KSR - 2026-02-18- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

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NMLS 8259 Equalty Lender, NMLS Consumer Access.org. Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. We can't spend this whole show just being frustrated. By the way, KSpar, my trivia is tomorrow night. You got your team ready? I've got half of them ready.

I'll load up the rest of my dream team by the end of the day. You were one spot away from making it last time. No, we were right there. So you're very close. You could make it this time. Can you help me cheat a little bit? No, but I'm working on the questions today, and I'm going to make it extra special. Okay.

And I may even have one question that if you have paid attention to the shows, you would get correctly. Which means you're not going to get it correctly, even though you're, you're on it. Let's do one non-UK basketball thing just to try to lighten the mood. Little Winter Olympics. Canada is playing the Chechia. By the way, they don't call it the Czech Republic anymore. Czech Republic.

Did you know that? It's hard to keep up with what to call the Czech area. It used to be you called it Czechoslovakia. Then they were like, no, not doing it anymore. Then it was Czech Republic. It's not that anymore. Now it's Chechnia. Chechnia or Chechnya?

Either way, it's an Ia. So just so you know. Because I called it the Czech Republic, and somebody was like, nope, not that anymore. Didn't know that. It's hard to keep up with it. All right. So I got asked a question, which I think is good for the group. Outside of curling, okay, because that's the obvious answer to this question.

Take curling out. Which winter Olympic sport do you think if you trained you could get the best at? All right? So which winter Olympic sport, if you trained for like a year, do you think you could get the best at not Olympic level but good enough uh shannon you go first uh the team bobsleding i feel like once you get in there you just kind of lay there and enjoy the ride i know you have to shift your weight around a little bit but i feel like i could do that so i ran by the way on the bob sled if you want to do the team bobsled the place you need to be is third in the in the okay because the first

person drives the back person has to shift to be able to like handle the corners the second person has to hold the driver and keep them in place. The third person is just along for the ride. Well, there you go. You remember Herschel Walker was the third person at one point. That's right. So you can learn to just, that's the, I think this is the correct answer unless someone gives me a better one.

Third person in the bobsled. You just got to learn to run it quick enough and jump in there so that they don't leave you. That's where I was leaning. I can't skate. So throw all those out. You think you can learn to skate? You're to train for it. Well, I mean, I could, but compared to just sitting in a bobsled.

I've got to lean bobsled since I've never even attempted to skate. Or I have for Hay, Kentucky. It didn't go well. Never skied. You think you could luge? Yeah, I would have to be a luge or a bobsled or something where I'm just holding on for dear life. Do you think you have the courage to lose your skeleton? No, I would do any of these.

I'd hop in the bobsled. You do a skeleton with your head first? Oh, not me. I don't think I would do that. I think we're feet first. I'm not going head first. I'll do anything like we were talking about people trying the bobsled. If there's a pro in the bobsled with me, sure to throw me in there.

Me just doing it, no, that's how someone dies. But I would do any of these events sitting with like a team where someone knows what's going on. There are a couple sports that would be interested how they decided to do them. Like Skeleton, you know, they were always doing the luge. And to me, the luge always seemed crazy dangerous. What made them decide? How about we go head first? There's the crazy fool that decided that.

How about instead of feet first? Let's just go ahead first. Well, they were saying you could tell all the athletes that do the skeleton because they have like a scar on their chin from hitting the ice. Oh, really? Yeah. So I guess every skeleton athlete has that scar. But I just wonder literally the thought process of this is not crazy enough.

All right, I have, in my opinion, the sport that I understand how it happened the least. Two-man luge. Oh. Yeah. Lay on top of me. But what was this, again, what was this scenario where they were like, lay on top of me? You've never been out sled with the boys, had a few beers, and you just all band together and make one big team. That's how it started.

The Olympic Village. Hop on, bud. Let's get down this hill. Okay, so my question is, who's driving? Is it the guy on the bottom or the top? Oh, boy. Well, the guy on the bottom, I don't know. if you've seen it. It's quite a look.

Yes, it is. First of all, I would think to do two-man luge, you've got to be friends with that person. Oh, God. More than friends. Yeah, but there are certain sports. Like, you know how we talked about how Mike and Mike didn't like each other and did a radio

show? I think you have to like the guy laying on top. I like to see Mike and Mike going down to Luz together. If you don't like him. Greenie's on top. Yeah, Greenie. And you have to go down all the way. That's going to be fun. It's one of the only two-man sports where you have to spoon. Like you all have to cuddle a little bit to be good at it. Yeah, I mean, like

Ryan and I, we get along very well, but I wouldn't want to cuddle with him every night. What if you all do this segment? Just lay in side by side here right now. So then the guy on the bottom, he's holding on to the thing. He's got to be the driver, right? So what's the guy on top doing? Left. Right. Left. And that's what I, you're laughing, but is that what he's doing? Is he like, all right, make a left up here? aren't right you can see and then because the guy on the bottom can't see shannon that's right yeah you know why because you're laying on top of him big fat head in the way and then maybe he maybe i could see if you get off of me yeah maybe the top uses his feet like he uses his toes to break or to like

aerodynamic point which way they want to go maybe but it it's got to be way too loud to communicate it feels really just unnecessary this whole sport is extremely unnecessary it's like if they just started the downhill skiing and going, all right, but now you got somebody on your back. Yeah. Let's just do like the triple lose, like three people stepped on top of the just. Let's just put a guy on our backs and see what happens. I feel like what has happened is there weren't enough Winter Olympic sports, so they just started adding things.

Like they started adding mixed relays. I mean, that's fine, but you don't see that in the summer Olympics. They don't, that we don't hand them, like they don't hand in the 100, okay, now hand to a woman. now hand it to a child, now hand it to a grandma. Like, it's like everybody. But they keep adding these sports. But I don't understand how the two-man luge began. Well, you say they're out of sports.

I would think they were out of lusians and had too many people and just had a buddy system. Just get on top of it. Yeah, we'll figure this out. But I am interested in who drives. Because I don't understand what the guy on top is doing except being in the way. Tell them where to get. Well, you're right. It might just be like a hip thrust.

Oh, you think it's a hip thrust. I'm kind of nudging us right. Hey, uh, how cool would it be if everybody? Hey, buddy. You're going to take a right right up here. I've got the best Olympic sport. How about you take that, but every round you had another person? Oh, my.

So it gets to like six or seven Russians just on top of each other. I would watch it. Exactly. Every round, you add another loose. You get to take some seconds off per person. I love it. I like the idea that you just keep adding people. Well, I, maybe that, now this show has a long reach.

There might be a two-man loser listening, Shannon. There could be, yeah. I would be fascinated with how the two-man luge began. What happens if you get into it? And let's say you are the best two-man-lose team, and you just decide you hate the guy. Still got to keep doing it? You got to lay there and do it.

You got to just keep doing it. So I'm a big fan. The Winter Olympics I have found very entertaining. They always sneak up on me every four years. and I don't realize they're happening. And then when they do, I find joy. We got the story of the guy who told his girlfriend. He had cheated on him.

The proposal? We got the proposal. Quad God with maybe the biggest choke in Olympic history. And our female gold medal contender, she kind of choked too. Did you see? The snowboarder or the figure skater? No, the figure skater. She choked.

She tried to do a triple axle and she only did a double so she got zero points. And they said she would have got more points if she fell down. But she didn't even try. And now she's out of it, too. She just finished and just started crying, which is sad, you know. But it's kind of been a sad run. The French cheated our married couple from Wisconsin. Norway's going to win the medals.

They're way ahead, aren't they? They're way ahead. Norway's going to win the gold, which makes sense because it's Norway and they're in Snowmore, but they're going to win the gold medal. When is the Women's USA Hockey Gold match against Canada? Is it today? I thought it might be today. I think it's maybe today or tomorrow.

But Canada is losing right now to Chetia. So 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Joseph. Joseph. Go ahead, Joseph. Hey, Matt, I thought maybe this team maybe had turned a corner, but after last night, it looks like we'll go on another season with that

winning the conference. Would have been nice to have the Florida Missouri win. Yes. being accepted at a time, and I think last night all the chances are now gone. For what? The double-by? No, to win the regular season. Oh, well, we've definitely lost the regular season. Yeah, even if we had it, we're three games back of Florida, even if we had a small chance, it went away yesterday.

So, no, we're not going to win the regular season. Like I said, I mean, you've got to look at the schedule and the standings. I think right now our big thing is, can we get a double-by in the SEC tournament? I mean, we're probably on a path to play Florida on Friday in the SEC tournament. I mean, we may have two more games with Florida coming up here. So, you know, I don't know. It's unfortunate. There were a lot of things on the table for us that got hurt yesterday.

I appreciate the call. And I don't mean to be a doomsdayer. But, folks, there is a scenario where we don't make the NCAA tournament. It is a very plausible scenario. I mean, we're 17 and 9. Play at Auburn. We're going to be an underdog. Play at South Carolina.

Probably be a favorite, but you can lose that game, even though they stink. You're on the road. Play Vandy at home, probably going to be an underdog. Play at A&M, going to be an underdog. And then play Florida at home, we're going to be an underdog. If you were to lose all those games, which I don't think we will. But if we did, I think, I don't know that we make the tournament.

We probably don't. And if we win one, we're probably in, but we're kind of on the bubble and probably need to win at least one game in Nashville. So, I mean, Drew, the tournament was almost like a given, and I don't think it's a given yet now. Still need to win a couple more games. Even though they're on the road, I think the next two might even be, the most winnable.

South Carolina, they're down bad. I mean, that's a tough environment. But you cannot, even though it's a road game, I feel like we have to win that one, with Florida, Vanderbilt, and I still think A&M is good at the end of the road. So Auburn, they're so inconsistent. I don't know what we'll get Saturday,

but you've got to find a way to definitely get one of these two road games, hopefully both. So what do you think they finish these last five games? I think they'll finish two and three. What two you get? They'll steal one. I mean, we'll win at South Carolina. and then we'll eat, I think we, I'm going to just say we beat Vandy at home.

I feel like we owe Vandy. So I'm going to say, they still might finish three and two. For some reason, I feel like they'll win one of Ad Auburn and won at Auburn A&M. I feel like they'll steal one of them. I don't know which one, but I just kind of feel like they'll steal one of them. I worry if they get whooped at Auburn, that's three in a row, and all the goodwill and confidence they have built up from that run. I don't want them to lose it because it has felt like they've turned.

to corner, and I don't with a couple games left, them kind of get back in a rut and lose all the momentum they had built up on that run. So one person says, Matt, I actually think the guy on top drives, and the guy on bottom doesn't.

Well, then what's he do? If the guy on the bottom's not driving, he's the most worthless athlete of all. That's the one I want. Just there for the start, the push off on the start. Well, he just has a guy laying on top of him, and he's just sitting there being squished the whole way.

Carrying the way to the other guy. That's all he does. So he's not, if he's not doing anything, I'm going to figure out how this works. Yeah. All right, who's that? He's kind of fascinating to figure it out. Actually, we'll stop.

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It's Chequia. Chequia. Chequia. They lead 2-1 against Canada. That would be a huge upset if Canada were to go down. We play Sweden today. Sweden's good. So we could get, if we're not careful, we could get knocked out early.

Was this men's hockey? The women play for the gold. The men are in the quarterfinals and they play Sweden. Okay. One person writes, Matt, where was this? Oh, how much money do you think NIL Pope will get next year to spend? It's a great question. I don't know.

I don't know. I mean, do you, I don't know if we will get the same amount of resources from donors that we had this year. It's a good question. I think they probably get the same, but I don't know for sure. I can see donors like questioning like, look, I gave a lot of money last year, and this is the product I got. You guys did, you know, finish with 19 wins. I'm not giving you as much this year. I can see some donors maybe being a little reluctant.

But the funny thing, this is the death spiral. I think it's one of the things that's interesting to watch in college sports. You can have a death spiral if you're not careful with your program because you can end up, if you spend a lot of money and don't win, the donors don't want to give you as much money to spend the next year, which makes it harder to get players, which might make your team worse. Like you could end up in a spiral where you kind of go downhill and that could be a problem. Yeah, and I'll admit I'm pretty worried about it.

I've thought this since donors started paying this NIL, they're not going to do it forever. They did not get rich by just giving people money to blow. They need some return. They need some happiness. They need to see these players play well. And if you go a couple seasons without that, I don't think these rich people would keep writing that check.

I think they would be crazy to keep writing the check. Well, it's interesting. I mean, the whole economics of NIL goes against what rich people do. Like, think about it for a minute. Rich people's goal is to make money. Invest money to make money. Invest money to make money.

But NIL, even if it works and you win, you're not making the money back. No, it's just happiness. It's like you're giving it to a charity that doesn't really do good work. I mean, you're giving it to a charity that essentially is just to make you personally happy for sports. So I was looking at,

there was an interesting thing online I saw yesterday, which I could do a whole different episode of Interrupted About, but I won't right now, which was looking at the 15 richest people in America right now and how much money they give to charity versus the 15 richest people in the 1970s and how much money they gave to charity. And basically the premise was

the 15 richest people in the 1970s, 70s gave a lot of money to charity. They created charitable foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation and all these things that did really good work. And if you look at the 15 richest people today, only two of the 15 give a lot to charity. And one of them, Bill Gates, is problematic for other reasons now. That really Warren Buffett is the only richest person that really gives significant amounts to charity.

Whereas like Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Zucker, Zucker. Berg gives some, but not the percentage that people used to. That essentially they give very little money to charity. And the point was kind of to say charities are like, hey, part of the deal of being so rich in America is you're going to give stuff back. And people don't do that now. That's all a lot of a thing to say. Giving to sports NIL is almost kind of giving it to a charity in some ways because you're not getting the money back. Right.

And you do wonder, how long do these people do this, you know? And imagine your charity. In one case, you open your phone and they're throwing the money on Snapchat. And I'm being very serious about that. That is somebody's hard-earned dollars that was thrown at a fan. There is someone out there who gave Zach Kausata $1.5 million. And they saw him sit the bench and get on charity and say, Garrett, Gary, get your money.

Gary, get your money right. I think I can see a lot of pitch people. I'm not doing that. I agree. You just made a mockery of that million that I've worked hard to make. It's one thing if you give it to, you know, Francisco Mendoza. It's another thing if you give it to something like that. And so much has been made out of this $22 million roster.

People keep bringing it up. I think the people that help donate to that are going to be a little reluctant to give that money next year. One person writes, Matt, I want you to ask Ryan of a television show that I know he watches or if he doesn't watch, I think he would love. Does he watch Love is Blind? I do not. I've heard of it, but I don't watch it. Actually, I heard it's pretty good.

I'm on my first season of it. I tried to find it. So Love is Blind. This season is set in Cincinnati. Is it? Did you know? Everyone in it is from Cincinnati. Okay.

they see each other and they both are like, what do we do? The look on their faces, they can't hide how they're feeling. They're always, no, you can always see like, oh, no, you're not attractive. And it feels like why would you go on that show? It would be so embarrassing for someone to look at you and be like, ugh. How long do they talk back and forth for the big reveal? Oh, they get very, they propose without even seeing you. They get serious in just a matter of days.

But what hooked me is Abby showed me one from a couple of seasons ago. This woman kept saying she looks like Megan Finglewell. And the guy obviously has a picture of Megan Fox and they get this relationship and they do the grand reveal and respectfully to her She looks absolutely nothing like Megan Fox and his face says you do not look like Megan Fox So that's what hooked me how some people will just blatantly live what they look like get engaged and then the person is try to like make it work But it's clear that they don't like each other I saw a clip yesterday where he was like She goes you don't say I'm pretty

And he was almost like well Well, I mean, but all these people are from Cincinnati, which the reason I say that is there's got to be a lot of people listening to show who know. Who know some people that are going to be on the show. They are all from Cincinnati. Everyone's in it this time. Somebody listening right now knows somebody who's going to be on the show right now. So I feel like you should be our love is blind correspondent.

And you can tell us if it's good. New episodes tonight. You can get caught up. This is episode number two tonight? No, no. There's a bunch of out. You have a good job. I want to watch just to Cincinnati.

episodes. Well, it's the whole season. Love is Blind, Ohio. They do different areas. Yeah, so this one is Cincinnati. It's like Cincinnati and Dayton. Columbus. Yeah.

Who's up next? Daniel. Daniel. You go ahead, Daniel. You're good today. Well, thank you. Switching gears a little bit when y'all were talking about the Olympics. The other night, it was either Sunday or Monday night.

They were having the long version of the double skating. Yes. And Terry Gannon threw out of myronism. It up the woman skater and threw it. and then caught her and laid her down softly on the ice as she was skating. He said that they are so smooth. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. Oh, did they really?

Oh, okay. I didn't know he said that. That's good. Well, Marins, things are stacking up. I appreciate the call. You got a shout out yesterday. Tom Hart said if you work hard, you're hardly working or whatever it is. Everything works if you work hard at it.

I heard that last. I heard Tom give the shout out. He's just the best. He just always hasn't a KSR. drop during his broadcast, so thank you, buddy. You got to feel good that your slogan is starting to catch off. I was afraid he's going to do lovers at some point during the broadcast. I don't think he would do that.

He knows how that sounds. I heard you ended up making like a ton of money at Valentine's. It was over $1,000 doing like over 40 cameos. You made $1,000? At $25 a pop. Saying for lovers. For lovers. What's my country?

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Here's Matt Jones. People are very serious about their love is blind, ma'am. Matt, I have like 10 versions of this text message. Matt, they're not all from Cincinnati. Some are from Columbus and somewhere from Cleveland. Okay, sorry. They're all from Ohio. All right, got you.

I want to make sure I get these love is blind people. They get their places right. All over Ohio, maybe someone's from Zanesville. Could be someone from Youngstown. Not trying to say, sorry. Yes. All over Ohio, not just Cincinnati. I do have some good news for you.

I'm going to make you happy. Okay. Who's the hottest basketball team in the state right now? This will make you happy. You mean like who's playing the best? The Transylvania Pioneers and Brian Landon 9 in a row. They played a night. Played a night for the conference championship.

You didn't even let me guess. I knew you'd be excited. Are they playing at home? Yeah. At home? What time? What time? 6.30.

Okay. Those are different times. They got Hanover tonight. Hanover at 7.30. Clive M. Beck Center. 7.30. I might walk down there. They've won nine in a row.

Are you going to go? I'm thinking about going tonight. Because they win. They win. They win the conference. championship and get a host the conference to starts this weekend. So Brian Lane and the Transylvania, the Transylvania Pioneers pulling that off. Sir Rieser, star, sophomore.

So the conference tournament is this weekend? Starts this weekend. So if they win, they get a host. Now, if I go, you'll be there. I don't want to sit with strangers. If you go, I'll go. Well, I don't want to commit. We'll talk later.

Okay. All right. Brian's showing me a house today, Shannon. Oh, yeah. He mentioned that. I think yesterday maybe off the air. Yeah, you're showing me a house. a house of a former UK person.

I'm not going to say which one, but that would be, you better not screw this up today. Cow's house on Richmond Road? I'm buying Cow's house. Wow. How many you got? It's a very nice house.

I worry about it where it is because you kind of like. You don't have to tell people where it is. Matter of fact, don't. I won't. But are you going to embarrass me? No, I'm just going to be your realtor and show your house. and point out things and let you make the deciding of your own. You're going to point out things?

You're going to tell me what I need to see? Sure. Yeah. Okay. Are you excited? I've been to one of these with you and you had holes in your socks. That's his move. That was Drew's.

Yeah. He's a little piggies coming out for you. Yeah. You put your little second toe was peeking out and giving people a little whoopsie. And I didn't know that that was, I had to stop. One person writes, Matt. Do you think there are more fans like Darlene from the postgame show, and they just don't get their voice heard as much?

Did you hear Darlene? I didn't hear Darlene last night. What did she say? So Darlene called and was basically like, I'm just very positive. I think U.K. basketball can still be good this year, and Mark Pope can still be good, and I don't know why everybody always counts us out so quickly. Basically, I'm just a lot more positive. I'm Darlene.

That was essentially what she said. And, yeah, I think there's a lot I think there are, like, you two ladies were shaking your head. I do wonder if some respect, our female fan base is much more positive than our male fan base. They just, and you're shaking your head. So we have three women in here. They're all saying the same thing.

They're kids. Yeah. So I actually, I do think it's important to remember. Like, if when you go on Twitter, like, no women post on Twitter. Or not a lot. Do you all post on Twitter? No, don't even have Twitter.

You all are like, you're probably Facebook, Instagram people, right? Barely. I do think it's important to remember that a huge part of our fan base is women, and they are probably much more positive, generally speaking, than the males, Drew. Yeah, that's probably the case with the demographics. And just over the years, I've learned that they're just different types of fans. There are fans, male, female, adult kid, even after a loss like Georgia,

they just don't want to hear a bad word. Like, we're fine. We're going to fix it. There's five games, and we're going five. Like, they just, they can't have the convert. Like, if we say we didn't shoot well, they hear, well, you think this team's going to win a game, and you don't like them and they can't shoot. No, I'm saying last night, they did not shoot well in that game, and they lost. Just giving an example, I mean, the shot well last night.

But there are people who just have that, I don't want to hear a negative peep about Kentucky basketball because we're going to win out. And that's a good way to live, but there's just different ways people fan. Yeah, I like Darlene's call. I think the thing that the biggest mistake I think Kentucky fans make is assuming the entire fan base is like them and their friends. Right. Because people tend to run with people that are like them.

And so you think everyone is like you. When it comes to programming this show, I program this show to be quite frank with you for you three ladies. No, I'm being dead serious because my theory is the men love Kentucky sports enough that they're going to be all right. I'll throw them some bones, right? Like I'll say, hey, Drew, don't you think Mitch Barnhart should resign? Do you want my answer?

No, because I know what you're going to say it. I'll say it. Throw those bones out there, right? Talk wrestling with Shannon. But at the end of the day, when I see young people who don't listen to radio or women or casual fans listening. I'm like, now we're winning. Because if I program

for the hardcore people, sports radio kind of sucks in the ratings. If you go look across the country, sports radio does not do well in general. But if I can get those people, the hardcore's come along for the ride

and they may go, Matt Jones, you stink and liberal, you're talking of sports, but they'll still listen, and now you can produce a big audience. UK, one of the things they have to do is marketing is they are not just going after the hardcore, angry people on social media. And that's why sometimes I do think they do things that people don't understand. It's interesting to hear you talk about it. Then you think, of all of our female callers, we rarely get a negative female call about football, basketball, anything.

Because women are nicer. I mean, it's just true. women don't fight as much as men they fight in a different way but they're nice women are just nicer and more optimistic maybe about things maybe

because if you're a woman growing up you have to deal with enough junk for men that you kind of learn you got to keep optimism right all right ladies night at Rufferina only women get in oh if you had a game that was only women in there

it would be as loud and popular It would. It would. Think about how well the players would be interesting to see. Well, I mean, the ladies' clinic. It's just all people whistling. Always extremely popular. Yeah, that's one of the best things they do.

Except they don't do it anymore. It's one of the best things they did. No, Pope still does it on basketball. I think football might have dialed it back at the... People sometimes don't like when I make the analogy. But, you know, this state, it's very easy for you to think everyone in the state believes what you do even politically. Like even when, you know, when Trump wins Kentucky by 30 points,

that still means 35% of the state voted for that. That's a huge amount of people. If you're with two other people, one of them voted for, voted against him. But if you only spend time with people that are like, you're like, well, where are the Harris? Well, there's a third of the people in the state are. And Kentucky basketball means so much to everybody in this state. You know, we live and die by every.

every game, every basket, every second. Guys are just a little harder to get over a tough loss, maybe than... Yes. And I feel like, Shannon, in some ways, I'm almost in the middle. Between... I have... Somebody's got to balance it all off. I have some male.

And then, you know, at least I try to be nicer than a lot of people sometimes are to me, but it doesn't always happen. Who's next? Lindsay. Lindsay, go ahead, Lindsay. Hey, so sorry to switch gears, but what do you think the chances are the spring game will be at night to make room for the Vandy series baseball game that same Saturday at 2? Or do you think they'll do it early? I hadn't thought about that.

Well, first of all, I appreciate the call. Let's talk about they're bringing back the spring game. We haven't talked about this yet. Great news, right? Great news, yes. I think our fan base missed the spring game, and I'm glad they're going to bring it back. Yes, I'm glad. I think it will be very crowded for the first Will Steinman.

You may remember the first Mark Stoopswin was an amazing crowd. I think you'll see a lot of people, if the weather is good, Drew, come out to the spring game. I do too. I love you mentioned the baseball doubleheader. I don't know what they'll do. Hopefully they don't put them up against each other. I mean, maybe you do an early spring game at noon and encourage people to walk over to baseball. But I think they're going to have a lot of people there like that first Stobsman.

That first Stoopswin, people were tailgating like, you know, not Louisville was in town, but an actual football game was about to take place. The parking lots were pretty full for hours. The stadium was full, yeah. I think we'll have that again this year. I love the idea of baseball game at two, spring game at night. Wouldn't it be awesome? Making an awesome day on campus.

Basketball will have ended, and you just make it to where everybody comes out to have, like, a day like that. That could be awesome. That's also Keenland, maybe the last Saturday of Keenland. That is the last Saturday of Keenland. Yeah, but I don't think that matters to me. I'm just saying people that want to come to town. I'm just saying you can have people, everyone right there. They are right next to each other there.

And I think that would be very, very cool. I like the spring game under the lights, too, after the baseball game. People can tailgate before the baseball game, maybe then tailgate after the football game. I love that idea. Find your perfect match this month at Don Franklin. Choose from over 6,000 new and certified pre-owned vehicles. Go the distance with power train protection at Don Franklin. Finish strong coverage of certified pre-home makes and models only at Don Franklin.

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I don't think I have any holes in my socks, though. I think I'm good on that end today. You didn't think, like, I'll dress up. Well, you know, my buyer is a casual buyer, so I'm going to be a casual realtor today. He's a hoodie and shorts kind of guy. Okay. Just don't have your toes out. All right.

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One person writes, Matt, you can 100% tell you've never been married, nor had a wife with a lot of female friends. females are not nicer in no way shape or form. Most are like cats with their claws constantly out. My goodness, that's a man who's single sleeping on a couch. Yeah, I was about to say, which one of us sounds like the one that hasn't been around females? Most of my friends are women. Women are nicer. Now, women have their things too.

But in general, yeah, women are nicer. And, you know, this sounds like a person who wants to fight women all the time, who's always like my wife and their friends. He might want to get his situation figured out. I feel like you're more, maybe this is more your issue, sir, than mine in particular. I think I better be careful. You're all right, man, you good?

You're good? You're just help. You feel like after that game with Pope. Hey, man. Everything all right? You're all right. All right. All right, so we have a new game sponsored by Wild Egg. Yes.

That I am fascinated how this happened. I guess Wild Eggs is on a role with Ryan. and they decided they're going to give a $50 gift card to Wild Eggs every Wednesday. It's Wild Eggs Wednesday. And, Ryan, you're putting up what online? A scrambled word. Like, spin off their scrambled eggs. Every Wednesday, Mario's going to post a scrambled word.

And the thing about these gift card, it's not just Lexington, Louisville. It's Bowling Green, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and the entire area, you can use your wild eggs gift card. But if you win, but the first person to unscramble the word, to Mario is the winner. So Mario is putting right now the word on KSR's Instagram, and the first person who responds with the answer will win a $50 wild eggs gift card. Yep.

All right, so Mario, you putting it up right now? Right now. All right, so it goes up. Now, I have it in front of me. Oh, you have the word. I looked at it this morning. I don't think I know what the word is. What do you mean, ooh?

Have you not seen this is supposed to be your word? No, I didn't know what the word was going to be. I knew it wasn't his word. Shannon, when I saw a heart it was, I was like, there's no way Ryan came up with it. No, he's just the spokesperson for it. So I looked at this, and I'm not certain what the word is. I thought it was one thing, but then I looked at it, and it's not that. How many letters is it?

Well, here it is. I thought it was, I will say I thought it was gullible, but it's not. It can't be because of the letters. So don't say we can't answer it But I don't I have to tell you I don't know what it is I don't know what that is either That's a hard one I mean I'm sure you can probably just put this in the AI and get it

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let's go to John John go ahead John got a winner we are you have a winner hey man okay go ahead sir Hey, Matt. Man, I've been screaming about free-throw shooting for five or six games, and I can't believe our best player can't shoot free throws. And we got 20 coaches on the bench. Can't we have somebody that can join? I'll drive up to Lexington from Louisville. Oh, you can teach them how to shoot free throws?

Absolutely. I mean, I'm 75 years old, and I can make six. Ten years ago, I could make eight out of ten. Okay, but do you think, I mean, do you think, though, that they're not being taught, or maybe they're just not executing? Because I kind of feel like someone has taught them how to shoot a free throw. Well, they're not executing and they're not taking them seriously. They're free throw.

I agree with that. I do agree that they don't understand seriously. I mean, O'A is just not, I mean, he's not relaxed. He's just, he's shooting a line drive up there and take his time. They add up. Coe agreed. Yeah, I mean, I can do it. Just let me know when I need to go up there.

I'll throw in your name. I'll tell them you're available, and maybe they will take you up on it. We already have this years ago. We had the old guy. Remember he tried to teach you. Trying to teach me, and I did well on the video and couldn't do it. And then you missed everything.

You were like, Ryan, with the putts. You missed all of them. That's right. But, you know, we had good free throw shooters at the line last night. Trent Noah is a great free throw shooter. Aberdeen's a great free throw shooter. They just missed them for whatever reason last night. Yeah, I appreciate the call.

I went down a wormhole yesterday and watched old KSTV videos, or excuse me, Hey Kentucky videos, including I love watching the one with you, the outtakes of you doing your, I've got to learn my eights. The best thing we've done. That might be my favorite thing we've ever done on here. That's the hardest I've done. By the way, this is the 10-year anniversary of us making that. Is it really?

That was 10 years ago. had just gotten your new hair, and you were so proud of your new hair you had gotten. And it was great to watch. You were so happy. It was the hardest just out of nowhere laugh. I think it was every, I've all had together because it just came out of nowhere all of us. The outtakes are great. The outtakes of it are wonderful.

I also watched, you remember Drew and I on Hey, Kentucky, we just did. I don't know how they gave us a TV show to do it. We had some segments that were just so stupid, but funny. Me and you dressed as people in the 90s doing sports center. And we didn't really do a great job dressing up. No, we were just wearing like Orlando Magic jersey. Whatever we could find. I also don't understand why anybody didn't tell me how fat I was.

How did I let myself go on TV like that? Like, why didn't somebody say something to me? It was a light. It was a lot. It's true. It was a light. They did us wrong. All right.

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Who do you got, Ryan? Cal has seemed to have trouble at Alabama, so I'm going to take Alabama to cover. Drew? I'm going to take the hogs to cover. If Thomas and Acuff play well, they're dangerous, and I think they're dud. Thankfully, they had it against us.

I think they have a good basketball head. This is one of those games. Whoever the home team is, give me them, so I'm going with Bama. Give me Wu Pig-Sui Money Line. Arkansas wins the game. Moneyline plus 170. I know Cal better than he knows himself. And this is one he wins.

It's just like this is one where he just finds. And then they'll like lose it home to Missouri next week or something. He's got oats beef going back to Buffalo back when we had that tournament. That's right. Yeah. The cow, I know Cal when he wins. This is one he's going to get. And then he's going to go,

you're cowled this out. Like, that's what he's going to do. That's what he's going to do. See what I did? Jell see what I did? See what I did? Wait, did you see it? I did it.

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