KSR - 2026-01-28- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk Kentucky's loss to Vandy and hanging out with married women.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Hour number two. Cats lost to Vandy, but we're not letting it spoil our day. Kentucky, Fayette County is still out of school. Yes. Are they out going to be out all week? I mean, because the ice is so bad on the neighborhood streets here in Lexington still.

I've heard people say, now, in Louisville, I actually think they've done a pretty good job here. Schools are still out, though. Yeah, and I don't know. I'm not all over the city, so I'm sure there are places that aren't. Where I am, like, you know, our street is mostly cleared off, and I'm on a secondary street. So I actually think Louisville's done. I've seen a lot of, like, Facebook complaining about Lexington, Ryan. Is that, do you think it's not going well or what?

About the streets, the streets, yeah. It seems like, you know, like Newtown Pike and the downtown city streets were okay. Drew Say when he came in, like I think Winchester Road was okay. So I think the major thoroughfares, they've done a good job. They just kind of not got to the neighborhood streets yet. Well, apparently you all have it to where it was like snow, then ice, then snow, and now there's ice again, and it's making it more difficult. Right, yeah.

But Louisville. I feel like Shannon the main streets are fine in Louisville. Yeah, yeah, they're good. Again, I don't know how much you're following this Mississippi thing. But, like, they had to shut the interstate down between Oxford, between Mississippi and Memphis last night because so many cars were wrecking. Wow. All those people, they're stuck.

They're just stuck. Because they have nowhere to go. Like, it sounds awful, don't you think? I think Ole Miss has canceled classes for three days in a row down there. Is U.K. in class? today? Did they finally go back? I haven't heard. They were yesterday. I haven't heard yet today. Yeah. Well, 859-280-2287. One person writes,

Matt, yes or no, do we make the tournament? Yes. But, you know, not certain, but I'm still going to say yes. What about you, Ryan? Just they're going to have to steal some of these wins. You laid out the schedule for us. They're going to have to beat some, and they probably will, you know, kind of, get them a good resume win? Because right now they have one good win, Tennessee. That's it. Nothing else.

They stole that one. I mean, that one really should have been a loss. Well, that's not true. They beat St. Johns. That's going to be a good win. They beat Indiana. Indiana is probably going to make the tournament. It would be Purdue last night.

Yeah. So, I mean, that's not true, Ryan. We have more than one good win. Be Texas. They're probably going to make the tournament. I mean, we're going to have. We'll make the tournament. So, I mean, that's at least four tournament wins.

So I, I agree. And our schedule was really hard. I actually think these blowouts, though, hurt us. Like, that's what, because I remember every year I interview the selection chair, and he'll talk about specific games, well, they lost by 40. Like, that stuff actually matters to the tournament. The way they do it now, it absolutely does. So, you know, you do have to consider that.

One person writes, Matt, would you all did not like the roses on the bed. But if a man gave your girlfriend or wife flowers in a friendship gesture, no. Would you be okay? No. No. It would be all right. If it was like they had worked together and then the, like, they did a project together and they gave like, and it was not roses, like it was just like a friendly.

Like, you could do that, right? No. See, I'm friends with a lot of people's wives. Like, there's a lot of, what? You go to eat lunch with some of your friends' wives, don't you? A lot. Yes. I'm friends with, like, I'm friends with all of my exes for the most part.

I'm friends with a lot of people's wives, and I hang out with them without the husband. Because I don't even, in some cases, really know their husbands. And so, like, I can't be mad if I do that, Shannon. I can't be mad if people did that with my wife or girlfriend. Right. But you'd be okay with another man given your girlfriend or wife? If it was completely like platonic. Like, I wouldn't say roses is different because roses symbolizes love.

Yeah. But maybe you could have a girlfriend that doesn't like roses. Maybe her favorite flowers different, you know, the lily. It wouldn't bother me. I'm not like Billy. The thing about the Margot Robbie story is not even so much that's roses. It was that rose petals on her bed. You can't be, you can't be with people's bed.

Yeah, like a trail. Like a trail from the hallway, like the door to the bed. The bed is the thing for me even more than the roses, Ryan. It's the bed that makes it a little, you know. And then she went on and on about how wonderful it was, how good it made her feel. Yeah, she didn't help. She's not innocent in all this either. Like she's not helping anything by acting like she loves it.

She didn't help. All right. I do want to say one thing. Over the years, I'll get a lot of people who will say to me, hey, it's my mom's birthday. Or it's my husband's birthday. Can you give me a shout out? And I get a lot of those. So I generally don't do it.

It's not because I don't want to. It's just you start doing those. Then that becomes the whole show. But sometimes I get a unique one. And Shannon and I decide to do it. Well, I can't wait to hear what this is. This is a unique one. What is this?

So out there listening, big fan of the show, somebody named Scotty, you know who you are, Scotty. Scotty. Scotty, I'm here to tell you, I spoke with your wife. You, Scotty, are about to become a father. How about that? Scotty. Wow. Scotty.

Yes. I think it deserves the breaking news. Brack. That's a Wani, nah, nah. Ah, so Scotty, congratulations. So he's finding out from you right now? Yes. Congratulations, Scotty.

Your wife wanted to surprise you. You are becoming a father. Now, for other people out there named Scotty that I didn't speak to your wife, your heart may have just skipped. Yeah, how do you know if you're the... A lot of Scotty's dialing their wives right now. I think the wife of this Scotty is there at this moment. So if you're driving around and you're your own Scotty,

I'm not talking, and Scotty Basler, I'm not talking about you. He just caused a lot of chaos. Shannon, I'm not talking to Scotty too hotty. Yeah, well, you know he's got the worm. I'm not talking to Scotty Pippen. He's in Lexington a lot. Not talking to him. I'm talking to the Scotty, whose wife is there.

Congratulations. I hope you're very happy. So that's the first time I've ever done that, and I feel good about it. Now you're going to be getting all kinds of requests. No, I just didn't want. That's the thing. It was unique. We'll tell them to have a nice baby.

That's exactly right. Have a nice baby. Congratulations. That's the first. We've had an engagement on the show. We had an announcement. We've had an engagement. We one day will probably have a wedding, but we've never had that announcement.

So congratulations to Scotty. Dion Sanders, Ryan, has announced that he is going to find his players at Colorado. $500 every time they are late to practice. Do you like it? I love it, and here's why. I heard this story, and I'm just going to relate it to, you know, as a parent to discipline your kids, you've got to find something that hurts them. So it is morphed to where you've got to take away their phone or their Xbox or something.

Well, now, Dion, as their parent, as their coach, is going to find something to hurt them if they're late, what hurts you more than take some of your money? You know, you make them run stairs. That's one thing, but you're going to take away their money. That hurts them. That may convince them to maybe act a little better. Here's the one thing I don't know about this shit. I'm not sure how Dion's going to do this.

Probably the same way that Anthony Hardaway is doing it. But, like, how's Scotty going to, or Scotty, sorry. How is, I got Scotty of my brain. How's Deion going to make them do it, though? Like the money's coming from a different source. Is Dion just going to make them write a check to him? He's going to intercept, yeah, maybe, or just intercept their check coming into them and say, that's mine? I don't know.

I'm not against it in theory. You know, it's interesting because most of the time to do this, like when they do this in the NBA, it's part of the collective bargaining agreement is why they get to do it, right? So I do think these guys could just tell Dion to go fly a kite, because there's no contract that says, you know what I mean, that says he can do this. So they could tell him to just go fly a kite. But then he might say, okay, well, then you're off the team. That's it.

He can tell them to go fly a kite. But then they might be like, I'm good. But it is an interesting. It is a way, it seems like Ryan, to try to, as you said, find a way to kind of speak to kids now that they're making money. And somebody may challenge it and not pay it or only pay half of it. He's going to have to step up and suspend somebody. He might have to do that.

He might have to do that because there's no, contract that says he could do that. So he might just say, some kid could just say, go fly kite, but then he can say, well, you can't play. Yep. So they, also you do wonder, like, does it hurt you in recruiting, Shannon? If you go to a school where you could get fined and this other school goes, yeah, we don't find people.

Yeah, possibly, but I mean, I don't know if I want that type of person coming to play for me anyway. If they can't show up on time, I don't need them. You might not. So it's interesting. It'll be interesting to see how it works if they actually do it. but you are in favor of it, Ryan. You would do it as a coach?

I am 100% in favor of it. There's been some Kentucky kids that would be broke recently in football if they had this rule over at UK. Wow. Well, tell us more. Tell us more, Chief. No, we've talked about a little bit, some of the guys that were late to meetings and late to work out. Who's we? You haven't said, are you wanting to say names?

No, I think people kind of understand who it was. No, we don't. We don't understand it all. I'm on the show and I don't know who it was. Man, I just can't wait for that ice to start melting in my driveway. I can get out of the house. Okay. Is it going to make you tell us he was late?

Interesting. He's not. One person writes, Matt, I am a truck driver. I was driving down the road with my buddy, and my name is Scotty. When you said that, my heart skipped a beat, and my buddy looked at me, and I said, I don't think it's me. and then thankfully you said the wife was there. Yeah. Scotty's had a moment of panic all across the bluegrass today.

Yes. One person writes, Matt, these men are fine with you seeing their having lunch with wives because they don't consider you a threat. Well, I'm not. But Shannon, there's no way. I could be. But I'm not. Yeah. Because I'm there.

I knew them before. Most these people I knew before they even knew their husbands. Right? Yeah. So I'm like grandfathered in, in my opinion. Okay. Well, as long as they're okay with it, as long as all parties are fine. Yeah, I'd give these husbands credit.

Again, some of them I don't really know. I give them credit because they're confident the way you should be, Shannon, and the way apparently Billy is. No, I'm confident, but I mean, I just don't know that I would necessarily like that. Anyway, Adam's on the phone next. It's kind of sweet, isn't it, Ryan? Adam, go ahead. What's your comment? What you got, Adam?

Well, I think it's pretty sweet. Thank you, Adam. Okay. Appreciate your call. No, no, no, no. Adam, go ahead, Adam. It's not no spelling B. And I don't care what anybody got on their MCATs.

Yeah, Billy Gillespie once won co-SEC coach of the year. He did. And I don't think he, you know, I don't think he took to MCATs. So it's, I don't know, right now it doesn't seem like the right fit. We could always, you know, have revisionist history and come back and say he put it together. But right now it just doesn't seem a right fit. and you may have mentioned it at first hour. What do you think of Vanderbilt trolling us saying with the tweet,

they just tased Ryan this ball game's over. I liked it. I mean, that's kind of the new thing in social media. His team's kind of doing that. I thought it was good. I appreciate the call. They sent it only eight minutes after I sent it, Shannon, which makes me think your school stole it for me.

But nevertheless, I still think it's funny. I'm totally fine with it, right? I think these schools, as long as it's good-natured, a little trash talking during the games is totally fine. I love it, and I encourage it. And it was awesome that you sent it out. And it was awesome when even Vanderbilt sent it out. You don't be the opposing school's Twitter account to put that out there against the state where this happened.

I thought it was pretty good. Here's what you can't do, and I see a lot of this, like on the official Twitter account for Kentucky after they posted the score last night. Most of the trolling is coming from Tennessee fans. You just got beat by Kentucky. You don't get to come in and troll because Vanderbilt beat them. You couldn't even beat them as a Tennessee fan. A lot of Arkansas fans in there. there too, more than any other fan base.

I agree. The Arkansas and Tennessee fans won't stop with us, and that's fine. But you're right. We beat you, Tennessee. You can't. I mean, you can say something if you want. You don't get the claim Vanderbilt's win, Tennessee. I mean, I made the comment after Louisville lost to Duke. Pat Kelsey's got the team rolling

at the right time. I will grant you Louisville beat us. But like Louisville thought they were winning the title after that game. I think we knew pretty quickly we weren't what we thought we were. So, you know, it is what is. I have no problem with bandy talking trash.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-2802287. Text machine 772-774-5254. A lot of comments, Shane, insane, some form of Matt. I love the show, but the story you told about eating lunch with people's wives makes you sound gay. No

No No I mean I know there's people that think that But they think that because like you're in your mid 40s you're single and because I don't know how to use heavy machinery Those are all true I understand that I mean it's not true but like I don't sit I don't I mean if people want to think that that's fine But that has nothing but that has nothing to do with with eating lunch

I am very heterosexual but I also can respect what women as friends Like, some guys are like, I can't. Like, Mike, remember Mike Pence wouldn't let his wife, like, do it? Like, he wouldn't eat dinner with her eating lunch with someone that was from the opposite sex. And Ryan agreed with that back in the day. Yep. I don't, that's, to me, ridiculous. Like, you can have female friends.

I would say this. Your group of friends from trancey is very unique. You guys are all very close. You've been friends since, you know, you got the trancy. That's a little different than you go and eat with somebody else's wife. think, or... But I'm afraid. But there are people outside of that.

You, I mean, there's people that I've been friends with, like, I don't see why that's wrong. Why can't men and women be friends? They can be. I think if you're married, your wife may have something to say about it. Well, their husbands don't. As long as they're okay with it, as long as everybody's good, I mean, there's two women in Louisville that I've become good friends with the last two years.

I've never even met their husbands. and the three of us go have dinner and I've never even met their husbands and I've offered two I was like if you want me to meet your husbands I will and that we I don't but we hang out all the time I don't know why is that bad it's not bad if the husband's okay with it there's a lot of husbands but you couldn't handle what you're saying you don't have the self-confidence you could handle it I think I can handle it I don't know if my spouses could handle it you don't trust them yeah multiple you got Tuesday spouses? They're cool with each other?

Wait a minute. I don't understand what you mean by that. They wouldn't like it if you did it, but you'd be okay if they did. Yeah. I don't believe that, Shannon. He would not be okay. No, no. He would not be okay with it. Would you, Shannon? No. I guarantee I wouldn't want anybody send her roses. That's, okay, I agree. That's a whole other line.

Yeah, but no, if she's going out, I'm going too. Yeah, I understand. Yeah. But, you know, sometimes they, they, just sometimes like people who spend all their time together, they need a break from each other, right? That's why we have work. Yeah. Now you wonder why I'm not married.

Like, I know, that doesn't sound, it doesn't sound fun. One person writes about, I don't know if you heard the pre-show. They were talking about a game called Can Matt Start This? Mm-hmm. Have Ryan and Shannon pick various pieces of equipment and you honestly say whether or not you can start it.

Okay, let's go. Fair enough. Go for it. You tell me something. Wheat eater. Can start it. Wouldn't necessarily be great at using it. But I think I could, so you just pull it, right? Yeah, but there's other things that go along with it. You have to, like, string the weed eater.

You have to put string in. Oh, no, no. You're asking me if I can put the string in? Yeah. If it came pre-strung, I could do it. If I have to string it, probably not. It's over. It's over.

You got to throw the whole thing away. Let's get a new one. Lawmore. for sure i've mowed lawns when i was a kid i i did a i definitely could do a lot motorcycle no way i'm scared to death of motorcycle you could you could start like uh like a scooter like a you know yeah but i wouldn't do it because i i that would make me i mean i scooter yes motorcycle no i'd be worried i'd wreck it okay ryan go ahead a gas powered leaf blower how do you do i know i mean maybe i can figure it out but just off the top of my head i don't know how to do that a power

Water washer. Don't even really know what that is. You don't know what a power washer is? You're talking about like, is that where you shoot the water really hard on your car to clean it? Yeah, I've never used it. I've used it. No, I've used it at like car washes. Yeah, but no, you want to use on your house or maybe your driveway.

Oh, I would never do that, no. Yeah. How about a crock pot? Come on. Well, I mean, you just turn on the oven. Yeah, gas stove. Turn on the stove. Turn on the stove for a crock pot.

Oh, you mean, you put it in? I figure it out What else you got, Ryan? A can opener Oh, for sure, I can do that Not electric Yeah, the manual Yeah, yeah

Yeah, I know how to do it I know I do it Because the one The metal part sticks to the top And then it goes Around Yeah, you gotta turn it, you gotta crank it

You gotta crank it Yeah, yeah, I can do that I can do that Anything else? Ryan? But like, I heard somebody say a tractor unless it's just turn a key, no.

If there's anything else you have to do, I would know. Yeah, that'd be tough for most people. I think just start to get on a tractor. You're going to choke it a little bit? Yeah, I don't know how to do that. You want to choke it? No. Who's up next?

Bob and James said. I'm welcome to other suggestions. I got one more. I recently had to change, not jump a battery, change a battery. No way. No way. Like a car battery?

Yeah, car battery. No way. I wouldn't even try it. He knows how to change double a battery. batteries. Yeah. Like you, somebody, I heard somebody say jump a battery. I, I don't know if I, I think I could.

But I also be worried because you can't, if you get it wrong, right, it like, it breaks. Yeah, you got a 50-50 shot. Yeah, I don't want to do that. So I would ask, I would ask. Black on Black. Then I could do that. Yeah, I think I could do that. I go ahead, Bob.

I think you do that, actually. Hey, Matt. I'm just going to shout out to Russell County High School's baseball coach assistant. Our electric was off. I didn't have any heat. I only used a wood stove occasionally when an electric's off. No wood. He hooked me up.

It's a firewood. Give me a shot. That's very nice. There's 700 people here now, and Russ County still don't have electric. Anyway, during that game last night, the second half, I turned it off. It went over to my alma mater, Miami. They had a, but it's still number one, unfeated. A great win over UMass.

Anyway, all these, I couldn't believe the security led all these fans in and speedos. It's five degrees out. They were still. 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. My guilty pleasure song.

Yep, I remember that. When people say guilty pleasure songs, they usually say songs. that are actually good, but they're like, oh, it's a guilty pleasure, but everybody likes it. This is a guilty pleasure because nobody really likes this song, probably except me. Yep. Well, at least you get one person that likes it. By the way, this is what I will be singing in my car on the way to lunch now that you've got it. I haven't thought about it in a long time.

On your way to lunch with another man's wife? Maybe. See, the text machine is full of men saying it's weird and women saying they don't understand why men think it's weird. Because, like, Ryan and it's core, here's the thing. Ryan, you don't think, see if I'm right about this. You don't think men and women can actually be friends with each other without there being some thing, right?

I think there can be. I just don't know if it's appropriate to take it to the next level by having. But we're not taking it to the next level. We're having Chipotle. That's not the next level. That's not even that level. I just would do it. Do you have any female friends?

Yes. That you do. Of course. Do you? Or do you have like couple friends? No. Okay. So you have female friends?

Yes. And you could eat a meal with them. I could. So then what's the problem? I'm just not going to do it. I'm not going to say, hey man, let's meet with me for lunch next week. You're not going to do it. I just think it's a little, just my opinion, a little disrespectful to yoga girl.

If I'm having lunch, it's another woman. But what is she school with her? do what? What is she's cool with? She may be. I'm just, maybe I'm just going to be a little more respectful. So you're Mike Pence is what you're saying.

You're Mike Pence. I agreed with Mike Pence when we had this argument before. Okay. His discussion, I mean. So, yeah, I am Mike Pence. I just, I think that's,

I just think that's ridiculous. I know, though, when we had this argument before, there were a lot of people that agreed with it. That seems silly to me. If you, if you can control yourself, which I can,

and which presumably you two can, or at least Shannon can, then it strikes me that like what's the day like you can have friends right of course now I'm talking to shan yes yeah you can have friends okay I just wonder if the same women that are okay with you doing it would be okay if like if they're the other way around like let's say they would be okay with their husband going out with another woman for lunch would they be okay with that you know I don't know I don't know their I don't know their situation but I will tell you this if I get married one day, you can mark this down.

I will be fine with it because I have the confidence. I sound like Billy. You do. I have the confidence. There was a man in my church who was like 90 years old, and his wife was about to go out of town for a few days. And at my church, somebody was giving him a hard time and said, are you worried that your wife's going out of town for a few days?

You're worried she's going to meet a man, right? Shannon, just kind of teasing him. And he looked at the person and said, I'm not worried. She knows the good wood from the brush. And I was a little kid when I heard that. Yeah. His name was Hope Cox.

And I've always remembered Hope Cox's thing. He wasn't worried because he knew who Hope Cox was shit, right? Yeah. He wasn't worried about the other people. He was Hope Cox. There's no doubt there's people like you and Billy that are... And Hope Cox. Don't forget about Hope Cox, Shannon.

What if there was more good wood out there, though, that she found that was better wood than Hope Cox? Here's the thing, Shannon. There's not going to be anybody better because he's Hope Cox. Can't find, okay, parole jam. He's Hope Cox, and I'm Matt Jones. And that's Billy R. Sports. Okay. I can't believe you're making me take up for Billy.

859-2807. Bill Belichick, speaking of Billy's, what a great transition. Did not make the whole thing. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Stupid. That's why the whole thing. is dumb in every sport.

Every sport has a terrible hall of fame. Basketball lets too many people in. Okay? If you ever look at the basketball hall fame, like everyone's in. Everyone that was even good is in. Like if you think about the NBA right now, like DeMar Rosen will be in the Hall of Fame.

Does he even, you even know what DeMard de Rosen looks like? No. He'll be in the Hall of Fame, though, because that's the way the NBA works. Everyone makes the Hall of Fame. So basketball's done for that reason. Baseball's dumb because they actually. like they have some sort of moral clause.

Barry Bonds is not in the Hall of Fame. Come on. Alex Rodriguez is not in the Hall of Fame. Roger Clemens. Mark McGuire. Mark McGuire. How are you going to have a Hall of Fame with the best hitter maybe of all time and leave him out? The two best hitters of our lifetime, Shannon, are Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez,

and they don't have either one of them yet. Yeah. That's ridiculous. Sosa has a tougher argument because he really wasn't good before the steroids. But so was Barry. Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire were good before the steroids. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. So was Roger Clemens. So what is with Belichick? People just don't like them. The thing about football is. Football has this weird thing that we don't necessarily let people in the first time. Stop it. He's the best coach.

I hate the Patriots. Hate, hate, hate the Patriots. But he's the best coach of all time. To have a Hall of Fame where you don't let him in, whatever your rules are, right? They're stupid if you're not letting Bill Belichick in. You said he's the best NFL coach in the history of the NFL, and some writers have a personal vendetta against him,

so they're not going to vote for him? Apparently, the story is Bill Pollian, who I guess was with the Colts, right? Yeah, right. He was mad about the flake gate, and he got enough people on the committee to agree, this is the allegation, to, like, not let him in until the second year.

But if that is true, then that's ridiculous. How can you have a system where a dude doesn't like somebody and they don't let him in? Yeah, for a personal vendid against somebody. I don't care if he's at North Carolina or he's dating Jordan Hudson or whatever. Like, who cares? If he doesn't get in in the first ballot, then nobody should. Nobody should.

If he doesn't go in. Why even have a ballot if you're not going to let in Bill Belichick, right? Right. Why are you going to have a Hall of Fame if you're not going to let him Barry Bonds? And then in the NBA, why are you going to have a Hall of Fame if you let everybody in? That's ridiculous. It's just dumb. So that's why all the Hall of Fames are stupid.

I don't understand why sports writers get to vote on it. We, can you imagine if they asked me to vote? I don't know anything. But you know what? Like, if I do radio two more years, I'm eligible to potentially be nominated to do that. How stupid is that? Yeah. Well, you would vote for Belichick, though.

Well, you know what? I'd be better than who they have because, yes, I would vote for Belichick. Yep. Who's next? Linda. Linda, go ahead, Linda. Hello. Hi.

Well, I was just listening to your podcast, which I do mostly every day. Thank you. And you were talking about the unusual memorabilia. Yes, what do you have? And I have a Wildcat T-shirt with Kentucky, the Wildcat, and basketballs, and a big Walcat head. And guess what he has? What does he have? The Forbidden tongue.

Oh, you've got the dirty tongue. I do. Ma'am, that is portographic material you have. I know that, and that's probably why my parents wouldn't let me wear it out in public. So it's in really good shape. So do you wear it now? If I went somewhere I wanted to, but it's really nice. I'll text you a picture of it.

Okay, please do. Because you've got, she's got the saucy tongue. Oh, yeah. What's your name again? am your what's your name Linda Linda with the saucy tongue okay so Linda with the saucy tongue

I think you should wear it and come by the bar sometime Linda and we'll take a picture of it okay all right it sounds like a winner I've got kids that live in Louisville so well I'm in the bars in Lexington

so make sure you go there I appreciate I got one some in Lexington well good I appreciate it Linda and the saucy tongue do you have any memorabilia with the tongue Ryan? No, I used to. I remember years ago, but it's gone, long gone, but I wish I had some of it. It's really hard to find. Like, that's a real, like, I don't, I had a T-shirt once with it, but that was years ago, and I think I lost it in a move. And those are really hard to find now.

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Yeah Hope Cox That's great advice for me Not to don't be Don't be nervous Don't be like Ryan Be like Matt and Billy Not Ryan and shit

I think it's definitely Just a personal choice But I think you and Billy May be in the minority Because you're hearing From insecure dudes The tech Again

It's all about who you talk to Women are on my side Not even who I talk to I haven't talked to anybody. I just think that's, you guys are in the minority. So he's like deciding what the people think, Shannon, with no basis. Yeah. Well, I don't know it's about being insecure, but.

Maybe a little bit. Jealous. Ryan, you're a very jealous person, though. You would grant that, right? I just think it's more respectful. I'm not a jealous person. But leave this issue aside. You're jealous in general.

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First of some SEC games, right? Not a lot of great ones. I guess I'll pick Tennessee at Georgia. That'll be a good one. Georgia's a one-and-a-half-point favorite at home. Ryan, who you got? I'm taking Tennessee, and I think Tennessee will win the game. I think Georgia was a little overrated.

I think they're about to be exposed a little bit more, so I'll go Tennessee. Tennessee to win on the road, all right? Yeah, Georgia, though, scores a ton of points. I think they lead, do they still lead the country in points per game? Not anymore, but they're high. Close, yeah. You know what, I'm going to take Georgia on this one. It's a tough one.

Georgia's not played well last couple weeks. I'm going to say Tennessee. They got to get it. I mean, Tennessee has, they have a lot. lot more losses than you think. I think they have as many as weeks. They have six. 13 and 6.

13 and 6. So they need this one. So I'm going to say Tennessee goes on the road and gets the victory. I watched last night before we started playing Ryan, Nebraska, because you know, Nebraska was undefeated. Yeah. And then they lost last night at Michigan. When you watch Nebraska play, you sit there and go, why aren't we good?

Right. Like those dudes do not look like they would be good at basketball, any of them. and yet they balled. They lost that game last night, but, you know, they lost at Michigan. That is not a bad loss. And you sit there and you go, Nebraska is 20 and 1. And we struggle to score 55 points. It can actually be very frustrating because none of those dudes at Nebraska

are going to play at the next level, and yet they still play well. They had 50 points at halftime last night. I mean, they have little dudes that look like us making plays. Nebraska reminds us about my team last year. a bunch of old guys don't look at very athletic not going to play at the NBA but yeah they just get the ladies ball they made 10 threes in the first half the only problem is only made one in the second half but did you hear him say my team like he coaches the team yeah he goes he reminds me of my team last year ride

linens kentucky team who's next peanut peanut peanut go ahead peanut all right uh first of all i have i have a shot glass a license and a pillowcase with the tongue on it. All right. You have a pillowcase with the tongue on it? I do. I have a twin bed set. You sleep with that.

You sleep with that saucy tongue kind of licking you at night? In your ear. In your ear. I actually, I did when I was a kid, the bedspread match, but I don't have the bed spread anymore, but now I just have the toilet case. You had a bed sprained with that tongue on it, too. My goodness.

I did. Peanut. I understand a lot more. So two nights ago, me and my cousin were talking about trading some memorabilia. And I taught him I had a Bull of East 85-86 basketball program with Joe B. Hall on it. He was there to see Rex Chapman. And he counteroffered me with a Patrick Patterson picture with Richard Farmer's signature on it. What is it with getting people to send aside other people's pictures?

Richie signed Patrick Patterson? Richie signed Patrick Patterson's. Yes. Okay. That's an odd, that's an odd memorabilia. But Peanut, your unique character. I appreciate the call. I think Dan Isle's signing Jared Carter's pictures got to be one of the weirdest things that exists.

That's the best one. Let me ask you, would you do that if somebody asked you to do that if you're a basketball player? It's signed somebody else's. Yeah, as a basketball player, it's weird. Sometimes people want you to sign something and there's nothing there. Like, I've signed, like, people's, you know, like, I've signed menus at other restaurants before. Because, like, I'd be somewhere and they want you to sign something. Yeah.

But it is weird. I can't imagine the scenario you would go up. First of all, are you just carrying around a picture of Jared Carter? You're hoping for Jared, but you'll settle for Dan Isle. Like, where is it you're seeing Dan Issel where you have a picture of Jared Carter? That's a good question. Good question. Look, where are you?

Are you at a Jared Carter signing and Dan Issel showed up? You got in the other line? I can imagine. Jared Carter's line very long. I know what it is. Jared Carter and Dan Isle are signing. Dan's pictures are more expensive. So you buy the Jared Carter to get Dan cited.

What do you think? Maybe. But are you, I thought you're paying for the autograph, not the picture. I can't figure out a senator. where that happens. That person is going to have to let me know. Who's next? Charlie.

Charlie, go ahead, Charlie. Hey, Matt. How are you all doing today? Good. Talking about your lawnmowers and shamsaws. I want to tell you about a local kid here. He had a lawnmower, and the preacher wanted it. They were negotiating a deal,

and the preacher wound up trading him a bicycle for his lawnmower. And as he's peddling off, the preacher hollers at him, said, hey, kid, this lawnmower won't start. He said, well, preacher, you got a cuss at it. He said, oh, no, no, I'm a preacher. I forgot all my cuss words. He said, you keep pulling on that rope. They'll come back to you.

I like it. Sounds like a joke I would have heard in church. Is that where you heard it, sir? Is that in a church joke book? Yeah, that's church. I knew it. I could tell. That's a church joke book.

Okay, talking about the ball team. I just, I think Mark is just, I think he's too soft. He's too kind, maybe. I'm not for sure the players respect him. Did you see that the ball taken out on the end last night and they threw the ball out on the court and stepped back? Yeah, I put that on O-A. I mean, I will say this. O-Way, there are times I think O-Way is from an,

from a basketball perspective, O'A's almost always a positive. But from an attitude perspective, O'A is often a positive, but sometimes he's a negative. And I thought that there were some moments last night he was a negative, and that's an example of that. You know, and Bobby Knight was probably too much of a general, but we almost need a general coach, you know. Well, you can do it a bunch of different ways.

I appreciate the call. We've talked about this over the years. I mean, obviously there are guys that scream that succeed. there are guys that scream that fail. There are guys that are quiet that succeed, and then there are guys that are quiet that fail. So I think there's a lot of different ways to do it. We'll just have to see, Ryan,

if Mark is going to be able to find a style that works. I would like to see him do something. When things start going south, he kind of just stands here with his arms crossed. I mean, I would like him to do a little bit of maybe call some timeouts, make some do something at that point. You know, Tubby used to just stare a hole through people. He didn't really see him.

Tubby could do both, though. Like, Tubby could be nice and he could also scream at you. Yes, he could. Cow's like that too, some. Although I thought Cal towards the end got way too screaming. You know, I don't know. Remains to be seen. There's still, I think, a lot of questions about how the Mark thing is going to work.

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