KSR - 2026-03-19- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

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presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Mario has left. I think the Santa Clara press conference starts here in just a few minutes. are at our house in St. Louis right down the road from the botanical gardens, close to Taco

Buddha, which I'm told is the best tacos in St. Louis. I had a woman who wrote me last night just a great description of all the food stuff. Like said, these are the seven places and reasons why, and she just spoke with authority. So I think I'll probably follow a lot of what she says. Well, it was kind of cool walking through the hill because like every restaurant was an Italian restaurant. Well, somebody recommended us was outstanding. Yeah, there was also a place for self-care. I think I'm going to go get some self-care. I don't know what that means. You get yourself a facial, manicure for your fingers. Yeah, but I feel like self-care. Everybody needs some self-care. Walk by one place, they were making shoes. You don't see that very often.

Yeah, they were hand-making shoes. That's got to be expensive. Yeah. If you get shoes. Topble, was that what they call them? Yeah, but it was like they were hand-making tennis shoes. Yeah, with old school style sewing machines. Yeah. Those can be expensive. I was saying, like, they make some of those now. New Balance will do that. They're called Made in Great Britons.

They're like hundreds of dollars. Really? Yeah, yeah, they're very expensive. I don't know what makes the difference. Did you bring your good luck shoes for the tournament this weekend? Because it's tournament time, I decided to bring one one of my, like, more expensive pairs. The Kobe Gigi's coming out for this one. Nice.

So that's how you know it's a big game. That's right. I don't bring out the customs until the Sweet 16. Okay. If we don't get to that, they just stay in the, what, you can't bring those out for everything. We may need them just to get to the Sweet 16. I know, but you know what? They got to earn.

Earned not given, right? That's right, they're earned not given. Let's talk about a couple things here. Watching the game last night, I noticed the inflatable basketballs are back. Yes, the Wilson basketball. People who don't realize that for reasons that no one has really understand, they seem to overreact. inflate the basketballs for the tournament. And if you watch that game last night,

missed shots, the rebounds were long. Yes. And the dribbling, guys, dribble it hot. Several times. Now, I mean, both teams are playing with it, so it's not, but I remember Kobe Brea last year said,

you have to shoot differently with this ball. You just do. So, you know, one of things Pope, I remember, he played, they would practice. with the ball they were going to use. I'm sure they did that with this. Sure they did. But it would be interesting to watch even with the games today.

These balls are more inflated. You can just tell. You can really tell it when you watch the rebounds from a miss three. Just look how far they go. He mentioned a couple times where the guard, Scow Jack, one of the guys bringing the ball down the floor, he'd have one dribble. There'd be a dribble where he'd take him off guard how high would go. You would see it. And I think that's just something to watch.

I don't know if there's a science of like turnovers. Long rebounds is I think where you will really, you'll really see it. So like there are a shoot-around they've hit today, it's kind of important with the new ball, the new rims, new arenas. It gets a lot of shots up to a few hours session today. Now you mentioned, you know, being in St. Louis, Kentucky's got great history here. Obviously, Kentucky won the national championship in St. Louis with Jack Givens scoring 41. Tashon Prince scored 41 in St.

Both were number 21. Against Tulsa. Against Tulsa. Kentucky beat Wichita State here. Yes. In the second round. So a lot of great history. We won the SEC tournament.

Winning Gabriel, hitting all those threes. So this city has generally been pretty good to us. Have we had an SEC loss here? Or an NCAA loss here? I can't. I thought we did. Yes. I just remember me.

In 99, we got to beat by Michigan State and the elite eight. That was here? That was here in St. Louis. Okay. I remember that. We beat Kansas in the Sweet 16 and then lost to Michigan State and the elite eight. And you were right that that's the year we played Wally Zerbiak and Miami of Ohio was in that 99 tournament, right? Within 99.

Oh, you're right. Why did I think we beat Kansas? Because we did. No, we beat Kansas in the second round that year. Okay. And then we played Miami of Ohio. Yeah, because I remember Pat, I remember us beating, for some reason, I remember the Kansas part. But we lost to Michigan State in 99.

I think that was Izzo's first final four, actually. Jack's scoring 41, wearing number 21 in St. Louis. Tayshan scored 41, wearing number 21 in St. Louis. That means our number 21 this week should score 41 points. Is that Jaden Quentin? Jaden Quaintons. Now, that would be a story. If in the second round he scored 41 points.

Getting ready. Considering he's not played. Come on, big fella. Yeah, I don't think he's playing. Cam Williams is going to play. Yes. He helped. Just having him out there.

You know, he didn't hit a bunch of shots, but he had just enough that you have to pay attention to him. spread the defense out for Otega and Aberdeen. Tomorrow morning, it is, remember, the game is early. So KSR is 9 to 10.30. We are preempting the pre-show, and KSR will be 9 to 1030,

for those of you. So if you do not get the pre-show in your town, remember you'll have to listen on streaming, then at 10.30, it will go to the official show. And if you're in one of the markets, it has KSR, but doesn't have the official show, they will just replay KSR from 1030 to 12. Okay.

So that's the situation. But in our Lexington, Louisville, and if you're listening on streaming, we go 9 to 1030 tomorrow here to get ready for the game. The pre-show slash pre-game show slash KSR, all combined in one. It will all be one. Some news from back in Kentucky. The Lexington, the woman that was in charge of snow removal in Lexington was fired by Linda Gorton yesterday. and she said we are tearing up our playbook and starting over on how to address snow and ice in Lexington. Do you think that's a good decision?

This past year when we went through that two weeks was miserable in Lexington. They definitely dropped the ball. And I don't know whose decision it was to make the decision that they did, but it was obviously wrong because the town was awful for two weeks. The person that's replacing the woman that had it, Shannon, I think I saw, has had this same job three different times. They just can't leave him. Really? He must be good. He must be good. Every time he goes, they bring him back. So they hire him, they fire him, they fire him.

I don't think they fire him. I think he moves on to greener snow pastures. Grass isn't always greener on the other side. Yeah, the snow is not always easier to clean up in Toledo, right, or whatever. So then he ends up back here. It's good experience. I like that. But you know, I mean, what? Linda Gordon's running for

re-election. I mean... She's got to get it right. I mean, like, this is... For most people, we have no idea what mayors do. That's why I want to be a mayor someday. Shankans, kids, babies, pose for pictures. But we know they better get the snow out there. It's right.

You know, I saw the guy in New York, Zoran. Like they interviewed all these people who are not fans of his, and they're like, I don't like him, but he got that snow out quick, so I like that. Because for a lot of people, that's all they know they do. That's true. Right? Get the snow out. Because he got the snow out in like 36 hours in his.

Linda Gordon, I think most people generally like her, but she didn't get the snow out. And so I think I would venture to say, is the election this fall? Yes. It's all going to be about the snow, isn't it? I think that's a big talking point. What other issues are there? Like you, I live in Lexington, but as much as I like politics, I don't follow Lexington politics, really. I don't really know what's going on in Lexington.

You are a man of the community. What are the hot topics in Lexington except Snow Room? Well, it was the park behind your house, but now that's settled. It's built. It's finalized. All right, so that's off the table. So what else is there to even argue about? They always talk about the county extension line or whatever, right?

The business where you can, what's that called? Where you can build more stuff? Yeah. We're really informed, Shannon, on the issues in Lexington. To me, there's a line. Like where because all the rich people want to build more things. And then people are like, no, don't build any more things. I don't remember what it's called.

But the traffic on New Circle Road. But what are you going to do about that? That's always always an issue. Your solution of tear all the businesses down is not one that's going to fly. Tear out the sidewalks and just expand the streets. Shannon's his suggestion of just get rid of all the businesses and then no one will want to be there. I don't think that's going to work. You can get rid of all the sidewalks.

That's really not. It's really not a solution. So my point is, like, I'm now, I'm going to be a Lexington voter by this fall. That's very true. Because I'm in Louisville. That's very true. I mean, what other, I don't know what other issue I'm supposed to care about except to know.

Now, who's she even running against? Where are the other candidates? Raquel Carter. I don't know who that is. She's a real estate broker for guide realty. Okay. She's running. I think there's a guy, he hasn't announced yet, but a friend of mine is getting rid of right.

Oh, Redman. Scoop, Shannon. He hasn't announced yet. No. I'm supposed to meet with him when we get back. Why is he meeting with you? Well, you know, I've got my finger on the pulse. Hang on just a second, Shannon.

I don't know if I trust any candidate that's meeting with Ryan. I don't know if I do either. Why is he meeting with you? Picking your brain? Picking my brain about, yes. About what? You know, by things I want to see down in the city of my beautiful city. And he picked you.

Yeah. I've known him for years. You know he's been in the restaurant. You probably know him. Does he want you to just announce his candidacy? No, that's why I'm not saying anything, but I am meeting with him. Is it Dante? It's Dante running for mayor?

I would love to run for mayor someday when all this KSR thing. This is all ultimately, Shannon, what he's about. Oh, yeah, yeah. He is trying to figure out how he could end up his mayor. What would you do, Ryan? We've already heard he would tear down all the businesses. And I'd get the snow off the streets as soon as it started snowing. All right.

Well, it seems like we don't really know the other candidates except Raquel Carter, Carter, and then a mysterious man who's meeting with Ryan. Yep. Maybe Linda Gordon. That sounds so bad. The other candidates are meeting with you. You're not for the person that's also a realtor? I've not throwing my support over anybody yet.

Oh, wait a minute, Shannon. His endorsement is still on the table. He's going to meet with this guy and then vote for somebody else. I can easily be bought. Will you like Linda Gordon? too. I do like Linda Gorton, yes. I like her. And I don't blame her for the road issues. Who do you blame? The person they just fired. But that person's under her. Yeah, but, you know, you have good people underneath you. You delegate the power.

But it doesn't sound like she did. Like when I get mayor, you're going to be my PR person. And then as much complaining, go talk to Matt. Let me take you some. The chances I would work for a Ryan Lemon administration in PR are Bill. Matt, go get them. Matt, go talk to those media people. Urban service boundary. That's the phrase. That's it. I've heard that. All right. Who's up next? Elizabeth. Elizabeth. Go ahead. I'm going to be your PR person.

Are you kidding me? Go ahead. Hey, guys. I have been wanting to call in. I'm team no negativity this week. I want us to win. I want us to have a great fun weekend. But I also think we all acknowledge that football and basketball have been a little

disappointing this year. But what's not been disappointing is KSR. It's been one of my favorite years to listen. I love. loved cover zero i've loved every trip drew got his hometown show mario and billy have been fun i just want you all to know that even when we're disappointed in sports uh we're still listening many hours a week that's very nice of you having a great time well thank you very much go cat that's and then as soon as this show ends shen and i are taping our relationship advice podcast that will be

on the interrupted feed tonight at six i've been looking for you you were sharing some of the questions you got good question great question about that. Really good ones. We ended up with like 50 good questions, and I might have to pick like 20 of them. And I can't think of two better guys to give relationship advice than two single 40-year-olds that have never been married. Yes. And some of these questions, like, I wouldn't do on KSR, but on this, it's going to be a little like.

Well, if you're going to give true relationship advice, you need to answer these honest questions. It's going to be like, what, a little saucy? There's a couple saucy. I mean, there's one or two saucy that I picked. There were a couple that were saucier than I felt like. Remember, my standard is always if my mom listens. Right. And I, I, I, our relationship has evolved where I tell my mom more things now.

But there's some things that we just, I think we just sort of agree. We're not going to talk about it. That is still mom. It's still mom, you know. Mom's a listener, but that's my mom. And then Larry, forget it. I can't talk. We can't, you know.

Not some of those questions. Not some of the questions. Who's next? Blake, go ahead, Blake. Hey, guys, I think Ryan's guy he's meeting with today's maybe Chet Lemon, so if he's ever going to run for mayor today, but this year probably the best time to do it. But I just want to talk about Hope and how when Cal came,

we knew almost immediately like, oh, we're back. You know, like Billy G'd ever had that because we lost the VMI and a couple of those early ones, but Pope had the Duke game, we're like, oh, we're back. Yep. And then we just had a whole bunch of like, oh, We missteps. And then, like, the whole community is behind them. We've got the resources.

We just need to, like, him to have an awesome run. Like, this is an unexpected year. I don't think anyone has great, like, you know, hope for us this year. But if we can pull off a random, you know, Elite 8 run, that might just get this fan base back. Like, oh, we're back. And then hopefully we'll build in the next year and do some amazing. If you, let's just use your example. I appreciate the call.

If you were to go the Elite eight, I think this fan base is then all in. 100%. Even Sweet 16, I think they're like, okay, well, we're still heading the right direction. Yeah. You just can't lose tomorrow. Right. Like, tomorrow is the one that I think would be not great. If you're paying a premium for roadside assistance or you're getting gouged for phone insurance,

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And the deadline, filing deadlines already passed. That's a perfect time to meet with Ryan. After the filing deadlines passed. Is this? Is this? Is this? It may be. So that's too bad.

You said you do have the candidates that are running. Raquel Carter, who we mentioned the real estate broker. Greg O'Neill. Never heard of them. C.E. Huffman. They have a car dealership? I don't know. Isn't there like Huffman Alamo-O-O-domotive?

That's in Louisville. All right, go ahead. Ramazzani, Osmond. Osmani. Romazzani, Osmani. Oh, his name rhymes. Shannon. Ramazani Osmani.

You can make a jingle for the radio. Oh, you can make a good song out of Rosmazzani-Alzani. Might get a lot of votes. Rasmazzani, Al-Zani. Skip Horine. Horiny. Horny? Horny?

Horny. That's the way Shannon pronounces the person from Harry Potter. Yeah, Miny. Skip, okay. You're terrible at these names. Darnell, Tagaloa, and then Linda Gorton. All right. Well, I don't know any of those people, but some good names in there.

Good names. Some really good names. 859-280-2287. Tuck Johnson's playing right now? Playing right now. Drew was not able to go there, so we don't have a reporter on the scene. Hazard and Butler. Hazard and Butler, the Battle of Easter Kentucky.

Right now, Butler, it looks like they lead hazard 10 to 9. Okay. So the game is still on. Tuck Johnson took a picture at KS Bar, and then Johnson Central is at the bar now. For those of you in Lexington or in the area, you go to KS Bar today. The drink special is crazy.

You get five beers and, what, three shots for $20? It's pretty good deal. I did not approve that. It feels like. It went to you without town. How are we going to make money from that? But nevertheless, it's good for you. Matt's out of town.

Let's have a crazy drink special. So you can watch the games today and tomorrow. Obviously we'll have the UK game tomorrow there as well. But games all day to day. We have all four of them up all night. So go check it out if you get a chance. Who's next? Scotty from Florida.

Scotty. How are you, Scotty? What's up, Matt? What's up, Ryan? What's up, Shannon? Quick, two things. This is baby announcement, Scotty, by the way. But Ryan and Shannon, when you all come down to Panama City, hit me up.

I'm on men to brink. We can get a crab island boat. Second thing, I love the positivity from Elizabeth. Love the positivity from Elizabeth. Let's keep it going. Let's become Santa Clara as crampsmith, and let's have Drew have that baby for us making the Sweet 16. How about that?

That would be great. I think the babies do. I appreciate the call, like during the final four, right? It could be like we win a national title and then a baby, right? Right there, that would be a great duo, right? We could name the title. He could name the baby Otega. Well, it's a girl.

That could be a woman's name. Inns and A. Chandler. That could be the girl's name. Yeah. I like that. A barry's not on this team, but BG. What about Jaden for Jaden Quaintons?

Jaden. Well, you can get somebody's playing. Why is that? Can Cam be a girl? I know Cam's a guy. Cam could definitely be a girl. Cam could be a girl. What else you got?

Could Jasper be a girl? It'd be hard for Denzel to be a girl. Yeah. Yeah. Well, these would be... Malachi would be hard. Yeah. Well, it would be nice to be able to celebrate.

Just win Friday. It's win Friday. I've already traced the route when I leave the stadium how I'm walking. I'm going to follow the exact same thing I did when we beat Wichita. You remember it? I walked from the arena to Bush Stadium. Yeah. Went in the St. Luke Lewis Cardinals team shop.

watched most of the first half in the St. Louis Cardinals team shop with the people looking at me like, are you going to buy something? Are you just going to stand here? I've been here watching the game. I ended up buying, I think, a hat just because I didn't want to. And then paced back and watched the last of it in a hotel, in a hotel, like, workout area.

Is the Wichita State game also the game where Greg Marshall's wife was screaming at? That was, we played Wichita State again a few years ago. Okay. was in later that was uh i want to say we played utah wichita state i don't it was all that was a fox muck and fox and muck because she was yelling at munk get into the wait room was that here too was that in st louis as well i believe it was i can't remember yeah but that was the game where she she yelled who's next let's go to mike mike go ahead mike hey guys i got a i got a question for ryan i know i've him too much very late, but I kept thinking

somebody else would ask this. That's all right. He said yesterday, he said yesterday that he was only expecting three back with Hawthorne being one, and I got to thinking about it. Well, which one's not coming back

Malichair or Chandler? Because it's, I think Cam's a lot. Well, I mean, nobody's asking specifics. I appreciate the call. I'm not, I would say, I think there are people out there. Like, if you

talk to anybody who knows about who's coming back. They will all say the same thing to you. They will all say Hawthorne kind of gets forgotten just because he didn't play. Right. They'll all say Malachi, Cam and Chandler, but then they will say, you better be ready to pay for Malachi. Yeah. That's what people all say. And I wonder why they say that. Did they say that because they don't think Kentucky will? Or do they say that because they know something? Like, why do you think that happens? This is my opinion. Okay. I think because other schools are going to come after him with big money. All these guys.

They're going to offer big money to Malachi. Okay. But like we have money. We didn't spend it as last year the way we should have. We didn't spend it correctly, but we still had plenty of it. Yes. So are you just worried we would? I mean, I can't imagine that there's anyone that Kentucky will want to keep more than their kid from Kentucky who has the potential to be a star.

I cannot imagine that Malachi, if. If he, Malachi is not going to leave here about money. If he were to leave, it wouldn't be because I can't imagine there's a world where we go, we're not going to pay for the Kentucky kid. Don't insult him then. Offering what he's worth. See, but people keep saying that, like, that's the worry, which makes me wonder. That's all I'm saying.

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why can't I ever find this, Shannon, this? Like the, I don't know what you call. The script? Not the script, but the disclaimer. Do you have that? I've got it in my head. Okay. Well, here, I'll be.

do the pick, then you read the disclaimer. How's that? All right. Somebody asked who the best pick of the day is. Yes. I tend to think the best pick is usually when everyone else really likes an underdog, and you don't think the underdog is going to win. So for me, I think in the early games, it's Georgia.

Okay. Is Georgia an early game? I think it is. Regardless, I like Georgia today. They're, I think, a two-and-a-half-point favorite. I love Cream Abdul-Jabbar. even picked him in my ESPN bracket. But if you're really wanting to say St. Louis has been wildly inconsistent, Georgia's

going to be more athletic. I'm going to take Georgia a two and a half point favorite would be my pick of the day. Georgia scores a lot of points and the SEC, you know, playing the SEC has kind of battle-tested them because the team like St. Louis. So yeah, I think Georgia wins that one also. That game's tonight at 845. Okay. So that's my.

We both like Georgia. I like Georgia. I like Wisconsin's only a nine and a half point favorite against High Point. I think that's one of those things where everybody, it's QTSC to pick High Point. So give me Wisconsin to cover that one too We discovered Cameron Fletcher Plays for High Point from St. Louis One of the, just a couple players of Kentucky players

from St. Louis. And then if you don't trust me and you trust Tom Crean, Tom Crean's bet of the day is TCU plus 2.5. He didn't say bet, but he thinks they're going to win. I picked them to win. Did you? Yeah.

So they're an underdog, so money line TCU might be a good win. Well, the game that got a lot of traction yesterday was South Florida and Louis because of the McHale Brown announcement. But see, that would be the kind of thing. I can't bet on Louisville, but that would be the kind of thing where I would take Louisville. Everybody's now assuming they're going to lose.

I think this means they can't advance to the round past that, but I think they can win today. I pick South Florida in my bracket, but I wouldn't be confident. I think Louisville's got a good job. Is Louisville a favorite? Louisville's a four and a half point favorite. Yeah. So read the disclaimer. Oh, yeah.

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I thought that was great. Yeah. That was great. That's great content right there. That's what UK, more of that. It was the new offensive coordinator, and he was constant energy. You were telling me in practice they're just blasted music. Jeff Picorrell said that, that when the minute you walk out,

they had ACDC blaring on the speakers, and the music plays the entire practice. He said it seemed to be a little more pep in their step, a little more energy with the music going after the whole time. I love those C's like positivity and excitement. And it was just cool to watch. I mean, these guys, we don't really know them, the coaches or the players. So all the behind the scene stuff is good. Got to see Kenny Minchie toss it around a little bit. You know, I mean, I'm still in basketball mode.

I'm going to be in basketball mode, at least until Kentucky loses. But the football content, you know, I'm excited about this. group. There were two things that they could walk away early people were saying one, energy, excitement level there, and two, the offensive line guys are massive. Well, they better be.

I mean, you could make a strong argument that four of our five biggest pulls in the portal were the offensive line guys. So you need your offensive line to be great. I was listening to Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman and they were talking about Kentucky's

offensive line and they said this offensive line will be the best Kentucky's had maybe even better than the year they had all those guys going to drive on the big blue wall so I mean at least in terms of pedigree now how they how they play we'll have to see but I mean look they got three of the top 11 offensive linemen in the portal came to Kentucky three of the top 11

a dude who started three straight years at Ohio State is coming here and now they thought he was going to lose his job this year But whatever. I mean, Ohio State won a title while he was a starter. I'll take it. Guy started at Tennessee. Guy started at Baylor. It's a pretty good program.

Number one offensive linemen in the entire class. We got from back. They obviously just made a concentrated effort to look. This is where we're going to spend our money. We're going to build starting with these guys. Yeah. I think Will said, well, someone close to the program, told me that they just thought their money this first year

could be most efficiently. spit on the offense. I agree. But they didn't want to get into bidding wars for some of the skill position players that they could most efficiently spend it there. And go get you a good quarterback and then just try to fill in the blanks outside of that. And I think that's exactly what they did. Who's next?

Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark. Come in late, y'all may have covered this. But I remember earlier in the year when there was a game, what the stat was, if there were two or three, 10-point run, it's hard for the person, the opposition to come back. and I saw a Miami game last night, and I know they had two of them. Yes. That looked like a team Mark Pope would like the coach.

They were letting the ball fly. Yeah, they call it now. That's a phrase that has become popular in the last couple years. It's called a kill run or a kill shot. And it's a 10-0 run. And there's some stat that if you have two of those in a game, you like never lose. And we've actually had some teams get two of them on a. us, Miami got two last night.

And I think there's a stat that if you get one, you have like an 80% chance of winning. So I think they call a 10-0 run nowadays. This is like for me a relatively new term, sir. I think it's called a kill shot. I think I saw after Florida beat Kentucky in the SEC tournament, stat was Florida had a kill shot in all three games against Kentucky this year. All three games. And we've had a lot of teams have them against us.

Yeah. And that's just hard. That's hard to come back. back from. Now, this team's done it a number of times, but still, it's not something you want to make normal. I feel like this Kentucky team is a team that I don't think they can make a final four run, but I do think they can upset some people and get some big wins yet still in them. Well, the good thing about once the bracket comes out, it's not about theoretically what you can do against teams. It's about what can you do against the teams that you have to play.

You know what I mean? Yeah. But it doesn't really matter what Kentucky could do against Yukon. We don't have to play them. So the question is really pretty simple. Can Kentucky beat Santa Clara? Can Kentucky beat Iowa State? And can Kentucky beat Tennessee or Virginia? That's the question.

Or Miami-B Ohio, if they beat Tennessee. Or potentially Miami-B Ohio. Well, Kentucky can beat Santa Clara. Kentucky has already beat Tennessee. I know our fans like to play gloom and doom. We could beat Miami. Now, they could beat us, but we could beat them. and I think we can be Virginia.

So the question is, can we beat Iowa State? I feel like I'm more confident about that than a lot of our fans are. But I do think until you get to the elite eight, there is no reason Kentucky can't beat any of these teams, but they also can lose to the end of the teams. That's just the way this team is. Is there a concern that Iowa State will have more fans than anybody else in there? Yeah, but Illinois had more fans than us last year in Milwaukee when we won.

That's right. That's right. You know, I mean, Illinois completely outfanned us. And this team has won road games. This team won at Tennessee. Yeah. This team won at Arkansas. I mean, Iowa State, this is not going to be a more hostile environment than it was in Fayetteville.

Very true. And they won. So I'm, you know, it would be better if it was, it would be better if we had our fan base. But I don't think that's a huge thing. So somebody asks you, what's the one key for Kentucky to make at least a decent run, what's the one thing you think is? Has to happen. Well, I mean, everyone that watches the team would say the same thing.

I think Kentucky rarely wins when Chandler doesn't hit three-threes. Okay, so Chandler's got to shoot the ball well. And the numbers are very clear that we rarely lose if we hold ourselves to under 11 turnovers. Now, we did lose to Florida in this last time, and I think we only had, what, six or something? Yeah. But don't turn the ball over. Chandler hits threes. I feel pretty good about our chances against the teams we play.

Now, there are teams like Florida that that's not even enough. But I don't think any of these teams right now we're at that level yet. See, I'm with you. I think, you know, Aberdeen and Otega, they'll get theirs. They'll do their game, do their job. It all falls on that number of third guy, and that third guy's got to be Chandler. Otega does, I mean, we saw this against Florida. had a bad game.

Yes. I'm assuming Otega plays well. If you get a bad game from Otega, you can't win. One out of 30 games. But that was one. I think maybe he's had two bad games this year. So I don't expect that to be regular. 859-280-2287 cornbread hemp.

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You didn't really show the effects. No, because it made me relax. Is that how you do it? Wow, I didn't, you normally, you're like wild on these trips. You were, you were kind of normal. Relax. All right, good. We'll take a break.

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You know, we keep saying there's just three of us on this trip. You, me, Mario. There's actually four. You, me, Mario, and Travis. Travis Ford. The Ford expedition we got from Palmiller Ford to drove us down here. It's a huge car. It's a massive car.

You drove, man. It was like a tank. Expedition, Shannon? It's huge. It's like driving, I don't know, I felt like I was driving a tank. Travis Ford wasn't a big guy, though, so I don't know. Well, this is much bigger than him, the Travis Ford Expedition. We could put 20 Travis Ford's in the Ford Expedition.

So thank you to Paul Miller Ford for giving us that car. Shout out to Paul Miller Ford. He's rolling. That's one of those cars. You're like, whoa, here we go. It's a big car. Well, you're a big guy. You're 6'4.

You need a big car like that. Well, I felt like a man driving that. car. Will, it's slow down. I'm not allowed to feel like a man when I'm driving a car.

Will, we saw the video of you on the bull. I don't know if that was a manly performance. I got a lot of comments from people in the bull community.

That were disapproving of your form. You're like, you know, you got to be careful what you do with your hand. But besides the- yeah, violate the bull.

Besides that. To your credit, the guy who wrote it before you, your friend did the same thing. So you were like just following his lead, I think. Yeah, that's kind of what. Corey did it.

That's kind of what Capiludo said. Everybody else did it. Well, I'm going to do the same thing. So we'll do the same thing. No, I got on it. I didn't want to do that, but I did. Mario is already at the gym. Yeah.

And he is already interviewing people, and he's already gotten probably the most important interview. What's he got? Santa Clara's Jake Insing in Siminger. In Siminger? In Siminger. Jake and Siminger. did an interview with Mario, and he asked,

Mario asked him, who are your favorite March Madness players of all time? Number one for Santa Clara's Jake and Siminger, Jack Golky. Wow. Whoa. That's a trash talking. Is this their Jack Golky? They've got a guy who's like they're Jack Golky. I'm not sure, but Shannon, do you, is that poor form to say Jack Golky?

It would be it said Doug Emert and Jack Golky. Yeah, he knew what he was doing to. He goes, cut that part out. No, he knew what he was doing. He acted like he forgot the Jagolki lit it up against Kentucky. Yeah. He's trolling. Bring it on, big fella.

Well, you know, maybe they'll show, maybe Mario gets the interview that spurs Kentucky on to victory. I would play that in the locker room before they go out. Yep, this guy, you know, he's throwing shade to you guys. It's Santa Clara throwing you guys shade. Yeah, you can't let that. that happened. No. You can't do that. We also learned last night we were driving, Shannon, and I said to Ryan, you know, have you ever thought about doing a graphic advertising your realtor service, like realtor work? Because, you know, he's done a good job for me. He's been on it.

Thank you. I didn't realize how much stuff went into this. A lot of paperwork. A lot of paperwork, and they do all these checks, and then you got to get this inspected, and you got to do this. And it takes a lot. And Ryan's organized all He's done a really, really good job. I'm not just saying that. I appreciate that. Better than I thought he would, Shannon, to be quite frank with you. Yeah, he's actually professional when he wants to do. He's actually done a good job.

And I said, you know, man, like you've done a really good job. You should promote the fact that you're a realtor more. I was like, why don't you do it on social media? I was like, you got more followers than probably every realtor in Lexington. And he said, I don't know. And I said, well, like, why don't you make a graphic or something with you? Remember the good picture? picture he had with the gold tie

that didn't look like him that looked like it was airbrushed. I was like make it and he goes well I don't know how to do that. And I said Mario is sitting right there. You could pay 50 bucks and he'd make you a graphic

that would look awesome. And he just goes yeah I never thought of that. It's a great idea. That's why you're going to be my PR person but you'd never thought that the person we have full-time on staff could potentially do something for you

on the side. I know there's just a lot of regulations and rules you have to follow to advertise on social media. But other people have graphics? See, I don't, I don't see them. I guess I don't follow those people, so I don't know what they put on their graphic, but it's got to have certain things have to be on it. It feels like he'd be. Tell Mario what needs to be on it.

It's exactly right. How about this? You find out what needs to be on it, and you say, Mario, put this on the graphic. Anyway, I tried. Because you did a good job. You've done Good job. Thank you. Surprising.

Can I use the picture of me in Las Vegas or something like that? No. Use the picture, the one that doesn't look like you, and you're in good shape. Who's next? Hunter. Hunter. Go ahead, Hunter. Hey, guys.

Happy March Madness. Same to you. I just come to give a throwback Thursday. Thank you. I just want to give a throwback Thursday when I started listening to you all three years ago. I think it was either the SEC tournament or the March Madness tournament where Ryan lost his keys. And your mom texted the show and said, let Ryan go get his keys. So when you told the license story, I think of that.

We were in Nashville at the SEC tournament, and I couldn't find my keys. Okay. Now, you let me go back to the parking garage from my car. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were laying on the ground. They were laying on the ground. That's right. I do remember that.

But I just kind of made me laugh. But I just wanted to give a shot to my buddy Chase that's in St. Louis. And if you all want to know, nickname for St. Louis, it's Sluw. That's a little at St. Louis. Stoolew. I probably won't ever call it. ever call it anything else again well i i appreciate it you know it would be i didn't think about we're in st louis st louis place tonight we ought to go somewhere where they're going to be st louis people

and then watch the game that would be fun i think it's actually a great idea to do that for the season how did i not think of that what didn't think about it go see my guy cream and uh well he'll be at the game but go go do the go watch it somewhere i don't know why i didn't why i didn't think that this is such a baseball town i don't know how much to get behind their basketball team it's a huge baseball house i'm sure i wonder if we're close to the school all right who's next go ahead. Donnie. Donnie, go ahead. Hey, mad.

Everybody's talking about Calipari and how great he's done at Arkansas, but I think if he was still at Kentucky, DJ Wagner would still be our point guard and still playing 35 minutes a game and it would be even

worse than what we got now. Well, I mean, that's, you know, we talked about that the other day. People just assume that you were going to get the same CalPerey. I don't assume that. They play today, right? Do they play Hawaii today?

I believe it is today. I think they play today, yeah. Appreciate the call. Yeah, I think they play this afternoon against Hawaii. What would you do? Would you like it if Hawaii won? Yeah, I would be very happy for that. That would be kind of funny, Shannon, if Hawaii were to win the game.

After they just won the SEC tournament? It would be a bad look for the conference. Well, how about the ACC? The tournament hadn't even started. They're 0 and 2. Yeah, right. How about that? Yeah, I mean, they're basically, they've already lost two games. And Louisville plays one of the early games today.

And what if they lose? They could be. And North Carolina could possibly lose. Don't they play, like, the TCU? Yeah, they play somebody today too. So, I mean, they could start the tournament just awful, depending on what happens. They still got maybe the favorite to win at all, but all their other teams are stinking. Clemson, they've got an eight-nine matchup, I think.

That's right. They do play Iowa. Yeah. Clemson plays Iowa. All right. So we will be here. tomorrow morning 9 a.m. Eastern time.

We will start. We'll combine out binding the pre-show and the show. We'll have the game. It's obviously at 12.15. If you're in Lexington, KS. Barr all weekend. Take off work tomorrow. Watch the game. If you're teachers and you have kids, if you don't let them watch the game tomorrow,

then it's time to reconsider your priorities. In St. Louis, if we beat Santa Clara, we're going to do the post-game show somewhere out in St. Louis. We'll probably hide because it's not going to be pretty. But regardless, it's a big weekend. Fun starts in 15 minutes. Be watching your feed tonight for Shannon and my relationship advice. And enjoy.

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