing for the fences on recruiting. Right? I mean, and we've got not top quarterback, but we've been going after. are a lot of people.

So I agree with you. Our football future, I think, definitely is taking a turn in the right direction. Our basketball future, I think a lot of people are scratching their head because it's not just going to losing the way they're getting beat. They're getting run off the floor in some of these games. I don't know if they're people kind of, like I said, their spirits broke. They're losing a little hope, I think, for basketball. CBS ranked.

They graded all the coaches in college basketball mid-season. Gave them all a grade. Did you see the grade that they gave Mark Pope? I did, yeah. It was not a great grade. No, it wasn't. It was a Ryan Lemon-esque grade. It was a D-minus.

Gave him a D-minus. One of only a handful of coaches, only like three coaches got Fs. But he got a D-minus. Is that a fair grade, Shannon? I think that it is. I think he is a St. John's or maybe Indiana loss away from being just an F. Those are really the only two things that have been redeemable about this season so far. Probably St. John's is all that keeps you from being a deal.

Because Indiana was at home. You got one top 25 win. You lose that game. I think it's an absolute F with the roster. And again, we keep hearing about how much money was spent on this roster. To be 9 and 6 at the midway point is borderline failure. A lot of people put a lot of, you know, chatter about my comment yesterday day about L.A. LaCruz, six players making more than L.A.

La Cruz and kind of what that means. Part of the reason I brought that up was just to say, I mean, basketball and baseball don't really have anything in common. But the point was just to say, you know, I'm a Reds fan. And the amount of criticism or praise that L.E. De La Cruz gets is unbelievable. I mean, he was on the cover of the video game, right? And if you go to a game, every kid there has an L.A.

LaCruz shirt, and then there's people who complain every year. time he strikes out or every time he makes an error. Like he's such a scrutinized person. And yet we have six basketball players making more than him. Six basketball players that at least in theory could be criticized as much or more. And I sort of have this balance, Ryan, of trying to figure out how much can I be critical of, let's say, Mo Diabate, who played poorly Wednesday, bickered with his teammates the whole game.

and I'm going to say got binged, in part because of his play, but in part because they were kind of tired of listening to his mouth a little bit during the game. How much criticism do you think they deserve? Or is it all on Mark Pope? I think the players deserve the criticism in your example we're given right now because even Ellie is not making them much money,

but every time you see him, he's smiling, he's having a good time, he's enjoying life just being on the field with the Cincinnati Reds. These guys fighting and bickering with each other, I put the blame on them. That's not necessarily a coaching thing. I think that's more of their personality and the guys they are. Well, first of all, Ellie needs a new agent because he needs to be making more money.

That's just what they do in baseball. The first few years you don't make any money. And then you make a bichillion dollars after that. But I put this on Mark Pope because part of being the head coach is being the leader and making this thing work behind the scenes. If there are chemistry issues, guys don't like each other, that is your job as the head coach to work this out. So I blame Mark Pope. I think it all goes back to him. I do too.

But I will. I have found myself. I've been somebody, if you've listened to this show, I have for years, been like, yeah, you know, they're just players, they're just kids. Maybe I'm just getting older, but I'm finding myself becoming more like, hey, dude, you're being paid. You're a pro now. Yep.

And if I'm going to take up for you being a pro, and if you're going to get to go on the portal and you're going to get to do that, like, now I've got to treat you like a pro. And Mo Diabate, I'm going to kind of get, like, be like, you know, I get mad when Draymond Green does that stuff. Well, you know, I got to apply it to you. Because this is two games in a row, let me just say with him. He was the centerpiece of all the bickering at Alabama. Yep.

Now, he played well at Alabama, but he was the centerpiece of all the bickering at Alabama. And now the same here too. In between, he gives that interview in which he basically says we weren't prepared, which seemed like a little bit, I don't know if it was an indictment on the team or the coach. It was hard to read. Right. So, I mean, I think I give Mark Poppa D minus, but I do think the players deserve some of it, too. 859-2-80277.274. Text machine is 772-745254. We are here at Cornbread Hemp. Very cool facility. Very cool. Got our cornbread hemp owners here from my initial meeting with them at Skyline Chili.

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And when Diabate gets on guys, it's a problem. Well, you can only be a leader if people want you to be a leader. And if they're willing to follow. You know what I mean? Exactly right. And if they're willing to follow. Like, you can sit and scream at people, but if for whatever reason they don't feel like you are a leader, you don't just get to decide you're a leader.

being a leader in part requires the consent of those being led and so you know in theory i like i mean again i keep using the example because i think it's the most obvious example in recent years of oscar i i liked oscar i don't think anybody would argue oscar is not a good dude but oscar for whatever reason turned his teammates off they did not enjoy being around him so that meant he when you would see him lead, it's just in one ear and out the other because these dudes like, now, is that Oscar's fault or is that the player's fault? I don't know. Could be either.

But the point is a leader is not effective if the people you're leading don't want to be around you, Shamed. Right, and it's not just the bickering with the players. I mean, if you go back to last game, he was bickering with the assistant coaches on the sideline, too. So I think he's got a lot of issues it seems like with everybody on the team. You know, the practice we were at. He had an issue with one of the assistant coaches at that practice. So, you know, we heard this summer all along that he was kind of the leader. The guys were following him.

But maybe it's the way he's doing it. Maybe the – Yeah, that can make a difference. Yeah. One person writes, Matt, I hate we latch on to the Sweet 16 last year. I didn't know the Sweet 16 was the expectation at Kentucky. Fair point, but let me give you a good fair counterpoint. We hadn't been to the Sweet 16 since 2019 until last year.

Yeah, when you're coming off, a loss to Oakland in the first round. You had a new coach. Yep. All right, you had a new coach. New coach comes in, I think he deserves a minute, right? Like, take Will Stein. If Will Stein were to win two games next year, that's a valid criticism. But if he wins six and goes to a bowl game, I'm going, especially with the hardest schedule

that I can remember us ever having, which is what we have next year, then I'm going to say, dude, great, right? Yeah. Because, I mean, you do have to give. these people a minute. Now, what's more concerned to me is that year two looks like it's on pace to be worse than year one. But I don't really have any criticisms Ryan about year one. I feel like to kind of even overachieve last year, you know? Popin never even won an NCAA tournament game as a head coach till last year. So I kind of feel even though I only went to

the Sweet 16, that was an overachievement for that group. What's interesting is he seems to have done better throwing this roster together in two weeks last year than he did when he had a full offseason to be able to build. You do wonder if there's a paralysis by analysis that maybe he overthought things and ended up getting guys that were not like he overthought it. You know, I talked to a

person that's not a UK media member but that's a national media member that knows Pope and the staff pretty well. And he said, look, they'll never say this. But they panicked a little bit in the portal

and they thought, let's get these athletes, we'll teach them to shoot. And it didn't work. Like they basically were like, we've got to have better defenders to win a national championship. We'll teach them to shoot. And then I think everybody will say they got too many big guys. They just did.

We have too many big guys. We got five big guys. You can only play. I'll argue we may be your better off right. Only playing one big guy. If you watch the Missouri game, some of our best runs came with Cam Williams at the four and only one big in. But when you have five big guys, it's hard to only play one of them.

And I also don't understand what is going on with Trent Noah. I mean, a guy who came in last year and was such a big part of the run in the tournament. I don't think he fits in the team. But you need somebody that can shoot the three. I mean, I agree with you. But on a team where you're like, we can't shoot, we got to play defense, he might be the worst defender on the team. So how do you put him in?

I don't think they had a coherent philosophy building this and it shows it. Let's switch gears for a second. Shannon Dawson, Mr. If it had worked, you would have liked it, has gone to the national championship game. What do you think of that? And getting all kinds of praise last night, the play con he made, some of those long third down calls he made in the plays. Just how is it two of our ex-offensive coordinators,

Shannon Dawson and Liam Cohn, are like now? Well, Mark Stoop's clearly. picked offensive coordinators well. Yeah. What if Bush Hamden, like, in three years is in the national championship game? Wouldn't be surprised. I mean, that would. But, again, that goes back to Mark Stoops.

We've talked about, you know, him handcuffing our offensive coordinators. Yeah. There's got to be some truth to that. I was watching him. I was watching him during the game, and I don't know how many of you watched it. They made Miami some really stupid calls, it felt like, during the game. They went Wildcat in a position that, and they ended up losing a ton of yard. and they had some dumb decisions.

With that said, he also made some great calls. And there's that little dude on Miami, the little freshman. Tony. He might be the best player I've ever seen. I mean, he's like this tall. Yep. And he is a demon. Now, the SEC for the third straight year is not going to win the national championship.

And for the third straight year is not going to have a team in the championship game. Is that a trend, do you think? Is the SEC slipped a little bit? We always say it's the hardest conference, hardest schedule, has that slipped? I heard one guy kind of describe it, you know, usually Georgia, Alabama. They're second string, third string guys, which start on most teams. Those guys are leaving Alabama and Georgia now. They're going to play at some of these other places.

So the transfer portal has kind of hurt the SEC powerhouse. These guys don't stay and play for them anymore. I think where it's changed is because of the portal and also because there have been some good coaches go to these other schools. I still think the middle and the bottom of the SEC is better than the middle and the bottom of the other conferences. But now I think the top of the Big Ten, the ACC,

and I just think it's as good as we are now. I think the middle and the bottom I still take our conference, but the top, I think, Shannon, we're not as dominant as we were. Good players still want to go to Alabama and Georgia, but money means more. Money matters. And then you got Carson Beck, who Georgia said leave.

And now he's playing for the national championship. That was George's call. And now they're going to watch him play in the national title game. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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I feel like that's one of those. If it were like second quarter, they call it. Yeah. But the end of the game, they let it go. Yeah. What do you think? I think when you put yourself in a position where it's a Hail Mary, you just got to deal with that. Yeah.

If it's, now, if it's first and goal at the three and that exact same situation happens, I think they call it. Right. But I think there's a sense of if you're throwing it 40 yards downfield, you know, if you notice, they're both grabbing each other. Uh-huh. And I think, actually, if you go watch the play, a lot of people focused on the past and fair. Look at the other guy on Old Miss. It's clear. It was actually a brilliant play.

I don't know if Kiffin or who came up with it, maybe Charlie Weiss Jr. One of the guys of the offensive players was interfering with the Miami game to keep him from coming over to the other guy. So if you go watch that play, the other Miami receiver is pulling the old Miss guy down so it's one-on-one on the other. one. Yeah. So I actually think you could have called it either way there. So I was okay with letting it go. You put yourself in that position, Ole Miss, if you're having to throw a hellmare. The official they use up there in the broadcast booth, they kind of went to him real quick and he said, yeah, exactly what you said. They kind of were both pushing on each other. Nobody really had an advantage. So that's why they probably just didn't call it. Yeah, 859-280-2287. Who's up first?

Joey is up first. Joey, go ahead, Joey. Hey, man. How are y'all doing? Good. So I've got two quick questions. Is this really the year to break out the dental uniforms? And then the next one is a few weeks ago, I sent a write-up that Pope was working on contract extensions already for the guys for next year. I mean, I don't understand that.

I don't get what guys you want to keep off this roster, but I'll hang up and let you go. Well, I mean, I think that's a conversation. We'll see how the season ends. Let's just talk about what I think they were planning to do. I think they were planning to bring back low, diabette, you know, whoever. I think those were the two major ones, and then everybody else that was going to kind of depend on how things went. Now, who knows? But you also, you've got to have somebody.

Yeah. Right now you got nobody. If there's one thing we've learned, I mean, we have zero recruits, zero people committed. If there's one thing we've learned, you don't want to build your whole team by the portal. So, I mean, some of these guys will certainly be back. Do you think there's an argument, Ryan, not to bring the denim's out this year? You know, we've already announced we're doing it for the Tennessee game first week in to February. If we go in with a big losing streak, is this the time to bring out the denims?

And also the 96 team would come back because it's been 30 years since they won the title, which I cannot believe it's been that one. But, yeah. Well, that's it's an anniversary marker. It's the 30-year anniversary of that. 96th National Championship team. Now you got Pope as your coach. I'm for it. I think I was all excited about him bringing them back. Of course, if they have a losing street going into the game, that's going to kind of stink, but I'm all for bringing out the denim uniforms this year for the

anniversary. It's this Saturday they're bringing back rubs runts. It is. Yes. Yeah, they're bringing Saturday night. They're bringing rups runts. And I believe all of all of rups runts that are alive except Larry, is Larry Conling? He's alive. He's a lot. Yeah, he's sick. So he cannot come. But all the other rups ruts, including Pat Riley, are going to be at the game Saturday night because it's the 60th anniversary of Rupp's Run. So I think you probably do the denims because it's the anniversary of 96.

But I will say if we go in and we're like 2 and 8 in conference when we do it, it's not going to feel quite the same. Yeah, but you've already announced that you're going to do it. You can't go back now. I mean, I think that would be a weak move to go, well, we're not winning, so we're not going to bring out the denim.

You've got to do it because it's the anniversary. Yeah, who's up next? Tom is up next. Tom, go ahead, Tom. Yeah, man, thanks to take my call. I know we have a lot of problems on basketball, but one of the worst things I've ever seen was are out-of-bounds play.

Why do we have to throw it the length of a floor to get the ball in without trying to run a play to score? We've had several turnovers just trying to get the ball in bounce. I just like to know your view. I think that is a really great question, and one that as I watch the game. All right, so can I do a 45-second rant on out-of-bounds play? I want you to.

You guys remember during the Cal era? Drove me insane. We would just have a guy staying there and they would lob it to his hand. And it drove me insane, especially when you would see the other teams run some play and then they would get it. All right. Fast forward. last year, I don't know if you are, remember, we ran a lot of out-of-bounds plays,

and we actually had some success with them. Now, probably because we had a very intelligent team, but we did. Then, all right, now let's start to this year. Beginning of the year, what were we back to? A guy standing there with his arm up. We were doing that, and then we got some turnovers because, oh, guess what, that doesn't work. So they had two weeks between the St. John's game in the first estimate. And so my assumption was, let's add some out of bounds this place.

And now it seems like our view is let's throw it all the way down the court to the other side. I guess so it won't get stolen. But then, and the announcers made this point, and I appreciate the call, sir, the announcers made this point, you've wasted six or eight seconds getting the ball up the court. And on the last play, I don't know what we were doing on that last play. I mean, I really don't. Like, I love Jaylen Lowe, but I'm not sure. That's not the shot you want coming out of that break.

So I don't understand the out of bounds place. By the way, go watch Missouri's out of bounds plays. On every Missouri out of bounds plays, they either got a layup or it got knocked out of their hands and they got the ball again. But they got a slip position and a shot at the rim every play. That made me so mad that last minute of the Missouri game, we had four empty possessions, and two of them were coming.

out of a timeout. The first, like at 50-something seconds out of a timeout they gave it to Brandon Garrison to initiate a play, stupid. Then the last position, that play they designed, Jaylon Lowe threw up, stupid. I'll say that I like, I actually think Brandon Garrison gets a little more criticism than he deserves, but I can't think of a player that I want making that play less than Brandon Garrison with less than a minute. I know he had played well, but like let him roll to the basket or something, but the

idea of, okay, let's give it to Brandon and then let him. make the decision, Shannon, I don't understand that. Too much dribbling on the team too. That's another thing. You know, Pope, I thought, was going to be really good with these drawing up plays, X's and O's. And that's another reason that some of this season has been disappointing because you really haven't seen too much of that.

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Rodriguez are the two most talented guys on the team, and both of them from Kentucky, both of them now return. Yeah, I think they looked at the offense like, what one guy can we not afford to lose? I think we might have been him. It's the same thing on defense. What guy can we not afford to lose? It was Ty Bryant. With all these guys kind of all of a sudden leaving, it's a lot of them going to Louisville,

it's good he's decided to stay in Kentucky. I think Willie Rodriguez is going to be a monster in Will Stein's offense. I think he's going to be a monster. I think that is a huge, huge get to get him to stay. All right, so, you know, if you've been following the news, they've been talking about Greenland and like Trump wants to take Greenland. And so, you know, it's generally considered that we're probably not going to invade it. That's not a good idea.

So they're trying to figure out, I guess Trump wants to buy it. Well, Denmark runs it and says it's not for sale. So there's this talk of a plan where they're going to offer Greenland people and say, because they have a right to vote. They usually vote to stay with Denmark. They've done that for a long time. But he's like, if you do another vote, one of the things they're offering is, we will make it to where we will pay Greenland citizens to become Americans.

That if they vote yes to become Americans, there's 50,000 of them, we would give them between $10,000 to $50,000 a year for the next 20 years. Now, I will say, I think a lot of Americans are going to be like, well, where's my money? Yeah, yeah. But let's put that as aside. All right, let's say Canada, Shannon, wanted to buy Kentucky. I don't know how that would happen, but let's just say Canada came up and said, we are buying Kentucky. and you had to vote whether or not to leave America and become Canadian.

How much money a year would it take for you to agree to vote to become Canadian? Because that's the most likely scenario. I mean, first of all, it's not likely. But like if I'm trying to think of the equivalent, if they said to you, okay, we will give you Shannon the dude $10,000 a year for Kentucky to be Canadian. You're no. A hard no. $50,000 a year.

Keep going, Bob. So if I just offer you 50, your votes no. No. By the way, I bet there's a lot of people that would vote yes. $50,000. I'm proud to be an American. All-American. Billy says he would be...

Billy's a sellout. So, Billy, you would be Canadian for $50,000 a year. So it'd be 49 states and we would be one of the provinces of Canada. I'll give you $50,000 now to go to Canada. Do you have to move to Canada? No, no. Kentucky. The theory is Kentucky would now be part of Canada.

We would be having a vote, and if the vote occurred and over half the state voted, we would be a Canadian state. So the question is, if they just came to you and said $50,000 and then it got on the ballot, are you voting yes or no? 50,000 a year, that's yours. Free. I'm probably a little bit shan. I'm wanting to Bob Barker to go a little bit. This is the offer. It is on the ballot at $50,000 a year.

That's the offer. You're not bargaining one-on-one. They don't want Ryan. They want the state of Kentucky. So are you voting yes or no at $50,000 a year? I can stay in my same house. I can live with them around my same people. Everyone will be the same.

It's just you'll be a Canadian. Law's different? Somewhat, yeah. Yeah. The law would be different. Do we have to change it to KSR? Did a KSR? CGSR?

I'm trying to figure it all out here. I thought Canada will start with a K. I'm starting to lean towards I would probably take it. So you would. So you would vote yes. I think I might vote yes. So now we have two votes for Kentucky to join Canada, Billy and Ryan.

You're a no. I'm a no. Which is surprising. I thought you would become Canadian for $100. No. You got to do better than that. All right, Mario, yes or no? Mario's a no.

All right, so now I'm going to give, we're going to put one more ballot. Okay. Because this is, they're talking about that, $100,000 a year. Sign me up. I'm Canadian. No, no, no, no. They already got you for $50,000. Yeah, that's true.

Billy and Shannon now, or excuse me, Billy and Ryan are already Canadian. They voted yes the first time at 50. All right, this is your last offer, Shannon. Yeah. $100,000 a year for $20,000. years and Kentucky is now joining Ottawa and Manitoba and Alberta and we are now Canadian.

Come on, eh? I feel so patriotic right now. Come on. That's a lot of money. Listen, $100,000 a year, you could not work if you didn't want to. If you didn't want to, you wouldn't work. Because we're essentially going to be offering these people

of Greenland if this policy happens, and I don't know if it will. We're offering them a chance to basically not work and become Americans, which is why I think a lot of Americans are not going to like it if we offer that. But we are offering that. Are you taking it? I'd like to say that no amount of money would be enough for me to turn to a Canadian. That's crazy. But everybody's got a price for the million dollar man. But we're not talking about a million dollars. We're talking about $100,000. It's still a no. I'm still going to stay America.

Wow. Yes. Wow. I am shocked. You're a yes now. Mario is now. We converted him to Canada. So, by the way, $100,000 has now just made three of the four of you. Canadian. We should deport all three of you right now. Get out of here. Get out of our country. So here's the thing. So let me ask you this.

I actually could see why if you were a Greenlander, you would go, well, yeah, okay. Now, what happens in America if we offer that? Do you think people will like that? No. Because we'll be just like what you said. Where's our money? How come we're not getting money? I think you'll have people from America converting to Greenland to come back to America.

For money. I would. If I were going to do that. Let's play the game here. You would try to become a Greenland citizen now. First. Yes, now. See it in advance. There you go.

Take the money. Take my free money. I'm still American. Shannon, very smart. What's saying here? Shannon's jumping citizenship. I will temporarily be a Greenlandian. But not.

permanently. It's interesting. I hadn't thought of that angle. Who's up next? By the way, I didn't notice how I didn't have to give my answer. Hold on a minute. Yeah, don't go to the next caller. What's your answer? My answer would be, I still would, I think there are advantages on the world stage to being in America. With that said, you know, Canadians, not bad. There's a lot of good, like, we've been to Canada, yeah. Are they very similar, living in Canada, living here? We would have Mounties instead of police in Kentucky, right? There are some different. There are a few or less, like it's not quite as individualists. You don't have quite as many freedoms, but you have most of them.

You do get like universal health care, but that also can kind of have some problems occasionally. Travel is basically the same. So, I mean, it's not a huge difference. You and I are Team America and these guys can get out. But when you are Canadian, though, you do have to rely on another country for your national security. That's one thing about America is we do rely. We take that for granted. But most other countries in the world are to some extent relying on us for national security,

and that does matter. See, they'll come and attack Kentucky. That's true. Kentucky could get invaded. Exactly. All right, go ahead. Who's next? Mo is up next.

Mo, go ahead, Mo. Hey, Matt, you remember back in, like, 2013 when we missed the tournament, Chester called in, and he said that the reason was he blamed it on socialism. He blamed it on the liberals. That was a great call. One of the great calls in KSR history, I thought. And I guess if we missed the tournament this year, which I don't think we will, but if we do, I guess we blame it on capitalism now.

You know, $22 million paid to a team that really hasn't played well. Well, if we miss the tournament, it's going to be a massive embarrassment. We're going to be the laughing stock of college basketball if we miss the tournament. But go ahead. And a question, as far as Blue Blub, go, do you think we are now objectively maybe the weakest of the Blue Bloods in terms of it depends on what you define a Blue Blood as? I heard during the offseason somebody, I think it was Matt Norlander said Blue Bloods are five programs. You can only have five Blue Bloods at any

given time. And his argument was UCLA has been replaced by Yukon. So he was basically like it's Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, and Yukon. If those are the five, blue bloods and I think that's probably correct then at this moment we're number five if we're talking about not historically historically I still think we're number one but if you're talking about where are the blue bloods in terms of their status as programs now then we're number five and we would be the one that would be on the verge of being replaced yeah if we're not careful so it's just I think that's important to realize I do think that's true we'll take a break come back hour number two this is Kentucky sports radio another podcast from

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