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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday, November 13th. I am Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill on a nice Thursday morning. It is an ask anything Thursday presented by. Well, presented by us. Clark's Puppet Shop phone line is 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is is 772-77-4-5254. In this dishon sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. We've got today some guests here at the KS Bar and Grill. It's the South Laurel what? KSR club.
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KSR club from South Laurel High School.
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First of all, let me say you all, you all pulled off quite a coup. I mean, really create a KSR club. You get to come up here during school, sit at a bar from South Laurel, which is at least an hour drive up here. I'm a huge fan of these kids just for their ability to. To if nothing else and listen to show, but also get out of school.
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Drew.
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I think it's actually quite impressive.
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I was pretty good at getting out of school myself. And I got to admit, creating a club to go to another town to sit at a bar, that was popped in my brain.
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We didn't have it. I tried to create a Joby and Denny club and nobody, nobody joined it with me. So I like that.
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I kind of tried to remember when I was in school, we had like the chess club and some boring club.
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We didn't have anything club in Otwell, Indiana.
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Pike Central High School.
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I bet they were good.
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We were outstanding.
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Yeah.
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Nothing cool like a KSR club. How cool the class is.
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So thank you guys very much for coming. I'm actually, I guess I'm in the education business today. I'm speaking at UK this afternoon. You know, Drew, I was scheduled to speak at UK last week. I had to cancel because I was up doing something at ESPN and the professor asked me to come this week and. And then all of a sudden I got online and it had Been posted like it was like some kind of crazy news story that I had canceled at espn. Somebody posted breaking news. Matt Jones cancels his UK appearance. And then there were all these people chiming in. I was like, what? I had to go to espn. I'm doing it next week. So I'm going today to speak to some sort of journalism class.
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Gonna teach them all about the ins and outs of being a respected journalism in the community.
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Well, here's how respected I am. I hate, I hate that I'm doing this. The day you're here, I forgot my book of topics, which is an unfortunate thing. Normally I have this long book of topics. As you know, I've had one for 14 years. Today I left it in the wrong place. So we're going, we're going completely raw today when it comes to topics. And it's an ask anything Thursday. You can call in or text in and ask any question.
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I call your tablet your bible because you carry it around religiously and you keep them when the year's over, don't you keep them somewhere?
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I have every one I've done since 2000. I have them going back to my law practice. I have everything from. Since about 2000, 2005. They become harder and harder to find because people don't keep physical calendars anymore. They keep it on their phone. But I look at my phone already too much. So I like having the book.
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Do you ever go back to your old books and just sometimes you're up to.
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No. Well, sometimes I need to know, like, when did I do this? Right? So sometimes I go back and try to see when something happened. I just finished my taxes a few weeks ago and it was that I hate, I told, I tell you one day a year and I'm sorry, I know y' all don't want me to get political on this show, but I become. I'm a Democrat 364 days a year. I'm a Republican one day a year and it's tax day and especially the day I have to go back and find all that stuff. So I don't like that.
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Well, in Kentucky, you know, they gave us a reprieve. We didn't have to turn them in until what, November 3rd this year because of the floods and everything. They kind of gave us a little, little.
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I think it was November 3rd. Guess what day I turned it in?
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November 3rd.
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November 3rd. I tell you, I'm a last minute person on all of that, Drew.
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I know that because sometimes your accountant calls me asking where you are.
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Started Your taxes.
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I'm like, I don't know, man.
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Yeah. 859-28-0-2287. We have a lot of stuff to get to last night. I was as exhausted as I could be when we got done with this trivia. It was nice to have trivia. There were. Ryan's team came, like, fourth from last.
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Which we were 10th. We were right in the middle.
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Yes.
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Give us a little respect.
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You didn't do great at all the questions, but couple of your questions killed us. Well, let me. We do this sometimes. Shannon. Ryan heard them. So, Shannon, you and Drew, do you. Would you like to answer?
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We're always terrible at this because we have no time to think, but if you want to lay them on us.
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I'm gonna lay them on you here. Okay, so here.
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Shannon might know the female rock and roll band.
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So that. That's. That's a good one. All right. What are the highest selling female musical groups of all time? And they have to be all women. Okay. So they can't. There can't be any men in the group. And some of them are more recent. Some of them are older. What are the highest selling female. All female groups. And it doesn't have to be rock, just groups.
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna go number one. Spice Girls.
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Spice Girls are number one of all time. Shannon is. Is correct. Drew, do you have a guess?
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Well, I was gonna say Spice Girls. Let me think quickly. On the fly. Destiny's Child.
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Destiny's Child is number three all time.
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I got another guess.
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What is it, Sharon?
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Tlc.
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TLC is number time. You all are doing very well so far.
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Go old school. I want to say the Supremes.
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Supremes are number two all time. Shannon is killing it, but top four. All right. Can you get that? Those you've gotten kind of, in my opinion, the easier ones now they start to get a little bit harder. But you have heard of all of.
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These, Shannon, do you have any more?
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No.
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I could guess a couple.
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Go for it.
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Are the Dixie Chicks in there?
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The Dixie Chicks. Okay, so they did not do country. I think they would have been in there, but. But they didn't do country, so. But to me, they would have been in there, but what's it.
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All right, Shannon, you got any more?
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Yeah, I've kind of hit a wall now.
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Now that I go out of me anymore.
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That's about all we got.
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We got.
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So this is the rest of the top guess.
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The Pussycat Dolls are.
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Pussy Cat Dolls are Fish. Sh. Getting all of the top five.
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What was the There was a girl band, like in the boy band era, all girls. I think Diddy created them.
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I don't think that's on here.
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Okay.
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Yeah, let's not talk about Diddy. We have. We have. Let's. Let's not do that. Okay. This is. They're young people.
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What is their name, though?
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Sixth place, the Pointer Sisters. That's a long time ago. Seventh place, in Vogue.
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Oh, okay.
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Eighth place, Wilson Phillips. Shannon, you were the only one I thought might get that one.
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That was an 80s group. I'm surprised they're on the list.
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Ninth place, Salt and Peppa, who just went in the hall of fame. And then 10th place. I think this is a more recent group. Is it Fifth Harmony? Is that something? Is that. Is that a. Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten it. So there you go. Those. Those were your top ten. But I'm impressed. Shannon got all five of the top five.
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We didn't get any of the older groups at all. Didn't even. Didn't even discuss some of those that were in the.
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I'm impressed. Shannon knew the Supreme.
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Yeah, that's.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's good. All right, now, the movie came out this summer with Brad Pitt. It was the number one movie. It was the most money a Brad Pitt movie has ever made in his lifetime. It was F1. Now, after F1, what are the eight movies starring Brad Pitt that have made the most money? And by starring, he could have a co star, but that were Brad Pitt was involved in.
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Drew, I'm gonna lean on you for this one.
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Come on. These are. I would. I would venture to say you all have heard of all of these and have probably seen most of them.
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I can't even think of a Brad Pitt movie right now.
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Not even you ever heard of Brad Pitt? He's an actor.
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I have.
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He's really handsome.
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Distracting my brain.
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So he was in, like, Fight Club, right?
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Fight Club. There we go. Fight Club is not one of them, but yes, he was with the Vampire Inner.
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Yes. That was a tough one.
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That. That's amazing. Not one person last night got interviewed the Vampire. Not one group.
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Well, here. It's hard on live radio.
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I can't even think that's. But I'm actually. That's really impressive. You're the only one that got that one.
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This one's probably not it. What's the war movie he was just in a few years ago?
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I don't know.
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He was in a tank. It was awesome.
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He was in a tank. I think you're thinking of Fury.
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Yeah.
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But anyway, he wasn't. No, the oh, Inglorious Bastards in Glorious Basterds is one of them. That's exactly right.
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You'll be the cameraman.
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Moneyball.
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Moneyball is not one of them. You guys are not getting the big ones. Anybody? Let me ask the South Laurel people. Yes. What do you got? Ocean's Eleven. Well done, my friend. There you go. See? South Laurel's got. Anyone else from South Laurel? What do you got? Seven is an answer. Well done.
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You all seen any of these movies?
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Those are two of my top 10 movies, and I thought of neither of them.
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How have you never seen seven? Shannon, Seven's one of the great movies of all time.
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What's in the box?
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What's in the box? Come on. Anyone else? Troy. Well done. South Laurel. Troy.
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I got some.
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Brad, by the way, no one has gotten number one. Anybody got number one? All right, the answer here, I'm gonna read number one is World War Z.
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That's the one Dre was trying to say, I think.
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No, that was.
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He was trying to say Fury. Which was. Which was then Troy, which somebody said. Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Ocean's 11. And then it's Oceans 12 and Ocean's 13. But I'm not counting those Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, seven Inglorious Basterds in an interview with a vampire. So there you go. Those. So those are the kind of questions we had at Trivia. And then now I'm gonna do one more and then I'll stop. Let's do the UK basketball question.
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Yeah, that's a good one.
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We lost to Louisville in a non conference game, regular season and tournament. Before Louisville, who were the last eight teams Kentucky had lost to in a non conference game? Going backwards. Okay. Starting. Starting backwards. So. So Louisville. Now, what were the eight right before that?
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Clemson.
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Clemson is one of them. There you go. Ohio State is two.
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And we're not doing NCAA.
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We are doing it.
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Oakland.
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Oakland is three. Now we have five more. St. Peter's was before.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I was. I'm going too far back there. What was the other non conference last year? Clemson. Ohio State.
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I think we're good. One of these teams we lost to twice. Tennessee is in conference. Shannon, you're going to help her. Drew here is Drew it on his own. All right, let's ask South.
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Laurel was Cows last year. Was that Wilmington?
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Unc Wilmington. Well done.
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That's the one.
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That's a hard one. Yes, that's a hard one.
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What was the Champions Classic that year? I'M sure we lost it.
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Anybody? Anybody got a guess here? Kansas. We lost to twice. Well done. But that doesn't. So we have. I got three more. Anybody?
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Ohio State again?
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Yes. Would you say Pikeville? We didn't play Pikeville. You mean Pikeville like Pikeville College? That's okay. All right. That's all right. What do you got? What? Michigan State is not correct.
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We guess them.
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The other answers.
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Georgetown.
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Georgetown was an exhibition. Gonzaga, Kansas. Well, somebody said then in the tournament, Kansas State and then ucla. So those were the. Those were the answers. I'm impressed with South Laurel, though. You got some answers there. They could have helped your team.
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Yeah, I'm impressed. Drew pulled out UNC Wilmington. That's one I had completely.
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UNC Wilmington is one that you can easily forget. But we were on our road trip. Remember how we were on that one when that happened?
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Where were we? We watched that game.
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We were like in. I want to say like Lafayette, Indiana or something. It was somewhere in Indiana and we were. We were. We were upset about it, actually.
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We watched until the final minutes at your house in Louisville, then drove a little bit.
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You're exactly right.
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We kept saying, we'll leave when they get up 20. And then they just never got up. So we're like, well, we can't leave.
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Then they lost the game. So that was fun. They're doing karaoke here tonight, by the way. First time they've ever done it. We've ever done karaoke here. What's your go to karaoke song?
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Wagon Wheel. Darius Rucker. My goodness. I sing it like it's never been sung before.
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Yeah, well, you. You could come here tonight. I think that starts at 7:00'.
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Clock.
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They're doing karaoke. All right, I have a question for you. We're. Give me. Going into. Now that we've lost to Louisville, have your expectations of the season changed or is it just one game? So think about where you were before the game and where you are now. Has anything changed in your expectations, Ron?
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Maybe just a little. I still have really high expectations, but maybe just a little. Starting to see some things I don't really like that I wasn't concerned about. Like we talked about Ortega yesterday, guys, you know, the inability to shoot the basketball by some of these guys.
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So maybe to answer your question, so slightly down.
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Slightly down.
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Okay. What about you?
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No, not down. I would. I would say I still think their potential is what it always has been for me. They might could be able to be worse. Maybe their floor is a little lower than I Expected, got a few concerns, but I mean that was. Louisville's A top 10 team. That was a true road environment. On Nov. 11, someone posted like the first true road games every year, like the last 10 years. And most of them have been lost.
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We've lost almost all of them.
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Yeah, even it sucks being Louisville. And you know, I've already moved on from that. Had 24 hours having to put up with them on Twitter. Other than that, though, that doesn't change my long term outlook.
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It hasn't changed my. It hasn't changed mine. I've thought this team was a elite eight, final four team that if things got fortunate, you could win a title with. I still think that's true. I mean, I think Louisville's elite eight final four team, we played them on their home court. It was a wild environment. They hit shots early. So I. There are a couple things though, like Ryan said that I'm a little worried about. I'm especially. I've always been worried about the shooting. I'm a little worried about now what they're gonna do with all these big guys. I wish we could make a trade. I really do. I wish we could trade one of these bigs for a shooter because we got too many big guys and we're getting another one. You know, we got too many.
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We'll see how it plays out. But this could be a year where we're questioning how Pope built everything.
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There might be a roster that we.
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Have too many bigs and not enough shooters. Now if Noah locks in and shoots lights out and Chandler shoots half as good as he's shooting right now, maybe the shooting won't be an issue. But just trying to predict what's ahead. It looks like too many bigs.
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One of these bigs, one of these bigs is not going to play and they're probably not going to be happy. And I think it's either going to be. I think it's gonna be Brandon Garrison. I think you're gonna see his minutes go down and then you got to decide like, what do you do at that point?
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Yeah, because you know Malachi, when he's on the floor, he's.
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And he can shoot and he can shoot, which is why I think he's going to end up getting more minutes and you're going to end up seeing the rest play a little bit less. 859-280-2287 Text Machine is 772-774-5254. It's Ask Anything Thursday. I'm gonna need your help without my book. I got to have topics or else you're going to get more trivia questions, I think because, you know, I left it at home. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is KENTUCKY Sports Radio here live at KS Bar and Grill with the South Laurel KSR Club and a couple other folks. Lunch will open. You should come out and see us. All right. Where, where's, where in the crowd is Aaron? All right, Aaron, I'm going to read you a text machine. A text message from the text machine. Hello, Matt. Aaron is in the crowd from South Laurel. He's dating my daughter Maddie. So keep an eye on him for.
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Whoa.
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All right. I'm keeping an eye on you, Aaron. Is Maddie here? Okay, good. We need to separate you two. All right, I'll be watching. I'll be watching for future mother in.
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Law keeping dibs on him.
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This might be a father in law. I don't know. 859-280-2287. One person says, Matt, I had Kentucky at 40 and oh, now I have him at 39 and 1. Not a lot has changed. I like that confidence. It's good attitude. I mean, I do think there's a strong argument that will be our hardest game of the year. That and at Florida, if you're just talking about trying to win. I mean, think about it. Who are we going to play that's better than them on their home floor? Probably maybe nobody. I mean it's going to be them, maybe Florida. That's it. Alabama. We do play Alabama on the road too.
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So I wonder if that had just been a say that was the Clemson game last year, if people would be as upset. I think it's just because we're not used to losing to Louisville because it was Louisville. I don't think. I think people are forming opinions about the team because it was Louisville. And if it had been just whatever name an ACC opponent, another one, it wouldn't have been as bad as follow.
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We ended the show yesterday with people with somebody saying that the honeymoon period for Mark is over. We didn't really get a long chance to talk about that. You've heard really for the first time starting yesterday, questions about the way coaches, the way he builds rosters. By the way, that's going to happen. That was going to happen at some point. Now it's happened. Do you think that changes anything? The fact that now people, because really nobody did that last year, really at all.
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I mean I, I've heard it a couple times A guy told me yesterday, man, he lost to Caliperi, now he's lost to Louisville. You know, but for me personally, I'm still in the honeymoon phase. I mean, like we've been saying all morning, it was just a game in early November, a non conference game. You drop it, it shouldn't affect the way you play the rest of the year.
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I'm going to be interested to see after Michigan State because in my opinion, with Michigan State, Drew, we should be better than them. They're a style that is more similar to Purdue, who we beat, and Purdue is probably better than Michigan State. So that's a game I want to see us go win in Madison Square Garden. You've talked over the years how we've struggled with the Champions Classic in the last few years so many times, and it's time for us to win one of those games. And as we said, Louisville may be the hardest non conference game you can make a case. Michigan State should be the easiest non conference game. So I think we got to win it.
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And after taking that loss, hopefully it's been a rough couple days of practice with more to come. In fact, I hope they're still running. So I think Pope getting some teaching moments should even have them more locked in for Michigan State. Not that they'd be locked in for that game, but taking a loss like that one at Louisville should help them out moving forward.
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Did you see the video Mario posted of the. Of the kid in the U of L student section getting flipped off and getting yelled at by Louisville fans? That's gone very viral online. Do you think. Do you think the Louisville fans were jerks to the kid wearing the Kentucky shirt in the Louisville student section?
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I think they were jerks. But if it was reversed when it was a Louisville fan sitting in the eruption zone, our students may have done the same thing. I commend that dude. That dude, I was brave to go on enemy territory. And for what I understand he didn't have a ticket to sit there. He just went down there and wormed his way in and found.
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But he wasn't. He wasn't being loud. He was just sitting there. But I mean, they were like giving him the bird in his face, like. And Mario was standing right there trying to talk to him and people were booing him. And then Jalen Lowe gets involved on the way to the locker room and is. Is yelling a little bit.
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I'm gonna disagree with Ryan. I can't see eruption zone doing that. I really don't think they would either.
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Louisville fans are meaner. Yeah, no, they are. I can't see the. I don't think the eruption zone would do that.
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Played heckle. But it wouldn't be the bleeps, you know, FB and all that we were seeing on that video.
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Well, I mean I walked by the Louisville student section before the game and it's funny how things have changed. Like there was a time that that would have been like I wouldn't have walked by it. I would have felt unsafe. But now I was fine. But then a few of them recognized me and then they started a chant and the middle finger and then they all did it. So they were in a middle finger frame of mind Drew the whole time. So I'm not surprised that kid got it because I got it right before that too. So I can see it.
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And in the celebration. Good for them. They won, have their moment. But I can't help but notice they are acting like they won the national championship. Now we brag about Louisville too, but like did Mark Pope run into the crowd last year and all break his finger? No, he went and shook hands with Pat Kelsey, pointed to the UK fans and walked at the back. They are celebrating it like we keep getting accused. It's our Super Bowl. They're celebrating it like that's the greatest thing that they've done in 20 years.
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Yeah, I'll take up for. I'm okay with. They haven't won a long time. I mean, you know, it's a new coach. I get it. I'm okay with their celebrating about it. I mean, I'm okay with it.
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I'm just reminding them they're acting like that when we got pretty used to beating them.
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Yeah, we'll see at the end of the year. I think they're going to have a big year. They're going to go into the tournament probably a one or two seed because they just don't. They have a hard non conference but they don't really play in conference. There's only a couple of good teams in the acc. So I think they're going to have a really good record when you get to the tournament. Who's up first? Shannon.
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Let's go to Isaiah.
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Isaiah. Go ahead, Isaiah.
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Hey, Matt, we were talking roster lineups yesterday. I want to get your thoughts on low Aberdeen and always starting at those guard spots. Assuming always gets back to driving the ball and not worried about shooting too much. I think that kind of. You have Lowe and Aberdeen can shoot pretty well and you could go back to slashing and then Marino at the at the big spot.
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And just I think our best lineup.
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I mean, I think our best lineup is this would be. And I appreciate the call. I would start this lineup. If you just want to put your best lineup on the floor. I would want to do low, Aberdeen away. But if only plays like he did against Louisville, take him out and put Chandler in. I can't believe I'm saying that, but that's what I would say. Moreno at the 4D abate at the 5. That's what I'd like to see out there. I think that's right now, our five. If you're just playing our five guys that are playing the best, Ryan, to me, those are the five that are playing the best right now.
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And I like Chandler coming off the bench because he could do any of those three spots. We can play the one, the two or the three, whatever you need. Somebody gets in foul trouble or somebody's not playing well, he can plug him in anywhere.
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Do you like that as the five?
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Chandler's got to be my five. So who are you taking out every step? I wouldn't put Aberdeen and low together because one needs.
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Which one you taking out.
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I'd probably roll with Aberdeen a few.
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More games and then have low, the.
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Six man low light taken over though soon.
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I can. I could do that. I actually think you need them both out there, though, because there are. They start the plays for us. We'll take a break. Very backs ksr.
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TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj he'll make him pay.
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Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
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Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. The text machine is 7745254. One person writes, Matt, I agree with your honeymoon comment because I had my first pope ism. That made me mad. He says way too many times in the postgame press conference that it took him too long to make a change. Just make the change. Well, it did take him too long to make a change. But once he's done that, Drew, I think he's. I mean, what's he gonna do? He can't go back in time. So I, I'm. I'm glad he recognized that it did take him too long. They. They stuck with two big. Specifically Diabate and Garrison in together. They did it too long, didn't work. Then when he made the check, I mean, Diabatti didn't play the last seven or eight minutes and we did pretty well. So away set out. That's when we made a run, you know, we had a. We had a lineup. Somebody showed yesterday. We had a lineup that was plus 10 and it was low. Aberdeen, Chandler, Williams, Moreno. That was a plus 10 lineup in the game.
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Definitely at the end of the game, that was the lineup that was playing the best. So they just ran with those guys.
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Well, they brought. Always back in, though. Yeah, I mean, that was. They brought away back in at the very end. But the lineup that was plus 10 was. That was that 10.
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We had a few issues with this subbing last year. Now once they got so injured, it's just doing whatever he could. I think what people. He talks today. I think what people are going to want to hear from Pope is today's not the day for beautifuls and specials. We're going to be extraordinary. You need to be like, we got our butt kicked. I made these guys run for 48 hours. That was unacceptable. We're going to be better. We don't need the hyperbole of how beautiful someone's playing behind the scenes.
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One person writes, matt, is it possible, as much as we love Pope, he's actually not a great loser. His postgame press conferences get very, very short. And he kind of blew by Kelsey in the handshake line. I didn't see the handshake line, but.
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Yeah, I wouldn't call it a blow.
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By the way, that far down to shake his hand.
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He couldn't. Well, he is a little short.
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Yeah.
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He may not have been able to reach down. I don't think he's a bad loser. I just think he takes loser losing very personally and it causes. Because. Because you're right. I mean, he talks. Those post game press conferences when we lose are over in, like, seconds.
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Ask the Ole Miss locker room how well he handled losing there last year when he tore that to pieces.
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Yeah, I want him to be that way. I don't want to be the coach sits there, will I go home? He's gonna go home and see my dog and go home and watch.
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That's true. I'd rather have him angry than going home and seeing his dog actually comes.
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Out and does it too.
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I told that those are both really good points.
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I want him to care. I wanted it to hurt when we. When we lose like we hurt.
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One person writes. Matt, the pot the news podcast with you and Drew and Billy yesterday on. On Interrupted is one of my favorite things you've done. My friends and I have been debating your Forrest Gump question ever since this was. I'm stealing this bit from another show, which is Bill Simmons, but they were taking famous movie characters insane. If you wrote their obituary, what would be the headline of their obituary? So I did it with Rocky Balboa. Like, Rocky Balboa dies. What's the headline of his obituary? What do you think?
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Yo, Jesus, I'm coming to see you.
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No, that's not how obituaries go. People don't write Yo, Jesus. Have you ever seen an obituary that starts yo, Jesus?
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Well, he said, yo, Adrian.
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Understand? But that's not how you write a. Have you seen an obituary before?
D
I've seen a few.
C
Okay. Usually it'll start like. Like if you die, tell TV radio, local TV radio host Ryan Lemon passes away at the age of blah, blah, blah. So what's Rocky's.
D
Surprise heavyweight champion that shocked the world? Passes away.
C
There you go. Or it could be man that ended the cold war single handedly passes away.
D
Right, Right.
C
So Drew brought up Forrest Gump. How do you lead off Forrest Gump's obituary with all that he did? Shannon, how do you lead off his obituary?
B
Oh, that's a good question. I mean, because he was in like every famous thing in history, it seems.
C
Yes. So would you say Vietnam Medal of Honor winner?
B
There's. There's a lot you got to put in there, though.
C
So what's. Exactly. So what are you leading with? Taught Elvis to dance.
E
Restaurateer.
B
I feel like the guy that taught Elvis the dance should probably be like the headline.
C
You think so? Even over Vietnam War. Because only one person taught Elvis to dance.
B
Right.
E
Olympic ping pong. Ping pong.
C
Olympic ping pong.
E
Represented our country. Kick returner for Alabama.
C
Alabama. All American.
D
The true.
E
Invested in some fruit company.
C
The world's.
D
The true world's most interesting man. Passes away at age 60.
C
Okay, but that. That kind of takes away the conversation.
D
Like you said, we can't encapsulate all of it. All those at the same time. So just kind of say, climb. The world's most interesting man.
C
So that was a good conversation we had yesterday, Shane, about movie characters. Billy had the best line of the whole thing. I'm not going to steal what it is about Luke Skywalker, what he thought his was.
E
No, Billy had the best line earlier when he had to stop and restart.
C
Shannon, get Billy to play. He's just started cussing. He was mad. Billy was mad at himself. We needed to let that out. That you. You need to hear that we didn't put it on the actual thing. Who's up next?
B
Richard.
C
Richard. Go ahead, Richard.
G
Good morning. Fellows.
C
Good morning, Richard.
G
I was noticing the other night at the game that they were. That Louisville kept overriding our strong side. There were several times that yellowic and our other forwards were being wide open, and I don't know why they didn't get the ball to them more because they were standing there wide open several times in the first half and they were overriding the side where the guards were. And I. I think if they would have went to. Went more to the forwards on the weak side, I believe we could have scored a whole lot more points. All I got for you.
C
Thank you, Richard.
G
All right, y' all take care.
C
Appreciate the call. I do. I do think at the. In the first 10 minutes of the game, Drew, we did a really good job of penetrating and kicking to the guy. How many open dunks did we have at the beginning? Moreno yellow bitch, Garrison Diabate. And then after that, it did feel like they did not see those open looks down low. And you. It led to a lot of. We ended up taking bad shots on the perimeter instead of doing what was working early in the game.
E
And that's right about the time they hit that 13 oh run that made the lead you couldn't come back from. It's so obvious when this team gets out of their motion, because they do. They just sit around and start jacking up threes. That's when Aberdeen had the two air balls. I mean, they're not getting in the lane. It completely just goes full stop. And they don't know what to do when they get in the half court and get jammed up.
C
If you can handle the pain, go back and look after Jalen Lowe makes the three where he gets foul. Okay. He makes the three, gets fouled. We go to a commercial break the next five or six defensive plays for Kentucky and then offensive plays for Kentucky. We are so awful. We are so awful. We do not handle the pick the screens well. We take bad shots. The couple good shots we get, we air ball. Like, the game, in my opinion, was lost. Low hits that and 13 and we're up 4 or 5 at that point, I think we go up 5 and then the game completely gets away from us in the next five minutes. And I actually think that was the difference in the game.
D
Yeah, we said that yesterday. That stretch right there was the difference. I think they went on like a 19 to 2 run or something. It was something ridiculous like.
C
And I think we were up 5 and we came out of it down 14.
D
And you're right, we kind of just became discombobulated. On offense like there was no efficiency at all. Just come down and jacking up shots. You know, they made the move on defense where they put Big FRU and Wiz Khalifa's dad in the middle of the lane. Kind of clogged that up a little bit.
C
Just because his last name's Khalifa.
D
Yeah. And it looks like he's old.
E
That's Pope's boy. That's Ali.
C
Loves him. You know, he played for Pope.
D
I know that.
C
Yeah. He does look old.
D
He does look really old.
C
He does look old.
E
He just looks like he's hurting. But what's like knees back.
C
He actually was oddly effective. He was.
E
You should watch his BYU highlights. I mean, as a pastor, he's nasty.
C
He's a good passer, but he does. He does look like he needs. He's like his back is in pain.
E
It's that run. Like, he just doesn't look like he's able to get up.
C
He had a couple really good passes. I mean, he did. He really. He does pass the ball well. But the thing is, you got to abuse him on defense because he's old. And the thing is, they did. We didn't do that. We didn't make them pay for having him in the game.
D
No, they. He just down there clogging up the lane. You know, he didn't get far outside the basket down there. And was their rim protector down there.
C
That's right. Who's next?
D
Shannon?
B
Adam.
C
Adam. Go ahead, Adam.
G
Hey, what's up, guys? If you had told me that, you know, UofL's back court was better than Kentucky's. Okay. I. I thought our front court would dominate them.
C
I did, too.
G
This didn't happen. It blows my mind.
C
It did not. We should. And we did dominate them early. First 10 minutes, our front court dominated him. But then you're right. We got. We just. That went away. That. That might be the biggest key to the game, Ryan, is that our front court, that should have been where our advantage was, and it did not happen.
D
So it is because those two guys are just a big butt post player. We couldn't move around them. With Brandon and Malachi.
C
I think some of our perimeter guys missed them, and then I think sometimes they got the ball and they were just ineffective and they just couldn't. They didn't. They weren't able to do anything with it.
E
Yeah. Pregame show, talking about who's better at each position. I was like, front court. No question. Kentucky's the winner now. Louisville might have the better backcourt, but we should kill them inside and then just. That didn't happen at all.
C
Yeah. What were you gonna say, Matt?
G
Cat follow a missing person's report Otega away?
C
Well, I mean, I. I don't want to pick on the kid because he's been so good here, so I'm willing to give him a bad game. I appreciate the call. You know, we'll see what he does Friday or next week in New York. But the o. You know, if you. Otega has to be better than. I know he finished. I went back and look, he finished with 12 points. He had a couple CIS, but he just. I mean, it's just objective. Ryan, he wasn't what he's been. He just wasn't.
D
Five turnovers and just seemed to be kind of going through the motions. It just wasn't the Ortega that we saw last year out there.
C
It seemed like, by the way, I have another person that wants me to call out someone here for their dating, but I'm not going to do that. But just so you know, you're all, if there's misbehavior, there are other parents who are writing in.
D
Everybody here's on notice.
C
I think people. They had. They have people trying to embarrass them. We are brought to you KSR by ServPro. The number one choice in cleanup and restoration. Whether it's mold, fire, storm, or water damages, we've got a pro for that. It's ServPro. They'll make it like it never even happened. You have damage, they'll come and clean it up. They're also the sponsor of the ESPN radio college football tour, the first responder bowl, golf and more. It's ServPro. We hope you don't need them, but if you do, there's ServPro. I told the crowd here last night, told Ryan Shannon, they. They officially picked me and Myron for sure for a bowl game this year.
B
Nice.
C
And would you like to hear the bowl game Myron and I are calling this year?
B
Let's hear it.
C
The New Orleans bowl. New Orleans, Louisiana.
B
Yeah.
C
Used to be like the something in carriers bowl, but it's in New Orleans. Do you know who the. Who they are projecting to play each other in this bowl game this year?
B
I have no idea.
C
Two teams I'm excited about. Old Dominion and Kennesaw State. Yeah.
B
Your homework right now, learning about those two teams.
C
We have to be down there for a while. Like, we have to be down there for a couple days. We meet with the coaches. What am I going to say to the Old Dominion coach, teach me football.
E
As quickly as you can.
D
Tell me about the mic, the Sam and the will.
C
It's December 23rd at 5pm so you're.
E
Doing play by play. You're going to be like, I'm doing.
C
Just for the record, I've never done play by play in my life.
B
Do they know that?
C
We're not going to bring it up. Are you going to call out the.
E
Formation so people listen?
C
I've never done play by play in my life and I have to do play by play for an ESPN game.
B
Who thought this was a good idea?
C
I don't know.
E
Two teams you know nothing about.
C
Two teams. I know nothing about.
D
That's. You guys all described why this is such a great idea.
C
I've already decided. I'm going to go watch a couple games of teams I don't know and practice in my house. Maybe I'll even have Mario live stream it as I learn to play by play.
D
I did hear Myron was on the sideline of the Vikings broadcast Sunday. He's got a little experience that's a.
C
Little different than play by play and color. I mean, I've never done it. I've never done it one time in my life.
E
So you're going to, you know, call out trips to the right, shotgun formation.
D
Just do what Tom Hart does. Just throw in some KSR references and everybody loves it.
C
I'm gonna assume most of the audience will be us.
B
Did they designate you to be the play by play guy or can Myron maybe be the.
C
They want me to be the play by play guy and I've never done it.
D
That's what makes this perfect. It's a ridiculous bowl.
C
I've talked about this. I may seriously try to do a high school game or something. The problem is it's the playoffs. So, like, nobody wants me to learn in their high school playoff game. So I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
B
But better call Tom.
C
But you're gonna find out December 23rd at 5 o'. Clock. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at KS Bar. They're about to start ordering food. I would recommend, by the way, wings. The new burgers are great. I think they're even new since the last time y' all were here. So they're. They're really good. Now, I don't know what your alls, what the budget is, but the potato kegs are good. If they'll let you get an appetizer. 858-59280. 2287. One person writes. Matt. Old Dominion plays on TV tonight. They have a quarterback named Colton Joseph who's really good. See, I'm already working on some strategy. Joseph, back to pass, looks left.
D
You know what's gonna have. You're gonna. You're gonna study Old Dominion and Kennesaw State and neither one of them are gonna.
C
One of the projections I saw had Western play.
D
Oh, that might be good.
C
So that actually would be good because I could probably learn a little bit about Western between now and the. And the game and just fill dead.
E
Air with Bowling Green things. Talk about the Corvette museum for the loom plan.
C
That's true. Yo, I could. Yeah, that's right. I could do a lot about. About the way off topic. Oh yeah. Talk about how it leads the nation in Ozempic.
E
Third down.
C
Third down. All the Ozempic people are here. I think I'll.
E
You got this.
C
I think I'll. I think I'll be ready to go. Let's talk about football for just a second. Kentucky plays Tennessee Tech Saturday with this is a home game crowd. What do we think it'll be?
D
Home game, Senior Day. Weather's supposed to be pretty good. You know, normally on a game like this, I wouldn't think a crowd would be much, but I'm kind of hopeful that it's going to be a nice crowd for them on 1:30.
C
So a unique time. We're opening here, by the way, Saturday at 10. So we're serving regular food, but we're opening an hour early. My pregame show. Well, our pregame show will start at 9:30 but the restaurant will open at 10 so you can come in. By the way, Drew and I are doing the pregame show and then getting in a car and driving to Buffalo after the game.
E
Like people do.
C
Like people do. And then we will do the post game show from somewhere on the road. So like we'll probably be in like Akron or Cleveland when we do the post game show, which could be great entertainment.
D
So just tune into that.
C
But. But yes. What do you expect to see Saturday? Are you at all. I mean, they are 10 and. Oh, are you at all worried about losing this game?
E
No, they. They average of winning is like the margin is in the 30s and they're the number one offense in FCS and the number three defense in FCS. So they're about as good as an FCS team as you can play, but they're not.
C
But they're an FCS team, but they're not one of the great fcs.
E
Their teams they're beating are bad. Like, their stats are good, but the. They don't have. They haven't beaten anyone.
C
So you're not at all worried about losing the game?
E
Fire everyone. If they lose Saturday, they struggle. FCS team on Senior Day.
C
My God, look at this. Kids praying that we lose. You. Come on now, That's. You can't do that.
E
You cannot lose to an FCS team. I don't care that they were winning by 30 or ranked what they are. I'm just adding that for a little context. You cannot lose.
C
Is the game close at halftime?
E
Better not be.
C
So you just think, like, you're outclassed. Shouldn't even be an issue.
E
I don't think you should have the SEC patch on your uniform if you can't handle your business pretty quickly.
C
I mean, to be fair, there's been. I don't think there's been a major team lose to an FCS team yet this year. Sometimes that happens occasionally. I don't think that's happened this year. So, like, there's really no excuse for it. I mean, North Dakota State's the best team. I think they played at Kansas State and it was close to. But Kansas State did win, so I don't think there's any excuse to lose the game.
E
You're hot right now. It's actually, you need the win. It's not like you're a great team. They're going to sneak up on you. You need to stack a few more wins to keep this going. So I did. It would be a horrible loss. Even if it's close, I think would be a terrible.
D
Look, they struggled to beat Gardner Webb last week. That's all I need to know. You struggle to be Gardner Webb, but.
C
We'Ve had some history with Gardner Webb basketball.
D
You know, there have been those football games in the past. Like, it was close against what? Austin P. At halftime.
C
And we were losing, weren't we, At Austin P?
D
I think Lafayette.
E
Eastern Kentucky.
D
Yeah, I went to overtime with Eastern.
C
No, we were lucky to beat Eastern Kentucky. Eastern Kentucky had us beat that year.
E
Oh, yeah. Dorian Baker made a catch to force overtime. Right.
C
That was an amazing catch. That's exactly right. So. But I. We should win this game easily. And then, of course, we skip the. What do you think about the video of Diego Pavia? With all the second straight video of a player. Did you see this? Have you seen this, Shannon? Diego. Diego Pavia is sitting at a restaurant in Nashville with Theo Vaughn and the dude from Barstool, Glennie Balls. I don't know how in the world he ended up there, but he's got. He's got Theo. He's got a big stack of money a la. But they're all ones. I'm serious. Like this. I mean, it's. See, I would argue that's even more weird.
E
Well, he was probably going somewhere.
C
I know, but, like, he is that.
E
He pulled that money out of the bank not to Totten Garrett, but to put someone through law.
C
How many ones do you think that is? It's like. I mean, it was like this much. What do you.
E
Oh, it's a huge stack.
C
What do you think?
E
I mean, bigger than a softball.
C
Thousand dollar ones. Five hundred and ones.
D
I don't think it's more than a thousand. That's that stack.
C
Have you seen the video? Yeah, I'd say $500 in ones.
E
Yeah, I'd go over on 500.
C
It is weird, though, to hold a big thing of ones. Well, anyway, we'll take a break, come back hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Date: November 13, 2025
Hosts: Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Ryan Lemond, Shannon the Dude
Location: Live at KS Bar and Grill
Special Guests: South Laurel High School KSR Club
This episode of Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) is an "Ask Anything Thursday," where listeners are invited to call or text in questions on any topic. The crew is joined by students from South Laurel High School’s KSR Club, who managed a class field trip to KS Bar and Grill (“quite a coup,” per Matt Jones). The show weaves between fun trivia, reflection on Kentucky basketball’s recent loss to Louisville, roster analysis, and some personal and humorous moments around the hosts’ daily lives and upcoming ESPN commitments.
"You all pulled off quite a coup... I’m a huge fan of these kids just for their ability to…if nothing else, get out of school." — Matt (01:15)
(04:45–10:12)
(13:12–16:11)
"I wish we could trade one of these bigs for a shooter…we've got too many big guys and we're getting another one." — Matt (14:43)
(16:58–18:48)
(18:48–21:05)
“Louisville fans are meaner. I can't see the eruption zone doing that.” — Matt (19:44)
(21:24–23:02)
(24:11–25:42)
"I want him to be that way. I don't want to be the coach sits there… He's gonna go home and see my dog… I want him to care." — Ryan (25:19–25:42)
(26:20–28:14)
(29:19–33:41)
(34:43–40:32)
“Creating a club to go to another town to sit at a bar, that was popped in my brain.”
— Drew (01:38)
“I’m impressed. Shannon got all five of the top five [female groups].”
— Matt (07:25)
“Maybe just a little. I still have really high expectations, but…maybe just a little.”
— Ryan, when asked if expectations dropped (13:12)
"He talks. Those post game press conferences when we lose are over in, like, seconds."
— Matt (25:06)
"I've never done play by play in my life and I have to do play by play for an ESPN game."
— Matt (35:33)
The show is lively, humorous, and conversational—full of self-deprecation, banter, and genuine Kentucky sports passion. The interplay between Matt, Drew, Ryan, and Shannon is engaging and accessible, balancing serious analysis with lighthearted, occasionally mischievous asides.
You’ll come away from this episode with a nuanced understanding of Kentucky basketball’s state post-Louisville loss, a fun side of the KSR team, and the comedic chaos of a truly interactive sports talk show. It’s a quintessential KSR hour—sports, smarts, and plenty of Kentucky character.