KSR - 2026-02-04- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

Matt, Drew, Shannon, and Billy talk KSR's trip to San Francisco, Kentucky vs. Oklahoma, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am Matt Jones, and we are here at the Super Bowl in San Francisco, California coming to you live from where all the action is. Billy R. Sports Bedroom. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop. Phone line 8-9-280-20-0-87. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7-744-5-254 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you called T.J., he'll make them pay.

Why'd you say easy? Well, because there's no action here in the bedroom besides the radio show. I came in to Shannon to his room this morning. He had it on 65 degrees, and it was the coldest thing I've ever seen. He could hang meat in there. He's sleeping in here like a polar bear. Is that how you normally sleep? It's supposed to help your sleep.

I hardly got any sleep last night. Who says it helps your sleep? Sleep experts. What experts? Like my fiance, who will tell you. Is she a sleep expert? She is. Oh, that's right.

She sells mattresses. Yeah. She works a mattress firm. And she'll tell you, she'll swear by it that you have to have a cold, room to get a better sleep. And I think Drew agrees with me, right, Drew? I walked straight into the hotel room last night, start hit the thermostat. It stopped at 65.

I would have gone even lower if it would have let me. So I was also 65, the moment I rolled into my room. That's what you both do? That's your sleep? Yeah. Only because 64 wasn't available. All right. I wanted as cold as possible.

We're polar bears over here. Yeah, I don't get that. But I don't, I try to keep it warm because I'm a regular human being. But that's okay. We are here at the Super Bowl, got in late last. last night. It is, we haven't been to Media Row yet. We're going to do that right after this show,

but we got up this morning. It is 7 o'clock here. Billy got up at, Billy had to do a show at 6 o'clock, so it's very early here, but that's okay. Sun's coming up, and we're ready for our working day.

Drew, nice flight out here from Atlanta. Yes. No real complications. Got here, got our luggage, rental car, and now we're ready to attack the Bay Area and have all Super Bowl ready to go. Zero complaints about Travel Day. Had a good time traveling, actually. Got here, had a little bit of a lap around town and a bite to eat,

and then an early bedtime, even though it didn't get much sleep. It was up before Walgreens even open this morning. It's not fun being up at five, and there's nothing to do. I continue to say I have much respect for people who work jobs that get them up at this time of day. This time of day is for not people, human beings are not supposed to be up this era. And I know like they used to farm like at the crack of dawn. Some people still do. Yeah.

We still have crops. We do. And to those people salute, this is not my time of day. When it is still dark and you have to stand up, I'm not a fan of that. And even on the West Coast where my body is kind of still East Coast time, I don't like this. This is not, this, if the best radio station in the world were to offer me 6 a.m. to 9 or 6 a.m. to 10, I'm not doing it. I'm not getting up at this time of morning every day. It's for the bird. That's what I was going to ask you. Like, this feels like a ride of passage in radio to do the morning. I won't. You know, they put, I will not. You've done it before, though. You've done it like once or twice, right?

I'll do it like once or twice, and it's miserable. I can do it every day. Absolutely miserable to do it. I know it good. I mean, good for you, but you don't have to talk immediately. You come in and sit and produce. Yeah. To have to go on the air at 6 a.m. and be like, wha!

Like, I would just, I would lose my... Nick Coffee starts at 5 a.m. Oh, couldn't do that. Yeah, and I don't think you ever get used to that. I mean, that's just your reality. First of all, you can't have a normal life. Yeah. If you do that.

Like, you got to... Like, Nick Coffee told me yesterday, he was like, I go to bed at eight. Eight! Eight! Like, my night is just starting at eight. I'm like, well, now, what shows are? I should get dinner. Eight o'clock.

Come on. And then you throw in the crows and just... The crows. The crows. Yeah, that's a big part of it. Well, I mean, they're... They're crowing with their beaks. I was up so early this morning.

I went for a walk because I had to find water. There were people coming into the hotel from being out, And I was already up looking for something to do. Yeah, that's another thing. You get you miss fun. I just, I don't. So no, to answer your question, I will never do a morning show. Yeah, I mean, the game doesn't even start until 9 o'clock Eastern tonight.

Essentially, Nick would be in bed before the game even starts. Yes. Well, the game is tonight, Kentucky and Oklahoma at 9. We will talk about that game, but we are in San Francisco. So early impressions. We are at a very nice hotel. We're at, it's called the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins, Mark Hopkins, which I think is one of the nice.

the top of this place, Shannon is called Top of the Mark. Yeah. Because it's Mark Hopkins. And it is supposedly the best view in San Francisco. We're going to go up there. Apparently, that's the place all the reporters are up there hook it up with each. Oh, okay. That's where I need to be.

No, no, Billy. You're a married man, Billy. You can't be going up there. Yeah, why did you say that? Oh, hook up as in hook. Oh, okay. I thought it was like, here's my digital business card. You think that's what I meant by hookup?

Yeah, I thought that was like hook up, yeah, like at the bar. I meant have things happen. Your wife is not going to like that you were like, that's where I need to be. Well, she knows my mind was in the right place, but you can move forward. He's been there one day, not even a full day. He's already trying to hook up with the rooftop. We haven't even been here 24 hours, and he's already talking about hooking up at the rooftop. Can't take them anywhere.

We're off to a great start. We're after a great start. But that's where apparently all the gossip goes down. You find out, you know, over the years at the final four, you find out who, you know, oh, what's going on? Is Frank Martin, you know, dating Gary Perry or dating Jeff Goodman? Yeah, that year was weird when we were wondering. Those are the kind of things that you find out. You're going to, that's what we're going to find out here.

It's the place to be. I've been up there. It is an incredible place. And this area, as you all experienced last night, these hills do not play around. I haven't caught my breath from last night. Let's talk about these hills. hills. Now, I haven't been here since I was a freshman in college. If you've not been to San Francisco, you see the hills. And you're like, oh, that's cute. Shannon, the hills are cute. Do you know what I'm

talking about those very hilly roads? We've never been there, but I've seen them. We're at the top of one of the hills. All right, so we're at the top of one of the hills. Last night, we're like, let's go get something to eat. And it's late when we get here, so there's not a ton open. And the guy's like, yeah, there's a place down three blocks down the hill. what do you think down the hill all right there it's a hill come on

when we were coming up at the end of the night I needed medical treatment walking up those it was that is the steepest hill that's got to be the steepest hill in a city

in America right easily when we got to the top we couldn't even talk to each other all of us were just we all had different strategies okay Drew was walking backwards. Mario was trying to tiptoe.

I was weaving left and right. You were adding a lot of steps but not going as steep. It's like there's more steps if you get left or right. But Larry told me that. Larry was like, if you walk like that, the incline is not as high. So it's more steps, but it doesn't hurt as bad. Billy was just dying, panting, and crying for mother. Get through your cap muzzles, though.

Oh, still burning. The last half block, you crawled. I did bear crawl a little bit at the end. I thought that was necessary, though, because I have never seen anything like that. It is. It is. For people who've just seen it on TV, it's for real. Like, that's why they, I'm sure that's why they have trolley cars, right?

They have to. That has to be why they had trolley cars, were those hills. I would think, that can be completely made up, but I would think that's why they did. You see, like, DoorDashers? pushing their bikes next to you going up the hill that attempt to ride up it? Yeah, what do do do? We have breakfast coming. I may

have to tip him more than $3.50. Can you ride him be like, are you going up that hill? Because you're going up the hill, I'm going up to $4.50. But if he's coming down from this way, not going to pay him as much. Back to $250. I need to know where he's coming from, because it is quite a thing. Early impressions of San Francisco.

I like it so far. I was telling Shannon, you know, I haven't been to a lot of major cities. So this is kind of a big one for me. You haven't been to, what do you mean? Like New York, Chicago. You haven't been to New York. Correct. Haven't been to L.A.

Correct. Haven't been to Chicago. Correct. Houston? Atlanta. Been to Atlanta. But like anywhere outside of airport? No.

Okay, so no. What's the biggest city you've ever been to? Dallas, probably. Okay, so you've been to Dallas. Yeah. So this is probably the second biggest city you've ever been to. A lot happening. I mean, there's something everywhere you look, whether it be,

somebody's sleeping on the street or that's your first thing you saw is somebody sleeping on the street yeah yeah okay saw them yeah but there were we saw the golden gate bridge i didn't make a bigger i didn't really see the golden gate bridge like that didn't make a bigger impression to you than there were no really how big the san francisco airport is i mean looking for that rental car took maybe 45 minutes shannon i love part of the thing i love about these trips is how is playing the game how little does mario know yeah okay because mario he's such a naive young child. And this is first California for both of them.

This is the first time he's been to California. So we drive past a building, and Mario goes, is that the state capital? And I was like, San Francisco is not the state capital of California. And he goes, well, do they have it here? And I like Mario's thought process. The capitals in Sacramento, but Shannon, they put the building in San Francisco just to make it easier for a job.

Because that would make a ton of sense. Why would they do that? make it a lot easier, wouldn't it? Like, well, I put the building all the way up in Sacramento. Let's put it in San Francisco. We were telling him, Sacramento is actually nearby if he wanted to check it out. We were to Harvey Milk. You know who that is, Shannon?

Harvey Milk, the member of the movie Milk that Sean Penn was in? Yes. He was a city council person and he was killed here. And they named the airport after him. So I was telling Mario that story. And it's great to tell Mario history because it's like I'm telling him a ghost story. Because he's not heard of him. If it didn't happen before his lifetime, he's not interested in it.

That's exactly right. And so I enjoy that as well, Billy. It's like a whole fun learning experience. Yeah, Mario and I are having a great time. I knew Mario was going to be fun on this trip when we sat down for our first meal in the airport, and he ordered Patron. And I was like, okay.

And then we went to the second place to eat, and then he ordered a truly. And I was like, okay, this guy is going to. Mario was very boozy. Order Patron and Hummus to start the trip. That great. that great duo, Patron and Hummus, right before we get on the flight. The same guy gave him Billy Crop about his carrots and celery, right?

Yes, he went with Petron. Which was not true, people. That was fake news. I did not ask the flight attendant if she had carrots and celery. Mario's doing me wrong online. I have to pay Billy a compliment. I was wondering what his suitcase situation would be. We all remember the Buffalo trip.

This one's much harder to pack for. You would not have been able to fit it in that little suitcase. He brought out a nice new back. bag on this one. Nice big bag. You've upped your suitcase. I think it was mostly because the fans taunted you.

Yes. But you upped your suitcase game. Yep. I've got six quarter zips ready to go for this week. Well, no, you don't have six quarters zip, Shannon.

We learned yesterday three quarters chips that are reversible. What? My man bought reversible quarters. What do you know about that? I didn't even know that was a thing that existed.

You can reverse it? I didn't know you could get reversible quarters. You like the blue I got on right now? Wait. is that one of them? That's gray on the inside. How does the zipper work?

How do you like that? It's a double zipper. This is insane. Put your thing down flipping and reverse it. That's right. So he has the very rare reversible quarter zip, not one, not two, but three.

Three. Wow. To bring out over the trip. Wow. I'm prepared. I mean, we'll see how Super Bowl Radio goes today. When you sweat through one, you sweat through both, though.

You understand that, right? I did one of that. Yeah, that is true. I mean, when one's dirty, they're both dirty. Yeah. It's not like, it's not like, actually, I would argue that the one on the inside is even dirtier than the one on the outside. Didn't think about the pit stains that are much more visible after I flip out. I would argue you're actually flipping will make it worse in most cases.

Oh, okay. That's a great point. I didn't think about that. The dirtiness is the same regardless of shirt. But we are here. We are here. Having fun already. My favorite thing to do is.

to sit in the lobby and watch people walk in and out and go, that's a sports radio host. Because they all have the same look. Shannon, they all have the same look. They get quarters zips. Little slubby, little slubby, a lot of quarter zips, hands in the pocket, groups

of four looking for a party. Because there's a lot of this country that this is the one time they're away from their wives is right now and it's actually fun to watch. And it's the Super Bowl, you know? And they're all going, where's the rooftop? Well, we know what Billy wants to do on the rooftop.

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best way to tell everyone you're rich is by saying you keep it at 71 degrees. No one does that. We have to keep it in the 60s due to electricity costs. Well, okay, sure, in the winter. but in the summer, y'all, if you're keeping it in the 60s, it's going to be crazy, like, expensive for the AC. So it might be expensive half the year, but the other half of the year, you're the one paying the big bills. I have expensive summer bills in the winter.

I don't even turn my heat on. What do we need heat for? I'll open a window, let the snow in. Helms me sleep. You just layer up in the winter. And then it'll even go. Are y'all common? I thought it was kind of known.

I thought it was average that at 71 degrees was the average. I thought that's what people do. did. 70 or 71? I would have thought I'm on the low end. I wouldn't expect three out of four people in this room to be on my side. Are you, Channing? What is your temperature? Mine stays on like 69, 68, 69, somewhere around there.

Okay. Yeah. In the winter. Maybe I'm, yeah, maybe I'm the crazy one. I just, we have blankets for a reason. Like, the goal is to stay warm, isn't it? You keep saying that everybody sleeps better, but like, isn't the point to stay warm? You get all bundled up.

Well, yeah, but you don't want to be 30. degrees in trying to sleep. So you've got to warm up a little bit. Yeah, but why, if 65 is the best for sleep, why do you wear a blanket? I don't know. It's the combination of the 65 and the blanket. The Goldilocks zone. I mean, they're not

too cold, not too hot. You're supposed to have your feet uncovered too, right? Isn't that a thing? You're supposed to have your feet uncovered? When you sleep, I think that's a thing. You're supposed to have your feet uncovered from the blankets. One thing I hate about hotels. I can't be the only one. You know, they tuck in these sheets.

that drives me crazy. I have to have the blankets under my feet. So I spend the first five minutes in bed just going crazy trying to pull the blankets out, which of course makes the whole bed collapse, like the pad comes up. So if you look at my bed, it looks like a war zone every night. And you don't want to remake the bed here because you start seeing parts of it. I don't know. Again, maybe women do this, all right?

Is there anyone in America who keeps their bed like this? Is there anyone in America that has their bed? bed like a hotel where you have the blankets tucked under the mattress? Do people do this? The sheet, I understand. Yeah, we don't do the comfort. We do the sheet. That drives me crazy.

Why is this? All hotels do this. Why? I don't know. No one else in America puts their blanket under their mattress. It does look good. That's fine, but the point is to sleep. So I end up spinning, I literally, I look like a, I look good, deranged man, trying to get

the blanket out of the bottom of the bed. I don't know. I just try not to mess with it too much because when you really start looking around the bed at a hotel. There's things you don't want to think about. So I just, whatever situation they left me, I'll just jump in and do my best. One person writes, Matt, my alarm goes off at 4 a.m. every day I work with horses. And every day I say I'm never going to do this again, but then I get up and do it again. Yeah, we've had this conversation, Jan.

I don't know why horses have to race so early. Yeah. I mean, they can race in the afternoon just as easy, I would think. I'm going to revolutionize horse training one day. when I say, hey, why don't we train the horses at the time they race? Let them sleep in a little bit. It's going to revolutionize the sport. No, I'm serious.

Like, why don't we recreate the circumstances that they're actually going to race it? We practice them at 5.30 in the morning. But then the races are in the afternoon or night. Maybe we should get the horses accustomed to running at the time they're going to run. I hear you. But, you know. But the thing I got, did you hear, it's going to revolution. It's going to be like moneyball for horses.

You know, basketball players do the same thing, though. They have early practices. You know, they practice eight in the morning. I've always thought that's wrong. Remember Mark Pope said, Mark Pope said that like when they play a game at a weird time, the day before they practice it that weird time. That makes sense to me. It's going to be called horseball.

And it's going to, Brad Cox, feel free to steal this until I go. Money stall. So horses for the lazy man, if you'd like to sleep in. You can do it with the Matt method. No, it's about the smart man. Race the horse at their time they're going to race. Think about it. The derby's at 6 o'clock.

The horses want to go to bed. They're not used to run it at 6 o'clock. I mean, right? They're asleep normally at 6 o'clock. I don't know. I don't know. This is what you're revolutionizing right here. I think it's pretty genius, honestly. Has anyone even thought about, do the horses want to be up that early?

Well, I mean, I've had the thought. Do horses even want to be out here? Do they even want to run? It's going to be left alone. You just to wake up the horses or are they already awake? Do they have an alarm clock? Well, we can train them to just hit snooze. We can try.

I've always thought this is weird. Like, you know, Churchill Downs has night races. You know they've got to be in tired. They've got to be confused when the sun's not up and they're being told to run. And they're being told to run. If you want them to race at night, you're going to have to train them at night. It would seem to me. So how are you going to start putting your horseball into action?

I have to get some horses. Okay. Right now I don't have any I've got parts of but they don't listen to me But you have the idea Like people should bring the horses to you Well I don't know how to train them Yeah what's the horse that we just have the concept

What? That horse that we own What's the name of that horse that the KS? Simply joking There you go simply joking We can just tell them that we want him Well here's my thing I should go to the trainer And go look we came in last in the Oaks

Yeah Let them sleep in Let them sleep in Let's shake it up I've got a new method We didn't do so well the last time. How about we let him sleep? And he'll be much more excited.

Kentucky and Oklahoma today. Oklahoma comes in with an eight-game losing streak. They are one in eight. Porter, Moser is probably fighting for his job. They lose tonight. They're kind of done. He might even be fired. We win tonight, seven and three in the conference.

I think we're probably one win. maybe two for making the NCAA tournament if we win tonight. You beat Arkansas. That was a massive victory, but now you need to Drew followed up and take care of business tonight and what is probably the easiest game left

on the schedule on paper. Yeah, I mean, you've won six out of seven. Like I said, it's probably the easy. You cannot slip up here. All the good momentum, everything you've built up to this point, your confidence you got going. This is the worst team in the conference.

You've got to handle your business at home tonight. Moser was on the hot seat last year ago. It was already close with him a year ago, and they ended up keeping him and now looking like this will probably be the end for him when this season's over. And Oway and Garrison, I mean, they're Oklahoma killers. Well, I mean, O'A has had two games against Oklahoma that have both been epic. Phenomenal. Hopefully we don't need that tonight. But, I mean, it would be nice for him to have a third.

Yeah, I can't, I don't, I know the roster a little bit. I don't remember how many. That's where he came from, right. I keep forgetting. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember how many of the characters from a year ago. Remember they almost fought in the handshake line, even his old roommate. Also, this is when Brandon Garrison and Mari Williams carried him like the length of the court to get him away from the fight. So even though Oklahoma is not good, and Kentucky's a double-digit favorite, the emotions will still be high because of how last year went in those games.

Crowds are only 9 o'clock SEC Rupp game, I think. So it'll be a light crowd. I think they'll be into it. I think the Arkansas game ensures people being into it. People fired up. Yeah, I think that ensures. And by the way, we have a special guest we'll talk about on the KSR pregame today at the bar. You can come meet a Kentucky kind of legend.

Legend in my mind, for sure. We'll take a break. Be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. There's Matt Jones. Welcome back.

It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Billy was complaining during the break. What are you complaining about, Billy? Well, Drew told me somebody was saying Billy isn't wearing his wedding ring, which I'm not married yet, so I don't have a wedding ring. Hence why you're going to the bar tonight. People are like, put some shoes on, Billy. They're also telling me that the reversible quarter zips are a crime, and I should be punished. People like to give you a hard time about what you're wearing and like people.

I feel like sometimes the audience, they pick on you a little bit. That's fine. It would have meant something when I first started, but now. I'm just so jaded. I don't care about those complaints. Why are you? Don't be you don't want to be like that. You have to love the audience. I do love the audience. The audience can be frustrating sometimes, but they

are ultimately our customers. Yes. So you have to love the audience. You can't be jaded towards the audience. But like consistent criticism from the same five accounts. Like I'm able to get over that much more than I am like maybe when I first started. Why don't you mute those accounts?

I mean, I don't know. I mean, I can. Well, I'm just saying you It just, it seems, it seems to get to you a little bit. Now, now, Billy, I gave a project to Billy Shannon. Yeah. And I want to, I want to do it on the air. I told Billy he needed more of a presence on social media, right? Because, like, I have a big presence on Twitter and somewhat of a presence on Instagram.

I'm going to pick up TikTok still haven't really done it yet. Drew has, has the basically the same. Mario's big on TikTok. But Billy doesn't really have a big social media presence. So I was like, here's what I think you would be good. Billy, you need to come up with a whole like gimmick that becomes your TikTok gimmick, right? A brand. It's like a brand.

That's what I said, Chan. You need to figure out what is Billy's brand. Right. Okay. So last night when we got, well, I ended, Billy announced to me that he has come up with his brand. Okay. I can't wait to hear it. And I'm very excited for people to, now, when I first heard it, I wasn't all in on it.

But I'm not all out. So, Billy, I will let you pitch to the people what the Billy Rutledge brand is going to be on social media. Yeah, so this is on social media, like TikTok videos. You've heard of Billy R Sports. It's now time. Okay, slow down. So you're playing off of Billy R. Sports. That's right.

Okay, go ahead. So you've known Billy R Sports. Next is Billy R. U.S. What? Now, I mean, a hot take, an outlandish comment. Billy, are you serious? One more time. I'm just trying to pick up what you're putting down.

One more. One more. Billy are. You serious? What do we think, Shannon? Billy, are you serious? I can't wait to see the verse video, Billy. I'm on your side with this one.

Let's try it. Let's see what happens. How about Billy? Are you serious? You could do it anyway you want. Like, like Billy, comma, are you serious? I think it's a hit.

I mean, I thought it was the best idea I've had in two months. Which says a lot about those two months. What would the other contenders be for your best? Drew, what do you think? It's got some legs. I would first, this feels like a shark tank pitch. I would work on your pitch a little bit. I still don't know what are you serious about.

Like, what is the actual content. It could be anything. That's what the fun part is. But you can't do that. When you're pitching to people, let me give you a story. Can I, let me give you a story where I'm making fun of myself. Okay. Okay. I got asked after the 2024 election by crooked media, okay?

They're the ones that do Pod Save America. All right. They do, they're like the big liberal podcasting company. They approached me and they were like, we're looking for the liberal Joe Rogan. Okay. And they said, we think you could, could do that. Right. And so, but people don't know this story.

So they brought me up there to kind of pitch to them. Okay. Now, I really wasn't necessarily interested in doing that, but it was like, you know, life is short. Let's have the conversation. Let's hear them out. Okay, so I go in, and I was like, it's me. And they were like, well, what's the show?

And I was like, it's me. That's the show. Like it's me Like it's just what I do on KSR It's just me I talk about what I What my views are And they're like

Well what are your views And I was like well it depends on the issue You don't want me to do the old show right now It's me And they were like Well But we need a little more And I was like

It's me talking about thing Did you have a poster board or anything? I didn't do any of that Not a PowerPoint And when I left I was like These people don't know me except one guy, maybe I should have had beyond. You went all the way there to say it's me?

I mean, you didn't have anything else better than that? It's me. Well, to be fair, the guy made it seem like I had the job if I wanted it. It was more like, do I want to do it? You were better off it was just that guy there. Exactly. Then I got there, and I don't think the other people were on the same page as him. I think they were like, well, tell us about you.

And I'm like, I came. Right here in the flesh. Are you saying my segment's too broad? Like, do I need to narrow it down? You need to explain to people what you're. I'm just trying to visualize it. Don't know where you're going. What you're looking at.

Field of 68 came out today with the top jobs in the – they're doing this for every conference. What's the best job in the sport? Right? And today the SEC came out. 16 people voted. They voted Kentucky all. 16 said it was the best job in the SEC.

Any surprise there? No, not at all. In the SEC, a lot of schools are going to prioritize football. You know, we're going to take care of our basketball in Lexington. I don't have to explain it all. We know all the fans travel. I know there's more pressure at UK, which could be a strike against the job, but otherwise, I completely agree that it'd be number one.

Yeah, I thought there might be somebody that just give the contrary in view that there's too much pressure. The fans have run you off if it's not going on. All 16. I haven't seen another major conference where all 16 said the same one. There have been some smaller ones that have. They've been doing this all year. Now, here was the rest of their rankings.

I want you all to think. What would be the second best job in your mind in the SEC? Basketball. Because this ended up in tiers. There were four schools that I think were, because Kentucky was tier one. There were four schools kind of tier two. And then another four schools that were kind of tier three. And then there was, after that, it became muddled.

But what do you think would be the second best job in your all's mind? Honestly, I don't think it would be the answer. But moving forward with the money and everything they have, Texas should be in the conversation, but they don't really have history and tradition. What would yours be? Mine was Florida. All right, what was yours?

Florida, I agree with Billy. Texas was the second best job. They should be better. They have Texas as the second best job. A little bit surprising to me that that would be the same. second best job Arkansas third Tennessee fourth Florida fifth now to be fair that the gap between Texas and Florida is actually very small so two through five are clumped I think we'd probably all agree that those are the next four best jobs I'm surprised though Texas is at the top I understand

it because they've got all the money I probably would have said Arkansas to be honest I think that just because of how much their fans care I would have probably said Arkansas maybe then Florida, then Texas, then Tennessee. But I was a little surprised Texas was second. I was just thinking about the budget and the in-state recruiting. Honestly, they should be better than they already are. I mean, they've had a few good years, but they have everything right there that they need.

That's why I put them at two, even though there's not much history and tradition like a Florida. Then the next four are clumped up. Who do you think is in that group? After Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida. Vandy not in that group. Fandy not in that group Two schools that have had a lot of success recently

Is Alabama? Alabama's in the next group I just worry about always being second fiddle to football Alabama is in the next group Auburn. Auburn's in the next group. I was surprised at the other two in the group. A&M?

A&M is in the group, probably also because of money. Money in recruiting. And then the last one, they have Missouri. And then now, who do you think they think And by the way, all the voters except six put this as the worst job in the SEC. Georgia. Georgia is not the worst job.

Mississippi State is 15th. Still not the worst job. So it's Ole Miss or South Carolina? Ole Miss. Ole Miss. South Carolina, the worst job. By far, they say South Carolina is the worst job. They say you are behind football, women's basketball, and baseball.

The women's basketball. So you're basically fourth. at South Carolina if you're on the men's basketball side. Yeah, I was almost looking at women's basketball as like helping you out as an asset, but I could see falling behind them with the fan interest. I could agree with that. I just think back, we've been to that arena many times, and that fan base, they're one of the better ones in the conference when Kentucky comes to town,

but I guess the rest of the time, they don't have a lot going on. Yeah. Reviews are mixed for Billy Are You Serious? But I think a lot of people think they've got to see the content. It's very dependent on what I'm serious. about. Can we get our first one today? At Radio Row. Maybe? Or in Chownda Town. Yes. I think you go up to, I think you do it at Radio Row.

That would be a good way to debut it. But don't be like me and go, ta-da. Also, explain to them that your Billy R. Before you drop the, Billy, are you smart? Also, one of the things they said is, give me an example of who you'd want to interview. And I was like, anybody. That's the great thing. It could be anyone. Blank canvas. And they were like, yeah, okay.

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One person writes, Matt. In San Francisco, they have Waymo's where you can get in with no driver. You all should take one and film it. I think that's a good idea. I'm in. They advertise them everywhere. There's billboards. I've never done that.

I'm kind of against it, but I do think for content purposes, that would be kind of good to take away Mo. You could sit in the front seat and tell it where to turn. I was going to say, can you give up that control? To the empty chair. To a robot. You can't do a human. Can you do it to a robot?

No, I'm against it. I'm against everything, like all this giving everything to robots. We're going to regret it one day. You remember Uncle Matt's words in 50 years. Did you see this story about the AI? You know, there's supposed to be an AI bust. Right? Like everything AI is like not going to be as great as everybody said, at least in the short term.

But they're saying there's already a lot of early proponents regretting because they are starting to see some of the things negative that could happen. What a shock. And nobody watched a movie the last 40 years. I can't remember which of the big corporations, but one of them recently was like, yeah, it started doing things we didn't know it would do. And we don't really control that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We all, didn't we all say that? We said that. the one good thing is I do think we can control the AI, Shannon, by just unplugging it. Yeah, you know, control all delete. It works for my computer. Yeah. But it works for that. Just pull the, like, without the power.

Do I need Wi-Fi? I'm becoming, the older I get, I'm becoming more. I never thought I would do this, but I'm becoming more libertarian because I'm starting to, like, see. There was an old, an old adage that when people are in charge, the absolute power corrupts absolutely. People just have a natural reaction to everything they believe in. It just goes away just so they can be er. And I'm very, and I'm worried enough when it's humans, but when it's computers with no soul, no like religion, except like then, I'm just telling you, you just, this will be your kids,

Billy. I get what you're saying, but there's also a lot of bad drivers on the road that I don't mind replacing. Yeah, but what do you do with this car when it starts going out of control? Like, what do you do? Can you jump over there and hit the break? What do we do when someone hacks it? That's what I'm saying. Like, I understand, like, it doesn't like you'll see a video of a car going around in circles in a parking lot. So what? That's funny. That's annoying. What are we going to do one day when we all have all these automatic cars and China hacks into our system and wrecks us all into each other?

Yeah, I'm sure that could happen. They can hack into our airlines and screw up all the flights, too. I mean, they can hack and get my information right now. We have manual. We have manual overrides. But if you have a Waymo with no driver, there's no manual override. So if they do that in a plane, the pilots still know how to physically do the plane if they need to. I think you'll see transportation completely AI eventually. I know, and that's dangerous. And Billy, why you can plan about people getting your information? The most dangerous thing you do is drive a car every day.

I understand. But at least you're encountering other humans. These computers don't have souls. Yes, but theoretically they'd all work better. together. Why theoretically? Well, if there's no issues, if there's no hackers. But there's going to be an issue. There's always an issue. History says there's always, you create laws and you create standards for the issues. You don't, and the problem is when you have AI, there's no manual override. And nobody in Washington is trying to create laws to regulate this stuff because

they're all just taking money from the people making it and giving them. I mean, they're tried to pass a bill to make it to where there are no laws about AI. Like, that's insanity to me. But, like, we're getting... So anyway, I'm not going to... We're at the Super Bowl. I don't want to go off on all this stuff. So you don't want a humanoid for Christmas? I do want to get in a waymo today, but overall I'm against it.

Savannah Guthrie, by the way, her mother that got kidnapped. This story keeps getting crazier. TMZ got a note that asked for a specific amount of Bitcoin to return her. and they think it is a credible note. She also apparently went to U.K., Savannah Guthrie's mother. Was a writer for the Kentucky Colonel. I saw that. I had no idea.

Did you know that at all? You know, following this and now how serious it is, I didn't expect to pop up a U.K. connection. So, I mean, it's a really sad story. I mean, can you imagine if you were Savannah, Guthrie, or anyone in that family, like, what are you doing right now? It's got to be awful. This is a scenario.

You probably didn't think it ever happened. No. It was 80-something years old? 84. And just not that the Olympics matters, but she was about to go to the Olympics, and now her mind's all on that. And then your mother just gets kidnapped and there's a Bitcoin ransom. I don't even know how your brain could function when your life gets turned around like that.

Especially when you're a public figure, right? I mean, you probably feel a little guilty. Maybe you said something that led to somebody making this crazy decision. So it's, yeah. It's just awful. I can't imagine. and having to go through that and then do it in public. Just terrible.

And then the Kentucky connection is wild. I mean, I wrote for the Kentucky colonel. Yeah, I had no idea about that. You know, this is obviously a much bigger issue than her working at the kernel, but that was a twist I didn't see coming, didn't realize that there was any kind of connection there. All right. Who's up next, Shannon? Mark Anthony.

Mark Anthony. Go ahead. Hey, good morning, Matthew, Drew, Billy, and Mario. Hey, Matthew, while you're in. in San Francisco. Mario seems a bit disappointed. He's not going to see the state capital, but you take him around and showing San Francisco City Hall.

Well, that's what we were driving past. That's what he thought was the state capital, with San Francisco City Hall. And I will say that might be the nicest city hall I've ever seen in America. Maybe there's a nicer one somewhere. Someone can tell me, but that has to be the nicest city hall that I've ever seen. Was the sun out when you went back? No, but they had it lit up.

It was lit up, which made it even more amazing. That roof of gold, it just glows. And it sits on springs. That was amazing to me, too. They dug under it and put it on springs for earthquakes. Anyway, I thought that would satisfy and forget the state capitol. We ain't got nothing on the city hall. Anyhow.

And I have an unpopular opinion quickly. Okay. We remember Doug Shows, Gun Show, Doug. of what, eight, ten years ago, when he was fairly fresh at the job. And then in the interim, I thought that Doug had mellowed, had grown up, had, you know, studied his craft and had got to be a better referee. I did, too. I want to go, Mark, because we got to go to break.

But I agree with you, Mark, on that. I actually think Doug has been a better referee. I just don't know. I think Saturday, his worst instinct has got the best. In general, I think Doug has been a pretty good referee in recent years. But like a lot of these guys, they have an ego that sometimes comes out, and it's about them, and that, I think, came out Saturday. My only Doug comments or complaints recently were him going to the monitor a lot. That was the new Doug we saw.

But again, it's part of that. There's just a look at me part of college basketball referees that drives me a little crazy. That's why I need AI refs. I mean, don't even get me started with your... Billy, are you serious? There it is. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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