KSR - 2026-02-02- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Kentucky's win over Arkansas, Ryan boxing at KSBar & Grille, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Kentucky led for 37 of the 40 minutes of the game, faced one of the worst stretch of calls I've ever seen in a basketball game and fought through all of it to win a huge road win, not just because it's Caliperia in Arkansas, but just the season as a whole, making the tournament seating, all that stuff. Ryan, I, you know, the biggest win of the Pope era is, probably the win at Duke, or is the win against Duke, because it was such an early point in the in his tenure and people wanting to see what kind of coaches would be.

But I think this one's second, and it, you know, arguably could be right up there with the first. Yeah, I was going to say, you can make a great argument. It could be number one to Caliperi came into your arena last year and punched you on your home floor last year. So you go to his place and not only win, show some fight, you know, take the guys and put a little chip on their shoulder a little bit. and they came out, and I still can't believe they played that well. I mean, I cannot figure this team out.

They go from playing, sneaking it up a couple days before to just with his fight and grit and played so well on Saturday against Arkansas. Well, I think the answer as to why is we're not going to ever know. This is just going to be how this team is. I mean, they're going to be like this. They're going to put up brutal bombs. But then they also show they can go win. You know, Arkansas was the only team undefeated in the SEC at home, and then you beat them.

and you controlled the game most of the way. The crowd they made basically Drew not a factor throughout the vast majority of it. And I think Pope completely out-coach cow. It was a cow special on his end losing to a dud, shooting long twos at the end. Oh, that long two. The long two, man, I have to tell you, Drew, the long two, I just sit there and went, yes, the other team now shooting the long two. I had a little tear watching that in my eye, watching that long two. I missed the long twos just a little bit.

It was a good flashback to the Cal era. I knew they were very capable of laying an egg and playing that way because we've seen Cal do that in big moments, games he's supposed to win many times. I just didn't think Kentucky would take advantage of the moment, even if Arkansas gave them that opportunity. To go from as bad as they looked Tuesday night at Nashville, to turn it around that quickly, I freely admit I did not think they would be able to do that on short turnaround. but Arkansas opened the door and Kentucky ran right through it and looked great the whole game really.

I was happy to be wrong on that one because I did not have any faith going into it. I was shocked how well throughout the game I thought they played offensively. Yes. Defensively, I think they played all right, but they had trouble sometimes guarding them, especially off the bounds. But offensively, I mean, we shot over 50%. I mean, how many times is that going to happen? but just the quality of shots.

They only had seven turnovers. They went to their strength. They drew fouls. They went downhill. Aberdeen and Owey going downhill. The Biggs, for the most part, doing a good job finishing. Chandler and Noah hitting some big shots. Yelovich hit a three as well.

You know, the way I just thought they took good shots. They didn't do anything stupid. They didn't kind of play the me ball that we've talked about. And, Ryan, I'm not sure offensively. that they could have played much better. That's one of the best offensive gains they've played all year. Just passing the ball, execution, moving it around. You're right.

At Nashville, we saw a lot of me ball and a lot of dribbling, a lot of selfish play. Didn't see any of that. I mean, they obviously made a decision at halftime, too, to try to get Malachi involved and kind of went to him to start the second half. That worked. Then that opened up the outside shot. When Colin Chandler got it, you know, he'd knock it down in a big shot like that. So everything seemed to work for them.

I thought the key to the game was a way, I thought O-A. was excellent. Maybe one of the best overall games he's played. All right. So they put him on Darius A-Cuff, which is an interesting decision to put your best player on their best. I think he plays really well. A-Kof got points, but he had to work for him. Some of his points came when O-Way went to the bench.

But he stayed on him, really made A-Coff did not dominate the game like he could. Then on the other end, O-Way takes the ball to the basket hard, finishes a lot of his layups. He actually didn't shoot foul shots very well, or 30 points. But that was when you were trying to picture, Drew, when you and I were arguing before the season, okay, can O'A be a star or not? We had those conversations. You were probably picturing last night or Saturday night as the kind of game that you want to see O'A have. Definitely. All around great game.

I mean, he rebounded well. He was close to double double with rebounds. And the nine for 12 from the field stands out. but I think you hit it with the defense on A-Cuff. They don't write that down on the box score. But I think at halftime, A-Cuff was like two for 10, 0-4 from 3, 4 or 5 points. At that point, Kentucky had built up a good lead.

And all of that. I don't think O'A gets enough credit for him taking on that assignment. I think Pope even said O'A wanted it. To me, A-Cuff is still the best player in the conference. I haven't watched all of Arkansas's games, but I watched enough to know that's the worst he's played in a long time. So O-A creating that havoc was a big part of him scoring too. Let's talk about the two key stretches of the game.

One is, I think, right in the beginning. Okay, now, unfortunately, I didn't get to see the beginning because they didn't switch it over yet. And I didn't, I didn't. So when they turned it on, I think we were already up 12 to 5 or something. But, you know, in four minutes, when they took that first break, it was 14 to 7. And Kentucky had, you know, Shannon, your race to 15 or whatever. Hey, I've never been happy to have your door to use money than that. You know, it didn't.

Yeah. Finally. But, I mean, that's a massive thing. They have either gotten obliterated at the beginning of games, or it's been like four to four, and then they go to the bench and get obliterated. That start rhyme was everything for getting that game going and getting the lead that they carried through the first half.

Yeah, most people didn't get to see it, but Aberdeen scored the first bucket, but then really was a nail-biter when Chandler hit his first three. First open three, boom, and he nailed it. And that just kind of just seemed to, like, relieve everybody. Okay, you know, we're on today. Let's go, let's go do this. And then I want to get to the second stretch.

But you mentioned Aberdeen. Drew, this is the first game for Kentucky that I think you could say everyone played a role. Like all the guys that played, I thought did something. I thought Diabate was excellent. Yeah. I thought obviously Chandler hit shots. Aberdeen, I thought was good. You know, Noah came in and hit a three, but also I thought fought and rebounded, played okay defense.

Yellovich hit a couple shots. Brandon Garrison made a couple of plays when he was in. I thought, Drew, this was the first game where every guy could go. You know what? I played a big part in this. Yeah, five minutes in when they had Kentucky was up big. You know, we're all watching that scores table. Like, don't do it, Mark.

Don't do it. Don't take this out. But he still put in, I think, Garrison and Diabate. And I've grown a little. But then Garrison, I think, scored right away and then got an assist. And it just kept steamrolling Arkansas there early. So that didn't affect them. and they both came in and made big plays.

Also, like to Noah, giving a little shush to the crowd. Yeah. The shush was great. The shush is great. You question that guy's confidence. If you're shushing people on the road in Bud Walt, your confidence is doing just fine. Yeah, he, listen, that is a game where I would have thought he would really struggle

to play with all the athletes out there. But he did well. And he was playing Ryan with four minutes to go. They had him in. And then before a late sub for Chandler, Noah was playing crunch minutes down the street. You know, he had a caller on the pregame show, and he said this could be a Trent Noah game. He called it.

And Trent came up. Susie came in, he grabbed like four rebounds in the first, like four minutes he was on the floor. He was, you know, doing those little things, got his confidence. And then Pope had enough confidence to leave him out there, like you said, towards the end of the game. Second league and rebounder on the team behind O way. That's amazing. That's amazing that he is, was the second leading rebounder. Now let's talk about the, you know, the situation.

Shannon, Doug Shows. I don't think I've seen referees make worse calls I got sued about one once I've seen referees I've seen referees sort of be jerks I've never seen a referee

insert himself into the game and more change a basketball game than Doug Shouse did those three techniques I think Brandon Garrison I'm fine with that technical I think he he probably earned that one.

The Diabate technical and then following it up with the Pope technical, and then by the way, that wasn't a 10-second call. He was a cross. Those three calls, all of which were made by Doug Shows. Shannon, I've never seen a referee. Change a basketball game more quickly than he did right there. I don't know that that's ever happened. Three technical fouls in 38 seconds.

I would have loved to have heard what Mark Pope said, because I can't imagine him saying too many four-letter words, too many F-bombs. But maybe he did. I watched this. I watched his voice. I don't know that I could read his mouth, but I didn't see a lot of really dirty words. I don't know what he said.

Gosh, darn it. Get the call. You know, I don't think that deserves it. Schemitee, what did you do? Yeah, that doesn't deserve a technical foul. And Mo Diabate definitely did not deserve a technical foul there because if you're going to call that as a T, you're going to call every blocked shot a technical foul

because there's always like flexing and, you know, but it was unnecessary. Right. It was essentially saying, Drew, I'm going to be a part of this game now. Like, I'm going to, Doug Schall's, I got my tight Haynes pants on, and it's time for you all to look at me. That's what that is. There's no reason, Drew, to make that call, none. Yeah, and to me, Doug, you showed you can't handle rivalry games.

You know what, guys talking rivalry games. It's part of the experience. It's part of the atmosphere. It's what people want to see. I don't care what he said, let him go, especially what he'm looking at him. When Doug kind of lost it, it was the three and four. 40 seconds. It reminded me with someone, you know, they might be a little out of control. Maybe they show up

at work and just be me and everybody and it's like, are you all right at home? Do you need to go get some fresh air and come back and restart this? It's like, are you okay, Doug? What's going on outside of this gym that you brought in here with you? Yeah, you need a break. That's exactly what it was. He needs a break. And then, so it completely changed the game. First of all, you take a game

where, uh, and it makes it, I think they take the lead during that sequence. Am I right? They did. They take the lead and then they score immediately after. So they go up four. And we'll talk about it. I mean, that was a moment Kentucky could have collapsed, but they didn't. But then the officials, as if implicitly knowing they had screwed up,

started calling like just touch fouls, like three straight touch fouls on Arkansas. I'm not sure any of them were fouls. So they just add three fouls quickly. Then later in the game, because of what they've done, they call that technical, which, again, he earned that, I guess, but I don't think that gets called without the, one other. They completely changed the flow of the game for a few minutes solely because of Doug Schau's ego. And that drives me, Ryan. It drives me crazy. I'm kind of with you. I can see why they gave one to Brandon Garrison kind of taunting. But then they basically called one from DiBate

for taunting the cameraman. He blocked the shot, flexed in front of the camera. I've never seen a guy get a technical for taunting the cameraman. And then I'm like you, I thought Pope must have said one of the magic words. I can't believe he would. But I don't know why you'd get teed up that quick. But Shows also was in there. Hope doesn't know the magic words. Yeah. And he also was asking for it because he was standing right in front of him. That's another thing. If you're Doug Shows in that moment, get away from it. Get away. Go to the other side of the floor. You have seen two technicals get called back to back. Get away from the coach. There's no reason for you to be there. All right. You're asking, you're kind of like taunting him. And I don't think Pope even said anything worth doing,

but you at some point have to recognize that you have become too big a part of this game. And he didn't do it. You're baiting him, like just basically daring him to say anything. Yes. You're right in front of him. You can tee them up. Yeah, you're the guy in the school yard going, you want some? You want some?

Here I am. The problem is there's not equal power there. That's the referee and that's the coach. It's not equal power. So it was just, it was ridiculous. Now, it did allow me to watch that guy shoot an airball on a free throw, which might be the worst free throw I've ever seen in my life. That was the Garrison technical.

We have to thank him for that technical and giving us that moment. That was so beautiful. He almost airballed the second one, too. It barely grazed the rim. I've never seen a worse free throw than that. And not only did he airball it, he was like a foot short. It landed in the paint and almost bounced twice before going out of bounds. There was a good cow moment there.

Did you see cows the look on cow's face after he airballed it? You need to be, hey, but you've got to go back and look. He has a look like, what in the world? Like it was, I will say it was a classic hilarious cow moment of my guy shot that. But I, that could have changed the game. However, Kentucky fighting back from that rhyme might end up being like the definitive point of the year. Because I thought they were going to fold. I thought we were headed for a 15 point loss and me just complaining about shalls until the end of days.

And they came back and won the game. I think the tone was set for Kentucky way back in the first half, in the first technical, When they called double technical on O.A. in Richmond, that's O.A. kind of telling everybody, look, you guys ain't going to punk us. You ain't going to push us around. We're going to stand up to you guys tonight. I think that set the tone for the rest of the game that carried them.

You're talking about in that stretch when they had all those tendons against them. But I would have thought, again, that would have been so easy to fold. That's the one part of the game where Arkansas's crowd is into it. Everything's going against you. And I think they came down. Who hit a three? Somebody hit a three at that moment. Was it?

I know. Somebody hit a three to cut it to one. It was, was it Aberdeen? I'm not sure. But that was the biggest shot of the game. Whoever hit that shot, somebody will have to let me know who hit it. Whoever hit that shot, that was the biggest shot of the game. I think the Chandler shot at the end was big two, but that was the biggest shot because it cut it to one.

It stopped the run, and I think that let Kentucky win the game. It was a Chandler. Chandler. So Chandler both times. Those were massive. Each one he hit, he hit three, I think, and each one was monstrous. 8.59-280, 2287. We'll take a break. We'll talk more about the game.

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The worst advice. from the dumbest people you know. Listen to Help from Hypocrite as part of the Mike Cultura Podcast Network available on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That was such a great win. I listened to this song twice right after the game was over. You know, you do have to get Joy Drew out of beating cow.

I mean, I'll give him credit. He's gracious in those circumstances. said that they deserve to win. I appreciate all that. But nevertheless, it's great to win. I mean, for a year straight, we've been listening to Arkansas. I've been listening to Arkansas fans since Cal got there, but especially since the win last year. You know, after every time Kentucky loses or Arkansas gets a game, they replay that video of me saying thank you to Tyson Foods. and I was like ready to not look at social media for like six days because I knew that would be. It's just more Arkansas fans now follow me maybe than any other fan base.

And the Arkansas media has a weird obsession about me and you now, Drew, and I don't know why. Now they have an obsession about Ryan because he took his shirt off, which we'll get to later. Like the obsession with Arkansas people about us, it's absolutely crazy for a state that, I've only been to twice. With that said, to get that victory, it's just, it feels that is such a per, even if they don't win another thing that matters this year, that was a massive one for the program. Yeah, I won't pretend it was just another game on the schedule. There was a lot of extra glee in that and not just Cal, like when it showed the bench and it was the whole cast of characters that were here at the end. All of them, name them.

Even DJ, who I've been sympathetic to when he two-hand shove Colin Chandler done with you, too. By the way, that should have been a flagrant as well. That was not a basketball move when he just threw him down. How was that not a flagrant? I think they didn't call it a flagrant because he made the shot. But that was a, that should have been a flagrant right there. But all of them. All of them. I'm glad they're holding the L. And also, it doesn't change last year's game,

but I don't have that lingering loss to Rupp last year when we were so excited. Even score now. Actually, Pope's up by game now overall. But it's a wash with the Cowl Pope debate now. Moving on. But yeah, I mean, I finally got to get those. razorback nuggets that were a year and a half old little freezer burn on them. Got to what? Yeah, got to bring them out. Yeah, I'll admit a year later than I wanted to bring them out. But, you know, it's good old chicken flavored plywood that they sent us and it was good to finally eat it.

I agree with you about like looking over to the bitch, Shannon. You see Brad Caliperia over there. And I got nothing against Brad. He's fine. Chin Coleman, all of them. It is, it's like that cast of characters. And the fact that they lost it, the way we lost games we shouldn't have lost here, right? Guys getting. frustrated, taking bad shots, not having a good game plan. I loved it. Like, Arkansas lost that game in the same way that we got mad over the last five years of the way we were losing games. We've seen that same ending right here how many times at Kentucky and to be able to see it on the flip side and be able to go to Arkansas and get them back

for what they, you know, the win they had last year in Lexington was even sweeter. So how do you explain Ryan Mark Pope in terms of these games? I mean, objectively speaking, Mark Pope has some insane wins here. Okay? I mean, we've beaten, what is it? Six, seven, top 15 teams? Like an insane amount in two years. We've won at Tennessee twice.

We've won at Arkansas. We've beaten Duke. We kind of, we won at Gonzaga. We win these games that, like, we seem to have no business winning. Like, no, we had no business winning that game on Saturday. day going into it. And yet we do. And then we lose it home to Missouri, right?

Or we don't even barely score in Nashville. How do you explain the fact that there are such feast and famine results with... I'm having a hard time coming up with an answer. Because like you said, they're two toughest games this year at Tennessee, at Arkansas. They won them both. If you listen to the guys after the game in Pope, they all said it was a difference in practice this week. Between the Vandy game and Arkansas game, they changed up practice. made practice a little harder, a little tougher.

The guys took it more serious, and they say that's why they played better on Saturday. Well, let's talk about that. So they said after the game, what they did, Drew, was this week in practice. They would say from the first moment of practice, they had the most intense 15 minutes at the beginning. Basically, they would make them play all out, rather than building to a crescendo. They made them come out of the gate practicing insanely hard to start on Thursday. Jack Givens thought that was the difference in the game. Do you think that could be just literally changing the practice routine and saying you've got to go all out from moment one?

It seems wild that it would change from Tuesday to Saturday, the two different teams we saw in Nashville and Fayetteville. Maybe it just triggered something between their ears. Something in their brain got them going. Even Brandon Garrison said after the game Saturday, we changed something they did in pregame warmups. He's like, we've got to keep doing that. Yep. So maybe even if it's just a mental game that he's playing with them, whatever it was, just hit repeat on that entire process

because that was the first 40 minutes they've played all season looking like a complete game. Yeah, and maybe it's also like, you know, even if it doesn't really work, Shannon, if they believe it works, what is that, a placebo? Is that? Yeah, exactly. Like, even if it's really not a difference,

if the players think it's a difference, then keep doing it. I kind of wish, though, that they would have taken the suggestion of that caller that said when everybody else is doing the layup line before the game, we should just be playing five on five for the first five minutes of warm-ups, and then you're ready to go by then. But whatever he did, it worked. I mean, they came out playing better than I've probably seen them play all year in the first five minutes of the game. Jack and Tom did say they were in a full lather sweat during pre-game one for the first time

all season. They used the word lather. Yeah, Jack used it like two or three times. Latherer. Yeah, he lathered. They were all lather. Jack did not say latherer. That's the kind of thing you would say.

I promise you. They were in a full sweat, and in your mind, you were like, let me add the word lather. Jack did not say lathered up. Jack did not say lathered. He did. I'm picturing like an herbal essence commercial here. Are you sure? Lather's like what you use on like horses, right?

They were all lathered up and it works. So lather them up again, big fella. Do you think he said lather? Maybe lube. No, he didn't say that either. No. He didn't say that. 859-2-80-22-87 text machine 772-7-7-7-4 we'll take a break right back ksr

t-j smith personal injury attorney call t-j'll make them pay now more of kentucky sports radio presented by stockton mortgage here's matt jones welcome back toky sports radio 859280 2287 a lot of messages drew two things one Jack Givens did say Lather. Okay. So that's, Ryan's right. I've probably 20 people wrote some version of this. Matt, if you think Lather's a weird word do you say, just wait until you hear Ryan's Wild Eggs at. Oh.

Oh, funny you bring that up. Someone on KS. Board wrote about this. I didn't hear it, but it's already a topic around our listening audience. It just started today. Ryan's Wild Eggs Valentine's Day ad? What do you do? Do we want to hear this, Shannon? I don't know.

I don't have it. I don't even want to hear it. You don't, is it not on the log there? Can you not play? Oh, it's in Lexington, right? Is it in Lexington? Yeah, it's in Lexington. Okay. If Billy or somebody can send it to me, I can play it. If Billy sends it to you, we'll play it. Did you do something, did you do something creepy in a Valentine's Day? How could you make wild eggs creepy at Valentine's Day? I just, I just knows two minutes ago. So before you said this, someone wrote me, who do I call to report harassment on Ryan for his new wild eggs commercial? The people are talking about it. Do you not remember the one from last year where he was talking about the Ryan Lemon special?

It's him like in an egg with a side of tots or something. Do you not remember that? This is the text message I got from Yoga Girl. I'm hearing the Wild Eggs Valentine's Day spot for the first time. One, you sound super creepy. And two, you sound super creepy. Like really creepy. This is a breakfast place.

All right. So now we've got to recut this. If that's your girlfriend. And if your girlfriend thinks it sounds creepy, you've got to. to recut this ad. All right. Get Billy to send it. I want to hear one time and then we need, just go ahead and plan, Ryan.

Now, you know, they wanted this like kind of over the top ad. They did not want it to be creepy. You don't know the different. They approved it? Yeah, they approved it. I'm making an executive decision. You're going to recut this ad when the show is over. We're going to play it one time here, and then you're going to recut the ad because I like

the people at Wild Eggs. And if it's getting this kind of response, Shannon, it needs to be cut. It needs to be switched. If it's creepier than last years, then I don't think we can air it. Like, I don't, like last year's already aired once. Well, I think it needs to stop being aired. Yes, we're going to recut it. I haven't even heard it, Shannon.

I know it needs to be recut. Or maybe it's not as bad as what everybody's making it out. No, it's pretty bad. This girl, if you knew it was bad, why'd you say it, Ryan? That's what they wanted. They wanted kind of an over-the-top ad. First of all, you sometimes need to control your own brand. If people come in and they start telling you, sometimes you need to go, you know what?

I mean, I get asked to do stuff and I'm like, I'm not doing that. You got to be able to say no in this world. I think with the little production value they put to it, maybe it might win an award when the season's over. You were talking about a guy that was walking around with his shirt off and the bar punching people with boxing gloves. All right, so let's talk about that for a minute. First of all, the bar, the bar ride looked fun Saturday. Was it fun? It was awesome.

I mean, it felt like a March madness-type environment. Every table was full. We had a line to get in. It was outstanding. So we kind of joked that you would, well, let's, two things. One that I asked you to do. If we won, take your shirt off and celebrate, that was fun. I thought it looked cool.

That reminded me of when we first opened and did the Florida thing. I thought the video, the video went viral. I love that. Arkansas fans whining saying that this is your Super Bowl. They just don't understand Drew Ryan Lemon. They don't understand his whole vibe, right? So I was good with that. Were you good with that?

Yeah, I enjoyed Arkansas fans trying to call him out. And then Kentucky fans in the comments, like, no, this is Ryan. He just has trouble keeping his shirt on every day. This is who he is. They don't know. So, like, I'm not listening to them. That was great. That was Ryan being Ryan running out in the snow with that random guy going out in the snow.

I like that too. I'm with Shannon. Shannon, you said he's like punching people, though. So there was another video. of Ryan walking around with boxing gloves on and just going up and giving people like a jab or like an uppercut, like to random people who were just trying to enjoy the wings. So I went watching it during the break. You just hit a guy and he doesn't look happy about it.

He wasn't happy at all. Did you see that in the video? Like you're, why are you hitting people? They're spending money at our restaurant. Why are you hitting them? You know how to get ready for the big brawl we were getting ready to have with John Calli Perry? So I was warming up. But you're not brawling them.

I was jabbing in an upper cup and bobbing and weaving. I didn't understand this promotion to begin with. Like, who approved this, first of all. For Ryan to go around with boxing gloves to just get people. Well, no, no, I didn't approve that. The idea was, no, I didn't approve that. The idea was Ryan fights John Calapair. Right. That was the idea.

Well, it turned into Ryan fights our customers. That's what I'm saying. True, there was no part where I said, let's go hit the people that come to the bar. No, not at all. And you go to the bar, you know, Ryan's a part owner of the bar. He's an employee. Like, when I go to Wendy's, I don't expect Wendy to just come out and punch me. You know, there's an expectation.

He knocked a 77-year-old woman out. We had to call him. I went back to the guy after the video was over. Like, hey, man, you took a good punch. Thanks for playing along. He kind of gave me the stink guys. He was not happy. I don't think the whole time.

That'll be in our Google reviews. Man punched me while I was eating my wings. One star, I'm trying to eat wings and a man punches me in the end. Got to pay extra for that. The problem is always the problem with Ryan. If I'm not there, there's no one. to control. There's nobody to dial him in or reel him back in.

Shannon doesn't want him to be riled in. Yeah. Mario doesn't feel like he can. I don't know. Drew, sometimes you've got to be the one. Do you ever rain him in a little bit? I'm more on Shannon's in.

I would rather encourage it and watch the chaos. See? So really, it's only me and Billy. And if me or Billy's not there, then it doesn't get done. And that makes me upset. One person writes, Matt, Brandon Garrison, we are 9 and 0 when Brandon Garrison gets a technical

or a flagrant foul. Does that mean we should encourage such behavior? I don't know if you want to encourage it, but I want him to play mad, angry, chip on his shoulder. He's just better when he does, you know? And to his credit, it usually is in a big game when he plays his best because he's got that little chip on his shoulder. Yeah, I mean, he's still, I thought the technical, you know, the first technical that

group drew that he got. I think he earned it. And I also thought it was bad timing, right? I mean, I saw it was bad timing because now that guy missed both free throws, so it didn't matter. But Arkansas was making a run. We had been up, I think, seven or nine. I just didn't like it.

It was unnecessary, too. Like, why are you doing it? All you did was set a pick. So I didn't like that. With that said, he does bring an energy and a toughness. I think sometimes, Drew, that this team does need. Yeah, and, you know, this is the analytical era. And if you're not at O when he's doing it, numbers aren't lying right there.

That's right. I do worry. Of course. They survived the one at Arkansas. He's been very lucky. Let's not forget Oklahoma. If there had been a tenth of a second left, he might have gotten teed up and maybe lost that game. We got lucky he was after the game ended.

Was it Tennessee this year where Hope had to grab him? Play it with a little bit of fire, but I don't know. It's not a no. So if he does it again, I'm not saying anything. Maybe the other guys kind of fuel off that, you know? Brandon's bringing it today. Maybe fires them up a little bit more. Boy, everybody in Lexington is saying this.

Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, I mean, like everybody. Like, we didn't hear it. I hear the Louisville feet, so I haven't heard it. People say he uses the word for lovers in a way. Does he use the word lather? No, lovers. I could see, though, for lovers not being a word that I would want.

For a breakfast lunch spot? Yeah. Who's up now? Connor. Connor, go ahead, Connor. Hey, guys. I got two quick things here. what a game to be at.

That was absolutely awesome to see that arena file out and get empty. Lots of emotions. Those technicals are pretty wild. I had to sit down and take a breather and pray to the good Lord. But yeah, what a game to be at, resilience by our team.

So you were there. You were there. You were there. I was there. I was there. It didn't look to me, it didn't look to me like there were very many Kentucky fans there,

but I will say that's one of those games that if you were there, that's an all-timer, right? That's an all-timer game to be at. So you got to be, you got to love that. It was absolutely awesome. I don't know who that lady was with that sign, but I wish I could have took it out of her hands. So wait a minute, do you think she was a real Kentucky fan? Do you think she was a real kid? So somebody had a sign that said, Coach Cal, we miss you.

Do you, you saw her, do you think that was a real Kentucky fan? I'm not sure. I know she was sitting by her husband. He had a UK gear on as well. So maybe, I don't know, some people are delusional. But I did see Mark Pope's wife and daughter. They came in and set court side. That was really nice to see.

I'm glad they were there. Matt, I had to be escorted out of the arena by campus police with two other UK fans. I got up to leave when the clock hit zero, grab my jacket, My buddies had left with a minute 30 left, so they left me there cold and dry. But I was walking out. I got shoulder checked by the first guy turned around, and by the time I turned around, another man shoulder checked me, almost to the ground.

The usher ran over to me, grabbed me, and said, stay with me. Two UK fans came from the top down there and grabbed me and said, are you okay, man? And that guy tried to swing on me. He stood there and screaming at me. campus police came and walked all three of us UK fans out to the front door. It was wild. Well, that's what you know they're upset. Surprise Doc Chowes didn't give them a technical.

Oh, I appreciate the call. That's when you know they're upset. You got them. I hope you enjoyed the game. I got the Wild Eggs commercial, too. I don't know if you need a few minutes to prepare for this. I need to take a break. Yeah.

Let me read this ad. And then we'll do the – See if you can do better than Ryan. I'm just going to go ahead and tell you. Tell Billy, you're recutting this ad. after the show. I just, it is. Even before I hear it,

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All right. We're going to listen to this. Just me and you as the adults in the room. And this probably will be the only time this will ever be played again. All right. It's my favorite time of the year. I'm already done. I'm already out.

All right, God, come on. Three seconds in. I'm going to let you play it. I'm going to let you play it. But that right there was enough to ban it. All right. Let's try again. We'll start again.

But that right there, the beginning, was enough to ban it. We go ahead and play it. Hey, it's my favorite time of the year. Valentine's Day, a day for lovers like me. So you know where I'm taking my sweetie for Valentine's Day? Wild Eggs. Because nothing says love like potato head cassero or a delicious breakfast Sammy. Oh, Ryan, you shouldn't have.

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No. Keep it. It wasn't that bad. That's awful. First of all, and Ryan, you're still not allowed to talk. I'm hearing your cackling in the background. First of all,

he changes his voice halfway through. There he does. He's clearly trying to be Drew like Barry White at the beginning. And he doesn't, I mean, I'm not a woman, but he doesn't sound sexy or sensual at all. He just sounds like... A dirty old man. Yeah. He sounds like he's like looking through your window across the street.

Hey, lovers. Like, that's awful, Drew, isn't it? I thought the saxophone was unnecessary from the beginning. It's already too intimate for me. But I got used to the saxophone. Whatever that noise you made. Play the last four seconds. It's awful, but then the noise takes it to another letter.

That was too much. Pallamar, on the new location off Tate's Creek. Wild Eggs is the official breakfast of KSR and Lovers. What is that supposed to be? That's a drop. I didn't do it. The production added that. Oh, that wasn't even you making noise.

It wasn't even me, huh? Blame production, sure. All right, that's awful. I haven't updated, though. Yes. I've heard a rumor in the building that there was going to be a worse. version. This is the, this is the PG version. It's the clean version, huh? Yes. Wow. Billy, Billy denied another version. Good for Billy, first of all. I'm glad to see Billy

has some taste. I've said to Billy, I've said to Billy, you have to rain Ryan in. I will say Billy did not rain him in enough. That should not have gone out. That's gross. All right. It is gross. The beginning of, Lee lovers. That should have ended it right there. Nobody wants to hear you say, hey, lovers, okay? Nobody. And then whoever added that sound at the end, they need to be put on probation for one day. I'm actually relieved to know it wasn't Ryan making the sound. The sound still needs to go, but I thought it was. And lovers.

Okay. That's a drop. That's a new drop. And what do I always say? What's the most important thing? The beginning and the end. The creepiest parts. of that ad were the beginning and the end.

You literally, the middle was actually Shannon, not that bad. He used his regular voice. He told us where Wild Eggs was. You know that picture of Ryan and Joe Biden? If Ryan were talking in that picture, he would be using that voice. Think about it. This is what the

Secret Service thought you were doing. Hey, Joe Biden. That's exactly how they thought you were that. That's why they were following. So you know where I'm taking my sweetie for Valentine's Day? Wild Egg. Wow. Okay.

Wow. Yuck! Ugh. All right, wild eggs. I mean, you got to change that. Okay, I love wild eggs. Great food. But that can't be part of the repertoire anymore.

So you're changing this after the end of the day. No music. Okay. You know what I mean? Like, you don't know how to pick the music. Just do an ad. I obviously didn't pick the music. You didn't pick any of that.

You didn't pick any of that. See, that's the voice. And others. Okay, that's not the voice. I guess if a Wild Egg wants to run it, they get to decide whether they want to run it or not. We have editorial standards. And it's duty to the public. We do.

My mom says the last part is way over the top. That should be enough. Karen has spoken. Karen has spoken. Who's up first? Free bird. Freebird. Freebird.

Two point. One, I was guilty to We would have a chance to win And we're fifth, I think, in the ratings. My second point, I was never so pissed off at a ball game And a referee's decision about all these tentacles Just like to take my 13-sized foot

And now shouts its keester To pass All right, we're going to have to let you go. We can't be talking about kicking people's keister. Fired up. I will say, I don't get Matt, like, I think most of the time when people say referees change games, it's wrong. I think in, I think there was a basketball game versus North Carolina where a referee made the difference in the game. And I think, and we ended up winning

this game. And honestly, when we came back and took the lead, it made it to where I, even if we had lost, I wasn't going to blame Shows, because once we took the lead again, like, Like we need to finish the game. But there was a moment, Drew, where I thought that he had lost us that game. And I was thinking to myself, I'm going to have to make sure I don't blame this game on him, but I need to blame it on him. Because it looked like we were going to lose, and it was going to be his fault. Yeah, okay, you and Airballed the first round bad, but then A-Cuff went four-for-four on the other free throws.

And then I think Billy Richmond had a huge dunk to give them the lead. Three for four. And the building blew off the place. You're right. Four for four to tie the game. Actually, wait a minute. We, yeah, four for four tied the game. Then they scored and then they got a dunk and he yelled, Drew, and they didn't call a technical on him either after they had done it to us. No, but, you know, they had, with the way Kentucky started, Bud Walton had kind of quiet.

They were scared. They were tight. They completely flipped it for at least a few minutes and got that crowd going, got their first lead. And we all thought, if this is how it ends, we can legit look at all those technical. for turning this because Kentucky had complete control until that moment. But to their credit, which is my probably the favorite part of the whole season, is how they took that punch and punched right back and got their lead back and didn't give it up again. But it could have gone a complete other way over those technicals.

Bluegrass Jack says, you and Shannon, how do you not think Ryan's hay lovers sounds like Valvinus going, hello ladies? It does. It sounds exactly like that. But Ryan doesn't exactly have Valvinas's swag. Or physique. I guess this is a wrestler. Yeah, there was a wrestler that would come out and go, hello ladies.

It's Ryan. And people liked it. I don't know what people like this, though. Yeah, I don't think it's the same thing. Plus, eggs are involved, which was not part of the... It's breakfast. Yeah, it's breakfast. Brunch and lunch at the bar.

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