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I don't know what it is with these kids. I was saying, like, you know, he's, he's taken me into like learning a whole new world of types of people. Shannon. Yeah. And the, you know, they put their camera right in your face. That's right. Gotta be camera ready at all times. Camera's always on. They put it right in your nostrils. Like if you have nose hairs, the world's got like, can you back that camera up just a little bit? He's like, it's a vibe. He goes, that's a, that's a vibe. And I'm like, the vibe is showing every blemish on my skin. I don't know if that's the vibe, but that's, that's the way my vibe is normally. You know, the further away you are, the better the vibe, right? Yeah. For me at least. I don't know about you. Yeah. He likes it to be right up in your face, right? Well, I guess when he's doing videos, you need to get close to get that audio. You can hear what, you know, get the audio a little better. I think we got a clip on Mike we can use. Yeah, we just, I think we could just back up. Just, just, just a hair. 859-280-2287 all right, so Kentucky and gets G. Kentucky and Gonzaga play on Saturday. The sprint is not out yet. That'll come out probably sometime this afternoon. Gonzaga blew out Baylor by 40, looked like a juggernaut. Then they lost to West Virginia and were down 15 most of the game, which was kind of weird. Beat San Diego State, pounded them at San Diego State. San Diego State then went and played well. So they've looked great in every game except West Virginia. So maybe that was just a fluke. How do you see it going on Saturday, Drew? I think it's going to just be a fun matchup because Gonzaga is always at the top in point scored this year. I think they're averaging 91. I don't know the exact rankings at this moment, but you know, UK is right up there with them. I think the two styles are going to be a lot of fun and make it a good high scoring game. You think it's going to be a ton of points? I think so. They play. Pope even said this. They play a little like Clemson inside, they're a little stronger. Rebound. Well, they got some dudes down low up and down and their dude. I feel like their whole team, we know them all. I mean we played Gonzaga last year. You got Hickman. Hickman who was committed to uk. People forget that we're facing a former what's the bigs name, the grandma. I think it's pronounced ek, but it's spelled like yes, he killed us last year. Yeah. Then they added Battle from Arkansas who played really well Kentucky last year. All these guys average between like 11 and 13 points. This, the scoring is pretty spread out, but a lot of familiar names that we've seen in games before. Mark Pope said. Ryan after the gate said in his press conference yesterday, I'm more confident in this Kentucky team after the Clemson game than I was before. And his argument was they got down seven, they were getting out, worked out, rebound out, everything. And yet they still came back, took the lead and it was a one possession game with three minutes to go. Do you agree with that attitude? Are you more confident after the Clemson game? I'm going to take the last two games, the Western Kentucky and the Clemson game where they didn't have their best Shooting night. So they had to find a different way to claw their way back into it. You know, they did it against Western when they weren't shooting very well and they really did it against Clemson. They didn't win the game. I think Gonzaga is probably going to try to take a page out of Clemson's book and maybe try to be physical with Kentucky if they have the guys to do that. Gonzaga also shoots a lot of three point shots, so I think it's going to come down to who's whose shots are going down from behind the arc. Yeah, Gonzaga. Talk about being fiscal bullied us last year in rup. Now granted it was a completely. Not one player is the same but they bullied us in RUP last year. I mean it was. That was probably Kentucky's outside of Oakland worst performance of the year last year and then we kind of got run against him two years ago up here. We haven't played well against them yet in this series. Yeah, it's going to be interesting because obviously you're going to have to see Mark Pope make some changes and maybe he saw some things and worked some things out in that Clemson game. Some guys we talked about maybe playing more minutes than we expected and it'll be interesting to see the changes he makes against Gonzaga to combat, you know, getting beaten in rebounds, not being able to score efficiently. So going to be good to see the changes. Lamont Butler, according to Pope, his issue, his ankle injury is quote, a little bit of a problem. Said he didn't, he didn't have an update on whether he would play. You know, we always usually have a conversation about who's the guy. Kentucky can't lose. I'm kind of under the opinion after watching this, it's Lamont Butler. I mean, I don't think they can lose him if he doesn't play Saturday. Can we win? You can. I mean we know with how Kentucky plays, they get hot and just start throwing them in. They can beat anybody. But I would think Gonzaga would be favored. We clearly already seen the effects of losing the ankle coach too. Yeah, yeah, because that matters. That's a good point. If we had the ankle guy, Shannon, none of this would be happening. I feel like by this time last year we already had at least a dozen turns. They came back like within minutes. He's a breed now in Houston. So who's our ankle guy this year we went. We don't have one. We didn't get a good one. There was only hubby is our ankle guy. We don't need an ankle guy. We'll be fine. But yeah, to your point, without Lamont Butler, I don't feel good about their chances. He's the guy that really put the team on his back against Clemson, even though they didn't win. He was the guy that made it close. I thought we were okay there at point guard with Kerr as the backup. We saw he just didn't play well against Clemson. I still think he's got some better basketball team. I think that was a one. No, I don't think he's always going to be as bad as he was. But if you told me, for instance, Lamont Butler was out for the year, I would say we've got to find a way to turn Robinson or Oway into a point guard. Like, I don't think you could go into the season with Kerr as your starting point guard and expect to make a real run just because he's too inconsistent. And maybe most importantly, he just can't guard anybody. I mean, he's. He's not a good defender. Williams would put his hand up to be able to, you know, he could dribble a little bit more. I'm sure he'd be happy. I know. I don't want Williams. I want him dribbling less, if possible. All right, let's go. More Travis Perry moving forward. No, Mark Pope said you will see more Travis Perry if he doesn't play. I mean, that's throwing him into the fire against Gonzaga on the road. But there might be a chance if Butler's out. You see some Travis Perry tomorrow? Well, when Kerr was out in the preseason, Travis was the backup point guard and played a lot in some of the exhibition games. All right, let's do our state football championships. I'm going to go in order of the games. Okay. All right, so it starts at noon today on these radio stations. It will start right after we go off the air. Raceland vs. Sare, private, public, Rich, you know, Mountain. All going at each other. Raceland and Sare. Raistlin was a lot of other people be at the bar. But Sare has a group of people we know really well. This is like the two facets of KSR personality. Raceland or Sare. I think the Chad Pennington, his program that he has put on his back and turned into something special. They finished the undefeated season and get the. Get the trophy. Drew chooses Rich. This is a tough one for me. I wear my Raceland Rams gilligan hat, you know, like every day during the summer. But Josiah played 7 on 7 with a lot of these kids on Sarah. I know him well. I'm going with Sarah also. Who's the rich team again? Sarah. Yeah. They pay for all their players. I'm going Sarah. That's not nice. What do you got? Coming from impoverished high school myself, where we, you know, we struggle to make it by each day. I'm going to go with Raceland. I'm going Raceland. Take the first of all, Raceland. How should you abandon them, Ryan? They've given you T shirts, they've given you hats. I got. They come to the bar. Yeah. How can you in this time of need, how can you in this title, how can you throw them away? Because they're not coming to the restaurant this year. And I think the Sarah people will keep coming back for. That's why I'm going with Sarah. They spend more money there. They spend more money there. Yeah. I'm going to take Raceland. I think maybe the best game of the whole thing is the second game today. Beachwood and Owensboro Catholic. This should be a battle. Max. I'll let you go first. This is the division your team played in. You lost to Beechwood in the semifinals. Who you got? Yeah. It hurts that we're not there. This one kind of brings a tear to my eye. We should be there right now instead of sitting here in Salt Lake. But that's okay. I think Beechwood's a really, really good me. Both these teams are good. I think Beechwood so good, they got four dudes that can fly. So I'm on Beechwood. Yeah. If beach was good enough to beat Max, how can you not say they're going to beat Owensboro Catholic? I've got Beechwood. I've been saying all year, olds broke out, may have the best player in the state, though Brady Atwell, their quarterback, may be the best player in the state. So I'm going Owensboro Catholic. Going Owensboro Catholic. That radio show, they're going to break the curse of going 05 and Lexington at KSBAR this year. I'm disappointed because Owensboro Catholics started to think KSR is bad new, bad vibes. And that's not true. But they still, when they play, that's the best crowd we get. KSBAR for a high school team. So I got to go with Oldsboro Cackle Radio. All bathed together to get rid of the curtains. Maybe they did. Yes. Franklin county and Paducah Tillman. Who you got? Paducah Tillman, Franklin County. Sneaky good. I think they're undefeated. I mean, they are really good. Paducah Tillman got a kid. A lot of kids can't traver from Chattanooga. You throw that in every time. You have to throw in a shot at them about Chattanooga. But one of their top kids has committed to uk. I'm gonna go Paducah Tillman. There's a Chattanooga Paducah Pipeline. Paducah Tillman. Paducah Tillman might have spent more money in the portal than Kentucky this year. Paducah Tillman. I'm gonna take Tillman. Union county. Never been to the state finals ever before playing the Fighting Earl Joneses of Christian Academy of Louisville. Who you got? Christian Academy of Louisville got beaten by the better Christian Academy of Lexington this year. So I don't know. I'll take Union county in a big upset. Give me Union county as well. Man, Union county, they're a wrestling school. They're not a football school. I'm going Cal and Earl Jones. Boo. I'm gonna have Travis Perry beating Gonzaga and Union county winning the title. It's gonna be great. How can you not love a school that's never been there? It used to be awful at football. Built themselves into a program. I've picked against Earl Jones every round, and he writes me angry. Earl, I'm picking against you again. Union county takes the victory. Trinity against Raul. I don't know what Rouse is Row public. Yeah. Okay. Trinity. Ryle going. Ryle. I'm going with Trinity. Yeah. Give me the Louisville school. Trinity. Raul's really good. I'll take Ro. I wouldn't pick Trinity for anything. I'm taking Ryle. Well, you're going to lose if you go back in history. There's a common theme. If there's a Louisville fan that's an awful obnoxious person to me, he went to Trinity almost universally. There's a lot of good people at Trinity. I'm just saying. Y'all produce the ones that are the nastiest. So I'll take Rob Cooper and Bowling Green. Bowling Green for me. Give me. Give me Bowling Green. Two good quarterbacks. But Cooper's got a really good quarterback. I go Cooper. I'm going Bowling Green. I'm going Cooper. I think that quarterback's great, right? He's. His name is Cooper. Cooper hanging with Mr. Cooper. So give me Cooper gets right. I may end up getting every one of those games wrong, but that's okay. Who's up next? Mike. Mike. Go ahead, Mike. All the games, by the way, will be on the big screen at ksbar. We cannot get him to work on any other television. So if you come to watch the games, make sure you can. Listen, we do what we can. We're not there. I'm doing the best I can. You do, but they are. Will be on the big screen at KSBAR for every game except when Kentucky plays Gonzaga Saturday night. What's next? Mike, you with us? Oh, hey, guys. Yeah, I'm here. Yeah. You kind of stole my thunder with the Travis Perry thing. I've been having a hard time being convinced that Kirk Crease is that much better than Travis Perry. But anyway, Matt, as far as the SEC goes in basketball, I. It. It looks to me that the SEC has just decided that they're just going to be good at everything. That's true. I think they're. I think they're about. Yeah, they're. They're by far the best basketball conference this year. I don't think that's going to be an outlier. I think most. I don't either. They're going to be a good conference. They. And it's the best coaching I've seen probably ever top to bottom on these teams. So they're totally agree. They got the money to pay guys. But anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Appreciate the call. I think you hit it. The SEC has made the decision. I can tell you. There was an initiative by the conference commissioners, or excuse by the. By the conference ads. They said we're going to take the four major sports which. The way they look at it in college athletics is basketball, football, women's basketball and baseball. And they said we're going to make the SEC the best in all four sports. And I think they've done it. They've always been the best in football. They've always been the best in baseball. They have in recent years become the best in women's basketball. The only thing left was men's basketball. And I think they're there. I mean, this. You could make a strong argument that the SEC this year is the best it's ever been in basketball. Say that there are 11 teams ranked right now. 11. And one of them isn't even the school. John Calipari coaches. Right. So throw them in there. That's 12. You got 12. And then you got a team like Vandy, who's not ranked, and what, 8 and 1. 7. 8. 1. Yeah, 7, 8 and 1. I mean, I'm not sure any. But South Carolina is probably the only team in the conference that's not very good. And even they beat the ACC team they were playing only one team in the conference has three losses. Everybody else is in South Carolina. Yeah, one or less. I think this is Ryan, the best it's ever been. This year is a gauntlet. I think every time you win a game on the road you should throw a party because I think this is going to be the hardest it has ever been in the SEC. I think the SEC is going to get 11, maybe 12 teams in the tournament. This is by far the best it's been from top to bottom. I think since I've been around and there's going to be probably the winning team may have four losses in the conference, the first place team have three or four losses. This is the SEC has decided we're going to be the best at everything. Yep. And they've done it. We played a game in the car yesterday of just messing around about like where you'd want to go if you were a five star quarterback, whatever. And we all said, you know, if we were the best point guard in the world outside of Stanford, we're going to the SEC outside of Stanford. That's exactly what you would do. We'll take a break, be right back Here in Salt Lake city, this is KSR. It's better over here. Now at T Mobile get four 5G phones on us and four lines for $25 a line per month when you switch with eligible trade ins. All on America's largest 5G network. Minimum of 4 lines for $25 per line per month with auto pay discount using debit or bank account. $5 more per line without autopay plus taxes and fees and $10 device connection charge phones via 24 monthly bill credits for well qualified customers. Contact us before canceling entire account to continue bill credits or credit stop and balance on a required finance agreement due bill credits end if you pay off devices early. 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Yeah, unfortunately we need a few more. I was going to nominate my good friend Miles Butler Masters in accounting finance. You know, former player would be good. By the way, one thing I want to say. Well, because let me read this comment first. The woman says, matt, it looks like you might have been right. You were the first person I heard say that the person who shot the healthcare CEO might have had a family member not have coverage. Some are suggesting that's correct. Now to me, that was the only reason I could think of you would shoot the CEO of a healthcare company. But I will say this. I'm extremely, extremely disappointed in people that I otherwise think normally would agree with on this idea that like there are a lot of people, Shannon, celebrating this dude getting killed. That's crazy. It's unbelievable to me. Like, have we just become so deranged about our beliefs that we're like going to root on. Listen, the American healthcare industry is. Got a zillion problems the way, I mean, I could go off on American healthcare system for hours. But none of that justifies killing a man in the street for walking in a building and being like, well, I don't like the US healthcare system, so I'm going to start assassinating people that, I mean, people who claim to be have good hearts and all that, saying, I can't believe the people I see saying that. I've seen a lot of people online saying the same stuff, celebrating this man being murdered. And I don't know this guy, I don't know what his morals were. But either way, I don't want to ever celebrate somebody just getting shot down on the street here in our country. If you. I'm gonna be very careful. I say this because I don't want to. Like, you know, there are things that are happening by that, you know, which side I generally tend to lean on. There are teams that happen on the other side that very much disappoint me and I. But when we then become doing the same stuff, then what in the world's the point? Like if this whole world is just going to be, I don't like you, I don't like you, so I'm going to kill you. I don't like you, so I'm going to kill you. Like we're just going to descend into madness. The idea that you would celebrate a dude walking down the street and getting murdered, to me, Ryan, is awful. I don't care. I don't care what his job is. It's very sad to know that that's happening. You know, violence is never the answer. This dude was somebody's husband, somebody's dad, somebody's grandpa. Probably. You know, there's still. It's. There's people putting the other health care CEOs putting their pictures up and where they live like that. That's terrible. I do healthcare CEOs make too much money? Heck yeah, they do. Do I think people get like, you know, pay for insurance and get screwed? Yes. You don't go shooting people in the streets. Like, come on. Yeah. I mean, just cold blooded murder right in the middle of New York City. And I'm with everyone here. The reaction's been a little surprised. I've been amazed at otherwise seemingly normal people. Yeah. Like you're saying, well, I'm not gonna mourn for him. I'm gonna mourn for the people who like. It feels like I'm in a matrix world where people are celebrating murder on the streets. It's shocking. But further point of that, though, if you walked around BYU's campus with some of the smiles that you see, it would be impossible to find a serial killer. They've just all got serial killer smiles. They all drink milk. I saw them all. They were all drinking. All of them just had this fake weird smile where it's like, you've definitely killed someone. You've killed someone. You've killed 10 people. I don't know that we should say that about an entire game. They were very nice to us. I'm wearing a BYU shirt. They were very nice. You think they were to the Winter Ball? Mario was walking around, just getting invited to events. He was? Yeah. I wonder if they thought he was a heathen or something. Like they just kept inviting him to church prayer groups and all this. And we did ask some, like, serious questions. Like at the Chick Fil a, do they have Coca Cola, Pepsi? They did. They did. Because I didn't know. Yeah, I didn't know if Mormons could drink caffeine, but apparently they can because they had it in the. In the co. In the McDonald's. And the chick Fil a. The Diet Coke's like a. Like a gray area there. I think Diet Coke is a gray area. Is it? Well, they sold it so well that I just did on. I did on field reporting, like brewed tea and brewed coffee. Oh, wait a minute. You can drink cold caffeine but not hot caffeine. Wow. Interesting. Interesting. I didn't realize. I didn't realize God cared whether it was hot or cold. But don't he care? Hey, don't nuke it. God will. God's watching. Do not put it in the microwave. Who's next? Blandon Blandon. What's up, Blandon? Hey, Matt. Hello. Happy safe travels to you guys. And I got two really quick things. Number one, one of you guys posted on social media, the big wow out there. Byu. That was beautiful. I think. Yeah. Should take that down and put a picture of Shannon with the belt draped over his shoulder. Oh, it's a great idea. And then number two, that was really. That was really beautiful, by the way, the BYU up against the mountain right there. I thought that was very, very cool, but go ahead. Well, I think it'll look better with a picture of the only real world champion. And number two, I wanted to ask Max if he thought Linda Kozlowski on Crocodile Dundee was hot or not. Hot or not. One of the things you don't know. And I appreciate the call, sir. You hate being asked about Crocodile Dundee about more than anything. Is that right? That and Kangaroo Jack. But you brought up Crocodile Dundee when we were talking about the hats. Yeah, well, I knew that that's the only movie people associate with Australia. So it's the only way you can get your point across. You've never really. Never really liked that. I want to give you just a example of sort of parts of this drive. That drive from Vail to, like, is it Green River, Colorado, where we got off the interstate? I think so. That drive got to be one of the most beautiful drives in America. Yep. I mean, it is up there. That drive from Vail to Green river, where you're going through the Rocky Mountains and the mountains and the cliffs around you is beautiful. But we had a little time, so I was looking, trying to figure out something we could see. And I saw that somewhere through there were the remnants of the 1970 Wichita State football team crash. Everybody knows the Marshall team crash, but a lot of people don't know that the Wichita State football team crashed. Like 51 people. Only 10 people survived. Right. The part of where the crash is is in an area that is so hard to get to that they have basically left most of the remnants there of the plane. Like the pieces of the plane, the things that were on the plane. And so you can go to it. It's like an hour and a half hike. I didn't really think this group was up for it, so we didn't do it. I could have done it, but. But apparently it's one of the only, maybe the only scene in the United States where a plane has crashed and it's kind of been left like it was. So pieces of the plane are still all over the place. And I was like, it is so odd in our society to think there are places in this country that are so hard to get to that only a handful of people have ever in the history been there. And that where that plane crash is one of them. You know, we went through some really remote areas where it was hundreds and hundreds of miles of nothing but land. Then we went hundreds and hundreds of miles of nothing but mountains. But think about. They just left the stuff there. They were like, it would be too hard to get all of this stuff out there. They just left it. That's kind that. I don't know what it was about that story, but that was really crazy to me thinking about as we were driving through. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. One person says Mack, I would call Max the crocodile punter. What does he think about that? Yeah. Awes. Someone had made a graphic of that at some point. Again, let's just leave the Australian jokes alone. You just don't. But you just don't like it. I just hear it all the time. You do hear it all the time. I've been around you a lot. Every time you say Australian, somebody says kangaroo or good day, mate, you get it. Boomerang. You get a little annoyed by it. Yeah. It's not the greatest jokes. You said you had something you wanted to say. Oh, you said you got a text. I got a text, actually, during the break. It was from your beautiful mother, Karen. She said was just listening to the segment about the plane crash and how remnants are just left in places and never picked up. My mom, she said, well, actually, that reminds me of Matt's place. When I walked in at Thanksgiving, I found 200 Diet Coke bottles that have just been left in places that apparently are just really hard to throw out. That's so Karen, thank you for that text. That was. My mom did not say that. That is. That is very rude on your part. I was just saying a minute ago, there's a guy here from Prestonsburg and he brought his girlfriend, and I guess she's from here in Utah and she's very beautiful. And I said, prestonsburg, eastern Kentucky. Spitting game everywhere. Ryan Lemon. Once you get Prestonsburg out in the world, you can't stop it. You don't. There's something about the magic and the charm of the boys in the mountains. That's right. And he comes to Utah, he's still got the Prestonsburg mustache. Like he Still, I love it. You keep. You do that. 15th region all the way out here in Salt Lake City. There you go. Prestonsburg. Pig and a poke, right? Taking a poke at Prestonsburg. Yeah, that's exactly right. 859-280-2287. Who's next? Torrey? Tory. Go, Tori. Hey, good morning, fellas. How are you doing? Good. Thanks for asking. So, Matt, I called. I called a couple weeks ago after the Texas Longhorns on the post game show. I was pretty upset. I'm typically a podcast listener, and I was listening to yesterday's show on the drive to Louisville right now, and I know I called Stoops. I said he created a culture of oops. Like, weaponized incompetence. And I heard the story about the GA that supposedly, according to Max, the entire line respected and liked. And I know Stoops is a gut guy, and it just seems like a gut check to bring that guy in and kind of keep that going because it's hard to earn the respect of your O line, and he did that. But maybe Stoops is more of a liver guy and. And the GA just didn't fit in to Bourbon on Rye as much as Eric Wolford would. So. Yeah, listen, I have to say, and I appreciate the call the. I. There is a. There's a trend online of a lot of people because they don't like Stoops coaching and don't think Stoop should be the coach for football reasons, which I think, while is a completely valid point, there is a trend now to try to destroy them personally based on the stuff. I think that's a terrible trend. These. I will say this, and I've said it a lot. These are human beings. Okay, yeah, they're coaches. Yeah, they're paid a lot of money. But, like, the way people are talking about, especially Mark, I just don't think it's fair to him. You can totally believe that Mark shouldn't be the coach at Kentucky. I think that's a reasonable opinion. I think it's a reasonable opinion to think he should. But I. There's this trend to kind of like, let's just destroy him personally. And I think that's a terrible trend. You know, and I. It's not. It's honestly, to me, not fair. Those. First of all, a lot of the stuff said is just false. But secondly, like, what. What is your point? What is your point? You know, ultimately, he's going to be the coach at Kentucky, and even if he were to leave, he's been the coach at Kentucky, what are you trying to do? So, Drew, I. That thing that is happening with it, with the coaches. Do I think there were times in the past that those dudes have made mistakes? Yes, I do. Do I think that then just deciding, let's just ruin them. That's. That's the behavior that you don't want to get. Because this is. You guys are. People are treating this. This is sports. This is not. Ruined people's lives. Yeah. And I didn't talk about this with Max. You just see it start to snowball. Like, I saw someone post a picture that was really old, but they tried to present it as current, as if. Well, there's people posting pictures all the time that are from, you know, two years ago, and people are like, this is what it was the night before the Louisville game. Like that. That's. That. That's not fair to me. They're just trying to create a narrative to bring him even further down. I mean, he's in enough hot water with how the football season went. I don't feel like we have to make things up to just try to make it look worse. 99% of the time, this Kentucky fan base is the best fan base in the world. But when they turn on you, they can also be the worst. Especially if you're the coach for, you know, football or basketball, because you're under that magnifying glass. It's not fair to them personally. It's not. I hate it when we do it to our politicians. We do it to our actresses, our singers. Man, you know, you like him or not? Is he a good coach or not? It's got nothing to do with. He does in his personal life. Yeah, I mean, we talked about it before with the CEO. I mean, you comment all you want about his football coaching, whether you think he's good or bad or whatever, but. But I just think leave the personal stuff to the side and just be the better person. Let's do some DraftKings. You go to DraftKings. You can bet five, win five, $150. Let's do some college football. Big time game picks. All these. All these games for the conference championships. All of them are surprisingly, really close spreads. At least a lot of the big ones. I'll go through on the ones on Saturday. Iowa State, Arizona State. Arizona State's a point half favorite. Big 12 title. I'll go Iowa State. I go Iowa State. We just went through Iowa. I feel very connected to the state of Iowa. I'm going Iowa State. Let's hope if Arizona State Their fans. Don't rush the field too early and let the game be done. I'm going to say Iowa State as well. We're. Look at this. Almost. You take Arizona. Yes. All right, so one for Arizona State. Let's go, Clemson. Smu. Smu, a two and a half point favorite. We're just. Are we doing the spread here? I'll say Clemson covers that. Then I'm going Clemson. Smu. Smu. I can't stand Clemson winning. I can't stand Clemson either, but they're going to win. I'm taking Clemson. My pick of the year is Oregon over Penn State. So give me. Oregon's a 3 1/2 point favorite. I'll bet everything I got on Oregon. Yeah. Which means bet Penn State. I will not put money on James Franklin whatsoever. Any team against Pence, Oregon. Money lines are better than that. He never wins the big game. This is a huge game. Oregon. I was about to say Oregon until you called it the lock of the century. I'm going Penn State. No, I think Oregon's not going to go through undefeated. I think Penn State actually wins this one. Three, four o'clock tomorrow. Georgia, Texas. Texas a two and a half point favorite. I like Georgia, by the way. I'm doing a Clemson, Oregon, Georgia parlay. Who do you like? I'll take Texas. I can't bet against Georgia ever. I gotta go Georgia. SEC is so even. It's so hard. I mean, you can't beat two teams. You can't beat a team twice. To me. So Texas wins. All right, there you go. That's your DraftKings picks. Who's next? Josh? Philip. Who cares? I got Philip. Go ahead. I'm just kidding. West, West, West. Yeah, Western place tonight. Go ahead. First time, long time. Who are. If you guys leave Salt Lake, are you going across the lake? Are you going to come up through Southern Idaho here? Yeah, we're coming up. So that's a good question. We were going to stop in Boise tonight, but there was a group vote. We're now going to a place called La Grande, Oregon. It's big. We're staying in La Grande, Oregon. I don't know where that is. I don't know one thing there. Never heard of it. If any of you know anything about La Grande, Oregon, let me tell us. But to get to Seattle in time for the pregame feels like that's what we have to do. So. No, we're going north across to La Grande, Oregon, which means the big Legrain, Oregon. LaGrange. I live in southern Idaho. Yeah. Okay, never mind. So wait a minute. You all pronounce grande grained legrand. Yeah, legrand. So they just decided just take the e and not pronounce it? That's a very organ thing to do. Well, we're KS. Bar and grill with an E on our grill. So it's true. We're not grill A. Shut up. Go ahead, sir. Yeah, there's a casino there. I think that's about the only thing. All right. And the best Western. What else? Never mind. Now, I know what we're doing. Fair enough. And there's a lot of construction between, like, Burley and Jerome in Idaho. And the Idaho State Police don't play games. So max speed. So we don't have to worry about 84 below. I'll try to keep it 84 and below. All right. Thank you for the advice, sir. Yeah, thanks y'all. See you later. Appreciate it. Appreciate the call. Today is an exciting day for me, though. I will say, well, when we cross the state line in Oregon. I will have been to 50 states today. So I'm very excited. We're gonna pull over when we cross the state line. I'm gonna take a picture. This will be my 50th state. The last state that I've ever, never been to. Or we'll cross it in today and get to Oregon. And I will have been to all 50 states. I'm very excited about that. We gotta celebrate. How many people have been to all 50 states? Any of you all been to all 50 states? You have? Nobody? Anyone? I don't know how many people in the country have done it. But I will make that. That will happen for me today. Do you get, like, a certificate from the Supreme Court or the Supreme Court, you think? The Supreme Court. Chief Justice Roberts sends out congrats. It is here by decreed. You've been to all 50 states. You should get some sort of award. You should. I agree. Why don't they give you one? I don't know. They need to get out and touch the ground. Say, you know, set foot in Oregon. And I think tonight at the casino. I think we're partying tonight. This is a big party. Reason to party. I wish they had number 50 on the roulette table. We could have put it down. Yeah, that's true. I'll put. If there's something 50, I'll do it. Dinner's on Matt tonight. Dinner's been on me the whole trip. I think dinner should be on Matt. Thank you. That's a good way. Hey, if the relief valve on your water heater fails pouring gallons of water in your basement or you have an electrical shortage in your office, you might have a major damage. Go to ServPro, the one shop stop when disaster strikes. 1-800-servo. That's S E R V P R O.com 1-800-surf Pro no matter what happens, we're here to help. It is ServPro. Hope you don't need us, but if you do, we're there. 1-800-Surf Pro franchises independently owned and operated. We'll take a break final segment before we head off to Seattle. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. 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Yeah, you need your cowboy hats, clothing optional hotspring and I know. Just let us know which one. One person writes. Matt, do you count flying through a city as having been in a state? No, no, no, no. You have to have actually spent. I go even further. You have to have spent some amount of time walking the city. I'm not gonna say you have to spend the night, but you have to have been in the city, kind of moved around and then that's fish. And I, I would say I've been to 45 twice, but I haven't. I've only been to. I've been to Alaska twice. I've only been Hawaii once. There may be one maybe Montana once. But I'm gonna, you know, then we're gonna be once. I but you have to, in my opinion have to have Shannon walked around and be there for it to count. Well, we're gonna do it tonight and best western. You ready for it? Don't tell people. I've already booked it for us. Oh, did you? No. There's not a whole lot of places to stay in La Grande. I mean we might need some company. Yeah, we casino will have rooms. That's right. 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Ricky. Oh, Ricky. Before we go real quick, Ricky. Let me say real quick. Tomorrow. Okay, Tomorrow for the pregame show. We have, we have found a place for it and since I can't find it right now, you go ahead and talk, Ricky, and then I'll have it after the call as first time caller who are. You know, there's a couple things I'd like to say. First, I want to keep it real for Kentucky basketball. I've been taking fans that I need high to a grasshopper. I take the acc. I think we finished fourth or fifth. First and second is a tie with Auburn in Tennessee, Alabama, Stern, Florida, 4th and 5th, 6 to 16. Pick your team. And I got a question for you, Matt. Which team do you think can go 8 and 12 or 9, 11 sec and win and get it into the big dance? Well, we only play 18 games. Yes. You could go 8 and 10 in the SEC and make the tournament. Depending on who you beat and who beat you and what you did in the non conference, you could. This is a year, Ryan, where you could have a losing record in the SEC and still make the NCAA tournament. Yes. It doesn't happen very often, but I think this year the FCC is so strong it could happen. This is the one year now you have to get some wins against the good teams in order to do it. But Drew, I certainly think it's plausible. I agree and I'm looking forward to, you know, the SEC tournament matters again had mattered in a while. Of all the years, the teams this year, this would be awesome. You, if you want to go to an SEC tournament, this is going to be the year. They're going to be teams playing on Wednesday that are multiple teams that are really good. First of all, eight teams play on Wednesday this year. Yeah. Not just four, they'll be 18, ninth to 16th. There will be multiple teams, Shannon, in the NCAA tournament, playing on Wednesday of the SEC tournament. This tournament. This conference is just going to beat up on each other. I mean, that's going to be like you said, a lot of teams that are really good, that have a lot of losses in the conference. That's just the way it's going to be. And cowboy hat will be on, right? Cowboy hat on. I'll sleep in. Look out Nashville's gonna get a lot of cowboy hat. I'm gonna have my shoes by then. It's gonna be ready to go. All right. Buckley's is the name of the place. So for those of you in Seattle, Buckley's, which is apparently two blocks from the arena, Buckley's on first Avenue will be where we are doing the pregame show tomorrow. It will start for those of you listening at 7:30 Eastern. But that will be 4:30 in Seattle and we are going to be in the upstairs area. So there's an upstairs and a downstairs. We will be upstairs at Buckley's in Seattle for the pre game show. So come on by. And we might even be there for the post game depending on the setup and all that. All right, who's next? Skyler. Skyler, go ahead, Skyler. Dean Davis, shout out to Cole Bramer. Hey. Hey, guys. I usually call into the post game show. I had a friend bring up something we the kind of theme of your second hour has been the dehumanization that we often see on display in culture and we have seen with the coaching staff. I had a friend bring up a good point about what Stoops has walked through in the past several years that might maybe ease some of the fan base. I mean, he's lost John Schlarman. He's dealt with relational turmoil interpersonally and he's lost his mom. And I just wonder what the role of. Totally wonder what the role that's post that what you just said. And I'm glad you said that in four years he's lost one of his best friends in Schlarman. He's gotten a divorce. His kids are on, his kids are on the other side of the country and he just lost his mother. That's tough. That's a tough thing. Now that's not an excuse. That doesn't mean you can't criticize the coaching, but it also means I would say give the dude a break personally. Just give him a break. That's all I'm saying. Like I, I think that the criticize every one of the things that happened with Cal is he took professional criticisms personally. I thought there was no reason to do that. But I was always very careful to never criticize him as a person. I would always say he's a good guy. And I generally think he is a good guy. I would say to you when it comes to Stoops, make all the criticisms professionally you want. Make all the criticisms about culture and all that. It's all valid. And if you think you want him replaced, also valid. But he lost his mother. He had a divorce. I know the man misses his kids. He lost a friend. He's had a lot of stuff happen to him back to back in a few years. Just give the dude a break. Personally, I think that's not too much to ask and in reality, those things are more important than a football game anyway. You know, you lose our mother, it devastates you for a while. Yeah, it is. So, I mean, Max, you know him better than any of us. I mean, absolutely. It'll be. I mean, the criticism be water off ducks back for him. I mean, he kind of puts on a brave face. But I agree. I mean, I don't know why you would only get personal with people. It's sports. I mean, yeah, it's a game. It's SEC football. Clayton and Croom was founded on a simple idea. Shannon. All leather goods should last a lifetime. They make everything from bags. You like bags, don't you? Yeah. You like belts, don't you, Ryan? I love belts. You like wallets, don't you? Wallet right now. You like much more, don't you, Max? All the best they're doing right? In Kentucky, It's Clayton&Croom.com CRM.com or visit their flagship retail store in Louisville, 216 Shelbyville. Shelby Street. In Nulu, it's Clayton&Croom.com. you could get one for Drew for Christmas. I'm not gonna get it for Dre. I might, actually. I've gotten Clayton. Yeah. Quickly. Favorite memory of our week so far. Pizza Ranch. Pizza Ranch. The very first place. Okay. No, I really enjoyed Vail. More than one should, actually. I'm still feeling it. Vail, to me, is the highlight. Just walking the streets of Vail that night was really cool. I'd have to agree. That's the best trip so far. Best. Best part of the trip so far is that night in Vail last night. I went for a little walk around. I actually really enjoyed the peace and quiet, watching people ice skate, the Christmas lights around here. It was beautiful. Beautiful, I'm gonna say. The crowd that came to watch the game in Fort Collins, where we just had 45 people show up on Tuesday and then look at this in Salt Lake. This great crowd here today, it's been awesome. Thank you all very much. You will hear from us next. 7:30 Eastern in Seattle. 4:30. Plan to go watch the game at KS Bar Saturday night. We'll see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio. 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