2026-01-29- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – January 29, 2026, Hour 1

Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, Drew Shannon, Shannon the Dude
Broadcast from: KS Bar & Grill, Lexington, with Shannon in Louisville
Main Theme:
This episode focuses on the aftermath of a disappointing UK basketball loss, questions about head coach Mark Pope’s tenure, and KSR celebrating its record-breaking ratings. The hosts mix sports analysis with playful banter, reminisce about past show highlights, and preview their upcoming Super Bowl trip.

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Episode Overview

Purpose:

• Recap of UK basketball’s recent struggles, particularly the loss to Vanderbilt
• Critical discussion of Mark Pope’s performance and future as head coach
• Celebration of KSR’s historic radio ratings
• Listeners’ comments and calls on UK basketball, coaching, and fan experience
• Lighthearted stories, upcoming plans, and ongoing show traditions

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Weather & Road Conditions in Kentucky

• Matt and the crew chat about the effects of the recent snow/ice storm, contrasting Lexington’s poor cleanup with Louisville’s clearer streets.
• “You guys in Lexington have handled this storm much worse than the people in Louisville.” – Matt Jones (02:16)

2. Colonoscopy Banter (04:40–06:30)

• Drew recounts his recent colonoscopy, joking about the prep and the surprisingly restful anesthesia.
  • “Honestly, that’s the best sleep I’ve had.” – Drew Shannon (04:55)
  • Lighthearted comparisons to watching Kentucky play as an “unmedicated colonoscopy.”

3. KSR’s Ratings Success (06:33–11:13)

• The hosts celebrate obtaining the highest ratings in the program’s history, noting they dominated every demographic—including women 18–49, a rarity for sports talk.
  • “In men 25 to 54, which is the sports demo, 40.3 rating. … The last ratings period, we got a 40.” – Matt Jones (08:07)
  • “The numbers are absolutely insane… nowhere anywhere does a sports talk radio show get numbers like this.” – Ryan Lemond (09:07)

4. Super Bowl Radio Row Plans (11:13–16:42)

• Previewing the team’s upcoming trip to the Super Bowl’s Radio Row in San Francisco.
  • “Our set is right in between the NFL Network TV show set and the Pat McAfee show set.” – Matt Jones (14:09)
• Outfits, party invites, and exclusive event access discussed with excitement.

Memorable Flashbacks

• Reminiscing about past convention trips and celebrity encounters: Don King, Dan Rather, MC Hammer, Tucker Carlson, and others.
• “I have a picture of me with Tucker Carlson, which I don’t want nowadays, but there’s a picture of me.” – Matt Jones (15:32)

5. Mark Pope and the State of UK Basketball (21:40–27:58)

• National commentators (Paul Finebaum, ESPN crew) and local fans show rising concern about Mark Pope’s ability to lead UK after a blowout loss to Vanderbilt.
  • “There might now be questions about whether Mark Pope could do this job.” – Matt Jones (21:52)
• Drew, Ryan, and Shannon each express growing doubts about Pope’s long-term viability as coach.
  • “Do you think this team can still be really special?” – Matt Jones (22:54)
  • “No. I don’t know.” – Drew Shannon (22:58)
• Roster construction, lack of player cohesion, and intensity in question.
  • “You gotta have a little dog in you [as a coach].” – Drew Shannon (25:18)
  • “I’m hanging on, but barely. … This has been happening all season.” – Ryan Lemond (25:51)

Notable Quotes:

• “Are you confident that in five years we can have contended for a title with Mark Pope as the coach?” – Matt Jones (24:22)
• “I don’t think you can guarantee one person on the basketball team next year.” – Matt Jones (27:30)

6. Calls, Listener Reactions, and Pep Talk Debate (32:41–34:52)

• Caller Noah proposes a fan-funded locker room pep talk; hosts debate if fans could do better than Pope at motivating players.
  • “If some dude walked in… Can you imagine Bob in Jamestown went out in and tried to give a pep talk?” – Matt Jones (35:08)
  • “What are we talking about? Mark Pope needs to be doing this.” – Drew Shannon (35:25)

7. Practice & Effort Concerns from Jack Givens (30:50–32:13)

• Guest analyst Jack Givens suggests players aren’t practicing hard or with passion—hosts see this as a damning indictment of coaching.
  • “They don’t practice hard. … That’s more on the coaches.” – Ryan Lemond (30:50)
  • “If Jack says that, I think he’s 100% accurate.” – Matt Jones (31:08)
  • “There’s only one player on the team that I think has played hard all year, and that’s Aberdeen.” – Matt Jones (31:47)

8. UK Basketball Prognosis & Game Outlook

• Discussion of the path to an NCAA tournament bid in light of poor performances and upcoming schedule.
  • “I think you have to win [two more games] and they’re probably going to go into it as an underdog.” – Matt Jones (23:25)

9. Playful Segments & Local Flavor

• Banter about vintage UK underwear, odd fan memorabilia, and Kentucky high school basketball legends (36:19–38:56)
• Nostalgia and regional pride woven throughout, emphasizing the show's deep Kentucky roots.

10. International Sports Story – Benfica’s Dramatic Champions League Win (43:49–48:57)

• Matt excitedly narrates the Benfica soccer game where the goalkeeper scored a header in stoppage time to send his team through.
  • “The goalie gets the header to win the game. And they move on. … The stadium loses their mind.” – Matt Jones (47:16)
  • “I would have given anything to be in that stadium. It looks like absolute bedlam.” – Matt Jones (48:05)
  • “You don’t need to know Spanish. The passion in their voice… you can’t help but smile and get excited.” – Drew Shannon (49:08)

11. Upcoming UK Games & Fan Sentiment (49:23–51:29)

• Callers discuss travel logistics for games amid inclement weather.
• Debate on UK’s chance against Arkansas—most optimism is muted.
• Plans for a KS Bar & Grill watch party: “Let’s pack the place. Let’s get it going in here.” – Ryan Lemond (51:14)

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Timeline of Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Details | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------|---------| | 02:16 | Storm, Lexington vs. Louisville | Roads, snow removal | | 04:40 | Colonoscopy segment | Hospital humor, Drew’s story | | 06:33 | Ratings announcement | KSR breaks records | | 11:13 | Super Bowl Radio Row preview | Travel, parties, outfits | | 15:04 | Celebrity encounters from past conventions | Show anecdotes | | 21:52 | Mark Pope’s performance under scrutiny | ESPN/Paul Finebaum criticisms | | 24:22 | Roundtable: Can Pope win a title at UK? | Hosts’ opinions | | 30:50 | Jack Givens’ practice insight | Effort/practice issues | | 35:08 | Fan locker room pep talk debate | Caller idea, hosts’ reactions | | 43:49 | Benfica Champions League story | Last-minute soccer drama | | 49:23 | Upcoming games, travel, watch party | Weather, outlook, plans |

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Notable Quotes

• “I talked myself into it. Now, I don’t think that’s necessarily wrong.”
  – Matt Jones on Mark Pope’s hire (29:00)

• “You can’t just start firing people every two years. No one’s ever going to take the job.”
  – Drew Shannon (30:23)

• “I think there’s only one player on the team that I think has played hard all year, and that’s Aberdeen.”
  – Matt Jones (31:47)

• “There’s no sports show, maybe in the history of sports, that’s ever won women 18 to 49.”
  – Matt Jones (08:07)

• “If you see five people. Two of them like you.”
  – Matt Jones (10:12), on KSR’s radio market penetration

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Engaging or Memorable Moments

• Banter about anesthesia and colonoscopies – “Honestly, that’s the best sleep I’ve had.” (04:55)
• Fan-suggested locker room pep talk– quickly rejected by all but Shannon, who supports any fan involvement (34:52)
• Vintage UK memorabilia – “UK Bloomer women’s underwear… said ‘I am behind the Wildcats’ on the butt.” (37:38)
• Soccer story – Dramatic retelling of a Champions League match with a goalkeeper scoring in stoppage time (47:16)

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Overall Tone and Language

• Upbeat, candid, and humorous, mixing serious analysis with inside jokes and regional flair
• Candid about team and coaching shortcomings but quick to celebrate successes, both on-air and off
• Encourages community participation, with frequent references to listener calls and Kentucky culture

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For Listener Reference:

• This hour is a quintessential KSR blend: in-depth Kentucky basketball critique, celebratory self-reflection, playful storytelling, and the anticipation of future marquee events (Super Bowl Radio Row).
• Strong local ties, frequent engagement with fans, and irreverence set the tone throughout.

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For Further Listening

• The hosts promise more “KSR classic” shows in the coming weeks and deeper coverage of both Kentucky basketball and their Super Bowl adventures on future episodes.

Transcript

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[Ryan Lemond]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Ryder Strong]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday, January 29th. I'm Matt Jones here in Lexington, Kentucky at the KS Bar and Grill with Ryan and Drew Shannon is in Louisville. You can give a shout on the Clark's Pump and shop, phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 774-5254. In this edition, sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. You call TJ, he'll make them pay. We haven't seen you in a while. It's good. I haven't seen all of you in a while. I made the drive this morning.

[Ryan Lemond]

How was it driving over from Louisville?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I was going to say, first of all, we're at KS Bar. I know a lot of you in Lexington, like haven't left your house. So come on out today, have lunch, see us, come to dinner. Yes, just get out of your house. I will say, having made the drive, you guys in Lexington have handled this storm much worse than the people in Louisville.

[Ryan Lemond]

Removal.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, just there's so much More stuff everywhere. Like, you all have a lot more ice and snow everywhere. Like Louisville at this point. Like, my street, which is very much. Is basically clear now.

[Ryan Lemond]

Really.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, outside of, you know, there's piles.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

From the. But the street.

[Ryan Lemond]

And you're on the side street and.

[Matt Jones]

I'm on a side street. You guys still. You know, you guys got some work to do here. Ryan, this is why you need to be on the city council.

[Ryan Lemond]

A lot of work in my neighborhood, Drew's neighborhood, All these neighborhoods around town, they haven't got to yet. We had a snowplow guy called the pre show. He's like, yeah, you complain. We're not got your neighborhood street. You're also going to call and complain when we plow the snow on the end of your driveway. Yeah.

[Shannon]

So get a shovel and get a shovel out there. Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

I ain't doing it.

[Shannon]

Talking to you, Ryan.

[Matt Jones]

What?

[Ryan Lemond]

No, he. I think he was talking to me about getting a shovel. Get out there and clean the snow myself.

[Matt Jones]

I don't. You're not making any sense. What are you talking about? Yeah, I mean, that was just gibberish. He was saying what?

[Ryan Lemond]

He's saying you call. All you people call and complain about us not getting the neighborhood streets.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, I understand that sentence.

[Ryan Lemond]

You're also the first people to call and complain when we push the snow up against the end of your driveway. They said, get a shovel out and shovel it yourself.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, he's. You were acting. Okay. I thought you were saying you told him to give us get a shovel, which I wouldn't have made any sense. All right, well, I'm just saying. I mean, I'm not. I'm not blaming anybody. I'm not blaming a snowplow driver or the city council or you specifically, Ryan. I'm just saying, just in general, having now been in both cities, this city is a lot more messed up than Louisville is. And Louisville got more snow, but you all may have gotten more ice. So maybe that's it.

[Drew Shannon]

It's an adventure. Once you get on a main road, you just have to go straight. There's no turning lanes. Like, if you want to go left, there's just piles of snow. It's like, well, I guess I'll have to keep driving straight eventually. Find a way out of here, or you'll just be driving in your lane will just turn into a mountain of snow and you have to stop and get over. So you're still getting through it.

[Matt Jones]

So you all. Just so you know, in Lexington, it's worse. So just Go to Louisville if you want, but. But either way, it's nice to be here with you guys. How was the colonoscopy?

[Drew Shannon]

Which one?

[Matt Jones]

Which one? The one you had yesterday.

[Drew Shannon]

Oh, that one. Well, the night before, I had one without anesthesia watching Kentucky play.

[Matt Jones]

Vandy set that up. Okay.

[Drew Shannon]

I thought that one through. It was great. Had a great.

[Matt Jones]

Actually, you did have a great time.

[Drew Shannon]

Honestly, that's the best sleep I've had.

[Matt Jones]

It's the best.

[Drew Shannon]

I. I would go back tomorrow if it didn't cost me so much. I'm not kidding.

[Matt Jones]

I do.

[Drew Shannon]

They do weekly. Can I get a subscription?

[Matt Jones]

I will say it is the best. Fifteen minutes or 20 minutes, whatever, of sleep. The only negative for me coming out of it was the first thing I saw was Ryan's face. Yeah, because you know, that's not. When you come out of a deep sleep, you're like, did is Ryan in my bed? And then realize he's there being nice. But yes, it is the best sleep in the world. I'm pro colonoscop. Did you have a bad night before?

[Drew Shannon]

Oh, no.

[Matt Jones]

The prep.

[Drew Shannon]

Everything was easy.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think that was as bad.

[Drew Shannon]

As everyone's liars, you know, not eating for 24 hours, that stuff. In fact, there was a moment during the Kentucky game where I rewound an Olive Garden commercial and watched it again. Abby's like, we got to get you food. If you're just watching.

[Ryan Lemond]

All of you leave here, we need to go get a cheeseburger.

[Drew Shannon]

Yeah, I'm glad he played that, though. I was so disappointed. The anesthesia changed. I was immediately fine. They even told me Ryan had something different. I was excited to be dumb and want cheeseburgers.

[Nav Green]

No.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I feel like if mine went away pretty quick too. It must not. They must not give you the loopy stuff anymore.

[Drew Shannon]

Ryan was a big topic, by the way there. Everyone there was talking about Ryan and cheeseburgers. And the day we did the show.

[Ryan Lemond]

Did they give me some extra strong anesthesia or something on purpose?

[Mario]

Maybe.

[Matt Jones]

Or maybe it's just the way it goes into your brain because you remember, you saw me, I was fine. Basically, I picked you up.

[Ryan Lemond]

I could not believe you were moving around that well, talking coherently.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So walked in your house. You got a good, good brand of health.

[Drew Shannon]

I did. I will encourage people to go, though. You know, I won't lay out my. I won't show you all my photos. But, you know, they. They said I should come back more often. That's a good thing to. To know ahead of time.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Drew Shannon]

That's nothing serious, but, you know, I'm glad I did it.

[Matt Jones]

There you go.

[Drew Shannon]

I will show you the photos if you all want.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I. I was hoping so. 859280, 2287. Well, I'm. I'm glad that, that you're good. And, you know, it's been. It's been weird, but we've been apart. It reminded me of the shows during COVID where we were always in. And we're going to actually have some more of those over the course of the next couple of weeks. But I, I've enjoyed the last few shows. I think it was a good mix. And that led to. I wanted to bring up, you know, we're basically used to, on this show over the last few years, the. How. Well, we've been very fortunate. We've. We've won the ratings in Lexington for, like, 13, 14 straight years. Right. But sometimes you get these moments that are very cool. And yesterday we found out that the last ratings period was the best ratings in the history of this show, and our bosses said maybe the best ratings in the history of any show they've ever seen. We, I, I. These numbers are complicated, but for the first time ever, we won every demographic. We're the number one show, beating not just sports shows, but music, country music, rap, pop, all that stuff. In every demo, people, people 18 to 49, women 18 to 49, men 18 to 49, and then seniors, people, etc. And in men, 25 to 54, which is the sports demo, 40.3 rating, which, just so people know, I remember the first time we got a 10, people saying, sports shows don't get a 10. And then when we got a 20, people saying, that's ludicrous. That's probably the highest rating in the country. And the last ratings period, we got a 40. A 40. And women, we won women 18 to 49. I had a national radio executive write me and go, there's no sports show, maybe in the history of sports that's ever won women 18 to 49. So I just say all that to thank you. I want to thank the listeners. Also want to thank my man. I think Mario had a little bit to do with this. I really do. I think Mario putting us on social media and which was the exact hope for bringing him in. I think that had a lot to do with it. But mostly I want to thank all the listeners out there, because this is a. The success of this show is just ridiculous. And we thank you.

[Ryan Lemond]

The numbers are absolutely insane. I mean, nowhere anywhere in the country does a sports talk radio show get numbers like this. Talk radio does not beat country music. And we, when we had a 20, I think they even had a little party for us, little celebratory.

[Matt Jones]

We'll see if they have it. They should send us on a trip for a 40.

[Ryan Lemond]

40, my good.

[Matt Jones]

The only shows that in history have ever gotten something like that is, like, at its peak in some parts of the country. Howard Stern would have gotten that. That's really the only, the only thing. So I remember when we got the 20, thinking, well, we'll never do better than that. And, and now you get this. It's just. It's crazy. It's. It's really crazy. So thank you to all those folks.

[Drew Shannon]

Drew, incredible congratulations to you guys that.

[Matt Jones]

Well, no, you're on this show, too.

[Drew Shannon]

I'm aware. I still want to give you congratulations. Gets in my head of, like, does that mean when I'm in a grocery store and, like, I see some of the earbuds.

[Matt Jones]

Well, here's what that means. If at any. For people who listen to the radio, two out of five people are listening to the show.

[Drew Shannon]

That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy.

[Matt Jones]

That's absolutely crazy.

[Drew Shannon]

Of all the options. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Two out of five people are listening to this show. That's. That's crazy. I mean, it is crazy. So when you go to the grocery. Yes. You see five people. Two of them like you.

[Drew Shannon]

I'm just gonna start fist bumping them.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Three just fist bump five people. Presumably, two of them will fist bumpy back. The other three may call the authorities. But you get, you get two out of five.

[Ryan Lemond]

And these ratings don't include podcast listeners.

[Matt Jones]

Does not include. So that's another thing. Does it include podcast. Doesn't include those of you that listen on streaming.

[Ryan Lemond]

So those numbers are just people who.

[Matt Jones]

Listen over the air.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So you add the streaming in the podcast, it's going to be even more stupid. So anyway, I, I don't want to just spend the whole show patting ourselves on the back, but we, I, I, I, we. We were very. And, you know, now. Now we can celebrate as we get ready. Drew, you and I and Mario next week to go to the Super Bowl. We're going to talk a little bit more about that later in the show. And Ryan, you will be here.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Broncos let me down in the snowstorm in Denver. I was pulling for him so I.

[Matt Jones]

Could tell you gonna go.

[Ryan Lemond]

If you, if you drug me with you.

[Shannon]

I was gonna go drug you.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I wasn't gonna leave.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not gonna drug you. I feel like I would have just taken you and hopefully you would have enjoyed it.

[Ryan Lemond]

I know. I think your comrades are very happy we're not. They're not driving out to San Francisco.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I wonder happy they'll be that we still don't have a place to stay for. For Friday and Saturday. You know, prices are just going to.

[Ryan Lemond]

Go up still out there.

[Matt Jones]

I'm going to. I'm going to end up. We're just going to have to do something I don't like. We're going to have to probably slum it a little bit and stay in a place. I'm going to have to share a room with someone. I don't like that.

[Drew Shannon]

Just remember San Francisco slums are so where.

[Matt Jones]

Where.

[Drew Shannon]

It's like a grid.

[Matt Jones]

Where do we stay away do it. Is the Wharf. You stay away from the Wharf or. No. Or the Wharf. Okay. Because I was never.

[Drew Shannon]

Great Applebee's in the Wharf. I would happily stay in the Wharf.

[Matt Jones]

So the Wharf we could do.

[Drew Shannon]

Yes. I haven't been in about four or five years.

[Matt Jones]

All right, well, then there were a couple places in the Wharf, you know.

[Drew Shannon]

Parts of Oakland I probably would rather not.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I'm only staying at Oakland, so I'm more upset.

[Drew Shannon]

We'll talk about it later. But I saw Mario and Billy went shopping yesterday without us, and that hurt because I'm getting excited like you, and they're off doing side quests with themselves.

[Matt Jones]

Billy looked. Billy looked hilarious yesterday. See, Billy, here's what's happened with Billy Shannon. He got the rub from getting this slutting. I mean, strutting with Sutton.

[Shannon]

Yeah, that's a dope conversation.

[Matt Jones]

I think it was show that was different show. Strutting with Sutton. He got the rub from that. And now he's trying to go retro and wear all this old.

[Shannon]

Yeah, he's soaking in all this attention so you can find stuff and then resell it if he really wanted to.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, he's. He's now doing the whole retro thing. I understand. We got our invite to the parties now we got VIP access to the Sports Illustrated in the Shack party.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

I've already figured out my outfits. I've got my fits.

[Ryan Lemond]

The club and shirt coming out.

[Matt Jones]

Club and shirt. Well, it's a crucial part of it.

[Drew Shannon]

That's the base layer for all outfits.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I had to add. I had to add to the club insurance.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you're going to share.

[Matt Jones]

Well, no, I mean, it'll come out.

[Ryan Lemond]

Come out in the photos.

[Matt Jones]

You don't want paparazzi photos reveal their stuff. But it's also some of this going to be off camera. This is going to be the boys not producing content. Like, I'm not showing what happens at the Shack party or at the Applebee's. Mario, the Shack party's just us.

[Drew Shannon]

I saw the Shack party invite list. This is how I know I'm old. The people performing, I didn't. I didn't recognize them.

[Matt Jones]

T Pain is one of them. You know, T see him on there, though.

[Drew Shannon]

I'm so back.

[Matt Jones]

And then the. The. The sports illustrate party. We get the chain smokers.

[Drew Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And ludicrous Ludo. So Mario's excited, Billy's excited. Billy said, Billy told me his dream his entire life has been to go not to the super bowl, but to Radio Row at the Super Bowl. I was like, really? He goes, yes. I've wanted to do it my whole life. And I'm like, well, you're gonna get.

[Ryan Lemond]

Gonna be there. You guys gonna do your show from radio?

[Matt Jones]

And we are. Our set is right in between the NFL Network TV show set and the Pat McAfee show said so it'll be NFL Network TV cover zero, Pat McAfee rubbing shoulders. So I think there's a really good chance that we like Shannon. We may end up boys with Pat McAfee. What are you gonna do then?

[Shannon]

I don't like him at all. Tell him what stuff. He says hello, and I plan on.

[Matt Jones]

Talking to him about the back stuffy if I get a chance. Well, I'm taking up for Max with him. But. But that's where our set is.

[Drew Shannon]

Are all those guys getting up at 6am and doing radio before they go to Radio Row or just us?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we'll be up early. Our show will be 7am locally. It'll be 6am local.

[Ryan Lemond]

So, you know, when we went to the Republican caucus, I was not convention. Convention. I was not excited to go. But then we went to Radio Row. Those are some of my favorite shows we've ever done.

[Matt Jones]

Well, this is like that, except instead of, like, Herman Cain walking around, it's sports.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's sports. People walking around. How cool is that?

[Matt Jones]

Remember, we had Herman Cain on Ye. And then he died.

[Ryan Lemond]

Who's the other big name guy we had on? Sit down. Talk to us.

[Drew Shannon]

Don King.

[Ryan Lemond]

We did see Don King.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know.

[Ryan Lemond]

Dan Rather. We.

[Matt Jones]

Scott Baio.

[Ryan Lemond]

We got Scott Baio, MC Hammer, MC.

[Matt Jones]

Hammer, Bun B. Yeah. Boys to men.

[Ryan Lemond]

Lester Holt.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we saw all these people.

[Drew Shannon]

It Was Tucker Carlson.

[Matt Jones]

Tucker car. There's. I have a picture of me with Tucker Carlson, which I don't want nowadays, but there's a picture of me. We look like we're friends.

[Drew Shannon]

You introduced me to him. I had no idea who he was. For all I knew, he worked at the Arena.

[Matt Jones]

Wolf Blitzer.

[Ryan Lemond]

What? The NBC Today show pulled out. The thing where I said, I'm not. I have any idea what's going on. I'm just here to see Rascal Flats.

[Matt Jones]

The fact that you ended up in all those pictures, that was. For those of you that are newer listeners, I would argue oddly, our best shows were the Republican and Democrat convention and the Iowa caucuses. Yeah, I think those might be the best shows we've ever done.

[Ryan Lemond]

I agree. And like I said, I wasn't looking forward to those trips, but ended up being super, super radio. Fun radio.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

And we just saw that picture of you taking a picture of Matt Bevin with Drew behind him.

[Matt Jones]

That was a great moment, too. Kentucky gave their electoral votes and in the picture was Matt Bevin, Mitch McConnell, Andy Barr and Drew.

[Drew Shannon]

Yeah, well, they needed me. I'm a Kentuckian.

[Ryan Lemond]

And Matt Bevin, they needed staring daggers.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, Matt Bevin had a look like if you screw this up, that's what he looked like. 859-280-2287. We will take a break and be right back. Talk a little pope. This is ksr.

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[Ryan Lemond]

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[Ryder Strong]

This is Ryder Strong and I have a new podcast called the Red Weather.

[Caller]

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. It was hard to wrap your head around. 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.

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[Ryder Strong]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Ryder Strong]

This is the Red Weather. Listen to the Red weather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[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? This your boy Nav Green from the Broke 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. Not a team who ain't going to the playoff. 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, Josh Allen up there still. Oh, my boy Matthew Stafford. Where did Bo Nicks at? He ain't too far behind.

[T Mobile Advertiser]

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[Matt Jones]

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[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.

[T Mobile Advertiser]

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[Caller]

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[T Mobile Advertiser]

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[Ryan Lemond]

Saying, detective, do not find out if this guy's guilty or innocent.

[Matt Jones]

Who does that?

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[Shannon]

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[T Mobile Advertiser]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back, Sports radio. We're having like old man memories here. Good stuff of the Pictures of the Past. 859280, 2287 Text Machine is 772-774-5254. One person writes. Matt, you used to always talk about fighting with your bosses at the radio a lot. You don't do that as much. Does that mean you get a loss? Yeah, for the most part. They basically leave us alone. There are hiccups. There have been hiccups here and there, but not like it used to be. I mean, like it used to be. It used to be tough last year, last year, year and a half, it's been a lot better. They kind of, they kind of just leave us alone unless a crisis comes up.

[Ryan Lemond]

We had a boss that was wanting us to work on our cum. How's our cum these days?

[Matt Jones]

That was a great moment. That was the first time we ever got over a 10. And I went to Earl and I go, we got over 10. And he looks at me. Cube needs to grow. I was so mad. I like her. Although he played in the NFL, I.

[Ryan Lemond]

Don'T know if you know that or not. He played in the NFL.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's right. All right. So Mark Pope, big topic conversation nationally after yesterday. Paul Feinbaum went on television, stared into the screen. Shannon in an exciting show.

[Drew Shannon]

Oh, I'm sure.

[Matt Jones]

And said that he wasn't sure. He thought there might now be questions about where whether Mark Pope could do this job. Cole Kubrick and Greg McElroy had me on this morning to talk about whether or not Pope could do the job. So clearly this is becoming a conversation, I think probably because, you know, this is the time people start focusing on college basketball because the NFL is about to end. So a lot of people are going, well, wait a minute, let's watch college basketball this week. And then Kentucky's on. It gets Vandy and they lose by that amount. And people, whoa, what's happening locally in the fan base? I feel like that's also happening on his, on his pregame show last night, he said he still thought and I When I heard this, I thought, Drew's gonna love this. We could still do very special things this year.

[Drew Shannon]

I'm trying. I, I need a mental break from Prescott. I still haven't recovered from him saying the first half against Ole Miss was amazing and beautiful. And then we get the quotes Tuesday. It's okay to say things aren't going well. You can say that. No one's gonna be like, oh no.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think this team can still be really special?

[Drew Shannon]

No. I don't know.

[Matt Jones]

Not really special. A little.

[Drew Shannon]

I tried to not be negative during the five win game win streak. I still felt like I was a little bit of luck and fool's gold the way they won a couple of those. I didn't want to be a downer though because it was fun watching them. But I just don't see this team accomplishing much. Never.

[Matt Jones]

Are they going to make the tournament still projected as a 7 seed?

[Drew Shannon]

I still see them having a big game and maybe winning one that they weren't supposed to, which would go a long way. I think you have to win them into the tournament.

[Matt Jones]

I think, I think you have to win and I think if you assume they beat Oklahoma and South Carolina, they're still going to have to win two games where they're probably going to go into it as an underdog.

[Ryan Lemond]

Where are the two wins?

[Matt Jones]

The easiest two would probably be Georgia at home, Vandy at home. That's probably your path to 18. That's the art. And maybe Tennessee at home, although they're playing a lot better. But that's, that's probably Ryan, your easiest path.

[Ryan Lemond]

I, I want to believe, I want to. And I thought they'd finally figured it out in the five game win streak but then we went right back to that team that I don't like. I just, it's not, this is not a one off thing. This has been happening all season where they'll just look like they have no clue what they're doing offensively especially.

[Shannon]

Did you really just say you think Vandy's gonna be the easiest way?

[Matt Jones]

I do because I actually think we should. Yes. I mean again, I didn't say easiest. But what's easier? The two games against Florida, at Arkansas, at Auburn.

[Shannon]

Florida looked horrible the other night at home.

[Matt Jones]

They did. But you, I don't think you can judge these things game to game. I think it's a big. I still think on paper we don't match up poorly with Vandy now. I mean we might. If it does seem ridiculous. I understand what Shane say to lose by 25 and go, hey, that's the one we can win. But I do think that game shouldn't have been like that. Bigger picture, okay, just Mark Pope in general, Are you confident that in five years we can have contended for a title with Mark Pope as the coach? I mean, ultimately, that's the question. Put this year aside, the question more is a bigger picture. Can you win a title with Mark Pope as your coach at Kentucky? I think if we were here yet last year, we would have said the answer is definitely yes. Do you still feel that way now?

[Drew Shannon]

I'm going to say no.

[Matt Jones]

You don't.

[Drew Shannon]

I mean, I don't even know if we're going to have a team next year. And then I think, you know, you don't have to be the Cal Patino type just screaming, but you got to have a little dog in you. And I had several people I knew at that game, West Kentucky people down there texting me non stop. Pope has not raised his voice once. Pope has not talked to the players in the huddle. And it's things like that that worry me more than injuries, even recruiting. It's like, does he even have the capability to fire people up?

[Matt Jones]

What about you?

[Drew Shannon]

When they're saying he hasn't even. He's not even speaking to them and they're down 20 or he hasn't raised his voice, that's the time you should be chewing them out.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm hanging on, but barely. I'm starting to question it for the first time, I think, since the Vandy game. I really am starting to question whether.

[Matt Jones]

Why is that? Why was that game the one that did it?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think it's not just the fact they lost, it's how they lost. And it's happened again and again and again this season. Roster construction, poor grade, coaching this year, poor grade, offensive execution, poor grade. There's a lot of things to be negative about. So for the first time, to answer your question, I think I'm really starting to question it.

[Matt Jones]

I'm willing to put this year in a. In a. Well, first of all, Shannon, what's your answer?

[Shannon]

Can they win a national title with Pope?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

No, I don't think so.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so there's two people. No, you're a. Maybe I'm not as negative as you all, but I'm moving in a negative direction. I'm going to put this year just in. In the can. Okay. I mean, I still think we can make the tournament. You make the tournament, you win a game or two. So I'm but this year is a disaster in a lot of respects. They did a lot of things wrong. They constructed this roster poorly. Pope, I don't know what. Pope has been through, like the eight stages of mental anguish through the year. It's been really bizarre just watching him. This year, I'm gonna put it to the side because I'm just gonna say, look, this didn't work right. I'm more worried about next year. I was talking about, I don't know who's on the team next year. I mean, if. If you made me say, Matt, give me one human being on this planet that's guaranteed to be on that basketball team next year.

[Ryan Lemond]

Reese Potter.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not. Why? Yeah, the only person. I mean, I would have high confidence in Moreno, but I wouldn't guarantee. I don't think you can guarantee one person on the basketball team next year. So next year, I think we all agree, is going to be a make or break year for him.

[Drew Shannon]

You can't lose your whole roster and have no one set up. Right now in January, there's a bunch of nothing.

[Matt Jones]

What makes me nervous is I have no idea who's going to play for Kentucky next year or if anyone is. Well, that's Take a cause. Be right back. Ksr, T.J. smith, personal injury attorney.

[Ryan Lemond]

Call TJ.

[Matt Jones]

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. Text machine full of people. Shannon with a lot to say. One person writes, this is 8 5, 9, 200. I'm not going to read the other numbers. Okay, One of these days, you all will learn to listen to me. I said it when he was hired, that it was the wrong call. We should learn to listen.

[Ryan Lemond]

We should always listen. 8 5, 9, 200.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, he acts like he's the only person that said, that was 859-200. There were other people that said it. Matter of fact, almost everybody said it. The night that happened, I tweeted it.

[Drew Shannon]

And I still left it up.

[Matt Jones]

And then we all kind of flipped and we flipped because he played is what he did.

[Shannon]

He got in our fields.

[Matt Jones]

But also, I mean, I started to believe, like, I. I talked myself into it. Now, I don't think that's necessarily wrong.

[Drew Shannon]

We got caught up in the BYU highlights, too. Some of those YouTube videos make them look like the greatest thing.

[Matt Jones]

That YouTube video, that YouTube video did look good, I will say. But I also don't listen. He was the coach at that point. What. What good does it do to sit here and say, well, there's no way this is going to work. Also, people don't know. I mean, sometimes you think a press, like, who could do worse at a press conference than Liam Cohen did do, and they're in the playoffs. Right. Nick Sirianni sounded like he had been dropped off a planet of weirdness and he won the Super Bowl. Right. And then there are guys who come in and kill the press conference and don't win. Like, you never. I mean, on some level, you never know.

[Ryan Lemond]

And I, I feel like what he did last year was pretty amazing considering what he had up against. Be able to build a roster in two weeks of staff and do it.

[Matt Jones]

Also made the sweet 16. I mean, one of the things now, now this is the case for everybody who goes, well, he's gonna. He shouldn't be here. I think all those people have got to slow, slow. Their row one season is over. We went to the Sweet 16. This season is not even close to over. Now, we don't necessarily think it's going to go great, but what if they make the tournament? He goes to sweet 16 again. It's going to look ridiculous.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

For people to have said he should be let go at that point. Right. Yeah.

[Drew Shannon]

I don't have faith in him. But you can't just start firing people every two years. No one's ever going to take the job.

[Matt Jones]

We also owe, like mark stoops, $900 million. We're trying to build an Applebee's out at the football stadium.

[Drew Shannon]

I hope that's what it is, eating.

[Ryan Lemond]

Good in the neighborhood.

[Matt Jones]

But I mean, we're trying to build like we owe $20 million in rev share. Like we, we owe a lot of money to stuff, so we can't just be like, just firing everybody at the drop of a hat.

[Ryan Lemond]

So let me talk to you about something that Jack Givens said this morning on Tom Leach. And it goes along what we're talking about with Pope and coaching. He says it's been happening in practice. He said, you know, he goes to a lot of practices. It's like he was kind of alluding to, they don't practice hard. They don't prepare the right way. To me, that's more on the coaches. I think I trust Jack.

[Drew Shannon]

He sounded so sad Wednesday.

[Matt Jones]

He did, he did. And I trust Jack. If Jack says that, I think he's. He's 100% accurate. And if that's accurate, that's not good. Mark has some splaining to do at the end of the year, and I will do whatever I can to get him on here to have it. And he needs to, like, he needs to answer. This has not worked. And the not playing well and the not playing hard, you know, sometimes guys aren't as good as you thought, but you can play hard.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, you can play hard.

[Matt Jones]

You can play hard. I think there's only one. I'll be honest with you. There's only one player on the team that I think has played hard all year, and that's Aberdeen.

[Ryan Lemond]

He gets you.

[Matt Jones]

Not played well, not played well all year, but I think he's played hard all year. And to some extent, I would even say Malachi as well. Everybody else, their effort fluctuates so much depending on the situation. I do feel like Aberdeen plays hard all the time, just not always well. And Malachi, I think, plays hard. Some of these other guys, man, I don't know what you're going to get for him on a give from, on a given day.

[Ryan Lemond]

So what was your take when Jimmy Dyke said during the broadcast, he said one thing to say about Kentucky tonight, they're getting blown out?

[Matt Jones]

I love Jimmy. I don't know what the hell he was talking about. Talking about.

[Ryan Lemond]

I thought, what are you, are you watching the same game?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know what he was talking about. Even Pope said they didn't play hard. I mean, I think Jimmy was trying to say something nice because he knew 90 of the people watching are Kentucky people, but I, I don't know what he was talking.

[Drew Shannon]

I think, I think that's it. Jimmy was doing his best. Like, I'm trying to find anything positive to say here.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I, I, that didn't make sense to me. Who's up first?

[Shannon]

Let's go to Noah.

[Matt Jones]

Noah, go ahead, Noah.

[Drew Shannon]

Hey, Matt.

[Caller]

Thank you guys for taking my call this Wednesday. Noah, appreciate it. I had an idea. I called on the pregame show. Shannon seemed to like my idea for it, so I thought I'd give it up to you guys. We've had a little bit of, like, I don't know, at the beginning, before the year started the whole controversy a little bit with the BBN United with, like, being able to pay what seems to be pretty sumptuous amounts of money to be able to get these little incentives and fun things, which do seem fun, but also at the same time.

[Matt Jones]

Like, so what's your idea?

[Caller]

So my idea for it is, why not have a, I don't know how much money, probably a good amount, but for someone, a random fan, to be able to come in before. As a pre game, go to. Before the game, go to the locker room with players and give them the speech of their lifetime to actually give them.

[Matt Jones]

Because that would be a horrible idea. Because if you. Because if you. If you gave a bad speech, appreciate the call or we lost, people will be mad at you. I don't think that's a good idea. Like, I'm all for fan experience, but there comes a point that. No, I don't want you. Hey, everybody, let's have a contest. You get to be president for a day. No, no, let's not do that.

[Ryan Lemond]

I. I like Wings Day, Noah. That's one of the worst ideas I've heard in a long time.

[Shannon]

I love it. I think for a fan to be able to go in there and have a passionate pep talk speech sometimes, maybe that's what they need.

[Matt Jones]

This is a good idea.

[Shannon]

I think it's a great idea. How many times have you thought, man, I care about this game more than what I feel like.

[Matt Jones]

Don't you think the players would laugh at you?

[Ryan Lemond]

Would.

[Matt Jones]

Would like they would. Don't you think the players would just roll their eyes when you went in.

[Shannon]

There and started then they apparently have a bad attitude to begin with. Maybe your pep talk would change their opinion.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, I'll tell you what I'll do then.

[Shannon]

No, I'm not doing a pep talk.

[Matt Jones]

No, no, not. Okay. I didn't say. Here's what I'll do. If we don't play well against Arkansas Saturday next week, I will allow like three random fans to call in and give the pep talk they were going to give. And we will collectively decide if we think that would work. I like that.

[Ryan Lemond]

I like that.

[Matt Jones]

If I like it, or I might even go further, I might have Mario go and film someone doing. If they're really like, film someone giving the pep talk there. And then we could see if we think that would work.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm telling you, some dude walked in.

[Matt Jones]

Can you imagine Bob and Jamestown walked out in and tried to give a pep talk.

[Drew Shannon]

Is he wearing that jacket?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Drew Shannon]

See what would happen most. Most people would get in there, see the team and buckle and.

[Matt Jones]

Or they would be overly confident and it would be bad.

[Drew Shannon]

Also. This is what we pay Mark Pope for. What are we talking about? Mark Pope needs to be doing this.

[Shannon]

That's true.

[Drew Shannon]

He should already be firing.

[Matt Jones]

By the way, we don't see a lot of videos of the pre game and halftime speeches.

[Drew Shannon]

We haven't seen one since the Auburn game last year. And it still lives in my head. When he was going over a spreadsheet. If you do 30% of this, that gives us a 1.7-point advantage for possession. Now, if you do 75% this and hold them to 10% that, and then Bruce Pearl was just running through a brick wall.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think it's way too much analytics. Right before game, man, just go out and just play ball. You know the assignment, you know, the scouting report. Just go out and play, play.

[Matt Jones]

If they're going to do analytics, can we do the analytic that does not have us take all the starters out four minutes into the game and then look at a 10.0run for the other team?

[Ryan Lemond]

That would be a pretty good move.

[Matt Jones]

I believe that analytic has not worked for a year and a half. Right, who's up next?

[Ryan Lemond]

Emily.

[Matt Jones]

Emily. Go ahead, Emily. Hello.

[Caller]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Caller]

I just wanted to call in today. This is a little off topic, but to pay tribute to a really awesome Kentucky Wildcat fan, Mr. Don Ringstaff. He's in the KHSAA hall of Fame for many things. Basketball player. And as a coach, he's kind of a local legend in Western Kentucky, Livingston County. But even more than that, he was just a legendary human being. So I just wanted to call in and.

[Matt Jones]

Did he pass away? Did he pass away yesterday? Okay. Yeah, yesterday. Well, God bless him and you and his family and friends, and I appreciate you calling, and we'll be praying for all of them.

[Caller]

I just want to say for anybody who likes, you know, Kentucky basketball history, look him up.

[Mario]

He.

[Caller]

His stats are awesome. And you can find those@westky basketball.com and.

[Matt Jones]

What'S his name again?

[Caller]

Don Ringstaff.

[Matt Jones]

Don Ringsted. All right, thank you very much, ma'.

[Caller]

Am.

[Matt Jones]

I appreciate you. We, in addition to that call, we had a lot of calls yesterday of people sending me their UK merchandise.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

The weirdest one was the one that I retweeted today that looked to be UK Bloomer women's underwear, and it said, I am behind the Wildcats hats on the butt. Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, you don't see that cut of underwear quite very much anymore.

[Drew Shannon]

Yeah. And did a woman send that or a man? That's.

[Matt Jones]

I think it was a man that's in it. Yeah, that.

[Drew Shannon]

That's another thing.

[Nav Green]

Why do you have that?

[Ryan Lemond]

Why are you keeping that around?

[Drew Shannon]

Why do you have that?

[Shannon]

They don't particularly look to be clean either.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's the other thing. They're a little dirty. They're a little bit.

[Drew Shannon]

They.

[Matt Jones]

They could at least use a bleach.

[Drew Shannon]

Ryan's next dare is to put those on.

[Matt Jones]

But that is. That is an amazing thing. That was at some point made I behind the Wildcats.

[Ryan Lemond]

I've never seen those and I don't look at them. I saw the tweet. I've seen it. They have accompanied diapers with them.

[Matt Jones]

They weren't accompanying. That was different. The UK diapers. I've seen UK diapers before. I'd never seen that in fine print with the copyright.

[Drew Shannon]

It says 1963.

[Matt Jones]

1963. So they were making UK women's underwear in 1960. 63.

[Drew Shannon]

This guy's still got it.

[Matt Jones]

And that guy kept it for 60 years.

[Drew Shannon]

Wears them every day.

[Shannon]

Lucky underwear.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Ryan Lemond]

We find out he wears those for every game for his lucky underwear.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, why are we putting it on him? He just owns them.

[Drew Shannon]

Why you keep it's one step closer to wearing them.

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[Ryan Lemond]

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[Ryan Lemond]

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[Matt Jones]

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Listen to Valley of shadows on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[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? This your boy Nav Green from the 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 then Drake May up there.

[Matt Jones]

Josh Allen up there still. Oh my boy Matthew Stafford. Where did Bo Nicks at? He ain't too far behind.

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He did all this talking.

[Matt Jones]

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

[Nav Green]

Bro, you know I ain't no Josh Allen fan, but Matthew Stafford got better weapon. Caleb Williams.

[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.

[Ryder Strong]

This is Ryder Strong and I have a new podcast called the Red Weather.

[Caller]

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

[Ryder Strong]

In 1995, my neighbor Anna Trainor 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 back then.

[Ryder Strong]

I lied to my parents, I lied to police. I lied to everybody.

[Matt Jones]

There were years, Ryder, where I could.

[T Mobile 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? They have had this case for 30 years. I'll teach you. Sons of come around here. And my wife, Boom Boom.

[Ryder Strong]

This is the red weather. Listen to the red Weather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Jones]

Radio. Why you got your. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. All right. You know, Ryan, I like random sports from around the world that get your soul pumping.

[Ryan Lemond]

You love it.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so let me explain to you what happened yesterday. I need to give you the context.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay?

[Matt Jones]

All right. The Champions League. You know what that is? That's where the best teams from all the countries play each other.

[Ryan Lemond]

Like a tournament.

[Matt Jones]

Playing a tournament. But it's like a thing where you have pool play first. Okay, so now you play eight games. Yesterday was match day eight, which means, like, you're in or out after this one.

[Ryan Lemond]

Do or die.

[Matt Jones]

The top teams move on, the bottom teams go down. They all play at once so that you don't know what everybody else is doing. All right, so Benfica. Benfica is in Portugal. They had had a poor qualifying, and they were playing Real Madrid at home. The best team, everybody, right? And they needed to win. And everybody was like, well, they're not going to win. So they play the game.

[Ryan Lemond]

They're.

[Matt Jones]

They're winning 3, 2 in extra time, but crazy results are happening everywhere else. And because of the results, they need to not only win, they're celebrating because they've won. But they realize, no, we're not. Winning is not enough. We have to score another goal. We have to win by two. They don't find out. The announcers and the viewers at home and I'm watching this know they need to win by two, but you can tell they don't know. They're basically holding the ball, Shannon. They're like, we've already won. What a great win. And then all of a sudden, you can tell with, like, a minute left, someone tells the coach and the players, we've got to score another goal. And you see the panic in their face. All right, there's one play left. They're winning. But they bring their goalie and they tell him, come down here. We all have to. We have to score another goal. So there's one play. If they score a go, they move on. If they don't and they're playing the best team. Let me throw in another thing. Their coaches. Jose Mourinho. Jose Marino is a legendary coach. Used to coach Real Madrid, used to coach Benfica's rival in Portugal. He calls himself. Can you imagine someone calling themselves the Special One? That's his name for himself, Shannon. He calls himself the Special One.

[Shannon]

Like a wrestling gimmick he is, but he.

[Matt Jones]

Can you imagine if, like, you know, I don't know, Bill Self was like, I'm the Special One. That's what he does. So he's on the sidelines. This is all a setup. Now. This is in Spanish. You don't even know what they're going to say. But you don't need to know. This is in Portugal. Benfica 1 play. The goalie is the one they kick the ball to. Here's what happens. Turn it up.

[Ryan Lemond]

There you go.

[Matt Jones]

Gracias. Portando Champions. If that doesn't make the hair grow, goosebumps grow up. That's what sports is. The goalie gets the header to win the game. And they move on. I was watching live. Might have been one of the most exciting things I've ever seen. The. You got to look at the video this. It's on my Twitter. The stadium loses their mind, and the Special One starts pumping his hands towards the crowd.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's it. I don't have any idea what he said, but I got caught up in the moment. And you can hear the crowd, man.

[Matt Jones]

The crowd loses it because the crowd had celebrated earlier. They thought they were going to get this amazing upset. And then they realized with like a minute left, oh, no, it's not enough. And then they get it and they have that moment of joy. I. I would have given anything to be in that stadium. It looks like absolute bedlam.

[Drew Shannon]

And from a just a soccer standpoint, that was a deep free kick into a crowd. Like, everyone was packed into that box. And the goalie, of all people, the goal goalie, if that goes out of bounds, the Bill Whistler by goes home. That was literally the final second, Shannon.

[Matt Jones]

They showed the goalie had played soccer for nine years as a professional. He had never one time touched the ball on the other side of the field.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, he makes it even better.

[Shannon]

Shot right off the side of his.

[Matt Jones]

Head and right off the side of his head into the goal. It's pouring rain. And you got to see it for the Special One. I mean, the Special One is he's talking all this trash because it's his former team.

[Drew Shannon]

I think the goalie can call himself the special. If you've only crossed midfield once and you scored extra time to put your.

[Matt Jones]

Team into the Champions League, it's pretty. It was. It was awesome. I'm telling you. It was. It was. And I just happened to have it on and I. Wow. It was great. That was one of the coolest things I've seen.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. You get caught up in the moment. I have no idea who these teams are, but you just get caught up in the moment. I love these. Call of the goal. It was awesome.

[Matt Jones]

I love that. Now that all the Spanish announcers just say go and just do it for 30 seconds. That's great.

[Drew Shannon]

You don't need to know Spanish. The passion in their voice. You can't help but smile and get excited.

[Matt Jones]

I think, by the way, Tom Leach should do that. He should just like when Malachi made his shot. Just go. I think I would enjoy it. Who's up next? Connor. Connor. Go ahead, Connor.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. Congratulations on the ratings. Y' all totally deserve it. Favorite show. Real quick. I live in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Pray for me on. Me and my buddies are crazy Razor Pig fans. They'll be going with me to this game this weekend.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, good luck. I will be thinking about you.

[Caller]

Yeah, we. It's. It's going to be a rough one. I went to the Oklahoma, Arkansas game down the street the other night. It was a wild game. Arkansas, they dropped to the hole a lot. Man. When they can't hit the three, they. That Acuff guy is real good. So I feel like we really need to have Aberdeen on him. Yep. I was just going to say pray for me for that game, but also, I'm driving up for the Oklahoma game next week. I saw there's snow coming through Lexington. Is that true?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. Next week. Snow? Is that what they're saying?

[Ryan Lemond]

More snow coming? I think Wednesday. Wednesday and Thursday. I believe I saw that.

[Matt Jones]

And then we play Oklahoma on Wednesday. So there you go. Yes. Well, be careful. Appreciate. Appreciate the. The call. We'll be in San Francisco. You can handle the snow.

[Ryan Lemond]

I am like this guy. I think we need to pray for everybody. This game Saturday could be ugly.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think it's good? You think you give us any chance? I give us a small chance. Cal can lay an egg.

[Drew Shannon]

Arkansas does not scare me one bit. Except for Acuff. Cal didn't scare me. That entire roster doesn't scare me. But Acuff is good. I've watched him a lot this year.

[Matt Jones]

He's tough. He's Good. He is. He's one of. You know, we talk about how Cal's teams are good when they get the point guard. They got the point guard. Yeah, he's. He. He's real.

[Drew Shannon]

It's probably your SEC player of the year. And he. He can drive. He attacks threes, his assistant turnover ratios, crazy plays, defense.

[Matt Jones]

But you have a party here. Yeah, Caliperi versus Ryan Lemon.

[Ryan Lemond]

Bring it on, Cal.

[Matt Jones]

A watch party Saturday night.

[Ryan Lemond]

Knock his butt down.

[Matt Jones]

I'm expecting you to bring us home a victory.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay, we got it. Let's pack the place. Let's get it going in here. Could be exciting day here at ks, Barn. Girls, come be a part of it.

[Matt Jones]

Wasn't that exciting here Tuesday night when we lost? Like, that's not a. People come out at night.

[Ryan Lemond]

Nine o' clock and then you're down by 20.

[Matt Jones]

And then we're down by 20.

[Ryan Lemond]

Getting late.

[Matt Jones]

Well, it's good to see. Y'.

[Mario]

All.

[Ryan Lemond]

Gotta get out.

[Matt Jones]

Did they have school today? No, still no school. We'll take a break. Barry backs ksr.

[Ryder Strong]

This is Ryder Strong, and I have a new podcast called the red weather. In 1995, my neighbor Anna Trainer disappeared from a commune. It was nature and trees and praying and drugs.

[Matt Jones]

So, no, I am not your.

[Ryder Strong]

And back then, I lied to everybody.

[Matt Jones]

They have had this case for 30 years.

[Ryder Strong]

I'm going back to my hometown to uncover the truth. Listen to the Red Weather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.