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We are in Salt Lake during what one person a few minutes ago at Chick Fil A said was the most polluted they can remember this city in 10 years. You go outside, it's just a haze of pollution, but it's otherwise a very beautiful area. And Ryan Lemon, excited to be here for our first is this our first show? We were in Moab, certainly our first show ever in Salt Lake. It's time ever in Salt Lake. And it if you can see the mountains behind the smog, I mean it's beautiful. This is a beautiful area for the smog. It would be gorgeous. Gorgeous. That's exactly. It is. I've been here before. This is one of the most beautiful backdrops of a city that you can find. And Drew Franklin, we got here, you guys went out, stayed, did your thing last night. And the group's running A little ragged, but we're ready to go. Yeah. We had a lot of fun in Utah. I know it's not Salt Lake, but I enjoyed popping through byu, saw their canvas. Yeah, Provo. We went to Provo, Utah. Went to BYU yesterday. I'm wearing my BYU shirt today in honor of Mark Pope. You talk about another beautiful campus with that football stadium with the mountains behind it and the Y sitting there, and every student with a perpetual smile on their face as if they're being programmed to do it. It was wonderful, Shannon. Yes, it was a great visit there. And I got up this morning and went for a little jog. I wanted to breathe it off, tell everybody where you jog to. So Shannon is in Salt Lake, home of some of the most beautiful Mormon. You know, history. There's mountains, there's everything. You got up at 7:00am to 6, 7:00am our time, probably 5:00am 5:00am yeah. And you ran where? Well, I just wanted to, first of all, breathe in all the pollutants out here. Wanted to take them all in. And then the. The filming location for Halloween 5, the Michael Myers house, is just two miles up the road. And because somebody is being a jerk and won't drive me two miles there, I decided to get up this morning and run. So you got up this morning. Jogged to the scene of Halloween 5, which was a terrible movie, by the way, but I've already been to Halloween 1, 2, 3, 4 is also here somewhere, but 5 was right up the. So I figured, you know what? When in Rome, you might as well go check it out. I tried to get Max to get up and run with me this morning. I'm sorry. Yeah. You wanted to skip four. Why? Well, four is farther away. It's like six miles away. I'm a four mile guy. Yeah. I should have got up. I'm sorry. I apologize. What's there? You told me somebody lives in the house. They do. It's just a big mansion, which is a really cool house from the movie, you know, and so here's the thing. When you got there, what did you do? I took a picture and I came back. Here's the thing. We've been in a car for six days. None of us have had any exercise. We eat like crap. I figure, you know, it's better than a treadmill. Better than a treadmill. Why not go out and check out some scenes? All right, well, so we. I'm glad you did. We got here, we went to the BYU campus. Then last night, I gave Max the opportunity. I was like, you can Pick wherever you want to eat in Salt Lake. I don't know what Salt Lake is known for, food wise. I couldn't really think of anything. So I said, max, just pick something. And you have to be the first person in the history of the United States to say, you're in Salt Lake. Let's eat Cajun food. That's what they're known for. And we went to a Cajun restaurant. And I have to say, it was very good, but it was a surprising choice. Well, let's rewind a little bit. We. We talked to Vince Marrow. He seemed like he was in a hostage situation. I felt like yesterday in the car I was in a hostage situation. I did actually give us a recommendation. And you just said, no, we're not going there. What was it? You just. Well, you said ramen, and I stopped eating ramen in college. I don't understand the whole idea of eating like ramen's like supposed to be 45 cents in a. In a little thing. Why people pay $20 for ramen. Shannon, I'll never understand. I'm not a ramen either. I mean, all pigs are equal. Some pigs are more equal than others. Animal Farm, I mean, this is just one of those things. I spoke up and I just got shut down. It's one of the few things I can cook, though. You just throw it in the mic away with a little water and there you go. Maybe I'll. I'll learn more about it, what I learned, but we've had a lot of fun. Let me give a couple of updates because there's a lot going on in UK football, et cetera. We'll get to it. Two good stories though, before we start, or one good story because the UK Basket women's basketball team lost their first game last night at North Carolina. Fell behind early, never were able to come back. So just like Kentucky, they take their. The men's team, they take their first loss in the ACC challenge. But the women's volleyball team, Ryan, wins their first round the NCAA tournament against Cleveland State. They will play Minnesota on Saturday in the second round with a chance to go the Sweet 16. I saw some. A couple pictures to look like it was packed there last night. A lot of Kentucky fans went and support the volleyball team, which has become this super superpower team in the conference. That's right. The high school state football championships begin at noon today. The KS Bar will have a lot of high school fans coming in and out over the next couple days. You guys, if you're coming up for the state Tournament from anywhere. Please come see us. We'll make our predictions a little later in the show. But, Drew, you and I first have to express some feelings, I think, to our friend Mario over here and maybe some discipline and to each other, apparently. Yeah, so. So Mario, you know, Mario is. Has been a great addition to the community. Wouldn't everybody agree? And Mario is somebody who. He's learned since he's been here to try to get the best out of ksr. Wouldn't you say that? Like, he. Like, he films us, he takes pictures of us, tons of videos. He posts videos. He tells us, like, what challenges to do. Like, he's. He's kind of like he's getting the next generation in a chaos. Ksr, like those kids right there, they'll become KSR fans because of the stuff Mario. Absolutely. Mario does. So, you know, yes, we. We did the. The thing yesterday. Usually when the show's over, Mario and I quickly talk and go, what are the segments that might make good online content? Yeah, right, right. And I said, you know what? Us talking about the hats might be good, I think, where we bought the hats. Etc. So Mario said, yeah, that's it. And he creates a 2 1/2 minute video about us buying the cowboy hats. I made the mistake. So Mario now has posting privileges, Drew, Where I don't have to check the video. When we first started, I had to check the video. Now I trust Mario's judgment. Maybe a mistake. I don't know. On this one. On this one. So I saw the video, and this is on Twitter, it's on Instagram, it's on TikTok. It starts with me talking about buying a hat, talks about Drew buying his hat, what made us both do it. And then we say, we're both cowboys now, but you have to get about a minute 45 into the video to see Mario inserts pictures. And Mario inserted a picture that someone had made that made Drew and I look like we were from the movie Brokeback Mountain. It has. It has Drew in a cowboy hat standing behind me with his arms over top of me. And he puts it in there for a good drew. 10 to 15 seconds. Shannon is showing the picture right now. This is show and tell. He put that on the video that was clearly made by somebody trying to make fun of us. And it's not the best picture, Drew. When I saw it, I was like, why did Mario put this in here? I don't think there's any reason for Mario to put this in here. What were your thoughts? Well, like you, I Trust Mario with my life. So I didn't even watch the video, and I just started hitting repost on all my apps. I wanted my people to see it, so I. You went ahead and retweeted it? Oh, yeah. Instagram. Yeah. And then brought to our attention at dinner what happened in there? And Mario was very clueless as to what. All right, so let's put the camera down here for a second. Actually, sir, I'll tell you what. Will you film this? You can be a guest filmer of this because I want Mario to be on here. Ryan, give Mario your headset for just a second. Mario, come in here for a minute. I appreciate you, Mario, but you decided, for reasons I don't 100% understand, to put that video up. Why did you put that video up? So typically, how I, you know, work after the show, I go through like. Like comments. I look online. I'm looking for pictures. It's called B Roll. I'm looking for B Roll. You're looking for B Roll? That's what they say in the industry. Yes. Yeah. To add content. And, you know, that was one of the pictures that popped up. I didn't really look too much into it. Now, when you say you didn't really look into it, did you not notice the sort of overall vibe of what that picture was trying to say? Drew is right behind me whispering into my ear. I have a smile on my face. It looked like you guys were close. I didn't look too much into it, though. You didn't think. Now, have you ever heard of the movie Broke Back Mountain? No, I haven't. You didn't know what that movie was? Never seen it. Never heard of it. So you didn't know the sort of, I don't know, inference that was to come from the movie? Nope. Not until I googled it at dinner. And did you think. Did you think about maybe Googling it before? So I just hope, you know, you have now, given the picture for Louisville fans, Tennessee fans, they're not even going to know that's fake, right? You've put that out there. It's out there now, guys. And the Internet doesn't forget. And the Internet doesn't forget. Do you think maybe in hindsight you could have used a different picture? I could have, but I feel like everything happens for a reason. So maybe. Oh, you think this was God? You think this was God's plan? It was like God's plan for you to put that picture out? Maybe. Maybe I felt like it was good content. Can I tell you what he said to me on the way up to the room last night, what's up? I said, I can't believe you put that picture in. And he goes, well, I Googled that movie. There's a lot worse pictures. That's right, Mario. It could have been worse. You're right. I would have hoped, Shannon, there wouldn't have been even worse pictures he would have put out. Yeah, I would have thought that maybe he would have understood what that was. I want to defend him, though, because I sit in the backseat with him as he's working on these videos. It took him three hours to put that two and a half video together. You work very hard, Drew. I guess we just have to live with this now, right? Well, there's no taking it back. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Mario, I do have a. I have a plan, an idea. Mandatory viewing for Mario in the car today. I'll give you my Kindle. I've already bought Brokeback Mountain for you. You had? Yeah. You have to watch it. You need to understand. So you know what. So you know what you did. I'll watch. And we want a book report. All right. All right. Well, Mario, I. I do love you, but I'm not sure that picture was the one to use. But I am proud of you on this trip. What have you been. Your thoughts of traveling around? We've done this many times. You've never done it. You had never been west of the Mississippi River. You're now sitting here in beautiful Salt Lake with all of these fans. What's that been like? Just talking to some fans. I was like, it's incredible. It's beautiful out here. Mountains. And it's like everywhere. Everywhere you go, it's a different scene. You know, you have snow on mountains, and then you kind of have like a Grand Canyon. Mountains. All different types of mountains. It feels different out here. The weather, the air feels different. But for the most part, man, I'm just enjoying the moment with you guys, you know, in the car. What's it been like sort of dealing with, you know, older, lamer white guys driving across the country? Nah, you guys aren't lame. You guys aren't lame. I would say you guys are all funny, to be honest. Yeah, it's always a joke that's going on, whether it's in the van or after a show. I'm enjoying it, to be honest. Just hanging. It's like hanging out with my uncles. That's five crazy uncles. There you go. Ksr. Hanging out with your uncles. Well, thank you Mario. Appreciate it. Take a break. We'll talk a big day at UK football yesterday and then of course UK basketball plays against Gonzaga. We are 12 hours from Seattle right now and be heading that way. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. 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I mean, he's been causing trouble now with his new he's new mentality and everything like that. It is a good thing we shipped at home. I mean, I've been looking for fights ever since I became a cowboy. We got 20 people here already. There may even be more that come. How about. I mean, big blue nation, right? No matter what we've had, this will be our biggest. I'm expecting tomorrow in Seattle. A lot of people at the end of the show. I'll tell you where it's gonna be. I would say the place is probably gonna be full, but 20 people in salt Lake City on, you know, a night's notice is pretty awesome. Yeah. I was gonna say we didn't put this Information out where we were gonna be till late tomorrow after yesterday evening. Yeah. Well, we had a good crowd in Windsor, but this is the biggest crowd of the trip. It's been the biggest crowd. And we're just here in the lobby. And I always like the looks of people going, why is. What is this? Yes. One person writes, matt, you sound so old. Modern Ramen is so much better. You need to learn about it. What is modern Ramen? Modern Ramen. Matt, you gotta give it the times, man. How is it different than old Ramen? I mean, I didn't type that. It's not just like the package for 10 cents. There's vegetables, there's meat in it. There's a broth. It's a. It's a. Sounds excellent. Yeah. Max, next time you should pay about 10 cents for. By the way, the volleyball team plays tonight. Tonight. It actually occurs tonight. So I said tomorrow night. They actually played tonight at Minnesota. A berth in the sweet 16 on the line. Remember, basically, all the best top teams in the country. Kentucky's played them all. Yeah. And with the exception of Nebraska, played them all really close. They didn't win most of those games, but they have a shot in this tournament if they get going to do something. Yeah. Craig Skinner's taking the approach he's going to play all these tough teams early. So where they're ready for this time of year now when they can make a tournament run. Yeah. One person writes, I need an update for Max. Give me the U turns and the overall Matt driving ability. Yeah. So we got to six. Matt described some of the U turns as tours, which Drew said. Yeah, detours. I'm not sure what he said. Some of them were forced upon him, which, again, it's just a U turn. He missed a couple of exits. I think we're at six. We're at two cowboys in love. What's our other two? One parking ticket. Yeah. We've been trying to keep as many talents as we can. I've got a theory on the pollutants. Can I share it really quick? Yes. Okay. So when I. Before I moved here, obviously, I knew a few teams, got over here and then heard of the Utah Utes. Okay. Yeah. The Utes in Australia is a truck. So I thought people in Utah, gee, they love trucks. So there's your pollutants right there. Everyone just driving trucks around. Ute is. Truck in Australia call them utes. Yes. Okay. I was like, what? And Utes here are nothing. Right. They're just people from Utah So well, maybe they should be trucks. Maybe that's what it is. What I thought it was last night Max was telling me all the things he thought about America till he got here and how wrong he was. Like he thought Stanford was a basketball powerhouse because they were good. The one year you watched though, I had so at Foot Locker I had four like teams that I could choose from. Don't ask me why Stanford was one of them but it was like Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina and Stanford and I'm like Stanford Christmas tree. I'm getting these shirts. You thought they were a power. They were a powerhouse. Well that's great. All right, so the football team. Let's go on over some updates. We talked about Dane Key yesterday. Barry on Brown entered the portal later in the day. Ryan, not a surprise. They came out last night. He's choosing between Ole Miss, LSU and Texas A and M. Yeah. Not no. Shouldn't be surprised about this. You know things just didn't work out well for Barry on this past season. They tried to give him the ball a lot early to get him going and it just never happened. But he would have some big breakout home run plays. What if he goes to lsu? I mean you got a chance that you could have Dane Key at Georgia. We go down there next year and Barry and Brown at Ole Miss who comes into Kroger Field next year. That'd be quite be crazy, wouldn't it? It would be crazy but you know Barry and I can see why he's looking at Ole Miss. You know with Lane Kiffin down there. These guys want to go where they're going to maybe get the ball which is what did not happen in Lexington. I'm not going to make you speak on this because I don't want to like I don't put you. You don't have to confirm or deny but we do need to talk about. There was a report Drew the Dane key turned down $800,000 to come back to Kentucky. Now whether or not he gets more than that somewhere else or not, that's a huge amount of money to give a non quarterback. I am fairly certain no Kentucky player that's not a quarterback has been offered that at Kentucky. Pretty amazing amount of money. Does that surprise you? Well one that surprised me that were able to offer that, that's that. I mean that's let from what I've known about Dane, he wants to go play for a team that can win a title. I get that but the fact that we're offering $800,000 to a wide receiver to say to stay says to me, maybe we have more nil than we thought. Yeah, it's not surprised that Dane didn't stick around. You know, he wants to go win. He's had three good years here and the offense just hasn't given him what he probably deserves. All the receivers. So I'm not surprised he wanted to try something new. But I am surprised we have that money laying. That's a lot of money, I think. I mean, this is just me speculating. I don't know anything. But you know, you turn around and Macklin's coming back. Maybe that's what's. Hang on, we didn't get to that point. I'm still making my point. I'm saying that 800,000 probably went to a lot of people and they're gonna help him out. He spoiled the answer. But I was going to say then they have Jeremy Macklin come back. You have to assume that he probably came back because some of that money they were going to give today and goes to him. I heard yesterday Anthony Brown Stevens who left was actually getting paid more money last year than almost anyone on the team except Brock and Barrion that he might have been our third highest paid player last year we didn't play Max, which is insane. He left. That may be one of those you say, will you go to free this money up if we've been paying you this and you didn't produce? Yeah. And I know some people haven't liked Stoops as answers in his press conferences, but he has alluded to the fact that they feel like they've got their Ducks in a row a bit more money to spend and throw around. So I'm expecting some big moves in the portal. It is funny though with how much money they have to spend on recruiting etc that like some teams just go after the guy that played good against them. So Barrion had that breakout play against Ole Miss where we just threw it deep and so they're after him. It's happened with us. Ray Davis because he dominated us with Vandy. Marquise Cox at the left tackle was really good. We played Northern Illinois the year before. They just go after the guy that played good against them. Like the year Brock Vandergriff even came in and played against Kentucky. Yeah. So Shannon, I mean I. This is just me talking and this may not be official, but kind of doing the math in my head during all that time we drive, I sit there and think. I think these are the five people that got the most money in NIL from uk it's not official, but just from what I've heard, I think it's Brock Vandergriff, Barry and Brown. Dumas Johnson, Dion Walker and Anthony Brown Stevens. You could make an argument that of those five, Dumas Johnson was really the only one who met expectations. Dion Walker, maybe 75%. That does free up a lot of money to go do something if they want here in the portal. Just something to think about. First of all, I feel like the entire team's leaving. Second of all, if somebody offers you $800,000 and you still want to go, to me, that shows you just how I think that's damning. To show you how bad the culture is for Kentucky football. 800 grand and you don't want to be there. Do you think that's damning? I think the perception is definitely damning, don't you? And I'll put another guy in there. Chip, train him. I think they gave him a lot of money last year. Chip train him. So that's six. So let's just say those are the top six. I think you can only say if you're just talking about last year and did. If these were our top six paid guys, I think Drew, only Dumas Johnson would you have said is one of our top six players. So we might have been paying six guys to be our top six. And we really got production out of one, maybe two, if you include Deon Walker and how you think he did last year. Yeah, Chip was a big one. I mean, that was an injury that's not really on Chip. But even Hairston missed a lot of time with an injury. I'm sure he was commanded a lot of money. You're your top players. Just you weren't getting a good return on that investment. I don't think last season, especially with the Portal guys. Yeah, your quarterback, namely. So it might be the case that, like how you spend this money, Max, maybe we got to get more efficient at that. Yeah. I think one of the biggest clips of the year came from college game day when Saban said, it's not how much money you spend where. You've said it in different ways, but it's not how much money you spend, it's who you spend it on. It's going to be super important coming up. The fact I didn't realize how much Anthony Brown Stevens was getting. Yeah, that's crazy. And if he was getting that kind of money to not play, I don't know. You know, I wondered with that one. This is me guessing again, but they did the big John Legend concert. Yeah. And I wonder if part of that John doing it was like, take care of my guy, because that's his. You may be right about that. He might have gotten a little legendary. You probably are right about that, honestly. All right, we'll take a break. We are here in Salt Lake City. Great crowd of Kentucky fans. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. A couple people who I think would have some insight on the. On the nil. Highest paid players, generally speaking. Vandergriff, Barrion, Walker, Anthony, Brown, Stevenson, Harrison, Cutter, Pop, Mincy and Macklin. Yeah, I'd say it's pretty accurate. And I think, yeah, Drew said Maxwell Hairston, Chip train him. These guys have got a lot of money. Just were hurt. I mean, of that group, you can make a strong argument. Only a couple of them really reach that potential. I mean, remember Mincey finished. He's in the top 10. And he finished his time at the concession stand. At least we know he had time to pay. Or money to pay for it. That's right. It's money. Poorly allocated, there's no doubt. Which is why we gotta have a GM that knows what they're doing. There needs to be, in my opinion, UK needs to make an announcement sooner rather than later. Later. You know, who is our gm, because I think Eddie Grant is playing that role some, but I'm not sure if he has total control or not. We need to know who is that needs to be a position. Ryan, do you agree? Drew, a position. General manager of Kentucky football. Here is who it is. Because honestly, people need to know when the wrong players picked who it was. I've thought since we've started nil, they needed in both sports, coaches. Their gift is coaching and now we have them handling contracts and how. I mean, most of them are. It's a different skill set. It's a different skill set. We've talked about this a lot. You look at baseball, you look at basketball. It's not necessarily people that played that do that stuff, right? Like it's people who understand math and all that. And I think, I think college sports is going to have to go that way. Who's up first? John Thomas. Thomas. Go ahead, Thomas. Hey, Matt, Listen, even though you hating on US Catholic schools all the time, we are descending on your place today from Owensboro because we're going to celebrate pregame a state championship. I hope you will. Owensboro Catholic, you guys always bring a huge Crowd to our bar. Hope you do it again. Your radio show didn't want to do it from the bar because they said it's been bad luck because they've lost every time they did it. But hopefully I know the fans are coming instead and you guys enjoy it. All right. Does the loss at Clemson eliminate any scenario where we lose close to Gonzaga and get a moral victory? Does that eliminate immoral victory potential for us? Yeah, I appreciate the call. I think Kentucky basketball rarely is going to get a moral victory ever. Ryan. It's Kentucky basketball, but if we lose to Gonzaga, I want us to win. Not the end of the world. Correct. It would have been nice to come out of this trip one and one. I still think we can, I think we can win against Gonzaga. But you know, here's the key. If let's say we lose to Gonzaga, we got to beat Louisville, beat Ohio State, then you go 112 into conference play, which is still really, really good. Conference play is going to give you a ton of chances to get good wins. You already have a good win over Duke. So it's not by far not the end of the world. If you beat Gonzaga though, and you go into conference play with a win over Duke and Gonzaga, hopefully having beaten Louisville in Ohio State, the Clemson loss honestly doesn't matter at that point, people forget about. That's right, you beat Gonzaga and Louisville, sweeping the power team that you play. Absolutely. And of the great teams in college basketball this year, only one is without a loss now and that's Tennessee. Everybody else lost. Everyone else. Kansas lost. Dukes lost twice. Gonzaga lost. Purdue lost. Last night for the second time. Gonzaga lost. You're exactly right. Auburn lost. Yeah, Auburn lost. Alabama's lost twice. I mean, like, you know, Tennessee's the only one hadn't lost. You don't want to lose games. Like losing to Clemson stunk, but he got so much goodwill to me beating Duke. Any concerns I had about how good can they be, that answered a lot. I know it was only the third game of the year, but that, that already made the non conference slate so much better. For me starting off like that, that the Clemson thing was just a little bump in the road. Totally agree with you. Who's up next? Eric. Eric. Go ahead, Eric. Hey guys. How's it going? So I know you guys brought up volleyball and how well they've been doing lately. They do actually play tonight at Memorial Coliseum, they play Minnesota. The reason why I bring this up is my daughter started playing volleyball this year at 15 as a freshman. So middle of the Season. Right after the Texas game, she said, daddy, can we go to some volleyball games? And I said, you know, I think, you know, UK's not been playing so good. Let's go to Eastern or something. Maybe it's a little cheaper. And she said, I've never seen UK lose life. And she. Hang on. Before you even get to the rest of it. Hang on a sec. I got. I got. So your daughter looked at you and said, I want to go see UK play volleyball. And you looked at her and said, going to an Easter gate Eastern game is cheaper. UK volleyball is like $8 to go to, isn't it? I didn't. I did. I didn't know, Matt, at the time. I didn't know. I just figured. I had heard that the Eastern games were really cheap, and I just thought in Eastern had won a couple of games, so I thought, well, let's go to Eastern. But no, she said, I've never seen UK lose. She said, if we go, they'll win. They've not lost a game since that Texas game. And we went to six of them. Father of the year, by the way. You won't even take your. No, he went. He went. I know. Finally. Well, how much. Just out of curiosity, how much was the Eastern game gonna cost? It was like eight or nine bucks, but we ended up, like, the first game. We went and sat, like, how much is the Kentucky game? Oh, I spent 50 a ticket to be, like, down on the front row, which was great. You really wanted a lot, I thought. But it's like eight bucks to get in, isn't it? You just. But you, like, you're one of those. You want to sit down front. I said, you can do. You can do. You can do general admission, which is like 89 bucks. But then most of the games here in the last bit of the season have been about 25 to $30 a ticket. If you want to be even in the second level. If you all have not seen a loss yet, I expect to see you there tonight and enjoy the game. Okay, well, I'm hoping to get basketball tickets this year because we've seen three cow. Stick to volleyball, all right? Stick to volleyball. Stay in your lane. I appreciate the call. You can't go to everything and think you're going to win everything. The good luck is only, like, in one sport. Two things. Firstly, volleyball should pay for that girl to go every single game. Yes. Secondly, though, I feel sorry for her. I feel like she's went to her dad and was like, hey, I really like Kentucky. Can you buy me something Kentucky for Christmas. And she opens it up and it's Louisville stuff. And he's like, well, it was cheaper. So there you go. I will note we've been to multiple stores on this trip. Multiple. You know, I've been getting hoodies. We've gone to multiple books campus bookstores where someone on this trip has said, do you have a discount aisle so I can buy Christmas gifts for my kids? Clearance rack is always great for Christmas. Kids. So guess what Josiah's getting for Christmas this year. Hey, Josiah, Congrats. Here's a BYU and Colorado State clearance Rack T shirt. He doesn't even like BYU or Colorado State. He likes sales, though. First of all, Utah. This was. This is what I love about Ryan Lemon. Ryan Lemon looks at me and says, josiah loves Colorado, so I'm going to get him a discount Colorado State shirt. I didn't see any Colorado shirts. We didn't because we were in the Colorado State bookstore, like where we went ahead and had lunch. I thought we might be a store there that might have sell Colorado. So I just went for Colorado. You know, Kentucky bookstore doesn't sell U of L stuff. True. All right. Did you hear the story, Shannon, about the guy that is wanted for shooting the insurance guy? How they now think they know who it is? No. Tell me. It's an unbelievable thing. He went into. Was it a bank? Starbucks. Starbucks. He was wearing a mask. In order to not people not see who he was. He went into a Starbucks. And I guess the woman that was making the coffee, she. I guess he was flirting with her. I mean, 20 minutes before doing an awful crime. Wow. He's flirting with her. He says she. I guess she said she kind of was flirting back. Obviously she didn't know he was going to go shoot somebody in broad daylight. She was kind of flirting back and she said, can you show me what you look like? And he pulled his mask down to show her that he was handsome. And that picture is now how they've identified. They've only identified him because of where he pulled his mask down to show the Starbucks woman what he looks like. How stupid. I mean, you know, when you go into any business, they're going to have cameras everywhere. Clearly, he went in to cover his face. Maybe he just got caught in a moment of weakness. No, he did. He goes to show you dudes drew lose their mind when it comes to women. Like, they lose their mind. He had planned this huge crime out. He had planned his getaway. He had done enough to escape everything. But he sees One girl flirt with him and he's like, yeah, I'll show her my face. It's the way it goes. Everything. He had planned what he was doing. You know, I'm not an assassin, don't plan to be one. But I, I wouldn't even be going to a Starbucks. No point A to point B and nothing else. What I was going to say is it like it shows more so that caffeine addiction is real. Like, at what point when you're planning your assassination, are you. Do you put Starbucks all the way there? It's like, well, that's convenient. There's a Starbucks halfway there. I'll just stop in, grab a quick coffee. Oh, cinnamon latte does sound good right now. Sounds like this guy's done this before though, you know, I mean like he's like, he's a professional. That's how, that's how they have the picture. They only know who they're looking for. The police commissioner said they would have no idea otherwise who it was, except they now have this picture of him. Starbucks. Do they not ask you for your name when they call it out? Like they've got his name now? That's a great point. Unbelievable. Hey, this Christmas give the gift of sizzle and delight. If you're looking for the perfect present for family, friends and co workers, how about the finest steaks and dry aged beef delivered right to your doorstep? It's no chain. Linda farms a huge variety of cuts. Ribeye, filet mignon, ground beef, hanger steak, skirt steak, Picanana Peak. Sound it out. 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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here in Salt Lake City. Walked around a little bit this morning so I love I do like this a really nice town. Like every it's a city but it also it kind of feels a little bit like a city but also a little smaller. Got we're right down from the Jazz arena of the Utah Hockey Club, which still. It's going to be the Yetis, right? Probably when they do it. Yeah. So I've enjoyed it here so far. We got great crowd here this morning and Kentucky fans, including a couple of Colgate fans who made the trip because their friend came. How about that? Kentucky plays Colgate next Wednesday. I have a mind blowing fun fact about Salt Lake City. What's your mind blowing fun fact? The first Kentucky Fried Chicken did not open in Corbin. Right. It opened in Salt Lake City. It's exactly right. First KFC is in Salt Lake. They say it was in Corbin. That was Sanders Cafe, but it was actually the exactly right. The actual first restaurant named KFC was actually here in Salt Lake. So we're going for lunch. I feel like we should. Two more folks here. Hello. How are you all? Also, I just want to shut down the whole Brokeback Mountain conversation. So don't go to my Twitter and repost what I just reposted because I want to shut it down and stop all these things being spread. So don't definitely do not go to my Twitter and repost the video. You know, you don't. We can leave you. As of right now, you don't even have a plane ticket home. Just for the record, Max, still, as of right now, you don't have a way of getting back from Seattle. I'm just making. You're about to take a permanent residence in Seattle? Yeah, I'm just. I'm just making. Making clear. 859-280-2287 One person says, Matt, if we had a GM role, what about someone like Randall Cobb? I know Stanford did the Andrew Luck thing and I think that's cool. And Andrew Luck is apparently like brilliant. So, I mean, he was like went to Stanford, graduated high in his class, so I get it. But for me, I want. When you talk about this level, Ryan, I want somebody who's done it right. I don't just want to take somebody because they're a famous player. I want somebody who's done it, who knows what they're doing. I'll take if Randle's very smart. I'm not saying Randle couldn't do it, but I would want to see Randle do it before I brought him in to do it at uk. Absolutely. Kentucky does play in the sec, the best conference in all of the world. You want somebody. I would look at some people who've worked in the general manager's office in the NFL and hire somebody like that. Totally agree. Go find our Jonah Hill for Moneyball right the guy, the second command guy. Anyone with something on their resume of just dealing with a roster and the moving pieces that come with that, moving the money around. Did we not have someone from Kentucky that was the GM at the Bears, Is that right? Maybe a couple years ago. Champ Kelly is a Champ Kelly. Yes. He was a older Kentucky guy. That's right. I mean, to be quite frank with you, if we hired somebody for this role, honestly, it probably should be a name that none of us even know who it is. Right? Like, it should be like, just. You know what I mean? They don't have to be famous. It has to be somebody who knows, you know, do the job. I'll tell a little behind the scenes. Max is like the Jerry Maguire of Australian punters. We've learned that on this trip. Yeah, he knows every punter he knows. Like, he has been on his phone half of this trip talking to punters about where they were going to go, talking to coaches about what punter should go where. You've been doing that. Here's my point. He is the mover and the shaker of Australian punters. And outside of Kentucky, nobody knows who he is. Shannon, that's because the real, if the real work is done by people you do not know in the shadows. In the shadows. That's exactly right. Chances are the person who should be our GM is somebody. None of us even know who it is. That's right. As long as you know how to balance a budget and allocate money, that's all that really matters. But yeah, Matt, Max is the pipeline to all punters. Like, if you want a punter, you call up Max. He's got you mean to these punters, too. He tells him. Like, Max will sit there and look at him go, you weren't good this year. You need somebody to tell you that, though. Most of them were. You need somebody to be honest with you. He told that one kid, you didn't work very hard this year when the coach was watching you. He also said, you can't call your coach a blank blank to one kid. That's very true. I thought it was pretty sad, honestly, when I heard what he called him. You shouldn't call your coach that. That won't work. A quarterback I could think maybe could get away with that. A punter, like, who do you think you are? Yeah, we won't say who, but a punter called his head coach a blankety blank. And I can't say either word on the radio and I'll just leave it at that. Who's next. John. John. Go ahead, John. So right now for UK football, it looks like we are not have. We don't have any plan to fix the old line because those guys aren't in the portal and only that you can fix it through the portal. Either way, when you say we have no plan to fix the offensive line, I mean, respectfully, you don't have anything to base that on. The portal's not even opened yet. So, like, you don't know who's in the portal. Like, and a lot of almost everybody that we would want probably is playing for a team that's playing for a bowl and they're not in the portal yet. Yeah, but it's more so you would have an outline for like, hey, this is a new regiment we're going to be doing. Because most of the O line issues we're having is due to leverage and poor footwork and there's not been any revamping or anything publicly saying, like, most big programs even have like a yoga program or something like that where you work on balancing. That's kind of what we saw with a lot of the tackles is that they were over leveraged and then they would be reaching for guys. But I mean, okay, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna argue with any of your critiques, but when you say they're not doing anything to fix it, how do you know that? I meant. I guess I should rephrase it. They haven't publicly came out with a plan and that would be for better or worse. That's not what this group does. Like, they don't really talk. And maybe they should. I'm not saying, but I'm just saying they don't, they don't really talk about that kind of stuff. It's kind of not the way he operates. For better or worse. Maybe he should, but he doesn't. Could you imagine that? Press conference with Mark Stoops. 20 minutes of just outlying the new O line. Drills like this is that we're going to put codes here. Do some downward dog ahead. Sir. Tickets immediately. What'd you say? I would renew my season tickets immediately. Fair enough. I appreciate the call. It's only been a week since the season's over, yet when these people say they're going to enter the portal, they still haven't because it's not open yet. I mean, Jeremy Macklin, if you saw on Twitter and on Instagram, Drew, he looked like he was leaving, like he was saying bye to bbn. And then he yesterday announces he's coming back. So there's still time for things to change. I don't expect the big guys that have announced they're leaving. I don't expect him to come back. But honestly, you never know. Yeah, the Macklin, it sure looked like he was leaving there. That exit interview must have gone well with Barrion and Dane opening up some more. Some more targets moving forward. Maybe a little more money, too. I think that completely flipped. And just meet with the coaches and those two going somewhere else. I bet he's. I bet he's the center point of the offense next year, don't you? You got to think with him and that they really like Fred Farrier and they really like Hardly Gilmore. You know, you got three good receivers you can build on next year and they're going to hand the ball over to Cutter. You know, that's something you can go with. Who's up next? Adam. Adam, 30 seconds. Hey, guys, two quick questions. One, what is the number that if I said we scored against Gonzaga, you feel good about us winning? Is it 90? Is it 85? I'd say if we score against Gonzaga 87, we win. Awesome. Awesome. Yeah, I know. We're almost like one and two in scoring. If I'm not incorrect there. Second question. Matt, is there any way you can, any way you can talk to your guys at ESPN about doing the sound the microphones like CBS did for their presentation? Yeah. 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