2026-02-25- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1

Episode Date: February 25, 2026
Hosts: Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Shannon Dawson
Station: iHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM)

Overview

This episode of KSR delivers the latest Kentucky basketball analysis following a crucial win over South Carolina. The hosts break down the game, discuss individual player performances, and debate postseason prospects. They also feature playful banter on Kentucky counties' "fightability", address a viral broadcast moment, and reflect on Kentucky athletics and its place among blue-blood programs. The show stays true to its fast-paced, conversational tone, offering both insight and comic relief.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Matt Jones' Voice Woes

• [02:46–05:22]
  • Matt opens the show with a raspy voice, explaining he’s having vocal cord issues and expects to start steroid treatment to recover for a live show in Madisonville.
  • Humorous speculation about which vocal cord is malfunctioning and their supposed functions:
    • “I think my right one is working okay. My left one is weak. ...And the left one, I think does my high volume, like the high pitch. ...So the right one is working.” – Matt Jones [03:33]
  • Drew and Shannon poke fun at Matt’s “doofenshmirtz core” and compare his voice to a late-night radio host.

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Kentucky vs. South Carolina Game Breakdown

• [05:48–16:14]
  • Kentucky wins 72-63, ending a losing streak in a gritty, unspectacular fashion.
  • Matt emphasizes the importance:
    • “The key thing...was to win. And we did that.” [06:03]
  • Analysis of key contributors and game dynamics:
    • Aberdeen and Diabate praised for stepping up offensively with Oway underperforming.
    • Chandler highlighted for clutch shooting at game-critical moments.
    • South Carolina’s lackluster performance is ridiculed, comparing their team to characters from "Teen Wolf".
      • “It looked like the team from Teen Wolf... the guy from the science fair.” – Matt Jones [09:17]
  • The abundance of Kentucky fans in South Carolina due to $4 tickets noted as significant [12:03].
  • Emphasis on rebounding dominance:
    • “They won the rebounding battle. 48 to 28. That's nuts.” – Shannon Dawson [12:59]

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Player-by-Player Analysis

• [10:49–16:38]
  • Oway:
    • Not a good offensive game but strong defense (5 steals).
  • Aberdeen:
    • “He is my MVP of the SEC play...The reason we don’t stink is because of Aberdeen.” – Matt Jones [11:18]
    • Hit crucial threes, had zero turnovers.
  • Chandler:
    • Hit big shots at both the start and end.
  • Malachi:
    • Noted for rebounding strength (11 boards) despite lacking physicality.
  • Diabate:
    • Praised for toughness and rebounding.
    • “Diabate...brings a level of toughness that nobody else on the team has...” – Matt Jones [13:30]
    • Described as relentless but inefficient scorer on some attempts; creates second-chance opportunities.
  • Trent:
    • Deep shooting slump and apparent confidence issue:
      • “No made field goal since January...those shots last night made me cry.” – Matt Jones [15:40]
  • Garrison:
    • Frustration at missed opportunities but credited for a go-ahead basket.
  • Jasper:
    • Confidence and ball-handling struggles:
      • “He can’t dribble. They just take the ball from him...he’s getting to the point where it’s becoming unplayable.” – Matt Jones [16:54]
  • Discussion on shortening rotation for postseason; preference for 6–7 man lineup [31:07].

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Fan and Social Media Interaction

• [23:54–24:59]
  • Listeners lament Kentucky players from in-state (Jasper, Trent) not producing in key moments; hosts empathize but prioritize performance.
  • Notable stat: The group of bench contributors (Noah, Jasper, Garrison) combined 1-for-11 from the field and 0-for-6 from three [17:23].
  • Calls and texts referenced throughout with fan sentiments and questions.

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The Peter Burns Broadcast Moment

• [25:02–28:04]
  • Discussion of ESPN’s Peter Burns referencing Matt Jones multiple times during the game broadcast, leading to viral social media mentions:
    • “Aberdeen is hotter than Matt Jones watching the State of the Union.” – as relayed by Matt [25:14]
    • Hosts and fans find the references funny and remark on Kentucky’s passionate fanbase.
  • Shannon jokes about possible emerging “bromance” between Matt and Peter Burns.

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Tournament Seeding and Postseason Outlook

• [31:31–33:46]
  • Kentucky is expected to make the NCAA tournament regardless of final games.
  • Hosts prefer a 6, 7, 10, or 11 seed—want to avoid 8–9 seeds to escape top-ranked opponents early.
    • “I just want us to be a 6, 7 or 10, 11 seed. I don't want us to be an 89 because we ain't beating these one seats, right?” – Matt Jones [33:04]
  • Advocated for using the final games for building momentum and seeding advantage.
  • Emphasis on pride and avenging an embarrassing loss to Vanderbilt in the upcoming game.

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Kentucky’s Place Among Basketball Blue Bloods

• [41:23–43:24]
  • Discussion sparked by Indiana’s recent struggles and comparisons.
  • Matt rebukes the idea that Kentucky basketball is “becoming Indiana,” noting the Hoosiers’ decades-long decline:
    • “Indiana hasn't made the final four since 1996. They're not just bad, they're really bad.” – Matt Jones [42:16]
  • Kentucky, despite frustrations, is reaffirmed as a premier program.
  • Short tangent regarding Tayshaun Prince as a potential “GM” for Kentucky, praised for his NBA front office experience.

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Fan Interaction: Kentucky Counties “Fightability”

• [45:17–48:34]
  • Humorous speculation: “If you had to fight a county, which one?”
  • Consensus emerges that “suburb counties” (Oldham and Jessamine) would be the easiest; avoid Eastern and Western Kentucky entirely.
    • “I don’t fight people from Clay County or Union County.” – Matt Jones [45:54]
  • Plenty of laughs and local references.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Aberdeen is my MVP of SEC play...The reason we don’t stink is because of Aberdeen.”
  – Matt Jones [11:18]

• “It looked like the team from Teen Wolf...The guy from the science fair.”
  – Matt Jones [09:17]

• On Peter Burns’ viral line:
  “Aberdeen is hotter than Matt Jones watching the State of the Union.”
  – Matt Jones quoting Peter Burns [25:14]

• “No made field goal since January...those shots last night made me cry.”
  – Matt Jones on Trent’s slump [15:40]

• “I just want us to be a 6, 7 or 10, 11 seed. I don't want us to be an 89 because we ain't beating these one seats, right?”
  – Matt Jones [33:04]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:46] – Show begins in earnest, Matt’s voice issues
• [05:48] – UK vs. South Carolina, game analysis
• [10:49] – Player-by-player discussion
• [12:59] – Rebounding dominance
• [15:40] – Discussing Trent’s shooting woes
• [23:54] – Listener questions on playing Kentucky natives
• [25:14] – Peter Burns/State of the Union moment
• [31:07] – Shortening postseason rotation
• [33:04] – On optimal tournament seeding
• [42:16] – Dismissing "becoming Indiana"
• [45:17] – The "fight a Kentucky county" debate

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Additional Fun Bits

• Inside Jokes:
  • “Doofenshmirtz core” for faulty vocal cord [04:00]
  • “Handing Garrison minutes to some yellow bitches” (Yellowvic subbing in for Garrison) [24:45]
• Pop Culture:
  • “Teen Wolf” analogies [09:17, 13:09]
  • “Lifehouse” song detour and burning CDs [22:02]
• Listener Engagement:
  • Several texts/calls worked into the show, keeping a lively community feel.

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Conclusion

Hour 1 is classic KSR: thorough Kentucky basketball analysis, playful and sometimes self-deprecating banter, fan interaction, and topical asides that keep hardcore fans and casual listeners equally entertained. The big takeaways: Kentucky is back on track for March, certain key players need to step up, and KSR is as much about the community and comedy as it is basketball.

Transcript

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[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Caller/Producer]

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

[Matt Jones]

All right, let's do this. Wednesday, February 25th. I am Matt Jones. Still little voice, struggling.

[Drew Franklin]

It sounded a little better than yesterday.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I didn't. I did not have a voice last night. It was gone. And now a little better today, hopefully. I'm doing a steroid treatment tomorrow. You know, I've diagnosed myself.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, we heard this first.

[Matt Jones]

The Clark's pump and shop Phone line is 859-280-2287. Avision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-774-5254. In this edition, sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, I'll make them pay, I believe. Ryan, you have two vocal cords. Am I right about that?

[Drew Franklin]

I'm not aware.

[Matt Jones]

Are you a doctor, ma'? Am? You work for a doctor. So she basically a doctor.

[Drew Franklin]

She can confirm.

[Matt Jones]

I think my right one is working okay. My left one is weak.

[Drew Franklin]

The left one's letting you down.

[Matt Jones]

And the left one, I think does my high volume, like the high pitch. And the right one does the low volume. So the right one is working. But then when I try, oh, this is how it works, ma'. Am. You may not. You weren't there that day when they taught this. And then the left one, when I try to go, well, then it does.

[Caller/Producer]

Your left cord is your doofenshmirtz core.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's my doofenshmirtz chord. And it's not working right now. And so it's only the other one.

[Shannon Dawson]

So doofen schmurt's on the IR today. Gotta keep a low voice.

[Matt Jones]

Gonna be like, you know, late, deep, sexy voice. Matt, I didn't ask you. This is going to be like, you know, late night with Match for. For today.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, good. Looking forward to hearing you do sound much better. Even though it's still got a little ways to go. There's progress.

[Matt Jones]

Well, it's deep. You know, this is kind of how I talk in life.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's like.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I think people think sometimes I'll meet somebody and then they'll hear my show and they go. They don't. That doesn't sound like you, but it's because it's like. But I'm not going to be able to. Yeah, today.

[Drew Franklin]

But you feel fine. It's just your voice.

[Matt Jones]

I'm a little congested, but I feel fine. I'm not sick. It's weird. Like last night, you know, the games going on and I'm wanting. I'm like, you know, you feel like you could do the shows because I feel fine. But when you can't talk, you can't talk. But like I said, I'm taking a steroid, doing like my Mark McGuire tonight.

[Shannon Dawson]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

And hopefully tomorrow because I want, you know, if it's like this, I couldn't do the show in Madisonville Friday, which we're, of course, going to your hometown.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's right. Very excited about going to my hometown. We'll get you back that steroid sounds like it'll help. And you, you know.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I do this about once a year again, ma'. Am. I mean, I can help you. Left vocal cord. Right. And the left one needs some work.

[Drew Franklin]

The left one is the high voice vocal cord.

[Matt Jones]

According to you, it's science.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

No, no, no, listen, I don't need your facts. I did my own research. I learned from rfk. You do your own research?

[Drew Franklin]

You did learn last time or two times. Do not drink a lot of water to help.

[Matt Jones]

No, no, no. I mean, no, don't. Don't flood yourself. I've been drinking water because you need to do that, but don't flood yourself like I did a few years ago. Cats win last night. What was the final score? 73. 67.

[Shannon Dawson]

263.

[Matt Jones]

7263. You know, not the prettiest basketball game in the world, but the key thing, Ryan, was to win. And we did that.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, it was. It was an ugly game. Hard to watch, especially that first half. First half, both teams were pretty bad, but they had to win. It, had to, had to, had to. I don't care how ugly it was. They walked out of there with a win, which is desperately what they needed, our fan base needed as we head down these last three games of the year.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, that was an ugly game. But before I just said, as Ryan just said, get out of there with a win. I don't care what it looks like. I even predicted it being closer than it was. So I can't switch up and nitpick. I'm just glad they got out of that losing funk and got out of the bubble talk. But just by getting a victory, and then we'll worry about what needs to still get fixed moving forward.

[Matt Jones]

The key is now they're in the tournament, right? Like now, I think they could lose every game and that and they would be in the tournament. They needed that one. And I think it's important you won Ryan without away really playing well. I mean, oh, a play bad and they still won. And I don't know, that would have happened a month ago, right?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. With owe only scoring eight points, you found a way to win without, you know, South Carolina did a good job on him, shutting him down and keeping him away. But Aberdeen stepped up. Diabate, his best game he's played in a long time. He stepped up, had some guys step up. We still had some guys that struggled, but some guys. Chandler hit another big shot. I mean, he hit like two threes, the first three of the game, then the big shot at the end of the game.

[Matt Jones]

Aberdeen and Diabate, to me, won him the game.

[Drew Franklin]

They did.

[Matt Jones]

Aberdeen hit the threes in the first half when we just could not score. And then Diabate in the last six or eight minutes making big plays. And then Chandler obviously hits the big shot. He didn't play great, but he hit the shot when it need hit the shot at the beginning of the game and the one at the end of the game that I thought were big.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah. Aberdeen and Chandler helped make up for Oway. Aberdeen especially. But I thought the big difference was they finally got help from the four with yellow Vic more so in the first half than Diabate in the second. They combined for like 23, 24 points. I think that was a big help. And if they're going to put together any kind of run, they're going to need more of that for those guys because the guards just need help. And they finally got it last night.

[Matt Jones]

Did you. You know when they. Did you ever think we were going to lose?

[Drew Franklin]

I felt like South Carolina was so bad. There's no way they're going to lose the game. I mean, it was uncomfortably close for a while and we struggled, but I thought South Carolina is just a bad basketball team, so. I know. Answer.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they did not play well.

[Drew Franklin]

No.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, South Carolina, first of all, Shannon, there was a little child on South Carolina.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah, there was.

[Matt Jones]

And people tell me that guy's famous. Did you know that?

[Drew Franklin]

What's he famous for?

[Matt Jones]

Being a little child. He what? His name. Ellis.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's who you're talking about. That guy?

[Matt Jones]

Why? Why is he famous?

[Shannon Dawson]

I didn't know he was famous. I just couldn't believe he was in

[Matt Jones]

the SEC when I tweeted about. I didn't even mention his name, but there were people like, put respect on Eli. Is that his name?

[Drew Franklin]

I think that sounds right.

[Matt Jones]

Put respect on his name. He's famous. But then I looked him up and I couldn't find him. So is he famous, Mario? For what?

[Shannon Dawson]

Nah, it's probably tick tocks.

[Matt Jones]

It's tick tocks. Well, anyway. Looks like a child. I honestly thought that like somebody, you know, like rich donors, their kids will get to clean the floor and stuff during games that I thought that's what happened. I thought they had a donor who they decided would let a 14 year old play that their whole team. I mean, I. I don't say this to be rude to them because they almost beat us. It looked like the team from Teen Wolf. Have you seen.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yes, of course.

[Matt Jones]

You know, there's one guy whose jersey's a little too tight and is big, a little chunky. They had that guy.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

He kind of ate us up for a couple minutes.

[Drew Franklin]

He did.

[Matt Jones]

They had like. They had like kids. The guy from the science fair. That's kind of what they look like. A buddy of mine texted and said did they South Carolina's nil group on. Because it was. Did look like kind of a Teen Wolf group.

[Shannon Dawson]

I was trying to stay excited about the win and not downplay Kentucky winning on the road in the SEC because that's hard. But South Carolina is really bad. I know that guy. The Elijah win three. I don't know that Elijah strong. He had a little run where he scored like seven points, but outside of that, he was over seven from three. He and that cappage or how you say his name, they had 10ft of space. We're taking open threes and just bricking them one after another. Now Kentucky was doing a little bit of that too, but both teams had wide open shots from deep and could not make them. South Carolina had four to start the game and finished with eight for the game. They just went absolutely cold.

[Matt Jones]

I'd like to do like a player by player, just not just this game because I don't know how much there is to analyze this game, but just in general. State of the players.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay. All right.

[Matt Jones]

Away. Did not play well but has been great this year. Would you agree?

[Drew Franklin]

And he's, you know, even though he didn't play well offensively, he still was guarded. Michi Johnson a lot of the game.

[Matt Jones]

He did a good job.

[Drew Franklin]

Did a good job locking him up. And I think he had five steals. Yeah. Last night. So the defensive end for always was good offensive end. They just shut him down.

[Matt Jones]

He once or twice a game just dribbles into three people and loses the ball. Like that's going to happen. You just have to accept it. But good. Aberdeen is my. He is my MVP of the SEC play. Not because he's been our best player. Always has But Aberdeen, the reason we don't stink is because of Aberdeen. Do you agree with that?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah. And you know, South Carolina led for most of the game early. I think they were up first 10 minutes, went up early, and then they had that 10, 0 run. And part of it was he hit those back to back threes. And that was the first time we got the go big blue chant from the crowd that completely flipped the game the way.

[Matt Jones]

Shout out. Not many South Carolina fans, but a lot of Kentucky fans.

[Shannon Dawson]

$4 tickets, $4, $4 to go see Kentucky basketball on the road.

[Drew Franklin]

A lot of empty seats available.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

I'll say this about Aberdeen to zero turnovers last night.

[Matt Jones]

I love the kid.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And I couldn't stand watching him play in the first half of the year.

[Drew Franklin]

Agreed. I'm with you.

[Matt Jones]

And I. I love him now. He's played great. Chandler not played great, but hit shots when it matters and has been important for the team.

[Drew Franklin]

Very important. And yeah, like you said, he didn't. He kind of struggled, but he still hit the big shot at the end of the game. He just got that knack for at the end of the game making the big play. And he did it again last night.

[Matt Jones]

Malachi has been much better than I would have thought, and good. You've started to see in the last five or six games. His lack of strength is starting to hurt him because guys are taking the ball from him there, there. But he had, what, 11 rebounds night, so that was. That was big for him as well.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, they won the rebounding battle. 48 to 28. That's. That's nuts. I mean, like, the South Carolina players even have arms. Like, how do you lose that bad inside? But Malachi was a big part of it.

[Matt Jones]

Team Wolf, they don't rebound. That's true. That's true. They don't. They don't feel the need to until

[Caller/Producer]

he turns into the wolf. Then he's.

[Matt Jones]

Their guys haven't turned into the wolf yet. They'll do that at the SEC tournament. That's when the little child becomes a wolf.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, you don't.

[Matt Jones]

You don't remember the storyline? Oh, I do.

[Caller/Producer]

I just.

[Shannon Dawson]

I didn't get the connection to South Carolina, but I see it now.

[Matt Jones]

Diabate. Inconsistent, but brings a level of toughness that nobody else on the team has. That I think is big. And you saw that last night, what

[Drew Franklin]

he took over last night on this bully, bullying inside, playing good defense, getting big rebounds. Now when he gets the ball, he ain't gonna pass it back out, but

[Matt Jones]

he gets the ball. I mean, you can see it. He will get the ball sometimes. And it's like this is going up and he dribbles. He puts his head down.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, put his head down.

[Matt Jones]

He dribbles it very low to the ground, like he's almost below his knee. And he just. And they could send five people, a police department, guard dogs. He shoot.

[Drew Franklin]

He's good going up.

[Matt Jones]

And ain't nothing that's gonna stop him.

[Drew Franklin]

Nope.

[Matt Jones]

And he shoots probably 20% on those shots, but when he gets them, they tend to be an and one.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

And so. But I like his rebounding, his toughness.

[Shannon Dawson]

Football could have used him on the goal line last year. I think that lower my head, run through anything could have worked on the other side of campus. But it became very clear in the second half. They realized they had a big advantage inside, and they just bullied their way in. I mean, he even had the breakaway where he went end to end, got an one finish. He cut a few times. They hit him on passes inside, but they made him part of the attack.

[Matt Jones]

He met one of the biggest plays of the game. He made a move. It was another I'm not gonna pass move. Missed. But Garrison was able to get the put back and got it in one. And that was really. Diabate created that play.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, the bottle. When you're talking about. He makes that movie a lot of time. He just didn't even shoot it. He just throws it up.

[Matt Jones]

He does throw it.

[Drew Franklin]

He just kind of throws.

[Matt Jones]

Didn't play great, but hit a couple big threes.

[Drew Franklin]

He did.

[Shannon Dawson]

Missed it. Missed a few as well.

[Drew Franklin]

Was he one one of six or something?

[Shannon Dawson]

It doesn't matter how he finished.

[Matt Jones]

The one was. Felt good.

[Shannon Dawson]

I think the one was the sixth one. He started over five.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And then, you know,

[Drew Franklin]

we got to talk about it.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's not fun to talk about.

[Matt Jones]

So Trent has made three baskets in February.

[Shannon Dawson]

No, he's made zero. He has two free throws.

[Matt Jones]

That's all he has. Well, that's in the last two weeks.

[Shannon Dawson]

No, he has no made full goal since January.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, that's even worse. Those shots last night made me cry. I mean, there was his first three. The one in the corner may be the worst shot that's ever been taken. It was like three feet short left,

[Shannon Dawson]

so I didn't see it. I'd stepped out of the room and I got.

[Matt Jones]

Don't watch.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, I got a bunch of texts about it, and I'm like, well, I have to go rewind this now to see how Bad.

[Matt Jones]

It was.

[Shannon Dawson]

And I wish I hadn't.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, it was bad.

[Drew Franklin]

Breaks all of our hearts too. And he said we see that.

[Matt Jones]

I think Brandon Garrison, I, you know, it's Mario's fault. He brings it, he brings it out of me. Although he did hit what I think was the shot that put us in the lead for good last night.

[Drew Franklin]

He hit a big bucket, had a big and one play there late in the game.

[Matt Jones]

But he's frustrated.

[Shannon Dawson]

He made some good passes, had a couple good passes.

[Drew Franklin]

You're right.

[Matt Jones]

And then Jasper. I don't know, man.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't know either with Jasper. You know, I've been trying to be his number one supporter, but he's, he's, he's struggling right now for sure. You know, missing some shots. He's. He normally hits. I don't know if he's just lost his confidence and he's shooting and that's affecting his overall game.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, he, he can't dribble.

[Shannon Dawson]

They just trap him and take it.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they just take the. But they just take the ball from.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, one of them is almost back to back. He got lucky. The ball rolled over to diabate on the block. But he almost got stripped on back to back plays.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, you know, I mean, he's getting to the point where it's becoming unplayable.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, that's how those guys played. Couple guys played over 37 minutes last night. I think Colin and away. And Aberdeen.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Can we make it 39,

[Shannon Dawson]

dear bate saved the bench, but the Noah Jasper garrison group went one for 11 from the field and over six from three. Those three guys.

[Drew Franklin]

Ouch.

[Matt Jones]

Ouch. Yeah. Ouch is right. 859-280-2287. We're gonna take a break. 772-7745254. We are here. I'm teaching this woman who used to work for a doctor all about medicine. And we will be right back. This is Kentucky sports radio.

[Amanda Knox]

In 2023, a story gripped the UK evoking horror and disbelief.

[Matt Jones]

The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history.

[Amanda Knox]

Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict. A villain. A nurse named Lucy Letby.

[Matt Jones]

Lucy Letby has been found guilty.

[Amanda Knox]

But what if we didn't get the whole story?

[Matt Jones]

The moment you look at the whole

[Shannon Dawson]

picture, the case collapses.

[Amanda Knox]

I'm Amanda Knox and in the new podcast the Case of Lucy Letby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it to ask what really happened. When the world decided who Lucy Letby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt.

[Matt Jones]

It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong.

[Amanda Knox]

Listen to Doubt the Case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Jones]

China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in Tor 2017, the FBI got inside.

[Drew Franklin]

This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall.

[Caller/Producer]

This MSS officer has no idea the

[Matt Jones]

US Government is onto him.

[Caller/Producer]

But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast?

[Matt Jones]

I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer. No doubt, no question of his life. And that's a unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that.

[Shannon Dawson]

It was unbelievable.

[Matt Jones]

This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets.

[Caller/Producer]

Listen to the 6th Bureau on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Amanda Knox]

I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season two podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumprite became the victim of a random crime.

[Matt Jones]

He pulls the gun, tells me to lie down on the ground.

[Amanda Knox]

He identified Jermaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Jermaine was sentenced to 99 years.

[Matt Jones]

I'm like, lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity. The best lie is partial truth.

[Amanda Knox]

For 22 years, only two people knew the truth. Until a confession changed everything.

[Matt Jones]

I was a monster.

[Amanda Knox]

Listen to Burden of guilt season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real?

[Matt Jones]

If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?

[Amanda Knox]

Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car?

[Caller]

When you look at your car, you're

[Matt Jones]

going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings.

[Amanda Knox]

Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?

[Matt Jones]

I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.

[Amanda Knox]

Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Nlp, AKA Neuro Linguistic Programming, is a blend of hypnosis, linguistics and psychology. Fans say it's like finally getting a user manual for your brain.

[Matt Jones]

It's about engineering consciousness.

[Amanda Knox]

Mind games is the story of nlp, its crazy cast of disciples, and the fake doctor who invented it. At a new Age Commune and sold it to guys in suits. He stood trial for murder and got acquitted. The biggest mind game of all, NLP might actually work. This is wild. Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Matt Jones]

We are hanging by a moment here on Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Love me some Lifehouse. Are they at Larger Than Life, Louder Than Life?

[Caller/Producer]

No, they're not. They're not. I think they'd be more of a Bourbon and beyond band.

[Matt Jones]

But they still wonder if they still play.

[Caller/Producer]

I think they do. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

But I would only want to hear this song. The rest of it is. Yeah, but this is the only one that matters.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh, that's Mitts. I. I loved Lighthouse. Not enough to Lifehouse, not enough to buy their cd. But I burned them all, had all the birds.

[Caller/Producer]

Oh, you like them enough to steal their music?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, I worked at Kroger.

[Matt Jones]

You have to really like a band to buy their music.

[Caller/Producer]

Especially today.

[Matt Jones]

Stealing their music. Yeah, I mean, like I. I've bought one album in 15 years and it was the Tyler Childers Purgatory on vinyl. Because I felt like vinyl. Yeah, he signed it for me. It's actually at my house.

[Drew Franklin]

That's pretty cool.

[Matt Jones]

But. But that's it.

[Shannon Dawson]

See, growing up, I only had singles money. So I'd get a song and I go buy the single and it would have like the remix, the Spanish one,

[Matt Jones]

and the instrumental ones like the Spanish one.

[Shannon Dawson]

But the full album, just. I didn't have many of those.

[Matt Jones]

Sorry.

[Caller/Producer]

They're not on tour right now, so.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, that's too bad. Eli Ellis apparently played with Jasper Johnson

[Shannon Dawson]

at Overtime Elite and he has 700000 followers on Instagram.

[Matt Jones]

Is it just like he's a child? I mean, is he good at basketball or at Instagram at Tick tock.

[Shannon Dawson]

He seems to be better at Instagram.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Shannon Dawson]

It looks like he does a lot with sunglasses on. Maybe.

[Matt Jones]

Maybe that makes him more.

[Shannon Dawson]

Maybe I got a Beamer thing going on.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, he's not spending the money on his decorations in his room. 859-280-22871, person writes. Matt, we all love Jasper and Noah because they're from Kentucky, but can you play those guys in the postseason? I mean, I don't think you have a choice to at least for a few minutes, but I don't know, it's tough. I feel bad for him. I mean, you know, look, Trent Hole starting at the beginning of the year, you know, he was Starting?

[Drew Franklin]

Yep.

[Shannon Dawson]

He's at least rebounded. He had five again last night.

[Matt Jones]

That's 10 and five in the first half.

[Shannon Dawson]

So he finds something else to do. But it's clear he has the yips or something Mental. I don't know how you break him out of it. Heck. Well, I guess you got some tough opponents left, but I'd try to just feed him some shots and try to get him out of the funk, because I do think you'll need him to hit some shots if you're gonna go on any kind of run.

[Drew Franklin]

Like you said, I don't know if you said it off the air, on the air. Those after he banked that one off the side of the board. The other two threes he had were wide open. I mean, he had wide open, great looks. Those are shots that he would hit down any sleep. So he's got to have his confidence issue. I think the same thing with Jasper. I think the confidence with him and maybe affecting his whole game.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. One time, Yellow Bitch and Noah were over 8 from 3, which is not what you want.

[Drew Franklin]

No.

[Matt Jones]

And most of them were open.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yellow Bitch made all his twos. He drove a lot. I want a little more yellow. I wish we'd take a few more Garrison minutes, just pass them over.

[Matt Jones]

I'm fine handing some Garrisons to some yellow bitches. Yellow Bitch has some mistakes, but I don't think they rub it my soul as much as the Garrison ones do.

[Shannon Dawson]

He's had a lot of turnovers in the last week, but he's getting a little better.

[Matt Jones]

One person writes, Matt, what about Peter Burns burning you at halftime? Okay. That was a big thing to everybody last night. I thought it was really funny.

[Drew Franklin]

I did, too.

[Matt Jones]

He said for people who didn't hear it coming out of the break, Aberdeen is hotter than Matt Jones watching the State of the Union.

[Drew Franklin]

Great line. Great line.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, I'm glad the fan base knows me well enough to know that it means, like, angry and not like Trump's getting me in a lather to use Shannon's or to use Ryan's words. But I was really surprised he said it. I'm kind of surprised because, you know, they. They say during games, don't bring up pod. You know, don't do any of that. So I think it was funny. You know, Peter, I like Peter. We're friends. Made me laugh. But it was also like, our fan base knows what that means, and it's cool. Like, I. I liked it. I thought it was funny.

[Shannon Dawson]

There was a lot of them, though.

[Drew Franklin]

Does he.

[Shannon Dawson]

Does he owe you money or something?

[Caller/Producer]

He's trying to make up for Peter. You do realize other people are watching this game other than Matt Jones, right?

[Shannon Dawson]

It was like.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah, he was just catering it to you.

[Matt Jones]

I understand. But that's good.

[Caller/Producer]

It's good for you.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, he did it three times.

[Drew Franklin]

I missed the third one. I guess I was in the car driving home when he did.

[Matt Jones]

He talked about a tweet I'd sent about diabate.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay. Yeah. Both times I was watching the game

[Matt Jones]

and I heard it like, Shannon, were you jealous to say something about you?

[Caller/Producer]

I thought the guy named Peter Burns might mention std, but he didn't.

[Matt Jones]

So. Anyway, you would think that.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, I think he sees what Tom Hart has with the fan base.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

He might be like, I. I would like to have some of that too. I'll drop some nuggets.

[Matt Jones]

What? Smart. Like he's.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

I wonder if Tom might be a little jealous.

[Shannon Dawson]

And I think we have Tom Saturday.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we do.

[Shannon Dawson]

Maybe we get a back and forth.

[Matt Jones]

Peter Burns, I'll tell you, having spent some time with immaculate dresser. Best dresser, see? The best dresser in broadcasting. And he dresses like that Southern like. He dresses like he's going to Keeneland.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes, he does.

[Matt Jones]

You know. Yeah. So he dresses like his life is perpetually going to King Paisley.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah. Some pastels.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Caller/Producer]

Budding bromance going on here between you two.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, you haven't. You hosted with him before.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So? So, I mean, like, it sounds like. It sounds to me like Shannon is complete jealousy here.

[Caller/Producer]

No, I like Peter.

[Matt Jones]

I like it.

[Caller/Producer]

He just mentioned to you like every time they went to break, it was you.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, it was a lot.

[Caller/Producer]

I thought maybe he had like a

[Matt Jones]

bet on how many times we're talking about it.

[Shannon Dawson]

I enjoyed it. Not a complaint. I just. I wondered what was going on.

[Matt Jones]

Website awful announcing put out the video of him saying that about the State of the Union.

[Drew Franklin]

It would not have been made a difference. It was another team. But he knows Kentucky fans. He knows we're watching it didn't do it for South Carolina fans watching a guy.

[Matt Jones]

We just don't recognize the reference.

[Caller/Producer]

By the way, how hot were you watching that last night?

[Matt Jones]

I didn't watch it. I'm not gonna watch the station. Are you kidding me?

[Shannon Dawson]

Billy was watching it on mute.

[Matt Jones]

When I saw. When I saw the pre. The thing said it was going to be two, maybe three hours, I was like, are you? Yeah. Why would I do that?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I don't care who's talking I'm not listening for two hours.

[Matt Jones]

Also, I hate it. Not just him. I hate the whole thing. I hate that, like, they all get in line like children to take selfies with the picture, and then they clap and stand and sit and, like, you know, I mean, that was in the past. That was like 40 minutes. Everybody shut up. Just speak and get out. But now it's like a whole show. And then they bring in, you know, sad stories, happy stories. You know, I just. I. I've never liked it, to be honest with you. Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton ruined it because Bill Clinton, like, was so good at it that it then became, like, a production. And I don't like it.

[Drew Franklin]

They introduced the hockey team, right, as a part.

[Matt Jones]

They didn't give them seats. Didn't they have to walk in and then leave, get out of here? Or maybe they were like, I ain't staying here. Just give us two hours. It's two. It's two hours. South Carolina's playing. We'll take a break. Be right back.

[Shannon Dawson]

SKSR T.J. smith, personal injury attorney.

[Drew Franklin]

Call T.J. he'll make him pay.

[Caller/Producer]

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

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Text machine. 772-774-5254. One person writes, Ryan said he wouldn't listen to anyone speak for two hours, yet he's on the radio for two hours every single day.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, we have a conversation. To sit there, listen to one guy talk for two hours. I don't care who it is. I'm probably gonna struggle to stay alert.

[Matt Jones]

So you don't listen to, like, Big Blue Insider?

[Shannon Dawson]

Never heard of podcast?

[Drew Franklin]

I don't listen to podcasts very often.

[Matt Jones]

You don't listen to Big Blue Insider

[Drew Franklin]

when they have a discussion.

[Matt Jones]

So you just don't want to listen to one person?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. Like, sit in front of a TV and watch somebody speak for two hours. That's a lot.

[Matt Jones]

You know, we have Friday people coming to hear us speak at Madisonville. We have people watching us speak right now in front of you.

[Shannon Dawson]

Have you ever seen a comedy special?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

You ever like those? Didn't you go see a comedy show in Cincinnati?

[Matt Jones]

You go see a guy talk to his puppets for two hours.

[Drew Franklin]

That's entertainment right there.

[Matt Jones]

We got people here from Irvine Irvin. Not Irvine Irvin. Oldham County. Nicholsville. Oh, I'm sorry. Where? Carrollton. That's right. Carrollton and Nicholsville. So here at the bar, it's wings day. It is Wednesday dollar wings all day. 859-280-22871, writes Matt, I love Jasper Trent. It makes me sad not to see them play well. But the reality is not everyone can play. And I think we go six guys and Garrison and Jasper and Noah. Only when people need a quick breather. That's what I would do. I mean you gotta remember, go back to our national championship team in 2012. We only played six guys. Eloy Vargas was kind of the occasional seventh, but they basically played what but Lamb, Gilchrist, Miller, Teague Davis, Terrence Jones, I guess Kyle Wilcher was the seventh. He played a little, Eloy would play a little, but they basically were a six man rotation.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, it's not ideal, but we, we see what these guys are doing right now. Unless just a light goes off with Trent and the shot keeps going in. He could play a little more because he has been rebounding. But I mean Jasper's gotten to the point where it seems like he just can't even bring the ball up. I don't know if that can be

[Matt Jones]

fixed in a couple weeks now that we're in the tournament. Before we go the phone, do these last three games like they matter? I mean they kind of, obviously they matter, but like we're not going to be higher than a six at most and we're not gonna be lower than probably a 10 or 11. Does it matter?

[Drew Franklin]

Can it help us keep from playing on Wednesday night at the SEC tournament if we win?

[Shannon Dawson]

That matters.

[Matt Jones]

That matters right now. Look, I looked at it. Assuming the games finish tonight, like, like I think they will, we would be a 7 seed right now in the SEC tournament, which would give you a buy. But our schedules are harder than everyone. I mean if you don't want to play on Wednesday, what you're sitting there hoping is Texas loses games, Missouri loses games.

[Shannon Dawson]

Missouri winning last night.

[Matt Jones]

Missouri winning didn't help us. That was bad for us. Although it now made it to where if we kept winning in Tennessee were to lose because Tennessee has a couple hard games, we have the tiebreaker against. True, but Missouri winning did not help us because they have the tiebreaker against us.

[Shannon Dawson]

I don't think it matters for seating, but if you're one of these people, whether a fan or you're on the damn team, if you think you have a run in March, you need to turn a corner now and win some of these games and show you're capable and get some momentum going.

[Matt Jones]

I just want us to be a 6, 7 or 10, 11 seed. I don't want us to be an 89 because we ain't beating these one seats, right?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I. I've always thought you'd be better off being an 11 seed than being an eight because you got. Because you're going to play a six and a three instead of a one. And the ones are so good this year, in my opinion. They're so much better than the other team.

[Drew Franklin]

I want. I want to win this game Saturday just for him to show me something. You know, Vanderbilt punk'd you. They. They. They not just beat you. They embarrassed you down in Nashville. You played horrible. Show some pride, man. Man up and come out and try to win. Win this. Not just try. Win this game on Saturday.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we. Shut up, Shannon. Since he thought my name was mentioned too much. It was. Maybe.

[Caller/Producer]

Maybe you can mention it four times next game.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I'm gonna challenge him to do that. Who's up? Who's up first?

[Caller/Producer]

Let's go to Will.

[Matt Jones]

Will. Go ahead, Will. Wow.

[Caller]

I was not expecting to be the first caller chosen. I feel honored. Slightly privileged.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you.

[Caller]

Well, I was gonna say, I called yesterday and I have to do a little bit of a victory lap because I said we have a little bit of a rivalry with South Carolina, and it was a close game, just like I thought it would be. And really, truly, this was when we lost. Calipari was when we lost to South Carolina. So that was a pivotal turning point in that rivalry. And honestly, when I saw that Meeche Johnson was still on that roster, that's when I thought we could lose, because I talked shit to him at that game.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate the call. You can't. You can't cuss. We do not have a rivalry with South Carolina. But we got to stop with that. It's not. If I were to list our SEC basketball rivals. Football, little different.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I actually think we are a little bit of a rival with them in football. Basketball. If you were ranked the sec rivals. Tennessee 1, Florida 2. Vandy, Vandy 3, Arkansas, 4.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'd even go Mississippi State above South Carolina, even though there's not much there either.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, South Carolina to me would be. The only ones less are, like, Oklahoma, but even Texas A and M. I can remember games more than South Carolina. I mean, Texas, no. Oklahoma, no. Missouri. I mean, like, would they be, like, 10th in the SEC for me?

[Shannon Dawson]

But most teams you named are pretty new. We hadn't even had time to.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

Tickets were $4. You can't call yourself a rivalry if it's $4 to get into the game.

[Drew Franklin]

There were a lot of empty seats last night at that game.

[Shannon Dawson]

I didn't expect a good crowd. I couldn't believe how many empties were in the lower bowl when they would zoom out.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, did we have. Did we have as many people as they did?

[Shannon Dawson]

It looked like we had several people call in on their way home. Said, like, there's just an entire section of UK fans. That's what we kept hearing on the broadcast.

[Matt Jones]

You know, when I was in law school, I went to that game every year. We played them twice a year. And I went. I remember I was there once when the space shuttle cry crashed. I don't know why I'm telling you that, but I just remember we were playing South Carolina once.

[Shannon Dawson]

You didn't crash there, right?

[Matt Jones]

No, but I think I was. I was in Columbia. I think it was the space shuttle Columbia. Right. That crashed.

[Shannon Dawson]

Interesting.

[Matt Jones]

People don't seem as interested about that as I thought they would be.

[Shannon Dawson]

I've been to Columbia more than any other SEC town for the best in

[Drew Franklin]

the space shuttle Columbia exploded in 1986, though.

[Matt Jones]

That's the challenger.

[Drew Franklin]

As the Challenger.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. You. Pretty big one.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that's what I thought you were talking about.

[Matt Jones]

No, Columbia. Look it up. Shannon. See when. Or Drew. See when the space shuttle. And see if it was like January or February, because I think we were playing. I was at Duke and I think we were playing South Carolina.

[Caller/Producer]

February 1st, 2003.

[Shannon Dawson]

2003.

[Drew Franklin]

There you go.

[Matt Jones]

And was it the space show Columbia?

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

That's why Peter Bones dropped Peter Burn.

[Matt Jones]

Dropped Peter Bones. That's why Peter Bones dropped Bobby Bones had him.

[Drew Franklin]

Peter.

[Matt Jones]

Dude.

[Drew Franklin]

Peter Bones.

[Shannon Dawson]

We also. We all. We did play on that day and we won by.

[Matt Jones]

Do you Remember score now 1 by 18.

[Shannon Dawson]

Big games from Marquis Estelle, Keith Bogans and Eric Daniels.

[Drew Franklin]

There we go.

[Matt Jones]

You got two major errors there.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

The space shutter shuttle Challenger and Peter Bones.

[Drew Franklin]

Peter Bones.

[Matt Jones]

And I remembered the exact. That was just a lot of you and I right there. Who's next?

[Caller/Producer]

Ben.

[Matt Jones]

Ben. Go ahead, Ben. Hey, guys. I was really happy that we won last night overall. Trying to change directions here. I was watching a YouTube or a tick tock video last night, and this guy suggested for the NBA All Star Game next year, they do the team World and then Team Kentucky. I want that. So it was Max Kelp, Max Kellerman. He's doing an interview with Rich Paul. I appreciate the call. LeBron's agent. And they're talking about the All Star Game and they suggested next year. Team usa, Team World, Team Kentucky. And it was like Team World was like Luka, Giannis, Jokic, really good. Team Team USA was like LeBron, Durant, Curry, Tatum and then Team Kentucky. And Rich Paul's like, Kentucky's not going to be. And they were like, hang on. And he was like, Shay, Booker, Maxi Towns, Bam Randall. And he was like, oh, yeah. He was like, yeah, that would be a good game.

[Drew Franklin]

Be a good little game. Good little squad.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

When Darren Fox was like your eighth man, got pretty good squad.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. The. Aaron Fox was on it. I mean, he didn't even have Reed or any of that. I mean, that's, you know, if you, if you were to look at the, the way they had it set up, the USA and the world team would be better, but not by a lot. I mean, we would put a competitive

[Shannon Dawson]

game against them Walling Cousins coach and just be a part of it somehow.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, Davis, obviously Davis was on the team. Was on the team too.

[Drew Franklin]

I'd love to see it. Of course, the Kentucky fan. I think we'd love to see it, to see how they.

[Matt Jones]

Well, and all those guys they mentioned have been all Stars in the last two years. So it wasn't like. It wasn't like. It was crazy. I mean, all those guys had been all stars.

[Shannon Dawson]

Shaden Sharp, he's had a great year in the NBA. We taking him?

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon, would you count Shade and Sharp?

[Caller/Producer]

Probably not.

[Drew Franklin]

He warmed up.

[Shannon Dawson]

Johnson, Emmanuel, Quickley, Tyler, Hero was on

[Caller/Producer]

our layup line at one point. Is he on the team?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, Shane Sharp is not. I don't consider Shane Sharp a Kentucky player, but I don't have anything against the guy, but I feel like you have to play. Like I will consider Jaden Quaint is a Kentucky player. Even though it was only three games he played. He played. I don't think I consider Shane Sharp one, but I. But I do kind of consider Enos one. Even though he didn't play. He was trying because he nothing in

[Shannon Dawson]

Shaden's way except tried his agent.

[Matt Jones]

So I do consider him one, but I don't shake. Is that bad of me?

[Drew Franklin]

Well, yeah, we all got to RUP arena early to watch him warm up and go through the layup.

[Matt Jones]

Do you all consider Shade and Sharp a UK player? You don't remember him? There you go. There's the answer. There's the answer. Commonwealth causes creating a better Kentucky by shining a spotlight on local charities. The Queen of Hearts raffle every Thursday. You play it, don't you?

[Drew Franklin]

I do play it.

[Matt Jones]

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[Drew Franklin]

Never. I'm going to though one of these days.

[Matt Jones]

The ultimate bourbon collection raffle is this Thursday. Gives you a shot at twenty thousand dollars worth of bourbon or share of the ten thousand dollar Queen of hearts. Kentucky Commonwealth Causes has donated six hundred fifty thousand dollars to non profits.

[Drew Franklin]

How awesome is that?

[Matt Jones]

They also did that. They were the first donor to the Weatherman yes challenge, which by the way, TG Shuck, they just, that money just

[Drew Franklin]

got to the Humane Society.

[Matt Jones]

To the humane society. Common causes.org it's commonwealthcause.org Support with Commonwealth causes and you can win the bourbon. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. 859-280-2287. Techie Sports Radio. One person writes, Matt, my favorite thing of the day yesterday was Indiana is likely out of the tournament. All right. It's a, it's a common talking point, Drew, for people to go, oh, we're becoming Indiana. People need to understand what Indiana is. Okay? Indiana hasn't made the final four since 1996. Okay. Or 95, something like that. Been forever. But they also, they're not just like bad, they're really bad. They are now firmly on the cut line of the bubble. Maybe out last night they lost a Northwestern. And the stat that came up was amazing to me. They have lost to Northwestern, Indiana six straight times.

[Drew Franklin]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

Home and away six straight times. Northwestern. That's amazing.

[Drew Franklin]

It's embarrassing. Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

I think, well, now this year Nebraska's got a good team, but I think even when they were losing to those Nebraska team, we went to one of them.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we went to, we were at

[Shannon Dawson]

a game and Nebraska went on Senior Day. And I was excited because I hate Indiana. But I kept thinking how far this program has fallen. And I'm sitting here watching Nebraska celebrate in Bloomington.

[Matt Jones]

So I'm not trying to like, downplay the concerns people have. Like this guy right here was talking about how he has season tickets and he can't even make himself go to the nine o' clock games. And I get all that, but I just, we've got to stop saying we're going to become Indiana. Indiana is like Indiana's on a different, I mean, if you were to rank the programs of the last 20 years, is Indiana even in the top 40?

[Drew Franklin]

Maybe not.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, maybe not.

[Drew Franklin]

They had that one good run that one year, but that was about it.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, that's so, you know, it is perspective because you would not want to be Indiana. And they just keep hiring new coaches and it doesn't Work.

[Shannon Dawson]

They did just hire gm, though. If I could copy one thing Indiana's doing, I would like to do that.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that is true. We need to do that. What about, by the way, people, when they talk about gm, I keep seeing the name Tayshawn Prince. You know, normally I don't like the idea of you get a guy because he went here, Tayshawn's the assistant GM for the Grizzly. Like, that actually is one that would be kind of good.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. He's got a resume that can back up, putting him in that position. He knows about roster development, roster management, budgeting for players and stuff.

[Matt Jones]

He's.

[Drew Franklin]

That's why that's his life.

[Matt Jones]

And also just love.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, he may be. He's top five all time for me and just person. I. I love Tayshawn Prince.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah. I don't put him in that category of, like, the list of former players. He's a legit candidate. If you look at him. I think Nasi's in that territory too. Those two are, like, beloved around the NBA. Been at a lot of stops, played a lot and worked for a lot of teams. I can't even imagine the connections they have in the league. So those are two that I would put aside from the typical people don't get a former player conversation.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, who's next?

[Caller/Producer]

Mike.

[Matt Jones]

Mike, Go ahead, Mike. Mike. All right, who's next? Alex. Alex. Go ahead, Alex. You can feel the left core.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, My name's Alex Green. We're setting up here at the. We're setting up for the state wrestling tournament this weekend. Thursday Fridays. The boys girls is on Saturday here at the horse park.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Caller]

If you guys. Anybody listening is able to come, we'd love to have you. We got the Randy brothers going for six and five time. Respectfully. We have two girls going for three timers. We have several guys this year that have signed the Wrestle Division 1. We're setting the mats up All Tech arena. You guys come be a part of it.

[Matt Jones]

All right. I appreciate the call. The brothers, aren't they, like going to Iowa or something? Signed a big nil deal. Am I right about that? All right, there you go. Never mind.

[Drew Franklin]

They are without a doubt the best wrestlers this state has ever produced. I mean, they're not just state champions.

[Matt Jones]

They won his world seventh graders, didn't they?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So I feel like they're gonna win this year.

[Drew Franklin]

They're world champions. These guys are just amazing. I mean, they'll probably be in the Olympics.

[Matt Jones]

They are world champions. Yes.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And they're from where?

[Shannon Dawson]

Union County.

[Matt Jones]

Boy, they got something in the water there.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes they do. Wrestling factory.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's my area. I don't mess with Union County.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, yeah, you don't. I don't fight people from Clay county or Union County.

[Drew Franklin]

Amen.

[Matt Jones]

Or really any of the counties.

[Shannon Dawson]

If you had to fight a county, which county are you fighting?

[Matt Jones]

That's a great question.

[Drew Franklin]

Is a good question.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so you're saying I get a random county and I can. And. And I the average citizen in that county.

[Shannon Dawson]

You're fighting for humanity and you have to pick a Kentucky county.

[Matt Jones]

So we're basically saying what is the. The weakest county in Kentucky?

[Caller/Producer]

I got the answer. I think you go.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Before you do it. I'm not going anywhere in the eastern Kentucky. Forget it. I'm not going out in western Kentucky because they're out there in their farms with detractors and the hay and I'm not doing that. So I gotta go. I'm probably gonna fight somebody from Jessamine County. Okay. Well I mean it's. It's suburb. Yeah. Right. There's a Christian college there. They don't fight. Right. The Lord doesn't want them to do that. When Wilmore. So I'm gonna say and Jared Polson, he's not. He's not a fighter. I'm gonna say Jessmyn, what about you?

[Shannon Dawson]

I think I'd just go at Oldham.

[Matt Jones]

That's it.

[Caller/Producer]

That's the answer.

[Matt Jones]

Here's the problem with Oldham. There's some country Oldham people too like that. Like it's not the. We all think of the rich people but like I almost got shot in lagrange, remember at the courthouse. Like there. There's some. So yeah there's a lot of rich people but they got some other people that. So I hold them.

[Caller/Producer]

I'm hand to hand combat.

[Matt Jones]

Hand to hand. Listen, this dude could have beat me in the hand combat too. So you should have seen his truck. It could have been anything. Yeah. What about you?

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm thinking of risk reward though. Like do I get Papa John's castle if I win with that like eagle clock in the rotating driveway.

[Matt Jones]

Ye. Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm looking at territories part of Oldham

[Matt Jones]

county though than that. What about you?

[Drew Franklin]

Oh it's the answer's Oldham County. There is no doubt guys. Here it is with no.

[Matt Jones]

Is there any. Are there any like redneck Jessamine county though?

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Where?

[Drew Franklin]

Oh yes. Out in the county.

[Matt Jones]

Like where in the county like you want you get?

[Drew Franklin]

Well even Nicholasville itself. City of Nicholasville.

[Matt Jones]

Oh Nicholasville can't fight.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, yes, they can.

[Shannon Dawson]

Honestly. My second one's Fayette County. I'll step outside right now.

[Matt Jones]

Somebody hadn't been to Georgetown. What are you talking about?

[Shannon Dawson]

I mean, there are spots I'm certainly going to lose, but of all the counties, I think my best shot would be around.

[Matt Jones]

I think we all agree, though, the suburbs.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

The suburb counties are the place.

[Drew Franklin]

And eliminate all of the eastern Kentucky county in west.

[Matt Jones]

We don't spend as much time in west. But you get out there towards the river. Yeah. I mean, again, we're talking about Union. There's some horses out there.

[Shannon Dawson]

Mines and farms.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. We'll take a break, come back, stay on topic. Hour number twos. KSR.