KSR - 2026-02-19- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

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It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday, February the 19th, here at KS. Bar and Grill, where we are open and ready to have you come say hello. Tonight is trivia. and you got your team. Got my team. We're going to show up. We're going to qualify tonight. I talked to hubby last night.

You didn't ask him. So, yeah, he knows where he stands on your team ranking. It's a Kentucky select Chevy Dealer's KSR pregame show. A-59 to look at him. He's turning red. 859-2-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-7-7-4-5-254. This is a edition sponsored by the T.J.

Smith, Law, he called T.J.O. Make-M Pay. You better have a good team if you're not asking them. Well, we were one. spot away from qualifying last time. So you want to bring back the group? So I brought that group back. That makes sense. That was a good group. I'm sorry, hubby.

That's okay. The U.S. is playing curling right now, the women, and if they curl the best and beat, I think, at Switzerland, they'll go to the championship route. Did you know that? I didn't know that. I've enjoyed some curling. It's a little slow. It's a little slow.

I mean, but... I enjoyed the play-by-play guys. I could hear them while we were setting up, getting watching Com play-by-play of this event. It's got to be, they're long matches. Yeah. And they do a lot of sweeping. You know, Transey has a curling team. Did you know that? Do they? Yeah. Transey has a, or at least they did. I assume that they haven't gotten rid of that. But Transey had a curling team. Nice. Also shout out Tranzy 10 in a row last night. Yes, they won the conference. Good for Trans. So they host a conference tournament this weekend over there at the Beck Center.

Oh, okay. That's exciting. Maybe they'll honor the curling team at halftime. Yeah. I don't know if they still had. I just know they had it. Because there was a guy on the curling team I knew that I would have never imagined even had watched a sport. Yeah. And he ended up on the curling team, and I was impressed. So we're going to talk about a lot of stuff. Ask anything Thursday. Okay.

All right. So you can ask anything. And this is a good time to call. I'm willing to interact with you today because we've got a lot of little things, but no big thing. 859-280-2287. I came to the realization about something this morning that I feel like I need to confess. Okay.

Confession time? I realized this morning, right before I came here, the worst, you know how I always say that online, you are the worst version of yourself? So like whatever is the trait you have that is the worst, it comes out online. And I actually think that's true, especially if you're an anonymous account, but really at all. I don't think that's true for me, though. The worst version of myself is in line at McDonald's. I wondered that this is going to be a drive-through situation. Here we go.

I felt it brewing. That's the worst version of me because I start to have traits that I don't want to think I have in the line at McDonald's. Such as? I get mad at particular people, groups of people. I make statements that I wouldn't make anywhere else waiting for someone to get through the drive. Do you go Mick Cronin on them? Like, are you raising your voice at me? A little bit.

Today I found my, I honked a horn. And I said, why am I doing this? I know I've got plenty of time. But I grow impatient. I grow frustrated. So today, you get there, long double line. Very rare on Herdsburg Road. I'm not going to talk about the other group.

But the very rare, but the one on Herdsburg Road, just so efficient. Long double line. Then you have the moment that every week will perplex me, which line do I get in? Yes. It's tough. And usually speaking, I judge by what cars are in each line. Does this look like a fast car?

And I don't mean like Porsche. Like, are these people going to be annoying me? Maybe a head count of who's in the car. You have to do a head count, but you have to remember on the outside, that line's going to be shorter because they got farther to go. So you have to quickly make a decision. And when you make the wrong decision, it's got to be what a failed marriage feels like

because you're stuck in it there has to be long yes and longing regret and like if you recognize the car behind you go first you get there's nothing that infuriates me more than if a car that initially came after me goes through before it's like they beat you

you lost the game it's not like that it's I'm upset at them they didn't do one thing wrong but I'm mad at them how dare you be one spot ahead of me. They won the challenge. They won the challenge. And I'm disappointed myself. I had these two choices, and I went the wrong way.

Again, it's got to be what it's like with marriage. I didn't go out of thing. Same sense. And then the people on my team, this has got to be what it's like at Daytona. You know, at Daytona, you're drafted. If you get behind the wrong car, you must hate them. And now I can see why people want to put them into walls, Shannon. You know, give them a love to.

Oh, yeah. I got in the line, there are about six different types of people I don't like in McDonald's line. But number one is the person who orders too much food. Yeah. All right. You are at McDonald's. First of all, when you get to the line, there should be no questions. Right?

The menu didn't change overnight. What questions do you have at McDonald's? Like, it's been the same for 75 years. It's the McFoury machine down today. Okay, that's fine, but that's a quick answer. And by the way, no substitutions. McDonald's is not a place. You can't have it your way.

It's also breakfast. There's not even that much to take off. Shut up and order the food. I was with someone one time. It was my first experience in a drive-through with them, and I swear they ordered their McDonald's burger mid-rare and asked for grilled onions on it. I wanted to get out of the car and never speak to them again.

I'm like, who are you? Okay, I'll give you, if you order a burger, you can say no pickles. That's it. That's it. Okay. And then you move on. And then you move on. Shut up. All right. This is not. Just say the number. Just, yeah, there are 10 numbers. Pick one.

All right. So I get really mad. And if your car, you can order for you and you can order for one other person. If you have your kids, man, it better be quick. Just get them all happy meals and shut up. Chicken nugget happy meals. All right. But when I see a long tab, Ryan, it drives me crazy. Uh-huh.

All right, so that's number one. So the first guy had that. Had the long menu on the screen? Yes, infuriating. Guy behind it on his phone. So, like, takes a millisecond to pull, it doesn't pull up as quick. Yeah.

The other line passes. Oh. He's on his phone. Yeah. Now, I'm going to confess something. Please don't tell anyone. I've been on my phone before when I was. No, now.

What? Quit beating yourself up like that. I have. I'm not proud of it. I do it significantly less now than I used to. I have very dialed it back and won't do it in 98% of the times. But in a drive-through line, I will. But I'm really angry if someone else does it.

Because I'm a pro, Ryan, look up, look down. Sure. So you don't lose your spot. But if you're the person that's like typing a long note, could get passed Hawk So you honked out of today I honked

He got startled Looked up Drove forward Problem solved I think Oh no there's more Next one On his phone

He's it's his turn Gets past We've now been passed by two cars Ryan Devastating news Honk He looks out And I, this is the part I'm ashamed about.

And I'm sorry. I went, get off your phone. And he looks at me like, what? And I felt bad. Because there are moments I've got to remember I'm a semi-public figure. Yeah. I cannot be the guy screaming at people. The old man yelling at people on the McDonald's breakthrough.

I can't be yelling. But he was in a suit and tie. So he's probably the kind of person I wouldn't like anyway. You should be wearing a suit and tie on a weekday. First of all, suit and ties, if you're wearing a suit and tie, you're not allowed at McDonald's. Good man, got to eat. That's a hoodie place. Am I right?

That's not a suit and tie place. That's a hoodie place. So I'm not going to apologize to him because he didn't get off his stupid phone. But I apologize in general to humanity of myself. I'm the worst version of myself in these McDonald's life. Do you think you get hungry because you haven't had your food yet in the morning? It's just I don't like inefficiency. I hate lines.

That's the thing. I had time. I usually get through the line, pull over, and work on the final parts of the show. Today I was writing some trivia questions. It's not about time. I hate inefficiency. I hate lines, and I hate when people don't do their part for the collective good to get through the line. We've been doing this show for a long time together,

and the only time I feel you get really frustrated has been in the McDonald's drive-thru line, the one in Louisville and now the one in Lexington. It seems to frustrates you more than anything. else. I think that's right. And I, because lines to me are being in a line, because you're trapped, Shannon, that's it. Like, I lose my self-control. I don't, I can't get out. Well, you could always get out of your car and walk inside the building in order that way. But I can't just leave my car in the drive-thru line. When somebody's in front of you and behind you, you're just trapped. That's why I don't like car washes. In car washes, too, I was just in one.

Like, I saw McCall McClein there. He was washing his car. When you get on that thing, you're just stuck. You know what? And if it, like, you're just kind of... You got to bite the bullet and ride it out. And now I'm here, and there are all these... And you're frustrated. There are these monsters attacking me outside of the car. Have you ever, you mentioned in racing, put them in the wall. Did you ever think about between window one and window two putting someone in the wall? Like you're not, you're not liking the traffic flow? No, I don't, I don't want, I don't need to hurt my car. It's brand new. But, but, but anyway, so I'm not, I don't need people writing the text machine and going, you're impatient. I know. I'm confessing my sins that I'm the worst version of myself on on on on there so if you're let's

play this out like I've been in this situation guys on the phone in one lane you're waiting on him in the next lane do you go ahead and go in front him or do you honk on him like hey bud if you're turn in front of him I'm stuck no you know if you're that guy if you're the guy's like waiting do you honking him to let him hey dude you mean the other line yeah no it's every line for itself I do appreciate that I'm not the other line it's a problem between me and the guy in the suit. That's the problem. All right.

859-280-2-807. Last night watched Arkansas and Auburn. I only bring this, first of all, a couple of things about to get. Great game. Maybe one of the best games of the year. No, I mean, I can't think of a better one. It's awesome. Double overtime.

Could have been triple overtime. Yep. The guy made the dunk. You know, it's funny. The Cal into game stuff, you know, we've talked about we were so deep. He continues to be like always not deep, and he ends up playing two guys who haven't played all year at the end of the game. I did think Jimmy Dykes exaggerated a little, Shannon, when he kept being like, these guys might not even know basketball. How do they know the place?

They go to practice. He acted like neither of them had ever played the sport before. They were like, I bet they don't even know the plays. Remember when he did that with the dude from Tennessee? That's about a stoke, Stoke. He doesn't even know. I mean, Jimmy gets a little like, excited with the idea that these people are just... If I were their parents, I'd be like, he is a functional human. He goes to every practice every day. Stokes was great, and I remember him yelling. They're teaching him how to stretch in the warm-off.

Like, he's never stretched ever before. Jimmy gets a little exaggerating. I don't know why Cow didn't shoot a three at the end. They were down two, and they obviously didn't want to go to another overtime. Why not? Why not? You know, in the game and win it. You've got two basically walk-ons out there out of your five.

players try to win the game and you got a chance. But it was a great game and Arkansas loses. So now Alabama, there's a, had we won, this is what's frustrating. Had we beaten Georgia, we'd still be in second place in the SEC. Because with that loss, and we remember, we have a tiebreaker on Arkansas. Yeah. So we would have been in second place in the SEC and in a position to still, you know, be able to have our kind of have our paths. And so that loss, in some ways last night, Arkansas losing, made that loss more frustrating to me on Tuesday.

It hurts even more now when you say it like that. Man, the A-Cuff kid was awesome last night. And Hubbard was awesome for Mississippi State. Hubbard had 46 for Mississippi State. He had 35 at halftime. Yeah, it was 35 to 33 at halftop. Hubbard and Auburn. Hubbard had 9-3 shenan at halftime last.

That was insane. Yeah. That's insane. That's insane. 35 points. Yeah, at halftime. At halftime. That's like Chris Jackson numbers back in the day for LSU.

His last three games were 31, 32, and then 40 whatever he had last night. That kid if he played anywhere but Mississippi State would be a huge nationwide star. Is he got one more year? Yeah. Man, now Mark Pope, you want to bring somebody. Bring him in. Bring him. 46 points that still didn't have the best night.

I know. They really should, like, because they should try to get him here. You have to reel him in a little bit. I love watching him. He basically is a one-man show and he has to be. He would have to dial that back here, but he's fun. I would love to have him. And he said, he did a tweet about Reed Shepard after they played his freshman.

I remember that. And it made me like him then. It was like a handshake thing. You have something to say. Is it good? Just a question for you. All right. Well, let's save it.

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-2-8-8-0-2-287. The text machine is 772-7-4-7-4-5-254. Ask Anything Thursday. Again, when you talk about McDonald's, you get a lot of, like, that gets more comments than the game. But he's got an opinion about it.

That's why, you know, it's not rocket signs, folks. That's why I talk about other stuff. Want to talk about basketball? Stick to sports, Matt. Stick to McDonald's. That's right. One person writes Matt, or Pat writes, I need to know how having Ryan as your realtor was yesterday.

Yesterday was my first full Ryan realtor experience. We've seen a couple other houses, but like I'm serious about this one and really considering it. It's a house full of bubble screens. And so I'm like, I'm serious. You like that one, Ryan? I did like that one. Didn't see that one coming. He does, like, surprisingly Shannon, a professional job.

Oh, really? He kept his shoes on this time? Well, the realtor for the seller was not there. So it was just me and Ryan. So, like, he didn't have to be as professional as I thought. But he, like, he knows what to point out. And he's like, you look at this, and then you think about this, and then you do a hoop-de-hoo here.

And he calls the mortgage. And, yeah, and I was like, don't worry about that. I'm good. I got that. We can handle all this. And we talked. So he did, it was nice to see Ryan in his professional role yesterday. I also use Ryan.

Ryan's best thing in the process is, as you'll find if you keep looking. Any hour of the night, it doesn't matter to five minutes notice. He's like, yeah, I can be right there. Because I looked at a lot of houses, and Ryan was great at every tour we did. Yeah. Well, this checks a lot of boxes for me in terms of location and privacy. And, you know, I don't know, Shannon.

The only thing I'm worried about is, you know, neighbors. Am I allowed to investigate these people that would be next to me? You should go knock on the door, go introduce yourself. Yeah, but I need to know. Like, is this person going to be somebody? It's important. It matters. I tell people all the time.

Find out. You don't want to live next door to Fred Sanford or a house that's got like five dogs. I like Fred Sanford. Well, you know, he had a junkyard there at his house. Okay. Well, these people didn't look to have a junkyard. But, like, I don't know. You don't want to live next somebody's got like five dogs or some chickens out there?

I would check the dog parking. They're probably a Kentucky coach. You may know them. Well, there are coaches in the neighborhood. That's what I'm saying. But this is, but, yeah. But you did a good job. So I did want to compliment you on that.

No matter what happens with this, you did a good job. Thank you because I left and I told Jennifer on the way home and said, this is the first house I've really seen Matt get excited about. We've seen what, maybe half a dozen of them? You could tell you were excited about this. One you wore full socks for. I did. That's when you know he's serious.

That's when I knew you thought it was a good house because you went ahead and wore like a full complement of clothing. They got some all the spot for all matched tools in the garage. Yeah, it was a lot of places for tools, Shannon. Yeah. All of my tools will be taken care of. Just put all your shoes there where the tools would be. Oh, there's, but how big's the yard? That's what I worry about with you.

I see you let the yard get a little out of control. It's a pool, but I'll have. If I do it, I'll have, I'll get people to do it. There's a lot of bushes. Get to have a pool. And I don't do a lot of pruning or, what do you call it? Landscaping. That's because you haven't had room for your tools, but now you do.

I'll get somebody to do that. So what was your question? I noticed last night He was about to forget Yeah I was I noticed last night that Darius Aikoff I think played 50 minutes He did yeah

I don't think he got fatigued I'm wondering why can't our guys play 30 minutes I don't want to think about it I watched Darius Aikov play 50 minutes And he missed the last shot But it wasn't short He was right there

You know If Darius Aikov can play 50 O.A. Chandler and Aberdeen can play 35, 36 Hubbard had 40. They didn't meet O.T. He played the whole game. Yeah. I just don't buy marks. I just don't buy the whole notion that these guys, you know,

the numbers say blah, blah, blah, blah. Get them in shape. It's mid-February. They should be in shape. I mean, I think Rick Petino's 92 team didn't allow those guys play the whole game pretty much. Like, Mashburn would probably play the whole game, didn't he? I'm sure they did. A lot of minutes. Travis Ford and those guys. Also, Richie used to say that the game day was a day off, because it didn't compare it all to the practice.

Yeah. I just, I think that is, you know, he can say all he wants that the performance goes down, but the question numerically for me is not. Here's the question. Is it likely the case that after 37 minutes, O-A would be a slightly less version of O-A? I can believe that answer might be yes. But that's not the question. The question is, is that slightly less version of O-A,

O way better than what replaces him in the rest of the game, right? So if it's a 90% O way, but a 90% O way is better than 100% Jasper, you want the 90% O way, right? Like that's the point. The question is not, is the individual less? It's that do you have something that's better than that? And the answer, at least on this team, is no, I do not think you do. So give me the 90% O way. I completely agree.

and with the game this day, there are so many stoppages. We don't have two-hour games anymore. There are reviews, media timeout. There are plenty of breaks in a basketball game that someone should be able to handle playing nearly every minute if they need to. And in the tournament, it's even more. In the tournament, it's even more breaks. The commercial breaks are like a minute longer in the tournament.

That was one of the things I always thought used to get Cal when we would have, like, death. is, and I remember him he would sometimes have depth and sometimes he wouldn't, but I do remember him once saying, I think the year we won the title when we only had six guys, he was like, well, the tournament timeouts are so long. Yeah. That ultimately it doesn't matter.

And if you get Doug Schell's, you're getting probably 30 extra minutes a break while he's at the monitor. And it's, I think half time is like five or ten more minutes longer in the final four and in that, so. I want to ask you one more thing about that game last night. They called a go-tending call, and they reviewed it, and then somebody from New York

must have called them on their cell phone. I honestly didn't know that was a thing. Yeah, so they reviewed a goaltending call. They kept the call on the court, and then they said someone in Birmingham called them up and said, Flippett the other way. Yes. I didn't know that was a thing. Did you know that Birmingham speed dial that says flip it? I think they ended up getting the call right. I think so. I've never seen, though, a call come in after they'd already ruled on it, ruled on the review. Then the call goes in, and they change it back. Did you know there was a Birmingham? No, and if they're going to get it right, we should be leaning on Birmingham more often. I don't love that in principle, but if they're getting it right, and it's...

I'm okay with Birmingham being involved, but then why isn't Birmingham the review on everything? I mean, yeah. I mean, I've always thought it was stupid, especially in the NFL. Now, they've changed this, but remember when the NFL refs would go and, like, look at this little, timing TV? And I would always go, we have big screens. Why are we making him look through a projector? It looked like when you pay money and you can see Niagara Falls through a little thing. You're like squinting.

I thought, why is the screen so big? I could firmly believe that the referees on the court where you have a screen, people are screaming at you, it might be better for someone in another place to make the call. In the NFL, all reviews are done off the field. That's right. Right. So is that where college basketball is headed? But you have to be consistent.

I don't think you can just do it willy-nilly, right? Like a phone of friend. I'm going to use my one Birmingham. I had no idea that you could paint someone a Birmingham, and they would give you the call. We'll take a break. Take calls right after this. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J., he'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. A little late career Tracy Lawrence, Shannon, right? Yeah, still good stuff, though. Yeah. I would go see Tracy Lawrence. Is he alive? Yeah, I don't think he's died yet.

Okay. I was hoping he's a lot. I was hoping he's a lot. I didn't know. Yeah, I mean, definitely he's playing Renfro Valley. Yeah. So the Bourbon and Beyond thing came out. Shannon, the lineup for Bourbon and Beyond.

Great lineup. First of all, did they just make it for people that grew up in the 90s? Yes. It feels like is that the demo is people who grew up in the 90s? I think so. And louder than lives, probably a little bit of a younger crowd. Yeah, because I mean, here are the eight headliners. Foo Fighters, I'm in.

I'm in. First night, foo fighters. Queens of the Stone Age. That's like, do, do, do, isn't it? Who's Queens of Stone? Isn't that? Yeah, that's it. That's what they do.

But is that not the song? No one big song. No one knows is the song that probably everybody knows. Do do, do, do, do. Play it in the next time. It's going to be exactly what I said. It sounds like it. Mumford and Sons in.

Big. Love Mumford. Casey Musgraves in. Big. Chris Stapleton in. Huge. Red Clay Stray's in. Dave Matthews Band,

kind of in. Hootie. Yes, yes, and yes. We're all going to be there together. I was so excited. I, that Sunday will be one of the greatest days of my life. We got to keep you away from Darius Rutgers.

They're a straining order still in time. No, it's just for Lexington. It's not even for Louisville. Just for Lexington. Sunday feels like a KSR group outing. Oh, yes. I like, I actually like, I don't like Darius Rucker, the country singer, but I do like Hootie and the Blowfish. Amen.

So I've never seen Hootie play since I went in like the late 90s. When they do this, does he play Hooty and the Blowfish songs or do I have to listen to his crap? Oh no, they play all their hooty and blowfish songs. But they don't, he doesn't sing his stuff, does he? Does he sing like his version? Well, I haven't seen their new Hooty to Blowfish tour, but I know they do play all their hits. But I don't want to hear his solo stuff. I don't think he disrespect the Blowfish like that.

They don't want to be up there listening to that either. But now, if you're telling me, I get to hear him go, hold my hand, I'm in. And you can probably hear him, you know, when he does Purple Rain for his encore song. Only Want to Be With You. All the hits. Yes. So I love it. And even the people below, counting crows.

Come on. Are you kidding me? Lisa Loeb in the nine stories. Four non-blonds, they're still going. Yeah. What's going on? Jason Isbell, Goose. I heard Goose on.

Saturday Night Live recently. They're kind of a hot band. War on drugs, I actually saw in Austin once. Yeah? How about better than Ezra? Oh, better than it. What's their song? Good.

Oh, yes. No, no. Play that one. I like that. I don't know. Shannon sang almost every song of every artist this morning on the pre-show. Dude, I'm in. I might, Shannon, go to every one of these.

Portugal the Man? How about Joan Osborne? What if God was one of us? What if God was one of us? Paula Cole, where have all the Cowboys gone? It literally is, it's literally like a 90s thing. It's awesome. Joan Jett?

You know I kind of have the hots for her. Oh, we saw Joan Jat in Pennsylvania. She was great. The band that saying the greatest national anthem of all the time, the fray will be there. The fray is there, too. I've been shouting out the creakers on this show. They're on there in tiny font on Saturday, I believe. I'm excited to see them.

Wait a minute. Is Paula Cole? Is that where have all the Cowboys gone? I just told you. Oh, I'm sorry. Ferv pipe, freshman? We were merely freshmen. We were merely fresh.

So we just camp? Did they literally just go to, like, turn on the 90s station and just whoever came on, they invited? Well, they were smart. They did that. How about nine days? This is the story of a girl. This is the story of a girl. That one's coming to?

Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. So shout out. I can't imagine anyone in their 20s. Like, I can't imagine Mario going to this. But for me, What an awesome line.

And Charlie Crockett. How did I go that long? I love it. He's been on this show. He's been on this show before. I forgot about that. So, nice job to Bourbon and Beyond. Well done.

Well done. Just bourbon. Only those 90 songs rest of the way, Shannon. Who's up? Who's up next? Let's go to Bobby. Bobby, go ahead, Bobby. Hey, guys.

Ryan kind of stole my thunder with the A-Cuff thing, but the thing about the 50 minutes is he was efficient through all of it. Like, that's the thing Pope needs to look at. I mean, it's kind of what you said about O'A. Like even if it's 90%, I mean, he's still going to be good. And then the other thing I have is, has there ever been a time in Kentucky history where there's potential that we could get the number one quarterback in the nation but have trouble getting the number one high school basketball?

That's a great question. I mean, you know, Will Stein. I'm open to have Will Stein on next week for a long-form interview. I've requested it, and hopefully that will come in. Will Stein's been, we're involved with a lot of top guys in recruiting. see if we end up getting them. But it is interesting that like we seem to almost be in with more great quarterbacks than the top basketball players. We're like two weeks away from spring football starting. So yeah, it's a good time to get him on and talk about it. What's going to be

his initial spring practice? Yeah, the one top QBs that are mentioned and shouted out the OC too. So I mean, these guys will stuff see what happens on the field, but they're bringing the reputation with them and have a lot of attention from recruits. Who's next? Let's go to Justin. Justin, go ahead, Dustin. Hey, first time caller. Who was? Two quick things. One, so UNC lost to NC State by 24 the other day.

And everyone, all they keep talking about is, oh, where their top two players were out. But for us, nobody ever talks like that. It seems like we're always expected to win. Well, I mean, look, let me just, yes, we have a lot of players out. I don't think our top two players are out. I don't think Jaylen Lowe and Jaden Quaidens were our top two players. I think they were both very important players. Jalen Lowe, I think, was very important.

Cam Williams was important. At the same time, I do think if we're going to be honest, when we had the whole team, we weren't exactly killing it. Okay? We lost four games in the non-conference. Now, Jail and Lowe didn't play all those games. Jaden Quaint's didn't play all them. Cam Williams did.

but it wasn't like we were I mean I think if you want to be an optimist you go okay the only time everyone played was the second half of St. John's and man we were good in that one okay I mean that's fair but then you know I think everybody played against Alabama

and we got destroyed and then I think Jay and Lowe got hurt in that Missouri game am I right about that? I think he did and we lost that one too so you know I think it's important, but I also don't think it's like the only problem has been the fact that we lost those people. I've heard people make the argument also we're better with Out Low. We're better with Aberdeen point guard.

I think that could, and I appreciate the call, that could end up being true. I also think Lowe really, I mean, how many games he played five? He really didn't get much of a chance. Yeah. So I don't, it may be the case he wouldn't have worked. but we didn't get much of a same. I mean, remember what Aberdeen looked like in his first five games. Rough.

You know, so sometimes you've got to be able to play out, and he didn't really get a chance to do that. Yeah, it's no secret. Injuries or a problem. I don't put Quaintance in that conversation, though. I mean, you went and paid a guy on it. You can't be like, oh, no, he's injured. You knew that before you even called him.

I totally agree with that. If you want to say, what we lost, really, is our starting point guard and our sixth man. That's what we lost. Quaintance was always gravy. Right. Yeah. I mean, I'd love to see him, but I don't feel like Kentucky got a bad break because he's not playing.

That was always going to be a gamble. We were just optimistic and hope it would work. Low and Cam were bad – low especially is a bad break because he's your starting point guard. Cam, I think, was the sixth man, although I think by the time he got hurt, he was playing a lot better than him. Stop overpaying for sunglasses. If you're tired of expensive sunglasses only to lose or break them or worse, never even wear them. You need shady race. The independent American-owned company start right here in Kentucky.

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Uh-huh. Uh-oh. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. This is, this song is one that I'll hear one. every two years and then like still love it it's great still love it so sunday is sold out huh shannon wow hey matthews and hooty and the blowfish where did you see that at somebody said on the text machine it's not true it's not true that'd be pretty quick for a festival no go to burbin and beyond dot com you can get tickets so you go to burbin and beyond dot com it's not sold

out no they're already on his computer ready to go yeah he doesn't want to make sure you get i'll have free tickets all next week on the rock shows. Okay, good for you. You better get us tickets. Can we win? I don't listen to the rock show. I mean, I support it.

By not listening. I appreciate you. Exactly. I support it by not listening. One person writes, Matt, what do you think about your bears looking like they're going to move to Indiana? Ridiculous. Can't do that.

I mean, it looks like they may, though. I don't know. Maybe they're just posturing trying to get Chicago or in Illinois to do a last-minute thing. But they're talking about moving to Hammond, Indiana. Hammond, Indiana is the grosser. place on earth. I mean, it's grosser than Gary. Like, people always talk about Gary,

but Gary, it's still not nice, but Gary is not what it was. Like, everybody kind of moved out, so it's not, like, it's depressing, but it's not as scary. But Hammond is disgusting. Hammond is where, you know, if you're ever driven to Chicago, you know, when you drive and it's, like, just smog and, like, plants and steel and

girt death. You know what I'm talking about? You should work for marketing there. No, I mean, there's like billboards, like, here's the casino where life is the saddest on earth. That's him in Indiana. You can't put a stadium there. And it's the Bears. Something about it being the Bears, and they already have, you know, all the history.

They're right in the middle of Chicago. It'd feel gross moving them out. And then what if people want to go? Like, what are they going to do, stay in those smokestacks? Like, go to the casino. Oh, God. Gosh, I can't even imagine. I just remember, on that drive, when you're driving up there,

and if you've driven from Chicago, you go that from Gary to Chicago is probably the most disgusting stretch of road in the United States that I've driven. It feels like you literally are getting black lung on the drive. And there are ads for casinos and strip clubs. And I'm always like, those got to be the saddest places. And they can't have the Bears play there. Ryan? I mean, I'm from Indiana, but Gary and Hammond, that's the armpit of Indiana.

Why would the Bears try to move out of downtown Chicago? Well, they're getting a deal. They don't have to pay taxes for like 15 years. But they're the Bears, man. It's what Chicago is all about, the Bears. You've got to stay where they are. Yeah. Shannon, it would be awful.

It'd be like Green Bay moving to, like, Oshkosh or something. It wouldn't be the same. I don't know. Oshkoshch or maybe not. Well, it's still in Wisconsin. Yeah. I hope they don't do that. I mean, for me, it'd be close.

If you wanted to go, it's closer to us there. They're treating them like they're an expansion team. Yeah. There's Chicago Bears. It's the Chicago Bears. So how many teams don't play in the city that it says they play? Well, the Jets and the Giants. So the Jets and the Giants are in New Jersey.

Kansas City is on their way out. Yeah. Well, but they're still being Kansas City. They'll just be in Kansas. Oh, that's right. There's moving states. So they'll be in Kansas City, Kansas. San Francisco plays in Santa Clara, which is a completely different city.

same state, different city. Who else does? Dallas. That's right. Dallas plays in Arlington. You're exactly right. Phoenix plays in Glendale, although I guess it's the Arizona Cardinals now,

so I guess they don't. Anybody else plays in a different city? Well, in baseball, the Braves don't really play in Atlanta anymore. The Braves play in like Cobb County now, right? Yep. Good call. I think you have to call your team

wherever you're located. So you think they should have to be the Hammond Bears. You will be Hammond. No, you can be the Indiana Bears if you want to. You can't be Chicago and be in a different state. I will tell you if they became the Indiana Bears I'm an expansion franchise.

It wouldn't win, but I saw Iowa put together a big package to recruit them too. You could be the Iowa Bears. Oh, my. I was not close to Chicago. It's not close enough to have the Bears, but they one of those, you know, like Davenport. They put together a big thing to try to recruit

them, basically giving them whatever they wanted. Yeah, Dubuque. You could be a Dubuque Bears fan. I don't like it. I mean, it needs to be in Chicago. You think it's just, it is just a big threat? Chicago is like a, Chicago's also a vibe. Like, it's a state, like New York, the giant, giant's not being in New York, stinks too.

You know, but that's the way it goes. Who's up next? Joe. Joe, go ahead, Joe. Hey, Matt, Bears being in Indiana's crazy, but if they move to where they were incorporated, out of they'd be the Delaware Bears. That's where their licensing is. Yeah, that's where all the team.

Pretty much all businesses are in Delaware, which is also a weird fact of America. Yeah. So the 90s music, the one I heard, you and I are the same age that I know Mario's never heard, heard it for the first time in 20 years, a couple days ago. Drew will know this one.

When's last time you heard Bob Gunn with George Clinton and Ice Cube? All the time. It's on my playlist. Oh, you hear that? I have a workout playlist that includes a lot of songs, and one of them is, it's now time for the bob gun, yes. Question, ask anything. You've mentioned that Delight sandwich from McDonald's? Yeah.

Have you ever had the Jimmy Dean Egg White microwave sandwich? I don't go, no. I'm not cooking. I appreciate the call. You're not cooking. It's a microwave. Look, the reason I go to McDonald's is right here in my hand. it's just for the Diet Coke

the food whatever I'm trying to get to the point that I don't even eat the food in the morning just so that I can try to trying to beat you a little healthier but this Diet Coke they will pry this out of my hands what happened to your cooking by the way

I'm trying it's not but it's not it's not been going to go away we're going to have to restart it at some point speaking of McDonald's I know who one of the people where you honked at this morning Uh-oh. No, they didn't know who I was, did they?

Yes. Don't give him anxiety. He's going to have the scary. This is why I need to not do this. Is it someone I like? It's with one of my doctors. Oh, no. He was the guy in the tie.

He said, I just let it slide. I was thinking maybe that could have been mad after I heard the story. Then I did hear a couple of hunks, and soon after someone shouting, get off your phone. Pretty funny. Look, right with the scoop. It's a doctor. He's going to save lives.

and he said he's glad he behaved. Oh. Don't have him threaten me. Imagine the doctor came out. He was the one on the phone. Probably. All right, Doc, get off the phone. Now, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have honked at you.

I certainly shouldn't have screamed at you. But get off your phone. He's trying to save lives in the McDonald's drive-thru. Well, I don't want, let me tell you, if I'm his patient, and he's trying to give me a diagnosis in the McDonald's Drive-thru, I'm going to be frustrated. It's good. No, doctors are reading McDonald's, though.

You're worried about your health. I mean, there's a doctor right there in front of you. He did. You're getting his diet Coke for his day. You're making that up. That's not really who it was. No, I'll show you. Do I know this person?

No, I don't. Oh, okay. Now, he got my car right. Well, that's me. The blue is me. Yeah. Yeah. It was him.

It was him. Okay. All right. Sorry, man. Just get off your phone. Who's next? Neil. Neil.

Go ahead, Neil. That's what I get for doing it in Lexington. Hey, guys. Go ahead. You all are killing it today. Thank you. You're cracking me up. I mean, my goodness, I got a buddy Stephen Tut in Indianapolis while you're trash in the state of Indiana

who listens to your show all the time. I'm not trash in all the state of Indiana, all right? I mean, some of Indiana is fine. I mean, you know what, it does stink. Is there any part of Indiana that? It's good. Otwell, Indiana. I mean, Southern Indiana, all right.

Wait a minute. Hang on. Southern Indiana, the part around Louisville, I'm good with. Y'all are our fans. A lot of them come out. I'm fine with Southern Indiana. Central Indiana is all windmills and scarecrows. It's boring.

Indianapolis the most boring big, hang on, sir. Indianapolis is the most boring big city in America. Northern Indiana is disgusting. What part of Indiana am I missing? Southwest, Evansville. Evansville. I'll defend Evansville. Finn Evansville. I've never been to Fort Wayne. It can't be good.

Kind of rough. That's not true. We've been to a cracker barrel in Fort Wayne. Okay, well, I'm sure it was fine. Not memorable. Always stop at the cracker barrel. Yeah, so, yeah, Indiana may stink. You're right. Well, but after listening to you guys, I forgot my first question. But is it really ask anything? Because I've... Well, you can, but you got about 40 seconds. real quick.

I was going to take 10. I'm not going to do 40. Now you're going to be down to 35. Would you prefer daggone hooty and the blowfish or the blues travelers? I appreciate.

My brand new question. Appreciate the call. Yeah, I like Blues Traveler, but he's not like, blues Travel guy's not fat anymore, is he, Shannon? You like him only if he's fat? Well, I mean, that was part of what gave He needs to go back to McDonald's.

Is he doing all right? I think they just played last year or year before maybe. I do like Blue Straveller. Yeah. But who even blow me? I haven't seen them in 30 years. They're the best. So I think that would be fun.

The best. The best. Ever. Of all time. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's hour two, KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Lerner,

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