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Matt Jones
Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes the always hilarious Joe Dombrowski, August 21st through the 23rd. Then from Gutfeld and the Joe Rogan Experience, catch Jeff Dye August 28th through the 30th. And don't miss social media sensation John Crist, September 4th through the 6th. For tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call 859-271-joke or visit comedyoffbroadway.com Comedy Off Broadway. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Georgetown, Kentucky, at Country Boy Brewing with a huge crowd as we get ready for Kentucky and Ole Miss. And I have to. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. All right, there we go. That's what we love to hear as we get started.
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Shannon Dawson
That was exciting.
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Matt Jones
I don't know what that was, but let me tell you what that that reception, while wonderful, is kind of like the UK football off season has been. Let's try this again. Welcome to Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Georgetown. There we go. We gotta turn the mojo around tomorrow. You can give us a shout out the Clark's Puppet 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. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Packed house here in Georgetown, where you are welcome to come and and join us and get ready. The return of the Ryan Lemon pep talk. As soon as we stopped doing that, the football team went down. So we're bringing it back today. And we are getting excited as the Cats play what I would argue could be one of their two biggest home games of the year tomorrow against Ole Miss, which also, if you look at the schedule, it's one of the three or four best college football games that will be on television. Yesterday we got Ryan, Drew Shannon is back from vacation. And guys, you know, we're back in Georgetown, a city you used to literally spit on and now you have to live in because you went and met a woman here. Are you excited to be here for the show? Yeah.
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Ryan Lemond
When Josiah played for Frederick Douglass, Scott county was kind of the rival. So I was kind of anti Scott County. But now my old lady lives in Georgetown, so I'm here every day.
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Drew Franklin
Your old lady? There were a lot of reactions out here as soon as he said old lady.
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Ryan Lemond
I mean, say my beautiful old lady. That's what I meant to say, man.
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Matt Jones
Let me tell you something. I. I'm not trying, like, I'm not trying to turn him into a feminist. I probably. I promise. Okay. But I try to get him not to say things like old lady. It's impossible. He is stuck in Mayberry and you know, he doesn't mean anything by it. Well, you could fix him. Well, okay. Well, I don't know if your husband would like that, but nevertheless, it is. It is good to be here, Drew. Tomorrow is kind of a show me time for Kentucky football. I got a text message from a friend this morning. I woke up to this text mess. So I'm going to read you this text mess. It said, could you try to be positive today on the show. I need you to make me feel better about this team. Listen, reality is going to kick in one way soon. One way or the other, soon enough. Can you give us today? It's the beginning of September, for God's sake. Still love you. That's what it said. So do you. Do you agree with that? Is this. Do we have. Can we have one day to think we're going to win?
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Drew Franklin
Oh, yeah. I think it's going to be a close game. I'm not writing it off at all now. I think Ole Miss is most likely to win, but I think it'll be. Kentucky will be in it in the fourth quarter. Kentucky should dominate the trenches on both sides of the ball. It's kind of going to be a battle of which style takes over. If Ole Miss is getting in their tempo, you're in a little bit of trouble. But if you. Kentucky's playing that Mark Stoops Iowa football, I think they'll be in at the end and that I think they have a good chance of playing.
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Matt Jones
That probably the way to win is exactly what they did last year. They basically, they controlled tempo for a lot of the game. They kind of kept Ole Miss from having big plays. We hit a big play. We got a turnover. I mean, basically, if you look at last year, that is the exact recipe for trying to win. Shannon, you have been on the beach probably thinking about this non, stop, non stop. Do you. Do you think they can do it?
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Shannon Dawson
I think they can. I think they. The way they win is with their defense. I don't think you're gonna out score, you know.
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Matt Jones
Well, no, they're not gonna outscore.
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Shannon Dawson
What I mean is, if it gets into a shootout, I don't think Kentucky.
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Matt Jones
No chance.
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Shannon Dawson
But if you could keep the game, you know, 24, 21, something like that, I think there's a path to where Kentucky wins. Remember, a lot of people had Kentucky 0 and 1 already going into this game. So let's be positive. They're 1 0. Come on, they can do this.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. I don't know if there were a lot of people that had them.
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Shannon Dawson
Oh, no, no, no, no.
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Matt Jones
Who picked a Kentucky to lose.
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Shannon Dawson
Maybe not on the show. I'm just talking about in the fan base in general. All summer was Toledo, Toledo, Toledo. And they beat Toledo. They're one and.
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Matt Jones
Oh.
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Shannon Dawson
So let's be positive going into the game.
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Matt Jones
I am. I mean, I'm positive. I guess I would say. What was it Obama said to Hillary? You're likable enough. I'm positive enough. Right, right. I'm. I'm positive enough. I'm gonna. I'm gonna do my best. I'm gonna go into the game. I think they have a chance. I don't think Lane Kiffin is at his best in games where there's a lot of pressure on him. I think when he. When he. When he knows his team is going to win, they'll rack it up. They'll score 50. But if you go back and you look at big games where there's a lot of pressure on Lane Kiffin to win, their record is actually not pretty, not very good. Now, normally that wouldn't be us, but I think because they lost us last year and because they basically were kept out of the playoff by us last year, there is a lot of pressure on Lane Kiffin. I mean, there were some Ole Miss fans in the bar last night for 30 Thursday Night Football. And I was talking to him, and they. One of them said to me he'd been drinking a little bit. He said, I've given $150,000 to Kentucky, to Ole Miss football in the last two and a half years for nil. If they lose tomorrow, I'm here. Because if they lose Saturday, that's the last dollar they get.
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Ryan Lemond
Wow.
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Matt Jones
And I was like, oh, can I take your picture? And he was like, no, but. But I thought that was an interesting comment because, by the way, that's going to start happening across the country. People who write big checks for schools and then they don't win, they're going to go, I ain't giving any more money if we're going to lose. But I do think that's a thing, Drew. I mean, Lane Kiffin, he loses tomorrow, and then they don't make the playoff. He's not going to lose his job. There's going to be a lot of people say, like, all this money we've infused Ole Miss, why are we doing it?
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I know. I know, we're pretty proud of Kentucky getting out of the gutter of the SEC lately, but we're still kind of known as the team you got to beat every year. When people get their schedule and Kentucky's on it, they still get pretty excited that that's one of their SEC opponents. And that's. That's just how Ole Miss is going to look at us this year. Times two. After losing it last year and completely being removed from the playoff conversation in September or whatever it was. They were undefeated a year ago, ranked high and right in the mix, and then you lose to Kentucky and their season went downhill from there.
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Matt Jones
I will get. I will get the negative Ryan out of the way first. We had it set up for Steve Sack, Steven Sackham, souls to come. And after I announced it, I think maybe our good friends at JMI may have squashed that. So I'm very sorry about that. There's nothing I can do about it. He expressed his regret, but I, you know, I think this is the. We live in a JMI world now, and if you don't pay them, you. Everything will disappear from you. But that's a conversation for a different day. I still love Kentucky, even without the corporate overlords, but he is a big part of tomorrow. You cannot. One of the things we did really well last year, that was Dion Walker's best game last year. If you go back and watch, we were in the backfield with Ole Miss most of the game. Their quarterback, who's going. Who was an NFL pick, probably going to be starting within the next few weeks. If you learn on the NFL Cover Zero podcast, Jackson Dart. We were. We were in his face last year. We got to do that again with what is now a less experienced quarterback.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. Ole Miss just put up, what, 63 points. I really feel confident our defense is not going to let them anywhere near close to that number. We forget last year.
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Matt Jones
I would hope so. Shut it down. No kidding.
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Ryan Lemond
We forget last year, Ole Miss was ranked sixth.
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Matt Jones
They were.
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Ryan Lemond
They was on their home field. And Mark Stoops and company out coached him. They didn't turn the ball over. They converted a lot of third downs, converted some big fourth downs, kept that Ole Miss offense off the field. Defense has got to do their job and do the same thing that tomorrow.
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Matt Jones
All right.
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Shannon Dawson
Their quarterback is. Yes.
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Matt Jones
There you go.
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Drew Franklin
All these pops, he's getting in here.
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Matt Jones
Y' all are being way too nice to him. He's good. He's good. He's gonna make more. He's gonna start saying old lady Again, if you're not careful.
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Shannon Dawson
Austin Simmons, their quarterback, freshman, looked really good, but you know, he's the type of guy that's inexperienced and if you get to him, put some pressure on him, you can force a couple of interceptions. He had two against Georgia State.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, two against George. They, I mean they look, they won't score 63 points and one, they actually started slow against them. So I mean you can, you know, you, you can have a little bit of an impact with them. As far as Kentucky, you look at the schedule, Drew, play this game, then you play Eastern Michigan, then you have a buy, then you are at South Carolina and at Georgia. Even in your best sort of optimism at Georgia is a game you don't feel like you could win out south at Carolina, look, if you want, that's awesome. We have won some big games there over the years, but that's a tough one. This is your chance, I mean this fan base, these people here, this is your chance, Drew, to really buy some time for the next month. Because if you win this game and you beat Eastern Michigan, you have a buy and you could lose that game to South Carolina and Georgia and still feel like once Texas, Tennessee, Florida are coming here, you go to Vandy and Auburn, you have a shot in those games. I think this is a just such a huge potential momentum for the program if you were to win.
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Drew Franklin
And there's a lot of stake if you lose too. That's why it's such a high stakes game last year in this same spot, except you're a favorite. It's week two, South Carolina's in ABC 330. You get your butt kicked. And we saw what the fan base did after that game. And then heck, the season spiraled down to same spot this week, different opponent. You're an underdog, but you're going to go straight downhill if you don't win this. But at the same time, you have an opportunity to turn things around. So it's, it's crazy how a Week 2 game can have such of an impact on the season, but with the way the schedule lines up and because.
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Matt Jones
We just so folks know, because we play Louisville every year and we finish the year with this game. With the Louisville game, we're going to be playing like a big time SEC game in week two or week three every year. You know, a lot of these other teams are still playing bad teams. We will get this every year because of our decision to play those games at the end of the year. But go ahead.
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Shannon Dawson
Yeah, if you get this win Tomorrow you take a lot of pressure off of Stoops, off the team in general. This is a game that also, I think would get the fan base all in again. For a fan, that's fan base that's been very pessimistic in the off season. And you get this one, I think it changes. And it also could get you to six and six. You just need one.
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Matt Jones
No, no, this is. This is the. It doesn't. This is not the only game that can get you sit to six and six. But we've talked about the path to six and six is three sticky teams. Vandy, Auburn and then steel one. This is the one you can steal, right? This is the one that in theory, you. You can steal. I will tell you, I often judge, so we've been doing this so long, Ryan. I often judge the state of the football program in some ways by this country boy show. I know that sounds weird, but I was telling somebody this a couple days ago. This country boy show is always at the same time every year. It is always right before the biggest home game of the year. So whatever. The first big home game of the year. So some years, if you remember, if you've been coming this a long time, it's before the Florida game often, because we used to play the Florida game early in the year. Last year it was before the South Carolina game. This year it's before the Ole Miss game. The common denominator in all these games or all these shows has been the crowd. The crowd is great again today. Crowds always great. You know, sometimes it's bigger than others, but it's always great. But I honestly judge where the fan base is by the enthusiasm. When you walk in here today, not like during the show, you guys are always into it. It's fun. But like, when you walk in, how many people are going to. Here we go, right? Like, we're winning last year, before this game, this place. And if you may remember, the weather was terrible last year, but this place was still not only full like it is now, but there was a. This is a good. Gonna be a heck of a year. Brock Van de Griff's really the guy, right? Like, he's gonna be what Devin Leary wasn't. This is gonna be the guy. Hey, jmi, Y' all sent four players last year that helped. Maybe you should think about that. But nevertheless, that was it. This one. Everybody's here, but we're all people. A lot more reserved. I think there's a hope instead of expectation. Ryan. I think that's very apropos for where the fan base is.
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Ryan Lemond
I think you nailed it. And we, we knew when the schedule came out, we saw this game, we all said this is the game of the year. Our fan base right now, we win this game, boom, we're all in again. We got. Our fan base needs this game as much as that locker room needs this win tomorrow.
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Matt Jones
I think, well, I do think if you. You're back. But I would also say, Drew, a great performance can still do something for. You know what, you just can't get blown out. If you get blown out and then we play Eastern Michigan next week and then there's a buy and then you play those teams. By the way, Mark Pope and his group are sitting right there. I had somebody who went to the workout yesterday call me and say, matt, this is going to be fun this year, Matt. And like this is not somebody that's eager to get excited. They. So I, you know, those two things, as you know, worked work against each other sometimes.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. And overall too, this could be. I hate to keep lean in the negative way, but this could be an eighth straight home SEC loss. Eventually people are going to stop walking into that building. If you can't win a home game eventually, it is not easy to go to a UK football game, especially if you, I mean if you're tailgating, maybe you live in Paducah. I mean it is your whole day to go to UK football.
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Matt Jones
I'm shocked how many tickets are available tomorrow.
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Drew Franklin
Just like I don't even think they've released the top corners yet.
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Matt Jones
Just like on the open market. That, that is, that is shocking to me. But again, I, I understand. I can't get upset at people. I understand. But I'm, I am a little surprised. 859280 2287. The text machine is 772-774-828-7839 we. What did I did the right one. 772-524-5254. No, that's not my social. I don't know where I got 8289. That's not anything. I promise it's not my social. Don't be entering it into anything. We're going to take a break. When we come back, there's a lot of stuff going on today. The London City Council impeachment hearing is going today. Going on right now. The KSR parlay goes for week two and we'll talk a little bit about the spit gate last night and have you all ever spit on anybody? We'll take A break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Country Boy Brewing in Georgetown. Great crowd this morning. Perfect day. Supposed to be a little rainy here the rest of the day, right? In the afternoon and evening.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, rain kind of moves in I think this evening and they said it should stop, though by kickoff tomorrow. It should be fine.
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Matt Jones
Yes. By the way, bar opens tomorrow at 11. Our pregame show starts at 11:30. I have a lot of you asking me what time do I need to get there. I don't really know. Just get there and it. I think it'll hope. We. We have been in prep for Ole Miss mode all week and I feel like it's going to be good and I want to. I'd love to see everybody because remember, I'm also. I leave next Thursday for. For South Africa. So this will be the last time I'll be here till October 1st. So please come say hi. You. I may not get to see people for a game until what, October 15th or something starting tomorrow.
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Drew Franklin
We'd still be undefeated when you get back.
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Matt Jones
Nope.
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Drew Franklin
Be fun.
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Matt Jones
Well, that'd be awesome.
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Ryan Lemond
Wouldn't that be awesome?
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Matt Jones
Since I'm gone for the South Carolina game, I'll be back for Georgia. But since I'm gone for the South Carolina game, if we come back, we're undefeated, Shannon, I think it'll be a different kind of thing. Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
You might need to stay gone.
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Shannon Dawson
I could see that happening. I'm just saying.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. I'm trying to figure out is there. Is there a station in Johannesburg, South Africa that shows Kentucky, Eastern Michigan football? Do you think that. Do you think there is one that will be showing that live?
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Shannon Dawson
I'll send you off with one of my boxes.
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Matt Jones
Okay. I may need one. You may remember on the postgame show, a guy called and said at the game that there were two little old ladies sitting behind him who wanted them to play Grove street or want him to play the. It's a party song. But they didn't play it and they were disappointed. They, during the break came up. It's these two little old ladies right here. Yeah, yeah. Give me little young ladies, first of.
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Drew Franklin
All, young beautiful women.
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Matt Jones
I'm just telling you what he said. So you all, you have a whole lot of money. You. You're ready for a party, Am I right? Well, you're going to get it back tomorrow. As Grove street is supposedly going to be back for the game tomorrow, they.
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Ryan Lemond
Had to bring it back. Like we said many times. Is the one thing we do. As a fan base, we kind of have adopted. It kind of happened naturally from that South Carolina game years ago, and fans missed it. You know, we all were bombarded with messages. They missed not hearing it at the game.
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Shannon Dawson
Last week, I read the excuse as to why they didn't play, and I felt like it was kind of lame.
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Matt Jones
It was a terrible excuse.
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Shannon Dawson
They said it was situational.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. Which is a lie. That's. That's what's known as lying. The. The answer was that they had made a decision to, quote, go more Kentucky based, which is. Listen, nobody. Like I said, nobody loves. I mean, this country boy, this. I saw. We saw Tyler Childers here just about a year ago. Like, I. I love Kentucky based music, but a football game should be a party, Drew. And you have to. You can't just do that playing, you know, fiddle music.
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Drew Franklin
It wasn't just Kentucky. I mean, we were one step above elevator music there for a while. I felt like I was on hold in the third quarter waiting for something to happen.
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Matt Jones
You're calling. That's good. 859-280-2287. All right, so last night, the. The Eagles and. And Cowboys, they. So, you know, you go back and forth, end up with a spit. This first play of the game, you end up with a spit. Guy spits on Dak Press, Dalen Carter, spicks on, spits on Dak Prescott's chest, and ends up getting kicked out of the game. First of all, do you kick him out of the game?
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Shannon Dawson
Yes. There's no room for that.
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Matt Jones
You can't spin on people, spit on.
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Shannon Dawson
Anybody in any situation.
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Matt Jones
What is it that makes us hate spitting on people so much?
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Shannon Dawson
Because it's bodily fluids going on somebody else?
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Matt Jones
Is that what it is? Because if he hit him in the head, he gets a penalty, but he probably doesn't get kicked out.
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Shannon Dawson
That's another level of nasty.
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Matt Jones
But there's something. There's something that people have about spitting. Like, it doesn't hurt. No, he just hit him in the chest. I. I agree he should have been kicked out, but why do we, like, dislike that so much? Drew, I just said it's.
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Caller
You're.
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Drew Franklin
You're putting your bodily fluids on me.
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Matt Jones
But we already are sharing sweat. Like, we're touching each other. Like, look, I'm doing Ryan right now. He's getting all my. He's getting all my body. He's getting all. But that's what's happening in a football game. Why. Why are we so.
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Drew Franklin
We just can't live in a World where people are going around spitting on each other. You got to set the tone early, like our. Our headlinesman did last night. No, nonsense. We're not gonna have a society where we're just hawking loogies in people's faces.
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Shannon Dawson
Can't just go up and, like, pee on somebody's leg.
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Matt Jones
Well, I mean, peeing is a little different. It's the same thing, Ryan.
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Ryan Lemond
It's gross, it's disgusting, it's vulgar. It's just something we've learned as a little kid. You just don't do that. It's just. There's just no part of it. In our world of sports, you can sweat on each other, you can scratch each other, but you can't spit on each other.
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Shannon Dawson
Tickle each other.
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Ryan Lemond
Tickle each other.
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Matt Jones
Okay, now, at halftime, they show that Dak Prescott had spit in the direction of him before. That he did. He didn't hit him, but that he had, right before the play, spit on the ground in front of him like, you're nothing to me. Poo. I don't know if he said poo when he did it, but he. He. He did it, right. Pooh. Did he? Does that make it worse? Does it like that justify what or does it matter? Should Dak have gotten in trouble?
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Drew Franklin
I don't think Dax innocent in the matter. He didn't spit on him.
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Matt Jones
He.
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Drew Franklin
He aimed to the left, but, you.
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Matt Jones
Know, you can get a little.
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Drew Franklin
Little stray saliva with that. I think Dak did a good job in baiting Jalen Carter into the second action, which always gets people caught, but.
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Matt Jones
On the replay, penalize him. You can spit at people, but not on them.
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Drew Franklin
Maybe not out of the game. I would be like, hey, I saw that. That. Because he smiled. He knew what.
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Matt Jones
Okay.
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Drew Franklin
Dak played it off like, oh, I spit all the time. No, he knew what he was doing.
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Matt Jones
What about you?
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Caller
I.
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Ryan Lemond
You know, players spit on the football field all game long. Should he have done it? Probably not. But he didn't hit the guy. I mean, he didn't spit on the guy.
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Matt Jones
So the on is the key part.
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Ryan Lemond
That's the whole key part of it, man. You know, like you said, he could have hit the guy and probably still would have got a penalty, but he still would have played. You spit on the guy, you got to get him out of there.
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Matt Jones
So here's my question. I'm looking at the three of you. Have any of you, in the course of anything, ever spit on a person? Now, my answer is first is no. I. I would not do that. I Can't I? Yeah, I've. I don't even know if I've come close, but this is. We. We have not talked about this. I am thinking that there's a decent chance, Shannon, that the allegedly nicest one of us, Ryan, is the one with who is most likely to have spin ons. I have no basis for that. I'm just guessing that if I were to rank likelihood of spitting, I think I would rank Ryan, 1, Shannon, 2, me 3. Drew, 4.
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Drew Franklin
Thank you. Appreciate that.
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Matt Jones
But. But I haven't. Drew, I'm gonna sue you. Is four.
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Drew Franklin
That's.
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Matt Jones
That's cowardly. What about you?
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Shannon Dawson
Trying to think the only scenario was wrestling would be ovw and I don't think I've ever done it there. So I'm gonna say no.
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Matt Jones
No. All right, so that gets us to the most likely one.
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Shannon Dawson
Plus 400.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. I don't know. I'm saying plus 150 undraft kings. I think it's potentially likely. Have you in your course of your life, be honest. Ever spit on someone?
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Ryan Lemond
My mom would be absolutely disowned me if I said yes. The answer is 100 unequivocally no.
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Matt Jones
That's not. Well, hang on. Hang on just a second. That was not a habit. That was. My mom would be mad.
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Ryan Lemond
I said I 100 unequivocally, absolutely would not do that.
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Matt Jones
Okay, good. I'm glad to hear that. So all four of us, no spin.
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Drew Franklin
No spin down.
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Ryan Lemond
You just can't do that, man.
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Matt Jones
All right.
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Drew Franklin
That's Louisville behavior.
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Caller
Yeah.
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Ryan Lemond
They just spit on our guy at TBT last summer.
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Matt Jones
Which one did that?
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Drew Franklin
On a hawk to a guy. An Aaku Anawaku spit on one Nate Sistina. The big fight right after I got assaulted.
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Matt Jones
So they assault and then they spit on like 30 seconds.
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Ryan Lemond
It's on video. Yeah.
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Matt Jones
All right. 859-280-2287. We will take your calls. Be right back here in Georgetown at country boys Kentucky sports radio. Welcome back. It is Taggy Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Text machine. 772-774-5254. One person writes. Matt, can you give us a little more on what your friend said after watching the team work out? Well, they said a couple things that I can't really share until you get about a month in. But like, I have favorites, Ryan, you know, they're just guys for whatever reason that I'm really rooting for. I'll. I think for this year. My. I always say I Have like one adopted favorite. Just a person that for whatever reason, I've decided I just really am pulling for you. Antonio Reeves was that way for two years. Jackson Robinson was like that for me last year. I just always really wanted to see him. Well, do well for me this year. That's Jalen Lowe. For whatever reason, I think I've never even met the kid. I just have in my mind that, like, I really want him to do well. Part of it because we need him to do well, but part of it just, I think people were like, yeah, is he really good enough? And I tend to want to take up for that kid. So anyway, Jalen Lowe, my guy was like, just wait, you're gonna love Jaylen Lowe. Says, you know, it was saying I was. I said kind of what's he reminds you of? And he said, well, he's not really a cow. Kind of point guard said, imagine if like, Cliff Hawkins could. Could really shoot. That was kind of the. The what. What I got. I loved Cliff Hawkins during his days, and he was perfect for those tubby teams that were so good. So really excited about him.
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Ryan Lemond
You know, we've said all along what they signed him. You know, they give him the keys to the limo. He's. The guy is going to be driving the offense. The point guard is so important to what Pope tries to do offensively. If he can stay healthy, stay on the court, he could be have a special season.
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Matt Jones
I did ask him, give me the one guy that's like, all right, watch out. And the answer for me, Drew, was Colin Chandler. Just that you've been saying this for a while, watch out. You're going to see a huge leap for year two was. Again, now it's based on one workout. You can't get too crazy about it, but nevertheless, I liked hearing.
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Drew Franklin
It's good to know everybody's been copying off my homework. Yeah, I'm expecting a huge jump from him. The thing I'm most excited about this is just very recent because he's only been here a little bit, but with Yellow Bitch, I wasn't sure if he was going to be ready to go right away or this guy needs a year. And even though it's been a couple hours of working out, he's at least fitting in so far. And it's looking like more towards this guy's going to get some minutes, not so much on the end of the bench, not ready for college.
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Matt Jones
It has sounded like I wouldn't expect. Expect him to come in and start Allah. This dude right here who Said that yesterday but I do expect him to get minutes. One more thing from the Eagles game last night. You know there's a long delay because of lightning. Reports were this morning, Shannon, that in the lightning delay the, the Cowboys were, were given. Excuse me, the Eagles were given energy drinks and protein bars. Yeah, the Cowboys were giving cold cuts and uncrustables.
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Shannon Dawson
That's on the Cowboys. I mean don't they have trainers that are supposed to do.
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Matt Jones
They do. But that they, they requested cold cuts and uncrustables. Do you think that is good?
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Shannon Dawson
Mid game energy uncrustables are the one thing that I ate on my 50 mile walk so that, you know, it's, it's what? It's easy.
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Matt Jones
What is it?
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Shannon Dawson
It's like just peanut butter and jelly sandwich basically.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. Okay.
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Shannon Dawson
But they're really good. But it sounds like the energy drinks round.
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Matt Jones
Okay. Yeah.
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Shannon Dawson
It's not like the energy drinks help the Eagles. Yeah, they won the game.
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Matt Jones
Well, neither team really scored much after but they did win the game.
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Drew Franklin
But I'll give him the option. I'm going to the Cowboys locker room. 100 times out of 100 I don't, I don't need your monster energy. Where are the uncrustables?
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Matt Jones
You want an uncrustable? All right, fair enough. Who's up first, Rick? Adam is up first. Adam. Go ahead, Adam.
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Caller
Hey, what's up guys? Two things. One, interesting betting lawn this week. It started at nine and a half. Kentucky as underdog went up in the half. Now I think it's back down to eight and a half. So it has the little money coming on the cap.
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Matt Jones
Money has moved to Kentucky pretty heavily in like the last 24 hours. And it's, it's rare to see, it's rare to see after week one money moves really all over the place. It's rare to see after week one that you see a two point move this late in the week. I don't know. I mean probably nobody knows nothing. They're just guessing. But it is, it is drew different.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, it came out, I mean I was still in the press box last Saturday when it came out at nine and a half and I even said to people around me, oh, this is, this is a little low. I think it's going to jump. I think it even got up to 11 and a half on Monday or Tuesday. I didn't expect it to fall to where it has. So I don't know if it's a lot of people thinking maybe the Kentucky and the Toledo game Not trying to overreact or they're considering last year's Kentucky Ole Miss game. But there's been a lot of late Kentucky action.
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Matt Jones
Well, I've told you, I'm really big on when people put too much stock in week one. Used to be that in college football, Week two was a really good week. Like games like Texas, Ohio State. Those used to be, those used to be played in week two and now they're being played in week one. So there's actually not a lot of great games. But for instance, you're going to hear when, when we do our KSR parlay picks, I have a game I really like because I think people overreact to week one. I don't know, maybe people think that maybe there's the betters initially overreacted to Kentucky not playing well. Ryan against Toledo or at least on paper, not well.
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Ryan Lemond
I mean if you look at Kentucky's defense, I mean that would be one thing I think would make you a little more optimistic that they can keep the, keep Kentucky in the game tomorrow. So maybe that's what's opening up some eyes.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. 859-280-2287 who's next? Chester is up next. Oh, here we go. Now this is that. This may be what UK football needs is a motivational speech here from Chester. So let's hear it.
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Caller
Hey, Matt, appreciate you taking my call. Listen, I don't, I don't have, I don't know by way of motivational speech, but I did just was sitting here, I wanted to just to say something to the fans out there that have been pessimistic just a bit. Listen, I want to encourage everybody to come out there tomorrow and we do not know, we do not know really what we got just yet. And I still believe that this is the, we have the potential to have a great year and it all comes down to tomorrow. A lot of it does. I mean if we win tomorrow, then everybody's going to start changing the story around here about this program.
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Matt Jones
Totally agree.
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Caller
There's still a lot of unknowns and I want to say this. Whether there's any kind of music or whatever, they got emoji cams on the screens or whatever that. Listen, that should not matter. As Kentucky football fans, if they, for all I care for, we should just tell them, hey, turn the music off, turn it, turn the screens off. And we should come in there loaded for bear, ready to bring the energy, ready to be the ones that fire this team up. Because I've been in there and we've all been in there. When we're yelling on first down and second down like we do on third down and fourth down, that place has a different feel. And whatever you think about football, Kentucky, just look down there tomorrow and see Lane Kiffin down there. That should be all that you need to know that. We need to come in there with everything we got, support these boys, support Stoops and, man, what else we got? What else we got to do? I mean, we still have a chance to be relevant right now. We, we. Alabama's lost. We haven't lost. We've got a chance to make a special season, but we need to get everybody out there fired up tomorrow.
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Matt Jones
I love it. Chester, thank you very much. I appreciate the call. Yeah, I agree with. I agree with everything he said. Look, I mean, at this point, whatever's going to happen tomorrow is going to happen. So why not do Shannon, Whatever our part can be, why don't we do it tomorrow?
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Shannon Dawson
Yeah, I agree with him and saying we really don't know what we got yet. The running backs look great, O line look good, D line look good. But we really don't know what we got just yet. But we're going to find out tomorrow.
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Matt Jones
We will find. And he is right about one thing we've talked a lot about. Well, what happens if things don't go out? Let's talk about what happens if things do go well. Okay, Just say you were to win tomorrow and let's look at it a little bit different. First of all, it would be a win. That would be one of. If we beat Ole Miss for the second year in a row, we'll be the second biggest story in college football tomorrow. Besides, whoever wins Oklahoma, Michigan, whoever wins Oklahoma, Michigan is probably number one. This would probably be number two. So start with that. You get a great bit of positive talk about the UK football program. Next, you play Eastern Michigan. You win, you'll be 3 0, and you'll get a bye week. And you'll have a chance now to go into a South Carolina game where chances are they will be undefeated. You'll have a game that will probably be, if not prime time in the afternoon on ABC at South Carolina in a game that, let's just say you won. I'm not saying you will. But listen, we can dream, right? Then you'll go play Georgia in a game that could get college game day if both teams are undefeated. And all of a sudden, whether you win that game or not, you're sitting there and looking, going, wait a minute, we've Got Florida and Tennessee and Lexington. Right. We got Vandy. We can have as many fans as they do. And you have a completely different outlook about UK football. That can all happen, Drew. Tomorrow. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but it can, and it's right there. If. If Mark Stoops and those guys want to change the narrative, tomorrow is the day to do it.
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Drew Franklin
I like that. A lot of optimism in there.
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Matt Jones
I'll have.
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Ryan Lemond
I'll have a little round of applause. That was a good little rant.
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Shannon Dawson
Oh, that is six and six, Matt, right there.
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Matt Jones
No, no, wait a minute. Let me say this. You win tomorrow. I mean, there's a seven and five, eight and four. Seven. Five, man. I mean, look, old man, Tennessee and Florida that we're gonna also be playing at home are no better than Ole Miss. If you win those games, there's no reason you can't be competitive in those games. I mean, I think Kentucky only has two games on their schedule that, like, I don't care what they do. They're probably not winning. Right? Georgia and Texas, but everything else. Those teams are not crazy, Ryan. They're not.
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Ryan Lemond
Beat Ole Miss last year on their home field. Beat South Carolina recently. What, five years in a row. Of course they can do it.
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Matt Jones
Just for the record, do not post that on social media. I'm not getting a second year of this.
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Shannon Dawson
Post it.
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Matt Jones
Mario, you're not post that. I know that. That one's a radio only. I'm not letting that go viral across college football for the second year in a row.
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Shannon Dawson
Send it to me.
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Matt Jones
I'll post it. Yeah, we're not. We're not doing that now. How many of you ever listen to the games on the radio or listen to the pre and post game show on jmi? Okay. All right, so if you have. You've heard me do this commercial way too much. They play it right?
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Ryan Lemond
Every commercial break.
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Matt Jones
Every commercial break. You know the one where I'm like, for all y'. All, like, that's not even how I talk. And so UK Federal Credit Union. I'm gonna change it up a little bit because even I'm tired of hearing my voice.
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Ryan Lemond
I think you need to leave the.
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Ryan Lemond
This is the only time I think we've ever even mentioned Livingston county on the show. Have a hard time figuring where it is.
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Matt Jones
And literally the two main places. So it's in New York Magazine. It's called, like, torturing a crypto guy or whatever. But one of them is from Kentucky, and the two main places are New York City and Livingston County. Second story just broke this morning. I was reading it while eating my breakfast. Did you see the story about the Navy seals and the. In the North Korea thing? This just came out this morning. And like, Shannon, this is the kind of thing that happens in movies that I didn't think happened in real life. So I guess in 2019, the. The. I guess who was President Trump, The Trump administration at the time, they wanted to plant, like, I guess. I don't know, what do you call it? Surveillance things in North Korea. So they Send the Navy SEALs to North Korea to, like, I don't know, run onto the shores, plant something, and leave. They come in. They come in in vessels, as they're about to get, like, do it. A boat sees them, and they feel like their cover is blown. You got this is in the New York Times this morning. You got to read this story. They end up. This is kind of awful. Rand Paul's already complaining about this. They end up seizing the ship. It's just like people fishing. Kill the people on the ship because their covers been blown. And then I'm not gonna say what it is to gross people out, but then, like, bury them out at sea so they'll never be. I don't know. And then. So they'll never be caught. And I guess one of the seals maybe has. Has told the story. You gotta read those two stories are two of the wildest things. And sometimes you sit and think, yeah, these movies, this couldn't happen in real life. And Shannon, both of these stories read like movie scripts.
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Shannon Dawson
I will read both of those. I'm trying to figure out which one is more fascinating. The guy getting tortured over crypto.
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Matt Jones
The crypto one is long and much better. But the. But the. In terms of. Whoa, you mean that happens? The New York Times one may be even more crazy.
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Shannon Dawson
I feel bad for those people. They're there. Yeah, they were just wrong place, wrong time in life.
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Matt Jones
They were just fishing, and then all of a sudden. And then, like, you know, I guess I don't know how they. It's come out, but it just came out this morning. Who's up next? Trey is next. Trey. Go ahead, Trey.
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Caller
Hey. Got a couple points to make. I just don't get all the fans that are cheering for Stoops to fail. I don't. You know, he's made eight. What do you make eight straight bowl games and won 210 win seasons in three or four years that was.
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Ryan Lemond
Do you think.
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Matt Jones
Do you think fans are rooting? I. I don't think fans are rooting for him to fail. Do you think fans are rooting? I mean, I think, like, we would all. Who do you think is out there going, I hope we lose tomorrow?
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Caller
Well, it's. It might not be that, but I don't know, it seems like to me, I'm like all the Twitter comments and all that. I see. I don't know. I just see.
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Matt Jones
I think.
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Caller
I think I see it.
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Shannon Dawson
I mean, Twitter's all negative, but that.
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Matt Jones
That is Twitter. But that's also. But even for the negative people on Twitter, that's just people commenting on what they think happens. I don't think Kentucky fans want Stoops to lose. You're saying they're rooting for him to fail? I don't think that's true.
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Caller
Well, it's more so, I guess, just not appreciating what he's done in the past or whatever and not thinking bowl games are a good thing to celebrate or anything.
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Matt Jones
Well, I appreciate the call. Ryan. To me or Drew, there's. To me, both of you. There are two different issues here. There's appreciating what Stoops did in the past. We all appreciate. Does anybody not appreciate what Stoops did in the past? I think what you can give him around.
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Ryan Lemond
Of course we do.
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Matt Jones
What he's done here has been amazing. Then there's a different question of are we set up to do well in the future?
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Caller
Right.
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Matt Jones
I think those are two completely different.
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Ryan Lemond
Circumstances, and I think that's why this is such a big season. I mean, last year, Last year was such a. We were excited about the season. It was kind of such a let down. They've got to start winning SEC home games. They've got to bring that attitude back where he's got a chip on his shoulder, get that. That mean mug back. That's the Mark Stoops I want to see on the sideline the rest of the season.
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Drew Franklin
I won't say there's Fans that want him to lose. But Stoops has one thing working against him with some of the fan base. And his name's John Sumrall. And there's a group that's very worried about missing that opportunity for what could be a guy that could take you through another door and be here a long time. I don't know. They want. They're going to be for old Miss tomorrow. But there is a group that wants this over in a hurry to not miss him if he wasn't there. I don't think those people are as negative they are. There's a lot of people that don't want to miss him if he becomes available.
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Matt Jones
And every time a Southern team struggles, people are like, what if summer I were to come to coach at Alabama? Like, they start. They start worrying about that stuff. I do think his name just keeps.
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Drew Franklin
Getting hotter and hotter.
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Matt Jones
You do hear that a lot. Who's up next?
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Ryan Lemond
Jake is next.
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Matt Jones
Jake. Go ahead, Jake.
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Caller
Hey, Matthew, how are you doing this morning, sir? I'm doing a little bit more positive.
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Matt Jones
That's right. Well, I got 30 seconds, so you make it as positive as you can.
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Caller
All right, I got. I got a seven and five. And this is. And. And I got the ole misses. Is. Is the. Is the one that we get seven with.
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Matt Jones
All right, well, so you got us winning tomorrow.
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Caller
Yes, sir.
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Matt Jones
All right, well, that's more positive. He's usually pretty negative. I like. I like positive. Jake, who's the key player tomorrow?
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Ryan Lemond
Calzada's got to play better. I mean, I think the quarterback Stitch. It starts and ends with him. I think he's got to play better tomorrow.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, he's the answer. He and the receivers.
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Matt Jones
Bush, Hampden.
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Drew Franklin
You just got to have more than 82 yards passing or just don't even play the game.
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Matt Jones
We gotta have receivers who get open, too. I mean, there is the more and more people that watch the full tape say that the receivers did not get open. They're gonna have to do that. We are here at Country Boy, where they have a new tap room, new pickleball facility, which we will talk about in a minute. And then Ryan Lemon's pep talk will come back hour number two here in Georgetown. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.