KSR - 2026-01-28- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk Kentucky's loss to Vanderbilt, Joe B. Hall's album, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This was just basketball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, January the 28th. I'm Matt Jones here. Still in Louisville in the snow. Ryan is in Lexington in the snow. Shannon's at the studio.

Drew is colonoscopine it up. so he will not be here today. You can give us a shout on Clark's puppet shop phone line. 859-2-80-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-744, and this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. Ryan, awful game last night that we got to spend some time on today. But I am not letting this game completely ruin my vibe.

I've had, you know, five very productive days of doing. nothing in my house. I've enjoyed them. I like snow and I like the excuse to not have to run around and be in like anything you don't want to do, Shannon, you could just go, well, I mean, it's icy. Exactly.

Yeah, I got an excuse to not do anything. Yeah, I mean, like literally anything. You can go, yeah, well, I mean, the weather can't, can't make that happen. So even though that basketball game was pitiful, I'm not letting it ruin my jam today. I'm actually thinking

about reading a book today. That's how bored I am. No, you're not. I am. First of all, you don't have any books. What book are you going to read? You don't have a book. Somebody gave me the Joe Creason book. We talked about Joe Creason. It's sitting here staring me in the face. All right. So let me make a suggestion. I don't want, this is one of these things like, you don't read. So the first book Shannon's going to matter, he might never read again.

That's true. You know what I mean? So the Joe Creason book is about how can It's interesting stories of Kentucky life in the 70s, which is almost 60 years ago now. So I do think maybe you should try something like a little more exciting to get you into this reading thing. Well, my choices are pretty slim. I mean, I've got like six of them here. But do you have a, you have a Kindle? Why am I asking that? No.

He doesn't know what a Kindle is. You don't have anything. Okay. I've got, hey, Mitch, please. You've already read that. You've already read that. The Cornbread Mafia. Have you read that?

I've read some of it. Okay, so that's not. He started. He read the table of contents. Well, if I would bring you a book that you would like. I have some. They have a lot of pictures. I feel like that would be good for you.

Scratch and snicks always good. But, well, give it a shot. Hopefully you'll like it. It can't be worse than the game last. Amen. Can't. I have, The last few games, for whatever reason, the first three or four minutes,

I've been late to turn it on or whatever night. But not last night. I got, I was right there at the beginning. And I can tell you the moment, Ryan, I knew we were going to lose. The tip off? Yeah, they tipped it up. It wasn't the tip off. Okay.

It wasn't the tip off because we won the tip. I think if we remember. Yeah, that's true. It was 4-0 and O-A got a drive to the basket and had a wide open layup and he missed. By the way, we went 7 of 19 last night on layups. I'm going to read that stat again. Seven of 19 on layups. Vandy shot a higher percentage from three than we shot from layups.

That's an amazing stat. I mean, that is incredible. That is exactly what happened. When he missed that layup, and by the way, he's missed a lot of layups this year. I like, I mean, the guy's missed. He missed two. point blank, wide open at the basket. But when he missed the first one,

I was like, it's just not happening. And then I think they came down and hit a three on the next possession, and it was seven nothing. And I just knew it was over. And everything after that was kind of watching the inevitable. It was pitiful. I gave a lot of these stats on the post game, but they're worth sort of mentioning again.

Eight games this year on the road, or neutral court. We've been down double digits in all eight. We've been down 17 in seven of the eight. That's a ludicrous stat. That's ridiculous. We've played 14 major conference teams this year, home and away. We've been down at halftime in 12 of the 14 games. Oh, my goodness.

Now by double digits, most of those. This is the craziest step. We've played 40 Power 4 teams in two seasons. We've been down, Shannon. by 15 at halftime in 10 of those 40, one out of every four. That is not Kentucky basketball. One out of every four times we play a powerful team. We're down 15 at halftime.

That's pathetic. And, you know, I'm not done with Mark Pope. I'm not, you got to fire him. I'm not any of that. He's going to be the coach next year. and I, absent an absolute complete collapse, support that. But, you know, statistics, my man likes statistics. He likes analytics.

I'm going to give him some analytics. Okay. He's the worst first half coach I've seen in a long time. Now, I'm not saying he's the worst coach. I think he's actually been an excellent second half coach. And, but I've never seen a coach in my life be so awful at the first half. which means he's got to be doing something wrong. And I would say I understand how hard it is to get to ask Mark Pope questions.

He does press conferences once a week at noon on Mondays. He does a call and show where they don't take calls. Really the only person that talks to him consistently asking questions is Tom Leach. But someone has to ask him the question. What do you think you are doing wrong? motivating this team to start to get it. You have to ask him that. Because we've had different players.

We're playing different teams. But we're awful in the first half pretty much no matter what. Has there been a game against a good team where we've been up 15 at halftime? No way. I'm being serious. Can you think of one? Is there one game that you can remember against a powerful team where we were up 15 at half time? I can't think of one.

I'm sure there is one, but it can't be more than one or two. And if that's true, then that's a failure of preparation, Ryan. And that's my biggest takeaway from last night. I thought we were going to lose. I thought we could lose by a lot. But the way we lost where the game was never, ever even in consideration is just more than I. It's just unacceptable. And like he has to answer for that.

He deserves to answer the question to fans. Why do we start this poorly every game? I'm not mad at you, Mark. Just help me understand. And don't tell me that it's like data and all this nonsense. Why are we so bad to start all these games both years? Okay, not just this year, but last year too. You're right.

It seems like they're not prepared. Like, you know, on defense, they're giving up way too many looks. Okay, you knew what Vandy's offense was. You knew they're going to try to shoot threes, and yet we gave up wide open. threes. Also got beat on the glass. Got beat on the glass when we had the height advantage.

We had an area we could have maybe taken advantage of. And on offense, it seems like they have no clue what they're doing on offense. Like I have no idea what kind of offense they're trying to run at times. They change their offense game by game. They changed their offense half by half. I said this last night. You could pick ten random halves from UK games this year, and you would think you were, If you didn't see the faces of the players, you'd think you were watching different teams.

They don't even, they don't even attempt to play the same. Whatever they played last night is the worst. 55 points, come on. They shot the ball poorly. Some of it was they missed open shots, but a lot of it is they just go one-on-one, and at some point they shoot. Yep. And that's, this team's not good enough to do that.

I mean, it's not a great offensive style anyway. It's certainly not a great offensive style when we've got these guys. Yeah, I think Jimmy Dykes said a couple times. It looks like Kentucky's offense has just set a pick for Otega and let him drive. That's it. That's the only thing they're doing. But he's not good enough to do that. I mean, he and Aberdeen had, what, 35 of the 55 points?

Yes, they did. But they also had 40% of the shots. So it was very disappointing. Now, I'm not going, hey, season's over, blah, blah, blah. The question is, who is Kentucky? Is Kentucky the team that won five straight? Or is Kentucky the team that four times this year has absolutely been humiliated? Or is it in between?

I would argue, Ryan, it's both. Okay? This is a team that can embarrass you as badly as any team I can remember. But it's also a team. that oddly finds a way to sometimes play above its head. So I don't think it's either. I think it's both. And I think that honestly leads to a season

where fans are just going to have to be frustrated and will be frustrated most of the year. I think you hit on my biggest fear. I mean, as bad as last night was, it could be worse on Saturday. This will happen at least. I don't know if it's going to happen at Arkansas. It may.

This is going to happen at least once, maybe twice, yep, again this year. It could have been a lot worse last night. Vandy didn't even really play that well. They didn't even really shoot the ball that well. And, I mean, they were averaging 90 points a game. I agree. We held you under your average.

Exactly. They started holding the ball with four minutes to go. Yeah, they really. Honestly, that may have been the saddest thing. I think they felt sorry for us. They just held the ball until the end of the shot clock. They literally would just hold it and be like, all right, well, we know they're not going to score. It was like watching a mountain football game where, like, Pikeville's playing against Phelps.

And at the end, they're like, one-yard dive, man. That's kind of what they were doing. If they don't play any better than this on Saturday, it's going to get really, really ugly. Yeah, I mean, it is, but that's really not my concern. Because it's going to be, even if it's not Saturday, it's going to be ugly in these games. I am, I am, what concerns me is not even so much this year,

although we still are not certainly in the tournament. That's the thing I keep coming back to. We've got to still find, in my opinion, four wins to make the tournament. And you look on the schedule when you want and see where those four are. I think four will get you in, but we got to get four, and there's ten left, and eight of them are really hard. So, but my bigger point is, why can't Mark Pope prepare these teams for these games? I would argue the two tests, the two things that really smart coaches should be the best at are game plans and in-game adjustments.

You might not be great motivators, you might not be great recruits. You might not be great recruiters. You might not even be great at connecting with your talent. Those are skills that, like, are different than intelligence in some ways. But the ability to game plan and to make in-game adjustments, for a smart coach, that should be your bread and butter. Right? Like, it's like in life, Shannon, you might be really smart. You might not have any friends, right?

You might not have any dates, but you should do well on the test. Yeah, you can do well at something. You got to be good at something. Yeah. All right. We didn't create this roster well. It doesn't feel like they really connect very well. It doesn't feel like they really like each other very much.

But we should be good at game playing. And we should be good at adjustments. We seem like we're all right at adjustments. But this game planning is for the birds. Because we are coming out and getting destroyed in every game. And Ryan, that's embarrassing. If it was not a coach named Mark Pope who was very smart and we all know as intelligent, we would go, that's a person who doesn't know how to prepare for basketball.

Wouldn't we? Yes. You'd think as smart as he is, again, as analytical it is, they would be over-prepared. They would know exactly what the other opponent's going to do instead of the opposite. Like they have no clues like what they're going to do. Well, I think even more basic, we don't have a clue what we're going to do. Yeah, good point. So, race to 15 hit again last nine on draft king.

I mean, it's going to hit every game at the year. The easiest, like, I honestly just wonder if for Kentucky fans, they should just wait till eight minutes left in the first half and check the score and decide if they want to watch the game. Yeah. Because the first 12 minutes will just drive you inside if you do it. 859-280, 2287. Now, I promise you, I'm not doing this the whole day. I got other things to talk about.

We found it, Billy and I found an amazing hat last night. Yeah. I saw that, yeah. We're going to talk about, you know, colonoscopies. And the guy who shovel I borrowed, he got me back yesterday. Oh, did it? I don't know if he's listening to this show, but he got me back. And I got to give him a shout out for getting me back.

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One person writes Matt, what makes me mad about these games you talked about is we've never been in them at any point. Those four games I mentioned, we weren't in them once. Michigan State, Gonzaga, Alabama, Vanded. We were never in those games, ever, at any point during the game. Louisville, we got down 20, but we led early and we even kind of came back and were there right at the end. But those four games we were never in, which makes for a very unpleasant experience,

Ryan, when you don't even get one moment of joy. What is it about the city of Nashville in Kentucky this year? Well, how about this stat? Last three games Kentucky's played in Nashville. We've lost by 89 points. Oh, my God. And the football team got wax too this year down there. Let me say that again.

We've played three games there. The last three games, in less than a year, we've lost by 89 points. Oh, my goodness. 25 last night, 35, and then the SEC game against Alabama last year, 29. And that's where your hardcore fans come, right? The SEC tournament for the Gonzaga game. Well, they're going to stop coming if you're not careful. I mean, you can't keep asking these people to pay this kind of money and get abs.

But Nashville is, in my opinion, when you get outside of the state of Kentucky, it's the hardest core Kentucky city, more so than Indianapolis, Cincinnati. It's Nashville. By far. Not even close. And, man. I mean, I'm going to the SEC tournament either way, but we can't take another one down there.

Right? To spend all that money, and that's the reward you get, is to watch them get blown out. They've lost the two games this year by 60 and never been in either one of them for even a minute. Uh-uh. And either see either one of them.

That's terrible. One person writes, Matt, thing that made me the maddest last night. It's when the video was posted of the guys saying, touch money before the game. I saw a lot of people get mad about that. I was shocked. You didn't mention it online, and you only mentioned it a second at the end of the postgame show. Why doesn't it bother you?

I don't get mad at slogans because I don't usually know what they mean, Shannon. Yeah, I have to look it up. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't, I'm not sure that I've known what a college kid was saying when they were doing slang since I was like in my late 20s and I'm not there anymore. So touch money, you know, if you're, if you're old or if you're, even if you're just like not into rap, you might say, well, that means all they care about is money. Well, apparently it's a phrase used to say touch money like focus. We're separating.

Let's focus on the goal. And they don't mean the goal is like actually money. It's like the metaphorical goal of money success. Right. Now, would I have advised as a PR person, Shannon, say touch money before you walk out? Yeah, don't even say the M word. Don't even mention money. I wouldn't have advised. No, no dollars, no nothing. But at the same time, though, I don't think it's like some philosophical thing that says we only care about money. So I think you've got to be really careful when you take, like, project your feelings about something to a vocabulary that you're not really part of, right? young adults speak a different language than we speak and when I saw that I just I just knew it had to be something there was some rap song that's mentioned in

and had an alternate meeting than what we literally took it as yeah because it feels like they're saying let's go get that money can I I don't know my mom's gonna kill me if I tell this story you just me and Shannon yeah we're friends here just the trust tree she's right now going don't say because I think she knows what I'm gonna say that's okay This is an example what I'm talking about. All right.

When I was in law school, I started dating a woman. And she was from Oregon. This is early on in the Internet, Ryan, right? Okay. And she had to, for a class project when she was in college, put up a website, you had to build a website. Okay? And she named her, and this was, let's just say, this wasn't her name, but let's say her name is Sarah. She named hers Sarah's dope blank.

Cuss word. Okay. That was the name of the website. Okay. Sarah's dope S word. Follow me, Shannon? Yeah. My mom called me.

She was worried that my then girlfriend sold drugs because of the word dope. Okay. Yeah. She meant dope like, cool. Yeah. Right? Yeah. But the point was, like, she didn't know what that word was, and she was taking,

her definition of dope, which as a prosecutor was dope, and she thought, wait a minute, who's Matthew dating? I think that's what happens with this video. You see? We're your mom now. You are. I'm not. I understood.

That's right. You're hip. You're the cool one here. I forgot. But I do think, Ryan, that's what it is. It doesn't bother me, is my point. And the timing was horrible, that video coming out, if you just got spanked on the looked awful, people were already mad about the 20.

$22 million roster, then that video comes out. Just added to it, I think. Yeah, I just turned my notifications off, so I can't see my mom's frustrated text coming in the name. Because I know it's coming. That's a bad to you. I mean, it wasn't, but that is funny, Shannon, right? She's so dope.

It's okay. Yeah. I can understand that. Who's up in that first? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hey, guys. So I want to read something.

Give me just one second. Okay, give me, give me just one second. Maybe. Go. You got, you hit preempt and say. I'm going to, you go and I'll, I'll decide. You're going to like this. John Wooden, the legendary UCLA Bruins men's basketball, because famously taught.

We know who he is. Go ahead. We've heard of them. Famously taught his players how to properly put on their socks and how to tie their shoes at the beginning of every season. This ritual was designed to prevent blisters and instill the importance. of discipline and fundamentals.

I'm going to stop right there. What I want to say is this. I played basketball, football, you know, a rascal did all that stuff when I was younger. Everything is about fundamentals. Everything is about discipline in sports. It's always about how you position yourself and do things. Rebounding last night and not just last night, but I've watched.

They don't box out. They don't box out. They don't box out. And sometimes, the only person on the team that ever boxouts Brandon Garrison, and he doesn't do it well, because he'll, like, put his arms around somebody. But most people do not box out at all. They just better be in the right place. And that is very, it's frustrated me all year.

It's not worked out as poorly as I thought it would because our guards do sometimes crash the glass, which makes up for it, but they do not box out. And last night, our guards didn't crash the glass. and it just made for a disaster. But is this something now? I mean, getting low, getting your butt down, pushing somebody out. I mean, if you're paying. We do not box out.

We do not. And we're going to have to go to break. I appreciate the call. But we don't. I've watched it all year. It's driven me crazy all year. Again, we have some athletes, especially with Moreno. And, you know, Diabate will be physical, but he often is just pushing people in the back.

We don't box out, Ryan, and it drives me inside. And the guy rebounded, it seemed like all night long. They got every rebound, every loose ball. Executed on offense. We act like we have no clue what we're doing on offense. Yeah, it was bad. Now, again, I'm going to tell the story about the guy here in a minute. Did my mom text?

Yep, already text. I can't even read. We'll take a break. Be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. 8.59-2802287. One person says, Matt, why in the world? This is the text machine, 772-7452. Why in the world did UK let that video get out? Well, I mean, UK didn't put it out.

So at Vanderbilt, it's an old-school gym. And both the home and the visiting team come out from the same entrance, and so does the media. Like in every other school, like when Kentucky enters, like I can't get to where Kentucky's team is entering. It now has a wall. But at Vanderbilt, you all come out to the same entrance. So the media was standing there, and it was the media that filmed.

SEC tournaments like that too, right? You have to be careful if you're these teams, you've got to think about where you are. Vandy, I don't know about every school in the SEC, but Vandy's a school where the media is with you when you walk in the floor. The SEC tournaments like that, too. So you've got to be extra careful what you do right there. Yeah, that famous fight coming out of the tunnel with Ramel Bradley and was it, Ron Slay, who was the Tennessee guy, he was going chest to chest with.

You might be right. And that's because the media is there. They see it. They're coming because y'all are all coming out the same tunnel. So you just, you know, that was, that's how that ended up happening. One person says, Matt, you say don't worry about slogans, yet you get mad at MAGA. I don't think that's true, Shannon. I don't mind the slogan.

I just don't like the views. Yeah, we all want America to be great. Yeah. Why would you not let your own country be great? The difference between me and them is I already thought what America was great. Oh. They were hating on America, saying it need to be make America great again, Shannon. I'm saying it already is.

Yeah. So I'm more patriotic. You are. You're a patriot. I'm not. I think we're always great. Yeah. there you go

you're maga then no because i'm just mag no i'm just ag america great america's great we don't need to make it or again it's already great ag where's your hat can have a hat

i ain't wearing red i'm wearing blue ag speaking of hats can we talk about billy's hat that's a great hat all right so somebody wrote on the text machine or somebody called in and said he was talking about how huge a UK fan he was and he said he's so big a fan he had a strutton with Sutton hat which is a great slogan strutton with Sutton and I was like oh there's a hat that says that Billy very intelligently gets on eBay sees it's for sale it's a great hat says strutton with Sutton it has a cat on it and it has a picture of Eddie Sutton's face ween Winking.

Who put a wink on there? That's great. So Billy's like, I think I should buy it. It's $35. And I was like, you know, Shannon, a minute and a half is the delay. Yeah. You got a minute and a half to get it. Better get it.

Somebody else gets it. Because on the internet, you know, over the air, it's like seven seconds. But on the internet, it's like a minute and a half. So you got a chance. So he gets in there. He beats everybody. He buys it. Then we see there's another one that says,

the Lord is my shepherd, but Sutton is my coach. If that doesn't sum up what it means to be a Kentucky basketball fan, nothing does. So, so Billy buys it $45. By the end of the show, I offered him $100 for it and he wouldn't sell it. Oh, you should have taken that. You would have taken it. $60 profit? Let's go.

You would have taken it. But he did not, so he will have that hat coming. I didn't know that hat existed. It would have gone right next to my Billy Gillespie drink holder. you know that says Billy loves Dr. Pepper, I have that one. I could have put that on there. It would have been a great UK memorabilia, Ryan, but Billy gets it. I think Billy said to Shannon on the pre-show that he went on eBay this morning,

and like all those hats that were available last night are all like either now $150 or already sold out. Yeah. Well, he drove the price up. Well, we can think all those. They can all think Billy. Yep. I would like to have had it. The problem is Billy's got to know when to sell, Ryan.

I think he already has missed. I think he missed his opportunity. Missed the window. Who's going to give him $100 now? Probably nobody. He should have taken your offer. Sean Sutton. What does he do now?

I don't know. He was in coaching forever. I don't know what he's doing. What is the weirdest piece of UK memorabilia that you have? Or that you know someone that has? Because I, based on that hat last night, I'm now kind of of the, I would like to have weird pieces of UK. I think Strutton was Sutton with a wink on it is one of those.

Can you think of a weird piece of memory? I told you about the thing hanging the woman, like the sexy woman hanging in the Big Blue Deli? I've told you about her, right? Yeah, you talked about her. Kind of the painting of the woman in a bikini at Big Blue Deli, but like not a bikini, kind of a dress, but like pretty hot UK. But it was officially licensed. Where'd that come from? Do you know anything like that?

No, I've got like the Adolf Rupp album where Al McGuire and all those guys sang on the Joe B. Hall album. That's a weird one. That is a weird one where the Joe B. Hall album where they got all the other coaches to sing with him. Can you imagine that happening now? I went like Mark Pope singing with Rick Petino and John Calapary. Mark Pope doing duets with Bill Self, Nate Oates, Cal, Tom Izzo. They're singing together. It's a different time back then.

That is a different time. Hey, guys, let's all go in the studio and cut some tracks. I can't believe that happened. Was it for like a fundraiser for a charity or something? Is that why they did it up? I don't care what it was for. What made everybody decide to go sing? I mean,

Hey, Bruce Pearl, will you come up here and sing with Mark Pope? What are you going to sing? Oh, I don't know. America the Beautiful. All right. It's just a weird thing. I've already found a couple. I'm going to play one coming back.

Oh, perfect. Yeah. Okay. Any other little good weird tidbits? I mean, I got that one hat from the 96th championship game that is a reversible. It's a black hat on one side and you flip it out and it's a basketball head on the other side. That's my favorite hat I own. What do you mean?

I don't know what you're something about flip it out. It's like reversible. Like, you know, when baseball players put the rally cap on, they put it inside out. Oh, you can wear it inside out? Yes. As a hat? Yes. You've seen it.

You loved it. That's really weird. I bet it looks good on you, too. I think the weirdest piece I have, and it's really not that weird. Remember when they had those construction helmets with the UK logo on it and everybody got mad? And they only gave them to the rich people. Well, I mean, I'm not rich, but I got one. But, yes.

But you were with Michael Bennett, though, and he's rich. That's what it was. If anybody wants one of those, I've still got one. Yeah. Yeah, those, I'm trying to think. there's a certain style of the 70s I'd like to see. I remember that guy that came to KS Bar at one time and sold all that vintage memorabilia.

Problem was it was all small. I couldn't fit in it. I'd love to have bought it. So like those old silks coats and stuff. Problem was it was all the sizes were all little. Who's next? Let's go to Bill. Bill. Go ahead, Bill.

Hey, Matt. How you doing? Doing good. Hey, I was going to just switch up a little bit. I know the game wasn't the best last night. But I had a couple quick questions. for you. My wife and I, we travel around all the baseball parks for big Reds fans. Is there a stadium that you would suggest that may not be on the top of people's visiting

list that you would suggest? And then my second question is, is there any chance you and Drew might do like a podcast for the MLB? Kind of like how you guys do with Cover Zero. Thank you. Probably not because they would have to hire us and we haven't heard anything about it. I would say, I mean, beyond everybody says, you know, go to Fenway Post. and go to Reilly Field, and that's true. I think Yankee Stadium is fun because the neighborhood it's in, like you're into Bronx, and if you otherwise wouldn't, you might not go. The underrated stadiums to me that are really good.

Pittsburgh. Yes. Pittsburgh has got a really, really nice, cool stadium. And you wouldn't think to go there, but it's really, really cool. So that's the one that sticks out to me as you might in your mind not think I want to go Pittsburgh, but I'm a big fan rind of the stadium in Pittsburgh. Those people like Tom Leach that go to all these different stadium, they always say Pittsburgh, and they used to say Camden Yard and Baltimore was another one.

Yeah, that's great, but people know that now. That was kind of the first stadium to, like, redo itself in the unique way. And I went there as a kid, like in college, and it's great, too. But I just, the one for me, I've been out of about 18 of them, and I think that's probably the one that you wouldn't think is necessarily great, that is really cool. 859-280-2287. Bourbon lovers kick off the new year with Commonwealth Causes. First of all, thank you to Commonwealth Causes for donating with Serve Pro and White Greer

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It doesn't really say. Sounds like a Joe B solo with the background music. Wow. So Joe B put out a set of songs. that were all him singing. We've played, we've done this before over the years, but it is kind of amazing to think about. Yeah. I wonder how many albums of this, so.

Did it go platinum? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. That's got to be up there, but I've got some other ones. One person writes, Matt, I have a Tubby Smith barbecue sauce. Did you know Tubby made barbecue sauce? No, I don't remember that one.

I don't remember that one. I don't remember that one either. One person says I have a strutton with Sutton shirt, but the Wildcat has the same kind of afro haircut that Eddie Sutton has. Nice. Why not? Yeah, people forget Eddie's hair was kind of like that back in the day, you know? Yes, it was. Yes, it was.

Here's an interesting one. I have a frame picture of Jared Carter, but it's signed by Dan Issell. What? Why? Did somebody not know who? I like you. Can you imagine if you were. Dan Issel and somebody handed you a picture of Jared Carter and asked you to sign it?

No, I'd be like, do you think this is me when I was younger? You know who that is? One person says, Matt, I have a 96 converse blue jean jacket, denim like the uniforms. Oh, I bet that would be, I bet you could get a lot of money for that now, don't you think, Ryan? Yeah, I think Misty English wore one to one of our remotes one time. I think she's got one of those. One person says I have a DeMarcus Cousins t-shirt that says in Kentucky we love our cousins. That's horrible.

That can't be real. I got to like that, though. That's a good one. That's a really good one. I have a picture. One person writes of Billy Gillespie, Alex Legion, and the girlfriend, and Alex Legion has signed it. No way. Now that.

That's one of one, right? Well, I know the picture. I know the picture. I didn't know anyone would have it signed. That's a great picture from UK lore. Yes, it is. All three have been in the same photo. There's a picture of them.

I think they're at a football game, right, Ryan? Yeah, football game. They're at a football game, and they're all kind of in a little group. Well, that was a different time in UK. In UK sports. Let me tell you quickly what happened with this guy yesterday in the shovel. Okay. The neighbor.

So remember, you heard yesterday, I borrowed nicely my neighbor's shovel. You stole it off his porch. Didn't steal it. I knocked first. He didn't answer. So then I took the shovel, borrowed. Excuse me, borrowed, Chen. Took it, dug my car out.

He came outside, saw it. I said, hey, man, you don't mind if I'd borrow the shovel. He said, sure. And then I went and brought it back. So yesterday I was in my house, Shannon, I heard a ruckus outside. Mm-hmm. and you know i have kind of a hill on the property right yes that goes from the my house down to the to the road there were two kids sledding down my hill in my yard and i wasn't going to tell

but i was like okay i mean you can't just go sledding somebody's yard like shouldn't you ask get off my yard and i look outside and it's the dad is with his kids and i open the door and he goes You don't mind if they sled, do you? Yeah, you can't be the old guy, get off my lawn at that point. Well, no. I mean, he did exactly what I did to him. Right. So, of course, I had to say, yeah, that's fine.

But I did think to myself, well played, dude. You did exactly that you were like, oh, I know a place where my kids can sled. Yeah. His yard. That's right. So, right. So, right, I actually thought that was turnabout's fair play. So I was fine with it.

I think he put the shovel incident in his back pocket and said, I'm going to use this to my advantage. Kids want to go sledding? Okay, we're going to go to the neighbor's house. Of all, well, his, if I'm looking at his house, his is probably too steep. His kids would go barreling out in the road. And so I could see why he'd want to use ours. It was very neighborly of you to allow.

It was. I'm becoming a neighbor. There you are. Did you get his name? Of course not. He still don't know his name. I don't know anybody's name. I got to ask you crazy.

Is this the guy you had the T-shirt incident with that one time? No, no. They're right next door to me. and we don't speak. But they do have a window. Have you seen the window? Have we talked about this? They have a window where they have no curtains and no blinds on their house,

and it's just open. What do you see? I've seen some things. Yeah? You want to go a little further into detail? No, I'm not. I'm just saying, you know, maybe get a curtain. Probably something freeing living.

that way. I think that's how, I think from what I can tell them, that's how they are. Like, if you see it, you see it. Yeah, they just, they're very much like, you don't like it, don't look. They always got signs in the yard for whatever the cause of the day is. You know, that's just kind of, that's them. Yeah. But they, they said, you know, they don't seem to mind.

So it's fine with me. Probably hoping you do look over. Have some company. All right, that's plenty. Who's next? Doing great. You called last night at 2 a.m. doing great. What's up?

I'm doing great. A little tired, but I hope you all are doing well. I figured, you know, we burned the tape from last night because that was a horrible game, so I've got to ask anything question. A couple weeks ago, I think you had mentioned some sort of contest where at KSbar where people can pick the spreads of games or something like that. Yeah, we're still going to do that. We're still going to do that.

It's going to be the second week. If we're going to do it twice during the year, the first time. I think is going to be, let me look at my calendar here. We're looking at either February 10th or 11th or 12th, like one of those three days. And what we're going to do is I'm going to, we're going to have all the games that are on that night. And everything on television, you're going to pick it against the spread. And whoever does the best will win a part of a prize package of around two grand that will come from our friends at cornbread hemp.

Oh, good. Awesome. We'll do that twice during the year. We'll do that probably the second week of February and then the fourth week of February. So appreciate the call. So keep that on your, I'll be talking more about it as we get closer, but it's going to be a, we'll see, Ryan,

a pick-em challenge to see who's the best at picking college basketball games. It'll be something fun to do. We're going to do it on night where Kentucky's not playing, so there's no stress. That's a great because we pick with our hearts so often. If I ever, if I said stop betting on Kentucky, I think I'd be doing okay. I just build my heart too much.

But if you're like, Shannon, you bet on Kentucky not to score 15, the first 15 points, you'd be killing it. Yeah. Cheching. Easy money. Every game. Who's next? Steve. Steve, go ahead, Steve.

A minute left. Hey, guys. Seems like the theme today is fundamentals. This is the worst fundamentally unsound team I've seen in forever. They can't dribble, they can't pass, they can't rebound. I'd love to see what they do in practice. to correct all that. And I saw this team in the preseason.

I thought to myself, this is going to be a team of fundamentals, and it's been the exact opposite. But go ahead. Yeah, Michael, we need a guy like Michael Kidd Gilchrist, plays with heart, rebounds, not a great offensive player. Yeah, I don't know. I think the season's pretty much over. I just don't see them recovering.

I got one more thing with regards to Billy. You all have an over-under on how many flowers Billy's fiancee will be getting. Oh, yeah. Did Billy say that he was okay? He said he would be perfectly fine with another man sending flowers to his fiancé. As a matter of fact, he said he would think them if they did. That's an interesting take.

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