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Ryan Lemond
And Doug what a horrible call. Hey ref.
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Drew Franklin
Open your eyes ref.
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Ryan Lemond
You're really not gonna call that? Come on.
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I don't think you get what we're doing.
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Ryan Lemond
Sure I do.
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Drew Franklin
Drew. Yeah, it sounds like Boyd County. This Jacobs Furlock's real deal.
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Ryan Lemond
He's committed to Youngstown State averaging 36 points a game.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, so I was just trying to pull up look like he had a huge game recently. I saw they were writing about him on a Youngstown State website as a potential starter, as a true freshman. They're already getting excited about him with the Penguins but he'll be one to watch. Really lighten it up. And then we just heard from our friends here at Prep Spin that there was a rain delay last night. How do you have a rain delay?
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Ryan Lemond
William said it was raining in the gym coming out of the air conditioning vent.
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Drew Franklin
We'll get that fixed before before the big games coming up today.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, I got final four tonight, 6:30 and 8 o' clock and then the championship tomorrow night at 7 o'. Clock. So if you want to see some good basketball, come on out here. Check them out.
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Drew Franklin
Mentioned we said earlier that Davis County North Laurel. Laurel has a little head to head. Could be a Mr. Basketball showdown to.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, reach Davidson for North Laurel who's committed to liberty.
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Drew Franklin
Gonna be a flame.
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Ryan Lemond
And Jonathan Moss plays for Davis County. Just decommitted from QT Chattanooga opening up his recruitment. But our little source says Maryland's coming after him.
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Drew Franklin
Oh, Maryland. Who's your little source? Because that wasn't set here in the gym. That's an outside source.
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Ryan Lemond
I don't reveal my sources.
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Drew Franklin
Is it to the Texas 735, 34.
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Ryan Lemond
80, 35, 36, 80. There you go. I've saved this topic till we had some time to talk about it. But Matt did his first play by play ever of any sport on national radio on ESPN Radio he is thrown into the wolves to do the Western Kentucky Southern Miss New Orleans bowl game Tuesday night. It was after the Kentucky game so I know a lot of fans watch Kentucky listening Kentucky then flipped over to listen to Matt. Did you get a chance to hear any of his play by play?
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Drew Franklin
Tuesday was my hectic day but I did manage ins and outs here and there. Hopping in the car, I caught bits and pieces so I Can't say I heard the full game broadcast, but I caught a little first half, caught a little early second half, and then I caught the very end. So I heard enough like it did really well. They seem to just be having a lot of fun. I mean, sometimes Myron, when he was chiming in, really had nothing to do with the football game. But that's exactly what I expected and what I wanted.
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Ryan Lemond
You know, I hate to brag on him because, you know, we're all like brothers. We like to pick on each other. He did a good job. You could not tell. That was his first ever. Play by play, you could tell he's prepared and he did a good job. And actually, I was kind of proud of him, the way he handled the game.
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Drew Franklin
When I first listened, it was probably second quarter, I'd say. I was. I was getting. I was getting some doofensomerch vibes. I think the excitement was getting to him. There was some screaming. It was good. He was doing a good job. But it was a. It was a version of Matt I don't hear very often. It threw me off a little bit. When I came back in the second half, the excitement had come down a little bit. It was still an exciting game, which helped. I mean, that was a fun fast pace. Both those teams play fast, but added to it. But when I first heard him, it was. My man was on fire.
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Ryan Lemond
It was good that Duvenschmirz decided to join the broadcast team of Matt Myron. I heard it the worst when he had a result of a break in the action, and he asked Myron who has appeared in the Superdome the most outside of a pro team or a team, and Myron guessed the Pope. And Matt just went crazy.
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Drew Franklin
Pope in the Superdome?
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Ryan Lemond
The Pope and had the largest crowd. Okay, that's what it was. Not been there the most. But who had the largest crowd at the Superdome? And it was the Pope and Doofenshmirtz. Doofenshmirtz was definitely loud and proud about that.
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Drew Franklin
Well, you know, I. I talked to Doof for about an hour and a half last night talking NFL, but the broadcast did come up. So I have a little. I have his version.
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Ryan Lemond
Okay, let's hear it.
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Drew Franklin
I can tell you a few things now. I know he's gonna want to talk about this when he gets back, but he's on vacation. He's like this. This would be old news by the time we hear from him.
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Ryan Lemond
It's true.
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Drew Franklin
He did tell me that he was. He was torn between staying off his phone for Criticism or looking at it. You know, he didn't want to get in his own head if he was getting negativity online. But then. So he wasn't looking at his phone, but he finally looked at it and he had zero text and zero tweets, so he thought he was doing a bad job. But then his producer told him that like the first eight minutes of the game weren't even on radio because Louisville Toledo went long. So he and Myron called, you know, much of the first quarter to no one, and they didn't even know it was to no one.
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Ryan Lemond
So he checked his phone and no, nothing there.
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Drew Franklin
He freaked out. No one's talking. He didn't know. That's when the producer chimed in, by the way, we're still not on air yet. The other game ran long. So the, the beginning of the game, he's calling it, thinking everyone's out there listening. And he and Myron didn't even know they were calling it to no one. But they have them do that because they want to have the, you know, the fight if something were crazy were to happen.
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Ryan Lemond
That's true.
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Drew Franklin
You go to SportsCenter, you know, the radio call, you know, they want him doing it like there is an audience. But he was surprised to learn that the first few minutes he and Myron were talking to a wall. But I guess that that helped him a little bit with nerves once he learned that.
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Ryan Lemond
When they first flipped over to the broadcast, the first drive, we hear Matt gets to call like a long touchdown run. And I, I'm thinking to myself, he nailed it. He did such a good job. He got excited, he called it the right way, did a good job, and. And then they call the touchdown back on penalty. And you can hear it in his voice like, oh, I guess that didn't matter, did it?
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Drew Franklin
He did say it's the most he's prepared for anything he can really remember. He's like, there's never been a play by play guy that has done more prep because he just wanted to make sure he knew everything. He said because of the teams were so fast paced, it made it a little harder because you want a little downtime to give your spotter and your stats guy time to relay. You know, that was number 82 so and so for seven yards. But because those teams play so fast, it's almost like they had to get to the next play without having a little buffer to get all the info in. So that he said that added a challenge with the matchup they had of two teams that play so fast.
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Ryan Lemond
And I really think he did a good job for his first time ever to do it. He did a good job. And then the local team, Western Kentucky won the game. So it kind of worked out perfect for him. I feel like that helped.
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Drew Franklin
He mentioned, you know, he gets to meet with the coaching staffs beforehand.
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Ryan Lemond
Right.
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Drew Franklin
He said he was shocked at how much they tell play by play guys.
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Ryan Lemond
They were telling him like, we're gonna run this sickest trick play at this time. Like they were just giving him a heads up. We're gonna run trick plays. We're gonna do this, we're gonna do that. Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
He was spoiling some of the secrets. On the new episode of COVID Zero. Go listen to that.
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Ryan Lemond
Available now.
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Drew Franklin
I think if it's not available now will be later. But he said from now on when I'm watching these guys and the announcers call out the play before it happens or know a trick play, it's not as cool anymore because the coaches literally say exactly what they're gonna do. And he said it was interesting. He met with one coach who kind of, you know, obviously revealed the game plan and he goes and meets with the other coach who's saying what they're going to do. But it's. Matt already had the answers in his head and he has to sit there and with a poker face and not react because I guess Southern Miss wasn't preparing for quarterback change that Western made. But Matt knew that Western was ready.
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Ryan Lemond
To do it, was going to happen.
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Drew Franklin
So he's in his Southern Miss meeting and they're not prepared for the backup. Matt's like, this is so wild. I know what both sides are doing. But I guess you know, that's happens in, in all game, basketball, football, the. The play by play, people get a little bit of scoop.
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Ryan Lemond
That's right. Western went with the quarterback Maverick. Yeah, they put in Maverick. What a great name for a quarterback. Maverick.
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Drew Franklin
Big transfer, came from the same school as their offensive coordinator. He was their quarterback for most the year and they brought him in. I know Western ended up winning by a couple scores, but it was still a close game for most of it. So even though they got off topic a little bit here and there as Matt Myron can do the, the football helped him out a little bit by being exciting.
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Ryan Lemond
I thought they did a great job. I was really tip my hat to both those guys. They did a good job.
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Drew Franklin
Could you. You've done it. But I mean at that.
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Ryan Lemond
I've not done at that level. I've done.
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Drew Franklin
You could handle it. Being broadcast.
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Ryan Lemond
Sure, why not? Now I guarantee you he prepared probably more than I would have. I would have had my, my big board, my team boards ready to go. But he really did, you know, he like actually read all the game notes. I don't know if I can read that much.
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Drew Franklin
We believe that. There were a few times when I was listening where he'd be like number 82, brown with 16 yard catch, nice out route. You know, he's from so and so high school. Number three recruit in the state of whatever. And I'm thinking, who is this? Matt.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Who normally doesn't even bother to get the pronunciation right, is just reading me a full bio on the fly during a game. So he was very prepared.
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Ryan Lemond
Of all the stuff we've been around him doing, that's the most nervous he's ever been. I think the most anxious and nervous he's ever been. So I, I sent him some notes that hey man, you're doing a good job. You're killing it. Just keep it up. Just kind of. Because I think he needed that little confident, that reassurance that hey man, we're doing okay.
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Drew Franklin
Maybe they'll get another one next year. I don't know if he wants a.
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Ryan Lemond
Full time gig, but yeah, during both seasons I think for sure. Now while we're on the college football front, Michigan finally found their head coach, Kyle Winningham from Utah. So the maybe one of the most iconic college football programs in America hires a guy from Utah. And one of the most iconic basketball programs, Kentucky, hires a coach from byu.
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Drew Franklin
Look at this. The Utah takeover.
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Ryan Lemond
The Utah take. What is going on with that?
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Drew Franklin
Are you implying that there's just a Utah takeover everywhere?
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Ryan Lemond
There may be.
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Drew Franklin
It's happening.
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Ryan Lemond
The breeding is the breeding ground for top hot coaches in Utah.
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Drew Franklin
I don't know, but Whittingham been there a long time. I think he's the second longest tenured coach in football. Been there like close to 30 years, if not more than 20 years. So you know, Michigan didn't have a lot of options late in the game. I think that ended up being about as good as they could do because even though it is Utah, not exactly a power, he's done a lot of winning there and he had just stepped away from Utah and then gets the job that they already did. A press conference at the bowl game rolled him right out. So surprising how higher there I was secretly rooting for Braum just to blow up Louisville and have to deal with that. I enjoyed Brahms name being in the middle, but I think given the Circumstances with the mess Michigan has right now. That was a good hire.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, there was a day or two where it looked like Braum may be one of their top candidates. Did you buy into that a little bit?
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Drew Franklin
I mean, you just didn't have much left where it's, you know, this time of the season, hires have been made. I was watching just to see how that would play out. If Braum went, what that would mean for Vince Merrow, would he go? Would Vince get kind of left out there? Does Louisville keep Vince? You know, I just wanted to see what the carousel would have been like locally if Braum had taken the Michigan job.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, the Michigan is a mess right now, so whoever steps into that, they had to. This had to be a good hire. Not just from the football, but the organization needed a good leader. This guy. Apparently that's, that's the perfect fit. Then what they're looking for.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, that was big news. And I don't know if you saw Elaine Kiffin in his leather jacket showing up at LSU's bowl game, leaving early. Did a little bit there. It's, it's going to be such a circus around him. It already is. Fans are taking videos of him getting his car with two hours left still in the game. Now they're complaining about Lane. It's, it's just going to be a circus down there in Baton Rouge. I'm excited to watch from afar. Having no, no stake in that game.
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Ryan Lemond
He could have handled things a lot better, there's no doubt about it. Yeah, with Ole Miss, you know, getting ready to play Georgia now, his old team getting ready to play Georgia.
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Drew Franklin
He was talking about on the boat, I guess LSU played Houston in a bowl game. But he was talking about how excited he was for Ole Miss and you know, he still gets a bonus if Ole Miss wins. Weird, weird, weird circumstances. Then he heads to Oxford next year. That's one I don't, you know, I only get to follow Kentucky games. That's one I'd love to take off a UK game and just be a part of that atmosphere.
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Ryan Lemond
Lane Kiffin takes LSU in Ole Miss. Also takes LSU into Kroger Field to play Kentucky next year.
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Drew Franklin
That's right. And Ole misses. I mean, as they should be. They're so mad at him. That will be a. If he thought Tennessee fans gave it to him bad when he had that reunion. The Ole Miss will be fun next season.
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Ryan Lemond
Alright, we'll take our break, come back. Phone lines are open. Got a couple teams coming out now, getting some shots up, warming up a little bit. It's McCracken county and Woodford county in the first game today. Ryan Lim and Drew Franklin. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
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Ryan Lemond
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
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Drew Franklin
Drew, I'm going to guess. Cornbread hemp.
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Ryan Lemond
Little cornbread hemp. The little peach gummies. Mom and my son and yoga girl all got their own little cornbread hemp in their Christmas stocking. Now down in Florida, they're available as well. Or you can go online@cornbreadhem.com that's funny.
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Drew Franklin
Santa visited my family with cornbread hemp too. My dad really got a that was gift from me. The gift of cornbread. He loves them for sleep purposes.
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Ryan Lemond
That's it for sleep gummies. They're the best. They are definitely the best.
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Drew Franklin
He'll kind of drop hints when he runs out like, hey, you know those gummies you all talk about? He wouldn't happen to them like, yeah, dad, I got you.
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Ryan Lemond
Wait till Christmas.
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Drew Franklin
Got to have you get a full night's sleep.
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Ryan Lemond
Mark Pope made a big announcement that they're going to wear the denim uniforms on February 7th against Tennessee at Rupp arena almost 30 years to the day. They debuted the denim uniforms back in 1996. I love it. I love the fact they're going to wear them. I love the fact that it's against Tennessee. I love the fact it's on the 30 year anniversary of it.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. Very excited about this. Hopefully the team is in great shape and can get a win in them because that is most important. Those are, those are those jerseys. Even though they had still had mixed reviews and at the time had negative reviews, people forgot, oh yes, there is a winning tradition in those jerseys. So if we're going to break them out, we need to be serious. We need to be in a great spot. We're playing Tennessee and Rupp Arena. We really need to defend Rupp arena throughout all of the SEC to have a shot at winning the league. But that game especially you cannot slip up big Saturday in February. Bringing back the the 30 year rendition of those. Got to have a good team and got to get a win.
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Ryan Lemond
I know you had a Walter McCarty denim jersey. Do you still have it?
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Drew Franklin
I do still have it. I mistakenly wore it to a bachelor party in the infield of Talladega. There is a smell and a color that will not ever come off, but I still own it. Even though it isn't a trash bag. Shouldn't worn it down there for that trip. But me and many others my age, you know, I'm 40. I'm right in that sweet spot where that 9016 was everything to us. I've said this many times. I had if you could fit that Meadowlands Statue of Liberty logo on something, I had it. The trash can in my room, the pillows in my room, the posters in my room, my T shirts, my shorts. I had the denim stuff back then. I now have two different pairs of the denim shorts. I have the the road denims and the home white denims. That year, that season, that jersey. Loved it, loved everything about it and I cannot wait for it to come back.
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Ryan Lemond
You're right, a lot of people didn't really like them back then. The slogan was it ain't the denim, it's what's in them because people didn't like it.
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Drew Franklin
I went back and I was reading some of the stories that were written back then. Just the other day Pitino had a great quote. Someone asked about the denim and he, you know, typical patino. He said in the press conference that's the worst question I've ever gotten in my 21 years of coaching. And I thought that's such a Rick answer to say that. It just shows his thoughts of the denim. At the time they had no idea we'd be talking about him 30 years later. But the newspaper story I read was talking about how the call in show after the game even though Kentucky won beat Arkansas, just people complaining about the denim. Billy Packer was comparing it to North Carolina colors almost universally hated in the moment.
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Ryan Lemond
But now we're so excited it's coming back.
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Drew Franklin
Nostalgia. It's because they finished with a ring. I will add one. Mark Pope played his best game in the denim, the debut denim. He had 16 and 11 against Arkansas game and then four days later wearing the denim again. Game two of the denim had another double double. His first back to back double doubles. 11 rebounds in both games. So maybe the fans, the coach, Billy Packer, some of the players didn't like him in the moment. But Pope saw An instant. Found some instant success in them. Maybe they'll have that again this season.
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Ryan Lemond
Rub it off. That's why he liked it so much. He played so well in him. His players will do it too. So. February 7th, Tennessee, Rupp Arena.
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Drew Franklin
You were covering the team then. I was like, it feels like such a big thing now, but in the moment, was there a build up or did they just run out wearing them? Like how. Those are the actual. Remember, like the actual launch.
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Ryan Lemond
I don't remember the actual launch. I can't remember how much of a build up there was. If there was any build up, it was only a day or two, not much. Then when they came out, people there were probably more people disliked them than like them because it's not the standard blue and blue and white uniforms, you.
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Drew Franklin
Know, and nowadays, you know, people wear.
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Ryan Lemond
Different shoes all the time.
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Drew Franklin
Alternate uniform. But at the time, that was do not touch our Kentucky Blue. All right.
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Ryan Lemond
859-280-2287. Who we got? Rick got Joe up first. Go ahead, Joe.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, thank you, gentlemen. I think Drew, that special teams coordinator is a big hire. He's got a couple years up at Ohio State, so I pretty much surmise if he can do it up there, maybe he can do it down here. I think it's just really his most important hire. Special teams at Kentucky are good. We got a chance for six victories next year. And quickly on Reese Shepherd. Drew, go. Go back and look at some old tastes of a guy named John Stockton that used to play for the Utah team. Him and Karl Malone had one of the greatest 12 combinations ever in the NBA. And with that big center up there called Segoon at Houston, I could see Reed and that young man having one hell of a damn 10 years and being the new Stockton and Malone in the NBA. Any comments on that?
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Ryan Lemond
Appreciate it, Joe. Thank you. What do you think about that? Think Reed could be the next John Stockton with the Sagoon guy out at Houston?
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Drew Franklin
First of all, I'm a little insulted they had to explain John Stockton to me. John Stockton is not that old. Right. I mean, I feel like we know who John Stockton is, but you're still.
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Ryan Lemond
Kind of a baby in our eyes. You're a young puppy.
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Drew Franklin
I own a John Stockton jersey. He taught jazz number 12. Purple jersey. Yes. Very familiar with John Stockton. Gonzaga legend, NBA legend. We all know the Jazz, Stockton, Malone. So I look insulted there. Yeah, but that is a great comparison. I don't know if Sagoon and Shepherd could get to that level, but the way he's playing, he's got a little Stockton to him. It helps having Durant also next to him. That's been my favorite thing of Reed Shepherd. You know, we were talking about we just played Travis Perry in this gym just a couple of years ago, and I am watching him chest bump Kevin Durant for a contender in the NBA. My brain, even though, you know, we've already been the Reed surprise happened was in Kentucky, that breakout. My brain still can't grasp the NBA starting point guard playing with Kevin Durant version of Reed Shepherd. It all happens so quickly.
- [24:24]
Ryan Lemond
The Rockets play the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis on February 2nd. Already had people text me, I've got tickets. I'm going. The question is, do you wear Kentucky blue or do you wear Houston Rockets red? You got to wear blue. You gotta wear blue to help you stand out.
- [24:39]
Drew Franklin
You'll get noticed. Maybe you'll get a little nod, maybe a little bit from Reed. Yes, do Kentucky shirt, Rocket shorts. We'll hit Reed with his own.
- [24:46]
Ryan Lemond
There we go. But you're right, man, he's playing great. I mean, he's playing lights out right now.
- [24:50]
Drew Franklin
He started the year that they were on national tv, maybe even the first game of the entire season, and he could not play defense. And he became a joke on NBA Twitter. And once you become a joke on NBA Twitter, it's hard to get out of that. Brandon Knight is still a joke on NBA Twitter. Once they get their claws on you, yeah, there's no breaking that. But since that, you know, opening week of the season where he looked a little rough, he has been getting better and better and has become a real star for the Rockets and hopefully they're a team that can be playing for something bigger at the end of the year. And we're watching him in, in the playoffs. Just seeing him on Christmas Day, as I said, I can't grasp, we called.
- [25:25]
Ryan Lemond
The region 13th region game.
- [25:27]
Drew Franklin
That was three years ago. And now he's playing Christmas Day NBA.
- [25:30]
Ryan Lemond
And H Town jerseys to Kevin Durant. Yeah.
- [25:34]
Drew Franklin
And he's only going to keep getting better and better. And as the caller said, I don't know if we'll get to a John Stockton level, but they do have something brewing there with that.
- [25:41]
Ryan Lemond
1-285-928-02287. Who's next? Rick Dennis is up next. Dennis, go ahead, Dennis.
- [25:50]
Drew Franklin
Looks like the buzz is that Carter Bowley is going to have somebody competition in the spring.
- [25:59]
Ryan Lemond
Well, I mean, there's nothing has been official yet that they're bringing in a transfer portal but something has happened during the show started Drew but right now cutters the guy they've already said cutters the guy they convinced him into staying but surely there'll be another quarterback come in for.
- [26:17]
Drew Franklin
Twitter that that Nova said is going to enter the portal and right now Kentucky is odd favor to.
- [26:27]
Ryan Lemond
The land him appreciate the phone call. Yeah I mean he hasn't entered the portal yet probably won't till they get beat I would think.
- [26:37]
Drew Franklin
Yeah it's talking about the backup behind Dante Moore at Oregon's expected into the portal portal season starts Friday starts this Friday so we'll really start getting news I you know I consume Kentucky is going to be in the mix but you also because of the Will Stein connection but that's going to be a guy that's going to get a lot of offers. You have holy in Kentucky's budget ain't huge and they have a lot to go get. They need five starting offensive line lost every offensive lineman maybe Nova sad ends up coming here. I have no idea he is entering the portal but Kentucky's got a lot of portaling to do coming up on Friday with only so much in the.
- [27:11]
Ryan Lemond
Grocery budget your priority's got to be offensive line and backup quarterback is in the mix after that I think yeah.
- [27:17]
Drew Franklin
You have cutter you might not might not be a year to go out and spend 3 or 4 million on a quarterback. You have so many needs cornerback receivers running. I mean they they need not everything but close to everything is specifically that offensive line has to be completely rebuilt to have any kind of year.
- [27:33]
Ryan Lemond
I wouldn't be shocked if the Norvisad guy ended up here. But nothing's official yet. Like I said he hasn't entered the portal yet but maybe he would be a guy especially if he's got a good relationship with Will Stein.
- [27:42]
Drew Franklin
It is a name to watch just with the Oregon connection.
- [27:44]
Ryan Lemond
Alright we'll take our break come back go back to the phone lines got a couple lines open now. 859280-2287. Ryan and Drew we'll be right back on Kentucky Sports radio. Speaking of Stockton mortgage, you know a lot of people probably got a new home in their Christmas stocking. Oh nine probably.
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Drew Franklin
Is that a common gift?
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Ryan Lemond
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- [28:54]
Drew Franklin
Can I give you my scoop from our.
- [28:56]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, go ahead. I heard you talking a little scoopy today.
- [28:58]
Drew Franklin
Well, I wouldn't call it scoop, but I was just watching here. Woodford's warming up. They're shooting way too many 30 foot threes. I don't know they're gonna be doing that in the game and I don't think they made any. So just watching the little shoot around here felt like they were just chucking up shots maybe not going over things they should be going on now. I could be wrong. They could come out here and just be hitting NBA threes the whole game. But it looks like that's all they were doing.
- [29:21]
Ryan Lemond
Now we did get some scoop on this Spurlock kid too from Boyd county that's coming in to play Lexington County Catholic tonight.
- [29:26]
Drew Franklin
He'll pull up from the logo. Is that the.
- [29:28]
Ryan Lemond
From the logo cross, the cross, the standing line, the Danny Haney logo, court logo. Boom. And shooting it up.
- [29:35]
Drew Franklin
I did hear Brandon tell his team, however quick you think they're going to shoot, they're going to shoot quicker. So as soon as it goes the other way, get ready for a shot to go up.
- [29:43]
Ryan Lemond
And he's already committed to Youngstown State. I got a little. I got a little nugget on Youngstown State. Tell us they're coached by Ethan Faulkner. You may think, well, who's Ethan Faulkner? Basketball fans around Kentucky may remember the Faulkner Twins from Elliot county that went all the way to the state semifinals before losing to Covington Homes in 2009. So Ethan Faulkner is the head coach and his Twin brother Evan Faulkner is the assistant coach. I remember that Elliott county team. Man, they were. They were good. They were fun to watch, too. Those two twins were like little water bugs out there, like, you know, all over the place.
- [30:15]
Drew Franklin
It's a fun connection. Do you know we also have a Youngstown connection from Kentucky?
- [30:19]
Ryan Lemond
What's that?
- [30:19]
Drew Franklin
We went to a Youngstown game.
- [30:21]
Ryan Lemond
Yes, we did.
- [30:22]
Drew Franklin
Ohio featuring freshman Gabe Dines.
- [30:26]
Ryan Lemond
Yes.
- [30:27]
Drew Franklin
Who is from Kentucky, played two years there and is now at usc. Big fella. He got a few minutes in that game. Young kind of got the baby deer thing going on because he's like seven foot something. But he was at Youngstown for a couple years until leaving the season.
- [30:40]
Ryan Lemond
Didn't Reese Potter also play in that game?
- [30:43]
Drew Franklin
Was he in that game?
- [30:45]
Ryan Lemond
I thought that's where you were going. I thought we saw Reese Potter transferred here.
- [30:49]
Drew Franklin
No, I don't think Reese Potter was in that game. We can say was. Well, if you want fun times at Ohio, all right.
- [30:55]
Ryan Lemond
We talked a little basketball transfer portal stuff, a little football transfer portal stuff. But our UK volleyball teams kind of got a little roster shake up from the transfer portal.
- [31:06]
Drew Franklin
Yeah, we're. We're excited. Craig Skinner is bringing back just about everyone.
- [31:10]
Ryan Lemond
We lost Eva Hudson.
- [31:12]
Drew Franklin
Right.
- [31:12]
Ryan Lemond
That was it.
- [31:12]
Drew Franklin
That's pretty big loss. We can't just shrug that off as nothing. But otherwise, I think eight of the top nine rotation players are back. And then they. They did have one. I don't know if it's a huge loss because it's a depth piece, but we did lose some one to Louisville.
- [31:28]
Ryan Lemond
Yes. Three Brook, Baltimore.
- [31:30]
Drew Franklin
Baltimore. Yeah.
- [31:31]
Ryan Lemond
Here for three years, you don't. You hate to lose anybody, but you really hate to lose them to your arch rival who's really good right down the road.
- [31:39]
Drew Franklin
And she was an all SEC freshman, played well last year. I think my understanding is playing time went down quite a bit this year. I even read that she played in like half the set she played in as a freshman. So, you know, I'm not pretend to be the expert on the volleyball roster, but it seems that just she was expecting more out of this year for herself. Didn't play quite as much. And then she puts out a statement of thanking Kentucky. How she hates to have to do it. But you go into the rival, everything brewing here, we're gonna win the national championship next year.
- [32:10]
Ryan Lemond
Like her and Vince Merrill kind of, you know, forgetting about us and going.
- [32:14]
Drew Franklin
Yeah, they can go hang out, put their L's up. We did add Morgan Gardy, though, from Notre Dame.
- [32:19]
Ryan Lemond
Yes.
- [32:20]
Drew Franklin
She was an All American Honorable Mention. 65 outside hitter. Won't say that she can replace Hudson because nobody can replace Hudson. But that seems to be Skinner's answer to losing Hudson outside. She'll slide in, and with all the returners coming back, we'll. We'll do this run again and hopefully have one more win on the back end of it.
- [32:37]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, if he can retain everybody else. You know, losing the Brook hurts, obviously, but if you retain everybody else, you got to feel really good about making another run it back next year type of season. Yeah.
- [32:48]
Drew Franklin
And as far as I know, it seems like he expects to have everyone back. I mean, you know, we got Brooklyn, Delay, o', Brien, Molly. I mean, we name them all. We just watched him play. Should have everyone back but Bud Hudson as she heads to. To the pro league. I saw she signed with Atlanta, so good for her. In League 1 volleyball little gets to stay in the US that starts coming up next month. But Hudson signed a pro contract to keep playing. Good for her. But there's a volleyball roster shakeup. I don't like losing Baltimore to Louisville, but you add guardian, we'll run it back next year and hopefully make another long run with one extra win on the back.
- [33:22]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, I don't necessarily like us trading stuff with Louisville. Like we gave them. We didn't give them, but Vince left to go there. Then we bring back Pete Nocta came back over here. Then another guy, Chris, I can't remember his name, he went to join Vince over at Louisville. Like, we're kind of bouncing back and forth here. Will Stein's bringing a lot of guys on his staff that used to coach there, played there, whatever. It's kind of.
- [33:42]
Drew Franklin
It's getting weird. Kelsey's doing the friendly license plate thing. You know, some of us still have true hatred in our heart for Louisville, and we'll never let that go.
- [33:50]
Ryan Lemond
I don't.
- [33:51]
Drew Franklin
I'm not playing nice. I'm not transferring to Louisville. Louisville Sports Radio and coming up on down the road, some people, Vince included, have tweets to delete and some. Some pictures to delete down. But, you know, she. She's now adding to the list heading over that way. I think she's from Cincinnati, so maybe she didn't come up in the rivalry like a lot of us. But still, big move going from Kentucky to Louisville there in volleyball.
- [34:12]
Ryan Lemond
Speaking of Cincinnati, I was there Saturday night to watch Hamilton.
- [34:17]
Drew Franklin
Oh, a little touring. Hamilton.
- [34:20]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
- [34:20]
Drew Franklin
Nice.
- [34:21]
Ryan Lemond
Hamilton was in Cincinnati. That was yoga girls Christmas present.
- [34:24]
Drew Franklin
Wow.
- [34:25]
Ryan Lemond
I know you're a big Hamilton fan. Big Hamilton I've been waiting to talk to you about this.
- [34:29]
Drew Franklin
I haven't memorized. You want to just do the whole play starting now?
- [34:33]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, go ahead.
- [34:34]
Drew Franklin
I could do the whole thing.
- [34:35]
Ryan Lemond
Helpless.
- [34:37]
Drew Franklin
Did you enjoy it?
- [34:38]
Ryan Lemond
Helpless? I really. It was amazing.
- [34:40]
Drew Franklin
Is that your favorite song? Helpless?
- [34:42]
Ryan Lemond
It's the one. First one that came to my head.
- [34:44]
Drew Franklin
I don't even know what that one is.
- [34:45]
Ryan Lemond
Are you sure that's Hamilton's wife. When they were falling for each other. She sings that song.
- [34:51]
Drew Franklin
Okay. Yeah, that's. I'm more of a wait for it, Aaron Burr type. Yeah, that's that. That's what I listen to daily. Have that one memorized. Might be a good karaoke song. But I must ask, having attended Hamilton myself, I know that they're pretty proud of those tickets. They don't give those away, you know.
- [35:06]
Ryan Lemond
No, they don't give them away.
- [35:07]
Drew Franklin
Even the touring show several years after Hamilton's release. That's a pricey ticket.
- [35:14]
Ryan Lemond
They're not cheap.
- [35:14]
Drew Franklin
You really treated Yoga Gal, huh?
- [35:16]
Ryan Lemond
Well, you know, I felt like she had a good year. She needs, you know, she had a five star season so she needs to be rewarded for it in the nil budget at the end of the year.
- [35:25]
Drew Franklin
What did you think of it? You know, it is very long. It's like three hours.
- [35:29]
Ryan Lemond
It's almost three hours long.
- [35:30]
Drew Franklin
Get that intermission? Yeah, I went. It's been four or five years. But I remember about halfway through I wasn't even really sure what was going on. I was enjoying the music, but I wasn't good at first following the actual history and the story. Took me a little bit to get settled in. Now that I've seen it 500 times on the Disney plus version, I'm all good. But were you able to. You a Broadway guy, could you keep up with the storyline a little bit?
- [35:51]
Ryan Lemond
You know, my dad's a history guy and we kind of talked a little bit about it. He kind of gave me some things that are getting ready to happen and come up with it. But I spent a lot of the time yesterday Googling the stories so I could really understand the story behind the story. Like they kind of implied during Hamilton that maybe he was having an affair with his wife's sister.
- [36:07]
Drew Franklin
It's very historically accurate. The Schuyler sisters.
- [36:10]
Ryan Lemond
The Schuyler sisters, yes. Yes. Because he did have the affair with the one woman that got. They blackmailed him. But that's why he never ran for president. They never were kind of unsure about that. Did that kind of keep him from running for president?
- [36:22]
Drew Franklin
Yeah, I mean, this is all. It sounds exactly how it all happened in real life. So you learned most of your Alexander Hamilton history from just this performance?
- [36:29]
Ryan Lemond
From the performance and then Googling it afterwards.
- [36:32]
Drew Franklin
Did you do the thing a lot of people do where now that you've seen it, you go home and you. You play the soundtrack, you know, just non stop.
- [36:39]
Ryan Lemond
I haven't yet, but I know you do that. You play it in your house all the time, don't you?
- [36:41]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. It might have been on my Spotify wrapped in 2025, but I'm happy for you for jumping into the Hamilton community.
- [36:48]
Ryan Lemond
You know, I felt like I needed to broaden my horizons a little bit, not sit home and watch another college basketball game or an NFL game and go see her Hamilton. And it was in Cincinnati. It was a wonderful theater up there. And it was packed. I mean, it was completely packed.
- [36:59]
Drew Franklin
I'll be. I didn't even know it was coming through. You're going to get me in trouble. Abby's listening right now. I'm going to get home and she's going to say, why didn't we go?
- [37:05]
Ryan Lemond
Well, I think they're going to Indianapolis next or still kind of close by.
- [37:08]
Drew Franklin
That might be even worse. Now there's going to be an expectation. I have to go to India. I'm glad you enjoyed it. What a nice gift.
- [37:13]
Ryan Lemond
It was really. It was really good. I really enjoyed it. So if you're looking for something to do, I mean, it's been out for 10 years. It took me 10 years to see it. Right.
- [37:20]
Drew Franklin
Well, it's not like it doesn't just pop up in your backyard. It's kind of either New York or, you know, catch on these touring shows. So it's not, it's not a movie you can just go see down the street at your local mall. But I'm glad you were able to see it. It's very good. Are you gonna be a. Are you a theater guy now?
- [37:34]
Ryan Lemond
I'm gonna try this one. No dialogue whatsoever. Every word spoken was in a song or a rap. Every single word. No dialogue. I kind of thought it would be. They would act and then they would sing. Is that how most musicals are?
- [37:49]
Drew Franklin
A little bit. You know, musicals, they do a lot of singing. It's the music part of the musical. Did you like the King?
- [37:56]
Ryan Lemond
The King was one of the best characters. The King was awesome. He was really good. The two funny characters were the King and Thomas Jefferson. The guy that played Thomas Jefferson was really, really good.
- [38:06]
Drew Franklin
Probably my favorite too. I'm glad you enjoyed it. You got me wanting to see it. Now I'm gonna go home and listen to more of it.
- [38:10]
Ryan Lemond
So both teams are on the court now. Woodford county and McCracken county warming up to play their losers bracket game.
- [38:16]
Drew Franklin
Do you want to change your pick now that we're getting visuals of both teams, you know, McCracken is just outside the top 10 of the KSR high school rankings, which will be updated later today. I'm going off last Monday's rankings. I believe they were number 11. So they are, they are a team to watch. Woodford not in the rankings to my knowledge.
- [38:34]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, I'm gonna have to change my pick maybe to McCracken County. Woodford county, looks like maybe they have half their squad here. Maybe they got an illness, kind of knocked out half their players. They've only got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 players. Is that it's all we got here?
- [38:48]
Drew Franklin
Yeah, I'm sticking with my McCracken pick. I don't know if we picked that before. Also, just like McCracken county, it is the only county in the state that has two Taco John's. And you know, I feel like everywhere needs Taco John's. And Paducah proudly has two, which is a very cool thing to have and I'm jealous of.
- [39:04]
Ryan Lemond
We'll take our final break, come back our final segment. We'll squeeze in a phone call if you want to call in right now. 859-280-287 Ryan, Drew and Rick the writer here on Kentucky Sports Radio.
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- [42:02]
Ryan Lemond
All right, welcome back. Our final segment here at Kentucky Sports Radio, Ryan and Drew back live. Our first live show since the postgame show after the bellarmine game on December 23rd. So it's been a long drought. We've done a live show. Everybody's off, Matt's off, Shannon's off, Mario's off, Billy's off.
- [42:19]
Drew Franklin
What's everybody doing? What's why this week we just had Christmas off. Why we all take off the same time leaving us back here?
- [42:25]
Ryan Lemond
Well, and we had the Shannon's in Florida. We just had a great five day weekend with Christmas Eve, Christmas day day after Christmas, Christmas and Saturday, Sunday and most people had a five day weekend.
- [42:34]
Drew Franklin
So we know Shannon's probably up and down Panama City Beach.
- [42:37]
Ryan Lemond
I texted him and he said he's not coming back till January 2nd, Kentucky.
- [42:40]
Drew Franklin
Shannon's always in one of two places either in the studio in Louisville or Panama City Beach. So he's not working. He's on vacay down there. We don't know where Matt is. He's at a mystery location.
- [42:49]
Ryan Lemond
I'm not sure where he is either.
- [42:50]
Drew Franklin
Billy's hanging around Lexington. Mario hanging around Lexington.
- [42:54]
Ryan Lemond
Probably both. Those guys are probably doing a good.
- [42:56]
Drew Franklin
Excuse leaving us behind.
- [42:57]
Ryan Lemond
We mentioned the. The earthquake that happened in Garrett County. It's our buddy. From our buddy, Dylan Ballard. I live less than three miles from the fault line and it sounded like a plane had hit my house yesterday. So maybe it was a little more violent down there than we thought.
- [43:11]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. Other than just the news reports that people felt it and heard it in the surrounding area, I hadn't actually heard of a personal story like that. Of course we trust Dylan said.
- [43:21]
Ryan Lemond
I live on a farm and I thought the metal roof from my barn had flown off and it was my. And it was my house. Thought the barn roof flew off and hit his house. But it was his house making that noise. So that's crazy, man. They got to worry about structural damage and foundation issues and things.
- [43:35]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. And I haven't seen him anything too significant. But hopefully everybody's alright in that area where that happened. As we said earlier, just add another weather event to Kentucky as we. Whatever. Whatever the science and that is. It's. It's the tornado alley or whatever has moved our way and now we're getting earthquakes too.
- [43:49]
Ryan Lemond
Oh, there's no doubt. It has definitely shifted into Kentucky going right. Especially western Kentucky. It seems like with what happened over there and Mayfield and Bremen and all those areas got hit by the tornado.
- [43:57]
Drew Franklin
Now we're dealing with this cold weather. I can't wait to step back out here into 20 degrees after I had my window open all night. So.
- [44:03]
Ryan Lemond
You know Matt likes the Chicago Bears. They've played two of the most exciting games all season. Back to back, that packers game last weekend was just insane. I still don't know how the Bears won that game. And then last night I couldn't quit watching their game last night. It was back and forth to the final second. Had a chance to win it at the end and couldn't get it done.
- [44:22]
Drew Franklin
I saw it was the first NFL game to go. 7, 7, 14, 14, 21, 21, 28, 28, 35, 35. They just kept trading blows. It was the first one happened before. Yeah.
- [44:31]
Ryan Lemond
Ever.
- [44:31]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. That was to just go in that order like that. Just keep trading touchdowns all the way through 35. You know, the Bears lost, but if I'm a Bears fan, I'm still just over the moon excited about the playoffs. I mean, you went to San Francisco, which could still be the one seed. You played him to the very end, had a shot to tie it there. And they just have that incompletion that ended the game. But Matt's Bears are, are fun. They are, they're young. Ben Johnson's got that offense roll. I don't know if you watch there at the end. They ran that little hook and ladder. They did line.
- [45:01]
Ryan Lemond
It didn't work.
- [45:02]
Drew Franklin
But who, who draws that up?
- [45:04]
Ryan Lemond
So that's in that situation.
- [45:06]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. Even though they took the loss in primetime last night, I, I've enjoyed watching the run. I'm happy for Matt. It's been so long since they've had any success. Hopefully they can string together a playoff run. I mean, I like the Rams in the nfc, but I still don't sleep on the Bears. They could win a couple games now.
- [45:23]
Ryan Lemond
We watched some football. My parents were at my house over the holidays. We watched the Chiefs game, Chiefs, Broncos. My dad was ready to fight somebody because it kept showing. Travis Kelsey, like every other play.
- [45:37]
Drew Franklin
What a sad Christmas Day. The NFL was so excited. They're trying to take the NBA's day. They have give three what they thought were marquee matchups on the schedule. And then the starting quarterback for all three home teams is a third stringer that no one's ever heard of.
- [45:52]
Ryan Lemond
Never heard of the guy.
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Drew Franklin
I mean, you got the Chiefs fizzling out, not even making the playoffs or leaving Missouri. And then it's probably Kelsey's last home game.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, I thought that's what. Oh, trust me, they mentioned it a million times during the broadcast.
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Drew Franklin
I was tuned in also, but pretty big dud for the NFL and what should have been a special day, just with all the circumstances. I know a lot of people focused. I don't know if you saw, but Kelsey did like a double tap on the wall on the way out. Almost like a, like a goodbye tap to the. Do you know what I'm talking about? Where he's walking?
- [46:21]
Ryan Lemond
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Everybody focusing in on that. It seems like the Chiefs dynasty, at least as we knew it, is over. They're moving to Kansas and Kelsey's probably going to hang him up.
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Ryan Lemond
And you know, Mahomes missed. He's had the serious knee injury. He's missed the last part of the season. They're not in the playoffs for the first time in since you were a baby.
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Drew Franklin
It seems like times have changed with my homes. They'll still have some life after this. They have some young talent. But it is weird seeing that dynasty as we know it end and then not even be in the playoffs at all.
- [46:47]
Ryan Lemond
Now at the end of the game, Kelsey was walking off the field, going into the tunnel to go to the locker room and some security guys got kind of nasty with the camera guiding. This was. This was on live tv. You know, the. The live cameras are following him into the locker room and the one guy kind of yells at him. And I know that created a lot of pushback, but rules are rules, man. And there's a certain areas media cannot go, and that's one of the areas where they're not allowed to go.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I gotta try to pull Mario sometimes. Mario just thinks my media pass. I can go anywhere. I'll go take a jump shot if I want. Had a little Mario to him, it just, it adds to the frustrating and sad end of Kelsey and the Chiefs. It does in hindsight. You know, he wishes they just won the super bowl last year. He probably would have walked away. Walked away, start the game and then get Taylor. Final year is going to be not even coming close to the playoffs. You got a third stringer named like Michael Ola Candy throwing it to him. Just completely different than the storybook ending he dreamed up a year ago.
- [47:41]
Ryan Lemond
Well, I'm not a hater.
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Drew Franklin
Like, there's a lot of Chiefs haters. Sounds like your dad's one of them.
- [47:45]
Ryan Lemond
Oh, if they just shown Kelsey one more time, my dad's ready to jump through the screen and fight somebody.
- [47:49]
Drew Franklin
I know several people like that. But to me, I'm not a fan. I'm not a hater either. It is a little sad to just see the change. Not sad, but it's just weird seeing the change in the guard. We thought this would be another year of Chiefs at least having one more run in them and they've been disappointed.
- [48:02]
Ryan Lemond
So let's set the stage here for the rest of the week. We're going to be at KS Bar tomorrow, Wednesday. There is a best of show on New Year's Day Thursday, and then we'll be back at KS Bar on Friday.
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Drew Franklin
So Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday.
- [48:18]
Ryan Lemond
Best of on Thursday. Now, Wednesday is also not just Wings day. It's also going to be quiz night, right? At KS Bar Grill. That's right. Tuesday. Not tomorrow night.
- [48:28]
Drew Franklin
Wednesday's New Year's Eve.
- [48:29]
Ryan Lemond
New Year's Eve, they moved it to Tuesday night. It's Quiz Night. So what's going on? Quiz Night.
- [48:33]
Drew Franklin
Tomorrow night they'll be doing lots of quizzing. Get in there. Seven o', clock, KS Bar. I know it's holidays. People are off work, people are in town. We'll have a little fun there. Tomorrow night, then Wednesday. I don't know if you have big New Year's Eve plans, but I'm gonna go. I'm gonna have a little fun on New Year's. I'm glad we're not doing a Thursday show. I might have a of a headache.
- [48:48]
Ryan Lemond
Thursday morning I'm gonna go to Rodney's New Year's Eve and then spend all day New Year's Day in my boxer shorts watching football.
- [48:54]
Drew Franklin
Watching football.
- [48:55]
Ryan Lemond
That's all I want to do.
- [48:55]
Drew Franklin
But I'm excited. Another day with you on Wednesday. I'm working on a recap of 2025.
- [49:00]
Ryan Lemond
Yes.
- [49:01]
Drew Franklin
Not just like Kentucky things, KSR things. Fun stories. So send me any suggestions if you want that to be included. We'll. We'll recap the whole year.
- [49:09]
Ryan Lemond
That's all day on Wednesday show maybe tomorrow.
- [49:11]
Drew Franklin
Who knows? We'll get a guest perhaps. Who knows. We're figuring this out on the fly.
- [49:15]
Ryan Lemond
We're trying to effort a couple guests and everybody seems to be busy this time of year. I don't understand.
- [49:19]
Drew Franklin
Well, me and your green text will figure it out. Tonight we'll produce something.
- [49:22]
Ryan Lemond
So appreciate you appreciate Lakeston Catholic hosting us out here. We're getting ready to watch Woodford county and McCracken county and White Greer Maggot Holiday Classic. Appreciate Brandon Salzman inviting us out to come out and do the show here today. So Drew, you and I back with Rick the writer tomorrow.
- [49:36]
Drew Franklin
Yeah. Come see us at KS Bar. We'd love to see everybody. As I said, while you're in off work, might as well come on.
- [49:41]
Ryan Lemond
Come hang out with us tomorrow, Wednesday Friday at ksbar. That'll do it for this edition of ksr. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye.
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Ryan Lemond
All.
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
Nonstop action.
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
Game like this.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there.
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Ryan Lemond
Mmm.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work.
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Ryan Lemond
So grab a Coca Cola and keep.
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
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Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
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Drew Franklin
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