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Stockton Mortgage NMLS 8259 equal housing lender nmlsconsumeraccess.org welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Here in Shelby county at the little Crooked Creek style safari, enjoying a hot day. It's Kentucky office of highway safety KSR Safe summer driving Tour. We have. This was our third location. We went to Kenton County. We were at a place in Lexington and now Shelby county. And we just saw there's a zebra. They said the zebra is a loner, doesn't like to interact with the other animals, but seemed to like Mario. So that was nice. Yeah, I guess you got to keep some of these animals separated. Might fight a little bit. I learned a lot during the break. Yes, it's the zebra. The camel can't be in the same place. Remember our friend Chris Tomlin used to write an article called Animal Friends. He could come up here and write Animal Enemy. He would write, he wrote for National Geographic for kids and he would write about animals that were friends with each other that, that you wouldn't think would be friends. Not going to be the case with this camel and zebra. He could learn a lot here. I like that Mario's getting along with the zebra. Did the zebra have a name? Did we learn that? What's the zebra's name? Zebra would have been better. Zebra. You like zebra? Brody the zebra. That's it. So do, do all these animals, you have names for all of them? Oh, they lend themselves. So you like, look at them and go, that camel looks like a bob. Okay, so what is like that one? What's that? What's that? That's poppy. Okay, well, if there's anything not named, I think we'd be glad to name one of them if you want. If. No, he's not, he's not into that. I think he would have done it before I told him I didn't vote for Trump. I think that probably tried to unplug the equipment when he found that out. Yeah, I think that probably I think that probably did it was I saw he's not a regular listener so I think I could tell when I gave him that he was like who? How did I let these people up my porch but got to get the hell out of here. His son in law's one set it up McKenzie. He kind of did. McKinsley conveniently didn't tell him that fact which I totally understand. I get it. All right before I go the phones 859-280-2287 tell me about this quarterback. We have a four Potatoski we have a four star quarterback that is ranked number nine in America. The ninth best quarterback in America that multiple people are saying is going to pick Kentucky within the next week. My guess is would pick Kentucky before this July 1st thing. My guess is the idea that they want to do it before these rules come into place. I don't know that but that's my guess. Get to July 1st then all of a sudden the rev sharing rules apply. So potentially over the weekend or something would end up picking Kentucky. On paper this seems amazing and a little crazy that the ninth best quarterback would pick us. Give me a little bit about him. That'd be a huge get could really pop pop any moment. He's really Kentucky and Oregon are the two finalists. Oregon just got a commitment yesterday which makes us feel even more comfortable. But Alabama was in his final m went to the Elite 11 camp earlier this week and really shined. Won the MVP but was in the conversation for it early. He's also a two sport star. I think that's what's helped Kentucky so much as they've played up the baseball aspect too. There's also a chance he gets drafted really high and just goes the baseball route. But this would be one of the bigger commitments in a long time. I know it's hard for people to get excited about things on down the road with Kentucky football when we have the season in front of us but this would be one of the biggest quarterback gets that they've had. I mean the number nine ranked quarterback not from Kentucky. When's the last time we've had a dude ranked this high not from Kentucky commit as a quarterback commit as a freshman. There's. I don't know there's ever been one top 10 quarterback. When's the last time a freshman even I mean ended up playing where was was Morgan Newton Top 10? He was pretty high. Yeah I don't know if he was up in Indy he but I mean we're the fact that we can't we don't know. I mean, this doesn't happen very much. I think the baseball thing is part of it. Yeah. Mingyon and Stoops have kind of worked together. This is an interesting thing. I wonder if we'll see this more often. From what I've been told, maybe pooling their rev share money and saying, you can get some of our baseball money and you can get some of our football money, which might lead to him being offered more than he could have to play one sport at Oregon. Kind of creative. Yeah, he's an elite baseball player. He's a very good baseball player. Kind of creative. If I like that idea. What do you think about getting a guy who literally I think is projected? He could be like a top three round baseball player, like third or fourth round. Getting both the top three or four round baseball player and a quarterback. That's top ten. That would be. I mean, that's a huge thing for both UK football and baseball. I think if you're a place like Kentucky, you have to do something creative like that. If you're going to try to get a top 10 quarterback play on him, let him think that, you know, he could maybe do both sports. But I think the big fear is he's going to get drafted and not play college football or college baseball at all. I mean, he's that good. Well, we'll know. I mean, the draft is coming up here a couple weeks. I think the baseball draft. Kentucky, since Vince Merrow left, they're on fire. Has gotten eight from football commitments. I mean, when Vince left, we were down to two and one of them decommitted. So really one and they've gotten eight in the two weeks since he left. That's clearly a message, Drew. They're clearly trying to get this done. They're also focusing on Texas. Most of the players they're getting are from Texas. What do you make of all that? It's pretty crazy. When the official visit season started at the beginning of June, they had one commitment and they were the only Power 4 school in any of the big conferences that only had a single commitment at that point. Next year's class, now they're already in double digits. You mentioned Texas. They've cast a wide net. We're used to seeing Kentucky and Ohio. When you go down the list, it is everywhere. They got another Michigan player, a tight end, got some out of Georgia, double dipped in Texas. They got a Texas defensive lineman yesterday. That's a good addition. It started a little slow with some players where you're like, is this really the caliber we want, but the last four or five have been really big gets. And Ponotoski could be around the corner at any moment. Well, you got to give uk. I mean, we thought recruiting was done with Vince gone. They've seemed to bounce back and we're starting to see some other guys. That's good. That's a positive, great Marketing move on UK's part as Vince Lee's. Boom. Get all these guys to commit right now and then, boom, one after the other after the other. Kind of get that momentum back that maybe they had lost. When Vince left. In Pontoski's interview, he said he liked the culture at Kentucky. What do we think about that? Really? Yeah. Said he like use the C word saying culture. Look good. What if they told him to say, like, hey, brag on our culture. Say culture. Or maybe he really saw something. But that was such an emphasis on it made an impression with him. Hope it was. Listen, I'm excited. I. We are to the point and you're going to hear me say this a lot between now and September. We are to the point that sort of complaining and being upset will only do so much. We got to get as excited about this year as we can because it is what it is at this point. There's no reason to just be miserable. I kind of feel like. I don't know if you saw the gm, The Myers guy was with Stephen A. Smith, and Stephen A. Smith was complaining about the Knicks or whatever, and he said, look, this the NBA draft. Can we be positive about these guys since this. Since once they're picked, they're picked. I kind of agree with him. I sort of feel that way about UK football now. Like, we might as well be positive. This is what we've got. Yeah. And all the complaints have been fair. But I think you do have to give them credit for what they're doing recruiting, especially if they land a stud quarterback for the future. Whatever you think the future looks like, you at least had to pat him on the back for recruiting in June. Right now. Yeah. Who's up next? Shan? Free Bird. Free Bird. Go ahead. Hey, guys. Greetings from Trig County. All right. Hello. You were talking about earlier. I think about like the games before Louisville, how disaster it would be that they don't get crowds. Then why do they still changing the rules for tailgating and pissing all the fans off? They don't want to come to this. Don't you think it could be a start there somewhere about that for a minute? So they made some New rules about tailgating. I appreciate the call. I read the rules. I mean, what is the difference? Just that they're making people put their name tags on. I feel like the only thing I noticed, and I wasn't in the weeds of it, but it looked like just tagging your tent and maybe put a date. Yeah. Yeah. Instead of just the free for all that it's been. I expected it to be worse when I read the story writing me saying they were upset about the changes. But then when I looked at the changes, I couldn't figure out what they'd be upset about. It seemed like the only rule was that you had to put your name, address and phone number on your thing, which, I mean, I guess I don't feel like that's crazy to say. Put your name, address and phone number. If it blows away, they'll know who it is because we already put else about it. No, I mean, there's changes coming that weren't part of what was written yesterday about, you know, they're bringing in some of those corporate tents. Might moves people around. RV lot has complaints. But that story, I think Roush wrote it yesterday. I expected there'd be more in it that people be mad about. It didn't seem that bad. Well, I mean, this year, you know, we've talked a lot about how the. The tailgating culture and all that, how bad it's gotten or how much they've changed. This is going to be the year that will tell the tale of it, because in the last few years, we've either been good enough or the opponents were good enough that people's kind of got over it. This year, if the experience of going to the game is not pleasant, people are not going to go. I mean, I think that's just. I think that's just a fact. So we're going to see in these various games, when we play Florida or when we play Tennessee, we're going to kind of see. See where people are. And at some point, UK has. I feel like I say this till I'm blue in the face. UK has got to prioritize the fan experience better. I think they did. They're doing better than they did three years ago, but it's still not. I don't think anybody sits there and says, well, let me put it a different way. I feel like people in at UK take as a given that people are coming. Okay. They take as a given that people are coming and then adjust accordingly. I think they're going to have to start doing things to ensure that People want to come, period. Right. And I think that's something that really hasn't been their mindset in the last decade. It's going to be more prevalent on a season like this season when they're the. Not the winds aren't on the field. They've got to make something for the fans. I mean, season tickets are already down. I mean, so what if they come out and they struggle? They lose a couple early games? People are going to be more orange in there for Tennessee and Texas than there will be blue, I think. Oh, I worry about that. You look at the Tennessee and Texas game. I mean, just take Texas. Texas has never been here. Okay. Texas has the richest fans. There's no fan base that is richer in the SEC than Texas. I'm not sure if people realize how wealthy the Texas University of Texas is. They are probably the wealthiest public school in America with their alumni. They've never been here. Lexington is a lot nicer of a place to go than a lot of places. You can go in the sec. Then throw in it's the middle of October. It's during Keeneland, which you know will get out there. Then throw in that they're good enough to potentially win a national championship this year. This might be the best Texas team they've had since Vince Young put all that in there. We are looking at a Texas takeover when they come. If our team is not playing at a level. I mean, you could literally get a situation where there's more Texas people than there are Kentucky. That is not a crazy scenario at all. We're getting the Texas takeover. You mentioned Keeneland. They still have that excitement about just being in the sec, even though it's already have a year under their belt. It's all these new destinations. They get to go. Lexington has become a huge tourist place. I don't know if y' all have noticed, but if you read any kind of those magazines that ranked places, Lexington has really shot up the list of places to visit. So I think Texas is coming in strong. That'll be a Matthew McConaughey game. I'm sure we'll see him around town. You know, I didn't think about that because his dad played here. Yeah. So his dad played at Kentucky and he's a Texas fan. If you're Matthew McConaughey, you're coming to that game, right? Texas wants this trip bad. They're going to completely take over. It'll be burnt orange everywhere. Well, just like you went down to Texas last year, fans like to go to a place They've never been. That's why I think it'll be a big Texas swarm in the. In the Kroger field when they play. By the way, the. Apparently the quarterback baseball player. I obviously I said the draft was in two or three weeks. He's in the next year's draft, so he will not be. Got a little more high school. Yeah, he's got one more. One more year of high school. I listen, it would be good for Stoops if he gets that commitment. Yeah. Not a lot of good news around Stoops. If they get that. I know the rules about signing and how much you can play it up. But you got to really, if you're looking forward to the future past this season, build around that kid because that's. You don't get many quarterbacks like that. I know Stoops doesn't use them. When's the last time we used a freshman commitment quarterback? But that's. That'll be a big get if they pull it off. One person writes. Matt, I've never had an argument in our family like the argument about Drew's catch up comment last night. My daughters are mad about it. My wife is mad about it. For what it's worth, I agree with Drew. But not eating ketchup has caused major problems in our family. I've got a lot of feedback about the ketchup. I don't feel like I said anything wrong. I'm not taking it back. He even said himself his daughters like ketchup. I assume they're probably young. Probably under the age of 12. Sorry to the wife, but I stand by it. I had a few people on my side who there were more than I thought I would have gotten. But I did hear from a lot of people who adore ketchup. You haven't. You haven't eaten today. You said you don't eat till noon. Are you holding out till our food thing at 2:30? So you're gonna be really hungry like you're. You haven't. You. You haven't eaten at all. Yeah. All right. Mario texted me about ketchup on the show. He was in Louisville. He was upset. Yeah. Did you get any feedback from your unpopular opinion or. No. Nobody got mad at me. Okay. I don't. I'm not sure. None of our bosses. I didn't know if the phone would ring on that one or not. I will say this. I didn't get one. One. This is all the folks at UK need to know. Every unpopular opinion that was said. Drew's ketchup one. Mario's breakfast one. What was yours? Tik tok. Tik tock one. Shannon, what was yours? Kentucky's football, six wins. Kentucky football, six wins. All four of those got people writing saying they disagreed. You know what no one took up for the UK pregame and post game shows. Not one person wrote me and said, man, they are awesome. Don't touch a thing. 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Did you hear the story about Hugh Freeze and what they did at Auburn? All right, so there's been some, I don't know if you Freeze hasn't been recruiting well or but there's been some fan discontent. So they looked up, someone wrote on a message board for Auburn, Hugh Freeze has been playing golf every day and not working. And you know, it got got its own life. So like the way people sometimes been given Mark Stoops a hard time here, they were doing with Hugh Freeze. So then somebody did an ingenious thing. Do you know what they did? I do. I saw this great reporting. They went on the USGA site to find the handicaps for golf. And every time you play golf, if you want to keep up your handicap, you report what your score was. And they found that Hugh Freeze had played golf 10 times in 15 days in June. And the Auburn fans are now like, he's not working. He's played 18 holes of golf 10 times in 15 days. I'll note Mark Stoops, no golf. Zero golf. Zero golf in June. Motivated had played a little bit May. No golf in June. Hugh Freeze, 10 and 15 days. If you found out your coach played 18 holes of golf 10 times in 15 days, is that too much? It is too much because June is maybe one of the most crucial months for football recruiting. It's a camp session. It's make you make your visits in June is like huge when it comes to football recruiting. So, you know, I've got family members that are big Auburn fans. They ain't happy with Hugh Freeze down there doing this. JFK once said, you show me a man that's good at golf, really good at golf, I'll show you man that's neglecting something in his life meaning either his family or his work. I always thought that was an interesting quote. Hugh Freeze, would you be upset if you found out our coach had done 10 or 15 days golf? I would. First of all, I believe this is AL.com. got to give them huge credit for this. That's pull up worthy. Yeah. Because you can go into the USGA system and just look up golfers. Never would have thought to look up college football coaches in the south. But they had four or five that they found and reported on that. As you mentioned, Stoops playing the least. But I could see why fans would be a little upset. Yeah, there are some months where, okay, I need my coach to go recharge. He's earned some golf. But it's camp and visit season right now. Shannon upset if you're fan. Yeah. I mean, could you imagine if Stoops were out there and we found out he was golfing 10 out of 14 days or whatever it was? It's not like Auburn's good either. What were they, five and seven last year? There was a game in the last couple years where there were rumors that Stoops had played. That morning before the game, someone leaked a photo where there is a tea time under his name which could have been him setting it up. It was him setting it up for a friend. But there were people very angry. We were about to play, we had a game at night and he had a tee time at like 9am Someone had taken a picture. But it turned out that he was setting it up for friends that were in town at his country club. But I, I actually think Auburn fans have a legitimate 10 out of 15 days. Like you said, Ryan, in June, which is big for college football recruiting. June for college basketball, kind of an off time. But June for college football is big. Yeah. If you'd made the Final Four, even the playoffs, May we cut you a little slack. But man, when you're struggling, you're fighting for your job almost. You need to be out there in the recruiting trail in the month of golf during the dead period. For crying out loud. You can't golf during June like that. I haven't golf 10 times in three years and I just work at home in my pajamas and talk to you guys. How is he able to do it, by the way? From now on, they'll just not report their score. Oh, they're done. They'll use fake names in the handicap system, by the way. It's easy. Just pick up the ball and don't report the score. It's much. It's much easier to do that. Who's up next? Scott. Scott. Go ahead, Scott. Hey, I think at the end of the year, we're going to have a really good football team. I think the. The wins may not. It started back at Matt Elam and if you'll look our best years, he developed two and three stars. And I think he's just better suited to be able to take some guys that may be hungry and have something to prove. And I actually think that there'll be an improvement this year and that maybe next year when he gets his guys back in there that he's comfortable with, I think that the football team might turn around. Okay. So I appreciate the call. Again, if you want to be optimistic A la Shannon, six weeks, six win. Shannon, about football, you would say Mark Stoops has always done the best. When he has. When he's kind of being underplayed, when he's being dismissed, when he has guys that sort of aren't as, you know, aren't as strong a players, he usually coaches them up. I mean, is there an argument that that could happen this year? There's probably a little bit to that. I completely agree that Stoops is a guy who probably likes to play from behind a little bit whether than with the recruit he's trying to develop or being told he can't do something. That's usually when he's at his best is when his back's against the wall and he's the underdog. Motivated. Yeah, when he's motivated, like right now, when he put his golf clubs in the attic for the year and is focused on recruiting. Yeah, I agree. I mean, his. Some of his best players were completely under the radar. I don't know if UK was listening to the show, but UK put a picture right after we talked about him being thin and like how Cal looked like they put a picture out of him looking really thin. And I thought first of all, they were listening when they put that out. But he did look good. I mean, Stoops is. Stoops puts on and loses weight a lot and he looks thin. He looks kind of like, I don't want to use the Word. But he looks like he's kind of, like, ready to rock. Get his swagger back a little bit, man. The whole season to me, depends on Calzada. He's got to be good for this team to be good. You know, Vandergriff kind of struggled last year. The team struggle. Year before that, Leary kind of struggled a little bit. The team struggled. If Calzada is good, this team can maybe could pull out some wins. We don't think they can. I think he'll be an upgrade no matter what. Yeah. I just worry about it, who he's throwing to. Shannon, I'm a little upset at our friend Tony Vanetti. Would you like to know why? What happened with you? I seen him in a couple months. Ran into him yesterday, and he came up to me and he goes, dude, are you like, take. You're taking Ozempic, aren't you? I was like, I've just lost weight. And he was like, no, you don't have to lie to me. You've taken oic. I'm like, can't you just give me credit for loses? Why you got to say I'm taking Ozempic? And he was like, you're not. And he wouldn't believe me. And so people are saying the same thing about Mark Stoops. They're like, oh, he's just taking Ozempic. I feel like that's a bad thing about Ozempic. Like, I'm. I'm proud of myself. I've lost weight. Don't be telling me I took Ozempic. Tony Vanetti and I feel like Mark Stoop should say the same thing. Unless he took Ozempic. At which point then he can't say, I don't think he's taking Ozempic. He's in the lab. They have all that exercise equipment over there. He's probably doing three a days. And I don't like Tony, who I heard was wearing a backwards hat yesterday, downplaying, walking around with his backwards hat telling me I'm taking Ozempic. Turn your hat around, Tony. Be proud of who you sell. That's right. We'll take a break. I mean, not there's anything wrong with taking Ozempic, but we'll be right back. It's ksr. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj. He'll make him pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. Stop overpaying for sunglasses. If you're tired of buying expensive sunglasses only to lose, go To Shady Rays. American owned company, started right here in Kentucky. They have the best lost and broken replacements. I broke a pair of mine, took them in, got another one. That's what they do. Shady Rays offers the best protection program for you. And starting this Friday, stores are kicking off their Independence Day sale early. Up to 50% off all shades in store offers, including a free mystery pair. When you spend a hundred dollars, it is Shady Rays. There's one in Lexington, one in Louisville, and Shady Rays plants right here in Shelby county, too, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's where the company start. 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But he's not the kind of guy who says, you can't criticize me. That's a cow thing. Mark Pope. Same way, like, if you're ranking the sensitivity scale of criticism, there's nobody that's been at Kentucky who was more sensitive about criticism than John Calpers. Which is why when Cal Perry would always do his. I don't listen to what they say. The clutter. Even when I loved Cal, that was the most ridiculous thing ever. Because Cal would, like there could be a writer. I remember many years ago when he first got here, there was a publication called Basketball News. Does anybody even remember that? I do not. Clever name. I'm gonna guess that they had Basketball News. I think it was called Basketball News, but it was like a nationwide weekly newspaper or something about basketball. Again, no one knows about it, but I guess Cal had been reading it all his life. So there was some columnist on there who occasionally would criticize him for the whole, you know, unfairly. The one and done and all that stuff. And whenever it would come in, he would call me and Peavey and, like, be livid and say, what should I tweet out about this? And I would go, no one is reading this. The only way anyone will know it exists is if you tweet it out. Like, don't amplify. No one will even know it's happening. But he took criticism so personally, and, you know, now go to the other end of the scale. There are guys who I don't even think know when things happen. Right. Like Tubby. Yeah. I don't know that Tubby ever knew what anyone ever said about him about any. I don't think so either. You know, I think for guys like Stoops and Cal, they. They try to rest on their laurels a lot of times. So when the things do go south a little bit, they get like, yeah, but remember when I did this? Yeah, remember when I did that? Stoops does that. Stoops does the. Why don't people think about this? But I have never had Stoops tell me. Like, Stoops has always said to me, I know you got to do your job. Like, he has said that to me probably 30 times before. He's then said, but. But he always says that, and I appreciate that because you do have to do your job. But Cal never saw it like that, really, ever. Well, Cal also had, like, didn't he pay someone to call into his radio shows in New Jersey and, like, well, that's. I mean, that's been. That's been cows mo for a long time. We'll see with Pope over time. But I hope he's honest. And what he said to you and what he said openly about, you know, I'm here to win. If I don't win, have at it. You know, say what you got to say. Say what you're feeling. Give your criticism. Pope said that. Not only publicly, like I said. He has said that to me privately. He says if. I mean, he looked at me, it was so refreshing, and said, if you don't criticize me, this is not Kentucky basketball. If we ever get to the point that losing is okay, it's not Kentucky basketball, and we've got to that point in football where, you know, we've had some success. We've had some really good years. So when things are not successful, we're going to criticize. I mean, you got to take the good with the bad, I guess. I've never really figured out, I don't know how much, like, Mitch doesn't really speak directly to anyone, so it's hard to know what he thinks about criticism. I don't think he likes it, but he also doesn't tell you not to do it. So I have no clue what he thinks. I assume it's all via email. There'll never be somebody that's more involved in UK sports that I will know less about as a human being than I do Mitch Barnbach. I've never spoken to him. This is my 16th year. One time, Mitch invited me out to his farm. He has a farm out there in Midway. Right. And he invited me or between Lexington and Midway and invited me to come out there. And he was very nice, like a great host. And he took me around on a golf court, on a golf cart and showed me his farm. He's very proud of it. Like, I don't think he. I don't think he's out there tilling the land, but he, he, he just, like, it's beautiful out there. And he was showing me all of it. And I was there two hours, and we talked. And he couldn't have been nicer. He gave, like, he served a ham sandwich that was like a piece of ham and cheese and white bread. Exactly what you think Mitch Barnhart eats for lunch. That's what he eats. Like, no condiments. I see him, like, pulling up to a little table with two chairs far off on the farm. And there's a picture of lemonade and two glasses. There were. It was a long table. He sat on one end and I sat on the other. Like we were like an old British family. With that said, he couldn't have been nicer. It was wonderful. And then when I got back in the car, I thought to myself, driving, I don't remember one thing we said during those two hours. Like, that's just how he is. He just doesn't reveal himself. I just felt like he does such a great job on the athletic sides of it. He's kind of out of touch with the fans at times. The one is important to the fan base, but he does a lot of things really well. I think he's a net positive overall. Who's next? Will. Will. Go ahead, Will. Hey, Matt, I got a couple things for you. I know Kentucky has that sort of fake. Fake tournament they have at Rupp Arena. One problem I think we have is we have eight Division 1 teams in Kentucky, and they play in seven different conferences. Yeah. So I wish they could play more because that's. I think that's. It would be good for our state if they were all able to play each other. And the second thing is there's a freshman softball player for Bracket County. She's. Her name's Kendall Johnson. Next week and starting tomorrow she's playing in the Team USA. Playing with Team USA in the 15 under World cup for softball. And she's over in Italy now and she's playing for the World Cup. So I wanted to give her a shout out. Well, congrats to her. I think, you know, I appreciate the call. I'm not, I'm not going to complain about our schedule because we have so many good games this year in basketball. I will say this. I'm a little concerned. One of the things that's important about rpi, Tubby was good at this. Cal ended up being pretty good at this. The stinky teams we played were good enough to win their conference, so they didn't kill our rpi. Just looking at the teams we play next year, we play like three of the worst teams in the country. Like I think we play. I think Southern was like the worst team in the country last year and we play them. So I am a little worried that can hurt you more than good games can help you. We're going to play the team ranked like 350th next year. So some of our sticky games drew maybe a little bit stinkier than they need to be. And I don't know the answer. I think Pope did that a little bit at BYU too. And he's done that in the past. I think he has a method in why he doesn't. I don't know what that would be, but if you look at his schedule, it could be because they do factor in margin of victory. Maybe he sees, you know, he's a lot smarter than I am. Maybe he sees a formula where if you beat a team by 50, it can help you. That's interesting. I hadn't. You might be right about that. Maybe there's. Maybe he's looked at the numbers and beat. But that means you got to beat him by 50. Like you can't win by eight or whatever. There's one guy that has figured out a way to use that to his advantage. His Pope. That would be interesting. I'd be interested to see like if. Maybe we'll ask you like, like would I rather be one team by 14 or be assume we're going to win by 50. But that would be. Maybe you're right about that. Who's next? Nancy. Nancy. Go ahead, Nancy. Hey, Matt. Okay, so I'm Supporting you on the no shot deal. I'm losing weight. I lost 29 pounds. No shot. A lot of willpower, but it can be done. And so everybody thinks that, you know, oh, I can't wait unless I'm on those shots or something other kind of, you know, weight loss meds. That's not true. So if you calling to support you, if you just appreciate that, thank you very much. If you just walk. If you're not someone that walks regularly and you just walk, you'll lose 7 to 10 pounds quickly. Like quickly. Now I walk. Yeah. I walk in the morning. Yeah. For an hour now the next hot as it is. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the call. The next ten pounds are harder. Just if you're not someone that walks regularly. If you just go do it, you'll get rid of that first 10 pounds pretty quickly. That is the Matt Jones weight loss tip of the week. Does that include your walking where you stop and get Skyline halfway? Is that also part of the tip? Well, you want to know the madness behind the sky. Yeah, I would love to know it. If I walk from my house to Skyline, here's the way. Here's the math. I do. The walk to Skyline justifies the Skyline. Okay. The walk back is my exercise. Aha. Okay, that makes sense. Does that make sense? Yeah, just. So just make sure you double the exercise. It's double the exercise if you're gonna eat Skyline. Now if you want to eat normal food, you don't have to double the exercise. But if I, I justify eating Skyline by saying I'm gonna walk all the way out there. And now I've earned myself Skyline for the walk back. I like that. What about the donuts and the chocolate chip cookies? We don't have to get into all that. These are great chocolate chip cookies, whoever made them, thank you. You don't have to, you don't have to do it. Every day I'm acting like I'm an expert. I'm just telling you I didn't take a shot. That's all I'm saying. Tomorrow we are assured partners. 1792 Ali Sheba way over in Hamburg, in Lexington. Now here's the thing. First 75 people get four free food from Drake's. Yeah, that's pretty good food. Food truck out there. Going to have a Drake's food truck for the first 75 people at Assured Partners in Lexington. 1792 Ali Sheba Way. They're good host, right? We've done this before. Yeah, this one's going. I think we'll be Outside, in. Under a tent. Yeah, I remember a few years ago we went there. They had food trucks. Great, great host for the show. Make sure you get out there close to my house, too. Big fan of that. I'm not going to lie to you. But you get free food. Free food. It's close to Billy's house. Maybe Billy will invite you over. Yeah, if you want to do that, go see Billy's garage. You could do that as well. 859-280-2287. We will take a break. Be right back. Here at the little Crooked Creek Safari in Shelby county, it's ksr Meta AI is the personal AI to help you with whatever you need. Plus it meets you where you are. Not only is Meta AI now an app, but it's also on the apps you already know and Love. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Plus the Ray Ban meta glasses. 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Yeah, he's, he's struggling out here in the, in the sun. All right. I got a question for you as a dad. All right. My Carolina Hurricanes have a ton of cap space and are trying to make a deal to get like a star. They really of all the year. They're, they've been good for like 10 years, but they're missing like one star and that's always been their issue. So they saved up all this money. They now have the money to go get a. So they're trying to get a trade to do it. They have a lot of people they can trade. They actually have a really good farm system. But one of the people that they could trade that other people would want is Rod Brindamore's is the coach's kid. Whoa. So the coach's kid is one of the prospects that they could trade to go get a star. So you're the gm. You know, the coach likes having his kid on the team. Can you trade the coach's kid? And by the way, the coach usually signs off on it. Would you trade your kid to get the star that would make your team potentially be able to win a championship? I couldn't make myself do it. I couldn't trade my kid for somebody else. I did. I just. I just couldn't do it. No matter how good the other kid was. I would probably. You owe it to the team. Yeah. Don't you owe it to the city? Yeah. Don't you owe it to the hard working Carolina Hurricane fans that have supported you for 20 years to tell your kid, get out. We need to get someone better than you. I love, but I love my kid. It's not. Maybe not the best. Then we have to fire you. I'm taking the bullet for my kid. I. So you would rather get fired than trade? It's not like you're trading your kid to the gulag. He just goes and plays for a different team. Yeah, unless my kid signed off on it, I couldn't do it. I couldn't. So we're firing Ryan. Would you trade your kid? If I'm the head coach, I walk into the GM's office with my son. I sit my son down and we trade him right there together. And I say I'm here to win. I wanted to look him in the eyes as I shipped him somewhere else to let you know how serious I am about winning. Thanksgiving's gonna be a little awkward in your life. You're also teaching your kid a lesson. Yeah, that like, you know, this is business. This is we. I still love you. I'll see you at Christmas. Yes, I will be. No, he won't. He ain't coming around at Christmas now, fine. Then I won't see him at Christmas. But I love my gmo. I'll fire. I'll fire him Christmas morning. Well, I will get around the Christmas tree with my family and trade him and let them know. How serious would you trade your son if it means helping your team win a championship? Why are you asking me? You already know the answer to this. I mean, there's business, there's family. The kid has got to go. It is your job to put the best team out there. I don't care if it's your kid, your mom, your grandma. You got to trade them off and get the best players. Let's look at it as a fan. Let's say Mark Pope had a kid, okay? And we're one player away from, you know, there's now a hard cap on players 15. We're one player away from getting a title. There's a dude out there in the portal that if he comes is the missing piece to us winning a title. But I'm sorry, Mark Pope's kid has to go and Mark says, I can't do it. I can't tell my kid. No. Kentucky fans are going to lose their minds. Aren't. This is easier for me. All he has to do is scoot back one seat into the row behind him from the bench, sit with the Pope family. It's like he's on the team. But sorry, that spot scone. Are you keeping your kid and then not winning a title for the big blue nation? Yes. Oh my goodness. Blood is thicker than anything else. John Caliper. He did this. He did do this. Is it thicker than the unemployment line? Tubby Smith did this. You know he didn't sign some other guys because Saul was the point. I could at least. Well, yeah. I mean topic. But people didn't like it. People didn't like when he did that with Saul. But this dude's son's obviously good enough to play in the NHL. He's a good player. I can't do it. I just. No way I could look my son in the eye and say, dude, you're out. I gotta get somebody else. He's good enough that he's a good trade piece to go get something better. Brenda Moore. And you have a chance to get a star. You got to tell your son and I, I. From what I know of Brenda Moore, he would tell him. How long has he been there? I think that matters. 20 years. See? Yeah. He's got to look out for the franchise first. Summer weather has arrived and said the perfect time to stock your cooler with refreshing drinks that also are hangover free. Get a free four pack of seltzers from Cornbread Hemp with an any order over $75. The code is summer sips. I don't like the coat, but that's what they gave me. I told Jim that's a hard code. Summer sips. 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I've have seizures too. You can. I mean, I know it affects if you have. Oh, yeah. I've listened to your life much more than. Than mine does mine, but still. Well, people tell you you're not in good health. Well, I'm in good health. I got back into UK neurology. That's what I'm really looking forward to. And I got my medical marijuana card. That's what I really. Well, I hope it helps you with that. And I believe it does. Yeah, I think. Well, it does for a whole lot of people. So I appreciate you calling, sir, and good luck to you. Okay. Yeah. Y' all have a blessed day. There you go. That's a good inspiring story to finish today, right? 208 pounds. Don't you forget those 8 pounds. Lost 208 pounds. Which is what we're gonna put on when we go to this kitchen here in just a little bit to test the food. I'm nervous. I'm already sweating more than I thought I was gonna sweat here today. I. I'll definitely be sweating when we eat the food. 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