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And I'm getting to do that this year with you. I mean, you're doing it right now. You literally work on with the NFL at this moment. Yeah. That's great. This hotel room, they got it for you. I know. And we're going to radio Row. But. But I don't think it's a. I don't think it's a coincidence. You keep saying that you are looking for another job. I don't think I'm going to be here for the rest of my life. Okay. But can I give you just a little tip? As a mentor? Yes, please. Do you consider me at all a mentor? I do. Don't look at your people you're working with and tell them you want another job. That's not. They don't. People don't like that. I mean, I'm fine with it, but like, our bosses probably don't want to hear you say you're looking for another job. I think the whole networking bit with the NFL is recognized at this point. It's not like I'm Saying, but it's one of those. It's one of those things, Drew. Unspoken is better than spoken. I kind of feel like we brought him to his new. For him to leave us. Yeah. I mean, like, you don't look at like we just got here and you're already trying to go upstairs and meet other people. Don't understand that people look for advancement. It's that you don't, like, call up your boss and go, I'm looking for advancement. Will you send me out to meet other people, Shannon, so that I can go somewhere else? Is there a good chance first? Right. Yeah. Billy, are you serious? I mean, are you going to be stuck out there in San Francisco? Look at this. Look at this. Just leave them in San Francisco. Strategy. I'm just saying it's. I'm just. As a strategy, I think it's a fair piece of advice to not say to the person that helped bring you here, can't wait to meet people, to work somewhere else for the same company, just with different people. Yeah. Specifically not with the people that are in your hotel room right now. I'm gonna put my feet on your bed now. 859-280. Just an interesting strategy. 772-774-5254. Savannah Guthrie's mom and her dad met on a blind date at a UK basketball game. Wow. Who knew we had all these connections with Savannah Guthrie's mom? Who knew? Yeah. Isn't that wild? A blind date on the UK basketball data. That's. That's a risky. You got to sit there for a couple hours. I guess you don't have to talk a lot. But you think. Do you think. Long time commitment, you think a blind date to a UK basketball game. Oh, clearly it worked for them. Yeah. And the more. Do you think that. Remember we sent back in the early days of ksr, we sent two couples on a blind date to a UK basketball game. Do you. Did you. That's old school. Dating game. We played the dating game. We had two. We. We played the day two. Two times we had somebody. A woman. Two women came in and they had to pick the date based on callers on the phone, and they did. And then they went out and we, you know, they have eight kids. No, neither relationship worked. I think one of the couples. I think maybe one of the couples went out a couple times, had fun. One of the couples was not a good match. And I remember you and I looking at the game and it looked really awkward, so we didn't do it again. But I do think it would be a good. I actually think it wouldn't be a bad game to do during the summer or something to play the KSR dating game. I don't think that's a bad first date. I mean people go to movies, they can't talk to each other. I think that's the worst first day. I mean, I mean you could argue a UK game's not a bad first date because there's something happening. If you all don't hit it off, you can talk about that event. So like even at dinner you're having like nothing's going on except the two of you get caught in a lot of small talk at dinner and a lot of. And if you don't hit it off, you're just kind of there. A basketball game. You could talk about what's happening at the game. So I actually drew. I may have come around. Maybe UK basketball is a good first. When I first said it, I was questioning it, but I think it's perfect. I mean it would help that they're interested in the game. I wouldn't like go get someone who hates basketball and take them. But if you're both a Kentucky fan, I think it'd be great. You like what's right in front of you. You're talking a little bit, but there's not too much pressure to sit there. And let's look at what home games are left. I'm trying to see if I want to do this. You can get on the snack. We're going to be gone for the next. We're going to be gone for the next these two games. Then Georgia the 17th. That's a Tuesday. So that's a, let's see, Saturday the 28th. Vandy at home, 2pm does that feel like a blind date game? Blind date? Yeah. A little early in the day, lunch, but if it goes well, yeah. Could morph into post game show and then dinner. But the heartbreak if you get a goodbye hug at four in the afternoon. I feel like that would sting a lot. All right, well, what's, what's either that or it's going to be Tuesday. I'm not buying tickets to Kentucky Florida. That's too expensive. I'm not, that's. I'm not paying for somebody else's first date on that. I mean the Georgia game seems like a good date, but that's a Tuesday night at 9:00'. Clock. Right around Valentine's Day. Three days later. Right. You know Valentine's Day didn't go well for you. Tuesday, Georgia at 9 o' clock or Vandy on a Saturday at 2 o'. Clock. I'd go with the Georgia Saturday free, though. What? I might have my whole Saturday. I don't think people want to go on a blind date Tuesday night at 9 o'. Clock. So I'm just gonna say Saturday 28th against Vandy, we will contemplate a KSR blind date to the UK Vandy game. I think this needs to happen. It was so fun when we had it. It was fun because I remember the one guy. The thing I remember about that is the one guy that go, so what would. The question was, what would you do to woo this woman on a first date? And I think the guy that won said, go to a UK basketball game, which is how we decided to send them to a UK basketball game. But one of the guys that lost goes, I'll take you to Applebee's and let you order whatever you want. However, man. And that one didn't win. That was. I remember that being one of the. I feel like that should have won. I still see one of the women that do that sometimes. I'll see around Lexington. I know the guy who did it a little bit. Yes. Maybe we can set him back up as long as Shannon. Round two so the woman will show up. One person writes, Matt, I have to say, I know you all joke about it, but I really need Mark Pope to stop using the word special. He says special all the time. He's even ruined the word specials. Meaning for me, I can't say special to my wife about her cooking or really anything because Mark Pope says it about everything. Including the. What? The dinner he has at night. We have to stop saying special. It is becoming a curse. He does it all the time. Yeah. And if everything's special. Nothing special. It's hard to understand what you're telling me. If everyone on the team and every scenario is special, that nothing is actually special. Yes. If that's. If every time you're asked something it's special, then nothing special. Correct. Same thing with beauty. Not everything beautiful. Extraordinary and special are his words. Why do you think he does do it a lot? It's definitely a personality thing. I believe last year he even mentioned that his wife has asked him to stop. His wife asked him to stop saying beautiful. Beautiful. Which I think then led him to do special, which. Yeah, she probably doesn't want him to stop calling him her beautiful. So. Yeah, well, I think she probably was like, stop calling me what you're calling Andrew Carr. Yeah. He did say. He did say Trent Noah Has a beautiful body. Last year. Yeah. I mean, he was probably like, please don't look at your wife and use the same terminology as you use Trent. Noah's thighs. Please don't do that. And in life, I mean, that's a good trait to have, being optimistic and everything is sunshine. But, you know, as the basketball coach in a competitive environment and, you know, times aren't going well, people have serious questions or looking for answers. It does wear you out a little bit when everything is just picture perfect, when we know it's not. And probably a crutch for him without even knowing it. Right. I mean, I say Shannon's name a thousand times every pre show. Yeah. And that's because. No, it is probably a little bit of a verbal crutch to say to. To say it, but it is it. He does say it a lot. I think it does. I also, I think it's fair to say, showcases optimism. Yeah, he has a lot of optimism. Do you have optimism for the rest of this season? My. I don't know what to think. I mean, the turnaround from last Tuesday to Saturday in Fayetteville, I don't even understand how they did that. I know knew that Cal and Arkansas could lay an egg. I didn't think Kentucky could fix their own problems from Nashville to Fayetteville. So now my brain's like, well, is it permanently fixed or was the high emotions of the game carrying them? Are they going to take a step back next week? It's the inconsistencies that are so bad, but I at least feel confident that they'll be in the tournament. I admit, I had worries about that for a while. That was a huge win. We should have some postseason life. As far as the record the rest of the way, it could be anything. If we win tonight, I will feel really good about it because we'll find a way to win a couple more games. But we need to win tonight. I mean, like, it's one of those things where if you win tonight, if you lose tonight, you lose everything that you got from the Arkansas game. Right. Because this is. This is a quad three game, I think, tonight. So this is like the kind. You know, I've been in those. In those meeting in the selection committee things and. And they care about two things. Give me really good wins and did you have really bad losses. And we really don't have a chance on the schedule for a really bad loss left. Except tonight. Tonight could be the one really bad loss that would make the NCAA go. Now, wait a minute. Yeah, you still have South Carolina schedule that's on the road making it a lot tougher. I mean even like Georgia coming in a rough people think of Georgia's not very good. They score a billion points. Georgia good this year. I mean the NCAA will forgive you. Like you look at our resume right now, the. The biggest negative to our resume is going to be margin of loss. At this point, it's really not the losses. It's going to be how much we lost some of these games by. But this is one that if they want to keep you out, they could point to and say you lost to Oklahoma at home. One win Oklahoma. So you. That's why you got to win tonight. Who's up next? Pickleball? Paul. Paul, go ahead. What's going on, fellas? I'm glad to see Billy finally made the travel team. And I thought you were from Eastern Kentucky. May not anymore after he told us he's trying to leave. What'd you say? I'm really surprised you're complaining from the hills. I thought you were from eastern Kentucky. I thought you were used to that. Yeah, but I don't climb the mountains. I mean, like first of all, even in eastern Kentucky, I don't know if there's hills this steep. I mean there are hills that are much higher. But this, it's what's crazy about these are this how steep they are. This particular spot we're in, I've never seen like, I'm never seen a residential street with a steeper hill than than the one we walked up last night. I got 2 comments on Calm the Arkansas game shows for watching this. Devin. I am surprised. I was watching as bad as they'd been planned. But with four minutes to go, I made the comment that always complained about Cal that I didn't think he was a good game. Coach never did. I didn't dislike Cal, but I think it's a good game, Coach and I said we'll see what happens here. And of course, nothing changed with Cal. He made the old changes and got beat. And the second thing I'll comment on and listen, let y' all hang up, listen is if I was a gambler, man, I would have lost a fortune on Wagner going to Arkansas with Cal. And the other night he sat there on the bench and watched again. And I think he has to be a huge disappointment his whole career. But Mort said that I cannot believe no more than he played at Kentucky why he followed Cal, Arkansas. And I'll hang up and listen you guys have. I appreciate the call. I was Surprised he he did it after last year. I mean I kind of wasn't surprised he went there, but now he stayed another year and you know, I don't know what will happen his senior year. You think he comes back for a third ride at it? I want because Cal, that's his. I mean he's basically like a father to him. I wonder if Cal knows that I can pay him a lot of the Tyson money that he's probably not going to get anywhere else. And that might be might be DJs best bag of his career is being at Arkansas. But if I'm dj, I don't I like you said coming into this year, I don't know that I would have run it back. He's got to be and I hate this because he seems like a good kid. He's got to be one of the more disappointing players of the Cal era just in terms of how highly he was ranked because even a guy like Scowl was disappointed. But he's played and he's still in the NBA. I mean he's played, you know, he made a lot of money like dj. I just has not happened for him at all. Well, that class, he was the number one point guard and Aaron Bradshaw was the number one center and both of them are still trying to just get minutes in college as juniors. Now that was a huge. And Justin Edwards was the number one small forward. Now he's in the league, but we didn't get to see that. So I mean they got the top three players at top player at three positions and two of them look to be pretty big bus at least the college level. Yeah, Justin played well in the NBA the other night, but Justin Edwards has worked out. But we didn't get that in life. D.J. wagner just has not worked out and is not going to work out. Like it's not like there's a potential there. We have it seen. I think it's just he is what he is and that's unfortunate. I've wondered if the Cal connection He was pretty good at getting guys in the McDonald's game that were probably on the fringe. Probably rated a little higher because his history. I wonder if Cal and the Wagner name did you hear slated rating? Somebody made the McDonald's All American game yesterday. That's ranked like 97th and it's because he plays high school with the guy that runs the committee and people were like maybe this whole thing's a little bit of a sham. Big news for our listeners in the Hoosier State. Cornbread Hemp is Now available at Fresh Time Total Wine and other retailers across Indiana. We just got into Ohio and now we're in Indiana as well. Cornbread's award winning seltzers offer relaxation without the hangover. Gummies support deep relaxation and restful sleep. It's Cornbread Hemp. No artificials, no synthetics, no shortcuts. Go to cornbread hemp dot com. It's Cornbread Hemp. This is the good life. We'll take a break and be right back. It's ksr. This is Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules. Rob, I've never asked, are you a dips guy? Like the workout? You can't tell. No, I mean for your chips. Oh, I knew that. Yeah, of course. 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The Washington Post and the New York Times were basically both the two biggest newspapers in America and the New York Times has flourished and the Washington Post is just falling apart. Why do you think that is? I think the Washington Post, I think when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post he ruined it. Like, you can't. When these people that come from a world of just making money only take over these things, it can just completely fall apart. If you miss the culture of why something works. Yeah. You know, you have to know why. And I think, I think that was probably a big part of it. I think rich people, when they're, when, when they've had a lot of success in one thing, they think they're good at everything. And that. I think sometimes that doesn't work. One person writes, Matt, I'm surprised that. That you're being so calm about Billy wanting to leave. It doesn't seem like your style. Well, I don't think Billy really realizes this is said with love, Drew. Billy sometimes doesn't realize how he comes off, but I have grown to be fond of him, so I forgive the way he comes off because I don't think he means it. You know what I mean? And as you said, I mean, it's very normal to want to network. This is the super bowl, of all things. I even saw a video of young Billy, like, pretending he was on the. Doing an NFL call when he was little. That. Oh, that video of you doing that. Marissa posted it yesterday. Yeah. So, like, this is his dream. I get it. But I wouldn't be like, I'm in a hurry. Very cute. She posted it on some. On her social media. Yeah. Like her story or something on Facebook or Instagram. And it's like you as a child. That's very sweet. Yeah. But you also, and this has been like, since the first day I met you, you get in your own way, but you don't do it out of malice. You do it out of excitement. And so, like, I. It doesn't upset me. Well, don't be upset. It is tongue in cheek when I say this. Networking things. I can't wait to meet these people. But it's not like I have a resume, but I am excited. But he does have a digital business. What's on the QR code? Like, what happens there when I, you know, I don't get your resume, my name, my email, my phone number. I don't think you get my cv. You got to sign up for that, upload that. Okay. Yeah. You're just trying to get pre show guests. That's what you want. That's what you should. You're networking to bring guests onto the show. You already have. I'm just saying to you, like, like, you, you just, you have to think about how it's. How, how things come off to people that don't already know you. You know what I mean? Yeah. But also, people assume they know me and they think that I'm gonna stop talking. Actually, I'm not gonna say what I'm gonna say. So for your best interest, pulled the plug on his own. But that says he's already taken the. He's already taking the advice. He's like, you know what? My delivery doesn't feel right right here. Are you serious? It's starting to take the advice. Some exciting news for the, I believe, third time in history, KSR was named the number one midday show in America for its market size. So congratulations to everybody. Last year, I think we were in third. So things really, we improved in the last year. Got up to number one. We are the top 20 list. I tweeted it out. We're number one. Even though Lexington is the smallest city on the list, which is the thing that always makes me the most proud. If you look at that list, everybody, every single person on that list is from a city with a, with a, with an NFL, NBA, or major league baseball team, except us. And yet we're ranked number one. It's very exciting. I think this is the third time. And, you know, if you. Oh. In the old days of this show, we would play the show that was ranked 1 ahead of us and then mock it. Shannon. To say we were better. Yep. I like the way we beat the really big show, which means we're the really, really big show. We're bigger than them. Yeah. Second place was the really big show in. In Cleveland, which is here. So maybe we should go up to him and go, oh, they're here. Right here. We should go up to him and go, hey, how you doing? We should take a platform over to him and stand on the tall part. How you doing, you guys? Right? Number two. Number two, the really big show. But actually, you know, I think it's very, very cool and a testament to power this audience. And we've had a lot of really good news in the last couple weeks about how the show has performed. But this is, this is just so people know. The people that vote on this. This is the industry, like peers nationwide. I still don't know how they know. How could they know? I don't know. But it had had, like, the votes, too. It was, it was a pretty big win. We had a big March, big gap, big gap between us and second. 26 votes. We had the most first place votes and a big gap between us. And so they always send this thing out every year when you Win. So we'll get one of those. And yeah, they'll, you know, we'll probably see a lot of these people when we go over here. So that was, that was very good. And so congratulations and thank you to Ryan, Shannon, Drew and everybody that's on this show. It's in Mario, Billy, etc. It's great stuff. Yeah. And even though Ryan's not here, we got a green text from him. He got to see the news excited this morning. So we got to, we got to enjoy it with Ryan via text, via green text at 6am who's next? Matt. Matt. Go ahead, Matt. Hey, guys, congrats on the news there. Also wanted to mention I was in San Francisco several years ago, stayed at a hotel called the Sir Francis Drake, which I believe is now the beacon. Anyway, just 30 seconds. Go for it. They've got a cougar bar on one of the top floors. Probably more for Mario than for you guys, but worth looking at. Like, is that, like, is it really called that? No, no, it's got another name, but it's where, it's where all the, all the cougars gather, I guess. A cougar den. Oh, okay. Well, I appreciate it. Why I've seen that, I've seen that them prey on Mario before. So I could see. I'm pretty sure we walked by this last night. It's like literally right here. So we'll watch Mario, by the way, on the, the contest we won beat 70 other shows across the country that had been. So congratulations. We'll take a break. Be right backs. KSR TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj. He'll make him pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. The pregame show tonight will start at 6:30 Eastern on KSR on WLAP has, etc. It'll be live from the bar. It will be Ryan, Jack Pilgrim and Romel Bradley. So if you never met Smooth, you should come to the bar for the pregame show tonight. Go on by. He'll be there. And then we will host the post game show late at night here from San Francisco. I'm very much excited about that. So if you stay up tonight, you will hear us late at night doing the postgame show from here. I think we're going to watch it somewhere at a bar at one of these places and then we'll, we'll do the show. So it'll be probably 1am or for those of you 12:30 or 1am for those of you in the east coast. But it'll still be like 9:30, 10 for us. Yeah, I like the, the road trip post game shows. It's more of a group collaboration. We're usually at a random place plugging things in just shortly before we get started and they always end up being fun shows. So we will do that tonight. So but 6:30 at the bar. So if you're going to the game, go on by there and you can meet Ryan, Jack and Romel who is excited to be on there and talk to the fans. 859-280-2287 Are you rooting, Drew, for Miami of Ohio to stay undefeated? Kind of. You know, I don't feel that strongly about it. They're not like some lovable team that I'm rooting for. But I, you know there was a talk of could Arizona do it, you know, Kentucky years ago. I would love the absurdity of Miami of Ohio being the one that actually runs the table. I think it would be really funny if it's Miami just because that's such a random team to run the table. Miami of Ohio I don't like. They didn't play anybody in the non conference. They didn't schedule one. Good team work for them. They're in the conversation. They couldn't have imagined this was going to happen. It feels like every game of theirs is close. Like they win every game at the end. That's why even if they are to do it, it wouldn't even compare to some teams that came close like Kentucky. But just the fact that they would be able to say it. Sure, let's have the chaos. So I'm contemplating when we go back, I'm contemplating going up and going to a game. Easy draft. I just think it would be kind of. I've never been to a Miami of Ohio game. You know we played them in the sweet 16 ones. Did you know that, Shannon? We played Miami of Ohio in the sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. What year was that? You remember that was 19. Well actually no, it was 2000 or 2001. I feel like I remember that maybe 99. The, the thing. Actually it was 99. I think the thing I remember about it is Jamal McGlord knocked their mascot out. The mascot? Yeah. You don't remember this? The Redhawk fight. See what year we played him? It was when. It was when Wally Zerbiak was on the team. So they had Wally Zerbiak and he was really good. I think it's 99. 99. 99. Yeah. So it was halftime, and we were beating him by like 12. And as he ran off the basket, the mascot ran in between as the Kentucky team was running off. And Jamal McGlore could have gotten out of the way. Instead, he just. Shannon chucked the mascot with two hands and threw him into the ground. I feel like you're fair game at that point if you get in the middle, too. I mean, the mascot, he was. To use the phrase, he was roadkill. He was. That was a slug fest, too. 58 to 43 was the final. 58. 43. Yeah. Wally Zerbiak, you know, he was like one of the best players in the country that year, and he just couldn't score. Tubby just completely shut him down and he could not score. And we. We beat him up. But that somebody's gotta. There's gotta be video online. Oh, it exists. I feel like it's been on KSR not even that long ago. Yeah, McGlor just nails him. But I'm. I think it's cool that a mid majors got a chance to go undefeated. Yeah. Another storyline for the NCAA tournament. I can get behind that. You know, Drew, you've done a lot of odd jobs in your time. You ever been a mascot before? One time, my boss in college told me he wanted to go to me to go to campus in a frog costume. And I said, respectfully, there's no chance in hell I'm putting on your frog costume. What business was a frog? Anderson Communities. What's Anderson Communities? It's. They got apartments in Lexington. So he wanted you to be. Yeah, I like, worked in the office. Okay, but wait a minute. I'm still trying to understand the connection. It's an apartment complex. What does you be in a frog? That's like their. That's like their mascot. So I worked in the office. By the way, the three people that worked in the office, you appreciate this. Were Corey and Derek. It was just the three of us running. Oh, really? Well, that's a great time. Until they wanted me to go to campus dressed as a frog. So was the assumption that if you walked around in a frog costume, people would want to rent the apartments? I think I was supposed to hand out, maybe come look at the apartment on their radar, you know, was it. Let me ask you, was it a cool frog costume or is it like that when we went to the Republican convention, that guy in the Superman costume. Oh, it was much better than that. I will say. They invested in a good Frog costume. It was just at that point in my life, I didn't feel like getting in a frog costume and going and standing at the student center. If that UK frog were a mascot, I would definitely wear that. The one that we were talking about last night? No, a normal mascot would be great. You get a scholarship. Do you? But this was big and heavy. Like, this was, like, what you would. If the. If there was a college team called the Frogs. This is what you do. Get a scholarship. You missed the joke. What? Them. Frog costume. What about it? There was a plush. Do you not remember this? Just a few days ago, the collectible. It had the. Well, okay. Sorry. I. I got you. I got you. I understand. Thank you, Shannon. I appreciate that. No, this is a good frog. I just did one of those Anderson communities. Does that still exist? Yeah, I believe so. They're neighbors to KS Bar. I worked over there. I can't even think of the name of the place now. I mean, maybe you could still recreate this. You know what? I have changed. You're about to be a dad. About to be dad. I don't know what that has to do with this. All right, if they need me, I will revisit the frog conversation to call you into service. It had, like, a big headpiece. It was a big frog. It would have been hot. I would love to see you be a frog and hand out things for Anderson communities. That would be good. My number's still the same. I'm sure they have it on file somewhere. Who's next? Justin. Justin. Go ahead, Justin. Hey. Hey. What's up? First time, long time. What's going on? So I've watched. I've watched three games this year, and that is three that we lost. One with Alabama, one was Gonzaga, and one was. I remember the other one, but it was not good. And the three I've missed are Arkansas, LSU and Tennessee. So I'm wondering, do I stop? Wait a minute. So you. You've. You've watched three games. You've missed three games. What has happened the other games? Are you. Have you been. Well, I watched them, but they weren't as exciting. Okay, so you've watched more than three games. So you're saying you've missed three games that we've won in big ways? I would suggest tonight's a game to watch. If I were you, I would not watch Saturday's denim game against Tennessee just to ensure us a victory. Okay, but my mom's a Tennessee fan, so. Well, after the game, you can still. I'm not asking you to not communicate with your mother. I just think you don't need to watch the game. And my dad's an Alabama fan, so that one hurt. That is weird. Tennessee Alabama fan produces a Kentucky fan. That's weird. I. Colin Chandler said he saw the denim uniforms, and he said they are 100% fire. Oh, 100% fire. Nice. You know, we were wondering why or the dark. I still don't know which they're going to wear, but I'm confident that the dark exists. Now. That doesn't mean Saturday they'll have them, but if they do wear the whites on Saturday, I wouldn't give up on seeing dark. I got more confirmation that more people. Again, I say confirmation. I can't say for sure, but more people saying that Mark Pope is planning on wearing a denim suit. I just. We'll see. I feel like the jerseys and the shoes and the excitement's enough. The denim suit, we're getting a little like, remember Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, the VMAs? Like, is that what he's going for? Look, is it real thick denim? I hope so. I hope he's Logan's of Lexington planning on recreating The Justin Timberlake 2000 VMAs. That would be. I think it was bedazzled. That would be great. Again, it reminds me, Shannon, when Patino wore the white suit. Yeah, it was ridiculous. But they won. That's the thing. You can't. You can't lose wearing. Come out there in a denim suit and lose. You will be a meme. You literally. You cannot Rick one. Right. So the white suit ended up kind of being, like, kind of being badass because they won. You cannot come out there in a denim suit wearing. What is it? The Canadian tuxedo? And then what about when you sweat through that? I mean, how heavy it can't be. Be real, like thick denim. I wouldn't think it's got to be skinny jeans or something. You know, it reminds me, like, you get those. Yeah, those jeans that are real heavy that people have. Imagine having that on your body and it being hot and it's Tennessee. There's going to be photos everywhere. If you don't win, they're going to have a blast of like, look at this guy, a denim suit. We went in the Rupp arena and whooped him on denim day. Yeah, you can't do that. Matt, what age people are we talking about going on the first date for the basketball game? That's a good question. What do you think would be the right age to Put people you want. You think like 20s, 40s, 60s. I like out of college. Or even like even young. Just out of college. You've probably already went on a date at Rupp recently. I'm thinking someone that might not do it. Thinking like late 20s and 30s. 40s and 30s, 50s and Ford. Like what do you think? Like what would. What would be the. If I could pick, I think the older people are gonna be much more hesitant to do it. So I think you have to go young for people to feel like, why not? Right. Either one extreme. Like 70 looking for a new love. That would actually be really. Yeah. Or I actually think our chances of making a match would be bigger if you got up to 60s. And don't you first of all have to find a bachelor or bachelorette and then match them up? I don't think we'll have a hard time. I think we'll. I think that depends on their age. Didn't. I mean, we were much less popular back then. We had a ton of people want to do it. I mean, ultimately it's about can you get the women to do it? They'll be guys. I'm not worried about the guys. Can you get the women to do it? So maybe we'll just say what women want to do it and then based on the age we get, then we'll pick the bachelors. Maybe the ladies of KSR can. They can amongst themselves. If they have any candidates, we can or I. You can even have somebody that's not in our world do it. But then have KSR people try to woo them. I think that's what we did last time. I think it was two women that were not like in the KSR world. They came on not really knowing what to expect. And then whatever the age, whoever it is, it's going to work. I'm with Drew. I kind of wanted a little older though. I want somebody looking. We could do both. Chance. That's the other things we could do both. One 7 year old and one 30 year old. Yes. Blind. Not. Not together. Okay. You made two different couples. Two different couples. Okay. I'm not Jordan Hatson. I'm not doing a Belichick. I'm trying to. What do you think about the Belichicks? His wife, that party. Jordan. Jordan. Throwing a party on the hall of fame day. I heard you and Myron talked about this on Sunday. I think I side with you. I think it's sweet. I think. I actually think it's sweet. Yeah. I think it's sweet that she's throwing him a party instead of the hall of Fame. Like imagine if we had finished 50th in Barrett Media but when we get home and Ryan had decorated KS bar for us for he would do that. Yeah, that would be that. That's what Jordan did. That's right for Bill. Tell me about Stockton Mortgage, Bill. Well, it's a great time to buy, guys. And maybe you're like wanting to buy in the spring. Well, don't wait till then. Do it right now. Start in February. Planning ahead now can simplify buying later. Stockton Mortgage helps you understand next steps before the rush. You can learn more@stockton.com and if you're still renting, it's the perfect time to buy. And then let's talk about what's next. Home ownership may be closer than expected. Stockton Mortgage offers guidance and loan options to help buyers plan confidently. 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It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in San Francisco. So for folks wondering we're going to be we tape our Cover Zero podcast at 10:45am Pacific, which is 1:45 center or Eastern. It's not live, but Mario will be taking pictures of us with all of the guests today. A lot of big ones. Terrell Davis, Christian McCaffrey, Bryce Young bussing with the boys. We got a lot. I am. I'm struggling to figure out what we're going to say, but we're going to make it work. You and I, we both were both dressed to the nines. You're the fives. You're wearing Steve McNair t shirt. Of course. I got to rep Steve McNair at the Super Bowl. Like nice fleecy kind of hoodie. And we're ready to go. I'm wearing a UK hat, you're wearing a D hat. And are you excited to be on the NFL set? This is the one day we get to be on the set. We're not on the couches, we're on the set. So it's a big day for us. Yeah. And it's also our best day of guests. So it's like we're jumping right in. There's no. There's no warming up and preparing. We're getting there, and it's on with. I think Terrell Davis is first. I like busting with the boys a lot. Big fan of both of them, but I know we're gonna have to give them a little. Little Wilstein business. I know that'll be a big part of the conversation, but looking forward to all of them big gets we have today. Yeah. So it'll be fun. And will. Mario's gonna be getting content from the. Be a lot of famous people there today. Are you. Are you excited? Is there anybody you want to meet? I wouldn't say anyone in particular. I'm just the whole experience. I'm very excited to get in there. I've been seeing it, the background on ESPN n work. Just being amongst them. Being a part of something that big is what I'm most excited. One particular person. I've seen Mario flip out two times in my life. One was for Kevin Harlan and one was for Gilly, whoever that is. He's here, by the way. Confirmed. Gilly in San Francisco. Oh, look, he lit up. I meant to tell you already. Mario meant to tell you. Sorry. Oh, so he's Gilly. So the question is, who'll be the next one? Because he'll flip out. Mario is not afraid to geek in front of somebody, so he'll flip out. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who will be here. I guess I could have answered. We talked about this last night. I watched good morning football a lot. You really like Peter? No, no, no. I mean, I won't like fanboy, like. Like Mario, but I would be excited to meet him. I've been watching him every morning for several years. Who would make you really excited to meet? I saw Gruden's walking around here. That would be a big one. That would be. You want to be Gruden? Yeah, But I also don't want to freak out too much, Matt. Yeah. Because you need. Because you're trying to find a job. No, no. I'm happy where I'm at. And let's not forget, we got to tell everybody. Ryan said hi. We got to tell everybody Ryan said yeah. I. I don't think there's anybody that I particularly want to meet. There's just some people I haven't seen in a long time. Like, I haven't seen Dan Orlofsky since COVID So I. I'd like to see him. I think he's here. So that would be good. I like to see the part of my take. Guys, we. I haven't seen. We haven't seen them in person in a long time. Field Yates will get in your business today at all. I'm gonna go take Field Yates chair just as a post pullback. I'm gonna go. You're in my chair. Field Take his chair and give it to Darlington so I can watch him spin it on his face or whatever he does. Oh, he does do the spinning thing. We need to film. Get him to spin something. Actually, that's my answer. That's what I want the most is Darlington to spend an object on his head. Yeah. And then, you know, I don't know. The problem is I don't know people. Even espn, I don't know anybody. So I got. I think there's a lot of bears walking around. Current Bears. My main ESPN boss, Like, the person that decides my fate is here. And I've never met him. You've never met him? No. He's like the big guy. Like the big guy ESPN I'm supposed to meet today, and I've never met him in my life. He apparently is a regular listener to my Sunday show. Never met him one time. Are you gonna hit him with. It's. I met every. All the people under him, but he is the. He's the main guy. Dave Roberts, his name. I've never met him, and I'm gonna meet him today. So. Big day. I was on the elevator here with someone that plays for the Lions, but I didn't know who he was. I didn't want to be like, hey, what's your name? But he had just gotten a delivery of a bunch of lion's gear. It was clear he needed to be wearing lion's gear. And I almost said, who are you? Yeah, but that would have been weird. Well, this hotel we're at is where everyone's staying, so that's kind of cool. You run. We're running to people. I'm excited. Today is. We've. We've joked about Billy, but today is like a culmination for a lot of stuff we've worked for. And I'm. I'm. This afternoon will be a lot of fun. You'll probably hear. Assuming we beat Oklahoma tonight, you'll probably hear a giddy post game show. Well, let's do it right now. For DraftKings, go to DraftKings.com, use my promo code. KSR bet $5 win. Up to $200 in bonus bets. Kentucky is a 9 1/2 point favorite at home against Oklahoma tonight. What do you think? You know, it's been fun winning these close games and having Colin Chandler make winning plays, but I, I miss a good rubbery and a blowout. I guess Mississippi State's the last team. They really piled it on so I'll say they do that tonight. Have a fun night. Win big. They cover the. COVID the 10. Cover the 10. All right. Nine and a half. I think it's gonna be a little closer than that. We underestimate Cal's ability to lay an egg in big games sometimes. So I think Kentucky wins but Oklahoma will cover. Yeah, I'm going to say Kentucky 77, 70. So not cover. But when I look, I mean always 2 for 2 in Oklahoma games. So I don't know why wouldn't, why he wouldn't do another one. Does Brandon Garrison have a moment where it's. He needs to. I don't think he gets a technical or anything this game because I think he just. Since he just got one. So I think he won't, he won't do that this game, but it wouldn't surprise me. Lot of content coming your way. There'll be a cover zero later pregame shows at 6:30, post game show tonight. Thank you all very much and thank you for making us the number one midday show in the usa. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio live in San Francisco. This is Jim. Hello. Jim started advertising with iHeartRadio way back in April and now I have customers out the door. And this is is Sarah. Hi. She started putting a portion of her marketing dollars in podcasting back in June. Business is booming. That's why I'm working on a Saturday. Want to be like Jim and Sarah? 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