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Ryan Lemond
Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes Kentucky's own Ariel Elias, January 9th through the 11th. Then, from the Southern Fried Chicks comedy tour, Catch club favorite Etta May, January 16th through the 18th, and experience the outrageous comedy of KC Rocket, January 23rd through the 25th. For tickets to all shows, call 859-271-JOKE or purchase seats online at comedyoff broadway.com comedy off broadway.
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Matt Jones
This is Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Drew Franklin
Welcome, everyone. Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday, January 16th. I am here at the KS Bar and Grill on a nice day. Finally not freezing. Got some folks here from skydiving in Nashville. Yeah, Drew and I have skydive. You have not.
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Ryan Lemond
I have not done that. No. I'd like to sometimes.
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Drew Franklin
You ought to. It's an. It's an exhilarating rush.
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Shannon The Dude
He invited us.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm in. Just you mentioning that. I have nightmares about that day.
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Drew Franklin
So Clark's Puppet Shop Phone line is 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine, 772-774-5254. In this edition, sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call, TJ will make them pay. Why do you have nightmares about that day?
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Ryan Lemond
I don't know if you remember, you and Drew took off and left the radio show for. To Shannon and me.
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Drew Franklin
Well, let's remind people, it was the Army Golden Knights, right? And they came to Fort Knox.
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Ryan Lemond
Knox.
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Drew Franklin
And they were going to take local media people up in the air to jump out of planes. And they invited me and Drew, and I did not want to do it, but Drew kind of talked me into it. And so we went and then. But they wanted us to do the radio show there.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. So you guys did like the first maybe 30, 45 minutes. Then you had to go get ready for your jump. You know, you had on your yellow jump shoot, just like Big Bird. And during when, after you guys left. Shannon can attest to this. They lost all power at the radio station back in Louisville. They could not run commercials. They could not take phone calls. We were on the air for like over an hour straight with no breaks. Me and him in an empty field talking about you two guys in summer.
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Matt Jones
Well, there's nothing going on. No access to the Internet, so you.
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Drew Franklin
Couldn'T talk to us. And the flight was delayed, so you couldn't even.
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Ryan Lemond
It was delayed. That's right.
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Shannon The Dude
A bad wind delay. They had it timed where we were going to land at like 11:45 or 11:30 perfectly. But we had like an hour Hour delay. And they just had to do the.
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Drew Franklin
Show, so you all just had to.
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Ryan Lemond
It'll go down in history as the worst radio show in the history of radio.
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Matt Jones
Here's the great thing, though. We no longer have technical difficulties anymore on the show, so we don't worry about it.
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Drew Franklin
Why do you think it was so bad? I mean, it was just you and Shannon riffing. I bet that was great.
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Ryan Lemond
We can handle it for about 20 minutes. But then you talk about another hour of that.
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Drew Franklin
What did you talk about, Shannon?
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Ryan Lemond
I don't even remember what we talked about.
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Matt Jones
Oh, it's a nice day, huh? Look at those cloud. Look at the cloud coverage. This grass is really green out here.
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Ryan Lemond
This is a really nice to come to Fort Knox.
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Drew Franklin
Here's what I remember about that. We jumped out of the. There were. When they. You know, we had a guy strapped. We were. We. I guess we were strapped on them. They were on our back.
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Shannon The Dude
We hang a little lower than they.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, so. So the guy said, when we jump, you know, it'll be so many seconds. We'll go down, and then I'll pull the thing. But you're gonna free fall for I don't know how long it was 20 seconds, Matt. It felt like six years. But you will freefall. And they were gonna have Drew and I. Like, we were right off each other. So as we were falling. It's kind of cool. You're both falling fast, but it looked like we were right next to each other because we're falling. Like, where I can still see Drew even though we're plummeting to the ground.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
But then Drew's guy pulls his chute, and my guy does not. So Drew just, like, flies up in the air. Yeah. Drew disappears, and, you know, he can't hear me talking, but, like, there's one second, two seconds, and I'm like, hey, man, my man, my man. Are we still good? Like, is everything, you know? And then, you know, when they pull it, there's a big jerk.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Right. Now, I will say once. I don't know that I enjoyed the free fall. I was probably too nervous, but once you. Once the. The parachute comes out, the floating. That was one of the coolest things in the world. It's beautiful, and you're kind of peaceful up there, and it's. It's really nice.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, I know when you guys came down, we got. After the radio show was over, when you finally jumped, you came down. You guys were both like, just. So what's. What I'm looking for. Just energetic. Just, you know, on top of the world. You were so excited about it.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I was.
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Ryan Lemond
That euphoria, that's what I'm looking for.
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Drew Franklin
But my theory was, look, if you're gonna do this, you know, the Gold Knights, it'd be bad for publicity if they took us out right here. Like it would be. That would be a bad way for them to go. Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
I was thinking how rich my family would be if that went wrong. I'll never forget, before we jumped, you actually have to hang out of the plane because the guy that is on your back has to stand on the edge. So you were literally leaning out of a plane. And they tell you to look back, so you don't look down, because they're like. If you look down, people freak out. They quit. They immediately see just straight down and don't do it. And I had to take a peek. So I turned my head, and with his hand, he grabbed my jaw and turned it back towards the plane. But I saw enough. That was terrifying.
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Drew Franklin
It was awesome. I mean, I enjoyed it.
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Ryan Lemond
Did you do it again?
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. I don't know if I would. I mean, it's like I had that moment.
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Matt Jones
You're one for one. Don't test it again.
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Drew Franklin
That's right. Yeah. I mean, I have 100 shooting percentage. It's like Jerry Seinfeld said, I. I now refuse to race.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, those guys probably do it well. Like, the guy here does it over 2,000 times.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, that's. But he's used to it. I think the second one might be harder than the first one because you don't totally know what you're getting into on the first one. Yeah, but I did enjoy it. I did enjoy it a lot. And it was good when you land.
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Ryan Lemond
I didn't ask you. This was like a big thud. Like, did you land kind of hard or.
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Drew Franklin
They tell you to, like, runs like you ran.
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Shannon The Dude
I slide. You lift your legs.
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Drew Franklin
That's right. Yeah. You lift your legs up. He runs, and you slide on your butt.
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Ryan Lemond
I got you.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah, they had handles on our legs, and you would hold. You made sure you held your legs up.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, no, he's right about that. We landed in that big field. This is the other part I remember about that story, though. You know, we. We. We finish, and we driving back from Fort Knox. And you were the whiniest person about having been stuck on the radio. Like, you were whining.
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Shannon The Dude
It was awful.
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Drew Franklin
And. And I remember Drew. He was. I get to pick lunch. I get to pick lunch. And I'm like, okay, fine, man. Like, why are you so working? He's like, I get to pick lunch. And I remember you picked the Dixie Highway Hooters.
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Ryan Lemond
That's right.
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Drew Franklin
Went to Hooters, Dixie Highway Hooters, where I. Which I thought absurd choice as to where we go. And I remember I. The Dixie Highway Hooters pulling in there and going, I can't believe we're going here.
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Shannon The Dude
Can I add another element to that? It was my birthday at the Dixie Hooters. I had to do the hula hoop birthday thing after jumping out of the.
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Drew Franklin
Plane and our waitress was pregnant. I remember that at the time. I do.
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Shannon The Dude
Good pick, Ryan. I enjoyed that birthday.
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Drew Franklin
I do remember that. Well, that was. That was a good time. 859-280-2287 is going to be an ask anything Thursday. You can ask any question about the basketball team, about life, about ksr, whatever you want. Ask anything Thursday. And Ryan, yesterday, my. You know, we had the show. Mario put out the video in the afternoon of my thank you to Tyson.
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Ryan Lemond
Foods was very good.
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Drew Franklin
And it went pretty mega viral on every platform, but especially on Twitter and Facebook. And Arkansas fans, you know, decided to weigh in. And one of the things that has been interesting is the amount of people. The vast majority of people seem to agree with everything I said. Yes, because how could you not? Right? But there were. There are these people out there that continue to say, and some Kentucky fans, a lot of Arkansas fans, but some Kentucky fans go, why do you enjoy your coach? Why are we talking about our former coach? That's a big thing. And I was on SEC this morning, the radio show. They had me on this.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Alyssa Lang and Chris Dorian, two people I really like. I was on right before I walked in here, and they kind of asked me the same question. They are like, do fans really follow what's happening in Arkansas? And I. I was like, well, yeah, of course they do. I mean, now, whether we should or not might be a different conversation, but of course we do. And I am to the point that I'm, like, tired of people telling us that we shouldn't. That we shouldn't care what happens there. Because my answer would be this. What if it was flipped? What if they were three and one in conference and we were.04? What would happen to Mark Pope? Everyone would go, you changed C. Be careful what you wish for. Grass is not always greener on the other side. Oh, Matt Jones, you ran off a great coach there. Go, go. And they would do all that. So it is just natural that if it's in reverse that the same thing would happen. Or am I wrong?
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Ryan Lemond
No, I think it is natural. You know, Caliperi was a larger than life figure while he was here, and.
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Drew Franklin
That is a testament to him. Yet it is a testament to him and his huge personality that he matters like that. It's like when people used to get mad that Dion would get all that attention at Colorado. He gets it because of who he is, for better or worse. That's. And Cal's the same way, larger than.
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Ryan Lemond
Life, uber popular for many, many years in this state. And you look at their games, we know every one of their coaches, we half their players played here, half their recruits were going to come here. I mean, it's like we know they're an extension of us. So that's why I'm always being.
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Drew Franklin
That's a very good point, too. I mean, just look at that bench. Cal Chin, Kenny Payne, Bruiser Flint, Brad Caliperi, all have been here. Adu Z. Wagner have been here. Knox Richmond, Boogie Fland would have been here. Jonas Adu played at Tennessee. Trevon Brazile played at Arkansas. I mean, John L. Davis is the only dude that we don't have any connection to, Drew. So it's going to be natural.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. And I, I don't understand. Yesterday I was on our message board and we're all obviously talking about Arkansas because that game just happened and someone's like, well, you ought to stop talking about it. I look up and SportsCenter is talking about it and I'm like, we're a Kentucky show. If it's leading SportsCenter, of course we're going to talk about it. And even if it wasn't leading Sports center, it's very natural when you make a big decision or have a big change to compare A to B to see if you're on the right track or made the right move. You're going to look at, you know, say if you buy a new car and you like your new car features, you're going to say, well, the old one didn't do this one. I like that. This one does that. You're just naturally going to compare the two things.
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Drew Franklin
I mean, I envy the people who can have a messy breakup and not care what happens to their ex, like, at all. But I couldn't do that. You know, if I had a messy breakup, I'd be like, well, you know, is she happier now? I don't. I want to be clear. I don't. It's hard for me to articulate this. I don't root for Cal to fail in the sense that I want him to be miserable. Okay. I do root for him to lose in the sense that it's better for us if he does and it's better for Pope. Like, I guess in a relationship, if you're. If you break up with somebody, their happiness won't have an effect on your happiness or should, shouldn't. We can all be happy, but in basketball, when the team is in your conference, there is an inverse relationship to their happiness and yours. If he had gone and coached at Washington State, his success would not affect us. But he is in conference. It's going to affect us.
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Ryan Lemond
So I guess the fair question to ask you, what if he was 3 and 14 0, how would you think we would look at it then?
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Drew Franklin
If he was 3 and 1 and we were 3 and 1, then our initial hypothesis, which was this was better for both, I think would be true. If he was three and one and we row in four, everyone in the country would say they should have never gotten rid of Cal, should have never run him off. Mark Pope wasn't the guy. So, you know, that's the way it is. And I know we have some fans that have a fondness for him. And you should. I mean, one of these days he's going to come back here many years down the road and get probably a good reaction. But, you know, some of us, not just me, I mean, there are fans who wanted to change six years ago. You have to give people the chance to go. Maybe we were right when you all took those shots. Right?
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Ryan Lemond
You think it's harder for the national media to see that? We know it here.
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Drew Franklin
Well, the national media is in two segments. Cal's friends, like Seth Greenberg are gonna defend him. Not no matter what. Cal's non friends are dancing because they've. They had to deal with it. I mean, the stuff I had to deal with for two or three years, there's people in the national media been dealing with for 20 years. Yeah, right. So they're really dance. So I mean, again, when you're a big personality, people either love you or hate you. And that's kind of how it is with him.
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Shannon The Dude
And really, if you compare about or care about Kentucky, which I assume most people listen to show do, you don't want John Caliper to win the breakup because Kentucky needs to be Kentucky moving forward. And if it looked like it really was just Cal's headquarters here, that's damaging to recruiting.
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Drew Franklin
That's true.
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Shannon The Dude
The future Mark Pope's got to go into locker rooms or living rooms and say Kentucky is still Kentucky. He was a great coach here. But the brand is still the brand. And if Pope were 0 and 4 and Cal and 3 were 3 and 1, that would be very hard for Mark Pope.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
To go recruit.
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Drew Franklin
I think that's a really great.
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Shannon The Dude
And if you don't think Cal and Chin and the boys aren't talking trash in every living room about Kentucky, then, then I got some.
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Drew Franklin
If we lose to them, let's say they come in here 07 and they beat us. That's gonna stink.
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Ryan Lemond
Oh, yeah.
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Drew Franklin
But it still in my mind won't change the overall opinion that it was the best thing. Don't you agree?
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Shannon The Dude
Well, if they come in here and win, I'm gonna go, that's John Calipari. He played Arkansas for a month. He had us flexing and he went, won a game and you count him out, he's not going to be in the tournament.
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Drew Franklin
He is going to beat somebody good. He will be. He might be us. He'll beat Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee or Alabama. I guarantee you he wins one of those games because he always did, always does. He always did that and he will. I hope it's not us because that would not be fun. 859-280-2287. It's Ask Anything Thursday. You can ask any question you want. Medvedev is playing tennis. Shannon, I want you to look up. They did one of those things where they turned the tennis into a cartoon.
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Matt Jones
You know how they do that?
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Drew Franklin
So Medvedev was playing his first round. They turned his match into a cartoon. Well, he's got a heavy temper. He's, he's very big tempered Russian, right. And he got mad and he started pounding his, his, his racket against the ground. And the cartoon had to do what he was doing. So the cartoon was just hitting.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
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Drew Franklin
It is very, very funny. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is ksr. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. This is Chris Stapleton, right?
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Matt Jones
Yes.
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Drew Franklin
He has his own channel now in SiriusXM and I really like it. I feel like he and I, we have the same musical taste. Like he'll play songs from all different genres. And I'm like, I like that one. I like that. I say him. I don't think he's actually working as the DJ when it's happening, Shannon. I don't see him like going, you know, all right, next we're gonna put on this. But I'm a big Fan.
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Matt Jones
If he's got his distinction, he should go in there and at least do like some guest DJ ships.
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Drew Franklin
No, he does things like he'll introduce a song he'll like. Like, George Jones is my favorite. You know, he'll. He'll introduce songs, but. But he, like, he. I feel like he and I are just on the same page.
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Ryan Lemond
Heard a good story about it. You guys probably heard this, but, like, you know, he played baseball and football at Johnson Central. He'd come on road trips, he'd take his guitar and he'd play to the team, you know, while they're going or coming from the games and stuff.
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Drew Franklin
You better make sure you're good, though. Yeah, you do that. Because, like, when I hear people just pull out a guitar and start talking, I immediately am like, no, please don't.
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Matt Jones
You don't want to be that guy at the party. There's always one guy at the party that pulls out the acoustic.
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Drew Franklin
You don't want to be the guy. Like, when I was in college, in the fraternity party when like, all right, I got the guitar and he starts singing. You're like, oh, gosh, nobody wants to hear this.
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Matt Jones
When everybody starts leaving.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, you better be really good if you're gonna pull the guitar out.
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Shannon The Dude
Worked out for Stapleton. So those guys that were on that bus probably have some fun stories to tell to their friends now.
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Drew Franklin
Yep. One person writes, matt, I get nervous about all this Arkansas talk before the game. Might be bad karma maybe, but, like, you just want to. Don't want to talk about it at all. I mean, you know, they're, look, we're good. We should beat them. If we don't, that'll be disappointing. But it doesn't change overall. They're 0 and 4 and they still play like eight ranked teams. Like, they ain't making a tournament. I mean, they play at Missouri Saturday. That was a game that looked like they could win. Well, now Missouri's good.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
So they might be on five.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. I mean, they could come here and win by 25. It will absolutely stink. And I will not look at Twitter. But then I'll probably just keep living my life and watch Kentucky basketball finish the season and have a great time.
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Drew Franklin
I love this one. This person writes with the way Brad dresses at the games. I look at the Arkansas staff and think they are a group of the Righteous Gemstones. Brad does dress like he could be on the Righteous Gemstones. Right.
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Ryan Lemond
We talk about yesterday. They. They just sit there. They don't, like, they don't know coaching being Done at all.
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Drew Franklin
The Dixie Highway Hooters, by the way, is now a car dealership.
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Ryan Lemond
Really?
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Drew Franklin
I guess they got rid of that.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm glad we went while I was doing a tay day.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. 13 years ago or 12 years ago. 859280, 2287 one person writes. Matt, are you going. You guys are off Monday. Are you going to watch the inauguration? No.
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Matt Jones
I thought that's why you were taking off.
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Drew Franklin
Are you kidding me? Monday I'm news blackout Monday. We got the game Monday night. And by the way, tomorrow everybody needs to listen because I'm going to be giving away spots, you know, I'm giving away $4,000 here Monday night from Country Roads Spirits. And if some of you have already qualified through the bowl contest, but if you have not, you will, you will have a chance to be part of that Monday night. We will give away $4,000 in cold hard cash here Monday night for the national championship game. So be. Be listening tomorrow and look at on social media. I'm going to be adding people all the time to have the chance to win.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm glad you just asked that because somebody just asked me yesterday, can they come Monday and predict that this score. Is this part of the.
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Drew Franklin
The money they come? If you quality, I mean you can come, but in order to win, win the money, you've got to have qualified. And we qualified by the earlier bowl games or by some things I'm going to do between now and Monday.
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Ryan Lemond
Gotcha.
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Drew Franklin
But during the day I'm not because he says he's going to put a hundred executive orders out. I think I'm not going to like a lot of them. So I think I'm just going to have to not pay attention and then get the national championship game and Notre Dame and what Notre Dame. Notre Dame have any chance?
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Shannon The Dude
I'm going to be rooting for him, but I don't think so. Ohio State just really hit another level after all that Michigan talk they went through.
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Drew Franklin
You think their, their fans still want to fire the coach if he wins the national.
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Shannon The Dude
Weird predicament. I mean they really wanted him gone and now it's looking like he's going to bring him a trophy. So what an odd spot for him.
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Ryan Lemond
To be in what the spread was nine. I mean that's a lot of points though.
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Drew Franklin
And yeah, I mean Ohio State's got better players.
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Shannon The Dude
But you know, Marx, Freeman, you think he's handsome?
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Drew Franklin
I mean he's handsome and like that's.
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Shannon The Dude
Gotta handsome Ryan Day.
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Drew Franklin
I can't picture what Ryan Day Looks.
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Shannon The Dude
Like it's got the jet black beard.
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Drew Franklin
Okay.
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Ryan Lemond
Jack Black.
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Drew Franklin
Ish. Black.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. Can you see it?
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Drew Franklin
No. Who's up first?
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Matt Jones
He looks like Jack Black.
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Drew Franklin
How do you think he looks like Jack?
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Matt Jones
Do you know what Jack Black looks like?
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Drew Franklin
Maybe.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm thinking the wrong guy.
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Shannon The Dude
Black doesn't have a beard, does he?
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Matt Jones
I guess he has.
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Drew Franklin
No. Are you thinking about Zach Galifianakis?
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Ryan Lemond
No.
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Drew Franklin
Well, who are you thinking about?
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Ryan Lemond
The School of Rock guy?
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Drew Franklin
That's Jack Black. Yeah, but he doesn't have a beard.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, he does have a beard now.
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Shannon The Dude
Gray one.
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Drew Franklin
Oh, you think that looks like Ryan Day? That's mean to Ryan.
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Matt Jones
Ryan Day, too, though.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's not being fair to Ryan Day. Who's next?
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Matt Jones
Let's go to Ed.
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Drew Franklin
Ed. What's up, Ed? Ask Anything Thursday.
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Caller
Hey, guys. As the season goes along, I feel more and more vindicated because that's one of the guys that wanted Cal Perry gone six years ago. So I feel, you know, vindicated. And it's so funny, man. I ran across a YouTuber, Arkansas, and they're talking about Arkansas. It hasn't even been a year yet, and they want them gone already.
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Drew Franklin
This Arkansas media should thank us for their views. I appreciate the call because, I mean, when you're. You know, the Arkansas fans aren't watching that stuff. Who wants to talk about a team that stinks? Those views are us. Right? And so they should thank us. I mean, and when John Neighbors is here, we will thank him by giving him gifts, you know, and nothing like, take Tyson Foods. It was funny. But they were rubbing. They sent us a big box of chicken and said thank you for cow. So, like, I'm gonna be able to say, no, thank you. Thank you. That's what you should say.
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Ryan Lemond
They were Razorback nuggets that they sent us kind of, you know, poking at us here, you know, and a cutting board. And a cutting board. Cooler. Merch. Yetis. Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
I actually have an Arkansas sweatshirt from when? During COVID when I went to an Arkansas football game with Bobby Bones. I'm gonna have to sacrifice it or something right there on February 1st before the game.
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Ryan Lemond
That's actually a good idea. We can do something with that.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
Somebody told me where I could find a microwave in Rupp Arena. So I think I might be able to get my nugs cooked in there for the game if we're winning in the second half.
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Drew Franklin
Oh, you mean just sit there and eat the.
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Shannon The Dude
Pass them around. Section 236.
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Drew Franklin
Well, I mean, they have, in terms of part of the epic failure. Let's also remember they have the highest nil of any team in the country. They spent $5 million on this roster. So it's not just a failure in coaching. They have spent more money. You know, the two teams with the highest nil are them in Kansas State, and probably neither one of them is going to make the tournament.
- [22:42]
Ryan Lemond
Wow.
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Shannon The Dude
Indiana is also high on that list. That's been.
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Drew Franklin
Oh, I want to talk about Indiana. We got to talk about your former. You wanted to play for Bob Nye. The Indiana disaster is a whole nother level of disaster, which I kind of dug into last night. I didn't realize it was as bad as it was. We'll take a break and be right back. It's KSR.
- [23:03]
Ryan Lemond
Good morning.
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Drew Franklin
T.J. smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. he'll make him pay.
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Matt Jones
Now more of Kentucky sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
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Drew Franklin
Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 850-92-802287. Apparently, I received false info. Dixie Highway. Hooters still there?
- [23:22]
Ryan Lemond
Yes.
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Drew Franklin
So if you want to have a reunion there, we. We can.
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Ryan Lemond
Where was the Hooters?
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Drew Franklin
Where you say you've been to? All of them.
- [23:30]
Ryan Lemond
The Hooters. You saved him getting beat up.
- [23:32]
Drew Franklin
Preston Highway. You should have gotten beat up.
- [23:34]
Matt Jones
That was a rooster.
- [23:35]
Drew Franklin
We're really dumb. You hit someone's car, which was really stupid. You punched their car.
- [23:40]
Ryan Lemond
He tried to run me over.
- [23:42]
Drew Franklin
I mean, it was not good because he said he was gonna go get something and come back. The. The woman at Hooters called the police. Yeah, that was. That was a dangerous little situation. And, you know, you're also on Preston Highway.
- [23:59]
Matt Jones
You gotta be careful out there.
- [24:01]
Drew Franklin
There's certain parts of Louisville that like, you know what? Mind your own business. Preston highway would be one of those for me.
- [24:07]
Ryan Lemond
He threw his door open, and I. I thought I heard click, click. And he's like, you don't do stuff like that around here, son. And then I hear this glorious voice coming across the parking lot. Oh, wait a minute. My man, my man. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Ryan, get inside. Ryan, go inside.
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Drew Franklin
I was definitely the peacekeeper there. You, you know, you had lost your mind. And like, a guy who's like, almost hit you with a car and who's talking about a gun is not the person to start arguing with. And I was like, just get inside. Let's be real. I threw my body in front of you like a secret service agent to make sure you were okay.
- [24:40]
Ryan Lemond
I owe you my Life, sir.
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Drew Franklin
Thank you. Thank you very much. I do want to, before you go back, phones mention, one thing I forgot to talk about on Monday because we were so happy about the. The game against Mississippi State. You remember. You know how I like the FA cup, okay, for people who don't remember, the FA cup is where all the teams in England play each other. Not just the big pro teams, but also the little tiny teams like you. You and I, sir, could have a team. We could have the KS Bar team, and we would have a chance, a small chance, but a chance to beat a bunch of teams and then get to play, like, Manchester United, right? Like, that's, that's how it works. So it's very cool. Nothing like it in America. Round three, you know, they have all these qualified rounds, but then by the time you get to round three, that's where you get to where the big teams and the little teams can play each other. And Tottenham Hotspur drew a team called Tranmere.
- [25:33]
Ryan Lemond
Blind draw.
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Drew Franklin
Blind draw. And had to play. Or Tamworth, Excuse me, Tamworth had to play there. So they played in this little stadium that only held a thousand people. Shannon. The Tamworth team had guys who had. They all had other jobs. One of them worked delivering pastries. One of them worked in a zipper factory. Like, these dudes had regular jobs and then played soccer for fun. And here comes Tottenham Hotspur, whose roster is paid $300 million this year. Wow. So they show up. I, of course, turn on the game. It's a beautiful spectacle. It's literally like they're playing this at, you know, Harlan High School, right? And here come these guys who are these multi millionaires. And the crazy thing was they're playing them pretty good.
- [26:20]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
- [26:20]
Drew Franklin
Into the first half, tied at zero. End of the second half, Tamworth almost scores. Like they're right there. They miss a chip shot, they could have won.
- [26:31]
Shannon The Dude
They had two shots on it where.
- [26:33]
Drew Franklin
They could have won and maybe produced the biggest upset in the history of sports. They missed it. Then it went to extra time and an extra time. They kind of got run over. But watching it, it was such a nice, beautiful thing. And they just kept talking about, this is the baker and this is the zipper baker, and this is like the cobbler and all this stuff. And I, I, you know, Tottenham at first started their reserves because they thought they didn't need to play their starters. The team played so well, they had to put all their starters in, and still they had them. Held them off, but couldn't quite win. It was a beautiful. It was a beautiful Thing.
- [27:06]
Ryan Lemond
I love the story, the whole thing. I love how you said that they. Tottenham wanted to. Agreed to. You can play at our place. And there are other teams like, no, no, no, no, no. You're coming to our town.
- [27:15]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. So they. So they had that. It was. If you. It's on ESPN plus, you know, I mean, it's a boring soccer match, but you ought to watch the beginning, because at the beginning, these dudes are like, just. I mean, it just. It looks like, you know, elite athletes versus Larry Moe and Curtly Shannon. And it was. It was a great thing to watch, and I really enjoyed it.
- [27:35]
Matt Jones
Pros versus Joes. And if the Joes beat the pros, I think that the pros should have to go and take the other people's jobs, maybe.
- [27:41]
Drew Franklin
So you think those guys should become the.
- [27:44]
Matt Jones
That's right.
- [27:44]
Drew Franklin
Soccer's probably the only sport where you could do that, and it wouldn't just be a complete route. And so it was fun to watch.
- [27:52]
Ryan Lemond
Is this. You told us a story one time, some dude was like a bartender or something. The goalie. They had brought him out at the last minute. One of his.
- [27:59]
Drew Franklin
That was in hockey. That was the Carolina hockey. My bad was the Carolina Hurricanes, where their goalies all got hurt, and in every arena, they just have an emergency goalie who just sits in the crowd in case anybody needs him. And then they brought him in and he won.
- [28:13]
Ryan Lemond
He won.
- [28:13]
Drew Franklin
Which was. Which was.
- [28:15]
Ryan Lemond
I wish the. The small team would have won this. Because you're right. It would have been the biggest story.
- [28:19]
Drew Franklin
Yes.
- [28:20]
Ryan Lemond
Topped up.
- [28:20]
Drew Franklin
You know, I was watching it while I was on espn. I was pulling for him, but they couldn't quite do it. Who's next?
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Matt Jones
Ryan.
- [28:26]
Drew Franklin
Ryan. Go ahead, Ryan.
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Caller
Hey, Matt. Go. All this talk about Cal this morning's got me thinking back through the process last March and April, you know, we get beat by Oakland, has a video with Mitch, the awkward video in the office. And then we really need to be thankful that he. He talked to Arkansas or the Tyson Foods at the Final Four. Man, that was also something we need to be thankful for. But could you imagine if he was still in Lexington and the roles were reversed and we're owing for the sec, what kind of mood the fan base would be?
- [29:04]
Drew Franklin
I thought about this last night. I appreciate the call. As I was watching one of the games, if Cal had come back and we were 04 right now, this would be miserable. It would be miserable. It would be like. It would just be miserable, Drew. And there would be like, no, I don't know. That there would even be an end inside. It would. Like people wouldn't go to the games. It would be awful.
- [29:32]
Shannon The Dude
I had a friend text me when LSU won the other night that said Lexington would be on fire right now. And I was like, I'm not sure there would be a Lexington at this point, because you got to think he probably would have had a worse roster. But there's the schedule he would have had at Kentucky. We would have gone and lost to Duke by a million. We would have lost to Gonzaga by a million. We would have had more losses than Arkansas has now. Kentucky had a lot more marquee games. Who knows? Louisville might have gone interrupt. This would have been on fire in Lexington.
- [29:58]
Drew Franklin
Louisville might have beaten us. That's true.
- [30:00]
Shannon The Dude
So the 04 could have been an afterthought if. If that. If we had run it back with him again.
- [30:05]
Ryan Lemond
We were already a fractured fan base going into the season.
- [30:08]
Drew Franklin
Yes.
- [30:09]
Ryan Lemond
If they had gone 04, it would have just been. Been off because we would have had to have been honest on this show. We couldn't try to sugarcoat stuff.
- [30:16]
Drew Franklin
Well, I mean, let's be real. I might not have been on the air. I mean, you know.
- [30:21]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
- [30:22]
Drew Franklin
I mean, there. There's a world where I might not have been on the air. They might literally. I mean, you know, I mean, Shannon, there's two people who. Who are probably the two most powerful sports figures in Kentucky of the last 10 years.
- [30:38]
Ryan Lemond
Pitino and Caliperi.
- [30:40]
Drew Franklin
Okay. Who would be the third?
- [30:41]
Matt Jones
Jim Host.
- [30:42]
Ryan Lemond
Mitch Barnhart. Church jurits.
- [30:45]
Drew Franklin
Yeah, we took the bullets from two of those three, and the third one ended up on the show. Did you see the. Did you see what the Auburn fan did at the Auburn Mississippi State game?
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Ryan Lemond
I didn't see it.
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Drew Franklin
So Mississippi State, their official social media guy. Like the guy who types their official tweets and he types their official whatevers. So the first of all, there was the guy. Was it the same guy that's in the coconut bra? I think it's the same guy.
- [31:16]
Shannon The Dude
I don't know.
- [31:17]
Drew Franklin
If you go look, Ron Slay interviews a guy in a coconut bra, and he looks exactly like you would think a guy at a game with a coconut bra looks like. Right. He's. He's in the student section. He interviews him. You know, he's like, it's great. During the game. The Mississippi State. Yeah, that's what he looks like right there. He looks. That's like every Auburn fan, but with a coconut.
- [31:40]
Shannon The Dude
He has a bucket hat on with a coconut bra.
- [31:42]
Drew Franklin
He. The The Mississippi State social media person leaves their computer open and gets up to do something.
- [31:48]
Ryan Lemond
Oh, he.
- [31:49]
Drew Franklin
I think it was him. If it wasn't him, it was somebody else. But they go and get on the computer and tweet out war Dam Eagle from the official Mississippi State account. Brilliant.
- [32:02]
Ryan Lemond
What a boss move.
- [32:03]
Drew Franklin
And it was up there for a few minutes and then somebody came and got it. But like he got on, he saw a guy or a woman at the computer and was like, that's the official Mississippi State account. I'm going to go sit at the computer and type a message about Auburn. And he did. Drew. That's pretty amazing.
- [32:20]
Shannon The Dude
Yeah. I mean to, you know, I go to games with my computer and I'll leave my computer open. Sometimes I'll walk off and I'm like, I just left my computer wide open with all these people around. But I think no one would actually go sit down and start typing. Nope. This person will do it. And did it with the opponents team. It was like two minutes before tip off too.
- [32:38]
Drew Franklin
So the official account Ryan that he.
- [32:41]
Ryan Lemond
Did it with, can you imagine walking across Auburn's campus the next day? Man, he's a legend. That gotta be talked about forever.
- [32:46]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. And they. We don't know if it was the coconut.
- [32:51]
Ryan Lemond
Let me think it was.
- [32:51]
Shannon The Dude
I don't think they pinpointed who did it, but they just know a fan did it.
- [32:54]
Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
Hormonosos is hormones.
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Shannon The Dude
Oh, that one got past spell check.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. Because I don't think there's anything called hormonoso if it's truly hormones.
- [33:28]
Shannon The Dude
O I think that would be hormones.
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Drew Franklin
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- [33:53]
Shannon The Dude
I was gonna suggest.
- [33:54]
Drew Franklin
Wait a minute. So were you laughing at.
- [33:56]
Ryan Lemond
Sorry. Something caught my throat.
- [33:57]
Drew Franklin
Oh, that was You.
- [33:57]
Matt Jones
That was him. Yeah, but I was laughing too.
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Drew Franklin
Well, I'm not ready Monday, Monday we're just go to a movie or something. We'll take a break. Be right back. This KSR welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. Matt Ryan and Drew getting ready on a Thursday. You know, we got what tomorrow we are at. We are at Bespoken Spirits.
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Ryan Lemond
Yes.
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Drew Franklin
Which is over there in the Loudon station. And I'm giving away Kentucky Alabama tickets. So if that doesn't make you want to come out to get Kentucky Alabama ticks. And again, I know where their tickets are. These are good tickets. They're really like. These are like you'll be sitting where the mayor of Louisville sat the other night kind of. Kind of tickets. Did you see him right there behind the bench?
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Ryan Lemond
I saw him. Every time they take pope, I saw Mayor Greenberg behind the bench. I even text you like, hey, the mayor's got some good seats tonight.
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Drew Franklin
Ask anything. Thursday, one person writes the day Max was supposed to do the show and he didn't show up. Whatever happened to it? Well, I. 2:00pm he wasn't awake yet. I guess some Australians had come to town and he apparently was up till 4:30 in the morning and he forgot to set his. His alarm. That's what, that's what happened. And then he just disappeared for a month. Just left town. He's back now though.
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Shannon The Dude
Okay, good to know he's alive.
- [35:17]
Ryan Lemond
We can give him a pass then.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I mean, I understand he's okay. The NCAA has said now that for basketball, your two exhibition games, they can be against teams that are Division one. You can now you don't have to play like trancy in Georgetown. You can play whoever you want and the games can be on television. Before you could play a game against that, but it had to be for charity and it couldn't be on tv. Now it doesn't have to be for charity and can be on tv, which means you have the ability to play, you know, Duke, Kansas, whatever. Do you like that?
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Shannon The Dude
I do. We get into. I kind of hope we'll split it. Play maybe a Kentucky team like they've done for so long, whether it be Kentucky State or Georgetown or, you know, we've even had Wesley in here. Transy. Keep one of those and then give us a good opponent in the second one.
- [36:07]
Drew Franklin
It stinks for those schools because that actually is big for their athletic departments to play one of Those games, they get a decent little chunk of money that can be. I remember when he was at Trancy, like, it helped pay for a renovation of the locker room was when Transy played Kentucky. So that does stink. But for fans getting to see him play a real game, it doesn't count. But a game against good team is good.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm with Drew. I hope they at least keep one of those games to, like, one of the other schools we're talking about. But, you know, these schools have been playing these secret games and we keep hearing, you know, word leak out. Have to be secret, not secret. Now we get to go watch them play. So I think it's a. It's huge, actually. It'd be a big fun way.
- [36:46]
Drew Franklin
Like if it's against a big team, but it doesn't count, that will be kind of weird, won't it? Like if you played Connecticut, but it doesn't count.
- [36:58]
Ryan Lemond
We still want to win, though.
- [36:59]
Shannon The Dude
I think the excitement will still be high because that's your first time really seeing the team. But, you know, going home, it doesn't hurt you. Maybe it's a little house money game, but I think people would still really get into it because you're going to be watching your team for the first time or maybe.
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Drew Franklin
So who would you. Who would. Would you want to play? Who would you want to play? I mean, you want to use it as a chance to play a team that we don't play or what do you want to do with it?
- [37:24]
Ryan Lemond
Me, personally, I would want to play somebody we don't play. It's somebody not on, you know, that we haven't played in a while.
- [37:29]
Drew Franklin
So play like Trancy and Yukon.
- [37:32]
Ryan Lemond
That'd be a perfect way to start. Absolutely perfect. Play those Kentucky Wesleyan and Villanova, you know, something like that.
- [37:38]
Shannon The Dude
Yeah, if a team's too good, they're going to want you to come back, though, for the next exhibition, maybe.
- [37:42]
Drew Franklin
No, they are like.
- [37:45]
Shannon The Dude
Give up an exhibition. The following Good point.
- [37:48]
Drew Franklin
Here's what I wouldn't enjoy. I wouldn't enjoy trading Georgetown for Marshall or something like that. You know what I mean? Like, I either want us to play one of these small teams, have fun, or I want us to play somebody good. I don't want to see us going and playing Oregon State. Yeah, like, I don't think that would be fun, Drew. You know, it's like, either play somebody really good or let's keep doing what we were.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah, either play locally teams that are never going to be on the actual schedule. See some Kentucky guys have Fun there. Let those schools make a little money or give. Give somebody exciting, a middle of the road, a mid major that you're just going to play in the few weeks later on the schedule. I don't want to do that.
- [38:27]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. Who's up next? Shannon.
- [38:28]
Matt Jones
Let's go to Brian.
- [38:29]
Drew Franklin
Brian, go ahead. Brian.
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Caller
Hey, first time, long time.
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Drew Franklin
Who are.
- [38:36]
Caller
Hey, Matt. Who in your best opinion came closer to costing your job? Jurits or cow?
- [38:44]
Drew Franklin
Ah, probably Cal. Jurits put more pressure on, but he didn't. But like, you know, I mean, the thing was like the Louisville athletic director being mad at the Kentucky radio host is what a shock, right? Like, I mean, that's the whole point. But when it was a Kentucky person, I do think that put. Would, would put. Would have put my bosses in a tougher position. I mean, I understood. But again, this was only a handful of days because this was part, you know, you had the Tuesday where he and Mitch sit there and do that interview. I. This is just my take. I can't prove this, but this is just my take from things I've heard and I feel 95% confident on. I think part of the sort of thing was, was Cal saying to these folks, okay, here's some of the stuff I want. And one of the things is detach KSR from any affiliation with uk. And because we are on the official UK station. That was going to be a difficult point. I think my bosses at I heart were willing to take up from. I know they were, but you know, you got to know how much they're going to push it. Right? I mean, there's a there. And, and we were kind of starting those conversations and then he leaves. Right. So that made it much easier. Jura specifically said fire math. And UK was like, excuse me. I heart was like, no, because, you know, they. George made a lot of people mad because he tried to bully everybody. You know, Jarrett and I appreciate the call. He's a little bit like, like our next president in the sense of like, for Jurich, it was all about, do you like me or not? And he. And if you didn't, he came after you. And I just was one. But I wasn't the only person he came after. He came after Vanetti. He came after a lot of people. And let's be real, the contract moved from my heart to the current station because they didn't like us. That's what they did.
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Shannon The Dude
So, you know, now do Mitch McConnell.
- [41:02]
Drew Franklin
Well, Mitch McConnell had more power because Mitch McConnell went to the federal election, Federal Communications Commission and fired, filed a complaint. And the way the law works is if they kept me on the air and Mitch won the complaint, they would have had, like I heard, would have had, like, quadruple damages. But what was devious about what Mitch did is the board that would hear the complaint needed one more member to have quorum. He refused to confirm the final member, so they could never have the hearing. So we could have had the hearing and I could have been back on the air. But they couldn't have a hearing because they didn't have enough members and Mitch wouldn't let them have enough members. So I was just in limbo. I mean, you know, it was. It was like Mitch McConnell. It was a deviously smart thing to do. But if you think about it, Cal Church, Mitch and Amy McGrath, it's quite a foursome that I've found a way to make mad over the last few years.
- [42:03]
Ryan Lemond
And you're still sitting here loud and proud.
- [42:05]
Drew Franklin
I don't want to be too. We don't want karma too much. Knock on wood.
- [42:09]
Ryan Lemond
But the cow thing here definitely had legs. And I think.
- [42:12]
Drew Franklin
I think go back to the days. Tuesday's their agreement. On Thursday, I have a phone call that makes me think, oh, no, next week's gonna be quite a week. And then on Saturday, it starts to leak he might leave.
- [42:25]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
So I'm glad he did. We'll take a break. Be right back. Hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
- [42:31]
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