KSR - 2026-03-10- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

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Now here's Matt Jones. So you laughed, Shannon, that people would want to know about Donna Kelsey. Yeah. Now it's all just people making jokes and questions about my house thing. See, that's why people get into it. Yeah, I want to know what's going on at your house. I'm much more interested in that than Kelsey's mom. Matt, are you going to give out white necklaces at your pool? That's not very nice, Drew.

That's not very nice. Do we need a lifeguard on hand? Yeah, we don't need a lifeguard. Adult swim? It's very nice. It's like a waiting pool, so he'll be, you can get in it. Yeah. Yeah, it's small. It's not, it's not huge. You can check your pH levels every week. It's not a kitty pool. It's not a kitty pool. It's an actual pool.

Oh, wow. One person writes, Matt, Ryan's a realtor. How would he describe it? I'll let you do that. How would you describe it? It's a very modern two-story house that has a open floor plan, beautiful backyard, covered back deck with a pool. Two primary rooms on the first floor, which is perfect for Larry and Karen. Then I'd have to climb any stairs.

You got two bedrooms upstairs and then a big great room upstairs. It's perfect for like a man cave. I'm going to build a studio, Shannon. There you go. Yeah, you should. You should. as much as you do the show from home. Well, not for this.

I'm still going to come in for the show. But like it's really for TV. Like ESPN and stuff. They want to film our show or whatever. And I really don't have a place for them to do it. So. That room's perfect for that. Yeah.

So anyway, Ryan was a good realtor. When person writes, Matt, are you going to have your neighbors have a shovel for you to use? Have not met my neighbors. Scared to meet him, Drew. Don't, I don't know if I want to know them. I know where you live. I wouldn't just like set tables on the curb in that neighborhood. You might be there a while.

Is there an HOA? Her shoes. Yeah, there is an HOA. Oh, those are the worst. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what that means, really. But it means they charge you a lot of money to live there and give very little back in

return. Okay. Yeah. Do you, let me ask you this. When you, when you move to a new place, do you, do you knock on the door to meet? I don't have like, like, but I do have some people. that are right there. Are you supposed to go meet them? Or do they go come meet you? I think like in more rural areas they kind of do that, but in the city, nobody does that anymore.

I mean, I'm sure there are some people that do it. So you don't knock on the door of your neighbors and say hello? No. When I moved in, one of my neighbors knocked on the door with a bottle of bourbon introduced himself. And the other, I just kind of met organically. But we became pretty close. Okay. So it's still not an answer. Should I knock on their door or not? Well, I'm saying, I think mine came to me. you think you should I think you should Because look You may need them

They may need you You know if you're out of town You need something It's good to know who your neighbor is They could go over there And check on your house If you need them to You know

Maybe they'll cut your grass I just had some new neighbors move in by me And I've waved at them When I drove by I didn't go down and meet them Oh well you need to go meet You're Mr. Friendly You should go meet them

I will one of these weekends So that's a no All right One person writes You're going to let Ryan Have his famous pool parties there No He does not get

He's not bringing in the UK offensive line to my house. Yeah. No. That'd be great. No. You keep them over at your pool. You keep them over at your house.

All right. A couple things here. First of all, if you get some time today, you need to watch the video of, I didn't know anything about this till this morning. Has anybody been watching any of the world baseball classic? No. I've been keeping up a little. Okay.

I really haven't. I watched a little bit of the USA in Mexico last night. But so I didn't realize Chechie. what used to be called the Czech Republic, they have a team. But they don't really, baseball's not big there. So I think they're like the worst team in the thing. And they're in the bracket with all those teams in Asia that are really good, you know, Ryan, like Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc.

Yes, okay. So the Chechia goes and plays and the opening rounds there are in Japan. So they are playing Japan and Japan. And of course, Japan in Japan is massive. Joe Hay. What was the pitcher for the Dodgers? Yamamoto, is that his name? Yeah.

Yeah. So they're all there. Well, I didn't know this, but three years ago when they played this the last time, Chechia played in Japan again. And there's a pitcher for Chechia, who is an electrician. Okay?

Doesn't even play baseball as a profession. Just plays in like a team in the city for fun. Okay, he's an electrician. And he comes and he's their best pitcher. And in the Tokyo Dome against Japan three years ago, he strikes out Shohei Otani in front of everybody. Oh, my. I'd say that's shocking.

It was shocking. For an electrician. Pitched five innings. We're completely over his head. I got it. I got it. It took me a minute. Pitch five innings with and allowed no runs, no hits.

and because Japan is so baseball obsessed and because Japan ended up winning, this dude became a national, like, story in Japan. Who is this Chechnan electrician who came and struck out all of our players? All right. So I was reading, for the last three years, he's lived in Chechchia, nobody cares because baseball doesn't matter there. But they brought him to Japan once, and he said he couldn't go anywhere without people stopping him.

He's a celebrity in Japan, but not a celebrity at home. That's kind of interesting, isn't it? An opposing player. An opposing player, because it's the legend of that's the guy who struck out Shohei, who's an electrician. Fast forward to while we were sleeping last night, three years later. He pitches against Japan again in the Tokyo Dome. he is retiring from baseball.

He's in his 30s. He decides Ryan, I'm not going to play baseball anymore. This is last hurrah. This is going to be his last game against Japan. Tokyo Dome's full. Pitches last night. Strikes out Otani again. Wow.

It's got his number. Strikes out Otani again. Five innings or four and two-thirds inning scoreless. So at the end of the fifth inning, the Chechnan manager comes to the mound to pull him so he can get a standing ovation and you have to watch this video. He's walking out off the mound in front of 80,000 Japanese people who give him a standing ovation like the loudest ovation you've ever heard and he begins crying and waving at everybody.

It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. And then when the game is over, the Japanese win. like 10-0 because all the other pitchers stink. All the Japanese players come to take their picture with him, this Chechnine-Chechenian electrician who has now pitched against the best players in baseball and for 10 innings has yet to give up a run. And has struck out Shohei Otani twice. Isn't that a great story?

Why is he retiring again? Like, why would you not stick with that? It sounds like he's really good if he can strike out of the best players in baseball. He's just going to keep being an electrician. This is a Disney movie. Isn't it a Disney movie? Absolutely it is. And he said, since they've been in Japan, he can't walk down the street.

But that when he goes home, no one knows who he is. Wow, I'm watching the video. I got chili bumps right now watching it. He's also tiny with a huge beard. He's got a huge beard. Star Wars tattoos. He looks like a cartoon character. There's the Japanese guys honoring him.

Wow. His fastball tops out at 80. He throws it 80. Shannon, and he keeps, like, baffling show hey, oh, time? I mean, that's batting practice, it sounds like, but somehow he can't hit him. Can't score on him. Yeah. I think it's a crazy story.

Great story. Wouldn't it be weird to live in your home and no one know who you are? But have a country around the world where everyone knows who you are. That's the perfect situation because you could go out and nobody would recognize you. You would never have to worry about, you know, living that celebrity lifestyle in public because nobody knows you, yet you're famous somewhere else. If you ever wanted to feel like a star, you'd just go somewhere else. Just go to Japan.

Get on a plane and be like, hey, everybody, I'm here. Yep. Would you move to Tokyo if you were here? He probably wouldn't have to be an electrician. That's true. Yeah. Probably they hire him as be a coach on their Japanese national team be a celebrity. So I was watching this video this morning.

And when the show is over this afternoon, I'm going to learn more about this. To think about only, he's only pitches there once. He did it three years ago. so there was all this hype that he was going to do it again and you would assume Shannon he'll get let down. He does it again. That's crazy. It's packed until the stadium is packed.

That's a wild story. Great story. And I think it is... Electricians must make really good money. If he's turning that down to not be a baseball player. That's a good question. But I mean, he only throws 80. I think he doesn't want to play baseball, Drew,

because the myth of him might go away. Yeah, if he tries to play regularly if he's just giving up, runs left and right. This is going to be forgotten. I signed that million dollar contract to let them figure it out. I kind of like the mystery of I just every three years come in and baffle you

all. Yeah. I love the video because he takes a moment to kind of just stop and just soak it all in. It's awesome. Yes. Wow. So anyway, I think it is a great story. One person writes, guys, make everybody predict. How many

games do we win in the SEC tournament? What's our seed in the NCAA tournament? I think we win two. We lose Friday. I think we play Florida close. I actually think we play them well Friday, but lose. And if we do that and play them well, I think we end up a six-seat in the NCAA tournament. That's going to be my pick.

What about you, Drew? I think we lose to Florida, but I think we're going to be stuck in the seven-seed line. So get two games there. Then maybe you surprise us and make a run in the big tournament. What about you? Right. Yeah, we get LSU. We owe Missouri.

I agree with you. We played Florida tight. You know, we've given them a decent battle the last two games we played them. End up that 6-7, 6-7 seed. And please stop. Even 6-year-olds think that's lame now. You can stop, okay? 6-7.

Yeah. I think they win a couple of games. You're then, what, 21 and 13? You'd be 21 and 13. And you've got to remember all the teams you're competing with, they're going to lose in their conference tournaments, too. You know what I mean? Yeah.

So, like, everybody's going to tell you. a loss, but go ahead. You know, I really agree with you. I was going to say six seed before you even said it, so I'll go along with you and say two wins and a six seed. Now, if you lose to LSU, you might drop, you will drop to an eight or nine. So, I mean, the LSU game, I actually think is very, very important for seating. This person says they're my new neighbor.

Allegedly. Yeah, but how do you know? I don't know. I don't even know where you live. I'll tell you what. Here's what you do. Ask them where their address. I'm afraid they may hang up on them if I do it.

well it's worth it let's because i want to see but we won't say it on the air but i want to see if they actually are my neighbor okay and then we'll take them in the next segment if they are okay before you do that let's go to adam go ahead adam hey what's up matt i'm by no means a interior decorator but uh i do know how to hang pictures and i'm very good of picking out sending candles i think i got the candles part now um man awesome interview with uh coach ston yesterday. At the beginning of his tenure, Coach Stoops was like that, just fiery dude. He was, yeah. He was face that, you know, he was ready to go. And I think that just kind of weighed on him as

his tenure went on. And yesterday, you could hear it with Coach Stein. So he's got me really excited about the season. I agree with you, Adam, and I appreciate the call. I will say, when he was talking, Drew, there was, you couldn't help but get energetic. And I know people right. Stoops would do that stuff early on, but there was something about looking at me and saying, if you're scared, go to church, which I guess is an ice cube line, which I didn't know, but still saying it and then kind of going, look, six seconds of hell. I mean, all that stuff made me go, all right, I love the energy. Let's do this. Oh, that got a lot of people. I'm sure you heard it all afternoon. I did too, including the neighbor talk. My neighbor Brian walked over yesterday when I was

outside to talk about the Will Stein interview. It's like, we're all excited. March is here right in front of us. But Will put a lot of attention on football. with that excitement he brought to the interview yesterday. I mean, Ryan, how could you not? That's what the, our fan base needs someone to sort of inject us with belief and it's a new voice and I think it worked. At least it did on me. It worked on a lot of us, I think.

We all got excited. Just that excitement, the energy level, I think, like I said yesterday, we love Coach Stoops. He did great things here. But the program needed that, needed that breath of fresh air. It's an attitude we haven't really heard. I mean, I love Stoops, but like he said towards the end, this is hard. You know, Will Stein said the opposite. What do you want me to do?

cry about it. He's like, bring it. He didn't say it's hard. He said he's ready to go tackle the challenge. So that looks like that is my neighbor. I'll say, is that your address? I just type there. We'll put them on next. Yes. The Commonwealth's Causes Ultimate Bourbon Collection Raffle is your chance to win an incredible bourbon collection and support Kentucky

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That's kind of cool, isn't it? very cool does no one care but me like everyone's just silent is that not cool that the manager is a neurosurgeon and the pitcher is an electrician it's pretty crazy yeah I'd like to see the whole roster do they all just have random jobs I think they do just have random job the neural surgeon I mean yeah you're making really good money I would say doing that the electrician I'm sure makes decent money but not to the level of a surgeon no you know one person says Matt when you move in a neighborhood it's on the neighbor to make the greeting Ryan is being rude by not reducing himself to his new neighbor. I don't all greet them eventually. I just haven't done it yet. But at the beginning, that's when it's the most important because they need to feel welcome. Yeah, they're busy.

They're moving stuff in. Maybe you're busy. Hurt my feelings, though, the guy moved out. So you're going to hold it against a new guy? Yeah. I'm looking at your pool right now. It's a nice pool. All right.

So this person is... You don't want to talk about it, do you? What do you mean? I just looked it up. It's a nice pool you got. Are you being sarcastic? No, I'm being serious. Why would I be sarcastic?

That's a nice pool. So you can come to the pool part? I will do that. Absolutely. All right. Do we have to chat you jobs real quick? I found a list. Yeah.

What do they do? Their center filter teaches geography. Okay. Doesn't say the position, but one of them works at a firehouse and he has to be there 24 hours before he gets two consecutive days off to play baseball. Really? Oh, that's interesting. Okay.

One of them works in sales. All right. Those are the three lists in this article. But it looks like we're right that they all just have random jobs around. See, I love that. I love that. I think that's awesome. I wish I had known about it.

They're apparently done. They're out. But I would have loved to have watched one of their games. And I, you know, they played while we were sleeping last night in losing to Japan. All right. So the neighbor is on. Shannon, this is my, this is my neighbor. Yeah.

All right. Hello. What's your name? Troy, first time, long time. Who are? Well, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Welcome to the neighborhood. Well, thank you. Now, you're not going to say where it is, but am I going to like everybody? I think so. Most people in the neighborhood are in Florida and the cold months anyway, so it's quiet.

Okay. So everybody leaves. Yeah, that's a perfect neighborhood. It sounds like my kind of neighbor is. It sounds like my kind of neighborhood. Okay, well, good. So what do I need to do? No. Not much. Just, you know, you got some really good neighbors on both sides. How old is everybody?

How old is everybody? I'd say beside us, they're all in their 60s, 70s. Perfect, that's perfect. There you go. Yeah, we've got some younger boys. So we'll try not to bother you too much. Oh, that's okay. I'm sure it'll be fine.

I have a question for him. Yes. We heard, Troy, that there was like a little cart path. you can get to the clubhouse from where you guys live on that street. He's already messing up, Shannon. He's already messing up. I told it. You know what?

Just shut up, Brian. Say how he's going to talk to you. That's not what I'm going to do. You seem wonderful, Troy. I appreciate it. And leave with Shannon where you are and I'll come say hello at some point, okay? Sounds good. Hey, quick follow-up question.

for you guys to chop up really quick. And before I ask it, just a quick shout out to the cold takes group chat. I've got a group chat with some guys. And we shop up a lot of different topics. You call it cold takes? Cold takes. I like it. Because all of the opinions of the guys are terrible opinions.

I like it. That's a good way to look at. But yeah, real quick. So who's going to be our next coach after Pope is let go? Yeah, I have no idea. He'll tell you at the HOA meeting. Appreciate the call. Well, that gets to a question I actually had in here, Drew,

and I'd like to see what your thought is. One person writes, Matt, I want Pope to be here forever, so this isn't about his future. But do you think a coach like Todd Golden or Danny Hurley would have worked here with their personalities? I have an answer to that, but what do you think, Drew? Hurley seems like another category by himself, even way above Golden, even though Golden, as we saw, has a lot. I have a weird take. We're trying the nice thing and it's not working. I think college basketball needs Kentucky to be a bit of a villain.

You know, nope, people didn't like Cal. People didn't like Rick. A lot of people didn't like Rick. Yeah, we love the romanticism with Pope and all that. It's not really working right now. If it doesn't work out, you know, Hurley's a stretch. But I do think we need someone that kind of has a little jerk to him and we kind of have to be the bad boys. Ryan? I don't care if he's the jerk. I don't care if he's Donald Trump. I don't care if he beats up his little sister.

Okay. You don't mean that. You don't mean, come on. I don't mean that, but I want to. Okay, don't just say, again, don't just say stuff to say it. Do you genuinely think it would work? Yes, because we just want somebody to come in and win.

Don't care what kind of person you are sometimes. Just come in and win. I think that's easy to say. say when you're not, like that's easy to say in the abstract. But this job is so highlighted. So do I think Danny Hurley, if he was here, the fans would take up for his behavior and support him? Yes, Shannon, I do. Yes, yeah. But I think if Todd Golden had gone through what he had gone through here, it's a much bigger national story. No doubt about it.

And I think things like that would be harder. Perfect example is Bruce Pearl. So Bruce Pearl makes strong political statements all the time. Strong. And at Auburn, people don't really pay attention. But Shannon, if he was at Kentucky, they would. Yeah. And that would be a different kind of thing. It's a pressure cooker type of job where everybody pays attention.

That's exactly right. And you have to be, I feel like battle tested to be able to sit in that chair. Danny Hurley has made Yukon to where now he gets that kind of scrutiny at Yukon. but Todd Golden, that whole situation, regardless of what the actual fact, if that had happened here, it's a different level of a national story, Drew, it just is. And so I think that part is something that people don't realize. Whatever happens, it happens times 50 when you're at Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, or Kansas. Yeah, I agree.

And I think Hurley would be a bit much. And anyone that's committed an actual crime, that's tough to defend. but the golden thing he was cleared. I haven't seen anything other than that. I mean, it's not a good look and it would be bigger here. But don't you think if it was here there would have been reporters on it? I mean, remember that was a student newspaper that investigated. Yeah.

If it was here, ESPN's going live. I know, but I'm just, I feel like I'm defending goal. I mean, I haven't seen any evidence like Florida cleared him. It would have been huge. But I mean, Rick Petino is coaching right now. We know his past. I mean, there are a lot of coaches that have done some weird stuff. So I'm not going to expect an angel.

I think there's a line. It's important to remember that it's a different thing here. Now, do I think at this point people would accept a lot? Yes, I do. But it would be interesting. It would be a different way it would be characterized if it was in Lexington. We'll take a break. Be right back.

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My man, Hunter Green for the Reds, out 14 to 16 weeks to start the season. So I'm already giving up. Can I sell your season tickets? He apparently has, quote, bone chips and loose bodies in his arm. Loose bodies. What's loose bodies? I've never heard that phrase.

loose bodies It sounds serious A little loose pieces of bone I guess but the word bodies is a little It's just not a typo It says loose but green has bone chips and loose bodies Never heard that Fragments of bone or cartilage is what a piece of bones

Yeah Huh Well great I just convinced myself a hundred wins They're taking about 20 off They do have a deep pitching staff but still that's a that's a big

big loss. I just gave Ryan some good Reds news. I just, WKYT just said they're airing 10 Reds games. I saw that. Yeah. 10 Reds. Every Monday night all season,

they're going to air the Reds games. Or when they play at home on Monday night, they'll be on WKYT. So that's good. I used to love Monday night baseball. So I don't care if it is the Reds. I would sit and watch it. And opening day.

I've found, you know, as a casual, I've had trouble finding Reds games for So it's nice to know at least some of them I can find. Yeah. Well, I hate that about Hunter Green. I like Hunter Green.

859-280-2287. The Girl's Suite 16 starts tomorrow in Rupp Arena. Who's in it? Do we know? Well, the Henderson Colonels are in it. Who's the favorite? The one team wins every year, right? Like doesn't Anderson County or whatever or Sacred Heart?

Don't they win? Sacred Heart. They've had that Johnson Girl for last year's been dominant. So let's go through. here. You got opening game tomorrow at 11 a.m. Henderson County versus Douglas. Then Callaway County, that's way out there, versus Assumption. I think assumptions on Bardstown Road, isn't it? I believe it is close to you. Yeah, it's close to the Mexican restaurant I always eat at. I think I walk by it on the way. Piteville plays Notre Dame. Well, that doesn't seem fair. No. Notre Dame went down to a high school.

Notre Dame has to play Notre Dame. Wow. West Jessman plays Duke. Where's Notre Dame? Northern Kentucky. It's the female school, Catholic school up in northern Kentucky. Hmm. Okay.

I didn't even know that. West Jessman plays Taylor County. Go Campbellsville. Simon Kinton plays Ashland. Letcher Central plays who won between Owensboro Catholic and Davis County. Catholic. Owensboro Catholic. Look at you. You're having the answer quickly.

Franklin Simpson plays Bullitt East. Let's go Chargers. Yeah, I thought they were in it. I wasn't sure, though. And then North Laurel plays George Rogers Clark. And they've been good for many years in a row. GRC has. So wait a minute. No Sacred Heart.

No Anderson County. So we're all pulling for Bullitt East, right? Collectively, we're pulling for my high school. I'm pulling for Pikeville. If they have to play Notre Dame. They're going to lose. Notre Dame's got nothing but studs. All right.

Who's the favorite? Do you know? I would assume you know. GRC's got to be one of the favorites. I don't know who is considered the overall favorite. Okay. Well, if you are coming to the games, come say hi at KS Bar all weekend.

Be nice to have you out there. It should be George Rogers Clark, people tell me is the favorite. Yeah. All right, there you go. Let's go to Grant. Go ahead, Grant. Hey, Matt, how are you doing this one? Doing good.

I just got two quick points. My first one's a football one. I actually want to say about Wilson, not really a personality thing, but just on the field stuff, he kind of gives me Todd Golden vibes, cut into Kentucky, just because he's bringing such young energy to the game, and he's so energetic, and you can tell he's not scared, and he's smart and he knows what he's doing. And I think he can bring Kentucky football to hide has never been to.

And I'm really excited about it. He just, what he's done, what Todd Golden's done at Florida, I feel like he can do for Kentucky football. I love that he said over and over yesterday, don't be scared. You have to take risk. I agree with that.

At this job especially, I don't think, I think you have to take risk. You have to swing for the fences and maybe you strike out. But at Kentucky, I don't think you have a choice. I think you have to, this is not a place to be conservative. I know, you know, Mark Stoops won quite a bit kind of playing like that,

but if you really want to hit another level, you got to take a swing. And I love that he said a couple times in the interview, you cannot be afraid to fail. I say that to people all the time. The biggest difference between people who really succeed and those sometimes that don't is don't be afraid to fail, and I loved hearing him say that. Yeah, and then my second thing is, I know we don't have many recruits next year, but if we go into the portal, have you heard about,

there's a guy from High Point called Chase Johnston, I believe they're going to make the tournament. And he's made 64-3s, I think, out of 122. That is an amazing stat. He has made, what is it, 64 out of what? I think it's 132, so it's just under 50%. So he's made, Drew, 64 out of 100%. 32 threes, but he's not made a two all year.

O for four on twos. O for four on twos. 64 from 132 on threes. That is one of the most amazing stats I've ever seen for a player. I saw that yesterday. That's crazy. Please put High Point in Arkansas together. I need it so bad.

I need it. I need the Jack Gulky. Yes. It will be therapeutic if he can do that to Arkansas. because they could beat them, right? I mean, he could gokey him. He is gokey. He's the second coming of gokey.

But how do you not make one two ever, even just by luck? You figured to get a layup at some point during a game or in the course of a season? He only shot four? Yeah, how do you play that much basketball? He's not accidentally getting a layup. He's got 132-3s and only four twos. That's crazy. He's probably a little guy and probably can't get either.

I don't know. What size is he, Grant? He's 6.3. I can look, quick. 6.3. Okay. So he's little. All right.

He plays about 15 minutes a game. It hasn't accidentally taken a layup more than four times. That's amazing. I appreciate the call. High points at school, I think we've talked about on here, where you get free ice cream every day. That's right. Every day or every game. Every day.

They have an ice cream truck on campus. On campus? Wow. And you can just get free ice cream. And then I think it also, it's a place where you learn like hospitality. and once a week, so they have a steakhouse on campus that students work. And once a week or maybe it's once a month, I'm not sure. But so often students get a free steak dinner at the steakhouse.

What a place. Wow. Also, Cameron Fletcher is his teammate. No, he's not. Cameron Fletcher plays at High Point. Yep. It's another reason I need that Arkansas game. Does he get to play?

Yeah. It might even be their league score. Cameron Fletcher, he was on the COVID team. And so is Devin to ask you. So two guys from that COVID team are still playing college basketball. He had 17 in the Big South Championship and 19 rebounds. Didn't Cameron Fletcher date like Angel Reese? Yes.

And left Kentucky mid-year. He has a lot going on in his college career. Left in the middle of a game that one time. Got off the bench. Oh, that's right. He did leave in the middle of a game. Yep. And he gets a steak dinner, Shannon.

Yeah, I'd just show up for the steak dinner. Just give me that an ice cream. I'll be happy. I think the restaurant that they do where they have the state dinner is good. And like just the people that live in that town go to it to eat. Especially if it's free. There's a restaurant on campus I go to that's all student run. You have to make a reservation here in Lexington.

What's it called? The Lemon Tree Cafe. And it's all run by students? Yeah, it's like part of their class. where is it I'd get the building wrong it's not far from Memorial Hall so it's just in a building

yeah it's like their class I go for lunch occasionally but you have to have a reservation and it's all it's like their class I love that idea it's pretty neat check it out called Lemon Tree Cafe Yep Don't take my reservation though See you learn things on this show

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I was going to go, but then we missed you. The show went late. It was good. It was packed, but then Kentucky lost, and I think that kind of killed the vibe for the night. A lot of people went home, but we'll be playing postgame on Thursday at 10 Roof on Broadway. Yeah, so Thursday show is 10 Roof.

It'll be 9 to 11 Eastern, so 8 to 10 Central, and then Shannon will play later that day. Yeah. Hopefully we'll be celebrating a win. What time are you playing Thursday again? I think right after the game. So like 1.30 central time to 5. Okay, cool.

So right after the game. So people can... Hopefully we'll be celebrating a win. Yes. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, I've seen two brackets that have us playing NC State in the tournament. Would we beat them?

What do you think? the would we beat them, I'm not good of that game. You could say any team in college basketball. Same. But you got to play somebody. I don't know much about NC State. I don't know how they've done this year or anything. Yeah, I don't either.

They lost a lot to end the year. It's Will Wade. They've lost six out of seven. Stephen A. Smith announces he will not run for president. Wow. Did anybody think he was actually going to? He's no. I mean, you know, the only person that thought it,

was Myron Metcalf because he would send me every update about it. And I was like, you know he's not going to run. Myron actually thought he might run? I think he did. But he's announced that and his reasoning for not wanting to run is I make too much money. Well, America thanks him. Yeah, really. I mean, honestly, if that's why you're not running, then really should you have considered it anyway.

Yeah. He's just too much money. I make too much money. You know, let's give me a step down to my pay. Yeah. Yeah, I don't, well, no comment. Another person writes, Matt, if we don't win the SEC tournament, who will? Florida. Florida is obviously the favorite.

I will say I saw on draft kings you could get Arkansas Drew for plus 850. That feels high, doesn't it? Especially with a guy like A-Cuff. You could get Alabama for plus 600, Arkansas for plus 8-50. One of those two teams is going to be in the finals. Yes. So why not, Drew, wouldn't you take both of them and then take your chances? Yeah, with Acoff, I think those are good odds.

Their Carter Knox injury, I think, might have hurt the ceiling for Arkansas in the postseason because they were already thin. Is he out for the year? I don't know if they officially called it the year, but it's one of those. He hasn't played in forever. Yeah, he's been out. He had surgery, if I'm not mistaken. So I think that's going to be what ultimately holds them back.

but heck, Aikov could go win it all by himself. Yeah. So the phone lines, just so people know, the phone lines are, have broken to where when you call, most of the lines hang up. Yeah, we're down to like one line. We're down to one line that works.

And guess who's on it? And guess who is the one person who's been able to stay on? I hope it's Bob and Jamestown. Bob and James town. Yes. Okay, Matt. Assuming that Kansas goes all the way.

What? Kevin Grevy said when UK played UCLA in 75, when John Wooden came out and made his retirement announcement before the game that the rest went UCLA's way and that's like to Kansas. So is Bill's up going to do that if they go all the way in Indianapolis? I have no idea. I was too young to see the 75. game. It has certainly taken on the lore, Ryan, that we lost because John Wooden said he was not

going to coach anymore and the refs cheated us. Now, I know that people say the refs cheated us. There are people who think the refs cheated us Saturday, even though we were losing the entire game to Florida. Do you think the refs cheated us in 1975? Because that is the common narrative about that game. I know Kentucky fans like to say that. but there was no way the UCLA players were going to let John Wooden lose on his last game in the championship game. They just kind of wheeled their way to a win. So I don't think the referees affected the call, but there'll be some old-timers that'll tell you that they did. Well, there are people that get angry at John Wooden, Drew, like he shouldn't have said he was

going to retire, that he almost, it was not fair of him to say that he was going to retire because the players and the refs then change the way it went. I always think people have strong opinions about that game. Yeah, and I think you know they think Wooden should have waited. Like, do us a favor. Don't tell them now. But I've always took the interpretation as what Ryan said that it fueled

UCLA more than was the refs, and they just couldn't lose knowing it could be Wooden's last game. It was just unfortunate timing for Kentucky that he was able to give them that message before he went out. I appreciate the call, Bob. If you were to rank Games, Kentucky got cheated by the refs the most,

I have a distinct number one. I think the game at Texas A&M is number one. The Isaac Humphrey's game? The Isaac Humphrey's game. Because it was over. And then they called that technical, which was unnecessary. Like it wasn't even a controversial call. We had gotten the game winning rebound.

The game was over. And then they called that and we lost. They did not need to call that. So to me, that's number one. And then number two is North Carolina. Carolina 2017, but I will grant you it's because of controversial calls. But I think the only game that I can think of that we got outlandishly cheated was Texas A&M. Do you all have one?

Well, a lot of fans will tell you this is Auburn game just a few weeks ago. Would you put that on the list? I was too mad at them for blowing the lead and Brandon Garrison having cinder blocks for shoes than I was the ref. But I understand the argument because if they don't call it, Kentucky probably wins that game. What about was it the Arkansas goaltending game? They changed the rule after the season. You're talking about the LSU. LSU gets the put back dunk?

Is that what you're talking about? No, LSU had a tip-in in Roperina that, is that the one that changed the rule? Arkansas had the tip-end dunk in Fayetteville. That also sucked. It was the LSU game where they changed the rule after the season. Because he put his, what I don't remember the specifics. There was a goal tending and I don't think they could review it or something. He tipped it in and it was maybe questionable.

Uh-huh. Well, I wouldn't use the phrase cheated, but the 2015 Wisconsin's shot clock violation. Yeah. I mean, that's frustrating. Well, that's one where there's a screenshot where he's holding the ball and the clock says zero. I mean, that one's hard to argue defensive. But the game wasn't over. There was still like a minute and something left in that game.

Yeah, and Cal took the air out of the ball. Yeah. Yeah, I think, I mean, do you all disagree with me on the A&M one? To me, the A&M one is the one that I just look at and go, games over and you just call a technical for no reason. You're right, though. Some older fans, though, will swear up and down. The 95 title was stolen from Kentucky because of the referees.

Yeah. See, I can't think of another one where, well, I will tell you one that people would have said as if we hadn't hung on and beat Arkansas this year. You know, when Chow's started just calling all those technicals? Yeah. I flipped the script for a few minutes. I definitely could have been.

I mean, it was earlier in the game, but that would have been one that I think people would have thought that. All right. So the game tomorrow, folks, is at 1230. Okay, weird time. I think those games used to be at one. They've been moved up to 1230. KSR will start at 9. So the pre-show and KSR are merging tomorrow.

So a lot of our affiliates out there, if you don't, if your affiliate you listen to doesn't take the pre-show, then you'll have to listen online. First of all, Shannon, they should take the pre-show. Everybody should be taking the pre-show, yeah. So you should demand your affiliate to take the pre-show. But if they do not, it will be online, and we will then go up to 11 o'clock, stop, and then the official pre-game show will start then. Everybody feels good about the game against LSU tomorrow? If we can't beat the worst team of the SEC, then, yeah.

See, I don't think they are the worst team, though. I think it was a three-way tie. I think they're the best of those three teams. Well, they're still the bottom of the SEC and you're Kentucky. And it's the SEC tournament in Nashville when you get all the fans there. Just win the game. By the way, South Carolina has just announced they're bringing back Lamont Paris as their coach, by the way, even though they've been 630 in conference the last two years.

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