KSR - 2026-02-09- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Kentucky's win over Tennessee and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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But we are back. You can give the Shannon Clark's Pump and Shop phone line 859-2802287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-7525-4 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, if you call T. he'll make them pay. Glad to be back with some time to check the text machine and see all your good comments. Ryan Lemon, it was one of the more. Drew and I've probably done, I don't know, if you look over the years and you count KSR trips and college basketball road trips and UK basketball road trips. Drew and I have probably done tennis. We've probably done 40 to 50 road trips over the years.

and I think this is up there, you know, maybe this one and one of ours to Vegas. I'm not sure maybe the conventions, but this may be the most fun I've had. It was an awesome week. Well, welcome back, you guys. I enjoyed hearing some stories from Mario and Billy and Drew. I were waiting on you to get to join us. I'm telling you what, man, the shows and the content was fantastic. I mean, it really was kind of enjoyable kind of falling along with all the stuff you guys were posting and listening to.

So well done, boys. Welcome back, but well done. Let me be, and then we will be fun and we'll talk UK basketball and the trip. But let me be sentimental for a minute. It was a great culmination of I felt like this year, everyone on the show, but especially those three guys, Mario Billy and Drew, because we had to do this NFL thing, got thrown into it. They all, like, have really grown over the course of the year in their abilities and in all that.

and it was a great celebration of it. And Drew, you probably got, what did you get home at like 2 a.m. last night? I was still up at 3. Yeah, I got in a little after 2. Wow. Had to wash the California off me a little bit, then just couldn't fall straight to sleep. So not a lot of sleep on this side, but I'm still smiling from all the fun we had. Well, a lot, a lot of fun.

And thank you to all who consumed everything we did. The NFL has kind of been blown away by how many people are listening to the stuff. and you guys, it was nice being with all those people to kind of hear. And, you know, Ryan, the head of content for the NFL said to me, you guys, and this would include Ryan and Shannon as well, if you look at everything, he said, I think you guys work harder than anyone in broadcasting. He was like, I can't believe all the stuff you all put out. And I thought that was kind of cool to hear from somebody who sees stuff from all over the country.

Well, everything works if you work at it, right? I didn't know what the wise people say. So you guys all... Is that a sane? Shannon, did you know that was the same? I do now. Right, is that your saying or does that come from other people? Everybody, everything works if you work at it?

I think you can post my name to it and, you know, put it on T-shirts. You're saying you claim it. I'm going to, if nobody else is going to claim it. I'll claim it. Everything works if you work at. Wait, I mean, you can only claim it if it is yours. Do you think it's yours? For today, for today's show.

Yeah. Definitely mind. somewhere or did you hear it somewhere or did you get did that come from your brain or did it exist somewhere else it probably was said to me years ago but i'm going to claim it today the i love it hold on guys you're not going to believe this okay so tell me is it does this count as a ryan lemon saying or not go ahead i can't even believe what i'm looking at i googled it exactly as ryan said it and the first result is a facebook link and it says my latest podcast with ryan lemon is now on YouTube. No, it doesn't. Yeah, so Ryan has said this. Ryan has said it before.

There we go. Oh, it's Marcos podcast from last year. Wait a minute. So Ryan... That is the top Google result is Ryan Lemon saying it to Mario for everything works if you work at it. We just became billionaires. Right. This is officially your slogan. Everything works if you work at it. I'll be going talking about getting some t-shirts made after the show. Put it up on a couple billboards on New Circle Road. He'll definitely sell out for it quickly. Everything works if you work at it. Yeah. Well, first of all, I like it. I've been working at the equipment forever, and it still doesn't work half the time, so I don't know if it's true. I think it's a fair, I think though it's a fair quote. Everything works if you work at it. And it's also motivational, kind of. Ryan, I think we have found your secret. You should give a TED talk called Everything Works if you work at it. Ryan Limit. And you guys are the testimonial to it. Look what you've done with your Cover Zero podcast. You end up parading with Barry Sanders. At the Super Bowl party? No, the Super Bowl party had like Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, you know.

Meek Mill? Meek Mill. No one was excited about Meek Mill but me. Alex Earl. Who performed? Ludacris performed? Ludacris performed, although he talked too much. Drew and I agree.

He did talk a lot. He talked too much. He would play like Shannon. He would play like the chorus of his popular songs. Yeah. And then he would yell at me that the crowd wasn't hype enough. And I was like, listen, man, stop yelling at me. Just play.

Well, that's, you know, I got 30 minutes to fill and I got 10 minutes of content. So I got to talk for the other 20. That's exactly what it was. And in between every song was him just yelling that the crowd needed to get louder. And I was like, we'd get loud if you'd shut up. Play a song. It was a podcast. It was a Ludiger's live podcast.

That would have been so excited if he was going to perform and it would mess it up. He talked the whole time. We had little snippets of the hits. I didn't realize how many big hits he had, though. He's got, like, he did play the chorus of like 15 big songs. And what about the verse? Didn't hurt none of them. None of it.

No, just the chorus of all those songs. Anyway, great trip. We'll talk more about it later on, but it was a lot of fun. And thank you all. I mean, we rose on Super Bowl week. KSR was in the top 20 of the national charts, and that's pretty amazing. So thank you guys very much for that. Now, part of why I was exciting is Saturday night.

excuse me, Kentucky, in what I hear is one of the better rough environments in a long time. Beats Tennessee to sweep the season series for the second time in a row. Five straight regular season victories against Tennessee, which is in and of itself, awesome. Katz played, you know, had to come from behind again. Fell down 15 in the first half, turn it around, chip away, end up with the lead late, make big plays, including the Colin Chandler 3 that happens at the end of the game. Ryan, you know, you did the post-game show. I spoke on the first segment of the show, and I was really proud of the team.

That was a gutsy win, but it was also a win where it wasn't just like they were, I think they were fortunate to win at Tennessee the last time. I don't think they were fortunate in this game. They went out and won it. They were behind. They made the comeback. Bared down on defense, held Tennessee to shoot 20% in the second half, and they got a huge, huge victory for them and an exciting one for the team.

Say what you want about this team. They still drive me crazy sometimes, but, man, you can't deny. They've got a lot of heart and a lot of fighting them, because that's another come from behind win. And you mentioned the crowd. You know, KS Bar was packed from 2.30 on for an 8.30 game. You know, even Jack and Tom talked about how this is one of the greatest crowds we've had in many, many years. You know, the 96 team was there, the denim uniforms.

It all just culminated to an exciting finish. And then when all the way through that crazy pass out the channel to hit the bucket, man, the place just blew the roof off of it. Here's one of the ways that I judge it. So I have a lot of, like, I actually have you guys are really the only close friends of mine that I think are like insane going nuts basketball program. Most of my friends are UK fans, but they're fans like they'll watch most of the games, but it doesn't like drive what they do. It's actually them that I sort of think about when I program this show, because I think there's actually more of them than there are diehards.

Here's how I knew, Drew, that game was so big. As it was going, and especially after we won, I'm getting the text from those people, right? I'm getting text from every level of Kentucky fan excited. That's how you know that, okay, the whole big blue nation is locked in. And I think maybe it was because the 96 team and the nostalgia. It's Tennessee. It's Saturday night. I just think you couldn't have had a better environment and a better result than they got Saturday.

Yeah, it looked awesome. As much fun as we were having, I was pretty jealous everyone in Lexington. You only get so many of those a season, those big games where you're thinking about the whole week leading up to it, not just the day. And in this one, if you're into the denim, you've been thinking about it since they announced it on Christmas, looking forward to that. So just the whole, this is kind of why we fan,

the big games like that, where it's your whole Saturday, and then for them to finish the job against Tennessee and the way they did it, you know, I'm, I don't like going down in the first half. I'm sure most people don't. But to rip their hearts out twice, being down 17 in Knoxville and 14 in Lexington, all right, that was pretty fun. Let them taste to think they had it and then ripping it away in the second

half. I don't want to keep doing that forever, but against the It made it even sweeter to get to come from on weekend. Can you imagine losing both those games? Oh, my. Like, if you lost both games where you were up that big, I mean, I might have listened, Shane, a little bit to Tony Basileo. Oh, yeah. I heard you got mentioned from time to time on that show Saturday night.

Yeah. Yes. That's Tony Basilia. That dude is out of control. He's out of control. And his post-game show is just yelling at it. I had a caller say if he saw me, he was going to kick me in the shins, which is not very nice.

That would hurt. Basilio also said I was a no-talent host who he couldn't believe was on the airwaves. Man, I must be lucky if I'm that no-talent, and we've been able to have this much success. It was awesome. It was awesome. It's awesome to win. It's awesome to beat your rival. It's awesome to continue to do it in a way that breaks their heart.

and, you know, Ryan, I don't understand why this team falls behind so much, and I also don't understand how they're able to come back so much. I mean, they've come back against Tennessee twice, right? They've come back against LSU. They came back against Arkansas. They came back, they lost, but they came back against Louisville. They came back against St. John's. What am I forgetting?

There's more than that, isn't there? Indiana, North Carolina. they went down to both them. They ended up coming back lost in North Carolina. I feel like there's one more SEC game we came back in, too, isn't there? Well, regardless. This team just doesn't quit. And I love that, Drew.

It drives me crazy that you don't even have to watch the first half because we're going to be down 14. But in the second half, this group, they just do it time and time again. And you can't call it luck now. I was even someone leaning into, all right, they're getting a little bit of luck here with the way you win at LSU and doing it the first time of Tennessee. But when you've won eight out of nine and most of them were close games where you had to make a winning play at the end, and Colin Chandler did most of those winning plays. I mean, you're just a team that knows how to win at that point. To do it time and time again in the different ways, you've had the Arkansas, the technicals taking it from you and you take it right back.

You have coming back from 17 down. You've got the daggers that Chandler's hit. I mean, they're doing it so many different ways and they're all ending with victories. however it looks. Let's talk about the plays Colin Chandler keeps making. I mean, the pass against LSU, obviously, the steel against Tennessee. Right? He had a big one.

What was this big one against Arkansas? He had one. Had a little turnaround jumper. The turnaround jumper that basically put the game away against Arkansas. That's exactly right. The shot here today, I think he hit a pretty big shot against either Mississippi State or Ole Miss. Ole Miss.

Oh, Miss. So, I mean, he has become like Mr. Club. And then O'A, dude, O'A's just been in SEC play dominant. He always has little parts of the game where it feels like he's not totally there. But when it's crunch time, he's always there. And Ryan, those guys have led us here.

Always got like, what, five straight SEC game with 20 points or more right now. And you know, you and I talked about on the postgame show. The Chandler shot was big. The pass that O'A threw to get Chandler the shot is what to me is even bigger. That pass is a great pass. I mean, Chandler's shot deserves all the happiness you can get.

But that pass was perfection. Yep. And I love it. It's a huge win for the team. We'll talk more about the schedule later and why I think it's such a huge win. But now you get a week off. Now you can get healthier. And you go into it with a win.

And they are eight and three in the SEC having won eight to the last nine. That's crazy. It's crazy. I don't think they're as good as that. But you know what? They won, so they are. That's right. That's exactly right.

That's exactly why you got to be excited. And what is it? Working hard means you hardly working. Everything works if you work hard at it. Everything works if you work hard at it. What a beautiful sit. Everything works if you work hard at it. And the cats have done it on the road at home against these SEC teams.

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Yeah, this is cheap trick. So maybe he took the inspiration from this song. That's always right. So what Ryan did is he took a cheap trick and he made it expensive. He made it to where it's worth more. That's right. And it's more on target.

Yeah. There's already a T-shirt out that I retweeted, Ryan. Everything works if you work at it. Can you hook me up with a trademark attorney after the show maybe today? I could. I'm not going to, but I could. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, I've been in Rupp Arena for many years for season tickets going back to the 80s.

That Colin Chandler Pop was one of the loudest I've ever heard at Rupp. It was awesome. What I liked about it, Drew, is when the pass is, in the air from O way to Chandler. Rupp takes a collective deep breath. Okay? So there's almost like a moment of silence before everyone explodes. That is very cool.

There's like a second, second and a half of tension and then it leads into this like crazy release of energy, which is awesome. That and if you just look around courtside, all the legends that are sitting there watching Colin Chandler, wear the denim, bang that three to essentially beat Tennessee in that moment. That added, too. We got this little curly, blonde-haired kid knocking down daggers in front of the 96 team looking at him. Yeah, I don't know if you saw, Ryan, during the game, occasionally you'd get flashes of the 96 team, and they were all like talking like they were the coach.

You know, I kind of wonder if because it's their teammate, they feel like they can go, well, you know what he should do is br-br-br-br-br-br- because I would look, and every time it felt like they were kind of coaching the team from the sidelines. It was kind of, you know, such a special night. They had the denim, you know, blue jean jackets come out. And I don't know if you saw this or not, but Anthony F's actually teared up when talking about after the game how much it meant to. Yeah. So that was awesome.

The only bad part, Shedon, I was trying to get to that party. And I was like, okay, can we wrap it up here, guys? I was trying to do the first. It was a long network postgame show. It was a long postgame show. And I was like, all right, guys, it's 1230 at night. Can we, uh, what do you think of the uniforms? Shannon, start with you and then you guys all give your take.

I loved them. I thought they looked better than what I could remember of them looking like 30 years ago. So I really liked the uniforms, thought they were great. Not crazy about the merch they put out necessarily for the fans, but the uniforms themselves look great. I felt like Mark Pope cheated a little bit on the denim suit, though. It's just a blue suit. Yeah, it wasn't denim at all. Brian, what do you think? I'm with Shannon.

I really liked it. I kind of like how they like it kind of stayed with tradition, kind of the look from 96. Just enough denim, didn't overdo it. I like that. And so now I hope we wear the blue ones, the road jersey somewhere. Maybe not this weekend at Florida, but somewhere you've got to break out those road jerseys now. They did a great job making them look almost identical to the originals. Yeah.

And since we wanted them, just let's wear them the rest of the way. Why not? Come on. Let's do it. You'd wear them the rest of the way? Let's do it. Come on. It's 30 years.

It's Pope. And, you know, that was his team. They obviously work. The fans clearly love them when they're camping out in the cold to get denim. How about that? Finish the year with them. How about that camp out in line? Yes.

That's pretty amazing. And then the shoes, Drew says I have a pair of the shoes coming. That makes me excited. I think they, I don't know. I think they did a really good job with all of it. I wish the hoodie was better, Shannon. That's the one thing I agree with you on. But everything else, I thought the uniforms look great.

I think the timing's good, obviously, because of the 30th anniversary. I just, everything that celebrates the thread of history that is Kentucky basketball without being lame. There's like a fine line between acknowledging that there is a connection from Bill Spivey to Denzel Aberdeen. There's a thread and a connection that goes through history. And when you can find a way to bring that together and it not be lame, and old. I think that's really special. And Ryan, I think this did that. I mean, it's like you're acknowledging maybe the best team in the history of the school, and you're doing it a way that still connects to people. You know, those college kids are going crazy about the denim. They

weren't even alive. They weren't even alive by years. And they're still getting a chance to do it. I love when we get to do those things. I love it, too. And, you know, we talked about when the denim first came out in 96, a large majority of our fan base did not like it and were very vocal in fact they did not like it. Is that true? Because like I don't remember. Oh, yeah. I was in high school and I thought it was cool.

But Ryan, you were covering the team. There were a lot of people that didn't like it. I have large majority of people were very unhappy that we were wearing denim uniforms. What they said? They get rid of them. They didn't know they didn't want them at all. But they kept winning in them. You know, we're undefeated in the denim uniforms.

still to this day. So why not embrace it? I went back and read a news story at the time, and it said that the postgame show that day, every call was about the uniform and not the game, and all but one of them were complaining. Yeah. So was it like Ryan an old, you know,

that's not really our colors? Was that what it was? Derby, never, derp. A lot of people said it looked like North Carolina at the time, right? That's true. Yeah, it was too close to the North Carolina blue, not Kentucky blue. We wear blue and white. We don't wear this blue and faded out blue stuff.

But it was funny. They didn't listen. because they kept it. I mean, they won the national championship in those. So I think that's very cool. I do love how the rollout, we talked about, you know, Leanne, Mark's wife, and his daughters were handing out donuts, and they had like all these displays set up as you walked in line to get your books,

videos and stuff. Like, they really did a good job kind of getting the crowd excited about this denim rollout they were doing. No matter what else anybody says about Pope as a coach, whatever. in terms of this part of the job, there'll never be anybody that we have, Ryan, who understands it better, right? I mean, there won't. Like, that whole thing,

the sort of secondary part, the non-basketball part of being a head coach in Kentucky, there'll never be somebody who gets it like, I think, like Mark Pope does. Totally agree, because he's lived it. You know, he knows what's like to put that jersey on. And you saw how all his teammates reacted after the game, after the win, and they're, you know,

high-fiving him in chestbre. bumping him right down Rupert Routheron. They were transformed back to 22-year-olds again. Because it just means something once you wear that jersey. Do you, a couple other players I want to give a shout-out to. I continue to be impressed with how Denzel Aberdeen has improved, man. I mean, he hit those free throws that kind of put away the game at the end, but he's also making good decisions at the point.

They're putting the ball in his hands at the end of the games and telling him to make the call. I think he's great. Diabate's rebound was huge at the end. That's a huge play, and then being smart enough to get it out of his hands and send it out to Aberdeen and Chandler. That was big. I thought Moreno had some really good moments. Yellovich made some big shots earlier in the game. You really had a game where all of these people contributed.

And, you know, there'll be little parts of all their games that will drive you crazy sometimes. but the way they play, the way Chandler played defense in the second half on A-Men, and then O-Way on the final play. It was just a team win. We'll take your call. Say 5-9-2-80-27.

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My mom hates his song so much. Why? Why? She always hated it. She's always hated. I think it's just the whole, like, yeah. I mean, Conway, we've talked many times. It's the creepiest dude in the world.

Yeah, every song's creepy. But there's something about how creepy he is that kind of makes me laugh. Like, how did women like this man? He was a sex symbol? It was a sex symbol. But how was he a sex symbol? He's not attractive. Great hair.

Somebody thought he was. He does not have great hair. He's got a lot of hair, but like, why would you put it in a perm like that? And then he sings things like this. Like, turn it up. Getting the lights to live a dream. The tight to. I mean, there's a tiger in these tight-fitting jeans.

Like, even just that line is kind of like, there's a tiger in these tight-fit jeans. And you're like, ugh, Conway. But yet women, like, especially middle-aged women at the time, loved it. Shane, I mean, they loved, like, I don't know what it was about the 70s. that made people, like, women just want him and, like, Tom Jones. Like, like, they just love that. I guess they didn't have many people to choose from back. I mean, I don't know.

I don't understand. I can't. Maybe that's just the look that women liked back then. I mean, my aunts, Morgan Wallen's grandma, boots and Francis, if you were to say to me, what's the thing you remember the most about him? It was the way they would, to use Ryan's language, Drew, lather up about Conway Twit. They loved it. And now, I don't know.

He was able to get all these women the way he did with these lyrics. And the lyrics are just, and then he's just the look at him. And family guy made it a running joke because he was so, well, it's enough Comway-Twitty. But anyway, 859-2-80-20287. God bless him. Good luck to you, my fan. Although I guess he's dead. Yeah, he's dead.

He's not getting anyone. Rest in peace. It's not working out for you now. 7-724-5-254. One person writes, Matt, the Wild Eggs, ad played during the game and my kid recognized it, my wife had not heard it,

and when my kid said, for lovers, my wife looked at him and said, please stop talking. I can't see, you can't do that to kids. I think that's why it works. It's a resonating with not just adults, but with kids also. I never claimed to be a role

model, to be fair. That's true. He's like Charles Barclay. He's not a role model. He's not here for your kids. Billy Packer, Matt, set on a game when Kentucky wore dinnums that they look more like Carolina Blue and that's why fans got so upset about it was they felt like Packer had said it on national TV. Oh, is that right? Right.

That would make sense as to why. Yeah, I forgot about that moment. I believe that's exactly right. I think Packer said something about it during a broadcast and just people were unhappy with and begin with and that just took it to another level. You wait 30 years and things that at the time were criticized now they're retro and cool. Like we've talked about the icicles and even I remember people not liking the icicles. Yes. If they came back, Drew, everyone would want them, right? Of course. Can we slap the Apex

logo on them? Is Apex still around? That was the brand of the icicles. On the denim, again, I was reading about all the newspaper articles from the time. Someone asked Patino about them in the press conference, and in a typical Patino fashion, he said that is the worst question I've ever been asked to whoever asked about the uniforms. He said the uniforms don't matter. Well, they mattered Saturday. And fans sure wanted them when they stood out in the cold. Who's up first? Lloyd. Lloyd.

Lloyd, go ahead, Lloyd. Hey, guys, two quick things. First of all, in my opinion, the best one of the year, simply because the offensive and defensive adjustments, we made it have time. Secondly, we have got to lead the country in missed layups. Oh, y'all can do this. Finish strong. Yack it.

Yeah, we, we, there's no doubt we miss more layups than anyone. But we do get layups. a lot and I appreciate the call on it. I mean, we get a ton of layups, Drew. We miss a ton of layups, but we also get a ton and it feels like they do make them more at the end, but man, we miss layups.

Yeah, we've had some awful percentages on layups in games, and someone missed a critical win late against Tennessee. Obviously didn't matter. Was it Garrison or Diabate? One of them had, I mean, it was a bunny at a key moment. Oh, it was a bunny, yeah. Yeah, and just those get so frustrating.

They ended up 14 for 21 in the game. I'm looking at the box but they've had some that were much worse than that. That's been a problem all year. We got out rebounded, but we outscore. You'll very rarely see this in a basketball game. We got dominated on the boards, but Ryan, we almost doubled them up on points in the paint. That's a very rare combination, but we actually had that. Yeah, you don't see that.

And I think a lot of Pope's teams have kind of taken on that old Caliperi mantra. Just throw it up on the rim, we'll go up and get it and put it back. And a lot of times I think they try to do that. They count on Diabate and Marino or Garrison getting that rebound and putting it back up. Well, part of it is Aberdeen and O'way miss a lot when they drive. And then we got some guys around the basket. They don't have the best touch in the world. I mean, I feel like Diabate, when he gets it, Shannon, his goal is to break the rim with shots.

Yeah, right? He just throws it as hard as he can at the area and hopes it goes in. Well, he's not the guy that I'm wanting to take shots really anyway. I mean, if he's close, you know, obviously. But that was a huge rebound at the end. That's a huge rebound that he got. He was on the left side of the free throw lane and made the rebound on the right side of the free throw lane. If he doesn't get that rebound, we might lose the game.

Yep. And that was a huge rebound. Who's next? DG. DG. What's up? What's up, guys? So me and my buddies have a podcast that we talk all Kentucky.

And I just wanted to hear y'all's thoughts on this. But just a couple weeks ago, you know, we're looking at this season. We have major losses to Gonzaga, Michigan State, everything with the locker room in Louisville, then we start 0-and-2. To me, you know, looking at this team, I think the way that Mark Pope has been able to keep these guys locked in and focus what's going on on the court and in the locker room is just a huge attachment to him. And I was just curious what's your thoughts on, like, if you had to pick one thing on the season,

what's been most impressive to you all with everything that transpired going on early? Well, I think the biggest thing is that they, with all those injuries have been able, Drew, to generate any offense. I appreciate the call. I thought this team would be really good defensively even after the injuries, because they still have their best defensive. The guys that got hurt were, at least with Jalen Lowe, defensive liabilities. But I thought offensively, this team was not going to be able to score points.

And they scored over 90 at Arkansas. Like that, if you had told me that that was going to happen, I'd have thought you were crazy. So I think the fact that they've been able to do that is absolutely awesome. I guess Oklahoma they scored overnight. But it's absolutely awesome to me, Drew. Now, whatever Pope said or did to get Aberdeen specifically to, I mean, he's a completely different player in these last few weeks than he was earlier in the season.

And same with Chandler who kind of disappeared in December, seemed to his loss of confidence would even shoot. Whatever he did to get those guys going, kind of in a stretch where wasn't a lot of hope. I mean, after they went 0 and 2 to start the conference, they flip a switch when they could have gone the other way. And the back court of Aberdeen, Chandler, and Oway are completely different players than they were earlier in the season.

And they're kind of helped carrying the team to all these wins. I think that is the key. I think you hit it right there. He got Ryan Chandler and Aberdeen out of the abyss. Chandler had no confidence and Aberdeen was out of control and not playing as a guard that could be helpful. And the fact that he has transformed those two guys into dudes that are now scorers and really positive net players, I think is the thing maybe he's done the best. I mean, he's flipped the big, started playing Moreno and Yelovich and then benched Garrison and Diabate and flipped it.

But getting those guys to play the way he has, to me, that is the biggest transformation. There's no doubt. Now they know their roles. They know what the responsibilities are. And like you and I have talked, Aberdeen went from one of my least favorite players. ever to now he's one of my favorite guys because of what you guys just said he knows what his role is on the point guard I'm the facilitator and he's kind of settled into that role a little bit we're not even talking about got great minutes from Trent Noah and Jasper Johnson on the bench Trent Noah and

Jasper playing well too I the transformation of Aberdeen is one of the greatest I've ever seen because he was bad in the first half of the year so frustrated and now watching him that that transformation has been unbelievable who's next let's go to Donnie Donnie, go ahead, Donnie. Okay, man, I'm getting ready to make your head swell if you'll give me a chance to get it all out. All right. All right. Even though you graduated from, of all places, Duke, and even though you probably don't know the difference between a can't fix flat, Miracle Grow and Viagra, even though the all three kind of do the same thing.

when it comes to comparing you to Tony Basileo that and by the way he looks like Uncle Fester Matt you're the Arthur Fonzerle of the James Dean of Radio the Michael Buffer when it comes to the voice That is very very kind of you I appreciate it I know one of those three things you said, but I know the fix a flat and the, what was the second thing you said? What was? Miracle Grove.

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One person writes, Matt, Rick Petino responded back to the fans back then complaining about the uniforms. He said, how could you be out on a date with Cindy Crawford and complaining about a mole? That's a good lie. It is a pretty good line. Do you remember that? Do you remember that one? No, I don't remember that line. I don't remember that.

That's a good line. Somebody sent on Twitter account Kentucky High School Sports History. This is an article from the Danville advocate where they asked fans in 1996 what they thought about the uniforms. Bob Anderson said, I like the other uniforms better. They had more of what I consider to be Kentucky Blue. But then Wayne Knight said it's not a big issue with me. They can wear pink as long as they win. I like that one.

That feels like something Wayne Knight would say there in Danville, right? It probably would work in Danville. I did like how Jimmy Dykes used a couple times. It ain't the denim, it's what's in them. Like, he just made it up that line. That was the very popular 30 years ago. That was the big phrase. Even I remember that.

That was the big phrase. 859-280-2287. Shane, have you gotten into any of the Olympics yet? A little bit, yeah. The ski jumping. I'm just so jealous of all those athletes that can do that. Because, you know, I go skiing like once a year, and I watch these people do all these flips and stuff.

I wish I could do that. So on the plane last night, I was watching after the Super Bowl. I was watching the Sky. And they showed poor Lindsay Vaughn. I mean, I'm sure she's got a good life. But like tears her ACL, tries to go, then gets hurt again, breaks her leg, apparently. And they had to do surgery. I was watching them.

I mean, Shadden, when they were airlifting her out and she's just laying on that gurney and the helicopter, that's crazy. Can you imagine having a broken leg and sitting there and you're just floating over the mountain? No. Just tagging from a helicopter? Absolutely not. I'd say let me just hear and die. Freaking me out. But I have to tell you, and the men and women's downhill is over, so they're not going to show this again.

But Ryan, the downhill, they got these drones now that will hover over the skier and go down with her as she goes, and you get a sense of how fast they're going. Oh, my goodness. I don't know how people do that. They get up to 65 miles an hour. Okay, and that drone, they had a drone that was right above her. And literally, it made you feel like you were skiing. I would lose it.

I would freak out. I have more respect now because when you watch it regularly, it looks like they're going fast, but like you don't get a perspective. With that drone, like from her vision, I cannot believe, Ryan, how fast those skiers go down that hill. It's unbelievable. So you make me want to watch it now because you're right. look it up. Get on Peacock and look up because they've got like the old, they've got the replays.

Go look up the men's and women's downhill and just watch it and watch the camera angle where the drone's going down with her. Drew, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen. I remember they did that at the Tour de France and when they were descending to mountain and I was like, good night, I didn't realize how fast they were going. You really don't get a perspective until you ride along with them and it's crazy. And it makes me wonder, obviously they're all pros now, but when they started, those first few times, like, there had to have been some big, some lessons learned and learning how to do something like this. I can't imagine your first time, like, well, here we go.

Let's sell fast this is. I always say that about the ski jump. How do you do your first one? Okay. I get that they could do it now. But, Shannon, they had to go down that thing for the first time at some point. Exactly. I mean, did they have, like, a giant crash pad?

I mean, they have to see, I would be fascinated about the ski jump about how you start. Yeah. Because you can't go down the first time. You'll fall off. The first time has got to be insane. So I love these sports. I do. I don't know.

You know, it feels like Finland wins every single thing because I guess they got all that snow. Yeah. But I love it. And then they had some dude in the figure skating. He did a backflip last night. Did you see that? He did a backflip. In figure skating?

Yes, in figure skating. No, I didn't see that. He did a backflip. He was, and he's an American guy. Maybe they won. Our bobsledding team didn't do so well. Did you see them? Yeah, they couldn't get into the bobsled.

Yeah, getting into the sled is a big part of the sport. It's tough in a four-man bobsled if three of them can't get in. We ended up with just one. And he didn't go very fast. And he was like, wait a minute, guys. You leave me out here by myself. Have you seen this controversy involving the ski? jumpers? Yeah, yeah, I saw it. I saw it. I don't understand the science. We talked a lot about that

on the trip to San Francisco. We didn't really understand the size. But we thought Miracle Grow would would have helped the situation. Who's next? Kyle. Kyle, go ahead, Kyle. Hey, guys. Just wanted to call in and share my viewing experience from the game on Saturday, which at least for me was really unique and that I was at Roperino watching the game, but I was sitting in the middle of the family section for the Tennessee players. Oh. So, yeah, it was, you know, when they went on that huge run at the end of the first half, it was, you know, it was bad for everybody.

It was absolutely miserable for me because they were high-fiving over my head. But when we won, did you try to be nice because you were next to the people whose kids were playing, or did you yell and scream? no I was absolutely nice I mean one you know I had mommas on all sides of me so I had to be careful what exactly I was cheering about but they were really good with it too I mean when UK started coming back and finally took the lead I was clapping and screaming and one of them you know playfully hit me on the arm but yeah it also it gave me a little bit of a perspective because it was grueling for them to see them you know, their kids just lose that game like that. Yeah, but don't forget. That tempered my excitement. I just say, don't let it.

Even though they're Tennessee fans, remember they're still Tennessee. It's nice of you to be nice. That's what you should do. You shouldn't taunt people's mothers. But don't let it make you forget that those are dirty balls on the other side. And that we have to win the game and be nice to their mothers, but also know they still have to take the ill. Absolutely. I appreciate the call.

They're still Tennessee. Now, Shannon, why did you let Ryan get on his phone Saturday morning and tweet all that stuff? I know it. Yeah, he went over the top, I thought this time. First of all, get off AI. You're not allowed to have it. Drew, he's not allowed to have AI. Some of those were real, though.

Some of those pictures were real. I know, but Drew, he's not allowed to have AI. It looks like he found it, though. I don't know how to do it. How did you find AI? No one was supposed to teach you that, Ryan. I, to be honest, I have no idea how to do it. Somebody sent me that photo.

Okay, stop taking stuff. People send you. People are feeding them. They're encouraging the worst parts of you. You're going to end up on a suspension at some point. And it's going to be because, you know, Dante sent you a picture. You got to stop. Undefeated this year doing it, though.

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