2026-01-28- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1, January 28, 2026 – Summary

Podcast: Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR)
Date: January 28, 2026
Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, Shannon The Dude
Absent: Drew (out for a colonoscopy) Episode Theme: Post-mortem of UK Basketball’s latest loss, team fundamentals, fan frustrations, and moments of levity via memorabilia talk and local color.

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the Kentucky Wildcats' disappointing basketball performance, particularly their loss to Vanderbilt the previous night. The hosts dissect troubling trends, focus on the team's chronic first-half struggles and poor fundamentals, and voice the frustrations growing among the fan base. Amidst the critique, the show maintains its trademark humor and chemistry, with interludes about snow days, quirky UK memorabilia, and neighborly hijinks.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Coping with a Bad Loss and Snow Days

• Matt Jones opens with reflections on both the pitiful UK game and the unexpected joys of a snowbound week.
  • Quote: “...I am not letting this game completely ruin my vibe...I like snow, and I like the excuse to not have to run around...” (02:45)
• The hosts lightly riff about being bored at home and (not) reading books.
• Ryan considers reading Joe Creason’s book but admits his choices (and commitment) are "pretty slim."
  • Matt: "If I would bring you a book you would like...they have a lot of pictures." (04:29)

2. Dissecting the UK Basketball Loss

• Matt turns critical, highlighting both team and coaching failures.
  • Missed layups: “We went 7 of 19 last night on layups. Vandy shot a higher percentage from 3 than we shot from layups.” (05:19)
  • Major statistics: UK has trailed by double digits in all 8 road/neutral games; in 7 of 8 they fell behind by at least 17.
    • “One out of every four times we play a Power 4 team, we're down 15 at halftime. That’s pathetic.” (06:55)
• Calls out Coach Mark Pope for poor first-half performances, contrasts with his good in-game adjustments.
  • “He’s the worst first half coach I’ve seen in a long time...I think he’s actually been an excellent second half coach...” (07:19)
• Questions preparation and motivation: “Why do we start this poorly every game?...Don’t tell me that it’s like data and all this nonsense.” (08:44)
• Reflects on lack of offensive identity: “You could pick 10 random halves from UK games this year, and...if you didn’t see the faces of the players, you’d think you were watching different teams.” (10:01)
• Points out “race to 15” betting trend (Kentucky consistently struggles to score first).

3. Examining Team Fundamentals

• The conversation turns to discipline and basics, prompted by a caller referencing John Wooden’s ritual of teaching sock and shoe technique.
  • Caller: “Everything is about fundamentals. Everything is about discipline in sports...” (26:22)
• Matt bemoans UK's lack of basic boxing out:
  • “We do not box out. The only person...is Brandon Garrison, and he doesn’t do it well.” (27:03)
• Ryan echoes: “Seemed like all night long they got every rebound, every loose ball...on offense, we act like we have no clue what we're doing.” (28:08)
• Later, another caller and Steve highlight the team’s fundamental struggles and lack of heart:
  • “They can't dribble, they can't pass, they can't rebound...” (50:47)

4. Fan Fatigue and the Nashville Problem

• A text triggers discussion of UK’s poor performances in Nashville.
  • Matt: “Last three games Kentucky’s played in Nashville, we’ve lost by 89 points.” (20:46)
  • Effect on gate and fan excitement: “You can’t keep asking these people to pay this kind of money and get...blown out.” (21:23)

5. The "Touch Money" Slogan Controversy

• Social media outrage over a pregame video of players hyping each other up with the phrase "touch money."
  • Matt and Shannon agree it’s a generational/language gap misunderstanding.
  • Matt: “I don’t get mad at slogans because I don’t usually know what they mean...be really careful when you...project your feelings about something to a vocabulary that you’re not really part of.” (22:15, 23:37)
  • Anecdote about Matt’s mom misunderstanding "dope" as drug-related instead of "cool." (24:08–25:23)

6. UK Memorabilia and Light-Hearted Segments

• Billy’s acquisition of rare “Struttin with Sutton” and “The Lord is my Shepherd but Sutton is my Coach” hats sparks a segment about odd UK merchandise.
  • Matt: “I would like to have weird pieces of UK...memorbilia.” (33:15)
  • Listeners text in with their own quirky items:
    • "Tubby Smith barbecue sauce," "Converse denim jacket," "DeMarcus Cousins T-shirt: In Kentucky we love our cousins," etc.
• Discussion about a reversible championship hat and a Jo B. Hall album with coaches singing.

7. Neighborhood Tales and Humor

• Matt recounts borrowing a neighbor’s shovel (“not stealing!”) and the neighbor’s playful payback: letting his kids sled down Matt's front-yard hill without asking.
  • “He did exactly what I did to him...Right. I actually thought that was turnabout's fair play. So I was fine with it.” (47:10–47:39)
• Matt shares that another neighbor has “no blinds or curtains” and is “free and easy,” to bemused reactions from Shannon and Ryan.

8. Listener Calls & Community Topics

• Pitch for upcoming KSR-sponsored game-picking contest.
• Callers stress the importance of a Michael Kidd-Gilchrist-type player who plays with effort and heart.
• Skewering of Billy for saying he’d be “fine” if another man sent flowers to his fiancée.
  • Matt: “That is NOT AG behavior...Beta Billy!” (51:49–51:53)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Matt Jones:
  • “You could pick 10 random halves from UK games this year, and...you’d think you were watching different teams.” (10:01)
  • “One out of every four times we play a Power 4 team, we're down 15 at halftime. That's pathetic.” (06:55)
  • “He’s the worst first half coach I’ve seen in a long time. Not the worst coach—excellent second half coach—but never seen anything like it.” (07:19)
• Ryan Lemond:
  • “It seems like they're not prepared. You knew Vandy’s offense...yet we gave up wide-open threes.” (09:34)
  • “Seemed like all night long they got every rebound, every loose ball...” (28:08)
• Shannon The Dude:
  • “That was the worst, [Vandy] holding the ball with four minutes to go...” (12:17)
  • “Beta Billy!” (51:52)

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Highlight | |-----------|-------------------| | 02:02 | Matt refuses to let the bad loss ruin his snow day mood | | 05:19 | Reveals "7 of 19 on layups" stat, “Vandy shot a higher % from 3 than we did from layups” | | 06:55 | “One out of every four times...down 15 at halftime” stat, calls it “pathetic” | | 10:01 | "Pick 10 random halves...you’d think you were watching different teams." | | 22:15 | Text on UK never being in big games this year | | 24:08 | Story about Matt's mom misunderstanding "dope" | | 27:03 | Matt describes UK’s lack of boxing out, nonchalant rebounding | | 31:00 | "Struttin with Sutton" hat and memorabilia chat | | 47:10 | Sledding kids and neighborhood etiquette story | | 50:47 | Steve the caller: UK “worst fundamentally unsound team” he’s ever seen | | 51:49 | “Beta Billy” flowers-to-fiancee segment |

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Summary Tone and Style

The tone is classic KSR: equal parts critical sports radio and comedic, homespun banter. Even as Matt brings statistical rigor and pointed critique, the hour is leavened with good-natured ribbing, memorable anecdotes, and fan engagement. The hosts' frustrations mirror those of UK fans but always return to shared laughter and community.

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Takeaways for the Uninitiated

• The Wildcats' struggles run deeper than talent issues: preparation, fundamentals, and effort are repeatedly questioned by both hosts and listeners.
• Mark Pope’s in-game adjustments are strong, but his pre-game prep and first-half coaching are drawing scrutiny—a “pathetic” trend.
• There’s a generational gap in how slogans and team traditions are received; context is key, as “Touch Money” demonstrates.
• Even amidst sporting frustration, the community finds solace in shared history, humor, and traditions—whether that’s oddball memorabilia or neighborly antics.

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For full show context, listen to the original episode on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.

Transcript

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, January 28th. I'm Matt Jones here still in Louisville in the snow. Ryan is in Lexington in the snow. Shannon's at the studio. Drew is colonoscopy up and so he will not be here today. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop, phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254 in this dish and sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Ryan, awful game last night that we got to spend some time on today, but I am not letting. Letting this game completely ruin my vibe. I've had, you know, five very productive days of doing nothing in my house. I've enjoyed them. I like snow, and I like the excuse to not have to run around and be like, anything you don't want to do. Shannon, you could just go. Well, I mean, it's. It's. It's icy.

[Shannon]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

I got an excuse to not do.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, like, literally anything you can go. Yeah, well, I mean, the weather, I can't. Can't make that happen, so. So even though that basketball game was pitiful, I'm not letting it ruin my. My jam today.

[Ryan]

I'm actually thinking about reading a book today. That's how bored I am.

[Matt Jones]

No, you're not. You don't. You don't have any books. Are you going to read like, you. You don't have a book?

[Ryan]

Somebody gave me the Joe Creason book after we talked about Joe Crease and sitting here staring me in the face.

[Matt Jones]

All right, let me make a suggestion. I don't want. This is one of these things, like, you don't read. So the first book, Shannon's going to matter. He might never read again.

[Shannon]

That's true.

[Matt Jones]

You know what I mean. The Joe Creason book is about how Kentucky. It's interesting stories of Kentucky life in the 70s, which is almost 60 years ago now. So I do think maybe you should try something, like, a little more exciting to get you into this reading thing.

[Ryan]

Well, my choices are pretty slim. I mean, I've got, like, six of them here.

[Matt Jones]

But do you have a. You have a Kindle? Why am I asking that?

[Shannon]

No, no Kindle. He doesn't know what a Kindle is.

[Matt Jones]

You don't have anything. Okay.

[Ryan]

Hey, Mitch, please.

[Matt Jones]

You've already read that.

[Ryan]

The Cornbread Mafia.

[Matt Jones]

Have you read that?

[Ryan]

I've read some of it.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so that's not started.

[Shannon]

Yeah, he read the table of content.

[Matt Jones]

Well, if I. I would bring you a book that you would like. I have some. They have a lot of pictures. I feel like that would be good for you.

[Shannon]

Scratch.

[Matt Jones]

Well, give it a shot. Hopefully you'll. You'll like it. It can't be worse than the game last.

[Ryan]

AMEN can't.

[Matt Jones]

I have. The last few games, for whatever reason, the first three or four minutes I've been late to turn it on or whatever. But not to. Not last night. I got. I was right there at the beginning. And I can tell you the moment, Ryan, I knew we were going to.

[Shannon]

Lose the tip off.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they tipped it up.

[Matt Jones]

It wasn't the tip off.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

It wasn't the tip off because we won the tip. If you. I think if we remember.

[Shannon]

Yeah, that's true.

[Matt Jones]

It was for nothing. And away got a drive to the basket and had a wide open layup. And he missed.

[Ryan]

Missed it.

[Matt Jones]

By the way, we went 7 of 19 last night on layups. I'm gonna read that stat again. 7 of 19 on layups. Vandy shot a higher percentage from 3, then we shot from layups.

[Shannon]

That's an amazing stat. I mean, that is incredible.

[Matt Jones]

That, that. That is exactly what happened when he missed that layup. And by the way, he's missed a lot of layups this year. I like. I mean, the guys missed. He missed two point blank, wide open at the basket. But when he missed the first one, I was like, it's just not happening. And then I think they came down, hit a three on the next possession and it was seven nothing. And I just knew it was over. And everything after that was kind of watching the inevitable. It was. It was pitiful. I gave a lot of these stats on the post game, but. But they're worth sort of mentioning again. Eight games this year on the road or neutral court. We've been down double digits in all eight. We've been down 17 in seven of the eight. That's a ludicrous statistic.

[Ryan]

That's ridiculous.

[Matt Jones]

We've played 14 major conference teams this year, home and away. We've been down at halftime in 12 of the 14 games.

[Ryan]

Goodness.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Ryan]

By double digits, most of those.

[Matt Jones]

This is the craziest. We've played 40 Power Four teams in two seasons. We've been down, Shannon, by 15 at halftime. In 10 of those 41 out of every four.

[Shannon]

That is not Kentucky basketball.

[Matt Jones]

One out of every four times we play a Power Four team, we're down 15 at halftime. That's pathetic. And you know, I'm not done with Mark Pope. I'm not. You gotta fire him. I'm not any of that. He's gonna be the coach next year. And I, absent an absolute complete collapse, support that. But, you know, statistics, my man likes statistics. He likes analytics. I'm gonna give him some analytics, okay? He's the worst first half coach I've seen in a long time. Now, I'm not saying he's the worst coach. I think he's actually been an excellent second half coach and. But I've never seen it. I've never seen a coach in my life be so awful at the first half, which means he's got to be doing something wrong. And I would say I understand how hard it is to get to ask Mark Pope questions. He does press conferences once a week at noon on Mondays he does a call in show where they don't take calls. Really the only person that talks to him consistently asking questions is Tom Leach. But someone has to ask him the question, what do you think you are doing wrong in motivating this team to start the game? You have to ask him that because we've had different players, we're playing different teams, but we're awful in the first half pretty much no matter what. Has there been a game against a good team where we've been up 15 at halftime?

[Ryan]

No way.

[Matt Jones]

I'm being serious. Can you think of one? Is there one game that you can remember against a Power 4 team where we were up 15?

[Ryan]

I can't think of one.

[Matt Jones]

I'm sure there is one, but it can't be more than one or two. And if that's true, then that's a failure of preparation, Ryan. And that's my biggest takeaway from last night. I thought we were going to lose. I thought we could lose by a lot. But the way we lost where the game was never ever even in consideration is just more than I. It's just unacceptable. And like he has to answer for that. He deserves to answer the question to fans, why do we start this poorly every game? I'm not mad at you, Mark. Just help me understand. And don't tell me that it's like data and all this nonsense. Why are we so bad to start all these games both years? Okay, not just this year, but last year too. It's.

[Ryan]

You're right, it seems like they're not prepared. Like, you know, on defense they're giving up way too many looks. Okay, you knew what Vandy's offense was. You knew they're going to try to shoot threes. And yet we gave up wide open threes.

[Matt Jones]

Also got beat on the glass.

[Ryan]

Got beat on the glass when we had the height advantage, we had an area we could have, you know, maybe taken advantage of. And on offense, it seems like they have no clue what they're doing on offense. Like I have no idea what kind of offense they're trying to run at times.

[Matt Jones]

They change their offense game by game. They change their offense half by half. I said this last night. You could pick 10 random halves from UK games this year, and you would think you were. If it was. If you didn't see the faces of the players, you'd think you were watching different teams. They don't even. They don't even attempt to play the same. Whatever they played last night is the worst. 55 points. Come on. They shot the ball poorly. Some of it was they missed open shots, but a lot of it is they just go one on one and at some point they shoot.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

And that's. This team's not good enough to do that. I mean, it's not a great offensive style anyway, but it's certainly not a great offensive style when we've got these guys.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Jimmy Dyke said a couple times, it looks like Kentucky's offense has just set a pick for Otega and let him drive. That's it. That's the only thing they're doing.

[Matt Jones]

But he's not good enough to do that. I mean, he and aberdeen had what, 35 of the 55 points? Yes, they did, but they also had 40% of the shots, so it was very disappointing. Now I'm not. I'm not going. Hey, season's over, blah, blah, blah. The question is, who is Kentucky? Is Kentucky the team that won five straight, or is Kentucky the team that four times this year has absolutely been humiliated? Or is it in between? I would argue, Ryan, it's both. Okay. This is a team that can embarrass you as badly as any team I can remember, but it's also a team that oddly finds a way to sometimes play above its head. So I don't think it's either. I think it's both. And I think that honestly leads to a season where fans are just going to have to be frustrated and will be frustrated most of the year.

[Ryan]

I. I think you hit on my biggest fear. I mean, as bad as last night was, it could be worse on Saturday.

[Matt Jones]

This will happen at least. I don't know if it's going to happen at Arkansas. It may. This is going to happen at least once, maybe twice.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Shannon]

Again this year, it could have been a lot worse. Last night, Vandy didn't even really play that well. They didn't even really shoot the ball that well. And I mean, they're averaging 90 points a game.

[Matt Jones]

So this could have been your average.

[Shannon]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

That was the worst. Holding the ball with four Minutes to go.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, they really. That. Honestly, that may have been the saddest thing. I think they felt sorry for us.

[Ryan]

Just held the ball till the end of the shot clock.

[Matt Jones]

They literally would just hold it and be like, all right, well, we know they're not going to score. It was like watching a mountain football game where, like, Pike Vol's playing against Phelps and at the end they're like one yard dive, man. Yeah, that's kind of what they were doing.

[Shannon]

If they don't play any better than this on Saturday, it's going to get really, really ugly.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, it is, but that's really not my concern because. Because it's going to be. Even if it's not Saturday, it's going to be ugly in these games. I am. I am. What concerns me is not even so much this year, although we still are not certainly in the tournament. That's the thing I keep coming back to. We got to still find, in my opinion, four wins to make the tournament. And you look on the schedule when you. When you want and see where those four are. I think four will get you in, but we got to get four, and there's 10 left and eight of them are really hard, so. But my bigger point is, why can't Mark Pope prepare these teams for these games? I would argue the two tests, the two things that really smart coaches should be the best at are game plans and in game adjustments. You might not be great motivators, you might not be great recruiters. You might not even be great at connecting with your talent. Those are skills that, like, are different than intelligence in some ways, but the ability to game plan and to make in game adjustments for a smart coach, that should be your bread and butter. Right? Like, that's like. It's like in life. Shannon, you might be really smart. You might not have any friends.

[Caller / Listener]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

You might not have any dates, but you should do well on the test.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I do well at something.

[Matt Jones]

You got to be good at something. Yeah. All right. We didn't create this roster well. It doesn't feel like they really connect very well. It doesn't feel like they really like each other very much. But we should be good at game planning and we should be good at adjustments. We seem like we're all right at adjustments, but this game planning is for the birds because we are coming out and getting destroyed in every game. And Ryan, that's embarrassing. If it was not a coach named Mark Pope who was. Who was very smart and we all know is intelligent, we would go that's a person who doesn't know how to prepare for basketball. Wouldn't we with these results, you'd think.

[Ryan]

As smart as he is, again, as analytical he is, they would be over prepared. They would know exactly what the other opponent's going to do instead of the opposite. Like they have no clues like what they're going to do.

[Matt Jones]

Well and I think even more basic, we don't have a clue what we're going to do.

[Ryan]

Yeah, good point.

[Shannon]

So race to 15 hit again last night on DraftKings.

[Matt Jones]

I mean it's going to hit every game of the year. Like I, I honestly just wonder if for Kentucky fans, they should just wait till 8 minutes left in the first half and check the score and decide if they want to watch the game.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Because the first 12 minutes will just drive you insane if you do it. 8592802287 now I promise you I'm not doing this the whole day. I got other things to talk about. We found an Billy and I found an amazing hat last night.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

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[Ryan]

What was what, and the.

[Matt Jones]

Guy who shot the guy whose shovel I borrowed, he got me back yesterday.

[Shannon]

Oh, did it.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know if he's listening to this show, but he got me back and I got to give him a shout out for getting me back. He got me back in a very creative way. So we'll talk about that more. This is ksr.

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In 1995 my neighbor Anna Trainor disappeared from a commune.

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It was hard to wrap your head head around.

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It was nature and trees and praying and drugs.

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[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

Josh Allen up there still.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back, Techy Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text Machine 772-774-5254. One person writes, makes me mad about these games you talked about is we've never been in them at any point. Those four games I mentioned, we weren't in them once. Michigan State, Gonzaga, Alabama, Vandy, we were never in those games ever. At any point during the game. Louisville, we got down 20, but we led early and we even kind of came back and were there right at the end. But those four games we were never in, which makes for a very unpleasant experience. Ryan, when you don't even get one moment of joy, what is it about.

[Ryan]

The city of Nashville and Kentucky this year?

[Matt Jones]

Well, how about this stat? Last three games Kentucky's played in Nashville, we've lost by 89 points.

[Shannon]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

And the football team got waxed too, this year.

[Matt Jones]

Let me, let me say that again. We've played three games there. The last three games in less than a year, we've lost by 89 points.

[Ryan]

My goodness.

[Matt Jones]

25 last night, 35. And then the SEC game against Alabama last year, 29.

[Shannon]

And that's where your hardcore fans, SEC tournament for the Gonzaga game.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they're going to stop coming if you're not careful.

[Shannon]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you can't keep asking these people to pay this kind of money and get abs. But Nashville is, in my opinion, when you get outside of the state of Kentucky, it's the hardest core Kentucky city. More so than Indianapolis, Cincinnati, it's Nashville by far.

[Ryan]

Not even close.

[Matt Jones]

And man, I mean, I'm going to the SEC tournament either way. But we can't take another one down there, right.

[Shannon]

To spend all that money. And that's what, that's the reward you get is to watch them get blown out.

[Matt Jones]

They've lost the two games this year by 60 and never been in either one of them for even a minute. Uh, and either, either, either see either one of them. That's terrible. One person writes, Matt, thing that made me the maddest last night, so when the video was posted of the guys saying touch money before the Game saw.

[Shannon]

A lot of people get mad about.

[Matt Jones]

I was shocked you didn't mention it online, and you only mentioned it a second at the end of the post game show. Why doesn't it bother you? I don't get mad at slogans because I don't usually know what they mean, Shannon.

[Shannon]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, like, I don't. I. I'm not sure that I've known what a college kid was saying when they were doing slang since I was, like, in my late 20s, and I'm not there anymore. So. Touch money, you know, if you're. If you're old or if you're. Even if you're just, like, not into rap, you might say, well, that means all they care about is money. Well, apparently it's a phrase used to say touch money. Like, focus. We're separating. Let's focus on the goal. And they don't mean the goal is like, actually money. It's like the metaphorical goal of money success. Right. Now, would I have advised, as a PR person, Shannon, say touch money before you walk out.

[Shannon]

Don't even say the M word. Don't even mention.

[Matt Jones]

I wouldn't have advised.

[Shannon]

No. No dollars, no nothing.

[Matt Jones]

But at the same time, though, I don't think it's like, some philosophical thing that says, we only care about money. So I think you got to be really careful when you take, like, project your feelings about something to a vocabulary that you're not really part of. Right.

[Ryan]

Young adults speak a different language than we speak. And when I saw that, I just. I just knew it had to be something. There was some rap song that's mentioned in there, had an alternate meeting than what we literally took it as.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Because it feels like they're saying, let's go get that money.

[Matt Jones]

Can I. I don't know. My mom's gonna kill me if I tell this story.

[Ryan]

It's just me and Shannon.

[Shannon]

Yeah. We're friends here. It's the trust tree.

[Matt Jones]

She's right now going, don't say, because I think she knows what I'm gonna say.

[Shannon]

That's. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

This example, what I'm talking about. All right. When I was in law school, I started dating a woman, and she was from Oregon. This is early on in the Internet, Ryan. Right.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

And she had to, for a class project when she was in college, put up a website. You had to build a website. Okay. And she named her. And this was. Let's just say this wasn't her name, but let's say her name was Sarah. She named hers Sarah's. Dope. Blank cuss word. Okay. That was the name of the website.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Sarah's dope. S word. Follow me. Shannon. Yeah, My mom called me. She was worried that my then girlfriend sold drugs because of the word dope.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. She meant dope like cool.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Right?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But the point was, like, she didn't know what that word was, and she was taking her definition of dope, which as a prosecutor was dope, and she thought, wait a minute. Who's Matthew dating?

[Shannon]

Mm.

[Matt Jones]

I think that's what happens with this video.

[Shannon]

So you see where your mom.

[Matt Jones]

Now you are. I'm not your hip.

[Shannon]

That's right. You're the cool one here.

[Matt Jones]

But I do think, Ryan, that's what it is. So it doesn't bother me is my point.

[Ryan]

And the timing was horrible. That video coming out after you just got spanked on then looked awful. People were already mad about the 22 million dollar roster. Then that video comes out. Just added to it, I think.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I just turned my notifications off, so I can't see my mom's frustrated text coming in because I know it's coming back to you. I mean, it wasn't. But that is funny, right? She thought he saw. She's so dope.

[Shannon]

It's okay. Yeah, we all understand that.

[Matt Jones]

Who's up there first?

[Shannon]

Mike.

[Matt Jones]

Mike. Go ahead, Mike.

[Caller / Listener]

Hey, guys. So I want to read something. Give me just one second.

[Matt Jones]

Okay?

[Caller / Listener]

Give me, give me.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe go. You. You can't preemptively say, I'm gonn.

[Ryan]

You.

[Matt Jones]

You go. And I'll. I'll decide.

[Caller / Listener]

You're gonna like this. John Wooden, the legendary UCLA Bruins men's basketball coach, famously taught.

[Matt Jones]

We know who he is. Go ahead.

[Shannon]

We've heard of him.

[Caller / Listener]

Famously taught his players how to properly put on their socks and how to tie their shoes at the beginning of every season. This ritual was designed to prevent blisters and instill the importance of discipline and fundamentals. I'm gonna stop right there. What I want to say is this is when I. I played basketball, football, basket. You know, a Rassel did all that stuff when I was younger. Everything is about fundamentals. Everything is about discipline in sports. It's always about how you position yourself and do things. Rebounding. Last night, and not just last night, but I've watched.

[Matt Jones]

They don't box out. They don't box out. They don't. But they don't box out. And that, that's. And it's sometimes the only person on the team that ever box outs Brandon Garrison, and he doesn't do it well because he'll like put his arms around somebody. But most people do not box out at all. They just better be in the right place. And that is very. It's frustrated me all year. It's not worked out as poorly as I thought it would because our guards do sometimes crash the glass, which makes up for it, but they do not box out. And last night our guards didn't crash the glass and it just made for a disaster.

[Caller / Listener]

But isn't this something now? I mean, getting low, getting your butt down, pushing somebody out.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, but we don't. We do not box out. We do not. It's.

[Podcast Narrator / Advertiser]

And I.

[Matt Jones]

We have to go to break. I appreciate the call, but we don't. I've watched it all year. It's driven me crazy all year. Again, we have some athletes, especially with Moreno and you know, Diabate will be physical, but he often is just pushing people in the back. We don't box out, Ryan, and it drives me inside.

[Ryan]

And the guy I rebounded to seem like all night long they got every rebound, every loose ball they executed. On offense, we act like we have no clue what we're doing. On offense.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, it was bad. Now again, I'm going to tell the story about the guy here in a minute. Did my mom text? Yep, already text. I can't even read. We'll take a break. Be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj. He'll make him pay.

[Shannon]

Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. One person says, Matt, why in the world. It's the text machine. 772-774-5254. Why in the world did UK let that video get out? Well, I mean, UK didn't put it out. So at Vanderbilt, it's an old school gym and the. The. Both the home and the visiting team come out from the same entrance and so does the media. Like in every other school. Like when Kentucky enters, like, I can't get to where Kentucky's team is entering. It now has a wall. But at Vanderbilt, you all come out the same entrance. So the media was standing there and it was the media that filmed it. SEC tournaments like that too, right? You have to be. You have to be careful. If you're these teams, you got to think about where you are. Vandy, I don't know about every school in the sec, but Vandy's a school where the media is with You. When you walk in the floor, the SEC tournaments like that, too. So you got to be extra careful what you do right there.

[Ryan]

Yeah. That famous fight coming out of the tunnel with Romel Bradley, and was it Ron Slay, who was the Tennessee guy he was going chest to chest with?

[Matt Jones]

You might be right. And that's because the media is there. They see it. They're coming because y' all are all coming out the same tunnel. So you just. You know, that was. That's how that. That ended up. Ended up happening. One person says, matt, you don't. You say, don't worry about slogans yet. You get mad at maga. I don't think that's true, Shannon. I don't mind the slogan. I just don't like the views.

[Shannon]

Yeah, we all want America to be great.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Why would you not want your own country to be great?

[Matt Jones]

There are sweet me and them as I already thought America was great. They were hating on America, saying it needed to be make America great again. I'm saying it already is.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So I'm more patriotic.

[Shannon]

You are.

[Ryan]

You're a patriot.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not. I think we're always great. Yeah, There you go.

[Shannon]

You're maga, then.

[Matt Jones]

No, because I. I'm just Mag. No, I'm just Ag. America great.

[Shannon]

America's great.

[Matt Jones]

We don't need to make it or again, it's already great.

[Shannon]

Ag, where's your hat?

[Matt Jones]

I ain't wearing red. I'm wearing blue.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Ag, speaking of hats.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Can we talk about Billy's hat?

[Shannon]

That's a great hat.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so somebody wrote on the text machine, or somebody called in and said he was talking about how huge a UK fanny was. And he said he's so big a fan. He had a strutton with Sutton hat, which is a great slogan, Strutting with Sutton. And I was like, oh, there's a hat that says that Billy very intelligently gets on ebay, sees it's for sale. It's a great hat, says Strutting with Sutton. It has a cat on it, and it has a picture of Eddie Sutton's face. Winking.

[Ryan]

Winking.

[Matt Jones]

Who put a wink on there? That's great. So Billy's like, I think I should buy it. $35. And I was like, you know, Shannon, minute and a half is the delay. Yeah, you got a minute and a half to get it.

[Shannon]

Better get it. Somebody else gets on the Internet, you.

[Matt Jones]

Know, over the air, it's like seven seconds. But over on the Internet, it's like a minute and A half. So you got a chance. So he gets in there, he beats everybody, he buys it. Then we see there's another one that says, the Lord is my shepherd, but Sutton is my coach.

[Shannon]

If that doesn't sum up what it means to be a Kentucky basketball fan, nothing does.

[Matt Jones]

So Billy buys it. $45 by the end of the show. I offered him $100 for it and he wouldn't sell it.

[Shannon]

Oh, he should have taken that. You would have taken $60 profit. Let's go.

[Matt Jones]

You would have taken it, but he did not. So he will have that hat coming. I didn't know that had existed. It would have gone right next to my Billy Gillespie drink holder. You know, that says Billy loves Dr. Pepper. I have that one. I could have put that on. There would have been a great UK memorabilia, Ryan. But Billy gets it.

[Ryan]

I think Billy said to Shannon on the pre show that he went on ebay this morning and like, all those hats that were available last night are all like, either now $150 or already sold out.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Well, we drove. He drove the price up.

[Matt Jones]

They could. Well, we can thank all those. They can all thank Billy.

[Caller / Listener]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

I would like to have had it. Problem is Billy's got to know when to sell. Ryan. I think he already has missed. I think he missed his opportunity.

[Ryan]

Missed the window.

[Matt Jones]

Who's going to give him $100 now?

[Shannon]

Probably nobody. He should have taken your.

[Ryan]

Your Sean Sutton.

[Matt Jones]

What does he do now?

[Ryan]

I don't know. He was in coaching forever. I don't know what he's doing.

[Matt Jones]

What is the weirdest piece of UK memorabilia that you have because. Or that you know someone that has. Because I. Based on that hat last night, I'm now kind of of the. I would like to have weird pieces of uk. I think strutting with Sutton with a wink on it is one of those. Can you think of a weird piece of memory? I told you about the thing hanging the woman. Like the sexy woman hanging in the big blue deli. I told you about her, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah, you talked about her.

[Matt Jones]

The kind of. The painting of the woman in a bikini at big Blue Deli. But like, not a bikini kind of a dress, but, like, pretty hot UK fit. But it was officially licensed. Where'd that come from? Do you know anything like that?

[Ryan]

No. I've got, like, the Adolph Rupp album where Al McGuire and all those guys sang on the. On the Joby hall album.

[Matt Jones]

That's a weird one. Where. That is a weird one where the Jopey hall where they got all the other coaches to sing with him. Can you imagine that happening now?

[Shannon]

I want, like, Mark Pope singing with Rick patino and John doing duets with Pope.

[Matt Jones]

Bill self, Nate Oats, Tom Izzo. They're singing together.

[Shannon]

It was a different time back then.

[Matt Jones]

That is a different time. Hey, guys, let's all go in the studio and cut some tracks. I can't believe that happened.

[Ryan]

Was it for, like a.

[Matt Jones]

A.

[Ryan]

A fundraiser for a charity or something? Is that why they did it?

[Matt Jones]

I don't care what it was for. What made everybody decide to go sing? I mean. Hey, Bruce Pearl, will you come up here and sing with Mark Pope? What are you going to sing? Oh, I don't know. America the beautiful. All right. It's just a weird thing.

[Shannon]

I've already found a couple. I'm going to play one coming back.

[Ryan]

Oh, perfect.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Any other little good, weird tidbits?

[Ryan]

I mean, I got that one hat from the 96 championship game that is a reversible. It's a black hat on one side and you flip it out. It's a basketball head on the other side. That's my favorite hat I own.

[Matt Jones]

What do you mean? I don't know what I'm about. Flip it out.

[Ryan]

It's like, reversible. Like, you know when the baseball players put the rally cap on, they put it inside out.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, you can wear it inside out.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

As a hat.

[Ryan]

Yes. You've seen it. You loved it.

[Matt Jones]

That's really weird. I bet it looks good on you, too.

[Shannon]

I think the weirdest piece I have, and it's really not that weird. Remember when they had those construction helmets with the UK logo on it and everybody got mad?

[Matt Jones]

They only gave them to the rich people.

[Shannon]

Well, I mean, I'm not rich, but I got one.

[Ryan]

But.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, you were with Michael Bennett, though, and he's rich. Well, that's what it was.

[Shannon]

If anybody wants one of those. I've still got one.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, yeah, those. I'm trying to think. I. There's a certain style of the 70s I'd like to see. I remember that guy that came to ksbar at one time and sold all that vintage memorabilia. Problem was, it was all small. I couldn't fit in it. I'd love to have bought so, like, those old silk coats and stuff. Problem was, it was all the sizes were all little. There's next.

[Shannon]

Go to Bill.

[Matt Jones]

Bill. Go ahead, Bill.

[Caller / Listener]

Hey, Matt. How you doing?

[Matt Jones]

Doing good.

[Caller / Listener]

Hey, I was gonna just switch up a little bit. I know the game wasn't the best last night, but I had A couple quick questions for you. My wife and I, we travel around all the baseball parks. We're big Reds fans. Is there a stadium that you would suggest that may not be on the top of people's visiting list that you would suggest? And then my second question is, is there any chance you and Drew might do, like, a podcast for the mlb? Kind of like how you guys do with COVID Zero? Thank you.

[Matt Jones]

Probably not, because they would have to hire us, and we haven't heard anything about it. I would say, I mean, beyond. Everybody says, you know, go to Fenway park and go to where you feel. And that's true. I think Yankee Stadium is fun because the neighborhood it's in, like, you're in the Bronx. And, you know, if you otherwise wouldn't, you might not go. The underrated stadiums to me that are really good. Pittsburgh.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Pittsburgh has got a really, really nice, cool stadium. And you wouldn't think to go there, but it's really, really cool. So that's the one that sticks out to me. As you might, in your mind, not think I want to go to Pittsburgh, but I'm a big fan, Ryan, of the stadium in Pittsburgh.

[Ryan]

Those people like Tom Leach that go to all these different stadiums, they always say Pittsburgh. And they used. They used to say Camden Yard in Baltimore was another.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's great. But people know that now. That was kind of the first stadium to, like, redo itself in the unique way. And I went there as a kid, like in college, and it's great, too. But I just the one for me, I've been out about 18 of them, and I think that's probably the one that you wouldn't think is necessarily great. That. That is. That is really cool. 859-280-2287. Bourbon lovers kick off the new year with Commonwealth Causes. First of all, thank you to Commonwealth causes for donating with serve pro and white Grim Maggard for our meteorologist Madness Challenge. Commonwealth Causes, though, still doing their bourbon Raffle tomorrow night. $20,000 lineup. Usually it's 10, isn't it, Ryan? Now it's 20.

[Ryan]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

Good day to be a dog or cat.

[Matt Jones]

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[Podcast Narrator / Advertiser]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Ryan]

Homicide captain saying, detective, do not find out if this guy's guilty or innocent.

[Matt Jones]

Who does that?

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[Shannon]

I wouldn't do it alone.

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[Ryder Strong]

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[Podcast Narrator / Advertiser]

It was many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea.

[Ryder Strong]

In 1995, my neighbor Anna Trainer disappeared from a commune.

[Matt Jones]

It was hard to wrap your head around.

[Ryder Strong]

It was nature and trees and praying and drugs.

[Matt Jones]

So no, I am not your guru.

[Ryder Strong]

And back then I lied to my parents, I lied to police, I lied to everybody.

[Matt Jones]

There were years, Ryder where I could.

[Podcast Narrator / Advertiser]

Not say your name.

[Ryder Strong]

I've decided to go back to my hometown in Northern California, interview my friends, family, talk to police, journalists, whomever I can to try to find out what actually happened.

[Matt Jones]

Isn't it a little bit weird that they obsess over hippies in the woods and not the obvious boyfriend?

[Podcast Narrator / Advertiser]

They have had this case for 30 years.

[Matt Jones]

Years. I'll teach you. Sons of come around here. And my wife. Boom.

[Caller / Listener]

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[Ryder Strong]

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[Nav Green]

This show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? It's your boy, Nal Green from the Broken Play podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect podcast network. Another team who ain't going to the playoffs. The Chiefs.

[Matt Jones]

What's a wrap?

[Nav Green]

It's time to rebuild. Who? Your MVP right now.

[Matt Jones]

Then Drake May up there.

[Shannon]

Josh Allen up there still.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, my boy Matthew Stafford.

[Podcast Narrator / Advertiser]

Where did Bul nix at?

[Matt Jones]

He ain't too far behind.

[Podcast Narrator / Advertiser]

He did all this stuff talking.

[Matt Jones]

What Matthew Stafford is doing statistically, bro, is crazy.

[Nav Green]

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[Matt Jones]

Hey, he should be in that conversation. In what conversation?

[Nav Green]

He should be in it. Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Matt Jones]

You probably have a hearing loss. All right, so this is joe b. Right?

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that's a woman, right?

[Shannon]

I think so.

[Matt Jones]

So who's this supposed to be with? Or is this just Jo B?

[Shannon]

It doesn't really say.

[Ryan]

Sounds like a Joby solo with the background music.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Wow. Put out a set of songs that were all him singing. We've played. We've done this before over the years, but it is kind of amazing to think about.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Wonder how many albums this go platinum.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, that's got to be up there. But I've got some other ones. One person writes, matt, I have a Tubby Smith barbecue sauce. Did you know Tubby made barbecue sauce?

[Ryan]

No, I don't remember that one.

[Matt Jones]

I don't remember that one. I don't remember that one either. One person says, I have a strutting with Sutton Shirt. But the wildcat has the same kind of Afro haircut that Eddie Sutton has.

[Ryan]

Nice. Why not?

[Matt Jones]

If people forget Eddie's hair was kind of like that back in the day, you know it was.

[Ryan]

Yes, it was.

[Matt Jones]

Here's an interesting one. I have a flame picture of Jared Carter, but it's signed by Dan Issel.

[Shannon]

Why did somebody not know who?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I like you. Can you imagine if you were Dan Issel and somebody handed you a picture of Jared Carter and asked you to sign it?

[Shannon]

No. I'd be like, do you think this is me when I was younger? You don't know who that is?

[Matt Jones]

One person says, matt, I have a 96 Converse, blue Jean jacket, Denim, like the uniform. Oh, I bet that's. That would be. I bet you could get a lot of money for that now, don't you think, Ryan?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think. I think Misty English wore one to one of our remotes one time. I think she's got one of those.

[Matt Jones]

One person says, I have a DeMarcus Cousins T shirt that says, in Kentucky, we love our cousins. That's horrible.

[Shannon]

That can't be real.

[Matt Jones]

I kind of like that, though. That's a good one.

[Shannon]

West Virginia.

[Ryan]

Really good one.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I have a picture. One person writes of Billy Gillespie, Alex Legion, and the girlfriend, and Alex Legion has signed it. No way.

[Shannon]

That's. That's one of one, right?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I know the picture. I know the picture. I didn't know anyone would have it signed. That's a great picture from UK lore.

[Ryan]

Yes, it is. All three of them in the same photo.

[Matt Jones]

There's a picture of them. I think they're at a football game, right, Ryan?

[Ryan]

Yeah, football game.

[Matt Jones]

They're at a football game. And they're all. They're all kind of in a little group. Well, that was a different time in uk. In UK sports. Let me tell you quickly what happened with this guy yesterday in the. The shovel, okay?

[Ryan]

The neighbor.

[Matt Jones]

So remember you heard, yesterday, I borrowed nicely. My neighbor's shovel.

[Ryan]

You took off your porch?

[Matt Jones]

Didn't steal. I knocked first. He didn't answer. So then I took the shovel. Borrowed. Excuse me. Borrowed. Shannon took it, dug my car out. He came outside, saw it. I said, hey, man, you don't mind if I borrow the shovel? He said, sure. And then I went and brought it back. So yesterday I was in my house. Shannon. I heard a ruckus outside. Mm. And you know, I have kind of a hill on the property, right?

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

That goes from the. My house down to the. To the road. There were two kids Sledding down my hill in my yard. And I wasn't going to tell him, but I was like, okay. I mean, you're going to just go sledding somebody's yard? Like, shouldn't you ask, get off my yard. And I look outside and it's. The dad is with his kids and I open the door and he goes, you don't mind if they sled, do you?

[Shannon]

Yeah, you can't be the old guy. Get off my lawn at that point.

[Matt Jones]

Well, no, I mean, he did exactly what I did to him.

[Shannon]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

So of course I had to say, yeah, that's fine. But I did think to myself, well played, dude. You did exactly that. You were like, oh, I know a place where my kids can sled. Yeah, his yard. So. Right. I actually thought that was turnabouts fair play. So I was fine with it.

[Ryan]

I think he put the shovel incident in his back pocket and said, I'm gonna use this to my advantage. Kids want to go sledding. Okay, we're gonna go to the neighbors house.

[Matt Jones]

Well, his. If I'm looking at his house, his is probably too steep. His kids would go barreling out in the road. And so I could see why he'd want to use ours. So.

[Shannon]

It was very neighborly of you to.

[Matt Jones]

It was. I'm becoming a neighbor.

[Shannon]

You are. Did you get his name?

[Matt Jones]

Of course not. I don't see.

[Shannon]

Still don't know his name.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know anybody's name.

[Ryan]

I gotta ask you a question. Is this the guy you had the T shirt incident with?

[Matt Jones]

No, those that. They're right next door to me and we don't speak, but they do have a window. Have you seen the window? If I have we talked about this. They have a window where they have no curtains and no blinds on their house. And it's just open.

[Shannon]

What do you see?

[Matt Jones]

I've seen some things. Yeah.

[Shannon]

You want to go a little further into detail?

[Matt Jones]

I'm not. I'm just saying, you know, maybe get. Maybe get a cart.

[Shannon]

Probably something freeing living that way.

[Matt Jones]

I think that's how I think, from what I can tell them, that's how they are.

[Shannon]

Like if you see it, you see it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, they just, they, they're very much.

[Shannon]

Like, you don't like it, don't look.

[Matt Jones]

They always got signs in the yard for whatever the cause of the day is, you know, that's just kind of. That, that's them. Yeah, but they, they said, you know, they don't seem to mind, so it's fine with me.

[Shannon]

I Hoping you do look over, have some company.

[Matt Jones]

All right, that's plenty. Who's next?

[Shannon]

Doing great.

[Matt Jones]

You called last night at 2am Doing great. What's up?

[Caller / Listener]

Yeah, I'm doing great. A little tired, but hope y' all are doing well. I figured, you know, we burned the tape from last night because that was a horrible game. So I gotta ask anything. Question. A couple weeks ago, I think you had mentioned some sort of contest where at KS Bar where people can pick the spreads of games or something like that.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we're still gonna. We're still gonna do that. We're. It's gonna be the second week if we're gonna do it twice during the year. The first time I think is gonna be. Let me look at my calendar here. We're looking at either February 10th or 11th or 12th, like one of those three days. And what we're gonna do is I'm gonna. We're gonna have all the games that are on that night and everything on television. You're gonna pick it against the spread, and whoever does the best will win a part of a prize package of around two grand that'll come from our friends at Cornbread Hemp.

[Caller / Listener]

Okay, awesome.

[Matt Jones]

So we'll do that twice during the year. We'll do that probably the second week of February and then the fourth week of February. So appreciate the call. So keep that on your. I'll be talking more about it as we get closer, but it's going to be a. We'll see, Ryan. A pick them challenge to see who's the best at picking college basketball games. It'll be something fun to do. We're going to do it on a night where Kentucky's not playing, so there's no stress.

[Ryan]

That's. That's a great. Because we pick with our heart so often. If I didn't stop betting on Kentucky, I think I'd be doing okay. I just built my heart too much.

[Matt Jones]

But if you're like Shannon, you bet on Kentucky not to score 15, the first 15 points, you'd be killing it.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Chain.

[Shannon]

Easy money.

[Matt Jones]

Every easy money. Who's next?

[Shannon]

Steve.

[Matt Jones]

Steve. Go ahead, Steve. A minute left.

[Caller / Listener]

Hey, guys. Seems like the theme today is fundamentals. This is the worst fundamentally unsound team I've seen and for ever. They can't dribble, they can't pass, they can't rebound. I'd love to see what they do in practice to correct all that.

[Matt Jones]

And I got one more preseason when I thought to myself, this is going to be a team of fundamentals. And it's been the exact opposite, but go ahead.

[Caller / Listener]

Yeah, Michael. We need a guy like Michael Kidd. Gilchrist plays with heart. Rebounds, not a great offensive player.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Caller / Listener]

I think the season's pretty much over. I just don't see them recovering. I got one more thing with regards to Billy. Y' all have an over under on how many flowers Billy's fiance will be getting.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, yeah. Did Billy say that he was okay?

[Shannon]

He said he would be perfectly fine with another man sending flowers to his fiance. As a matter of fact, he said he would thank them if they did.

[Matt Jones]

That's.

[Shannon]

That's an interesting take.

[Matt Jones]

That is bad. That is not ag behavior.

[Shannon]

Beta Billy.

[Matt Jones]

Beta Billy. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR.

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