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Friday Kick off the Winter Olympics in style with the opening ceremony from Italy featuring a special performance by Mariah Carey. Celebrate the greatest athletes from around the globe as they come together to go for gold. Lindsey Vaughn, Sensational the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. Ilya Malin redefining this Sport Friday at 8 Eastern, 7 Central on NBC and Peacock tonight.
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This Sunday, iHeartRadio brings you live to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for the Super Bowl 60 tailgate concert presented by NetApp. It's the ultimate pre game party featuring an exclusive performance from Teddy Swims. Your front row experience will be on iHeartradio stations across the country and the free iHeartradio app this Sunday at 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 Pacific. Then after the concert, tune in to the Super Bowl 60 pregame show on NBC.
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This is Ryder Strong and I have a new podcast called the red weather. In 1995, my neighbor Anna Trainor disappeared from a commune.
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It was nature and trees and praying and drugs.
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So no, I am not your guru. Back then I lied to everybody. They have had this case for 30 years. 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 podcasts. Whether it is getting swatted or just hateful messages online, there is a lot of harm in even just reading the comments. That's cybersecurity expert Camille Stewart Gloucester on the Therapy for Black Girls podcast. Every season is a chance to grow and the Therapy for Black Girls podcast is here to walk with you. I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford and each week we dive into real conversations that help you move with more clarity and confidence. This episode we're breaking down what really happens to your information online and how to protect yourself with intention. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes the hilarious New York comedian Phil Hanley, February 5th through the 7th. Then it's the return of AGT finalist and impressionist Greg Morton, February 12th, 14. And don't miss legendary comedian and podcaster Greg Fitzsimmons, Febr. 19th through the 21st.
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For tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway.
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Shows, call 859271, joke or visit comedy off broadway.com.
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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, February 2nd. I am Matt Jones. On a cold but celebratory day is the Cats beat Arkansas in Fayetteville in a win that I think Kentucky fans will remember for a long time. You can give us a shout. Clark's Puppet shop, phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. And this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, I'll make them pay. Guys, it was, we all, basically everybody on the show said, yeah, I know we're playing Arkansas, but I don't really think we have a chance to win the game. We hope it goes well. And not only did it go well, Kentucky led for 37 of the 40 minutes of the game, faced one of the worst stretch of calls I've ever seen in a basketball game, and fought through all of it to win a huge road win. Not just because it's Calipari in Arkansas, but just the season as a whole, making the tournament seating, all that stuff. Ryan, I, you know, the biggest win of the, of the Pope era is probably the win at Duke or is the win against Duke because it was such an early point in the season in the, in his tenure and people wanting to see what kind of coach this would be. But I think this one's second and it, you know, arguably could be right up there with the first.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, you can make a great argument. It could be number one. Dude, Caliperi came into your arena last year and punked you on your home floor last year. So you go to his place and not only win, show some fight, you know, take, take the guys and put a little chip on their shoulder a little bit, and they came out and I still can't believe they played that well. I mean, I cannot figure this team out. They go from playing, sneaking it up a couple days before to just with his fight and grit and played so well on Saturday against Arkansas.
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Well, I think the answer as to why is we're not going to ever know. This is just going to be how this team is. I mean, they're going to be like this. They're going to put up brutal bombs, but then they also show they can go win. You know, Arkansas was the only team undefeated in SEC at home. And then you, you beat them and you controlled the game most of the way. The crowd they made basically drew, not a factor throughout the vast majority of it. And I think Pope completely out coached Cal. It was a Cal special on his end, losing to a dud, shooting long twos at the end, that long to the log two Man, I. I have to tell you, drew the log two. I just sit there and went, yes. The other team now shooting the log 2.
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I had a little tear watching that in my eye, watching that long, too. I missed the long tues just a little bit. It was a good flashback to the Cal era. I knew they were very capable of laying an egg and playing that way because we've seen Cal do that in big moments, games he's supposed to win many times. I just didn't think Kentucky would take advantage of the moment, even if Arkansas gave him that opportunity to go from as bad as they looked Tuesday night at Nashville to turn it around that quickly. I freely admit I did not think they would be able to do that on short turnaround, but Arkansas opened the door and Kentucky ran right through it and looked great the whole game. Really. I was. I was happy to be wrong on that one because I did not have any faith going into it.
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I was shocked how well throughout the game I thought they played. Offensively, yes, defensively, I think they played all right, but they had trouble sometimes guarding them, especially off the bounce. But offensively, I. I mean, we should. We shot over 50%. I mean, that's. How many times is that going to happen? But just the quality of shots. They only had seven turnovers. They went to their strength, they drew fouls, they went downhill. Aberdeen and Away going downhill. The bigs, for the most part, doing a good job, finishing Chandler and Noah, hitting some big shots. Yellow bitch hit a three as well. You know, the way. I just thought they took good shots. They didn't do anything stupid. They didn't kind of play the meatball that we've talked about. And Ryan, I'm not sure offensively that they could have played much better.
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That's one of the best offensive games they've played all year. Just passing the ball, execution, moving it around. You're right. At Nashville, we saw a lot of meatball, then a lot of dribbling, a lot of selfish play. Didn't see any of that. I mean, they obviously made a decision at halftime, too, to try to get Malachi involved and kind of went to him start to start the second half. That worked. Then that opened up the outside shot when. When Colin Chandler got it, you know, he knock it down when he in a big shot like that. So everything seemed to work for him.
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I thought the key to the game was away. I thought away was excellent. Maybe one of the best overall games he's played. All right, so they put him on Darius Acuff, which Is an interesting decision to put your best player on. On their best. I think he plays really well. Acuff got points, but he had to work for some of his points. Came when. When away went to the bench, but he. He stayed on him, really made a cuff. Did not dominate the game like he could. Then on the other end, Away takes the ball to the basket hard, finishes a lot of his layups. He actually didn't shoot foul shots very well or 30 points. But I. That was when you were trying to picture Drew, when you and I were arguing before the season. Okay, can Away be a star or not? We had those conversations. You were probably picturing last night or Saturday night as the Gannett kind of game that you want to see Away have.
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Definitely all around great game. I mean, he rebounded well. He was close to double double with rebounds, and the 9 for 12 from the field stands out. But I think you hit it with the defense on Acuff that they don't write that down in the box score. But I think at halftime, Acuff was like 2 for 10 over 4 from 3 for 4 or 5 points that point. Kentucky had built up a good lead and all of that. I don't think OA gets enough credit for him taking up and taking on that assignment. I think Pope even said owe wanted it. To me, Acuff's still the best player in the conference.
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That's.
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I haven't watched all of Arkansas's games, but I watched enough to know that's the worst he's played in a long time. So Away creating that havoc was a big part of him scoring, too.
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Let's talk about the two key stretches of the game. One is, I think, Ryan the beginning. Okay. Now, unfortunately, I didn't get to see the beginning because they didn't switch it over yet. And I didn't. I didn't. So when they turned it on, I think we were already up 12 to five or something. But, you know, in four minutes, when they took that first break, it was 14 to seven and Kentucky had, you know, Shannon, you race to 15 or whatever.
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Than that. No, I didn't, you know, finally.
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But, I mean, that's a massive thing. They have. Either they have either gotten obliterated at the beginning of games, or it's been like four to four and then they go to the bench and get obliterated. That start, Ryan was everything for. For, you know, getting that game going and getting the lead that they carried through the first half.
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Yeah, most people didn't get to see it, but Aberdeen scored the first bucket. But then what really was a nail biter. When Chandler hit his first three, first open three, boom, he nailed it. And like, that just kind of just seemed to like, relieve everybody. Okay, you know, we're on today. Let's go.
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Let's go do this and then this. I want to get to the. To the second stretch. But you mentioned Aberdeen, Drew, this is the first game for Kentucky that I think you could say everyone played a role. Like all the guys that played, I thought did something great. I thought Diabate was excellent. I thought obviously Chandler hit shots. Aberdeen I thought was good. You know, Noah came in and hit a three, but also I thought fought and rebounded, played okay. Defense yellow. Vich hit a couple shots. Brandon Garrison made a couple of plays when he was in. I thought, Drew, this was the first game where every guy could go, you know what? I played a big part in this.
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Yeah. Five minutes in when they had Kentucky was a big. You know, we're all watching that scores table. Like, don't do it, Mark. Don't do it. Don't take this out. But he still put in. I think Garrison and Diabate and I groaned a little, but then Garrison, I think scored right away and then got an assist. And it just kept the. Kept steamrolling Arkansas there early. So that didn't affect them. And they both came in and made big plays. Also, like to Noah giving a little shush to the crowd.
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Yeah, the shush was great. Question that guy's confidence.
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If you're shushing people on the road and Bud Walton, your confidence is doing just fine.
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Yeah, he. Listen, that is a game where I would have thought he would really struggle to play with all the athletes out there, but he did well and he was playing Ryan with four minutes to go. They had him in. And. And then before a late sub for Chandler, Noah was playing crunch minutes down the stretch.
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You know, he had a caller on the pregame show and he said this could be a Trent Noah game. He called it. And Trent came up, Susie came in. He grabbed like four rebounds in the first, like four minutes he was on the floor. He was, you know, doing those little things, guys, confidence. And then Pope had enough confidence to lead him out there. Like you said, towards the end of.
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The game, second leading rebounder on the team behind.
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That's amazing. Amazing that he is. Was the second leading rebounder. Now let's talk about the, you know, the situation. Shannon, Doug Schles. I don't think I've seen referees make worse calls. I got sued about one once. I've seen referees, I, I've seen referees sort of be jerks. I've never seen a referee insert himself into the game and more change a basketball game than Doug Schauss did. Those three technicals, I think Brandon Garrison, I'm fine with that technical. I think he, he probably earned that one. The diabate technical. And then following it up with the Pope technical. And then, by the way, that wasn't a 10 second call. He was across those three calls, all of which were made by Doug Schalls. Shannon, I've never seen a referee change a basketball game more quickly than he did right there.
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I don't know that that's ever happened. Three technical fouls in 38 seconds. I would have loved to have heard what Mark Pope said because I can't imagine him saying too many four letter words, too many F bombs.
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But maybe I watched his voice. I don't know that I could read his mouth, but I didn't see a lot of really dirty work.
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Gosh darn it, get the call.
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Right.
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You know, I don't think that school.
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What did you do?
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Yeah, that doesn't deserve a technical foul. And Mod definitely did not deserve a technical foul there because if you're going to call that as a te, you're going to call every blocked shot a technical foul because there's always like flexing.
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And, and you know, but it was, it was unnecessary. It was essentially saying, drew, I'm going to be a part of this game now. Like, I'm going to Doug Shalls. I got my tight Haynes pants on and it's time for you all to look at me. That's what that is. There's no reason, Drew, to make that call. None.
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Yeah, to me, Doug, you showed you can't handle rivalry games. You know what, guys talk in rivalry games. It's part of the experience, it's part of the atmosphere. It's what people want to see. I don't care if what he said, I let him go. Especially, what are you looking at him? When Doug kind of lost it, it was a 3 and 40 seconds. It reminded him when someone, you know, it might be a little out of control. Maybe they show up at work. There's been mean, everybody. It's like, are you all right at home? Do you need to go get some fresh air and come back and restart? This is like, are you okay, Doug? What's going on outside of this gym that you brought in here with you?
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Yeah, you need a break. That's exactly what it was he needs a break. And then. So it completely changed the game. First of all, you take a game.
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Where.
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It makes it. I think they take the lead during that sequence. They did. They did take the lead. And then they score immediately after. So they go up four, and we'll talk about. I mean, I. That was a moment. Kentucky could have collapsed, but they didn't. But then the officials, as if implicitly knowing they had screwed up, started calling, like, just touch fouls. Like, three straight touch fouls on Arkansas. I'm not sure any of them were fouls. So they just add three fouls quickly. Then later in the game, because of what they've done, they call that technical, which, again, you could. He earned that, I guess. But I don't think that gets called without the one other. They completely changed the flow of the game for a few minutes solely because of Doug Shao's ego. And that drives me, Ryan. It drives me crazy.
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I'm kind of with you. I can see why they gave one to Brandon Garrison. Kind of taunting. But then they taught. They basically called one from the abate for taunting the cameraman. He blocked the shot. Flexed in front of the. I've never seen a guy get a technical for taunting the cameraman. And. And then I'm like, you. I thought Pope must have said one of the magic words. I can't believe he would. But. Well, I don't know why you'd get teed up that quick.
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Doesn't know the magic words.
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Yeah. And he also was asking for it because he was standing right in front of him.
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That's like if you're Doug.
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If your Doug shells in that moment. Get away from it.
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Get away the other side of the floor.
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You have. You have seen two technicals get called back to back. Get away from the coach. There's no reason for you to be there. All right? You're asking. You're kind of like, taunting him and that. And I don't think Pope even said anything worth doing. But you at some point have to recognize that you have become too big a part of this game. And he didn't do it.
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You're baiting him, like, just basically daring him to say anything. Yes, you can. You can team up.
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Yeah. You're the guy in the school. You're going, you want some? You want some? Here I am. The problem is there's not equal power there. Right? That's the referee, and that's the coach. It's not equal power. So it was just. It was regardless. Now, it did. Allow me to watch that guy shoot an airball on a free throw, which might be the worst free throw I've ever seen in my life.
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That was the Garrison Technical. That was. We have to thank him for that technical and giving us that moment that was so beautiful.
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He almost air balled the second one too. It barely grazed the rim.
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I've never seen a worse free throw than that. And not only did he air ball it, he was like a foot short.
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I mean it landed in the paint and almost bounced twice before going out of bounds.
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There was a good cow moment there. Did you see Cal's. The look on cow's face after he air balled it. You need to, if you have it, you got to go back and look. He has a look like, what in the world like. It was, I will say it was. It was a classic hilarious cow moment of my guy shot that. But I, they. That could have changed the game. However, Kentucky fighting back from that Ryan might end up being like the definitive point of the year because I, I thought they were going to fold. I thought we were headed for a 15 point loss and me just complaining about shells until the end of days. And they came back and won the game.
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I think the tone was set for Kentucky way back in the first half in the first technical when they called double technical and away and Richmond, that's always kind of telling everybody, look, you guys ain't going to punk us, you ain't going to push us around. We're going to stand up to you guys tonight. I think that set the tone for the rest of the game that carried him. You're talking about that stretch when, when they had all those technicals against them.
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But I would have thought again, that would have been so easy to fold. That's the one part of the game where Arkansas's crowd is into it. Everything's going against you. And I think they came down. I want to. Who hit a three? Somebody hit a three at that moment. Was it. I know somebody hit a three to cut it to.
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Yeah, it was.
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Was it Aberdeen? I'm not sure, but that was the biggest shot of the game. Whoever hit that shot. Somebody will have to let me know who hit it. Whoever hit that shot. That was the biggest shot of the game. I think the Chandler shot at the end was big too, but that was the biggest shot because it cut it to one. It stopped the run and I think that let Kentucky win the game. Chandler. So Chandler, both times, those were massive.
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Each one he hit, he hit three, I think. And each one was monstrous.
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2, 802287. We'll take a break. We'll talk more about the game. Huge win in Arkansas. This is KSR Friday. Kick off the Winter Olympics in style with the opening ceremony from Italy featuring a special performance by Mariah Carey. Celebrate the greatest athletes from around the globe as they come together to go for gold. Let's see for sensational the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. Ilia Malady redefining the Sport Friday at 8 Eastern, 7 Central on NBC and.
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Peacock this Sunday iHeartRadio brings you live to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for the Super Bowl 60 tailgate concert presented by NetApp. It's the ultimate pre game party featuring an exclusive performance from Teddy Swims. Your front row experience will be on iHeartradio stations across the country and the free iHeartradio app is Sunday at 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 Pacific. Then after the concert, tune in to the Super Bowl 60 pregame show on NBC.
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On June 11, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing. It's an all out manhunt for John Awjay. Every search and rescue team in LA county has been called in to help. Within days, tips started flooding into the sheriff's department. They ruler around the drug scene.
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Was that a deputy was taken care of.
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Is this the story of a man who just got lost in the desert or of a cover up inside the nation's largest sheriff's department?
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A homicide captain saying detective, do not find out if this guy's guilty or innocent.
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Who does that? Valley of Shadows, a new series from Pushkin Industries about crime and corruption in California's high desert. Do you have any advice for us while looking into this disappearance?
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I wouldn't do it alone.
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Listen to Valley of shadows on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Ryder Strong and I have a new podcast called the Red Weather. It was many and many a year.
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Ago in a kingdom by the sea.
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In 1995, my neighbor Anna Traynor disappeared from a commune. It was hard to wrap your head around.
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It was nature and trees and praying and drugs.
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So no, I am not your guru. And back then I lied to my parents, I lied to police, I lied to everybody.
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There were years, Ryder, where I could.
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Not say your name.
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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. Isn't it a little bit weird that.
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They obsess over hippies in the woods and not the obvious boyfriend.
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They have had this case for 30 years. I'll teach you sons of come around here. And my wife.
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Boom, boom, boom.
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This is the red weather. Listen to the red Weather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That was such a great win. I listened to this song twice right after the game was over. You know, you got. You do have to get Joy Drew out of beating Cal. I mean, I. I'll give him credit. He's very. He's. He's gracious in those circumstances. He said that they deserve to. To. To win. I appreciate all that, but nevertheless, it's great to win. I mean, for a year straight, we've been listening to Arkansas. I've been listening to Arkansas fans since Cal got there, but especially since the win last year. You know, after every time Kentucky loses or Arkansas gets a game, they replay that video of me saying thank you to Tyson Foods. And I was like, ready to not look at social media for like six days because I knew that would be. It's just more Arkansas fans now follow me maybe than any other fan base. And. And there. And the Arkansas media has a weird obsession about me and you now, Drew, and I don't know why now they have an obsession about Ryan because he took his shirt off, which we'll get to later. Like, the obsession with Arkansas people about us. It's absolutely crazy for a state that I've only been to twice with that said to get that victory. It's just. It feels. That is such a per. Even if they don't win, another thing that matters this year. That was a massive one for the program.
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Yeah. I won't pretend it was just another game on the schedule. There was a lot of extra glee in that. And not just Cal. Like when it showed the bench and it was the whole cast of characters that were here, there at the end. All of them. Name them. Even DJ who I've been some sympathetic to when he. To hand shove Colin chandler done with YouTube that. Oh, by the way, that should have been a flagrant as well. That was not a basketball move when he threw him down.
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How was that not a flagrant? I think they didn't call it a flagrant because he made the shot. But that was. That was a. That should have been a flagrant right there.
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But all of them, all of them. I'm glad they're holding the L. It also. It doesn't change last year's game, but I don't have that lingering loss to RUP last year. We were so excited. Even score now actually Popes up by game now overall, but it's a wash with the Cal Pope debate now moving on. But yeah, I mean, I finally got to get those Razorback nuggets that were a year and a half old, little freezer burn on them. Yeah, yeah, I'll admit a year later than I wanted to bring them out. But you know, it's good old, good old chicken flavored plywood that they sent us and it was good to finally eat it.
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I agree with you about like looking over to the bench, Shannon, you see Brad Caliperi over there and I got nothing against Brad. He's. He's fine. Jen Coleman, all of it is. It's like that cast of characters and, and the fact that they lost it the way we lost games we shouldn't have lost here. Right. Guys getting frustrated, taking bad shots, not having a good game plan. I loved it like they, Arkansas lost that game in the same way that we got mad over the last five years of the way we were losing games.
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We've seen that same ending right here how many times at Kentucky. And to be able to see it on the flip side and be able to go to Arkansas and get them back for what they, you know, the win that they had last year and Lexington was, was even sweeter.
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So how do you explain Ryan, Mark Pope in terms of these games? I mean, objectively speaking, Mark Pope has some insane wins here. Okay. I mean we've beaten, what is it, six, seven top 15 teams, like an insane amount in two years. We've won at Tennessee twice. We've won at Arkansas. We've won, we've beaten Duke. We kind of, we won at Gonzaga. We win these games that like we seem to have no business winning, like no bit. We had no business winning that game on Saturday going into it. And yet we do. And then we lose at home to Missouri. Right. Or we get, we don't even barely score in Nashville. How do you explain the fact that there are such feast and famine results?
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D
I'm having a hard time coming up with an answer because like you said, they're two toughest games this year at Tennessee, at Arkansas, they won them both. If you listen to the guys after the game in Pope, they all said it was a difference in practice this week between the Vandy game and the Arkansas game. They changed up practice, made practice a little harder, a little tougher. The guys took it more serious and they say that's why they played Better on Saturday.
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Let's talk about that. So they said after the game what they did, Drew, was this week in practice, they would say from the first moment of practice, they had the most intense 15 minutes at the beginning. Basically, they would make them play all out. Rather than building to a crescendo, they made them come out of the gate practicing insanely hard to start. On Thursday. Jack Givens thought that was the difference in the game. Do you think that could be it? Just literally changing the practice routine and saying, you got to go all out from moment one.
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It seems wild that it would change from Tuesday to Saturday. The two different teams we saw in Nashville and Fayetteville, that maybe it just triggered something between their ears. Something in their brain got them going. Even Brandon Garrison said after the game Saturday, we changed something they did in pregame warm ups. He's like, we got to keep doing that.
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Yep.
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So maybe even if it's just a mental game that he's playing with them, whatever it was just hit repeat on that entire process because that was the first 40 minutes they've played all season looking like a complete game.
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Yeah. And maybe it's also like, you know, the. Even if it doesn't really work, Shannon, if they believe it works. What is that? A placebo? Is that exactly like even. It's really not a difference. If the players think it's a difference, then keep doing it.
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I kind of wish, though, that they would have taken the suggestion of that caller that said, when everybody else is doing the layup line before the game, we should just be playing five on five for the first five minutes of warmups, and then you're ready to go by then. But whatever he did worked. I mean, they came out playing better than they've probably seen him play all year. In the first five minutes of the.
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Game, Jack and Tom did say they were in a full lather sweat during pregame one. For the first time all season, they.
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Use the word lather.
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Yeah. Jack used, like, two or three times. Really?
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Lather.
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Yeah, he lathered. They were all.
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Jack did not say lather. I promise you would say. I think Jack said they were in a full sweat. And in your mind, you were like, let me add the word lather.
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I think he said they were all lathered up.
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Jack did not say lather.
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He did.
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C
I'm picturing, like, an Herbal Essence commercial here.
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A
Are you sure there's, like, what you use on, like, horses, right?
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D
Yeah. They were all lathered up and it works. So lather them up again.
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A
Big fella said lather.
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B
Maybe lube. No, he didn't say that either.
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A
No. 859-280-2287. Text machine 772-77-45254. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR, TJ Smith, personal injury attorney.
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D
Call TJ.
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A
He'll make him pay.
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B
Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
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A
Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. A lot of messages drew. Two things. One, Jack Givens did say lather.
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C
Okay?
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A
So that Ryan's. Two, I've probably 20 people wrote some version of this. Matt, if you think lather's a weird word to say, just wait till you hear Ryan's Wild Eggs ad.
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C
Oh, funny you bring that up. Someone on KS Board wrote about this. I didn't hear it, but it's already a topic around our listening audience.
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A
Started today, Ryan's Wild Eggs, Valentine's Day. What do you.
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D
What are you doing?
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C
People are talking.
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B
I don't know. I don't have it. I don't even want to hear it.
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A
You don't? Is it not on the log there? Can you not play? Oh, it's in Lexington, right?
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D
Yeah.
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B
Okay. Billy. Or somebody can send it to me. I can play it.
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A
Billy sends it to you, we'll play it. Yeah.
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D
Okay.
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C
Something.
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A
Did you do something creepy in a Valentine's Day Wild eggs? How could you. First of all, how could you make a wild. How could you make wild eggs creepy at Valentine's Day?
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C
I just. I just know it's two minutes ago. So before you said this, someone wrote me. Who do I call to report harassment on Ryan for his new Wild Eggs commercial? The people are talking about it.
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B
Do you not remember the one from last year where he was talking about the Ryan Lemon special? It's him, like, in an egg with a side of tots or something. Like, do you not remember that?
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D
This is the text message I got from yoga girl. I'm hearing the Wild Eggs Valentine's Day spot for the first time. One, you sound super creepy, and two, you sound super creepy. Like, really creepy.
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C
This is a breakfast.
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A
All right, so now we've got to recut this. If that's your girlfriend, and if your girlfriend thinks it sounds creepy, you've got to recut this ad. All right? Get Billy to send it. I want to hear one time. And then we need just go ahead and plan Ryan now.
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D
You know, they wanted. They wanted this, like, kind of over the top.
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A
They did not want it to be creepy.
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D
You don't.
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B
They.
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D
Yeah, they approved it.
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A
I'm. I'm going. I'm making an executive decision. You're going to recut this ad when the show's over. We're going to play it one time here, and then you're going to recut the ad? Because I like the people at Wild Eggs. And if. If it's getting this kind of response, Shannon, it needs to be cut.
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B
If it's creepier than last year's, then I don't think we can air it. Like, I don't like last year.
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A
Well, it's already aired once.
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B
Well, I think. Stop being aired.
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A
Yes, we're going to recut it. I haven't even heard it, Shannon. I know it needs to be recut.
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B
Or maybe it's not as bad as what. Everybody's making it out.
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A
No, it's pretty bad. His girlfriend was bad. Why'd you say it? Right?
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D
That's what they wanted. They wanted kind of an overtime.
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A
First of all, you sometimes need to control your own brand.
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D
All right?
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A
If people come in and they start telling you sometimes you need to go. You know what I mean? I get asked to do stuff, and I'm like, I'm not doing that. You gotta. You gotta be able to say no in this world.
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D
I think with the little production value they put to it, it is. Maybe it might win an award when the season's over.
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B
You're talking about a guy that was walking around with his shirt off in the bar, punching people with.
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A
All right, so let's talk about that for a minute. First of all, the bar. The bar. Ryan looked fun Saturday. Was it fun?
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D
It was awesome. I mean, it felt like a March Madness type environment. Every table was full. We had a line to get in. It was outstanding.
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A
So we kind of joked that you would. Well, let's. Two things. One that I asked you to do if we won, took you take your shirt off and celebrate. That was fun. I thought it looked cool. That reminded me of when we first opened and did the Florida thing. I thought the video. The video went viral. I love that. Arkansas fans whining, saying that this is your Super Bowl. They just don't understand Drew, Ryan Lemon. They don't understand his whole vibe. Right? So I was. I was good with that. Were you good with that?
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C
Yeah. I enjoyed Arkansas fans trying to call him out. And then Kentucky fans in the comments, like, no, this is Ryan. He just has trouble keeping his shirt on.
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A
Every day is like, they don't know. So, like, I'm not listening to them. Right. That was great. That was Ryan being Ryan running out in the snow with that random guy. Going out in the snow. I like that too. I'm with Shannon. Shannon, you said he, he's like punching people though.
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B
Yeah. So there was another video of Ryan walking around with boxing gloves on and just going up and giving people like a jab or like a uppercut. Like to random people who were just.
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A
Trying to enjoy the wings during the break. You just hit a guy and he doesn't look happy about it.
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B
He wasn't happy at all in the video.
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A
Like, you're. Why are you hitting people? They're. They're spending money at our restaurant. Why are you hitting them?
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D
You know how to get ready for the big brawl we were getting ready to have with John Caliperi. So I was warming up. I was jabbing and uppercup and bobbing.
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B
Promotion to begin with. Like, who approved this? First of all, for Ryan to go around with boxing gloves to just.
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A
Well, no, no, I didn't approve that. The idea was. No, I didn't approve that. The idea was Ryan fights John Caliper.
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C
Right.
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A
That was the idea.
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B
And then it turned into Ryan fights our customers.
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A
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, true. There was no part where I said, let's go hit the people that come to the bar.
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C
No, not at all. And you go to the bar. You know, Ryan's a part owner of the bar. He's an employee. Like when I go to Wendy's, I don't expect Wendy to just come out and punch me. You know, there's an expectation.
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A
He knocked a 77 year old woman out. We had to call.
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D
I went back to the guy after we were the, the video was over. Like, hey, man, you took a good punch. Thanks for playing along. And he kind of gave me the stink, guys. He was not happy. I don't think the whole time that'll.
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B
Be in our Google reviews. Man punched me, star.
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A
I'm trying to eat wings and a man punches me.
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B
Gotta pay extra for that.
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A
The problem is, this is always the problem with Ryan. If I'm not there, there's no one to control.
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B
There's nobody to dial him in or reel him back in.
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A
Shannon doesn't want him to be riled in. Yeah, Mario doesn't feel like he can. I don't know, Drew. Sometimes you've got to be the one. Do you ever rainy a little bit?
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C
I'm more on Shannon's end. I would rather encourage it and watch the Chaos.
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A
So really it's only me and Billy, and if me or Billy's not there, then it doesn't get done, and that makes me upset. One person writes, Matt Brandon Garrison. We are nine, and, oh, when Brandon Garrison gets a technical or a flagrant foul, does that mean we should encourage such behavior?
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D
I don't want to encourage it, but I want him to play mad, angry, chip on his shoulder. He's just better when he does, you know? And to his credit, it usually is in a big game when he plays his best because he's got. He's got that little chip on his shoulder.
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A
Yeah. I mean, he's still. I. I thought the. The technical that. You know, the first technical that group Drew that he got, I think he earned it. And I also thought it was bad timing. Right. I mean, I saw it was bad timing because now the guy missed both free throws, so it didn't matter. But Arkansas was making a run. We had been up, I think, seven or nine. I just didn't like. It was unnecessary, too. Like, why are you doing it? All you did was set a pick, so I didn't like that. With that said, he does bring an energy and a toughness. I think sometimes Drew, that this team does need.
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D
Yeah.
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C
And, you know, this is the analytical area era. And if you're not an O when he's doing it, numbers aren't lying right there.
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D
That's right.
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B
I do worry.
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C
The course they survived the one at Arkansas. He's been very lucky. Let's not forget Oklahoma. If there had been a tenth of a second left, he might have gotten teed up and maybe lost that game. We got lucky. It was after the game ended, was.
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A
It Tennessee this year where Pope had to grab him?
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C
Playing with a little bit of fire, but not an oh, it's not an O. So if he does it again, I'm not saying anything.
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D
Maybe the other guys kind of fuel off that, you know, Brandon's bringing it today. Maybe fires them up a little bit more.
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A
Boy, everybody in Lexington is saying this. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. I mean, like, everybody. Like, I. We didn't hear it. I hear the Louisville feed, so I haven't heard it. People say he uses the word for lovers in a way.
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B
Does he use the word lather?
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D
No.
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A
Lovers. I could see, though, for lovers not being a word that I would want.
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D
For a breakfast lunch spot.
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A
Yeah. Who's at the box?
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B
Connor.
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A
Connor. Go ahead, Connor.
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E
Hey, guys, I got two quick things here. What a game to be at. That was absolutely awesome to See that arena file out and get empty. Lots of emotions. Those technicals are pretty wild. I had to sit down and take a breather and pray to the good Lord. But, yeah, what a game to be at. Resilience by our team.
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A
So you were there? You were there, you were there.
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E
I was there. I was there.
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A
It didn't look to me like there were very many Kentucky fans there, but I will say that's one of those games that if you were there, that's an all timer, right? That's an all timer game to be at. So you got to be. You got to love that.
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E
It was absolutely awesome. I don't know who that lady was with that sign, but I wish I could have took it out of her hands.
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A
Do you think she was a real Kentucky fan? Do you think she was a real. So somebody had a sign that said, coach Cal, we miss you. Do you. You saw her. Do you think that was a real Kentucky fan?
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E
I'm not. I'm not sure. I know she was sitting by her husband. He had a UK gear on as well. So maybe, I don't know. Some, you know, some people are delusional. But I did see Mark Pope's wife and daughter. They came in and set courtside. That was really nice to see. I'm glad they were there, Matt. I had to be escorted out of the arena by campus police with. With two other UK fans got up to leave when the clock hit zero. Grab my jacket. My buddies had left with a minute 30 left, so they left me there cold and dry. But I was walking out. I got shoulder checked by the first guy turned around, and by the time I turned around, another man shoulder checked me almost to the ground. The usher ran over to me, grabbed me and said, stay with me. Two UK fans came from the top down there and grabbed me and said, are you okay, man? And that guy tried to swing on me. He stood there and screaming at me. Campus police came and walked all three of us UK fans out to the front door. It was wild.
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A
Well, that's when you know there. That's when you know they're upset.
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B
Surprised Dutch House didn't give him a technical.
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A
Oh, I appreciate the call. That's when you know they're upset. You got him. I hope you enjoyed the game.
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B
I got the Wild Eggs commercial, too. I don't know if you need a few minutes to prepare for this.
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A
I need to take a break. Yeah, let me. Let me read this ad and then we'll do the.
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B
See if you can do better than.
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A
Ryan I just want to go ahead and tell you. Tell Billy you're recutting this ad after the show. I just. It is even before I hear it that you have to recut it.
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D
It'll go down in history.
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A
No, recut it. We'll play it. We're going to play it once and then it's going away. Don't let aches and pains fall you into the new year. Start 2026 strong court. Physical therapy can help you get back to what you love. Whether you want to get back in the gym, pick up a new sport, or just be able to get around easier, a physical therapist from court can help you do so pain free. 70 locations across Kentucky. Chances are one's near you. Go to court.com, that's k o r t dot com, that's court dot com. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSI. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Text machine. 772-774-5254. All right, no one else gets to talk right now, Drew, except me and you. Okay?
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C
All right.
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A
I'll let Shannon talk in a minute. Drew. Right. Doesn't get to talk. Right. Microphone off.
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C
Okay, Ryan, Talking is what got us to this point.
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A
Yes. All right, we're going to listen to this, just me and you as the adults in the room. And this probably will be the only time this will ever be played again. All right, go ahead.
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D
It's my favorite time of the year.
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A
I'm already done right there. I'm already out.
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B
All right, first of all, three seconds in.
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A
I'll let you play it. I'm gonna let you play it. But that right there was enough to ban it.
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B
All right, let's try again.
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A
We'll start again. But that right there at the beginning was enough to ban it. Go ahead and play it.
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D
Hey, it's my favorite time of the year. Valentine's Day. A day for lovers like me. So you know where I'm taking my sweetie for Valentine's Day? Wild Eggs. Because nothing says love like potato head casserole. Or a delicious breakfast. Sammy.
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A
Oh, Ryan, you shouldn't have.
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D
You know what true love tastes like? It tastes like a stuffed French toast or a scrumptious, delicious, czing cinnamon roll right out of the oven. So take your sweetie to one of three wild Eggs. Hamburg, Palomar, or the new location off Tate Creek. Wild Eggs is the official breakfast of KSR and lovers.
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A
Oh, God. Gosh, no, Keep.
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B
Wasn't that bad.
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A
That's. That's Awful. First of all. First of all. And, Ryan, you're still not allowed to talk. I'm hearing your cackling in the background. First of all, he changes his voice halfway through there.
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B
He does.
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A
He's clearly trying to be Drew, like Barry White at the beginning, and he doesn't. I. I mean, I'm not a woman, but he doesn't sound sexy or sensual at all.
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B
He just sounds like a dirty old man.
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A
Yeah, he sounds like he's, like, looking through your window across the street. Hey, lovers. Like, that's awful. I thought.
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C
I thought the saxophone was unnecessary from the beginning. It's already too. Too intimate for me, but I got used to the saxophone. Whatever that noise.
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A
Play the last four seconds. Because the. It's awful. But then the noise takes it to another level.
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C
That was too much.
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D
Palomar. Or the new location off Tate's Creek, Wild Eggs is the official breakfast of KSR and Lovers.
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A
What is that supposed to be?
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D
That's a drop. Yeah, it's a. I didn't do it. The production added that.
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A
Oh, that wasn't even.
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C
You making it.
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D
Even me.
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B
Okay, Blame production.
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C
Sure.
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A
All right. That's awful.
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C
I have an update, though.
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A
Yes.
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C
I've heard a rumor in the building that there was going to be a worse version. This is the. This is the PG version.
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B
The clean version, huh?
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D
Yes.
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A
Wow.
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C
Billy. Billy denied another version.
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A
Good for Billy. First of all, I'm glad to see Billy has some taste. I've said. I've said to Billy, you have to reign Ryan in. I will say Billy did not rein him in enough. That should not have gone out. That's gross. All right? It is gross. The beginning of Lovers. That should have ended it right there. Nobody wants to hear you say, hey, lovers. Okay? Nobody. And then whoever added that sound at the end, they need to be put on probation for one day. All right.
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C
I'm actually relieved to know it wasn't Ryan making the sound. The sound still needs to go, but.
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D
And lovers.
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B
Okay, that's a new drop.
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A
And what do I always say? What's the most important thing? The beginning in the end. The creepiest parts of that ad were the beginning and the end. You literally. The middle was actually Shannon. Not that bad. He used his regular voice. He told us where Wild Eggs was.
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B
You know that picture? Picture of Ryan and Joe Biden. If Ryan were talking in that picture, he would be using that voice.
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A
Yo, think about it. This is what the Secret Service thought you were doing. Hey, Joe Biden. That's exactly how they thought you were. That Night. That's why they were following.
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D
So you know where I'm taking my sweetie for Valentine's Day? Wild eggs.
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A
Yuck. All right, Wild eggs. I mean, you gotta change that. Okay? I love wild eggs. Great food, but that can't. That can't be part of the repertoire anymore. So you're changing this after the end of the day, no music. Okay. You know what I mean? Like, you don't know how to pick the music. Just. Just do an ad.
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D
I obviously didn't pick the music.
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A
You didn't pick any of it.
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D
The official breakfast of ksr.
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A
See, that's the voice. Okay? That's not.
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D
I guess if Wild Egg wants to run it, they get to decide whether they want to run it or not.
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A
We have editorial standards and a duty to the public. We do. My mom says the last part is way over the top. That should be enough.
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D
Karen has spoken.
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A
Karen has spoken. Who's up first?
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B
Freebird.
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A
Freebird. Go ahead, Free Bird.
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E
2.1.
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A
I was.
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E
I was guilty, too. We would have a chance to win. And we're fifth, I think, in the ratings. My second point. I was never so pissed off at a ball game, at a referee's decision about all these tentacles. Just like to take my 13 size foot and now. And shell says caser to pass.
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A
All right, we're going to have to let you go. We can't be talking about kicking people's keister fired up. I will say I don't get mad. Like, I think most of the time when people say referees change games, it's wrong. I think in. I think there was a basketball game versus North Carolina where a referee made the difference in the game. And I think. And we ended up winning this game. And honestly, when we came back and took the lead, it made it to where even if we had lost, I wasn't going to blame Charles because once we took the lead again, like, we. We need to finish the game, so. But there was a moment, Drew, where I thought that he had lost us that game. And I was thinking to myself how I'm going to have to make sure I don't blame this game on him, but I need to blame it on him because it was. It looked like we were going to lose and it was going to be his fault.
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C
You know, okay, the UN. Air ball, the first round, bad. But then Acuff went 4 for 4 on the other free throws. And then I think Billy Richmond had a huge dunk to give them the lead.
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A
3 for 4, 4 to tie the game. Or actually, wait A minute we. Yeah. Four for four tied the game. Then they. Then they scored and then they got a dunk and he yelled, drew. And they didn't call technical on him either after they had done it to us.
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C
No, but, you know, they had. With the way Kentucky started, Bud Walton had kind of quiet. They were scared. They were tight. They completely flipped it in the. For at least a few minutes and got that crowd going. Got their first lead, and we all thought, if this is how it ends, we can legit. Look at all those technicals for turning this. Because Kentucky had complete control until that moment. But to their credit, which is my. Probably the favorite part of the whole season, is how they took that punch and punched right back and got their lead back and didn't give it up again. But it could have gone the complete other way over those technicals.
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A
Bluegrass Jack says you and Shannon. How do you not think Ryan's hey, lovers. Sounds like Val Venus going, hello?
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B
It does. It sounds exactly like that.
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A
But Ryan doesn't exactly have Val Venus's swag or physique.
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D
I guess this is a wrestler.
- [47:12]
A
Yeah. Yeah. There was a wrestler that would come out and go, hello, ladies.
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B
That's Ryan.
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A
And people liked it.
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B
But I. I don't know if people like this, though.
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A
Yeah, I don't think it's the same thing. Plus, eggs are involved, which was not part of the. It's breakfast.
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D
Yeah, it's breakfast, breakfast, brunch and lunch with a bar.
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A
We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports radio and lovers.