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Mario
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Ryan Lemond
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Mario
Off Broadway welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday, May 9th. I am Matt Jones here at the Kentucky Skin Care center in Owensboro, Kentucky where we are outside and it's a little bit chilly, but a packed house. Look at everybody here in Owensboro. What a great, great turnout this morning in May. You can give a shout out to Clark's pumping shop, phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office, you call TJL. Make them pay. Ryan We I was just thinking when we pulled up here, I was with Mario and I said we haven't really in the last year or so been out in the state as much as we usually are. And I said what a great place to go is Owensboro where we've always got a great crowd. And look at this group this morning. 55 degrees out here and everybody's sitting and enjoying It.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, it kind of feels like it's. It's November. It's a little chilly out here today, but it's been a minute since we've been in Owensboro. We pretty regularly, but it's been a minute.
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Mario
This is your stomping ground here in Owensboro. Ryan went to Kentucky, Wesley in college.
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Ryan Lemond
K dub.
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Mario
That's right. K Dub. Drew, you know, the. Over the years, we've been here a lot for various things. I, you know, you got the. The barbecue festival is this weekend. Is that right? You got a lot of country music history, NASCAR history here in Owensboro. I was telling Mario as we drove in, Rex Chapman from here, and he said, really drove by French Lick. Where Larry Bird there by the exit for French Lick. A lot of history up this way.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, it's not my hometown, but not too far away, so have a lot of fond memories here, like Ryan and maybe even you. I didn't necessarily dress for this morning's weather. Had to borrow a coat from Dr. Skaggs over here. But it's a great crowd. Great to be here in Owensboro.
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Mario
I forgot. Forgot. I didn't think. I didn't know this would be outside, so I would have packed some different clothes. These are. These are Arizona clothes. Not exactly the same thing. And I didn't feel like I could pull out the suede jacket or maybe I should during one of the breaks and just wear that when. When we're doing it. Well, we are here at the Kentucky Skins Cancer center, and I have to tell you, I didn't really know what this building would be when I got here, but I got. It's much nicer than I would have even imagined here where Kentucky Skin Cancer center, they do check on to see if you have any potential dermatolog. Dermatological issues, but you could also get facials. It's also a wellness place. I mean, this is really, really nice here in Owensboro. And you have already gotten a facial this morning, right? Look younger than I can remember in a long time.
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Ryan Lemond
I know all of you keep saying I'm glowing, and I feel like I am glowing. It was wonderful. Crystal gave me my facial. It was wonderful. My first I've ever had. And I'm going to get more and more and more.
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Mario
Glow a little bit. That's good. I'm glad. Well, you know, I.
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Matt Jones
We.
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Mario
When we were in Arizona, there was a spa there that did facials. I have to tell you, I walked in the spa at the resort in Arizona. I think this one is just as nice and you can also get screened for skin cancer issues, etc. Billy had the doctor on. This is run by folks who went to UK and we thank you all very much. They call themselves the Chick Fil A of dermatology, which I don't know exactly what that means, but it means it's probably efficient and well run.
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Drew Franklin
Closed on Sundays.
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Mario
Closed on Sunday. The Lord. The Lord does not want a facial on Sunday.
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Drew Franklin
I also got a facial. I have to say I. That might have been the best nap I've had in years. I had to get up at 5am to be here. And the moment she hit that calming music and put the towel on me, it was night night. I'm not even entirely sure I know what happened, but it was an awesome experience.
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Mario
Well, let me first of all thank Mario. He picked me up at the airport at 11 o' clock last night in Cincinnati, Ohio. And we drove through the night to get here. Drove down to Louisville and then through southern Indiana. We were in the middle of southern Indiana, which if you've made that drive From Louisville to St. Louis on 64 before you get off, that is a really dark, desolate area. And then when you turn off the interstate before you get to the Owensboro gambling facility, that is a really dark area on that drive. And Mario just looked at me and goes, where are you taking me during all this? And I could see why. I'd forgotten. You know, normally we make that drive in daytime, but there is nothing between Louisville and Owensboro. A lot of. A lot of desolate space.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, once you pass Cordon, there is nothing. Even the exits don't have anything there. So you better make sure you got enough gas to get all the way to Ferdinand Dale, Santa Claus.
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Mario
And we barely did. And that's another thing. There's nowhere. There's nowhere to stop. So we pulled into the hotel there next to, I guess the Texas Roadhouse and I. We were on fumes, but we got here and glad to be here this morning after being in Arizona the other day. Ryan, there's a ton of stuff to go into, but I probably the biggest news again. Kentucky and the world waits till right after the show ends to break news. The new Pope was picked right after the show. First American Pope of all time. Couple things I found interesting about it. He's from Chicago.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Mario
The Cubs claimed him as a fan and then his brother went on TV and said, uh, he's not gonna say it, but he's actually a White Sox fan. The Cubs need to take it back. So the Cubs took an L Yesterday. And then he went to Villanova. Like, he just went to Villanova where he's. They showed his yearbook. First of all, people in the 70s looked a lot older when they were in College. He looked 45 in his yearbook. But his name is. Was just Bob. So Bob from Villanova is the new Pope. I find that really funny. Just Bob, who eaten Chicago pizza. And Villanova is your newest Pope.
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Drew Franklin
That was my biggest takeaway on the show earlier this week. We're reading the candidates and it's Pizza Balla and Pietro. And then we just end up with Bob. You know, Bob. Oh, Bob on the south side.
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Mario
Yeah. It's weird. They were interviewing his brother. He seemed like a normal guy. And I know at the end of the day, the Pope is just a human being, but there's something about just his brother sitting there in the background with a Walter Payton shirt, just being like, yeah, Bob. You know, we didn't think he was gonna be Pope. We just thought he was gonna be. I think his brother was a. Bob.
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Drew Franklin
He's in Florida. When he did that interview out there.
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Mario
Yeah, he's just hanging out. I'm sorry, I gotta go. Got tea time at 3:30. I gotta go. You know, it creates nuts.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm glad to hear him. They say he's a White Sox fan because there's no way a bunch of Cardinals would have hired a Cub fan.
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Mario
To be pooped for that one. Thank you.
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Ryan Lemond
Thank you very much. I'll be here all day.
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Mario
You know, it's funny, I could see your brain spinning the whole time I was talking. I thought you were going to make some inappropriate joke, and it was just stupid. But I guess the crowd seemed to like it, so there you go.
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Drew Franklin
But Shador Sanders also caught a lot of strays yesterday. If you're on Twitter, lots of memes. It took two days to pick a Pope, three days to draft Shadow Sanders, a lot of stuff like that.
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Mario
Oh, that's also a. Yeah. I'm not.
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Drew Franklin
I'm not encouraging it, but there was a lot of it.
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Mario
Yeah, well, the. I will say I watched. I watched on my phone. I watched the whole thing happen. And I'm not. I'm not Catholic, so, you know, it's. It doesn't have the religious significance, but I actually thought it was a really kind of powerful thing. All those people standing there. And then he comes out. He's clearly overcome with emotion. You know, they go into that conclave. We've watched that. The show. So we know.
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Ryan Lemond
We know about it.
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Drew Franklin
Pros.
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Mario
And he probably. He Wasn't even one of the top 10 choices on the board. He's like, rich strike, coming from behind at 80 to 1, and he gets it. That had to be, like, a crazy, overpowering moment. And I thought it was really neat watching all those people, you know, crying, just sitting there, standing there on the crowd. I thought it was really neat.
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Ryan Lemond
It is kind of powerful when you see. They interview the people that are there in St. Peter's Basilica, in the square, in the Vatican, and they're just falling because they just want to feel a part of what's going on. Election of a new pope, watch the smoke come out of the chimney. So it is kind of an.
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Mario
I saw the smoke. That felt like just regular smoke. I feel like if they're going to do it, they got to have better smoke. It felt like, literally, they may have just had a fireplace on. It didn't. I was expecting a huge plume of smoke. That really isn't how they do it.
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Drew Franklin
And I wondered, like, when he walks out for the grand reveal, does anyone at that point know who he is? Just so you're cheering, you're like, I don't know who that is.
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Mario
That Bob, that pizza baller. They were like, hey, wait a minute. That's Bob. We were in frat together in Villanova. How did he end up. How did he end up there? Well, it was. It was neat to watch. I don't remember there ever being this much interest in one before. Do you? I mean, in terms of, like, people talking about. It's got to be because of the.
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Ryan Lemond
Movie, because of the movie, the popularity of the movie. You know, it's. It's got a recycled again now. It's number one on Netflix or whatever the streaming service it's on. So it is kind of.
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Mario
But clearly somebody knew, because I don't know if you saw. You know, you could. You could gamble on it. There was somebody that bet $15,000 on him and ended up winning, like, $175,000 on him being picked. So I feel like they had a. They had a secret. There was some insider trading.
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Drew Franklin
I need conclave to. To investigate this. Like, is someone really on the inside, on their phone, stepping into a room and betting, or are they sending out, wanting a little bird out with a.
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Mario
Message, Significant amount of money. So congrats. And I know I saw Tony Vanetti and a couple of Catholic people write how powerful it was to them, so I hope they enjoyed it. Now, at the same time, it got overshadowed a little bit because it's not quite as important There was a, a decision that's not official, but it's kind of official coming that I think is huge for UK football. Some of the bet UK football has not had good news in the last three or four years or at least two or three years. I actually thought this was good news. The, the playoff committee has decided to probably go to 16 teams. Not next year, but the year after. So 25, 26. But the reason I think it's really good news for Kentucky is how they're going to pick them. They're going to be at least four SEC teams that are guaranteed a spot. Still. That's hard for Kentucky probably to make. But the, each conference has decided that when the championship game occurs with one versus two, the team that comes in third in the SEC will play the team that comes in six that weekend. The team that comes in fourth will play in the team that comes in fifth. And there's essentially a play in game for now for the playoffs. So if you are in the top six in the sec, you can have a chance at the playoffs. So you don't just have to come in the top four, you can come in the top six. And even if you lost that game, you could still get in as a wild card. But you know, Ryan, we've talked over the years, would Kentucky ever make the playoff in our lifetime? And the answer for me has generally been no. When they expanded it, I thought, well, in a perfect world maybe, but you're still looking at having to go nine and three or something like that. We've done that before. But sixth place. I've gone back through the years. Kentucky would have made the playoff that Josh Allen, Benny Snell year. We would have been in that play in game for the playoff that year. So I do feel like this is big news. There is, I do think there's a year where you have 10 teams or 12, you know, in a 10 or 12 year period where Kentucky could find themselves at least once in that spot.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm with you. For the first time ever, I think. I feel like there's a possibility Kentucky could make the football.
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Mario
Not this year. To be clear. I don't think it's happening this year, but I do think there is a year.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, you, like you mentioned that year they won 10 games. There's about a couple seasons where they were good enough and maybe they win a game here. There. Yes, they're in the conversation and now they've expanded the playoffs. It's absolutely a possibility. They get one of those good years that can make the Playoffs, I mean.
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Mario
There are eight conference games. There have been years where going five and three in conference could have. If you won the tiebreaker made you six. And you know, again, I don't think that's likely, but I do think Drew, for the first time, depending on how long we live, we might say see a year that we're in that, that playing game to get to play for a playoff.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I don't think we were ever going to get in with the current format. So anything that expands our opportunities, especially now when the postseason football, if you're not really in contention, it's. There's just more opt outs. It doesn't feel as meaningful as it used to unless you're in like a Citrus bowl, which we were lucky to have years ago. But anything to get us some extra football that matters with Kentucky. I think that'd be awesome.
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Mario
I think it's great news. Now are you just overall put Kentucky out of it. Do you like going to 16? I mean now you're going to make it to where the big programs really got to screw up to not make the 16. Do you think it makes the regular season less valuable?
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Ryan Lemond
I don't. I mean we kind of like tournaments. We like season ending tournaments and you know, by expanding it, we just get more opportunity to have good games. So I'm all for it. Absolutely.
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Mario
I mean, I thought last year, even though the playoff games weren't very good, it was exciting and people said the regular season would be devalued. I didn't feel like it was. It had highest ratings of all time. I mean, I just think we're a culture that likes tournaments. So why not make as big a tournament as you can let as me. I mean, last year you cared about Indiana regular season games, whereas you would not have otherwise. And that was because of the expanded playoff.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I loved it last year. I mean there are a few early blowouts that weren't that entertaining. But just even having a Cinderella with the opportunity like in Indiana, just think, I really, really think it adds to it. After we had however many years, it was Alabama and Clemson and Georgia opening the field. At least give some teams a chance to dream.
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Mario
Yeah, I totally agree with you. Now Shannon's going to join us in a minute. He is getting his facial right now.
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Ryan Lemond
It's so good.
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Mario
I asked Mario if he wanted one. Mario was like, no, I don't want that. You all got to talk him into it. Mario, Mario needs a facial. He's never. We had to get. We had to stay up late oh, see the doctor. He's gonna end up. There it is. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. Here at the Kentucky Skin Care center, it's ksr.
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Matt Jones
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Mario
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live. I just learned, I just learned news from my fellow horse owner here of Simply Joking that they're going to run in the Acorn Stakes at Belmont. That's good to see. We, we need to get the horse back. It's confidence, Drew. Need to get it back up. After that Oaks performance. It's. You don't want it to sit around and feel sorry for itself. Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
I think you're on the plane. When they got us all together and we voted last night by phone to make sure to keep it going, I logged a vote for you that we're sorry we missed you on that one, but we're very confident in the next steps.
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Mario
Very cool to see all the Kentucky shirts out here. This is honestly why the Kentucky fan base is so great. It is May, it is cold and it is a Friday and look and all of you guys out here in blue shirts, I mean, seriously, this is an, you know, there is, there is no other fan base and there is definitely no other radio show that would get a crowd like this. Thank you very much, the Kentucky Skin Care center for, for bringing us here. Also. I said this on social media, but signed to do another year at ESPN with Myron Metcalf on Sunday morning, which I'm excited about another year of Sunday mornings of not having the Sunday morning off. But I mean, I'm looking forward to it. Mario and I drove yesterday. When we got in the car in Cincinnati, Meyer Metcalf was on the radio. And when we got out, he was still on the radio and he was still talking about Steph Curry and he was still talking about Draymond Green. And I thought, man, when does that, that dude work than I do on this stuff?
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Drew Franklin
Maybe you'll have to bring him back for a merry Monday. I know everyone enjoyed him on these airwaves last summer too. He became a big part of the KSR group last summer.
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Mario
859-280-2287. Couple open lines, give us a shout. Take your calls. They just announced this morning it was broken. Unc Ryan has banned Bill Belichick's girlfriend from coming to practice anymore. So first of all, what, what an amazing. Just start. I, I like, you know, a story has reached out when like my mom is asking me about it. I mean, that this isn't, I mean this is amazing that this is become such a big thing now. Banned from practice. That was. Yeah, some people are disputing that, but Pablo Torre says for sure they interviewed people, you know, from where they met all this stuff. Still dating but banned from practice. What do you make about that part of the Belichick story?
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Ryan Lemond
I mean, it's something that absolutely needed to be done. It had become a circus and it was more about her and him than him in the football program. So he's there to do a job. That's to coach the football program, not babysit her.
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Mario
Oscar is. He wasn't babysitting.
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Drew Franklin
She was babysitting.
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Mario
Sounded like she was babysitting him. It is interesting how the story is flipped because when it first started, you remember it was like, what is this old 71, 72 year old dude doing with this woman? He's like manipulating her. And then it's completely flipped. Yeah. And now everybody thinks the opposite. They think the woman is almost manipulating him. Either way, he gets, she gets banned. Which you're kind of like a dean of UK history. You're no Oscar Combs, but you've been around a long time. You may not want to say the name, but has there ever been in your UK lore a wife or girlfriend that the university kind of had to say, hey, maybe we don't need you to be as around or as visible. Well, that means the answer is yes. So I would like to know. You don't say who, but you can tell the story? Because I don't, I don't really know of one.
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Ryan Lemond
I, I would, I would say that there was a person we all know that maybe was a high profile actress that maybe was told to maybe not be around as much. You know, some things were going on that maybe they weren't happy with.
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Mario
Well, first of all, way to keep it anonymous.
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Drew Franklin
I think you narrowed that down to one person.
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Mario
Way to keep it anonymous.
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Drew Franklin
Don't say her name.
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Mario
What a bizarre way to tell that story.
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Ryan Lemond
Okay, I think that was a distraction.
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Mario
That maybe they wasn't at practice, was it?
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Ryan Lemond
Definitely not at practice. Maybe in the dorm room after.
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Drew Franklin
It's getting worse.
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Mario
You know, you. You just turn your bike off. Ed Orgeron Drew at LSU had his girlfriend, and she was apparently coming to practice and, like, yelling at people at practice kind of what got him fired. So I guess I understand it, but again, I just want to think about what it's like at North Carolina. Can you imagine having to go to a man and saying, you cannot bring your girlfriend to practice anymore? I just. I can't imagine that.
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Drew Franklin
Especially when she's already on all the emails, cc'd on those. I just wonder at some point. He's obviously very lost in love right now. Good for him. He's. He's enjoying his relationship, but with all the criticism he's gotten from the CBS interview and now she's banned from the facility. At any point does he look in the mirror and he's like, maybe I am male. Little caught up in this. Too much.
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Mario
Did you see again, now this. We're getting into, like, gossip. But you know what the reality is, ma' am? Gossip is actually fun sometimes, to be honest with you. Apparently, Bill Belichick was doing a commercial. This is a quote again, this is according to the Pablo Tory stuff. He was doing a commercial that included having women in bikinis in the commercial. Now, let me just stop right there. How did he end up in that commercial? I know. Can you imagine Mark Pope in a commercial with women in bikinis? I don't know how that happened, but anyways, commercial women in bikinis. And the story is that Jordan, his girlfriend, got so jealous that Belichick might be distracted that she went and put a bikini on and then stood there for the rest of the time.
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Drew Franklin
Oh, poor Bill. That sounds terrible.
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Ryan Lemond
First of all, I want to be.
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Mario
In that commercial, but I mean that. It's. It's crazy, is it not?
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Drew Franklin
It's very crazy. I'm going to keep up with North Carolina football. Already have more than I ever have before or ever will. I want to know every movement that Bill in that program makes moving forward, especially if she's banned from the building. Because I, you know, just outside speculating here, I think that will only turn up her crazy little bit if she's not allowed to be around.
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Mario
I think that's probably fair. I think the emails are going to get. Get weird out on a current girlfriend now married. Colin Chandler got married yesterday.
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Ryan Lemond
How about that?
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Mario
The picture of the wedding, they look like a beautiful young couple. It was interesting to me. They got married On a Thursday, which morning? You know, a lot of people just have their wedding on a Thursday morning. But he is now married and it continues a trend. Ryan, We've seemed like we've had more married players on the team in the last few years than I remember going back in the day.
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Ryan Lemond
I mean, you have to go way back. I think if you find some basketball, UK basketball players that were married during the season, you know, like in the 70s, there have been some football players. But it seems like it is kind of odd for a basketball player to get married while they still have eligibility.
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Mario
You think that helps to be married? Keeps you from being distracted.
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Drew Franklin
Breakout year.
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Mario
I've watched you Drew Franklin change.
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Drew Franklin
You get laser focused.
- [23:13]
Mario
You do get focused, I expect.
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Drew Franklin
I already thought a bit big sophomore year was coming from him, but now he's just going straight home to his wife, probably early bedtimes. It's going to be like. It's kind of like when Billy Gillespie was married to Basket. Were so excited about that.
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Mario
You know, it'd be interesting. Billy Gillespie should have been married because he was not. He, he didn't. Certainly didn't act like he was married if he was. But I do. It'll be. It'll be interesting to see. You know, he won't be living in the lodge. Right. That's going to be different for. I think it would be funny if they made her move into the lodge, but they will not. So that's also different than most UK basketball players. I was trying to think of UK basketball players that didn't live in the lodge. Oscar Sheepway, again, going back to conversation we had the other day of what? Of that weird two years. Oscar Sheepway didn't live in the lodge the second year. And I don't know that I remember any player having done that besides him.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, that one year they re. They were redoing the lodge. The whole team had to live off campus. And I think that ended up being team turmoil that year.
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Mario
I mean, but Oscar was. Everyone else was in the lodge and he lived somewhere else again. I think that was part of what contributed to some of the problems that year. We'll take a break. Be right back here in Owensboro, Kentucky Skin Care center. This ksr welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the Kentucky Skin Care center right off of New Hartford Highway. They got. Kentucky Skin Care center is in Bowling Green. Franklin. What's the name of the other town in Mule?
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Drew Franklin
Powderly.
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Mario
Powderly. And here in Owensboro. And if you are here, this young lady right here will Take. You can make an appointment for, for future skin care. I think I'm gonna maybe try to get one right after the show is over. Shannon. It is coming from his facial. Did you love it?
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Shannon The Dude
Oh, it was awesome. You should definitely do it. I think I'm gonna have to come back again another time. It's. It's so relaxing.
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Mario
Makes it so good.
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Shannon The Dude
Well, you gotta go back there and find out for yourself.
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Mario
But they put all these different descriptions.
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Shannon The Dude
Well, they put serums on. Yeah. They exfoliate and they. I don't know. I don't know all the terminology. I just know that I feel like I'm glowing right now.
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Mario
Well, you are.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah.
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Mario
You have a beautiful glow.
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Ryan Lemond
And massage that lotion in your face. Then those little machines that come.
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Mario
Like a buffer, like a face buff also. So you could do that here. But also everyone should get checked for skin cancer. There's. I just saw recently woman I know lost her father to it. And that's. Early detection is key on that. Can just take a minute and, and they will check. So you could do that at all these as well. And the doctor and other folks here will, will help you. 859-280-2287 let's talk for a second Drew about Otega. O way he did an interview yesterday at an event in Portland in which he said, I am all into the draft. I'm not one foot in, one foot out. I have the year of eligibility if it doesn't work out. But I'm trying to make it work out. People read that as, oh no, maybe he's not coming back. Which would completely change the outlook of the team if that were the case. How did you read it?
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Drew Franklin
At first, just seeing that one sentence, I thought, oh no, that doesn't sound great. But also in the same interview, he acknowledged that if he doesn't have a first round projection, probably going back. So it just sounds like he's, he's making sure he's all in on the process and trying to even said I believe I'm first round, but it still sounds like if I'm first.
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Mario
Right.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. No one gives him that promise. I think he would be back. But I mean it, it shows how committed he is to trying to go.
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Mario
Yeah, I mean I, I've seen a lot of people online, Ryan panicking about that. Here's what I would say. If you're interviewing for a job, what's the one thing you don't want to say at the job interview? You. I'm not sure if I want this job or not. Right, like you don't want to say that. So this dude, if he's going to go through the NBA process, he has to say I want to be in the NBA draft. No team is going to draft him when he's like, I don't know, maybe I'm going to go back to college. So I, I, to me that's a statement that he has to make. I've been told by folks at uk, unless he knows he's a first round pick, he's back. Reason being he will make more money here than he will make as a first. As a matter of fact he probably would make more money here than he would if he was picked at the end of the first round. But I think with the, if you're at the end of the first round, you still get a guarantee of three or four years. So he would probably enter in the draft, but he's a second round pick. He'll make twice, maybe even triple the money he will make here as he would in college. So at that as the pros. So I'm going to assume he's coming back. But I think he has to say that if he wants to really be.
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Ryan Lemond
Considered, he's got to say the right thing because maybe he does impress somebody and maybe they will take him as a first round pick. So he's got to say the right things in these interviews, he has to. But I did see some of the conspiracy theorists are out there. Well that's why Mark Pope went and got Aberdeen because they know Otega always not coming back.
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Mario
No, if we were to lose, if we were to lose Otago way, we'll go get somebody else. I mean I think there's, I think there's a really good chance if away were to leave, we're gonna seem some magical European fall out of the sky. Which happens by the way all the time. Just magical Europeans fall out of the sky. But no, I mean if we were to lose him, we'll go get somebody else. This roster is complete. Assuming always there, if always not there, they're one player short. And I know they'll go find somebody. And the good thing about this nil era is you can take good dudes who play pro basketball and there are an infinite amount of dudes in Europe that played pro basketball you can find.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. And I think the plan all along is for him to be back. If he gets a surprise guarantee and someone convinces him to stay. You can also still go shopping and you will have a lot of money to spend because they put A lot aside for him to come back and if he were to not return, you could go out and get somebody really good.
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Mario
What? That. That's another great point. Otega is going to be the highest paid player on this. I don't know his exact amount of money. I'm going to ballpark, and this is just a guess. Yes. I'm not saying this. I have no idea exactly what. But let's just say it's a three million dollar thing. That's. That's where my mind would be on it. It's three, maybe three and a half. All these dudes that are left in the portal, you could get any of them with that amount of money.
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Ryan Lemond
Get all of them.
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Mario
I mean, you could get any of them that you couldn't get all of them. But, like, think about who's still in the portal. All right, R.J. lewis Jr. The kid from St. John, still in the portal. P.J. hagerty, the nation's leading scorer last year, still in the portal. I think if Shannon, if. Oh, wait left, you could get any of those guys and. And, you know, so there's still, I think, plenty of time if things. I still want a way back. I want him more than I want any of the rest of them. But you could go find a replacement. Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
With that kind of money, you could get whoever you really want out there in the portal. I don't really see a scenario where he would go first round this year, but if he came back in Kentucky and had a really good season, I could see a scenario where he snuck into maybe the, you know, the last picks of the first round.
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Mario
And why would you get picked the first round? Until he shows he can consistently shoot three.
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Shannon The Dude
Sure.
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Mario
I mean, that's ultimately, I think his athleticism pretty good. He showed up, but he's. Unless he's consistently shooting, he's not gonna get picked. And that's what he has to show.
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Shannon The Dude
But he ends up, let's say, in the second round this year, you're gonna end up in the G League more than likely. And would you rather be in that situation or come back to Kentucky, compete for a national title and make a lot of money?
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Mario
The money part is the crazy thing, like for all of us that, you know, grew up thinking you couldn't even make a dollar. The idea that you could make more money in college, but that's gonna keep happening. I mean, a lot of these dudes that are returning. P.J. hagerty from Memphis, why is he coming back? He's coming back because he can make more money in college than he can in the NBA. That's. That would not have been the case.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. When this started, we knew it would change the fringe players, like, away. You know, some of the Cal players left when they didn't need to because they just had to go get. If it was second round, you couldn't get paid.
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Mario
Some of the guys that would have come out.
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Drew Franklin
He's a good example of what, what the. That type of player.
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Mario
You go back over the years. Think about some of the guys that would have come back. Like a dude like Jared Vanderbilt. Yes, Right. Like, that's a guy. Dakari Johnson. That's a guy who would have come back. The Harrison twins might have come back. Perfect example. Those are the kind of guys that, if this rule existed before, would have been here longer. Who's up first? John is up first.
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Drew Franklin
John.
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Mario
Go ahead, John.
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Drew Franklin
Switching topics here.
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Mario
UK football, it looks like kind of building more so for the future than.
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Drew Franklin
It is for next year.
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Mario
He's looking more so, like it's gonna be like a 2 and 10 or.
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Drew Franklin
4 and 8 season.
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Mario
I would assume he survives. Wait, hang on just a second. If he goes, I. I'd go. If he goes 2 and 10, it's over. There's no planning for the future. If he goes 2 and 10. Yeah. Those two, as you just said, do not go together. He's planning for the future. And if he goes 2 and 10, if he goes 2 and 10, he will not be the coach here the next year. If he goes 4 and 8, I think it's still going to be hard for him to be the coach. But if he goes to a 10, it's over.
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Shannon The Dude
Is five the magic number? Does he have to get the five to keep I think his job?
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Mario
Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think he has to get to five, which, by the way, is not easy. I mean, finding the five schedule, finding the five wins on the. On the schedule is not easy. But to answer your question, if he goes 2 and 10, he will not be the coach the next year. Well, in that case, then I have a second question. Why is he going for a lot of players that are younger in the transfer portal and constructing his roster for like, players that would develop into good players, but they are not good players currently because they. Because football is very different than basketball in the sense of you don't. Kentucky doesn't have the resources to go too deep with dudes they can pay a lot of money for. Kentucky has the resources to have a starting 22. That's good. But when you get into that second string, I mean Alabama and Georgia, Drew don't have the resources to have a deep second string. That's why these guys end up in all these other schools. We certainly don't. So when you see us get a kid, appreciate the call. Like the wide receiver from smu. We're doing that because we, we don't. We're not going to be able to go get a star to be our fifth string wide receiver.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. And I've seen people being critical of these last three or four guys they've added in the last week, but these are. He's just trying to fill out a roster in the, in the world of college football. Now, Bush Hampden even said this this morning. Tom Leach, if guys aren't top three on the depth chart, they leave or used to just have someone stuck there. They're on your third team, your practice squad, they could practice. Some of these additions, you just have to get anyone that's interested in coming taking a spot without needing a lot of money or having high expectations.
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Mario
Let's talk about. To answer his question, Ryan, 2 and 10 done. Right.
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Ryan Lemond
There's no way he can survive 2.
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Mario
And 10, 3 and 9. Which means beating Toledo. Done.
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Ryan Lemond
You're pushing it. That means you're winless in the sec.
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Mario
And lost to Louisville.
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Ryan Lemond
And lost to Louisville.
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Mario
That's. You're done.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah.
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Mario
All right. Six and six, you're fine.
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Ryan Lemond
Yes.
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Mario
So what about four and eight?
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Ryan Lemond
That's tough too. That's a three.
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Mario
Four and eight would be beat Toledo and then maybe beat Vandy, maybe Louisville, maybe four. You know, something like does it depend.
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Shannon The Dude
On how you get those four?
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Mario
Yeah. I mean if you lose a ton of close games.
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Shannon The Dude
So there's a scenario to where you could win four, play like, you know, Florida really tough.
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Mario
There's a scenario where I would make the case that you could keep your job at 4. But I could. I don't know if our fan base.
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Shannon The Dude
They won't tolerate that. I don't.
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Mario
I think our fan base is in a different world right now where they're like, you better go win some. That's just how I see it. It's normally, I would say I feel like I and the fan base are kind of in the same page on when it's time for a coach to go. I think a lot of fans wanted Cal gone one year before I did. I kind of wonder if that's going to happen again with stuff Stoops where he might go 4 and 8 or 5 and 7 and Drew, I'd say maybe we give him another chance. And there's a lot of fans who just say though, yeah, and I think.
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Drew Franklin
He'S got to get to a bowl game. I mean just the way you just said about you got to beat Toledo and Vandy. That sounds like the era Stoops inherited from Joker. Barely one of those games. I know the schedule is extremely tough now. In the 50, 50 games, the Missouri's and South Carolinas are in a much better spot. And so much of your success was beating those teams. But I think even, even a five win team, it's going to be. Fan base is going to have a hard time.
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Mario
What you think about that schedule? Start with Toledo. Everybody says Toledo is good. I got a feeling that we're going to end up winning that game by more than people because we're just going to hear how good Toledo is. And then we end up being. That second game though is Ole Miss at home. That's going to be the most important game for Mark Stoops in like six or eight years. Then the next game is like Eastern Michigan. Let's assume we win that, then we go to South Carolina in the next one. All right. That two game stretch. Ole Miss at home, South Carolina on the road. Win or lose, we better be competitive in those games.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah.
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Mario
Because if we're not, our fan base is going to be checked out. I genuinely think that like those two games, whether we win or lose, we have got to be competitive.
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Shannon The Dude
We're also tired of losing to South Carolina. That was a game that we felt like and they did for years win that game. Now it's like we've fallen behind and now South Carolina is getting us every year. Those are those pivotal games on the schedule that you have to win.
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Mario
I, yeah, I, I think that that old Miss game is like if I'm Mark Stoops, I'm spending my whole off season getting ready. And even though they won last year, I think it's going to be huge.
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Drew Franklin
He's gonna want that one real bad.
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Mario
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Shannon The Dude
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Mario
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Shannon The Dude
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Mario
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Shannon The Dude
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Mario
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, you.
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Mario
I thought it was only, like, bougie girls that drank matcha. You. You do as well.
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Shannon The Dude
Well, you know, when I went to New York City, Sarah would always go to this little place called Cha Cha Matcha. And you've probably seen him before. And now she's kind of got me drinking these.
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Mario
Good for you.
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Drew Franklin
You should go to the OVW locker room and let him know he's getting facials and drinking matches.
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Mario
That's right.
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Shannon The Dude
I'll kick the butt while I get a facial.
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Mario
Tell. Tell Mount Kadeem what a man you are. 859-280-2287. We have some breaking news, Rick. Oh, don't get too excited.
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Ryan Lemond
There it is.
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Mario
You remember the story we've been talking about the last couple weeks? Weeks? The pickleball courts at Joe Crease and Park. Yes. Mayor Craig Greenberg just announced they are pulling the project that there will be no pickleball courts thanks to community outrage in Louisville. How about that? Community rises up, and they end up stopping a development that they didn't want.
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Shannon The Dude
Power to the people. I always wonder, like, does that ever really matter when people come out and voice their opinion, or are they just wasting their time?
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Drew Franklin
Time.
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Shannon The Dude
Clearly, in this case, they were.
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Mario
Case it mattered. And thank goodness. Down with pickleball. All right.
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Shannon The Dude
I'm just glad that, you know, they're listening to what the people actually have to say. I think that there's something to be said for that.
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Mario
You know, I mean, I'm biased towards Craig because he's my friend, and I. I'm gonna take up for him because I know where his heart is. But I will say this. You know, Pete, I've seen people say well, he's flip flopping. I think it's good if like, like somebody makes a decision and then people say we don't want it and then they change their mind. Like we shouldn't say that. When people flip flop, that to me is you don't really have a position. You just kind of whatever. I think that's bad. But if you change your mind because people, you know, ultimately the mayor or the governor or president is supposed to do what the people want. Yeah. People don't want it, then that's the way I feel.
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Shannon The Dude
Like too many times, once, you know, political figure gets in office, they do whatever they want. They don't listen to the people. And I commend Craig Greenberg for listening.
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Mario
So good for that. Did you hear the story about the woman in Kentucky, Ryan, whose child ordered $70,000 or 70,000 dum dum suckers off of Amazon and she came home and there were 70,000 suckers on her porch that her kid accidentally ordered or didn't accidentally. The kid did it on purpose. But she, she ended up with big.
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Ryan Lemond
Story in Lexington yesterday. I'm just so thankful my son wasn't the one that ordered all those dumb, dumb suckers.
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Mario
Couple things that surprised me on it. First of all, if you told me how much would 70,000 suckers cost, I probably would have thought it was more than $4,000. I think she got a bargain actually.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah, she bought in bulk.
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Mario
I do wonder, does Amazon not see that order? Drew and go, I don't know. Maybe. Does this person want really 70,000 suckers?
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Drew Franklin
They probably thought she was a bad bank. Oh, just the bank getting their quarterly order here. I did see Amazon told her to hit cancel and it would be okay, but the driver had already put it on the porch and closed out the order and was like, well, they're on your porch now. Too bad.
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Shannon The Dude
How big is that?
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Drew Franklin
They just didn't get in front of it in time. Oh, it was. They were stacked by. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of boxes.
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Mario
So. So what's she gonna do with them now?
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Shannon The Dude
Halloween?
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Drew Franklin
I think they, I think they agreed to take it back.
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Mario
Well, they did agree to take it back, I think.
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Ryan Lemond
Okay, not all of them, but like maybe three fourths of it or something.
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Mario
Well, they only take 50, 000 of them back.
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Drew Franklin
So the kid still wins. The kid still wins.
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Mario
Well, I, I didn't. The mom said I need to have better security on my phone. You think?
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Shannon The Dude
Why would you give your kid your.
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Mario
Phone to begin with? I can't get my phone to work. Most of the time I hold my face up there and I'm like, I'm here. Will you please open it? How in the world did the kid do that?
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Ryan Lemond
Well, anytime we have electronics, we don't know what to do. Your 5 year old can figure it out better than we can right now. They know how to do everything.
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Mario
70,000 dum dum suckers.
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Ryan Lemond
What a story. What's a great story?
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Mario
It is amazing. Amazing. Who's up next? Brian is up next. Brian. Go ahead, Brian. Hey, guys.
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Ryan Lemond
Did anybody.
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Mario
The British ladies that had just happened to have a vacation to Rome when the Conclave met? No. No, I didn't. What did they just. I mean, I'm sure there were a lot of people that just happened to be in Rome when that happened. They got. They have a ton of visitors every week. Yeah, I was wondering if.
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Ryan Lemond
If any of you all had a trip that coincidentally lined up with, like, some big historical event.
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Mario
That's a good question. Well, I was in last summer. I was in Madrid when Spain won the World Cup. I just happened to be in Madrid, and so I got to dance in the streets with the Spanish people all night. They had an amazing party. I mean, like, Madrid is the size of New York City. And people who've been to New York, imagine if the whole city just breaks into a party everywhere. And that's kind of what it was like in Madrid. So that was. That's probably the closest I've had. Drew, you had something like that.
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Drew Franklin
Think about those women that went to Nashville for a bachelorette party during the NFL draft.
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Mario
Yeah. They were not happy.
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Drew Franklin
I'm going to D.C. next weekend. I couldn't figure out why my room was three times, but it should be. But it's like the 50th anniversary of Pride and I'm staying right in the middle of it.
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Mario
That's perfect for you. Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
It's not really why I'm going, but I guess I'll be part of that next weekend.
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Mario
Well, if you see. If you see our man Drew wearing, I'll be around living his best week. You'll know why that is. 859-280-2287. We are here at the Kentucky Skin Cancer center right after. Right off New Hartford Highway. We'll be right back. The CS Kentucky Sports Radio New Hartford Road.