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At the end of next week's show, they're going to take everybody that signed up today and next week, put them in a hat. I'm going to draw it out. Floor level tickets for UK Alabama. That's pretty good. That's. That's good. Wait a minute. That deserves more than that. I mean, it's like UK Alabama. And when you see where these seats are, you know where these seats are, like, you'll never. Let me tell you something. Y'all will have never sat in better seats than these will. And heck, for that game, Top row would be a good gift. And you're telling me you get to. You get lumber? So then. So that's number one. But listen to what they're going to do today for the people right here. I'm going to draw a name out at the end of this, you're going to get to go at that table out there with the merchandise and pick whatever you want. And there's like, jackets there that are, like, 200 bucks, but nevertheless, that's a lot. But they're also just going to throw in $500 cash. Whoa. $500 cash. So one of you all is going to win $500 cash. And for those of you listening at home, you know, it's a nice crowd here, but you could come and still win 500 cash. Drew is one of the better. I mean, we gave away one time a trip to the Bahamas to see Kentucky, but outside of that, that's one of the better prizes we've ever given away. And I noticed when you encourage more people to come, everyone here is like, no, no, no. Don't tell anyone. I know you all want it to be just you all. Christmas is not open. 500 cash. And then. And then the, you know, merchandise. That's pretty good, Shannon, for coming out on a snowy day. Absolutely. Kentucky, Alabama, great seats for that. Although you should be standing. Not. Not sitting down in your seats. We want you to stand when. Yeah, no, you'll stand, but. Well, you. You may have to look behind you at all the people and tell them to stop. But this is the. The bourbon launch party is Friday, January 17th. That'll be after our show. Event is free, but Registration is@clubbluenil.com. you've had this bourbon. You like it, right? You know, Drew and I were the ones that picked it, so it was all you. It was all you. He thinks he's the reason this bourbon exists. Do you think of all these people, they decided you. And here's why they would have picked it. Can I. Can I take this? Yes. Okay, so we got. They. They brought the card of when Ryan did the tasting, and you were supposed to write what it tasted like. Notes. Yeah. So I'm gonna skip to. I'm gonna skip to. I'm just reading it to you, Shannon, because these two were here. All right, so he. You picked an economy, a premium, and a super premium. Got it. Let's get to the premium. There were three choices. 1, 2, and 3. Would you like to know what he wrote about flavor profile 3? I would love to hear it. This is the worst one. It tastes like teriyaki. Teriyaki bourbon. There was a little teriyaki in it. Jared, was there not teriyaki in it? Yeah. Well, they didn't pick that. Yeah, that wasn't good. Now on the super premium, let me read you. This is the bourbon aficionado. Yeah, Number one. Good all around. Tastes like fruit. Not with fruit. Yeah, just fruit. All the fruits Just all the fruits mixed in. But then Mr. Palate here. Number two, good aroma again. Tastes like chocolate, peanuts and biscuits. Biscuits. There was one that definitely tasted like. Like biscuits. You think it tasted like biscuits? Yeah. What bourbon has ever tasted like biscuits? I. I don't. I don't know. I think the super premium one. Super premium. Number four, super premium. Also not picked, by the way, Shannon. So anyway, the one that is selected, you could taste today. I mean, they're all good. But the premium one, we've had people write on our message board how good that one is. They've been buying that bottle and talking about how it really stands out as a. Does anybody mention biscuits when they talk about it? You know, when they were bragging on how good it was, biscuits didn't come up. But that's the thing with bourbon. Everybody gets their own taste. Chocolate's a very popular bourbon taste. Ron knows what he's doing. He just doesn't like teriyaki bourbon. Definitely not teriyaki. So. All right, so it is. It is still snowy and icy here in Lexington, but there's more snow coming. You said what time? 1 2:00 around 1, I think, here. Yeah, after our show. And what's the final forecast from. From Chris Bailey, Bill Mack and all those guys? It looks like Lexington's kind of right in the middle. Like Northern Kentucky is like 3 to 6 and Southern Kentucky's 4 to 8. And Lexington is like right in the middle of that. So we're going to get a lot of snow, probably. All right. Yeah. Well, we've had a bunch, Drew, and now luckily Kentucky's on the road, so I guess it doesn't really matter whether we're at home or not. But now more snow coming. Yeah, I mean, the team hasn't left yet. I hope they're getting on that soon. They went to Georgia a little earlier than I think they would, but, I mean, that's the one issue with the weather here, is getting the team down there. Otherwise, I'm ready to hunker down for another weekend, looking forward to another challenging game. This is, I think, going to look just like Georgia. This is going to be a big test for Kentucky. And, you know, we're used to going into some of these SEC games sticking our chest out. I don't think that's going to happen many times this. Right. So there's two different ways to look at the Mississippi State game. We could start with history. Kentucky has beaten Mississippi State 18 straight times in the regular season. When I saw that stat today, I Was. Or last night I was shocked. I mean, it feels like to me, Mississippi State has been a difficult game, but we have beaten them 18 straight times the regular season. Caliperi never lost to Mississippi State in the regular season. We lost once in the tournament, but we never lost in the. In the sec. In the sec. Do you remember the game last year, Shannon? I believe. Was it Reed shepherd had like Reed Shepherd. We were playing down there. We. We led the whole game. Then we let them come back right at the end. I think with like 15 seconds left, they hit a shot to go ahead after we had led the whole game. And then Reed shepherd came and hit a shot at the buzzer which. Which won the game. But when. So we almost gave it away, but then one. But 18 straight games. So on the one hand that's a good sign. On the other hand, one of the writers for cbs, he does a power ranking where he says, how good are these teams today? Not their overall resume, but today and this morning he had Mississippi State as the number three team in the country. Wow. Today in the power ranking. So not sure how to look at this. Worries me a little bit. The last couple of games they've been really good at defending the three point shot, which is Kentucky's strong suit. So I'm a little concerned about that. And then physicality again. We got to see better physicality than what we saw against Georgia. Josh Hubbard, who's. It feels like to me he's been there forever. But he's only a sophomore. That's how well he played against us last year. He's one of their big stars. What else do I need to know about Mississippi State? Well, first I want to say something about Josh Hubbard. Do you remember last year he tweeted the picture of Reed shepherd and it said like, respect the heck out of this guy or something. We all kind of like Josh Hubbard. I think some of us even wanted Kentucky to maybe call him in the offseason, see if he wanted to get out of Mississippi. So even though he's on the other team, the way I talked about Reed last year, really like that guy. But he's good. He lit him up last year. He's averaging 18 this year. He's by far their leading scorer. And now with the transfer portal, we keep seeing other SEC villains pop up at new schools. They have Riley Kugel, Cagle, how you pronounce it? That was at Florida for a couple years, Kentucky and 15 against Kentucky. So like we had a Vandy guy for Georgia in that game. Now we got an old Florida player for Mississippi State. They've got an old Georgia player. Yeah, it's just, that's going to happen all the time now with the portal. So two familiar names that have played well against uk. So you know Hubbard is, is very good, played really well against this. This game is at 8:30 on a Saturday night. They are expecting a full house. It'll be raucous. Now we went, we've gone down there over the years, had some really big victories. The call me victory from demarcus Cousins that was at Mississippi State obviously the Reed shepherd game last year, many years ago. Eric Daniels put back at the buzzer if you remember was against, was against, was against them. We've had a lot of success especially in kind of last second, last minute things. What about tomorrow? That's gonna be tough, man. Like we've already said, they, they play a lot like Georgia does and they're a really good basketball team. You guys mentioned Hubbard? Yeah, I remember him last year they had like 30 I think against Kentucky last year. But I watched him play Vandy the other night and they had a guy named Melendez and he was like the big star. Yeah, 19. They got, they got a lot of weapons, man. It's gonna be really, really hard. It is. But this again feels like the Clemson, Gonzaga thing in reverse. Right. You play the easier team first, maybe don't look as good and then we go, well, there's no way we can win Saturday. But you know cbs, I mean that CBS writer has Kentucky, has Mississippi State as the second best team in the conference. Thinks the only team better is Auburn. I mean, is there any way that's true? I mean some, some of the early analytics are projecting them to finish ahead of Kentucky in the league. I mean they're very tough. I worry just the, the situation like George, we've only had two Clemson and Georgia where it's a true road test. Very physical. A little different than Ohio State and Gonzaga. If we see them play a third way in a game like that, is this just going to be every SEC road game? No, it is. Georgia was one of the. Look, I think it is. This is. Georgia was one that you wanted to get because you knew this one was coming. I mean I, I don't mean to spoil the pregame show tomorrow, but I probably will pick a loss just because, I mean I bet when the line comes out. Don't you think Mississippi State's probably a three to five point favorite? Say three or four? Yeah, I mean I think they probably are a favorite with this. But, Ryan, if you can. If you could win it, then you could, I feel like, get the one back that you lost, maybe even gain one on the conference. I. I don't know how many times Mississippi State's going to lose at home all year. Yeah. We said last, before the Georgia game, these two games this week, you don't want to go 02. You want to get at least one of them. Well, you didn't get the one at Georgia, so now you really got to buckle down, try to get this, because it's. It's gonna be really hard to win on the road all season long in the sec. All right, So I. I need to announce something, Shannon, and I feel bad because a lot of Kentucky fans here, and don't get me wrong, still 100%. Mark Pope, still, he knows more. He's. He. He has more basketball knowledge in his pinky toe than I do. But he said the first thing that I didn't like yesterday. Okay, what did he say? It was the first thing I've heard him say that I didn't like. He was talking about. They were talking about the fact that we don't. We haven't gotten to the line very much. Right. Like, we haven't gotten a line. And he said something to the effect of. That's true. But going to the line, you pay a price for going to the line. Insinuating, I think, that the physical contact can wear on you if you're a team that go. That goes to line. I didn't love that because I do think. Not every game, but I do think when you play a team like Georgia and the referees like to see themselves on camera and they're blowing the whistle every three or four seconds, you do have to adjust to that and make them call the foul. So you go to the line as much. It was the first time he said something where I go. And when. When I see him next, I'm gonna ask him his thought about it, because I'd like to know. He didn't really expand on. I'd like to know where his mind is on that, because it's. I've never heard a coach say we. He didn't say, we don't want to go line, but was essentially like, you know, when you get fouled, it can hurt. Yeah. So it sounds like it's kind of. Well, I don't know. He would say it like that. I just think his insinuation was there's a physical toll to getting hit. Right. Right. Which. Which I get. But that's Going to be life in the conference, every single game in the sec. All these teams play so physical. You've got to just learn to play that way, otherwise you're going to fall behind. What do you think about that? Yeah, I heard that, too. I kind of thought, you know, obviously this guy knows more than me. A. That's a new tactic I've never really thought about. He also said something might have been. When he was talking, someone asked, they press. He just said, I'm really managing fatigue right now. And I know they're thin with injuries, so that's common, but, you know, all teams are managing fatigue at this stage in the season. I think I would agree with him on the fatigue. I. You know, our bench right now. Yeah, no, they're thin. I mean, it's. It's not. It's not for me, our bench. It's not even. I mean, we are thin. But also, I just think there's a huge drop off. I think there's a major drop off between our starters. And when you go to Almanor Perry, sometimes Garrison, although he played well against Georgia. Yeah, you can get some good minutes from Brayan Garrison off the bench, but outside of that, there has definitely been the drop off. So you're going to need those legs. You're going to need some of those guys maybe to pump it up and perform a little better because fatigue could be a factor as the season goes on. Can I give you the one thing that I didn't love that he said, are we all just, like, expressing our grief? I just got one more. He was talking about Jackson Robinson, and he said he's not going to bench him. He's an elite player. He doesn't want to bench him. To me, it felt a little like John Caliperi. I can't still his heart. But I'm kind of with him, though. I. I Drew and I. You talked about this the other day. I think you got to be careful benching people. He knows his psyche. And there's some people, if you bench them just like Justin Edwards, you might lose them. Well, I have one more. Okay. This wasn't a criticism. I'd actually just never heard this explained. Maybe I'm an idiot. All of you all knew this, but someone called in and said Amari plays defense with his hands down. And I actually had noticed that. And I thought, oh, that's a good question. And Pope kind of responded that you're. When your hands are up, you're not as laterally quick and guys can get around you. And maybe that's true. I just never heard someone make the case for not having your hands up on defense. I've never heard that either. He may be right. I've always heard say hands up. Maybe so. I don't know. 859-280-2287 we are here at Bespoken Spirits in Grayline Station. We're giving away $500. We got bourbon. We got everything you want. We got donuts. We'll take a break and be right back. This is KSR Playoffs we're talking about. Playoffs. You bet we are. 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Try Greenlight Risk free today@greenlight.com iheart welcome back. It is Kentucky sports Radio here live at Bespoken Spirits. So there's two kinds of bourbon here. You're a bourbon guy, Drew. White label bourbon is Kentucky high rye barrel aged whiskey with notes of cherry vanilla, white truffle, mocha and spice. Ooh, moco. That's a good one. Rye. That's a good put in your old fashioned. I know you like a good old. No biscuits. The blue label is a small batch Kentucky bourbon Bourbon with X tequila. So it used to be tequila. X Tequila. Oak Cherry wood and then cherry cola, savory caramel and marshmallow. Wow, that sounds very interesting. I'd like to try that. I'm not really a drinker, but there's something when it says marsh. I wonder what marshmallow, caramel and cherry cola bourbon tastes like. I bet they could help you find a little. They probably could. You needed to learn while I was here. Go to Club Blue Nil to learn more. We were just talking about. First of all, people are telling me it's already started snowing in Louisville. Great. Yeah, that's where I gotta get to at about 1:00. You'll be fine, don't worry. Yeah, you don't have to do it. I. It's. We'd be remiss if we didn't mention again the fire situation. It looks like things are a little bit better, but still difficult, you know. Yesterday I started hearing from. So one of the guys I clerked with on the D.C. circuit who. He lost his home yesterday. I saw on Instagram and I reached out to him. The woman that is in charge of my fellowship that I go to in Aspen, her home is like surrounded right now, but it's still there. You know, it's crazy. And then you read like all of these people that you've heard JJ Redick lost his house. It turns out you read all of these people and it's easy to focus on the celebrities and the big mansions etc, but I don't know if you've seen the video of some of these people just like regular because you know, regular parts of these towns too where people lost homes and how sad it is. It's just, it's just absolutely heartbreaking to watch. And just the, the devastate. Like imagining an entire community burned down is just crazy to think of. Heart just goes out to those people. And I've seen videos of people just jumping on trains just to get out of there. And you're leaving everything behind knowing that when you come back you don't know what's going to be there. Yeah, the damage is up like billions. Like 17 billion. I mean I don't even know how they couldn't even know. Like it's got to be so it's just got to. It's got to be. It's. It's got to be absolutely crazy. So again our prayers go out to all those folks. Now one more non sports thing here before we go. The phones. 859-280-2287. Couple open lines. Here's something Drew that surprised Me. And I bet it's going to surprise you. So starting January 1st, you could. You could apply to get one of the medical marijuana cards, Right? You go online and you could get medical marijuana. There's like six. Six conditions you can have. I was looked at it. I think I'm the only one that has the condition of. Of you all. What are you looking at me? What about after I went on your driveway? Well, I mean, I don't think you. I don't think you have chronic heart disease, do you? Well, I could go get a note for it. Okay, that's. I don't think that's. I don't think that's what it's for. But I looked at it, and here was my thought. My thought is the moment this happens, everyone in Kentucky that they're all going to want to try. All right, so now we're 10 days in. Take a guess how many people have applied online for the card. So again, to apply online for the cards, you have to have something from a doctor that says you have it. You have to apply online. It goes to like a 30 day process and then you can get it. I don't think you can buy it till like, June, but you can apply for the card. Now just take a guess. How many people in 10 days do you think have applied for the. What's the population of Kentucky? I don't know. It's like 4 million. I think it's like 4,200,000. 200,000. How many? You think I'm just gonna go like 500? 500. 500 people? Yeah, I'm gonna say 5,000. 5,000. Well, before ye laugh at Ryan. Right. Only 400 people. No way. You're way too old. Only 400 people have applied. I. I am shocked. Now, part of it is you can't get it till June. People tend to wait till the last minute and all that, but 400 people. Here's another thing I learned that I didn't know. So they don't want it to be like vape stores. Yeah. Where they're like everywhere. You know, they're trying to control it, which I get that. So they had a lottery to determine who gets to sell it it. And they're in almost every county in the state. Only one person can sell it in Lexington. And I could be wrong about this. Please feel free to correct me. I don't want to give false info, but I think in Lexington and Louisville, only two people. Am I right about that? Only two people could win the lottery. So, like, if you Win the lottery, you get all of Lexington. You and one other person. That's a lot of people. They did the lottery. And, like, I think, like, a doctor in e town won and somebody else. And they will essentially get a monopoly. Oh, my. Over the whole city of Lexington. I mean, I get it, but isn't that kind of crazy? And they just drew it, like, out of a hat, and they drew these two people's names. Does that last for, like, a year, or is that. I don't know. I don't know how long? Yeah, that's still. Yeah, it's crazy. But both of those things surprised me. Me. The fact that only two people get to sell it and that only 400 people. Ryan, since you got it right and everybody else was mocking you, 400 people actually apply. It is crazy. Like you said, there's, like, vape stores on every block. It seems like they're gonna limit it to just two places in this entire town. Those. Because they don't want vape stores on every block. Those people are sitting on a gold mine, I think, coming in. So I had some. Fred, you had to pay a lot to be in the lottery. That was kind of the. Are you willing to take this risk? Because you don't get the money back if you enter it. I had some friends actually do it in other parts of the state that didn't win, and that money's just gone. It's just gone. Okay, well, that makes sense. Well, anyway, I'm sure that, like, by the time you get to June and you can do it, that number will go up. But I'm like you, Shannon. I would have thought it would have been tens of thousands of people would have applied. And when I saw it was just 400, I was very surprised. I completely overestimated the amount of stoners in Kentucky. I thought, you know, 200,000 feels like. I think it's more. So they already have their supply. They'll get to it eventually. Yeah. Well, we'll see. It'll be interesting to see what it's like when it ultimately. When it ultimately happens. Who's up next? Ed. Ed. Go ahead, Ed. 859-28-0-2287. Hey, Matt. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Hey, As I think it's very important that Kentucky gets a fast start. That's the boom during the game. Totally agree with you. We've had sections in these games, specifically Ohio State and Georgia, where we got behind by getting down 10 or 11. And this team just had a hard time in both of those games on the road coming back. Yes. And I think if we do set the tone, we'll win by double digit. I don't know about that. I will say this, we've gotten down double digits in way too many games this year. Yes. We have Duke, Gonzaga, Ohio State, Florida, Mississippi, I mean, excuse me, Georgia. We've gotten down. But you can't keep doing that. You can't keep getting down double digits against all these teams. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at Bespoken Spirits. As we talked about, come on out. You can enter a drawing for Alabama tickets which we give away next Friday, 500 in cash. It's all right out there. You can learn more if you're listening at home. Clubbluenil.com you can join help, help funk, help us with UK athletic athletics and the NIL. I can't speak. And also more about the new club Blue Bourbon. One person writes, Matt, as I understand it, with the medical marijuana bill, if you get the bill, you can't, if you get the cards, you can't own a gun. Do you think that's against the Second Amendment? It is not against the Second Amendment. It now, it may be a bad law. The Second Amendment says you have a right to a gun, but they also can say, like, for instance, if you, if you have a crime or a felon, you can't, you can't have a gun. There, there are restrictions you can make. I think that's a bad law. I don't think smoking weed means you can't have a gun. But is it legal to have that law? Probably. Is it a good law for me? Probably not, but it probably is not against the second. You could argue owning alcohol and having a gun is just as bad. If not, you could, and I think you could, but, but there are, you know, you can't have a gun in your car if you're drinking. And that's, I mean, you don't just, your right to a gun is not absolute in all cases, no matter what. So that's probably why, why they did it. I think that's a bad law, though. But that's, that is the law. Do you wonder if in our state that's why some people have not applied? I didn't know that was part of it until that person wrote it. And I'm assuming, I mean, the tech guy on the text machine wouldn't lie, so I'm gonna assume that's correct. They had an 859 area code. Yeah, I mean, it's. Why would he text a lie to the text machine? So assuming that person is correct, maybe that is part of it. I don't believe him. I believe him. I've seen a lot of people saying that too. So he's not the only one. Yeah. So maybe that's the case. Did you watch the playoff game last night? I did. You know, what a game. I mean a great game after. After a lot of the playoff games have kind of been ho hum, hard to watch outside of what Texas Arizona State last night delivered. Man, what a great game. Penn State's quarterback, to me, Drew looks like he's like 13 years old. And so when they threw him, show him through, showed him throw that interception, I was like, I feel like that there's a child on the sideline crying right now after he, after he threw that. But it was a terrible pass. I really don't like James Franklin though. Like, I re. I don't know what it is. I know. I thought you were watching him all night last night. No, I almost texted you to see him tonight. Now the other guy was here, shiny, red, bald head is. But I just, every time I saw him, I thought people are gonna get. People wrote me all night going, oh, how hot is James Franklin? I guess it's because his time at Vandy when he ran up the score. But I also just don't think he's likable. He's now one in 15 in his career against top five teams. One in 15 at Penn State. So I enjoyed watching him lose. Lose. I enjoyed watching him lose. Wife's a big Notre Dame fan, so we had a little bit of a party. I'll admit, early in the game I thought Notre Dame was going to get killed. Penn State was running all over them. So credit to Freeman, who you also think is handsome at halftime. Whatever he did to turn that around, he's handsome. I mean, he's third. How'd you like to be him? 39 years old, coaching Notre Dame, you know, just killing it. He seems like a nice guy too, Ryan. Like when he talks, you know, I mean, they asked him at the end. I'm not. Look at this man. Crushed product growing here. I'm just saying at the end of the game, they asked him. This was. They asked him because, you know, he's the first black coach to ever make a championship game and he's also part Asian. So they asked him like, what did that mean? And he said something, he was like, it's an honor but then he immediately said, it's not about me, it's about the team. This is. And I know that's a little thing, but, like, in that moment, that is an honor. And he immediately deflects it. And I just kind of think he seems nice. I saw that moment. You know, that was a. A powerful question to ask on that stage with the whole world watching. And he handled it. I thought he handled it perfectly. Great man. With very. So, I mean, I'm not. It's not a man crush. I just. I can't believe. First of all, I can't believe I'm cheering for Notre Dame. I grew up hating Notre Dame. Like, who did? How could you like Notre Dame? Their fans are obnoxious, they're on TV all the time. And now I find myself. It's like they're the plucky underdogs and I'm rooting for. I kind of am, too. And I know that you love that coach. I was going to ask, do you need a cigarette in a cold shower talking about this guy? All right. It was very telling about him when Brian Kelly left, and then he steps in the locker room, and I don't know if you remember that clip, but the team goes crazy. Yeah. When he was taking over for Brian Kelly, it kind of said a lot about Kelly on his way out and Freeman stepping in and Kelly left to go win a champion or play for championships at lsu. That's another little fun story on all this. Well, James Franklin, you know, the narrative has always been, can't win the big game. Looks like that's still the case. Now, of course, there's a game tonight. You got Ohio State and Texas in the Cotton Bowl. You would think because it's in the Cotton Bowl. Ton of Texas fans, but Ohio State travels a lot. I think there's a good chance whoever wins this game is a national champion. So who's going to win the game? I agree with you. I think national champions from this game, and I think it's Ohio State. At least since the playoffs have started, I think they've looked like the best team by far. Spreads like six. It's pretty big spread. I think Texas will cover and keep it a game, but I think Ohio State will advance. I'm going to take Ohio State as well. What about you? Same. I thought, you know, Michigan may have stolen Ohio State's heart when they beat him on their home field in the season, but, boy, in the playoffs, they have completely gone the other way. They're playing better than they played all season. Right now. So I go Ohio State. It has felt like it's Ohio State and everybody else give me Ohio State tonight and to win the title. One thing about last night too, I love Greg McElroy. I think he's a really good announcer. But he had one of those moments where you go, oh, no. Because he goes, he said, you know what? Penn State needs to let their co quarterback cook right now. Let him throw. He's going to do great. And then the next throw interception, like immediately you go, oh, Greg, maybe they should have run the ball. Who's up next? Matt. Matt. Go ahead, Matt. Yes. I was at the KS Bar yesterday at 12:30. Yeah. And we ordered food, takeout food take home to eat. And somebody in the bar paid for our meal. And I just wanted to call whoever it was. I wanted to say thanks. Well, that's very, very nice of whoever did that. You were just there and you. And nobody told you who did it? No, they just. The waitress wouldn't tell us. Just said somebody at the bar. Well, that's very nice. Well, listen, that's nice of you to, to, to thank them and whoever did that, that's very cool. Appreciate the call. Don't expect that every time you come to ks. Yeah. Sometimes we make. It doesn't always happen. Yeah. There's not always a guardian angel there, but maybe sometimes Ryan there will be. You know, we say it over and over again. The best fans in the world are UK fans. We always reach out to each other, help each other, pick each other up when we need it. And that guy probably did it. Did a small favorite that is really appreciative by the person. Yeah, I'm glad he said that too. Probably about once a month, maybe once every two months I'll be eating out somewhere and someone will do that and they'll say it's from a fan of the show and it is always nice. And I always feel bad. I want to go thank them but they'll like do it and I won't even know who it is. And I always, it's always appreciated. Yeah. They don't want to, don't want you to know about it because then it kind of. That's actually the nicest mystique of it. Yeah. Because then you don't have to talk to them. I'm just kidding. I would be glad to talk to anyone, to anyone that did that. There's something to. Not one credit though. There is not one. When you do something that's just to be nice. That's, that's that's even. That's even nicer. We've talked about that. We talked about Pope going to see Vernon Hatton and Cal Perry did that. These coaches do stuff like that all the time. Nobody knows about it. I think that's important. The coaches, the players. Just because you didn't hear about him doing it doesn't mean they did it. It didn't do it. And I will say that this was true about Cal. This was true about. This is true about Stoops. It's true about Pope. I mean, it was. It's been true about Billy. Honestly, it's been true about all our coaches. They do a lot of stuff that people never find out about. And I think it's one of the things that has been good about the people that have coached here. Who's next? Justin. Justin. Justin. Go ahead, Justin. Yes. One thing I've noticed about the three losses we've had that I don't recall anybody talking about is we have had scoring droughts. We went on like a five or six minute scoring drought against Georgia and during Florida, instead of having that type of drought, we went on a 160 run, which helped us to get the win. What does Pope need to do to stop these scoring droughts from happening? Because it's killing us in our loss. Great question. Why do you think we have them, Drew? I mean, Florida was really the only game this year that we have not had an extended scoring draft. It's usually early in the game. I mean, to their credit, they go on runs. That's how they beat Duke and Gonzaga. But it's almost like they score in bunches and go cold, disappear for four and five minutes. All right, we'll fire off 10 quickly. They've been doing that a lot of games. I even think about, you can go back to Brown. You don't have to pick one of the, you know, comparable opponents. I mean, they were tied with Brown 5, 6 minutes in the game, wasn't feeling right. The next thing you know, they're on a 12 oh run. Kick it into. They had a long scoring drought against Louisville. They had a gay. When Louisville kind of pulled back into the game. I mean, they've had that a lot. We scored, what, 93 that game and still had a pretty big scoring drought. I mean, it's, it's, it is odd how it happens, right? Yeah, you guys are right, man. It's happened a lot more than just one time. It's been kind of something happened throughout the season. So it does. It goes back to. There's Not a lot of depth on that bench. You know, once you've already played Garrison and Bray, there's nobody else to kind of bring them in. I think. I think there's also, and this has been something you've heard me say a lot. It's in the scoring drought when you need a dude to just go get you a basket like you need a dude and we just don't have a dude and we don't have a guy that you can give the ball and you. I mean, the first half against Georgia, let's remember, even before the scoring drought, a lot of our points were just Lamont Butler taking his guy off the dribble and scored. Like, if it wasn't for Lamont Butler, we might have been down 20 at halftime against Georgia. And because you don't have one guy, sometimes it's just about finding the right rotation, the right mix, and who has the hot hand there that night. Yeah, but we've had stretches where one guy's kept him in the game. I mean, Andrew Carr had about all the points in the first half at Rupp Arena a few weeks ago. It's like I mentioned this yesterday, we keep getting individual runs from specific players in each game, too. Clark's Puppet Shop has a new Clark's Rewards app. You have this, Ryan. I do have this. 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We're giving away $500 to somebody here at the end of the show. By the way, the, the text machine, random texter about the gun and the marijuana thing was kind of right. Okay, not totally right. What's accurate, you can't have a concealed carry permit. If you do, if you have the way, you can still have a gun, but you can't have a concealed carry permit. So if I have a medical marijuana card, they're not going to come to my house and take my gun. So it doesn't sound like, okay, it sounds like it's a concealed carry permit, which, you know, I guess I know what that is, but not really. I want to give everybody, like you're going to be stuck in there in your house this weekend. There's so much bad news in the world. Let me give you two things to watch. They're very short. That would give that it brings positivity. So my mom likes to watch funerals. She's big on that. She like, she, apparently when she was a kid they would hire her to play the piano at like strangers funerals. They give her like $5 and they would say, you bring Karen to your funeral. She'll play, she'll sing and she'll cry for $5. So mama. So my mom has taught me I get sentimental for funerals. So I didn't watch the whole funeral, but I watched part of the funeral of Jimmy Carter. First of all, I always think it's interesting when the former presidents get together just to watch him interact, right? Like, I always think that's interesting. So George W. Bush, did you see when he walked in, he just punched Obama in the stump stomach. For some reason, George Bush seems like a fun dude. He just walks in, just punches him right in the stomach with your old buddy. It's like you would do with your buddy, then Donald Trump. Like some people talk to him, some people didn't. He looked kind of angry the whole time. But that was kind of interesting to watch those interactions. But the reason to watch, it's not that there were two eulogies and they weren't the famous people. Okay, so it wasn't. It was, it was Jimmy Carter's grandson talked about him. And if you're from Appalachia or you're from rural Kentucky. I want you to watch Jimmy Carter's grandson. He ex. He describes his grandfather's house. And it, it is everyone in here. It's what your grandparents house is like. Like, he literally when he described it, he, I was like, that's my grandparents house right there. It was very sweet. But the thing that stole the Show in like 2005, Gerald Ford was about to die and he called Jimmy Carter and he said, I want you to do a eulogy at my funeral. And Jimmy Carter said, I will, but only if you'll do a eulogy at mine. And of course, Gerald Ford was about to die and it was like a way to laugh. But Gerald Ford said, okay, I'll write it now. So he wrote a eulogy 20 years ago for Jimmy Carter and his son got up and read it yesterday. And I would just say to you, you know, like, if you listen to that eulogy, it's how it should be. It's him talking about, remember Jimmy Carter beat Gerald Ford, knocked him out of the race, right? Like, made him no longer president. And the eulogy was so sweet, it made me cry. And I'm not, I'm not. And I don't even know those men, right? But I thought this is how America should be. Just like this. And I highly encourage like six or seven minutes long. It's his son reading something written 20 years ago. And Ryan, I thought it was absolutely beautiful. What a great, powerful story you just shared with us. And so, yeah, I think I, I definitely want to go back and watch it. Two men, different sides of the political realm, but yet close enough to know they want to speak at each other's funeral, that, that just melts. I mean that just the idea that 20 years ago that his son said he got out a yellow notepad and wrote it down and by hand. Wow. Wrote what he wanted read at this man's funeral 20 years later. Wow, Shannon. I just thought it was amazing. That is pretty cool. Pretty cool story. You gonna go ahead and write mine for me now? You want me to start now? Let's start today. That way we're not. The problem is I don't know if I want you reading it. Fine. Because I don't know. Oh, you could get Drew around. I know exactly what you would say. Back, back. Shannon would do. Shane's going to show the butt picture of your bruised butt. That's exactly. First of all, that's exactly what you would do. Which is why I can't have you doing the eulogy. Who's up Next. Tracy. Tracy, Go ahead, Tracy. Good morning, guys. Hope everybody's staying safe. Good morning to you. Commenting on what you just said about the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter thing, that's the America most of us want to remember. I agree. And I wish, like, I hate that we all. Well, I don't want to get on speech, but I hate that everybody decides they have to hate the other side and that's what it should be like right there. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't going to go into that until you mentioned it, but that's what we wish anyway. Yes. Going back to the free throw thing and Pope's comments, maybe I didn't hear it the way you heard it. I just went back during one of the last breaks and listened to the press conference and here's what I got from it. Two things that he said. The main thing I believe is that he said it would change the way they run their offense if they focus on drawing fouls and they don't want to take away from their flow. That's one thing I heard. And the other was he didn't really think you needed to rely on putting it into the official's hands if that's your goal to draw foul. Well, on the first one, he would know more about that than me. So I will defer to that. I. I'm more talking about when they're already going up for a layup. Why don't you jump into the guy instead of jumping away from the guy? I'm not saying play to get fouled. I'm just saying if you're going to being a contested shot anyway, you might as well try to get fouled the second one. You know, when you say don't put it in the hands of the officials. I get that. But like the decision Drew to call a foul or not is in the hands of the official, so you might as well try to get the call. I mean, look, it's not going to work every game. There are games where they don't call fouls, but in. Yeah, but I didn't hear him say they were calling a lot of fouls. Didn't hear him say anything. What I thought you were saying was that we didn't want to risk and the payment it would cost in the physicality and getting. Well, he said there was a. I was just interpreting his word. He said there's a physical toll and. And maybe he didn't mean get hurt. I'm not. He didn't really explain it. So I don't know. But when he said Physical toll. That's what I meant. But that might not be what he meant. What do you think about the. The thing about not putting in the official's hand. Hands, Drew. Appreciate the call, sir. Kind of with that, it's. I kind of liked his backhanded comments. Just about the officiating he did. What? We gotta learn the whistle. Yeah. So let's talk about that. We didn't mention that yesterday. He said in his press conference, two days. He called the SEC office, Drew. And he wanted to, quote, learn the whistle. Which I thought was the nicest way of saying the officiating stunk. That I can imagine. Yeah. He's like, I'm just not really picking up what they're putting down. Just want to get in their brain, kind of see what they're seeing. I went back, I wrote a post. I don't know if it's up yet to ksr. Anyway, just read what's there. But about last year at Baylor, they kind of had a moment at the end of the game. Jackson Robins had a deflection. They called a foul, whatever. Pope was very upset and he did the same thing. He's like, I just got to figure out what these officials are seeing so we can play based on what they see. He said, it's not the written rules, it's the rules that they're seeing. So I wonder if Mark Pope, if that's his equivalent ride of, bless your heart, of referees. I need to learn your whistle. Yeah. He kept saying, I'm going to do a deep dive in the officiating, kind of learn the whistle and see what. What they're seeing. That I don't see. How quickly would have Cal gotten thrown out of that game, he would have gotten thrown out. But that Mark Pope, that's the nicest way of saying, you know, you all kind of. You stink. And I just got to understand why you stink so badly so I can get better. We'll take a break. Come back hour number two here at Gray Line Station. It's ksr. The new year means new health goals not just for your body, but your finances, too. But did you know financial health is directly related to identity protection? 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