KSR - 2026-02-05- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

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Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text Machine is 7724-5254. One person writes, Matt. I had a very similar scene with Drew and Derek Henry with Neil Patrick Harris on the set of Gone Girl in 2013. Hey, it happens to all this, man. It's an interesting one, though. Neil Patrick Harris on Gone Girl. That's a good movie.

A terrifying movie. Yeah. That's a rare case of a really good book that also becomes a really good movie. sometimes a really good book doesn't translate to a good movie or the book or the movie are so much better. Like the Godfather was a book, but people don't even think about it as a book because the movie was so good. It's rare that both the book and the movie hold up. I would ask you all, but I know I'm outside of Drew in a room full of non-readers. I can think of some that don't line up.

Like, you know, Forrest Gump was a book. Forrest Gump was a book? I can't figure. Was it a book first? or was one of those they turned the book first? Really? I think so. I don't think I knew that.

I believe I own it. I read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. Well, now that one holds up. I think To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie, is also great in the book. I think that's actually a very good one for one that holds up in both ends. So for more of our intellectual listeners, 772-745254, I have not read or seen, but one of the best picture nominees is Hamnet. which also won awards as a book just three or four years ago.

So that would probably make it, even though I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm not sure what that's about. We've talked about it on this show before. And on Cover Zero. Yeah, we've actually talked about it on both. So you have no idea? You were sitting there. It's called Hamlet.

Let's move one letter and see if that. The making of Hamlet. Sort of, yes. It's about how Shakespeare, when he was writing Hamlet, he had a kid die. Yeah. And so he's writing about, like, the kid dying, how it affected his writing of Hamlet.

Yeah, it just doesn't sound like my type of movie, but to each their own. Yeah. Well, it may not be, but we have talked about it multiple times on all of these shows. 859-28027. One person writes, Matt, would you have talked to Tony Cornheiser

if he was in the stall next to you? No, but I would wait outside the door creepily. for when he walked outside. And I think I would try to, I would probably awkwardly try to have made it a bit with him. Like I would have awkwardly been like, I didn't want to talk to you at the urinal. So now I'm talking to you now.

And he would have given me a look of like, are you doing this? And I'd be like, look, I have to do this because it's you. And you all could have maybe made it a little bit. He maybe played along. Maybe. Although he seems like, part of why I don't want to meet him is I feel like it'll ruin it.

Because he is a curmudgeon, and he doesn't seem particularly nice, and I worry that it will ruin it. I mean, you have decades of appreciation and being a fan of him. He is the reason I have a career. It's like him and Bill Simmons, but it's really more him. And I just feel, you know, I mean, even radio. I got into radio by sitting on the D.C. circuit listening to Tony Kornhizer on my computer at 10 a.m.

And, I mean, the reason this show is at 10 a.m. is because Tony Kornheiser's show was on 10 a. The reason we come in with music is Kosovoz. The reason I talk about my life is because Tony Kornhizer used to start every show talking about his life. He wouldn't even talk about his life and he'd do one segment and then he'd go to sports. So if I met him and he was rude, you might cry. I could do like irreversible damage to you.

That could be like some real trauma. I might go back to being a lawyer. Just give it all to Billy. Here, Billy. You wanted it anyway. Yeah, so maybe I don't want to meet. They say don't meet your heroes. Should I have waited for Derek outside?

Well, you got to meet part of your hero. I really wish this for an unsincent podcast. I've got so many I can say right now. 8.59-2-80-20. I can't believe I said that. 2287. All right, let's talk about the game just a little bit. Yeah, they played last night.

Kentucky, basically, you know, for the most part, ahead throughout the game. No real difficulty throughout most of the game. Get up, you know, stay to be about a three-point game through most of the first half, and then they go on to run. Colin Chandler banged right in front of Billy, right in front of the ESPN executives, back to back. Get it up to double digits. Second half at one point early on, get it up to 20.

on the middle eight that we talk about, last four minutes of the first half, first four and the second half. One, when Oklahoma cuts it to eight, but then a Brandon Garrison and one kind of puts the game away. I thought it was for what Kentucky wants right now, about as good as it could have been. Yeah, last night before the game, that was the first time in months that I can remember going into game pretty confident. I really believe they've turned a little bit of a corner. Even home games against Ole Miss and Texas, there's been a part of me that's had my guard up like anything. could happen. But I'm confident

now that it's 7 out of 8. I know the Vandy game stinks, but I feel like they have turned a corner. I felt good going into that. I'm glad they finished the job. I was kind of just don't lose this and mess up your resume. However it looks, get it done. But I'm glad they put it on them pretty good and a lot of the guys that have been playing well. Just staying consistent. Chandler, O'Way,

and then a big game from it is our record right now? Is it something in 7? Is it 16-17? Lost two SEC, or three SEC games? Three SEC games, four in the nights. It's seven lost. but are we 16 and 7 or are we 17 and 7? I get confused.

16 to 7, I believe. 16 and 7. So in my mind, we need to win two more to be, I think 18 and we're in. This was the easiest game left on the schedule. So you had to get it. And I think a lot of, you know, O way, 24 points, he's been so excellent. Efficient 24-2.

Yeah, I mean, he's going to, I saw he is going to, you know, he's going to probably finish just short of Terrence Jones and Antonio Reeves for the record for most double-digit games as a two-year player, which is kind of amazing if you think about it. And with a little bit of a funk to start this year, I mean, if you did SEC-only stats, I think it'd be correct. crazy because he had double ditched each game. And last year,

he had the long run really on one game without him. So, yeah, we all had our concerns early. It seems that he's put that way behind them and playing like a player of the year in the conference. And then, you know, you put Brandon Garrison against Oklahoma. I mean, he's going to get a technical.

And he's also going to play great. I mean, double double, you know, 20 points plus in a game. And made big plays. I mean, didn't just score. Made plays Billy when they had to. Yeah, I just hope we can get that out of him when it's not against Oklahoma.

I think they're going to need it when it's like who's going to step up tonight from the big position. Is it Moreno? Is it a BG? It was a legacy game from last night, according to Mario. I don't know if legacy's strong word. But I do think he played excellent. I mean, he is not going to give you that all the time. But he is going to, but when he can do it, it's huge form.

Yeah, we can't expect 20 to 11. But impacting the game the way he did. He can do more of that. He had some flashy passes last night also. He was doing a little bit of everything. You know, that Oklahoma thing with him, I know he's from there. He lost him a couple times. He's at Oklahoma State.

Then we had the stuff last year. But that man just has a hatred for that team. I mean, he sees Redmond Oklahoma's across the court, and it's been some of his best games of his career at Kentucky. Yeah, and let's not overlook Yellovich. I mean, he played 20-plus minutes, was two or three from three. He was great, yeah. I mean, I think that's important. So people are making suggestions about books and movies.

movies that are good. I will note, while we have a lot of suggestions, not as many as if I say, like, what's the best reality show that includes dancing, but that's okay, a lot of them. One flew over the cuckoo's nest. That's a really good call. I read that book a long time ago. A lot of Stephen King might be the king for this. Oh, yeah. So think about it, the shining, it, misery, green mile. He might be the king for producing, literally, things that are both translatable to movies and great books. Forrest Gump, they say, in the book, becomes a professional wrestler named the Dunst. It's very different than the movie.

Really? So wonder what made them both that way with the... Yeah, I wonder what made them, because that's clearly, like, mocking him. And I don't think the movie is mocking him, really. No, it's a celebration of the greatest American to ever live. Yeah, so I wonder why they, wonder what made them, I mean, obviously it worked, but I wonder why they were like, let's do that, let's make that transition. I don't know. I'm glad they did, though.

It worked out. Yeah, that's like your favorite movie, isn't it? It is. All the President's Men, that's a good call, Harry Potter. Yeah, I mean, those books were huge, very obvious. That's, I mean, if you think about how big the books were, the fact that the movies weren't a flop. Well, Lord of the Rings is the same way. I mean, Lord of the Rings, like when they were making that movie,

they had to be like the most pressure in the world because Lord of the Rings has been a big book series for 50, 60, however many years, and then you make a movie and it wins an Oscar. Yeah. We also, not to change the subject, but stay on the book subject. Have you seen?

Lonesome Dove is a good call as well. The Loansome Dove is a great book and a great TV series. But go ahead. It looks like there's some books going up on campus in Lexington. I tweeted this this morning. What do you mean books going? way not up on.

Devin Booker's putting little books all over Lexington. I'll just tell people to watch out for that. What do you mean? It's like a, well, it's a big book. That's at the student center this morning. So they're putting those all up campus? Is this the shoe thing you were talking about? Yeah, you're being very mysterious about this whole shoe thing.

I am, you know, just, I like to keep some secrets. Something coming Saturday? Are they wearing the denim Saturday? They are? They are. You just hear about that? Breaking news, really? We've been talking about it.

that for a few weeks. They announced that on Christmas. I was just confirming. Yeah. We've talked about it on the pre-show the last two days. We've talked about it on the, Shannon says you've talked about on the pre-show for two straight days. Correct. I was confirming, and then if he's going to be all secretive about shoes, I was just putting the two together. Yeah, they are wearing the denim, as they told us on Christmas. Another one that produces good books and movies would be John Grisham. The firm. The firm is a great movie. I don't know if I've read the book. But it is a, the firm is a great movie in Memphis, set in Memphis, very high.

It's a thriller. I downloaded the firm book on my phone for our flight here. I read two pages, so I can't tell you a lot about it. What's the one with Ashley Judd? Time to Kill. Time to Kill. That's John Grisham, isn't it? I think so.

That's really good with Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson. What's her other one? that one double double jeopardy was well there was the pelican brief there you go i think that had julia roberts and dinsel washington yeah so there's a lot more than we didn't expect to be talking about books right now let's go back to the game for a second Colin chanler hits big shots yes around there in december looked like he lost his confidence he got to worry what he was shooting open threes he's snapped out of that weeks ago he's been great lately uh another dagger in a moment where they needed it and it's not just the three-point shooting he has like five of the biggest plays in these wins going

Going back to the pass to Marino, the steel and get it to Oway, the three-hiel against Ole Miss. I mean, he has been great since they've turned down. Nearly hit a three-quarter shot at the end of the first half. Front-reel, too. Front-rim. So he's been off whatever was bothering. You know, he shot poorly to start the season. Then he completely lost his confidence.

And now, again, I think Jalen Lowe getting hurt, it's like he didn't have a choice, but to play more and now playing well. Yeah, going to need him. He was rocking a new hat in the press conference the other day that looked good. What about Mark Pope's tobogging in the press conference? I understood that he left early to go get his daughter at the airport. We definitely support that.

Excuse the absence, but he did get a little dressed for the cold little early. It was over like one ear. It was a skew. It was it a scoo? Was it a brown? Was it a brown Kentucky? He looked like him and him. He looked like he was like knees.

What is it? Well, you were doing the rap earlier. Yes. Yeah, I cannot repeat that. that, but. Well, it was vomiting on his sweater already, Mom Spaghetti. Mom spaghetti. Yeah. Well, yeah, he was going, that was kind of cool. He was picking

his daughter up at the airport after her mission. Yeah, it's been a year and a half since he's since he's been here and seen her, so I can understand dad wanting to be at the airport to get her. So, excuse absence after the game. But the hat was interesting. You can find your perfect match this month at Don Franklin. Choose from over 6,000 new and certified pre-owned vehicles.

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on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text Machine, 772-752524. are people suggesting other books, Game of Thrones. I've never read that or watched it, so it would be hard to be. It's not a movie, though.

I thought of that, but we were keeping it in the movie category. What's the one with the hunt for Red October? I think that was a shot. Connery? Yeah. Perhaps. He didn't write it. He's in the movie, I think.

Sean Connery didn't write the book. He's in the rock. We're going to go to Alcatraz as I'm looking out of this window here? So we have a little bit of time today, and we have a lot of time tomorrow. afternoon. Are we going to see some sites? What do you want to see? I'll do anything but go to the Golden Gate Bridge. I want to get one of those cars. So what is with you? You don't like the Golden Gate Bridge. You're only a part of it. What are you talking?

The Bay Bridge is much better. No one talks about the Bay Bridge. Now the Bay Bridge is the one that got ruined in the earthquake. And then they rebuilt it. Right. They're all like, let's go to Golden. No, it's just good at marketing. Bay Bridge is better. It's right here. Right on here. We'll go to it. What makes it better? Just doesn't get talked about enough. Better views. Okay. Golden Bridge. It's got dark. It's got some sadness. They are, and one's better than the other, and it's the Bay Bridge.

No one out there talks about the Bay Bridge, so I will use my... What makes the Golden Gate Bridge sad? Just people... I saw a documentary about it. It's pretty dark. What, people jumping off of it? But, I mean, don't you think they jump off the Bay Bridge, too? No, I'm not...

How could you jump? It's beautiful. I'm just telling you all, if we're ranking the bridges... You don't think they jump off the Bay Bridge? No, I want to show you all today. I went scooting over there one time. I wrecked. I saw a scar, and I was still smiling because the Bay Bridge was right there.

One person, okay, one person writes, Matt, the way that you said you are about Tony Cornheiser is how I feel like if I would meet you. I'd be worried you'd be rude and it would make me sad. Well, I would not want to be rude. I try very hard to not be rude when I meet people in public. You know, I had a friend in college once say about me. I think this is a good description. Matt is awesome when you first meeting.

he's awesome if you get to know him. It's in the middle where he's hard. You all are all laughing because I think you agree with it. Like you all know me, and we all get along really well. But it's that like you kind of know me, but you don't really. Look, Mario, shaking his hand. Like, that's when it's hard with me, and I think that's probably fair. So if you just met me once, I think it'd be fine.

But, like, if you only see me occasionally and you don't remember, really know me, then it might be difficult. So if you've met Matt, if you see him again, just know the second interaction. Just know, interaction second through four are going to be tough. If you can push through and get to 6, 7, 8, it'll be better. So just a little dip. You'll be fine if you just get on the other side of that. But there is a dip.

Time and place is important, too. Like, your Arnold's extreme, but, like, I can imagine you sitting down and eating is not the time. I will always be nice. to me. Generally, I don't think you bother people when they're eating. But with that said, if people do, I'm not going to be rude to them.

It's their first time. Yeah. Now, if you sit down at the thing, that's a little different, but most people don't do that. I am fine with people who come up and say something nice. I'm always, I try to always. But you know, you can catch somebody.

They can catch you on a bad. day and then like it can be you know I mean that can be I hate that though because like I've I remember when I've interacted with people that I knew or admired and they were kind of rude and it sticks with you like I watched I watched yesterday people being rude to people I don't know if you saw that but I watched yesterday some like really big celebrities and I don't think they're trying to be mean but like they're trying to wade through people and they can be rude right yeah okay I saw Stephen like people trying to talk to him and he kept walking but I he stops he's going to get

mobbed and we've seen these schedules like it's like pretty precise like 1115 1120 like you got to get from spot to spot those people so I get it's a little don't meet your heroes with Matt Jones sometimes no don't don't meet him a second don't meet him a second time don't meet your hero a second time that's yeah right one person writes Matt San Francisco I always hear is awful I trust your all's judgment is San Francisco as bad as everybody acts like. I don't think so at all. Now, granted, I'm sure there are parts that are bad.

There are more homeless people here than you would see in most cities. People think New York is full of homeless people. That's actually not true. L.A. is full of homeless people. DC, at least when I would live there, had a lot of homeless people.

San Francisco does have more than your average homeless people. I think. But I also think there's, like, amazing stuff here. So I think it gets a bad rap. Now, there are a lot of empty buildings from we talked about, like, after COVID, where a lot of those buildings closed. So, like, there's a lot of sort of areas with, like, commercial areas with empty buildings.

Well, I was here on a vacation about four years ago. I even pointed to you all their Union Square area. That's where you can see the difference. And I was, you know, four or five years ago, those were pretty full. I like it a lot. The area we're in, we still need to get out and see some views because, I mean, it's beautiful when you get over by the Bay Bridge. But this knob hill area is great. It's a lot of walking the hills, but there's still so much more to see around here.

I really enjoyed it. You guys have never been here. Do you like it? I've enjoyed it so far. It's hard to get past the hills, but once you do, it's... Yeah, but I just think there's this view that gets perpetuated. We saw this in Seattle when we went to Seattle. There's this view that gets perpetuated if you've never been.

been out here. You see on TV, it's like it's a war zone and it's like, you know, here they're always saying it's like zombies filled with, you know, with homeless people. And there are, I mean, I will acknowledge there are more homeless people than you would see in Lexington or in Louisville. But it's not like, in my opinion, there's when I've been to L.A., there's many more homeless people in L.A. than there are here. Yeah. And I'm a big food guy. a great foody city. Every thing you go, every corner you smell like another amazing food smell.

Yeah. So I'm a big fan. I know it's got its problems, but any city has its problems. And you watch the TV, they zoom in on one thing and tell you that's the whole place, and people have never been to believe it because they believe that the TV told them.

Yeah, sure there are bad areas here. That is a very small percent of everything that's here. Yeah, and there's also a lot of, you know, there's a lot of money here because this is where all the AI tech stuff is. And you can tell there's a lot of money here. And so when there's a lot of money, there's also going to be a lot of nice things in addition to the other stuff. Nice weather.

It's been a nice break from the ice of Lexington and Louisville. Yeah. I wonder what that. They got more snow. We just got out, by the way. Like there was snow that hit Louisville like right after our flight. So if we had booked an hour later, we might have gotten stuck, you know? Yeah.

All of us never would have happened. Just a few hours behind. What? All these stories. I don't like when you take a deep breath like you're going to talk and then you don't say anything because I pause. And then you just go, Bill, you just go, and then you don't say anything. When you do that, you've got to talk. All right.

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. We haven't taken any calls, but just because we've been having fun. It's fascinating to me, and I'm not going to calling these people out because I think people mean well. But the amount of people that I can, I mean, we are here, and we are in the areas of San Francisco that are the main areas. And people who aren't here arguing with me about how many homeless people are here. Like, literally, we're walking around. done a lot of walking. Like, probably more walking than I'd want to do. It is amazing to me. And this is not, like, let me just say, this is not a right or lifting. This is an everybody thing. How much folks let their viewpoints be just given to them by the talking points of networks. And then, like, that's their viewpoint.

Rather than, oh, that's interesting. I'd like to learn more. I'd like to hear what the other side thinks is. and then balanced. It's just like, Matt, they come in and clean all the homeless people off the streets before the Super Bowl. I mean, well, first of all, if they did, they didn't do a good job. Yeah, they're still here.

Because they're still around. But secondly, how do you know that? You know what I mean? How do you know that? Also, part of me, it's sad that there was, I mean, there's no impact. Like, I mean, you just keep walking. Yeah, there's no. I mean, it's sad.

And I find it sad. Like, I don't, I feel bad. Like I used to when I was younger, I used to give money sometimes to homeless people. And I became convinced that like that wasn't helpful for a variety of reasons that are, I had a conversation with somebody who I think has one of the biggest hearts of anyone I've ever met and sort of convinced me. So now if I do anything, which I probably don't as much as I should, if I look in the mirror, I probably should, because I believe in acknowledging people's humanity, but I probably don't do it as much as I should. I should.

It's give an actual item of, like, food or something. Or just acknowledge their existence. I tend to sometimes just walk past. I don't know if that's good or not. But I don't think giving money actually solves anything. I've heard of a guy in Lexington. I know him through a friend. He keeps, like, $10 McDonald's gift cards on him.

See, that's to me the kind of thing that could be possible. And they're like, if you truly want food, well, this will get you plenty of food, you know? And that's one way to help not. I once, I'm engaged to my girlfriend, my fiance. We've heard. And in Dallas, I had the ring in my pocket. And we were walking around, and a homeless person was asking me for money. And you gave him the ring?

No, but we just walked by and didn't really say anything. And he was like, hey, and he started chasing us down. So you've got to imagine I've got this ring in my pocket. And now a homeless person's chasing us down and ask it. And like, hey, you know, acknowledge me. Like, I'm right here. And so I turned around and just diffused the situation, and then we left. But I was like, keep walking, keep walking.

And then he started chasing us. That's when I turned around and said, hey, back off. you should have said will you marry me what do you mean are you suggesting you intimidated him no i was just turn around i was like hey you know no don't have anything don't carry cash on me yeah and then he was

and then he walked away yeah he was like billy badass and he did his own thing wow that is billy bad ass were you wearing the vest that you're going to wear this weekend no no i didn't have the vest and that was uh that hasn't been revealed yet that was on the post game show last night Are you excited?

Spoiler. Yeah, I just said, I've got to match it the right way, you know? Yeah, you're going to look like Buzz Williams at the party. Well, Buzz only stayed in a spot five or six years, and it gets a little hot in the kitchen. Uh-oh. Was that a hint? How long you've been working here? I think I'm at eight or nine.

You're going to be like Buzz. On to the next one. On to the next one. What was amazing, though, is our first bar we went to here in San Francisco. we met somebody that was from Lexington, right? Yeah. That's right. Well, that's been a surprise here, too, is how many people knew us.

Like, not necessarily like me at Matt Jones, but, like, knew the success of KSR. So, Shannon, because those ratings came out yesterday, right, that had us number one, with all these radio people, like, we had people coming up to us congratulating us all day. Oh, yeah, because they want to be where we were, you know, like where we were chasing them. They want to be where we're at. When we're in Kentucky, and that comes out, like, no one says and no one cares. But here, that's like a thing. So people, like the guy that makes the rankings, he was there.

And he was like, congrats, man, great job this year. I don't know what to say to that. Because what do we do? Right. Yeah. Not much you can say. I mean, it's the same thing. We thanked him.

It was the same thing that we've kind of always. done. But that was sort of interesting too. Yeah, it was like the perfect storm of that came out and then a lot of those shows that are on the list and the Barrett media were there. But you wonder like how somebody from like Dallas even knows this exists.

You know? Billy probably dropped a resume. Just passing him out everywhere. Probably so. What person writes, Matt after Kentucky wins. Now seven and three. Do you think we get to double digit wins in the SEC? that requires three more of the next eight.

I'm going to read you the schedule. All right, let me read you the schedule, and you tell me if you think we could get three of the next eight. Tennessee at home, that's Saturday. Then at Florida, Georgia home, at Auburn, at South Carolina, and then a murderer's row of the last three games. Host Vandy at A&M, host Florida. I think they're going to get Tennessee on Saturday.

I worry about the two Florida games at A&M. I'm almost just calling those that O and three. Can I call my shot? We're going to win at A&M. Okay. That's going to be one that nobody thinks we're going to win. I think they're going to hit a little bit of a downslide. Okay, because they've been so good, surprisingly good.

I think we're going to steal the A&M game. I hope so. They're good. They score a lot of points. So here's my. I'll go through. I think we lose at home Saturday to Tennessee.

I think since we beat them last time, I think we're going to lose. The denim emotions. I think we'll lose at Florida. But then I think we beat George at home. I don't know what to think about at Auburn. That could go either way. Yeah, they're night and day team too.

We're going to win at South Carolina. I think we lose at home to Vandy, win at A&M, lose at home to Florida. So we're going to have like this weird, we're going to lose like three or four home games, but then win these games on the road. I have you same record for the end, except I have losing A&M and beating Vandy at home. I can see that. First of all, look at these games and say, all, which one can't we win?

The only game I don't think we can win is Valentine's Day at Florida. The rest of these games, I think you could win them all, right? But I would say you could lose them all. I think it'd be hard. I mean, even at South Carolina is a road game. You know, they're not good, but, like, there's no game on the schedule except at Florida that I think we're definitely going to lose. But I also don't know that there's any game that you can go, yeah, we're definitely going to win. And we're used to counting Georgia at home.

Just go ahead and count that as a win. It's not your usual Georgia this year either. Yeah, so I don't know, Billy. I mean, it's odd how you have eight games left. And you could go 8 and 0 or 0 and 8. I mean, really, like, that's not a crazy thing to say. And it's amazing Kentucky finds himself in a situation where they can compete for this regular season title. It's a wide open SEC this year.

Yeah, I mean, let's talk about that for a second. I mean, like, right now, we're third in the SEC. I mean, a big power. A&M and Florida are 7 and 2. We're 7 and 3, and then Arkansas, and Tennessee are 6 in 3. So, you know, we're there. for a shot to win the league. I mean, we'd have to go on a heck of a run,

but it's not crazy, right? Yeah, but I mean, the teams ahead of you, they're still on the schedule. You've got two against Florida. You got A&M if you really wanted to win it. Those games will carry a lot of ways. And Florida plays at A&M Saturday. That's coming up, yeah.

So Florida plays at A&M Saturday, which means one of those teams is going to take a loss. So if you win Saturday, you're going to probably be in second place in the SEC. and you at least have a tiebreaker over Arkansas. If you get Tennessee on Saturday, a lot of those teams in that pile for third, you're going to have an edge on them too, even if you finish with the same record. And I also know Florida, I mean, I'm sitting here looking at schedules.

You know, Florida has a very hard schedule coming down a stretch. They play pretty much all the good teams. I'm sitting here looking at A&M. Well, I was looking at A&M, and now I can't get them. So these teams all have tough schedules coming. coming down the stretch. Yeah, I think Kentucky will finish, probably even double-by in the SEC. I just worry Florida already having a game lead.

And I watched that Sunday game against Alabama. My goodness, they had 72 points in the paint and only three turnovers in the game and one by nearly 30 against Alabama. I see her and look at A&M schedule. They might be the favorite because they still have Missouri, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, and LSU on their schedule. Oh, yeah. It would mean a lot for this team to stay together and get a double buy in the SEC after where they've been some places this year.

I mean, I think without your three top guys, you had to say it's a hell of a coaching job if you are to stay in contention like that. Then it's just about what you do in the tournament, right? Yeah, I think that's fair. 859-28027, cornbread hemp. We are here. No, we did not get bigger than cornbread hemp last night, no matter what people think about the post-game show. I did however take it when I went to sleep. And in the Hoosier State, now it's available for you.

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87. Text machine, love to hear from you. I've been reading texts all day. You guys have cheered us. Well, we've already been cheery, but it's been good to follow along in San Francisco. We will be putting out content all day. The new cover zero will come out probably tonight. So check it out. It'll have our interviews with Sean Alexander with Bussing with the boys. Maybe Joe Milton, listen to him, ask him if he gets food stuck in his grill. That wasn't my finest hour yesterday. The problem is I just, I mean, what do you ask Joe Milton? Joe Milton was the one where I was like, I don't know what to say to this person.

It's not his fault. I mean, he's a backup quarterback in his second season. Like, he hadn't played a lot of football in the NFL. So luckily we had the Tennessee connection. If he had been from the Pack or the Big Ten or something, I don't know what we would have gone with. Mike Golick, by the way, when we were interviewing him, Shannon, as they left, they left us a supply of the thing he was trying to sell. and it was like diabetes medication.

What do you do with that? I don't know. I left my sitting there in hindsight. I didn't mean to. But I mean, they were like here. And I'm like, what is this? And they're like, it's your diabetes thing. You like put it on your arm.

You put it on your arm. But you put it on your arm and it tracks your diet. But we don't. Yeah, not everybody has diabetes. We don't have diabetes. Or at least I hope I don't have diabetes. It would be rude to ask. So maybe he was just leaving it there.

He just assumed you have diabetes. They ask us, they say, here, take this. We want you all to have it. Is that like, are you supposed, you know, if you had other diseases, they don't just tell you to do treatment for it. Here's your top of it free point. We're just going to leave this here for you. Here's some syphilis medication if you need it. We've got extras.

You know who has it based on who took it. I just think that's an odd. Still sitting on the ground right beneath our set. Now, what they did give us of was Christian McCaffrey's Ollie Shop. That was good. Did you drink one? I did not. I've had Oliap before, though.

Actually, I mean, it's no McDonald's Diet Coke, but Ollipop was good. I was good. I was worried, though, Shannon. I asked Christian McCaffrey, what's your favorite flavor of olipop? And he had a look on his face that made me think he doesn't know any flavors. No. Just a grape. Everything is grape, you know?

And then he goes, he goes, crisp apple. And I was like, okay, there's pretty precise. That's pretty specific, crisp apple. But there was a half second where it looked like he was like, oh, oh. He had to look at the can real quick and say, what's the flavor on the can? He did have a look for a second that was like, I don't really know a lot of Olipop. I don't want to play a spoiler before his episode drops, but two of our listeners in particular are going to want to hear that. I've already told him.

Oh, you told him? I sent him a text and let him know. I got McCaffrey to give a shout out to a couple of our listeners. I'm not a shout-out guy, but they've been with us a long time. And they love him. And they love him. And he gave a great shout-out. It's interesting to see Christian McCaffrey because women, he has an effect on women.

The way Kay Adams affects Mario, Christian McCaffrey, I don't know if you saw there were three women with the NFL who were, I walked off the set and they go, is he as beautiful in person. Is he as beautiful up close as he is from afar? Like, he has an effect on him, even though he's a little short king. I wouldn't mess with him. But, I mean, he was much shorter than me and you. Yeah, and he's like very. robotic. There's stories about him. Like, he's on one, like, maybe worse than the Tom Brady guy.

But you were telling me, I didn't know, like, his dad didn't let him have, like, candy or friends? He had a very strict regimen in, like, high school, like, didn't eat candy, didn't have a lot of social interactions. It was, like, working out and protein. And obviously worked out for him. Actually, now I'm thinking about I had a dumb question to him, too, Shannon. What was that? We were talking about Travis Kelsey.

And I was like, do you think you could handle date? somebody that famous? And then when it was overdue was like, he dates somebody that famous. Yes, she's Miss Universe. Because he goes, yeah, I think I could handle it. And he laughed. And I remember thinking, oh, he must date somebody famous. As soon as we got done, Matt was like, does he date anyone?

I was like, yeah, I'm Miss Universe. But I was asking him like, like, I'd never heard of him. He was great, too, though. That would be kind of like somebody was dating Sabrina Carpenter. I'd be like, you think you can handle Taylor Swift? I'll admit I got lost in Christian McCaffrey's eyes for a moment. I snapped out of it, though. I caught myself.

He does have pretty eyes. There's one other person in this room, though, that I think was not just, wasn't just the women that were filling McCaffrey, I think. There's a picture of Billy staring at Christian McCaffrey like he wanted to give that ring to him. There's a picture of you. There's a picture Mario took of you staring into Christian McCaffrey's eyes that is very much like you are, you're a fan. I was, I am.

He's probably the best one of the best players in the league right now so I was a little star-struck. I was a little star-struck. Me like an oly-pop. It's probably never had a soda in his life, so this may be the perfect

sponsorship for him. I did wonder when he was like talking about coax and other soft drinks and how this is better. Part of me was like, have you had one ever? I bet he hasn't. I bet he hasn't. If you listen to interviews,

you'll notice in the last question of every interview, I have to ask them about why they're there. And it's so hard. And it's not natural. It's not natural. You go, okay, well, now that we've been talking about football, what? Tell me about Oli Pop.

Like, there's no natural way to do that. The best is with Bryce Young. They brought another guy. Billy is in a chair, and if video comes out, Billy just turns into the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters. We don't really address it. They made Billy get up so that the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters could come in. They got big time.

Yeah, if you're watching a video, Billy just disappears. Same chair. Into the ether. And he becomes the CEO of Big Brothers and Big Sisters. And then he's... I was going to say, have you asked anybody if they know Ryan? Have you told the whole Ryan limited bit? I have it.

I haven't. I haven't because it hasn't felt... It's very rushed. I mean, you have like 10 minutes with these people, and then they pull Christian McCaffrey and then there's Price Young. And like, it's hard to even have time to breathe because it's just like you're like, okay here's another person here's another person and a lot of them we're talking to christm McCaffrey but like Bryce Young's at the bottom of the steps waiting and it's like

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Let's go. Cats. The year of Kenny Brooks. I think they get it done tonight. All right. That was very exciting. I'm going to take Kentucky. I think there's still some tickets available.

So try to get out there tonight and go see the women. We'll have it on at the bar if you want to come there as well. Now, tomorrow morning, we may, well, Billy, I'm not going to make Billy Tramp over there tomorrow for the show. No, no go. Let's see what it looks like over there. We might do the show at Media Row, but we might not, because it'll be very, Billy, I have to leave this hotel at 5 a.m. if we do that. So we may, we, so we'll see, but nevertheless, looking forward to another fun day with you guys. we don't have a party tonight, so I'm going to take you all to a nice, high-end restaurant.

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