KSR - 2026-02-24- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

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So apparently, see again, this is why we say things we don't know because we learned. Yes. The first Fizzoli's was on Paris Pike. North Broadway, yeah. Where? It says North Broadway. There's one out there close to the interstate. Is that the one they're talking about?

They say the first one closed in 2017. So where would it have been? Well, Corey Price just tweeted out it was on North Broadway. What does Corey Price know? And they had it. There's always out there on North Broadway and the interstate.

He only got three of the eight free throw shooters at trivia. That surprised me. That surprised me. Well, that was a hard question. All right. So we have, you know, my mom's friend, my friend too, Claudia.

Oh, yeah. Our friend. Everybody's right. You can't have her. All of us get sure. That's right. She writes to say she has Finnish descent, Finland.

She goes, please let everyone know. It's not sauna. Everyone thinks it is and that's how you say it. But it comes from a finished word and it's supposed to be salna. It makes, uh, it sound like fingernails on a chalkboard for me and other Finnish people. It's not sauna, sauna. So she, so here's the thing, right. You should go around only saying sound. Okay. I'll try it. And like, people will think you're wrong, but Shannon,

he'll actually be the one that's right. He can educate everybody in the sauna. That's right. in their underwear. You can tell everybody, we're not in a sauna. We're in a sauna. That's a good actual icebreaker for when you're in a sauna sitting next to somebody in their underwear. Did you know this is a sauna? Did you know as a sauna?

I've never heard that, but I trust her 100%. I trust her. Yep. She's the only finished person I know. You didn't even know she was finished, but I believe her. I've never heard sounding. This is how proud she is about being finished. Her grandson named Finn.

That's right. Name Finn. There you go. I get it now. So that's how you know you're proud to be finished. I trust you. Let's go over a couple things. Number one, Pat Riley, former Kentucky basketball player.

Rup front. Lakers coach. They built a statue for him outside of the Lakers arena. During the halftime speech while they were being honoring him, he looked at the coaches for the Celtics and the Lakers, which was Joe Missoula. and JJ Reddick and said, I sure wish these coaches would wear suits.

Because they were both wearing like sweat kind of stuff. Do you, Riley said, all these coaches now don't wear suits. We need to show professionalism and wear suits. Call them out. Wow. Called out the other guys too. James Worthy was the only one wearing a tie.

Yeah, he was saying, called out his only former players. He's like, nice y'all to dress up for me here. Yeah, yeah. Do you agree with Pat Riley coaches need to do what they did before COVID and go back to wearing suits?

Aline, yes. At the other day, I don't care what anyone wears but I do miss when coaches would dress up a little bit. Now, sometimes they're dressed like I am on my couch. Nothing wrong with that. I enjoy elastic waistbands as much as anyone. But I did like it better when my coach

was buttoned up and dressed to the nines. Don't you think it shows authority to wear suits? I think one of the things that made Pat Riley Pat Riley was his fashion of always wearing the Armani suits and looking Petino still does it. Petino still does it. And I think of Jay Wright always wearing the nice

You know how handsome Jay Wright looked in his suit? It does command Cal. Command respect and authority. Cow doesn't wear a tie now all the time, but he still wears the blazer. Shannon suits. I like the look of a suit. It doesn't make you win. Just look at Jerry Stackhouse. That's true.

I would say like if I were a coach, I would not want to have to wear a suit. It's probably not comfortable. No, but I like the look of the coach wearing the suit better. So here's what I would say. I don't think they have to wear a suit, but I do think they need to stop being slabs. And this comes from someone that dresses like that every day. I do think you should dress better than pull over jogging pants. You should look different than the equipment manager.

I agree with that. So I'm okay not wearing a suit. I'm okay if you wear a jacket and pants. But I do kind of think these guys that all look like the equipment manager. Like John Shire dresses like the equipment manager. Pope does some of the time. Pope does a way game suits home. I kind of think, Ryan, there should be, it's what I feel about preachers.

Yeah. Just some level of professionalism. I don't like my preachers in jeans. I'm fine with my people in church in jeans. But you're the preacher. You're not supposed to look like you're hanging out at Club 11 in Miami, right? You're a preacher. Yeah.

Same thing with these coaches. You know, it started, you know, Bob Knight just wore the red sweater forever. And then Huggins kind of did the pullover. But even that. Okay, so Huggins was the, is the originator of this. Bob Knight, at least the sweater was like, like, sweater is still a little more dressed. And he had khakis on at least.

In khakis. Huggins was the first one to be like, I don't care. And it was joked about forever. Like Huggins over there in his pajamas. And, you know, do the coaches text each other? Hey, let's not wear a coach tonight. Let's all wear it. Maybe. There's like a group text.

Yeah. Yeah. I made a, they started doing this in COVID. Like we all did, you know. We weren't our best selves there for a while. But I predicted it would never come back, especially because you get your Nike loaves. logo or your Adidas logo.

It's a good point. And I think they're being paid a little bit to wear these shoes. The guy Missouri wears a suit. He does. And I think he looks sharp. Dennis Gates. Dennis Gates. If I were coach,

I think he looks really sharp when he does. I would want the opportunity to kind of dress up a little bit. Steven Pearl was wearing a t-shirt. He was. Yeah. Or a t-shirt. He's wearing a t-shirt. I don't know.

Wasn't like an autism thing, though? He's a fundraiser awareness. Okay. I'm all right. It's the one game. Fair enough. One game. He could have dressed it up.

I'll take that. I didn't know that. One game, I'm good with that. You know, the Don Staley, she'll wear, like, football jerseys. What about Kim Mulkey, what she spends on her outfits? Now, Kim Mulkey, why I don't like her, she's out there sashin and shantay and I like that. She dresses up. What are you laughing at? We need your video of that. Kim and I own the same sweater. Remember, I bought the one she wore? Isn't that what RuPaul said, sashay, shantay? I didn't watch a lot of RuPaul. You might be like...

Play RuPaul during the next segment. I think she says Sashay Chantel. I think you're telling yourself. I won't doubt watching RuPaul. Not that RuPaul had a song. What was her song?

She had a song? I didn't know you were such a fan of RuPaul. What more has been your background with RuPaul? Paul got famous from a song. Tell us about it. Yeah. What was it called? See, it's called like Supermodel, right?

You all act like it wasn't a big song. in the 90s. I've never heard it. Never heard it. If it's out in the 90s, you know it. Stop it. Shannon, there's no way you haven't heard it. I've never heard it. You find it? Yeah. What's it called? What's it called? Supermodel. You're the expert on RuPaul.

There we go. I'm not an expert on RuPaul. This is on your high yoga mix? Shannon, this was a very famous song. Famous to you. No, famous to every. That's what made RuPaul famous. Was this song? Well, now we've got to hear it. Here, I'm not even more. waiting. Just play it right now. Okay.

All right, here we go. Work it. You got to work it, girl. Oh my God. I hate to admit, I know this song. Yeah, of course. You don't know this song? I do. I remember this song. Come on, Shannon. I remember this. I was listening to Allison Shane's and SDP. It got a lot of play on the radio. This was huge. Yeah, it was. I've never heard this. I can't believe you ever heard that. The text machine is going to be full of people who've heard this. I'm embarrassed. I know it. It's not, it was like the number one song in America.

You're all are crazy. Let's go to Michael. Go ahead, Michael. They just let it play. You're looking at me like I'm nuts. I'm just learning more. I'll let it play since you're such a fan of this. Okay, Michael's. I appreciate coming in on that song. I appreciate it. Michael, had you heard this song, let's be honest. Yes, I've heard that song. Thank you very much. All right, go ahead. And you're, and you're right about those words. Those words are in that song. Thank you, Sashay Shantay. Because I used to say, I used to say when he was here, Sashay Sharray for Thomas. When he would be so bad.

So my comment about the word Sana. So my comment about the word Sona is it sounds like an Eastern Kentucky way to say Sona. It does. It's like Salman. It's like when people say Salman. Yeah. So if you'll indulge me, I've got a quick comment and two questions. and I'll hang up and

Shannon turn that down. I can't focus. I can't focus with you playing that song in the background. Go ahead. You're no fun. So my comment is on the statistic thing that he likes to do. I just want to say, how did that work out for the Oakland A's

when they did that after that first season? Well, it went well because, but here's the thing about the Oakland A's when they did it. So the Oakland A's did analytics, but they didn't have any money. It would get them to the playoffs. and then they couldn't win. But then the Boston Red Sox did it with money and they won the title.

Right. The problem, though, was the reason it worked for those teams is that the other teams weren't doing it. Well, now everybody uses analytics. So it doesn't really work as well as it did then because you don't have a market advantage like the A's and then the Red Sox did. Right, but the variables are never the same because you don't know how people are going to play from game to game.

But, you know, I just wanted to make that comment. Then my first question would be, I read a high school rule book. Now, disclaimer, it is high school. I didn't look at college. You cannot extend partially or fully your arms. But then there's another above it that says it's not legal to use hands on an opponent, which is any way inhibits the freedom of movement. Of course.

I mean, you know that. That was a fact. Right. So my question is, is that something that they could have reviewed when they called the foul. No, can't review file calls. Can't review file. Last question. Have you seen this douchebag of a Kentucky fan that's named Chris Adams that is in love and infatuated with Rick Petino?

I appreciate it. We're not going to care. Who cares about one random UK fan? I mean, yeah. I mean, it certainly could have been called a foul in Chandler. I just don't think it should have been due to time and due to the fact that you could have called a foul on the Auburn guy before. that easily. That's why at that time of game, I think that should just been a no call. It should just been a no call. Terry in Shepherdsville, go ahead.

Tooth, but I'm driving, so there's nothing I can do about it. You're going to have to put up with it. Sorry. Tonight. I like Terry. I'll let him try. Go ahead. Tonight, if you want to feel good about the game, just bet what you can afford to lose, five, ten, twenty, whatever you're comfortable with. Yeah, the emotional hedge. The emotional hedge. You're exactly right. I've done it many times. And as far, and then, yeah, if we win, then great. I just want to say one thing about the folks tirade.

I think you've got to be a little bit smarter when you're judging it. He's not just talking about that game. He's talking about the overall, we don't get the calls without saying we don't get the calls. And it's not whining. It's true. They don't get a fair whistle on the road. and they rarely get a fair whistle rough. So I just think he's letting people know we're not putting up with it

and we're going to go take care of business so you can't be a factor. Thanks. I'll hang up and listen. Yeah, I mean, maybe. I appreciate the call. I don't know. I guess on some level there ought to be a study, Drew, as to whether or not what is the best method to get the best result from officials?

Is it criticizing them? Is it being nice to them? Is it screaming at them? I don't know the answer to that. But if your goal is to get the right, the best calls, what method works best? I mean, in game, you have to a little yelling. That's the sport. But for the most part, 90% of the time, I'm being a suckup, even if I don't want to, even if it hurts me.

I would think that for most, you know my theory about life, which is you either have to be insanely nice or. a jerk to get what you want. I kind of wonder if it's like that with coaching. You got to either be the coach that the refs love or you've got to be the one that scares them to death. Like Patino and Caliperi, they're on the officials from the moment the ball's tipped. But then there are others who sort of,

then like you watch John Shire. Never says anything. And he smiles and he like put his arm around them and go. And maybe you have to be one of those two extremes. If you're in the middle, it doesn't work. If that's me and I'm a ref. I get the ones that are yelling at me nonstop, my brain is thinking, I'll show you. That might not be everyone's personality.

But there might be people whose personality is maybe if I just give this guy a call him. They'll leave me alone. Yeah. But I would turn it into a sport between the two of us, which wouldn't be the right thing to do. So it might be different depending on which ref you're talking about and what his personality is. I think that plays a big part of it. They've got to know these guys. How far can I push this guy and I can't push this guy?

Drew and I would be the same ref. So it would be bad for anybody yelling at us. Shannon would definitely, Shannon would just... I'll be so spiteful. I'll team up. Oh, I'd look at the student section and shush him. I'd, you know... Give them a DX job.

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That was the part, Shannon. Yep. See? Second time I've ever heard this song. If you told me to guess, I would have thought this was like 80s, but you said it came out in the 90s? It was like early 90s. It was around the same time as Ice Ice Baby, Can't Touch this. Rico Suave.

Oh, Rico. He's a pastor now in like East of Kentucky. In Ashland. Yeah. Girardo. Yeah. Pastor in Ashley. Yes, he is.

One of the great facts that if you listen to this show, you probably know. but most people wouldn't know it until it came up on this show. Yeah. One person writes, Matt, if we're a seventh seed, what two seed would you most want to see? Who are the two seeds right now? Do we know? Let me put a new bracket. Michigan State, Iowa State.

It's not Michigan State, I don't think. They're lower than that, aren't they? I thought they were there. Maybe they dropped out. Yeah, read me the two seeds. I'll tell you which one I want to play. I mean, we'd be an underdog against all of them. Let's see.

This is very interactive looking bracket here. Iowa State, Purdue, Illinois and Houston. The one-on-one play the least is Houston. I'd be good with any of the other third. In terms of feeling like we had a chance, I'd probably rank it. See, because we beat Purdue earlier in the year, I don't want to play.

They're playing good now. I feel like they would take it. I would say of those I would want to play Illinois first, then Iowa State, then Purdue, and then Houston. Could be another matchup with Big Z then. He's in Illinois. Would you like to know where we are in the Bracketology? We're an eight seat playing Clemson in the first round with Yukon in the next round.

In Philadelphia. So if you're going to get a one's, if you're going to play a one seed, that's who I'd want to play. The other ones, I wouldn't want to play Duke, wouldn't want to play Michigan, wouldn't want to play Arizona. So if we had to be an eight or nine, I'd want to play Yukon. Yeah, I think they'd kill us. They might, but I'm just saying like that's the one we've got the best shot at. I don't think we can beat those other things. What is that? Where does it say we play?

Philly in the South region, Houston, is the regional. Should we be so lucky? I mean, Philly would be great. Clemson, it would be a toss-up. We could lose that game. Is that fat guy still play for Clemson? No, I think he's finally gone. You're talking about the guy that looked like a punk rocker. He went to play football.

He killed us. That's right. He went to play football. What? Yeah. He killed Kentucky last year. Dylan. Go ahead, Dylan. Hey, man, I got one question. I'll hang up and listen.

Okay. Is it more likely in in 2028 that we are in the NCAA college football playoffs or we have a new basketball coach? When in 2020? You're talking about like fall 2028? Just a year, like going into...

I mean, the more likely thing we would be we would have a new basketball coach. I mean, the two scenarios, you're asking Kentucky to finish higher than they finished in the college football playoff than the rankings ever,

at least in my lifetime, or we have a bad season next year. I think the more likely scenario would be we would have a bad season. I think that's... Now, if they expand the playoff to 24, that's a different conversation. Yes, it is.

That's a different conversation. And then at that point, it becomes more interesting. But if it's at 12, then the answer would be have a new coach. the way we are right now with no recruits coming in and things not working out we thought they were going to I think that's that's an obvious answer on that one would be a more interesting question is what's let's say it got to 16 what's more likely by 2030 national title playoff berth our lean national title because that can be done one great off season and you're in the conversation

Football as excited as I am of Will Stein. There's no evidence that this is going to head to 24. Still, I mean, I love what they've done now, but we've seen nothing to suggest to go to the playoffs. I say 24 would be a playoff. Because I think if they were to bring in 24 teams, you would need to come in like 7th in the SEC. So those two years that they finished regular season 9 and 3, they would probably be in the field. Well, let's say 24 was the number. We would have been in twice in the Stoops era.

Yeah. If it was 16, we'd have been in once. At least that one year. And then 12, we would not have been in. So, yeah. If they were to get to 24, then we'll play in the playoff one day. If they get to 16, we'll probably play once. And we need to be like, we better fill that stadium up.

I think they could catch fire in a bottle of one of those years and make it in football. 12, I don't know that we would make. That'd be tough. But you get to 24. then I do think we would make it at some point. Tracy, go ahead, Tracy. Got a minute. A minute?

Okay, well, let's cut this down. First of all, I saw you guys at Radcliffe about 10 days ago and what a difference in the last 10 days since the way everybody's feeling then. That's true. Yeah. Another thing, real quick, because now I'm under 40 seconds, you might want to talk to draft kings about seeing if they can get a prop on when team fouls will happen. Auburn didn't get their first foul the other night

until 10 minutes 58 in the first half. And last night, Kansas had four fouls to give with under a minute in the first half. And I just, when Self held up four fingers and said, we've got four to give, I thought, okay, it's not just happening to us. No, you're right. I appreciate the call.

Sometimes it's never consistent. But it was clear early in that Auburn game. They were going to let them beat each other out. And they did until the last play. And then they changed it differently. We'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J.

He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Couple open lines. One person writes in, Ryan said, I think they could catch fire in a bottle. That is not what the line is.

It's catch lightning in a bottle. Did I say fire in a bottle? You did. Definitely did. Good. I think it works. Do you do that on purpose? You do like three of those a week.

I think your mind just kind of just goes that way sometimes. Womber's right. It's Matt, how have they still not caught the guy who took Nancy Guthrie? I don't know, man. Oh, there's an update. What's the update? Is this from 94-5? Is this from last night's news?

I absolutely heard it on the show on 94. 94.5 last night. Okay. They have video now of the mask guy. there at her house like a day or two before the abduction. Like her ring camera caught him there a couple days before. We're in the same

ski mask and clothes. So he came back twice then. So yeah, the second time he came back and abducted her. What am I supposed to make of that news? How does that advance it? That he was scouting it out. So it's premeditated. Targeted. We could have been scouting it for a robbery.

Yeah. Here's another thing. We go ahead and tell you. You know, wait until tomorrow. They think it was the, there was a, there's a theory that it could be mistaken identity because the people next door have a large, like, gemstone business and they store a lot of these real expensive gyms in their house. They might have gotten the wrong place. Maybe. That's just a theory they're throwing out there.

Who's throwing it out there? 94.5. That's a 94.5 theory. Bumbling idiot has committed the perfect crime because nobody can figure it out. Okay. So I'm reading this book. Highly recommend this book. Put this on your list.

Okay. fascinating. It's called Hellhound on his trail. It's by Hampton Sides. It is about the killing of Martin Luther King and then the attempt to try to catch the guy. And in the book, one of the things they say is it took them a long time to catch the guy.

James Earl Ray. But initially, his name is Eric Gould. Part of why it took so long, Shannon, was because they had this thought that he was this brilliant, like, mastermind, and he was an idiot. And so they were trying to give him traits, like what would be the rational thing to do? And he would do the opposite because he was doing the stupid thing to do. And they were outthinking themselves.

Wow. Interesting. Which makes you wonder if that's what happened has happened with this. They're going, oh, well, it's probably because of this. maybe just like, what do I do next? Yeah. So like with the James O'Reight thing,

they were sitting there going, oh, he bought the gun in Birmingham. So he surely wouldn't go back there. But then he did. He did go back to her in him. They were like, oh, he's from Atlanta. He surely wouldn't go back there. And he did?

But then he did. He, I learned in the book, took a gray house. from Atlanta and had a changeover in London, Kentucky, where the closest they came to getting him was in London, Kentucky. Wow. He came up through Chattanooga, Knoxville, had a changeover in London. He wanted to go to Cincinnati, and they almost got him in London.

Somebody in the London Greyhound Station recognized him as potentially the guy, but he was already on the greyhound and gone by the time. It's hard to predict what someone will do if they don't even know what they're doing. They're just wandering around endlessly. Yeah, and they were like, one of the things they were like, well, he surely won't get in a greyhound where we can track him. And then he was in a greyhound. And they said the FBI changed a lot of the way they do on some of these crimes from that

because they were just assuming he wouldn't do the stupid thing. Thought he was a mastermind. And he continued to do the stupid thing. Very interesting. What was the name of the book? Hellhound on his trail. I love it. It's an older book, but I've had it for a long time and just had never read it. And I've been engulfed in it. It's long. I mean, you got to want it. It's long. But it's really interesting.

You know, I walked past the Lorraine Hotel. We were in Memphis that one weekend. And the line was too long for us to wait in. But they've kept it exactly the way it was the moment he got assassinated. Well, I didn't realize until I read that book. Like, at the time he was killed, Martin Luther King was being like hit on all sides. We always think of like, the racist people. But a lot of the black, like at the time, a lot of black leaders were against him too. They thought he was too nonviolent. They were like, we've got to be harsher.

And so he was like he was getting hit from all sides. And then when he got assassinated, people obviously have this view of him and they should as this amazing figure. But at the time, he was very

controversial on both sides. There were people who thought he was too moderate. So I just, you know, you learn all that when you read the book. And I told you, you know, rest in peace. But the book doesn't paint your guy Jesse Jackson very well. Yeah. He told me that story. Basically paints him as lying about what happened.

Because he was there when he got shot. He did a, Jesse Jackson got famous by doing an interview the day after the shooting on the Today Show saying Martin Luther King died in his arms. But he didn't. The other men that were there. other men that were there, they had gone to the hospital with Martin Luther King because they were much more close to him. And they left Jesse behind. Jesse does the interview, gets famous, then leaves the group and starts his own thing. And was kind of not truthful in the interview. And said he died in his arms. Jesse Jackson was there, but that's not what happened. He died

in a guy named Abernathy's arms. So that stuff is in, I just find it really, really interesting. I think a lot of people would like it. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Yeah, I guess facts are optional, shall I say. Sometimes. I had a DU. Yeah, I had a DUI. And in 2000, about 2010, I went to Canada. So they didn't stop you.

No. Well, there you go. Have a good day, boys. There we go. Tell us. He snuck across the border. He wanted us to know that he went with his DUI. Had a DUI.

To Canada. They let him go. Good for him. go through. Maybe everybody in Canada, maybe it's just, beat the system. They look at you and they decide to cut of your jib. That's why they detained you for a couple hours? I've been detained twice.

Oh, twice. Yeah. First time was hubby farting and me laughing. Or second time. The first time I was driving, we weren't just driving. We wanted to drive a road trip around Canada. And we decided to go up through Montana. It was me and I was from Kentucky.

my friend Chris Mosley who had an Indiana ID we had rented a car that had like Missouri license plates and we were going across the border in this rural Montana crossing and they thought all that was very skeptical you are not they were like what are you going to do when you're here and we're like drive around and they were like hmm drive around you guys look a little shady yeah and so they stopped us for a long time I mean they didn't do anything

they just kept searching stuff but they were like why is your car from a different state than you are from? What's a rental car? Why did you get a rental car? Why are you crossing in Montana? And they stopped us for a long time. I think they were bored, too. We were like the only car that was crossing.

They didn't see much traffic in a few weeks. They were excited. I think they were just bored. But we got, so I've had a hard time in Canada. Well, the one time you were with Hubby, you already did it? Yeah. I thought they weren't going to let me in.

As a matter of fact, he said at one time, because our stuff was already there. He was like, your friends can go get it, bring it back to you. You're not coming in. It's when Kentucky played. Yep. You had an interview Cal. I was supposed to interview Cal. That's right. That was going to be my first interview with Cal.

And they weren't going to let me across. Then we got there, barely. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Are we still on that kick where it's like name on the front? Because I thought that was a horrible idea for high school kids from the beginning. I'm just curious about that. It's a good question. I mean, Pope has said, Drew, that he,

He wants to make it to where you get guys. I appreciate the call who want the name on the front. Does that work with modern players in your mind? I don't think so. I mean, we all love that Pope's doing that. You know, we all grew up with Kentucky and want that to be a part of it. Leave that with the fans. When you're at the negotiating table with a five-star prospect,

it's dollar signs, minutes, what can you do for me? We'll have the nostalgia and all that when they get there, but I don't think it's working in recruiting. you went through this. Now, granted, it was football. But do you think that that matters to people? I mean, it matters probably a little bit, but does it matter a lot? I think it matters more to us, the older generation, than the younger generation.

I think they're just looking out money and playing time. I think that's all they care about. Yeah. I think that's probably true. And we're farther and farther from these kids knowing Kentucky, like John Wall feels fairly recent to us. But to these kids, that's an old head. Well, like they're looking at the last five, six years, this is going to make you feel old. But if you're a high school kid, graduating in the class of 2026, John Wall played at Kentucky when you were two years old.

Yeah. If you don't have that memory of Kentucky being cool. Anthony Davis was when you were four years old. Was it Jalen Lowe, one of the guys they asked him who his favorite hero was? And he said Deerrin Fox was my hero growing up. I mean, now the guys that the players probably look at. up to the most, our light is like Tyrese Maxie. Shea.

Or She Gilgis Alexander. Who's your favorite UK player? She's usually the one. We see that as like the end of the Cal area. But for them, that's who they know. That's their memory. Your dream home awaits at bluegrass home center.com. You can choose the siding, the shutters, the kitchen colors, and more.

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859-28027. Robert Caradine died. Do you know who that is? Robert Caradine? I know that name. Was he like Beretta? No. He was the head nerd in Revenge of the Nerds.

Lewis. Yes. Oh, definitely. He died. He died? Yes. He was 71 years old. He's also in other stuff.

He'd play like the dad in movies as he got older. But do you remember Revenge of the Nerds? Oh, yeah. We're nerds who were wet and were very, very upset. That seemed like it was probably made after your trancy fraternity. You've made that joke six times probably in the last 15 years. It's always a knee slapper too. Even the phrase knee slapper is sort of an example of your

age. Overall, age. Scallywag. I knew you make a correction about the first Fizzolis. The one that opened on North Broadway opened as Gratzis. So when they rebranded to Fizzoles, they opened up the new Fazzolies on Richmond Road.

So I was right. The new Fizzoli's Richmond Road was the really... So see, this is why you can't always listen to these people. Yeah. Because they all told me it was on North Broadway, and it sounds like I was right. Yeah, there was Gratzis on North Broadway, and then they chan.

change it to Fazoles when they opened the new one on Richmond Road. Here's a good question. Matt, UK coaches since you've been doing KSR. What's the weirdest fact about each of them? The one that sticks to my mind is Cal Perry that he would eat every Thursday afternoon by himself at Golden Corral. That's a weird one. That's in that some people say he would eat just a plate of whipped cream as dessert. Manager of Golden Corral told me that

It was a good source Think about that Can't get a better source Every Thursday afternoon He would sit at Golden Corral by himself Eat the buffet And his dessert would be A plate of food

I have never been so aroused That's weird So that would I think that's the cow one Do you have one for someone? Well Billy G used to go to Cracker Barrel for chicken and dumplings every week, whatever day that was.

That's not weird. That's not weird. That's not weird. That's normal. That's normal. That's the one. He would go to Shinaway Pub and sing by himself

and sing karaoke. Somehow that never got out until the end. And he would sing Amanda. Yeah. Which you go listen to those words. It's kind of sad. But he would sing karaoke at Shinaway Pub by himself. and from what I understand

would often wear a hat and nobody would know he would use like a pseudonym so when they call him up they wouldn't say Billy they'd be like Rick he'd go up and sing about sometimes he would say he was built

but like a lot of times he would the people at Shinaway knew him but so he wouldn't get bothered sometimes he would come up and be like Earl and he would sing but he would be by himself and then above him

the TV was Sports Inter on it playing the highlights from the Georgia game the night before yeah it was always right I always found that to be really. That is the strangest. That is pretty weird. That's stranger than Cal and whipped cream. What about you? Do you have one for somebody?

I was trying to think of Stoops. I know. The only like quirky thing with him would be parking in front of the Kroger. I think it's Beaumont. Yeah. He would park in the heavy cap space at Starbucks. But nothing to the level of eating a bowl of Cool Whip in public at a buffet. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a good Stoops one. You know, most of the Stoops ones just involve like, well well i mean i went to stoop's the party he had where he broke the record for most wins at

kentucky and that was a funny just the scene it was at the top of it was at the what used to be sky bar okay and um just interesting to see who's a who like a who's who of who was there um that was when one of stoop's friends from youngstown through macsum Duffy into a wall because he thought he was making fun of Mark. Is that when they played Youngstown? I remember time when there was a lot of Youngstown. So he went up to Mark. Max went up to Mark to give him a hard time about losing his hair or something.

And Mark Stoops his buddy, who he'd grown up with, who didn't know who Max was, thought somebody was screwing with him and threw Max into a table. Youngstown now. Yeah. That's exactly. That happened. And Mark was like, no, no, it's good. are and he was like oh man sorry about that's my ray guy winner yeah but that's young's down

for it they'll just throw you into a table that you're back each other's back yeah i'm trying to think of video about joker you got one for joker oh and we can tell on the air rick petino here's a quirky thing had would have premarital sex with a woman in a restaurant no he would what you made that up yeah you totally made that up in a booth no one would do that you totally made that story with his equipment managers watching oh come on now you're just making stuff up. In a restaurant? In a right line.

In a restaurant. Like a nice restaurant. What? Like a four-star restaurant. Are you on Ambien again? That happened. This happened. And then...

What about the other people in the restaurant? Yeah. Well, they were cleared out. The equipment manager was watching the door so he didn't have to get in. The guy that owned the restaurant had given him the keys because he allowed him to use it after hours for this thing. No, come on. Yeah. And the booth where it happened.

Probably closed it and report it down. No, it's marked. You can go sit in it. People will tell you that's the Rick Petino. When you say it's marked, yeah. It's just like a plaque or is it? There's like DNA there. Yeah.

I know. That one's weird. Not as weird as being at Shinaway Pub. But it is a weird one. Wow. I mean, that truly sounds unbelievable. There had to have been consequences for that. Actually, oddly didn't get in trouble.

trouble for that. What? Got an extension. Because nobody knew about it until now. I don't need to know about his extension. You've already told us enough. Let's go. Don Franklin Auto.com.

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I like it. I'm feeling good. Miles Stute, who we've seen play a lot. He started Vandy, I believe, had big games, South Carolina. He's out. That helps our chances. Seven point favorite. You can't lose games you're expected to win.

Just get the job done. And I think they do. win, don't cover. I think it's uncomfortably close for most of the game until they finally find the better team with the better players. They finally pull it out at the end. Yeah, I'm going to say they win.

Drew made a good point. South Carolina, the good teams destroy them. I'm going to say we have a comfortable victory, like 14. That'd be nice. But we'll see. Pre-game shows at 4.30. You can watch the game at the bar. I'm going to go rest up my voice for a few hours,

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