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It existed before the Book of Mormon, but it is, it is one of America's most beautiful cities and we'll be there tomorrow for our show for our show Friday. So if you're in Salt Lake, send me a message and we can, we'll tell you where we're going to be so you can, you can find us. Where. I just booked the hotel a few minutes ago. A lot of people are writing. Let me read a couple before we get to this other thing. One person writes, matt, everyone online says you're Stoop's boy. If you are Stoop's boy, I bet you're not after that last few segments. Well, I like Mark as a person. Vince, my friend, I like Mark as a person. But you gotta call it as it is. Greg Doyle told me many years ago when I first started, Greg said, don't become friends with anybody because you can't do your job if you do it. But you can't choose who your friends are. Like, it just happens. And Dwayne Peavey and Vince are my friends. They'll be my friends if they go 01.12. But, you know, you also got. I got a job to do. And I remember one time I was talking about in the early years of me talking about cow ride, and I criticized Cal. This was the. The COVID year. And somebody goes, matt, you know, if you keep doing that, Cal may not like it. And I said, well, you know, I hate that. He said, he's gonna think you. You betrayed him. And I said, well, yeah, I hate that. And then another guy goes, but, you know, if Cal needed to cut you off for himself, he would. And I went, yeah, he would. I mean, the thing. I mean, now, I don't think Vince would do that, and I don't think Dwayne would do that, which is why they're my friends. But you also have to remember, like, these are not your. Like, these people here. You all are my friends, but they're not. And I have a job to do. The thing people got to realize, too now, Matt, is you're a cowboy. You shoot from the hip. All right, let's talk about that. You enjoy. Yesterday we were walking around Vail, and Drew said, I think I want to get a cowboy hat. I've been thinking about this hat for two years. The place's name was what, Kemo Sabe? Yes. They only have a few locations. Kimo Sabe, which apparently is a very overpriced cowboy hat. But you know what? That's okay. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills apparently shop there. And if it's good enough for them, Shannon, it's good enough for us. Absolutely it is. So we walked in there. When you want to talk about sticker, sticker price shock, I suffered it, Especially the first one you first had I picked up. I was like, this hat looks good. I'd like to buy this hat. I could see myself in this hat. $2,000. I was like, I can't see myself in that hat. Yeah, you forgot where you were. This is Vail, Colorado. He's a little bit more hat than Cal that I have. Okay, so we're gonna not gonna do that. But then Drew is like, I'm buying a hat, and he puts on a hat. And see, this is how they get you. All right? This is how they get you. He puts on that hat. And there was a woman working there and a dude that looked cooler than me. And the two of them were, like, telling Drew, man, you look good. In that hat. Now, I know that. I know that's what they say. I know that's what they get. Like, they just say that he did, man, you look good in that hat. And I can see Drew's face going. I mean, they say I look good in that hat. Emily deserves a raise. Yes. Yeah. I don't leave that store without those two compliments. That's exactly right. And you're like, I'm getting hat. So then I go, well, now you got hat envy. I do. I have a little hat. So you saw me turn into a cowboy. Right. There's a little bit of Hattie. Now, here's the problem. I was like, I don't want people to think I want a hat. I'm just gonna put this one on. Yeah. And then Mario goes, let me take a picture. He takes it. And then he goes, oh, you're gonna like that picture. And I know he knows because I tell him when he takes bad pictures. Yeah. And I was like, oh, well, let me see it. And then he sends me the picture, and I go, I do look good. And then I go, well, guess I'm getting a hat. Now, it was much less expensive than the $2,000 hat, but it's still more than I would want to pay for hat. But you know what? Yep. Win in the least. Cowboy place in America. Vail, Colorado. Be a cowboy. They fit it for us. They put like. What is the thing they put on mine? An ostrich. They put it. An ostrich band. Yeah. I got an elephant band. You an ostrich? I would. Elephant. They didn't sit an ostrich on your hat. That wouldn't work. They gave me an ostrich band. And then all of a sudden, Drew puts on his hat. I put on my hat. Broke back mountain instantaneous. Look at each other's eyes. They rode off. Couldn't quit him. And next thing you know. Good line. No. We're Brooks and Dunn in our minds, right? Oh, yeah, We're Brooks and Dunn. And my Maria. We start. We're ready to go. So we both bought a hat. We both agree that we don't want to carry it on the plane. So we had it shipped home. Right. Mine was the issue of I just didn't want to be fist fighting for the next four days. Yes. Mine was, I don't want to carry it on the plane. All right. That's too much work. So we both shipped our hats, one ship to Drew's house. And now we both will have these very nice hats. I have that picture. I put it. I put. I think Mario puts it up. Says, should Matt buy this hat? People who will say to me, matt, you stinking liberal stoops loving. In the comments, they wrote, you do look good now. So they won me over. Now we have a problem. Where am I ever gonna wear that hat? That was my question for you everywhere. Will you ride into the radio station on a horse wearing your hat? What am I gonna do? I was so proud of you guys for buying the hat, but you're in Vail, Colorado. That's when you need to wear the hat. Just need to take on it. Even she encouraged shipping it because the flight and they're the will bend them. She was like, you don't want to keep up with it. You know, the cowboys don't ship that. Yeah, yeah. You put it. Put it on the true, but walk on the plane with it. Then you put it in your lap. You could. You guys go be in Salt Lake City. You got to stay, right? I have two turkeys, Idaho. Those are cowboys. We want. I wanted you to wear the hat for the rest of the trip. You just need to take on a new Persona. You're now cowboy Matt. All right, so my mom even texted me. My mom and said, you need to get rid of your Twitter profile and make it you in that hat. So I did. Oh, you did. I mean, if my mom says it so now. But the problem is I don't have a wardrobe for hat, and I'm not changing my whole world. I like hoodie. Hoodie in the hat. I can't do the thing that people do now where they wear a dress shirt and tuck it into jeans. Definitely can. I don't like that. That's. First of all, that doesn't look like a cowboy to me, but, like, that's what people do. I can do a version of it. But here's my biggest problem, and this is why I need the people listening at home. I need your help. What shoes can I wear? I can't wear cowboy boots. Those little pointy things and I fall. I don't know why. I mean, Tim, I know you love them, but I can. I can't walk around in those cowboy boots. You have to there. No, I'm not doing that. So what shoes could I wear? Because I can't wear my. My. My Jordans with Crocs. I'm not wearing Crocs. But, like, what. Is there a boot that's not a boot? Like, like, you know, like Timberlands used to be a thing. Yeah, but I Don't think I can wear that anymore. People are going to see you just walk into the streets of Lexington with a cowboy hat and go, man, Matt is going through a midlife crisis or something right now. Phone clip. Yeah, yeah, maybe. You know, JBL in wrestling would wear a suit. You. By the way, look, for anybody who's ever watched wrestling, if you know the character jbl, you look straight up like jbl. Or maybe a character from Dallas. Yes. And they wore suits and a hat. Yeah, I could do that. Like, I could see myself going to a nice restaurant and wearing a cowboy hat and a suit. I think I would feel ridiculous, but I could see myself doing it. But I have a couple shirts that look like things people would wear. But I need boots that are not the pointy toe boots. I cannot wear pointy toe boots. They. My feet are. I got big feet. Like, they don't work. So if anybody has a suggestion. 772-774-5254. And if you sell them somewhere in Lace Newville, I'll come back here because I want to wear the hat. Now the question is, Ryan, where do I even wear that hat? I can't wear it, like, on the street. You're exactly right. People think I'm going through something. Well, I mean, I'm not going through anything. Yeah, fine. Yeah. I mean, we did buy cowboy hat. We're kind of going. And we're transitioning to cowboys right now. I think every time you guys go to Keeneland, hat's gotta be on. So, listen, this is where Matt and I differ. Keeneland. He doesn't know where he's gonna wear his. I don't know when I'm gonna take mine correct. I'll wear mine with gym shorts. Just Lexington, get ready for me and a cowboy Matt. The issue with Matt is he's thinking about what do I have to wear? It's a Persona. It's the way you conduct yourself. He. He should be changing. It's not a liberal radio station anymore. It's Republican. He needs to start swimming. Exactly. That's exactly right. Yeah. Ride your horse into town. That's what I. You're. We need to put a big chaw in when we leave here. You challenge people to. Whenever the sun rises. I mean, J.D. vance did it. Correct. Like, he wasn't. He just decided stay away from the couches. But, yeah. No. So I got to figure out the. The boot part of it. I can wear it to see Tyler Childers. Absolutely. So there's one. There's one. Keenan. If I Take my mom. See Morgan Wallen. Now there's two Skyline Chili when you come visit my race. Okay. Those are all right. You could show me that. I could. I could maybe do that a little wider when you come right. Horses at my ranch, you'll wear them. Yeah, you know, I've seen. But if I just, like, go out, like, if we go out and we're like, hey, we got a pregame show. If I walk into KS Bar wearing that hat. Yeah. People are gonna be like, hey, Matt, everything good? I mean, considering what you paid and as few times you're gonna wear it, you'd be better off renting a cowboy hat than buying it. I will say, one time I was in Vegas, I wore a cowboy hat. Never have women liked me more than why you. Every day of your life. Do you hate women swarming you? I would. Hat. You've already. Your mom likes it. People that don't like you on the Internet like it. Women swarm you. I don't know why we're still asking where we're going to wear it. You know, Coach prime is wearing a hat and a hoodie. You can wear the hat and the hoodie. I don't have Coach prime swag. But that hat hoodie combo that Coach prime does. I don't shake your head, Mario. You're supposed to. You're the one that got me to buy this stupid thing. You can't sit there and what's. What's. He wears a hoodie with it and he looks great. You don't think I didn't ask you. Anyway, does he wear his Jordans when he does the hoodie hat combo? I don't know. It's. I think you could go with that one thing we struggled with, and I wanted to do it so bad. But they will brand any saying you want on the inside. And they gave me a sheet of all these cowboy sayings, and I just couldn't commit to. And you almost said cowboy, take me away. That's what you almost went with the cowboy. And me, I think was what I was gonna go. I wasn't. Jesus. Take the will. One of those. I think I was gonna put Carrie Underwood in there. I can't. I can't put any say on there. I think that would be. Well, so we have cowboy hats. Now. Here's the second thing. As many of you know, we. Over the years, there's been a KSR curse. We talk about something, we talk about something, and then something bad happens. That's happened a lot over the years. And so yesterday I was looking at Atlas Obscura. Right, right. Which is a website that tells you cool things in different cities, unique things. And it said that the number one store for spirit tarot cards and witchcraft was in Denver. Were there. So we were like, well, we got at least see that. I was expecting like something in somebody's house. It was a massive store. Yeah, it was beautiful store. It was actually an unbelievably well done store. Ritual Craft. Ritual Craft was the name of it. We walked in there and I looked at the woman. You know I'm kidding. She was not. No. And I looked at the woman and said, look, we have a KSR curse. What could we do to make it go away? And she gave us 10 options. The cheapest one, the first one was the best, was this, was this candle, right? Yeah. And it's a candle that says luck. And she said if we burned this candle while we do the show, the KSR curse will go away. We have to write on the outside. KSR curse go away. Burn the candle. She said it of at least 30 minutes of the show. Okay, I'll let you write 30 minutes of the show and it would go away. She also was very clear. Don't blow the candle out or you will be blowing all the luck out of your life. I've never seen someone be so serious. She said it to me like she looked at me and goes, seriously? Yeah. Do not blow the candle out even when you paid for it. She said it again. She said it again. So we're not blowing it out. We did not cover it. Yeah. To get rid of it. But she said if we burned it for 30 minutes during the show, the KSR curse will go away. So during the break, Shannon. Yep. We're gonna light this candle. Okay. We'll let it go for the rest of the show. And when we're done, in theory, no more curse. I love it. I think just want the listeners to know option number one, which was the all in option, where she said, if you really want this curse to go away, it was to bathe together. I said yes, everyone. Well, Ryan said yes. I was into. Everyone else said no. And I wasn't happy about that. I mean, if we're gonna be in, we gotta be all in. Let's just bathe together. Gave us a bar of soap and said if you all wash yourselves with this soap together, no, it would go away. That was a hard no for me. I vetoed that option. You also put it on grinds head. You rubbed it on my Baltic sprouted a few more hairs, I think so. I think it works. We have an afro by the time this I was not going to do the the bar of soap unless I was first. I wasn't going to follow you after you rubbed it everywhere. She also said if you all do this, please send me the link. I think she really wanted us to bathe together. She did ask us to send the link if we did it so. 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Rugged, resilient, and timeless. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. We have the. We have the candle lit. We're ready to go. KSR curse is going away. We also, by the way, we forgot to say they gave us some incense to have before the Gonzaga game to help us if we. They said if we run around the pregame show with the incense, we will beat Gonzaga. So we've got that. We're saving that for. Okay. I was wondering what we were doing with that. We're not burning down the Airbnb. Thank you all for all of you folks who are sending me boot ideas. I'm going to use them. And somebody suggested the SEC tournament. That's a great place to wear. Perfect place to wear. The SEC tournament. Nashville. Come on. And we'll start being there more than a day now. Certainly. Certainly hope so. One person writes. I know what. What Drew could have gotten on emblazed into his hat. Earn not given. Oh, man, that would have been great. Just up. They save you bring it back. They'll do it for you. So. Well. Yeah, next time we're in Vail. Yeah. We got to go to Salt lake. All right. 859-280-2287. While we let the candle burn. Let's go. The phone. Who's up next? Adam is up next. Adam. Go ahead, Adam. Matt, don't you already have like a curse burning candle somewhere on your desk at your house? No, this one is. This one's official. This is an official candle. Yeah. Matt's lilac candle is not going to get rid of a curse. My strawberry cinnamon candle is not. It's not good for getting rid of curses. Hey, how excited are you all that when you hit Utah that the speed limit goes up to 80 miles per hour in state? I don't Follow it wherever it is. So you're a cowboy. Yeah. But yes, I am excited. By the way, this drive we're about to come on. I appreciate the call. This drive from Vail to Salt Lake is a beautiful drive ride. You guys are going to really enjoy it today. What was beautiful yesterday, going, coming from Denver out here to Vail, going through the mountains. It's just a different part of the highly recommend to people if you've never driven this interstate through Colorado from Denver. It is an absolutely beautiful, beautiful drive. Like it's a part of America that there's no other place like it. I. I was watching in my rearview mirror, Mario, just looking out that you loved it, didn't you? Yeah. You just look because you've never seen anything like he was just looking out the window like a little cat. Like really happy to. Happy to see it. It was really cool. I mean it's just very picturesque. It's like a postcard out here. The snow. I think I've always driven through in summer mountains. It's really beautiful out this way. It is, it is. I think after last night I'll probably be seeing a lot of the back of my eyelids, but it'll be, it'll be a good drive. You. Yeah. We were talking about in that Jeep Wagoneer. Ryan, you can get going and you don't even realize how fast. Smooth like it is a smooth drive. We got up to like 95 and it felt like we were just barely going. We don't have to admit that. Yeah. Drive safe, Kentucky. D.J. wagoneer gets downhill. Buckle up. Put your phone down. That's. That's just the cowboy mentality. And you don't know that. I mean, you don't even know what speed is anymore. He's living live in the fast lane now. That's right. That's right. Well, you see me on my horse. How fast? Who's up next? Jerry is next. Jerry. Go ahead, Jerry. Hey, Matt. Yeah. As we were talking a couple times before, as much as I really want to see him turn around next year, this, this just feels an awful lot like 94 after Curry had that 1 in 10 after the bowl season. He just never got the locker room back and never got it back. And one of the things that just drives me nuts is the offensive line actually regressed this year and you're going to bring Wolford back. Yeah, there's no question. Right. I've not heard that anywhere. But, you know, that's the crazy thing is they kind of blame the issues on the offensive line. From when he was here two years ago and didn't develop, you know, backups then. Now we're suffering for it now and he's still here. I don't get that. Well, and the other thing an article read, I don't know how true it is, but apparently when Storm was sick and passed, his graduate assistant was really doing a lot of the offensive line and the players and everybody wanted that graduate assistant to get the offensive line coaching job. And Stoops didn't do it and brought his buddy Wolford in and that guy went with Sumrall and now he's the offensive line coach at Tulane and has one of the best offensive lines. Can you speak to me? Question? You would know Evan McKissick was the, was the assistant under him and he was very well respected. The guys loved him, absolutely loved him. And he, yeah, he went to Tulane with some role. He actually went to Murray State for a year and then went to Tulane with some Rollins. And I know, honestly, like, I hang out with a lot of O line guys and when they were talking about potentially summer or coming back, literally the first thing they said was, mckissick will be back. That'll be awesome to see him. I know they love him a lot. Obviously Slyman was great. So. So do you agree with Jerry that maybe that should have been the coach? Yeah, maybe. I mean, McKissick was a. Was a great dude. Knew his O line staff well, respected amongst the team. So, yeah, sure. Who's up next? Sean from Austin is up next. Sean from Austin. It's hard if you had the coach in the room, the right guy, and you don't have him. That stinks. Sean from Austin, go ahead, Matt. I'm loving that hat, man. You're rocking that thing. It's a good hat. You need to just wear that thing on the plane and come on down to Austin for a while. Yeah, there you go. All right, go ahead. I'm not worried. I'm not worried about, you know, Stoops in the program. It's right where it needs to be and he stoops like when that Louisville time ended, the gas got turned up to about medium high and Stoops is standing right in this. So either two things are going to happen. He's either going to get hot and we, we know he's already talked to other teams before and you know, past, you know, past behavior predicts future performance. So he'll do that again if the water gets too hot or it's going to make him even tougher. And make him a better leader and it's going to make him a winner. So I'm hoping for the best for him. But if it goes south, he's going to pop smoke. He's going to. It's all going to take care of itself. I do agree with that. Like in my opinion, Ryan, next year it's going to be over one way or the other. Meaning like he'll either lock himself in and be rolling or he's going to have to go. I said that though last year about Cal and Cal was for a while looking like he was going to Drew, try to be stubborn and stay no matter what. If we were to go 4, 8 next year, there's no way Drew that Cal. The temperature is already the temperature. But it was very hot for Cal before last year. I appreciate the call. It was. It just. What's different about the football and basketball is in basketball, the online community was not as hot as the regular community. In football, the online community is hotter than the regular community. It's just very different. And with basketball, I mean, this season was very disappointing in football. But just by the nature of the sports, football doesn't set you up to have an Oakland or a St. Peter's those two are just, were just unforgivable. Those were horrible losses. Losing to Vandy sucks and this year sucks. But football just doesn't put you in a spot to lose in the first round where everyone just knows this is over. So there are still some fans that are still on with Stoops because he hasn't had his Oakland or St. Peter's moment because it just doesn't put him in that spot. Back to back four and eights could be that. And then I think it would be that. That's what I think a lot of people are afraid of. It's going to be more of the same if with this season, football season next year and now we got two sheriffs that can run him out of town. I mean, you're right. Yeah. They're going to send you, Matt. That's. That's a responsibility you're taking on. I mean, it's an osha. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Do you know what that means? Yeah, you shoot from the hip now. That's exactly right. Did you get a feather in your cap, Drew? Did. I got two turkey feathers. I wasn't doing a feather. 859-280-2287. We will take a break and be right back here in beautiful, beautiful Vail, Colorado. It's Kentucky Sports radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-774-5254. That candle is hanging on for dear life. Just a blue flame. Here's the thing. If it. If it takes itself out, that means the curse is gone. No, it doesn't. It means the curse won. That's true. Because the curse overpowered our lives. It said 30 minutes. If we get to the end of this segment. We have 30 minutes. It was. We started it at 15. If we get to the end of this segment, then it's okay. And we. And we beat it. Well, just be very confident. DraftKings. Go to DraftKings. You can make your wagers. Last night I put a nice little wager on the Tide and they won. So you go to DraftKings and use my promo code. KSR bet $5. Get $150 from DraftKings. Please gamble responsibly around the state. 1-800- gambler if you have a gambling problem. DraftKings place to go and get your bets on. We will have a special for the Kentucky Gonzaga game. The SEC went 142 Ryan in the SEC 8 ACC challenge. Problem was we were one of the two, but so was Auburn, who's probably the best team in the conference. So at least we had some company as Auburn law. Yeah. Arguably the two best teams in the sec. The two highest ranked teams in the SEC are the two teams that lost Tennessee. Two. Tennessee's gonna be number one next week. Yeah. Kentucky could have been number two if they'd be Clemson. Yeah. Good teams win in the SEC ACC challenge. Great teams lose. That's what they say. Yes. Yeah, that's true. If you've beaten Clemson, Gonzaga, you've been probably number two. Yeah. Doesn't really matter. But it's not fun being one of the two teams that lost in the entire event. Auburn, Duke game was good last night. You. We were talking about that Duke crowd. Shannon, you were impressed by the Cameron crazy. Yeah, we were talking about that. How just great that atmosphere is there. You were telling us about all the times that you used to be able to get tickets because you would finagle your way in. I think in the three years I went to Duke, I went to probably 80 to 90% of the home games, cheered against them every game. And they lost two games while I was there. They lost to North Carolina when Duke was one and Carolina was two and I stormed the court and they lost to Maryland with Juan Dixon, Steve Blake and those Guys, the year they lost, won the title. Those are the only two times I think they lost. When I was there. When I was there, they had Jay Williams, Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy, Chris Duhan, Dante Jones, Shane Battier. All those dudes were there at the same time when I was. Do you think Pope would take Kentucky into Cameron Indoor? Yeah, that would be great. That's what they need to do. I mean, the problem is the Champions Classic. But Drew, they need to figure it out where we play him. The Champions Classic one year, and then in the sec, acc, they come here we go there. That would be. I mean, first of all, it's great for us. It's great for college basketball to have its two marquee names play each other. It would be. It would be a huge event. They need to make that happen. I think they'll find a way to do it. It just lines up perfectly because you have two off years in the Champions Classic. Just slide those games in at least once where we could play Duke consecutively, have the. The home away in a neutral. Do you agree we also maybe should get rid of Michigan State in the Champions classic and put UConn in there? Well, UConn is definitely. If they call it a Champions Classic, they're. They've won the most championships in recent years. So I think you would have at this point, if you put UConn in with them, the four best programs. I mean, you know, Duke and Kentucky have not performed at that level. But historically, you know, I think. I think that would be the way to go. How do you have that conversation with Michigan State, though? You're like, hey, I know we've had this for 13 years now, but. You're out. Yes. You say you're out. Be that hard to do? Yeah, you're out. Yeah. When's the last time you won a championship? Put them in the CBS Classic. Here's what I would do. Take us out of the CBS Classic, Take Ohio State out of the CBS Classic, put Michigan State and Tennessee in there, and then let them have kind of a Triple A Classic. Drew asked how you do it. I mean, you guys are cowboys now. You got to have these hard conversations. They could send you two there, and you could just let them know, look, I'm just glad Matt didn't ask me or you to break down into the basketball last night. We weren't exactly Tom Izzo, by the way. When he's gone, maybe that's when you do it. Right? Yeah. Throw him under the bus. Yeah. It's a good Time to do it. Because he's the only reason they're in there. You're gone. Now we're gonna. Now we're gonna. By the way, Ohio state lost by 30 to Maryland last night. We better win that game, boys. Creighton one. Creighton beat Kansas. That's true. But we got to beat Ohio State next year in New York in a couple weeks. Absolutely. And I. That I think it'll be a good UK crowd because Ohio State's focused on football. I mean, it won't be a great crowd. They'll have a playoff game that day. Yeah. Wow. I mean, it's a little close to Christmas, so I don't know how crowded it'll be, but it should be mostly blue in there. Yeah, that's a good point. They will have a. Ohio State will have a playoff game that day. No one's going to that game. They don't care at all. No one. Who's up next? John is up next. John. Go ahead, John. Hello, Matt. How you doing? Doing good. Yeah, Dana Dane probably will go to a, you know, a team that's got. He's got more of a chance to help his stock when he does go to the NFL. And what time. What day is the remote for the Louisville game next week, Matt? So, yeah, the Louisville game remote. We will be at Beer Nose in Southern Indiana next Friday. So next Friday we will do the day before the game. It's a little early. Normally that's a little later in the year, but the game's earlier. So we're doing it February 13th. That Friday. December 13th. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, sorry. December 13th. Correct. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah. And volleyball tonight, I think UK should be number. Number one seed or number one or number two seed instead of three. I know they had a rough early season, but U of M got number one seed. Yeah, but they Kentucky played. Yeah, Kentucky. I appreciate the call, Ryan. Kentucky played a lot of really good teams in the non conference in volleyball. They just didn't beat any of them. Yeah, they strength of schedule, it definitely helped them, but it also helped them then prepare for the SEC when the SEC play started. How's our candle looking? Hanging on for dear. It's got six. It's got five more minutes. Five more minutes, Candle. Five more minutes. Mario, start our bath. Water got five more minutes. That candle wants to go out. Don't get too close to it, Mario. Yeah. Don't breathe. You know what happens when it goes out. If it goes out, Poth runs. Yep. We'll go buy the soap. I'm in. If it goes out, we gotta sacrifice somebody. I agree. That's what she said. Who's. Who's up next? Peggy is up next. Peggy. How are you, Peggy? I'm good, guys. First of all, it breaks my heart that my buddy's leaving uk, but. Are you talking about Danky? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But I can understand where he's coming from. So I will have to be a partial Georgia fan because of him. And only because of him. Except for when we play them. But you were talking about shoes. Get you a nice pair of comfy dress shoes to go with your hat. I see it all the time. I'm from Chevyville. I see it all the time. Guys wearing dress shoes and cowboy hats. Max. Max disagrees with you, Peggy. That's not gonna do it. I mean, you're either in or you're out. Yeah, it will. Yeah, it will. Because I. I'm around. I'm around four people. You ever seen John Wayne come off a horse with dress shoes? I mean, come on. Yeah. No, but I'm around horse people all the time that do it. That's right. And Peggy, he's from Australia. What could he know? Yeah. People that were wear nice jeans, pair of nice dress shoes, and wear cowboy hats. That's the thing. You got to wear jeans, too now. Sweatpants and cowboy boots. I have really nice jeans back from the days. I appreciate the call. When I was on hey, Kentucky, and a guy called me up out of nowhere. He lived in Dayton, Ohio. And he said, matt, really like you a lot. Love Hay, Kentucky. I watch it online. You got to fix your clothes if you're going to be on television. And he was like, you, You. And he. And he was right. And he got me tailored clothes, and they look good, and I still have them. I just don't have reason to wear them ever. But now I will, because we need a stylist for the show. We look like a bunch of bums. I would love to really do. I would love to have a stylist, but the only person know in Lexington that is a stylist is. Is Todd Lanter. And I'm not gonna allow Todd Lantern. He has great style, don't get me wrong. But I'm not letting Todd Lanter. I, I. I cannot look in the mirror and let Todd Lanter style me. I have to have someone else do it. He does. He does look sharp. Yeah. You don't need. I'm a cowboy now. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Peggy said she hangs out Horse people, Peggy. We are the horse people. Yeah. Correct. I'm putting all of the Lexington horse community on notice. I'm going to get a vest. Stop. You all need to bring it down. Where do I get spurs? Who's up next? You don't need any spurs. You need spurs. Cut yourself on the leg. Go ahead. Ray is up next. Rick. Like that one. Ray, go ahead. Right. Hey. Yeah, this is Ray sometimes from Australia, and Max, maybe. What do you think about Blundstones or RM Williams boots for the cowboy hat? There you go. Yeah, no, no, that. That falls in. I'll allow RM Williams. They're like a cowboy boot, man. Okay. Yeah. I got a Stetson, by the way. People are asking what brand. I got a Stetson. I think that's good. I don't know. That's the one that. Yeah. Junior used to wear. Yeah. Good. OJR. Appreciate the call at the restaurant. Oh, dang. No, go ahead, Go ahead. Yeah. Hey, Max, I was wondering when you got the pod, that they have any lamingtons there for you the other day. Yeah. By the way, for people. I appreciate the call. We went to the Australian restaurant, the Waltzing Kangaroo. We realized first of all that the song Waltzing Matilda, that. I knew it. Yes, you did. And we sang it. Walt, sing Matilda. Walt sing Matilda. You come a waltzing Matilda with me. And he sat and he watched as he waited till his billy boiled. You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me. We knew that. I don't know. I have no idea how I knew, though. I know that. I honestly don't know why that's in my brain. Tim and Taylor are really worried right now with that rendition to eat Australian food here in America. It was not. Honestly, like, you think I'm talking this up because it's a radio show, Ryan. It meant a lot that I could go there. Just felt like you're back home, like when you don't get to go home very much. It meant a lot, so it was awesome. You've only been home. Tell people. I don't think people realize this. How? When? How many times have you been home Since COVID I've been here seven years. I've been home three times since COVID I've been home one time. I did not go home for four and a half years. I didn't see my family for four and a half years. Like, that's a lot. It is sad. And you got to eat a pie, and I got to eat a beautiful meat pie. There was no lamingtons to answer his Question. Which was sad. The guy behind the counter was Australian. He sounded like. He was like true blue Aussie, which is an Australian saying. He had a very strong accent. Stronger than mine for sure. But it was awesome. It was great. Thank you, Ryan. You're welcome. What about the old guy in there? He was a little grouchy. Also from Austin. Oh, the Vietnam vet was just mating, everyone. Hey, mate, mate, mate. You all would have liked this. There was a guy with a Viet that had a Vietnam veteran hat on. And so I guess, you know, again, being ignorant. Yes, Being ignorant. American. Clearly he's an American, right? And then he starts going, mate. And I was like, oh, you're Australian and a Vietnam veteran. He looked at me like, of course, you idiot. Matt said, did you all go to Vietnam? I did not say that. We sacrificed our lives just like you guys did. I didn't say that to him. I said, yeah, it's very. It was very cool. You got to be with all your brethren. It was nice. Good food, too. Clayton and crew was founded on simple idea. All leather goods should last a lifetime. They make bags, wallets, belts and more. And they're doing it right here in Kentucky. Check them out. Clayton and crew.com crume.com or visit their flagship store on Shelby street in Louisville. 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Wonder why that is. Wonder why they have the worst air quote quality in 50 years tonight? Aliens. I don't know. I mean, that's a good question. To be fair, we just went through Nebraska. That didn't smell very good. It did. We're ready. Look at Mario over there. Mario gets nervous when I say things like that. It's gonna be just wait. I mean, it's not gonna be any worse in New York City. We'll give you an oxygen. Say it's tonight. Salt Lake City's air quality is the fourth worst of any city in the world. Like, only what's going on in Salt Lake City? Bangladesh, and a couple places in China. Who's ready to breathe in pollutants? Yeah, let's go. Come on. So that's weird, isn't it? You feel like Salt Lake City in the mountains. You feel like that'd be clean air. Don't you think you would picture it as one of the most beautiful cities in the United States? And now you're telling me that I can't breathe when I go there. They say we can't breathe. Who's up next? Free bird is next. Free bird, how are you? Hey, what's up, all you cowboys, man. Safe travels. Hey, listen, not a downer, but right. Ryan has got to go get a sleep test to save his life and all your alls. He don't realize it because they told me when I snore, there was. I didn't breathe, like eight to ten times one night. And it would help you. Just looking out for you, Ryan. You need to go get checked, dude. And what do you think about that, Ryan? Oh, I can just repeat. I had a sleep test. Apparently, I don't stop breathing. I just snored through my allergies. Boy, do you ever. I could hear you through my wall last night. I'm gonna give you a little secret, Ryan, I've been doing when we go to these hotels. Yeah. You know, I put the hotels all in my name, and normally they try to give us three rooms next to each other. I get your room and then I go, can you put me down the hall? Because I've had multiple nights where I was in the room next door to you and could hear you through the hall, through the wall. So you've had that happen, haven't you? I don't want to make you feel bad. But last night Max and I heard you at the bar. That's why we were late getting home. We just wanted to stay out as late as possible, knowing what we were heading towards. Appreciate it. Free Bird. Who's next? Jason is next. Jason. Go ahead, Jason. Hey Matt. The OG of Florida State looks like he's getting replaced at Higgins Haggins. Stoops and him work together. Any chance Stoops brings that guy in the uk and any scuttlebutt on wide receivers coach have not heard on either of those. I assume Bush Hampton's back. I don't hear any re. I mean Stoop said it. I don't have here any reason to believe that he's not. Does anyone else? Nope. No, I expect him back too. Yeah, I expect him back. So I don't know. By the way, Max, tonight is your night with Ryan, so. Perfect. I'm ready. Yeah, let's go. No, I didn't know the OG the with that Florida State guy for the defensive line. If that would be a possibility. Hope so. Appreciate the call. I mean I'll take anything that will make us better because I need some good news over the next couple weeks. Cash is gone. We're ready to go. Yeah. Good. Next thing you know we're going to get, get, get everybody. Who's up next? Sam is up next. Sam. Go ahead, Sam. Hey, I have a suggestion for something you all to do tonight in Salt Lake. Okay. You can go over to Park City and over the think it's Soldier Park. You can go down the Olympic bobsled track in a four man bobsled. That would be fun. We would kill ourselves. But I would assume they, they like. You have to have some sort of skill to do that. Right. You have an Olympic driver. You got three people in the ride along. That would be. Riding along. Yeah. Cool. A lot of fun. Yeah, well, I'll look into it. Time will be difficult because we got a little bit of a haul to get there. But maybe tomorrow after the show. That would be fun. Oh, it's one of the greatest experiences I've ever had. And they have the ski jump. You can sit and watch people ski. I've done that before. I appreciate the call. When I was in Calgary, ski jumped. No. Yeah, right. Could you imagine that? No. I watch it and watch people do it. It's amazing. We did have something kind of interesting we saw yesterday. We were walking the streets of Vail. We went to where the snow slopes were and at 3, 3 o'clock. Shut it down because we're starting to get dark, dark here. So. Yeah, yeah, a lot of ski like this is ski country. People walking down the street with their ski boots on. Yeah. But you a interested in that anymore? Let's go to the rodeo. Let's go to the bar. Let's, let's go talk to some sheilas. Let's just, you know, let's just do the cowboy live. 859-280-2287. All right, so let's talk about what's ahead tomorrow. We're in Salt Lake City. If you're in Salt Lake, send us a message. Me, Ryan, Drew, whatever. We'll let you know where the show is going to be. It's probably gonna be at the hotel where we are, but we're still looking Saturday. There's a bar two blocks from the arena where we're gonna do the pregame show. I'm working with them right now. I'll announce that tomorrow. They have space, but they only have space for like 75 people in the upstairs where we're going to be. But they also say they could be downstairs, so you'll want to get there a little early. But we're going to do the pregame show there. I think there's going to be Drew, a lot of Kentucky fans in Seattle. I'm expecting a huge crowd. I mean, anytime they just get play on that side of the country, you see people flock to be a part of it. And I think it's going to be a lot of blue in there. We are just kind of like at the little past the halfway point. Fun trip so far, Ryan. It's flown by. I can't believe it's Thursday right now. What happened to the other days? So is that a yes. Yes trip? Yes. Yes. Good. Mario, have you enjoyed your first trip? All right. He's enjoyed the fireball. A little calmer tonight. You know, Salt Lake City. Just, just hope that menu isn't inspiration. Hey, thanks to Tim and Taylor. Yeah, you've been great hosts here in Vail. We will see you tomorrow. This has been Kentucky sports radio on the road to Seattle. We'll see you tomorrow. The flavor, the tradition and the spirit of carne asada lives on at Del Taco. Join the asada today with Del Taco's new limited time half pound chipotle carne asada steak burrito packed with sweet, spicy and smoky flavor. Wrapped up and grilled to perfection. The whole carne asada, a steak menu delivers the bold flavors you crave with epic burritos. Loaded fries and street tacos starting at just 2.99 only at Del Taco. Wake up at Holiday Inn Express to a can't miss breakfast that's free with every stay. 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