2026-02-09- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

KSR Podcast — Hour 1 (Feb 9, 2026)

Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, Drew, Shannon Clark
Main Theme: Reflections on an epic KSR road trip, Kentucky’s exhilarating basketball win over Tennessee in Rupp Arena (and the nostalgia-packed denim uniform game), team resilience, and the unique traditions and evolving culture around UK basketball.

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Overview

This episode of KSR is filled with post-road trip reflections as Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon return from covering NFL events and pivot back to Kentucky sports. The core discussion centers on Kentucky’s thrilling comeback victory over Tennessee—sweeping the Vols for a second consecutive season—with a spotlight on the emotional, historical, and communal significance of the game. The crew also dives into the debut of the throwback denim uniforms (honoring the '96 championship team), the changing reception of classic UK looks, and how Mark Pope is stewarding tradition while bringing fans together. The episode features listener calls, light comic banter, and genuine appreciation for the hard work and growth of show contributors and the UK team.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Return from the Epic KSR/NFL Trip

• Opening Reflections: The hosts review their intense travel, noting the toll but greater joy of being back in Kentucky after a memorable week covering NFL events on the West Coast.

  • Matt: “I think this is up there… maybe the most fun I’ve had. It was an awesome week.” (03:15)
  • Ryan: “The shows and the content was fantastic.” (04:35)

• Sentimental Notes: Matt praises the growth of the entire KSR team, especially Mario, Billy, and Drew for stepping up during the NFL Super Bowl week.

  • “They’ve really grown over the year… it was a great celebration.” (04:53)

• Recognition from the NFL:

  • Matt recounts how the NFL’s head of content was “blown away” by KSR’s work ethic:

    “I think you guys work harder than anyone in broadcasting… I can’t believe all the stuff you all put out.” (05:37)

2. Kentucky Basketball’s Gutsy Win Over Tennessee

• Game Recap and Significance:

  • Matt hails the win as indicative of Kentucky’s grit—coming from behind in front of one of the best Rupp crowds in years.
    • “Five straight regular season victories against Tennessee… huge, huge victory.” (10:28)
    • Ryan: “Man, you can’t deny they’ve got a lot of heart and fight in them… The place just blew the roof off of it.” (10:58)
  • Drew: “This is kind of why we fan… those big games where it’s your whole Saturday….to rip their hearts out twice [against Tennessee]… it made it even sweeter.” (12:34)

• Atmosphere and Legacy:

  • The combination of the 1996 championship team in attendance, throwback denim uniforms, and a packed house created an electric, almost nostalgic environment:
    • Matt: “I just think you couldn’t have had a better environment and a better result.” (13:16)

3. “Everything Works If You Work At It”: The Accidental Ryan Lemon Slogan

• Running Joke & Origins:
  • Ryan coins (and semi-claims) “Everything works if you work at it”—an ongoing, lighthearted debate about originality and wisdom:
    • Matt: “You should give a TED Talk called ‘Everything works if you work at it: Ryan Lemon’.” (07:47)
    • Verified by Drew: “First result…says, my latest podcast with Ryan Lemon is now on YouTube.” (07:06)
    • Shannon: “Everything works if you work at it. I’ve been working at the equipment forever and it still doesn’t work half the time.” (07:49)
    • Matt: “It’s motivational, kind of…” (07:53)

4. Player & Team Resilience: Comebacks and Clutch Moments

• Recurring Trend:

  • The team’s knack for falling behind… then roaring back:
    • Matt lists off games: “Come back against Tennessee twice, against LSU, Arkansas, Louisville, St. John’s, Indiana, North Carolina…” (14:23)
    • Drew: “You can’t call it luck now… they just know how to win at that point.” (15:08)

• Clutch Players Spotlight:

  • Colin Chandler:
    • “Mr. Clutch” for his late-game heroics: steals, big shots, and the game-winning three against Tennessee.
    • Ryan: “Always got like, what, five straight SEC games with 20 points or more right now…” (16:27)
  • Oweh: Key assists and steady scoring in crunch time.

• Matt: “That pass [from Oweh] was perfection.” (16:40)

• Supporting Cast:

  • Shout-outs to Aberdeen for growth at point, Diabate for clutch rebounding, Moreno and Yellowch for situational contributions.
    • Matt: “You really had a game where all of these people contributed…” (28:06)

5. Denim Uniforms: Tradition, Fan Culture, and Changing Tastes

• Immediate Reactions:

  • Shannon: “Loved them… better than I could remember them looking 30 years ago.” (23:38)
  • Drew: “They did a great job making them look almost identical to the originals. …Let’s wear them the rest of the way.” (24:13)

• Historical Context:

  • Initial backlash in 1996 for not looking like “Kentucky blue”—now the nostalgia is embraced.
    • Ryan: “A large majority of people were very unhappy that we were wearing denim uniforms.” (26:18)
    • Drew: “I went back and read a news story at the time, …every call was about the uniform and not the game, and all but one were complaining.” (26:34)
  • Matt: “You wait 30 years and things that at the time are criticized, now they’re retro and cool.” (32:19)
  • Matt sums up:

    “Everything that celebrates the thread of history… without being lame… is really special. And Ryan, I think this did that.” (25:58)

• Mark Pope’s Cultural Stewardship:

  • Matt: “There’ll never be anybody ... who understands [the culture/tradition] better.” (27:25)
  • Ryan: “He’s lived it… They were transformed back to 22-year-olds again…” (27:51)

6. Listener Calls & Memorable Moments

• Caller Lloyd (33:01): Praises offensive/defensive adjustments at halftime and jokes about UK’s missed layups—acknowledged with both humor and statistical reflection (14 for 21 on layups).
• Caller DG (35:14): Asks what’s most impressive about Coach Pope this season, with consensus pointing to offensive innovation despite injuries and the transformation of Aberdeen and Chandler.
  • Matt: “The transformation of Aberdeen is one of the greatest I’ve ever seen because he was bad in the first half of the year.” (38:16)
• Caller Kyle (49:30): Shares the unique perspective of sitting with Tennessee player families—described as “grueling” but emphasizes sportsmanship and good fun.

7. Light-Hearted Banter/Pop Culture Asides

• Conway Twitty: Extended riff on why he was a sex symbol, with Matt and Shannon and Ryan all playfully bewildered by the 70s appeal.

  • “It’s the creepiest dude in the world.” (29:32)
  • “But yet women, like especially middle-aged women at the time, loved it.” (29:46)

• Olympics Chat:

  • Drones in ski coverage, awe at skiing speed, and wonder about “the first time” athletes ever attempt ski jumps.
  • Matt: “I cannot believe, Ryan, how fast those skiers go down that hill. It’s unbelievable.” (47:13)
  • Drew: “I can’t imagine your first time…” (48:00)

• Show’s End: Running joke about Ryan’s use (and misuse) of AI-generated images for trolling Tennessee ahead of rivalry games, despite warnings.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Team Growth and Effort:

  “He was like, ‘I think you guys work harder than anyone in broadcasting…’”—Matt, referencing the NFL’s head of content (05:37)

• On Kentucky Comebacks:

  “You can’t call it luck now. …You’re just a team that knows how to win at that point.”—Drew (15:08)

• On Clutch Performances:

  “Colin Chandler has become like Mr. Clutch.”—Matt (16:05)

• On the Denim Uniforms’ Evolution:

  “You wait 30 years and things that at the time are criticized now, they’re retro and cool.”—Matt (32:19)

• On Mark Pope’s Kentucky Fit:

  “There’ll never be anybody that understands it better…He’s lived it.”—Matt (27:25)

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:15 — Returning from the West Coast trip: travel anecdotes, team sentiment
• 04:53 — Sentimentality and show team development reflection
• 05:37 — NFL content executive praises KSR’s work ethic
• 10:28 — Kentucky’s win over Tennessee recap and meaning
• 12:34 — Environment in Rupp and fan buy-in
• 14:23 — List of Kentucky's comeback wins this season
• 15:08 — Close games and defining a “winning” team
• 16:27 — Clutch plays by Colin Chandler and Oweh
• 23:38 — Hosts review the denim uniforms and the 1996 team tribute
• 26:07 — History: fan reaction to denim uniforms revisited
• 27:25 — Matt: Mark Pope’s unmatched cultural stewardship
• 33:01 — Caller Lloyd on missed layups
• 35:14 — Caller DG on Mark Pope's most impressive achievements
• 47:13 — Olympic skiing drone footage discussion

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The Tone and Language

The hosts are candid, playful, and deeply engaged—blending sports analysis with personal anecdotes, insider team knowledge, regular humor, and an affectionate take on their Kentucky roots and traditions. The show flows with familiar camaraderie and the fun, sometimes irreverent banter that KSR fans expect.

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Summary

A highly engaging KSR episode, Hour 1 on Feb 9, 2026, brings listeners behind the scenes after Super Bowl week, pivots to the joyous analysis of Kentucky’s late-night comeback win in retro denim glory, and weaves in themes of growth, tradition, and belonging. Listeners are treated to locker-room jokes, cult-classic nostalgia, earnest sports analysis, and a genuine sense of community pride—a blueprint for why KSR remains a staple in the Kentucky sports world.

Transcript

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[Shannon Clark]

Off Broadway this is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Monday, February 9th I am Matt Jones in Louisville, Kentucky. Ryan and Drew are in Lexington and it is cold and icy, but we are back home after a week on the road on the west coast. We're back to the best coast, which is the, I guess the coast of the Ohio River. Shannon as I'm back back home at long long day traveling even longer for some of those other guys. But we are back. You give us Shannon Clark's puppet Shop phone line 859-280-22-287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254 in this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make him pay. Glad to be back with some time to check the text machine and see all your good comments. Ryan Lemon. It was one of the more Drew it Drew and I have probably done. I don't know if you look over the years and you count KSR trips and college basketball road trips and UK basketball road trips. Drew and I probably did tennis. We've probably done 40 to 50 road trips over the years and I think this is up there. You know, maybe this one and one of ours to Vegas. I'm not sure, maybe the conventions. But this may be the most fun I've had. It was an awesome week.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, welcome back you guys. I enjoyed hearing some stories from Mario and Billy and Drew while we're waiting on you to get to join us. I'm telling you what, man, the shows and the content was fantastic. I mean it really was kind of enjoyable, kind of following along with all the stuff you guys were posting and listening to. So well done boys. Welcome back. But well done.

[Matt Jones]

Let me be and then, then we will be fun and we'll talk UK basketball and the trip. But let me be sentimental for a minute. It was a great culmination of I felt like this year everyone on the show, but especially those three guys, Mario, Billy and Drew, because we had to do this NFL thing, got thrown into it. They all like, have really grown over the course of the. Of the year in. In their abilities and in all that. And it was a great celebration of it. And, Drew, you probably got what you get home at, like, 2am last night.

[Drew]

I was still up at 3. Yeah, I got in a little after 2, but then had had to wash the California off me a little bit, then just couldn't fall straight to sleep. So not. Not a lot of sleep on this side, but I'm still smiling from all the fun we had.

[Matt Jones]

Well, a lot, A lot, a lot of fun. And thank you to all who consumed everything we did. The NFL has kind of been blown away by how many people are listening to the. To the stuff. And. And you guys, it was nice being with all those people to kind of hear. And, you know, Ryan, the head of content for the NFL, said to me, you guys. And this would include Ryan and Shannon as well, if you look at everything he said, I think you guys work harder than anyone in broadcasting. He was like, I can't believe all the stuff you all put out. And I thought that was kind of cool to hear from somebody who sees stuff from all over the country.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, everything works if you work at it, right? You know what the wise people say. So, you guys, all that is saying.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know that was the same?

[Shannon Clark]

I do now, but I didn't write.

[Matt Jones]

Is that you're saying, or does that come from other people? Everybody. Everything works if you work at it.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think you can post my name to it and, you know, put it on you.

[Matt Jones]

You're saying you claim it.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm gonna. If nobody else is going to claim it, I'll claim it. Everything works if you were.

[Matt Jones]

I'm. You can only claim it if it is yours. Do you think it's yours for today?

[Ryan Lemon]

For today's show? Yeah, definitely mine. Somewhere.

[Shannon Clark]

Or did you hear it somewhere or.

[Matt Jones]

Or did you get. Did that come from your brain or did it exist somewhere else?

[Ryan Lemon]

It probably was said to me years ago, but I'm going to claim it today. I love it.

[Drew]

Hold on, guys. You're not going to believe this.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so tell me, is it. Does this count as a ride? Lemon saying or not? Go ahead.

[Drew]

I can't even believe what I'm looking at. I googled it exactly as Ryan said it, and the first result is a Facebook link. And it says, my latest podcast with Ryan Lemon is now on YouTube.

[Matt Jones]

No, it doesn't.

[Drew]

Yes. So Ryan has said this.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan has said it before.

[Ryan Lemon]

There we go.

[Drew]

Oh, it's Mario's podcast from last Year.

[Matt Jones]

Wait a minute. So, Ryan, that is the top Google.

[Drew]

Result is Ryan Lemon saying it to Mario for everything works if you work at it.

[Matt Jones]

We just became billionaires. Ryan, this is officially your slogan. Everything works if you work at it.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'll be going. Talking about getting some T shirts made after the show. Put it up on a couple billboards on New Circle Road.

[Matt Jones]

He'll definitely sell out for it quick.

[Shannon Clark]

Everything works if you work at it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, first of all, I like it.

[Shannon Clark]

I've been working at the equipment forever, and it still doesn't work half the time. So I don't know if it's true.

[Matt Jones]

I think it's a fair. I think, though, it's a fair quote. Everything works if you work at it gives. And it's also motivational, kind of. Ryan, I think you. We have found your. Your secret. You should give a TED Talk called everything works if you work at it. Ride limit.

[Ryan Lemon]

And you guys are the testimonial to it. Look what you've done with your Cover Zero podcast. You end up parading with Barry Sanders at the super bowl party.

[Matt Jones]

Now, the super bowl party had, like, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, you know, Meek Mill. Meek. Meek Mill.

[Drew]

No one was excited about Meek Mill but me.

[Matt Jones]

Alex Earl, who performed Ludacris, performed. Ludacris performed. Although he talked too much. Drew and I. He did talk a lot. He talked too much. He would play, like. Shannon. He would play, like, the chorus of his popular songs.

[Shannon Clark]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And then he would yell at me that the crowd wasn't hype enough. And I was like, listen, man, stop yelling at me. Just play.

[Shannon Clark]

Well, that's. You know, I got 30 minutes to fill, and I got 10 minutes of content, so I gotta talk for the other 20.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly what it was. And in between every song was him just yelling that the crowd needed to get louder. And I was like, we'd get loud.

[Shannon Clark]

If you'd shut up and play a song.

[Drew]

It was a podcast. Podcast.

[Matt Jones]

It was a ludicrous live podcast that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Would have been so excited if he was going to perform and then mess it up. He talked the whole time.

[Drew]

Snippets of the hits.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't realize how many big hits he had, though, Shannon. Like, he's got, like. He did play the chorus of, like, 15 big songs.

[Shannon Clark]

What about the verse?

[Matt Jones]

Don't. Didn't. Heard none of them.

[Shannon Clark]

None of it.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. No, just the chorus of all those songs. Anyway, great trip. We'll talk more about it later on. But it was a lot of fun. Thank you. All, I mean, we, we rose on super bowl week. KSR was in the top 20 of the national charts and that's pretty amazing. So thank you guys very much for that. Now, part of why I was excited this Saturday night, excuse me, Kentucky, in what I hear is one of the better RUP environments in a long time, beats Tennessee to sweep the season series for the second time in a row. Five straight regular season victories against Tennessee, which is in and of itself awesome. Cats played, you know, had to come from behind again, fell down for 15 in the first half, turn it around, chip away, end up with the lead in late, make big plays, including the Colin Chandler three. That happens at the end of the game. Ryan, you know you did the post game show. I spoke on the first segment of the show and I was really proud of the team. That was a gutsy win, but it was also a win where it wasn't just like they were. I think they were fortunate to win at Tennessee the last time. I don't think they were fortunate in this game. They went out and won it. They were behind. They made the comeback, Bear down on defense, held Tennessee to shoot 20% in the second half and they got a huge, huge victory for him and an exciting one for the team.

[Ryan Lemon]

Say what you want about this team, they still drive me crazy sometimes, but man, you can't deny they've got a lot of heart and a lot of fight in them because that's another come from behind win. And you mentioned the crowd. You know, KS Bar was packed from 230 on for an 8:30 game. You know, even Jack and Tom talked about how this is one of the greatest crowds we've had in many, many years. You know, the 96 team was there, the denim uniforms, it all just culminated to an exciting finish. And then when it went all the way through that crazy pass out the channel to hit the bucket, man, the place just blew the roof off of it.

[Matt Jones]

Here's one of the ways that I judge it. So I have a lot of like I actually have. You guys are really the only close friends of mine that I think are like insane going nuts basketball program. Most of my friends are UK fans, but their fans like they'll watch most of the games, but it doesn't like drive what they do. It's actually them that I sort of think about when I program this show because I think there's actually more of them than there are die hards. Here's how I knew Drew. That game was so big as it was going and especially after we Won. I'm getting the text from those people, right? I'm getting texts from every level of Kentucky fan excited. That's how you know that. Okay, the whole big Blue nation is locked in. And I think maybe it was because the 96 team and the nostalgia. It's Tennessee, It's Saturday night. I just think you couldn't have had a better environment and a better result than they got Saturday.

[Drew]

Yeah, I looked awesome. As much fun as we were having, I was pretty jealous. Everyone in Lexington, you only get so many of those a season. Those big games where you're thinking about the whole week leading up to it, not just the day. And this one, if you're into the denim, you've been thinking about it since they announced it on Christmas. Looking forward to that. So just the whole. This is. This is kind of why we fan the big games like that, where it's your whole Saturday. And then for them to finish the job against Tennessee in the way they did it. You know, I'm. I don't like going down in the first half. I'm sure most people don't. But to rip their hearts out twice, being down 17 in Knoxville and 14 and Lexington. All right, that was pretty fun. Letting them taste it, think they had it, and then ripping it away in the second half. I don't want to keep doing that forever, but against the Vols, it made it even sweeter to get the.

[Matt Jones]

Can you imagine losing both those games?

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, my.

[Matt Jones]

Like, if you lost both games where you were up that big, I mean, I might have listened, Shane, a little bit to Tony Basilio.

[Shannon Clark]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

I heard you got mentioned from time to time on that show Saturday night.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Yes. That's Tony Basilio. That dude is out of control. He's out of control and his post game show is just yelling. Like, yelling. I had a caller say if he saw me, he was going to kick me in the shins, which is not very nice. That would hurt. Basilio also said I was a no talent host who he couldn't believe was on the airwaves. Man, I must be lucky if I'm that no talent and we've been able to have this much success. It was. It was awesome. It's awesome to win. It's awesome to beat your rival. It's awesome to continue to do it in a way that breaks their heart. And you know, Ryan, I don't understand why this team falls behind so much. And I also don't understand how they're able to come back so much. I mean, they've Come back against Tennessee twice, right? They've come back against lsu. They came back against Arkansas. They came back, they lost, but they came back against Louisville. They came back against St. John. What am I, what am I forgetting? There's more than that is Indiana, North Carolina.

[Drew]

They went down to both them. They ended up, you know, they ended.

[Matt Jones]

Up coming back lost in North Carolina. I feel like there's one more SEC game we came back in too, isn't there? Well, regardless, this team just doesn't quit. And I love that. Drew, I drives me crazy that like you, you don't have to watch the first half because we're going to be down 14. But in the second half, this group, they just do it time and time again and it's.

[Drew]

You can't call it luck now. I was even someone leaning into.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right, they're getting a little bit.

[Drew]

Of luck here with the way you went at LSU and doing it the first time at Tennessee. But you. When you've won eight out of nine and most of them were close games, we had to make a winning play at the end and Colin Chandler did most of those winning plays. I mean, you're. You're just a team that knows how to win at that point to do it time and time again. And the different ways you've had the Arkansas, the Technicals taking it from you and you take it right back. You have coming back from 17 down, you've got the daggers that Chandler said. I mean, they're doing it so many different ways and they're all ending with victories. However it looks.

[Matt Jones]

Let's talk about the plays Colin Chandler keeps making. I mean, the pass against lsu, obviously, the steal against Tennessee. Right. He had a big one. What was this big one against Arkansas? He had one.

[Ryan Lemon]

Had a little turnaround jumper.

[Matt Jones]

Turnaround jumper that basically put the game away against Arkansas. That's exactly right. The shot here today. I think he hit a pretty big shot against either Mississippi State or Ole Miss.

[Ryan Lemon]

Ole Miss.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, Ole Miss. So I mean, he has become like Mr. Clutch and then O way dude. Always just been in SEC play dominant. He always has little parts of the game where it feels like he's not totally there, but when it's crunch time, he's always there. And Ryan, those guys have led us here.

[Ryan Lemon]

Always got like what, five straight SEC game with 20 points or more right now. And you know you and I talked about on the postgame show, the Chandler shot was big. The pass that always threw to get Chandler. The shot is what to me is even bigger.

[Matt Jones]

That pass is a great pass. I mean, Chandler shot deserves all the happiness you can get, but that pass was perfection.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

And I love it. It's a huge win for the team. We'll talk more about the schedule later and why I think it's such a huge win. But now you get a week off. Now you can get healthier and you go into it with a win. And they are eight and three in the sec having won eight of the last nine. It's crazy. It's a. It's crazy. I don't even. I don't think they're as good as that. But you know what? They won, so they are.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly why you got to. Why you got to be excited. And what is it working hard means?

[Ryan Lemon]

Everything works if you work hard at it.

[Matt Jones]

Everything works if you work hard at it. What a beautiful sit. Everything works if you work hard at it. And the Cats have done it on the road and at home against these SEC teams. We'll take a break and be right back. It's KSR.

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[Julian Edelman]

This is Julian Edelman from Games with Names. Now let's get into the serious stuff. We're talking football food, specifically Daisy French onion dip.

[Matt Jones]

That is serious.

[Julian Edelman]

Gotta try these delicious new dips from Daisy. These are so delicious. They're like homemade dips made with real herb and spices and other ingredients you'll find in your kitchen. Also made with some Daisy sour cream. Daisy sour cream is a long standing staple for taco Tuesday.

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[Matt Jones]

Get my street burrito? I get the squirt. Daisy. Yeah. And every bite.

[Ryan Lemon]

I know you. I know you.

[Julian Edelman]

I'm a huge sour cream guy. I love sour cream. So I think burritos can't live without sour cream.

[Matt Jones]

I completely agree with that.

[Julian Edelman]

They also have daisy ranch dip. I love ranch dip.

[Matt Jones]

That's great.

[Julian Edelman]

I love it with crackers, wings, plain potato chip, the ones with the little crinkles, maybe some bell peppers. So get out there and give Daisy French Onion dip a try. You will not regret it.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

This is close but this is not his exact words. This is everything works if you let it in your heart.

[Shannon Clark]

Yeah, this is cheap trick. So maybe, maybe he took the inspiration from this song.

[Matt Jones]

That's always right. So what Ryan did is he took a cheap trick and he made it expensive. He made it to where it's worth. It's worth more and it's more on target. Yeah, there's already a T shirt out that I retweeted. Ryan, everything works if you work at it.

[Ryan Lemon]

Can you hook me up with a trademark attorney after the show?

[Matt Jones]

Maybe today I could. I'm not going to. But, but, but, but I could. 859-280-2287 one person writes. Matt, I've been in Rupp arena for many years for season tickets going back to the 80s. That Colin Chandler pop was one of the loudest I've ever heard it. Rup, it was awesome. What I liked about it, Drew, is when the pass is in the air from away to Chandler, Rupp takes a collective deep breath. Okay, so there's almost like a moment of silence before everyone explodes. That is very cool. There's like a second, second and a half of tension and then it leads into this like crazy release of energy, which is awesome.

[Drew]

That and if you just look around courtside, all the legends that are sitting there watching Colin Chandler wear the denim bang that three to essentially beat Tennessee in that moment that added to we got this little curly blonde haired kid knocking down daggers in front of the 96 team. Looking at him.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't know if you saw Ryan during the game. Occasionally you'd get flashes of the 96 team and they were all like talking like they were the coach, you know, I kind of wonder if because it's their teammate, they feel like they can go. We know what he should do is sure because I would look and every time it felt like they were kind of coaching the team from the sidelines.

[Ryan Lemon]

It was kind of, you know, it's such a special night. They had the denim, you know, jean blue jean jackets come out and I don't know if you saw this or not, but Anthony Epps actually teared up when talking about after the game how much it meant to. Yeah, that was awesome.

[Matt Jones]

The only by part Shannon, I was trying to get to that party and I was like, okay, can we wrap it up here, guys? Because I was trying, I was trying to do. It was a long network postgame show, post game show. And I was like, all right guys, it's 12:30 at night. Can we what you think of the uniforms, Shannon? Start with you and then you guys all give your take.

[Shannon Clark]

Loved them.

[Caller]

They're.

[Shannon Clark]

I, I thought they looked better than what I Could remember them looking like, you know, 30 years ago. So I really like the uniforms. Thought they were great. Not crazy about the merch they put out necessarily for the fans, but the uniforms themselves look great. I feel like Mark Pope cheated a little bit on the denim suit, though. It's just a blue suit.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. It wasn't did them at all. Ryan, what do you think?

[Ryan Lemon]

I'm with Shannon. I really liked it. I kind of like how they, like, kind of stayed with tradition kind of the look from 96. Just enough denim didn't overdo it. You know, I like that. And so now I hope we get. We wear the blue ones, the road jersey somewhere. Maybe not this weekend at Florida, but somewhere. You got to break out those road jerseys.

[Matt Jones]

Now.

[Drew]

They did a great job making them look almost identical to the originals.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew]

And since we wanted them, just let's wear them the rest of the way. Come on, let's do it.

[Matt Jones]

You wear them the rest of the way.

[Drew]

Let's do it. Come on. It's 30 years. It's Pope, and, you know, that was his team. They obviously work. The fans clearly love them when they're camping out in the cold to get denim.

[Matt Jones]

Just keep wearing them.

[Drew]

Finish the year with them.

[Matt Jones]

How about that? That camp out line? Yes. That's pretty amazing. And then the shoes. Drew says, I have a pair of the shoes coming. That makes me excited. I think they. I don't know. I think they did a really good job with all of it. I'm with. I wish the hoodie was better. Shannon, that's the one thing I agree with you. But everything else, I thought the uniforms look great. I think the timing's good, obviously, because of the 30th anniversary. I just. Everything that celebrates the thread of history that is Kentucky basketball without being lame. There's like, a fine line between acknowledging that there is a connection from Bill Spivey, you know, to Denzel Aberdeen right there. There's a thread and a connection that goes through history. And when you can find a way to bring that together and it not be lame and old, I think that's really special. And Ryan, I think this did that. I mean, it's like you're acknowledging maybe the best team in the history of the school, and you're doing it a way that still connects to people. You know, those college kids are going crazy about the denim. They weren't even alive. Like, they were not there. They weren't even alive by years, and they're still getting a chance to do it. I love when we get to do those things.

[Ryan Lemon]

I love it too. And, you know, we talked about it. When the denim first came out in 96, a large majority of our fan base did not like it and were very vocal. In fact, they did not like it.

[Matt Jones]

Is that true? Because, like, I don't remember. I was in. I was in high school and I thought it was cool. But Ryan, you were covering the team. There were a lot of people that didn't like it.

[Ryan Lemon]

I have large majority of people were very unhappy that we were wearing denim uniforms.

[Matt Jones]

What'd they say?

[Ryan Lemon]

They get rid of them? They didn't know. They didn't want them at all. But they kept winning in them, you know, and they're, you know, we're undefeated in the denim uniforms still to this day, so why not let embrace it?

[Drew]

I went back and read a news story at the time, and it said that the post game show that day, every call was about the uniform and not the game, and all but one of them were complaining.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So was it like Ryan, an old, you know, it's not really our colors. Was that what it was? Derby dirt?

[Drew]

A lot of people said it looked like North Carolina at the time, right?

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, it was too close to the North Carolina blue, not Kentucky blue. We wear blue and white. We don't wear this blue faded out.

[Matt Jones]

But, you know, it's funny, they didn't listen because they kept it. I mean, they won the national championship in those. So I think that's. That's very cool.

[Ryan Lemon]

I do love how the rollout we talked about, you know, Leanne, Mark's wife, and his daughters were handing out donuts and they had like all these displays set up as you got walked in line to get your books, videos and stuff. Like, they really did a good job kind of getting the crowd excited about this denim rollout they were doing.

[Matt Jones]

No matter what else anybody says about Pope as a coach, whatever, in terms of this part of the job, there'll never be anybody that we have Ryan, who understands it better. Right. I mean, there won't like that whole thing, the sort of secondary part, the non basketball part of being a head coach at Kentucky. They'll never be somebody who gets it. Like, I think like Mark Pope does.

[Ryan Lemon]

Totally agree because he's lived it, you know, he knows what it's like to put that jersey on. And you saw how all of his teammates reacted after the game, after the win, and they're, you know, high five and even chest bumping him right there on Rupert and four. They were transformed back to 22 year olds again that because it just means something once you wear that jersey.

[Matt Jones]

Do you. A couple other players I want to give a shout out to. I continue to be impressed with how Denzel Aberdeen has improved, man. I mean he hit those free throws that kind of put away the game at the end. But he's also making good decisions at the point they're putting the ball in his hands at the end of the games and telling him to make the call. I think he's great. Diabate's rebound was huge at the end. That was a huge play. And then being smart enough to get it out of his hands and send it out to, to Aberdeen and Chandler, that, that was big. I thought Moreno had some, some really good moments. Yellow bitch made some big shots earlier in the game. You really had a game where all of these people contributed and you know there'll be little parts of all their games that will drive you crazy sometimes. But the way they play, the way Chandler played defense in the second half on amen it and then away on the final play, it was just a team win. We'll take your call. Say 592-802-2287. KSR TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call TJ. He'll make him pay.

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[Matt Jones]

Justin Metal queen. My mom hates this song so much. She always hated it. She's always hated it. I think it's the whole like. Yeah. I mean Conway, we've talked many times. It's the creepiest dude in the world.

[Shannon Clark]

Yeah, every song is creepy, but there's.

[Matt Jones]

Something about how creepy he is that kind of makes me laugh. Like how did women like this man?

[Shannon Clark]

He was a sex symbol.

[Matt Jones]

But how was he a sex symbol? He's not attractive.

[Ryan Lemon]

Great hair.

[Shannon Clark]

Somebody thought he was.

[Matt Jones]

He's not. He does not have great hair. He's got a lot of hair. But like why would you put it in a perm like that? And then he sings things like this, like turn it up the lights to live a dream. I mean there's a tiger in these tight fitting jeans. Like, like even just that line, like there's a tiger in these tight fitting jeans and you're like Conway. But yet women, like especially middle aged women at the time loved it. She, I mean they loved like I don't know what it was about the 70s that made people like women just want him and like Tom Jones. Like, like they just love that.

[Shannon Clark]

I guess they didn't have many people to choose from back.

[Matt Jones]

I mean I Don't know.

[Shannon Clark]

I don't understand.

[Ryan Lemon]

I can't.

[Shannon Clark]

Maybe that's just the look that women liked back then.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, my aunts, Morgan Wallen's grandma boots and prances. If you were to say to me, what's the thing you remember the most about him? It was the way they would. To use Ryan's language. Drew lather up about. About Conway, Twitter. They loved it. And now.

[Drew]

I don't know how he was able to.

[Matt Jones]

To.

[Drew]

To get all these women the way he did with these lyrics and the lyrics.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, the lyrics are just. And then he's just look at him. And Family Guy made it a running joke because he was so. Well, it's enough Conway Twitty. But anyway. 859-280-2287. God bless him. Good luck to you, my friend. Although I guess he's dead.

[Shannon Clark]

Yeah, he's dead. He's not getting anywhere.

[Matt Jones]

Rest in peace. It's not working out for him now. 772-774-5254. One person writes, Matt. The Wild Eggs AD played during the game, and my kid recognized it. My wife had not heard it. And when my kid said, for lovers, my wife looked at him and said, please stop talking. I can't see. You can't do that to kids.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think that's why it works.

[Drew]

It's.

[Ryan Lemon]

It's a. You know, resonating with not just adults, but with kids. Also.

[Shannon Clark]

Ryan never claimed to be a role model. To be fair.

[Matt Jones]

That's true. He's like Charles Barkley.

[Shannon Clark]

He's not a role model here for your kids.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Billy Packer. Matt said on a game when Kentucky wore denims that they look more like Carolina blue. And that's why fans got so upset about it, was they felt like Packer had said it on national tv. Oh, you think? Is that right? Right. That that would make sense as to.

[Ryan Lemon]

Why I forgot about that moment. I believe that's exactly right. I think Packer said something about it during the broadcast, and just people are unhappy with them to begin with, and that just took it to another level.

[Matt Jones]

You wait 30 years and things that at the time are criticized now, they're retro and cool. Like, we've talked about the icicles, and even I remember people not liking the icicles.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

If they came back, Drew, everyone would want them, right?

[Drew]

Of course. Can we slap the Apex logo on them? Is Apex still around? That was the brand of the icicles on the denim.

[Matt Jones]

Again.

[Drew]

I was reading about, you know, all the newspaper articles from the time someone asked Patino about him in the press conference. And in typical Patino fashion, he said, that is the worst question I've ever been asked to whoever asked about the uniforms. He said, the uniforms don't matter.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they mattered Saturday, and fans sure wanted them when they stood out in the Colts. Who's up first?

[Shannon Clark]

Lloyd.

[Matt Jones]

Lloyd. Go ahead, Lloyd.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, two quick things. First of all, in my opinion, the best win of the year simply because the offensive and defensive adjustments we made it halftime. Secondly, we have got to leave the country in. Miss layups. Y' all can do this. Finish strong. Yak it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we. We. We. There's no. No doubt. We miss more layups than anyone, but we do get layups a lot. And I appreciate the call, Lloyd. I mean, we get a ton of layups, Drew. We miss a ton of layups, but we also get a ton. And it feels like they do make them more at the end, but, man, we miss layups.

[Drew]

Yeah, we've had some awful percentages on layups in games, and someone missed a critical when late against Tennessee. Obviously didn't matter. Was it Garrison or Diabate? One of them had. I mean, it was a Bunny.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Yeah. It just does get so frustrating. They ended up 14 for 21 in the game. I'm looking at the box score, but they've had some that were much worse than that. That's been a problem all year.

[Matt Jones]

We got out, rebounded, but we outscore. I don't.

[Ryan Lemon]

This is.

[Matt Jones]

You'll very rarely see this in a basketball game. We got dominated on the boards, but Ryan, we almost doubled them up on points in the paint. That's a very rare combination, but we actually had that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, you don't see that. And I think a lot of Pope's teams have kind of taken on that old Caliperi mantra. Just throw it up on the rim, we'll go up and get it and put it back. And a lot of times I think they try to do that. They count on the Abate or Marino or Garrison getting that rebound and putting it back up.

[Matt Jones]

Well, part of it is Aberdeen and away miss a lot when they drive. And then we got some guys around the basket. They don't have the best touch in the world. I mean, I feel like Diabate when he gets it. Shannon, his goal is to break the rim with the shots.

[Shannon Clark]

Yeah, right.

[Matt Jones]

He just throws it as hard as he can at the area and hopes it goes in.

[Shannon Clark]

Well, he's not the guy that I'm wanting to take shots, really. Anyway. I mean, if he's close. You know, obviously that was a huge.

[Matt Jones]

Rebound at the end. That's a huge rebound that he got.

[Ryan Lemon]

He was on the left side of the free throw lane and made the rebound on the right side.

[Matt Jones]

That rebound. We might lose the game.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

And that was a huge rebound. Who's next?

[Shannon Clark]

Dg.

[Matt Jones]

Dg. What's up?

[Caller]

What's up guys? So me and my buddies have a podcast that we talk all Kentucky and I just wanted to hear Yalls thoughts on this. But just a couple weeks ago, you know, we're looking at this season we have major losses to Gonzaga, Michigan State, everything with the locker room in Louisville. Then we start owing to to me, you know, looking at this team, I think the way that Mark Pope has been able to keep these guys locked in and focus what's going on on the court and in the locker room is just a huge testament to him. And I was just curious what's your thoughts on like if you had to pick one thing on the season, what's been most impressive to you all with everything that transpired going on early?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I think the biggest thing is that they with all those injuries have been able Drew to generate any offense. I appreciate the call. I thought this team would be really good defensively even after the injuries because they still have their best defensive play. The guys that got hurt were at least with Jalen Lowe defensive liabilities. But I thought offensively this team was not going to be able to score points and they scored over 90 at Arkansas like that would. If you had told me that that was going to happen, I'd have thought you were crazy. So I think the fact that they've been able to do that is. Is absolutely awesome. I guess Oklahoma they scored overnight, but it's absolutely awesome to me. Drew.

[Drew]

Yeah. Whatever Pope said or did to get Aberdeen specifically to I mean he's a completely different player these last few weeks than he was earlier in the season. And same with Chandler who kind of disappeared in December seemed to his loss of confidence would even shoot whatever he did to get those guys going kind of in a stretch where wasn't a lot of hope. I mean after they lost, went oh and two to start the conference they flip a switch when they could have gone the other way. And the backcourt of Aberdeen, Chandler and away are completely different players than they were earlier in the season and they're kind of help carrying the team to all these wins.

[Matt Jones]

I think that is the key. I think you hit it right there. They he got Ryan Chandler and Aberdeen out of the abyss Chandler had no confidence, and Aberdeen was out of control and not playing as a guard, that could be helpful. And the fact that he has transformed those two guys into dudes that are now scorers and really positive net players, I think is the thing. Maybe he's done the best. I mean, he's flipped the big start playing Moreno and Yellowch and then benched Garrison Diabate and flipped it. But getting those guys to play the way he has has got to me. That is the biggest transformation.

[Ryan Lemon]

There's no doubt now they know their roles. They know what the responsibilities are. And like, you and I have talked, Aberdeen went from one of my least favorite players ever to now he's one of my favorite guys because of what you guys just said. He knows what his role is. I'm the point guard. I'm the facilitator, and he's kind of settled into that role a little bit. We're not even talking about. Got great minutes from Trent, Noah, and Jasper Johnson.

[Matt Jones]

Trent, Noah, and Jasper playing well, too. I. The transformation of Aberdeen is one of the greatest I've ever seen because he was bad in the first half of the year.

[Ryan Lemon]

So frustrating.

[Matt Jones]

And now watching him, that. That transformation has been unbelievable. Who's next?

[Shannon Clark]

Let's go to Donnie.

[Matt Jones]

Donnie, Go ahead, Donnie.

[Caller]

Okay, Matt, I'm getting ready to make your head swell if you'll give me a chance to get it all out.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Caller]

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[Matt Jones]

And.

[Caller]

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[Matt Jones]

That is very, very kind of you. I appreciate it. I know. I know. One of those three things you said, but I know I did the fix a flat and the. What was the second thing you said?

[Drew]

Miracle Grove.

[Matt Jones]

And Viagra. Yeah.

[Shannon Clark]

Which one do you know?

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[Matt Jones]

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[Ryan Lemon]

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[Shannon Clark]

I thought it was the the miracle girl.

[Matt Jones]

I mean it could be either. Just get your head out of the gutter.

[Shannon Clark]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Ryan Lemon]

It is a pretty good line. I don't remember that one. No, I don't remember that line.

[Matt Jones]

Remember that? That's a good line. Somebody sent on Twitter account Kentucky High School Sports History this is an article from the Danville Advocate where they asked fans in 1996 what they thought about the uniforms. Bob Anderson said, I like the other uniforms, better. They had more of what I consider to be Kentucky blue. But then Wayne Knight said, it's not a big issue with me. They can wear pink as long as they win. I like that one. That feels like something. That feels like something Wayne Knight would say there in Danville. Ryan.

[Ryan Lemon]

It probably would work in Danville. I did like how Jimmy Dyke's used a couple times. It ain't the denim. It's what's in them. Like, he just made up that line. That was the very popular. 30 years ago.

[Matt Jones]

That was the big phrase. Even I remember that. That was. That was the big phrase. 859-280-2287. Shane, have you gotten any into any of the Olympics yet?

[Shannon Clark]

A little bit, yeah. The ski jumping, I'm just so jealous of all those athletes that can do that because, you know, I go skiing like, once a year, and I watch these people do all these flips and stuff. Like, I wish I could do that.

[Matt Jones]

So on the plane last night, I was watching after the Super Bowl, I was watching in the scheme, all right, and they showed. Poor, poor Lindsay Vaughn. I mean, I'm sure she's got a good life, but, like, tears her acl, tries to go, then gets hurt again, breaks her leg, apparently. And they had to do surgery. I was watching them, man. Shannon, when they were airlifting her out, and she's just laying on that gurney and the helicopter. That's crazy. Can you imagine having a broken leg and sitting there and you're just floating over the mountain?

[Shannon Clark]

No. Just somebody who's afraid of heights. Absolutely not. I'd say, let me just sit here.

[Matt Jones]

And die, but I have to tell you. And the. The men and women's downhills over, so they're not going to show this again. But, Ryan, the downhill, they got these drones now that will hover over the skier and go down with her as she goes. And you get a sense of how fast they're going. Oh, my goodness. I. I don't know how people do that. They get up to 65 miles an hour. Okay. And that drone, they had a drone that was right above. Above her. And literally, it made you feel like you were scheming. I would lose it. I would freak out. I have more respect now because when you watch it regularly, it looks like they're going fast. But, like, you don't get a perspective with that drone. Like, from her vision. I. I cannot believe, Ryan, how fast those skiers go down that hill. It's unbelievable.

[Ryan Lemon]

So you make me want to watch it now because you gotta look it up.

[Matt Jones]

Get on Peacock and look up. Because they've got, like, the old. They've got the replays. Go look up the men's and women's downhill and just watch it. And watch the. The camera angle where the drones going down with her. Drew, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen. I've. I remember they did that Tour de France, and when they were descending a mountain, and I was like, good night. I didn't realize how fast they were going. You really don't get a perspective until you ride along with them. And it's. It's crazy.

[Drew]

And it makes me wonder. Obviously, they're all pros now, but when they started those first few times, like, there had to been some. Some big. Some. Some lessons learned in learning how to do something. Like, I can't imagine your first time. Like, well, here we go. Let's see how fast this is.

[Matt Jones]

I always say that about the ski jump.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

How do you do your first one? Okay, I get that they could do it now, but, Shannon, they had to go down that thing for the first time at some point.

[Shannon Clark]

Exactly. I mean, do they have, like, a giant crash pad?

[Matt Jones]

Like, I mean, they have to see. I would be fascinated about ski jump, about how you start.

[Shannon Clark]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Because you can't go down the first time. You. You fall off the first time has got to be insane.

[Drew]

So.

[Matt Jones]

I love these sports. I do. I don't know. You know, it feels like Finland wins every single thing, because I guess they got all that snow.

[Shannon Clark]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But I love it. And then. And then they had some dude in the figure skating. He did a backflip last night. Did you see that? He did a backflip and figure skating. Yes.

[Shannon Clark]

I didn't see that he did a backflip.

[Matt Jones]

He was. And he's American guy. Maybe they. They won.

[Drew]

Our bobsledding team didn't do so well. Did you see them?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. They couldn't get into the bobsled.

[Drew]

Yeah. Getting into the sled is a big part of the story.

[Matt Jones]

Bobsled. If three of them can't get in. We ended up with just one. And he didn't go very fast. And he was like, wait a minute, guys. You leave me out here by myself.

[Shannon Clark]

Have you seen this controversy involving the ski jumpers?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, yeah, I saw it. I saw it. I don't understand the science. We talked a lot about that on the. On the trip to San Francisco. We didn't really understand the size.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But we thought miracle grow would have. Would have helped would have helped the situation. Who's next?

[Shannon Clark]

Kyle.

[Matt Jones]

Kyle. Go ahead, Kyle.

[Caller]

Hey, guys. Just wanted to call in and share my viewing experience from the game on Saturday, which, at least for me, was really unique and that I was at Rupperino watching the game, but I was sitting in the middle of the. The family section for the Tennessee players.

[Matt Jones]

Oh.

[Caller]

So, yeah, it was, you know, when they went on that huge run at the end of the first half, it was, you know, it was bad for everybody. Was absolutely miserable for me because they were high fiving over my head and.

[Matt Jones]

But when we won. When you. We won, did. Did you try to be nice because you were next to the people whose kids were playing, or did you yell and scream?

[Caller]

No, I was absolutely nice. I mean, one. You know, I had mamas on all side of. Sides of me, so I had to be careful what exactly I was cheering about. But they were really good with it, too. I mean, when UK started coming back and finally took the lead, I was clapping and screaming and one of them, you know, playfully hit me on the arm. But. But yeah, it also, it gave me a little bit of a perspective because it was grueling for them to see them, you know, their kids just lose that game like that.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Caller]

But don't forget my excitement.

[Matt Jones]

I'm saying, don't let it. Even though they're Tennessee fans, remember, they're still Tennessee. It's nice of you to be nice. That's what you should do. You shouldn't taunt people's mothers. But don't let it make you forget that those are dirty balls on the other side and that we have to win the game and be nice to their mothers. But also know they still have to.

[Caller]

Take the L. Absolutely.

[Matt Jones]

I appreciate the call. You. They're still Tennessee. Now, Shannon, why did you let Ryan get on his phone Saturday morning and tweet all that stuff?

[Shannon Clark]

I know it. Yeah, he went over the. You like, went over the top. I felt this time.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, get off AI. You're not allowed to have it. Drew, he's not allowed to have AI.

[Shannon Clark]

Some of those were real, though. Some of those pictures.

[Matt Jones]

I know, but Drew, he's not allowed to have AI.

[Drew]

It looks like he found it, though. I don't know how to do it.

[Matt Jones]

How did you find AI? No one was supposed to teach you that, Ryan. I.

[Ryan Lemon]

To be honest, I have no idea how to do it. Somebody sent me that photo.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, stop. Stop taking stuff people send you.

[Shannon Clark]

People are feeding them.

[Matt Jones]

They're encouraging the worst parts of you. You're gonna end up on a suspension at some point and it's gonna be because because you know Dante sent you a picture. You gotta stop.

[Ryan Lemon]

Undefeated this year doing it though.

[Matt Jones]

It doesn't matter. There's no correlation.

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