2026-03-11- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

KSR - Hour 1 | March 11, 2026 | Kentucky Sports Radio

Overview

In this lively episode, Matt Jones and the Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) crew — including Ryan, Shannon, and Billy — broadcast live in the early hours on the opening day of the SEC Tournament. With Kentucky (UK) basketball's postseason hopes in flux, the discussion ranges from NCAA tournament seeding scenarios and game-day logistics to Bam Adebayo's historic 83-point NBA performance, ticket prices, fan culture, and classic KSR banter about, among other things, Ryan's notorious nudity comments. The energy is high as anxiety and anticipation build for UK's big game.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Early Show and SEC Tournament Energy

• Show Format Change: KSR kicks off early due to the SEC tournament schedule. Matt explains the crew's adjusted roles and timing, emphasizing it's a “weird day, but a big day for the Cats.”

  • "This is normally pre-show time, but it's KSR today. Cause the SEC tournament begins with the Cats tipping off the first game." (03:17 Matt Jones)

• Tournament Stakes & Fan Morale:

  • "Everything could change starting today, you know, change the narrative of the season. ...you got to win this one today." (04:23 Ryan)
  • Discussion quickly pivots to stress levels, travel plans for the tourney, and UK’s internal “five in five” mantra for a run.

Managing On-Air Content: Ryan's Nudity Comments

• On-Air Intervention: Recurrent mention of Ryan’s nudity leads Matt to declare a new policy.
  • "He’s getting a conversation today that he needs to — and I can’t believe I’m having to do this with a 59 year old — that he needs to act his age." (04:45 Matt Jones)
  • Matt jokes about instituting fines for future infractions, referencing listener discomfort, especially among female fans.
  • Billy chimes in on slippery slopes with show fines: "We give Matt the power to give fines to everybody. We could be fined for a lot of reasons." (05:39 Billy)

UK’s Tournament Outlook & Seeding Scenarios

• Packing and Travel Logistics:

  • Matt and crew discuss complicated packing for a two-week run, mapping NCAA host cities and contingency plans.
  • "If they go to Buffalo or Philly in the tournament, I'm going to be in Connecticut. ...If they go to St. Louis or Oklahoma City. Then I'll come here and get in a car with them and go." (07:45 Matt Jones)

• The Pressure to Win:

  • "Today is a half-to win. ...You lose today, you're going to drop to the 8, 9 seed... you're going to get paired with the 1 seed." (09:12 Matt Jones)
  • Breakdown of how losing would likely lead to a near-impossible path, with potential second-round matchups against blue bloods like Duke, Arizona, or Michigan.

• Mock Bracket Breakdown (Team-by-Team):

  • Shannon and Matt run through possible 2- and 3-seed matchups, debating the pros and cons for UK.
    • "If you win two games in the SEC tournament, you're going to get one of those. Gonzaga, Iowa State, Nebraska...I think if you're Kentucky, Billy, that's as good as you can ask for." (11:53 Matt Jones)
  • Noted desperate need to avoid “8/9” and the one-seed gauntlet.

Bam Adebayo’s Stunning 83-Point Game

• Historical Achievement:
  • “83 points for Bam. 83 points? Are you kidding me?” (22:22 Matt Jones)
  • Details on Bam’s performance, including context (“He had not scored more than 40 in two years…") and comparisons to legendary NBA nights (Wilt, Kobe).
• Debate on the Free Throws:
  • Shannon raises the caveat: "He got to the line a lot." (23:30 Shannon)
  • Matt defends Bam’s achievement, referencing historical precedent (Kobe’s 81, end-of-game padding).
• Surprise Factor:
  • "You would have put both of those guys [Booker, Maxey, Murray] ahead of him [Bam]..." (26:49 Matt Jones).
  • Reflection on the randomness and magic of sports when unexpected players achieve historic feats.

SEC Tournament Ticket Values & Fan Attendance

• Ticket Prices Plummet:

  • Discussing unusually low resale prices for SEC Tournament tickets and all-session passes.
    • "The cheapest ticket right now on StubHub is $8." (34:37 Matt Jones)
    • "You can get in a suite for $52." (35:18 Matt Jones)
  • Noted that if Kentucky advances, ticket prices could spike.
  • “If you, if you tried to buy tickets to this all sessions in like 2017, it would have been 1200,000 easy.” (36:40 Matt Jones)

• Fan Impact & Team’s Economic Role:

  • "The city of Nashville will lose it, too. The tourism board economy. Yeah. Uk." (13:18 Matt Jones)
  • Discussion of how Kentucky's performance historically shapes the SEC tournament atmosphere.

Cam Williams Injury Update

• Good News for the Roster:
  • “Cam Williams, it looks like, is going to play. He's listed as probable on the injury sheet. That's good.” (14:31 Matt Jones)
  • Williams’ likely effect: "He probably takes Trent Noah's minutes." (14:52 Matt Jones)

Nostalgia & Fun Sidebar: Gorillaz, Blur, and TikTok Algorithms

• Music Rabbit Holes:
  • Matt talks about TikTok feeding him endless Gorillaz and Blur music — expressing surprise that “the Gorillaz guy” is also the lead from Blur.
    • "I didn’t know that the Gorillaz guy was the lead singer of Blur." (21:35 Matt Jones)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On UK’s must-win:
  • “Today is a half-to-win. ...If you lose, you have a chance to get me. I might have to look and see who the eight nines are, but you could lose in the first round or then play Duke or something. And Ryan, you're not going to win that.” (09:12 Matt Jones)
• On Bam’s night:
  • “He scored 35 points more than his career high in one game. That’s...that may be the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard in sports.” (22:54 Matt Jones)
• Calls banter:
  • "Ryan is not Channing Tatum...it's different." (48:57 Matt Jones on Ryan’s nudity humor)
• Listener Call-in on Signs:
  • "I think it's pretty fitting that Bam scored 83, because 8 minus 3 is 5. So I'm...I’m feeling like the 5 in 5 is...it’s a sign." (33:14 Caller Isaac)
• On crowd size and ticket bargains:
  • “First of all, Pepper tickets are available, but...So there’s going to be a lot of empty seats. I would assume though, to the extent there is a crowd, it will all be Kentucky.” (35:39 Matt Jones)
• UK fan culture:
  • "We have had, in my opinion, really, four dominant teams in the modern era….I’d like to see the four of them play against each other. Right. In a seven game series." (27:37 Matt Jones)

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Important Timestamps

• 03:17 — Show start and format explanation; importance of SEC tournament.
• 04:45 — Matt lays down new on-air rules for Ryan’s nudity jokes.
• 09:02–12:00 — UK tournament seed debates; first-round matchups; team pitfalls.
• 14:31 — Cam Williams injury/probable status.
• 22:22–27:00 — Bam Adebayo’s 83-point feat and extended sports oddities banter.
• 34:37–37:09 — SEC tournament ticket prices and crowd expectations.
• 44:41 — Hofstra/Speedy Claxton feel-good story.
• 48:57 — Listeners weigh in on “nudity” content; Matt addresses the humor line on-air.

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Additional Highlights

• TV/Music Tangents: Regular side trips into sports trivia (random high-scoring athletes), nostalgic music rabbit holes (Gorillaz/Blur), and UK fan memories.
• Fan Testimonials: Multiple callers share their excitement traveling to Nashville, hope for UK, and good-humored arguments over KSR's brand of banter.
• Listener Feedback: Matt asserts show authority ("I’m speaking for the silent majority here") amidst tongue-in-cheek debate of Ryan’s running jokes.
• Community & Friendship: Segment on Hofstra’s Speedy Claxton leads to a group reflection on high school and college friendships (“the closest friends you make in life are in college.” —46:41 Matt Jones).

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Summary

This episode captures the excitement, worry, and ritual of Kentucky basketball's postseason run, mixing practical analysis of tournament implications with the usual high-energy KSR banter and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. As the Cats face a crucial "must-win," the crew gives fans both big-picture bracket talk and the quirks that make the show beloved—off-topic tangents, inside jokes, and heartfelt sports stories. If you want to know how Kentucky fans were feeling and thinking on the cusp of the 2026 SEC Tournament, this hour is a perfect snapshot.

Transcript

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[Shannon]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, March 11th early. This is normally pre show time, but it's KSR today. Cause the SEC tournament begins with the Cats tipping off the first game. And you can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. We're here and we're going to talk to you. 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this session sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office, if you call TJ, he'll make them pay. Normally you would be hearing Billy and Shannon, but we're starting a little early. Drew is on his way to the game. I've got Ryan here and Shannon and Billy. As, as we incorporate the pre show crew, we're going to go until 11 o' clock and then at 11 o' clock it will go to the official pregame show and then the game starts at 12:30. Weird day, but a big day for the Cats as five in five is what they're saying in the UK at the UK locker room. Five and five ready to go today.

[Ryan]

Everything could change starting today, you know, change the narrative of the season. You go out and start a little bit of a run but you got to win this one today. So, you know, usually I'm naked in the shower right now listening to Billy

[Billy]

and Shannon getting your news.

[Shannon]

He has to tell us that every time. Too bad. I don't know why I don't need to know that detail.

[Matt Jones]

I'll be honest with you, he doesn't know this. He was going. He's getting a conversation today.

[Shannon]

Oh, really?

[Matt Jones]

At the Mint. No, he is. He's getting a conversation. I'm being serious about. There's just too much nudity and there's too much like there's just too much of all that. And he's getting a conversation today that he needs to and I can't believe I'm having to do this with a 59 year old that he needs to act his age.

[Shannon]

They're at the start, the explicit.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean he doesn't get the text machine. Yeah. And the messages are. Are. It's. It's creeping people out. And so there is a. He was getting a conversation today and now he's getting it on the air because we couldn't even get two minutes into the show before that started.

[Billy]

And moderation's the key.

[Matt Jones]

Moderation's the key. And he doesn't understand that. And he. He. He puts it in every day and he doesn't understand. So.

[Ryan]

So I will work on this.

[Matt Jones]

You will work on it?

[Ryan]

Absolutely will work.

[Matt Jones]

Because we're going to start instituting fines once a month or something, or once even once a week.

[Billy]

That's a slippery slope, though. We give Matt the power to give fines to everybody. We could be fine for a lot of reasons.

[Matt Jones]

I'm giving myself the power because I'm speaking just like when we're talking about Mitch Barnhart. I feel like, to some extent, we're trying to echo the fans of the show and the UK fan base. I'm echoing the fans of the show, specifically of the female persuasion.

[Shannon]

You're like, hardaway trying to find the players and I. Money. I mean, that's basically what you're doing with Ryan and.

[Matt Jones]

And it's working out for Penny. Look, he's. He's been a huge success. Not really. Billy, it's nice to be on here with. Here with you here today.

[Billy]

Yeah. Thanks for letting me join for a stressful day.

[Matt Jones]

You got a lot going on.

[Billy]

I do. It's a big day for the UK sports world. I want to ask you, how many days did you pack for for this tournament?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, I. My packing was very difficult here because we're going to the SEC tournament. I'm staying through Sunday regardless. Then I'm flying to espn and then depending on where Kentucky gets sent, might be flying directly there. So I had to pack for, like, two weeks.

[Billy]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Even though there's a world where. I guess. I mean, I still have to go to espn, so I'd be back Tuesday, but there's a world where they'll be like, no. Like, I didn't pack. If you're asking me a question. I didn't pack a lot of UK shirts. I felt like two UK shirts.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Would be sufficient.

[Billy]

Yeah. Ryan said he only packed to Friday. Is that what you said before the show started?

[Ryan]

I'm good through Friday. We get to Saturday, I'm have to double up on some underwear and some socks.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Again, right there.

[Shannon]

Turn them inside out.

[Matt Jones]

Right there. You didn't even. You don't need to talk about any piece of you or clothing that is not double covered. That's your. That's your standard. There needs no piece of you or clothing that is not. Needs to be brought up. That's. That's the rule.

[Shannon]

Does that mean no pep talk in Nashville then? Because.

[Matt Jones]

Well. But if I ask for it.

[Shannon]

Oh, if you ask for nudity, it's okay.

[Matt Jones]

That's different.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

But I don't. It needs to. No longer it's his go to. And it's become a crutch and I don't want. You are better than that.

[Ryan]

I'll work on it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So. But. Well, you didn't get far. You got a minute and they just taste dry. That's where we're going to get. If you don't. If you don't stop. So. So yeah. So I don't know because if they go to like Buffalo or Philly in the tournament, I'm going to be in Connecticut. So I'm just going to go straight there. I'm not going to come home and then go back. They go to St. Louis or Oklahoma City. Then I'll come here and get in a car with them and go. But yeah, if they go to Buff because the choices include Buffalo, Philly, Tampa. I'll probably just fly to all those places. Yeah. And then St. Louis and Oklahoma City. And then there's somewhere else.

[Shannon]

Portland.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, if it's Portland and in San Diego, I don't think we're going to be able to go.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So it just depends. I mean, if you look as long as we win today, I think the most likely scenario is Philly because we'll be a seven seed. And if you kind of look at it, Philly and Buffalo look like the most. I think it's very unlikely unless we lose today that we end up in San Diego or Portland. So. But we'll just have to wait and see.

[Ryan]

Kind of crazy. If you guys. You were just in Buffalo a couple months ago. We ended up going back there for the NCAA tournament.

[Matt Jones]

I know I. But I liked it. We liked the wings. We now know where to go.

[Billy]

Love Buffalo blue cheese.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. We know where to go. And it would be. But for Kentucky, today is a big day on. I just noticed today is. Is you kind of. Today's a half to win. I would even argue tomorrow is close to a half to win. But today's I have to win. You lose today, you're going to drop to the 8, 9 seed. Probably you're going to get paired with the 1 seed. And I think the 1 seeds are unbeatable, but for us because we would end up with a Duke, Arizona, Michigan, second round. And listen, I know I'm saying second round, we can easily lose in the first round, but you're going to end up with a Duke, Arizona, Michigan, second round matchup. And I don't think you can win those games. But if you can win today and win tomorrow and end up in that six seed, where you could play in the second round, Nebraska or what do they have, who they have is paired with right now?

[Shannon]

Miami, Ohio is what I saw on

[Matt Jones]

one of that first round. But in this. But if you could get Miami of Ohio, Nebraska, you take that, you couldn't ask for a better situation. But if you lose, you have a chance to get me. I might have to look and see who the. Who the eight nines are, but you could lose in the first round or then play Duke or something. And Ryan, you don't. You're not going to win that.

[Ryan]

You know, the team's got nobody to blame themselves too. You take care of business. You know, you win some of these games at A and M the other night, Georgia, Missouri at home is an entirely different conversation. They have nobody to blame it themselves for the situation they've been put in.

[Matt Jones]

No, they are. They. It's. It's completely their fault.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Shannon]

So the latest update is Kentucky, a seven seed, playing St. Louis in St. Louis with Illinois as the two seed.

[Matt Jones]

And that's not. Well, first, that's not ideal, but I'll take it.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's not ideal. I mean, playing St. Louis and St. Louis. Yeah, but we'll have a lot of people there, too.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And we're playing Cream, Abdul Jabbar, which means I get to meet him, which would be exciting. Read me who the two seeds are.

[Shannon]

Let's see, you got Illinois.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Shannon]

Yukon.

[Matt Jones]

You would. Don't really want that.

[Shannon]

Houston.

[Matt Jones]

Don't really want that.

[Shannon]

Michigan State.

[Matt Jones]

Don't really want that. All three of those. You don't really want to play any of those teams, but you'd have a puncher chance. Now go. Read me the three seeds.

[Shannon]

Gonzaga.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Shannon]

Iowa State.

[Matt Jones]

I'm all right.

[Shannon]

Nebraska, Definitely.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Shannon]

Alabama. You won't play.

[Matt Jones]

They won't put us.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So if you're asking me, I think if you win two games in the SEC tournament, you're going to get one of those. Gonzaga, Iowa State, Nebraska. Now, obviously Gonzaga pounded us, but that also makes it less likely they'd put us there. So you're looking at Iowa State and Nebraska. And I think if you're Kentucky, Billy, that's as good as you can ask for.

[Billy]

Yeah. Take that every day of the week. You're right. Those one seeds are just on a different level, different tier this year, and you want to avoid them at all cost. But Today, I mean, LSU was a team you were down 18 to at one point in that game. You had to have a Malachi Moreno shot at the buzzer.

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[Matt Jones]

No. And they can beat us.

[Billy]

You lose this one, it's, you know, the fan base.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so read me. I don't mean to make you. Just read me the bracket, but read me the. Read me the 11 seat. So this would be who we would. If we win the first two games, who we play in the first round.

[Shannon]

All right, the 11 seed. SMU.

[Matt Jones]

VCatable play beatable. Yeah.

[Shannon]

Missouri wouldn't play.

[Matt Jones]

They wouldn't put us there.

[Shannon]

You Central Florida or Indiana playing Game beatable. And I think I skipped over the other one. Same. No. Missouri.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, Missouri. All right, so now give me the eight nines. Cause. All right, so let's say we're at eight. Read me the eight nines.

[Shannon]

Okay, so Utah State, Iowa.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. You don't want to play Iowa.

[Shannon]

Miami or tcu.

[Matt Jones]

Jay Lucas and tcu.

[Shannon]

Ohio State, Clemson.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Shannon]

And ucla, Texas A and M. So

[Matt Jones]

you can see it's a lot harder if you're in an 8 9. Even in the first round. You're not getting VCU and you're not getting UC. You're getting teams that have some. So I just think this is huge. The other thing is our fan base will lose it if we're the first team out of the SEC tournament.

[Ryan]

Absolutely.

[Matt Jones]

The city of Nashville will lose it, too. The tourism board economy. Yeah. Uk.

[Ryan]

Has not been kind to the tourism board of Nashville the last, what, six or seven years. They need a big, big blue wave to go and go up and down the street.

[Matt Jones]

The. It would be bad. It would also just be bad for morale.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It's amazing you read those names. It's a totally different game for a six seat or a seven seed. It totally flips.

[Matt Jones]

And it's a. It's a. It's a huge difference between six and seven.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It's a massive difference between that and eight. Nine.

[Ryan]

Yes, it is.

[Matt Jones]

And you lose today, you're an eight and nine. If you lose tomorrow, you might be two, but you definitely are now. If you win them both, I think you can get to six, because you got to remember, all these other teams are Going to lose two.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Every team in a conference tournament, Billy, is going to lose to somebody.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Except four teams in the major conference.

[Billy]

I mean, we're negative thinking. If they were to lose. It's also a huge opportunity for this team if they were to make the weekend. How do you make the weekend? This is a big part of it.

[Matt Jones]

You beat Florida.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

You could go all the way up to like a five seat.

[Ryan]

They really change if you.

[Matt Jones]

If you beat Florida. So this is. I think this is completely wide open. You know, the standings in the SEC were bunched.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And the standings in that 5, 6, 7, 8 or bunch. Now let's talk about just the actual team. Cam Williams, it looks like, is going to play. He's listed as probable on the injury sheet. That's good.

[Ryan]

It looks like he's definitely going to try to give it a go. You know, I don't know. Probably not. Not a lot of minutes. But just to have him out there,

[Matt Jones]

he probably takes Trent Noah's minutes. I mean, isn't that essentially.

[Billy]

Yeah, yeah. Helps with fatigue that this team just has so many issues with.

[Matt Jones]

I was thinking about fatigue. We'll talk about it in the next. I was thinking about fatigue while I was watching Bam last night.

[Billy]

Yeah. You know, he won't get how many

[Matt Jones]

points you think he would have had if he hadn't been fatigued

[Shannon]

50 times last night.

[Matt Jones]

All right. I don't want to hear you complaining yet about this because I want to talk about it during the next segment because I think the complaints about Bam or horse bleep.

[Shannon]

It's not even a complaint. I'm just telling you the stats.

[Matt Jones]

No, I mean, but. But he went to fort line 41 times because he got fouled 41 times. He should have gone more.

[Shannon]

You just let him go shoot free throws the entire game?

[Ryan]

Why not?

[Matt Jones]

First of all, he made 36 of 43.

[Shannon]

That's good.

[Matt Jones]

It's pretty good.

[Ryan]

Really good.

[Billy]

Miami was fouling, though, like two minutes left in the game.

[Matt Jones]

I don't want to hear it because you need that. People need to have some sense of history. Go back and look what they did in the Kobe game. See, nobody has any sense of history. They just live in the moment and then they get outraged and go, oh, it's a disgrace. Go. Look what they did with Kobe in that 81 point game. They checked him back in.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

They had him shoot every time in the last five minutes. He was up 20. It was the worst team in the league they were playing. So I don't want to hear it.

[Billy]

Well, nobody remembers 30 years from now how many free throws he shot. It's just going to be the number.

[Matt Jones]

The number is going to say Wilt Chamberlain 1. Bam out of bio 2 Kobe Bryant 3. Come on. He had not scored more than 40 points one time in two years and he scores 83.

[Ryan]

I could have guessed a hundred NBA players.

[Matt Jones]

80. Okay, I thought we were gonna wait till the next segment so 859-280-2287 we'll do more preview of this game. We'll talk about Bam some more. And then I made a huge mistake. I went into Costco and I that was oh wow.

[Shannon]

How'd you get in there? Get a card.

[Matt Jones]

That's a whole nother thing. You think you were going into Augusta Nationals to try to get in Fort Knox?

[Shannon]

Trying to get in.

[Matt Jones]

But yeah.

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[Matt Jones]

So we'll talk about. Those are the things I want to get to. We'll be right back. It's great song. Yep, I get on it. I got on a rabbit hole. You know Tik Tok is the worst for rabbit holes because you watch any video more than 20 seconds and they're just going to keep feeding it to you.

[Shannon]

Yep. Gets in your algorithm.

[Matt Jones]

And I had like a week of people just listening to Black Betty getting down. It's like I've never heard this song. Let's watch it. And then they'd be like, oh, here we go. And then I enjoy it and then I watch another one. So yesterday I got in the Gorillaz. You remember gorillas? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they did Saturday night Live Saturday. I don't know why, because I feel like they haven't had a song in 20 years. But that led to that Clint Eastwood song, and I ended up watching, I don't know, 75 different versions of it yesterday, and now it's completely in my head.

[Billy]

Gorilla is a good throwback, though. Feel good?

[Matt Jones]

It was good. And I watch he would, like, play it places, and then other people would come and. And rap on it. So, like Snoop, Dre, Eminem.

[Shannon]

Aren't they one of those bands that didn't, like. You couldn't see them live because they never showed their face, like.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they did sometimes. Here's what I didn't know. Maybe you knew this, Shannon. I didn't know that the Gorillaz guy was the lead singer of Blur.

[Shannon]

I don't think I knew that either.

[Matt Jones]

No, I didn't know that. Did you know that was the same guy?

[Billy]

No.

[Matt Jones]

What was Blair's song? Hey, man, nice shot.

[Shannon]

No, that's filter.

[Matt Jones]

Well, what's Blur?

[Shannon]

The one that just went woohoo.

[Matt Jones]

Are you disrespecting me? Okay, that's it. Well, that's the same guy. I had no idea.

[Shannon]

I didn't either.

[Matt Jones]

Serio. There's your fun. Fact of the day.

[Billy]

Who knew?

[Matt Jones]

Some people are taking up for Ryan. Sorry, you're outvoted. This is a Mitch Barnhart regime.

[Billy]

Dictatorship Rules, garbage about the nudity.

[Matt Jones]

They want more nudity. Well, they're wrong. You get like, I'm speaking for the silent majority here.

[Billy]

Save it for the pool party at Matt's house.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-22. 8. Let's talk about Bam here for a second. 83 points for Bam. 83 points? Are you kidding me?

[Billy]

Sensational.

[Matt Jones]

It is unbelievable. He had 40, 43 at halftime. And I thought, okay, maybe he gets to 60. And he just kept scoring and he kept scoring. I mean, this is a guy who had scored over 30 this year in only three games.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

And he scores 83. He must have heard our conversation yesterday where I said, how? Like, isn't it surprising? Shay's the best player of all time at Kentucky. And Bam goes, wait a minute. Hello.

[Ryan]

Hold my beer.

[Matt Jones]

83. His career high was 48. He scored 35 points more than his career high in one game. That's. Is it. That may be the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard in sports. People will bring up the Tony Delk 50 point game. Yeah, like NBA heads will bring it up and go, that was one of the weirdest things that ever happened in the NBA. What about this?

[Billy]

It's unbelievable.

[Ryan]

83 Ryan, all these great NBA players, and the name between Kobe and Wilt Chamberlain is Bam out of bio.

[Matt Jones]

Now, you don't like the 43 free throws with it.

[Shannon]

I was just pointing out that he got to the line a lot. I mean, he did, but for a guy who is like, more of a defensive specialist, that's pretty amazing. He's able to.

[Matt Jones]

Just kept hitting threes. All right, now, are you good with the fact that at the end they were kind of fouling to get him the points? They only offense. They only intentionally found one time. The Heat.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Are you okay with it?

[Shannon]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, I don't think they were doing it like, the entire quarter intentionally.

[Matt Jones]

So I went back and looked at the game where Kobe had 81 in the last five minutes. The game. He took every shot for the Lakers.

[Ryan]

Yeah, every time.

[Matt Jones]

Every single shot. And he missed a bunch, too. Took every single shot, including, like, he checked out up 27 with 40 seconds to go. So he was. He was. He was doing this, too.

[Ryan]

Then they didn't. They put him back in.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he was out because they were up like, 30. And then with like four or five minutes to go, they put him back in and he took every shot to end the game.

[Billy]

Everybody knows what's going on at that time, right? How many points he has. The. The chase and trying to beat Kobe

[Matt Jones]

or the Wizards initially were fouling the other people so he wouldn't get to go to the line, which I thought. Shannon, that would have been really.

[Shannon]

That would have been great if I

[Matt Jones]

would have done that.

[Shannon]

I mean, if you're the team that you're playing against, you don't want to be the team that he don't want

[Matt Jones]

to be the team.

[Billy]

That's true.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Anybody on the line but him?

[Ryan]

I.

[Matt Jones]

It's. I. I think it is one of the most amazing random things in sports. Like, what else is up there for. Are you kidding me? That guy. I mean, because Bam's really good, but not 83 points good.

[Billy]

The electrician in the World Baseball Classic.

[Matt Jones]

The electricians up there.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it is one.

[Shannon]

Just a few years ago. Golkey. Are you kidding me?

[Matt Jones]

That guy goalkeeper.

[Shannon]

That guy beat Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

But in college basketball, that'll happen sometimes. But goalkee, the thing people forget about Go. He wasn't even a starter for Oakland. He was a bench player, and he came in and did it. In baseball, sometimes you see it with, like, some random dude, like, hits. Who was the guy for the Cardinals of the Reds that Hit four home runs in a game.

[Ryan]

Mark Whitten hit four home runs.

[Matt Jones]

There was somebody even more random than that. It was like Scooter McGee or something.

[Billy]

I don't know that one.

[Matt Jones]

There was, There was somebody really random that did it.

[Shannon]

There was a Willie McGee.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I know. It was somebody even more random than him. It might have been for the Reds anyway. You might get it sometimes with a perfect game.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You'll have some no name guy. No name guy that'll come out.

[Shannon]

And the Braves. Yeah. Kent Merker threw a perfect game, I think.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Kit Merker's a perfect. Because there's only been what, like 30 perfect games ever. And Kent Marker has one.

[Shannon]

Yeah, yeah.

[Billy]

The bigger guy for the Yankees, the pitcher, what was his name?

[Matt Jones]

David Wells. But he was really, really good. You talk about the big fat guy. Yeah, I mean, Bam's good, too. I'm not, I'm not trying to act like Bam some. I mean, Bam's great. He's a, he's, he's an All Star and he's been an Olympian. So, I mean, he's great.

[Ryan]

But if we ask you before the game to pick a former Caliper UK player, he'd be like the seventh or eighth name you come up with.

[Matt Jones]

You would have said. But if I were to have said yesterday, a Kentucky player is going to score 83, give me who it'll be. You would probably have. You certainly said Shea first. Then you probably would have said Booker.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Then you might have said Maxi or Murray.

[Ryan]

Yes, both those guys.

[Matt Jones]

You would have put both of those guys ahead of them and maybe you go, ban. I think you might have even said, Carl.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Carl.

[Billy]

More of a three point shooter. Bam was killing those three point shots, though. Yesterday. He was checking in the first quarter.

[Matt Jones]

That was what it was. And now you go back and you think about that 2017 team and you think about who was on that team.

[Ryan]

That team was so much fun to watch.

[Matt Jones]

They got.

[Ryan]

They got cheated. They got cheated out of a title.

[Matt Jones]

That team we lost in the Elite Eight. But they were the second best team in the country.

[Ryan]

Yes, they were.

[Matt Jones]

And I do think North Carolina was better. But we were the second best team in the country.

[Ryan]

And they were fun to watch.

[Matt Jones]

They were fun. That's the last year Kentucky was dominant.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

We have had, in my opinion, really, four dominant teams in the modern era. 2010 was dominant, 2012 was dominant, 2015 was dominant. And 2017. Those were the four teams of the Cal era that were like, I'd like to see the Four of them play against each other. Right. In a seven game series. Put all those teams together. I think it'd be fun to watch.

[Ryan]

And Fox, Monk and bam, they not only just won, they would embarrass people. They would run people off.

[Matt Jones]

The game against UCLA where it was Lonzo Ball.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And dear and Fox just toys with awesome game. And they still pick Lonzo ahead of him, which ended up being a mistake.

[Billy]

It's that locker room scene from what I remember.

[Matt Jones]

And then the locker room scene where they're crying. I mean, that's a great. I thought it was awesome to see. His mom was there.

[Ryan]

Yes, she was. And he's a mama's boy.

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[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right after the game.

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[Ryan]

Good.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287 before we go to the phones. It was Scooter. Janet. Scooter Gannett was the guy that hit four home runs.

[Ryan]

I'd forgotten that. But I remember as soon as you said that, like, oh my goodness, yeah, Guy. I don't remember anything else he did in his entire career but that night.

[Matt Jones]

And a couple people will say that about Isaiah Briscoe having a triple double because you'll have Chris Mills. What is it, dear? And Fox and Isaiah Briscoe as the triple doubles.

[Billy]

And Scooter not his legal name, his nickname. Matt, in case you were wondering.

[Matt Jones]

I wasn't.

[Ryan]

Do you Know a scooter?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I do.

[Shannon]

I have a cousin named Scooter.

[Matt Jones]

Scooter Quillin live next to me, live next to my grandmother in. In Middlesbrough.

[Billy]

Scooter Braun. Wasn't that a Name?

[Matt Jones]

Scooter.

[Shannon]

Scooter McCrae.

[Matt Jones]

There are a lot of scooters. I feel like there's not enough scooters. Scooter's good name for a kid right now. When you get older, might be weird to be a scooter. Yeah, when you're a kid, I think Scooter sounds like a great name. Speaking. Speaking real quick of baseball. The U.S. baseball team lost to Italy. Saw that Solomon.

[Ryan]

Got to be a pretty big upset.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, yeah, huge. They were down eight to nothing. And they fought back, caught it to eight to six. Now, if Mexico wins tonight, I think the USA is out before. Before they even get a chance to play the big game.

[Billy]

Wow, that would be disappointing.

[Matt Jones]

The manager for USA made a big mistake, though. Did you see that?

[Ryan]

No.

[Billy]

What do you do?

[Matt Jones]

So they were down 8 to nothing, and everybody was like, well, they've got to score some runs here because I guess tiebreaker is margin or something like that. And so the USA scored a bunch of runs, made eight to six. And when it was over, they interview the manager, and he's like, yeah, I wish we'd won. But thank goodness we scored those runs at the end. Now we're through. And they're not through. Oh, and the announcer, Shannon, didn't know to correct him. So the team was like, well, we're through. We're good. And then they got to the press conference, and they were like, you're not through.

[Billy]

That's awkward.

[Matt Jones]

So now, wow. Be a huge shame, by the way, for the networks.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

If you say the game is like Mexico versus Korea, they're gonna be like, wait a minute. We put this on prime time. This was supposed to be USA Dominican Republic.

[Billy]

And then that becomes a meme of the manager saying, they're through. And then they don't.

[Matt Jones]

We're good, we're through. And no one corrected him. So later they were like, you're not through.

[Shannon]

Nobody did the math.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they're PR guy.

[Matt Jones]

It'd be a pretty big error if the baseball team doesn't. I mean, we literally invented the sport.

[Ryan]

The huge upset. They don't make it to the final round.

[Billy]

Seems like the other countries care more, though.

[Matt Jones]

Well, Italy, though, I want to say Italy. It's a little like these people aren't in Italy. It's just people who are. Who have any Italian heritage get to play for. I don't think anyone on the team lives in Italy.

[Billy]

Well, I just see the Dominican Republic games. It looks like a party.

[Matt Jones]

Well, no, the Dominican Republic and Japan in America now, those teams are really good. Venezuela, I think, is really good. But, like, the Italian team is just a bunch of people named Piazza.

[Ryan]

Shouldn't have lost.

[Matt Jones]

They have. No, they don't live in Italy. Most of them. Maybe all of them.

[Ryan]

Maybe United States. We're dealing with some fatigue, and that's why they go down 8 to nothing.

[Matt Jones]

Could be. Could be. Isaac. Go ahead, Isaac.

[Caller]

Hey, guys. So I sent this text to you last night. I didn't know if you saw it, but I think it's pretty fitting that Bam scored 83, because 8 minus 3 is 5. So I'm. I'm feeling like the 5 and 5 is. It's a sign.

[Matt Jones]

A little bit of a stretch. 8 minus 3 is 5, but. Okay. All right, I'll take it.

[Caller]

No, I just. I feel. I feel good. You know, I wish I could go down to the game tonight or today, but I think it'll be a good crowd. I think they'll have some energy, and hopefully we can win at least two. But I, you know, why not five?

[Matt Jones]

What are the secondary prices now for the tickets?

[Ryan]

Yesterday? 59. For the.

[Matt Jones]

Yesterday was 59. I'm going to. I'll be interested because I. I'm fascinated about what the crowd's going to be.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Ryan and I are going to need some tickets to get in because we didn't get credentialed.

[Billy]

Oh, dude, you got rejected.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon and Ryan got credentialed.

[Billy]

I knew Ryan did.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, Mario almost got credential. Got rejected.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Geez. And I don't think Mario and I are allowed on the floor. Just back in the media, like they were. Well, first of all, they. They've taken a lot of the media seats and sold them.

[Billy]

Oh, really?

[Matt Jones]

So. So that's. That's part of it. And then part of it is, you know, last year I got mad at him and, you know, we'll just leave. I got mad and for how they treated Mario. And I think, oh, yeah, Ryan and

[Shannon]

I are falling on the sword.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, by the way, the cheapest ticket right now and stuff up is $8.

[Ryan]

Wow. There you go.

[Shannon]

There you go.

[Ryan]

There you go, Shannon.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Let's get it. $8 for general admission. $14. 15. So a lot of.

[Caller]

So.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So seats can be had.

[Ryan]

We won't be able to get our car.

[Matt Jones]

Get Lower arena for $35, which is great for Kentucky. Why wouldn't you just get in your car right now? You can sit Lower arena for $35

[Ryan]

and see an SEC tournament game in Kentucky's playing.

[Matt Jones]

You can sit court, not courts. I mean you can sit in row 10 behind the LSU bench for $117. That you could never know.

[Billy]

Like how often can you get those prices? Never.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean these are, these are a lot of this. I mean look that this is a suite. You can get in a suite for $52.

[Ryan]

Well, we want to get our gold.

[Matt Jones]

So you got. So first of all, Pepper tickets are available, but. Yeah, so there's going to be a lot of empty seats.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I would assume though, to the extent there is a crowd, it will all be Kentucky. There's not many LSU fans there. Right.

[Ryan]

Well, I heard Maggie Davis on the Leech report this morning. She said last they were there last night, Tuesday night walk around and they only saw like just a couple Kentucky fans on Tuesday night. So maybe they're all driving down this morning.

[Matt Jones]

The other game today's Auburn, Mississippi State. That's the second game Auburn might have some people because that's not very far.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Mississippi State will have no. 1, so.

[Billy]

Well, let's hope Kentucky shows up and get some shots up before the game starts.

[Matt Jones]

You can buy an all session pass. How about this? So this is for every game, huh?

[Ryan]

Let's guess what, what it is on the, on the.

[Matt Jones]

What do you think the cheapest ticket, Shannon, for every single game is right now?

[Shannon]

Oh God. Every game, all five days. I'm going to say 150.

[Matt Jones]

Oh well, it's pretty cheap for every game.

[Shannon]

I mean if you're like the worst,

[Matt Jones]

$348, but that's still insanely cheap.

[Ryan]

They're usually a thousand or something.

[Matt Jones]

If you, if you tried to buy tickets to this all sessions in like 2017, it would have been 1200,000 easy.

[Billy]

And I mean if Kentucky makes a run, you could resell those.

[Matt Jones]

$348 is.

[Shannon]

You're telling me the get in price was eight bucks.

[Matt Jones]

So I thought, you know, but that's just for today. Oh, 348 bucks. That's, that's. I will tell you that is the cheapest I've ever seen an all session passed at the SEC tournament.

[Ryan]

And if you're just a basketball junkie, why wouldn't you do that?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, yeah, you're. That's 15 games.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Pretty cheap. That's basically what. That's 25. Is that $25 a game to watch SEC basketball tournaments. That's kind of amazing.

[Ryan]

It is amazing.

[Matt Jones]

David. Go ahead, David.

[Caller]

Yeah. We're rolling into Nashville, boys.

[Matt Jones]

These cats would like to hear.

[Caller]

Yeah, I got Hope and Pope. I think we got to give the man another year. Give him a chance to get him a GM in there. I definitely think it's a good idea. This is not 1980 anymore. We can't be running coaches off just because they don't have a 25 win season. You know what I'm saying? I mean, we're better in South Carolina, right?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Is that the standard, though? We're now better in South Carolina.

[Matt Jones]

We are better than South Carolina. That's true.

[Caller]

Well, I mean, we don't want to put ourselves into ucla. You know, we're all of age enough to remember when UCLA was considered a dynasty. But you are beating the heck out of coaches around here, man. And it's a. I think we need to rally behind them.

[Matt Jones]

We haven't beaten our heck out of coach. We've gotten rid of one coach, and we haven't even gotten rid of. He left. If he had wanted to come back, he would have come back. And I appreciate the call. I do. I will say yes. A lot of fans, myself included, thought a separation cow should happen, but somehow it's gotten lost in history. He left. He did.

[Ryan]

He chose to leave.

[Matt Jones]

He left.

[Billy]

Boy hit his bio.

[Matt Jones]

He chose to leave.

[Ryan]

So, you know, even Tubby chose to leave.

[Matt Jones]

That's true. The only person we've ever fired is we fired Eddie Sutton and we fired Billy Gillespie. So we don't. I mean, you could say we run off coaches. I think my man chose voluntarily to go hang out with the chickens, and that's his call.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And we'll see. We'll see. I mean, we'll see what happens with that. 859280, 2287. I can't believe how cheap those tickets. I really can't.

[Ryan]

For the SEC tournament in Nashville.

[Matt Jones]

$350.

[Billy]

Like I'm saying, like, go buy those tickets. Kentucky makes a run and you can resell that.

[Matt Jones]

Well, even if he doesn't make a run, Vandy's good.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You said, like you said, a lot of Arkansas fans.

[Matt Jones]

Arkansas fans will come. Tennessee if they win a couple games. You know, I mean, even Vandy Shannon, if they. If they were to get to the semifinals.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

If you were to have a semifinals that included Vandy, Tennessee and Arkansas. That'll be a massive ticket whether we're there or not.

[Ryan]

Absolutely.

[Matt Jones]

You know.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Vandy would have to beat Tennessee to get to the some of them.

[Matt Jones]

They play Friday Vandy Tennessee on Friday. That if you get Kentucky Florida and Vandy Tennessee in the same session Friday.

[Ryan]

That's big.

[Matt Jones]

That's going to be a massive ticket town needs. Yeah that'll be that Friday day ticket will be wild if you get all those teams together. 859-280-2287 we'll take a break. Be right back.

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[Matt Jones]

Sunshine. So this is what's been in my head all day. Sounds good on the podcast. Yeah. This guy from Blur. Shannon.

[Shannon]

Yeah you taught me something I didn't know I knew I didn't know it either.

[Matt Jones]

He was able to say dressed kind of cool on for an old man. Like I was like man he could pull that off. And it's look like he's in 50s. He was on I don't know why they had him on Saturday Night Live. Like usually there's. They haven't put anything out have they seen in 20 years.

[Shannon]

Maybe it's like a 20 year anniversary reissue or something like that they're doing. I don't know but I don't either.

[Matt Jones]

But but I did this song was and I thought these people were actually cartoons.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I did too.

[Matt Jones]

Think they were really real people.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I've never seen them.

[Matt Jones]

That video was just cartoons, right?

[Billy]

Yep.

[Shannon]

All their videos are.

[Billy]

How were they live? Were they good?

[Matt Jones]

I mean they were good on Saturday Night Live. Sounded good. And so now I've been listening to this song for Get Ready Mario. We're listening to it on the drive. 859-280-2287 we were just watching on here they were showing highlights of the teams that made the tournament yesterday. I watched a lot of Hofstra, Monmouth and you know I'm a human interest story guy. That's what's great about these tournaments. People complain oh you're in a one bid league. The best team doesn't get to go. That's okay. Because you still get cool stories.

[Ryan]

That's right, Hofstra.

[Matt Jones]

Think about this for a minute. Hofstra has won their league three times in 35 years. Year one was 2000. Jay Wright was the coach, and the star player was a guy named Speedy Claxton. 2020. They win, but Covid hits an assistant coach on the team was Speedy Claxton.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Matt Jones]

But they don't get to go the tournament. And then last night they win, and the head coach is a guy named Speedy Claxton, and they get to go. So the last time they've played was when Speedy Claxton played. And now he got to take him as a coach. Very cool. Very cool. His interview last night, he was crying. He was like. And he said something I thought was kind of funny. He looks at his team and he goes, I want a championship in high school, college and the pros. And he goes, I don't talk to one person from my high school team or one person from my pro team, but I talk to almost everyone from my college team.

[Billy]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

Which I thought was neat. Except why? Why didn't he talk to his people from his high school team?

[Shannon]

I don't know. Do you talk to anybody from high school?

[Matt Jones]

Bob, D.J. trevor.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Billy]

I got, like, four or five guys I still talk to from high school.

[Matt Jones]

I feel like everybody talks to someone from high school, don't they?

[Ryan]

Usually the guys that sit at your lunch table, Those are the guys.

[Matt Jones]

And then the pros. What professional team was he on that won the title?

[Ryan]

I don't know. I remember the name. I don't know what team he was on.

[Matt Jones]

Look that up, Mario. And why not? Why aren't they all friends? They must.

[Billy]

They hated each other.

[Matt Jones]

Do you talk to people from high school, Shannon?

[Shannon]

Maybe like, two or three. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so I talked to three. Yeah, you talked to people from high school?

[Billy]

Five or six. Yeah.

[Ryan]

But most of who we talk to are from our college.

[Matt Jones]

What about you?

[Ryan]

Three or four?

[Matt Jones]

Well, without question, the closest friends you make in life are in college.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Because you go through this experience of being by yourself together.

[Ryan]

Grow up. Growing up.

[Matt Jones]

So I do think college is. If you go to college, when you make the closest friends.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Spurs. So like Tim Duncan. He ain't talking to Tim Duncan. Dave Robson hangs up on him. Tony Parker's like Paul Schuma, pal. Speedy. Mike. Go ahead. Mike. Mike. All right. No, Mike. Michael.

[Shannon]

Michael. Okay, we got my.

[Caller]

Michael's here.

[Matt Jones]

Go for it.

[Caller]

So you guys have been talking about Stephen A. Smith a lot lately. I Don't know if you realize or not. Last week night on John Oliver, the dude's also Brick on General Hospital and is a henchman for a mafioso.

[Matt Jones]

I did know he. I didn't know he did a little General Hospital. Stephen A. Yeah, he's on there occasionally.

[Ryan]

He's been a recurring character for a long time. Right.

[Matt Jones]

Is one of those people that like, I'm like, hey, man, you should get a hobby, because he's on everything. You know, he has a two hour radio show every day. He has a podcast. He does the television. He's on the games. He's on General Hospital.

[Shannon]

I think his hobby is making money.

[Matt Jones]

I think his hobby is talking. It's also his job, you know, I mean, he's also. He. He's older than you think.

[Ryan]

Oh, yes.

[Matt Jones]

You.

[Ryan]

I was on the trivia and what he's like in.

[Matt Jones]

He's like Ryan's age.

[Billy]

Mario got a picture with him. He didn't smile in that picture, though.

[Matt Jones]

I thought that picture. Mario was so excited. Picture Stephen A. Stephen A. Doesn't even crack a smile.

[Billy]

Too cool.

[Matt Jones]

He's just like, yeah, mean mugging. It's like, dude, take yourself a little less seriously. Just a little. Farley. Go ahead, Farley.

[Caller]

Hey, I want to comment on what you're doing to poor Ryan. Half of those people that are calling and complaining to you watched magic Mike and 56 Gray.

[Matt Jones]

I understand, but that. But right. You have to understand. Ryan is not

[Billy]

Channing Tatum.

[Matt Jones]

He's. He's not Channing Tatum. I mean, he's. It's. It's different.

[Caller]

Listen, listen. If you're going to make the rules, you have to look at both sides. And I'm telling you those.

[Matt Jones]

You like thinking of Ryan naked, sir.

[Caller]

I do.

[Matt Jones]

You do. Okay. All right, well, at least. At least you're honest about it. All right, fair enough. So you're one vote for more sexual Ryan content.

[Caller]

I don't know about more, but I

[Matt Jones]

would think you could get.

[Shannon]

But you're good with the amount you're getting now. That's what you're saying.

[Caller]

Appropriate amount.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. I like that you're comparing Ryan to Magic Mike.

[Caller]

No, no, no, no. Not comparing Magic Mike. Ryan to Magic Mike. I'm saying the people that are complaining

[Matt Jones]

about that, that's because they think Channing Tatum and then what was the woman, Dakota Johnson. They think of them probably in a slightly different way than they think of Ryan.

[Caller]

Well, so they're being approved about Ryan.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Caller]

But they're being so viscous about Channing Tatum, I find that you find that hypocritical.

[Matt Jones]

All right, fair enough. I appreciate the call. Was it always I kind of like in my three or four people I have a crush on, I said Parker. Is her name Dakota?

[Billy]

Yeah, I think so. I think he said Dakota.

[Matt Jones]

I said, I, I, I. She's in my three or four people. I think it's the bangs.

[Billy]

Bangs do it for you.

[Matt Jones]

And she was on Amy Polar's podcast and I just, I found her delightful.

[Shannon]

Now, who's Parker? Since she thought you said Parker, who's Parker?

[Matt Jones]

Oh, because that guy's name was Parker. That's why I said. Okay, Jared, I got about 30 seconds. Go ahead.

[Caller]

Sounds good, guys. I'm just coming down to Nashville. We actually got here about 30 minutes ago. We're lined out outside right now.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, so are there people? Are there UK fans?

[Caller]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so you're getting there for the general admission, right?

[Caller]

Yes, well, me and my dad actually got a book, but I haven't got to see courtside seats since I was in college a couple years ago. So I wanted to get some close courtside seats as best as I could.

[Matt Jones]

Well, good. Well, enjoy yourself. We'll be right back. Hour 2

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[Chelsea Handler]

This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea after the Big Game. Like most people, I kept thinking about the commercials and there was one that stayed. It was from the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate, and it wasn't loud or flashy. It showed a Jewish kid being targeted at school and another student who chose not to ignore it. As someone who was Jewish, that moment felt very real to me. Not dramatic, just familiar. And what struck me was how clearly it showed that hate doesn't always announce itself, but the impact is still huge. If you saw the Blue Square spot during the Big Game, it's worth thinking about. And if you want to show support, sharing the Blue Square is one small way to do that.